Who the fuck does a review whose primary focus deals with 4k video, and then resizes all the screenshots to 720p?!?!? How the hell is that 720p static image going to tell me anything useful about how well (or poorly) his rig did in that setup?
Why couldn't it have had a camera? Now that I think about it, why don't we see those on the market? You sure it can't have a camera?
Look up "Estes Proto-X FPV". It's smaller than the palm of your hand, and it has a first person view camera that live streams the feed back to the controller. The controller has a screen and can record the feed onto an SD card.
That's not the only one - it's just the smallest one that is readily available that I know of that has a FPV camera. It's fairly inexpensive too (around $200). Another, cheaper, FPV one is the Hubsan H107D (around $160). It's *slightly* bigger (mini instead of micro, though those terms have no official meaning), but has more range and a better chance of being able to fly outside. The controllers for both of those are even swappable. Neither of those can fly on its own though - they can't even hover in place without someone actively working a controller to keep them in one place. IMO, that makes both of these toy copters.
What's the best example you know of for open-source documentation?
Books from O'Reilly and Manning, I'm afraid...
My particular favorite was "DNS and BIND" (I think my first read through was with the 3rd edition). I read through cover to cover without my eyes glazing over even once. It was an enjoyable read, filled with interesting history and background that explained why various features were the way they were. It's a great read even if you have no interest in learning to use BIND, and it did a great job teaching me all about BIND and DNS.
Just use an encrypted drive, and auto-enter the password (so to speak), or give it to them if they ask. Still do the fresh install, but if you use an encrypted drive, then you don't have to worry about wiping it, nor about SSD sectors that can't be rewritten - just change the key, fresh install, write the key on a post it taped to the front of the laptop.
Use the right tool for the job, man. If you want non-DRMd video, you're supposed to use a torrent client, not a web browser. Not every tool has to solve every problem, you know - let each be good for its purpose instead.
You've got it all backwards. The right tool for the DRM'd job job already existed in various plugins (flash and silverlight being two recent and commonly used ones). If you want to consume non-DRM'd media, you're supposed to use standard tools and protocols, like web browsers.
This whole what-is-better-for-one-is-not-necessarily-better-for-all extends further too. NYC is big. There's 5 boroughs (though I'm sure you know that). For almost everyone in Staten Island, Newark is by far the best choice. For Manhattan, it's a bit of a toss up. For the other 3, Newark isn't in the running at all. One thing that many people that aren't from here don't understand is that proximity does not directly relate to travel time, especially if you're using public transit (LGA M60 -> N -> Brooklyn = fuck that noise, just take a car). JFK isn't really any better.
In any case, I'd rather they keep the options, or increase, them, rather than reduce the options. I just know that if they were to close LGA, the money would get spent on upgrading JFK and Newark first, and getting the extra high speed lines would be planned, and probably delayed indefinitely. I'd rather they just focus on getting the transportation in place first. If it were easier to get to JFK than LGA, that'd naturally move a lot of the customers over there, and improve the situation for all.
RAID controllers do not launch reads on all involved drives. That would be stupid.
I think you mean that they do not launch a read request for the same chunk of data on all drives in a raid mirror. That would be accurate. However, they usually will read from both drives (read chunk 1 from drive A, read chunk 2 from drive B... doing so in parrallel can significantly increase read performance using a mirror).
RAID 1 with mixed SSD/HDD is the worst of both worlds further complicated by people who don't understand it.
Do you mean people like you? Look up "md raid write-mostly", or try this page (one of many found): http://tansi.info/hybrid/ That setup is for a linux software RAID 1 mirror with one side being SSD and one side being HDD. The HDD has "writemostly" set. This causes the kernel to only do (slow) reads from the HDD if they are really needed, with all other reads going to the SSD. This is a very very simple setup that can easily give one a huge read performance boost with very safe HDD mirror backing the data. For much higher performance and tons of other data integrity options, see advanced ZFS setups (ex. with a dedicated SSD for the zil, another for L2ARC (a level 2 cache), and also in various hybrid style allocations for the pools).
Yet I have already shown you that it has built-in short aliases for common functions (some which use standard Unix names), and you can add your own.
... which is why you shouldn't trust the behavior of those within your scripts, unless you redefine them all at top. For example, most linux distro's include a default alias of "ll" to "ls -alF" or similar, but you won't see that used in scripts.
