I've even had NSFW links off the main page here before, when people who were pissed off at being slashdotted changed their main page to a full screen of tubgirl or something.
I'm one of those people who gets random CS projects thrown at them all the time...no standard languages, no general theme, just get it done. Without the internet I couldn't DO my job...I need to be able to hit forums and online documentation and download app frameworks and junk like that.
If I couldn't do that, I'd have to have a huge tech library, and some kind of dedicated Special Ops force that kept tabs on OSS developers, kept track of what their software did, then kicked down their doors and got copies of their files whenever I needed an upgrade.
Generally dropping a nuke or something similar wouldn't cause it to go off. The explosive material around the core has to be aranged with such precision that if it were in any way off, the bomb wouldn't go supercritical, even if the conventional explosives on it fired (which is pretty damn unlikely by itself).
If the conventional stuff did fire though, it'd be a hell of a "dirty bomb".
The only difference is whether or not it affects your life in a negative way. That's really all addiction means, so if it doesn't hurt you, then it's not an addiciton.
I can imagine an email addicition (which doesn't include 5 times a day I'll tell you that, hah), but if it's not costing you jobs, girlfriends, food, then it's not an addiction.
Hard to argue for the beneficial nature of leaded gasoline---to this day it's efficacy as an anti-knock agent has never been proven. A CPU on the other hand, is worth some environmental impact.
I said DUMB legislation. We already have tons of stupid laws governing fiber. They need to be tossed, and replaced with something fair and intelligent.
Probably right about how it would end up. Right now there is a huge snafu revolving around Cable/Phone providers. Phone providers are forced to lease their lines, and cable providers aren't. There are also broadcast regulations regarding cable which are flat out awful.
So much of this crap is 100 years old. It's almost hard to imagine they could get rid of the old stuff and not make it better, no matter what monster they replace it with. It could be incredible though, if the lobbying on each side and the special interests weren't such a nightmare.
Even if you could be certain of having a child who is a genius, what's to say that child will live anything resembling a normal life? Will they be more or less successful? Will they use that surpluse brainpower for anything? If they do, will it be good or bad for the world?
CFC's, Leaded Gasoline, and Freon were all put together by the same very smart guy. Would the world have been better off without him? Hell yea! But could anyone have known? No.
I doubt there is any way to fully take the guesswork out of kids. Even a perfect genetic clone would likely surprise you.
Last thing we need is more dumb telecom legislation.
Now if congress would get off their ass and put together a real bill that governed fiber bandwidth intelligently, we'd be in business.
Seriously, we need to pull the rug out from under the damn cable companies. They're making a mint prentending they're not in the same business as phone companies (moving info), and the laws support it.
I remember an older (and presumably smaller) Zalman heatsink that was so heavy that it had a tendency to pull CPU mounts off motherboards if it was mounted sideways (e.g in a tower case like most of us have).
The reason they're doing this is so they can sell software upgrades to schools who can't afford new computers. They couldn't care less if the schools bought more hardware, but for them to stop buying software? The horror.
There are better thin client applications out there than Windows. Apps that will run with fewer resources, less psychotic licensing schemes, and which cost a hell of a lot less.
15,000 to 1 doesn't mean anything by itself. It's 105 Yen to the dollar, but the average salary in Japan is between 5 and 6 million yen (~$52,000) which is ~$20,000 better than our national average (2002) of $36,764.
Of course, it costs between 200 and 500 yen for a cup of coffee in Tokyo, so...
IANAL but there are certain rights you can't sign away in a contract, regardless of how its written.
In some states, even if you signed a binding non-compete, you can still go work for a competing company because certain anti-union laws legally invalidate those sorts of agreements.
Beyond that, you can always argue that you did not read/understand the contract. I know it sounds stupid but it is perfectly legitimate. If you've ever bought a house, you know that you have to sign papers saying that you read papers, and papers saying that someone explained the papers to you, and THAT person has to sign a paper saying that he/she is competent to explain the paper to you, and that, to the best of his/her knowledge, you're smart enough to understand what was explained.
They do that so they have a better position in court when you sue them for foreclosing on your house, and even all those papers don't guarantee they'll win.
Knew a guy who used a password trojan as a security tool...so if someone cracked one of his servers, and changed the password, it'd send the new password to him in an encrypted email.
I know at least one server that's still mailing him on occasion, and it's been four years.
Basically, it's whenever you have a one way relation (A->B) and you turn it around to say (B->A), implying that A and B are logically equivalent when it isn't the case.
In exactly the same way drinking and driving is a liability to others.
Drinking AND Driving. AND is very important in that sentence. When you impair your faculties and then operate dangerous machinery, yes, there is a problem.
Doing the same drug in your basement, alone, with no dangerous machinery, and you're no danger to anyone but yourself, and therefore NOT an automatic liability to others.
I have. People often won't believe there IS an exploit unless you actually demonstrate.
However, you need their permission to demonstrate to stay on the right side of the law. If you don't have that, it's illegal. If they refuse to give it, the next step is to inform the people whose data is at risk.
Slashdot Mirror
Heh. Same here. Clicking on /. is risk enough.
I've even had NSFW links off the main page here before, when people who were pissed off at being slashdotted changed their main page to a full screen of tubgirl or something.
That's how it goes where I work, mainly for security reasons. If someone requests a report or system access, it's got to come through email.
I'm one of those people who gets random CS projects thrown at them all the time...no standard languages, no general theme, just get it done. Without the internet I couldn't DO my job...I need to be able to hit forums and online documentation and download app frameworks and junk like that.
If I couldn't do that, I'd have to have a huge tech library, and some kind of dedicated Special Ops force that kept tabs on OSS developers, kept track of what their software did, then kicked down their doors and got copies of their files whenever I needed an upgrade.
