so erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady and her phone number in the database as a possible terrorist.
You know how large the "possible terrorist" list would be, then? I'm sure all of us have used a suspicious word over a communication network in a normal way at some point....
If they're using that kind of criterion, then I know I'm on that list. Now what? They can't well hassle half the people boarding the plane; they might as well hassle them all and drop the list.
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That's embarrassing...on this thread alone, there are over 240 posts and over 40 with a score of at least 3. You know your website isn't succeeding when an article about it attracts more traffic.
Now you know what would be interesting? A patch for KOTOR that gave it Xbox Live - so you could play Pazaak against other people for real money.
Which makes me think - why stop at traditional gambling? Why not a betting system for any Xbox game, especially with TrueSkill? Double or nothing that your rank raises x within one week, where x is a function of how much you bet. This way you're playing against the house..er..computer, not against other people directly.
You mean the file extension? Hardly counts as metadata.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Explicitly not the file extension: Windows has other metadata with the file that overrides this sometimes (I've seen it get in the way; I'm not sure how to trigger it.) I was asking if perhaps this metadata was taking precedence over his changing the extension.
It gets better: change the file extension to "jgp" or "gif" or another image type, hell, probably any file type that has a custom icon/is previewable, and Windows will look at the file and go "oh - that's really a WMF file - I know what to do..."
As someone mentioned in a reply, Windows has some metadata stored with the file that tells it what to open it with. (This is similar to the metadata that identifies a file as an "unsafe" download.) Have you tried catting the file to a.jpg or a.gif - which keeps just the "data fork" but not the metadata?
Troll!? This is hyperbole and sarcasm, in the honored tradition of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Honestly, if you guys had been around back then, you would've posted "MOD PARENT DOWN - article changing troll" instead of making it the 5, Funny that history has given it.
And if you honestly think he's being serious...I really have nothing to say.
When I put my deductible to US$5000 annually, my insurance rate dropped big time. I put a little over US$5000 in gold to pay my deductible in an emergency
Why gold? You don't have too much of a guarantee that it's increasing -- and the prices over the last two years haven't been even close to monotonic. If you're keeping it for an emergency, the value could have been anywhere from $80 to $130 per ounce, if you needed it sometime this year or last year. If you keep $5000 in bills, it'll inflate or deflate at the same rate as your deductible...right? Or am I missing something?
Can we please include a few opinion pieces about GNOME and OS X and have a real slug fest?
Gnome and OS X? Here's my opinion piece. It doesn't work. Or at least, it looks very ugly and out of place, and takes half an hour to boot. Same with KDE. The only WM worth using with Apple's X11 is quartz-wm.
She runs an OEM reseller. (I clicked the link once.) It's illegal, because presumably the OEM installation hasn't been deleted (so she's selling a "backup" copy), and because you can't transfer the license on OEM software anyway, even if you did uninstall it - it's in the license agreement and probably on the CD cover.
It doesn't appear illegal, because according to the pre-IP concept of ownership, the company gave you two copies of the software (one preinstalled, one on the CD), and you can resell the extra one, right? And it's not "piracy" in the strict* sense of the word, since she's not making any copies, she's only selling an existing one.
Right. You'll hear that story but the story, "Student confesses to fabricating US surveillance story [Mao's "Little Red Book"] will never be posted by the slashdot editors.
Key word "will". It already "has been", in the most recent Slashback. In case you're still complaining about this, realize that they only do retractions in Slashbacks, and no, you don't get karma points for submitting something to a Slashback.
I don't be-libya. Yemen not know this, but iran a server farsi NSA some time back. Oman, did they have some syrias records about people. Holy shi'ite, kuwait until the press hears this. There israeli going to be allah-t of complaining sometime sunni.
Strange. Where's Doctor's "The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical" or Vanessa J. Smith's "Software"? I know I'm not the only one who gets those. And the repetition of the same subject in their respective e-mails should make them show up on the list somewhere. The Rolex and Xbox 360 spams tend to change their subject lines...
