It's on the internet, so it's on slashdot. *shrug* Doesn't seem important. Is this guy likely to steer wikipedia in a new direction or is he just making up numbers?
Fix the fucking glaring typo, you barrel of twats. And while you're at it, fix the mobile bug where I get told I have 5 moderator points which expire 5 days ago. And why am I never logged in automatically like on other sites? To look at it, you'd think this was someone's first site circa 1995.
"Then they tell you the same thing is not a crime if you do it in order to catch other people doing it. So, is it a crime or isn't it? I don't know of another crime that it is OK to "perform" if you're "the good guy"..."
An odd argument. You can't speed on the roads but the police can, to catch criminals. You can't place people into rooms and not let them out, but the police can when they've "arrested" someone. You can't own a gun (in the uk, with very few exceptions) but the police can.
It supports it indirectly, because it's the first stage towards making them compulsory, and the next stage will be requiring other tech be included; limiting the number of shots which can be fired, allowing them to be remotely disabled by the police or whoever. Once you've got tech in there you've turned the gun into a turing machine and just about anything is possible.
If the kids are 16+ then the parents' opinion isn't too important, is it?
And the reason for doing it? Well, in the US, billions upon billions of dollars has been spent on detecting, prosecuting and jailing the users, growers and importers of this more or less (for the vast majority of users) harmless plant. And if drugs policy is to be based on facts then this sort of fact is just one more reason to give it up already and let adults decide what plants they'd like to benefit from.
Everyone who's got windows updates enabled is burning through 5gigs in about half a year or so; this is not big deal. People are going to complain about every last thing that every last company does. When you get a computer and connect it to the internet there needs to be an expectation that it's going to have to keep updating itself - forever - and that this is going to use data, so if you're one of these people who've opted for a metered connection you need to take the initiative and manage it carefully. Everyone else is going to silently and conveniently get their their machine patched. As a linux user I want windows boxed patched, thanks, and if you have to pay then that's fine with me. Windows zombie botnets are getting old.
"If you combine many hashes this way, you'll map a huge range of different data onto the same output....Combining different hashes is a good idea, but one weak link in the chain will probably ruin it all."
OP's not suggesting you combine an arbitrary number of arbitrary hash algorithms though, but specifically those two, once each.
They are helping themselves; they're making money from advertisers. Advertiser don't like it, but the spammers don't care. And I don't care, as run adblocking software on every device I own. What's hurting advertisers is adverts, which nobody ever wants to see. Yes, you can argue it's how sites make money. I don't care about that either. I'd rather pay a (micro)subscription than have random companies getting in my face trying to sell me shit I don't want or need.
Makes you wonder why all planes don't have laser detection systems. You know where the plane is, you can see where the laser is coming from; won't take many flights to build up a pattern of where the fuckwits who shine them at planes live and send the police round to shoot them.
I can't wait for enough space to have a sensible discussion. How is it suicide? Stick to short messages if you like ; I've not read that using all the space is mandatory. If they're smart they will make clear when you reach the original 140 char limit so you can still read a precis of a longer post.
Doesn't it depend on the project? I've hung around the neovim project and from just the gitter/irc forum and the commits I don't get the impression folk there would either know nor care what gender (or race, or if you are disabled etc) you are. Is it hard to find projects like this? What percentage of OS projects do have this problem? Can they be identified easily?
Knowing how/why some people have been brought up a certain way might be interesting to some people but I don't think that that group intersects with the group of people who are interested in writing, using or reading about open source software. From my experience in the industry, the best developers are self taught and self motivated and won't let other people's opinions or attitude problems get in the way. They just get on and code. It's unpaid work, done for fun. Some people quit projects because of disagreements with management style or direction but I'm not sure there's much mileage in outside forces trying to change anything; it just is what it is.
It's kind of because I use a kindle all the time now that I mentioned the subject. Yes, they support PDF format but they're horrific and almost unusable. There's no reason I can think of to want to create them. Reading them is exactly the same as reading an overly large PNG file; you have to zoom in/out, scroll around etc. It's just a UI disaster.
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> I got all the "work ON my computer" out of my system (no pun) in the Apple ][ days.
I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS TOO!
It's on the internet, so it's on slashdot. *shrug* Doesn't seem important. Is this guy likely to steer wikipedia in a new direction or is he just making up numbers?
Eh? I know a lot of amateurs working in IT. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Sorry, who are you? YouTube is the successful product of a wealthy and powerful company. It doesn't need defending.
Fix the fucking glaring typo, you barrel of twats. And while you're at it, fix the mobile bug where I get told I have 5 moderator points which expire 5 days ago. And why am I never logged in automatically like on other sites? To look at it, you'd think this was someone's first site circa 1995.