Generally dropping a nuke or something similar wouldn't cause it to go off. The explosive material around the core has to be aranged with such precision that if it were in any way off, the bomb wouldn't go supercritical, even if the conventional explosives on it fired (which is pretty damn unlikely by itself).
If the conventional stuff did fire though, it'd be a hell of a "dirty bomb".
The only difference is whether or not it affects your life in a negative way. That's really all addiction means, so if it doesn't hurt you, then it's not an addiciton.
I can imagine an email addicition (which doesn't include 5 times a day I'll tell you that, hah), but if it's not costing you jobs, girlfriends, food, then it's not an addiction.
It's hard as hell to uphold copyrights on printed material, as long as someone is not quoting verbatim.
That being said, I imagine it's only a matter of time before someone patents the idea of a plot, and tries to sue all writers.
And if they only look at Hollywood screenplays, there is a chance that no prior art will be found.
Hard to argue for the beneficial nature of leaded gasoline---to this day it's efficacy as an anti-knock agent has never been proven. A CPU on the other hand, is worth some environmental impact.
Some of those Zalman heatsinks are absurd. Practically an ingot of solid copper, shaped like a lotus blossom, weighing a metric ton.
Even the non-absurd version of that heatsink looks like a joke to me.
I said DUMB legislation. We already have tons of stupid laws governing fiber. They need to be tossed, and replaced with something fair and intelligent.
Probably right about how it would end up. Right now there is a huge snafu revolving around Cable/Phone providers. Phone providers are forced to lease their lines, and cable providers aren't. There are also broadcast regulations regarding cable which are flat out awful.
So much of this crap is 100 years old. It's almost hard to imagine they could get rid of the old stuff and not make it better, no matter what monster they replace it with. It could be incredible though, if the lobbying on each side and the special interests weren't such a nightmare.
Even if you could be certain of having a child who is a genius, what's to say that child will live anything resembling a normal life? Will they be more or less successful? Will they use that surpluse brainpower for anything? If they do, will it be good or bad for the world?
CFC's, Leaded Gasoline, and Freon were all put together by the same very smart guy. Would the world have been better off without him? Hell yea! But could anyone have known? No.
I doubt there is any way to fully take the guesswork out of kids. Even a perfect genetic clone would likely surprise you.
Darwin also married a cousin...Do we have a trend?
Last thing we need is more dumb telecom legislation.
Now if congress would get off their ass and put together a real bill that governed fiber bandwidth intelligently, we'd be in business.
Seriously, we need to pull the rug out from under the damn cable companies. They're making a mint prentending they're not in the same business as phone companies (moving info), and the laws support it.
See, when you add all the salient facts to it, it's clear. But conversion rates don't mean much by themselves.
Just got back from Britain. 1.85 dollars to the pound. But the pound goes about as far there as a dollar goes here, so it was an expensive vacation.
I remember an older (and presumably smaller) Zalman heatsink that was so heavy that it had a tendency to pull CPU mounts off motherboards if it was mounted sideways (e.g in a tower case like most of us have).
Bigger isn't always better.
5:30 on a friday...It almost seemed rational to me.
It's stupid at face value. All websites already supply meta-information. But 99% of it sucks, which is why we need search engines.
The reason they're doing this is so they can sell software upgrades to schools who can't afford new computers. They couldn't care less if the schools bought more hardware, but for them to stop buying software? The horror.
There are better thin client applications out there than Windows. Apps that will run with fewer resources, less psychotic licensing schemes, and which cost a hell of a lot less.
And Microsoft's never been known for "thin".
15,000 to 1 doesn't mean anything by itself. It's 105 Yen to the dollar, but the average salary in Japan is between 5 and 6 million yen (~$52,000) which is ~$20,000 better than our national average (2002) of $36,764.
Of course, it costs between 200 and 500 yen for a cup of coffee in Tokyo, so...
IANAL but there are certain rights you can't sign away in a contract, regardless of how its written.
In some states, even if you signed a binding non-compete, you can still go work for a competing company because certain anti-union laws legally invalidate those sorts of agreements.
Beyond that, you can always argue that you did not read/understand the contract. I know it sounds stupid but it is perfectly legitimate. If you've ever bought a house, you know that you have to sign papers saying that you read papers, and papers saying that someone explained the papers to you, and THAT person has to sign a paper saying that he/she is competent to explain the paper to you, and that, to the best of his/her knowledge, you're smart enough to understand what was explained.
They do that so they have a better position in court when you sue them for foreclosing on your house, and even all those papers don't guarantee they'll win.
Knew a guy who used a password trojan as a security tool...so if someone cracked one of his servers, and changed the password, it'd send the new password to him in an encrypted email.
I know at least one server that's still mailing him on occasion, and it's been four years.
I had a company cut my access like that...Problem was, they didn't check to see if I was still logged on under any user names other than my own.
Root, for example.
Good thing for them I'm honest.
It's the "Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent"
Basically, it's whenever you have a one way relation (A->B) and you turn it around to say (B->A), implying that A and B are logically equivalent when it isn't the case.
Good argument, btw.
In exactly the same way drinking and driving is a liability to others.
Drinking AND Driving. AND is very important in that sentence. When you impair your faculties and then operate dangerous machinery, yes, there is a problem.
Doing the same drug in your basement, alone, with no dangerous machinery, and you're no danger to anyone but yourself, and therefore NOT an automatic liability to others.
I have. People often won't believe there IS an exploit unless you actually demonstrate.
However, you need their permission to demonstrate to stay on the right side of the law. If you don't have that, it's illegal. If they refuse to give it, the next step is to inform the people whose data is at risk.
Dang, this is popular!
They should make a TV show out of it or something...