I've been watching simpsons since I was 5 (I'm 25 now), and I've never missed an episode.
Recently I've been watching 3-4 per day*, and my girlfriend and I are going as marge and homer this year for Halloween. Last night my girlfriend and I were visiting my parent's house, and after dinner, we all sat around and watched the new simpsons episode. (though it has likely been many years since we had done that)
I'm not quite at OFF fanboi level, no posters, no collectibles still in the box, never been to a con (do they have cons?), but simpsons raised me, and is a huge part of our generation's culture. It's not just me either, I remember playing simpsons trivia with other kids on the school bus, even back in elementary school. The day I moved out of my parent's house, I remember my room mate unpacking his things and asking if it was okay to put a simpsons poster above the microwave.
* I normally play episodes while cooking. It makes a good 20 minute timer, then I can watch an episode while eating also. This is also used extensively on family guy, southpark, futurama, etc. I just happen to have been in a simpsons mood recently.
pierce@doku:~$ cat simpsonstv.sh while [ 1 == 1 ] do playrand/mnt/1000/movies/tv/simpsons/ sleep 3 done pierce@doku:~$ cat/usr/bin/playrand #!/usr/bin/perl
Except these essays aren't being graded on proper punctuation, form, and literary flow. I think it's important to give an applicant an outlet to express why it is that they want to attend the school.
I think that most computer users think of getting a virus the same way most people think about getting the transmission blown on their car. Sure, you can read up and learn how to treat your machines properly, or you can just use them, and get them fixed if they get broken.
It's not about them being dumb. You can't blame people for treating machines like machines. They are just tools designed to make our lives easier. If we start treating machines with respect as if they were actual people, then we're just asking for the robot apocalypse.
Rad, can you cite actual examples of this, or do you get all your information from southpark? All the environmentalists that I know bike everywhere, and bus/train for long distances. The rare few that own vehicles run them off biodiesel they make themselves.
Friends of mine that own priuses own them because they are super quiet, run ridiculously smooth, and you only need to fill them up once every couple weeks. I have also been told it's fairly easy to mod the firmware to do things like add features to GPS, and modify parts of the gas/electric tradeoff algorithms etc.
My girlfriend and I use zipcar when we need a car in Portland, and will occasionally pick up a prius when we need a lot of extra space (the prius is our official car for going fruit picking with friends), since they are pretty damned roomy. I love efficiency as much as the next computer scientist, but I would hardly call myself and environmentalist. I throw away prolly about 90% of my recyclables, and make fun of greenpeace and peta every chance I get:-D
France is different from the US. I read somewhere (inferred from the summary) that anorexia in France actually is a bigger problem than compulsive overeating. They are both pretty bad psychological conditions that need to be called out and dealt with, but I am of the opinion that anorexia fucks you up until rehab, and overeating can fuck you up for life. Many people don't realize that they have a problem until they get too obese to exercise safely. Also supporting that much fat mass is a huge strain on the body, which burns out your heart, weakens the immune system, and mixes up hormone regulation, none of which are problems for recovering anorexics.
Either way, I like this idea. It can never hurt to actually have some realistic role models views of what women should look like (not fat or skinny). The thing is, however, art itself is based on disproportionate emphasis and exaggeration. What some people fail to realize is that the cover if vogue is just as much fantasy as the latest scifi flick, or super hero movie. These aren't real people, they are characters created by artists with the help of human models.
Hrm, well how about the fact that flash/realplayer/acrobat etc updates lag pretty far behind in Linux, in conjunction with any of the 3-4 local root escalations from the past couple months.
I'm not going to argue that it's a trivial task, but owning a Linux workstation is not really the dark art that it used to be.
Except that there are plenty of keyloggers, trojans, rootkits etc for linux as well, open source and commercial. Remember that when kiddies scan for weak php code, they will land on a linux box at least 90% of time time.
I am not a theologian (maybe someone can step in and set me right) but the way I understand it, the "literal truth" interpretation of the bible is relatively new. Stories from the Torah are mostly re-hashed and re-written stories from the book of the dead, and were slightly modified for the Koran, and extended upon in the new testament. Back then, these were fairy tales passed down through generations, each teaching important moral lessons, but no infallible truths.
Last I checked, there is nothing in the bible even commanding that people go to church, just a mention of taking a day of rest once per week. Furthermore, many of the stories are crammed full of astrological metaphor that has been lost over the years. As I understand it, it was the Greeks that introduced the concept of God being the "scary dude that lives in the sky" which stemmed from Zeus. I see nothing in the bible that directly says that God trumps science. In fact, much of what fundamentalists believe has nothing to do with the bible, and things that are actually called out in the bible (like not farming pigs) is just flat out ignored. I would bet that if you look in to it, every non-biblical tweak to Christianity (or any faith for that matter) was done purely for the sake of politics.
