Or in other words, you can do Evil with Google maps. But that doesn't make Google maps evil (maybe CIA might not see it that well).
Essentially it lets me peek at a street address in NYC sitting here in Bangalore. I can plan and co-ordinate my ops to snuff out someone - especially if the operatives are expendable. Recon became a lot easier , especially of the aerial map kind.
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How long before we hear that a terrorist attack was planned using Google Maps ?
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Let me tell this - paying people to work on open source often has bad results.. No I'm not talking about employing someone to work on OSS , just about invoicing OSS work.
It so easily drops into a how much does it pay ? from it's cool, that's why I do it !. Speaking as someone who got paid a couple of thousand bucks to work on OSS, I just didn't feel like I was working for that rush anymore. The change was very shocking to me at first, then I realized WHY open source is popular - because it lets people work on what they like (want is ambigous because people might want a bounty job).
On the other hand, more hardware.. better net connections for guys working on it etc do seem to make a bigger difference that paying the same to n different people of the project.
But yeah, SUN's just showing off !. Sort of like a PR stunt - but it's good for drupal , so we don't mind.
> Why would a missing robots.txt imply that others are allowed to distribute the content?
It should be treated the same way trespassing for unfenced property is treated.
The case should be dismissed as it reproduces verbatim with attribution content that was published for public bot scraping.
Now what, will someone sue Yahoo ! or Google for caching pages or converting PDFs to HTML ? Or Coral Cache for unauthorized reproduction of websites ?.
> wouldn't there be programs all over that ran fine on Intel but crashed on AMD?
Most Linux development is done using GCC , Most of windows with MSVC++. Only true hard-core inner-loop optimising geeks usually use Intel C/C++ compilers. These are people like game devs, crypto developers and HPC programmers.
So yeah, there's a lot of code that doesn't work with Amd64 when compiled with ICC. But how many people build stuff on Amd64 with an Intel compiler ?. (remember this is not valid for stuff compiled on a pentium 4 but running on amd64)
I think this would work nicely on a Linux box - provided they use a standard usbnet instead of some proprietary protocol over USB. It's pretty much as standard as CAT5 ethernet.
Stuff that went into Boost should be in the standard library from now on...
Also anyone who has had to use g++filt will agree with me that C++ STL error messages need to look less like the dog's breakfast:)
We would like to play the Kevin Bacon's game with those 14. If they are found connected to Microsoft or other pro-patent monopolies - I suppose google bugsmear could help. Same action if ignorance and/or apathy detected.
It is very very humbling to think about all those teams sitting around calculating the sine and log for the damned tables. I hated to even use a slide-rule or the log tables - the only thing I could do in my head was approximate square roots. These are the real pioneers who made most of modern engineering math possible.
The more interesting part is the title rather than the blurb though. It sounded almost like when men were men, women were women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were small furry creatures. Sadly this seems to be a story about the people who bothered the so called computers rather than a story of grit and glory - a story of buearacracy and communist witch hunts ?.
> Interesting conundrum for the legal system - do you let him off easy and give him a job at a security company - or hit him hard, and ruin a promising (although mischevious) programmer?
The Law vs Justice has been a long fight and I don't see the end of it. People getting off on technicalities or getting caught because of their ignorance. Law cannot substitute for Justice - it can only be the fighting arm of Justice.
Also IMHO, they shouldn't try and make an example out of him - but they can't just let him loose either. I cannot say what to do - but that's why there are judges and courts.
This is stupid !!.. Creating awareness is one thing - but wanton destruction is another.
This is almost like saying Bin Laden did a good thing by levelling World Trade center - because he create "awareness" about Terrorism.
Working a security firm is like being a sparring partner - your job is not to knock the champ down, but to make sure he get enough training and test his skills with something that hits back.
Whether you stand up to a bully and end up in a fist fight... whether you challenge your employer's unethical practices... whether you oppose your government's war mongering... whatever you do to challenge the authority OF anyone higher up in the food chain- doesn't matter if it was legal , ethical or moral on your part.
You can get fired for anything that anybody can use to attack you and your companies' reputation. It's sad, but true - but at least I hope this guy will get a better job at a more appreciative employer.
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The core of OS X is open sourced. You can download it and look through the code, if you like.
Depends on what you call "core". Darwin is BSD. Apple didn't open-source it - they took opensource code and used it. Not that there's anything wrong with it - but to say Apple opensourced Darwin is just not fair. I'd suggest you look before OS X to get an idea of how apple deals with tech docs about their products. Tell me - do you have any idea how Aqua draws translucent windows or how their window manager works ?.
