Leap seconds are handled well, when the system supports it well and the software is not utter crap.
I am always annoyed when people break basic things to make software work (e.g. hardware, also see ACPI). Now they are not only breaking hardware, but redefining measurements to make buggy software work. What comes next?
I can understand when something is changed for convenience purposes (to have simpler calculations), but justified with buggy software is plain wrong. And I surely don't care if an Oracle database "reboots"... whatever that might mean.
Do not give bad guys the possibility to learn about a flaw earlier than the users who are affected. If you don't publish the flaw, there is a certain possibility that it will be sold at black markets and kept secret to be able to use against customers. You can see that full disclosure groups are targets of commercial crackers. Full disclosure is like destroying business of criminals.
A customer should always be aware of a flaw and know how to protect himself against it.
There is no need for exploit code. You should publish it BEFORE having a PoC to warn as early as possible (but this is pretty rare, because having a PoC is usually the first indication that a flaw exists). It would also help to give as much information as possible how to protect against attacks (fixes/patches, what to avoid, what to disable, how to minimize the risk).
Make a small site... make it look serious enough for someone to think it's a real commercial website. Then pretend to sell the new iPhone there for... let's say $100 (special offer). Require some more of the person's details... I mean setup a questionnaire, so the person thinks that the cellphone is traded also by giving out his data. Ask questions like: "What is your job?", "Do you live in a house?", "What is your religion?", "How old are you?" etc... then it's easy... try to get the address by requiring it... Hell... you need to send the iPhone somehow! Record every access to your store and don't forget to install robots.txt and to forbid web spiders to fetch the fake web shop site.
Then send an email to your account that he obviously reads. Don't write your name anywhere in the email.
Then wait... anyone who tries to visit your store is connected with the thief somehow. Maybe you don't get the thief directly, but it could be someone who is close enough to find him.
Leave the work phone at the office and carry your own private outside. No bothering calls at home and the people at the company can analyze all your text messages on your office phone without any ideological problems. Classic win-win situation.:)
Vaccines required for holidays no one forces you to take are one of the very few kinds of commonly needed medicine
that you have to pay for yourself if you have public insurance.
This is wrong thinking. I vaccine myself not only because I want to stay healthy, but the insurance has a decreased risk to pay high costs when being ill. One day in hospital there costs a private person about $100, just the bed without medicine. The insurance should support this and they usually do.
And when I'm paying a visit to my family on my holidays (that was the purpose), I cannot really say "no one forces me".
EVERYTHING ELSE is paid for by the insurance company. If a doctor prescribed it, of course. Saying that only antibiotics
are paid for is a blatant fucking lie.
This is actually a lie. I paid about 60 euro for pain medicine after 3 of my teeth were pulled. This is NOT COVERED by insurance. And tell me... where do you get pain drugs from? YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM PRESCRIBED!
And I remind you... you don't even get a fucking piece of prescibed(!) Aspirine here.
The real problem is, because it does not cost much to see a doctor, people go there when they have a pimple. The average German goes to see a doctor over 20 times a year for nothing. Wtf? I have to pay for this. And when I am sick, I still to have pay for medicine that soothes my pain. Even vaccines are not free, I paid about 80 euro for Hepatitis protection, because I went on holidays to an affected country. Because it's all not free. All you get for free is antibiotics and how much does this stuff cost? 600 euro? Maybe during 40 years of being ill regularly, yes.
When you look at my taxes, I pay each month, you'll also find the amount of mandatory health insurance. It's about 300 euro a month and the employer has to pay an additional 300 euro (50%/50%).
So remember when I warned you that your social system is better than ours in the "oh-so-great-EU". You'll pay in ONE month more than you pay for actually being ill for 2 years.
I bet, even when you offer 1.4 mrd USD (aka "billion USD" in US) to commercial delelopers and it would take 20 years, they would not manage to write something like Linux. It would rather be a concept on paper or on powerpoint slides. But... they would take the money anyway.
8,139 threatening phone calls, 3.6 million e-mails, 141 million hits on its website, ten acts of vandalism against its property, 22 bomb threats, and eight death threats against Church^Wsect leaders
I don't get it. Maybe someone should actually use Google there and lookup "REST" oder "RESTful" and see how the web was designed and SHOULD actually work.
I've tried Ubuntu, because I needed some Linux that runs from USB stick to install Gentoo on a netbook. I got this flickering screen problem which was quite annoying, but I simply reduced the resolution to 800x600 (1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768 were all broken) and it went away. Maybe Ubuntu does not support (some) CRT monitors anymore(?), I don't really know.
Hmm... I see. What I was talking about is when you have 400 steps in your song and the songs length is 1:40 then you get 240 steps per minute (on average of course). This is pretty fast, in my opinion. But songs usually can have faster passages (where you have very dense steps). Well... but I don't need to tell you this, I think.
