He keeps a web page with a hidden link that allows him to access his secret directory named "MSSys32" The beauty is that he can securely access his files from anywhere he as an internet connection.
I learned from American security and military speakers that, "We need
to attack Iraq not to punish it for what it might have, but
preemptively, as part of a global war. Iraq is just one piece of a
campaign that will last years, taking out states, cleansing the planet."
This is pure crap. What "American security and military speakers" are going to tell a JOURNALIST at an INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION that the U.S. wants a global war?
As with almost every other "accident" on the net these days, this is just part of someone's agenda.
Microsoft will also share its Windows source code as part of its Government Security Program, which allows governments to adapt the software and test its ability to fend off hackers.
So not only are they sharing the source code, they're allowing the Taiwanese governemt to make changes! Why don't I believe this.
"The NetHack DevTeam is pleased to announce the release of NetHack 3.4.1. NetHack 3.4 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack. It is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.3."
Does anyone know if NetHack 3.5 will be a descendent of NetHack 3.4? Someone told me that it was going to be a spreadsheet application.
So what's the big deal?
Information should be free. Why can't they collect and store all of this information? If *we the people* should have free access to all information, they why shouldn't *the government* also have free access to all information. If *we the people* should have the freedom to launch model rockets into the air even though some idiot might use one as an NBC weapon, then why can't *the government* have the freedom to gather and process information, even though some official might abuse the information.
*The government* has laws to punish the idiots from *we the people*. *We the people* have freedom of speech and the ability to vote to punish idiots from *the government*.
On the other hand, I've seen C and C++ programmers come up with the most amazingly fucked up atrocities to get around the strongly-typed nature of those languages, to solve a problem that could have been clearly and elegantly solved with a dynamically-typed language.
I'd be curious to see one of the problems where weak type checking allows for a "better" solution.
Strong type checking is huge, especially in the realm of code maintenance. Someone taking over another's code has to worry less about documentation and digging through code just to see what type of object was stuck in a collection. Also, there are huge classes of bugs that can be eliminated with strong type checking. Bugs that would otherwise only be found at runtime.
I think if a programmer can solve a problem better with dynamic typing, then its a case of programmer experience, not one of weak is better than strong. Just because I can't drive a back-hoe, it doesn't mean that a shovel is a better tool for digging large holes in the ground.
He goes on to say that some companies will assign Java and C++ programmers tasks that take them weeks but could be done by Perl or Python programmers in a few hours.
Someone please give me an example of such a task. If this is from a real world example (which I doubt) then I think those Java/C++ programmers shouldn't be employed.
I think that, once again, someone is under the impression that a person is only capable of one skill. Is the author in management somewhere?
Endless possibilities here though. Example: for rookies who can't tune worth shite (like me;) it would be huge for a tuner to get a direct feed from the exact string I'm trying to tune.
Hell, why not a self tuning guitar. Fixes itself during a show. Or even have a two way link and the board guys 'reconfigure' the instruments remotely.
As for broken cables, gonna be a big problem. That better be an industrial strength cat5 port, cause you're gonna bust cables ends much more often than strings. Maybe wireless, but that could lead to a whole new quality of bootlegs;)
Some of the highlights: A guitarist can run a cable over 2000 meters with no loss of audio quality. and The best part of the Gibson Digital Guitar system is its delivery of signal processing on a string-by-string basis, providing increased quality and flexibility.
In simple terms, you can do more stuff better. Reminds me of S-Video. My mind is spinning.
Its easy to be greedy if people are so willing to give you money. If I could make a few million by selling out, you don't think I would? Would you?
Look at the Joe Millionare crap. Fox sneaks an extra episode in, people bitch and moan about being ripped off, yet they still keep watching, and Fox gets even more $$$. Lucas should do the same thing, milk it man. Everyone will scream and cry, but they'll still watch, and they'll still buy the cartoon DVDs, and the Special Edition cartoon DVDs with extra footage, and cartoon DVDs with the bonus episdoe bundled with the movies.
