>> They even got Star Trek actor William Shatner to help promote it.
For free, I hope? Otherwise, this is a classic example of the government setting money on fire...to get more people interested in setting other money on fire.
>> (sniveling voice): Tasks uses an inconsistent mix of Roboto, their old brand typeface, and Product Sans, their new one
Google doesn't give a shit: they are the fucking honey badger. You will take their 1998-era interface, type in all your personal shit, and receive the ads that are keyword-assigned to your fucking "tasks", your stupid "mail", your pointless "calender events" and all your web searches for brony warez. Why? Because you are cheap and you value moderately good searches. Just don't think you are the only one searching your digital life - that index ain't just for you.
OK, I'll bite. It might work. The implementation uses the "CSharpCodeProvider class" which is included in the handy-dandy ".NET Framework ICodeCompiler compiler execution interface" installed on most Windows boxes. However, Mono also implements ICodeCompiler (http://docs.go-mono.com/index.aspx?link=T%3ASystem.CodeDom.Compiler.ICodeCompiler). The question would be, "why bother" since you'd have to write multi-OS ransomware (covering Mac/Windows/some Linux OS's) anyway to take full advantage of Mono.
I ran into this "anyone can compile C# programs" ability myself a while back when one of my new dev VDIs was locked down to the point that no one could install Visual Studio. So...I just pulled down a portable text editor and then compiled the C# code I wanted through the local.NET Framework tools: the result was instant custom C# programs without having anything more than normal end user "no install" permissions. (You could easily do something similar with gcc or whatnot on Linux too; if the goal is to lock up the current user's files, then anything running as yourself ought to do it.)
Between all the crap about "basic income" and now a guy thinking about narcing on his brother for a laptop, I'm starting to worry about the average employment status and income of my fellow SlashDotters. If you aren't pulling down a safe six-figure salary and posted here during builds, why exactly ARE you here?
They aren't called hackers anymore, again. See other thread: https://ask.slashdot.org/story/18/04/24/179248/ask-slashdot-do-we-need-a-new-word-for-hacking
>> islam and all other "religions" are a cancer on the world
I didn't agree with you until I installed Civ6. Thank {deity} for the hack that neuters religious units - just wish Firaxis provided a master "Religion: yes/no" setting.
>> 1) Uninformed Gibberish 2) Trolling clickbait 3) Completely boring filler of interest to no one even the topic's core audience
It's a mix of #2 and #3. When I worked in marketing, we used to hire low-cost people to write SEO-heavy articles to attract the clicks of the few people interested in "long tail" topics. It seems like this is a typical example. Here's the full text below so you don't have to actually visit the site.
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In his landmark 1931 book An Essay on Typography, the British typographer Eric Gill discusses everything from the proper place for the tail of an ‘R’ to terminate to which type of word press might best serve the amateur typographer. He casts the printed word as sacred. But there’s one thing — a silent, steady workhorse found in nearly every book — that Gill fails to address: the lowly page number.
The functional role of the page number is simple: it provides order and sequence to a text. And while it is a supremely utilitarian design element, more thought is put into it than you might imagine. Should it go at the top or the bottom of the page? In the right or left margin? Or in the center? These are all conscious and deliberate choices made by designers.
The designer who is perhaps most responsible for modern page-number placement is Jan Tschichold. Born in Switzerland and educated at the Leipzig Academy of the Arts, Tschichold fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in London. From 1947 to 1949, he worked at Penguin Books, where he masterminded the uniformly elegant and simplistic design of the imprint’s paperbacks that persists today.
But Tschichold’s mark went deeper than just book covers; he created an entire set of house instructions for the company’s books. And for Tschichold, folios (the word used by designers for page numbers) were governed by the same principles he emphatically stressed in all aspects of book design. Chief among these principles was clarity. “This,” he wrote in his 1928 book The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers, “puts [the new typography] into deliberate opposition to the old typography whose aim was ‘beauty’ and whose clarity did not attain the high level we require today.”
Tschichold was adamant that folios should exist to facilitate that logical sequence and provide a guide for the eye when skimming to quickly access needed information (“Reading presupposes eye movement,” he observed). To that end, his instructions for Penguin specified that folios should be the same typeface and size as the rest of the text, and in Arabic numerals.
