How do you know that one of the filmed people are not terrorists? The police certainly would be more than happy to have a high quality close up video rather then something like this.
Yeah. Sure. It is creepy. Just like the cameras that are under the mall ceiling or on the street poles. If people don't like video being taken of them, I suggest they do it everywhere and every time. You know, just being consistent.
You would not believe it but a prime minister in my country (member of EU) was supposed to be served a subpoena... and the police was unable to do so. His home address was expunged from public records due "national security" (or something like that) and the Secret service providing the bodyguards refused to deliver the letter because that's not their job. So the police sent the letter by snail mail, but there is no confirmation that he actually got it. The newspapers printed and article with title (loosely translated:) "The police can't find the most important man in the country". Go figure.
Perhaps Europe is not enough? Perhaps they should move to Ecuador's Embassy? The point is that the influence of US politics, laws, military,... does not stop at US borders. I do live in Europe, but my credit card transactions still go to USA, my flight information goes to USA, my phone calls metadata is still collected to please USA, the copyright laws mimic those of USA, etc etc. Where do I have go to escape the crazy of USA?
It's easy to talk about sacrificing one's life. For those that did not. And it's difficult to imagine what it is like based on stories of those that did.
What the lab did was to sequence the genome and then (oooh evil) expect to get paid for that work if someone else wanted to use THEIR work to build something with that.
So they are fine with someone else performing the same gene sequencing (and likely getting the same dataset) and selling/distributing/doing business with that?
There is no need to be derogatory that way. I would also call myself as "good with computers" because no other description really fits me. I'm not a computer scientist in that sense of the word that most of the fellow slashdotters used in this discussion despite having a degree in "Informatics and Computer Science" - meh. So am I just good with Word ? No. I'm a programmer with some domain expertise. I know how to find the bug when most my colleagues don't. I'm a "sysadmin" when the network breaks or when DHCP/DNS/firewall/... needs some tweaking and when more then one OS is involved. I'm a "DB expert" when someone needs to pull interesting data from the DB. I know what AT commands are and what serial communication parameters mean or how PKI works - which is not the case with many of my colleagues programmers. No I'm not stellar and, judging by the comments here, I'm not good enough to tie shoelaces of any other contributor in this discussion. I just know slightly more than enough to be dangerous;-)
The point however is that - there is a market for people that are "good with computers" and IMHO it's bigger then market for computer scientists. And the required math knowledge is not very high - i.e. no group theory nor differential equations. You can make a nice living just by juggling data between various data formats and all you may need is a bit of trigonometry and matrix algebra. No, it's no computer science as understood by TFA. But it's also no reason to make fun of people that are "good with computers".
For MS it often does not matter that the new idea does not catch up. Initially. Where the "initially" period can be pretty long (i.e. several years). They can just keep throwing money at it until the world adapts to them. That's what abusing the dominant position on the market is all about.
I mean... if it's either pony up $3500 or they don't want me there... then it's a clear sign for me that they don't want me there. It' can't be any more clear.
Look at the Boston Marathon bombings. They weren't tracked by anything other than photos taken by the public and a handful of CCTV feeds. Imagine if one quarter of people in that crowd had a Glass type device on their face, and the government continued to have the right to access our devices without our permission. What do you think will happen?
They would have tracked down the perpetrators in half the time?
Not that I disagree with your worries on privacy invasion, but... that was a bad example.
The SysV init scripts have one huge advantage though: I can read/debug/understand them and all I need to know for that is a bit of sh(1) and coreutils. I have no use for shaving off 10s from the boot process and I don't start/stop services so fast that I could run into a race condition. I like being able to find out whether the service is today called bind9 vs named or httpd vs apache2 by simple filename completion.
Although your/. id is smaller by 3 orders of magnitude, I'll stick with scripts if you don't mind.
Over here we are not so much obsessed with guns. But I understand that it is an important topic for US citizens. But fearing of EMP? Are you afraid that a burglar will come to your house equipped with EMP device in case you catch him with your gun in the hand? Come on.
I'm using Google Talk with a 3rd party client (Miranda) - configured to connect using my gmail.com account to talk.google.com using a Jabber connection - to talk to friends that are using web interface at gmail.com. Is that going to stop working? (it does work at the moment)
College education involves... interaction with classmates...
While I'm too far to go out with any of my classmates to pub, I certainly did interact with them. There are forums, IRC channels, e-mails, FB groups,... While we've never met face-to-face, I certainly could recognize several nicknames after a few forum threads and they would recognize me. For sure you can make more friends (with similar interests) there as here in the woods.
but then home 3d printers will improve to the point that you can print many of the things you want or need easily.
Let me see: I have to buy today a washing powder, tooth paste, apples, yogurt, 1TB hdd and AA batteries. What from that can be produced on a 3D printer?