"Then they tell you the same thing is not a crime if you do it in order to catch other people doing it. So, is it a crime or isn't it? I don't know of another crime that it is OK to "perform" if you're "the good guy"..."
An odd argument. You can't speed on the roads but the police can, to catch criminals. You can't place people into rooms and not let them out, but the police can when they've "arrested" someone. You can't own a gun (in the uk, with very few exceptions) but the police can.
In summary, your argument needs a little work.
It supports it indirectly, because it's the first stage towards making them compulsory, and the next stage will be requiring other tech be included; limiting the number of shots which can be fired, allowing them to be remotely disabled by the police or whoever. Once you've got tech in there you've turned the gun into a turing machine and just about anything is possible.
They use Scratch, and language like it, to teach 10 year olds in the uk. Anyone who thinks c++ is a better choice for that task is fucked in the head.
I wasn't talking about customs and rituals specific the US.
If the kids are 16+ then the parents' opinion isn't too important, is it?
And the reason for doing it? Well, in the US, billions upon billions of dollars has been spent on detecting, prosecuting and jailing the users, growers and importers of this more or less (for the vast majority of users) harmless plant. And if drugs policy is to be based on facts then this sort of fact is just one more reason to give it up already and let adults decide what plants they'd like to benefit from.
> SO doesn't really have the right to force a license on the code posted there
They made clear under which license any code posted there was protected. No-one was ever forced to post there or accept anything.
> they are pretending to worry about people using the code, but ignoring the broken part of the people posting the
code.
"they" are a company who've made their view clear. There's no need to imagine they're pretending anything.
Other parts of the world? Other meaning not....America, I take it? Have you not seen some of the more tasteless subreddits?
next time they shoot or beat the shit out of a black person; hell, any disadvantaged person.
Everyone who's got windows updates enabled is burning through 5gigs in about half a year or so; this is not big deal. People are going to complain about every last thing that every last company does. When you get a computer and connect it to the internet there needs to be an expectation that it's going to have to keep updating itself - forever - and that this is going to use data, so if you're one of these people who've opted for a metered connection you need to take the initiative and manage it carefully. Everyone else is going to silently and conveniently get their their machine patched. As a linux user I want windows boxed patched, thanks, and if you have to pay then that's fine with me. Windows zombie botnets are getting old.
Didn't he use to be David Bowie?
"If you combine many hashes this way, you'll map a huge range of different data onto the same output....Combining different hashes is a good idea, but one weak link in the chain will probably ruin it all."
OP's not suggesting you combine an arbitrary number of arbitrary hash algorithms though, but specifically those two, once each.
They are helping themselves; they're making money from advertisers. Advertiser don't like it, but the spammers don't care. And I don't care, as run adblocking software on every device I own. What's hurting advertisers is adverts, which nobody ever wants to see. Yes, you can argue it's how sites make money. I don't care about that either. I'd rather pay a (micro)subscription than have random companies getting in my face trying to sell me shit I don't want or need.
Eh? If you know the password is 13 chars why would you bother guessing shorter passwords?
Makes you wonder why all planes don't have laser detection systems. You know where the plane is, you can see where the laser is coming from; won't take many flights to build up a pattern of where the fuckwits who shine them at planes live and send the police round to shoot them.
I can't wait for enough space to have a sensible discussion. How is it suicide? Stick to short messages if you like ; I've not read that using all the space is mandatory. If they're smart they will make clear when you reach the original 140 char limit so you can still read a precis of a longer post.
Doesn't it depend on the project? I've hung around the neovim project and from just the gitter/irc forum and the commits I don't get the impression folk there would either know nor care what gender (or race, or if you are disabled etc) you are. Is it hard to find projects like this? What percentage of OS projects do have this problem? Can they be identified easily?
Knowing how/why some people have been brought up a certain way might be interesting to some people but I don't think that that group intersects with the group of people who are interested in writing, using or reading about open source software. From my experience in the industry, the best developers are self taught and self motivated and won't let other people's opinions or attitude problems get in the way. They just get on and code. It's unpaid work, done for fun. Some people quit projects because of disagreements with management style or direction but I'm not sure there's much mileage in outside forces trying to change anything; it just is what it is.
I've never understood the fascination with 3d printers. Seems like an awfully expensive way to make cheap looking Christmas cracker toys.
> The baseband is pretty scary really, a huge black box that runs underneath the regular phone OS and has total
> control over it.
Not at all scary for Apple though, right, as it's their code and therefore fully under their control?
Fuck off,asshole. You're full of shit.
It's kind of because I use a kindle all the time now that I mentioned the subject. Yes, they support PDF format but they're horrific and almost unusable. There's no reason I can think of to want to create them. Reading them is exactly the same as reading an overly large PNG file; you have to zoom in/out, scroll around etc. It's just a UI disaster.