I recall malware named GALAXY on the DEC-10, 1978 perhaps. It was a tempting program filename for students hunting around for new games to play besides ADVENT and WARGAM. The program copied hundreds of empty files with random filenames making it very time consuming to do a series of wildcard deletes that did not get the files you wanted to keep. The person who wrote it added inline backspace characters to black out the offending lines of code line when you printed it, unless you printed it out on a line printer where you could advance the platen by hand when it got to that line. I think I still have the DECTAPE with a copy hidden away somewhere.
I for one welcome our...
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Hello, Juilan Assange here, I have copies of all the text messages you have ever sent and I am ready to leak them. Because I have them I own them. I will sue you if you try to prevent me from releasing them. Don't like that? Wait until I release your grade school transcripts; C minus in sex education I see. These are mine too as well as your proctoscope records. Information wants to be free as long as I own it.
Shsshhhshhshshhshhshhhshshhshhsh...new whistleblowing overlords.
Copyright is a deal. You agree to pay the creators of content a fixed amount to experience the content once. Agree? Agree. Deal. One side decides to make copies and give them away that is breaking a deal. You can parse EULAs, the DMCA and the Constitution any way you want, it is still breaking a deal.
Agreed, however those workers from other countries are only good at doing what they are told to do. Soon there will be nobody left to tell them what to so. When I was let go last year, I was told that my job was going to be done by two guys in India; great at doing what they were told but utterly incapable of figuring out what needed to be done. We don't need more science and tech workers, we need more innovators, in all fields. We have a culture that reveres innovators, people who probably have failed dozens of times but still came up something brilliant. Those other countries don't have that culture. The problem is that you can't teach innovation. All you can do is create an environment and numerous opportunities for individuals can be rewarded for coming up with something clever. We need brainstorming classes, not more pre-calculus.
Give them a spreadsheet and have them write a web front end for it. The spreadsheet should be horribly denormalized, have all kinds of formatting, columns with mixed text, numbers and dates, column names with non-printing characters, lots of leading spaces and zeroes, categories with inconsistent naming, lots of colors denoting key information, blank columns and rows inserted so it looks good, duplicate rows; in other words, hand them the last thing you got from that fresh-out MBA in marketing.
Searching Twitter is useless, any trending topic is going to be loaded with spam posts. If there was a way to exclude anything with a link I would use it. 99.9% of all messaging links (email, chat, tweet) are spam yet nobody seems to notice. When was the last time you clicked on a link from your "bank"?
Slashdot Mirror
Good thing my 3G can't get iOS 4.3. I sure wouldn't want slow operation.
I recall malware named GALAXY on the DEC-10, 1978 perhaps. It was a tempting program filename for students hunting around for new games to play besides ADVENT and WARGAM. The program copied hundreds of empty files with random filenames making it very time consuming to do a series of wildcard deletes that did not get the files you wanted to keep. The person who wrote it added inline backspace characters to black out the offending lines of code line when you printed it, unless you printed it out on a line printer where you could advance the platen by hand when it got to that line. I think I still have the DECTAPE with a copy hidden away somewhere.
A physicist believes that it takes extremely high pressure to produce diamonds. An engineer knows it just takes a little suction.
When I turn my head sideways it looks just like 2 billion rows
I didn't know that bacteria swallowed
I for one welcome our... Shsshhhshhshshhshhshhhshshhshhsh Hello, Juilan Assange here, I have copies of all the text messages you have ever sent and I am ready to leak them. Because I have them I own them. I will sue you if you try to prevent me from releasing them. Don't like that? Wait until I release your grade school transcripts; C minus in sex education I see. These are mine too as well as your proctoscope records. Information wants to be free as long as I own it. Shsshhhshhshshhshhshhhshshhshhsh ...new whistleblowing overlords.
They were in stock, you just could not see them
Copyright is a deal. You agree to pay the creators of content a fixed amount to experience the content once. Agree? Agree. Deal. One side decides to make copies and give them away that is breaking a deal. You can parse EULAs, the DMCA and the Constitution any way you want, it is still breaking a deal.
Open Source is where you share your source code. Free Software is where you tell other people they should share their source code.
Future Encyclopedia: This was when they started burning food so they could drive their SUVs.
If I were to swallow his whole load of smug opportunist agenda i would agree with you.
When they stop searching elderly white cripples, this will be the new attack vector.
You can't outsource innovation
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The Revolution will be slashdotted
Set theory and other basic data concepts. They should be taught to make a database before they are taught to make a spreadsheet.
Agreed, however those workers from other countries are only good at doing what they are told to do. Soon there will be nobody left to tell them what to so. When I was let go last year, I was told that my job was going to be done by two guys in India; great at doing what they were told but utterly incapable of figuring out what needed to be done. We don't need more science and tech workers, we need more innovators, in all fields. We have a culture that reveres innovators, people who probably have failed dozens of times but still came up something brilliant. Those other countries don't have that culture. The problem is that you can't teach innovation. All you can do is create an environment and numerous opportunities for individuals can be rewarded for coming up with something clever. We need brainstorming classes, not more pre-calculus.
Give them a spreadsheet and have them write a web front end for it. The spreadsheet should be horribly denormalized, have all kinds of formatting, columns with mixed text, numbers and dates, column names with non-printing characters, lots of leading spaces and zeroes, categories with inconsistent naming, lots of colors denoting key information, blank columns and rows inserted so it looks good, duplicate rows; in other words, hand them the last thing you got from that fresh-out MBA in marketing.
I have seen this lettering before too, the translation actually is "Stupid Yankee"
But it worked great when we back-tested it!
The White House has an iPhone app and their State of the Union links all pointed to Flash feeds. Talk about disconnect.
Free (as in you can only buy beer from my store)
There are many websites that don't reveal any/all costs unless you get deep into their order system, collecting info all the way. This is evil.
The web app would be ten times faster, not have a hackneyed anti-user interface and not crash frequently for no apparent reason. It's a win win win.
Searching Twitter is useless, any trending topic is going to be loaded with spam posts. If there was a way to exclude anything with a link I would use it. 99.9% of all messaging links (email, chat, tweet) are spam yet nobody seems to notice. When was the last time you clicked on a link from your "bank"?