Verizon is much better. I am very happy with my 35/35 mbit symmetric fiber connection. Almost no outages at all. Way less than comcrap which used to drop out on a weekly basis for me. If you don't live in a state/city with FIOS, move.
Legs are not just to "repel gravity" as you put it. With some kind of velcro like shoe system legs can be used to propel oneself across a room in zero gravity. Also, if you are holding something in your hands it gives you a method to push off a wall or other object to propel yourself across a room without walking. What kind of robot would you use to "pick up" a 100 kg piece of equipment and transport it across a space habitat? Again, I think you would either need legs or some kind of wheeled system that can exert some downward pressure to get the wheels in contact with the floor/wall/ceiling. You could propel yourself with two long arms like a monkey, but what if you also need to hold something?
Robonaut 2, a.k.a. R2, described by its creator, General Motors, as the strongest, fastest, most dexterous and most technologically advanced humanoid robot
They didn't qualify their description with the term "space-qualified" as you have. And in not doing so they show that unique combination of boasting arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence that we Americans are so famous for around the world. Just once I would like to see an American press release that didn't totally overstate their case or outright lie. The Japanese don't have that problem, and yes, their robots are far more advanced than this POS GM legless "humanoid" robot. One of the most difficult parts of making a humanoid robot is the bipedal walk/controlled fall. ASIMO can even run. An amazing feat of engineering. As Americans we sure know how to love ourselves and think well of ourselves. We probably have the best "self esteem" in the world. Maybe if we stopped being so lazy and actually bothered to do some work we might even be worthy of our own high self-regard.
The US no longer stands for freedom. Not in any way. Maybe 200 years ago, but not now. In fact, with the recent DHS/TSA fiasco we may be one of the least free countries on the planet. "I am going to squeeze your balls, citizen. You are permitted to cough. Resistance is futile." USA = Police State. Time to wake up, comrade.
So you have determined that Assange is guilty? Based on what? Maybe you should inform Sweden that they should put him in jail and throw away the key since you are so certain of his guilt. Why bother with a trial? So pointless. Are you one of those people that always assume anyone accused of a sex crime is automatically guilty?
Programming mistake No. 1: Playing it fast and loose Failing to shore up the basics is the easiest way to undercut your code. Often this means overlooking how arbitrary user behavior will affect your program. Will the input of a zero find its way into a division operation? Will submitted text be the right length? Have date formats been vetted? Is the username verified against the database? Mistakes in the smallest places cause software to fail.
Fair enough. So debug while you code. Seems like good advice.
Programming mistake No. 2: Overcommitting to details On the flip side, overly buttoned-up software can slow to a crawl. Checking a few null pointers may not make much difference, but some software is written to be like an obsessive-compulsive who must check that the doors are locked again and again so that sleep never comes.
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something? I guess he's saying debug while you code, but not too much. After reading the rest I see that that was his algorithm for writing the whole article. Rule 1: do x; Rule 2: But not too much! I didn't really find the article all that useful.
All programming should be assembly language programming anyway and a lot of his rules don't seem to apply to assembly language programming. Remember rules aren't necessary when you are a programming god who only codes directly in machine opcodes. Even assemblers are for weenies. Man up and become one with the machine!
Ah, but how are you at classic games like Star Trek? You seem to regard the only point of playing a computer game to be beating the game. How about playing a computer game that is actually fun to play? In that case it doesn't matter how good you are at playing the game.
Maybe you just haven't tried the right computer games. I admit to being addicted first to Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom when they were released, but they were very simplistic games and the graphics sucked. They were much better than the first computer games I played on my friends PDP11 though: Super Star Trek, Spacewar, and Colossal Cave. You didn't even like computer games as a child? I loved them, and they made me want to write some of my own. Even if you are highly intelligent there are some very challenging (pc) games out there. I guess the problem with any of them is that you don't really end up achieving anything by playing them. In that sense writing code or just writing is more satisfying. You end up with something to show for your efforts.