Yeah... 500 bpm is pretty high, in my opinion, too. Perhaps he is speaking about the highest rate during the song, there are songs where you go above for a very short time. But on average, it's a bit difficult to keep a constant rate of 500 bpm. But it does not mean, that it's not possible, of course.
I haven't seen such thing, but I can manually correct audio delay in main settings, as far as I remember. I don't need it though, because I have a simple CRT and an analog HiFi system. There should not be any big lags. At least I can play without problems.
I'm almost sure that when you have an audio lag, the result would be pretty bad (at least you can correct some values in the main settings). I've heard people complain about songs that are off-sync. And second thing is... there are people who can read about 1000 arrows a minute. This means 60ms between arrows!! And I can play at about average of 250ms between arrows, and I pretty suck at this game. When you look at 160ms average lag and my reaction time of 250ms (and less, because it's average, of course!).. it might be a problem, in my opinion.
And there might be a limit where the brain cannot correct the lag anymore. Don't you think?
Anyone can make a comment how the lags affect gameplay on DDR? I still hesitate to buy an LCD TV and stay with my CRT, because I am not sure about it. When playing DDR, I usually listen to the music and the rhythm, so I really don't know exactly what would happen with a LCD TV.
I've seen people playing DDR with Samsung LCD TVs on Youtube. It seems it's working well.
DDR is a bit different, because you can really get exausted, when you play it too much. These are sometimes really extreme and fast movements. Btw, in some songs on DDR you need tactics. How else do you explain that all the noobs end up turning their butts to the TV when the arrows start to confuse them?:)
I just came back from playing DDR and I read this.
Fortunately, I've bought all DDR games I could get for Wii and PS2. I'm playing about 2 hours a day. I hope they will make more of this stuff.
And by "more" I don't mean some boring easy stuff like the recent "Winx Club" or "Disney Grooves". They shouldn't wonder why no one wants to buy such boring versions of DDR games.
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And it's seeded well.
And what is it exactly "Ig"? I first thought it was "1g" (one gramm; a small nobel statue in gold).
... they should be replaced by something else.
Leap seconds are handled well, when the system supports it well and the software is not utter crap.
I am always annoyed when people break basic things to make software work (e.g. hardware, also see ACPI). Now they are not only breaking hardware, but redefining measurements to make buggy software work. What comes next?
I can understand when something is changed for convenience purposes (to have simpler calculations), but justified with buggy software is plain wrong. And I surely don't care if an Oracle database "reboots"... whatever that might mean.
Do not give bad guys the possibility to learn about a flaw earlier than the users who are affected. If you don't publish the flaw, there is a certain possibility that it will be sold at black markets and kept secret to be able to use against customers. You can see that full disclosure groups are targets of commercial crackers. Full disclosure is like destroying business of criminals.
A customer should always be aware of a flaw and know how to protect himself against it.
There is no need for exploit code. You should publish it BEFORE having a PoC to warn as early as possible (but this is pretty rare, because having a PoC is usually the first indication that a flaw exists). It would also help to give as much information as possible how to protect against attacks (fixes/patches, what to avoid, what to disable, how to minimize the risk).
Make a small site... make it look serious enough for someone to think it's a real commercial website. Then pretend to sell the new iPhone there for... let's say $100 (special offer). Require some more of the person's details... I mean setup a questionnaire, so the person thinks that the cellphone is traded also by giving out his data. Ask questions like: "What is your job?", "Do you live in a house?", "What is your religion?", "How old are you?" etc... then it's easy... try to get the address by requiring it... Hell... you need to send the iPhone somehow! Record every access to your store and don't forget to install robots.txt and to forbid web spiders to fetch the fake web shop site.
Then send an email to your account that he obviously reads. Don't write your name anywhere in the email.
Then wait... anyone who tries to visit your store is connected with the thief somehow. Maybe you don't get the thief directly, but it could be someone who is close enough to find him.
Leave the work phone at the office and carry your own private outside. No bothering calls at home and the people at the company can analyze all your text messages on your office phone without any ideological problems. Classic win-win situation. :)
Oh yea... for me, this is art:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdsx9ka5hvE
It's not important IF you win, it's important HOW. Look at the left one, he plays with one foot. The right one plays regular style.
Vaccines required for holidays no one forces you to take are one of the very few kinds of commonly needed medicine that you have to pay for yourself if you have public insurance.
This is wrong thinking. I vaccine myself not only because I want to stay healthy, but the insurance has a decreased risk to pay high costs when being ill. One day in hospital there costs a private person about $100, just the bed without medicine. The insurance should support this and they usually do. And when I'm paying a visit to my family on my holidays (that was the purpose), I cannot really say "no one forces me".
