CrimethInc is an organisation, of which the person who spoke at Defcon is likely a member. It's a collective of self-styled 'subversives' and 'revolutionaries' who mount publicity stunts like this in order to sell music through their record label.
Most left-wingers who are familiar with them (myself included) disown them as poseurs.
That's my preference... it's mentioned in the interview too:
You can imagine living in a community where the landlord keeps hornets' nests, and he keeps whacking the nests. And then he keeps telling you, you need to buy protective clothing. He's right, but I wish he'd stop whacking the nest.
Check out this Bruce Schneier interview from Newsweek where he talks about real security vs security theatre. He basically says that surveillance, ID cards etc just provide an illusion of security (especially when limited to only a few sites: secure the olympic statium and they'll bomb the subway, or the CBD, or the stock exchange etc). Real security in the context of terrorism comes from better intelligence gathering and better spooks.
You VOLUNTARILY renew your drivers licence. The government ID card scheme that was defeated was to be COMPULSORY for all Australians.
That's great, but as I've been trying to tell you above, the licence is neccessary to conduct a normal life. Having a licence is not compulsory by law, but providing ID when you do certain things is, and if you don't provide a licence you have to provide your passport. No-one wants to carry around a passport, so everyone gets a licence ASAP. If you're arrested by the cops they ask for your licence, even if you're not driving. Do you get me?
I'm an Australian and a lefty, and I love it when a grass roots movement defeats some evil (as happened here when the draft was overturned), but sadly, the ID card was not the victory it appeared to be. It's a shame, and I wish it were otherwise, but that's how I see it.
Anyway, keep fighting the good fight wherever you are.
Instead we get to carry our driver's licences, which function as defacto ID cards. I don't have a car, but I keep renewing my licence so I can get by. Big win, eh?
My problem is that NONE of the themes other than the default work on OSX.
That's due to this bug, which mangles any cross-platform theme using native scrollbars. (You'll have to cut and paste the link, as Bugzilla fears Slashdot).
It's just four players in multiplayer mode, right? Carmack was saying something about leaving eight person multiplayer to the modding community (as you'd have to play at less than 100% eye candy / framerate to support it).
Anyone know what the hell is going on over at Slashdot HQ?
See this thread for wild speculation. Short version: there was a change to Slashcode that included making all of Slashdot available as a single RSS feed (rather than one feed per section as used to be the case), and on the hour RSS aggregators hit this single feed and somehow cause a 503 for logged in users.
Wild speculation, remember. Any actual solid info appreciated.
There's a rumour going around that it happenns on the hour due to RSS aggregators. It does seem to be worse for me on the hour, but that could perhaps be attributed everyone arriving at work / coming back from lunch etc on the hour...
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing does some sneaky quantising behind the scenes to make mixing easier for the average punter.
The accepted wisdom is that it takes about nine months to learn the basics of mixing vinyl, and I would imagine even longer for CDs or mp3s as you don't have the record grooves to give you cues as to track structure.
Learning to beatmix can be frustrating, and doesn't sit well with the pick-up-and-play ethos of console gaming. So my guess is that the Sony thingo does some spectrum analysis on the two sound files and nudges the beats into synch to make it easier. (Some CD players already do this, and some can even mix the tracks themselves in a rudimentary fashion... have a look at the Pioneer CMX-5000).
You've made many valid points, but anyone who works with the intricacies of HTML will tell you that Microsoft's markup is woeful.
However, I'm sure it would be simple (in both ASP and PHP) to write your own w3 compliant HTML library and serve up different stylesheets based on the client, so it's not really a huge issue.
To answer your original question, Perl has a popular module called Mason which abstracts HTML, and integrates well with mod_perl.
There's a Firefox extension that solves this problem: BugMeNot. It keeps a database of known good registrations, and you can add your own and report back any that stop working.
As regular UCB viewers know, you can do the same thing with "in bed", e.g.
I can't think of any other culture that would want to do something like this... in bed.
I bought a first gen PS2 and it was noisy and had a DVD drive that died almost instantly. Hold on until they have some time to iron out the hardware bugs -- it'll be way cheaper too.
Nintendo is adding new characters and settings, though. Pikmin is a great new franchise, as does Animal Crossing. Also, while MarioX, ZeldaX and MetroidX may be old characters, the design sensibility and gameplay is changing over the years (e.g. the fuss over the cel-shaded Zelda).
Maybe they could delete your hard drive, or open ports to let something really nasty in, or use your email client to send spam. Depending on what it can pass to the shell, this could be very nasty indeed.
Or, as my mother discovered, searching for things like "shower games" when looking up ideas for a bridal shower. That ended in a frantic phone call to me.
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CrimethInc is an organisation, of which the person who spoke at Defcon is likely a member. It's a collective of self-styled 'subversives' and 'revolutionaries' who mount publicity stunts like this in order to sell music through their record label.
Most left-wingers who are familiar with them (myself included) disown them as poseurs.
