Most people I know who "liked" coding started with a good base example program that was laid out easily enough to pick apart and alter. You may not understand the whole thing at first, but there's enough that you can make changes and see the effects.
Coding is boring when you reach those points where you're floundering about and can't see any visible result of your work. Picking apart working examples is great for building interest and getting one started in coding.
How many coke cans would it take for - say - a few decades of the N. American population. Could you fit said coke cans onto a shuttle and blast it off towards the sun? (assuming that you wouldn't just reprocess it and re-use, as much of this waste could be if we weren't... wasteful).
Do they really need to play? I'd imagine they were just have direct access to the chat logs and that those would be filtered for certain keywords or against certain suspect players.
Might work out well enough if you had a pre-set bunch of codes that correspond to real events/locations in game. For example, "going on a raid tonight @ 12 against the great dragon in the keep of death, bring a LVL12 wizard, shaman, and a tinker" might translate out into a 3-person team with a bomb expert etc hitting a predesignated location. It would be pretty hard to differentiate that between real game chats, or prove in court (ha!) that it was actually terrorist double-speak. It would also be less suspicious than an encrypted VPN or tunnel, etc.
Of course the above would assume that the terrorists were all versed in whatever codes were used. I could picture one guy with a bunch of rifles sitting in a real van waiting while his two buddies are wondering when he's showing up for the raid in WOW:-)
The other part of that equation is that there are some pretty strong coders among the privacy nuts out there. There are also people who are good at watching changelogs, SVN commits etc.
Even if not everybody is reading the code, there are some pretty clever people who do.
Most of the PC's I've serviced were regular towers, with standard-sized PSU's. Most of the SFF stuff is either with hobbyist or corporate machines. It's pretty sad when a $1500+ Dell Studio PC comes with RAID, a powerful CPU, tons of RAM, and... (IMHO) a crappy, under-powered low-quality PSU.
Given the cheap PSU's I've seen in a lot of boxes (and the rate of failure), I'd say in many cases that it's a contest between the drives and the PSU, especially when you get to areas with flakey power.
However, while some machines may survive, there's still a certain mortality to the machines themselves. As they die and need replacement, newer machines will presumably be bought. While CPU power may not be a compelling argument for an upgrade, I can still see people buying bigger storage (or possibly faster storage as SSD's come down in price). Mobile devices have a market. They're getting faster regularly and becoming more useful as they do. Desktops still increase in speed, but not at the same rate. Until the mobile market stabilizes somewhat, there will be trade-offs between the two.
you simply have to accept that a zombie movie by definition isn't going to exhibit high levels of logic and reality
You might think that, but in all honesty it seems a fairly substantial amount of people don't exhibit a high level or logic in crisis or high-stress situations. Hell, it's winter - hardly a crisis - here and based on the way some people drive you'd think it was summer on the Autobann: speeding, passing across solid yellow, passing at high-speed in the slow lane, passing at high speed off the curb, etc. It's nuts.
Have a look at how people act on Black Friday in order to score $25 off a POS television. Look at the people buying food with stamps and chatting on the newest iPhone.
Assuming logical and rational thinking from a large portion of the human populace is going to be a losing proposal. In fact, the best way to survive may be to assume that the majority of people are going to descend into a dumb panic and make terrible decisions that could get you - or them - killed.
If it's a non-person, we can do whatever we want with it, torture, butchery, it's all good
Not entirely true, beating your dog still qualifies as cruelty to animals (Animal Welfare Act, etc). If you were to kill food-animals in an unusually cruel manner, it should also be considered illegal (the problem being - of course - that there few people to represent the animals in a legal venue). In terms of lab experimentation, I'm not sure how exactly it works but it seems there's more leeway than for domestic or even food animals, etc.
Is it really that hard to take it off? What happens when you go to the washroom? I guarantee that people are going to have some even bigger issues with a potential recording device in there.
Honestly, I'd except anyone who was planning to install CM to be a bit more knowledgeable than the average user anyhow, which means that they should know how to install stuff from a 3rd-party package rather than just through the app store.
Put the package on an official site, it doesn't really need to be in the store.