Powershell has tab completion that is miles ahead of bash as it works for parameters and values too.
apt-get install bash-completion It works for parameters and values too. Your info is WAY out of date if bash completion lacked that support the last time you used it. It can get really really fancy too. "apt-get" is a good example of one that has excellent bash completion: $ apt-get i $ apt-get install apa $ apt-get install apache apache2 apache2-mpm-event apache2-prefork-dev apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-mpm-itk apache2-suexec apachetop apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-suexec-custom apache2-doc apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev
That also works for remove, only showing items that are already installed.
It won't surprise me if powershell *can* do similar levels of completion, but, and maybe this is my background or something, it's not going to feel as natural and it's unlikely to have as many truly useful items in place (ex. the apt example is impossible without a similar package manager, and that's just not in the cards).
OpenBSD now has a 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems. time_t was always 64-bit on 64-bit systems on OpenBSD.
IMO this is one of the things that is being mostly ignored. Back around 2000, many people were saying things along the lines of, "we'll all be on 64bit or larger systems by 2038, so it will solve itself". Many more people have ignorantly joined that line of thought, since almost all mainstream cpu's are 64bit now. That said,there are still a large number of 32bit cpu's being made (like almost every android device CPU there is, and most Apple iPhone/iPad things, and many of the chromebooks out there):
All ARMv7 based CPU's, such as: * Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (nexus 7) * ARM Cortex-A9 (ex. Exynos 4210 in Galaxy Tab 3) * ARM Cortex-A15 (ex. nvidia tegra K1 in NVIDIA SHIELD; Galaxy Tab 4 and S, ASUA Chromebook C201 with Rockchip 3288)
Apple mobile products: * Apple A4 (ARM Cortex-A8): iPhone 4, iPod Touch (4th gen), Apple TV (2nd gen) * Apple A5 (ARM Cortex-A9): iPad 2, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch (5th gen), iPad mini * Apple A6 (ARM Cortex-A15): iPhone 5
Some notable 64bit exceptions: * Apple A7 (ARMv8-A): iPhone 5S * Apple A8 (ARMv8-A): iPhone 6 and 6 Plus * Apple A8X (ARMv8-A): iPad Air 2 * Exynos 5433: Galaxy Note 4 (but it only runs in 32bit mode) * Exynos 7420: Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge * NVIDIA Tegra X1:... I don't know if this is in anything yet.
The work that OpenBSD did needs done everywhere. 32bit systems need to have a 64bit time_t. Also, like y2k, there will be LOADS of data storage issues - databases that need tables altered, etc. Unlike the printed date, it will be far more difficult to make assumptions about the values based on proximity to the current date (ie. 9/11/01 was considered to be 2001, but 7/4/48 was considered 1948). time_t was a signed 32bit int, so it will wrap around to negative which has an poorly defined behavior.
Anyway.. the point that I assume is in the article is probably about future dates (and timestamps). Those will be major issues far before 2038 itself arrives (just like scheduling systems in the late 90's had to be the first to be updated).
A person makes a direct comment saying the same thing that happened a few years ago is going to happen tomorrow.
They were not so direct as you imply.
but let's just say that the person you love most in the world is shot, and it turns out the police had actual credible evidence that the person that shot your loved one made a threat the day before, but the police had your attitude, "Oh we shouldn't be so quick - let's ignore the threat."
AKA "Appeal to emotion". This can easily be flipped around, where any nearly threatening sounding statement by anyone causes them to be arrested.
For example, a very recent comment of yours:
The only cure for this travesty is to immediately fill the FEMA death camps with the entire racist, sexist and homophobic members who consist the entirety of Programming at present - the whole lot of them, because while a good egg might have slipped through, the cancer that infects programming is pervasive, and we cannot take the chance. Then, we must rebuild a new and proper programming community, and will adhere to strict guidelines according to gender, race, and sexual orientation.
How is that not a threat? That's far more direct than what this kid said.
Are you trying to say that if the kid actually did go on a shooting rampage - which indeed was what he was referring to...
Why are so many people so quick to assume this? It's been years since the shooting. I'm betting that every year on that date, some peoples tensions are high (as indicated by the response to this mess). Just playing devils advocate, but it seems entirely feasible that he was referring to every 4/16 from 2008 onward, and his arrest was kind of a self fulfilled prophecy. Convicting someone (in the public eye at least) based on less than a tweet and a picture of an Asian (who looks a bit stoned) seems like overreacting to me. It's very VERY unlikely it was a legitimate threat, which brings it down to intent, and the level of intent, which could range from a faux paus or misunderstanding, to political statement, to fake threat (intent to insight), to a promise. I certainly don't see enough evidence to know it was "indeed" a threat that he was going to go on a shooting rampage.
