(years ago) I used to get blasted at home from China IP addrs trying various root passwords. Flooding my logs with failures. Since then I only allow key auth from the untrustable internet. I'd never allow password auth over the internet. Copying a key is not a big deal. Or logging into another machine that I know has a key, etc.
On the LAN, if some clown gets infected and port scanning / password scanning, I can literally walk over and physically take care of it.
This may not be of use to you anymore, but I'll toss it out there: fail2ban.
I use it to ban IPs attempting ssh-as-root on first attempt, ssh login password failures on 3rd attempt. Uses iptables to block the malicious addresses. Works like a charm.
Also has "jails" for Apache-based log failures, such as attempts to access PHPMyAdmin (what ever it's called), which is worthwhile to run just for that, and a host of others.
Ask your company's legal team about options, such as suing in the UK for defamation.
Just a thought.
How about sending a bunch of spam from a laptop at an open Wifi like Starbucks, where the spam is promoting UCEprotect.org. Send it to/through Gmail and other blacklist organizations. The goal being to get them placed on a spam blacklist...
Either seems preferable to spending 300 Euros for an express de-list. Then, doing it again, etc.
Make sure you monitor out-going email through your ISP's servers so that no spam is being sent by your customers.
Agree with your constructive criticism however contrary to slashdot lore a summary does not have to be in one's own words, cut and paste is a valid summary, even more so if it actually summarises TFA..
Yeah, I thought by careful copy/pasting I was honouring the original article's intent while hopefully driving traffic to it and minimizing my own editorializing. Plus I didn't just paste the entire article into the submission, which I consider a no-no.
Although I did add what I thought was very pertinent, the part about the police being notified of this guy's art years ago, then, this year being notified of something similar that happened in Montreal, which turned out to be a real snuff film. I seem to recall there being criticism of the police at the time for not investigating the snuff film promptly enough (and I might have levelled some of that criticism), however it turns out they'd seem something similar before but it wasn't a crime scene.
Replying again: I thought it was highly relevant to bring the Jun Lin case into the submission I made, as the police had been advised in this case that a pathologist couldn't determine that a crime had not been committed (i.e. the effects were that good); they looked into it and found no violence had been committed.
Then the newer case from this summer where police were tipped off to an actual crime committed, recorded, and posted on a web site. They might have been a bit hesitant to look into the 2nd case; once bitten twice shy, etc.
I'm not a Slashdot editor, but I'd say they picked this submission because it was a proper summary and didn't copy/paste sections of the original story in the submission like your one did.
Basically you put too much, and at the same time not enough, information in the summary. You grabbed sections from a coherent article and made a somewhat different article out of it. You think your information was relevant, but what a Slashdot summary is supposed to do is to push the core information in a couple of sentances and then send the reader to the link.
Your summary didn't give the historical background to the case, didn't give the charges laid against Couture or an indication of what the content was. That's what is needed in a summary. Sorry to be harsh, but your one was a mish-mash.
Thanks for your thoughts. I should re-read what I posted and if I bother to submit again, I'll keep it in mind.
and not a single mod point in months and months, whereas before that I was getting 15 at a time
Random distribution is random.
But I don't think it is random.
It used to be; they'd come & go in groups of 5 with suitably long periods between them. Then they came in groups of 15 every few days to the point where I was tired of reading at a low threshold (threshhold?), then they disappeared completely.
Though you could be right in that they are now back to random and weren't random before. Or it was always truly random with a bizarre cluster of continuous points, but I began to think something else what happening.
The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia â" all with young female victims.
"Art" perhaps. But I'd keep an eye on this guy. Of course it's only my reactionary opinion, but I think people that have an obsession with this sort of thing have a problem, and I'd want to make sure they don't "jump" to exercising a more "real world" form of their entertainment.
Probably best then to keep an eye on all those that pay to see gore-filled movies, since he was only trying to get work in the production of said movies.
i.e. Anyone watching CSI: watch 'em. Viewing Saw: watch 'em (ok, I might even agree with that one). The list is too long to enumerate.
