..."I came, I saw, I programmed in LISP."
This is interesting, but what I'd like to see is a dual-core-optimized dialect of QBasic that will handle obscenely large arrays without kvetching.
Animated captchas that change continuously, morphing into a recognizable 133t-speak version of the word to be entered for a short time during the animation. Require entry of this within 10 seconds, from the same IP where the pieces of the animation were sent (to prevent downloading and analyzing it).
No doubt it will need refinement and customization for individual labs and researchers, but having taken two (comparatively very simple) Chemistry classes in which we kept detailed research notebooks, this would be very handy. If it is to be used for data collection, a closed system that recorded to CDROM or similar write-only media might become acceptable as a replacement for the classical notebook. I had a hard time swallowing the requirement to print out charts and tape them into our notebooks, signing our initials underneath the tape (to validate that the data were original). Something which could automate the process and provide nonrepudiation and confirmation of results would be very welcome.
I, for one, welcome our thermonuclear neighbor's unruliness. (The last time it acted up, we got to see the aurora here in Virginia -- which is VERY rare at this latitude!)
John Walker, of Autodesk fame, did a similar project, although with a simpler count-the-clicks approach. I copied it using an off-the-shelf Geiger counter and a piece of Autunite; it works well.
Yeah, there's a lot of noise out there -- but if you pick through it, there are some cool videos, like this one where a 500KV switch generates a free-air Jacob's Ladder, or this one showing some cool effects of high-power acoustics on a semiliquid cornstarch mix.
I was even inspired to build a paper-clip motor and upload it. It's fun -- and free; what's not to like?
The difference there is, Japan started that particular mess on 12/7/41. Saddam's no saint, I agree -- but he wasn't behind 9/11 (even if he did wholeheartedly approve of it.)
If everyone who was fed up with this whole "war on terror" thing decided to vote their conscience, things could be very different. We could...
* Get rid of the so-called "Patriot Act",
* Protect our troops in Iraq -- by bringing them HOME (and apologizing to the Iraqi people for the mess we've made; two wrongs don't make a right),
* Restrain the TSA,NSA,CIA,FBI,FAA,FCC, and their kind before we have no freedoms left,
* Employ a two-prong approach with respect to terrorism: Be very willing to talk to any nations and groups who want to open dialogue -- as long as they renounce terrorism. Truly work with them to address their concerns. (Reducing our dependence on military action to keep the oil flowing would help here.) On the other hand, be very forceful when dealing with terrorism. Determine the responsible parties, and make them and their supporters pay. No theatrics -- just quick, effective measures with an absolute minimum of so-called "collateral damage".
* Reduce our dependence on oil. This would help on many fronts, by reducing our need to ensure the oil supply is uninterrupted; to cut funding to these radical groups; and to no longer be the massive consumerist empire in the eyes of the rest of the world.
* Finally, elect a government (from whichever party) that will recognize that neither are all of the world's people Christians -- nor do they want to be. We need to elect ourselves a more secular government that won't treat this whole mess as a jihad from the other side. Hezballah and Al-Qaeda aren't the only ones fighting a so-called "holy war" here. Let's keep our religion personal. Above all, let's have the courage to say -- and really mean -- those four important words: "I might be wrong."
(Sorry to rant, but this seemed to be the place for it.)
No -- it really doesn't take a lot to put up a website. It doesn't even take any kind of admin at all -- competent or no. Just like they'll let anyone with a basic driver's license rent and drive a 26' cargo truck, they'll let anyone with a credit card buy a domain name and rent server space. Is it a good idea? No. Does it happen? Constantly.
$15 is high-budget stuff for a lot of these folks. (Heck, I have several domains sitting on an old Pentium Pro box on a friend's static-IP DSL connection. Websites can be -- and are -- done on the cheap all the time.)
I find it quite easy to believe that using such a low-end server was an oversight by an underpaid or volunteer staffer who just didn't know better -- or didn't think.
...of course, blaming these problems on the opposition is SOP for any politician's minions these days, it would seem.
It's part of Google's charitable "Don't be evil" motto. They're trying to help all of those poor Fox customers see both sides of the current-events issues. That's why they paid Fox; it's not as if Fox has ever actually been interested in disseminating information. Now they'll be able to find all of the FUD-mongering blogs on BOTH sides!
Not only that, but if consumers realize that a store is more likely to carry what they want on a regular basis -- and offers frequent-buyer perks -- then that could definitely build customer loyalty.
It's one thing to invite hackers to "take their best shot" at breaking Vista. Even if you could trust them to report what they found (and hey, these black-hatters seem like nice, trustworthy guys, right?), how should they really know what the source contains?
...unless M$ is letting them look at the source itself -- but since I haven't heard any reports of Hell freezing over, I'm guessing that isn't happening.
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Merci bien. Ce n'est pas la première fois que je me trompe ainsi. (Les langues étrangères sont difficiles pour nous Américains, vous savez...)
..."I came, I saw, I programmed in LISP." This is interesting, but what I'd like to see is a dual-core-optimized dialect of QBasic that will handle obscenely large arrays without kvetching.
Animated captchas that change continuously, morphing into a recognizable 133t-speak version of the word to be entered for a short time during the animation. Require entry of this within 10 seconds, from the same IP where the pieces of the animation were sent (to prevent downloading and analyzing it).
