More proof that violent movies cause violent behaviour! How many more lives need to be ruined by exploding glass tubes full of gas before we ban these movies forever?
Well, the bounty was more than Oracle would ever pay an Indian programmer over the course of that programmer's career, so I don't think they would care if Oracle found out.
I know I would tell my employer to shove it if I won a few hundred grand.
Well, the love scenes in the OT, while not great, were not painful and embarrassing to watch either. I guess the difference is they were only two or three lines, and Harrison Ford and Carrie Fischer can act.
So Lucas shouldn't write a love scene longer than two lines.
"I love you."
"I know."
is the limit of his abilities there.
Also, Lucas only knows how to give one direction to actors: "Faster, more intense." While fine for a "love" scene in a porno or a light saber battle, that doesn't really cut it for other situations.
Unlike many here, I believe the NYT opinion page is worth money (unfortunately, I'd put the price point at $20 rather than $50).
I can't believe all the people complaining about $0.13 a day. Most people throw more than that into tip jars every day to avoid the hassle of carrying loose change in their pockets.
If you really think $0.13/day is too much to pay for information like the Times puts out you might want to re-think your price-point. After all, consider what it will cost you in brain cells if you are stuck reading the crap fest that is the blog-o-sphere.
The U.S. could destroy the middle east from orbit, but they have troops in there fighting with simple hand held weapons. Sometimes you don't want to kill every one. It's bad PR. And who would pump your oil when you're done?
The empire must be hard up. This "moon" is only 7 km wide or so while The Death Star was 120km in diameter until destroyed by terrorists, and the Death Star II was 160km in diameter.
That UnRealID site is the worst I've seen in a long time.
First, any site with a Matrix fetish loses all credibility.
Second, clearly the site is designed to spread FUD. The fake image of the "Real ID" card indicates that the card will contain information such as Religion and Occupation. It will not. Read the bill. FUD.
The site says cops will die. Right. Because when cops are working under-cover they will be carrying their real ID cards. Just like today, when under-cover cops are required to carry their badge and drivers license. Oh, wait, no they aren't. FUD.
"every convenience store learns to grab that data and sell it to Big Data for a nickel" Right. Because every time I got to the convenience store I have to present my license. Oh, wait, no I don't. FUD.
Anyway, the site goes on with a bunch of rambling, random conspiracy nonsense (We'll turn into a communist state! Oh no! The highways will run red with blood!). There may be good reasons not to support this bill, but this web site doesn't give you any.
You could apply the random image idea a little earlier in the chain though. Rather than having the user enter a password on the keyboard, and then select an image with a mouse, you could have the user enter the password on an on-screen keyboard with a mouse.
The layout of the keyboard would need to be randomly re-generated after each mouse click. Otherwise the attacker would be able to learn information from the position of the mouse clicks (If the on-screen keyboard wasn't re-generated and the user clicked in the same spot more than once you would know they have duplicate symbols in their password, for example). Also, randomly changing the position of the keyboard on the screen probably isn't sufficient. You would actually need to randomly re-generate the keyboard layout.
It would also be wise to force the user to click around on the screen a random number of times so the attacker couldn't know how many characters are in the password.
Or is this a case of "security defeating usability":).
I wasn't sure if it was OK for me to not like Star Trek anymore. If it wasn't for Card telling me what to think I would probably never make up my mind.
His folksy bumbling is all part of the script. Anyone who can speak articulately must have been brainwashed with one of those elite liberal edumacations you hear so much about. We don't want those types of people in power.
Anything that requires everybody to manually play by the rules to work will not work. An app that requires files to be in a certain location on the file system is broken. An OS that requires (or makes it hard not to require) apps to know where on the file system files are is broken.
Perhaps giving every file (or logical unit of information really. Doesn't have to be a "file") created a globably uniqe id would be a step in the right direction. Then, when an app needs a file (library or data file) to run, it doesn't need to know where the file is. It just tells the OS (or some layer on top of the OS) "Give me the file with ID foo". The filesystem finds it, no matter where it is because every file written to the file system has its globally uniqe id indexed.
Huh. I see them every now and then. Banks I've been to have them on hand.
I always thought everyone knows someone who likes to pay in two dollar bills because that someone thinks nobody has ever seen a two dollar bill and likes to make fun of those who have never seen one.
