You jest, but, that shot was observed by the aliens who have a station on the dark side of the moon.
That base was erected (similar to NORAD) as an early warning/observation post.
Via subspace/ftl data transmission, they have warned the beings on their home planet (99.99~ light years away) that Sol-3 has launched a pre-emptive strike with a single death ray.
First response was, of course, to send enough ordinance towards earth that we will assuredly be destroyed.
We will be attacked by the alien life-forms, and any survivors will assume the aliens attacked us without provocation. when it hits us in a few hundred years. It's really too bad we didn't figure out how to hit them with something bigger than a single laser beam.
Do you have a problem with Fucking?
I suggest that, in the future, you refrain from talking about Fucking in polite company. It is not for the feint of heart.
With a few simple mods (remove the case, find something metal inside that heats up), sure, you could boil water and dissolve instant-coffee crystals with a PS3.
Wait... they monitor your use and charge you... on equipment you own?
On equipment you own but an OS you license, and a support plan that if anything (name it and they cover it) stops or even just starts working slower than expected (even when redundancy kicks in to pick up the slack), they will send a tech out with parts, or overnight parts they don't have in stock to your datacenter to repair.
This on-site service is part of the service plan.
When even seconds of lost "time" can cost millions of dollars, a couple hundred grand a month is a trivial insurance plan.
The precise date would escape many, though.
Similarly if he had walked into work, and, at the watercooler sometime during the day, mentioned the AI he just turned on, many would not get the reference.
Plus, we all know that a judgement day on 8/29/97 didn't/doesn't happen, as they delayed the birth(?) of SkyNet in 1992 by destroying the Cyberdyne Systems laboratory.
Mark challenges Paget to point to a single instance where RFID was successfully used for nefarious purposes
I challenge Mark to point to a single instance where Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear Warheads were successfully used for nefarious purposes.
August 1957 - present.
Nuclear-tipped ICBMs used as a deterrent to keep enemy states at bay. This is them being used.
Have the commies taken over the world yet? No? This is them being successfully used.
Sony will disable all USB ports on the PS3 in the next firmware update.
Disabling the USB ports would seriously piss off the rhythm game makers (Activition and RedOctane) and the third-party peripheral manufacturers. They don't want to do that.
No, instead they'll probably just disable any type of video output, to ensure that you're not playing pirated games.
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why? Can somebody please explain? the linked site seems down so maybe that's what I'm missing.
While one of my siblings states that "nobody uses mod-chips to pirate games", this isn't exactly true.
The first modders aren't doing it to pirate games. They simply want to write their own apps and run their own code on a different platform, or they want to fool around with the hardware and learn how it works, without having to pay 10s of thousands of dollars for development machines.
So, they build mods that allow running of unsigned code. This was true for the Wii, the 360, NDS, etc.
If there is a closed system, there exists somewhere in the world someone with the knowledge and will to break it, if for no other reason than to say they did.
Previously, with the ability to run linux natively on the PS3, these homebrew developers had the ability to code for a cell, and rather cheaply (at the cost of a PS3 and a keyboard). Granted, they didn't have access to the graphics capabilities, neither the hypervisor, but they could
run anything they themselves coded for the cell architecture, without being hassled by Sony.
One person got close to breaking into the hypervisor through a bug that Sony either couldn't, or didn't want to spend time to, fix. He did this so that he could develop homebrew applications that took advantage of the graphics capabilities, mostly. Pirating games wasn't his primary drive.
In response, Sony simply removed access to "Other OS" completely.
With no outlet to run their unsigned code, hackers have made a push to break the system so they can again do so with updated firmware.
As stated in another thread, the pirate community just waits until someone breaks the system (without any ill intent), and then duplicates that exploit (and in the case of a hardware mod, usually capitalizes on it).
giving two weeks notice is a courtesy that I am extending...and paying that 2 weeks salary is a courtesy your employer extends. If you leave, then you should expect to forgo the 2 weeks salary.
That seems fair to me.
Not exactly.
If you give 2 weeks notice, then your actual resignation date is that point two weeks in the future.
You are legally obligated to show up for work and do your job until that time, unless your employer says otherwise.
By the same token, regardless of whether your employer sends you home, they are legally obligated to pay you until that time.
Failure to pay you for doing your job (even if that job has been modified such that your responsibility is now to not show up to work, e.g. "gardening leave") puts them in an actionable position. At the very least it would be considered termination, for which you should be entitled severance pay. At most, it's breach of contract, which can carry a much heavier penalty than the two-week's pay they would have owed you.
Especially for many of the people reading/. (e.g. developer, sysadmin, etc), if there's someone else who can do your job it's in your employer's best interest to simply tell you not to come in, and give you your remaining dues at the end of the next pay period.
It's really in your best interest too. If you're ordered not to be on-site, can prove you're not on site (e.g. you've handed in your keycard, there's no log of you in security footage, etc), then you have plausible deniability should something negative happen as a result of your leaving.
