Im hoping that Americans arnt as dumb as certain British people but they might want to explain in a little foot-note that "pediatrician" is not the same as "pediophile", that should avoid the odd doctor getting beaten up.
This really is a stupid idea thats going to cause allot of vigilante violence and not even to the offenders, it wont take more than a month before someone is mistaken.
Seems to me theres a simple solution to the virus problem on mobiles so heres a few guide lines to who-ever designs phones and software:
1. Dont fucking allow simple text messages or emails to be parsed by any interpreter (microsoft outlook vb *cough*)
2. Do not allow any simple text messages or emails ways to access the phones API, this can be avoided by, for example by removing the line of code in the phones' software that says "if a text message or email contains a command, exicute it"
3. Text messages and emails contain data, this data is to be outputted onto the screen. That is all, do not parse it, do not look for scripts in it, do not do anything with it just put it on the fucking screen.
And finally
4. If you absolutely have to use some sort of scripting language or something similar, make sure it does not have access to any of the phones functions that could potentially do things the user does not want to do, if your not sure what those things are i will give you a clue: anything that could be used against the user do you not understand how simple it is? its not rocket science its not bank vault design its not brain surgery its just simple security fundamentals and common sense and if you cant handle it dont design phone software!
The music industry has been using things like this for years. However theirs just copys older songs:P
What will happen is afew 'poets' will say something like "oh its a computer it has no soul" or something equally irritating and then they wont be able to tell the computer from the human in a test
What would be really cool is access to a real-time train map like the controllers see, then you can see the real reason your train just stopped in the middle of no-where for 15 mins with no explination. Also - and i dont think transportation people have really caught on to this fact: things always seem faster when you have a moving progress bar on a screen (it has to move every second). People want to be able to see whats going on and when - thats why people like the count-down displays at bus stops and on the tube.
fake your phones serial numbers so they don't know its you? Osama aparently uses a new phone for each call. Use blue-tooth to bounce the call off a number of phones one of which will make the call all without the owners knowing (now thats a hack).
I think it depends on the phone, some phones for example have alarm clocks that will ring even if the phone is turned off so obviously something needs to be going on inside and you might be hearing that, my phone doesnt seem to send any signals when its off and i can definately hear them through my speaker when its on and checks into the network every-so-often. However its true that there could be some sort of hook builtin to phones that allowed an outside signal to turn it on - conspiracy?
I think MS are damn lucky he told them at-all. I certainly would keep my mouth shut if i found a bug in any proprietry software, id be to scared that the FBI would come knocking down my door (im in england but our prick for a PM and his cabinet of dildos has decided its ok to extradite us to the US for any reason without a hearing). But then thats the real difference between open source and proprietry commercial software: one is about writing software the other is about dumb as fuck PHBs playing solitare.
A billion dollar software giant cant even get a bloody browser right after 6 version and even when its not crashing or having security flaws it still cant render HTML or CSS properly. Hell they screwed up even on email.
And Microsoft wants to write software for cars and business servers and sell their products for 1000's and claim they are the best and that other software methods are cancer??? Go screw yourselves you fuckwits.
Often people used to complain about the speed of Mozilla vs IE, i think Mozilla has caught up to speed now but personally (and on my crappy 400mhz) both pale in comparison to Opera, ive been using it solely for 3 years straight and i just cant use anything slower because the responsiveness hurts my head, i cant even put my finger on what they do to make it _seem_ faster but it just does, especially switching and creating tabs. Mozilla/Firebird is probably the future though.
1. Create catchy sounding music by whatever means necessary, doesn't need to be original or high quality, just needs a hook.
2. Play it on the radio and tv, push the musicians into the public eye with advertising
3. Clubs, shops, other tv/radio stations etc will start playing the song because everyone else is, at this point you have successfully made a 'hit'
4. Sell, rake in profit
After a set number of years a song will have left most peoples memories so it can be 're-released' using its original familiarity to create an instant hit, you must make sure that the re-release or re-mix has an extra underlaying beat or melody or is faster or louder so that the original pales in comparison and people will buy the new song, alternatively parts of the melody can be broken down and re-used as scrap - you will probably notice scrap melody in anything by Blue or Justin Timberlake and many others - it sounds like something you've heard before but you just cant put your finger on it.
