You know, it's interesting how the punishment relates to the crime... every time I watch a DVD, it reminds me that the penalty for the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of copyrighted works, including those not for commercial gain, are investigated by the FBI and punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. IIRC, that's the same penalty you get for the distribution of CP. Seems like our priorities are screwed up somewhere (one way or the other).
From TFA linked to by TFA: When 256K-bit memory chips become available the Macintosh will be upgraded to a 512K-byte machine, enough space for the most ambitious application programs.. Wow... obviously they weren't thinking about screen-savers back then...
Well, generally speaking, if you completely disable the target's ability to communicate when attempting to tap his communications, the odds that you're going to intercept anything go down significantly. That seems to fall under the generally accepted definition of "faulty" to me.
What's even scarier is the possibility of a Freenet developer being held criminally liable for illegal content (which Freenet, by definition, has, in some jurisdiction or another) based on this ruling. Of course, if I'm not mistaken, Ian Clarke doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court, which brings up a whole host of other interesting questions.
We're all sort of shareholders in something, since we all contribute to 401(k) plans or IRA's (I assume).
What I find intriguing about all of this is that programmer nerds on Slashdot are starting to question the foundations of our economic system as unjust. Five years ago, we were proof that you can buckle down, study harder, and make something of yourself... now we're feeling like steel workers from the 80's. And if we're this upset, I can't imagine what the less-educated, "real" workers (who work harder than we do, for a lot less money) feel like.
Fact is, once a critical enough mass is reached and enough people beleive (fair or not) that the reason their kids are starving is because they're being "oppressed" by the super-rich one percent, they'll just form angry lynch mobs and hang their perceived oppressors from the nearest lamppost. They'll do this even if the "oppressors" were acting like reasonable, rational, caring human beings under the "old regime". And right now, they don't seem all that reasonable or caring. (Coldly, calculatingly, rational - but not reasonable or caring).
Of course, the Polyanna crowd could be right, and there may end up being a place in the world of tomorrow for all of those displaced programmers - as for me, I'll hang around and keep doing what I think is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay and see what happens.
Wow... as soon as I saw the word "Indian" in the article summary, I knew that "You're a racist! You're a racist!" would invariably pepper any attempt at rational discussion... but I didn't think it would start three posts in. This must be a new record.
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Try passing in a string such as "I.like puppies!!!". A regex like the one the author provided will easily reject this
So... you're saying that the author doesn't like puppies? Wow. What a scrooge.
You know, it occurs to me that there is a whole directory of ".sys" files in my windows 2000 installation under c:\winnt\system32\drivers which, presumedly, includes executable code for every sort of hardware that Windows knows about. I'm relatively comfortable with assembler, and have always been curious if I could disassemble a ".sys" file, make sense of it, and reverse-engineer it into a linux driver (for, of course, academic/personal purposes only, ahem) for hardware that's otherwise unsupported under linux (winmodems spring to mind). I haven't been able to find much documentation (in print or online) about the ".sys" file format or windows device drivers myself. I wonder if anybody out there has tried a similar experiment.
If other industries and professions can accurately estimate and deliver product, why can't software?
Because engineers in other industries and professions spend orders of magnitude more time estimating than they do actually building. (Once the estimating is done, the building is usually fairly straightforward, relatively speaking). We could probably accurately estimate the time taken to build software... but then they'd ask us to estimate how long the estimate would take... and then how long the estimate of the estimate... Or, we could just take a reasonable guess and just build the damned thing.
And, by the way, no industry or profession can accurately estimate and deliver product. Road construction, satellite design, new home construction, movie production, etc. etc. are always complaining about running over budget. Software is exponentially more complex than any of those.
Well, then there's your solution. Just do what congress does and start calling DVD decryptors "Child Protecting, Terrorism Stopping Patriotism Programs".
I'm inclined to agree with you, actually - I used to read random rants by parents (here and elsewhere) about how if any perv was caught "staring at my daughter" I'd "rip his balls off" and think to myself... so what? What difference does it make? So don't leave her alone with some pervy stranger. That's probably good advice whether he was staring at her, or saw her naked through an X-ray, or just walked by you at the mall. I just started to assume that being a parent causes you to lose your sense of reason. However, I've been a father myself for almost two years now, and I still don't really see the problem. I've got a little boy, though - maybe being the parent of a girl makes you lose all rationality?
actually sell a product to a customer (after verifying their credit and ability to pay) THEN go back and tell the engineers what to design and build AND deliver it in 3 days
Actually, "spend less and get more" is consultant speak for "sell a product THEN go back and tell the engineers what to design and build AND deliver it in 3 days", but do this much much much more often. Expect to see more, not less, of this in the near future.
