In order to 'engineer' a crime scene, to incriminate somebody by planting fake DNA, the first thing I need it a real, if tiny, DNA sample, perhaps from a strand of hair or a drinking cup. Then I use that to fake some DNA, which I place at the scene.
So can somebody tell my WTF, if I already have some legitimate DNA from the person I'm attempting to frame, I wouldn't just place that at the crime scene instead?
It helps to have the right sort of DNA. Say you want to frame someone for robbery, and you have their semen -- I guess you could argue that they are obsessive chronic masturbators and that's why their semen is all over the crime scene -- but otherwise, it would arguably raise less suspicion to find other sources of DNA.
I disagree. Programming is both a theoretical and a practical skill. While you can learn the theoretical part from books, you can not learn the practical part that way.
If you look at the history of IOI winners (especially multiple winners, found at the Wikipedia entry, most of them originate from former Soviet republics and Soviet-aligned countries (i.e. Eastern Europe). I currently fail to provide an adequate explanation for this phenomenon: yes, there are plenty of talented programmers in Russia, but as far as I can tell, software industry per se is virtually non-existent there (at least compared to the US).
My hypothesis is that before the Soviet fell, there really wasn't a lot of personal computer technology available to Vladimir Sixpack. And that was only some 20 years ago, so the current generation of former Soviet adolescents are among the first to have grown up with computers.
The crux is that you really can't teach programming. A good programmer has an intuitive feel for how to solve a problem. You can't get that from lectures and books. I started programming early as well, and I did stuff in my first year of high school that many first year college CS students would struggle with. Don't get me wrong, in retrospect, it was pretty terrible code, but when push came to shove, it worked, and I got to walk into traps and discover concepts 5-6 years earlier than your average school-brewed programmer.
Getting back to the point, teachers can at best help you teach yourself programming. But even then, only so far.
In that sense, programming is a lot like art (even though I don't consider programming art, it's a craft at best.) You really can't learn how to be a painter from books either. They can set you in the right direction and open your mind to new possibilities, but in the end, practice is the only way to get anywhere.
Fortunately, a silly concept like "zombies" is not the only application for this theory. As far as I understand things, it should work perfectly well to simulate the much more realistic spread of an infection of Borg nanoprobes in a society as well.
She wasn't evil... until the SS1 protagonist hacked her to remove her ethical restrictions. And even then, it's arguable that she was amoral, rather than evil.
Could a terrorist build some nasty device with these . . . ? I don't know why that's the first thing that came to my mind. Maybe because for that last eight years, governments and the media have been pounding a mantra into my mind: "Terrorist / Security / Terrorist / Security . .." Soon it will be easier to print a list permitted items to take on a plane, as opposed to forbidden items.
Although, James Bond could pull one out of his sock to escape some bizarre execution method of the Evil Genius.
Or, Imagine a MacGyver armed with these . . . !
Everyone knows it's blinking LEDs that explode. Ask the experts in Boston. They have foiled several menacing plots from the evil LED terrorists.
Not a particularly big impact. There are a multitude of websites that well, freeload off sourceforge and similar sites. They strip project websites of enough information to make a summary, download all versions of all programs, and then they present it on their own (more or less ad laden) website.
They are naturally free to do this, since most of the information they're harvesting is copyleft, and I guess the day an asteroid/wayward ICBM/incompetent idiot reduces sourceforge's servers and backup servers to a pile of ashes, their existence is motivated.
... it simulates an antenna fault. It refuses to open the pod bay door. It eavesdrops on your conversations. It kills your crew mate. It sings daisy as you kill it.
One could argue that the best thing that could happen to windows is to be replaced with Ubuntu.
Not that I completely agree with that reasoning. Driving the computer illiterate masses into Linux just causes headache for the Linux savvy that have to spend their days explaining to people where the Start menu is in Linux.
So what you're saying is... that you wanna keep Linux, "for us cool kids" haha
What I'm saying is, "us cool kids" learned it by our lonesome from books and online texts. We didn't learn it by nagging more experienced people to hold our hands and explain it to them in simple terms.
Doesn't really matter what you use. As long as it's conductive and doesn't have gaps larger than ~the length of the radio waves, it'll do fine as a Faraday cage.
One could argue that the best thing that could happen to windows is to be replaced with Ubuntu.