And remember the all time rule of the entertainment industry: If it worked the first time, do it another 10
(Big Brother, PopStars, Making the Band, Generic boy/girl bands that all sound the same, teenage girls that all sound the same, Changing [rooms|places|clothes|wives], Im a celebrity [insert something here], The worlds worst x, something island x, Airport/Cruiseliner/Hospital/Cops)
PS as a brit im really sorry for Popstars, but here we now have Fame Academy 2! its much worse and they dont even have that cool guy that tells everyone they're shit. I think we just finished Big Brother 3
The TV license is something that could never happen again or be introduced to a new country, i personally dont mind it either - its just something you get used to and its cool having no adverts (even though fame acadamy sequels are really starting to piss me off). Im sure it will go one day but i dont know if that will be a good or a bad thing - all i know is that some people pay even more for channels that have adverts!
God some people are fucking stupid, do BMW get their people from Diebold?? i claim no knowledge of car design or even software design (im still in uni) but even i can tell that some things are just stupid, for example having a situation where a computer has locked your door and even though you are inside the car you cannot get out because their is no fricking mechanical override. I get scared, scared totally shitless that the same incompetant fools that design voting systems, atms and car locks might one day be let loose on a bloody nuclear reactor or a plane! would they understand simple concepts eg. "buffer overflow could cause fuel dump, dont just hope it doesnt happen, design a redundancy so it _cant_ happen" Seeing as Microsoft have screwed up on a number of things i wouldnt want them powering anything more than an mp3 player (yeah and even windows media player has fucked up badly!)
Outlook express VB script - we messed it up CSS box model - we cant even draw a box right IIS - our uptimes almost 15 days on average now!
Ok ok heres my idea: how about, the entire music industry kisses my ass, and i dont pay for storage memory or network access. I really, honestly couldnt give a damn if the entire industry today said "were going on strike, no more music will be made" for me, the commercial music industry is identical to the commercial software industry:
Their physical product is a CD that costs next to nothing to press but sells for a high price far dwarfing what would be needed to provide a reasonable profit per planned sales
They both think that their products are essential and the best
most people i know use their products for reasons other than quality - ie proprietry lockin, no choice or because they hear the tune on the radio and it gets in their head like an itch even though the production quality is bad (synths that sound like the game boy) the singing is generic (they all sound the same) and the song is a cover, remake, or rip
Theres some good stuff out there (not much) but you will usually notice a trend - the good musicians and developers are usually not pretentious assholes they do alot of work and just happen to locked into a shitty label - i feel sorry for them
There are people who make the same thing for free because they love music or designing and often they do it better because they are in it for it and not for money
Both industries have just woken up to the hard cold slap-in-the-face fact that they are coming to the end of their purpose but they still spread FUD
Both industries can lick my ass after ive taken a shit on their CD
Those Red Cross people were rallying for less gun control and a ban on abortion the other day! they've got money and they are taking over the government. Oh wait thats republicans
In other news, millions of 12 year olds have filed a class action suit to fight back against the RIAA for DMCA abuse and first amendment violations. Britney Spears is quoted as saying "Does this mean those idiots wont be buying my stuff?"
Jack Vigelenti, Chairman of the MPAA has fled the country in fear that he will be next in line for anti-DMCA law suits, however the 82 year old texan may not be safe as his previous rallying for similar DMCA laws accross the world means he might only find refuge in hell.
Just remember next time your on a plane - one of those 1000's of wires will have at one point stopped working and the first thing the engineer will have done is jiggle it, then when it worked they would have signed the form and moved on.
"We must launch tomorrow, i dont care if the O-ring has never been tested at these temperatures, i went to Harvard business school where they taught us advanced concepts like "buy low, sell high" so i know more":P
Yep we're not safe outside America either. Last week bush visited my city and for 4 days it felt like we were under seige. There was a no-fly zone over London except for the massive helicopters. Forget "a policeman on every corner" i saw police every 20 meters around buckingham Buckingham palace with extra fencing. There were also snipers around places that Bush was visiting. All over the news all you saw were a sea of police i never new we had so many! The cost of this massive extra police force that took police from doing useful jobs (i couldnt care less if Bush was shot) will be paid by us not him. Not to mention the US secret service which originally wanted full diplomatic immunity (so if they accidently shot someone they could get away with it) and to close down half of London! fucking pricks.
Now take a look at http://www.downhillbattle.org/ "One option proposed for Article 4.1 of the intellectual property rights chapter in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty would mandate that countries must send noncommercial infringers such as Peer2-Peer (P2P) file-sharers to prison." enough said?
What does the (increasingly named like commercial products) EnFORCE Act have to do with the RIAA? The US government system is insane, how can laws be created that then have other totally non-connected laws attached to them? Could someone please explain this? As someone outside America i kinda feel confused as to some of your governments ways of doing things.