I thought the same thing until I started digging down into it - beleive it or not, Flash's file format, called "SWF", is a somewhat open standard (you can download it from Macromedia from here, and you're allowed to implement it without licensing restrictions, but neither is it GPL'ed) and has been implemented by at least open source project, so you don't even technically need Macromedia Director to create Flash stuff. Writing SSWF scripts feels a lot like programming. Now I just wish I could think of something interesting to do with it...
Well, "The Fellowship of the Ring" was necessary to set up the story, but what didn't you like about "The Two Towers"? Still, I don't get the write-up. ROTK came out like a year ago, and it was reviewed plenty back then. Slashdot seems a tad out of date.
Would a little encryption add so much overhead that it would bog down the system?
I can't imagine why it would. All you need to do is add a little "lock" icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. That's - what? 100 pixels of overhead? Practically nothing.
Well, I hope SpaceX handles financial information better than PayPal... PayPal is constantly sending me e-mails about having lost my credit card information and needing me to e-mail it back to them. I've e-mailed the damned thing to them 6 times already this month. Of course, it's a moot point because I've had to cancel this one (yet again) since somebody somehow got the number and used it fraudulently.
Actually, I was pretty disappointed at the author's choice of singletons for the static data in this (painfully obvious) article... this is actually the sort of thing that ServletContext was designed for. Singletons always bother me because they're basically global variables, with all the problems that global variables bring.
I think you're being FAR too polite here, sir. Feel free to drop in an occasional, "Are you f-ing kidding me with this drivel?" in your critique of this type of ridiculously simplistic and obvious article.
On the other hand, there's a good take-away here. If this "revolutionary technique" was so mind-bending to IBM consulting services, I know where I won't be spending my consulting dollars...
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You know, it's interesting how the punishment relates to the crime... every time I watch a DVD, it reminds me that the penalty for the unauthorized reproduction or distribution of copyrighted works, including those not for commercial gain, are investigated by the FBI and punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. IIRC, that's the same penalty you get for the distribution of CP. Seems like our priorities are screwed up somewhere (one way or the other).
From TFA linked to by TFA: When 256K-bit memory chips become available the Macintosh will be upgraded to a 512K-byte machine, enough space for the most ambitious application programs.. Wow... obviously they weren't thinking about screen-savers back then...
Well, generally speaking, if you completely disable the target's ability to communicate when attempting to tap his communications, the odds that you're going to intercept anything go down significantly. That seems to fall under the generally accepted definition of "faulty" to me.
What's even scarier is the possibility of a Freenet developer being held criminally liable for illegal content (which Freenet, by definition, has, in some jurisdiction or another) based on this ruling. Of course, if I'm not mistaken, Ian Clarke doesn't fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court, which brings up a whole host of other interesting questions.
We're all sort of shareholders in something, since we all contribute to 401(k) plans or IRA's (I assume).
What I find intriguing about all of this is that programmer nerds on Slashdot are starting to question the foundations of our economic system as unjust. Five years ago, we were proof that you can buckle down, study harder, and make something of yourself... now we're feeling like steel workers from the 80's. And if we're this upset, I can't imagine what the less-educated, "real" workers (who work harder than we do, for a lot less money) feel like.
Fact is, once a critical enough mass is reached and enough people beleive (fair or not) that the reason their kids are starving is because they're being "oppressed" by the super-rich one percent, they'll just form angry lynch mobs and hang their perceived oppressors from the nearest lamppost. They'll do this even if the "oppressors" were acting like reasonable, rational, caring human beings under the "old regime". And right now, they don't seem all that reasonable or caring. (Coldly, calculatingly, rational - but not reasonable or caring).
Of course, the Polyanna crowd could be right, and there may end up being a place in the world of tomorrow for all of those displaced programmers - as for me, I'll hang around and keep doing what I think is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay and see what happens.
Wow... as soon as I saw the word "Indian" in the article summary, I knew that "You're a racist! You're a racist!" would invariably pepper any attempt at rational discussion... but I didn't think it would start three posts in. This must be a new record.
