...and it might take a couple of goes at it to get the interface right.
FWIW, I don't think Windows 8 in its present form is the "ultimate" solution to the problem. I'd say that Apple pretty much have nailed the interface on a tablet that can't do much besides show videos and play angry birds. None of these interfaces is the "first try" at their genre either - they're both built on previous attempts which have had some refinements along the way (although granted, Apple seem to do most of their experimenting in private, whereas Microsoft have always had their customers do their testing for them).
Windows 9 (or thereabouts) will probably be the first "pretty decent" stab at the mixed mode PC experience touchscreen laptops give us. Even then, it might take a service pack or two to iron out the wrinkles.
I'm actually looking forward to it - I'd like a device as good as my (linux) laptop and as good as an iPad, but for now, I don't want them at the same time, so I'll be hanging out for Version 2.0 before I'm really in the market for this sort of caper.
Google can do whatever they want on their search results. However, they're *not* allowed to (say) push Maps at the expense of Bing and others, solely because of their dominant position in search.
Someone like, duckduckgo can push duckMaps all they want (if there was such a thing) - hell, they completely remove bing.com from their results, whilst pushing duckMaps on every single search result if they want. That's okay because they're not dominant in search.
Whilst this case isn't without its controversy, the regulators are actually a lot clever than you seem to give them credit. Their aim here is not to kill off successful products, but instead to ensure that the end users always get left with a choice. The Microsoft case gives a good example - it didn't stop Windows being sold in any way, but it did give users a choice of which browser they were going to get (how effective that really was is up for debate, I'll grant you).
Whilst the coworker may need a different job, it's also possible the submitter does too. It's possible the company is in "startup mode", and so is (by design) just throwing things together to get code out of the door. Proposing everyone slows down to make it look pretty probably won't be welcome.
I'm not a programmer, but I do dev-ops. Even here it's important to know if you are a startup or a mature outfit - and it has nothing to do with the company around you, but more to do with the project, the department, the culture etc. If you get latitude to retrospectively fix things up, then throwing things in is okay. If not, then you're probably better off doing it "right" because that's the way it'll be forever and a day.
> Purchased from a Moroccan meteorite dealer in 2011
How do I get a job like that? Does anyone know someone that needs a house clearance or some such that may pop up a couple of meteorites I could stick on Ebay?
(I'll name all my meteorites after music acts: NWA 7034, The Rolling Stones 2309, The meteorite formerly known as Prince 3476...)
The URL says "The-Definitive-3D-Printer-Roundup-Cubify-Up-Solidoodle" - lucky the page doesn't, because there are a lot more than 3 printers in the world. You have to pay $7 for it, but the MAKE magazine "definitive" guide to 3D printing is way, way better than this.
For me, the Ultimaker is the best. Mostly because that's the machine I own, but partly because it's not Makerbot, not proprietary like the Up!, and has a decent community behind it. YMMV.
Well duh! What a surprise - people with hi IQ scores are good at getting high IQ scores. David Beckham is good at football, and scores highly on the income and glamorous family score. A friend of mine is a great illustrator, so scores highly on the AQ (Artistry Quotient). The only that that's a myth is that the "I" in IQ really means "intelligence" - it doesn't, it means "good at passing the test".
But it is spam if you repeat that same process 10000 times (or however many). Just about all abuse detection works this way - it's a matter of counting how many times you do something per unit time (even if the thing you're doing is supposedly legitimate). Once you trip the threshold, you get banned for a set period of time. It's possible that once you trip the email threshold you're banned for weeks, months, years or permanently (unless a human revokes the ban). Heck, I do something similar on my website to get rid of the vast swathes of Chinese botnets that seem to want to tell me all about Ugg boots and the like.
It's entirely possible also that this guy could have completely successfully emailed the entire list of 7 proxies to his friend in a single email from his 'dodgy' domain, including the words "viagra" and "gold dust" and "nigeria" when the domain was first set up. He might even have been able to send the same list to 50 of his friends. However, when he sent it to the 51st, he tripped some automated checks, which presumably he failed, and so got banned.
It's possible he'd reduce his spamminess to these providers if he spent a week sending his weekly email. That is, if he's sending to 700,000 people, send to 100,000 people each day, and spend 5 seconds or so sleeping between sending each one. Even that's probably enough to trip the thresholds, but you get the idea.
Yeah, you might think that. Apparently not though. What it means is "open more Catholic and CoE schools, with a peppering of Muslim schools so we can be seen to accommodate minorities". I'd love to see a Jedi school though - you can bet all the kids would want to go there;-)
I put myself down as Jedi in the 2000 census. However, I won't do it again, because the pesky Government looks at the stats and says "X% of people in the UK are religious, so we can open more faith schools". The fact that those faith schools cater for a minority of the total population is neither here nor there, they do it anyway.