> The hardware is hardly anything magical, despite the advertising. It's just about all standard stuff - ATA, DDR RAM, HyperTransport, PCI, PCI Express, USB, FireWire and so on.
These are *interfaces* - these are not what I'm talking about. Have a look at the apple's firmware. Have you any idea about what partition system an apple box would use (so that you can dual boot Linux) ?. They just mention that it is different - that's all.
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But if you want to change these things, you're in the black box world.
You miss my point completely. My point was that Apple has always been about proprietary magic. Ever since they got bitten by Bill G and friends , they seem almost too paranoid to release proper documentation about what goes on inside. They seem to be under the illusion that they will lose their market the way IBM lost theirs (by making clone computer market possible).
Even Microsoft wants FireFox to run well on Longhorn . Is it any surprise that everyone wants their latest hyped product to run FireFox ?.
This is like the age old - does it play ogg yet ? check in that feature check list. Apple is really more interested in supporting what feeds the Apple is Cool vibe.
Behind all the cool design and fancy colors, Apple is still an opaque black box. Their essential motto could be termed as you don't need to know - which is very attractive to the layman user , but abhorrent to a true computer engineer.
Have you ever wondered why geeks do all kinds of impossible and silly things ?. It's my theory that geeks without any problems will create some of his own - like I don't have my own star destroyer made out of lego or my kernel should blink SOS using keyboard lights when it oops() (etc..). My programming guru has recently taken up buidling models too - crazy I tell ya !.
Considering how cool the dark side is recently -
I'd have thought someone would've built the death star too - with a Nuetrino torpedos here in neon ?.
> You'd think it wouldn't be considered quite so Special any more.
Please use those equations to calculate the path of this ball I'm going to throw deep. You'll understand what I mean. It just is plain neglibile in a general physics perspective.
But it does come into play while designing gigahertz circuits for sattelites or when calculating gravity pull of celestial bodies. Nothing an average man needs to know to calculate anything on earth (unless he works at CERN or something). Hence special .
> The first five posts are all riffs on the same theme -- dilation of time.
Say relativity is 100 years old and the immediate thing that pops into my mind is Twins Paradox.
In fact it is the most difficult part of relativity to get straight. Because relative velocity of light is always 'C' - and how ?. Well time and distance measurements change with the speed you move. Newton only said speed was relative - he always maintained that displacement and time were absolute. After all absolute time predisposes of a creator for this universe - time began with the creation. Otherwise what was God doing before ?.
Anyway, it's been nearly 150 years since Darwin proposed his theories - still the debate continues. At least in physics there seems to be less religion messing up with it.
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Does that say more about the level of education among Slashdotters, or about our lack of creativity, or both?
Education and a tendency to make clever inside jokes (imagine a bewoul..NO CARRIER). Anyone who has read about Aorist rods or about time travel was invented at the same time throughout history can appreciate that the joke is with the reader. The real point is that these jokes were modded up.
Biometrics are worthless if just about anybody from your family doctor to your massuese can fake it. Fake fingerprints are perfectly possible - if you think otherwise read faking fingerprints. Vein patterns are safer because they are less likely to be left around your surroundings and they need a working fluid supply.
Also an unconcious man cannot give you his password, but his biometrics are still perfectly valid.
The real problem here is the false negatives. Suppose I switch from typing to writing for a couple of weeks. Two weeks later, all my viens have moved back into the base of my palm and away from the little finger. It's too temperamental compared to ascii passwords:)
If I end up implementing unbreakable security somewhere , it's be proximity card (RFID) + password + biometric. This combines - what you have, what you know and what you are. Also some very good error messages if you type the password wrong:)
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But that does not apply to someone else with a different browser, different resolution and color depth.
Either you didn't try hard enough, or you didn't know enough
> I usually let the browser do the parsing in an IFrame, then I just walk the DOM.
It's quite a hack to have an IFrame for this and all that. XmlHttpRequest is cleaner because you can read headers , set headers and even check on status code on return.
> It's much easier than taking a string of XML and trying to break it down like a good parser should. It's far too tempting to cheat like hell and do stuff like recursively find the outer tags.
Read through quirksmode importing xml tutorial . Also anyway, only XmlHttpRequest lets you POST xml content to the webservice at the other end - not stupid old www-encoded form posts.
