I nominate this for nerd meme of 2013. If slashdot was battletoads. If the republican national convention was battletoads. If shopping at Wal-Mart was battletoads. And then all those of us who never played it will have to make friends with gamefaqs all over again to understand WTF everyone is talking about.
If this new meme you are pushing were battletoads, it would have crashed at the load screen.
Also, are you sure that his code is that terrible? It's always possible you just don't understand his way of thinking. Maybe ask him why he wrote something a certain way and go from there.
First off, the poster is wrong, his coworker doesn't write the most horrible code ever. Because I work with the guy who does that. He is the worst fucking coder I have ever seen. He learned hobby level coding skills sometime around 1992 in visual basic, and he is still coding the same way. The sad thing is, his boss knows he sucks and won't fire him, so every year the code base gets more and more fucked up.
I have worked with a lot of coders over the years, and there is such thing as stylistic choices when it comes to coding, and this isn't the same thing as writing bad code. I have worked with a few great coders that had style that drove me up the wall. Although I might dislike their style of doing things, I would be the first to say they are top notch coders because their code was elegant, simple, robust, extensible, scalable, etc. This is not the case with bad coders.
I'm going to go with the OP on this one and say that it probably is just a lousy coder, and not a misunderstood savant or something. Odds favor the guy just sucking...
It's no the sensibilities of your god that worries me. It's the sensibilities of the primates that have appointed themselves as his/her/it's guardians and spokesmen.
Funny how the Christians conveniently forget that whole 'don't judge others' shit when it suits them, huh?
Christians can't live with em, can't nail them to a cross...
Child pornography is banned because it causes harm.
Not quite correct. There is nothing intrinsically harmful about the child pornography in and of itself. That is like saying that guns cause harm, when they do nothing to cause harm, but simply enable people to cause harm more efficiently.
Child pornography certainly is evidence of wrong doing, but banning it because it MIGHT cause harm is a slippery slope. Why not devote your efforts to catching those who produce it, rather than try to bust anyone who has it? While it is morally repugnant material, so is half the porn on the Internet.
Geography Nazi...because being a grammar Nazi is just too mainstream!
Well, that would then make you a Nazi Nazi, since you are correcting the parent post about the type of Nazi he is. I suppose that also, by logical extension, that makes me a Nazi Nazi Nazi. Let's just say this post completely Godwins the entire thread, and go have a pint.
And really, was it a hack? I was authorized to use the system, I only replicated the original function and intention of the server's web pages. Only a complete dolt like a news reporter would call that a hack.
Only a complete dolt programmer would not know what the word 'hack' has multiple meanings. I suggest you look up all the definitions of the word before you go insulting people who are complimenting you. Way to parade your lack of knowledge, idiot...
hack 1 (hk)
v. hacked, hacking, hacks
v.intr.
1. To chop or cut something by hacking.
2. Informal
a. To write or refine computer programs skillfully.
Also, those orders you have? Probably not the get out of jail free card that you think they are. I am pretty sure that if you knowingly break the law when ordered to do so, you are still guilty in the eyes of military justice.
Um...clever hack, but should you really be bragging about bypassing a DoD security procedure on a public site with a registered login? If you were a civilian contractor, I would guess that sort of thing would probably be a Federal offense. Don't they come down ever harder on people caught doing that in the service? IANAL (civil or military), but I think that you should probably stop talking about this, like forever.
Which is why the the continual Luddite refrain that the Apollo program was just a way to build a better ICBM is so nonsensical. Even a Saturn I would have been a horrible ICBM...
Ignoring the ad-hominem attack which does nothing to support your claim, your statement is overlooking something. You claim that the various rockets would have been poor weapon platforms, but your thesis statement is that the Apollo program wasn't tied to ICBM development. You are correct that the Saturn rockets would be lousy weapons, but you overlook that there were a lot of things probably learned in the civilian rocket programs that got applied to ICBM development. A lot of times studying field 'A' will teach you a lot about field 'B'. We figured out nuclear energy and weapons after studying stars.