I'll put "Jedi" on trivial things (ie. not many), but not on the census anymore.
It's non-news, unless you're the one getting sued. I appreciate there's a certain amount of outrage-fatigue, but this is the first time the BPI has gone after someone credible (as far as I know, at least). I for one hope they go all the way to court and then lose - PPUK will make some political/publicity capital out of it, and we can all go home happy. For that to happen, the UK Pirate Party is asking for help (http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/help), it would be remiss of me not to suggest you head over there and help out if you can.
Yes, but that's only because their fiduciary duty is (arguably) wrong. That's what the British government are basically saying.
The point is that laws are created to keep goodness and morality where otherwise there would be none. In the case of tax law, it's become the 'norm' to push your luck right up to the edge of the law. What's being said here is "be reasonable" instead of "work to the letter of the law". This is (generally) how British law works - "what would a reasonable person expect?".
If this move gains some traction, then companies will no longer just do what the law requires, but will have to do what morality requires. To some extent, that's the difference between acting like a child and acting like an adult. As an adult, you know that sometimes you have to do things because they're for the greater good, not because a rule said you had to do it. It's a part of taking some personal responsibility, which roughly translates to corporate responsibility in this context.
I just looked for an encrypted SMS app for Android, but nothing came up. It can't be too hard* to take my text, encrypt it with my private key and send it out, can it? The receiver just needs to know my public key and away it goes. Sure, the message is going to get larger because of encoding, but with massive text bundles that's not really a problem.
(* that said, I haven't the first clue about mobile app development, so for me, yes, it's very hard indeed;-)
We've had the same thing come up over here a few times. I always think "if it's easy to detect crime, then we don't need the police". I'd love to see a government say "sure, you can have the database. You just have to give up 50% of your budget". I'll bet the police will suddenly focus on putting bodies on the ground rather than on computer terminals.
Of course, none of this is ever likely to happen. Ever. You, like us will soon have your Total Database of Everything.
So it seems all server side code should be storing:
algo_name, hash(salt + password)...that way, if your algorithm of choice proves to be a bit feeble, you can gradually upgrade to a better one by getting your users to change their passwords. If anyone's account has a really old algo still on it, then the account gets disabled. Whilst this doesn't "solve" the problem, it means you don't have to throw everything away because someone found a quick way to compute hashes using your chosen algorithm.
Either way, it seems we're about on target for kittenauth now;-)
I know times have changed since I was a nipper, but at my school, there were probably 3 of the kids + 0 staff who knew the BBC + echonet system really well. I seem to remember one kid hacking it to within an inch of it's life then writing a report on "security" so he didn't get expelled for it. Anyway... my point is, the kids may know how to fix this better than these drongo staff members they hired (heck, the kids may have done it in the first place, so they'd presumably know how to fix it).
I asked a media exec about it, and he said "no, we're not going after everyone, just every 2 in 1 people". He then tried to get $2.50 for a coffee from the cashier in Timmy Hoes.
The fact this blew up in 1986 and it's still being sorted in 2012 tells you how dangerous it is. I don't disagree with much of what you say, but a coal power station can be dismantled in a few years without breaking too much of a sweat.
Personally, I don't think nuclear is nearly as terrible as it's perceived to be. However, we humans are pretty rubbish at anything 'abstract', and so will never run nuclear power safely in the long term. Either we'll do safety badly, or we won't have saved up enough money for the decom, or we'll push the limits of the design too far, or whatever else. I don't know why, but we just will. So with that in mind, I'd rather less nuclear than more.
The thing that got me was the plan to move some scanners to other airports, but they didn't check that the other airport had the space before starting that endeavour.
So in short, either they're incompetent, or they're covering up something about the scanners. Either way, CFA. Nice.
Agreed - Elite was an engineering masterpiece hidden inside an incredibly innovative and captivating game. Actually, the other week I started to wonder if I could construct a BBC Micro-esque machine on stripboard. There'd be no point doing it except to write the immortal "10 print "My sister smells"; 20 goto 10" sort of thing, and for playing Elite.
I wonder what big thing needs to be small these days though? Most phones aren't exactly small, much less their desktop counterparts. With network connectivity and "the cloud", size is much less a factor these days. Of course, size isn't everything, and he's got plenty of warped genes that probably look at the world in a completely different way to most, but I wonder what he's uniquely placed to do.
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...and it might take a couple of goes at it to get the interface right.
FWIW, I don't think Windows 8 in its present form is the "ultimate" solution to the problem. I'd say that Apple pretty much have nailed the interface on a tablet that can't do much besides show videos and play angry birds. None of these interfaces is the "first try" at their genre either - they're both built on previous attempts which have had some refinements along the way (although granted, Apple seem to do most of their experimenting in private, whereas Microsoft have always had their customers do their testing for them).
