>> Does anyone pay attention to the music in the films
I certainly do. In fact, I often "watch" my favorite movies with the video OFF so I can just concentrate on the audio. If you've never tried this, a starter list might be: Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone), 2001 (various classical), Conan the Barbarian (Poledouris) and The New World (one of Horner's scores).
1) Get full copy of file to scan in memory 2) Check file for viruses 3) Send complete copy to national HQ, er, I mean, check the AV database 4) Open file
>> How about we just outlaw bribes in the first place?
You must live in a pretty innocent place - Equestria maybe?
Where I come from people get around the whole "no bribes" thing by steering contracts to brother-in-laws (different family name), buying boats for cousins (ditto), funding vacations to traveling companions, etc. (I remember my first couple of contract negotiations in Illinois: the guy across the table would often start things off by announcing that gifts of any kind were illegal and then end up awarding the bid to the guy who found the most creative way to get around the rules.)
I'd be in favor of this coupled with initiatives to decentralize power out of Washington DC (i.e., regionalize agency HQs) and thin the ranks of bureaucrats.
(If you eliminated PACs and similar organizations that act on particular citizen interests, its likely that the people actually running the government would be even more inclined to ignore the masses.)
Hmmm...since every commercial airliner receives a lightning strike, on average, once a year, I'm not sure there's much "dodging" going on. http://flightsafety.org/aerosa...
That seems low in my neighborhood. It seems like most people under 30 have one. It also seems to be a requirement to work in food service or graphic design.
>> the only place you'd commonly see tattoos was at your local VA hospital
I don't get this at all. Is this because military men used to be the group that mainly had tattoos? If so, is the author telling us that he/she never knew that many people who served?
>> some types of customers don't need to see all of the API in the library
Don't try to go down that road. If you start hiding functions through obscurity, they will pop out anyway (through code samples, forums, reverse engineering, pentesting, etc.) and will only lead to bad things (developers pissed at you for "crappy, incomplete documentation," customers laughing at you for "trying to hide the best stuff," salespeople people yelling at you for not exposing something you've already written but they didn't know they needed until they walked out of a customer meeting, top executives yelling at everyone when a security researcher finds a big flaw in a rarely used function call that everyone forgot about).
Signed, Dude With 15 Years Experience With Web APIs (Who Has Had Much Of This Happen To Him Or His Company)
>> sacrifice some performance (and pay a significant premium) for a phone that's repairable, moddable, and ethical
Today I pay about $50 for each of my and my family's Android smart phones (1Ghz proc, 4" screen, 1GB RAM), plus another $25 for SD card and case. I'm definitely giving up performance, but I'm doing so to get an essentially disposable phone (if a kid loses it, meh). I don't need "repairable" and if I ever wanted to switch phone providers, I could still dump and rebuy all five phones off my month-to-month contract cheaper than it would cost many people to switch a single iPhone between "premium" carriers.
Meanwhile, Dice tries to put a stake through the idea that SlashDot is a social community of techies by f***ing up the interface with "Deals", "Videos", "Social" buttons and other cruft no one wants.
I didn't know that was a comment link. Maybe Dice ought to hire some of those "usability" experts advertised on their main site.
What's missing is the link BELOW the article summary that used to say "Read the XXX Comments." Right now there's some kind of crappy "Share" link that doesn't even provide direct access to social networks. Here's what it used to look like in the good old days:
So far, my "password killer" has been Google Authenticator and RSA SecurID on my Android phone. (I checked out of the Apple ecosystem when I cancelled cable but I'll bet they have the same things over there.) All my VPN connections and some of my web apps now use these.
I can't say that I'd be in favor of net neutrality if I knew it was going to lead to some large, meaningless-except-to-the-lawyers-who-collect-cash class action lawsuits. What I really want is federal, PMITA regulation beating the hell out of telecoms whenever they decide to promote this or that service over another.
>> came during the Vietnam war when soldiers would be fighting one day and a few days later, back home
It also happened during the first World War, when men would be regularly rotated from the static lines of trenches out back to civilization using a super-efficient system of trains and ships. See http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/... etc.
I installed some transaction processing software at RBS in the late 1990s. Here's hoping they retired it a while back...I haven't heard from these guys in over a decade.
If you try to put someone who doesn't already understand a half-dozen languages (and can pick up others in days) in an "auditing" position, you pretty much deserve what you're about to get.
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>> Does anyone pay attention to the music in the films
I certainly do. In fact, I often "watch" my favorite movies with the video OFF so I can just concentrate on the audio. If you've never tried this, a starter list might be: Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone), 2001 (various classical), Conan the Barbarian (Poledouris) and The New World (one of Horner's scores).
1) Get full copy of file to scan in memory
2) Check file for viruses
3) Send complete copy to national HQ, er, I mean, check the AV database
4) Open file
>> Other scores notable to the /. crowd include ...Willow...
Um...what are you trying to say, exactly?
Bennett, is that you?
