GNU/Linux? Sure. You just need to get away from the "I am a unix" mentality. It forces the system into the users face. No user wants to know how or why things happen. They just want it all to work. Ubuntu is close as you will get if you keep hanging onto that paradigm.
It is simple to write off those people, but that makes you the same part of the whole that these folks come from. Their disparity, and the struggle against it, is what keeps us all going.
Imagine if you will, you find a lamp with a genie in it. You get three wishes. Most people wish for selfish things, for which only a bad outcome can happen (or so says TV). But you thought this through... you only need one wish! You wish for everyone to be happy, always. Great. Now you, nor anyone else wants material things. Great, right? You're out of food. What compels you to get more? After all, you are happy with no food. You will be happy dying from not eating. People will be happy to watch you die from not eating.
The point here is, you need the yin for the yang, or it all falls apart. Griping "Get over it and do x" only makes you part of the problem, not the problem solver.
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool... you would have counted on it... so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
Of the several times I had to wear a sensor cap, they had to wet my head and constantly shift the nodes to make sure they were picking up signals correctly. How accurate are caps like this?
I know this is late, and likely only to be read by you (the parent poster), but the reason for the TI LaunchPad over the Arduino is price, plain and simple. A few key parts for the Arduino can throw my close to $100 in cost. The equivelent for the TI LaunchPad is significantly less.
I've been thinking about getting a TI LaunchPad, but I have to admit, I am a bit reluctant, as the samples I have found seem to assume you know a little bit of something. I can write code with the best of them, but how the hardware works, how to read schematics, how to add to these boards escapes me. Is there any references out there for people like me?
That is because ActiveX is just a DLL. Loading an ActiveX library is just loading a DLL. It isn't ActiveX that is the problem, but the fact that you are allowing any site to install and run a DLL. You don't even need to load your own anymore. Just have a handy exploit for Adobe Flash, load random flash object to make sure the browsing party has the DLL(s) installed and loaded, then exploit Flash. Same goes for Java. And that zynga "helper" you have from Facebook...
SQL injection, phishing, malicious attachments, social engineering. Old, every one of them.
And every one of them gets learned the hard way by the new batch of up-and-comers. It isn't like the average knowledge of us IT folk has gotten any bigger. Old, season folks leave, and new, green folks join. Also, management.
So. The woman could very well have been unable to see due to the sun. Was the victim standing in the road? Did they move their vehicles to the side of the road? It's impossible to prove that the driver was using her phone at the time of the accident.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. If the power went out in your house and it was pitch black, would you sprint through the house and down the basement steps to get some candles? No, you wouldn't you can't see. You would move as slowly as you could to feel your way around.
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed. This isn't different.
It is likely that Microsoft is asserting control over what you put up there. Sort of like when you upload your photo to site x and in the ToS they have "We reserve the right to use your picture in anyway we can possibly find to make money off of it" (probably not exact wording). I could be talking out of my ass too.
Anonymous is just the first of many future darknets that will be nearly impossible to destroy. You might take out a ringleader or two, but 4 others would stand up to take their place if they felt that it was unjust
The government folks never learn. We are still after "al-Qaeda"
HP has been doing this for way longer than I care to remember. I have a 4xPPro HP NetServer, which would only let you use "HP certified" Pentium Pro CPUs... and RAID controller... and hard drives... and probably everything else. If you tried installing rogue hardware, it would even refuse to POST.
That is because Display Contexts and Window Handles are part of the GDI paradigm, which DirectX not built on top of. Of course they wouldn't get along, just like passing a Qt widget pointer to a GTK function isn't going to do what you would hope.
It doesn't need to be the network stack exploited... just ZoneAlarm... the bit you shoehorned between your network connection and the rest of the internet.
Trusting a software firewall is like trusting "The Club (tm)" to protect your car from thieves. Just like ZoneAlarm, once I hit it, I'm hitting the software stack on your machine, and a compromise via 0-day exploit can be made just the same as a car thief using a hacksaw to cut a small hole in your steering wheel and removing "The Club (tm)"
You know, I was one that never registered to vote before this past election. I felt strongly enough about both candidates that I thought it was time I made my contribution to the decisions of my countries future, just like everyone should.
Well, just like standard language, words become twisted and used wrongly enough that they become common use, then over x time, standard use. How many people have you heard use the word "ignorant" to mean "asshole"? Or "ironic" to mean "coincidental"?
I mean hell, in the IT world, a couple of examples are "megabyte" which somehow now means 1000^2 bytes now, instead of the 1024^2 that it has meant forever (or as long as I have been alive). "Alpha" software used to be "still in design phase" and Beta used to mean "We have everything we want done... we just have some bugs to work out". Now "Beta" has taken on the old "Alpha" meaning and "Release Candidate" has taken the meaning of "Beta".
You can't fight it. It is pointless. Just facepalm quietly at your desk and hope "bacon" doesn't come to mean something else. That is one of the signs of the end of days.
While I would normally agree with a rational observation such as this, I can also attest to being able to shut up a completely screaming child that sounds like she is being murdered, by playing the same Pippi Longstocking DVD for the 9038402984309840892 time just in that day. There are perfectly good reasons to stick your kid in front of a TV and that includes avoided suicide and children drowned in the bathtub.
Slashdot Mirror
GNU/Linux? Sure. You just need to get away from the "I am a unix" mentality. It forces the system into the users face. No user wants to know how or why things happen. They just want it all to work. Ubuntu is close as you will get if you keep hanging onto that paradigm.
It is simple to write off those people, but that makes you the same part of the whole that these folks come from. Their disparity, and the struggle against it, is what keeps us all going.