Also could nvidia sue the government for a breach of trademark (enforce sounds allot like geforce) or is that going too far?
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Im hoping that Americans arnt as dumb as certain British people but they might want to explain in a little foot-note that "pediatrician" is not the same as "pediophile", that should avoid the odd doctor getting beaten up.
This really is a stupid idea thats going to cause allot of vigilante violence and not even to the offenders, it wont take more than a month before someone is mistaken.
Seems to me theres a simple solution to the virus problem on mobiles so heres a few guide lines to who-ever designs phones and software:
1. Dont fucking allow simple text messages or emails to be parsed by any interpreter (microsoft outlook vb *cough*)
2. Do not allow any simple text messages or emails ways to access the phones API, this can be avoided by, for example by removing the line of code in the phones' software that says "if a text message or email contains a command, exicute it"
3. Text messages and emails contain data, this data is to be outputted onto the screen. That is all, do not parse it, do not look for scripts in it, do not do anything with it just put it on the fucking screen.
And finally
4. If you absolutely have to use some sort of scripting language or something similar, make sure it does not have access to any of the phones functions that could potentially do things the user does not want to do, if your not sure what those things are i will give you a clue: anything that could be used against the user do you not understand how simple it is? its not rocket science its not bank vault design its not brain surgery its just simple security fundamentals and common sense and if you cant handle it dont design phone software!
The music industry has been using things like this for years. However theirs just copys older songs :P
What will happen is afew 'poets' will say something like "oh its a computer it has no soul" or something equally irritating and then they wont be able to tell the computer from the human in a test
What would be really cool is access to a real-time train map like the controllers see, then you can see the real reason your train just stopped in the middle of no-where for 15 mins with no explination. Also - and i dont think transportation people have really caught on to this fact: things always seem faster when you have a moving progress bar on a screen (it has to move every second). People want to be able to see whats going on and when - thats why people like the count-down displays at bus stops and on the tube.
If the power its putting out won't let anyone track it unless they are outside my house how can the cell tower hear it?
fake your phones serial numbers so they don't know its you? Osama aparently uses a new phone for each call. Use blue-tooth to bounce the call off a number of phones one of which will make the call all without the owners knowing (now thats a hack).
I think it depends on the phone, some phones for example have alarm clocks that will ring even if the phone is turned off so obviously something needs to be going on inside and you might be hearing that, my phone doesnt seem to send any signals when its off and i can definately hear them through my speaker when its on and checks into the network every-so-often. However its true that there could be some sort of hook builtin to phones that allowed an outside signal to turn it on - conspiracy?
True but wouldnt you like to see the look on jack vigilanties face when they have to release the code to the public?
no its not the same CSS that teaches you to separate style from content ;)
besides people who work on CSS(dvd) cant be real programmers, i refuse to believe it
Great now we can get some DVD code and keys, hopefully if they have integrated it enough, sweet. Kiss my ass MPAA, not so hot now are we?
I think MS are damn lucky he told them at-all. I certainly would keep my mouth shut if i found a bug in any proprietry software, id be to scared that the FBI would come knocking down my door (im in england but our prick for a PM and his cabinet of dildos has decided its ok to extradite us to the US for any reason without a hearing). But then thats the real difference between open source and proprietry commercial software: one is about writing software the other is about dumb as fuck PHBs playing solitare.
A billion dollar software giant cant even get a bloody browser right after 6 version and even when its not crashing or having security flaws it still cant render HTML or CSS properly. Hell they screwed up even on email.
And Microsoft wants to write software for cars and business servers and sell their products for 1000's and claim they are the best and that other software methods are cancer??? Go screw yourselves you fuckwits.
Often people used to complain about the speed of Mozilla vs IE, i think Mozilla has caught up to speed now but personally (and on my crappy 400mhz) both pale in comparison to Opera, ive been using it solely for 3 years straight and i just cant use anything slower because the responsiveness hurts my head, i cant even put my finger on what they do to make it _seem_ faster but it just does, especially switching and creating tabs. Mozilla/Firebird is probably the future though.
The business model works like this:
1. Create catchy sounding music by whatever means necessary, doesn't need to be original or high quality, just needs a hook.
