Locksmiths everywhere will be out of business unless they start carying USB Flash drives. Won't it be fun when someone writes a program that will program all possibly key codes onto a 10 Gig flash driver or something and these cars just start dissapearing? I can't wait to be the first in line to buy one of these!
I'm sure science will find a way to synthesize ozone to replace what's missing, or better yet, create a new type of ozone that will be tougher than the previous layer of ozone! Then we can begin to use again all the CFC laiden products that we want! Then maybe they can market it to the whole world and make countries pay royalties that need protection from the Sun's ever present death rays seeping through the "old" ozone above their country!
Ok, ok, I'm off my nut here, but give me a break. I just got back from lunch. I need a nap.
I can't wait until I'm standing to pee in a bar somewhere and instead of the sports section or the menu for the place there's a Google.com add in there. That'll be the day!
What I need is a Firefox-plugin that looks exactly like IE (including the lack of tabs and search box) while still providing the same level of security.
Once we had that, then we could code a new type of worm that installed firefox through an IE exploit (Ironic!) that looked exactly like IE. Once that was done the worm could attempt to send itself out to a certain number of computers and then terminate completely and remove all traces of itself. It's Brilliant! The best thing is that no one would know!
Of course then you may end up giving MS a big head. THey may think something like, "Look, we finally fixed most of it!"
To answer your question, What the hell is anorexic programming...
I think it has more to do with making the program feel like it's worthless because it's too "fluffy" and should really try to slim itself down to the point of massive internal failures and breakdown until it dies.
This book isn't for closed-minded folks who think the waterfall method and a preponderance of documentation and process control are the bee's knees.
Most upper management are only about those things! Besides, having coded for companies before, I know that if you don't properly document your code and make sure you have a preponderance for process control in place typically the whole thing goes to shit. And what is this about the bee's knees!?
Having Hired Police for a Dance Party (Rave) we threw over a weekend I know exactly why the police are willing to do that. I had to pay every office there time and a half. It came up to close to $29 dollars an hour to stand outside and "shake people down" for drugs, knives, guns, etc. They were there for 5 hours a night, we couldn't keep them past 2:00 am for some reason. They didn't do a very good job of stopping the drugs.
I've tried that as well. I had installed Fedora FC3, Redhat 9, Suse 9.2, Mandrake 10, and Gentoo. I finally went to Fedora FC4 because my buddy happened to have it with him on DVD when he came over and I was tired of fighting it.
My laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 and yes it's running at that. The screen resolution is beautiful and graphics are clear and crisp. It's just that when I try to do something relatively graphically intense in full screen for instance play a game, tux racer for example, it splits the screen in half and is fuzzy. Completely unplayable. Kind of like trying to watch scrambled HBO before digital cable came around. Not pretty. I am able to use most of Enlightenments Eye Candy though so I'm not frustrated beyond what I can stand, but it would be nice just to have a driver load and work properly in all screen modes. Yes, I've completely tweeq'q xorg.conf for my screen and drivers, I think it's just something that doesn't work quite right with the driver. Credit must be given however to the people who wrote the driver for what's there. I would say it's 90% of where it should be and driver programming is not an easy task. If this was my main computer it would bother me more, but this is mostly for wirelessly streaming MP3's to my stereo, e-mail, occasionaly web browsing, and maybe some word processing etc.
I just want an ATI driver that will work in full screen mode with my Dell Laptop. Too much to ask, maybe, but I'm making due just fine with what I've got. (Fedora FC4 w/ Enlightenment)
When we played Whack-a-Mole my friends would all take a couple holes and cover them with our hands. you should have seen our scores! Sometimes we'd even sit on the stupid thing. nothing like a quick Goose from a mole.;)
1) They very stupidly could have launched the worm from their own computer rather than a public computer say 50 miles away in a library somewhere.
2) They could have run the program when they compiled it for the final time by doing a compile and run versus just compile.
It's always something like that happens when these guys get busted. They get comfortable and forget to do something that they needed to cover their tracks due to lack of extreme paranoia.
Must be in Europe somewhere? They always have odd ways of saying things. Cargo area in the rear (or front) of a vehicle for example. USA = Trunk
Europe = Boot
They use Monicals over there I think...;) There is more than one movie out there that shows them being used by Europeans.
If you can't already tell this was supposed to be funny.
I think it's interesting that when these worms were originally introduced, and started first infecting machines, how the media made such a big deal about how quickly after the security hole was announced the worm was unleashed. I find it a bit more interesting the speed with which law enforcement is able to nab the creator of such programs. It used to be, "We don't know where in the hell to start!" to now it's more like "When can we pick this person up and how are we going to prosecute them here or there."
