In the words of my ex (and also by use of, extending the amount of information you can track down about me) "Guard your innards!"
I've been lurking on this interwebs thing since the very late 80s, and I rarely leave a trail wider than I intended. Everything I do and say is effectively done through an alias, and I have one of those for each way I want to be perceived.
e.g. My most open information is tied to one of two IDs, "blackhawk-666" (and variants), and "ivan.hawkes@gmail.com", and yet a google of either will bring you up 54 pages or 397 pages - mostly programming related information. Anything you find on these two searches is likely to be true, and that includes my address, which lately I've not been so concerned about hiding. You ruffling through any mail I was too careless to shred, soak and then burn on an open fire is not my concern.
I hold other aliases which I use for when I don't want to be associated with the main branch of information kruft I leave in my wake. These are usually provided for me by hotmail aliases or one of about 50 user account variants ("Passwords are hard!").
I don't encrypt my conversations or go to great lengths to try and hide because I prefer to hide in plain sight...rig
I think the problem with your argument is assuming tool-makers are low skilled. It actually takes a lot of technical skill and craft to be able to perform the job well. Unskilled labour is the sort of work you see on an assembly line where a person can be trained for the job in hours or days at most.
There was also an impedance mismatch between the two examples you choose - one being of a paper whose meaning is insignificant to all but a few bored conference members vs a fighter pilot in a truly dangerous situation where every last thing needs to go right.
Had you instead chosen an example of a surgeon vs the person who screws caps onto toothpaste containers (now generally done by machine) then your result would have been completely different.
Over here in Australia we are dangling a larger carrot in front of the consumer's face. Aussies love their sports, and so channel Nine (I think) is now broadcasting large amounts of sport in 3D for the punters.
Given the availability of 3D content to many over here it will be interesting to see how our market goes in comparison to the US / UK.
IIRC that's a boot sector virus that propagates when a sector read is performed on a floppy drive. Modern labs are pretty unlikely to still have floppy drives. The code to stoned is written in Assembler too, so they would need to be taught that to understand it. They'll also need a good understanding of the old DOS BIOS interupt codes to make sense of what it's doing.
That's all good for us guys who grew up hacking in the 80s, not so great for the modern ones.
To me the real story here is how four students with no real skills or experience managed to convince people into giving them $200,000.
Of course their code is going to be utter rubbish, they are uni grads with no experience, discipline, standards, or any of the myriad other factors that are required to make rock solid code. It sounds like they don't even have a documented protocol to work, and I'm guessing that means there's nothing in place for inter-communication with add-ons or third party code.
Even if you assume they worked mainly on the front-end, that's seriously only a week or so of work for four developers, especially when so much has been cribbed from elsewhere.
I'm expecting a delay to their release to fix the major obvious flaws, massive security concerns, and a lacklustre launch of a product no-one really needs that much. If Facebook is so bad that you have already removed your account, or haven't subscribed yet - then you might be a contender for this product. Most others will simply stay where their friends all are - because that's the whole ********* point of a social network.
Just kick all those people you don't care about off your account. Better yet, don't accept friend requests if you don't actually want to be a friend. Apps can be ignored, so hit the ignore button on Farmville and the like to silence that, then uninstall all the apps you don't need or want.
Don't put any private information up there and you will never have to worry about anything private being released.
People don't care about privacy enough to quit Facebook. Diaspora is destined to wither and die.
It's quite common for gardeners to save their own urine and apply it to their plants. It's cheap, sterile, and full of good things. I also use animal manure, worm castings of all household waste, seaweed, fish guts, and compost.
You know dirt, the stuff your food grows in, is mainly sand and decomposing matter?
Amazon seem to know just exactly what I want as a book reader, a lightweight device with a clear screen and a long battery life. I don't need to play Tetris on it, or watch hi-def video, I just need something easy on the eye and easy to hold up while I sit in my armchair and relax with a book. Owning one of these would open up all those great old books in Project Gutenburg to me (which I could read now, but sod sitting at a PC to read!)