Little does that someone know that everyone knows someone like that.
Yup. It could be a giant conspiracy. Or it could be that, because the Canadian Government helped build it. If the canadian Government has the same policies as the U.S., then they release a lot of public domain software as a matter-of-course.
I've done exactly as much research into this as you though, so I don't really know.
If modern software engineering was good, the change would be a few lines of code in one library used by every digital device on the planet. A regression test would pass. The digital devices would auto update, and we would be done. This would all have been implemented during the Y2K thing.
If modern software engineering was competent, it would be a few lines of code per platform, most of which would auto-update themselves. Again, this would have been implemented during the Y2K thing.
Unfortunately, software engineering is an oxymoron. It will cost millions of lines of code per platform, millions of new bugs, no regression tests will be run, about 10,000 projects will fail, there will be half a dozen Strategic Air Defense false alarms, and at least on giant poo geyser at a sewage treatment plant.
"Even if it's not here, we'll just go see it somewhere else. We're not doing this just for the movie." Besides, she added, "What's the point of lining up at the ArcLight if someone is going to go online and get the best seat in the house?"
The guy who did spy kids 1-3, The Faculty, From Dusk To Dawn, Desperado? Some claim Sin City didn't suck (I'm not one of them), but all he had to do there was xerox a comic book. Oh, and have Tarantino and Frank Miller around to show him where the copy button is, because he probably can't even use a copy machine correctly. I would say Rodriguez is not a better pick.
Well, Canada will be stuck with a bunch of fat confused americans consuming vast amounts of Canadian resources who can't get back into their own country. This certainly infringes on your right as a non-American to not have to deal with fat confused Americans.
Dear Slashdot,
I work for a Fortune 100 company. I can't seem to find the phone numbers for our fortune 100 accounting and fortune 100 legal departments, so I'll just ask a bunch of panting 14 year old boys: Did your mom lease or buy your basement computer?
It was a failed attempt at a joke I guess. The frequency range I gave is visible light. The size of the "embedded gnu/Linux" device is the standard license plate size.
All I'm really saying is everyone must have a license plate on the back of their car.
I live in Colorado, and here they _require_ tags that operate in roughly the 10^14 - 10^15 Hz range (note, that isn't far from X-Ray range. Could they be dangerous? Industry funded studies probably say no, but who can believe those?) Not only does this allow police to identify the vehicle _even if you are not committing a crime_, but it is relatively easy for non-government officials, and even large corporations to read these types of tags. Privacy was absolutely not taken into account when these tags were designed.
I'm working on an embedded Gnu/Linux device that will be roughly 304.8mm wide x 152.4mm tall that can be mounted on the back of the vehicle to prevent readers from picking up the signals from the tags. I'll post details to this thread when it is ready.
I recommend all Colorado citizens contact and complain to their representatives tonight!
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More proof that violent movies cause violent behaviour! How many more lives need to be ruined by exploding glass tubes full of gas before we ban these movies forever?
I know I would tell my employer to shove it if I won a few hundred grand.
So Lucas shouldn't write a love scene longer than two lines.
- "I love you."
- "I know."
is the limit of his abilities there.Also, Lucas only knows how to give one direction to actors: "Faster, more intense." While fine for a "love" scene in a porno or a light saber battle, that doesn't really cut it for other situations.
I can't believe all the people complaining about $0.13 a day. Most people throw more than that into tip jars every day to avoid the hassle of carrying loose change in their pockets.
If you really think $0.13/day is too much to pay for information like the Times puts out you might want to re-think your price-point. After all, consider what it will cost you in brain cells if you are stuck reading the crap fest that is the blog-o-sphere.
The U.S. could destroy the middle east from orbit, but they have troops in there fighting with simple hand held weapons. Sometimes you don't want to kill every one. It's bad PR. And who would pump your oil when you're done?
The empire must be hard up. This "moon" is only 7 km wide or so while The Death Star was 120km in diameter until destroyed by terrorists, and the Death Star II was 160km in diameter.
Hmm. Lame. Looks like there is sort of a "perma-link" at the top of the bill though. Maybe that will work.
- First, any site with a Matrix fetish loses all credibility.
- Second, clearly the site is designed to spread FUD. The fake image of the "Real ID" card indicates that the card will contain information such as Religion and Occupation. It will not. Read the bill. FUD.