Of course I don't. I'm here to bash Windows [/s]. So teach me: does the indexing search the files, or it does a lookup in the index? Is the index updated right then and there when a new file is created? What happens if the file does not have an extension? How do I set it up to search file content for all extensions (except changing it one by one for all ~100 extension types)? How do I remove an extension from the list of configured extensions? How do I set "Plain text filter" for.html files?
You could have a chance arguing for PowerShell solution rather then the Windows Search. But for now I'm going to stick with 'grep -r' and 'find'.
Candidate: I can quickly write a program that solves the problem. You: Perhaps you can, but it would be probably buggy. We don't want you. Candidate: Actually I'm pretty good and the code is bug-free and robust. You: Perhaps you can, but you are probably a dick. We don't want you. Candidate:...
I always thought that a geek seeks challenge. An algorithm designer asks "can I do better?". That a programming is an art. That a good programmer knows tricks, shortcuts and algorithms. Can apply paradigms and knows the tools. That some code is better and some is worse - and thus can be compared and judged by being more efficient in time/space. Or maintainability of course. That is not mutually exclusive.
So what traits are you putting above that? Ability to write comprehensive documentation, create presentations, sit at meetings and get along with others?
The task of the programmer is all that. But if he cannot write good an efficient code, then the rest does not save the day.
Ah yes, you can perform some action that Microsoft calls "search" but it does not actually find stuff that you would expect it to find. The search procedure that you described won't search outside of the "approved" directories, will not search inside of binaries (.dll,.exe), will not search inside of files with "unknown" extension, sometimes it will not even find strings because they are not separated from other text by whitespace or something. It is so unreliable that it became useless.
You simply can't do that over more than at 20cm, no matter how powerful or sensitive your transceiver is. Laws of physic I'm afraid.
A device that fits in my pocket can receive a radio signal coming from transmitter that is 20000km away (hint: GPS). If you google a bit you can find pages talking about reading NFC from 10 meters away with the right equipment.
I may need to call my bank and see if I can get that disabled on my cards.
Last time I tried this, the clerk happily typed something to the terminal and told me: "done". It turned out that they only changed the limit for contact-less payments to 0. I told him: "look, the RFID chip is still in the card, knows nothing about what you typed into the computer and will happily answer any RF challenge that it receives. Can you reprogram/disable the chip itself?". I lost him on "RFID". They don't even issue non-contact-less cards anymore. Funny thing is that putting the card against strong light source reveals a frame-shaped RFID antenna embedded inside. I'm thinking about doing one or two well aimed deep scratches at the right place.
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Yeah. Sure. It is creepy. Just like the cameras that are under the mall ceiling or on the street poles. If people don't like video being taken of them, I suggest they do it everywhere and every time. You know, just being consistent.
You would not believe it but a prime minister in my country (member of EU) was supposed to be served a subpoena ... and the police was unable to do so. His home address was expunged from public records due "national security" (or something like that) and the Secret service providing the bodyguards refused to deliver the letter because that's not their job. So the police sent the letter by snail mail, but there is no confirmation that he actually got it. The newspapers printed and article with title (loosely translated:) "The police can't find the most important man in the country". Go figure.
Perhaps Europe is not enough? Perhaps they should move to Ecuador's Embassy? The point is that the influence of US politics, laws, military, ... does not stop at US borders. I do live in Europe, but my credit card transactions still go to USA, my flight information goes to USA, my phone calls metadata is still collected to please USA, the copyright laws mimic those of USA, etc etc. Where do I have go to escape the crazy of USA?
It's clouds all the way ... up?
It's easy to talk about sacrificing one's life. For those that did not. And it's difficult to imagine what it is like based on stories of those that did.
So they are fine with someone else performing the same gene sequencing (and likely getting the same dataset) and selling/distributing/doing business with that?
There is no need to be derogatory that way. I would also call myself as "good with computers" because no other description really fits me. I'm not a computer scientist in that sense of the word that most of the fellow slashdotters used in this discussion despite having a degree in "Informatics and Computer Science" - meh. So am I just good with Word ? No. I'm a programmer with some domain expertise. I know how to find the bug when most my colleagues don't. I'm a "sysadmin" when the network breaks or when DHCP/DNS/firewall/... needs some tweaking and when more then one OS is involved. I'm a "DB expert" when someone needs to pull interesting data from the DB. I know what AT commands are and what serial communication parameters mean or how PKI works - which is not the case with many of my colleagues programmers. No I'm not stellar and, judging by the comments here, I'm not good enough to tie shoelaces of any other contributor in this discussion. I just know slightly more than enough to be dangerous ;-)
The point however is that - there is a market for people that are "good with computers" and IMHO it's bigger then market for computer scientists. And the required math knowledge is not very high - i.e. no group theory nor differential equations. You can make a nice living just by juggling data between various data formats and all you may need is a bit of trigonometry and matrix algebra. No, it's no computer science as understood by TFA. But it's also no reason to make fun of people that are "good with computers".