Good idea allowing those of us who can plan ahead to get it without 3G.
Go flick on your TV and tune in to a reality TV programme. There...those guys, they're the ones dragging the average down - not the ones at your wine and cheese night for physics graduates.
I kept using my trust old Iiyama 19" CRT for years after most people had switched over to those shiny looking LCDs. The main reason was because it could do decent resolutions at 110hz whereas LCD were plagued with 50/60hz cycle times and dodgey screen refreshes. It also had better colours and depth to my eye, the only bad thing being it was huge and had a mildly curved screen.
I've finally switched over to an LCD that oddly still only syncs at 60hz (what is up with that!) but which doesn't greatly impede my gameplay. It runs at 1920x1200x60hz, looks great, and draws less power.
I don't agree with their figure of 160ms for input lag, assuming this means the time between when I smack my key and see / hear some feedback. I'd think it's much close to 50ms at a guess - 150ms lag can mean you're dead in a FPS, whether that's from your network or your screen.
What's really taken them so long is registering patents for all the good ideas. In a world where information and ideas are money Google has effectively gotten 150,000 people to come to them and hand over all their "e-value" without any form of return. Ten of them will get finanaced, look for Google to have heavy contractual ties to those companies and eventually a majority share in the ones that are expected to "monetise".
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Cake or princess? The cake is a lie!
In the words of my ex (and also by use of, extending the amount of information you can track down about me) "Guard your innards!"
I've been lurking on this interwebs thing since the very late 80s, and I rarely leave a trail wider than I intended. Everything I do and say is effectively done through an alias, and I have one of those for each way I want to be perceived.
e.g. My most open information is tied to one of two IDs, "blackhawk-666" (and variants), and "ivan.hawkes@gmail.com", and yet a google of either will bring you up 54 pages or 397 pages - mostly programming related information. Anything you find on these two searches is likely to be true, and that includes my address, which lately I've not been so concerned about hiding. You ruffling through any mail I was too careless to shred, soak and then burn on an open fire is not my concern.
I hold other aliases which I use for when I don't want to be associated with the main branch of information kruft I leave in my wake. These are usually provided for me by hotmail aliases or one of about 50 user account variants ("Passwords are hard!").
I don't encrypt my conversations or go to great lengths to try and hide because I prefer to hide in plain sight...rig
"I fought the law and the law won, I fought the law and the law won." - The Clash
I'm starting a pool to guess how many uses before the game is erased and replaced with porn. Put me down for 3.
That, and you're getting a healthy dose of dopamine courtesy of the hard exercise.
I think the problem with your argument is assuming tool-makers are low skilled. It actually takes a lot of technical skill and craft to be able to perform the job well. Unskilled labour is the sort of work you see on an assembly line where a person can be trained for the job in hours or days at most.
There was also an impedance mismatch between the two examples you choose - one being of a paper whose meaning is insignificant to all but a few bored conference members vs a fighter pilot in a truly dangerous situation where every last thing needs to go right.
Had you instead chosen an example of a surgeon vs the person who screws caps onto toothpaste containers (now generally done by machine) then your result would have been completely different.
Not worth explaining why I didn't like it, just that I thought it was second rate TV even compared to the original Stargate and other spin-offs.
London is done in meters, or it was when I sold my flat there.
This is why I insist on doing all of my reading in Runic :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_alphabet
Over here in Australia we are dangling a larger carrot in front of the consumer's face. Aussies love their sports, and so channel Nine (I think) is now broadcasting large amounts of sport in 3D for the punters.
Given the availability of 3D content to many over here it will be interesting to see how our market goes in comparison to the US / UK.
IIRC that's a boot sector virus that propagates when a sector read is performed on a floppy drive. Modern labs are pretty unlikely to still have floppy drives. The code to stoned is written in Assembler too, so they would need to be taught that to understand it. They'll also need a good understanding of the old DOS BIOS interupt codes to make sense of what it's doing.