One significant point of design that Tschichold abandoned was the practice of subordinating the organization of all text elements around an invisible central axis (stay with me here.) What that means is that a designer builds out all the design elements of a book from that nonexistent axis “as if there were some focal point in the center of a line which would justify such an arrangement,” Tschichold wrote. But this, he determined, imposed an artificial central order on the layout of a text. It was an illogical practice, because readers don’t start reading from the center of a book, but from the sides.
Good numbering begins on the first page of text, which is not usually the first leaf (a piece of paper on which there are two pages front and back) of the book, which is why the first numbered page of a book will often not be “1” but something seemingly incongruous like “7.”
For books that read left to right with folios on the verso, or back of the leaf, should always be even numbers, and those on the recto, or the right side of the leaf, should be be odd. A text always begins in earnest on a recto page.
In designing number placement, a good designer also has to take into account the needs of a book binde
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
Plus invaded the country that wrote the viruses, knocked them back to the stone age, and hauled their trophies home. (See "Barbary Pirates", etc.) So yes, FF/OS FTW.
>> if we can only get PC makers to offer more AMD based PC's which will give us all more choices
I wonder if you wrote that as AC so no one would make you turn in your geek card. Real Slashdotters don't work with "PC Makers" (unless its for the day job that provides the health care) - we always build our own.
Fresh comp sci grads have this problem too. Your job as a dev manager, architect or lead, is to make sure that the newbie (or consultant) work gets restricted to testable modules that aren't critical performance drivers.
I've hired aerospace, chemical and mechanical engineers into dev roles, thus allowing them to join the money train. (If you can design a working X for the chaotic real world, I know you're smart enough to write working code to run under a structured OS.)
>> nerds seem to believe that they earn six figures because of their intelligence and effort, and not because they happen to be in an industry that has been hot for a few decades and they got lucky
So the people that invested in engineering, IT and comp sci degrees and training lucked into their multiyear career evolution: got it.
Would you also agree that people who looked at wealth-generating careers in tech or health and then decided to get that Masters in helping people fill out forms (e.g. social work) or writing a coherent paragraph (e.g.English) instead are simply "unlucky"?
Why do all these articles about basic income keep showing up here? I'm assuming most of us are pulling down six figures (if you aren't and you're in tech, get gud) and wouldn't think of sitting on our asses while collecting a low basic income. So my serious question is: why is "basic income" news for nerds?
>> Czech Republic, where plants roll out cars for the likes of Toyota
I still check where a car was assembled before I will buy it. As in: USA, Mexico or Czech Republic? = No sale. Germany or Japan? = I'll consider it. Sorry Toyota...
I've already heard some use "did a Telsa" to mean "stupidly destroy oneself by stepping into an obviously dangerous situation" much like Tesla's car rammed a well- marked concrete barrier at full speed.
>> I commented to my physics professor once that primitive humans see lines everywhere, but never circles
If you had grown up outside of Seattle, you might have also thought about "the sun" and "the moon" as examples of circular things primitives could experience.
Here's the obligatory "How to Uninstall and Block Updates and Drivers on Windows 10" article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window?utm_source=twitter%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter (Scroll down to "Download the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package now.")
since Microsoft still isn't smart enough to detect unsupported hardware and will still stupidly try to download and install huge updates dozens of times on machines that will never support them.
>> Mozilla Foundation has called for the regulation of tech giants like Google - "break them up"
Without Google's $330M/yr (!), Mozilla is really reminding me of a jilted first wife. ("If I can't have my old lifestyle, NO ONE will ever be happy again!") https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/
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>> They even got Star Trek actor William Shatner to help promote it.
For free, I hope? Otherwise, this is a classic example of the government setting money on fire...to get more people interested in setting other money on fire.
>> (sniveling voice): Tasks uses an inconsistent mix of Roboto, their old brand typeface, and Product Sans, their new one
Google doesn't give a shit: they are the fucking honey badger. You will take their 1998-era interface, type in all your personal shit, and receive the ads that are keyword-assigned to your fucking "tasks", your stupid "mail", your pointless "calender events" and all your web searches for brony warez. Why? Because you are cheap and you value moderately good searches. Just don't think you are the only one searching your digital life - that index ain't just for you.