>> How about we just outlaw bribes in the first place?
You must live in a pretty innocent place - Equestria maybe?
Where I come from people get around the whole "no bribes" thing by steering contracts to brother-in-laws (different family name), buying boats for cousins (ditto), funding vacations to traveling companions, etc. (I remember my first couple of contract negotiations in Illinois: the guy across the table would often start things off by announcing that gifts of any kind were illegal and then end up awarding the bid to the guy who found the most creative way to get around the rules.)
I'd be in favor of this coupled with initiatives to decentralize power out of Washington DC (i.e., regionalize agency HQs) and thin the ranks of bureaucrats.
(If you eliminated PACs and similar organizations that act on particular citizen interests, its likely that the people actually running the government would be even more inclined to ignore the masses.)
>> The polish are arming themselves to teeth
Q: How do you stop a Polish army on horseback?
A: Turn off the carousel.
Boy, the number of comments has really fallen on all stories since Dice's last "upgrade."
>> my ISP is Verizon and the Verizon spam filter
Not too many people 'round here are dumb enough to use their ISP as their email provider. Fix that problem first. (Closes ticket.)
>> dodging lighting bolts
Hmmm...since every commercial airliner receives a lightning strike, on average, once a year, I'm not sure there's much "dodging" going on.
http://flightsafety.org/aerosa...
>> Cyberattack Grounds Planes In Poland
I'm old enough to have skimmed that as: "Cyberattack Grounds Poland's Plane"
>> One in five adults in the U.S. has a tattoo
That seems low in my neighborhood. It seems like most people under 30 have one. It also seems to be a requirement to work in food service or graphic design.
>> the only place you'd commonly see tattoos was at your local VA hospital
I don't get this at all. Is this because military men used to be the group that mainly had tattoos? If so, is the author telling us that he/she never knew that many people who served?
>> some types of customers don't need to see all of the API in the library
Don't try to go down that road. If you start hiding functions through obscurity, they will pop out anyway (through code samples, forums, reverse engineering, pentesting, etc.) and will only lead to bad things (developers pissed at you for "crappy, incomplete documentation," customers laughing at you for "trying to hide the best stuff," salespeople people yelling at you for not exposing something you've already written but they didn't know they needed until they walked out of a customer meeting, top executives yelling at everyone when a security researcher finds a big flaw in a rarely used function call that everyone forgot about).
Signed,
Dude With 15 Years Experience With Web APIs
(Who Has Had Much Of This Happen To Him Or His Company)
>> sacrifice some performance (and pay a significant premium) for a phone that's repairable, moddable, and ethical
Today I pay about $50 for each of my and my family's Android smart phones (1Ghz proc, 4" screen, 1GB RAM), plus another $25 for SD card and case. I'm definitely giving up performance, but I'm doing so to get an essentially disposable phone (if a kid loses it, meh). I don't need "repairable" and if I ever wanted to switch phone providers, I could still dump and rebuy all five phones off my month-to-month contract cheaper than it would cost many people to switch a single iPhone between "premium" carriers.
>> SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate overlord.
How about a Kickstarter campaign to fix our current "corporate overlord" problem?
Meanwhile, Dice tries to put a stake through the idea that SlashDot is a social community of techies by f***ing up the interface with "Deals", "Videos", "Social" buttons and other cruft no one wants.
I didn't know that was a comment link. Maybe Dice ought to hire some of those "usability" experts advertised on their main site.
What's missing is the link BELOW the article summary that used to say "Read the XXX Comments." Right now there's some kind of crappy "Share" link that doesn't even provide direct access to social networks. Here's what it used to look like in the good old days:
http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/news...
Speaking of "opaque" - Dice, WTF re: comment link?
I least hope we good some good YouTube footage from this.
So far, my "password killer" has been Google Authenticator and RSA SecurID on my Android phone. (I checked out of the Apple ecosystem when I cancelled cable but I'll bet they have the same things over there.) All my VPN connections and some of my web apps now use these.
I can't say that I'd be in favor of net neutrality if I knew it was going to lead to some large, meaningless-except-to-the-lawyers-who-collect-cash class action lawsuits. What I really want is federal, PMITA regulation beating the hell out of telecoms whenever they decide to promote this or that service over another.
>> came during the Vietnam war when soldiers would be fighting one day and a few days later, back home
It also happened during the first World War, when men would be regularly rotated from the static lines of trenches out back to civilization using a super-efficient system of trains and ships. See http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/... etc.
>> Extremely dated infrastructure and mainframes that handle all those payments / systems, are all IBM.
You're partially right, but there's also a lot of Unisys mainframes that power this stuff.
I installed some transaction processing software at RBS in the late 1990s. Here's hoping they retired it a while back...I haven't heard from these guys in over a decade.
>> modern certification mills
If you try to put someone who doesn't already understand a half-dozen languages (and can pick up others in days) in an "auditing" position, you pretty much deserve what you're about to get.