If you still have access, they point any failures on you and hold you liable.
In Australia, people are used to being told "you fucked up mate" the minute that their mistakes are uncovered, in other places, maybe not. The system is very much dependant on individuals expected to set a good example, such as managers and senior staff acknowledging when they themselves make a mistake without prompting.
In Canada (and I'm guessing even moreso in the US, when someone screws up and others find it, what I've seen is that everyone escalates. The first thing people do is not to go to the dev (who's in a different department or possibly a different company) and say "fix this", but to go to their boss and say "This is broken, and it's not my fault". As such, way more people get involved than need to be, over a potentially simple (< 5 minute) fix, and everyone ends up pointing fingers and afraid for their jobs.
This is at least the culture I've seen while developing for corporate clients.
It also breeds the type of developer as described in Office Space;
Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
A solution would have to be found to the hover problem, but a foot switch or foot click-enable pedal (or noise-based clicking, or, or, or...) would solve that nicely.
What about instead of just detecting a change in the capacitance at a particular point in the screen, detect how much it changes by. I'm thinking that the values would be different whether you were using your single finger, or if you had your thumb placed at a joint.
Essentially, the blind could use their finger as their "eyes" (as they do today), and their thumb could toggle the "mouse button" that is the first joint in their index finger.
I think it'd be fairly intuitive too, as if physically grabbing hold of some element of the display (especially for drag'n'drop, where you'd be doing just that, dragging the item across the screen and dropping it by letting go of your finger).
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You jest, but, that shot was observed by the aliens who have a station on the dark side of the moon.
That base was erected (similar to NORAD) as an early warning/observation post.
Via subspace/ftl data transmission, they have warned the beings on their home planet (99.99~ light years away) that Sol-3 has launched a pre-emptive strike with a single death ray.
First response was, of course, to send enough ordinance towards earth that we will assuredly be destroyed.
We will be attacked by the alien life-forms, and any survivors will assume the aliens attacked us without provocation. when it hits us in a few hundred years. It's really too bad we didn't figure out how to hit them with something bigger than a single laser beam.
So, it is a feint and I don't have to parry, you had me worried for a moment.
If parrying in Fucking, you're doing it wrong.
Do you have a problem with Fucking?
I suggest that, in the future, you refrain from talking about Fucking in polite company. It is not for the feint of heart.
Sorry Taco, I disagree - I've yet to be told during a conference calls to go handle "many whelps."
If you can't even make it to the whelps, then you don't know how to play, and that's 50 DKP-minus
headbanging involves no torso movement whatsoever. it's all head and neck movement
When given ample room (such as in a recently broken mosh pit, or up on stage), headbanging very much involves torso movement.
You're doing it wrong.
Worms would be my most recent, and that feels like ages ago
What, last week?
Can it make me a cup of coffee?
With a few simple mods (remove the case, find something metal inside that heats up), sure, you could boil water and dissolve instant-coffee crystals with a PS3.
Oh, you meant a good cup of coffee?
Wait... they monitor your use and charge you... on equipment you own?
On equipment you own but an OS you license, and a support plan that if anything (name it and they cover it) stops or even just starts working slower than expected (even when redundancy kicks in to pick up the slack), they will send a tech out with parts, or overnight parts they don't have in stock to your datacenter to repair.
This on-site service is part of the service plan.
When even seconds of lost "time" can cost millions of dollars, a couple hundred grand a month is a trivial insurance plan.
The internet, that isn't how it works.
Are you sure?
Can you tell me, then, the precise addresses of the root nameservers?
The basis of the internet, that is exactly how it works.
The precise date would escape many, though.
Similarly if he had walked into work, and, at the watercooler sometime during the day, mentioned the AI he just turned on, many would not get the reference.
Plus, we all know that a judgement day on 8/29/97 didn't/doesn't happen, as they delayed the birth(?) of SkyNet in 1992 by destroying the Cyberdyne Systems laboratory.
I hate spoilers >.>
Whoosh
I've been here forever...
No you haven't, your UID isn't 1.
There's always someone who's been here longer (unless you're #1).
Mark challenges Paget to point to a single instance where RFID was successfully used for nefarious purposes
I challenge Mark to point to a single instance where Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear Warheads were successfully used for nefarious purposes.
August 1957 - present.
Nuclear-tipped ICBMs used as a deterrent to keep enemy states at bay. This is them being used.
Have the commies taken over the world yet? No? This is them being successfully used.
They fixed that bug in 1999.
Sony will disable all USB ports on the PS3 in the next firmware update.
Disabling the USB ports would seriously piss off the rhythm game makers (Activition and RedOctane) and the third-party peripheral manufacturers. They don't want to do that.
No, instead they'll probably just disable any type of video output, to ensure that you're not playing pirated games.
why? Can somebody please explain? the linked site seems down so maybe that's what I'm missing.
