The issue with your issue on his examples is that his point is equally applicable right here in the Good Ol' US of A.
A major struggle involving armed rebels who disagreed with one fundamental policy of the lawfully elected United States government took up arms, and despite having a common language, culture, and knowledge of the terrain, as well as command of the seas for the most part, the entire massed force of the US Army was very nearly defeated.
I started out in version control with SCCS. I used the first generation of ClearCase when it came out. (Still the most transparent system yet devised, a dream to use for an individual developer, crippled by inability to scale, admin complexity, and absurd cost).
The fact of the matter is that CVS works. My current project has > 500K lines of code in CVS, and we sell product. We don't like CVS, we're planning to move to SVN, but the fact of the matter is that we don't *have* to. To me, the source control system is more or less like the file system : I need it to the extent that my work is in there, but other than that I don't want to see it or even know it's there. People drool over git and mercurial like these things are -doing work-. I don't get it and I don't buy it. The fact of the matter is, that unlike say a compiler, the SCM system has ZERO effect on the end product.
So I get the advantages -for some projects-, esp. large open source or distributed commercial projects, of a natively distributed SCM system. I don't get how SVN is now inferior and lame because it isn't distributed.
If it's an amoral AI, it has no real reason to care about biodiversity or Earth's climate. Unless such devices are explicitly programmed to emulate human ethical concepts, this kind of thinking doesn't even make any sense. If that was done, by definition we would be then crippling the AI by essentially limiting it to the level of our thinking.
Chess playing computers play chess in a way essentially alien to how humans play chess. The same would apply in the general case of a self-programming AI - they would quickly become completely incomprehensible to our way of thinking, and I think it's probably useless to attempt to speculate on how they might "think" about their progenitors.
It WOULD be awesome seeing you being killed by a super-intelligent robot! It would even MORE awesome seeing you being killed by a Roomba, or a Japanese vending machine, though!
The expertise required to advance development in many fields is becoming more and more immense, and beyond what a human brain can easily absorb in a lifetime. The Internet allows the time to acquire information to be radically decreased, which will make it possible to continue the advancement of knowledge. It would still happen without it, but I think at a decreasing pace.
To "stand on the shoulders of giants" requires an ever longer ladder.
You need to STOP USING FIREFOX 3.0 IMMEDIATELY. Anything that causes you this much angst cannot be good for your blood pressure. I urge you, for the sake of your health, to immediately downgrade to Firefox 1.0 (or perhaps Netscape 3.0 would be even better), which should return you to those Good Old Days of yore that you apparently yearn for so intensely.
Guantanamo Bay was created when Chuck roundhouse-kicked Cuba in the face during the Cuban Missile Crisis and so terrified Castro he begged Khrushchev to remove the missiles.
After like 10 years I'm still reading the "works on my machine" posts with no mention of the machine type.
I call them the "Well, its raining HERE" comments.
You need to identify the (OS::distro) and plugins in use for these "Release [ ] suxx0rs!!!" posts to have any meaning.
I generally find that if that question is answered, it's some guy running the L33tware distro in 24MB of RAM on a Transmeta Crusoe who is enraged that his opensource software crashes, and no, he hasn't logged a bug because God told him that it is destiny to always have bugless software AND will be Lord of Faerun in time.
In terms of raw sensitivity, green produces the most signal at the lowest intensity. I've personally found that is true, and green on black is my usual choice; I've tried them all, yellow is next best, which also fits the curve.
As PP points out, though, the visual system is complex, and the receptor distribution will vary for each person. It's also been found (no reference, sorry) that most people read words as a chunk, not by resolving and assembling the individual letters, so choice of font and kerning probably has more to do with readability than the color of the text.
Man, people have mod points burning holes in their keyboards tonight.
I fail to see anything at all "interesting in this". Taking advantage of other people because you are more knowledgeable than them, breaking the law, and then boasting about it on Slashdot is -5 Lame, especially when the level of expertise involved is what is usually ascribed to "script kiddies".
And no, you don't get a pass because it was the "only black hat thing I've ever done", like we believe that, and it sure sounds like the entire objective of your weak excuse for "black hat" action was to sniff their traffic, since changing their router setup was hardly necessary if you just wanted to steal access.
Maybe I'm just having an old man moment, but I kept expecting some kind of punch line in there, and it ended up just being "my neighbor left his garage door open, and I stole a six-pack out of his fridge". WTF is that about?
I doubt that JPM has a webpage for surfing CEO's to check out when they want to setup an unethical sales program that allows them to circumvent the whole "sharing the risks and rewards with the shareholders thing".
I assume that this is done by targeted direct sales to individuals who would have any use for this, i.e. senior executives of large public firms with large stock positions. There aren't that many of those, maybe a few hundred. It would be pointless to put an ad in the paper to address that market.
In other words, if not for Wikileaks or a journalist investigation, you would never have seen how blatant the abuse of the 10b5-1 rule is.
I'm surprised that the IRS hasn't appeared on the scene at some of these movie studios - don't these accounting practices also involve tax evasion? If there are films making billions, the IRS should be in for a tidy amount.
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The issue with your issue on his examples is that his point is equally applicable right here in the Good Ol' US of A.
A major struggle involving armed rebels who disagreed with one fundamental policy of the lawfully elected United States government took up arms, and despite having a common language, culture, and knowledge of the terrain, as well as command of the seas for the most part, the entire massed force of the US Army was very nearly defeated.
We call it the US Civil War.
I'm stunned nobody has brought this up.
No.
I started out in version control with SCCS. I used the first generation of ClearCase when it came out. (Still the most transparent system yet devised, a dream to use for an individual developer, crippled by inability to scale, admin complexity, and absurd cost).
