You can use it for voice dictation... Just about every text input field, now has a microphone that simply lets you say what you were going to type... and the voice recognition is VERY good.
And that have been on Android since v1.6, actually.
And for those that want to think of Siri as something as good as the average human.. I think most people have no problem figuring out if he meant "Work" or "Home" there...
We really need a better system than ID + password.
I've changed to Google's account for as many sites as I can (Google support OpenID), and I use two factor auth for my google account.
Some things I like with openid: 1. you don't need to have any special agreement or API key to services to add support for it to your site. 2. If you don't trust provider A, then use provider B instead.. Or set up your own OpenID server. 3. Since it's only one place you need to log in (and log out of), you can affort to have extra security there, which would otherwise be too annoying or expensive (SMS notification of login, SSL client certs, two factor auth and so on).
... would love to code using Python syntax but have the code run as fast as C/C++. Best of both worlds.
I'd like to point you to the PyPy project, which experiments with, among other things, JIT for Python.
The PyPy project aims at producing a flexible and fast Python implementation. The guiding idea is to translate a Python-level description of the Python language itself to lower level languages. Rumors have it that the secret goal is being faster-than-C which is nonsense, isn't it?
(You should also read their architecture page - their goals are truly impressive. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of the project)
Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.
So yes, there are people out there putting "tons of effort" into just that: Making python faster:)
This is almost like North Korea going against USA... Hmm.... Apple mobile is best mobile. Dear Leader Steve Jobs.... Humm... Suddenly, I have a weird feeling of irony. Strange.
He obviously choose the wrong character from the series..
Quote Jayne Cobb:
Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid.
HDD's usually fail by not spinning up, or just stop answering commands properly, in my experience. Which is from 100 to *Crash* before you know what's happening.
On my fileserver I've had two disks stop working, with notices like:
Because of RAID, I didn't lose any data, but the funny part was that even after it stopped working properly, SMART still reported it as fully functional.
Imagine you are a parent of an attractive 14 year-old girl, and you
.. whore her out every weekend. Or you frequently beat/abuse her. She wants to talk with someone she knows well and trust about it, and the teacher is the one person she both knows, and trust to handle it discreetly. But, she is not allowed to talk to any teacher privately, and she can't make herself talk about it to some complete stranger either.
What then?
From wikipedia:
Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, fathers, mothers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances such as friends of the family, babysitters, or neighbours; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.
And, from this page (general abuse, not sexual abuse specific):
In 2007, more than one-half (57 percent) of all child abuse cases and reports made to CPS agencies came from professionals who came in contact with the child, including teachers, lawyers, police officers, and social workers.
From your post:
To suggest that teachers need PRIVATEcommunication with students that neither their parents nor employers can know what is said between them is simply insanity.
I would say it would be simply obvious, not insanity. To follow your logic all the way through, no one should have any private communication to any person below 18 years of age.
End question : Are you still so certain that no teacher should ever have private communications with a student?
I love my Android phone. But it is a communications device. It is not a computer.
I think you're a bit off there. At least, for me, its an information device. It gathers, stores, shows, and send out information. The communication part is just a subset of that.
If I see something funny or interesting, I take a picture or a video of it. If I think of something, I can save the idea in via audio, text and/or drawings. If i'm on a trip, I store all travel documents, with all the needed references on the phone, and it also shows me where I should drive to get there, and remembers where my hotel is. I read books on it, listen to music, watch movies, play games, read the latest news, get weather forecasts, read / create barcodes (nice way of sending data to another device, actually), I have google authenticator on it, Rift authenticator, my calendars, calculator, clock/alarm/timer, public transportation routes, password safe, programming language references....
And then you have communication tasks in addition to that.. Yes, it's a lot of stuff in that small phone, and I do worry what will happen if it get lost / stolen. I have some precautions, but they can be defeated.
If you haven't heard about Spiderweb Software, well, they've been around since '94, and have made a lot of 2d tile-based RPG's.
Exile series, Avernum series, Geneforge series, and the newest serie : Avadon. With this latest game, he's tried to make it shorter and more condenced, which means it's "only" around 30-40 hours length. If you like older type RPG's, I recommend you have a look at it, and try the demo.
And I'm not connected in any way to the game makers, just going a bit misty-eyed at finding that not only is the company behind a brilliant little game I played to death around 15 years ago still around, it's still making games in that good old style:)
So the design boils down to Chrome phoning home for certificate validation. That has both unacceptable privacy implications and very high uptime requirements on the notary service.
Hah, so he haven't even watched the video, and still comments on it. Impressive.
And the "default notaries" thing could be solved in the same way that they use to protect against phisting sites. A list of notaries that gets regularly queried by the browser.