The dollar might die, but money will live on So the uber-wealthy will invest if foreign currencies, resources such as gold, etc, and then the poor inflated dollar will crash so that a loaf of bread costs $50. That won't matter to the uber-wealthy, because by that time they will have either a) Moved somewhere else or b) Invested in currencies where $1 now == $50USD.
I know that I've caught legit news articles about GM test plants showing up in places there weren't supposed to. In one case, it was a batch (of I believe wheat) that was *only* ever supposed to have existed in a closed environment, and never became a full product. It was supposedly never released in the wild, but yet here it shows up a thousand miles or so from the lab it was tested in.
That's scary to me. When a company can't manage samples which could potentially have some really nasty properties, are never supposed to be in the wild, yet... there they are.
I'm not sure what theme to go with... eyewatering medical images for wallpaper, something that looks like a police or gangster computer Video of a hairy naked fat guy sitting in front of a computer and poking at the computer, faked up to look like a webcam window?
everyone should sit up and take notice when a big company gets hit by them and not just individual citizens who really will never pay even a fraction of these amounts
Corporations *should* pay more for these damages than average citizens. If I get hit with a $1000 fine, that's enough to hurt my pocketbook and make me re-think what I'm doing. For many larger corporations, even 10x that is barely a pinprick, and often the fine is less than the profit they reap by whatever they were sued over.
Look at the issues with oil spills, banks and financial organizations committing fraud, etc. A fine shouldn't in most cases be enough to ruin somebody's life, but it shouldn't be so small as to go unnoticed either. Putting private citizens in the same categories as large corporations is a bad idea, though thankfully "commercial" infringement is considered a bit harsher the penalties overall for private persons is still obscenely disproportionate.
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Society is built upon that relationship and has been for a very long time
Slavery was also part of society for a long time. Some of the great wonders of the world (pyramids, etc) were build on the backs of slavery...
Do you think that we should bring that back, too?
Just because we've been doing something for a long time, doesn't mean we've been doing the best thing for society or humankind.
Most people I know who "liked" coding started with a good base example program that was laid out easily enough to pick apart and alter. You may not understand the whole thing at first, but there's enough that you can make changes and see the effects.
Coding is boring when you reach those points where you're floundering about and can't see any visible result of your work. Picking apart working examples is great for building interest and getting one started in coding.
How many coke cans would it take for - say - a few decades of the N. American population. Could you fit said coke cans onto a shuttle and blast it off towards the sun? (assuming that you wouldn't just reprocess it and re-use, as much of this waste could be if we weren't... wasteful).
Do they really need to play? I'd imagine they were just have direct access to the chat logs and that those would be filtered for certain keywords or against certain suspect players.
Might work out well enough if you had a pre-set bunch of codes that correspond to real events/locations in game.
For example, "going on a raid tonight @ 12 against the great dragon in the keep of death, bring a LVL12 wizard, shaman, and a tinker" might translate out into a 3-person team with a bomb expert etc hitting a predesignated location. It would be pretty hard to differentiate that between real game chats, or prove in court (ha!) that it was actually terrorist double-speak. It would also be less suspicious than an encrypted VPN or tunnel, etc.
Of course the above would assume that the terrorists were all versed in whatever codes were used. I could picture one guy with a bunch of rifles sitting in a real van waiting while his two buddies are wondering when he's showing up for the raid in WOW :-)
I'm not sure of the reason for the LCD's. Surely just one LCD for the control unit, or managing from a central PC would work fine.
The other part of that equation is that there are some pretty strong coders among the privacy nuts out there. There are also people who are good at watching changelogs, SVN commits etc.
Even if not everybody is reading the code, there are some pretty clever people who do.
Most of the PC's I've serviced were regular towers, with standard-sized PSU's. Most of the SFF stuff is either with hobbyist or corporate machines. It's pretty sad when a $1500+ Dell Studio PC comes with RAID, a powerful CPU, tons of RAM, and... (IMHO) a crappy, under-powered low-quality PSU.
Given the cheap PSU's I've seen in a lot of boxes (and the rate of failure), I'd say in many cases that it's a contest between the drives and the PSU, especially when you get to areas with flakey power.
However, while some machines may survive, there's still a certain mortality to the machines themselves. As they die and need replacement, newer machines will presumably be bought.
While CPU power may not be a compelling argument for an upgrade, I can still see people buying bigger storage (or possibly faster storage as SSD's come down in price).
