Perhaps it is time to test a new hypothesis. I shall prepare a document and walk up to the next moderately attractive woman with ample bosom and child-bearing hips that I see, and recite this, which I have prepared.
"Greetings. My name is Antonio. I am tall, dark, and handsome, by some standards, but as you can see I am unshaven, I have knowledge of computers and technology, I have a hairy chest, I have an extensive library of leather-bound books, and I cry at sad movies. Based on this information I have concluded that I am 92% desirable to women of high caliber such as yourself."
Not quite.
If the attacks are guaranteed, then yes, you are expected to prepare for them as best as you can. That means establishing a paper trail that exposes each and every person in management for every time that they cut costs and endangered security while they were at it.
If you were hired to build a structure in an area where spontaneous fires occurred and you didn't even bother making anything heat-resistant, then yes, you should be sued, for being a damn moron.
I don't think the readers of Slashdot would be the kind of programmers to do a slack-jawed job on anything, really, unless they didn't yet know a better way to do it, but there are unethical people out there who would make a shoddy program and then sell information on how to attack it to third-parties who could make a quick buck off of exploiting those vulnerabilities.
Those people absolutely should face charges.
Perhaps a new unit of measurement to quantify possibility?
I nominate "the Bullshit."
We'd have to come up with some landmark positions to establish scale:
"When someone asks you how you're doing and you say "fine." That's 1 bullshit. They don't care.
When someone asks you about avatar and you say you saw it with your girlfriend, that's 10 bullshits, cause you post on slashdot.
When you say that 2010 will be the year of linux on the desktop, that's somewhere between 10^6 and 10^9 bullshits.
Well, it's not entirely unbelievable to think that there might be a computer somewhere in Google HQ that hasn't used IE in 4-5 years, and if someone went to a website that said it required IE, and you just clicked the blue button and typed in the address, yes, something like this could happen.
And it's a believable explanation that doesn't assume malice or stupidity on their part.
Just curious, does it mention if they were consecutive seconds? Or was this taken over the course of several months, with several recordings each night (because I imagine, even if the recordings were only at night, which is logical, and even if they were done over a good week, that still represents a very tiny portion of the black hole's existence, and any number of things could have happened in the span of one week's weeknights.)
Look, words like fuck, lesbian, belgium, and ******* might be offensive and/or degrading and might even cause psychological trauma in the viewer, but nothing can repair the damage done by censorship. It's like the abortion of spoken words. Where would we be today if not for the words spoken by the greats M**** T********, W*** R******, and ***** *************, let alone &!-679!+)1:5'6"%CARRIER LOST
You will regret forfeiting your free speech for a false sense of security, when you die in a fire in a crowded theatre because it was illegal for anyone to point it out.
Ever since I saw the pictures of the w5 star forming region in the soul nebula, I've found myself eager to learn more about the birth of stars.
Also, let me be the first to say this thread is useless without pics.
Interesting. Makes me wonder if Olympus Mons really is the biggest volcano. I mean, if you looked at it from the side and took into account how deep the source went, instead of just looking at the height measured from the air-exposed base.
So basically, we need laptops that are gas-powered? Or push-powered? You know that might make their batteries cheaper, but damn, it'd be awesome to rev up your laptop before playing wow in a net cafe.
Well, that's true, but I think GP is a stepping stone to another kind of evolutionary programming style.
At some point I'd like to design and run an algorithm that uses multiple children at once as a team, instead of just testing each one individually. Sort of like a raid, in WoW, except that the 'characters' would be selected randomly. I think this might be the next step up for genetic programming, because the high-value children would be better performers across multiple groups, not just alone, and it would eventually develop into a system that creates highly specialized individual components, and might discover new truths inside the approach.
I think I'd call it Raid Programming, for lack of a better term. My project will probably be called "sup", short for "Supreme Ultimate Power."
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I find that, in practice, like the temporal prime directive, it's best just to ignore it.
It's the Larry Craig style of protecting the children. Someone has to be the pedophile, so the school is calling dibs.
Perhaps it is time to test a new hypothesis. I shall prepare a document and walk up to the next moderately attractive woman with ample bosom and child-bearing hips that I see, and recite this, which I have prepared.
"Greetings. My name is Antonio. I am tall, dark, and handsome, by some standards, but as you can see I am unshaven, I have knowledge of computers and technology, I have a hairy chest, I have an extensive library of leather-bound books, and I cry at sad movies. Based on this information I have concluded that I am 92% desirable to women of high caliber such as yourself."