That's all good for us guys who grew up hacking in the 80s, not so great for the modern ones.
Why are children trying to browse these child pornography sites in the first place?
It just makes no sense claiming we need this filtering to protect the children from child porn.
To me the real story here is how four students with no real skills or experience managed to convince people into giving them $200,000.
Of course their code is going to be utter rubbish, they are uni grads with no experience, discipline, standards, or any of the myriad other factors that are required to make rock solid code. It sounds like they don't even have a documented protocol to work, and I'm guessing that means there's nothing in place for inter-communication with add-ons or third party code.
Even if you assume they worked mainly on the front-end, that's seriously only a week or so of work for four developers, especially when so much has been cribbed from elsewhere.
I'm expecting a delay to their release to fix the major obvious flaws, massive security concerns, and a lacklustre launch of a product no-one really needs that much. If Facebook is so bad that you have already removed your account, or haven't subscribed yet - then you might be a contender for this product. Most others will simply stay where their friends all are - because that's the whole ********* point of a social network.
Never underestimate the power of inertia.
Just kick all those people you don't care about off your account. Better yet, don't accept friend requests if you don't actually want to be a friend. Apps can be ignored, so hit the ignore button on Farmville and the like to silence that, then uninstall all the apps you don't need or want.
Don't put any private information up there and you will never have to worry about anything private being released.
People don't care about privacy enough to quit Facebook. Diaspora is destined to wither and die.
It's quite common for gardeners to save their own urine and apply it to their plants. It's cheap, sterile, and full of good things. I also use animal manure, worm castings of all household waste, seaweed, fish guts, and compost.
You know dirt, the stuff your food grows in, is mainly sand and decomposing matter?
But I only planted non-Monsanto mould, that other stuff must have blown across the fence from my neighboors curtain!
Amazon seem to know just exactly what I want as a book reader, a lightweight device with a clear screen and a long battery life. I don't need to play Tetris on it, or watch hi-def video, I just need something easy on the eye and easy to hold up while I sit in my armchair and relax with a book. Owning one of these would open up all those great old books in Project Gutenburg to me (which I could read now, but sod sitting at a PC to read!)
Good idea allowing those of us who can plan ahead to get it without 3G.
Go flick on your TV and tune in to a reality TV programme. There...those guys, they're the ones dragging the average down - not the ones at your wine and cheese night for physics graduates.
They can also tell you that either can be increased by wearing a cloak and wielding a mace.
Is that a new cola?
I kept using my trust old Iiyama 19" CRT for years after most people had switched over to those shiny looking LCDs. The main reason was because it could do decent resolutions at 110hz whereas LCD were plagued with 50/60hz cycle times and dodgey screen refreshes. It also had better colours and depth to my eye, the only bad thing being it was huge and had a mildly curved screen.
I've finally switched over to an LCD that oddly still only syncs at 60hz (what is up with that!) but which doesn't greatly impede my gameplay. It runs at 1920x1200x60hz, looks great, and draws less power.
I don't agree with their figure of 160ms for input lag, assuming this means the time between when I smack my key and see / hear some feedback. I'd think it's much close to 50ms at a guess - 150ms lag can mean you're dead in a FPS, whether that's from your network or your screen.
You're in infrigement of my patent for a similar machine that looks like a chair and a six pack of beer! Expect to hear from my lawyers.
Holy shit, he's invented the string!
What's really taken them so long is registering patents for all the good ideas. In a world where information and ideas are money Google has effectively gotten 150,000 people to come to them and hand over all their "e-value" without any form of return. Ten of them will get finanaced, look for Google to have heavy contractual ties to those companies and eventually a majority share in the ones that are expected to "monetise".
Which was always great for shortcutting things...
name
job
health
mantra
rune
Sure saved a lot of running around in Ultima IV