How can the property of an army be private? Are they completely privatized in the US? Because if they are a part of the government, then they, and every property of "them" is in fact owned by all citizens of the USA, isn't it? So they arrest the boss for getting a rebuke from him?
Not very fucking clever, idiots! Because we will kick your... oh wait... what's on TV tonight?
Well, it injects code that can change the download link to a trojan that wraps the original thing. In your webbrowser.
In sites with logins and other user-private data, well, let me take Slashdot as an example. Imagine someone got some evil code into the site, that your browser would load and execute. That code could quickly put the entire page into a frameset, with the outside being the control channel. Then, while you were reading, it would load your unprotected profile in the background, and change your sig to that same evil code (or a link to it). So everybody else would get it too. Then it would do a complete scan of your internal network, possibly detecting your router, and its ports. (All possible with JavaScript. Been there, seen it.) You could click on a link in/., and the frameset would survive. You could even keep that tab open all day long, effectively making you a zombie host. In the process, it would accept arbitrary commands from the controlling system. If you happen to go on the site or your router, it could for example try things in there too, like set an external control IP to the controlling system, and gain full access to your own network. (Unlikely, but I've seen it happening.)
Yeah, except that it's grown where your food should grow in the future. As soon as people are going to decide whether to eat or to print, this will go away. And don't think this will not happen anytime soon. It will. The number of people that died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, were replaced by new children in just over one day.
And besides: Why not use something very simple and very effective: Some mineral. Think of the pencil. Simple and effective. Find a bit of a more colorful mineral perhaps, add the usual other toner components and you're good. And you could even recycle the toner by washing it off of the paper at the recycling plant.
I think there must be a way to solve it that way. If a pencil can do it...
"How is it 'greener', to use *food*, that people and animals might need to eat, or space that you can grow food on?"
This thing is doomed like every single one of those bio-fuels. Because as soon as we stop having enough space to grow our food, it has to go away, or people will die. With the current speed at which humanity grows, versus our efficiency in farming, this state will be reached even quicker than the end of oil.
Sounds like your managers just want to do what managers do most of the time: Go for the quick money/power/greenness/etc-grab, and ignore that it's very stupid in the long run.
Well, Kongregate(.com) is the best example of small, very nice, creative things, that one person can do alone. And I dare to say, that they beat many large multi-million games in terms of pure fun and addictiveness. If only they would support other plug-ins, like Java applets, and maybe even things like the Quake live 3D engine...
I am my own boss, and have sworn to never work for someone else again. Ever.
By the way: The first and most important thing you have to know, is to let them hear a clear and precise "No". If you start caving at any time (especially in the beginning), you will be their bitch. The same as they would be your bitch, as soon as they started to cave.
It's just that they learned to expect not to cave themselves. And you got told to obey, your entire life. (As most of us have.)
Fact is: You are having a deal with equal partners, exchanging things of equal worth (ideally). So you have to teach your boss that. In a good way!
I myself found it not worthy all the stress, just to later implement his obviously doomed, underdone, and retarded projects. Maybe for good money, but still: What worth has money, when it does not help you at all, because you got no time left to enjoy it? I have far better projects myself.
Funnily, I told my ex-boss, the should wait 3-5 years. Because then I would buy him for some peanuts and a song, and fire him. And now it turns out, they went bankrupt and closed the whole 800 people shop (1600 in its best times). So I would have really been able to buy them for that price, and they really got fired. ^^ Aaah... Good times...
Yes, consumers with their Dell OEM CD from seven years ago have easy access to slipstreamed SP3 CDs and know how to use Linux.
Point me to a Joe random-consumer who does not know one person with enough computer knowledge to get a slipstreamed CD off of bittorrent.
You are applying the same faulty logic that the creators of copy protection schemes apply: The thought that the average use is not doing this, while ignoring that he does only have to know someone who knows how to get what he wants.
Or how do you think most women get their furniture put together etc. ^^
So the real question is: Why in the world would I install it then? To deliberately waste resources? I can do that better with CompizFusion, and still have left over enough for a couple of needless gcc and java processes, or XP in a VM. ^^ (In fact I have that setup right now. And the only thing that feels a bit sluggish is the VM, which is kinda what I expected.)
