I also would prefer not to have the presence of queries about porn, crypto cracking and theory and high school science projects all under the same identity to have me flagged as a threat to my country or community, or used as probable cause to have my computer equipment confiscated and destroyed in a raid that might ultimately show no notable criminal activity.
The Elenco kits came with manuals that included clear wiring instructions, so once I learned how to follow those wiring instructions, it was pretty much self-directed from there. Individually successful or not, my experiments and tweaks with the system held my interest and drew me to greater heights of curiosity, so as an educational tool, those gifts were a complete success.
Granted, applying 9V directly to an LED with a 1.8V voltage drop and almost no internal resistance is something someone at that age only really learns not to do after they've done it. Well, they learn not to put the 9V directly across the LED.:)
Between the time I was six to ten years old, I was given a series of electronics kits that I loved and used to pieces (rather literally, at that). The last two in the sequence that I was given were the 200 in 1 kit and the 300 in 1 kit.
After those, I hit up the local Radio Shacks for breadboards and the like, and Digi-Key when I was a teen. Radio Shack still carries some of the parts.
No argument there, but that doesn't mean ICANN should make domain takedown an acceptable policy. Political reasons hold more weight in government than technical ones.
I'm not familiar with any blemishes on ICANN's record of neutrality, but I, for one, wouldn't care to have my blog's domain erased because someone decided it was deemed harmful in some fashion.
If you thought the point of that demo was to show that JavaScript is suited for early-90s mass animation tasks, you're sorely mistaken. The point of a demonstration like that is to show that a language with a very complicated feature set, and normally without an optimizing compiler, can be made to execute at a much greater speed than generally assumed.
Animation just happens to be one of those problems that are known to be performance-sensitive while also having the benefit of serving as a visual aid. It's not the peak demonstrated value, it's the delta; Without their engine, how fast would have that animation code have run, otherwise?
In some scenarios, the only other choice is to not use software at all, because not enough people want to do what you want to do that the developers could sell it at mass-market prices. While there may occasionally be open-source solutions for those scenarios (hey, hackers are all about the scratch-an-itch problems, right?), often those implementations are sufficiently unpolished that only the original author (and perhaps a few others) can use them.
I've been stalked online before (albeit before Facebook; Primarily on Slashdot by an ex-girlfriend*, but also on a couple wikis). Stalkers will forge sockpuppets and new identities, and follow you from site to site. Simple blocking won't suffice. But, yeah, if you're going to get a restraining order, be thorough. Wall off your profile, and be selective about who you add as friends.
* Yeah, yeah. If it makes you feel any better, I haven't had one since.
Employment requires it because the large chunk of your taxes are targeted at funding the Social Security program, and your employer is required to contribute before you even get your check. Granted, it goes to someone else's benefits right now, but the program is naively designed under the assumption that someone else's taxes will be paying your benefits in the future.
As for apartment rental, cell phone plans and education, are there legal requirements for them to demand your SSNs? If not, then it's the fault of that particular institution. If so, then those laws are in conflict, sure, and need to be fixed. If not, then find arrangements that don't require your SSN. That can be anything from using a Wifi phone with a WISP to getting a prepay phone to getting a roommate who's willing to put his SSN on the paper.
Millions of illegal immigrants get by without legitimate SSNs. Try finding and talking to a few to find out what approaches are available that don't involve falsifying one.
I don't have a good alternative for education, though I've heard there are a few institutions that cater to people without legitimate SSNs, and don't get shut down; It must be possible for them to do it without one.
Any privilege elevation exploit will benefit anyone seeking elevated privileges on your equipment. This included law enforcement, the mafia and your mom.
Nice little bit of paranoia you've got going there.
Seriously? 6GB of swap? What kind of FUBAR'd program could you be using that commits that much memory, but doesn't use it with any real frequency? Even Firefox isn't that bad any more...
I run 8GB of RAM, but I only really wind up using around 2GB for actual programs. The rest gets used as a cache for the filesystem layer. (Which makes my system with a 20GB IDE hard drive for / faster than most folks' system with a 40GB SSD after only a few hours of usage.)
In ancient days of DOS, nc was a godsend and ndd a miracle cure. It wasn't until the dark days whence Symantec began uttering Windows utilities unto the world that the Norton brand became a curse to be feared rather than a blessing to be enjoyed.
Mine was similar in my first few months of coding. Code-assembled SQL query "DELETE FROM table" + "WHERE id = x", except there was a fringe race condition where the "WHERE id = x" append could be skipped. Customer called and said the program had locked up for several minutes. Learned several lessons from that one....
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Ah, then we are in agreement.
I misinterpreted the comment I replied to; I thought you were taking exactly the opposite position.
+3, Pedant?
Sure, I want my password hidden.
I also would prefer not to have the presence of queries about porn, crypto cracking and theory and high school science projects all under the same identity to have me flagged as a threat to my country or community, or used as probable cause to have my computer equipment confiscated and destroyed in a raid that might ultimately show no notable criminal activity.
No need to apologize; I'm used to that. Slashdot's comment threshhold system: Giving geeks ADD since 2000. :)
Did you read the comment that started this thread? I was addressing the suggestion that ICANN take it down.