No doubt it will need refinement and customization for individual labs and researchers, but having taken two (comparatively very simple) Chemistry classes in which we kept detailed research notebooks, this would be very handy. If it is to be used for data collection, a closed system that recorded to CDROM or similar write-only media might become acceptable as a replacement for the classical notebook. I had a hard time swallowing the requirement to print out charts and tape them into our notebooks, signing our initials underneath the tape (to validate that the data were original). Something which could automate the process and provide nonrepudiation and confirmation of results would be very welcome.
...so this means that Flight Simulator X will run at 10fps instead of 5?
In Hollywood, the minimum mass of stars has been on the decline for decades now...
I, for one, welcome our thermonuclear neighbor's unruliness. (The last time it acted up, we got to see the aurora here in Virginia -- which is VERY rare at this latitude!)
Amazing how naturally he uses the mouse -- back in 1968!
John Walker, of Autodesk fame, did a similar project, although with a simpler count-the-clicks approach. I copied it using an off-the-shelf Geiger counter and a piece of Autunite; it works well.
...looks like the posting's HTML got holed by one of the Perseids -- one of the tags got taken clean out!
They use this stuff to test Geiger counters -- since it emits at a high enough rate to make them go nuts. How is this "non-toxic"?
Yeah, there's a lot of noise out there -- but if you pick through it, there are some cool videos, like this one where a 500KV switch generates a free-air Jacob's Ladder, or this one showing some cool effects of high-power acoustics on a semiliquid cornstarch mix.
I was even inspired to build a paper-clip motor and upload it. It's fun -- and free; what's not to like?
The difference there is, Japan started that particular mess on 12/7/41. Saddam's no saint, I agree -- but he wasn't behind 9/11 (even if he did wholeheartedly approve of it.)
If everyone who was fed up with this whole "war on terror" thing decided to vote their conscience, things could be very different. We could...
* Get rid of the so-called "Patriot Act",
* Protect our troops in Iraq -- by bringing them HOME (and apologizing to the Iraqi people for the mess we've made; two wrongs don't make a right),
* Restrain the TSA,NSA,CIA,FBI,FAA,FCC, and their kind before we have no freedoms left,
* Employ a two-prong approach with respect to terrorism: Be very willing to talk to any nations and groups who want to open dialogue -- as long as they renounce terrorism. Truly work with them to address their concerns. (Reducing our dependence on military action to keep the oil flowing would help here.) On the other hand, be very forceful when dealing with terrorism. Determine the responsible parties, and make them and their supporters pay. No theatrics -- just quick, effective measures with an absolute minimum of so-called "collateral damage".
* Reduce our dependence on oil. This would help on many fronts, by reducing our need to ensure the oil supply is uninterrupted; to cut funding to these radical groups; and to no longer be the massive consumerist empire in the eyes of the rest of the world.
* Finally, elect a government (from whichever party) that will recognize that neither are all of the world's people Christians -- nor do they want to be. We need to elect ourselves a more secular government that won't treat this whole mess as a jihad from the other side. Hezballah and Al-Qaeda aren't the only ones fighting a so-called "holy war" here. Let's keep our religion personal. Above all, let's have the courage to say -- and really mean -- those four important words: "I might be wrong."
(Sorry to rant, but this seemed to be the place for it.)
"I feel the earth... move... under my feet..."
This is BlackHat, folks. They've probably hacked the water fountains to serve Bawls instead of water -- let alone installing a rootkit on a laptop.
Slow news day, I'd say.
No -- it really doesn't take a lot to put up a website. It doesn't even take any kind of admin at all -- competent or no. Just like they'll let anyone with a basic driver's license rent and drive a 26' cargo truck, they'll let anyone with a credit card buy a domain name and rent server space. Is it a good idea? No. Does it happen? Constantly.
...of course, blaming these problems on the opposition is SOP for any politician's minions these days, it would seem.
$15 is high-budget stuff for a lot of these folks. (Heck, I have several domains sitting on an old Pentium Pro box on a friend's static-IP DSL connection. Websites can be -- and are -- done on the cheap all the time.)
I find it quite easy to believe that using such a low-end server was an oversight by an underpaid or volunteer staffer who just didn't know better -- or didn't think.
It's part of Google's charitable "Don't be evil" motto. They're trying to help all of those poor Fox customers see both sides of the current-events issues. That's why they paid Fox; it's not as if Fox has ever actually been interested in disseminating information. Now they'll be able to find all of the FUD-mongering blogs on BOTH sides!
Not only that, but if consumers realize that a store is more likely to carry what they want on a regular basis -- and offers frequent-buyer perks -- then that could definitely build customer loyalty.
>I was pro Bono, until he broke up with Cher.
Wrong Bono, Sonny.
"The Long Tail" is itself a bestseller?
...so exactly what are we to learn from that -- does that prove it right, or wrong?
...the Nigerian scammers get wind of this, and move? I mean, it's right next door!
The first rule about Slashdot Club is, we don't complain about Slashdot Club.
It's one thing to invite hackers to "take their best shot" at breaking Vista. Even if you could trust them to report what they found (and hey, these black-hatters seem like nice, trustworthy guys, right?), how should they really know what the source contains?
...unless M$ is letting them look at the source itself -- but since I haven't heard any reports of Hell freezing over, I'm guessing that isn't happening.
Now that this is out, I can just see the new "recommended hardware configuration" on the box for Flight Simulator X...