What's with the surge of "no true scotsman" comments?
Anyway... that doesn't apply here because you are mixing up tenses. Itzly's "can be trained" versus OzPeter's "should have". Also, rather than "a well trained system would have correctly...", it is "a well trained system will correctly...", and that's assuming "trained" doesn't only mean "fed an accurate and large corpus" but also includes algorithmic tweaks/training.
Either way, I think the quality of the photos would likely play a HUGE role. Garbage in, garbage out, and all that. If it can see the pores in your skin, it can do loads more detecting than the naked eye, but when they're using tiny little multi-portrait photos with a total file size capped at 3mb, that's quite a restriction on what it has to work with... and I'm shocked how well it does for the most part.
For those not wanting to watch a video to read a quote:
Thomas Jefferson (to Isaac McPherson, 1813-08-13):
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Full text is easy to find via your favorite search engine.
It's sad how smugly superior the tech nerds are here.
It's sad that non-tech people waste their time visiting a site advertising itself as "news for nerds" and then complain when someone wants the site to cater to nerds.
It's sad how entire families can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
They should have used Google Dog Alert. The scrambled version of the dogs, while disturbing, are not capable of tearing anything apart.
"Gambling" is when you buy a lottery ticket.....a lottery ticket is not a real stake in anything...it is a chance to win money and nothing more."
Uh no. A lottery ticket is a stake in the lottery.
You're both wrong. Don't confuse "Gambling" with the lottery. They're similar but different beasts. Playing the lottery is a way to donate money to a cause with a small chance of being rewarded for being such a generous person (/end_huge_exaggeration).
Each lottery is different. Search google for "where do lottery proceeds go". For example, for PA: http://www.palottery.state.pa.... 62% -> winners 29% -> benefit programs 7% -> retailer and vendor commissions 2% -> operating expenses
The church I went to as a kid had a yearly festival, and a 50/50 raffle. 50% to the winner, and 50% to the church. I think that's an important distinction because, if you're ok with donating to that end result, then it doesn't feel bad at all to write off that $20 you just put in there. On the other hand, if the proceeds go to a casino, it's quite a stretch to think anyone is truly happy with the casino taking their money.
I'm not saying you should pick one beneficiary over another, but you make an educated decision, and the proceeds should be part of that decision. Who do the proceeds go to when playing the market?
I was, somewhat sadly, more interested in that story than the judge one... how is putting a child into a 8'x6'x7' plywood box (aka. a room) a bad thing? I'm guessing there was other awful attributes left out for some reason, which would be just about as bad if the child was placed anywhere else (ex. resting on a 4"x2'x1/8" strip of rubber - aka a swing).
Maybe these haven't become common enough in Alaska yet, but in most parts of the world, you're a dumbass if your standing on the median while traffic is still flowing both ways (dumbass may be a little harsh, but you shouldn't be there).
Wow... so your solution to avoiding the common case of re-inventing the wheel and having "a mess of implementations of half-maintained half-abandoned libraries" is to... wait for it... use "custom in-house libraries"? Even worse, those will only do "what is required, nothing more, and won't cover special cases that you don't use" (at that time for that app).... so when you try to get all your various in-house incantations using the same incantation, you'll simply have to rewrite... well, everything. Good luck with that.
I don't say it's better to send pot smokers in prison...
What are you saying then? Perhaps "decriminalized" and "legalized" got mixed up?
IMO, all drugs should be legalized and regulated. I feel the benefits of the latter part out weight the negative effects of the former. IE. you'll know what you're taking, its potency, it's strain info and effects, etc etc etc. In addition, rather than the government (and, by extension, all tax payers) spending LOADS of money trying to fight the war on drugs, they'll be able to make loads of money on taxing those drugs. It's not a perfect solution (ex. see cigarettes), but at least there's an influx of cash coming from the same product that will eventually cost the people money to support those users in recovery/sickness/etc (I dislike how tobacco tax is currently utilized, but it could be used as a wash and even a money maker). Legalizing all drugs would also shut down almost all of the related violent crime from dealers and distributors, and stop the flow of cash to countries we don't really want to support.
The biggest issue I see with legalizing drugs is how we deal with those that are currently incarcerated for possession or use. We could pretend that it's ok to think, "the rules changed; they broke the rules before; their breaking of the rules still happened and so they should see out their punishment". I have trouble with that, but I don't know how we'd handle adjusting the sentencing of hundreds of thousands of people.