Ok, so I only read the first few paragraphs...(so sue me, it was boring and stereotypical crap;)
But he starts down the path of "the smart kids getting picked on", which only applies in the movies. From what I remember from high school, confidence and social skills were more of a factor than intelligence. Alot of the bullies got good grades, and alot of those who were abused didn't. The people who were picked on had some combination of low self-confidence and poor social awareness (dressed bad, smelled funny, bad hair, etc..). Just looking at the nerds, geeks, etc.. and you knew which crowd they ran with. Alot of my D&D friends (yes, I'm old) ended up pumping gas and stocking shelves after school, not going to Stanford.
...some of us were created in the image of a Divine, Supreme Being to rule and have dominion over the whole earth, and to worship Him and spend eternity with Him in Heaven
Hmmm, sounds pretty "humble" and "meek" to me. Do you truly believe, or are you just going through the motions?
Right, and "all you can eat" restaurants are promoting world hunger because they don't let you bring 12 friends along to eat from your plate of food that you paid for and you should be able to do anything you want with.
The ISPs go under the assumption that not all of their subscribers are not going to be maxed out 24x7. If that changes then your "unlimited" access will get a bit more pricey.
Ha, What's even funnier is that the.NET version of bytecode (ala Java) can be easily reverse-engineered. So in a sense, all.NET applications are "Open Source".
My goal is to eventually be one of the paragraph long snipers. That takes more writing and communication skills than I currently have. I'll get there though. Practice, practice.
Also on campus is the Mary Beaver White building. And in the adjoining town is Beaver Avenue on which lies the Beaver Terrace apartments. And don't forget Penn State Beaver, a satellite campus located in Beaver County, PA.
Back to main campus, 20,000 Beavers between the ages of 17 and 23. This, my geek friends, is why one goes to college.
The flaw is in not requiring the user to change it.
The flaw IS requiring the user to change it. Why is remote administration even enabled by default?
Ignorant users should always be protected, while those in the know should have power. The feature should be disabled by default, and if someone knows it exists and wants to use it, they should be able to do so.
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He keeps a web page with a hidden link that allows him to access his secret directory named "MSSys32"
The beauty is that he can securely access his files from anywhere he as an internet connection.
Pure genius
Don't worry, they'll adapt.
Brain tumors will become a new fetish.
All the "I'm too good to own a television" people now get a chance post "I'm too good to own a cellphone"
Brace yourselves.
(Did I mention that I don't own a cellphone?)
I learned from American security and military speakers that, "We need to attack Iraq not to punish it for what it might have, but preemptively, as part of a global war. Iraq is just one piece of a campaign that will last years, taking out states, cleansing the planet."
This is pure crap. What "American security and military speakers" are going to tell a JOURNALIST at an INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION that the U.S. wants a global war?
As with almost every other "accident" on the net these days, this is just part of someone's agenda.
Don't be fooled.
Microsoft will also share its Windows source code as part of its Government Security Program, which allows governments to adapt the software and test its ability to fend off hackers.
So not only are they sharing the source code, they're allowing the Taiwanese governemt to make changes!
Why don't I believe this.
When banner ad revenue for a media outlet becomes more important than accuracy, it's time to find a new profession.
"The NetHack DevTeam is pleased to announce the release of NetHack 3.4.1. NetHack 3.4 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack. It is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.3."
Does anyone know if NetHack 3.5 will be a descendent of NetHack 3.4? Someone told me that it was going to be a spreadsheet application.
So what's the big deal?
Information should be free. Why can't they collect and store all of this information?
If *we the people* should have free access to all information, they why shouldn't *the government* also have free access to all information.
If *we the people* should have the freedom to launch model rockets into the air even though some idiot might use one as an NBC weapon, then why can't *the government* have the freedom to gather and process information, even though some official might abuse the information.
*The government* has laws to punish the idiots from *we the people*. *We the people* have freedom of speech and the ability to vote to punish idiots from *the government*.
On the other hand, I've seen C and C++ programmers come up with the most amazingly fucked up atrocities to get around the strongly-typed nature of those languages, to solve a problem that could have been clearly and elegantly solved with a dynamically-typed language.
I'd be curious to see one of the problems where weak type checking allows for a "better" solution.
Strong type checking is huge, especially in the realm of code maintenance. Someone taking over another's code has to worry less about documentation and digging through code just to see what type of object was stuck in a collection.
Also, there are huge classes of bugs that can be eliminated with strong type checking. Bugs that would otherwise only be found at runtime.
I think if a programmer can solve a problem better with dynamic typing, then its a case of programmer experience, not one of weak is better than strong.