While one of my siblings states that "nobody uses mod-chips to pirate games", this isn't exactly true.
The first modders aren't doing it to pirate games. They simply want to write their own apps and run their own code on a different platform, or they want to fool around with the hardware and learn how it works, without having to pay 10s of thousands of dollars for development machines.
So, they build mods that allow running of unsigned code. This was true for the Wii, the 360, NDS, etc.
If there is a closed system, there exists somewhere in the world someone with the knowledge and will to break it, if for no other reason than to say they did.
Previously, with the ability to run linux natively on the PS3, these homebrew developers had the ability to code for a cell, and rather cheaply (at the cost of a PS3 and a keyboard). Granted, they didn't have access to the graphics capabilities, neither the hypervisor, but they could run anything they themselves coded for the cell architecture, without being hassled by Sony.
One person got close to breaking into the hypervisor through a bug that Sony either couldn't, or didn't want to spend time to, fix.
He did this so that he could develop homebrew applications that took advantage of the graphics capabilities, mostly. Pirating games wasn't his primary drive.
In response, Sony simply removed access to "Other OS" completely.
With no outlet to run their unsigned code, hackers have made a push to break the system so they can again do so with updated firmware.
As stated in another thread, the pirate community just waits until someone breaks the system (without any ill intent), and then duplicates that exploit (and in the case of a hardware mod, usually capitalizes on it).
giving two weeks notice is a courtesy that I am extending ...and paying that 2 weeks salary is a courtesy your employer extends. If you leave, then you should expect to forgo the 2 weeks salary.
That seems fair to me.
Not exactly.
/. (e.g. developer, sysadmin, etc), if there's someone else who can do your job it's in your employer's best interest to simply tell you not to come in, and give you your remaining dues at the end of the next pay period.
If you give 2 weeks notice, then your actual resignation date is that point two weeks in the future.
You are legally obligated to show up for work and do your job until that time, unless your employer says otherwise.
By the same token, regardless of whether your employer sends you home, they are legally obligated to pay you until that time.
Failure to pay you for doing your job (even if that job has been modified such that your responsibility is now to not show up to work, e.g. "gardening leave") puts them in an actionable position. At the very least it would be considered termination, for which you should be entitled severance pay. At most, it's breach of contract, which can carry a much heavier penalty than the two-week's pay they would have owed you.
Especially for many of the people reading
It's really in your best interest too. If you're ordered not to be on-site, can prove you're not on site (e.g. you've handed in your keycard, there's no log of you in security footage, etc), then you have plausible deniability should something negative happen as a result of your leaving.
If you still have access, they point any failures on you and hold you liable.
Not sure if that's necessary.
Security escorting them out would probably cover it.
The perpetrators of these heinous acts? They mostly come out at night...
Mostly
I had my wife do the development work. (I was just there for the kick-off meeting.)
Don't underestimate the amount of time and work it takes to get the end result up and running properly, though. That could take years.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Most development work nowadays gets outsourced.
And of course, John Woo. Let's hear it for two-fisting, slow motion and doves!
Corollary to Rule 34, sometimes it exists because there is porn of it.
In Australia, people are used to being told "you fucked up mate" the minute that their mistakes are uncovered, in other places, maybe not. The system is very much dependant on individuals expected to set a good example, such as managers and senior staff acknowledging when they themselves make a mistake without prompting.
In Canada (and I'm guessing even moreso in the US, when someone screws up and others find it, what I've seen is that everyone escalates. The first thing people do is not to go to the dev (who's in a different department or possibly a different company) and say "fix this", but to go to their boss and say "This is broken, and it's not my fault". As such, way more people get involved than need to be, over a potentially simple (< 5 minute) fix, and everyone ends up pointing fingers and afraid for their jobs.
This is at least the culture I've seen while developing for corporate clients.
It also breeds the type of developer as described in Office Space;
Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
It's a very real problem.
Many cinemas nowadays have IMAX screens; Check this list of IMAX Venues for your locale.
There are 3 non-science-center screens within short driving distance in the Greater Toronto Area (Ontario, Canada), out of 5 total screens.
The effects in Avatar as viewed in IMAX3D were almost real; amazing quality.
Are you trying to say:
"Here cums the sun?"
It had the potential to be a son, but missed its target.
A solution would have to be found to the hover problem, but a foot switch or foot click-enable pedal (or noise-based clicking, or, or, or...) would solve that nicely.
What about instead of just detecting a change in the capacitance at a particular point in the screen, detect how much it changes by. I'm thinking that the values would be different whether you were using your single finger, or if you had your thumb placed at a joint.
Essentially, the blind could use their finger as their "eyes" (as they do today), and their thumb could toggle the "mouse button" that is the first joint in their index finger.
I think it'd be fairly intuitive too, as if physically grabbing hold of some element of the display (especially for drag'n'drop, where you'd be doing just that, dragging the item across the screen and dropping it by letting go of your finger).
It would be just like light-pens back in the day.