I don't think such subtlety is very clever when used for copy protection. What exactly are they trying to achieve? They are getting a kind of revenge against people pirating their game, but it doesn't give them any more customers. When copy protection is obvious and remains uncracked for months that may encourage people to buy a game, but if the protection is subtle it will just make the pirates dislike the game and think the developers are incompetent. They won't be thinking, "Well, maybe I should have bought a legal copy to avoid this." I guess the whole point of the subtlety is to avoid people realizing that the problems are anti-piracy measures, but what is the point of that?
For example, officials said they were disabling all "write" capability to removable media such as thumb drives or disks, on DoD classified computers,
Can someone take pity on me and explain what the heck they are talking about here? Unless a "classified" computer is very different from a regular one, I don't understand how that is possible. I guess you could try to desolder and remove all of the external USB and/or esata and/or firewire ports from the motherboard in addition to removing any pins on the motherboard that are made to give you additional ports. Wouldn't you have to also remove any unused PCI slots as well? Even after doing all that someone could just open the case and plug an internal drive into a spare sata port and PSU power connection. I guess you may be able to defeat that by removing all the sata and pata ports from the motherboard except for one port for a connected hard drive. You couldn't have multiple hard drives because someone could just unplug one.
It will be very interesting to see what the next 50 years bring the field of neuroscience. I expect it to be similar to the golden age of astronomy we're experiencing now, where new inventions allow us to discover new and astonishing things at breakneck speeds.
Careful with that optimism, kid. Every generation believes they are alive at just the right time to witness The Golden Age, the exciting, great revolutions of science. Not saying that you are wrong necessarily, but I think such advances are unlikely to happen within your lifetime. It's equally likely that we are at the end of a golden age of neuroscience. That we are at the beginning of a 126 year period of stagnation.
I would guess they were hoping to cause enough damage that we would agree to their demands. So yes they were trying to frighten us but not for its own sake. It's not like they were trying to make the real life equivalent of a horror movie just to watch us squirm. They were trying to achieve political change. I guess they wanted us out of Saudi Arabia, among other things probably. Keep in mind that killing can lead to political change if you do enough of it. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Congratulations! You've identified the difference between "raw" intelligence and intelligence reports. They will indeed have names like "Curveball" in the intelligence reports, but the raw intelligence includes the person's name.
. Is that supposed to be reassuring to the informants?
Robin Hood gave his stolen money to the poor. I don't think these guys will be doing that. They would steal from the poor as well if it seemed profitable. Scammers are the lowest form of humanity.
I hope someone can figure out how to bypass the anti-overclocking tech. Otherwise, AMD is going to have an easier ride this round. Why are all manufacturers so damn evil? What's wrong with a little overclocking to boost speeds? When I'm spending this much money on a video card the least they could do is allow me to boost my speeds a little. They've also made water cooling the card pointless with their new current limiter. It's so easy to hate Nvidia. I'll buy from whichever company has the fastest card (without totally unreasonable pricing), but Nvidia's behavior is just so low. If anything they should be making it easier to overclock as the motherboard manufacturers do. An easy to adjust voltage control would be a much better feature than a current limiter. It would even give you the ability to undervolt to run quiet and cool.
So according to your theory this verdict will stop piracy? All the millions of people around the world torrenting right now will just stop? That's your theory? Scared straight, if you will? Admittedly if there are enough verdicts like this file sharers in the US may start using anonymous (as in they don't save any logs, ever) VPN services and continue to share, paying an additional $15/month to eliminate the risk. Although it would have to be a lot more people. If 1000 file sharers were being sued every day I might sign up for a VPN service. Otherwise we are protected by the herd. By sheer numbers. Aside from literally pulling the plug on the internet there really is no way to stop file sharing. Although I do occasionally buy blu-rays (I consider the MPAA less evil than the RIAA), I haven't bought a new CD in maybe like a decade. I always buy used CDs. That way I am not directly helping the evil record companies in any way. I will, never, ever buy a CD from a major label again for the rest of my life. The defendant in this suit is just one very unlucky SOB. And that's it. In a fascist government you have to expect things like this. And it is only going to get worse.