It's really frustrating that it's still on roughly the first page of the "submissions" page, but a "dupe" was accepted.
Note, I don't bear any ill feelings towards user "wilbrod" for also submitting it, it's just that I feel I wasted my time bothering to. And it isn't the first time this has happened. And, IMHO, my submission was a bit lengthier and contained a bit more relevant info for the Slashdot crowd.
And, since I'm on a caffeine deficient rant-binge, where the hell are my mod points? I comment, submit stories, rate the submissions of others (to help relieve the deluge of spam, etc.), and not a single mod point in months and months, whereas before that I was getting 15 at a time(!) and they reappeared almost as soon as I used them up (sometimes even before).
Fact: saying fact before a statement makes it an inarguable universal truth. Pro-tip: use the Fact: prefix before making stating any opinion in an online forum.
FWIW I happen to agree. But for $DEITY's sake, just state your case.
Try reading the GP comment for the reason.
Hint: he (Symbolset) is responding to that poster's arrogance.
Hint #2: the GP's comment states 3 "facts" as though stating such that makes them inarguable truths.
FWIW, I agree that it's bad form, but it was a response-in-kind that you replied to.
The problem is the best damned tool ever made for testing drives hasn't been updating in years and now won't work on drives bigger than 500Gb, I am of course talking about Spinrite. With Spinrite on lvl 2 you just bypass the firmware and write patterns of zeroes and ones and then read back what it reports, if its spitting errors right off the bat then you know to send it back. Problem is Gibson hasn't updated the thing since 06 so it can't handle drives bigger than 500Gb which makes it all but useless today.
So if anybody has found something that works similar to spinrite but works on large drives I too would like to know, I get drives coming in from all over the place at the shop with ZERO history here at the shop so I don't know if they've been barely used or thoroughly abused and having a tool I can run on them would be a big help.
Have you contacted Gibson about updating the software?
I'm curious why he hasn't updated it, has he given any reasons? Would he consider updating for a commission (although I imagine he'd make a good bit from sales regardless of initial commission).
Lego has sold out to the International Slashdot Consortium, allowing an image of their toys to desecrate this very story, right here on the front page of Slashdot.
When shopping for presents for kids it seems all of them have tie-ins to other products: Barbie, some movie, cartoon characters, etc.
Simple toys that exist on their own seem a rarity now (Spirograph, Rubik's Cube, Mechano (sp?), etc.) that I frankly hate shopping for something for kids.
Even Crayola products seem to be tied to Dora or whatever. Or come with coloured markers that seem to expire instantly, unlike crayons.
I don't remember it being so bad back in the dark ages when I was a kid. Was it Star Wars that brought us this trend? McDonald's Happy Meals? Where did it start?
i.e. Wong Tse Mei could be known to Chinese friends as "Mei Mei", English speaking friends as "Sally"...
Indeed they do it like that, but the "Mei Mei" version is rather colloquial and primarily used for children,
Ah. That explains the instances I hear it - most always have been friends since childhood, or siblings (though not always).
and the English name "Sally" would be used by most Chinese speaking friends as well. The short-hand version would more likely become "Ah-Mei" - it is so often that I have been told to "ask for ah-something" when I was looking for say the person in charge of a scrap yard, or a construction site, or shop.
I thought Ah-something indicated a senior / elder position? Ah-po for "granny", for example?
In case of official forms it's easy and unambiguous: "the name as it appears on your Hong Kong ID card". And that's got a very strict order of "surname, given names" with all given names fully written out.
Of course, however I'm looking at it as a Vancouverite who has never been to HK or China, so whilst not an expert, I only go by ~20 years of... close proximity. So here, it can be confusing as an HK immigrant might want to anticipate what the Government of Canada wants for the format, squeeze the English first name in there, put the surname in appropriate field, then have 2 more names remaining that may be used, or not, or just the initials,...