2. Play it on the radio and tv, push the musicians into the public eye with advertising
3. Clubs, shops, other tv/radio stations etc will start playing the song because everyone else is, at this point you have successfully made a 'hit'
4. Sell, rake in profit
After a set number of years a song will have left most peoples memories so it can be 're-released' using its original familiarity to create an instant hit, you must make sure that the re-release or re-mix has an extra underlaying beat or melody or is faster or louder so that the original pales in comparison and people will buy the new song, alternatively parts of the melody can be broken down and re-used as scrap - you will probably notice scrap melody in anything by Blue or Justin Timberlake and many others - it sounds like something you've heard before but you just cant put your finger on it.
And remember the all time rule of the entertainment industry: If it worked the first time, do it another 10
(Big Brother, PopStars, Making the Band, Generic boy/girl bands that all sound the same, teenage girls that all sound the same, Changing [rooms|places|clothes|wives], Im a celebrity [insert something here], The worlds worst x, something island x, Airport/Cruiseliner/Hospital/Cops)
PS as a brit im really sorry for Popstars, but here we now have Fame Academy 2! its much worse and they dont even have that cool guy that tells everyone they're shit. I think we just finished Big Brother 3
The TV license is something that could never happen again or be introduced to a new country, i personally dont mind it either - its just something you get used to and its cool having no adverts (even though fame acadamy sequels are really starting to piss me off). Im sure it will go one day but i dont know if that will be a good or a bad thing - all i know is that some people pay even more for channels that have adverts!
God some people are fucking stupid, do BMW get their people from Diebold?? i claim no knowledge of car design or even software design (im still in uni) but even i can tell that some things are just stupid, for example having a situation where a computer has locked your door and even though you are inside the car you cannot get out because their is no fricking mechanical override. I get scared, scared totally shitless that the same incompetant fools that design voting systems, atms and car locks might one day be let loose on a bloody nuclear reactor or a plane! would they understand simple concepts eg. "buffer overflow could cause fuel dump, dont just hope it doesnt happen, design a redundancy so it _cant_ happen" Seeing as Microsoft have screwed up on a number of things i wouldnt want them powering anything more than an mp3 player (yeah and even windows media player has fucked up badly!)
Outlook express VB script - we messed it up
CSS box model - we cant even draw a box right
IIS - our uptimes almost 15 days on average now!
just afew
Maybe if everything goes tits-up for diebold they can sell their voting system to iraq, i heard they are in great shortage of working arcade machines.
Those Red Cross people were rallying for less gun control and a ban on abortion the other day! they've got money and they are taking over the government. Oh wait thats republicans
In other news, millions of 12 year olds have filed a class action suit to fight back against the RIAA for DMCA abuse and first amendment violations. Britney Spears is quoted as saying "Does this mean those idiots wont be buying my stuff?"
Jack Vigelenti, Chairman of the MPAA has fled the country in fear that he will be next in line for anti-DMCA law suits, however the 82 year old texan may not be safe as his previous rallying for similar DMCA laws accross the world means he might only find refuge in hell.
Just remember next time your on a plane - one of those 1000's of wires will have at one point stopped working and the first thing the engineer will have done is jiggle it, then when it worked they would have signed the form and moved on.
"We must launch tomorrow, i dont care if the O-ring has never been tested at these temperatures, i went to Harvard business school where they taught us advanced concepts like "buy low, sell high" so i know more" :P
PageRank isnt a secret, its basically a weight of how much money you pay google.
Yep we're not safe outside America either. Last week bush visited my city and for 4 days it felt like we were under seige. There was a no-fly zone over London except for the massive helicopters. Forget "a policeman on every corner" i saw police every 20 meters around buckingham Buckingham palace with extra fencing. There were also snipers around places that Bush was visiting. All over the news all you saw were a sea of police i never new we had so many! The cost of this massive extra police force that took police from doing useful jobs (i couldnt care less if Bush was shot) will be paid by us not him. Not to mention the US secret service which originally wanted full diplomatic immunity (so if they accidently shot someone they could get away with it) and to close down half of London! fucking pricks.
Now take a look at http://www.downhillbattle.org/
"One option proposed for Article 4.1 of the intellectual property rights chapter in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Treaty would mandate that countries must send noncommercial infringers such as Peer2-Peer (P2P) file-sharers to prison." enough said?
What does the (increasingly named like commercial products) EnFORCE Act have to do with the RIAA? The US government system is insane, how can laws be created that then have other totally non-connected laws attached to them? Could someone please explain this? As someone outside America i kinda feel confused as to some of your governments ways of doing things.
Also could nvidia sue the government for a breach of trademark (enforce sounds allot like geforce) or is that going too far?