I'm going to try to be as polite as possible. You're out of line. You have no right to come in here and spout off your own opinion without having read the article. That's what we're all here discussing and you can't even show the common courtesy to do the required reading. Would you go to a reading group and interrupt the conversation without even reading the book that is up for discussion? Would you go to a public lecture and grab the microphone during question time to tell the room that you don't agree with the presenter even though you havn't read any of his work?
We're not having a private conversation here. This isn't a coffee house. There are 100,000 people trying to learn something new about the article from this comments section and you're filling it up with your unqualified ignorant opinion.
I'm sorry if I've hurt your feelings, I just want to make sure you're aware that your behaviour is not acceptable. If you want to have a private conversation with me, click on my email address (it's in every post that I make) and we'll have a private conversation, but this is a public forum and if there's 1000 uninformed comments for every 1 informed comment, how is anyone going to find those informed comments?
Well honestly I'd start with completely different technology. Rail guns have been made by thousands of college students but none of them have reported the construction of even a remotely large enough unit. Personally I think that technology is awaiting some breakthrough that hasn't happened as yet (room temperature semiconductors maybe).
Have you heard of Lifters? Basically you take an asymetric capacitor, put a shitload of DC power through it and you get lift. The biggest lifter I have seen was 250g (60g of that was payload) and required 257W of power to lift. None of that 250g was power supply, and obviously you couldn't fit such a high power supply into it. The only way to get power to it is via microwave or optic power transmission. Microwave is the more mature technology and it's also cheaper. So adding a rectanna to a lifter would be an interesting design for a launch vehicle. Back in 1975 it was demonstrated that 30 kW can be transmitted over a mile. If we could transmit over 60 miles that would be better, and I'm sure with correct experimentation we could do it. That's 60 miles of continuous accelleration. That'd put your lifter outside the atmosphere moving at a pretty damn high speed.. orbital velocity? maybe.
Oh I'm sorry, I ment no offense. I mean submitting a feature request and then gathering people to nag the developers to fix it, that's obviously "doing something".
If you really care I will implement this feature for you. Just make a $50 (US) donation to my Sourceforge Project and I'll get right on it. Of course, there's no guarentees that my patch will be accepted and there's even less chance that Slashdot will pick up the change. But hey, at least you will be doing something instead of complaining.
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Well obviously Richard Branson, multi-billionaire is completely unaware of the risk that he is taking and desperately needs your advice as soon as possible. I suggest you go into your local virgin megamart and tell everyone wearing a Virgin polo shirt this important news!
Well actually I was looking into this today. Are you aware of any electro-magnetic propulsion system that has been shown to be capable of even putting 1kg into orbit? It's one thing to get a bunch of engineers together and make a rocket engine using technology that is 40 years old, it's another to sit down and design something that has never been done before. Personally I see think about the whole hitting-the-air-at-mach-8-at-sea-level and that's about the end of that plan. What's your idea?
Wow that's a great idea! Maybe then we could have a smart editor that shows you a class view of your project and when you double click on a method you'd open that one file. Genius! Oh wait, this is a god damn big hack which doesn't address the fundimental issue that the editor, change control and build tools don't understand the language, even though we've already written parsers for all our languages and the only thing that is missing is a common exchange format for the AST.
A build tool could recompile things on a function by function level, even a tree-node by tree-node level instead of these obscene chunks we call "files". It would even be possible for todays computers to compile the code as you are typing it in. That way when you execute the app to debug it you would have a zero-second delay before it started. This can already be done with some languages in some IDEs, but it should be able to be done with all languages!
Well done. You have posted the only sensible useful comment to this story that I have found (and I'm reading every one of them). The whole story is about standardizing the internal representations of a compiler and other source manipulation tools. Hopefully those of us who develop these kinds of tools can learn to talk to each other better than the majority of morons who post on Slashdot.
Yep, and the people who have grasped it are spending their time explaining it to the morons who havn't grasped it, rather than talking about what has been presented and sharing information about which projects are trying to implement it.
No, what we're talking about is the fucking article which you didn't even bother to read. You're that asshole who used to come to philosophy class and rant for 40 minutes before the tutor said "dude, did you even do the required reading or what?" Now fuck off, and that goes double for all you other assholes who didn't even bother to read the article yet have plenty to say about how ugly XML syntax is. If you don't know how a compiler works, you are not qualified to have an opinion on this story. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the fuck up. I hate having to scroll through 400 uninformed comments to find the 5 people who actually bothered to read the article and have done any compiler development in their entire life.
By contrast, I don't see how coding directly in XML would ever be helpful. If that's an internal representation used by my editor or compiler - well, whatever works for them.
