I can believe this. I typically will walk away from a big decision or problem, sleep on it overnight, and by morning I usually have the answer. I never put any scientific merit into it, I just assumed it was because I wasn't being bugged by a dozen people or being pressured into a decision on the spot. But it is a practice that I use very often, especially when working on programming problems where I get stumped.
On a side note, where are the jokes about waking up and realizing the mistake next to you?
Funny you should mention this, because this is similar to what I came across a few weeks ago when I was shopping for a HDTV. The most expensive Sony in the lineup looked like it was tweaked, because the contrast, brightness, and color balances looked dead on. I don't think they turned the brightness or contrast up, because black definitly looked black and the picture did not look washed out. And the TV actually had a real HD signal run into the television so the picture was at its premium quality (don't know which resolution though, but I will assume it was 1080i). The other, less expensive sets were left at factory default, had regular cable signals run to them, and were either run in 4:3 zoom (logos on the side of the screen were cut off), or had the 4:3 scaled to 16:9 (horrible artifacting). They just looked terrible compared to the nice shiny Sony, which incidently was the most expensive also. Even the Sharp Aquios looked crappy, but it was also less expensive. I ended up settling on the house-brand TV because it was the least expensive set they had that supported 720P and I was only looking for a cheap TV for the bed room. Once I got it home and tweaked the settings, it looked great. Maybe not as good as the Sony, but definitly better than the other sets they had sitting out. If they tweaked all the sets to the best of their ability and ran equivelent signals to let consumers actually compare, I guarantee that the most expensive set wouldn't win out in a quality comparison.
Damned, Now I know I'm old. Apparently the whole "Emo" scene sprouted up around me, and I had no idea. I had to look that up. Scarry... now get off my lawn.
AFCERT (Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team) is an AF group that Taosecurity has made references to for a number of years. Besides, AFCERT is not the only organization of its kind, there is also an Army (ACERT) and Navy (NCIRT) version as well, all of which have similar MO's. Of course, there is also the DOD-CERT, Joint Task Force for Computer. Network Defense (JTF-CND) and other alphebet soup network security forces for the US Govt. This isn't anything really interesting, just a new "phrase" that probably took them the better part of the last 20 years to officially approve for organizations they have had for years.
So I am supposed to keep a power supply from burning out by putting it in the same Mini-Fridge that the power supply burnt out and I had to replace a 2 faulty capacitors and voltage regulator? Not so great solution...
Because usually 9 out of 10 times the girls with that in their profiles weren't legit, and were usually a tactic to get the person to email in an attempt to get them onto their sex chat. When the profile is just "too good", it usually is.
I have absolutely no problem with my girlfriend, which I met on Match.com. Not sure if anything has changed since this was about three years ago, but even then there were "false" profiles of girls that were too good to be true. They were pretty easy to spot with obvious professional quality pictures and ridiculous profiles like:
"I love to cook, clean, and hope to have a warm loving family with children" or "I'm really very quite, like to read, and have romantic nights at home and snuggle up with a man and a rented movie" or the most obvious one "I like to party, and I like sex, and lots of it"
These are all basically bait for paid sex chats and pornography sites, and usually don't reveal themselves until after 3 or 4 emails baiting you in. It used to happen on Usenet and other earlier message boards, so I managed to avoid them like the plague. These were not perpetrated by the service themselves, and the profiles were removed after a week or so. Same thing happens on MySpace with the profiles of half naked women in the groups. It would be kind of sad if these online matchmaking sites resorted to this kind of tactic since I, and a number of people I know, met their significant others on these sites, which usually works out much better than the girls I used to pick up in bars.
OK, I have hope for the future of this country... the responses by the "14 year old" were some of the most well thought out responses, and JTs ignorant, 1 liner retorts clearly showed that he isn't on par. It is kind of sad that JT had to try and throw his weight around with "I'm working with Readers Digest and Senators" to try and impress or intimidate the kid. Kudos to the 14 year old for keeping his head on.
I agree with your statement. Programming is a discipline just like any other, and in any other discipline you should learn the basics before you learn the tools to make things easier. Architects, for example, learn the basics of Architecture before they jump into CAD. Schools that are worth a damn teach Architects the basic models and have them use the old fashion pen and paper method before jumping to CAD, although that margin of time does seem to be getting smaller. Math is another example. You learn all the pain in the ass Algebraic methods for solving problems before you learn the shortcuts in Calculus because it provides solid fundamentals.