(disclaimer: I'm on slashdot so I didn't read the article or fully research this)
My initial reaction is that this is actually one of the first and greatest uses of social media and phone integration... assuming they're doing what I think they're doing (though, if so, there's some minor privacy leakage).
If I'm right, then this *should* work just as well around the world as long as people use facebook about as much in those places. I'm assuming, since this comes from their recently touted FB Messenger team, that: * Messenger has your FB account (duh) * Messenger permissions snag your personal phone number (MANY apps do this, or at least IMIE/etc) * When you get a call, their app checks their DB of phone numbers (a great many of which have been verified via the app), and gets the lookup. * If there's no lookup, it can then fallback to other lookups (whitepages, google, other DB's and such)
I really wish this was around a long time ago. The transition to everyone having unlisted phone numbers (ie. cell phones) destroyed a significant feature of Caller ID. This could bring that back a little. Though it's mostly going to be people I probably know already, this would be great any time you lose your address book somehow, and you can stop adding folks to your address book just so you'll know what number it is (ie. keeping your ex in there under some pseudonym just so you know not to answer when craycray2005 calls).
As far as privacy... if someone is calling me, screw their privacy. They can tell me who they are, or I'm not answering. BTW, if a creditor calls and says something like "Is this Mr So-and-So?", keep replying with stuff like, "Who can I say is calling?", "Who is this?", "Dunno, who are you calling for?". They love that. And definitely tell them that, "your call may be recorded for, wink-wink, quality control purposes on this end as well".
Anyway... I don't have a problem with this as long as it's simple phone number -> name lookup.
Agreed. Maybe there will be certain neighborhoods that can be designed so this will work well, and they can be labeled as such and given drone priority shipping or something. I have trouble picturing any environment where this would work well, let alone better than a mailman (unless your particular mailman is especially poor at his job, but that's a different problem).
I live in an area where the spacing between houses averages over a quarter-mile in any direction. I would love for a drone to deliver my packages instead of the lazy delivery driver just saying "address doesn't exist" or "cannot find address" because they don't want to drive down my road.
These things are cool and all that, but I don't see them being good for your case either. Just how far do you think they can travel with a big package? And how many of those deliveries can they make before their battery is dead? And how would that be more efficient than just driving that 1/4 mile? Your mailman just needs replaced.
On the other side of the scale, in tightly packed downtown areas, they're also virtually useless. You've got a bunch of people so close that it's a 10 - 20 foot walk between multi-family brownstones, or even residential buildings with LOTS AND LOTS of people (where you're going to be much better off carting in all the mail and stuffing into the already-centralized mailboxes).
The person you replied to is, IMO, in the most ideal location, and yet he'd still have lots of issues (where is that package going to go?).
This idea has such a small niche. It seems to me that the only reason anyone is interested is because it's like magic to them... they don't understand it, they didn't understand computers either, and they don't want to miss out (or they're making money off it, or huge RC nerds).
If he wants to investigate security holes in Boeing aircraft, he should get a job with Boeing, or offer his services to them for free.
If you want to vote, you should get a job in politics/government, or offer your services to them for free (and hope they take allow you to contribute). Gee, that's fun logic.
There are hundreds of people walking around with laptops, and the laptops all passed through security with no reason not to pass them though. There are how many people in the terminal with a knife? Few to none. How many people were allowed to bring one? None.
There isn't a very good analogy here. Shoe + threatening to kick people in the nuts? Water+towel and waterboarding threats?
The real point, IMO, is that, AFAICT, he was not threatening to do it. He was saying it was possible. The fact he had a laptop is almost meaningless (what about phone with wifi, or any wifi device, or some custom shit with custom radios etc... the latter of which would at least imply some possible intent). It may be a fine line, but there's a definite line.
Back to the (awful) knife analogy, at least make it right. He wasn't standing up and announcing to the plane, which would be inciting stuff; He mentioned it on twitter, which is casually mentioning it to your acquaintance that is sitting next to you that, "ya know, it'd be pretty easy to turn this plastic food tray into a sharp weapon and stab someone... I wonder why they use this type of tray?". Would they take his tray as evidence? Would they take every tray on the plane? WTF... there's plenty of laptops around, and they're just tools.
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Good thing all those 'eyes on the source code' caught this little nasty before it went out the door.
Name one distro where this is out the door.
For example, the latest ubuntu, released just a month ago, is using 3.19.
Continuing your criticism...
Who the fuck does a review whose primary focus deals with 4k video, and then resizes all the screenshots to 720p?!?!? How the hell is that 720p static image going to tell me anything useful about how well (or poorly) his rig did in that setup?