$50 and a warning is, let's face it, a tiny slap on the wrist.
Unfortunately, MIT agrees with you. They've taken the $50 through some crazy inflation calculator to say that they might fine students up to $500. Definitely not a slap on the wrist anymore. And these are college students at fairly expensive school - they have much better places to be spending $500 on.
Ever heard the phrase "chilling effect"?
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Here's one way: set up a daemon to map joystick presses to keystrokes. This is some code I wrote a couple years back for Etherena Beta: maps left, right, up, down, and the first 6 buttons on your joystick to the keys specified. Change the mappings in update() the way you like.
Not even close to clean code, but it works (plug in your joystick or gamepad first; it uses the first controller), and I'm sure you can figure it out. I don't know why I used signed char...this was back when I was learning C++ and had no idea how to write good code. And it should probably sleep() instead of running an infinite loop. This is C++ - compiles with either MinGW or Visual C++.
//joykey.cpp #include <windows.h>
struct keys {
signed char left;
signed char right;
signed char up;
signed char down;
signed char attack[6];
keys() {memset(this, 0, sizeof(keys));}
keys(signed char a, signed char b, signed char c, signed char d,
signed char e, signed char f, signed char g, signed char h,
signed char i, signed char j) {
left = a; right = b; up = c; down = d;
attack[0] = e; attack[1] = f; attack[2] = g;
attack[3] = h; attack[4] = i; attack[5] = j;
}
keys(JOYINFO& joy) {
left = (joy.wXpos == 0);
right = (joy.wXpos == 65535);
up = (joy.wYpos == 0);
down = (joy.wYpos == 65535);
attack[3] = (joy.wButtons & 1)&&1;
attack[4] = (joy.wButtons & 2)&&1;
attack[5] = (joy.wButtons & 4)&&1;
attack[0] = (joy.wButtons & 8)&&1;
attack[1] = (joy.wButtons & 16)&&1;
attack[2] = (joy.wButtons & 32)&&1;
}
keys operator-(const keys& k) const {
keys x(left-k.left, right-k.right, up-k.up, down-k.down,
attack[0]-k.attack[0], attack[1]-k.attack[1],
attack[2]-k.attack[2], attack[3]-k.attack[3],
attack[4]-k.attack[4], attack[5]-k.attack[5]
);
return x;
}
keys& operator=(const keys& other) {
memcpy(this, &other, sizeof(keys));
return *this;
} };
void update(const keys& k) {
if (k.left) send('A', k.left ==1);
if (k.right) send('D', k.right ==1);
if (k.up) send('W', k.up ==1);
if (k.down) send('S', k.down ==1);
if (k.attack[0]) send('F', k.attack[0]==1);
if (k.attack[1]) send('G', k.attack[1]==1);
if (k.attack[2]) send('H', k.attack[2]==1);
if (k.attack[3]) send('V', k.attack[3]==1);
if (k.attack[4]) send('B', k.attack[4]==1);
if (k.attack[5]) send('N', k.attack[5]==1); }
int main() {
JOYINFO joy;
keys old;
while (1) {
joyGetPos(0, &joy);
The pranks at MIT tend to be feats of engineering. They are positively encouraged, because they teach students to work in teams, solve complex problems and, sometimes, get a message across... and how to run from the authorities.
The recent Wright Flyer hack - the same one that gave the university much positive publicity - resulted in severe consequences: the students have a mark against their permanent record, and were fined $50. They were about to change the fine for being caught on the roof to a maximum of $500, but the students succesfully petitioned to change that to 10 hours of community service - because students said that if there was a possible $500 fine, hackers would be more willing to run and seriously injure themselves than risk getting caught by the police.
Of course MIT has the legal responsibility if someone falls from a roof, but there ought to be a way to cover that without punishing the same hackers that the university celebrated. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
This has happenend to a good friend of mine. Never had a speeding ticket... plays one long session of Gotham racing. Heads home... and get's his driving license suspended due to his speed.