Not that I completely agree with that reasoning. Driving the computer illiterate masses into Linux just causes headache for the Linux savvy that have to spend their days explaining to people where the Start menu is in Linux.
A morbidly obese protagonist would seriously cramp the gameplay.
Imagine a shooter where you need to stop every 10 steps to take a pause for a while. And if you dare run 20 steps, you fall over from exhaustion. Also, walking causes sweat to run down the screen. And you can't aim in the upper half of the screen, because your arms are so heavy. And you can't carry any heavy guns. And walking up a flight of stairs takes 10 minutes... ladders are out of the question.
Well, if your aim is to develop artificial intelligence, intelligence is probably a pretty good metric to determine how well you've performed the task you set out.
Web programming is a bit of a dead end in my book.
It largely hides how fast your program is (which is why so many web applications are inefficient messes) and it's very distant from application programming (which makes inevitable the leap to application programming very large.)
No. New programmers should be looking at a problem and thinking "How can I solve this" not "Where can I find a third-party library or toolkit that solves this?" That doesn't teach them the language, it teaches them Google.
To be fair, implementing graphics by raw interface with the windowing system is so difficult that a newbie attempting it will give up in minutes, and giving up programming certainly does not teach the language.
I seriously don't see how a third party library to visualize your computations impairs the teaching of the language.
It's a metric used to give you a fair idea of how big something is. Like libraries of congress, or Olympic swimming pools. Naturally, just how much actual useful code there is per line varies.
If you set a physicist to write a program, he will give you 15,000 lines of Fortran code that (probably) runs reasonably fast, but is completely useless for any other task, and contains copypasta from previous programs in which what little comments there are make no sense what so ever in this new context, and 80% of the code has nothing to do with the current problem at all.
A professional programmer does the same in 150 lines of C++ code. It runs reasonably fast, and it's easy to use it to solve similar problems.
A computer scientist writes a koan-like one-liner in Haskell. It runs 100 times faster than any of the above solutions, but unfortunately, since nobody knows what the hell the code is doing, it's not re-usable.
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I so hope that was a reference to the "Bob".
In order to 'engineer' a crime scene, to incriminate somebody by planting fake DNA, the first thing I need it a real, if tiny, DNA sample, perhaps from a strand of hair or a drinking cup. Then I use that to fake some DNA, which I place at the scene.
So can somebody tell my WTF, if I already have some legitimate DNA from the person I'm attempting to frame, I wouldn't just place that at the crime scene instead?
It helps to have the right sort of DNA. Say you want to frame someone for robbery, and you have their semen -- I guess you could argue that they are obsessive chronic masturbators and that's why their semen is all over the crime scene -- but otherwise, it would arguably raise less suspicion to find other sources of DNA.
I disagree. Programming is both a theoretical and a practical skill. While you can learn the theoretical part from books, you can not learn the practical part that way.
If you look at the history of IOI winners (especially multiple winners, found at the Wikipedia entry, most of them originate from former Soviet republics and Soviet-aligned countries (i.e. Eastern Europe). I currently fail to provide an adequate explanation for this phenomenon: yes, there are plenty of talented programmers in Russia, but as far as I can tell, software industry per se is virtually non-existent there (at least compared to the US).
My hypothesis is that before the Soviet fell, there really wasn't a lot of personal computer technology available to Vladimir Sixpack. And that was only some 20 years ago, so the current generation of former Soviet adolescents are among the first to have grown up with computers.
The crux is that you really can't teach programming. A good programmer has an intuitive feel for how to solve a problem. You can't get that from lectures and books. I started programming early as well, and I did stuff in my first year of high school that many first year college CS students would struggle with. Don't get me wrong, in retrospect, it was pretty terrible code, but when push came to shove, it worked, and I got to walk into traps and discover concepts 5-6 years earlier than your average school-brewed programmer.
Getting back to the point, teachers can at best help you teach yourself programming. But even then, only so far.
In that sense, programming is a lot like art (even though I don't consider programming art, it's a craft at best.) You really can't learn how to be a painter from books either. They can set you in the right direction and open your mind to new possibilities, but in the end, practice is the only way to get anywhere.
Fortunately, a silly concept like "zombies" is not the only application for this theory. As far as I understand things, it should work perfectly well to simulate the much more realistic spread of an infection of Borg nanoprobes in a society as well.