Recall that the space race was closely tied to the cold war, and that by showing the US that they could put a satellite in orbit, the Russians were showing us that they could drop a nuke anywhere they wanted to. The primary goal of the Apollo program was to put civilian ships in space, but you are deeply deluding yourself if you think that the Air Force (the guys who controlled the ICBMs) wasn't watching or advising every step of the way.
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LEGO is expensive now,...
Ok, I have to say this is simply flat out wrong. As a serious collector of Lego for over 30 years, I can authoritatively say that the price of Lego sets has held almost constant at ~.10 per brick. Some of the newer licensed sets break that rule and go over that figure, but Lego has also introduced the Creator lines and similar sets with lots of basic bricks where the price falls well below the.10 a brick average.
But don't believe me. Go check out the prices on Brickset, a site that has a massive comprehensive catalog of old Lego sets and instructions. I looked up a few random set MSRPs from the early 80s to make sure I was remembering the prices right, and it looks like I was dead on. Holding steady at ~.10 per brick over 30 years is an amazing feat, doubly so if you adjust for inflation.
So, no Lego isn't expensive now. Its higher quality and less expensive than ever before. And Unlike 99% of the toys I had as a kid, it still works just fine.
Right - because as we all know, correlation == causation.
That, or there's a whole fuck-ton of other factors you're discounting, because they don't mesh with your anti-gun agenda.
Being that there is a 'fuck-ton' of other factors, please enumerate them and list your estimated correlation values that we can debate them in a proper fashion. Otherwise, I will have to assume that you simply have a pro-gun agenda and discount your statement as an opinion and disregard it.
Or, we can just go around accusing other posters as having an agenda here all day long without making any real progress in the discussion.
And the Germans don't need to apologize for the Holocaust since the Jews were put to death in what was at the time a lawful process.
I'm sorry, but blaming the rules is just another way to not acknowledge just how badly they fucked him over.
Your point is valid, that legal behavior isn't necessarily moral behavior, and that admitting that he was wrongly prosecuted is implicitly suggesting that the people in power at the time were in the wrong. However, I don't actually believe that the Nazis ever actually bothered to legalize the murder of Jewish people under the legal system, they just went ahead and did it anyway. They didn't really bother with stuff like trials, for all but the most rare of cases. I'm sure that someone with more historical knowledge of the 1930s German court systems can add additional information to the thread, though.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
The basic ideal of our freedom is that you can do anything you want, provided it doesn't hurt others. They are have no right to free speech if all they are doing is trying to hurt the friends and families of dead gay people they don't like to get attention.
I want them to realize the suffering and hurt they've caused.
This isn't going to happen. If after all they have been through, WBC is still doing this, they aren't going to stop or realize that what they are doing is wrong. At a certain point, you have to just say that these people are a loss, and the best thing that could happen would be if someone just shot them all.
Its nice to think that everyone has the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but the sad truth is there are just some people that humanity as a whole would be better off without.
The paper sounds interesting enough, but the summary has essentially nothing to do with it.
Agreed. The title is very misleading. Also, since this is just going to be generating vector gradients to interpolate fill values, wouldn't you essentially get the same effect by up-sampling a bitmap and as part of the scaling process, run some sort of algorithm to figure out color averages between the old pixels to create smooth blends in the new image? It seems like just another way to approach this problem.
Since all of our input hardware is still going to have to take in information samples in some sort of gird array, this isn't really going to radically change everything as much as they might hope.
Seriously, I can't see why anybody else would care, mouse coordinates are not useful data for anything.
In and of themselves, you are right, they aren't a threat. But what other bugs are there in IE that this could be used in conjunction with?
I can think of one app right off the top of my head that this could be a big deal for. Doesn't the Putty ssh key generator app use mouse movements to seed the SSH key generation? If you knew that was running, and could track mouse movement, that would give you a lot of information that shouldn't be shared. I think a lot of git based stuff uses SSH keys for authentication, so there is a lot of potential trouble this could cause with other vulnerabilities.
This will not happen, because if the mindset of: "What if something that is important slips through? Its better to just classify everything just to be safe."
