What a loser that guy was, because nothing is more fun than biting your teeth trying to clean out the code of your predecessor, looking for a bug, and being confronted with stupid comment where a usefull one could have been, and having to guess at the function of "My_funnyvariable_rotfl[x]".
In a professional environment, I would recommend to be VERY good at what you do before introducing tricks that could compromise the product.
Don't worry, though, there's hope for us all yet. Just a few days ago, my mother (88) told me how she'd met General Patton while she was taking a walk in April '45, a story I'd never heard before.
If I understand correctly, the transmission between the camera and the cell phone will not use the same technology as is used between the cell phone and its base station (i.e. gsm, umts etc). It may be a very low power system, especially if it needs to be powered over the air. A spread spectrum system or even FM would be very suitable as they allow to trade (frequency) band width for power. Obviously, taking up so much band width, you don't want to interfere with other wireless users, but this is unlikely anyway, precisely because the power is so low. Apart from this you are right: the health risks are not completely known.
Slashdot readers already know the best disaster recovery policy is to have multiple off-site backups. A human being is just a strand of DNA's mechanism for replicating itself; that DNA needs to figure out how to store copies of itself...
Indeed. This is why many Slashdot readers store samples of their DNA in Kleenex tissues.
My understanding is that they (implicitely) assessed thousands of potential exploits. Of these, thousands minus 20 were classified as safe and 20 as dangerous. All guesses from the "safe" category were correct and 8 out of 20 from the "dangerous" category were correct. If all those thousands minus 20 assessments would be taken into account, their statistic would be much better. Even more: it would be fishy if all of the 20 potential exploits would have occurred.
Of course they will know! Why would anyone murder all people behind him? And why would all the others -who can see this, because they are behind- not run away? If you are found in front of a line of corpses, it's obvious that you sneaked on them one by one from behind. On the other hand you will get 2x scrabble value for "cutting".
Possibly related to that, water and alcohol form an azeotropic mixture. In practice this mixture (of about 95%alcohol and 5% water) is the closest to pure ethanol you can achieve through distillation.
CS grad students are in their program to do research, not develop software for other departments. Their time should be spent working towards their thesis.
This may be true for you. Around here the purpose of grad students (as opposed to phd students) is not to do research. The goal of their thesis is to do work which is similar to what they will be doing professionally. Not everybody is an Einstein, and not everybody wants to be one. And cool things are also done outside of "research".
There is no research value in applying software engineering practices to develop an application for a researcher in another field.
Why? It is possible that e.g. a biologist has need for say a stereoscopic renderer of molecules. I would say this is a challenging project for a fresh CS student.
if you open a root console on any flavour of linux and stick the keyboard out a window anyone walking by will be able to gain root access to you machine.
So windows insecurity is a threat, even to linux machines?
If a device is priced at USD1000, costs USD500 to make, lasts 10 years and only saves you USD20 a year, it's probably not worth it in terms of the environment.
Neither in terms of economics. I, for one, am not paying $1000 for a device that is expected to save me $200 over its expected lifetime.
A minor nitpick: Regardless of whether you are right or wrong (probably right) you argument does not hold completely: it may be interesting to build a device which consumes more energy than it will ever deliver, e.g. because it would be even more costly to get the energy there. Satellite solar panels may (or may not) be an example. Or solar panels in remote locations like Antarctica. In other words: the energy used to produce it may be cheaper than the energy it is replacing.
I'm not saying the U.S. is perfect, but you're not making a case for Europe being much better.
To be honest, this doesn't strike me as such an invasion of my privacy. We are also free to come and go and live and work where we please. The government knows where I live. Big deal. Compare this to the hassle foreigners need to go through just to go on holiday to the US (fingerprints etc).
Dude, get a grip! Don't try to convince people who are apparently interested in this knot stuff, that it is irrelevant, especially in their own forum. That's even a bigger waste of time than what you're more or less blaming them of. Didn't you have a large fish to fry?
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What a loser that guy was, because nothing is more fun than biting your teeth trying to clean out the code of your predecessor, looking for a bug, and being confronted with stupid comment where a usefull one could have been, and having to guess at the function of "My_funnyvariable_rotfl[x]".
In a professional environment, I would recommend to be VERY good at what you do before introducing tricks that could compromise the product.
Considering how much time we spend talking about the other kind, I think it's worth paying attention to the real problems out there.
Maybe I'm just old-fashiond and boring, but it's not because you couldn't care less about piracy that it isn't someone lese's real problem...
