The built-in camera on my Macbook turns on a hardware light whenever it's being used. Makes it pretty hard to not realize you are potentially being seen.
All OSs should display an indicator on the top layer of the display, and enlarge/flash it in a pretty unmissable way every 5 minutes, whenever your camera OR microphone is active. Failure of an OS to do so should be labeled as what it is, a security hazard.
There was a slashdot article about an exploit for this not so long ago, camera on, led off.
Best way to secure the camera is with a piece of black electrical tape, to secure the microphone unplug it or turn it off. Laptop mics are a bit trickier.
JavaScript is not an essential. But you should know the basics. And most importantly, you should know two things, when not to use JavaScript, and what progressive enhancement is.
Though I agree with most of what you have said, I think that also what parts of JavaScript you use is important, combined with some good patterns of design for your code most of which is achieved by convention in JavaScript and C. I've found JavaScript to be quite nice when used in a minimal 'language features' way.
'Javascript: The good parts' is about as thick as 'The C Programming Language' but not as dense, which sums my comparison of the two nicely.
A lot of the votes aren't by australians. Triple J streams worldwide for free and they have extremely good taste in music. Their charter requires, by law, that they do not have any ads except to promote music and culture, which means they promote music and festivals that they think are interesting, but don't collect any revenue for it.
They also used to have a much more comprehensive current affairs programs and I fear they have lost much. Though, provisions in the AUS-USA fta may have an influence on this. However I enjoy the music and they are pretty good at that, though I do miss the drum promotions - some were pretty funny.
Utilities companies are cheapskates. In Australia, and I'm sure it's probably similar in America, the power companies here are still reluctant to bury power cables that arc, ignite bush fires and then kill people.
I'm not saying what you are trying to achieve is impossible, but however you attempt to achieve it you are up for a lot of hard work.
The Columbia crew were dead men walking the moment the foam damaged the tiles. Columba was a wreck the moment the foam caused the damage. She would never reach earth's surface whole once she entered space.
If we consider this an attempt to rescue them would have also probably meant a heartbreaking observation of the astronauts dying a slow death in space. From memory had NASA's management acknowledged the engineers requesting optics of the orbiter, a slicing manuver, where the forces of re-entry were concentrated on the opposing wing offered a slim chance for survival.
Of course we are forgetting that another option would have been an attempt with a Soyuz to resupply the shuttle, a significantly less logistically demanding vehicle, could have also rescued 2 Astronauts - if it could have made the Columbia's orbit.
And with the fleet reduced to two ISS-payload-capable shuttles, would the ISS have been merely delayed several years, or simply cancelled?
It couldn't be cancelled without breaching international contracts, agreements and a significant loss of prestige to the American space program. The shuttle was treated as a service, hence Space Transport Service even when the vehicle was still, clearly, in development.
According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA was criticised heavily by the Navy who cited they assigned 5000 staff to study the consequences of the Challenger accident and learn lessons from it. NASA had not performed a similar review, as the owner of the vehicle, instead citing the foam and ice stikes as 'In-Family' - converting a memory of failure into one of success.
The low end jobs which go to India are where engineers enter industry and learn their stuff so this does matter here and is a good trend (I am really hoping India manages to use this to take their country out of poverty).
Nothing will take India out of poverty. Take a drive on Indian roads and if you survive you will begin to appreciate the power of massive ignorance. Many people know how to drive, but they can't read the road rules. Education is key and their is plenty of corruption in India to get in the way of that. That's not a criticism of India, by the way, I love the place - just an observation that us arrogant westerners are appalled by things we don't understand.
Besides, there are over 35 million people below the poverty line in the US, that's almost the entire population of Canada. That would be a good problem to fix too.
You need to ask why an Indian Engineer is a tax deductible expense whilst you are a taxable employee? Why are US companies allowed to effectively employ these people with absolutely no employment rights? This is certainly nothing to do with efficiency other than "tax efficiency".
Because that is what a commodity is. Rejoice! This is the free market and globalization working. If you don't support globalization then you must be a communist pinko redneck terrorist.
The real thing that matters, though, is that manufacturing moved to China and now all the learning about how to actually make things is going direct to engineers in China who, if the trend doesn't reverse fast, will be better at all kinds of design that US engineers within a generation.
1% of the population has 49% of the power, the other 99% has 51% of the power and don't know how to use it. Adolf Hitler said "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
If you want to change it - start writing letters to politicians.
As long as Americans continue to elect politicians that worship companies and the "free market" over their own countries interests you are going to continue to lose out to, biggest irony of all, a planned economy of a country that calls its self "communist".
The biggest irony of all is that communist China does capitalism better than America.