You want to be the general who's staff accidentally leaks something important? Goodbye career, because a corporal forgot to look at the last page in a folder before handing it to a reporter.
With who? The civil war occurred because one large physical bloc of the country disagreed with another large physical bloc. If you look at the counties vote in national elections, that isn't the case here. It isn't North vs. South, its more like urban vs rural. How exactly is that going to work?
These MMOs are ultimately operating a service. Expecting them to operate it indefinitely is a bit naive.
That said, it sounds like NCsoft's shutdown was premature. If a service brings in more revenue than it spends, why not keep running it? If it's a matter of getting it off the books and getting it off the executive radar, then spin it off into its own business as a wholly owned subsidiary. There are a lot of alternatives that don't amount to throwing a revenue stream in the garbage.
Yeah, I expect them to operate indefinitely actually. They are basically are running a service attached to a database that a client connects to. This should basically have an operating cost of keeping a server plugged in, which isn't much. If there are enough shards operating that it requires dedicated administration, then there is going to be enough income to support it. Unless the code was VERY poorly written, the only way that you aren't going to make a profit by keeping it plugged in is through management incompetence. (surprise surprise!)
The argument is that people should protect their password hashes better, to prevent someone from getting them and shipping them off to Curiosity to be cracked with a pile of Tesla boards or Martian quantum computers or whatever.
I blame goddam NASA for not properly locking down Curiosity's Tesla boards and letting any old script kiddie use them to hack into banks. They are the real criminals here....
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The reason no one takes this idiot up, is because the odds are in the houses favor, and he knows it.
Never wrestle with a pig. You will end up covered in mud and the pig will enjoy it.
I nominate this for nerd meme of 2013. If slashdot was battletoads. If the republican national convention was battletoads. If shopping at Wal-Mart was battletoads. And then all those of us who never played it will have to make friends with gamefaqs all over again to understand WTF everyone is talking about.
If this new meme you are pushing were battletoads, it would have crashed at the load screen.
And shouldn't Ballmer at least rate a dishonorable mention?
You won't see Balmer in the main annual lists, he is up for the Lifetime Achievement award...
Disclaimer: I am a math student.
None of all that can be found on Khan.
Whew, And here I was worried that you are an English major....
Also, are you sure that his code is that terrible? It's always possible you just don't understand his way of thinking. Maybe ask him why he wrote something a certain way and go from there.
First off, the poster is wrong, his coworker doesn't write the most horrible code ever. Because I work with the guy who does that. He is the worst fucking coder I have ever seen. He learned hobby level coding skills sometime around 1992 in visual basic, and he is still coding the same way. The sad thing is, his boss knows he sucks and won't fire him, so every year the code base gets more and more fucked up.
I have worked with a lot of coders over the years, and there is such thing as stylistic choices when it comes to coding, and this isn't the same thing as writing bad code. I have worked with a few great coders that had style that drove me up the wall. Although I might dislike their style of doing things, I would be the first to say they are top notch coders because their code was elegant, simple, robust, extensible, scalable, etc. This is not the case with bad coders.
I'm going to go with the OP on this one and say that it probably is just a lousy coder, and not a misunderstood savant or something. Odds favor the guy just sucking...
Only if you don't think that all other religions are a con, too
In order to be a con, someone has to be after your money or other posessions. That fits both scientology and mormonism, but not most Christian faiths.
A con is simply an attempt to get you to believe something that isn't true. Ergo, every religion that has ever existed.
The camouflage as a form of worship is just part of the con, and you've fallen into their trap by comparing them with established forms of worship.
Only if you don't think that all other religions are a con, too...
It's no the sensibilities of your god that worries me. It's the sensibilities of the primates that have appointed themselves as his/her/it's guardians and spokesmen.
Funny how the Christians conveniently forget that whole 'don't judge others' shit when it suits them, huh?
Christians can't live with em, can't nail them to a cross...
Child pornography is banned because it causes harm.
Not quite correct. There is nothing intrinsically harmful about the child pornography in and of itself. That is like saying that guns cause harm, when they do nothing to cause harm, but simply enable people to cause harm more efficiently.