Your name isn't Hertz by any chance?
Do this for 40 years, and you'll be just as sharp at 50 as you were at 20.
Damn! Why didn't you tell me to start when I was still 10?
Don't worry, though, there's hope for us all yet. Just a few days ago, my mother (88) told me how she'd met General Patton while she was taking a walk in April '45, a story I'd never heard before.
Also a story which may not be true... :-)
If I understand correctly, the transmission between the camera and the cell phone will not use the same technology as is used between the cell phone and its base station (i.e. gsm, umts etc). It may be a very low power system, especially if it needs to be powered over the air. A spread spectrum system or even FM would be very suitable as they allow to trade (frequency) band width for power. Obviously, taking up so much band width, you don't want to interfere with other wireless users, but this is unlikely anyway, precisely because the power is so low. Apart from this you are right: the health risks are not completely known.
Slashdot readers already know the best disaster recovery policy is to have multiple off-site backups. A human being is just a strand of DNA's mechanism for replicating itself; that DNA needs to figure out how to store copies of itself...
Indeed. This is why many Slashdot readers store samples of their DNA in Kleenex tissues.
This is the reason why we let the supercomputer do the calculations...
My understanding is that they (implicitely) assessed thousands of potential exploits. Of these, thousands minus 20 were classified as safe and 20 as dangerous. All guesses from the "safe" category were correct and 8 out of 20 from the "dangerous" category were correct. If all those thousands minus 20 assessments would be taken into account, their statistic would be much better. Even more: it would be fishy if all of the 20 potential exploits would have occurred.
At least that narrows it down a bit? Oh...
Of course they will know! Why would anyone murder all people behind him? And why would all the others -who can see this, because they are behind- not run away? If you are found in front of a line of corpses, it's obvious that you sneaked on them one by one from behind. On the other hand you will get 2x scrabble value for "cutting".
We were merely humbly waiting for you to be the first one. My turn now. He's a dick. Next!
Possibly related to that, water and alcohol form an azeotropic mixture. In practice this mixture (of about 95%alcohol and 5% water) is the closest to pure ethanol you can achieve through distillation.
CS grad students are in their program to do research, not develop software for other departments. Their time should be spent working towards their thesis.
This may be true for you. Around here the purpose of grad students (as opposed to phd students) is not to do research. The goal of their thesis is to do work which is similar to what they will be doing professionally. Not everybody is an Einstein, and not everybody wants to be one. And cool things are also done outside of "research".
There is no research value in applying software engineering practices to develop an application for a researcher in another field.
Why? It is possible that e.g. a biologist has need for say a stereoscopic renderer of molecules. I would say this is a challenging project for a fresh CS student.
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if you open a root console on any flavour of linux and stick the keyboard out a window anyone walking by will be able to gain root access to you machine.
So windows insecurity is a threat, even to linux machines?
It took me far less...
Maybe an ex-windows user who assumed "delete /bin" was the linux equivalent of "empty wastebasket" ?
No, but I wondered how this will be mounted. Probably using a Van Allen key...
Sorry.
If a device is priced at USD1000, costs USD500 to make, lasts 10 years and only saves you USD20 a year, it's probably not worth it in terms of the environment.
Neither in terms of economics. I, for one, am not paying $1000 for a device that is expected to save me $200 over its expected lifetime.
A minor nitpick: Regardless of whether you are right or wrong (probably right) you argument does not hold completely: it may be interesting to build a device which consumes more energy than it will ever deliver, e.g. because it would be even more costly to get the energy there. Satellite solar panels may (or may not) be an example. Or solar panels in remote locations like Antarctica. In other words: the energy used to produce it may be cheaper than the energy it is replacing.
More or less like this...part 1 and part 2.
Rewriting "the laws of cyberspace" is for wussies. to save on my heating bill I rewrote the laws of thermodynamics.
I'm not saying the U.S. is perfect, but you're not making a case for Europe being much better.
To be honest, this doesn't strike me as such an invasion of my privacy. We are also free to come and go and live and work where we please. The government knows where I live. Big deal. Compare this to the hassle foreigners need to go through just to go on holiday to the US (fingerprints etc).
You seem to be rather full of yourself.
Dude, get a grip! Don't try to convince people who are apparently interested in this knot stuff, that it is irrelevant, especially in their own forum. That's even a bigger waste of time than what you're more or less blaming them of. Didn't you have a large fish to fry?