Now if only they'd throw in support for GPG signing and/or encrypting in GMail(yes I know it'd kill their compression ratios)
Most encryption schemes (especially those operating on text) involve compressing the data first to avoid detectable language patterns. I suppose it still depends how much overhead encrypting a particular chunk of text involves.
Indeed. Just look at the comments for the story. Everyone who even vaguely sides with this guy is loudly proclaiming how much pedophiles are scumbags and that every breath these deranged and inhuman creatures take is an affront to all that is good and moral, as if they're afraid of even a casual association with such people.
The extreme criminalization of such a simple act (viewing/possessing images) scares me. I live in a dorm. It's a public place, and sometimes I leave my door open. What if I step out for a moment, and someone loads some child porn on my machine and runs away? Or what if my machine gets compromised and starts downloading such things in the background? Then I'm totally screwed. I think people need to step back from the visceral response of terror and hatred that comes from sexually abusing children, and consider things rationally for a moment.
Floating point errors performed at the speed of light!
Intel's lookup table consists of 1066 table entries, of which, due to a programming error, five were not downloaded into the programmable logic array (PLA). When any of these five cells is accessed by the floating point unit (FPU), it (the FPU) fetches zero instead of +2, which was supposed to be contained in the "missing" cells. This throws off the calculation and results in a less precise number than the correct answer(Byte Magazine, March 1995).
Probably. Success breeds decadence. Decadence results in failure. Failure results in a need for recovery. A need for recovery forces aspiration. Aspiration brings success.
They are positively encouraged, because they teach students to work in teams, solve complex problems and, sometimes, get a message across.
Not really.
The recent MIT administrations have a very two-faced policy toward hacks. While they pretend to extoll the virtues of such creative acts (sending out a picture of the Wright Flier hack as part of the alumni literature), they also discipline any students involved harshly (As in the aformentioned Wright Flier case). I suspect that this is one of the reasons that the hacking culture has gotten weaker lately.
You can start up fake wars which starve, burn and shred thousands of little kids, you can steal entire elections, and you can poison everybody with bad medicine and bad food, and the populace will take it all without much more than a whimper.
Yeah, totally. I mean, everyone's been totally cool with George Bush and Iraq, right? I sure haven't heard any complaints...
So, you're saying that if a guy you've worked with for years asked for your phone number, you'd treat him just like a known criminal?
I don't know about you, but how I treat poeple depends on how they've treated me in the past. Google hasn't done anything particularly evil. Microsoft has. We have reason to suspect the latter, but much less to suspect the former.
"I'm sorry Mr. Tierney, but we've found that some truly brilliant people who will contribute far more to the economy than a single smarmy journalist are in need of some organ transplants. And, well, according to cost-benefit analysis..."
Good societies are not just about increasing economic value.
Or is this not the best time for the Open Source community to divide itself (admittedly, there may never be a *good* time for such an action...)? Is the GPL much of a problem in its current incarnation? Like they say, if it ain't broke...
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Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
Futurama
Family Guy (Careful what you wish for...)
Firefly
1/8th of CowboyNeal's pr0n collection
Most encryption schemes (especially those operating on text) involve compressing the data first to avoid detectable language patterns. I suppose it still depends how much overhead encrypting a particular chunk of text involves.
(6) The sound CowboyNeal makes when punched in the gut
Indeed. Just look at the comments for the story. Everyone who even vaguely sides with this guy is loudly proclaiming how much pedophiles are scumbags and that every breath these deranged and inhuman creatures take is an affront to all that is good and moral, as if they're afraid of even a casual association with such people.
The extreme criminalization of such a simple act (viewing/possessing images) scares me. I live in a dorm. It's a public place, and sometimes I leave my door open. What if I step out for a moment, and someone loads some child porn on my machine and runs away? Or what if my machine gets compromised and starts downloading such things in the background? Then I'm totally screwed. I think people need to step back from the visceral response of terror and hatred that comes from sexually abusing children, and consider things rationally for a moment.
Probably. Success breeds decadence. Decadence results in failure. Failure results in a need for recovery. A need for recovery forces aspiration. Aspiration brings success.
Not really.
The recent MIT administrations have a very two-faced policy toward hacks. While they pretend to extoll the virtues of such creative acts (sending out a picture of the Wright Flier hack as part of the alumni literature), they also discipline any students involved harshly (As in the aformentioned Wright Flier case). I suspect that this is one of the reasons that the hacking culture has gotten weaker lately.
Yeah, where do the editors get off editorializing like that?
You can start up fake wars which starve, burn and shred thousands of little kids, you can steal entire elections, and you can poison everybody with bad medicine and bad food, and the populace will take it all without much more than a whimper.
Yeah, totally. I mean, everyone's been totally cool with George Bush and Iraq, right? I sure haven't heard any complaints...
Steel worse than Calligraphy
Refrigerators worse than Mineral Spirits
Apples worse than Oranges...
So, you're saying that if a guy you've worked with for years asked for your phone number, you'd treat him just like a known criminal?
I don't know about you, but how I treat poeple depends on how they've treated me in the past. Google hasn't done anything particularly evil. Microsoft has. We have reason to suspect the latter, but much less to suspect the former.
Slashdotters wearing spandex jumpsuits?
"I'm sorry Mr. Tierney, but we've found that some truly brilliant people who will contribute far more to the economy than a single smarmy journalist are in need of some organ transplants. And, well, according to cost-benefit analysis..."
Good societies are not just about increasing economic value.Also, cars that get triple-digit MPG and do 0-60 in 3 seconds.
If only those engineers had thought of this before!
Or is this not the best time for the Open Source community to divide itself (admittedly, there may never be a *good* time for such an action...)? Is the GPL much of a problem in its current incarnation? Like they say, if it ain't broke...
lynx...is there anything it can't do?
You misspelled "can".when was the last time we ratified a new state?
Perhaps a little more often than we change centuries? But that's never caused problems before...
Caltech and JPL Build 50ft Robot
unfortunately it will be made entirely of flowers and will not attempt to enslave the crowd
Damnit, Slashdot! Stop toying with my emotions!
Corporations seem to feel wayyyy too entitled to our money nowadays.
Putting a 217 meg file on Slashdot is just cruel. Anyone got a torrent?
That it turns out better than Stata (Which Gates also donated a large sum to help build)
Ah, but some of those drives were especially fast. Just divide your drives per node by the average RPM of a hard drive...
Women?