Child pornography certainly is evidence of wrong doing, but banning it because it MIGHT cause harm is a slippery slope. Why not devote your efforts to catching those who produce it, rather than try to bust anyone who has it? While it is morally repugnant material, so is half the porn on the Internet.
Geography Nazi...because being a grammar Nazi is just too mainstream!
Well, that would then make you a Nazi Nazi, since you are correcting the parent post about the type of Nazi he is. I suppose that also, by logical extension, that makes me a Nazi Nazi Nazi. Let's just say this post completely Godwins the entire thread, and go have a pint.
And really, was it a hack? I was authorized to use the system, I only replicated the original function and intention of the server's web pages. Only a complete dolt like a news reporter would call that a hack.
Only a complete dolt programmer would not know what the word 'hack' has multiple meanings. I suggest you look up all the definitions of the word before you go insulting people who are complimenting you. Way to parade your lack of knowledge, idiot...
hack 1 (hk) v. hacked, hacking, hacks v.intr. 1. To chop or cut something by hacking. 2. Informal a. To write or refine computer programs skillfully.
Also, those orders you have? Probably not the get out of jail free card that you think they are. I am pretty sure that if you knowingly break the law when ordered to do so, you are still guilty in the eyes of military justice.
Um...clever hack, but should you really be bragging about bypassing a DoD security procedure on a public site with a registered login? If you were a civilian contractor, I would guess that sort of thing would probably be a Federal offense. Don't they come down ever harder on people caught doing that in the service? IANAL (civil or military), but I think that you should probably stop talking about this, like forever.
Which is why the the continual Luddite refrain that the Apollo program was just a way to build a better ICBM is so nonsensical. Even a Saturn I would have been a horrible ICBM...
Ignoring the ad-hominem attack which does nothing to support your claim, your statement is overlooking something. You claim that the various rockets would have been poor weapon platforms, but your thesis statement is that the Apollo program wasn't tied to ICBM development. You are correct that the Saturn rockets would be lousy weapons, but you overlook that there were a lot of things probably learned in the civilian rocket programs that got applied to ICBM development. A lot of times studying field 'A' will teach you a lot about field 'B'. We figured out nuclear energy and weapons after studying stars.
Recall that the space race was closely tied to the cold war, and that by showing the US that they could put a satellite in orbit, the Russians were showing us that they could drop a nuke anywhere they wanted to. The primary goal of the Apollo program was to put civilian ships in space, but you are deeply deluding yourself if you think that the Air Force (the guys who controlled the ICBMs) wasn't watching or advising every step of the way.
LEGO is expensive now, ...
Ok, I have to say this is simply flat out wrong. As a serious collector of Lego for over 30 years, I can authoritatively say that the price of Lego sets has held almost constant at ~ .10 per brick. Some of the newer licensed sets break that rule and go over that figure, but Lego has also introduced the Creator lines and similar sets with lots of basic bricks where the price falls well below the .10 a brick average.
But don't believe me. Go check out the prices on Brickset, a site that has a massive comprehensive catalog of old Lego sets and instructions. I looked up a few random set MSRPs from the early 80s to make sure I was remembering the prices right, and it looks like I was dead on. Holding steady at ~.10 per brick over 30 years is an amazing feat, doubly so if you adjust for inflation.
So, no Lego isn't expensive now. Its higher quality and less expensive than ever before. And Unlike 99% of the toys I had as a kid, it still works just fine.
Right - because as we all know, correlation == causation. That, or there's a whole fuck-ton of other factors you're discounting, because they don't mesh with your anti-gun agenda.
Being that there is a 'fuck-ton' of other factors, please enumerate them and list your estimated correlation values that we can debate them in a proper fashion. Otherwise, I will have to assume that you simply have a pro-gun agenda and discount your statement as an opinion and disregard it.
Or, we can just go around accusing other posters as having an agenda here all day long without making any real progress in the discussion.
Gentlemen, I've actually trained a lady under me...
HOT. Please post pics.