Just because I can't drive a back-hoe, it doesn't mean that a shovel is a better tool for digging large holes in the ground.
He goes on to say that some companies will assign Java and C++ programmers tasks that take them weeks but could be done by Perl or Python programmers in a few hours.
Someone please give me an example of such a task.
If this is from a real world example (which I doubt) then I think those Java/C++ programmers shouldn't be employed.
I think that, once again, someone is under the impression that a person is only capable of one skill.
Is the author in management somewhere?
Endless possibilities here though. Example: for rookies who can't tune worth shite (like me ;) it would be huge for a tuner to get a direct feed from the exact string I'm trying to tune.
;)
Hell, why not a self tuning guitar. Fixes itself during a show. Or even have a two way link and the board guys 'reconfigure' the instruments remotely.
As for broken cables, gonna be a big problem. That better be an industrial strength cat5 port, cause you're gonna bust cables ends much more often than strings.
Maybe wireless, but that could lead to a whole new quality of bootlegs
But the question is - will it change anything?
Better link here
Some of the highlights:
A guitarist can run a cable over 2000 meters with no loss of audio quality.
and
The best part of the Gibson Digital Guitar system is its delivery of signal processing on a string-by-string basis, providing increased quality and flexibility.
In simple terms, you can do more stuff better. Reminds me of S-Video.
My mind is spinning.
Its easy to be greedy if people are so willing to give you money. If I could make a few million by selling out, you don't think I would? Would you?
/.
Look at the Joe Millionare crap. Fox sneaks an extra episode in, people bitch and moan about being ripped off, yet they still keep watching, and Fox gets even more $$$. Lucas should do the same thing, milk it man. Everyone will scream and cry, but they'll still watch, and they'll still buy the cartoon DVDs, and the Special Edition cartoon DVDs with extra footage, and cartoon DVDs with the bonus episdoe bundled with the movies.
Lucas reads his bank statement, not
Ok, so I only read the first few paragraphs...(so sue me, it was boring and stereotypical crap;)
But he starts down the path of "the smart kids getting picked on", which only applies in the movies. From what I remember from high school, confidence and social skills were more of a factor than intelligence. Alot of the bullies got good grades, and alot of those who were abused didn't. The people who were picked on had some combination of low self-confidence and poor social awareness (dressed bad, smelled funny, bad hair, etc..). Just looking at the nerds, geeks, etc.. and you knew which crowd they ran with. Alot of my D&D friends (yes, I'm old) ended up pumping gas and stocking shelves after school, not going to Stanford.
...some of us were created in the image of a Divine, Supreme Being to rule and have dominion over the whole earth, and to worship Him and spend eternity with Him in Heaven
Hmmm, sounds pretty "humble" and "meek" to me.
Do you truly believe, or are you just going through the motions?
Think about it.
Jeez, how do you expect the poor boy to get first post if he goes through all this work.
Show some love man.
Right, and "all you can eat" restaurants are promoting world hunger because they don't let you bring 12 friends along to eat from your plate of food that you paid for and you should be able to do anything you want with.
The ISPs go under the assumption that not all of their subscribers are not going to be maxed out 24x7. If that changes then your "unlimited" access will get a bit more pricey.
Now that we have our Moore's Law story, does that mean the Perl book review is coming soon?
Ha, What's even funnier is that the .NET version of bytecode (ala Java) can be easily reverse-engineered. So in a sense, all .NET applications are "Open Source".
My goal is to eventually be one of the paragraph long snipers. That takes more writing and communication skills than I currently have.
I'll get there though. Practice, practice.
I agree. I mean, we have all this sophisticated spell checking software available and people still can't figure out how to use it.
idiots
Also on campus is the Mary Beaver White building. And in the adjoining town is Beaver Avenue on which lies the Beaver Terrace apartments.
And don't forget Penn State Beaver, a satellite campus located in Beaver County, PA.
Back to main campus, 20,000 Beavers between the ages of 17 and 23. This, my geek friends, is why one goes to college.
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Why Iron was better than Bronze
The flaw is in not requiring the user to change it.
The flaw IS requiring the user to change it. Why is remote administration even enabled by default?
Ignorant users should always be protected, while those in the know should have power. The feature should be disabled by default, and if someone knows it exists and wants to use it, they should be able to do so.