[B]ut if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
Not if it's by design. I found it to be the only way that makes sense, to work trough prototyping. Especially for games and other large projects. I define the things I want to clarify, and then build a throwaway-prototype to answer as many of them with as little work as possible. Then I repeat this process, until I am happy with it. Over a specific project size, top-down-modeling and bottom-up-coding alone do not do it anymore. And in creative processes it's sometimes even impossible.
Hmm... The question is, how to do that, without making it easy for the enemy side (the government in this case) too.
I mean, the best encryption does not matter, when the government can just grab the logs from the servers you were connecting to.
It's even worse, when a whole IP is in their bad-places list. How do you hide the connection to that IP, without going trough tons of big-iron routers, where someone could easily install a side-channel to log everything off to the government.
The only chance here might be, to create a of tunnels between trusted VPNs. But how do you know that none of them is a mole?
Yeah right. That's why everybody obeyed Hitler*. Way to go... I can't understand you "obeying underling" type of people. You would accept anything, as long as you're "outta trouble". (Even if it's just for the moment, and will come back worse later.)
At some point, I set the line, about what is acceptable, and what is so bad, that I will fight it, no matter if someone will fight back hard. Some things I will not accept. No matter what. And total control of life (the long-term result of this) is the mother of all those things. It's worse than death. This is why I fight it, no matter what.
Your argument disgusts and offends me, just as it insults all those who died for their freedom.
(* I don't care about some people stating that you are not allowed to use this as an argument, even if it is a proper one, and then calling that a "rule". It is not one if it's not obeyed. )
Hey, let's create it as a virus that also infects other virii. So all botnets get infected to create one giant botnet. All sending out the "crapflood of teh evil wordz tath keeleth teh man". Try monitoring that.
But beware that you do *not* only include "terrorist" phrases, but include what they really search for: Critique about the government. For that you could just use the daily newspapers, and create phrases on the topics, that you think will ring the most alarm bells for them. Then submit them to all your bots via IRC, or something like that.
Exactly. But here for example, you would be an exception. Nobody I know would be able to watch so much stuff in one month that it would be worth $10. And even if they tried: I don't think there is even enough stuff out there that is worth watching, to fill the $10 of content per month.
So either movies etc. are worth much more to you than to me (also quality-wise), or you're just a couch potato, watching every crap that comes along. ^^ (No offense. It's your life. And it's for you to decide what you like to do to be happy. I just do not think it could be my life.)
<rant>You just don't get it, and still cling on to the primitive "everything must be black and white, or I can not comprehend it, and therefore it is unpossible!!!1!one" mindset, do ya?</rant>
<no-rant> It was only an example. To show that the price has to be a function parallel to the actual worth (according to the market) of the product, for there to be a working business. So no matter how low you rate YouTube in your worth (Hey, as long as you are going there, it obviously is worth something to you.), there is always a price for it. Even if it's $1 a year. If not, then you would just stay away from YouTube, and go somewhere better, wouldn't you? ^^
So as long as Google can keep their cost of operation below the money that the users would pay for it, and make a profit with the difference, of course it would work.
I, for one, would like to see what it's worth to to users. After all, I see no reason why anyone would set up a giant cluster and serve tons of data, just to lose money with it.
Slashdot Mirror
How can the property of an army be private? Are they completely privatized in the US?
Because if they are a part of the government, then they, and every property of "them" is in fact owned by all citizens of the USA, isn't it?
So they arrest the boss for getting a rebuke from him?
Not very fucking clever, idiots! Because we will kick your... oh wait... what's on TV tonight?
Well, it injects code that can change the download link to a trojan that wraps the original thing. In your webbrowser.
In sites with logins and other user-private data, well, let me take Slashdot as an example. /., and the frameset would survive. You could even keep that tab open all day long, effectively making you a zombie host.
Imagine someone got some evil code into the site, that your browser would load and execute.
That code could quickly put the entire page into a frameset, with the outside being the control channel.
Then, while you were reading, it would load your unprotected profile in the background, and change your sig to that same evil code (or a link to it). So everybody else would get it too.