>> does it work with Mono
.NET Framework tools: the result was instant custom C# programs without having anything more than normal end user "no install" permissions. (You could easily do something similar with gcc or whatnot on Linux too; if the goal is to lock up the current user's files, then anything running as yourself ought to do it.)
OK, I'll bite. It might work. The implementation uses the "CSharpCodeProvider class" which is included in the handy-dandy ".NET Framework ICodeCompiler compiler execution interface" installed on most Windows boxes. However, Mono also implements ICodeCompiler (http://docs.go-mono.com/index.aspx?link=T%3ASystem.CodeDom.Compiler.ICodeCompiler). The question would be, "why bother" since you'd have to write multi-OS ransomware (covering Mac/Windows/some Linux OS's) anyway to take full advantage of Mono.
I ran into this "anyone can compile C# programs" ability myself a while back when one of my new dev VDIs was locked down to the point that no one could install Visual Studio. So...I just pulled down a portable text editor and then compiled the C# code I wanted through the local
Regards,
Between all the crap about "basic income" and now a guy thinking about narcing on his brother for a laptop, I'm starting to worry about the average employment status and income of my fellow SlashDotters. If you aren't pulling down a safe six-figure salary and posted here during builds, why exactly ARE you here?
So...if Google cached results that contained full SSNs and other PII, aren't they as culpable as well? (And I'd imagine they're still in there...)
>> wait for the hackers...
They aren't called hackers anymore, again. See other thread:
https://ask.slashdot.org/story/18/04/24/179248/ask-slashdot-do-we-need-a-new-word-for-hacking
>> islam and all other "religions" are a cancer on the world
I didn't agree with you until I installed Civ6. Thank {deity} for the hack that neuters religious units - just wish Firaxis provided a master "Religion: yes/no" setting.
>> 1) Uninformed Gibberish 2) Trolling clickbait 3) Completely boring filler of interest to no one even the topic's core audience
It's a mix of #2 and #3. When I worked in marketing, we used to hire low-cost people to write SEO-heavy articles to attract the clicks of the few people interested in "long tail" topics. It seems like this is a typical example. Here's the full text below so you don't have to actually visit the site.
---
In his landmark 1931 book An Essay on Typography, the British typographer Eric Gill discusses everything from the proper place for the tail of an ‘R’ to terminate to which type of word press might best serve the amateur typographer. He casts the printed word as sacred. But there’s one thing — a silent, steady workhorse found in nearly every book — that Gill fails to address: the lowly page number.
The functional role of the page number is simple: it provides order and sequence to a text. And while it is a supremely utilitarian design element, more thought is put into it than you might imagine. Should it go at the top or the bottom of the page? In the right or left margin? Or in the center? These are all conscious and deliberate choices made by designers.
The designer who is perhaps most responsible for modern page-number placement is Jan Tschichold. Born in Switzerland and educated at the Leipzig Academy of the Arts, Tschichold fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and eventually settled in London. From 1947 to 1949, he worked at Penguin Books, where he masterminded the uniformly elegant and simplistic design of the imprint’s paperbacks that persists today.
But Tschichold’s mark went deeper than just book covers; he created an entire set of house instructions for the company’s books. And for Tschichold, folios (the word used by designers for page numbers) were governed by the same principles he emphatically stressed in all aspects of book design. Chief among these principles was clarity. “This,” he wrote in his 1928 book The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers, “puts [the new typography] into deliberate opposition to the old typography whose aim was ‘beauty’ and whose clarity did not attain the high level we require today.”
Tschichold was adamant that folios should exist to facilitate that logical sequence and provide a guide for the eye when skimming to quickly access needed information (“Reading presupposes eye movement,” he observed). To that end, his instructions for Penguin specified that folios should be the same typeface and size as the rest of the text, and in Arabic numerals.
One significant point of design that Tschichold abandoned was the practice of subordinating the organization of all text elements around an invisible central axis (stay with me here.) What that means is that a designer builds out all the design elements of a book from that nonexistent axis “as if there were some focal point in the center of a line which would justify such an arrangement,” Tschichold wrote. But this, he determined, imposed an artificial central order on the layout of a text. It was an illogical practice, because readers don’t start reading from the center of a book, but from the sides.