Maybe they should stop making art and start doing something actually productive. Something people are willing to pay for. They can do art in their spare time for fun. I'm sure the quality of the art will go up anyway since they won't be at the mercy of some mega-corporation to make deci$ions for them. Record companies and major film studios turn artists into whores. Money is the enemy of creativity.
For every song that the person is suspected of sharing detonate a 1.2 megaton nuclear weapon in their home, up to a maximum of 100. They will be forced to be present during the detonation to "observe". Another option is detonate the nukes in the nearest major city. If a million lives are lost for every song they share, surely this will discourage them from continuing to engage in this heinous anti-corporate behavior which is the equivalent of genocide anyway.
How about torturing and killing not only the accused but every member of their extended family currently living within the US? As well as their friends and their friends' families. Would that be fair enough for you? Or for audio material you could surgically remove their eardrums and cilia or any other procedure that would make them permanently deaf. For sharing visual media you could also remove their eyes with a fork and make them eat them. You wouldn't have to imprison them. Once they are blind and deaf they are unlikely to be repeat offenders. Although if you then catch them singing a copyrighted song you may be forced to remove their vocal cords and cut out their tongues. For enforcement we could post a specially trained law enforcement officer to every home in the nation in addition to surveillance cameras in every room which would be monitored by the Department of Homeland Freedom 24 hours a day, just in case the LEO missed something or was bribed. Another option would be to abolish copyrights but surely we can't have that. And before anyone mentions The Constitution, let me say that if the founding fathers had intended to prevent such things they would have specifically mentioned them in the Bill of Rights. Anything not mentioned there is a privilege kindly granted to us by our benevolent government. The privileges of watching films, listening to music, and even reading books can all be revoked at any time.
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Internet access from an ISP is not a 1:1 and never (I mean never - even days of dial-up) has been. If you can't see that, well then.....
Apparently you don't live in a FIOS area. Sucks to be you.
Verizon is much better. I am very happy with my 35/35 mbit symmetric fiber connection. Almost no outages at all. Way less than comcrap which used to drop out on a weekly basis for me. If you don't live in a state/city with FIOS, move.
Legs are not just to "repel gravity" as you put it. With some kind of velcro like shoe system legs can be used to propel oneself across a room in zero gravity. Also, if you are holding something in your hands it gives you a method to push off a wall or other object to propel yourself across a room without walking. What kind of robot would you use to "pick up" a 100 kg piece of equipment and transport it across a space habitat? Again, I think you would either need legs or some kind of wheeled system that can exert some downward pressure to get the wheels in contact with the floor/wall/ceiling. You could propel yourself with two long arms like a monkey, but what if you also need to hold something?
From the article:
Robonaut 2, a.k.a. R2, described by its creator, General Motors, as the strongest, fastest, most dexterous and most technologically advanced humanoid robot
They didn't qualify their description with the term "space-qualified" as you have. And in not doing so they show that unique combination of boasting arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence that we Americans are so famous for around the world. Just once I would like to see an American press release that didn't totally overstate their case or outright lie. The Japanese don't have that problem, and yes, their robots are far more advanced than this POS GM legless "humanoid" robot. One of the most difficult parts of making a humanoid robot is the bipedal walk/controlled fall. ASIMO can even run. An amazing feat of engineering. As Americans we sure know how to love ourselves and think well of ourselves. We probably have the best "self esteem" in the world. Maybe if we stopped being so lazy and actually bothered to do some work we might even be worthy of our own high self-regard.
Can someone enlighten me as to why anon is targeting Mastercard? Paypal I get, but what has Mastercard done?
The US no longer stands for freedom. Not in any way. Maybe 200 years ago, but not now. In fact, with the recent DHS/TSA fiasco we may be one of the least free countries on the planet. "I am going to squeeze your balls, citizen. You are permitted to cough. Resistance is futile." USA = Police State. Time to wake up, comrade.
So you have determined that Assange is guilty? Based on what? Maybe you should inform Sweden that they should put him in jail and throw away the key since you are so certain of his guilt. Why bother with a trial? So pointless. Are you one of those people that always assume anyone accused of a sex crime is automatically guilty?
there are no girls on the internet
Are you counting the FBI agents pretending to be girls?
