Yeah, if you watch the video of him getting arrested, he shows the officier places where it's already been washed off...
That's a whole whopping 20 minutes...
And you know what: if you're going to arrest him because his message stays out 2 weeks instead of 2 minutes, you are supporting suppression of free speech. After all, the only difference 2 weeks vs 2 minutes will make is the amount of people that see the message. Not the amount of money that will be used in cleaning up the act.
Someone buying a large quantity of fertilizer could tip off the FBI. But that's aside the point:
A very important fact that seems to be overlooked all the time is that most of the terrorists have *legit* passports. So what good is it if they have RFID tags in them?
I just am waiting for the day that you will be able to disable RFID using only EM based tools, so there is no apparent physical tampering, but the RFID device stops working... kinda like when they swipe merchandise on that powerful magnet so you can walk out the store without setting off the alarm.
What I don't really get is why they have friggin microphones on space traveling vehicles?
I can understand that it's a cheap thing to just throw in there, but really what's the point? Is it for data monitoring of 'hull integrity' for example (detecting collisions and vibrations?).
Well, these comic books are always based in current time, alternate reality worlds. There is no daily bugel, and such a thing couldn't survive even in 20 years from now.
It's kind of like Gotham city, or the city in which Spawn lives, they are both kind-of but not really New York City. Same victorian high rises, more rain, no sun ever etc...
I don't know how you read my post, but my point is that I'm not going to write error prone code that does _guess work_ instead of using a widget that is designed to do just what I need: restrict the answers to a certain domain.
Why do drop downs exist if I'm not supposed to use them in this the only application they have? If they are difficult to use because they jump stupidly, then the widgets have an issue. But from a UI perspective, a drop down is *exactly* what is needed for this particular job.
Sometimes, he makes good points. Other times he makes ignorant points.
And his site, as another poster mentionned, is a sight for sore eyes...
A point he mentions in this article that peeves me is drop downs:
The reason I think that drop-downs are so common is that the programmers want to avoid having to validate the input, but it's not really that difficult to write a little routine that checks that you have one of the authorized abbreviations.
I've had this exact problem arise on one of the systems I'm working on. It's entering a country for your practice location. We started out by leaving it as a text input field, but soon found out that our mapquest links were working only part of the time. Investigation revealed that the country variable in the Mapquest URL can only be US. United States, USA, United States of America, America, U.S. all don't work.
So, do I write an algorithm that goes and heuristically guesses what the country of the user is, or do I friggin use a drop down? - I use a drop down.
So I'm peeved that he feels all proud and manly by stating that programmers are being lazy about validation. Sometimes, a drop down is what is needed. After all, the countries of this planet aren't in a constant flux. There is a domain of acceptable values, so using a drop down is legit.
The reason is that Holograms *use* diffraction as a means of creating the image. Diffraction is the phenomenon where if a light wave passes through a hole that is approximately the size of its wave length, it gets 'garbled' - or diffracted into unrecognizalbe patterns.
That's why you have a practical limit to the miniaturisation of lenses.
But aside from that, you have optical artifacts that occur even with normal SLR lenses. And that is because lenses are not perfectly 'stygmatic'. Which means, lenses don't actually do what they're supposed to, they only do it to a certain degree at which the eye can't differentiate.
If lenses were stygmatic, then the concept of 'depth of field' would not exist: everything in the picture would always be in focus.
Think of it this way, the rules playing on lenses and holograms are as different as the rules effective on analog vs digital. It might be the same medium, but it's an entirely different ballgame.
I can tell you one place where this is useful: in the NT equivalent of this app (there was a link posted to it somewhere above), retrieving a lost password can save your ass for encrypted files (since encrypted files use the password as a key seed in NT/2k/XP). Changing your password effectively munges all your encrypted files.
I'm sure a lot of people will find this just another excuse to shit on the DMCA, but let's admit that for once, it's actually useful.
I mean, sure, there's a limit to how much authority we want in our lives, but if you're gonna pirate a game, it might as well be something underground... I find all these software companies (like 321) very fucking hypocritical...