Visual Studio should not be used as a framework for teaching. It is a tool for developing, and provides a way to develop the visual portion of an application quickly. I could just as easily say the same thing about QT Designer or GLADE. In fact, when I was reading "Programming with QT", the author forces the reader to learn how to build UI elements programmatically first before introducing Designer. That way, if Designer screws something up, you can go in and understand the code it generated enough to correct it. I agree with this approach. Back in the days of DOS, I learned how to manually draw UI elements in ASM, then in a high level language like C and Pascal before I moved on to using libraries that did this for me. The same thing holds true for NCurses.
The point is, VS is a tool, and should be treated as such. A developer should learn the language independent of tools that make pretty interfaces. There is a reason that most programming books worth their weight start off with simple examples like Hello World, sum of two numbers, etc before getting into UI design.
Wrote a small program, found about 91.7, +/-.1 due to randomness. Runs in less than a second... didn't need recursion and used a single array...
So instead of keeping everyone in suspense, why dont you enlighten us to the "approach used less".
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Which is why you run Snort with full packet logging mode in addition to alert mode. This way, if an alert is missed, you can still see all packets sent in an attack and build an alert from that. Just make sure you have enough storage space.
"How can technology be better-implemented to ensure a student's studies and also lower the costs of fuel for the districts"
The above statement is a ruse. You really don't care about students studies, what you care about is fuel costs, your tax money, blah blah blah. Your like a most people in this country, you want to find a cheap short cut to education at the expense of raising taxes. If its your money your concerned with, why don't you ask your school district why the hell your tax money is paying for such bullshit positions as Deputy Superintendent, and the Secretaries for the Deputy Superintendent, instead of going towards building more modern facilities, paying teachers and a scale more equal to what they are worth, buying better books, and researching better and more entertaining ways to educate children so that learning can be fun and interesting to them (I'm thinking like Bill Nye type teaching here). And if your really concerned about those rising fuel costs, well try carpooling in your neighborhood. If your response is "I'm too busy as a working parent, I don't have time", then tough shit, your part of the problem. Tech is not the answer to rising fuel costs. If you really wanted to improve the studies of students, you'd ask something more like "As a concerned parent, how can I use tech to supplement my childs education and help them find an interest in learning so that they can do better in school"? If that's the case, step one is again, take some responsibility as a parent. Take an interest in your childs studies. Read their textbooks. Quiz them from the post-chapter assessments. Talk with them about topics they are learning about. Help them study. And if you really wanted tech to help them in their studies, how about installing a firewall that blocks outbound IM traffic... but that only works if you take responsibility.
"Don't you love it when people predict that shit like this will happen, and they're instantly met with tinfoil hat jokes?"
No, I don't. I find it sad. It just proves a point, that ridicule is the most effective weapon the enemy has in its campaign to keep people at bay. You come up with a better presidential candidate, they ridicule him on the Tonight Show, and ridicule their supporters on MTV. You don't want to be laughed at do you? Lets laugh at these people because its Un-American" to support Dean, Kerry, or Clinton.
Its just sickening how lazy Americans have become. Back in the 60's people staged protests (real ones at least, not the half assed ones of today), they boycotted, they got together and really discussed the issues and did something about it. Today, Americans wont get off their asses because they would rather vote on who the next American Idol is than vote on their next president. This is why the government and big business walk all over us, because we don't do anything about it. But look at it this way, at least fast food workers and high school dropouts have a promising career in the TSA.
Thanks. Until someone actually explained what the hell "voted on" meant, I was pretty much just scratching my head on that one. With descriptions like that, he must be the person who writes the high level designs, then complain when his programmers give him back something he didn't want.
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I can believe this. I typically will walk away from a big decision or problem, sleep on it overnight, and by morning I usually have the answer. I never put any scientific merit into it, I just assumed it was because I wasn't being bugged by a dozen people or being pressured into a decision on the spot. But it is a practice that I use very often, especially when working on programming problems where I get stumped.
On a side note, where are the jokes about waking up and realizing the mistake next to you?