I'm not against home schooling or schooling via the Internet, but there is something to be said about the social aspect of the schoolyard. I learned a lot about social settings and how to play with others, sharing, and even whom to avoid from having to "go" to school. I think that if we all start homeschooling our children or having them learn via the Interenet to save money on the bus driver's fuel bill there will be some aspects of growing up and things that don't develop properly.
I live in a relatively safe area and State for that matter, but there are still violence, gangs, drugs, etc... Not as bad as say downtown LA or Washington DC but there are still problems here. There are potential benefits for both at home and in class schooling. Gas costs shouldn't be a reason to take that away from kids. I am personally happy that I was able to be in an environment where I was able to get the social aspect of the school experience. I wasn't the best or most studious student, but pulled off about a 3.5 GPA. I spent half of the time high school and college learning about other people (Mostly the opposite sex for that matter) and the other half learning what the teacher was teaching. Of course I'm a self proclaimed people person. I'm sure there are many here on/. (and many places for that matter) that are just not people people and would rather learn from home.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I had to bring say 1 dollar a week to help the bus driver keep the tank full so I could make it to school, it would be worth it to me, and it would be worth it for me to send my kids to a public school. (So long as the education was good)
They are probably also wearing sunglasses too, partially to block the sun, and partially to hinder you from seeing their eyes, thus preventing them from feeling guilty for being dickheads.
Actually the bolded part isn't too far from the truth. Sunglasses are a part of the police officer's uniform. They wear them for the intimidation factor. You can't see their eyes, plus their eyes are big and shiney. I had to write a paper in college about the influence of uniforms for a class. I interviewed a few police officers and they both said about the same reason. Sunglasses do three things, Intimidate others, add confidence to the office themself (They know that the other person can't see their eyes... the window to the soul, and obviously to block the sun durring the daytime. I'm not so sure about the being a dickhead though.
It shoudln't suprise you. It's the same reason the police officers drive around in very obvioulsy marked cars while on patrol. (Except for undercover cars of course, but they are doing a different type of work) While driving for instance, when you see a policeman pull up behind your car the first thing that comes to my mind at least is some form of "am I doing anything wrong at this point in time?" and that's kind of the effect they're after. They want you to know they are there and patroling hopefully keeping you from doing something you shouldn't because you just saw a cop.
I think the same thing goes for a Casino owner. The more that you know about the measures they are using to keep you away, the more likely you are not to try to cheat in the first place. There is also a show on TV currently on Court TV called The Takedown. It's a team of prior casino cheats and thieves that are now hired to go and test the security in casinos by beating them at their game. Interesting show, even more interesting concepts.
How many of you drive old cars, trucks, vans, or SUV's that say they are a joy to drive and run like the day they were brand new? No one would say that. Why NASA is using a shuttle that is 20 years old is beyond me. When I was 16 my parents gave me the old family '81 Datsun 310. I was grateful and even a bit excited to have it. I even thought I was "the man" because I had a car and most of my friends didn't, but it was a 13 year old car by the time I got it and had plenty of quirks. It had more than 300K miles on it when I got it. It ran pretty well and didn't cause me any major malfunctions, (Other than a clutch) but as soon as I could afford it I got a newer car! The car made it a year or two for my brother before giving up. I think it finally died in '97 with well over 400K miles on it. Those Damn shuttles have TONS more miles on them than that stupid car. Plus they are in a tad more hostile condition than the local freeways and roads. It baffles me that they are still willing to send astronauts up in them? Beyond that, I'm just as perplexed by the fact that there are astronauts blinded by the "I'm going to be in a text book one day" mentality that they are willing to ride up in the damn thing! Just plain stupidity if you asked me. It's time to produce something new with new seals, gaskets, and gap filler, and maybe a satelite dish. (Weather shouldn't affect their picture up there being so close to the satelites themselves.) If they plan on putting a man on Mars they've got a long way to go with those shitty shuttles they're still nursing along.
I mean, how many of you would really rather be sitting at say a 20 year old computer right now versus the one you're on reading/. on at this moment? I mean c'mon, be honest with yourself!
-- My Rant is now over, we'll return you to your regularly scheduled blah.
...proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital, capital expenditures and possible acquisitions of other businesses or technologies....Very clear and quite obvious. Yep.
LOL! All that says is that the company plans on spending the money. Not to be a Troll, I just admire Google's vague honesty about what it's going to be used for. Obviosuly they need more money to work with. Funny. It's like if I was to post something like, "Today is payday, and I plan to use the money earned to finance certain portions of what I'd deam to be my projects in relation to my personal needs and wants". I just need to pay rent, want a beer, and need some gas in my car. Concise.