Do science fairs and do them right. Encourage kids to look into some of the cutting edge theory in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, and test potential applications. Science fair got super competitive at my high school about 6 years ago. Now, about half of the kids sent from Oregon to the international science fair come from the high school I went to, and almost everyone that goes to international goes to whatever college they want. I think about half of the class of 2007 went to either MIT, Caltech, or CMU. This is at a public high school too, not some fancy rich kid school. In conclusion, science fairs rock.
Look at the bill. A cyber security emergency is when a piece of critical infrastructure gets owned. In times like that, you need to drop that shit off the network ASAP, and figure out what happened. Right now there is no process for doing that. This bill is meant to establish that process.
Claiming that this will allow the executive branch censor dissent is just about as retarded as the death panels argument.
Meh, I still have yet to see another mobile phone with mapping application that can get me from where I am to where I need to go in about 5 taps, and easily switch between public transit routes and walking routes with a single tap. The map navigation is significantly better than anything I have seen on other phones. I use transit/walking maps maybe 5-10 times a day, and it is a godsend when I am at a conference in another city. I have a hard time imagining how I could live without it. Every time the iphone adds a feature, it takes other phone companies about two years before they realize that it's actually a good idea.
I think the iphone is still (unfortunately) the best phone on the market, and if you don't want to put up with apple's shit, it's almost trivial these days jailbreak it, and use it to teather, do obex transfers, bittorrent, spoof caller ID/SMS, google voice, customize the UI, or whatever.
Hopefully these features will soon all be a part of android, and google will release a tool to install android on the iphone, treo, nokia phones, freerunner, etc. That might still be a couple years off though.
Nothing about this story has anything to do with freedom of speech.
This is a story about copyright hooligans run amok. Nothing is being censored, and I'm sure that there is not a single person at flickr dumb enough to think that deleting an image for political purposes is going to somehow make it harder to find on the internet.
"malware lists" are the new cookie tracking systems. Every time you go to a website, firefox tells google about it, and the service being provided is that google will let you know if it thinks the site is malicious or not. Internet usage data is some of the most valuable data on the internet. Why would any company give that sort of data to their competitors?
It will never happen. I heard of a form of currency used by my parents called "coins", but I believe they have all been melted down and replaced by the plastic standard.
Look at the Compaq vs IBM lawsuit over the reverse engineering of ROM-BIOS. If IBM had their way, the same company would be providing all hardware, software, and Internet service for desktop computers. You would have choices, but marketing groups would have complete control, end to end, of what technologies any given person is allowed to run on their own computers.
We are now looking at the same situation for mobile phones. Before they have gotten away with it, saying third party software might lead to performance decreases, and a "non contiguous user experiences", which means you aren't using your phone the way apples marketing group thinks you should.
Fuck it, GV Mobile kicks ass, and is installable via Cydia. The final kick in the balls solution for google is to release software to install android onto an iphone. It's going to happen sooner or later anyway, so they might as well invest in it now, and just finish off this debate once and for all. If apple and ATT go to war with google now, my money is on google.
To the same effect, will there ever be a place in your games for gamers that enjoy writing third party tools and scripts?
I learned skills like packet analysis, reverse engineering, live memory edits etc from the days of diablo 2 hacking (~2001). Then, you started banning all of us. I am now a professional security researcher that does not play blizzard games.
I started playing WoW for a bit because I heard great things about there being an API, but when I looked into it, it was so restrictive that it was completely useless. Then you look at the glider community. Hundreds of people devoted and obsessed, designing a sophisticated AI for WoW, and every day they are hunted down and banned.
WoW has the concept of realms, that have been well defined to separate people that enjoy different types of game play. Why not create some realms for people who enjoy things like automation, reverse engineering, and hell, even being able to purchase things with real money? I love the games, but hate the hacker phobia. If we had our own realms, we would not need to bother the hardcore dice rollers that like to live in the illusion, and who think that we only hack to satisfy some deep insecurities.
Even in starcraft 2, don't you think bot on bot tournaments would be freaking awesome? Think about AI assisted gaming. Why not let the computer to the grunt work of the statistical modeling, and let the human do the actual hard stuff?
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"How long till I see one of these chasing me down a dark alley?"
Don't worry, I'm sure some day some brilliant underground scientist will re-discover the baseball bat.
Meh, I have met plenty of brilliant and successful people who also happened to be nationalist fucks. Most of them were ECE :-D
I've been watching simpsons since I was 5 (I'm 25 now), and I've never missed an episode.