For MS it often does not matter that the new idea does not catch up. Initially. Where the "initially" period can be pretty long (i.e. several years). They can just keep throwing money at it until the world adapts to them. That's what abusing the dominant position on the market is all about.
You don't?
I mean ... if it's either pony up $3500 or they don't want me there ... then it's a clear sign for me that they don't want me there. It' can't be any more clear.
They would have tracked down the perpetrators in half the time?
Not that I disagree with your worries on privacy invasion, but ... that was a bad example.
The SysV init scripts have one huge advantage though: I can read/debug/understand them and all I need to know for that is a bit of sh(1) and coreutils. I have no use for shaving off 10s from the boot process and I don't start/stop services so fast that I could run into a race condition. I like being able to find out whether the service is today called bind9 vs named or httpd vs apache2 by simple filename completion.
Although your /. id is smaller by 3 orders of magnitude, I'll stick with scripts if you don't mind.
Wouldn't the EMP render also the government's weapons useless?
Over here we are not so much obsessed with guns. But I understand that it is an important topic for US citizens. But fearing of EMP? Are you afraid that a burglar will come to your house equipped with EMP device in case you catch him with your gun in the hand? Come on.
I'm using Google Talk with a 3rd party client (Miranda) - configured to connect using my gmail.com account to talk.google.com using a Jabber connection - to talk to friends that are using web interface at gmail.com. Is that going to stop working? (it does work at the moment)
While I'm too far to go out with any of my classmates to pub, I certainly did interact with them. There are forums, IRC channels, e-mails, FB groups, ... While we've never met face-to-face, I certainly could recognize several nicknames after a few forum threads and they would recognize me. For sure you can make more friends (with similar interests) there as here in the woods.
Is that the same as the difference between "many" and "almost none" ?
Let me see: I have to buy today a washing powder, tooth paste, apples, yogurt, 1TB hdd and AA batteries. What from that can be produced on a 3D printer?
Does it mean that just putting a lot of interconnections together is sufficient to create sentience? Somehow I doubt it.
Of course I don't. I'm here to bash Windows [/s]. So teach me: does the indexing search the files, or it does a lookup in the index? Is the index updated right then and there when a new file is created? What happens if the file does not have an extension? How do I set it up to search file content for all extensions (except changing it one by one for all ~100 extension types)? How do I remove an extension from the list of configured extensions? How do I set "Plain text filter" for .html files?
You could have a chance arguing for PowerShell solution rather then the Windows Search. But for now I'm going to stick with 'grep -r' and 'find'.
Candidate: I can quickly write a program that solves the problem. ...
You: Perhaps you can, but it would be probably buggy. We don't want you.
Candidate: Actually I'm pretty good and the code is bug-free and robust.
You: Perhaps you can, but you are probably a dick. We don't want you.
Candidate:
Is that how it works?
I always thought that a geek seeks challenge. An algorithm designer asks "can I do better?". That a programming is an art. That a good programmer knows tricks, shortcuts and algorithms. Can apply paradigms and knows the tools. That some code is better and some is worse - and thus can be compared and judged by being more efficient in time/space. Or maintainability of course. That is not mutually exclusive.
So what traits are you putting above that? Ability to write comprehensive documentation, create presentations, sit at meetings and get along with others?
The task of the programmer is all that. But if he cannot write good an efficient code, then the rest does not save the day.
Ah yes, you can perform some action that Microsoft calls "search" but it does not actually find stuff that you would expect it to find. The search procedure that you described won't search outside of the "approved" directories, will not search inside of binaries (.dll, .exe), will not search inside of files with "unknown" extension, sometimes it will not even find strings because they are not separated from other text by whitespace or something. It is so unreliable that it became useless.
It seems that it takes a lot of work to estimate correctly. Can you estimate how long would it take to come up with the estimate?
A device that fits in my pocket can receive a radio signal coming from transmitter that is 20000km away (hint: GPS). If you google a bit you can find pages talking about reading NFC from 10 meters away with the right equipment.
Last time I tried this, the clerk happily typed something to the terminal and told me: "done". It turned out that they only changed the limit for contact-less payments to 0. I told him: "look, the RFID chip is still in the card, knows nothing about what you typed into the computer and will happily answer any RF challenge that it receives. Can you reprogram/disable the chip itself?". I lost him on "RFID". They don't even issue non-contact-less cards anymore. Funny thing is that putting the card against strong light source reveals a frame-shaped RFID antenna embedded inside. I'm thinking about doing one or two well aimed deep scratches at the right place.