Shouldn't we be celebrating this as a triumph of capitalism. A 10% culling of the Electrical Engineering workforce will mean that the price of that labour can be driven down to near poverty levels for a skilled profession. Prices will fall and everyone will be happy.
Except the E.E's - but as long as we're ok, everything is good - but hey it can never happen to us, right?
Only if the popcorn was thrown with such force that it cause mortal injury could it be considered deadly, lethal, popcorn. But it was probably thrown to say "hey, your being a dick, here is a ridiculously harmless act of assault".
It would seem that America is a place where dicks can shoot you with bullets.
So says the guys who keeps on getting proved wrong.
A slave's automation opportunity
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The sincerity in this argument is an admission that, in reality, the 1% that make up the wealthiest of human beings consider the rest to be slaves, be it to labour, or interest rates or just putting food on the table.
Consequently, the externality from their pursuit of automation is making more and more people slaves so that we are always competing with one another for a dollar instead of the market competing for our labour, which drives labour prices up. As long as there is a steady rate of unemployment around 10%, every person will fear for their job and be a subservient slave, too afraid to attend to matters of democracy or society. That's what that 1% want from their win-win situation.
However I think it's 50's thinking that drives it and the fear. Technology is a gift that will either enslave or free the human race and most people can't comprehend what it means to them. So too many of the people who devise the technology. To me automation means I kick back a work for an hour or two while my automation does the work for me. That's because I control the technology I deliver and the reason I control it is because I have educated myself to do so. So the automation allows me to educate myself more - improving my life.
We have to ask ourselves what happens when the Western worlds labour becomes obsolete in a world that is competing for resources and corruption is inherent in every political system in the world. Personally, I want technology do better for people not profits, however it was my own naivety that blinded me to the fact that those who control the deployment of technology en-mass, aren't even people any more - they're company boards legally obliged to make a profit.
Our role as technologist's is also changing with the automation. You can bet that people will begin to cast blame on those who devise technology so unless we are prepared to push back and be cognisant enough to take a lead role in society and educate them about the choices they make the consequences of that fear will be played out on us hapless geeks.
If the cost of education goes down as the price of energy goes up we stand a chance to find a way to reduce our slavery and perhaps live better. My old mentor used to tell me 'You bleed on the cutting edge of technology' and, like a knife it will be used like a tool and a weapon to sculpt or subjugate our entire society.
Remove Modern Interface altogether for PC's and Servers. Leave the Modern interface for smartphones and Tablets. Just do it, you made a mistake, fix it and learn from it.
I think of it as Meh-tro. I suspect Windows 9 will have even more 'meh'
It compares the current list of public services that are allowed to speed (fire, police and ambulance) to the new list (Vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units, mountain rescue teams and those engaged in “surveillance and covert operations”). But nowhere does it mention that they'll have a siren. If someone is driving really really fast where normally people aren't driving really really fast, and hits someone, killing one or more, I wonder how it'll play out on court.
Barrister; Your Worship, you will note that my client is in possession of a licence to Kill and a license to speed. Clearly any evidence pertaining to matters of motivation for my client use of these licences is a matter of National Security. As you are aware you worship that under the law no offence has been commited and I would ask for a summary dismissal of all charges.
I like bubble wrap better (for reasons not related tp bike helmets).
Besides, I assume "a soft corrugated cartilage" collected from the interstice between woodpeckers' skull and beak would do the job better.
(ducks)
Yeah - the problem with the bubble wrap helmets is that people got addicted to popping the bubbles in the wrap so the helmets didn't work. It's that "I know I shouldn't be doing this but i can't stop" thing.
Re:The American Legal System's Double Standard
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Meanwhile, if you have money or power, you are only charged under the laws that absolutely apply and only if they absolutely have proof you did it and are fully at fault. We wind up with corporations, governments, and the wealthy doing incredibly immoral things that obviously should be illegal but are not "technically" illegal or it's just too difficult to prove that they did it, so no prosecutor wants to take it on.
It's sickening.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
"Thinking is the hardest work". Spoken like a true noodle armed beta fagg0t.
I weigh 200lbs, compete in mixed martial art comps and have titles in Jui Jitsu, and Escrima of which I compete in the heavyweight division. I train 3-6 days a week 2-3 hours per day and often best guys 60-80lbs heavier than me. Out of curiosity I measured my bicep girth and it's 17.5 inches, though I train for power, not show.
I think you'll find me to be the alpha male in any encounter we have, asshole troll.
Try running a jackhammer all day.
Why not a chainsaw, a shovel, a pick, or a welder, moving engine blocks is fun. I don't beleive you have ever run a jackhammer for work and I don't beleive you have engaged in tough mental work either. Being a geek for work is tough mental activity, I'm not taking anything away from people doing physical work but the difference is that you take mental work home with you which doesn't happen with physical work. I don't need a lot of education to operate a jackhammer.