EVERYTHING ELSE is paid for by the insurance company. If a doctor prescribed it, of course. Saying that only antibiotics are paid for is a blatant fucking lie.
This is actually a lie. I paid about 60 euro for pain medicine after 3 of my teeth were pulled. This is NOT COVERED by insurance. And tell me... where do you get pain drugs from? YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM PRESCRIBED! And I remind you... you don't even get a fucking piece of prescibed(!) Aspirine here.
The real problem is, because it does not cost much to see a doctor, people go there when they have a pimple. The average German goes to see a doctor over 20 times a year for nothing. Wtf? I have to pay for this. And when I am sick, I still to have pay for medicine that soothes my pain. Even vaccines are not free, I paid about 80 euro for Hepatitis protection, because I went on holidays to an affected country. Because it's all not free. All you get for free is antibiotics and how much does this stuff cost? 600 euro? Maybe during 40 years of being ill regularly, yes.
When you look at my taxes, I pay each month, you'll also find the amount of mandatory health insurance. It's about 300 euro a month and the employer has to pay an additional 300 euro (50%/50%).
So remember when I warned you that your social system is better than ours in the "oh-so-great-EU". You'll pay in ONE month more than you pay for actually being ill for 2 years.
I bet, even when you offer 1.4 mrd USD (aka "billion USD" in US) to commercial delelopers and it would take 20 years, they would not manage to write something like Linux. It would rather be a concept on paper or on powerpoint slides. But... they would take the money anyway.
O_O ... you slashdot ppl amaze me!
I just googled for "monaco font" and it gave me:
"97th most popular search in the past hour"
Hmm... I guess it makes more sense to build up my personal army here and not in /b/.
8,139 threatening phone calls, 3.6 million e-mails, 141 million hits on its website, ten acts of vandalism against its property, 22 bomb threats, and eight death threats against Church^Wsect leaders
Where do I send fan mail for this guy?
I don't get it. Maybe someone should actually use Google there and lookup "REST" oder "RESTful" and see how the web was designed and SHOULD actually work.
I've tried Ubuntu, because I needed some Linux that runs from USB stick to install Gentoo on a netbook. I got this flickering screen problem which was quite annoying, but I simply reduced the resolution to 800x600 (1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768 were all broken) and it went away. Maybe Ubuntu does not support (some) CRT monitors anymore(?), I don't really know.
Hmm... I see. What I was talking about is when you have 400 steps in your song and the songs length is 1:40 then you get 240 steps per minute (on average of course). This is pretty fast, in my opinion. But songs usually can have faster passages (where you have very dense steps). Well... but I don't need to tell you this, I think.
See here (from ITG):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpTcN2zTqKY
I haven't seen such thing, but I can manually correct audio delay in main settings, as far as I remember. I don't need it though, because I have a simple CRT and an analog HiFi system. There should not be any big lags. At least I can play without problems.
I'm almost sure that when you have an audio lag, the result would be pretty bad (at least you can correct some values in the main settings). I've heard people complain about songs that are off-sync. And second thing is... there are people who can read about 1000 arrows a minute. This means 60ms between arrows!! And I can play at about average of 250ms between arrows, and I pretty suck at this game. When you look at 160ms average lag and my reaction time of 250ms (and less, because it's average, of course!).. it might be a problem, in my opinion.
And there might be a limit where the brain cannot correct the lag anymore. Don't you think?
Anyone can make a comment how the lags affect gameplay on DDR? I still hesitate to buy an LCD TV and stay with my CRT, because I am not sure about it. When playing DDR, I usually listen to the music and the rhythm, so I really don't know exactly what would happen with a LCD TV.
I've seen people playing DDR with Samsung LCD TVs on Youtube. It seems it's working well.
Yes. HTML is high priority on my systems! It is always marked read first and ends fastest in my trash folder.
Perhaps... I should mention... this is all being done automatically by procmail.
DDR is a bit different, because you can really get exausted, when you play it too much. These are sometimes really extreme and fast movements. Btw, in some songs on DDR you need tactics. How else do you explain that all the noobs end up turning their butts to the TV when the arrows start to confuse them? :)
@USA: It's that time again. Send us some bombs here. We need it badly again...
(Btw, sign it with "4 TEH LULZ!".)
I just came back from playing DDR and I read this.
Fortunately, I've bought all DDR games I could get for Wii and PS2. I'm playing about 2 hours a day. I hope they will make more of this stuff.
And by "more" I don't mean some boring easy stuff like the recent "Winx Club" or "Disney Grooves". They shouldn't wonder why no one wants to buy such boring versions of DDR games.
@Konami: Where is the hard stuff... dammit!!