I think he is as surprised as everyone at how many copies were sold. Their original estimate was for maybe a few hundred or a thousand if they were lucky. It's just a dumb little card game. But it resonated with the internet and sold nearly a quarter million copies.
In the risks and pitfalls section he mentions that there shouldn't be a problem unless they sell too many copies. I'm thinking whatever plans they had to produce and ship these originally are now toast. I wouldn't be surprised if these don't ship until 2016 now, especially since the original plan was basically "They're just some cards, how hard can it be?"
However, Mr. Inman also has some of the blame here by turning the kickstarter into a party (literally in some cases) where people were doing crazy things for internet "achievements" and generating a lot of buzz. If he didn't want it to be so big he could have managed it a lot worse like most Kickstarters.
As long as it is a real keyboard you should be fine. It's pecking things out on an onscreen keyboard that is pure misery for programming. I know, because I've had to do it. Even shell scripts are terrible.
His comment about running it on a high power i7 with 16GB of RAM might at least make sense then. That's what you need to build a medium sized DF map with 1000 years of history baked in.
They aren't blocking messages that talk about infringing on copyright, they're blocking messages that so much as reference something they don't like. That's heavy handed and ineffective.
"You know you can download on ka.to, good seeds and everything". Not blocked
"You think the new Piratebay is just a FBI sting now? I hear it's just one guy and everything is shady. You'd have to be crazy go go there now." Blocked.
The smart thing to do would be to have a system that silently flags people's accounts when they use certain keywords (like Piratebay), and have them double checked for pirate content. If someone is dumb enough to talk about Torrenting on Steam chat while pirating games on Steam, then they deserve to get busted.
Steam did the same thing for PC games that iTunes did for Music. It make digital buying so easy and affordable that there was little reason to pirate anymore. Lo and behold the piracy rates plummet as a result. It doesn't even require intrusive and invasive DRM, all you need to do is allow people to buy the product at a reasonable price without throwing up a bunch of roadblocks. It's like magic.
Oh yeah, the H1B guys will definitely not lie about their expertise with public key crypto. This is the perfect option.
The summary was kind of dumb sounding. "I went to our web monkeys and asked them about the technical details of public key encryption. The answers will shock you!"
Printers and print servers tend to have hilariously poor security. Printer companies just don't care. That's why most organizations go to great pains to partition them off and try to run their own print servers as intermediaries.
That would require him being both a criminal mastermind and probably tipped off that he was about to be snagged. This was a guy who got scammed out of over a million bucks by a confidence game. He wasn't a tremendous mastermind. Just a guy who was smart enough to set up a website using the Darknet and Bitcoin for the most obvious application of both but had the crazy idea of maybe not making it a scam this time (like most other darknet drug site) and actually selling the drugs.
Looks to me like they're already disallowed Facebook access, since it lands them in Solitary. I'm guessing this is mostly a "covert communication with the outside" type violation though. The prisons are trying to prevent gang leaders/drug lords/etc... from running their empires while locked up. Plus, they don't get to rip off the prisoners with their massively inflated telephone fees.
Looks like he was done in by being stupid more than the technologies.
The article is more than a little sensational too. "He was done in by CHAT!" No, he was done in by keeping a goddamn log of his criminal activities. The fact that it happened to be chat is beside the point. Probably the only entry in there that deserves the headline is the Bitcoin one, only because it highlights how people misrepresent Bitcoin (It's so anonymous that every single transaction ever is recorded on the internet!). The article points out that he could have used tumblers to hide his bitcoins, but with the volume of coins Silk Road deals with that probably wasn't practical. Tumblers are really only useful for relatively small numbers of coins at a time. Put too many in and take too many out and your transactions stand out.
The article does harp a lot on how this information was only available because Ulbrict was dumb and let his laptop be snatched out of his hands while he was logged in. It is somewhat frightening to consider how poor the government's case might be if he had simply been facing the other direction.
Given that it is a safety feature, I'm guessing they made it difficult to bypass on purpose. On the other hand, knowing how farmers actually work that could be quite an inconvenience if the machine shuts off every time you stand up for a second to just get a better line of sight on something. However, I'm surprised he opted for the "patch the software" route first, since simply shorting the pressure sensor with a resistor would probably work just as well and be far closer to a farmer's existing skillset.
Kind of. For most people they're lucky to get 1080p with their computer. A majority of 15" laptops still ship with horrible 1366x786 panels on them. While there are some 4k panels that are entering the mainstream, they're still pretty rare at this point.