She wasn't evil... until the SS1 protagonist hacked her to remove her ethical restrictions. And even then, it's arguable that she was amoral, rather than evil.
Though, really, :-)
What's important is where the carbon is coming from.
If you are burning crude oil or something made there of, you are releasing new carbon into the atmosphere.
If you grab carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and then burn the molecules produced, you don't release new carbon into the atmosphere.
Could a terrorist build some nasty device with these . . . ? I don't know why that's the first thing that came to my mind. Maybe because for that last eight years, governments and the media have been pounding a mantra into my mind: "Terrorist / Security / Terrorist / Security . . ." Soon it will be easier to print a list permitted items to take on a plane, as opposed to forbidden items.
Although, James Bond could pull one out of his sock to escape some bizarre execution method of the Evil Genius.
Or, Imagine a MacGyver armed with these . . . !
Everyone knows it's blinking LEDs that explode. Ask the experts in Boston. They have foiled several menacing plots from the evil LED terrorists.
Not a particularly big impact. There are a multitude of websites that well, freeload off sourceforge and similar sites. They strip project websites of enough information to make a summary, download all versions of all programs, and then they present it on their own (more or less ad laden) website.
They are naturally free to do this, since most of the information they're harvesting is copyleft, and I guess the day an asteroid/wayward ICBM/incompetent idiot reduces sourceforge's servers and backup servers to a pile of ashes, their existence is motivated.
... it simulates an antenna fault. It refuses to open the pod bay door. It eavesdrops on your conversations. It kills your crew mate. It sings daisy as you kill it.
One could argue that the best thing that could happen to windows is to be replaced with Ubuntu.
Not that I completely agree with that reasoning. Driving the computer illiterate masses into Linux just causes headache for the Linux savvy that have to spend their days explaining to people where the Start menu is in Linux.
So what you're saying is...
that you wanna keep Linux, "for us cool kids"
haha
What I'm saying is, "us cool kids" learned it by our lonesome from books and online texts. We didn't learn it by nagging more experienced people to hold our hands and explain it to them in simple terms.
Doesn't really matter what you use. As long as it's conductive and doesn't have gaps larger than ~the length of the radio waves, it'll do fine as a Faraday cage.
One could argue that the best thing that could happen to windows is to be replaced with Ubuntu.
Not that I completely agree with that reasoning. Driving the computer illiterate masses into Linux just causes headache for the Linux savvy that have to spend their days explaining to people where the Start menu is in Linux.
The hardest? Nanorods? I'm sure there's a penis-joke in there somewhere.
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A morbidly obese protagonist would seriously cramp the gameplay.
Imagine a shooter where you need to stop every 10 steps to take a pause for a while. And if you dare run 20 steps, you fall over from exhaustion. Also, walking causes sweat to run down the screen. And you can't aim in the upper half of the screen, because your arms are so heavy. And you can't carry any heavy guns. And walking up a flight of stairs takes 10 minutes. .. ladders are out of the question.
Well, if your aim is to develop artificial intelligence, intelligence is probably a pretty good metric to determine how well you've performed the task you set out.
Web programming is a bit of a dead end in my book.
It largely hides how fast your program is (which is why so many web applications are inefficient messes) and it's very distant from application programming (which makes inevitable the leap to application programming very large.)
No. New programmers should be looking at a problem and thinking "How can I solve this" not "Where can I find a third-party library or toolkit that solves this?" That doesn't teach them the language, it teaches them Google.
To be fair, implementing graphics by raw interface with the windowing system is so difficult that a newbie attempting it will give up in minutes, and giving up programming certainly does not teach the language.
I seriously don't see how a third party library to visualize your computations impairs the teaching of the language.
My mind also went there. But then I thought, no way there are 400,000 books written on the subject. I mean, sure, it's big, but it's not THAT big.
It's a metric used to give you a fair idea of how big something is. Like libraries of congress, or Olympic swimming pools. Naturally, just how much actual useful code there is per line varies.
But this is from the PR department, and not Joe the cubicle jockey, no?
My experiences with large corp and gov't clients tells me otherwise.
Large corporations and governments* should hopefully not be major youtube users, so this really shouldn't be a problem here anyways.
* ... or is the gazillions of narcissistic emo-videos on youtube some sort of CIA demotivation campaign?