The Elenco kits came with manuals that included clear wiring instructions, so once I learned how to follow those wiring instructions, it was pretty much self-directed from there. Individually successful or not, my experiments and tweaks with the system held my interest and drew me to greater heights of curiosity, so as an educational tool, those gifts were a complete success.
Granted, applying 9V directly to an LED with a 1.8V voltage drop and almost no internal resistance is something someone at that age only really learns not to do after they've done it. Well, they learn not to put the 9V directly across the LED. :)
Between the time I was six to ten years old, I was given a series of electronics kits that I loved and used to pieces (rather literally, at that). The last two in the sequence that I was given were the 200 in 1 kit and the 300 in 1 kit.
After those, I hit up the local Radio Shacks for breadboards and the like, and Digi-Key when I was a teen. Radio Shack still carries some of the parts.
No argument there, but that doesn't mean ICANN should make domain takedown an acceptable policy. Political reasons hold more weight in government than technical ones.
I'm not familiar with any blemishes on ICANN's record of neutrality, but I, for one, wouldn't care to have my blog's domain erased because someone decided it was deemed harmful in some fashion.
If you thought the point of that demo was to show that JavaScript is suited for early-90s mass animation tasks, you're sorely mistaken. The point of a demonstration like that is to show that a language with a very complicated feature set, and normally without an optimizing compiler, can be made to execute at a much greater speed than generally assumed.
Animation just happens to be one of those problems that are known to be performance-sensitive while also having the benefit of serving as a visual aid. It's not the peak demonstrated value, it's the delta; Without their engine, how fast would have that animation code have run, otherwise?
Two words: "Niche Software"
In some scenarios, the only other choice is to not use software at all, because not enough people want to do what you want to do that the developers could sell it at mass-market prices. While there may occasionally be open-source solutions for those scenarios (hey, hackers are all about the scratch-an-itch problems, right?), often those implementations are sufficiently unpolished that only the original author (and perhaps a few others) can use them.
I've been stalked online before (albeit before Facebook; Primarily on Slashdot by an ex-girlfriend*, but also on a couple wikis). Stalkers will forge sockpuppets and new identities, and follow you from site to site. Simple blocking won't suffice. But, yeah, if you're going to get a restraining order, be thorough. Wall off your profile, and be selective about who you add as friends.
* Yeah, yeah. If it makes you feel any better, I haven't had one since.
Will you stop touching me?!
Employment requires it because the large chunk of your taxes are targeted at funding the Social Security program, and your employer is required to contribute before you even get your check. Granted, it goes to someone else's benefits right now, but the program is naively designed under the assumption that someone else's taxes will be paying your benefits in the future.
As for apartment rental, cell phone plans and education, are there legal requirements for them to demand your SSNs? If not, then it's the fault of that particular institution. If so, then those laws are in conflict, sure, and need to be fixed. If not, then find arrangements that don't require your SSN. That can be anything from using a Wifi phone with a WISP to getting a prepay phone to getting a roommate who's willing to put his SSN on the paper.
Millions of illegal immigrants get by without legitimate SSNs. Try finding and talking to a few to find out what approaches are available that don't involve falsifying one.
I don't have a good alternative for education, though I've heard there are a few institutions that cater to people without legitimate SSNs, and don't get shut down; It must be possible for them to do it without one.
In my opinion, Congress has been criminally negligent in allowing this to continue for this long.
Because Congress must pass laws to protect us from ourselves?
Any privilege elevation exploit will benefit anyone seeking elevated privileges on your equipment. This included law enforcement, the mafia and your mom.
Nice little bit of paranoia you've got going there.
The Queen's "American Standard Code for Information Interchange"?
Seriously? 6GB of swap? What kind of FUBAR'd program could you be using that commits that much memory, but doesn't use it with any real frequency? Even Firefox isn't that bad any more...
I run 8GB of RAM, but I only really wind up using around 2GB for actual programs. The rest gets used as a cache for the filesystem layer. (Which makes my system with a 20GB IDE hard drive for / faster than most folks' system with a 40GB SSD after only a few hours of usage.)
In ancient days of DOS, nc was a godsend and ndd a miracle cure. It wasn't until the dark days whence Symantec began uttering Windows utilities unto the world that the Norton brand became a curse to be feared rather than a blessing to be enjoyed.
It's a very trippy experience, when it reaches uncompressed sound files they will be outputted correctly.
Assuming they're raw PCM with the correct number of channels and with the right byte order.
Mine was more straightforward and nasty. He started it...
harass.sh:
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1K count=1|write $1
crontab -e: /users/students/me/bin/harass.sh them
*/2 * * * *
You never dialed into a BBS with a modem that used error correction?
"ls|xargs foo" works in directories with thousands of files. "foo *" doesn't.
You've never tried to use a shell-expanded * in a directory with twenty-thousand files...
Mine was similar in my first few months of coding. Code-assembled SQL query "DELETE FROM table" + "WHERE id = x", except there was a fringe race condition where the "WHERE id = x" append could be skipped. Customer called and said the program had locked up for several minutes. Learned several lessons from that one....
sudo is for ubuntu wannabes - real UNIX admins don't sudo - they su - .
"sudo su" ?