Then, good sir, your friend is a jackass incapable of distinguishing between real life and a video game.
Not his friend, kind sir. His friend's reflexes. Your nervous system and muscles get used to responding one way, and they'll keep responding that way. If you've ever skated, you'll notice that you walk slightly differently immediately when leaving - you're pretending your shoes work slightly like skates. It's not that you can't distinguish between shoes and skates, it's that you've trained your muscles differently.
Try it: get an observer (single-blind to the purpose of the test if you really want) to see how you drive somewhere, play a racing game there, and ask him if you drove as cautiously on the way back.
Now I guarantee with a little copper and solder you could hack that switch so that in position 1, say, light A is on AND light B is on, which equates to the user driving physically and driving virtually at the same time.
Yeah, and I guarantee with a little Xbox you could be playing PGR in an existing car, with no lockout at all. Much simpler than buying one of these cars and modding it. The point is that the car as sold, without additional components or solder or a television screen in front of the driver, is safe.
Although not a regular supporter of mr. Bush, I am supportive of his "no child left behind" act. If implemented correctly it raises school standards to a higher level, creating an overall more educated workforce, and thus a more educated, flexible, and innovative society in which innovation thrives, and where racial injustice, crime and other human misdeeds are at a minumum.
The key words are "if implemented correctly". What NCLB does, in practice, is that it holds everyone to certain national standards, and good teachers who would have quickly taught that material anyway are forced to give standardized tests and formal lesson plans and all sorts of other bureaucracy about the subject, which decreases how much they actually teach. NCLB is an equalizer: it's good that it holds poorer-performing schools, teachers, and students to higher standards, but it also holds back the better-performing schools until they can "prove" they're past that point.
NCLB is great in theory, but so is capital-C Communism. And along with that analogy, democratic socialism works in those crazy European countries with 50% income tax and free healthcare (as opposed to, say, 100% income tax and free food). And so should a limited version of NCLB if it's not required in schools above, say, the 60th percentile (or even 40th should do). You're not doing anyone a favor if you're making the bad schools and the good schools approach the same target. You're not going to have any true innovation if the geniuses have been shuffled into the same "educated workforce" - there's people who serve society better in academia than in the workforce.
Oh, and remember that "No Child Left Behind" in a literal sense means holding everyone else back to keep up with him.
Then what do you suggest, that someone mod the system to allow controlling both at the same time? That's as much the fault of MS as the OP's PlayStation in his car was the fault of Sony.
Don't naysay for the sake of saying nay. This system is as infallible as, say, a lightswitch. There's no way a bulb can be both off and on at the same time. (And nobody say Schroedinger. A bulb's too big for quantum effects to really take place.)
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so erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady and her phone number in the database as a possible terrorist.
You know how large the "possible terrorist" list would be, then? I'm sure all of us have used a suspicious word over a communication network in a normal way at some point....
If they're using that kind of criterion, then I know I'm on that list. Now what? They can't well hassle half the people boarding the plane; they might as well hassle them all and drop the list.
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That's embarrassing...on this thread alone, there are over 240 posts and over 40 with a score of at least 3. You know your website isn't succeeding when an article about it attracts more traffic.
Now you know what would be interesting? A patch for KOTOR that gave it Xbox Live - so you could play Pazaak against other people for real money.
Which makes me think - why stop at traditional gambling? Why not a betting system for any Xbox game, especially with TrueSkill? Double or nothing that your rank raises x within one week, where x is a function of how much you bet. This way you're playing against the house..er..computer, not against other people directly.
Not vhen you drink wodka on a nuclear wessel.
In Nazi Germany, you drink wodka on a Horst Wessel!