I've really got to go to HK; I've been pleading to be taught more Cantonese for years but it somehow just doesn't happen. I've been told that, despite my limited vocabulary, I sound more authentic than some CBC (Cdn-Born-Chinese). *Sigh* Maybe I should study outside the home and surprise someone. This neighbourhood is >50% Chinese according to the previous Stats Can data, or so I've heard.
Have been picking up bits of phrases as recently as the weekend during a marathon of 3rd Kingdom (3 Kingdom?). Kinda funny show, too bad no English subtitles.
In Hong Kong it's even more so: all the locals have a Chinese name, written surname first - which sites like Facebook tend to mess up as they use the Western format of given name first. Many also go by an English name, which they actually use mostly in daily life, yet many never bother to register that English name on their passports. That makes it a nickname, yet also the name friends and business associate will know first and foremost.
And then, they'll take their 2nd or 3rd name, double it up, and use that as a Chinese nickname as well as having an English nickname.
i.e. Wong Tse Mei could be known to Chinese friends as "Mei Mei", English speaking friends as "Sally"...
And when in North America, they'll use the English name, sometimes use the 2nd & 3rd name's initials (sometimes not, sometimes the whole words), and the surname (which, like you said, comes first usually) in official documents.
Gets confusing fast! "What combination of 4 names did I use on my insurance / license / government forms,...
What, you don't think your 13 year old is smart enough to find the porn he or she wants? You're not protecting anyone from anything. Your prudery is probably more harmful than the porn you're so afraid of.
So let's say you're helping your 13 year old with two of their friends of a similar age on a group homework project.
You're at the computer with them, looking for an image to use via google image search. Thanks to the lack of filtering you endorse, your search for anatomical images for their science project is also interspersed with some images that have a slightly different educational function.
The other kids then report to their parents that you showed them porn on your computer. Next thing you know you're being visited by the police who seize your computer, laptop and iPad. Next, child services have taken away your kids. Your name is muck, you lose your job as a result of the press attention and you need to remortgage the house to clear the whole mess up.
It seems the filtering ought to be optional and able to be turned off when not helping kids with homework, for example.
The scenario you've hypothesized seems more of a bug in society than search engine technology.
I spent several years letting Gmail handle everything for me, but in the last few months I decided to go back to running my own IMAP server, using Fetchmail, and reading my mail on a standalone client.
So far the state of standalone clients compared to webmail is pretty dismal. I'm using Thunderbird now but I really miss a search function that works, as well as an addressbook that doesn't have arbitrary limitations such as a maximum of two email addresses per contact.
Interesting you say that - I recently upgraded from Thunderbird 9 to 17 and somewhat accidentally stumbled upon the search feature that resides in the toolbar. It's an order of magnitude better than the one in the Edit menu.
Have you tried the toolbar search, which opens in a new tab and allows for a fair bit of refinement? If so, how do you find it lacking?
Sitting at my personal computer, with another in my pocket, both connected to a world-wide network that allows formerly unimaginable near instantaneous communication, let me say that, "Scientists don't know nuthin' - they're just shills in it for the big bucks and I don't believe a word that they say!!!11!"
/end sad, perplexed, and thoroughly disgusted mode
The man who wrote the software for the image processing to handle the raw data that came out of that "camera" works in the Computer Science department at the local community college here now. I have spoken to him at length on this topic. He clarified that it is not a camera at all, but simply a "light sensor" (think sensitive photoresistor). The only thing that makes it able to render an image at all is the rotation of the spacecraft. He also explained that the rotating motion coupled with the linear direction of the craft resulted in really interesting and strange swooping distortions of the "image" produced which was why they needed him to write something special to correct the curvature of the images. All pretty fascinating stuff.
Fascinating stuff indeed. I gather you're near Ottawa? I seem to recall from TFA that one of the authors was based there. (I'm in Vancouver myself.)
Anyway, if the sensor is as you describe, I'm curious how they colourized it - was that done in post-processing or was the device able to determine the colour itself?