Windows 9 (or thereabouts) will probably be the first "pretty decent" stab at the mixed mode PC experience touchscreen laptops give us. Even then, it might take a service pack or two to iron out the wrinkles.
I'm actually looking forward to it - I'd like a device as good as my (linux) laptop and as good as an iPad, but for now, I don't want them at the same time, so I'll be hanging out for Version 2.0 before I'm really in the market for this sort of caper.
That's not what this is about at all.
Google can do whatever they want on their search results. However, they're *not* allowed to (say) push Maps at the expense of Bing and others, solely because of their dominant position in search.
Someone like, duckduckgo can push duckMaps all they want (if there was such a thing) - hell, they completely remove bing.com from their results, whilst pushing duckMaps on every single search result if they want. That's okay because they're not dominant in search.
Whilst this case isn't without its controversy, the regulators are actually a lot clever than you seem to give them credit. Their aim here is not to kill off successful products, but instead to ensure that the end users always get left with a choice. The Microsoft case gives a good example - it didn't stop Windows being sold in any way, but it did give users a choice of which browser they were going to get (how effective that really was is up for debate, I'll grant you).
Great story.
Whilst the coworker may need a different job, it's also possible the submitter does too. It's possible the company is in "startup mode", and so is (by design) just throwing things together to get code out of the door. Proposing everyone slows down to make it look pretty probably won't be welcome.
I'm not a programmer, but I do dev-ops. Even here it's important to know if you are a startup or a mature outfit - and it has nothing to do with the company around you, but more to do with the project, the department, the culture etc. If you get latitude to retrospectively fix things up, then throwing things in is okay. If not, then you're probably better off doing it "right" because that's the way it'll be forever and a day.
> Purchased from a Moroccan meteorite dealer in 2011
How do I get a job like that? Does anyone know someone that needs a house clearance or some such that may pop up a couple of meteorites I could stick on Ebay?
(I'll name all my meteorites after music acts: NWA 7034, The Rolling Stones 2309, The meteorite formerly known as Prince 3476...)
It's one of those smushed marketing words. It's a combination of "khazi" (meaning toilet) and karma, meaning, well, karma.
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Kharzi
They might also want to take care of their robots.txt: http://www.nni.ie/robots.txt
The URL says "The-Definitive-3D-Printer-Roundup-Cubify-Up-Solidoodle" - lucky the page doesn't, because there are a lot more than 3 printers in the world. You have to pay $7 for it, but the MAKE magazine "definitive" guide to 3D printing is way, way better than this.
For me, the Ultimaker is the best. Mostly because that's the machine I own, but partly because it's not Makerbot, not proprietary like the Up!, and has a decent community behind it. YMMV.
Can PPUK just use that £9000 to pay one of the other Pirate Parties to run a proxy for them?
It may also be possible for PPUK to run a "find a good proxy" DNS service. You go to proxy.pirateparty.org.uk and it CNAMEs you to somewhere else.
There's got to be a way to still provide a service, but not to get sued so convincingly.
Well duh! What a surprise - people with hi IQ scores are good at getting high IQ scores. David Beckham is good at football, and scores highly on the income and glamorous family score. A friend of mine is a great illustrator, so scores highly on the AQ (Artistry Quotient). The only that that's a myth is that the "I" in IQ really means "intelligence" - it doesn't, it means "good at passing the test".
But it is spam if you repeat that same process 10000 times (or however many). Just about all abuse detection works this way - it's a matter of counting how many times you do something per unit time (even if the thing you're doing is supposedly legitimate). Once you trip the threshold, you get banned for a set period of time. It's possible that once you trip the email threshold you're banned for weeks, months, years or permanently (unless a human revokes the ban). Heck, I do something similar on my website to get rid of the vast swathes of Chinese botnets that seem to want to tell me all about Ugg boots and the like.
It's entirely possible also that this guy could have completely successfully emailed the entire list of 7 proxies to his friend in a single email from his 'dodgy' domain, including the words "viagra" and "gold dust" and "nigeria" when the domain was first set up. He might even have been able to send the same list to 50 of his friends. However, when he sent it to the 51st, he tripped some automated checks, which presumably he failed, and so got banned.
It's possible he'd reduce his spamminess to these providers if he spent a week sending his weekly email. That is, if he's sending to 700,000 people, send to 100,000 people each day, and spend 5 seconds or so sleeping between sending each one. Even that's probably enough to trip the thresholds, but you get the idea.
Yeah, you might think that. Apparently not though. What it means is "open more Catholic and CoE schools, with a peppering of Muslim schools so we can be seen to accommodate minorities". I'd love to see a Jedi school though - you can bet all the kids would want to go there ;-)
I put myself down as Jedi in the 2000 census. However, I won't do it again, because the pesky Government looks at the stats and says "X% of people in the UK are religious, so we can open more faith schools". The fact that those faith schools cater for a minority of the total population is neither here nor there, they do it anyway.