- The site says cops will die. Right. Because when cops are working under-cover they will be carrying their real ID cards. Just like today, when under-cover cops are required to carry their badge and drivers license. Oh, wait, no they aren't. FUD.
- "every convenience store learns to grab that data and sell it to Big Data for a nickel" Right. Because every time I got to the convenience store I have to present my license. Oh, wait, no I don't. FUD.
Anyway, the site goes on with a bunch of rambling, random conspiracy nonsense (We'll turn into a communist state! Oh no! The highways will run red with blood!). There may be good reasons not to support this bill, but this web site doesn't give you any.Read the bill yourself. Don't trust this unreal.com guy.
After you decide if you want to support the bill or not, contact your senator through www.senate.gov.
The layout of the keyboard would need to be randomly re-generated after each mouse click. Otherwise the attacker would be able to learn information from the position of the mouse clicks (If the on-screen keyboard wasn't re-generated and the user clicked in the same spot more than once you would know they have duplicate symbols in their password, for example). Also, randomly changing the position of the keyboard on the screen probably isn't sufficient. You would actually need to randomly re-generate the keyboard layout.
It would also be wise to force the user to click around on the screen a random number of times so the attacker couldn't know how many characters are in the password.
Or is this a case of "security defeating usability" :).
It's the culture the people in the computer science culture failed to become members of.
I wasn't sure if it was OK for me to not like Star Trek anymore. If it wasn't for Card telling me what to think I would probably never make up my mind.
ewwww. I bet they do.
His folksy bumbling is all part of the script. Anyone who can speak articulately must have been brainwashed with one of those elite liberal edumacations you hear so much about. We don't want those types of people in power.
Perhaps giving every file (or logical unit of information really. Doesn't have to be a "file") created a globably uniqe id would be a step in the right direction. Then, when an app needs a file (library or data file) to run, it doesn't need to know where the file is. It just tells the OS (or some layer on top of the OS) "Give me the file with ID foo". The filesystem finds it, no matter where it is because every file written to the file system has its globally uniqe id indexed.
Doesn't .net do something like this?
...But there is no sheet music in front of him either!
I always thought everyone knows someone who likes to pay in two dollar bills because that someone thinks nobody has ever seen a two dollar bill and likes to make fun of those who have never seen one.
Little does that someone know that everyone knows someone like that.
I've done exactly as much research into this as you though, so I don't really know.
If modern software engineering was competent, it would be a few lines of code per platform, most of which would auto-update themselves. Again, this would have been implemented during the Y2K thing.
Unfortunately, software engineering is an oxymoron. It will cost millions of lines of code per platform, millions of new bugs, no regression tests will be run, about 10,000 projects will fail, there will be half a dozen Strategic Air Defense false alarms, and at least on giant poo geyser at a sewage treatment plant.
"Even if it's not here, we'll just go see it somewhere else. We're not doing this just for the movie." Besides, she added, "What's the point of lining up at the ArcLight if someone is going to go online and get the best seat in the house?"
Not all theaters sell tickets online.
The guy who did spy kids 1-3, The Faculty, From Dusk To Dawn, Desperado? Some claim Sin City didn't suck (I'm not one of them), but all he had to do there was xerox a comic book. Oh, and have Tarantino and Frank Miller around to show him where the copy button is, because he probably can't even use a copy machine correctly. I would say Rodriguez is not a better pick.
Well, Canada will be stuck with a bunch of fat confused americans consuming vast amounts of Canadian resources who can't get back into their own country. This certainly infringes on your right as a non-American to not have to deal with fat confused Americans.
Dear Slashdot, I work for a Fortune 100 company. I can't seem to find the phone numbers for our fortune 100 accounting and fortune 100 legal departments, so I'll just ask a bunch of panting 14 year old boys: Did your mom lease or buy your basement computer?
All I'm really saying is everyone must have a license plate on the back of their car.
10^15 is well above gigaherts (10^6) range. It is visible light actually. Nobody gets my joke I guess.
I'm working on an embedded Gnu/Linux device that will be roughly 304.8mm wide x 152.4mm tall that can be mounted on the back of the vehicle to prevent readers from picking up the signals from the tags. I'll post details to this thread when it is ready.
I recommend all Colorado citizens contact and complain to their representatives tonight!