There is absolutely no doubt that this will dilute their current holdings. Think about what that'll do to the current shareholders.
Quick Example: For ease let's just say that google is worth 1 million dollars. (Purely for ease of numbers) Let's say they issue 1 million shares for $1 each. Let's just say that those shares grow to $2 a share. No google is worth 2 Million. Let's say that they now want to issue another 2 Million shares. What that actually does is break up their 2 dollar per share worth into.50 cents each. The reason for that is that Google didn't create more worth by issuing new shares, they just broke up the current share holders worth from $2 a share to $.50 a share. In most cases those people are given the opportunity to purchase shares to even out their holdings so that they dont' "take it in the shorts" on the deal. Some opt not to and so others are able to buy them.
Moral of the story: When a company issues more share the current share holders net worth goes down. Most of the time expectations are that the company is going to issue the shares to fund more growth and more projects so there's a nice trade off. Current dip in value vs. future growth.
I happen to know that Microsoft has a rather large contract with the State Govt. Offices most if not all of my state's Office computers. A few years back I used to work for a Tech company that had a contract to service the computers for the state. They were all running WIN 2K and 98. If one state starts to move to Open Source soon more should follow. Decreasing MSFT's domination in the maket. Nice thing though, both systems should still need to be services on occasion so there's always going to be tech support work.:)
There are plenty of places other than websites to get all the pr0n you want. IRC, P2P Filesharing, Instant Messagers, and ftp are all places that are not being monitored. I'm not sure about any of you, but I was hired along with a friend to test the capability of accessing pr0n through an internet filtered site. Within 5 minutes I had downloaded mIRC and was in a room that was serving free videos and pictures. I also rana search on google.com for something like "pr0n sex.ftp video". It listed a bunch of ftp sites. We were able to get access to about half that we connected to with Anonymous login and no pass. Then there are the P2P programs. Just type in sex.mpg and you'll find hundreds of shared programs. There's no real limit to the amount of pr0n you can get a hold of that's not contained in any.com,.org,.gov,.biz, or... You get my point.
I'd like to pose this question if I may. How can all of that be stopped?
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Locksmiths everywhere will be out of business unless they start carying USB Flash drives. Won't it be fun when someone writes a program that will program all possibly key codes onto a 10 Gig flash driver or something and these cars just start dissapearing? I can't wait to be the first in line to buy one of these!
I'm sure science will find a way to synthesize ozone to replace what's missing, or better yet, create a new type of ozone that will be tougher than the previous layer of ozone! Then we can begin to use again all the CFC laiden products that we want! Then maybe they can market it to the whole world and make countries pay royalties that need protection from the Sun's ever present death rays seeping through the "old" ozone above their country!
Ok, ok, I'm off my nut here, but give me a break. I just got back from lunch. I need a nap.
I can't wait until I'm standing to pee in a bar somewhere and instead of the sports section or the menu for the place there's a Google.com add in there. That'll be the day!
Once we had that, then we could code a new type of worm that installed firefox through an IE exploit (Ironic!) that looked exactly like IE. Once that was done the worm could attempt to send itself out to a certain number of computers and then terminate completely and remove all traces of itself. It's Brilliant! The best thing is that no one would know!
Of course then you may end up giving MS a big head. THey may think something like, "Look, we finally fixed most of it!"
-- Afternoon Satire
I think it has more to do with making the program feel like it's worthless because it's too "fluffy" and should really try to slim itself down to the point of massive internal failures and breakdown until it dies.
Most upper management are only about those things! Besides, having coded for companies before, I know that if you don't properly document your code and make sure you have a preponderance for process control in place typically the whole thing goes to shit. And what is this about the bee's knees!?
Having Hired Police for a Dance Party (Rave) we threw over a weekend I know exactly why the police are willing to do that. I had to pay every office there time and a half. It came up to close to $29 dollars an hour to stand outside and "shake people down" for drugs, knives, guns, etc. They were there for 5 hours a night, we couldn't keep them past 2:00 am for some reason. They didn't do a very good job of stopping the drugs.
I've tried that as well. I had installed Fedora FC3, Redhat 9, Suse 9.2, Mandrake 10, and Gentoo. I finally went to Fedora FC4 because my buddy happened to have it with him on DVD when he came over and I was tired of fighting it.