I've been using XmlHttpRequest extensively recently - it's a surprise nobody noticed it until google brought out GMAIL. Now it's the latest Buzzword that you NEED on your resume to get a job as a web-dev (which I'm not).
IMHO, this is going to make serializing data in ASP.NET into javascript easier... that's all. Just because they say it is AJAX doesn't automatically mean it is simple or anything.
Truthfully, if macromedia would loosen their purse strings from Flash a bit more - we'd see more stuff like OpenLazlo come up.
Btw, I plan to work on a wsdl2javascript wrapper over XmlHttpRequest. I think we should be able to make SOAP calls from javascript directly - that would solve all these stupid XSD schemas and SDKs for each and every REST webservice they use with AJAX.
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Essentially it lets me peek at a street address in NYC sitting here in Bangalore. I can plan and co-ordinate my ops to snuff out someone - especially if the operatives are expendable. Recon became a lot easier , especially of the aerial map kind.
<sarcasm> How long before we hear that a terrorist attack was planned using Google Maps ? </sarcasm>It so easily drops into a how much does it pay ? from it's cool, that's why I do it !. Speaking as someone who got paid a couple of thousand bucks to work on OSS, I just didn't feel like I was working for that rush anymore. The change was very shocking to me at first, then I realized WHY open source is popular - because it lets people work on what they like (want is ambigous because people might want a bounty job).
On the other hand, more hardwareBut yeah, SUN's just showing off !. Sort of like a PR stunt - but it's good for drupal , so we don't mind.
1 Floppy - 1.44 MB , costs 16 Rupees
1 CD-R - 640 Mb , costs 12 rupees (upto 32)
1 DVD-R - 4 GB , costs 60 rupees
My vote went for CD-R because not everyone here still has a DVD ROM drive (like my 5 year old home PC).
It should be treated the same way trespassing for unfenced property is treated.
The case should be dismissed as it reproduces verbatim with attribution content that was published for public bot scraping.
Now what, will someone sue Yahoo ! or Google for caching pages or converting PDFs to HTML ? Or Coral Cache for unauthorized reproduction of websites ?.Most Linux development is done using GCC , Most of windows with MSVC++. Only true hard-core inner-loop optimising geeks usually use Intel C/C++ compilers. These are people like game devs, crypto developers and HPC programmers.
So yeah, there's a lot of code that doesn't work with Amd64 when compiled with ICC. But how many people build stuff on Amd64 with an Intel compiler ?. (remember this is not valid for stuff compiled on a pentium 4 but running on amd64)Stuff that went into Boost should be in the standard library from now on... Also anyone who has had to use g++filt will agree with me that C++ STL error messages need to look less like the dog's breakfast :)
We would like to play the Kevin Bacon's game with those 14. If they are found connected to Microsoft or other pro-patent monopolies - I suppose google bugsmear could help. Same action if ignorance and/or apathy detected.
The snowball down the mountain has been used to explain how the popularity of a product increases very quickly after a particular percentage of users.
The more interesting part is the title rather than the blurb though. It sounded almost like when men were men, women were women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were small furry creatures. Sadly this seems to be a story about the people who bothered the so called computers rather than a story of grit and glory - a story of buearacracy and communist witch hunts ?.
The Law vs Justice has been a long fight and I don't see the end of it. People getting off on technicalities or getting caught because of their ignorance. Law cannot substitute for Justice - it can only be the fighting arm of Justice.
Also IMHO, they shouldn't try and make an example out of him - but they can't just let him loose either. I cannot say what to do - but that's why there are judges and courts.This is stupid !!.. Creating awareness is one thing - but wanton destruction is another.
This is almost like saying Bin Laden did a good thing by levelling World Trade center - because he create "awareness" about Terrorism.
Working a security firm is like being a sparring partner - your job is not to knock the champ down, but to make sure he get enough training and test his skills with something that hits back.
Whether you stand up to a bully and end up in a fist fight ... whether you challenge your employer's unethical practices ... whether you oppose your government's war mongering ... whatever you do to challenge the authority OF anyone higher up in the food chain- doesn't matter if it was legal , ethical or moral on your part.
You can get fired for anything that anybody can use to attack you and your companies' reputation. It's sad, but true - but at least I hope this guy will get a better job at a more appreciative employer.Now here's a De-Piquepaille script for everyone to use it happily.