Programming mistake No. 1: Playing it fast and loose
Failing to shore up the basics is the easiest way to undercut your code. Often this means overlooking how arbitrary user behavior will affect your program. Will the input of a zero find its way into a division operation? Will submitted text be the right length? Have date formats been vetted? Is the username verified against the database? Mistakes in the smallest places cause software to fail.
Fair enough. So debug while you code. Seems like good advice.
Programming mistake No. 2: Overcommitting to details
On the flip side, overly buttoned-up software can slow to a crawl. Checking a few null pointers may not make much difference, but some software is written to be like an obsessive-compulsive who must check that the doors are locked again and again so that sleep never comes.
Doesn't mistake number 2 contradict number 1? Or am I missing something? I guess he's saying debug while you code, but not too much. After reading the rest I see that that was his algorithm for writing the whole article. Rule 1: do x; Rule 2: But not too much! I didn't really find the article all that useful.
All programming should be assembly language programming anyway and a lot of his rules don't seem to apply to assembly language programming. Remember rules aren't necessary when you are a programming god who only codes directly in machine opcodes. Even assemblers are for weenies. Man up and become one with the machine!
Ah, but how are you at classic games like Star Trek? You seem to regard the only point of playing a computer game to be beating the game. How about playing a computer game that is actually fun to play? In that case it doesn't matter how good you are at playing the game.
Maybe you just haven't tried the right computer games. I admit to being addicted first to Wolfenstein 3D and then Doom when they were released, but they were very simplistic games and the graphics sucked. They were much better than the first computer games I played on my friends PDP11 though: Super Star Trek, Spacewar, and Colossal Cave. You didn't even like computer games as a child? I loved them, and they made me want to write some of my own. Even if you are highly intelligent there are some very challenging (pc) games out there. I guess the problem with any of them is that you don't really end up achieving anything by playing them. In that sense writing code or just writing is more satisfying. You end up with something to show for your efforts.
I don't think such subtlety is very clever when used for copy protection. What exactly are they trying to achieve? They are getting a kind of revenge against people pirating their game, but it doesn't give them any more customers. When copy protection is obvious and remains uncracked for months that may encourage people to buy a game, but if the protection is subtle it will just make the pirates dislike the game and think the developers are incompetent. They won't be thinking, "Well, maybe I should have bought a legal copy to avoid this." I guess the whole point of the subtlety is to avoid people realizing that the problems are anti-piracy measures, but what is the point of that?
For example, officials said they were disabling all "write" capability to removable media such as thumb drives or disks, on DoD classified computers,
Can someone take pity on me and explain what the heck they are talking about here? Unless a "classified" computer is very different from a regular one, I don't understand how that is possible. I guess you could try to desolder and remove all of the external USB and/or esata and/or firewire ports from the motherboard in addition to removing any pins on the motherboard that are made to give you additional ports. Wouldn't you have to also remove any unused PCI slots as well? Even after doing all that someone could just open the case and plug an internal drive into a spare sata port and PSU power connection. I guess you may be able to defeat that by removing all the sata and pata ports from the motherboard except for one port for a connected hard drive. You couldn't have multiple hard drives because someone could just unplug one.
It will be very interesting to see what the next 50 years bring the field of neuroscience. I expect it to be similar to the golden age of astronomy we're experiencing now, where new inventions allow us to discover new and astonishing things at breakneck speeds.
Careful with that optimism, kid. Every generation believes they are alive at just the right time to witness The Golden Age, the exciting, great revolutions of science. Not saying that you are wrong necessarily, but I think such advances are unlikely to happen within your lifetime. It's equally likely that we are at the end of a golden age of neuroscience. That we are at the beginning of a 126 year period of stagnation.
I would guess they were hoping to cause enough damage that we would agree to their demands. So yes they were trying to frighten us but not for its own sake. It's not like they were trying to make the real life equivalent of a horror movie just to watch us squirm. They were trying to achieve political change. I guess they wanted us out of Saudi Arabia, among other things probably. Keep in mind that killing can lead to political change if you do enough of it. Look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Congratulations! You've identified the difference between "raw" intelligence and intelligence reports. They will indeed have names like "Curveball" in the intelligence reports, but the raw intelligence includes the person's name.