Why couldn't it have had a camera? Now that I think about it, why don't we see those on the market? You sure it can't have a camera?
Look up "Estes Proto-X FPV". It's smaller than the palm of your hand, and it has a first person view camera that live streams the feed back to the controller. The controller has a screen and can record the feed onto an SD card.
That's not the only one - it's just the smallest one that is readily available that I know of that has a FPV camera. It's fairly inexpensive too (around $200). Another, cheaper, FPV one is the Hubsan H107D (around $160). It's *slightly* bigger (mini instead of micro, though those terms have no official meaning), but has more range and a better chance of being able to fly outside. The controllers for both of those are even swappable. Neither of those can fly on its own though - they can't even hover in place without someone actively working a controller to keep them in one place. IMO, that makes both of these toy copters.
What's the best example you know of for open-source documentation?
Books from O'Reilly and Manning, I'm afraid...
My particular favorite was "DNS and BIND" (I think my first read through was with the 3rd edition). I read through cover to cover without my eyes glazing over even once. It was an enjoyable read, filled with interesting history and background that explained why various features were the way they were. It's a great read even if you have no interest in learning to use BIND, and it did a great job teaching me all about BIND and DNS.
Just use an encrypted drive, and auto-enter the password (so to speak), or give it to them if they ask. Still do the fresh install, but if you use an encrypted drive, then you don't have to worry about wiping it, nor about SSD sectors that can't be rewritten - just change the key, fresh install, write the key on a post it taped to the front of the laptop.
Use the right tool for the job, man. If you want non-DRMd video, you're supposed to use a torrent client, not a web browser. Not every tool has to solve every problem, you know - let each be good for its purpose instead.
You've got it all backwards. The right tool for the DRM'd job job already existed in various plugins (flash and silverlight being two recent and commonly used ones). If you want to consume non-DRM'd media, you're supposed to use standard tools and protocols, like web browsers.
This whole what-is-better-for-one-is-not-necessarily-better-for-all extends further too. NYC is big. There's 5 boroughs (though I'm sure you know that). For almost everyone in Staten Island, Newark is by far the best choice. For Manhattan, it's a bit of a toss up. For the other 3, Newark isn't in the running at all.
One thing that many people that aren't from here don't understand is that proximity does not directly relate to travel time, especially if you're using public transit (LGA M60 -> N -> Brooklyn = fuck that noise, just take a car). JFK isn't really any better.
In any case, I'd rather they keep the options, or increase, them, rather than reduce the options. I just know that if they were to close LGA, the money would get spent on upgrading JFK and Newark first, and getting the extra high speed lines would be planned, and probably delayed indefinitely. I'd rather they just focus on getting the transportation in place first. If it were easier to get to JFK than LGA, that'd naturally move a lot of the customers over there, and improve the situation for all.
RAID controllers do not launch reads on all involved drives. That would be stupid.
I think you mean that they do not launch a read request for the same chunk of data on all drives in a raid mirror. That would be accurate. However, they usually will read from both drives (read chunk 1 from drive A, read chunk 2 from drive B... doing so in parrallel can significantly increase read performance using a mirror).
RAID 1 with mixed SSD/HDD is the worst of both worlds further complicated by people who don't understand it.
Do you mean people like you?
Look up "md raid write-mostly", or try this page (one of many found): http://tansi.info/hybrid/
That setup is for a linux software RAID 1 mirror with one side being SSD and one side being HDD. The HDD has "writemostly" set. This causes the kernel to only do (slow) reads from the HDD if they are really needed, with all other reads going to the SSD.
This is a very very simple setup that can easily give one a huge read performance boost with very safe HDD mirror backing the data. For much higher performance and tons of other data integrity options, see advanced ZFS setups (ex. with a dedicated SSD for the zil, another for L2ARC (a level 2 cache), and also in various hybrid style allocations for the pools).
Yet I have already shown you that it has built-in short aliases for common functions (some which use standard Unix names), and you can add your own.
... which is why you shouldn't trust the behavior of those within your scripts, unless you redefine them all at top. For example, most linux distro's include a default alias of "ll" to "ls -alF" or similar, but you won't see that used in scripts.