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I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not.
Yeah it is, this AC is two of only one in circle jerk. That very loud popping sound is the cavitation effect of their head coming out of their ass.
The built-in camera on my Macbook turns on a hardware light whenever it's being used. Makes it pretty hard to not realize you are potentially being seen. All OSs should display an indicator on the top layer of the display, and enlarge/flash it in a pretty unmissable way every 5 minutes, whenever your camera OR microphone is active. Failure of an OS to do so should be labeled as what it is, a security hazard.
There was a slashdot article about an exploit for this not so long ago, camera on, led off.
Best way to secure the camera is with a piece of black electrical tape, to secure the microphone unplug it or turn it off. Laptop mics are a bit trickier.
JavaScript is not an essential. But you should know the basics. And most importantly, you should know two things, when not to use JavaScript, and what progressive enhancement is.
Though I agree with most of what you have said, I think that also what parts of JavaScript you use is important, combined with some good patterns of design for your code most of which is achieved by convention in JavaScript and C. I've found JavaScript to be quite nice when used in a minimal 'language features' way.
'Javascript: The good parts' is about as thick as 'The C Programming Language' but not as dense, which sums my comparison of the two nicely.
A lot of the votes aren't by australians. Triple J streams worldwide for free and they have extremely good taste in music. Their charter requires, by law, that they do not have any ads except to promote music and culture, which means they promote music and festivals that they think are interesting, but don't collect any revenue for it.
They also used to have a much more comprehensive current affairs programs and I fear they have lost much. Though, provisions in the AUS-USA fta may have an influence on this. However I enjoy the music and they are pretty good at that, though I do miss the drum promotions - some were pretty funny.
Utilities companies are cheapskates. In Australia, and I'm sure it's probably similar in America, the power companies here are still reluctant to bury power cables that arc, ignite bush fires and then kill people.
I'm not saying what you are trying to achieve is impossible, but however you attempt to achieve it you are up for a lot of hard work.
That moves code and data between memory and the processor cache when there is a cache miss.
I'll give you 50 bonus points for not quoting Franklin. I'll also subtract 100 points because you're an idiot.
Total points: -50
What about Kennedy? "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"
That is all.
The Columbia crew were dead men walking the moment the foam damaged the tiles. Columba was a wreck the moment the foam caused the damage. She would never reach earth's surface whole once she entered space.
If we consider this an attempt to rescue them would have also probably meant a heartbreaking observation of the astronauts dying a slow death in space. From memory had NASA's management acknowledged the engineers requesting optics of the orbiter, a slicing manuver, where the forces of re-entry were concentrated on the opposing wing offered a slim chance for survival.
Of course we are forgetting that another option would have been an attempt with a Soyuz to resupply the shuttle, a significantly less logistically demanding vehicle, could have also rescued 2 Astronauts - if it could have made the Columbia's orbit.
And with the fleet reduced to two ISS-payload-capable shuttles, would the ISS have been merely delayed several years, or simply cancelled?
It couldn't be cancelled without breaching international contracts, agreements and a significant loss of prestige to the American space program. The shuttle was treated as a service, hence Space Transport Service even when the vehicle was still, clearly, in development.
According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA was criticised heavily by the Navy who cited they assigned 5000 staff to study the consequences of the Challenger accident and learn lessons from it. NASA had not performed a similar review, as the owner of the vehicle, instead citing the foam and ice stikes as 'In-Family' - converting a memory of failure into one of success.
You know what NASA stands for, don't ya?
Not Another Stupid Asshole?
Nothing will take India out of poverty. Take a drive on Indian roads and if you survive you will begin to appreciate the power of massive ignorance. Many people know how to drive, but they can't read the road rules. Education is key and their is plenty of corruption in India to get in the way of that. That's not a criticism of India, by the way, I love the place - just an observation that us arrogant westerners are appalled by things we don't understand.
Besides, there are over 35 million people below the poverty line in the US, that's almost the entire population of Canada. That would be a good problem to fix too.
Because that is what a commodity is. Rejoice! This is the free market and globalization working. If you don't support globalization then you must be a communist pinko redneck terrorist.
1% of the population has 49% of the power, the other 99% has 51% of the power and don't know how to use it. Adolf Hitler said "How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
If you want to change it - start writing letters to politicians.
The biggest irony of all is that communist China does capitalism better than America.
Now let's get back to our race to the bottom.
Shouldn't we be celebrating this as a triumph of capitalism. A 10% culling of the Electrical Engineering workforce will mean that the price of that labour can be driven down to near poverty levels for a skilled profession. Prices will fall and everyone will be happy.