Funny you should mention this, because this is similar to what I came across a few weeks ago when I was shopping for a HDTV. The most expensive Sony in the lineup looked like it was tweaked, because the contrast, brightness, and color balances looked dead on. I don't think they turned the brightness or contrast up, because black definitly looked black and the picture did not look washed out. And the TV actually had a real HD signal run into the television so the picture was at its premium quality (don't know which resolution though, but I will assume it was 1080i). The other, less expensive sets were left at factory default, had regular cable signals run to them, and were either run in 4:3 zoom (logos on the side of the screen were cut off), or had the 4:3 scaled to 16:9 (horrible artifacting). They just looked terrible compared to the nice shiny Sony, which incidently was the most expensive also. Even the Sharp Aquios looked crappy, but it was also less expensive. I ended up settling on the house-brand TV because it was the least expensive set they had that supported 720P and I was only looking for a cheap TV for the bed room. Once I got it home and tweaked the settings, it looked great. Maybe not as good as the Sony, but definitly better than the other sets they had sitting out. If they tweaked all the sets to the best of their ability and ran equivelent signals to let consumers actually compare, I guarantee that the most expensive set wouldn't win out in a quality comparison.
Damned, Now I know I'm old. Apparently the whole "Emo" scene sprouted up around me, and I had no idea. I had to look that up. Scarry... now get off my lawn.
Wow, I really wasn't paying attention when I typed that.... it should read "Until we get there, whether it's again or not, we won't know for sure".
Yeah. But until we get there, whether its again or not, we will never know for sure. Of course you could have asked Buzz Aldrin, just be sure to duck.
The fake clones have extra vowels in their name and are mentally unstable....
AFCERT (Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team) is an AF group that Taosecurity has made references to for a number of years. Besides, AFCERT is not the only organization of its kind, there is also an Army (ACERT) and Navy (NCIRT) version as well, all of which have similar MO's. Of course, there is also the DOD-CERT, Joint Task Force for Computer. Network Defense (JTF-CND) and other alphebet soup network security forces for the US Govt. This isn't anything really interesting, just a new "phrase" that probably took them the better part of the last 20 years to officially approve for organizations they have had for years.
So I am supposed to keep a power supply from burning out by putting it in the same Mini-Fridge that the power supply burnt out and I had to replace a 2 faulty capacitors and voltage regulator? Not so great solution...
Because usually 9 out of 10 times the girls with that in their profiles weren't legit, and were usually a tactic to get the person to email in an attempt to get them onto their sex chat. When the profile is just "too good", it usually is.
I have absolutely no problem with my girlfriend, which I met on Match.com. Not sure if anything has changed since this was about three years ago, but even then there were "false" profiles of girls that were too good to be true. They were pretty easy to spot with obvious professional quality pictures and ridiculous profiles like:
"I love to cook, clean, and hope to have a warm loving family with children"
or
"I'm really very quite, like to read, and have romantic nights at home and snuggle up with a man and a rented movie"
or the most obvious one
"I like to party, and I like sex, and lots of it"
These are all basically bait for paid sex chats and pornography sites, and usually don't reveal themselves until after 3 or 4 emails baiting you in. It used to happen on Usenet and other earlier message boards, so I managed to avoid them like the plague. These were not perpetrated by the service themselves, and the profiles were removed after a week or so. Same thing happens on MySpace with the profiles of half naked women in the groups. It would be kind of sad if these online matchmaking sites resorted to this kind of tactic since I, and a number of people I know, met their significant others on these sites, which usually works out much better than the girls I used to pick up in bars.
OK, I have hope for the future of this country... the responses by the "14 year old" were some of the most well thought out responses, and JTs ignorant, 1 liner retorts clearly showed that he isn't on par. It is kind of sad that JT had to try and throw his weight around with "I'm working with Readers Digest and Senators" to try and impress or intimidate the kid. Kudos to the 14 year old for keeping his head on.
"There are things. Billions and billions of devices that will service these people"
I for one welcome our new.... thingy overlords...
Just beware of the zombies that chant:
scroootum
scoooootuuuum
SCROTUM
They can have my brains if they leave the family jewels alone
I agree with your statement. Programming is a discipline just like any other, and in any other discipline you should learn the basics before you learn the tools to make things easier. Architects, for example, learn the basics of Architecture before they jump into CAD. Schools that are worth a damn teach Architects the basic models and have them use the old fashion pen and paper method before jumping to CAD, although that margin of time does seem to be getting smaller. Math is another example. You learn all the pain in the ass Algebraic methods for solving problems before you learn the shortcuts in Calculus because it provides solid fundamentals.