And the Germans don't need to apologize for the Holocaust since the Jews were put to death in what was at the time a lawful process.
I'm sorry, but blaming the rules is just another way to not acknowledge just how badly they fucked him over.
Your point is valid, that legal behavior isn't necessarily moral behavior, and that admitting that he was wrongly prosecuted is implicitly suggesting that the people in power at the time were in the wrong. However, I don't actually believe that the Nazis ever actually bothered to legalize the murder of Jewish people under the legal system, they just went ahead and did it anyway. They didn't really bother with stuff like trials, for all but the most rare of cases. I'm sure that someone with more historical knowledge of the 1930s German court systems can add additional information to the thread, though.
You would destroy all of the freedoms so many have died for you to obtain -- if only because a group is using speech you deem unacceptable. Shame. Shame on you sir.
The basic ideal of our freedom is that you can do anything you want, provided it doesn't hurt others. They are have no right to free speech if all they are doing is trying to hurt the friends and families of dead gay people they don't like to get attention.
No, I don't want the WBC people to be hurt.
I want them to realize the suffering and hurt they've caused.
This isn't going to happen. If after all they have been through, WBC is still doing this, they aren't going to stop or realize that what they are doing is wrong. At a certain point, you have to just say that these people are a loss, and the best thing that could happen would be if someone just shot them all.
Its nice to think that everyone has the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but the sad truth is there are just some people that humanity as a whole would be better off without.
The paper sounds interesting enough, but the summary has essentially nothing to do with it.
Agreed. The title is very misleading. Also, since this is just going to be generating vector gradients to interpolate fill values, wouldn't you essentially get the same effect by up-sampling a bitmap and as part of the scaling process, run some sort of algorithm to figure out color averages between the old pixels to create smooth blends in the new image? It seems like just another way to approach this problem.
Since all of our input hardware is still going to have to take in information samples in some sort of gird array, this isn't really going to radically change everything as much as they might hope.
Seriously, I can't see why anybody else would care, mouse coordinates are not useful data for anything.
In and of themselves, you are right, they aren't a threat. But what other bugs are there in IE that this could be used in conjunction with?
I can think of one app right off the top of my head that this could be a big deal for. Doesn't the Putty ssh key generator app use mouse movements to seed the SSH key generation? If you knew that was running, and could track mouse movement, that would give you a lot of information that shouldn't be shared. I think a lot of git based stuff uses SSH keys for authentication, so there is a lot of potential trouble this could cause with other vulnerabilities.
This will not happen, because if the mindset of: "What if something that is important slips through? Its better to just classify everything just to be safe."
You want to be the general who's staff accidentally leaks something important? Goodbye career, because a corporal forgot to look at the last page in a folder before handing it to a reporter.
With who? The civil war occurred because one large physical bloc of the country disagreed with another large physical bloc. If you look at the counties vote in national elections, that isn't the case here. It isn't North vs. South, its more like urban vs rural. How exactly is that going to work?
These MMOs are ultimately operating a service. Expecting them to operate it indefinitely is a bit naive.
That said, it sounds like NCsoft's shutdown was premature. If a service brings in more revenue than it spends, why not keep running it? If it's a matter of getting it off the books and getting it off the executive radar, then spin it off into its own business as a wholly owned subsidiary. There are a lot of alternatives that don't amount to throwing a revenue stream in the garbage.
Yeah, I expect them to operate indefinitely actually. They are basically are running a service attached to a database that a client connects to. This should basically have an operating cost of keeping a server plugged in, which isn't much. If there are enough shards operating that it requires dedicated administration, then there is going to be enough income to support it. Unless the code was VERY poorly written, the only way that you aren't going to make a profit by keeping it plugged in is through management incompetence. (surprise surprise!)
The argument is that people should protect their password hashes better, to prevent someone from getting them and shipping them off to Curiosity to be cracked with a pile of Tesla boards or Martian quantum computers or whatever.
I blame goddam NASA for not properly locking down Curiosity's Tesla boards and letting any old script kiddie use them to hack into banks. They are the real criminals here....