The fact of the matter is that CVS works. My current project has > 500K lines of code in CVS, and we sell product. We don't like CVS, we're planning to move to SVN, but the fact of the matter is that we don't *have* to. To me, the source control system is more or less like the file system : I need it to the extent that my work is in there, but other than that I don't want to see it or even know it's there. People drool over git and mercurial like these things are -doing work-. I don't get it and I don't buy it. The fact of the matter is, that unlike say a compiler, the SCM system has ZERO effect on the end product.
So I get the advantages -for some projects-, esp. large open source or distributed commercial projects, of a natively distributed SCM system. I don't get how SVN is now inferior and lame because it isn't distributed.
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/
For Great Justice.
Now with even MORE Fail. Servers are plowed under. Well done! Ask for abuse, and then fail to handle it.
Sigh. Off to find a torrent.
(This is also -1 Flamebait, btw).
Because if it is, I'm downloading it before the world slams the servers. WTF is up with "Download Day" this is the most retarded thing EVAR.
If it's an amoral AI, it has no real reason to care about biodiversity or Earth's climate. Unless such devices are explicitly programmed to emulate human ethical concepts, this kind of thinking doesn't even make any sense. If that was done, by definition we would be then crippling the AI by essentially limiting it to the level of our thinking.
Chess playing computers play chess in a way essentially alien to how humans play chess. The same would apply in the general case of a self-programming AI - they would quickly become completely incomprehensible to our way of thinking, and I think it's probably useless to attempt to speculate on how they might "think" about their progenitors.
It WOULD be awesome seeing you being killed by a super-intelligent robot! It would even MORE awesome seeing you being killed by a Roomba, or a Japanese vending machine, though!
As an aside, I'm not buying a toy paddlewheel steamer (with working paddlewheel!)
It's much cheaper than (either) version of iPhone, but frankly, why pay anything at all for a device I do not want?
The expertise required to advance development in many fields is becoming more and more immense, and beyond what a human brain can easily absorb in a lifetime. The Internet allows the time to acquire information to be radically decreased, which will make it possible to continue the advancement of knowledge. It would still happen without it, but I think at a decreasing pace.
To "stand on the shoulders of giants" requires an ever longer ladder.
OMG. I feel your pain, and I don't want to.
You need to STOP USING FIREFOX 3.0 IMMEDIATELY. Anything that causes you this much angst cannot be good for your blood pressure. I urge you, for the sake of your health, to immediately downgrade to Firefox 1.0 (or perhaps Netscape 3.0 would be even better), which should return you to those Good Old Days of yore that you apparently yearn for so intensely.
Guantanamo Bay was created when Chuck roundhouse-kicked Cuba in the face during the Cuban Missile Crisis and so terrified Castro he begged Khrushchev to remove the missiles.
So *now* you know.
After like 10 years I'm still reading the "works on my machine" posts with no mention of the machine type.
;)
I call them the "Well, its raining HERE" comments.
You need to identify the (OS::distro) and plugins in use for these "Release [ ] suxx0rs!!!" posts to have any meaning.
I generally find that if that question is answered, it's some guy running the L33tware distro in 24MB of RAM on a Transmeta Crusoe who is enraged that his opensource software crashes, and no, he hasn't logged a bug because God told him that it is destiny to always have bugless software AND will be Lord of Faerun in time.
(No offense to parent
Bugs Slowly Decomposing
nougat......
For three minutes...which is about 10 percent of the time it took to erase one. We used to cook them up during lunch.
Coffee's for CLOSERS!
...but it's not my index finger....
Good writeup. Found a simplified reference with a picture. I'm visual, don't you know ;-)
http://www.ndt-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/PenetrantTest/Introduction/lightresponse.htm
In terms of raw sensitivity, green produces the most signal at the lowest intensity. I've personally found that is true, and green on black is my usual choice; I've tried them all, yellow is next best, which also fits the curve.
As PP points out, though, the visual system is complex, and the receptor distribution will vary for each person. It's also been found (no reference, sorry) that most people read words as a chunk, not by resolving and assembling the individual letters, so choice of font and kerning probably has more to do with readability than the color of the text.
Man, people have mod points burning holes in their keyboards tonight.
I fail to see anything at all "interesting in this". Taking advantage of other people because you are more knowledgeable than them, breaking the law, and then boasting about it on Slashdot is -5 Lame, especially when the level of expertise involved is what is usually ascribed to "script kiddies".
And no, you don't get a pass because it was the "only black hat thing I've ever done", like we believe that, and it sure sounds like the entire objective of your weak excuse for "black hat" action was to sniff their traffic, since changing their router setup was hardly necessary if you just wanted to steal access.
Maybe I'm just having an old man moment, but I kept expecting some kind of punch line in there, and it ended up just being "my neighbor left his garage door open, and I stole a six-pack out of his fridge". WTF is that about?
thank you, e.e. cummings
I doubt that JPM has a webpage for surfing CEO's to check out when they want to setup an unethical sales program that allows them to circumvent the whole "sharing the risks and rewards with the shareholders thing".
I assume that this is done by targeted direct sales to individuals who would have any use for this, i.e. senior executives of large public firms with large stock positions. There aren't that many of those, maybe a few hundred. It would be pointless to put an ad in the paper to address that market.
In other words, if not for Wikileaks or a journalist investigation, you would never have seen how blatant the abuse of the 10b5-1 rule is.
I'm surprised that the IRS hasn't appeared on the scene at some of these movie studios - don't these accounting practices also involve tax evasion? If there are films making billions, the IRS should be in for a tidy amount.
Their botnet is da shiznit...