That's my preference... it's mentioned in the interview too:
You can imagine living in a community where the landlord keeps hornets' nests, and he keeps whacking the nests. And then he keeps telling you, you need to buy protective clothing. He's right, but I wish he'd stop whacking the nest.
Check out this Bruce Schneier interview from Newsweek where he talks about real security vs security theatre. He basically says that surveillance, ID cards etc just provide an illusion of security (especially when limited to only a few sites: secure the olympic statium and they'll bomb the subway, or the CBD, or the stock exchange etc). Real security in the context of terrorism comes from better intelligence gathering and better spooks.
You VOLUNTARILY renew your drivers licence. The government ID card scheme that was defeated was to be COMPULSORY for all Australians.
That's great, but as I've been trying to tell you above, the licence is neccessary to conduct a normal life. Having a licence is not compulsory by law, but providing ID when you do certain things is, and if you don't provide a licence you have to provide your passport. No-one wants to carry around a passport, so everyone gets a licence ASAP. If you're arrested by the cops they ask for your licence, even if you're not driving. Do you get me?
I'm an Australian and a lefty, and I love it when a grass roots movement defeats some evil (as happened here when the draft was overturned), but sadly, the ID card was not the victory it appeared to be. It's a shame, and I wish it were otherwise, but that's how I see it.
Anyway, keep fighting the good fight wherever you are.
Instead we get to carry our driver's licences, which function as defacto ID cards. I don't have a car, but I keep renewing my licence so I can get by. Big win, eh?
My problem is that NONE of the themes other than the default work on OSX.
That's due to this bug, which mangles any cross-platform theme using native scrollbars. (You'll have to cut and paste the link, as Bugzilla fears Slashdot).
The registration is intermittent -- just hit reload a few times and it'll go away. Or you can use the Firefox BugMeNot extension.
It's just four players in multiplayer mode, right? Carmack was saying something about leaving eight person multiplayer to the modding community (as you'd have to play at less than 100% eye candy / framerate to support it).
Anyone know what the hell is going on over at Slashdot HQ?
See this thread for wild speculation. Short version: there was a change to Slashcode that included making all of Slashdot available as a single RSS feed (rather than one feed per section as used to be the case), and on the hour RSS aggregators hit this single feed and somehow cause a 503 for logged in users.
Wild speculation, remember. Any actual solid info appreciated.
One of the main changes was to RSS -- see this comment for details.
There's a rumour going around that it happenns on the hour due to RSS aggregators. It does seem to be worse for me on the hour, but that could perhaps be attributed everyone arriving at work / coming back from lunch etc on the hour...
...Slashdot is a large program written in Perl.
You made coffee squirt out my nose. I would mod you up, sir, but I have spent the points already.
I wouldn't be surprised if this thing does some sneaky quantising behind the scenes to make mixing easier for the average punter.
The accepted wisdom is that it takes about nine months to learn the basics of mixing vinyl, and I would imagine even longer for CDs or mp3s as you don't have the record grooves to give you cues as to track structure.
Learning to beatmix can be frustrating, and doesn't sit well with the pick-up-and-play ethos of console gaming. So my guess is that the Sony thingo does some spectrum analysis on the two sound files and nudges the beats into synch to make it easier. (Some CD players already do this, and some can even mix the tracks themselves in a rudimentary fashion... have a look at the Pioneer CMX-5000).
Don't you mean FOURTHY THOUSAND? Honestly, the grammEr and spellung here just isn't up to Nigerian education ministry standards.
I like giving the user a simple message, then adding a 'Details' button for the stack trace etc.
You've made many valid points, but anyone who works with the intricacies of HTML will tell you that Microsoft's markup is woeful.
However, I'm sure it would be simple (in both ASP and PHP) to write your own w3 compliant HTML library and serve up different stylesheets based on the client, so it's not really a huge issue.
To answer your original question, Perl has a popular module called Mason which abstracts HTML, and integrates well with mod_perl.
it's a servicable means to explain the moves to new players.
I usually just say "The horsey makes an L-shape".
There's a Firefox extension that solves this problem: BugMeNot. It keeps a database of known good registrations, and you can add your own and report back any that stop working.
As regular UCB viewers know, you can do the same thing with "in bed", e.g. I can't think of any other culture that would want to do something like this... in bed.
I bought a first gen PS2 and it was noisy and had a DVD drive that died almost instantly. Hold on until they have some time to iron out the hardware bugs -- it'll be way cheaper too.
Nintendo is adding new characters and settings, though. Pikmin is a great new franchise, as does Animal Crossing. Also, while MarioX, ZeldaX and MetroidX may be old characters, the design sensibility and gameplay is changing over the years (e.g. the fuss over the cel-shaded Zelda).
Maybe they could delete your hard drive, or open ports to let something really nasty in, or use your email client to send spam. Depending on what it can pass to the shell, this could be very nasty indeed.
It is a fairly bad pun, like most programmer humour. : )
Or, as my mother discovered, searching for things like "shower games" when looking up ideas for a bridal shower. That ended in a frantic phone call to me.
Is your name Seymour, by any chance?