Good numbering begins on the first page of text, which is not usually the first leaf (a piece of paper on which there are two pages front and back) of the book, which is why the first numbered page of a book will often not be “1” but something seemingly incongruous like “7.”
For books that read left to right with folios on the verso, or back of the leaf, should always be even numbers, and those on the recto, or the right side of the leaf, should be be odd. A text always begins in earnest on a recto page.
In designing number placement, a good designer also has to take into account the needs of a book binde
^^^ This. How about a lively discussion about how we can use tech to stop people from running over crowds of other people with speeding vehicles instead?
Plus invaded the country that wrote the viruses, knocked them back to the stone age, and hauled their trophies home. (See "Barbary Pirates", etc.) So yes, FF/OS FTW.
>> Kaspersky Lab operates using a business model that inherently conflicts with acceptable Twitter Ads business practices
What, they're profitable? (ducks)
>> this sound can get very loud, a big no-no
Jeezzez Crisco. What did we do now to get SlashDot editors talking down to us with one syllable at a time?
>> if we can only get PC makers to offer more AMD based PC's which will give us all more choices
I wonder if you wrote that as AC so no one would make you turn in your geek card. Real Slashdotters don't work with "PC Makers" (unless its for the day job that provides the health care) - we always build our own.
>> Maintainable? Unlikely.
Fresh comp sci grads have this problem too. Your job as a dev manager, architect or lead, is to make sure that the newbie (or consultant) work gets restricted to testable modules that aren't critical performance drivers.
I've hired aerospace, chemical and mechanical engineers into dev roles, thus allowing them to join the money train. (If you can design a working X for the chaotic real world, I know you're smart enough to write working code to run under a structured OS.)
>> nerds seem to believe that they earn six figures because of their intelligence and effort, and not because they happen to be in an industry that has been hot for a few decades and they got lucky
So the people that invested in engineering, IT and comp sci degrees and training lucked into their multiyear career evolution: got it.
Would you also agree that people who looked at wealth-generating careers in tech or health and then decided to get that Masters in helping people fill out forms (e.g. social work) or writing a coherent paragraph (e.g.English) instead are simply "unlucky"?
Why do all these articles about basic income keep showing up here? I'm assuming most of us are pulling down six figures (if you aren't and you're in tech, get gud) and wouldn't think of sitting on our asses while collecting a low basic income. So my serious question is: why is "basic income" news for nerds?
>> Czech Republic, where plants roll out cars for the likes of Toyota
I still check where a car was assembled before I will buy it. As in: USA, Mexico or Czech Republic? = No sale. Germany or Japan? = I'll consider it. Sorry Toyota...
>> hugely (something)
So is Trump an editor now?
I've already heard some use "did a Telsa" to mean "stupidly destroy oneself by stepping into an obviously dangerous situation" much like Tesla's car rammed a well- marked concrete barrier at full speed.
>> I commented to my physics professor once that primitive humans see lines everywhere, but never circles
If you had grown up outside of Seattle, you might have also thought about "the sun" and "the moon" as examples of circular things primitives could experience.
Here's the obligatory "How to Uninstall and Block Updates and Drivers on Windows 10" article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3073930/how-to-temporarily-prevent-a-driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-window?utm_source=twitter%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter
(Scroll down to "Download the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package now.")
since Microsoft still isn't smart enough to detect unsupported hardware and will still stupidly try to download and install huge updates dozens of times on machines that will never support them.
>> If you want your computer to be really secure, disconnect its power cable
Spoken like a true desktop security guru.
>> Mozilla Foundation has called for the regulation of tech giants like Google - "break them up"
Without Google's $330M/yr (!), Mozilla is really reminding me of a jilted first wife. ("If I can't have my old lifestyle, NO ONE will ever be happy again!")
https://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/
>> FTP is hard for search engines to index
(Remembers Gopher. Feels old.)
How is it any easier or better to compromise an FTP server to serve "subresources" as opposed to a crappy WordPress or Drupal site running HTTPS?