Mobile devices have a market. They're getting faster regularly and becoming more useful as they do. Desktops still increase in speed, but not at the same rate. Until the mobile market stabilizes somewhat, there will be trade-offs between the two.
you simply have to accept that a zombie movie by definition isn't going to exhibit high levels of logic and reality
You might think that, but in all honesty it seems a fairly substantial amount of people don't exhibit a high level or logic in crisis or high-stress situations. Hell, it's winter - hardly a crisis - here and based on the way some people drive you'd think it was summer on the Autobann: speeding, passing across solid yellow, passing at high-speed in the slow lane, passing at high speed off the curb, etc. It's nuts.
Have a look at how people act on Black Friday in order to score $25 off a POS television. Look at the people buying food with stamps and chatting on the newest iPhone.
Assuming logical and rational thinking from a large portion of the human populace is going to be a losing proposal. In fact, the best way to survive may be to assume that the majority of people are going to descend into a dumb panic and make terrible decisions that could get you - or them - killed.
Except the sociopaths, those in power (police etc) and especially those who are both.
NO? Then how about we stick to news (for nerds) and not unfounded speculations from random blogs.
If it's a non-person, we can do whatever we want with it, torture, butchery, it's all good
Not entirely true, beating your dog still qualifies as cruelty to animals (Animal Welfare Act, etc). If you were to kill food-animals in an unusually cruel manner, it should also be considered illegal (the problem being - of course - that there few people to represent the animals in a legal venue). In terms of lab experimentation, I'm not sure how exactly it works but it seems there's more leeway than for domestic or even food animals, etc.
Judging by some of what I've seen in the local Walmart, some people are closer than others...
Is it really that hard to take it off? What happens when you go to the washroom? I guarantee that people are going to have some even bigger issues with a potential recording device in there.
Honestly, I'd except anyone who was planning to install CM to be a bit more knowledgeable than the average user anyhow, which means that they should know how to install stuff from a 3rd-party package rather than just through the app store.
Put the package on an official site, it doesn't really need to be in the store.
You think porn actresses/ actors don't suffer from physical abuse and/or the risk of STD's?
Don't worry, the FBI will be over shortly to relieve you of your stash. Thanks for the confession!
The same way a church following a religion of "peace" allows things like Crusades, Jihad, and the abuse of children?
The dollar might die, but money will live on
So the uber-wealthy will invest if foreign currencies, resources such as gold, etc, and then the poor inflated dollar will crash so that a loaf of bread costs $50. That won't matter to the uber-wealthy, because by that time they will have either
a) Moved somewhere else
or
b) Invested in currencies where $1 now == $50USD.
Meanwhile, a lot of others won't be able to eat.
And if you leave it as is, they'll be happy to slowly rob you and your children blind using current methods.
They will leave, eventually. Maybe it's better they go while you've still got a bit left to rebuild with.
I know that I've caught legit news articles about GM test plants showing up in places there weren't supposed to. In one case, it was a batch (of I believe wheat) that was *only* ever supposed to have existed in a closed environment, and never became a full product. It was supposedly never released in the wild, but yet here it shows up a thousand miles or so from the lab it was tested in.
That's scary to me. When a company can't manage samples which could potentially have some really nasty properties, are never supposed to be in the wild, yet... there they are.
I'm not sure what theme to go with ... eyewatering medical images for wallpaper, something that looks like a police or gangster computer
Video of a hairy naked fat guy sitting in front of a computer and poking at the computer, faked up to look like a webcam window?
everyone should sit up and take notice when a big company gets hit by them and not just individual citizens who really will never pay even a fraction of these amounts
Corporations *should* pay more for these damages than average citizens. If I get hit with a $1000 fine, that's enough to hurt my pocketbook and make me re-think what I'm doing. For many larger corporations, even 10x that is barely a pinprick, and often the fine is less than the profit they reap by whatever they were sued over.
Look at the issues with oil spills, banks and financial organizations committing fraud, etc. A fine shouldn't in most cases be enough to ruin somebody's life, but it shouldn't be so small as to go unnoticed either. Putting private citizens in the same categories as large corporations is a bad idea, though thankfully "commercial" infringement is considered a bit harsher the penalties overall for private persons is still obscenely disproportionate.