Recently I've been watching 3-4 per day*, and my girlfriend and I are going as marge and homer this year for Halloween. Last night my girlfriend and I were visiting my parent's house, and after dinner, we all sat around and watched the new simpsons episode. (though it has likely been many years since we had done that)
I'm not quite at OFF fanboi level, no posters, no collectibles still in the box, never been to a con (do they have cons?), but simpsons raised me, and is a huge part of our generation's culture. It's not just me either, I remember playing simpsons trivia with other kids on the school bus, even back in elementary school. The day I moved out of my parent's house, I remember my room mate unpacking his things and asking if it was okay to put a simpsons poster above the microwave.
* I normally play episodes while cooking. It makes a good 20 minute timer, then I can watch an episode while eating also. This is also used extensively on family guy, southpark, futurama, etc. I just happen to have been in a simpsons mood recently.
pierce@doku:~$ cat simpsonstv.sh /mnt/1000/movies/tv/simpsons/ /usr/bin/playrand /usr/bin/perl
while [ 1 == 1 ]
do
playrand
sleep 3
done
pierce@doku:~$ cat
#!
$#ARGV==0 or die("usage: ./playrand \n");
print "find $ARGV[0] -type f";
print "\n";
$burn=rand(rand(rand(65535)));
@random=`find $ARGV[0]`;
$video=$random[int(rand($#random))];
chop($video);
system("mplayer -fs \"$video\"");
Why should building a tower cost as much as a house? Even 100k seems way inflated for a pole with some repeaters on it.
That's probably why "Zeke" "left" "ABC" in the first place.
Why use a text editor when you could just lay your program out in punch cards? God, people today are so lazy.
Except these essays aren't being graded on proper punctuation, form, and literary flow. I think it's important to give an applicant an outlet to express why it is that they want to attend the school.
I think that most computer users think of getting a virus the same way most people think about getting the transmission blown on their car. Sure, you can read up and learn how to treat your machines properly, or you can just use them, and get them fixed if they get broken.
It's not about them being dumb. You can't blame people for treating machines like machines. They are just tools designed to make our lives easier. If we start treating machines with respect as if they were actual people, then we're just asking for the robot apocalypse.
Rad, can you cite actual examples of this, or do you get all your information from southpark? All the environmentalists that I know bike everywhere, and bus/train for long distances. The rare few that own vehicles run them off biodiesel they make themselves.
Friends of mine that own priuses own them because they are super quiet, run ridiculously smooth, and you only need to fill them up once every couple weeks. I have also been told it's fairly easy to mod the firmware to do things like add features to GPS, and modify parts of the gas/electric tradeoff algorithms etc.
My girlfriend and I use zipcar when we need a car in Portland, and will occasionally pick up a prius when we need a lot of extra space (the prius is our official car for going fruit picking with friends), since they are pretty damned roomy. I love efficiency as much as the next computer scientist, but I would hardly call myself and environmentalist. I throw away prolly about 90% of my recyclables, and make fun of greenpeace and peta every chance I get :-D
France is different from the US. I read somewhere (inferred from the summary) that anorexia in France actually is a bigger problem than compulsive overeating. They are both pretty bad psychological conditions that need to be called out and dealt with, but I am of the opinion that anorexia fucks you up until rehab, and overeating can fuck you up for life. Many people don't realize that they have a problem until they get too obese to exercise safely. Also supporting that much fat mass is a huge strain on the body, which burns out your heart, weakens the immune system, and mixes up hormone regulation, none of which are problems for recovering anorexics.
Either way, I like this idea. It can never hurt to actually have some realistic role models views of what women should look like (not fat or skinny). The thing is, however, art itself is based on disproportionate emphasis and exaggeration. What some people fail to realize is that the cover if vogue is just as much fantasy as the latest scifi flick, or super hero movie. These aren't real people, they are characters created by artists with the help of human models.
Hrm, well how about the fact that flash/realplayer/acrobat etc updates lag pretty far behind in Linux, in conjunction with any of the 3-4 local root escalations from the past couple months.
I'm not going to argue that it's a trivial task, but owning a Linux workstation is not really the dark art that it used to be.
Furthermore I'm sure they are going to start requiring bicyclists to clip baseball cards to their back wheels.
Except that there are plenty of keyloggers, trojans, rootkits etc for linux as well, open source and commercial. Remember that when kiddies scan for weak php code, they will land on a linux box at least 90% of time time.
Yikes, maybe a psychology project then? For example "the effects of paranoia and mass hysteria on school administrators"
I am not a theologian (maybe someone can step in and set me right) but the way I understand it, the "literal truth" interpretation of the bible is relatively new. Stories from the Torah are mostly re-hashed and re-written stories from the book of the dead, and were slightly modified for the Koran, and extended upon in the new testament. Back then, these were fairy tales passed down through generations, each teaching important moral lessons, but no infallible truths.