Visual Studio should not be used as a framework for teaching. It is a tool for developing, and provides a way to develop the visual portion of an application quickly. I could just as easily say the same thing about QT Designer or GLADE. In fact, when I was reading "Programming with QT", the author forces the reader to learn how to build UI elements programmatically first before introducing Designer. That way, if Designer screws something up, you can go in and understand the code it generated enough to correct it. I agree with this approach. Back in the days of DOS, I learned how to manually draw UI elements in ASM, then in a high level language like C and Pascal before I moved on to using libraries that did this for me. The same thing holds true for NCurses.
The point is, VS is a tool, and should be treated as such. A developer should learn the language independent of tools that make pretty interfaces. There is a reason that most programming books worth their weight start off with simple examples like Hello World, sum of two numbers, etc before getting into UI design.
Wrote a small program, found about 91.7, +/- .1 due to randomness. Runs in less than a second... didn't need recursion and used a single array...
So instead of keeping everyone in suspense, why dont you enlighten us to the "approach used less".
Which is why you run Snort with full packet logging mode in addition to alert mode. This way, if an alert is missed, you can still see all packets sent in an attack and build an alert from that. Just make sure you have enough storage space.
"Back in my day, all we had was 640KB, and it was enough. And thats the way we liked it!!!"
I can increase my hand-eye coordination the old fashion way, with porno magazines... I don't need a portable computer.
Prevention eventually fails
Quit looking for the security silver bullet.
Lets just cut through the BS...
"How can technology be better-implemented to ensure a student's studies and also lower the costs of fuel for the districts"
The above statement is a ruse. You really don't care about students studies, what you care about is fuel costs, your tax money, blah blah blah. Your like a most people in this country, you want to find a cheap short cut to education at the expense of raising taxes. If its your money your concerned with, why don't you ask your school district why the hell your tax money is paying for such bullshit positions as Deputy Superintendent, and the Secretaries for the Deputy Superintendent, instead of going towards building more modern facilities, paying teachers and a scale more equal to what they are worth, buying better books, and researching better and more entertaining ways to educate children so that learning can be fun and interesting to them (I'm thinking like Bill Nye type teaching here). And if your really concerned about those rising fuel costs, well try carpooling in your neighborhood. If your response is "I'm too busy as a working parent, I don't have time", then tough shit, your part of the problem. Tech is not the answer to rising fuel costs.
If you really wanted to improve the studies of students, you'd ask something more like "As a concerned parent, how can I use tech to supplement my childs education and help them find an interest in learning so that they can do better in school"? If that's the case, step one is again, take some responsibility as a parent. Take an interest in your childs studies. Read their textbooks. Quiz them from the post-chapter assessments. Talk with them about topics they are learning about. Help them study. And if you really wanted tech to help them in their studies, how about installing a firewall that blocks outbound IM traffic... but that only works if you take responsibility.
"Don't you love it when people predict that shit like this will happen, and they're instantly met with tinfoil hat jokes?"
No, I don't. I find it sad. It just proves a point, that ridicule is the most effective weapon the enemy has in its campaign to keep people at bay. You come up with a better presidential candidate, they ridicule him on the Tonight Show, and ridicule their supporters on MTV. You don't want to be laughed at do you? Lets laugh at these people because its Un-American" to support Dean, Kerry, or Clinton.
Its just sickening how lazy Americans have become. Back in the 60's people staged protests (real ones at least, not the half assed ones of today), they boycotted, they got together and really discussed the issues and did something about it. Today, Americans wont get off their asses because they would rather vote on who the next American Idol is than vote on their next president. This is why the government and big business walk all over us, because we don't do anything about it. But look at it this way, at least fast food workers and high school dropouts have a promising career in the TSA.
Thats my rant, Ill step off my soap box now...
"Your not Stuart Berman, your really social engineering expert Kevin Mitnick, and you almost tricked everyone into taking down their firewalls".
"And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you nosey Slashdotters!"
Thanks. Until someone actually explained what the hell "voted on" meant, I was pretty much just scratching my head on that one. With descriptions like that, he must be the person who writes the high level designs, then complain when his programmers give him back something he didn't want.
Bruce Willis died the first time. Maybe they should send Ben Afleck instead.
Sorry, meant to say, the Nebular/Giant impact is currently the most accepted theory. How does this prove/disprove that?