Despite the other 11-year-old hackers being more skillful, they didn't get the media attention. And when they grew up and tried to find work, they'll have to try to hide away the fact they hacked when they were kids because Corporate America doesn't like it.
Meanwhile, the kid who used to be a very mediocre network admin when he was 11, got a ridiculously high paying job right out of college because of the connections he built up with his early fame, was able to buy a multimillion beachfront condo and a couple of supercars in his early twenties. Supermodels fly to him like moths to a flame while the other skillful-hackers-at-11 ended up reading Slashdot jacking off at hentai pr0n. Oh, did I mention the mediocre kid ended up as a CIO when he was 23? He didn't even have to manage those hackers-at-11 in his company directly, he won't even know they existed at the day he died!
It seems the more skillful at the art you are, reality becomes more sarcastic to you. While the real programmers are laughing at how stupid the average people seem, the truth is, the mediocre always has the last laugh these days.
People are emotional creatures. Tell them science has brought them everything they're using and all the medicines they're taking, they'll just yawn. Tie science with their sense of pride and their sense of belonging to their nation, and they will believe it once again.
How did you get the 1988 - 2008 inflation number? From what the BLS calculator tells me it seems it's more like 79% rather than 502%. Also, the inflation rate of 1965 - 2000 is 547% from the same calculator.
$10400 * 5.47 = $56888, and that's not too far off from the $51k salary in 2000, so it seems the buying power of that $51k starting salary in 2000 is still in the same ballpark as the $10.4k in 1965. Numerically, the Math PhD. in 2000 is still getting "screwed" by 10%, but that's definitely not the same magnitude as the $195k - $51k difference you wrote.
It didn't convert me to Linux (although I always use it in servers), but it did convince me to buy a Mac. Windows Vista is just a great advertisement for Mac OS X.
What? You mean Slashdot has been using microwave beams to my brain to make me vote for CowboyNeal, and that I should wear multiple tinfoil hats before voting the next time?
There is plenty of space inside a regular laptop for placing a bomb though. A PCMCIA slot filled with C4 could already do plenty of damage at the right spot.
The boot test isn't going to do anything to stop a terrorist. Hell, it's gonna look perfectly safe to the cops since it boots to a cleanly installed Windows Vista, and the cops would easily recognize that as "safe". While the guy who installed Linux in his laptop and actually has useful business to do within the borders is gonna get detained.
Why... lobotomy seems perfectly acceptable and common in the UK these days. Haven't their politicians all had it performed to their brains before they took office?
I took it to mean 'transfer' because the article is talking about a bandwidth problem. The 'create' word could just mean bits 'created' by my computers and pushed into the network.
25GB per year per person too much? I download and upload way more than 25GB per month from my home computer. And that's just on an old 6Mbps/512kbps ADSL line. I have a 1U server in a local datacenter with a 100Mbps connection both ways and I'm sure that one does way more than 25GB per month, it can easily do 25GB per DAY if the load gets heavy.
If it is understood that there is a duress partition in your encrypted file, the cops can just ask you for both the duress key and the real key. If you can only provide one of the keys, then you look very suspicious.
Exactly the same thing I've been thinking after watching the demo. Although our eyes cannot see the IR light it can still pass onto the retina without much trouble. Using that thing for an extended period of time would quite probably damage the eyes.
But the said software and network equipment are going to be made in China in the first place, good luck trying to stop the Chinese from using their own products by not "exporting" to them.
I'm not really sure if that is actually a good thing.
You see, the early stages of a Spore game is very much like an RPG game - you control your (generations of) creature and upgrade it as it goes on adventure. Now, as with any cRPG game out there, there is a bunch of power gamers, who would quickly arrive at an "optimal build" that is much more powerful than what a player would normally build without reading the spoilers. Putting a power gamer's creature build in my world would mean my creature can't compete with it unless I'm also doing a similar power gaming build, and that could take away a large portion of the fun of Spore.
As much as I hate EA, C&C3 is actually not so bad, and Kane is back!
But among the newer games (i.e. not counting classics like Fallout and Planescape: Torment), the game I love the most is Neverwinter Nights 2. And I feel EA is going to ruin the Neverwinter Nights series.
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Even China disapproved OOXML... how ironic.
Despite the other 11-year-old hackers being more skillful, they didn't get the media attention. And when they grew up and tried to find work, they'll have to try to hide away the fact they hacked when they were kids because Corporate America doesn't like it.
Meanwhile, the kid who used to be a very mediocre network admin when he was 11, got a ridiculously high paying job right out of college because of the connections he built up with his early fame, was able to buy a multimillion beachfront condo and a couple of supercars in his early twenties. Supermodels fly to him like moths to a flame while the other skillful-hackers-at-11 ended up reading Slashdot jacking off at hentai pr0n. Oh, did I mention the mediocre kid ended up as a CIO when he was 23? He didn't even have to manage those hackers-at-11 in his company directly, he won't even know they existed at the day he died!