Then it would do a complete scan of your internal network, possibly detecting your router, and its ports. (All possible with JavaScript. Been there, seen it.)
You could click on a link in
In the process, it would accept arbitrary commands from the controlling system. If you happen to go on the site or your router, it could for example try things in there too, like set an external control IP to the controlling system, and gain full access to your own network. (Unlikely, but I've seen it happening.)
And all this is just the tip of the iceberg.
then there is no reason not to use it,
Yeah, except that it's grown where your food should grow in the future. As soon as people are going to decide whether to eat or to print, this will go away.
And don't think this will not happen anytime soon. It will. The number of people that died in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, were replaced by new children in just over one day.
And besides: Why not use something very simple and very effective: Some mineral.
Think of the pencil. Simple and effective. Find a bit of a more colorful mineral perhaps, add the usual other toner components and you're good.
And you could even recycle the toner by washing it off of the paper at the recycling plant.
I think there must be a way to solve it that way. If a pencil can do it...
"How is it 'greener', to use *food*, that people and animals might need to eat, or space that you can grow food on?"
This thing is doomed like every single one of those bio-fuels. Because as soon as we stop having enough space to grow our food, it has to go away, or people will die. With the current speed at which humanity grows, versus our efficiency in farming, this state will be reached even quicker than the end of oil.
Sounds like your managers just want to do what managers do most of the time: Go for the quick money/power/greenness/etc-grab, and ignore that it's very stupid in the long run.
Well, Kongregate(.com) is the best example of small, very nice, creative things, that one person can do alone. And I dare to say, that they beat many large multi-million games in terms of pure fun and addictiveness. If only they would support other plug-ins, like Java applets, and maybe even things like the Quake live 3D engine...
"Apple Shags Former Xbox Exec".
I knew that Apple was gay. But this... Ewwww...
I wouldn't want to see that mutated gay devil-child of doom. ^^
*Imagines him being drawn in South-Park-style, and being slapped good by Saddam*
I am my own boss, and have sworn to never work for someone else again. Ever.
By the way: The first and most important thing you have to know, is to let them hear a clear and precise "No".
If you start caving at any time (especially in the beginning), you will be their bitch.
The same as they would be your bitch, as soon as they started to cave.
It's just that they learned to expect not to cave themselves. And you got told to obey, your entire life. (As most of us have.)
Fact is: You are having a deal with equal partners, exchanging things of equal worth (ideally).
So you have to teach your boss that. In a good way!
I myself found it not worthy all the stress, just to later implement his obviously doomed, underdone, and retarded projects.
Maybe for good money, but still: What worth has money, when it does not help you at all, because you got no time left to enjoy it?
I have far better projects myself.
Funnily, I told my ex-boss, the should wait 3-5 years. Because then I would buy him for some peanuts and a song, and fire him.
And now it turns out, they went bankrupt and closed the whole 800 people shop (1600 in its best times). So I would have really been able to buy them for that price, and they really got fired. ^^
Aaah... Good times...
Yes, consumers with their Dell OEM CD from seven years ago have easy access to slipstreamed SP3 CDs and know how to use Linux.
Point me to a Joe random-consumer who does not know one person with enough computer knowledge to get a slipstreamed CD off of bittorrent.
You are applying the same faulty logic that the creators of copy protection schemes apply: The thought that the average use is not doing this, while ignoring that he does only have to know someone who knows how to get what he wants.
Or how do you think most women get their furniture put together etc. ^^
So the real question is: Why in the world would I install it then? To deliberately waste resources?
I can do that better with CompizFusion, and still have left over enough for a couple of needless gcc and java processes, or XP in a VM. ^^
(In fact I have that setup right now. And the only thing that feels a bit sluggish is the VM, which is kinda what I expected.)
Nah. They're just too drunk already, by now.
Give him a CD with XP which includes SP3 and all patches up to now, and he should be good for some time.
Give him Linux, and he will be good for a looong time.
Well. Who would profit from no laptops on-board?
