This is really bad news. By defining the amount of data in LoC's, they leave themselves open to a huge exploit... If the LoC ever includes this data, then there will be a recursive loop of definitions and the LoC will expand to fill the universe.
Okay... maybe not, but if they ever did put this data in the LoC, the effort required to re-factor all the LoC based measurements would bankrupt the world. And the confusion that goes on while this re-factoring is happening will surely crash at least one probe into Mars, where the English have used the new LoC units and the Americans will have used the old LoC units.
It's even worse than that, I don't think a lot of current mechanics know anything about carburettors! I had a spring break on the secondary throat butterfly and (before I knew what the problem was) limped it to a mechanic and asked them to investigate and fix. I got it back running no better at all and I ended up using a hair band (i used to have long hair back then:) to replace the spring until I could take it to a proper mechanic.
This is the same mechanic that I asked to find an oil leak and fix it if the fix was a simple one. I got the car back with a report that the oil leak was coming from the rocker cover seal. They hadn't fixed it, despite the fact that they had adjusted the valve clearances. Idiots. I never went back there again after those two incidents.
I do something similar... my update queries (now) look like this (TransactSQL):
" SELECT * --UPDATE SomeTable SET SomeField = SomeField * 3.141 FROM SomeTable WHERE SomeIndex = 1337 "
The -- is a comment under TransactSQL, so hitting run will not do any damage. To actually run the update I highlight everything from the UPDATE onwards (eg excluding the --) and then hit run, and it just runs the highlighted text.
"UPDATE SET = FROM " is valid under TransactSQL, but that FROM may not be proper SQL-92 so may not work in other environments...
Although I don't believe that the idea adds any actual security, things could be improved by building into browsers something that could detect if you were really on a bank domain, and have it display in an obvious way.
But still, the original idea is to increase trust and confidence, and there are so many possible ways around it that we'll end up in with a false sense of security which can be worse than no security...
rumour has it that Schroedinger may have killed his cat.
Where's the evidence? Did anyone actually observe him doing it? Unless someone (other than the cat or Schroedinger I assume) actually observed the action then we have to assume that the cat is both alive and dead, and as such Schroedinger is simultaneously both guilty and not guilty...
My rule of thumb for things like that is to put in enough security so that it could only be circumvented deliberately, there could be no claims of "I just clicked this button and typed something into that field, I didn't know I was doing anything wrong". And add enough auditing to catch them when they do.
That way if someone is caught doing something wrong, there can be no question about their intent.
I believe that if the students were doing something wrong, and the consequences of doing so were clearly spelled out to them beforehand, then they should get whatever's coming to them.
I actually did some of this in Wolfenstein 3D (remember that:) Never got as far as putting teachers faces on the bad guys, but only because I didn't have video capture equipment. That was before I had access to the internet (~1993), so hardly anyone would have seen it. I'm kinda glad I didn't go any further with it now... 14 years later it occurs to me that making a map of the school is one thing, but putting teachers faces (however low resolution) on bad guys that you get to shoot at might not have been the best thing to do. At least there wasn't so much moral panic about such things back then...
You've obviously got your brain working. That would be a great idea! In fact you could send up an all female astronaut team, give them a webcam each, and tell them they can keep 50% of the profits. Think of all the naughtiness they could get up to in front of the camera's in the low gravity environment.
So.... if I created a whole load of web sites with links to viagra sites (maybe a few porn sites too for good measure) and also added a few links to the web sites of competitors, what are the chances that my competitors would end up in 'google hell'?
C'mon, we've seen this so many times. They're only making that announcement so that Linus will come to the party and offer them a fantastic price cut on Linux.
It's worked for just about every large company that's threatened to abandon Microsoft.
Being in a public street with a camera is one thing, but flying a kite with a camera attached over private property (or a school, if you don't count that as private property) is another.
Sure, some cops go overboard like in your example, but I don't think a friendly policeman approaching our kite flying camera friend and asking for ID just to make sure he's not on a list of registered sex offenders or anything is going overboard.
We had a policeman knock on our door a few years ago. A car vaguely matching the description of ours was seen leaving the scene of a grass fire. He was quite friendly, explained why he was there, asked if we'd been anywhere recently (I assume he would have put his hand on the bonnet of the car too just to check), chatted about the weather, and then left. Just the way it should be.
I think the problem in your example was that the policemen were being pricks, not that they they were asking questions in the first place.
Would it make any difference if he did have a uniform? I'm sure someone really up to no good would have access to uniforms and know how to make it look like they were supposed to be there.
I probably would have called the cops too. At least they can wander over and have a quick word to make sure everything is legit.