I guess I'm still curious about the number of bits the device captured - seems to me a single bit would not be sufficient, but am willing to learn anything about how they accomplished it.
The design of these spacecrafts is simply amazing. No wonder the US was the technological marvel of the world at the time. Considering the tools that were available then and the thought that was put into the effects of space on the motion, is mind boggling. Not to mention a power source that will last 88 years and the fact that they are still going and communicating while using a 1 bit camera to create fantastic pictures. I am humbled. The technology that was created and developed as a side effect of this monumental tasks is what made the US a technology giant. We need more of this positive vision and less of the negative sabre rattling.
I agree with everything you've said, but... I think it's a 1-pixel camera, not 1-bit.
TFA refers to images stitched together pixel-by-pixel, but the images appear to have natural, though low bit depth colour.
MS made this same announcement in '97 when they released win 98. The idea was similar to car model years, and the hope was that people would want to keep up appearances and buy a new model every year just like cars. This failed because of MS's inability to deliver on time, the OS was almost a year late in its release, so they abandoned that idea because it made them look bad. I wonder what will be different about it this time?
I suspect what will be different this time will be the new versions will have minimal changes. Rearrange some icons, change some colours, presto: new version.
I am reminded, for example, of Windows 7 coming so closely on the heels of Vista. Vista SP3 (or whatever), renamed to Windows 7, suddenly people who hated Vista loved 7. Go figure, it worked; maybe this new plan will be moderately successful too.
11. Video content that is purely snippets of text fading in and out with various video editor techniques. I can't count how many videos I've clicked on only to find plain text content. There is something about people these days that makes them want to put everything in a video otherwise "it doesn't feel real".
Damn right, cannot agree more on this.
I was tethering for my internet connection for a month and had to stay below 5 Gb lest I be throttled. I was searching for info on X and found something promising, but a video.
Load it up and watch - nothing but video of text with a couple still images embedded. I was quite furious - what's wrong with people that put those together and what kind of idiot is their intended audience?!?
Professor Obvious, chair of the Three Kinds of Lies committee, said today that it was a shocking discovery.
Could you find a new hobby besides posting here? The purpose of studies is not just to confirm knowledge or common sense suspicions, but to quantify that knowledge. There is no way in fuck that Professor Obvious knows a priori that an additional 1 second delay will cause 6% of viewers to flee. Professor Brilliant might know this, but that ain't me and it ain't you.
Give him/her a break; their posts are almost always insightful or entertaining. In this case, you are correct in that the quantification is useful info, however the GP post was entertaining in that it was humorous.
So, the submitter is a multi-millionaire / billionaire; got it. You're quite perceptive.
people download some free software that promises to solve their problems.
And the software promises to solve problems, not simply "here's what it does, you can use it for free."
The software is confusing and poorly laid out.
You know this how? I can only imagine from trying to futz with your own creations maybe?
They do what comes naturally: ask the company to stand behind their product.
Ah, entitlement, a lovely attribute; "stand behind what you gave me for free - I want ___."
The company replies with a crafty, "pay us, we will only help you for $$$, this is the only language we understand, otherwise get lost and back to your hovel, peasant."
It's getting hard to deal with all the stupidity in your one post in an itemized manner.
The customer is then rightfully angry that such a bait-and-switch has been pulled. Do you get it now, Corporate Master?
Bait-and-switch huh? Like if I called the creators of Apache, or Ubuntu, or the Linux kernel and demanded help, and they directed me to a paid support channel, it'd be bait-and-switch?
I suppose I see the attraction of arguing with the straw men in your head: you can always win, even if you look like an idiot for doing it.
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XKCD's Umwelt comic for April Fools 2012, the best comic ever.
Dozens of different comics presented depending on your IP, your browser, your geolocation, and many other factors too numerous to enumerate.
A mind boggling concept, a tremendous amount of work, incredible creativity.
Shout out to Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Tom the Dancing Bug, too. Tom Tomorrow also hits it out of the park on occasion.