[Linked document] comes from the copyright industryâ(TM)s trade association IIPA, mainly consisting of record and movie companies. They have listed six demands on the Swedish Government, which stand to find in the linked document:
1. Adopt the copyright law amendments on injunctive relief against ISPs and a âoeright of informationâ to permit rights holders to obtain the identity of suspected infringers from ISPs in civil cases 2. Prosecute to the fullest extent the owners of ThePirateBay [sic] 3. Increase the prosecutorial and police manpower devoted to criminal Internet piracy enforcement 4. Commence a national criminal enforcement campaign to target source piracy and large scale Internet pirates 5. Ensure that rights holders may pursue the new civil remedies easily and quickly 6. Take an active role fostering ISP-rights holder discussions to effectively prevent protected content from being distributed without authorization over the Internet
The documents also show that US threaten to put them on the Special 301 Report if those are not followed. How much of a political pressure that is, I have no clue (but, Canada, China, Russia is on the Priority list there, and Spain, Norway, Finland and Italy among others, are on the list, so probably not that much).
Also from there:
-- The sensitive domestic politics that the GOS needs to manage in
order to step up internet piracy enforcement in Sweden. The GOS struggles, with good intentions, against a very negative media climate and against a vocal youth movement. For example, we want to highlight the risk that negative media attention on the file sharing issue gives the Pirate Party a boost in the EU Parliamentary elections in June 2009.
My title has changed several times: from my first card which read "Lies and Misinformation", until today when my title read "Editor-in-Chief of Slashdot.org".
So in other words, nothing have changed?:)
Anyway, thanks for the fis^H^H^Hlies^H^H^H^H^Hnice website, which have been a solid part of my life since I first found it (but sadly, didn't register for years)!
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Someone already did make an antitroll image
http://chzautocowrecks.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/selfdestruct.gif
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010320&mode=classic (story arc starts here)
You can use it for voice dictation... Just about every text input field, now has a microphone that simply lets you say what you were going to type... and the voice recognition is VERY good.
And that have been on Android since v1.6, actually.
Well, not that good at getting the gist of it..
And for those that want to think of Siri as something as good as the average human.. I think most people have no problem figuring out if he meant "Work" or "Home" there...
We really need a better system than ID + password.
I've changed to Google's account for as many sites as I can (Google support OpenID), and I use two factor auth for my google account.
Some things I like with openid:
1. you don't need to have any special agreement or API key to services to add support for it to your site.
2. If you don't trust provider A, then use provider B instead.. Or set up your own OpenID server.
3. Since it's only one place you need to log in (and log out of), you can affort to have extra security there, which would otherwise be too annoying or expensive (SMS notification of login, SSL client certs, two factor auth and so on).
How do you fit him into the American school system?
That's simple. A troublemaker. Wise-ass. Smartypants. Te one who puts teachers in a bad light.
Me, bitter? No, not at all, why do you think that?
I'd like to point you to the PyPy project, which experiments with, among other things, JIT for Python.
The PyPy project aims at producing a flexible and fast Python implementation. The guiding idea is to translate a Python-level description of the Python language itself to lower level languages. Rumors have it that the secret goal is being faster-than-C which is nonsense, isn't it?
(You should also read their architecture page - their goals are truly impressive. Which is why I'm such a huge fan of the project)
You also have the project Shed Skin.
Shed Skin is an experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs.
So yes, there are people out there putting "tons of effort" into just that: Making python faster :)
In unrelated news, the skinners in the area report a 5000% income increase during the same period.
Apparently, Apple didn't get the memo.
And it looks like they're massively outgunned, too.
This is almost like North Korea going against USA... Hmm.... Apple mobile is best mobile. Dear Leader Steve Jobs .... Humm... Suddenly, I have a weird feeling of irony. Strange.
He obviously choose the wrong character from the series..
Quote Jayne Cobb:
Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid.
Thanks, nice link :)
Those devious open source folk, now they've started copying design even before Apple have created it! Shame on them
How do you Apple apologists argue with this and this?
HDD's usually fail by not spinning up, or just stop answering commands properly, in my experience. Which is from 100 to *Crash* before you know what's happening.
On my fileserver I've had two disks stop working, with notices like :
[1995429.300714] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdi] Unhandled error code
[1995429.300718] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdi] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[1995429.300723] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdi] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[1995429.300738] end_request: I/O error, dev sdi, sector 0
Because of RAID, I didn't lose any data, but the funny part was that even after it stopped working properly, SMART still reported it as fully functional.
This might be of interest to you :
SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm
I'm not talking about 'web apps', I'm talking about mobile phone apps that do not require server access to function.
http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html
* lets you access hardware (microphone, camera, gps, accelerometer) .. probably in the near future)
> Not all of them, quite yet (geolocation yes, camera
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-capture-api-20100928/ - Camera API - Google have said it will arrive in future Android versions
> http://diveintohtml5.org/geolocation.html
* lets you manipulate a client-side database
> http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html - WebSQL
* lets you establish a socket connection to a server :)
> websockets, ajax calls
That's great.. So, any chance of getting some native SVG support for drawables?
There are some third party libs for it, but if you're going to actively target "any resolution" then svg support would be obvious, no?
Well, technically, selling the same physical bottle to several different people is more akin to fraud, isn't it?