I think it's only a 'half a mouse brain' simulator. Presumably the simulated half of the brain only activates while cheese is smelt, and the other half takes over when no cheese is smelt.
Maybe a mouse could double its intelligence if it could smell cheese and no cheese? Of course the simulator would only simulate the protrusion of the mouse into our dimension anyway...
(hear that? It's Douglas Adams turning in his grave)
And lets not even get started on what most people put around their strawberry plants!
I remember reading an urban legend about how KFC was now only known by it's acronym because there was no actual chicken anymore. It was now grown in a vat from a genetically engineered mass of flesh. The legend supposed that that was a bad thing... but if you think about it: . No live chickens would suffer in the production of KFC . You'd almost have to class it as a plant rather than an animal... you might even get away with calling it vegetarian! . Because the plant didn't have to spend time growing feathers, clucking, and walking around, the efficiency is much higher and therefore better for the environment.
It's strange what grosses some people out isn't it?
Just for clarification, in places like the U.S., making insulting & deriding statements would be alright if the statements were true.
There are a few exceptions to this... if there was a dark skinned gentlemen born to unmarried parents who suffered from a mild intellectual disability, and I were to publicly refer to him (eg in a newspaper, tv show, or other public media) as a "black retarded bastard", I'm not sure that I'd get away with it, even though all the terms I used in the label were technically 'true' (as per their dictionary definition).
Not sure exactly what law I could be prosecuted under though... maybe it wouldn't be libel/slander, in which case your point still holds...
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Graffiti will have taken on a whole new meaning by then. Taggers won't be walking around with spray cans full of paint, they'll walk around with computers and reprogram the walls to display their tags (and they'll have spray cans with no paint, just solvents, so they can still huff them:)
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This is really bad news. By defining the amount of data in LoC's, they leave themselves open to a huge exploit... If the LoC ever includes this data, then there will be a recursive loop of definitions and the LoC will expand to fill the universe.
Okay... maybe not, but if they ever did put this data in the LoC, the effort required to re-factor all the LoC based measurements would bankrupt the world. And the confusion that goes on while this re-factoring is happening will surely crash at least one probe into Mars, where the English have used the new LoC units and the Americans will have used the old LoC units.
One has to wonder if a link to 'anus.com' is SFW...
Well... they let you see if she got _caught_ embezzling at her last job, and wasn't smart enough to weasel out of it without recording a conviction.
Would any aggressive cache pre-fetch engines follow links like this?
If there are 120000 people in a room and then 150000 leave, how many people have to enter the room again for it to be empty?
It's even worse than that, I don't think a lot of current mechanics know anything about carburettors! I had a spring break on the secondary throat butterfly and (before I knew what the problem was) limped it to a mechanic and asked them to investigate and fix. I got it back running no better at all and I ended up using a hair band (i used to have long hair back then :) to replace the spring until I could take it to a proper mechanic.
This is the same mechanic that I asked to find an oil leak and fix it if the fix was a simple one. I got the car back with a report that the oil leak was coming from the rocker cover seal. They hadn't fixed it, despite the fact that they had adjusted the valve clearances. Idiots. I never went back there again after those two incidents.
I do something similar... my update queries (now) look like this (TransactSQL):
"
SELECT *
--UPDATE SomeTable SET SomeField = SomeField * 3.141
FROM SomeTable
WHERE SomeIndex = 1337
"
The -- is a comment under TransactSQL, so hitting run will not do any damage. To actually run the update I highlight everything from the UPDATE onwards (eg excluding the --) and then hit run, and it just runs the highlighted text.
"UPDATE SET = FROM " is valid under TransactSQL, but that FROM may not be proper SQL-92 so may not work in other environments...
Yes, it's a mistake you should only make once.
That's my IP address you insensitive clod!
I hereby give you permission to try and hack me on that IP address!
Although I don't believe that the idea adds any actual security, things could be improved by building into browsers something that could detect if you were really on a bank domain, and have it display in an obvious way.
But still, the original idea is to increase trust and confidence, and there are so many possible ways around it that we'll end up in with a false sense of security which can be worse than no security...
Where's the evidence? Did anyone actually observe him doing it? Unless someone (other than the cat or Schroedinger I assume) actually observed the action then we have to assume that the cat is both alive and dead, and as such Schroedinger is simultaneously both guilty and not guilty...
My rule of thumb for things like that is to put in enough security so that it could only be circumvented deliberately, there could be no claims of "I just clicked this button and typed something into that field, I didn't know I was doing anything wrong". And add enough auditing to catch them when they do.
That way if someone is caught doing something wrong, there can be no question about their intent.
I believe that if the students were doing something wrong, and the consequences of doing so were clearly spelled out to them beforehand, then they should get whatever's coming to them.