(years ago) I used to get blasted at home from China IP addrs trying various root passwords. Flooding my logs with failures. Since then I only allow key auth from the untrustable internet. I'd never allow password auth over the internet. Copying a key is not a big deal. Or logging into another machine that I know has a key, etc.
On the LAN, if some clown gets infected and port scanning / password scanning, I can literally walk over and physically take care of it.
This may not be of use to you anymore, but I'll toss it out there: fail2ban.
I use it to ban IPs attempting ssh-as-root on first attempt, ssh login password failures on 3rd attempt. Uses iptables to block the malicious addresses. Works like a charm.
Also has "jails" for Apache-based log failures, such as attempts to access PHPMyAdmin (what ever it's called), which is worthwhile to run just for that, and a host of others.
Ask your company's legal team about options, such as suing in the UK for defamation.
Just a thought.
How about sending a bunch of spam from a laptop at an open Wifi like Starbucks, where the spam is promoting UCEprotect.org. Send it to/through Gmail and other blacklist organizations. The goal being to get them placed on a spam blacklist...
Either seems preferable to spending 300 Euros for an express de-list. Then, doing it again, etc.
Make sure you monitor out-going email through your ISP's servers so that no spam is being sent by your customers.
Agree with your constructive criticism however contrary to slashdot lore a summary does not have to be in one's own words, cut and paste is a valid summary, even more so if it actually summarises TFA..
Yeah, I thought by careful copy/pasting I was honouring the original article's intent while hopefully driving traffic to it and minimizing my own editorializing. Plus I didn't just paste the entire article into the submission, which I consider a no-no.
Although I did add what I thought was very pertinent, the part about the police being notified of this guy's art years ago, then, this year being notified of something similar that happened in Montreal, which turned out to be a real snuff film. I seem to recall there being criticism of the police at the time for not investigating the snuff film promptly enough (and I might have levelled some of that criticism), however it turns out they'd seem something similar before but it wasn't a crime scene.
Replying again: I thought it was highly relevant to bring the Jun Lin case into the submission I made, as the police had been advised in this case that a pathologist couldn't determine that a crime had not been committed (i.e. the effects were that good); they looked into it and found no violence had been committed.
Then the newer case from this summer where police were tipped off to an actual crime committed, recorded, and posted on a web site. They might have been a bit hesitant to look into the 2nd case; once bitten twice shy, etc.
Cheers
I'm not a Slashdot editor, but I'd say they picked this submission because it was a proper summary and didn't copy/paste sections of the original story in the submission like your one did.
Basically you put too much, and at the same time not enough, information in the summary. You grabbed sections from a coherent article and made a somewhat different article out of it. You think your information was relevant, but what a Slashdot summary is supposed to do is to push the core information in a couple of sentances and then send the reader to the link.
Your summary didn't give the historical background to the case, didn't give the charges laid against Couture or an indication of what the content was. That's what is needed in a summary. Sorry to be harsh, but your one was a mish-mash.
Thanks for your thoughts. I should re-read what I posted and if I bother to submit again, I'll keep it in mind.
and not a single mod point in months and months, whereas before that I was getting 15 at a time
Random distribution is random.
But I don't think it is random.
It used to be; they'd come & go in groups of 5 with suitably long periods between them. Then they came in groups of 15 every few days to the point where I was tired of reading at a low threshold (threshhold?), then they disappeared completely.
Though you could be right in that they are now back to random and weren't random before. Or it was always truly random with a bizarre cluster of continuous points, but I began to think something else what happening.
The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia â" all with young female victims.
"Art" perhaps. But I'd keep an eye on this guy. Of course it's only my reactionary opinion, but I think people that have an obsession with this sort of thing have a problem, and I'd want to make sure they don't "jump" to exercising a more "real world" form of their entertainment.
Probably best then to keep an eye on all those that pay to see gore-filled movies, since he was only trying to get work in the production of said movies.
i.e. Anyone watching CSI: watch 'em. Viewing Saw: watch 'em (ok, I might even agree with that one). The list is too long to enumerate.