There's being an 3733t haxxor group the takes pride in cracking stuff (whether that's good or bad - I have no comment), then there's being a company who's hypocritical enough to say "games aren't worth paying money for... oh btw, use our software so we can make some money"...
Makes you wonder. You could write a simple perl scrip to unroll a 5 million itteration loop in C.
But you see, that would be the hacked way (ie. elegant way) of doing it. The real way would be some wise crack programmer thinking he's doing humanity a favor by reinventing an entire framework over and above all existing standard technologies (php, SQL, asp, cf...) just because the first time he dabbled with one of these languages he was unable to output a date in "12. jan '04" format.
That's part of the genius behind modernist artists such as Picasso or Matisse. They realized that the best way to capture the essence of a person or object was with a single, broad-stroked detail.
The author has an inkling of a point, but he is just so cocky it's aggravating me to the point of not believing anything he says. I have officially flipped the bozo bit on him.
Btw, in the article that he mentions, the uncanny valley isn't the end of it, it's just a dip before achieving perfection. Sure it's true that right now we have graphics that are getting very close but not quite there yet, but it doesn't mean we should start backtracking towards Leisure Suit Larry characters drawn on all of 18 pixels of canvas.
Oh and making comments about Picasso's motives? How much more conceited can you get?
4. Quit snacks. Period. Learn to live on your three meals a day, with the *occasional* treat.
I agree with parent poster, and have same remark to make to grand-parent.
I'm a high performance athlete, and aside from the fact that I *have* to eat three humoungous meals a day without fail (or else I'll lose wait almost instantly), I need to keep eating fruits and other nut type things throughout the day to keep my hunger level down.
Mind you, it's never to the point of gauging myself, but as an athlete, I should never ever hear my stomach rumble because it's empty. Never. That just simply means I'm at the point of starving and my body starts digging into reserves, which unfortunately for me, quickly means muscle breakdown (I have a very lean body).
From what I just said, some people will say I'm lucky of such a diet and metabolism, but I have just as many problems as anybody else: I *have* to eat three balanced meals a day, and I *have* to keep my carb intake healthy and steady or else my health will immediately suffer - the only difference between a person a slow metabolism, and someone like me that has the metabolism of a bumble-bee is the consequences: they will get fat, I will lose all my muscle.
Wow, can this thread get *any* more self righteous??
You are raising yourself high in the air by denigrating "Microsofties"... and the "most brilliant one of them", when we can obviously see they're idiots??
No I won't forget it, you have walked around the bush 720 degrees and forgotten the point of the whole topic: the Guardian isn't a technical source. Their interviewee probably told their reporter "our system is NT based", and the Guardian just went ahead and said "oh it's NT".
My point from post 1 was: we're geeks here on slashdot, we should know better than to assume that just because the Guardian said "NT", it's litterally NT 4.0.
Ok, let's back down to our initial statements, about Redhat 8 and Linux Kernel 2.4...
In that context, if I told you, a reporter, that my system was "NT based" without giving any more precisions than that, are you saying I could absolutely positively not mean Windows 2000?
And you're wrong about the branching of the Windows product line.
I beg to differ. I can understand that there are different teams working on the product lines, but Microsoft has two kernels: Consumer Windows (9x/Me) and the NT kernel (3.51/4.0/5.0/5.1). Those are the two main branches.
Only after that, in the NT kernel branch, do you have a division of Home, Server, Enterprise and DC.
And that is my point. The term "NT kernel" isn't equivalent with Windows NT 4. I don't care how many people you know at microsoft, the fact remains that all current windows products are "NT based".
I'm not launching missiles at you, but my point is that the source of the quote "it uses NT" comes from the Guardian.
It is as accurate a quote as 3 is an accurate representation of Pi.
On a side note though, being a NT afficiando myself (from the early days on), I've never ceased calling the kernel by its name "NT" in all the windows out there.
In fact, the windows family branches in two: Consumer Windows (95/98/Me) and NT (NT/2k/XP/2k3). I still call my system 'NT' to people who know me and understand where I come from (that is programmers and sysadmins).