Except the E.E's - but as long as we're ok, everything is good - but hey it can never happen to us, right?
also known as the "World Wide Wobot Web"
They are the American Nobility...
And the protector of our RIGHT to dark movie theaters!!!
Well it actually is.
Only if the popcorn was thrown with such force that it cause mortal injury could it be considered deadly, lethal, popcorn. But it was probably thrown to say "hey, your being a dick, here is a ridiculously harmless act of assault".
It would seem that America is a place where dicks can shoot you with bullets.
So says the guys who keeps on getting proved wrong.
The sincerity in this argument is an admission that, in reality, the 1% that make up the wealthiest of human beings consider the rest to be slaves, be it to labour, or interest rates or just putting food on the table.
Consequently, the externality from their pursuit of automation is making more and more people slaves so that we are always competing with one another for a dollar instead of the market competing for our labour, which drives labour prices up. As long as there is a steady rate of unemployment around 10%, every person will fear for their job and be a subservient slave, too afraid to attend to matters of democracy or society. That's what that 1% want from their win-win situation.
However I think it's 50's thinking that drives it and the fear. Technology is a gift that will either enslave or free the human race and most people can't comprehend what it means to them. So too many of the people who devise the technology. To me automation means I kick back a work for an hour or two while my automation does the work for me. That's because I control the technology I deliver and the reason I control it is because I have educated myself to do so. So the automation allows me to educate myself more - improving my life.
We have to ask ourselves what happens when the Western worlds labour becomes obsolete in a world that is competing for resources and corruption is inherent in every political system in the world. Personally, I want technology do better for people not profits, however it was my own naivety that blinded me to the fact that those who control the deployment of technology en-mass, aren't even people any more - they're company boards legally obliged to make a profit.
Our role as technologist's is also changing with the automation. You can bet that people will begin to cast blame on those who devise technology so unless we are prepared to push back and be cognisant enough to take a lead role in society and educate them about the choices they make the consequences of that fear will be played out on us hapless geeks.
If the cost of education goes down as the price of energy goes up we stand a chance to find a way to reduce our slavery and perhaps live better. My old mentor used to tell me 'You bleed on the cutting edge of technology' and, like a knife it will be used like a tool and a weapon to sculpt or subjugate our entire society.
Remove Modern Interface altogether for PC's and Servers. Leave the Modern interface for smartphones and Tablets. Just do it, you made a mistake, fix it and learn from it.
I think of it as Meh-tro. I suspect Windows 9 will have even more 'meh'
It compares the current list of public services that are allowed to speed (fire, police and ambulance) to the new list (Vehicles used to carry organs for transplant, bomb disposal units, mountain rescue teams and those engaged in “surveillance and covert operations”). But nowhere does it mention that they'll have a siren. If someone is driving really really fast where normally people aren't driving really really fast, and hits someone, killing one or more, I wonder how it'll play out on court.
Barrister; Your Worship, you will note that my client is in possession of a licence to Kill and a license to speed. Clearly any evidence pertaining to matters of motivation for my client use of these licences is a matter of National Security. As you are aware you worship that under the law no offence has been commited and I would ask for a summary dismissal of all charges.
Thanks Bruce, I'll do that. Do you have Germany's address handy?
It would seem an anonymous Bogan is trolling you...
Tiny little airbags like the polystyrene foam?
I like bubble wrap better (for reasons not related tp bike helmets). Besides, I assume "a soft corrugated cartilage" collected from the interstice between woodpeckers' skull and beak would do the job better.
(ducks)
Yeah - the problem with the bubble wrap helmets is that people got addicted to popping the bubbles in the wrap so the helmets didn't work. It's that "I know I shouldn't be doing this but i can't stop" thing.
Q:What could possibly go wrong?
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
"Thinking is the hardest work". Spoken like a true noodle armed beta fagg0t.
I weigh 200lbs, compete in mixed martial art comps and have titles in Jui Jitsu, and Escrima of which I compete in the heavyweight division. I train 3-6 days a week 2-3 hours per day and often best guys 60-80lbs heavier than me. Out of curiosity I measured my bicep girth and it's 17.5 inches, though I train for power, not show.
I think you'll find me to be the alpha male in any encounter we have, asshole troll.
Try running a jackhammer all day.
Why not a chainsaw, a shovel, a pick, or a welder, moving engine blocks is fun. I don't beleive you have ever run a jackhammer for work and I don't beleive you have engaged in tough mental work either. Being a geek for work is tough mental activity, I'm not taking anything away from people doing physical work but the difference is that you take mental work home with you which doesn't happen with physical work. I don't need a lot of education to operate a jackhammer.