I shall then document the response.
Not quite.
If the attacks are guaranteed, then yes, you are expected to prepare for them as best as you can. That means establishing a paper trail that exposes each and every person in management for every time that they cut costs and endangered security while they were at it.
If you were hired to build a structure in an area where spontaneous fires occurred and you didn't even bother making anything heat-resistant, then yes, you should be sued, for being a damn moron.
I don't think the readers of Slashdot would be the kind of programmers to do a slack-jawed job on anything, really, unless they didn't yet know a better way to do it, but there are unethical people out there who would make a shoddy program and then sell information on how to attack it to third-parties who could make a quick buck off of exploiting those vulnerabilities.
Those people absolutely should face charges.
Perhaps a new unit of measurement to quantify possibility?
I nominate "the Bullshit."
We'd have to come up with some landmark positions to establish scale:
"When someone asks you how you're doing and you say "fine." That's 1 bullshit. They don't care.
When someone asks you about avatar and you say you saw it with your girlfriend, that's 10 bullshits, cause you post on slashdot.
When you say that 2010 will be the year of linux on the desktop, that's somewhere between 10^6 and 10^9 bullshits.
No.
*turns on flashlight*
Well, it's not entirely unbelievable to think that there might be a computer somewhere in Google HQ that hasn't used IE in 4-5 years, and if someone went to a website that said it required IE, and you just clicked the blue button and typed in the address, yes, something like this could happen.
And it's a believable explanation that doesn't assume malice or stupidity on their part.
You know, Slashdot already has just about everything you could use to build a tv show.
Although they might get in trouble trying to create the Natalie Portman episode...
Just curious, does it mention if they were consecutive seconds? Or was this taken over the course of several months, with several recordings each night (because I imagine, even if the recordings were only at night, which is logical, and even if they were done over a good week, that still represents a very tiny portion of the black hole's existence, and any number of things could have happened in the span of one week's weeknights.)
Fine, I'll say it.
Game over, man, game over.
The banners were quoted as saying, "Game over, man. GAME OVER!"
You think teaching will be less stressful? Ha!
No shell script will save you from your fate.
Look, words like fuck, lesbian, belgium, and ******* might be offensive and/or degrading and might even cause psychological trauma in the viewer, but nothing can repair the damage done by censorship. It's like the abortion of spoken words. Where would we be today if not for the words spoken by the greats M**** T********, W*** R******, and ***** *************, let alone &!-679!+)1:5'6"%CARRIER LOST
Oh my god, they finally found Jimmy Hoffa.
You will regret forfeiting your free speech for a false sense of security, when you die in a fire in a crowded theatre because it was illegal for anyone to point it out.
Ever since I saw the pictures of the w5 star forming region in the soul nebula, I've found myself eager to learn more about the birth of stars.
Also, let me be the first to say this thread is useless without pics.
Interesting. Makes me wonder if Olympus Mons really is the biggest volcano. I mean, if you looked at it from the side and took into account how deep the source went, instead of just looking at the height measured from the air-exposed base.
So basically, we need laptops that are gas-powered? Or push-powered? You know that might make their batteries cheaper, but damn, it'd be awesome to rev up your laptop before playing wow in a net cafe.
Well there's still time, dudes!
I'm gonna need a bigger calculator to find out how much I owe these guys.
This one doesn't handle factorials.
Can't make me root for Microsoft. I hope they lose, and the jury awards the other guys an infinite amount of money. Maybe then we'll see some reform.
This Danish guy just... Turned himself in? My god, someone save him! Doesn't he know that cops EAT DANISHES?
Only 48 cores? I'd ask them to double that, but reasonably, 64 cores should be enough for anybody.
There's something poisson -y going on here...
Well, that's true, but I think GP is a stepping stone to another kind of evolutionary programming style.
At some point I'd like to design and run an algorithm that uses multiple children at once as a team, instead of just testing each one individually. Sort of like a raid, in WoW, except that the 'characters' would be selected randomly. I think this might be the next step up for genetic programming, because the high-value children would be better performers across multiple groups, not just alone, and it would eventually develop into a system that creates highly specialized individual components, and might discover new truths inside the approach.
I think I'd call it Raid Programming, for lack of a better term. My project will probably be called "sup", short for "Supreme Ultimate Power."