Powershell has tab completion that is miles ahead of bash as it works for parameters and values too.
apt-get install bash-completion
It works for parameters and values too. Your info is WAY out of date if bash completion lacked that support the last time you used it. It can get really really fancy too. "apt-get" is a good example of one that has excellent bash completion:
$ apt-get i
$ apt-get install apa
$ apt-get install apache
apache2 apache2-mpm-event apache2-prefork-dev apache2-utils
apache2.2-bin apache2-mpm-itk apache2-suexec apachetop
apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-suexec-custom
apache2-doc apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev
That also works for remove, only showing items that are already installed.
It won't surprise me if powershell *can* do similar levels of completion, but, and maybe this is my background or something, it's not going to feel as natural and it's unlikely to have as many truly useful items in place (ex. the apt example is impossible without a similar package manager, and that's just not in the cards).
OpenBSD now has a 64-bit time_t on 32-bit systems. time_t was always 64-bit on 64-bit systems on OpenBSD.
IMO this is one of the things that is being mostly ignored. Back around 2000, many people were saying things along the lines of, "we'll all be on 64bit or larger systems by 2038, so it will solve itself". Many more people have ignorantly joined that line of thought, since almost all mainstream cpu's are 64bit now. That said,there are still a large number of 32bit cpu's being made (like almost every android device CPU there is, and most Apple iPhone/iPad things, and many of the chromebooks out there):
All ARMv7 based CPU's, such as:
* Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (nexus 7)
* ARM Cortex-A9 (ex. Exynos 4210 in Galaxy Tab 3)
* ARM Cortex-A15 (ex. nvidia tegra K1 in NVIDIA SHIELD; Galaxy Tab 4 and S, ASUA Chromebook C201 with Rockchip 3288)
Apple mobile products:
* Apple A4 (ARM Cortex-A8): iPhone 4, iPod Touch (4th gen), Apple TV (2nd gen)
* Apple A5 (ARM Cortex-A9): iPad 2, iPhone 4S, iPod Touch (5th gen), iPad mini
* Apple A6 (ARM Cortex-A15): iPhone 5
Some notable 64bit exceptions: ... I don't know if this is in anything yet.
* Apple A7 (ARMv8-A): iPhone 5S
* Apple A8 (ARMv8-A): iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
* Apple A8X (ARMv8-A): iPad Air 2
* Exynos 5433: Galaxy Note 4 (but it only runs in 32bit mode)
* Exynos 7420: Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge
* NVIDIA Tegra X1:
The work that OpenBSD did needs done everywhere. 32bit systems need to have a 64bit time_t.
Also, like y2k, there will be LOADS of data storage issues - databases that need tables altered, etc. Unlike the printed date, it will be far more difficult to make assumptions about the values based on proximity to the current date (ie. 9/11/01 was considered to be 2001, but 7/4/48 was considered 1948). time_t was a signed 32bit int, so it will wrap around to negative which has an poorly defined behavior.
Anyway.. the point that I assume is in the article is probably about future dates (and timestamps). Those will be major issues far before 2038 itself arrives (just like scheduling systems in the late 90's had to be the first to be updated).
A person makes a direct comment saying the same thing that happened a few years ago is going to happen tomorrow.
They were not so direct as you imply.
but let's just say that the person you love most in the world is shot, and it turns out the police had actual credible evidence that the person that shot your loved one made a threat the day before, but the police had your attitude, "Oh we shouldn't be so quick - let's ignore the threat."
AKA "Appeal to emotion". This can easily be flipped around, where any nearly threatening sounding statement by anyone causes them to be arrested.
For example, a very recent comment of yours:
The only cure for this travesty is to immediately fill the FEMA death camps with the entire racist, sexist and homophobic members who consist the entirety of Programming at present - the whole lot of them, because while a good egg might have slipped through, the cancer that infects programming is pervasive, and we cannot take the chance.
Then, we must rebuild a new and proper programming community, and will adhere to strict guidelines according to gender, race, and sexual orientation.
How is that not a threat? That's far more direct than what this kid said.
Are you trying to say that if the kid actually did go on a shooting rampage - which indeed was what he was referring to...
Why are so many people so quick to assume this? It's been years since the shooting. I'm betting that every year on that date, some peoples tensions are high (as indicated by the response to this mess). Just playing devils advocate, but it seems entirely feasible that he was referring to every 4/16 from 2008 onward, and his arrest was kind of a self fulfilled prophecy.
Convicting someone (in the public eye at least) based on less than a tweet and a picture of an Asian (who looks a bit stoned) seems like overreacting to me. It's very VERY unlikely it was a legitimate threat, which brings it down to intent, and the level of intent, which could range from a faux paus or misunderstanding, to political statement, to fake threat (intent to insight), to a promise. I certainly don't see enough evidence to know it was "indeed" a threat that he was going to go on a shooting rampage.