Which if you'd read the fuckin' article, you'd know that's what it was about!
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Oh what a delicious flaming. So around the year 2012 when Apple finally decides that, fuck it, 10.37.11 is a stupid version number and they've broken so much backwards compatibility anyways, let's change the version number to 11.1.1 and be done with it, are your fuckin' head gunna outright explode when they first wanker suggests that the product name should now be Mac OS XI? Are you going to get in your BMW, drive to Steve Jobs' house and bludgen him to death with your shoe when he announces that shit, that's not a bad idea? (Not that anyone needs an excuse to bludgen Jobs to death). Just curious.
Personally I think it should ship with the leeto USB line-in device, and a leeto video capture device too, and hell, some "I love Mac" stickers for your car!
Is there an actual audio in on the board? Cause there's no socket for it. Apparently this is because there are superior USB devices that work with GarageBand so no-one would use an audio in jack if there was one. What I wanna know is what's the best way to use this as a PVR? Are there USB tv tuners? How about USB high definition receivers?
Ya know the best way to get all these interesting things into space is to not lift them. Use lunar materials (bwahahaha, as if a Falcon V could get to the moon) or use asteroids (mehehehe, yep, cause going into a solar orbit and sending a few 100,000 tons back earth's way is really doable) or, (really this time I promise) use the vast amount of abandoned space junk that is already sitting up there in earth orbit. We know what it is made from. We know where it is. Why not cut it up and do something useful with it. Hmm, now I wonder if I could make a fully autonomous orbital scrapyard robot for under 670kg.. it could float around and cut up old launch tanks, weld em together and make me a space hotel (with hookers and blackjack), yeah.
Yeah, unfortuately the Slashdot system of giving everyone who scores high the mod points to score others just results in an amplifying of average, to stupid, posts.
Sounds like a lot of great ideas, that may very well have some useful applications, but none of that is done by the Honeynet project. It's just a bunch of geeks sitting around watching script kiddies attack unpatched boxes for the voyeuristic pleasure of it. There's nothing to be learned, it's just masterbation. Running snort on a box connected to the broadcast port of your router is a thousand times more effective at ringing alarm bells.
Why do I have to keep repeating myself? Catching a script kiddie doesn't tell you any valuable information! You already know that the machine you set up was unpatched. I'm not talking to you anymore.
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I'm going to try to be as polite as possible. You're out of line. You have no right to come in here and spout off your own opinion without having read the article. That's what we're all here discussing and you can't even show the common courtesy to do the required reading. Would you go to a reading group and interrupt the conversation without even reading the book that is up for discussion? Would you go to a public lecture and grab the microphone during question time to tell the room that you don't agree with the presenter even though you havn't read any of his work?
We're not having a private conversation here. This isn't a coffee house. There are 100,000 people trying to learn something new about the article from this comments section and you're filling it up with your unqualified ignorant opinion.
I'm sorry if I've hurt your feelings, I just want to make sure you're aware that your behaviour is not acceptable. If you want to have a private conversation with me, click on my email address (it's in every post that I make) and we'll have a private conversation, but this is a public forum and if there's 1000 uninformed comments for every 1 informed comment, how is anyone going to find those informed comments?
Have you heard of Lifters? Basically you take an asymetric capacitor, put a shitload of DC power through it and you get lift. The biggest lifter I have seen was 250g (60g of that was payload) and required 257W of power to lift. None of that 250g was power supply, and obviously you couldn't fit such a high power supply into it. The only way to get power to it is via microwave or optic power transmission. Microwave is the more mature technology and it's also cheaper. So adding a rectanna to a lifter would be an interesting design for a launch vehicle. Back in 1975 it was demonstrated that 30 kW can be transmitted over a mile. If we could transmit over 60 miles that would be better, and I'm sure with correct experimentation we could do it. That's 60 miles of continuous accelleration. That'd put your lifter outside the atmosphere moving at a pretty damn high speed.. orbital velocity? maybe.
I believe I've already made my suggestion.
and thus the LongHorn reference which was scheduled for last year.
Oh I'm sorry, I ment no offense. I mean submitting a feature request and then gathering people to nag the developers to fix it, that's obviously "doing something".
If you really care I will implement this feature for you. Just make a $50 (US) donation to my Sourceforge Project and I'll get right on it. Of course, there's no guarentees that my patch will be accepted and there's even less chance that Slashdot will pick up the change. But hey, at least you will be doing something instead of complaining.
11 in hex is B, but nice try.
The shuttle will be back in operation by the end of the year? WooHoo! Wanna buy a LongHorn?