Last I checked, there is nothing in the bible even commanding that people go to church, just a mention of taking a day of rest once per week. Furthermore, many of the stories are crammed full of astrological metaphor that has been lost over the years. As I understand it, it was the Greeks that introduced the concept of God being the "scary dude that lives in the sky" which stemmed from Zeus. I see nothing in the bible that directly says that God trumps science. In fact, much of what fundamentalists believe has nothing to do with the bible, and things that are actually called out in the bible (like not farming pigs) is just flat out ignored. I would bet that if you look in to it, every non-biblical tweak to Christianity (or any faith for that matter) was done purely for the sake of politics.
Do science fairs and do them right. Encourage kids to look into some of the cutting edge theory in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, and test potential applications. Science fair got super competitive at my high school about 6 years ago. Now, about half of the kids sent from Oregon to the international science fair come from the high school I went to, and almost everyone that goes to international goes to whatever college they want. I think about half of the class of 2007 went to either MIT, Caltech, or CMU. This is at a public high school too, not some fancy rich kid school. In conclusion, science fairs rock.
Look at the bill. A cyber security emergency is when a piece of critical infrastructure gets owned. In times like that, you need to drop that shit off the network ASAP, and figure out what happened. Right now there is no process for doing that. This bill is meant to establish that process.
Claiming that this will allow the executive branch censor dissent is just about as retarded as the death panels argument.
That's because he's trying to hide the truth!
Meh, I still have yet to see another mobile phone with mapping application that can get me from where I am to where I need to go in about 5 taps, and easily switch between public transit routes and walking routes with a single tap. The map navigation is significantly better than anything I have seen on other phones. I use transit/walking maps maybe 5-10 times a day, and it is a godsend when I am at a conference in another city. I have a hard time imagining how I could live without it. Every time the iphone adds a feature, it takes other phone companies about two years before they realize that it's actually a good idea.
I think the iphone is still (unfortunately) the best phone on the market, and if you don't want to put up with apple's shit, it's almost trivial these days jailbreak it, and use it to teather, do obex transfers, bittorrent, spoof caller ID/SMS, google voice, customize the UI, or whatever.
Hopefully these features will soon all be a part of android, and google will release a tool to install android on the iphone, treo, nokia phones, freerunner, etc. That might still be a couple years off though.
Nothing about this story has anything to do with freedom of speech.
This is a story about copyright hooligans run amok. Nothing is being censored, and I'm sure that there is not a single person at flickr dumb enough to think that deleting an image for political purposes is going to somehow make it harder to find on the internet.
Obvious answer:
"malware lists" are the new cookie tracking systems. Every time you go to a website, firefox tells google about it, and the service being provided is that google will let you know if it thinks the site is malicious or not. Internet usage data is some of the most valuable data on the internet. Why would any company give that sort of data to their competitors?
It will never happen. I heard of a form of currency used by my parents called "coins", but I believe they have all been melted down and replaced by the plastic standard.
Look at the Compaq vs IBM lawsuit over the reverse engineering of ROM-BIOS. If IBM had their way, the same company would be providing all hardware, software, and Internet service for desktop computers. You would have choices, but marketing groups would have complete control, end to end, of what technologies any given person is allowed to run on their own computers.
We are now looking at the same situation for mobile phones. Before they have gotten away with it, saying third party software might lead to performance decreases, and a "non contiguous user experiences", which means you aren't using your phone the way apples marketing group thinks you should.
Fuck it, GV Mobile kicks ass, and is installable via Cydia. The final kick in the balls solution for google is to release software to install android onto an iphone. It's going to happen sooner or later anyway, so they might as well invest in it now, and just finish off this debate once and for all. If apple and ATT go to war with google now, my money is on google.
I just downloaded GV Mobile with Cydia. Looks good to me so far.
http://lifehacker.com/5324596/gv-mobile-available-for-free-on-cydia
To the same effect, will there ever be a place in your games for gamers that enjoy writing third party tools and scripts?
I learned skills like packet analysis, reverse engineering, live memory edits etc from the days of diablo 2 hacking (~2001). Then, you started banning all of us. I am now a professional security researcher that does not play blizzard games.
I started playing WoW for a bit because I heard great things about there being an API, but when I looked into it, it was so restrictive that it was completely useless. Then you look at the glider community. Hundreds of people devoted and obsessed, designing a sophisticated AI for WoW, and every day they are hunted down and banned.
WoW has the concept of realms, that have been well defined to separate people that enjoy different types of game play. Why not create some realms for people who enjoy things like automation, reverse engineering, and hell, even being able to purchase things with real money? I love the games, but hate the hacker phobia. If we had our own realms, we would not need to bother the hardcore dice rollers that like to live in the illusion, and who think that we only hack to satisfy some deep insecurities.
Even in starcraft 2, don't you think bot on bot tournaments would be freaking awesome? Think about AI assisted gaming. Why not let the computer to the grunt work of the statistical modeling, and let the human do the actual hard stuff?