What's with the surge of "no true scotsman" comments?
Anyway... that doesn't apply here because you are mixing up tenses. Itzly's "can be trained" versus OzPeter's "should have". Also, rather than "a well trained system would have correctly...", it is "a well trained system will correctly ...", and that's assuming "trained" doesn't only mean "fed an accurate and large corpus" but also includes algorithmic tweaks/training.
Either way, I think the quality of the photos would likely play a HUGE role. Garbage in, garbage out, and all that. If it can see the pores in your skin, it can do loads more detecting than the naked eye, but when they're using tiny little multi-portrait photos with a total file size capped at 3mb, that's quite a restriction on what it has to work with... and I'm shocked how well it does for the most part.
For those not wanting to watch a video to read a quote:
Thomas Jefferson (to Isaac McPherson, 1813-08-13):
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Full text is easy to find via your favorite search engine.
It's sad how far Slashdot has fallen.
It's sad how smugly superior the tech nerds are here.
It's sad that non-tech people waste their time visiting a site advertising itself as "news for nerds" and then complain when someone wants the site to cater to nerds.
It's sad how entire families can be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs.
They should have used Google Dog Alert. The scrambled version of the dogs, while disturbing, are not capable of tearing anything apart.
"Gambling" is when you buy a lottery ticket.....a lottery ticket is not a real stake in anything...it is a chance to win money and nothing more."
Uh no. A lottery ticket is a stake in the lottery.
You're both wrong.
Don't confuse "Gambling" with the lottery. They're similar but different beasts.
Playing the lottery is a way to donate money to a cause with a small chance of being rewarded for being such a generous person (/end_huge_exaggeration).
Each lottery is different. Search google for "where do lottery proceeds go". For example, for PA:
http://www.palottery.state.pa....
62% -> winners
29% -> benefit programs
7% -> retailer and vendor commissions
2% -> operating expenses
The church I went to as a kid had a yearly festival, and a 50/50 raffle. 50% to the winner, and 50% to the church. I think that's an important distinction because, if you're ok with donating to that end result, then it doesn't feel bad at all to write off that $20 you just put in there. On the other hand, if the proceeds go to a casino, it's quite a stretch to think anyone is truly happy with the casino taking their money.
I'm not saying you should pick one beneficiary over another, but you make an educated decision, and the proceeds should be part of that decision.
Who do the proceeds go to when playing the market?
I was, somewhat sadly, more interested in that story than the judge one... how is putting a child into a 8'x6'x7' plywood box (aka. a room) a bad thing? I'm guessing there was other awful attributes left out for some reason, which would be just about as bad if the child was placed anywhere else (ex. resting on a 4"x2'x1/8" strip of rubber - aka a swing).
We have some crazy inventions which help deal with folks being in the middle of the road:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
https://www.google.com/search?...
Maybe these haven't become common enough in Alaska yet, but in most parts of the world, you're a dumbass if your standing on the median while traffic is still flowing both ways (dumbass may be a little harsh, but you shouldn't be there).
Wow... so your solution to avoiding the common case of re-inventing the wheel and having "a mess of implementations of half-maintained half-abandoned libraries" is to... wait for it... use "custom in-house libraries"? Even worse, those will only do "what is required, nothing more, and won't cover special cases that you don't use" (at that time for that app).... so when you try to get all your various in-house incantations using the same incantation, you'll simply have to rewrite... well, everything. Good luck with that.
courtequdotbiz version 1:
[...]pot decriminalized[...]
You make it sound like it's a good thing.
courtequdotbiz version 2:
I don't say it's better to send pot smokers in prison...
What are you saying then? Perhaps "decriminalized" and "legalized" got mixed up?
IMO, all drugs should be legalized and regulated. I feel the benefits of the latter part out weight the negative effects of the former. IE. you'll know what you're taking, its potency, it's strain info and effects, etc etc etc. In addition, rather than the government (and, by extension, all tax payers) spending LOADS of money trying to fight the war on drugs, they'll be able to make loads of money on taxing those drugs. It's not a perfect solution (ex. see cigarettes), but at least there's an influx of cash coming from the same product that will eventually cost the people money to support those users in recovery/sickness/etc (I dislike how tobacco tax is currently utilized, but it could be used as a wash and even a money maker). Legalizing all drugs would also shut down almost all of the related violent crime from dealers and distributors, and stop the flow of cash to countries we don't really want to support.