It seems the more skillful at the art you are, reality becomes more sarcastic to you. While the real programmers are laughing at how stupid the average people seem, the truth is, the mediocre always has the last laugh these days.
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=526&pgno=2 (The pgno counter starts from 0 so 2 mean page 3)
There's no way the companies mentioned would say anything like that.
Ironically, I just spotted it right below your reply. It says...
/iframe/tech.html was not found on this server.
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The requested URL
People are emotional creatures. Tell them science has brought them everything they're using and all the medicines they're taking, they'll just yawn. Tie science with their sense of pride and their sense of belonging to their nation, and they will believe it once again.
How did you get the 1988 - 2008 inflation number? From what the BLS calculator tells me it seems it's more like 79% rather than 502%. Also, the inflation rate of 1965 - 2000 is 547% from the same calculator.
$10400 * 5.47 = $56888, and that's not too far off from the $51k salary in 2000, so it seems the buying power of that $51k starting salary in 2000 is still in the same ballpark as the $10.4k in 1965. Numerically, the Math PhD. in 2000 is still getting "screwed" by 10%, but that's definitely not the same magnitude as the $195k - $51k difference you wrote.
Why waste time welcoming us when you can contribute and become an overlord yourself? ;)
It didn't convert me to Linux (although I always use it in servers), but it did convince me to buy a Mac. Windows Vista is just a great advertisement for Mac OS X.
What? You mean Slashdot has been using microwave beams to my brain to make me vote for CowboyNeal, and that I should wear multiple tinfoil hats before voting the next time?
There is plenty of space inside a regular laptop for placing a bomb though. A PCMCIA slot filled with C4 could already do plenty of damage at the right spot.
The boot test isn't going to do anything to stop a terrorist. Hell, it's gonna look perfectly safe to the cops since it boots to a cleanly installed Windows Vista, and the cops would easily recognize that as "safe". While the guy who installed Linux in his laptop and actually has useful business to do within the borders is gonna get detained.
That is laughably stupid. Why would a terrorist make a bombed laptop explode on boot, among zillions other trigger methods?
My only faith lies in logic.
Reconciled! Done!
Why... lobotomy seems perfectly acceptable and common in the UK these days. Haven't their politicians all had it performed to their brains before they took office?
And all modern web browsers should be banned too. They can run JavaScript you know.
I'm longing for the day when everyone in UK is forced to use links or lynx because IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. are outlawed. *evil grin*
Yes. I can foresee the day when the UK outlaws physics, and all British people would disregard gravity and fly by themselves.
You can have very complicated JavaScript logic running behind a seemingly non-complicated page.
I took it to mean 'transfer' because the article is talking about a bandwidth problem. The 'create' word could just mean bits 'created' by my computers and pushed into the network.
25GB per year per person too much? I download and upload way more than 25GB per month from my home computer. And that's just on an old 6Mbps/512kbps ADSL line. I have a 1U server in a local datacenter with a 100Mbps connection both ways and I'm sure that one does way more than 25GB per month, it can easily do 25GB per DAY if the load gets heavy.
If it is understood that there is a duress partition in your encrypted file, the cops can just ask you for both the duress key and the real key. If you can only provide one of the keys, then you look very suspicious.
Exactly the same thing I've been thinking after watching the demo. Although our eyes cannot see the IR light it can still pass onto the retina without much trouble. Using that thing for an extended period of time would quite probably damage the eyes.
A minor caveat in your post: the hard problem that RSA depends on is not discrete log, it is integer factorization.
But the said software and network equipment are going to be made in China in the first place, good luck trying to stop the Chinese from using their own products by not "exporting" to them.
I'm not really sure if that is actually a good thing.
You see, the early stages of a Spore game is very much like an RPG game - you control your (generations of) creature and upgrade it as it goes on adventure. Now, as with any cRPG game out there, there is a bunch of power gamers, who would quickly arrive at an "optimal build" that is much more powerful than what a player would normally build without reading the spoilers. Putting a power gamer's creature build in my world would mean my creature can't compete with it unless I'm also doing a similar power gaming build, and that could take away a large portion of the fun of Spore.
What if you want to send it to a friend and your friend is still using a 56k modem?
As much as I hate EA, C&C3 is actually not so bad, and Kane is back!
But among the newer games (i.e. not counting classics like Fallout and Planescape: Torment), the game I love the most is Neverwinter Nights 2. And I feel EA is going to ruin the Neverwinter Nights series.