Devil's Advocate mode initiated
Imagine you are a parent of an attractive 14 year-old girl, and you
.. whore her out every weekend. Or you frequently beat/abuse her. She wants to talk with someone she knows well and trust about it, and the teacher is the one person she both knows, and trust to handle it discreetly.
But, she is not allowed to talk to any teacher privately, and she can't make herself talk about it to some complete stranger either.
What then?
From wikipedia:
Most sexual abuse offenders are acquainted with their victims; approximately 30% are relatives of the child, most often brothers, fathers, mothers, uncles or cousins; around 60% are other acquaintances such as friends of the family, babysitters, or neighbours; strangers are the offenders in approximately 10% of child sexual abuse cases.
And, from this page (general abuse, not sexual abuse specific):
In 2007, more than one-half (57 percent) of all child abuse cases and reports made to CPS agencies came from professionals who came in contact with the child, including teachers, lawyers, police officers, and social workers.
From your post:
To suggest that teachers need PRIVATEcommunication with students that neither their parents nor employers can know what is said between them is simply insanity.
I would say it would be simply obvious, not insanity. To follow your logic all the way through, no one should have any private communication to any person below 18 years of age.
End question : Are you still so certain that no teacher should ever have private communications with a student?
I love my Android phone. But it is a communications device. It is not a computer.
I think you're a bit off there. At least, for me, its an information device.
It gathers, stores, shows, and send out information. The communication part is just a subset of that.
If I see something funny or interesting, I take a picture or a video of it. If I think of something, I can save the idea in via audio, text and/or drawings. If i'm on a trip, I store all travel documents, with all the needed references on the phone, and it also shows me where I should drive to get there, and remembers where my hotel is. I read books on it, listen to music, watch movies, play games, read the latest news, get weather forecasts, read / create barcodes (nice way of sending data to another device, actually), I have google authenticator on it, Rift authenticator, my calendars, calculator, clock/alarm/timer, public transportation routes, password safe, programming language references....
And then you have communication tasks in addition to that.. Yes, it's a lot of stuff in that small phone, and I do worry what will happen if it get lost / stolen. I have some precautions, but they can be defeated.
You might like Avadon: The Black Fortress by Spiderweb Software, then.
If you haven't heard about Spiderweb Software, well, they've been around since '94, and have made a lot of 2d tile-based RPG's.
Exile series, Avernum series, Geneforge series, and the newest serie : Avadon. With this latest game, he's tried to make it shorter and more condenced, which means it's "only" around 30-40 hours length.
If you like older type RPG's, I recommend you have a look at it, and try the demo.
And I'm not connected in any way to the game makers, just going a bit misty-eyed at finding that not only is the company behind a brilliant little game I played to death around 15 years ago still around, it's still making games in that good old style :)
So the design boils down to Chrome phoning home for certificate validation. That has both unacceptable privacy implications and very high uptime requirements on the notary service.
Hah, so he haven't even watched the video, and still comments on it. Impressive.
And the "default notaries" thing could be solved in the same way that they use to protect against phisting sites. A list of notaries that gets regularly queried by the browser.
and without a "Congratulations, you fucked up!" bonus larger than a peon's lifetime earnings
I laughed a bit at that, and then I felt incredibly sad for some reason...
From the article:
[Linked document] comes from the copyright industryâ(TM)s trade association IIPA, mainly consisting of record and movie companies. They have listed six demands on the Swedish Government, which stand to find in the linked document:
1. Adopt the copyright law amendments on injunctive relief against ISPs and a âoeright of informationâ to permit rights holders to obtain the identity of suspected infringers from ISPs in civil cases
2. Prosecute to the fullest extent the owners of ThePirateBay [sic]
3. Increase the prosecutorial and police manpower devoted to criminal Internet piracy enforcement
4. Commence a national criminal enforcement campaign to target source piracy and large scale Internet pirates
5. Ensure that rights holders may pursue the new civil remedies easily and quickly
6. Take an active role fostering ISP-rights holder discussions to effectively prevent protected content from being distributed without authorization over the Internet
The documents also show that US threaten to put them on the Special 301 Report if those are not followed.
How much of a political pressure that is, I have no clue (but, Canada, China, Russia is on the Priority list there, and Spain, Norway, Finland and Italy among others, are on the list, so probably not that much).
Also from there:
-- The sensitive domestic politics that the GOS needs to manage in
order to step up internet piracy enforcement in Sweden. The GOS
struggles, with good intentions, against a very negative media
climate and against a vocal youth movement. For example, we want
to highlight the risk that negative media attention on the file sharing
issue gives the Pirate Party a boost in the EU Parliamentary
elections in June 2009.
Cute :)
have they found a dildo bomb yet?
You mean - a snuke?
My title has changed several times: from my first card which read "Lies and Misinformation", until today when my title read "Editor-in-Chief of Slashdot.org".
So in other words, nothing have changed? :)
Anyway, thanks for the fis^H^H^Hlies^H^H^H^H^Hnice website, which have been a solid part of my life since I first found it (but sadly, didn't register for years)!
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