.
Is that supposed to be reassuring to the informants?
Several years ago I supported WikiLeaks and what they stood for, even donating
I don't believe you. These cable leaks are perfectly within the aims of the original wikileaks. A lot of them are even quite dull.
I have read some, and I didn't see any names of informants. Maybe you should point out exactly which cables you are referring to.
Robin Hood gave his stolen money to the poor. I don't think these guys will be doing that. They would steal from the poor as well if it seemed profitable. Scammers are the lowest form of humanity.
I hope someone can figure out how to bypass the anti-overclocking tech. Otherwise, AMD is going to have an easier ride this round. Why are all manufacturers so damn evil? What's wrong with a little overclocking to boost speeds? When I'm spending this much money on a video card the least they could do is allow me to boost my speeds a little. They've also made water cooling the card pointless with their new current limiter. It's so easy to hate Nvidia. I'll buy from whichever company has the fastest card (without totally unreasonable pricing), but Nvidia's behavior is just so low. If anything they should be making it easier to overclock as the motherboard manufacturers do. An easy to adjust voltage control would be a much better feature than a current limiter. It would even give you the ability to undervolt to run quiet and cool.
So according to your theory this verdict will stop piracy? All the millions of people around the world torrenting right now will just stop? That's your theory? Scared straight, if you will? Admittedly if there are enough verdicts like this file sharers in the US may start using anonymous (as in they don't save any logs, ever) VPN services and continue to share, paying an additional $15/month to eliminate the risk. Although it would have to be a lot more people. If 1000 file sharers were being sued every day I might sign up for a VPN service. Otherwise we are protected by the herd. By sheer numbers. Aside from literally pulling the plug on the internet there really is no way to stop file sharing. Although I do occasionally buy blu-rays (I consider the MPAA less evil than the RIAA), I haven't bought a new CD in maybe like a decade. I always buy used CDs. That way I am not directly helping the evil record companies in any way. I will, never, ever buy a CD from a major label again for the rest of my life. The defendant in this suit is just one very unlucky SOB. And that's it. In a fascist government you have to expect things like this. And it is only going to get worse.
Maybe they should stop making art and start doing something actually productive. Something people are willing to pay for. They can do art in their spare time for fun. I'm sure the quality of the art will go up anyway since they won't be at the mercy of some mega-corporation to make deci$ions for them. Record companies and major film studios turn artists into whores. Money is the enemy of creativity.
For every song that the person is suspected of sharing detonate a 1.2 megaton nuclear weapon in their home, up to a maximum of 100. They will be forced to be present during the detonation to "observe". Another option is detonate the nukes in the nearest major city. If a million lives are lost for every song they share, surely this will discourage them from continuing to engage in this heinous anti-corporate behavior which is the equivalent of genocide anyway.
How about torturing and killing not only the accused but every member of their extended family currently living within the US? As well as their friends and their friends' families. Would that be fair enough for you? Or for audio material you could surgically remove their eardrums and cilia or any other procedure that would make them permanently deaf. For sharing visual media you could also remove their eyes with a fork and make them eat them. You wouldn't have to imprison them. Once they are blind and deaf they are unlikely to be repeat offenders. Although if you then catch them singing a copyrighted song you may be forced to remove their vocal cords and cut out their tongues. For enforcement we could post a specially trained law enforcement officer to every home in the nation in addition to surveillance cameras in every room which would be monitored by the Department of Homeland Freedom 24 hours a day, just in case the LEO missed something or was bribed. Another option would be to abolish copyrights but surely we can't have that. And before anyone mentions The Constitution, let me say that if the founding fathers had intended to prevent such things they would have specifically mentioned them in the Bill of Rights. Anything not mentioned there is a privilege kindly granted to us by our benevolent government. The privileges of watching films, listening to music, and even reading books can all be revoked at any time.
Would you really want to be on the first interstellar vessel?
Are you seriously asking this question? Of course. But it's a moot point since the first interstellar ship is likely to be unmanned.