You mean the file extension? Hardly counts as metadata.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Explicitly not the file extension: Windows has other metadata with the file that overrides this sometimes (I've seen it get in the way; I'm not sure how to trigger it.) I was asking if perhaps this metadata was taking precedence over his changing the extension.
the bastion of open-source @ Amazon.com
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. I know that Amazon is the bastion of patents, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's anti-open source. Is it?
Oh, and great username.
It gets better: change the file extension to "jgp" or "gif" or another image type, hell, probably any file type that has a custom icon/is previewable, and Windows will look at the file and go "oh - that's really a WMF file - I know what to do..."
.jpg or a .gif - which keeps just the "data fork" but not the metadata?
As someone mentioned in a reply, Windows has some metadata stored with the file that tells it what to open it with. (This is similar to the metadata that identifies a file as an "unsafe" download.) Have you tried catting the file to a
Troll!? This is hyperbole and sarcasm, in the honored tradition of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal". Honestly, if you guys had been around back then, you would've posted "MOD PARENT DOWN - article changing troll" instead of making it the 5, Funny that history has given it.
And if you honestly think he's being serious...I really have nothing to say.
When I put my deductible to US$5000 annually, my insurance rate dropped big time. I put a little over US$5000 in gold to pay my deductible in an emergency
Why gold? You don't have too much of a guarantee that it's increasing -- and the prices over the last two years haven't been even close to monotonic. If you're keeping it for an emergency, the value could have been anywhere from $80 to $130 per ounce, if you needed it sometime this year or last year. If you keep $5000 in bills, it'll inflate or deflate at the same rate as your deductible...right? Or am I missing something?
Can we please include a few opinion pieces about GNOME and OS X and have a real slug fest?
Gnome and OS X? Here's my opinion piece. It doesn't work. Or at least, it looks very ugly and out of place, and takes half an hour to boot. Same with KDE. The only WM worth using with Apple's X11 is quartz-wm.
She runs an OEM reseller. (I clicked the link once.) It's illegal, because presumably the OEM installation hasn't been deleted (so she's selling a "backup" copy), and because you can't transfer the license on OEM software anyway, even if you did uninstall it - it's in the license agreement and probably on the CD cover.
It doesn't appear illegal, because according to the pre-IP concept of ownership, the company gave you two copies of the software (one preinstalled, one on the CD), and you can resell the extra one, right? And it's not "piracy" in the strict* sense of the word, since she's not making any copies, she's only selling an existing one.
*Arrr, not that strict, landlubber.
Right. You'll hear that story but the story, "Student confesses to fabricating US surveillance story [Mao's "Little Red Book"] will never be posted by the slashdot editors.
Key word "will". It already "has been", in the most recent Slashback. In case you're still complaining about this, realize that they only do retractions in Slashbacks, and no, you don't get karma points for submitting something to a Slashback.
Set up two accounts on your mail server (example.org): aaron@example.org and zeke@example.org
Pity the bored IANA employee who one day decides that example.com is missing a mail server.
I don't be-libya. Yemen not know this, but iran a server farsi NSA some time back. Oman, did they have some syrias records about people. Holy shi'ite, kuwait until the press hears this. There israeli going to be allah-t of complaining sometime sunni.
Strange. Where's Doctor's "The Ultimate Online Pharmaceutical" or Vanessa J. Smith's "Software"? I know I'm not the only one who gets those. And the repetition of the same subject in their respective e-mails should make them show up on the list somewhere. The Rolex and Xbox 360 spams tend to change their subject lines...
$50 and a warning is, let's face it, a tiny slap on the wrist.
Unfortunately, MIT agrees with you. They've taken the $50 through some crazy inflation calculator to say that they might fine students up to $500. Definitely not a slap on the wrist anymore. And these are college students at fairly expensive school - they have much better places to be spending $500 on.
Ever heard the phrase "chilling effect"?
Not even close to clean code, but it works (plug in your joystick or gamepad first; it uses the first controller), and I'm sure you can figure it out. I don't know why I used signed char...this was back when I was learning C++ and had no idea how to write good code. And it should probably sleep() instead of running an infinite loop. This is C++ - compiles with either MinGW or Visual C++.