The biggest issue I see with legalizing drugs is how we deal with those that are currently incarcerated for possession or use. We could pretend that it's ok to think, "the rules changed; they broke the rules before; their breaking of the rules still happened and so they should see out their punishment". I have trouble with that, but I don't know how we'd handle adjusting the sentencing of hundreds of thousands of people.
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(disclaimer: I'm on slashdot so I didn't read the article or fully research this)
My initial reaction is that this is actually one of the first and greatest uses of social media and phone integration... assuming they're doing what I think they're doing (though, if so, there's some minor privacy leakage).
If I'm right, then this *should* work just as well around the world as long as people use facebook about as much in those places. I'm assuming, since this comes from their recently touted FB Messenger team, that:
* Messenger has your FB account (duh)
* Messenger permissions snag your personal phone number (MANY apps do this, or at least IMIE/etc)
* When you get a call, their app checks their DB of phone numbers (a great many of which have been verified via the app), and gets the lookup.
* If there's no lookup, it can then fallback to other lookups (whitepages, google, other DB's and such)
I really wish this was around a long time ago. The transition to everyone having unlisted phone numbers (ie. cell phones) destroyed a significant feature of Caller ID. This could bring that back a little. Though it's mostly going to be people I probably know already, this would be great any time you lose your address book somehow, and you can stop adding folks to your address book just so you'll know what number it is (ie. keeping your ex in there under some pseudonym just so you know not to answer when craycray2005 calls).
As far as privacy... if someone is calling me, screw their privacy. They can tell me who they are, or I'm not answering. BTW, if a creditor calls and says something like "Is this Mr So-and-So?", keep replying with stuff like, "Who can I say is calling?", "Who is this?", "Dunno, who are you calling for?". They love that. And definitely tell them that, "your call may be recorded for, wink-wink, quality control purposes on this end as well".
Anyway... I don't have a problem with this as long as it's simple phone number -> name lookup.
Agreed.
Maybe there will be certain neighborhoods that can be designed so this will work well, and they can be labeled as such and given drone priority shipping or something. I have trouble picturing any environment where this would work well, let alone better than a mailman (unless your particular mailman is especially poor at his job, but that's a different problem).
I live in an area where the spacing between houses averages over a quarter-mile in any direction. I would love for a drone to deliver my packages instead of the lazy delivery driver just saying "address doesn't exist" or "cannot find address" because they don't want to drive down my road.
These things are cool and all that, but I don't see them being good for your case either. Just how far do you think they can travel with a big package? And how many of those deliveries can they make before their battery is dead? And how would that be more efficient than just driving that 1/4 mile? Your mailman just needs replaced.
On the other side of the scale, in tightly packed downtown areas, they're also virtually useless. You've got a bunch of people so close that it's a 10 - 20 foot walk between multi-family brownstones, or even residential buildings with LOTS AND LOTS of people (where you're going to be much better off carting in all the mail and stuffing into the already-centralized mailboxes).
The person you replied to is, IMO, in the most ideal location, and yet he'd still have lots of issues (where is that package going to go?).
This idea has such a small niche. It seems to me that the only reason anyone is interested is because it's like magic to them... they don't understand it, they didn't understand computers either, and they don't want to miss out (or they're making money off it, or huge RC nerds).
If he wants to investigate security holes in Boeing aircraft, he should get a job with Boeing, or offer his services to them for free.
If you want to vote, you should get a job in politics/government, or offer your services to them for free (and hope they take allow you to contribute).
Gee, that's fun logic.
This knife comparison is fucking stupid.
There are hundreds of people walking around with laptops, and the laptops all passed through security with no reason not to pass them though.
There are how many people in the terminal with a knife? Few to none. How many people were allowed to bring one? None.
There isn't a very good analogy here. Shoe + threatening to kick people in the nuts? Water+towel and waterboarding threats?
The real point, IMO, is that, AFAICT, he was not threatening to do it. He was saying it was possible. The fact he had a laptop is almost meaningless (what about phone with wifi, or any wifi device, or some custom shit with custom radios etc... the latter of which would at least imply some possible intent). It may be a fine line, but there's a definite line.
Back to the (awful) knife analogy, at least make it right. He wasn't standing up and announcing to the plane, which would be inciting stuff; He mentioned it on twitter, which is casually mentioning it to your acquaintance that is sitting next to you that, "ya know, it'd be pretty easy to turn this plastic food tray into a sharp weapon and stab someone... I wonder why they use this type of tray?". Would they take his tray as evidence? Would they take every tray on the plane? WTF... there's plenty of laptops around, and they're just tools.