Well, there is your answer. :)
[B]ut if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
Not if it's by design. I found it to be the only way that makes sense, to work trough prototyping. Especially for games and other large projects. I define the things I want to clarify, and then build a throwaway-prototype to answer as many of them with as little work as possible. Then I repeat this process, until I am happy with it.
Over a specific project size, top-down-modeling and bottom-up-coding alone do not do it anymore. And in creative processes it's sometimes even impossible.
Be happy it's not in UHDV's 22.2 channel sound. :P
He has very biig pockets. (Will be the new US size 0 in 2010.)
I'd imagine the touchscreen supports a software keyboard (otherwise the 'memo' menu button displayed rather prominently would be pretty useless).
Well, duh... You do have a pretty weak imagination, do you?
Try imagining how you wrote with a real notepad and a pencil.
Got it? ^^
Hmm... The question is, how to do that, without making it easy for the enemy side (the government in this case) too.
I mean, the best encryption does not matter, when the government can just grab the logs from the servers you were connecting to.
It's even worse, when a whole IP is in their bad-places list. How do you hide the connection to that IP, without going trough tons of big-iron routers, where someone could easily install a side-channel to log everything off to the government.
The only chance here might be, to create a of tunnels between trusted VPNs. But how do you know that none of them is a mole?
Yeah right. That's why everybody obeyed Hitler*. Way to go...
I can't understand you "obeying underling" type of people.
You would accept anything, as long as you're "outta trouble". (Even if it's just for the moment, and will come back worse later.)
At some point, I set the line, about what is acceptable, and what is so bad, that I will fight it, no matter if someone will fight back hard.
Some things I will not accept. No matter what.
And total control of life (the long-term result of this) is the mother of all those things.
It's worse than death.
This is why I fight it, no matter what.
Your argument disgusts and offends me, just as it insults all those who died for their freedom.
(* I don't care about some people stating that you are not allowed to use this as an argument, even if it is a proper one, and then calling that a "rule". It is not one if it's not obeyed. )
Emacs has a function for everything that is, or that could be, or could not be. It's Rule 35. Right after Rule 34.
Rule 35 even applies to rule 34! ^^
Oops, we had the same idea. You just forgot the specific targeting of things that ring most bells, critique-wise.
Otherwise, that now makes two with that idea. :)
Let's found a party and get into the EU parliament. ^^
Hey, let's create it as a virus that also infects other virii. So all botnets get infected to create one giant botnet. All sending out the "crapflood of teh evil wordz tath keeleth teh man".
Try monitoring that.
But beware that you do *not* only include "terrorist" phrases, but include what they really search for: Critique about the government.
For that you could just use the daily newspapers, and create phrases on the topics, that you think will ring the most alarm bells for them. Then submit them to all your bots via IRC, or something like that.
Long no iz looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. ^^
Exactly. But here for example, you would be an exception.
Nobody I know would be able to watch so much stuff in one month that it would be worth $10.
And even if they tried: I don't think there is even enough stuff out there that is worth watching, to fill the $10 of content per month.
So either movies etc. are worth much more to you than to me (also quality-wise), or you're just a couch potato, watching every crap that comes along. ^^
(No offense. It's your life. And it's for you to decide what you like to do to be happy. I just do not think it could be my life.)
That's why it would be a subscription model.
Don't take your own inability to think up something that makes sense or works for a failure of others.
<rant>You just don't get it, and still cling on to the primitive "everything must be black and white, or I can not comprehend it, and therefore it is unpossible!!!1!one" mindset, do ya?</rant>
<no-rant>
It was only an example. To show that the price has to be a function parallel to the actual worth (according to the market) of the product, for there to be a working business.
So no matter how low you rate YouTube in your worth (Hey, as long as you are going there, it obviously is worth something to you.), there is always a price for it. Even if it's $1 a year.
If not, then you would just stay away from YouTube, and go somewhere better, wouldn't you? ^^
So as long as Google can keep their cost of operation below the money that the users would pay for it, and make a profit with the difference, of course it would work.
I, for one, would like to see what it's worth to to users. After all, I see no reason why anyone would set up a giant cluster and serve tons of data, just to lose money with it.
And I think, things like the YouTube album of Kutiman are definitely worth money.
</no-rant>