I actually did some of this in Wolfenstein 3D (remember that :) Never got as far as putting teachers faces on the bad guys, but only because I didn't have video capture equipment. That was before I had access to the internet (~1993), so hardly anyone would have seen it. I'm kinda glad I didn't go any further with it now... 14 years later it occurs to me that making a map of the school is one thing, but putting teachers faces (however low resolution) on bad guys that you get to shoot at might not have been the best thing to do. At least there wasn't so much moral panic about such things back then...
You've obviously got your brain working. That would be a great idea! In fact you could send up an all female astronaut team, give them a webcam each, and tell them they can keep 50% of the profits. Think of all the naughtiness they could get up to in front of the camera's in the low gravity environment.
NASA need never worry about funding again!!!
And you could always buy a domain like '1337k3y2.com', and then create a subdomain called 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.1337k3y2.com.
3 37k3y2.com.
:)
Or maybe 09.f9.11.02.9d.74.e3.5b.d8.41.56.c5.63.56.88.c0.1
But i'm not sure exactly what you'd be accomplishing by doing so...
Now drawing the shape of the digits into your property and having it captured by google earth would be a neat accomplishment
So.... if I created a whole load of web sites with links to viagra sites (maybe a few porn sites too for good measure) and also added a few links to the web sites of competitors, what are the chances that my competitors would end up in 'google hell'?
C'mon, we've seen this so many times. They're only making that announcement so that Linus will come to the party and offer them a fantastic price cut on Linux.
It's worked for just about every large company that's threatened to abandon Microsoft.
Being in a public street with a camera is one thing, but flying a kite with a camera attached over private property (or a school, if you don't count that as private property) is another.
Sure, some cops go overboard like in your example, but I don't think a friendly policeman approaching our kite flying camera friend and asking for ID just to make sure he's not on a list of registered sex offenders or anything is going overboard.
We had a policeman knock on our door a few years ago. A car vaguely matching the description of ours was seen leaving the scene of a grass fire. He was quite friendly, explained why he was there, asked if we'd been anywhere recently (I assume he would have put his hand on the bonnet of the car too just to check), chatted about the weather, and then left. Just the way it should be.
I think the problem in your example was that the policemen were being pricks, not that they they were asking questions in the first place.
To quote HHGTTG - "It's not easy being a cop".
Would it make any difference if he did have a uniform? I'm sure someone really up to no good would have access to uniforms and know how to make it look like they were supposed to be there.
I probably would have called the cops too. At least they can wander over and have a quick word to make sure everything is legit.
I think it's only a 'half a mouse brain' simulator. Presumably the simulated half of the brain only activates while cheese is smelt, and the other half takes over when no cheese is smelt.
Maybe a mouse could double its intelligence if it could smell cheese and no cheese? Of course the simulator would only simulate the protrusion of the mouse into our dimension anyway...
(hear that? It's Douglas Adams turning in his grave)
I think you'll find that that's a Leonard Cohen lyric. Joe Cocker might have done a cover at some point though...
Nobody spells right on the internet. I don't think a spelling mistake provides any evidence one way or another.
In fact a troll would be more likely to read over their post and correct a spelling mistake...
And lets not even get started on what most people put around their strawberry plants!
I remember reading an urban legend about how KFC was now only known by it's acronym because there was no actual chicken anymore. It was now grown in a vat from a genetically engineered mass of flesh. The legend supposed that that was a bad thing... but if you think about it:
. No live chickens would suffer in the production of KFC
. You'd almost have to class it as a plant rather than an animal... you might even get away with calling it vegetarian!
. Because the plant didn't have to spend time growing feathers, clucking, and walking around, the efficiency is much higher and therefore better for the environment.
It's strange what grosses some people out isn't it?
Excellent point. For anyone who disagrees, you've never seen a 3 year old burst into tears because someone called them a 'poo poo head'.
And further to this, just think about how these bullied kids grow up. The phrase 'Going Postal' springs to mind.
There are a few exceptions to this... if there was a dark skinned gentlemen born to unmarried parents who suffered from a mild intellectual disability, and I were to publicly refer to him (eg in a newspaper, tv show, or other public media) as a "black retarded bastard", I'm not sure that I'd get away with it, even though all the terms I used in the label were technically 'true' (as per their dictionary definition).
Not sure exactly what law I could be prosecuted under though... maybe it wouldn't be libel/slander, in which case your point still holds...
Graffiti will have taken on a whole new meaning by then. Taggers won't be walking around with spray cans full of paint, they'll walk around with computers and reprogram the walls to display their tags (and they'll have spray cans with no paint, just solvents, so they can still huff them :)