The pranks at MIT tend to be feats of engineering. They are positively encouraged, because they teach students to work in teams, solve complex problems and, sometimes, get a message across... and how to run from the authorities.
The recent Wright Flyer hack - the same one that gave the university much positive publicity - resulted in severe consequences: the students have a mark against their permanent record, and were fined $50. They were about to change the fine for being caught on the roof to a maximum of $500, but the students succesfully petitioned to change that to 10 hours of community service - because students said that if there was a possible $500 fine, hackers would be more willing to run and seriously injure themselves than risk getting caught by the police.
Of course MIT has the legal responsibility if someone falls from a roof, but there ought to be a way to cover that without punishing the same hackers that the university celebrated. A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Can anyone reccomend the best place to sell off Magic cards?
Assuming eBay wasn't the answer you're looking for, I've heard that individual parents commonly are willing to buy people's whole collections.
leave the engine on while playing
Unlike dihydrogen monoxide, carbon monoxide actually is dangerous.
This has happenend to a good friend of mine. Never had a speeding ticket... plays one long session of Gotham racing. Heads home... and get's his driving license suspended due to his speed.
Then, good sir, your friend is a jackass incapable of distinguishing between real life and a video game.
Not his friend, kind sir. His friend's reflexes. Your nervous system and muscles get used to responding one way, and they'll keep responding that way. If you've ever skated, you'll notice that you walk slightly differently immediately when leaving - you're pretending your shoes work slightly like skates. It's not that you can't distinguish between shoes and skates, it's that you've trained your muscles differently.
Try it: get an observer (single-blind to the purpose of the test if you really want) to see how you drive somewhere, play a racing game there, and ask him if you drove as cautiously on the way back.
Now I guarantee with a little copper and solder you could hack that switch so that in position 1, say, light A is on AND light B is on, which equates to the user driving physically and driving virtually at the same time.
Yeah, and I guarantee with a little Xbox you could be playing PGR in an existing car, with no lockout at all. Much simpler than buying one of these cars and modding it. The point is that the car as sold, without additional components or solder or a television screen in front of the driver, is safe.
Although not a regular supporter of mr. Bush, I am supportive of his "no child left behind" act. If implemented correctly it raises school standards to a higher level, creating an overall more educated workforce, and thus a more educated, flexible, and innovative society in which innovation thrives, and where racial injustice, crime and other human misdeeds are at a minumum.
The key words are "if implemented correctly". What NCLB does, in practice, is that it holds everyone to certain national standards, and good teachers who would have quickly taught that material anyway are forced to give standardized tests and formal lesson plans and all sorts of other bureaucracy about the subject, which decreases how much they actually teach. NCLB is an equalizer: it's good that it holds poorer-performing schools, teachers, and students to higher standards, but it also holds back the better-performing schools until they can "prove" they're past that point.
NCLB is great in theory, but so is capital-C Communism. And along with that analogy, democratic socialism works in those crazy European countries with 50% income tax and free healthcare (as opposed to, say, 100% income tax and free food). And so should a limited version of NCLB if it's not required in schools above, say, the 60th percentile (or even 40th should do). You're not doing anyone a favor if you're making the bad schools and the good schools approach the same target. You're not going to have any true innovation if the geniuses have been shuffled into the same "educated workforce" - there's people who serve society better in academia than in the workforce.
Oh, and remember that "No Child Left Behind" in a literal sense means holding everyone else back to keep up with him.
Then what do you suggest, that someone mod the system to allow controlling both at the same time? That's as much the fault of MS as the OP's PlayStation in his car was the fault of Sony.
Don't naysay for the sake of saying nay. This system is as infallible as, say, a lightswitch. There's no way a bulb can be both off and on at the same time. (And nobody say Schroedinger. A bulb's too big for quantum effects to really take place.)