Plus, Star Trek, etc.: sfx there too...
I submitted this story yesterday.
It's really frustrating that it's still on roughly the first page of the "submissions" page, but a "dupe" was accepted.
Note, I don't bear any ill feelings towards user "wilbrod" for also submitting it, it's just that I feel I wasted my time bothering to. And it isn't the first time this has happened. And, IMHO, my submission was a bit lengthier and contained a bit more relevant info for the Slashdot crowd.
And, since I'm on a caffeine deficient rant-binge, where the hell are my mod points? I comment, submit stories, rate the submissions of others (to help relieve the deluge of spam, etc.), and not a single mod point in months and months, whereas before that I was getting 15 at a time(!) and they reappeared almost as soon as I used them up (sometimes even before).
*off to get some coffee and food into me*
Fact: saying fact before a statement makes it an inarguable universal truth.
Pro-tip: use the Fact: prefix before making stating any opinion in an online forum.
FWIW I happen to agree. But for $DEITY's sake, just state your case.
Try reading the GP comment for the reason.
Hint: he (Symbolset) is responding to that poster's arrogance.
Hint #2: the GP's comment states 3 "facts" as though stating such that makes them inarguable truths.
FWIW, I agree that it's bad form, but it was a response-in-kind that you replied to.
Cheers
The problem is the best damned tool ever made for testing drives hasn't been updating in years and now won't work on drives bigger than 500Gb, I am of course talking about Spinrite. With Spinrite on lvl 2 you just bypass the firmware and write patterns of zeroes and ones and then read back what it reports, if its spitting errors right off the bat then you know to send it back. Problem is Gibson hasn't updated the thing since 06 so it can't handle drives bigger than 500Gb which makes it all but useless today.
So if anybody has found something that works similar to spinrite but works on large drives I too would like to know, I get drives coming in from all over the place at the shop with ZERO history here at the shop so I don't know if they've been barely used or thoroughly abused and having a tool I can run on them would be a big help.
Have you contacted Gibson about updating the software?
I'm curious why he hasn't updated it, has he given any reasons? Would he consider updating for a commission (although I imagine he'd make a good bit from sales regardless of initial commission).
Lego has sold out to the International Slashdot Consortium, allowing an image of their toys to desecrate this very story, right here on the front page of Slashdot.
For shame, Lego, for shame!
When shopping for presents for kids it seems all of them have tie-ins to other products: Barbie, some movie, cartoon characters, etc.
Simple toys that exist on their own seem a rarity now (Spirograph, Rubik's Cube, Mechano (sp?), etc.) that I frankly hate shopping for something for kids.
Even Crayola products seem to be tied to Dora or whatever. Or come with coloured markers that seem to expire instantly, unlike crayons.
I don't remember it being so bad back in the dark ages when I was a kid. Was it Star Wars that brought us this trend? McDonald's Happy Meals? Where did it start?
In related news, half the school was arrested on suspicion of rape, after evidence of drawing penises was found.
It's far worse than that - half the school was is possession of penises! They were armed and ready.
i.e. Wong Tse Mei could be known to Chinese friends as "Mei Mei", English speaking friends as "Sally"...
Indeed they do it like that, but the "Mei Mei" version is rather colloquial and primarily used for children,
Ah. That explains the instances I hear it - most always have been friends since childhood, or siblings (though not always).
and the English name "Sally" would be used by most Chinese speaking friends as well. The short-hand version would more likely become "Ah-Mei" - it is so often that I have been told to "ask for ah-something" when I was looking for say the person in charge of a scrap yard, or a construction site, or shop.
I thought Ah-something indicated a senior / elder position? Ah-po for "granny", for example?
In case of official forms it's easy and unambiguous: "the name as it appears on your Hong Kong ID card". And that's got a very strict order of "surname, given names" with all given names fully written out.