So I wouldn't be surprised if such a comment made the term NT appear on that report.
Also, I would *highly* doubt they would still be using the 4.0 kernel at this point in time. It's going out of support and frankly, it has a lot of documented bugs. The newer kernels are MUCH more robust.
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That's a whole whopping 20 minutes...
And you know what: if you're going to arrest him because his message stays out 2 weeks instead of 2 minutes, you are supporting suppression of free speech. After all, the only difference 2 weeks vs 2 minutes will make is the amount of people that see the message. Not the amount of money that will be used in cleaning up the act.
A very important fact that seems to be overlooked all the time is that most of the terrorists have *legit* passports. So what good is it if they have RFID tags in them?
I just am waiting for the day that you will be able to disable RFID using only EM based tools, so there is no apparent physical tampering, but the RFID device stops working... kinda like when they swipe merchandise on that powerful magnet so you can walk out the store without setting off the alarm.
I can understand that it's a cheap thing to just throw in there, but really what's the point? Is it for data monitoring of 'hull integrity' for example (detecting collisions and vibrations?).
You'd never think Ralph wiggum would end up being trumped by none other than the president of the United States himself.
Is it just me, or are these just absolutely unfunny bugs? Just basic, and sometimes "D'uh" bugs, but still not funny.
But no, you're not right, Postal codes in Canada are #@#-@#@ (@ alpha). But I'm guessing you already knew that.
It's kind of like Gotham city, or the city in which Spawn lives, they are both kind-of but not really New York City. Same victorian high rises, more rain, no sun ever etc...
It's called fantasy.
Just likes elves, penguins and eskimos.
I don't know how you read my post, but my point is that I'm not going to write error prone code that does _guess work_ instead of using a widget that is designed to do just what I need: restrict the answers to a certain domain.
Why do drop downs exist if I'm not supposed to use them in this the only application they have? If they are difficult to use because they jump stupidly, then the widgets have an issue. But from a UI perspective, a drop down is *exactly* what is needed for this particular job.
And his site, as another poster mentionned, is a sight for sore eyes...
A point he mentions in this article that peeves me is drop downs:
The reason I think that drop-downs are so common is that the programmers want to avoid having to validate the input, but it's not really that difficult to write a little routine that checks that you have one of the authorized abbreviations.
I've had this exact problem arise on one of the systems I'm working on. It's entering a country for your practice location. We started out by leaving it as a text input field, but soon found out that our mapquest links were working only part of the time. Investigation revealed that the country variable in the Mapquest URL can only be US. United States, USA, United States of America, America, U.S. all don't work.
So, do I write an algorithm that goes and heuristically guesses what the country of the user is, or do I friggin use a drop down? - I use a drop down.
So I'm peeved that he feels all proud and manly by stating that programmers are being lazy about validation. Sometimes, a drop down is what is needed. After all, the countries of this planet aren't in a constant flux. There is a domain of acceptable values, so using a drop down is legit.
The reason is that Holograms *use* diffraction as a means of creating the image. Diffraction is the phenomenon where if a light wave passes through a hole that is approximately the size of its wave length, it gets 'garbled' - or diffracted into unrecognizalbe patterns.
That's why you have a practical limit to the miniaturisation of lenses.
But aside from that, you have optical artifacts that occur even with normal SLR lenses. And that is because lenses are not perfectly 'stygmatic'. Which means, lenses don't actually do what they're supposed to, they only do it to a certain degree at which the eye can't differentiate.
If lenses were stygmatic, then the concept of 'depth of field' would not exist: everything in the picture would always be in focus.
Think of it this way, the rules playing on lenses and holograms are as different as the rules effective on analog vs digital. It might be the same medium, but it's an entirely different ballgame.
I can tell you one place where this is useful: in the NT equivalent of this app (there was a link posted to it somewhere above), retrieving a lost password can save your ass for encrypted files (since encrypted files use the password as a key seed in NT/2k/XP). Changing your password effectively munges all your encrypted files.