Depends on what you call "core". Darwin is BSD. Apple didn't open-source it - they took opensource code and used it. Not that there's anything wrong with it - but to say Apple opensourced Darwin is just not fair. I'd suggest you look before OS X to get an idea of how apple deals with tech docs about their products. Tell me - do you have any idea how Aqua draws translucent windows or how their window manager works ?.
> The hardware is hardly anything magical, despite the advertising. It's just about all standard stuff - ATA, DDR RAM, HyperTransport, PCI, PCI Express, USB, FireWire and so on.These are *interfaces* - these are not what I'm talking about. Have a look at the apple's firmware. Have you any idea about what partition system an apple box would use (so that you can dual boot Linux) ?. They just mention that it is different - that's all.
> But if you want to change these things, you're in the black box world.You miss my point completely. My point was that Apple has always been about proprietary magic. Ever since they got bitten by Bill G and friends , they seem almost too paranoid to release proper documentation about what goes on inside. They seem to be under the illusion that they will lose their market the way IBM lost theirs (by making clone computer market possible).
This is like the age old - does it play ogg yet ? check in that feature check list. Apple is really more interested in supporting what feeds the Apple is Cool vibe.
Behind all the cool design and fancy colors, Apple is still an opaque black box. Their essential motto could be termed as you don't need to know - which is very attractive to the layman user , but abhorrent to a true computer engineer.These days I have my mod_proxy url_rewrite check for HTTP_REFERRER and rewrite to nyud.net URLS
Considering how cool the dark side is recently - I'd have thought someone would've built the death star too - with a Nuetrino torpedos here in neon ?.
It must have sounded like one hundred thousand people saying, "whop" ...
Please use those equations to calculate the path of this ball I'm going to throw deep. You'll understand what I mean. It just is plain neglibile in a general physics perspective.
But it does come into play while designing gigahertz circuits for sattelites or when calculating gravity pull of celestial bodies. Nothing an average man needs to know to calculate anything on earth (unless he works at CERN or something). Hence special .Say relativity is 100 years old and the immediate thing that pops into my mind is Twins Paradox.
In fact it is the most difficult part of relativity to get straight. Because relative velocity of light is always 'C' - and how ?. Well time and distance measurements change with the speed you move. Newton only said speed was relative - he always maintained that displacement and time were absolute. After all absolute time predisposes of a creator for this universe - time began with the creation. Otherwise what was God doing before ?.
Anyway, it's been nearly 150 years since Darwin proposed his theories - still the debate continues. At least in physics there seems to be less religion messing up with it.
> Does that say more about the level of education among Slashdotters, or about our lack of creativity, or both?Education and a tendency to make clever inside jokes (imagine a bewoul..NO CARRIER). Anyone who has read about Aorist rods or about time travel was invented at the same time throughout history can appreciate that the joke is with the reader. The real point is that these jokes were modded up.
The real problem here is the false negatives. Suppose I switch from typing to writing for a couple of weeks. Two weeks later, all my viens have moved back into the base of my palm and away from the little finger. It's too temperamental compared to ascii passwords :)
If I end up implementing unbreakable security somewhere , it's be proximity card (RFID) + password + biometric. This combines - what you have, what you know and what you are. Also some very good error messages if you type the password wrongWhat you see is what you get ...
But that does not apply to someone else with a different browser, different resolution and color depth.
Either you didn't try hard enough, or you didn't know enough
> I usually let the browser do the parsing in an IFrame, then I just walk the DOM.It's quite a hack to have an IFrame for this and all that. XmlHttpRequest is cleaner because you can read headers , set headers and even check on status code on return.
> It's much easier than taking a string of XML and trying to break it down like a good parser should. It's far too tempting to cheat like hell and do stuff like recursively find the outer tags.Read through quirksmode importing xml tutorial . Also anyway, only XmlHttpRequest lets you POST xml content to the webservice at the other end - not stupid old www-encoded form posts.
I've been using XmlHttpRequest extensively recently - it's a surprise nobody noticed it until google brought out GMAIL. Now it's the latest Buzzword that you NEED on your resume to get a job as a web-dev (which I'm not).IMHO, this is going to make serializing data in ASP.NET into javascript easier ... that's all. Just because they say it is AJAX doesn't automatically mean it is simple or anything.
Truthfully, if macromedia would loosen their purse strings from Flash a bit more - we'd see more stuff like OpenLazlo come up.
Btw, I plan to work on a wsdl2javascript wrapper over XmlHttpRequest. I think we should be able to make SOAP calls from javascript directly - that would solve all these stupid XSD schemas and SDKs for each and every REST webservice they use with AJAX.