It's a Libertarian paradise. People could renounce all citizenship and live effectively by the rules of International Waters. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, because the Senate has been so good at getting work done for the past decade. I'm sure they'll have something to vote on in no time. I also love your thought that it's not going to be a strictly party line vote, and especially that some Republicans would vote against it. Republicans representing their constituents interests? Yeah, that's going to happen.
A device that listens all of the time and has an API for programming events and everything? No talk on their Kickstarter about the privacy implications? This seems well thought out.
The budget that Obama submitted is basically a fantasy novel with lots of boring numbers in it. The House and Senate are going to shitcan it the instant it lands in their hands so they can pass their own budget instead. It's not even worth talking about the budget because it has absolutely nothing to do with whatever finally makes it through Congress.
Seems like offering incentives to take the classes won't help if the people aren't interested in the first place. You've gotta make CS cool and hip. You need Disney starlets who program for real and have a gaggle of friends who all think it's so amazing. You need to equate programming with art, which honestly isn't far from the truth. To be honest though, this is a tough road to follow, since CS already has a strong association with utterly uncool turbo nerds.
I'm not sure how you target the poor inner city youth to get them interested.
I've got an overclocked Model B (the overclock options are right in rpi-config!) that will pull nearly an Amp when running Quake 3. It's a good test on which companies make good power adapters and which ones don't. (Apple's work, Samsung's do not).
Yeah, I've played around with a bunch of the boards and the ecosystem on the Pi is by far the best. So many of them have effectively no English documentation, weird quirks, and nothing works without a ton of hacking. The Pi may be slow, but the Raspbian is well maintained and documented.
I'm pretty sure the newer generations of ARM are supersets of the older ones. You could upgrade the processor in the Pi to something recent without breaking ABI compatibility. In fact it would be easier to get stuff like Chrome working on the board since the precompiled binaries are too recent for the processor in the Pi.
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I think he is as surprised as everyone at how many copies were sold. Their original estimate was for maybe a few hundred or a thousand if they were lucky. It's just a dumb little card game. But it resonated with the internet and sold nearly a quarter million copies.
In the risks and pitfalls section he mentions that there shouldn't be a problem unless they sell too many copies. I'm thinking whatever plans they had to produce and ship these originally are now toast. I wouldn't be surprised if these don't ship until 2016 now, especially since the original plan was basically "They're just some cards, how hard can it be?"
However, Mr. Inman also has some of the blame here by turning the kickstarter into a party (literally in some cases) where people were doing crazy things for internet "achievements" and generating a lot of buzz. If he didn't want it to be so big he could have managed it a lot worse like most Kickstarters.
As long as it is a real keyboard you should be fine. It's pecking things out on an onscreen keyboard that is pure misery for programming. I know, because I've had to do it. Even shell scripts are terrible.
Programming on a phone keyboard is a sure way to turn someone off from programming as well.
His comment about running it on a high power i7 with 16GB of RAM might at least make sense then. That's what you need to build a medium sized DF map with 1000 years of history baked in.
They aren't blocking messages that talk about infringing on copyright, they're blocking messages that so much as reference something they don't like. That's heavy handed and ineffective.
"You know you can download on ka.to, good seeds and everything". Not blocked
"You think the new Piratebay is just a FBI sting now? I hear it's just one guy and everything is shady. You'd have to be crazy go go there now." Blocked.
The smart thing to do would be to have a system that silently flags people's accounts when they use certain keywords (like Piratebay), and have them double checked for pirate content. If someone is dumb enough to talk about Torrenting on Steam chat while pirating games on Steam, then they deserve to get busted.
Steam did the same thing for PC games that iTunes did for Music. It make digital buying so easy and affordable that there was little reason to pirate anymore. Lo and behold the piracy rates plummet as a result. It doesn't even require intrusive and invasive DRM, all you need to do is allow people to buy the product at a reasonable price without throwing up a bunch of roadblocks. It's like magic.
Or you could just wait for the next exploit and use that to reset your supervisor password.
Oh yeah, the H1B guys will definitely not lie about their expertise with public key crypto. This is the perfect option.
The summary was kind of dumb sounding. "I went to our web monkeys and asked them about the technical details of public key encryption. The answers will shock you!"
Printers and print servers tend to have hilariously poor security. Printer companies just don't care. That's why most organizations go to great pains to partition them off and try to run their own print servers as intermediaries.