I'll put "Jedi" on trivial things (ie. not many), but not on the census anymore.
It's non-news, unless you're the one getting sued. I appreciate there's a certain amount of outrage-fatigue, but this is the first time the BPI has gone after someone credible (as far as I know, at least). I for one hope they go all the way to court and then lose - PPUK will make some political/publicity capital out of it, and we can all go home happy. For that to happen, the UK Pirate Party is asking for help (http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/help), it would be remiss of me not to suggest you head over there and help out if you can.
Yes, but that's only because their fiduciary duty is (arguably) wrong. That's what the British government are basically saying.
The point is that laws are created to keep goodness and morality where otherwise there would be none. In the case of tax law, it's become the 'norm' to push your luck right up to the edge of the law. What's being said here is "be reasonable" instead of "work to the letter of the law". This is (generally) how British law works - "what would a reasonable person expect?".
If this move gains some traction, then companies will no longer just do what the law requires, but will have to do what morality requires. To some extent, that's the difference between acting like a child and acting like an adult. As an adult, you know that sometimes you have to do things because they're for the greater good, not because a rule said you had to do it. It's a part of taking some personal responsibility, which roughly translates to corporate responsibility in this context.
I just looked for an encrypted SMS app for Android, but nothing came up. It can't be too hard* to take my text, encrypt it with my private key and send it out, can it? The receiver just needs to know my public key and away it goes. Sure, the message is going to get larger because of encoding, but with massive text bundles that's not really a problem.
(* that said, I haven't the first clue about mobile app development, so for me, yes, it's very hard indeed ;-)
We've had the same thing come up over here a few times. I always think "if it's easy to detect crime, then we don't need the police". I'd love to see a government say "sure, you can have the database. You just have to give up 50% of your budget". I'll bet the police will suddenly focus on putting bodies on the ground rather than on computer terminals.
Of course, none of this is ever likely to happen. Ever. You, like us will soon have your Total Database of Everything.
So it seems all server side code should be storing:
algo_name, hash(salt + password) ...that way, if your algorithm of choice proves to be a bit feeble, you can gradually upgrade to a better one by getting your users to change their passwords. If anyone's account has a really old algo still on it, then the account gets disabled. Whilst this doesn't "solve" the problem, it means you don't have to throw everything away because someone found a quick way to compute hashes using your chosen algorithm.
Either way, it seems we're about on target for kittenauth now ;-)
+ throw away phone + throw away tablet.
If there are girls there, I bet they're HOT ;-)
Pff... everyone knows All your base are belong to us.
Did they ask the kids to help them sort it out?
I know times have changed since I was a nipper, but at my school, there were probably 3 of the kids + 0 staff who knew the BBC + echonet system really well. I seem to remember one kid hacking it to within an inch of it's life then writing a report on "security" so he didn't get expelled for it. Anyway... my point is, the kids may know how to fix this better than these drongo staff members they hired (heck, the kids may have done it in the first place, so they'd presumably know how to fix it).
I asked a media exec about it, and he said "no, we're not going after everyone, just every 2 in 1 people". He then tried to get $2.50 for a coffee from the cashier in Timmy Hoes.
The fact this blew up in 1986 and it's still being sorted in 2012 tells you how dangerous it is. I don't disagree with much of what you say, but a coal power station can be dismantled in a few years without breaking too much of a sweat.
Personally, I don't think nuclear is nearly as terrible as it's perceived to be. However, we humans are pretty rubbish at anything 'abstract', and so will never run nuclear power safely in the long term. Either we'll do safety badly, or we won't have saved up enough money for the decom, or we'll push the limits of the design too far, or whatever else. I don't know why, but we just will. So with that in mind, I'd rather less nuclear than more.
The thing that got me was the plan to move some scanners to other airports, but they didn't check that the other airport had the space before starting that endeavour.
So in short, either they're incompetent, or they're covering up something about the scanners. Either way, CFA. Nice.
Agreed - Elite was an engineering masterpiece hidden inside an incredibly innovative and captivating game. Actually, the other week I started to wonder if I could construct a BBC Micro-esque machine on stripboard. There'd be no point doing it except to write the immortal "10 print "My sister smells"; 20 goto 10" sort of thing, and for playing Elite.
I wonder what big thing needs to be small these days though? Most phones aren't exactly small, much less their desktop counterparts. With network connectivity and "the cloud", size is much less a factor these days. Of course, size isn't everything, and he's got plenty of warped genes that probably look at the world in a completely different way to most, but I wonder what he's uniquely placed to do.
Either way, I wish him luck with it.