Of course, however I'm looking at it as a Vancouverite who has never been to HK or China, so whilst not an expert, I only go by ~20 years of ... close proximity. So here, it can be confusing as an HK immigrant might want to anticipate what the Government of Canada wants for the format, squeeze the English first name in there, put the surname in appropriate field, then have 2 more names remaining that may be used, or not, or just the initials, ...
I've really got to go to HK; I've been pleading to be taught more Cantonese for years but it somehow just doesn't happen. I've been told that, despite my limited vocabulary, I sound more authentic than some CBC (Cdn-Born-Chinese). *Sigh* Maybe I should study outside the home and surprise someone. This neighbourhood is >50% Chinese according to the previous Stats Can data, or so I've heard.
Have been picking up bits of phrases as recently as the weekend during a marathon of 3rd Kingdom (3 Kingdom?). Kinda funny show, too bad no English subtitles.
Cheers, "ngo ho an-fun, fen gao-la!"
In Hong Kong it's even more so: all the locals have a Chinese name, written surname first - which sites like Facebook tend to mess up as they use the Western format of given name first. Many also go by an English name, which they actually use mostly in daily life, yet many never bother to register that English name on their passports. That makes it a nickname, yet also the name friends and business associate will know first and foremost.
And then, they'll take their 2nd or 3rd name, double it up, and use that as a Chinese nickname as well as having an English nickname.
i.e. Wong Tse Mei could be known to Chinese friends as "Mei Mei", English speaking friends as "Sally"...
And when in North America, they'll use the English name, sometimes use the 2nd & 3rd name's initials (sometimes not, sometimes the whole words), and the surname (which, like you said, comes first usually) in official documents.
Gets confusing fast! "What combination of 4 names did I use on my insurance / license / government forms, ...
So let's say you're helping your 13 year old with two of their friends of a similar age on a group homework project.
You're at the computer with them, looking for an image to use via google image search. Thanks to the lack of filtering you endorse, your search for anatomical images for their science project is also interspersed with some images that have a slightly different educational function.
The other kids then report to their parents that you showed them porn on your computer. Next thing you know you're being visited by the police who seize your computer, laptop and iPad. Next, child services have taken away your kids. Your name is muck, you lose your job as a result of the press attention and you need to remortgage the house to clear the whole mess up.
It seems the filtering ought to be optional and able to be turned off when not helping kids with homework, for example.
The scenario you've hypothesized seems more of a bug in society than search engine technology.
I spent several years letting Gmail handle everything for me, but in the last few months I decided to go back to running my own IMAP server, using Fetchmail, and reading my mail on a standalone client.
So far the state of standalone clients compared to webmail is pretty dismal. I'm using Thunderbird now but I really miss a search function that works, as well as an addressbook that doesn't have arbitrary limitations such as a maximum of two email addresses per contact.
Interesting you say that - I recently upgraded from Thunderbird 9 to 17 and somewhat accidentally stumbled upon the search feature that resides in the toolbar. It's an order of magnitude better than the one in the Edit menu.
Have you tried the toolbar search, which opens in a new tab and allows for a fair bit of refinement? If so, how do you find it lacking?
Sitting at my personal computer, with another in my pocket, both connected to a world-wide network that allows formerly unimaginable near instantaneous communication, let me say that, "Scientists don't know nuthin' - they're just shills in it for the big bucks and I don't believe a word that they say!!!11!"
Actually...
The man who wrote the software for the image processing to handle the raw data that came out of that "camera" works in the Computer Science department at the local community college here now. I have spoken to him at length on this topic. He clarified that it is not a camera at all, but simply a "light sensor" (think sensitive photoresistor). The only thing that makes it able to render an image at all is the rotation of the spacecraft. He also explained that the rotating motion coupled with the linear direction of the craft resulted in really interesting and strange swooping distortions of the "image" produced which was why they needed him to write something special to correct the curvature of the images. All pretty fascinating stuff.