Well obviously Richard Branson, multi-billionaire is completely unaware of the risk that he is taking and desperately needs your advice as soon as possible. I suggest you go into your local virgin megamart and tell everyone wearing a Virgin polo shirt this important news!
Well actually I was looking into this today. Are you aware of any electro-magnetic propulsion system that has been shown to be capable of even putting 1kg into orbit? It's one thing to get a bunch of engineers together and make a rocket engine using technology that is 40 years old, it's another to sit down and design something that has never been done before. Personally I see think about the whole hitting-the-air-at-mach-8-at-sea-level and that's about the end of that plan. What's your idea?
Except that there's lots and lots of tools for manipulating XML and there's absolutely no tools for manipulating bytecode.
Wow that's a great idea! Maybe then we could have a smart editor that shows you a class view of your project and when you double click on a method you'd open that one file. Genius! Oh wait, this is a god damn big hack which doesn't address the fundimental issue that the editor, change control and build tools don't understand the language, even though we've already written parsers for all our languages and the only thing that is missing is a common exchange format for the AST.
A build tool could recompile things on a function by function level, even a tree-node by tree-node level instead of these obscene chunks we call "files". It would even be possible for todays computers to compile the code as you are typing it in. That way when you execute the app to debug it you would have a zero-second delay before it started. This can already be done with some languages in some IDEs, but it should be able to be done with all languages!
Well done. You have posted the only sensible useful comment to this story that I have found (and I'm reading every one of them). The whole story is about standardizing the internal representations of a compiler and other source manipulation tools. Hopefully those of us who develop these kinds of tools can learn to talk to each other better than the majority of morons who post on Slashdot.
Yep, and the people who have grasped it are spending their time explaining it to the morons who havn't grasped it, rather than talking about what has been presented and sharing information about which projects are trying to implement it.
No, what we're talking about is the fucking article which you didn't even bother to read. You're that asshole who used to come to philosophy class and rant for 40 minutes before the tutor said "dude, did you even do the required reading or what?" Now fuck off, and that goes double for all you other assholes who didn't even bother to read the article yet have plenty to say about how ugly XML syntax is. If you don't know how a compiler works, you are not qualified to have an opinion on this story. If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the fuck up. I hate having to scroll through 400 uninformed comments to find the 5 people who actually bothered to read the article and have done any compiler development in their entire life.
Which if you'd read the fuckin' article, you'd know that's what it was about!
Oh what a delicious flaming. So around the year 2012 when Apple finally decides that, fuck it, 10.37.11 is a stupid version number and they've broken so much backwards compatibility anyways, let's change the version number to 11.1.1 and be done with it, are your fuckin' head gunna outright explode when they first wanker suggests that the product name should now be Mac OS XI? Are you going to get in your BMW, drive to Steve Jobs' house and bludgen him to death with your shoe when he announces that shit, that's not a bad idea? (Not that anyone needs an excuse to bludgen Jobs to death). Just curious.
Personally I think it should ship with the leeto USB line-in device, and a leeto video capture device too, and hell, some "I love Mac" stickers for your car!
Is there an actual audio in on the board? Cause there's no socket for it. Apparently this is because there are superior USB devices that work with GarageBand so no-one would use an audio in jack if there was one. What I wanna know is what's the best way to use this as a PVR? Are there USB tv tuners? How about USB high definition receivers?
Ya know the best way to get all these interesting things into space is to not lift them. Use lunar materials (bwahahaha, as if a Falcon V could get to the moon) or use asteroids (mehehehe, yep, cause going into a solar orbit and sending a few 100,000 tons back earth's way is really doable) or, (really this time I promise) use the vast amount of abandoned space junk that is already sitting up there in earth orbit. We know what it is made from. We know where it is. Why not cut it up and do something useful with it. Hmm, now I wonder if I could make a fully autonomous orbital scrapyard robot for under 670kg.. it could float around and cut up old launch tanks, weld em together and make me a space hotel (with hookers and blackjack), yeah.
Yeah, unfortuately the Slashdot system of giving everyone who scores high the mod points to score others just results in an amplifying of average, to stupid, posts.
Making bold predictions means you don't have to do any work.
Sounds like a lot of great ideas, that may very well have some useful applications, but none of that is done by the Honeynet project. It's just a bunch of geeks sitting around watching script kiddies attack unpatched boxes for the voyeuristic pleasure of it. There's nothing to be learned, it's just masterbation. Running snort on a box connected to the broadcast port of your router is a thousand times more effective at ringing alarm bells.
Why do I have to keep repeating myself? Catching a script kiddie doesn't tell you any valuable information! You already know that the machine you set up was unpatched. I'm not talking to you anymore.