That would require him being both a criminal mastermind and probably tipped off that he was about to be snagged. This was a guy who got scammed out of over a million bucks by a confidence game. He wasn't a tremendous mastermind. Just a guy who was smart enough to set up a website using the Darknet and Bitcoin for the most obvious application of both but had the crazy idea of maybe not making it a scam this time (like most other darknet drug site) and actually selling the drugs.
Like being in prison?
Looks to me like they're already disallowed Facebook access, since it lands them in Solitary. I'm guessing this is mostly a "covert communication with the outside" type violation though. The prisons are trying to prevent gang leaders/drug lords/etc... from running their empires while locked up. Plus, they don't get to rip off the prisoners with their massively inflated telephone fees.
Looks like he was done in by being stupid more than the technologies.
The article is more than a little sensational too. "He was done in by CHAT!" No, he was done in by keeping a goddamn log of his criminal activities. The fact that it happened to be chat is beside the point. Probably the only entry in there that deserves the headline is the Bitcoin one, only because it highlights how people misrepresent Bitcoin (It's so anonymous that every single transaction ever is recorded on the internet!). The article points out that he could have used tumblers to hide his bitcoins, but with the volume of coins Silk Road deals with that probably wasn't practical. Tumblers are really only useful for relatively small numbers of coins at a time. Put too many in and take too many out and your transactions stand out.
The article does harp a lot on how this information was only available because Ulbrict was dumb and let his laptop be snatched out of his hands while he was logged in. It is somewhat frightening to consider how poor the government's case might be if he had simply been facing the other direction.
Given that it is a safety feature, I'm guessing they made it difficult to bypass on purpose. On the other hand, knowing how farmers actually work that could be quite an inconvenience if the machine shuts off every time you stand up for a second to just get a better line of sight on something. However, I'm surprised he opted for the "patch the software" route first, since simply shorting the pressure sensor with a resistor would probably work just as well and be far closer to a farmer's existing skillset.
Kind of. For most people they're lucky to get 1080p with their computer. A majority of 15" laptops still ship with horrible 1366x786 panels on them. While there are some 4k panels that are entering the mainstream, they're still pretty rare at this point.
It's a Libertarian paradise. People could renounce all citizenship and live effectively by the rules of International Waters. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes, because the Senate has been so good at getting work done for the past decade. I'm sure they'll have something to vote on in no time. I also love your thought that it's not going to be a strictly party line vote, and especially that some Republicans would vote against it. Republicans representing their constituents interests? Yeah, that's going to happen.
A device that listens all of the time and has an API for programming events and everything? No talk on their Kickstarter about the privacy implications? This seems well thought out.
The budget that Obama submitted is basically a fantasy novel with lots of boring numbers in it. The House and Senate are going to shitcan it the instant it lands in their hands so they can pass their own budget instead. It's not even worth talking about the budget because it has absolutely nothing to do with whatever finally makes it through Congress.
Telling them the truth hasn't been working though. "It's a boring job full of math" somehow doesn't appeal to the young girl demographic.
Seems like offering incentives to take the classes won't help if the people aren't interested in the first place. You've gotta make CS cool and hip. You need Disney starlets who program for real and have a gaggle of friends who all think it's so amazing. You need to equate programming with art, which honestly isn't far from the truth. To be honest though, this is a tough road to follow, since CS already has a strong association with utterly uncool turbo nerds.
I'm not sure how you target the poor inner city youth to get them interested.
My thought on this is that I'll check it out if/when it ever comes out.
I've got an overclocked Model B (the overclock options are right in rpi-config!) that will pull nearly an Amp when running Quake 3. It's a good test on which companies make good power adapters and which ones don't. (Apple's work, Samsung's do not).
Yeah, I've played around with a bunch of the boards and the ecosystem on the Pi is by far the best. So many of them have effectively no English documentation, weird quirks, and nothing works without a ton of hacking. The Pi may be slow, but the Raspbian is well maintained and documented.
I'm pretty sure the newer generations of ARM are supersets of the older ones. You could upgrade the processor in the Pi to something recent without breaking ABI compatibility. In fact it would be easier to get stuff like Chrome working on the board since the precompiled binaries are too recent for the processor in the Pi.
A lot of the wins from Perl6 have already been backported to Perl5. At this point I'm in no rush to switch to Perl6 even if it does come out.