Imagine if you will, you find a lamp with a genie in it. You get three wishes. Most people wish for selfish things, for which only a bad outcome can happen (or so says TV). But you thought this through... you only need one wish! You wish for everyone to be happy, always. Great. Now you, nor anyone else wants material things. Great, right? You're out of food. What compels you to get more? After all, you are happy with no food. You will be happy dying from not eating. People will be happy to watch you die from not eating.
The point here is, you need the yin for the yang, or it all falls apart. Griping "Get over it and do x" only makes you part of the problem, not the problem solver.
Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool... you would have counted on it... so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
Of the several times I had to wear a sensor cap, they had to wet my head and constantly shift the nodes to make sure they were picking up signals correctly. How accurate are caps like this?
perhaps because the ones who had anything worth "getting out" are arrested or dead?
We need to enroll Mike Tyson and get some IP over Pidgin going
I know this is late, and likely only to be read by you (the parent poster), but the reason for the TI LaunchPad over the Arduino is price, plain and simple. A few key parts for the Arduino can throw my close to $100 in cost. The equivelent for the TI LaunchPad is significantly less.
I've been thinking about getting a TI LaunchPad, but I have to admit, I am a bit reluctant, as the samples I have found seem to assume you know a little bit of something. I can write code with the best of them, but how the hardware works, how to read schematics, how to add to these boards escapes me. Is there any references out there for people like me?
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/74984_1677529899227_1266877413_31787672_2465282_n.jpg
I typed in my zip code and it showed coverage on the map, half a state away (PA). Not even close to the same place. That does me no good.
That is because ActiveX is just a DLL. Loading an ActiveX library is just loading a DLL. It isn't ActiveX that is the problem, but the fact that you are allowing any site to install and run a DLL. You don't even need to load your own anymore. Just have a handy exploit for Adobe Flash, load random flash object to make sure the browsing party has the DLL(s) installed and loaded, then exploit Flash. Same goes for Java. And that zynga "helper" you have from Facebook...
SQL injection, phishing, malicious attachments, social engineering. Old, every one of them.
And every one of them gets learned the hard way by the new batch of up-and-comers. It isn't like the average knowledge of us IT folk has gotten any bigger. Old, season folks leave, and new, green folks join. Also, management.
So. The woman could very well have been unable to see due to the sun. Was the victim standing in the road? Did they move their vehicles to the side of the road? It's impossible to prove that the driver was using her phone at the time of the accident.
Seriously, it doesn't matter. If the power went out in your house and it was pitch black, would you sprint through the house and down the basement steps to get some candles? No, you wouldn't you can't see. You would move as slowly as you could to feel your way around.
This woman, when having her vision compromised, should have treated it as any other similar hazard. If there was mud that was thrown on her windshield, she wouldn't have kept going the same speed. This isn't different.
Mass hysteria is dogs and cats, LIVING TOGETHER!
It is likely that Microsoft is asserting control over what you put up there. Sort of like when you upload your photo to site x and in the ToS they have "We reserve the right to use your picture in anyway we can possibly find to make money off of it" (probably not exact wording). I could be talking out of my ass too.
Anonymous is just the first of many future darknets that will be nearly impossible to destroy. You might take out a ringleader or two, but 4 others would stand up to take their place if they felt that it was unjust
The government folks never learn. We are still after "al-Qaeda"
HP has been doing this for way longer than I care to remember. I have a 4xPPro HP NetServer, which would only let you use "HP certified" Pentium Pro CPUs... and RAID controller... and hard drives... and probably everything else. If you tried installing rogue hardware, it would even refuse to POST.
Your memory is going to waste if it is not being used. Come back when you have a complaint about it taking up memory that you need.
That is because Display Contexts and Window Handles are part of the GDI paradigm, which DirectX not built on top of. Of course they wouldn't get along, just like passing a Qt widget pointer to a GTK function isn't going to do what you would hope.
It doesn't need to be the network stack exploited... just ZoneAlarm... the bit you shoehorned between your network connection and the rest of the internet.
Trusting a software firewall is like trusting "The Club (tm)" to protect your car from thieves. Just like ZoneAlarm, once I hit it, I'm hitting the software stack on your machine, and a compromise via 0-day exploit can be made just the same as a car thief using a hacksaw to cut a small hole in your steering wheel and removing "The Club (tm)"
You know, I was one that never registered to vote before this past election. I felt strongly enough about both candidates that I thought it was time I made my contribution to the decisions of my countries future, just like everyone should.
I voted for David Hasselhoff
Well, just like standard language, words become twisted and used wrongly enough that they become common use, then over x time, standard use. How many people have you heard use the word "ignorant" to mean "asshole"? Or "ironic" to mean "coincidental"?
I mean hell, in the IT world, a couple of examples are "megabyte" which somehow now means 1000^2 bytes now, instead of the 1024^2 that it has meant forever (or as long as I have been alive). "Alpha" software used to be "still in design phase" and Beta used to mean "We have everything we want done... we just have some bugs to work out". Now "Beta" has taken on the old "Alpha" meaning and "Release Candidate" has taken the meaning of "Beta".
You can't fight it. It is pointless. Just facepalm quietly at your desk and hope "bacon" doesn't come to mean something else. That is one of the signs of the end of days.
"Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1999"
While I would normally agree with a rational observation such as this, I can also attest to being able to shut up a completely screaming child that sounds like she is being murdered, by playing the same Pippi Longstocking DVD for the 9038402984309840892 time just in that day. There are perfectly good reasons to stick your kid in front of a TV and that includes avoided suicide and children drowned in the bathtub.