Fascinating stuff indeed. I gather you're near Ottawa? I seem to recall from TFA that one of the authors was based there. (I'm in Vancouver myself.)
Anyway, if the sensor is as you describe, I'm curious how they colourized it - was that done in post-processing or was the device able to determine the colour itself?
I guess I'm still curious about the number of bits the device captured - seems to me a single bit would not be sufficient, but am willing to learn anything about how they accomplished it.
The design of these spacecrafts is simply amazing. No wonder the US was the technological marvel of the world at the time. Considering the tools that were available then and the thought that was put into the effects of space on the motion, is mind boggling. Not to mention a power source that will last 88 years and the fact that they are still going and communicating while using a 1 bit camera to create fantastic pictures. I am humbled. The technology that was created and developed as a side effect of this monumental tasks is what made the US a technology giant. We need more of this positive vision and less of the negative sabre rattling.
I agree with everything you've said, but... I think it's a 1-pixel camera, not 1-bit.
TFA refers to images stitched together pixel-by-pixel, but the images appear to have natural, though low bit depth colour.
MS made this same announcement in '97 when they released win 98. The idea was similar to car model years, and the hope was that people would want to keep up appearances and buy a new model every year just like cars. This failed because of MS's inability to deliver on time, the OS was almost a year late in its release, so they abandoned that idea because it made them look bad. I wonder what will be different about it this time?
I suspect what will be different this time will be the new versions will have minimal changes. Rearrange some icons, change some colours, presto: new version.
I am reminded, for example, of Windows 7 coming so closely on the heels of Vista. Vista SP3 (or whatever), renamed to Windows 7, suddenly people who hated Vista loved 7. Go figure, it worked; maybe this new plan will be moderately successful too.
11. Video content that is purely snippets of text fading in and out with various video editor techniques. I can't count how many videos I've clicked on only to find plain text content. There is something about people these days that makes them want to put everything in a video otherwise "it doesn't feel real".
Damn right, cannot agree more on this.
I was tethering for my internet connection for a month and had to stay below 5 Gb lest I be throttled. I was searching for info on X and found something promising, but a video.
Load it up and watch - nothing but video of text with a couple still images embedded. I was quite furious - what's wrong with people that put those together and what kind of idiot is their intended audience?!?
Grrr.
Professor Obvious, chair of the Three Kinds of Lies committee, said today that it was a shocking discovery.
Could you find a new hobby besides posting here? The purpose of studies is not just to confirm knowledge or common sense suspicions, but to quantify that knowledge. There is no way in fuck that Professor Obvious knows a priori that an additional 1 second delay will cause 6% of viewers to flee. Professor Brilliant might know this, but that ain't me and it ain't you.
Give him/her a break; their posts are almost always insightful or entertaining. In this case, you are correct in that the quantification is useful info, however the GP post was entertaining in that it was humorous.
GirlInTraining, please don't stop posting here.
A winner in the Jumping To Conclusions event.
It's like this, 1%-er:
So, the submitter is a multi-millionaire / billionaire; got it. You're quite perceptive.
people download some free software that promises to solve their problems.
And the software promises to solve problems, not simply "here's what it does, you can use it for free."
The software is confusing and poorly laid out.
You know this how? I can only imagine from trying to futz with your own creations maybe?
They do what comes naturally: ask the company to stand behind their product.
Ah, entitlement, a lovely attribute; "stand behind what you gave me for free - I want ___."
The company replies with a crafty, "pay us, we will only help you for $$$, this is the only language we understand, otherwise get lost and back to your hovel, peasant."
It's getting hard to deal with all the stupidity in your one post in an itemized manner.
The customer is then rightfully angry that such a bait-and-switch has been pulled. Do you get it now, Corporate Master?
Bait-and-switch huh? Like if I called the creators of Apache, or Ubuntu, or the Linux kernel and demanded help, and they directed me to a paid support channel, it'd be bait-and-switch?
I suppose I see the attraction of arguing with the straw men in your head: you can always win, even if you look like an idiot for doing it.