So... you're saying that the author doesn't like puppies? Wow. What a scrooge.
You know, it occurs to me that there is a whole directory of ".sys" files in my windows 2000 installation under c:\winnt\system32\drivers which, presumedly, includes executable code for every sort of hardware that Windows knows about. I'm relatively comfortable with assembler, and have always been curious if I could disassemble a ".sys" file, make sense of it, and reverse-engineer it into a linux driver (for, of course, academic/personal purposes only, ahem) for hardware that's otherwise unsupported under linux (winmodems spring to mind). I haven't been able to find much documentation (in print or online) about the ".sys" file format or windows device drivers myself. I wonder if anybody out there has tried a similar experiment.
Actually, I clicked through the link and looked at the pictures. Tiny wouldn't describe any of the people I saw pictures of...
Because engineers in other industries and professions spend orders of magnitude more time estimating than they do actually building. (Once the estimating is done, the building is usually fairly straightforward, relatively speaking). We could probably accurately estimate the time taken to build software... but then they'd ask us to estimate how long the estimate would take... and then how long the estimate of the estimate... Or, we could just take a reasonable guess and just build the damned thing.
And, by the way, no industry or profession can accurately estimate and deliver product. Road construction, satellite design, new home construction, movie production, etc. etc. are always complaining about running over budget. Software is exponentially more complex than any of those.
In summary, bite us.
Well, then there's your solution. Just do what congress does and start calling DVD decryptors "Child Protecting, Terrorism Stopping Patriotism Programs".
I'm inclined to agree with you, actually - I used to read random rants by parents (here and elsewhere) about how if any perv was caught "staring at my daughter" I'd "rip his balls off" and think to myself... so what? What difference does it make? So don't leave her alone with some pervy stranger. That's probably good advice whether he was staring at her, or saw her naked through an X-ray, or just walked by you at the mall. I just started to assume that being a parent causes you to lose your sense of reason. However, I've been a father myself for almost two years now, and I still don't really see the problem. I've got a little boy, though - maybe being the parent of a girl makes you lose all rationality?
And I, for one, applaud that choice and pray that you stick with it in the future.
Oh, that's not true - there are lots of undetectable plastic guns. They just shoot plastic bullets, is all.
You realize that you're blogging, right?
Actually, "spend less and get more" is consultant speak for "sell a product THEN go back and tell the engineers what to design and build AND deliver it in 3 days", but do this much much much more often. Expect to see more, not less, of this in the near future.
I thought the same thing until I started digging down into it - beleive it or not, Flash's file format, called "SWF", is a somewhat open standard (you can download it from Macromedia from here, and you're allowed to implement it without licensing restrictions, but neither is it GPL'ed) and has been implemented by at least open source project, so you don't even technically need Macromedia Director to create Flash stuff. Writing SSWF scripts feels a lot like programming. Now I just wish I could think of something interesting to do with it...
Nope, nothing word than using the wrong worse.
No, that's what he meant. Quantify means "To determine or express the quantity of". Quantiffy means "To sort of determine or express the quantity of".
Well, "The Fellowship of the Ring" was necessary to set up the story, but what didn't you like about "The Two Towers"? Still, I don't get the write-up. ROTK came out like a year ago, and it was reviewed plenty back then. Slashdot seems a tad out of date.
I can't imagine why it would. All you need to do is add a little "lock" icon in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. That's - what? 100 pixels of overhead? Practically nothing.
Yeah, well I got modded +5 funny. You got modded -5 killjoy.
Well, I hope SpaceX handles financial information better than PayPal... PayPal is constantly sending me e-mails about having lost my credit card information and needing me to e-mail it back to them. I've e-mailed the damned thing to them 6 times already this month. Of course, it's a moot point because I've had to cancel this one (yet again) since somebody somehow got the number and used it fraudulently.
Actually, I was pretty disappointed at the author's choice of singletons for the static data in this (painfully obvious) article... this is actually the sort of thing that ServletContext was designed for. Singletons always bother me because they're basically global variables, with all the problems that global variables bring.
I think you're being FAR too polite here, sir. Feel free to drop in an occasional, "Are you f-ing kidding me with this drivel?" in your critique of this type of ridiculously simplistic and obvious article.
On the other hand, there's a good take-away here. If this "revolutionary technique" was so mind-bending to IBM consulting services, I know where I won't be spending my consulting dollars...