I beg to differ. He is a moron.
*lights up cigarette, inhales while watching Karma burn away*
uhh. wait a min...
I mean, sure, there's a limit to how much authority we want in our lives, but if you're gonna pirate a game, it might as well be something underground... I find all these software companies (like 321) very fucking hypocritical...
There's being an 3733t haxxor group the takes pride in cracking stuff (whether that's good or bad - I have no comment), then there's being a company who's hypocritical enough to say "games aren't worth paying money for... oh btw, use our software so we can make some money"...
Makes you wonder. You could write a simple perl scrip to unroll a 5 million itteration loop in C.
But you see, that would be the hacked way (ie. elegant way) of doing it. The real way would be some wise crack programmer thinking he's doing humanity a favor by reinventing an entire framework over and above all existing standard technologies (php, SQL, asp, cf...) just because the first time he dabbled with one of these languages he was unable to output a date in "12. jan '04" format.
The author has an inkling of a point, but he is just so cocky it's aggravating me to the point of not believing anything he says. I have officially flipped the bozo bit on him.
Btw, in the article that he mentions, the uncanny valley isn't the end of it, it's just a dip before achieving perfection. Sure it's true that right now we have graphics that are getting very close but not quite there yet, but it doesn't mean we should start backtracking towards Leisure Suit Larry characters drawn on all of 18 pixels of canvas.
Oh and making comments about Picasso's motives? How much more conceited can you get?
I agree with parent poster, and have same remark to make to grand-parent.
I'm a high performance athlete, and aside from the fact that I *have* to eat three humoungous meals a day without fail (or else I'll lose wait almost instantly), I need to keep eating fruits and other nut type things throughout the day to keep my hunger level down.
Mind you, it's never to the point of gauging myself, but as an athlete, I should never ever hear my stomach rumble because it's empty. Never. That just simply means I'm at the point of starving and my body starts digging into reserves, which unfortunately for me, quickly means muscle breakdown (I have a very lean body).
From what I just said, some people will say I'm lucky of such a diet and metabolism, but I have just as many problems as anybody else: I *have* to eat three balanced meals a day, and I *have* to keep my carb intake healthy and steady or else my health will immediately suffer - the only difference between a person a slow metabolism, and someone like me that has the metabolism of a bumble-bee is the consequences: they will get fat, I will lose all my muscle.
You included, though the quote wasn't from your post, you illustrate my point prefectly by saying I'm used to coding the "right thing".
You are raising yourself high in the air by denigrating "Microsofties"... and the "most brilliant one of them", when we can obviously see they're idiots??
Nice. You should feel proud.
You're actually amusing me. Please continue your pissing contest.
My point from post 1 was: we're geeks here on slashdot, we should know better than to assume that just because the Guardian said "NT", it's litterally NT 4.0.
In that context, if I told you, a reporter, that my system was "NT based" without giving any more precisions than that, are you saying I could absolutely positively not mean Windows 2000?
I beg to differ. I can understand that there are different teams working on the product lines, but Microsoft has two kernels: Consumer Windows (9x/Me) and the NT kernel (3.51/4.0/5.0/5.1). Those are the two main branches.
Only after that, in the NT kernel branch, do you have a division of Home, Server, Enterprise and DC.
And that is my point. The term "NT kernel" isn't equivalent with Windows NT 4. I don't care how many people you know at microsoft, the fact remains that all current windows products are "NT based".
It is as accurate a quote as 3 is an accurate representation of Pi.
On a side note though, being a NT afficiando myself (from the early days on), I've never ceased calling the kernel by its name "NT" in all the windows out there.
In fact, the windows family branches in two: Consumer Windows (95/98/Me) and NT (NT/2k/XP/2k3). I still call my system 'NT' to people who know me and understand where I come from (that is programmers and sysadmins).
So I wouldn't be surprised if such a comment made the term NT appear on that report.
Also, I would *highly* doubt they would still be using the 4.0 kernel at this point in time. It's going out of support and frankly, it has a lot of documented bugs. The newer kernels are MUCH more robust.