My laptop's native resolution is 1400x1050 and yes it's running at that. The screen resolution is beautiful and graphics are clear and crisp. It's just that when I try to do something relatively graphically intense in full screen for instance play a game, tux racer for example, it splits the screen in half and is fuzzy. Completely unplayable. Kind of like trying to watch scrambled HBO before digital cable came around. Not pretty. I am able to use most of Enlightenments Eye Candy though so I'm not frustrated beyond what I can stand, but it would be nice just to have a driver load and work properly in all screen modes. Yes, I've completely tweeq'q xorg.conf for my screen and drivers, I think it's just something that doesn't work quite right with the driver. Credit must be given however to the people who wrote the driver for what's there. I would say it's 90% of where it should be and driver programming is not an easy task. If this was my main computer it would bother me more, but this is mostly for wirelessly streaming MP3's to my stereo, e-mail, occasionaly web browsing, and maybe some word processing etc.
I just want an ATI driver that will work in full screen mode with my Dell Laptop. Too much to ask, maybe, but I'm making due just fine with what I've got. (Fedora FC4 w/ Enlightenment)
Sounds an awful lot like the drug trafficing trade to me.
When we played Whack-a-Mole my friends would all take a couple holes and cover them with our hands. you should have seen our scores! Sometimes we'd even sit on the stupid thing. nothing like a quick Goose from a mole. ;)
1) They very stupidly could have launched the worm from their own computer rather than a public computer say 50 miles away in a library somewhere.
2) They could have run the program when they compiled it for the final time by doing a compile and run versus just compile.
It's always something like that happens when these guys get busted. They get comfortable and forget to do something that they needed to cover their tracks due to lack of extreme paranoia.
Must be in Europe somewhere? They always have odd ways of saying things. Cargo area in the rear (or front) of a vehicle for example.
USA = Trunk
Europe = Boot
They use Monicals over there I think... ;) There is more than one movie out there that shows them being used by Europeans.
If you can't already tell this was supposed to be funny.
I think it's interesting that when these worms were originally introduced, and started first infecting machines, how the media made such a big deal about how quickly after the security hole was announced the worm was unleashed. I find it a bit more interesting the speed with which law enforcement is able to nab the creator of such programs. It used to be, "We don't know where in the hell to start!" to now it's more like "When can we pick this person up and how are we going to prosecute them here or there."
Just my thoughts.I'm not against home schooling or schooling via the Internet, but there is something to be said about the social aspect of the schoolyard. I learned a lot about social settings and how to play with others, sharing, and even whom to avoid from having to "go" to school. I think that if we all start homeschooling our children or having them learn via the Interenet to save money on the bus driver's fuel bill there will be some aspects of growing up and things that don't develop properly.
I live in a relatively safe area and State for that matter, but there are still violence, gangs, drugs, etc... Not as bad as say downtown LA or Washington DC but there are still problems here. There are potential benefits for both at home and in class schooling. Gas costs shouldn't be a reason to take that away from kids. I am personally happy that I was able to be in an environment where I was able to get the social aspect of the school experience. I wasn't the best or most studious student, but pulled off about a 3.5 GPA. I spent half of the time high school and college learning about other people (Mostly the opposite sex for that matter) and the other half learning what the teacher was teaching. Of course I'm a self proclaimed people person. I'm sure there are many here on /. (and many places for that matter) that are just not people people and would rather learn from home.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if I had to bring say 1 dollar a week to help the bus driver keep the tank full so I could make it to school, it would be worth it to me, and it would be worth it for me to send my kids to a public school. (So long as the education was good)
It's just the number of caffeine molecules crammed into the pill!
See, that formula is simple!
C = Caffeine X = multiplication (from simple math people) 717 = cafeine molecules.
Actually the bolded part isn't too far from the truth. Sunglasses are a part of the police officer's uniform. They wear them for the intimidation factor. You can't see their eyes, plus their eyes are big and shiney. I had to write a paper in college about the influence of uniforms for a class. I interviewed a few police officers and they both said about the same reason. Sunglasses do three things, Intimidate others, add confidence to the office themself (They know that the other person can't see their eyes... the window to the soul, and obviously to block the sun durring the daytime. I'm not so sure about the being a dickhead though.
For what it's worth.
It shoudln't suprise you. It's the same reason the police officers drive around in very obvioulsy marked cars while on patrol. (Except for undercover cars of course, but they are doing a different type of work) While driving for instance, when you see a policeman pull up behind your car the first thing that comes to my mind at least is some form of "am I doing anything wrong at this point in time?" and that's kind of the effect they're after. They want you to know they are there and patroling hopefully keeping you from doing something you shouldn't because you just saw a cop.
I think the same thing goes for a Casino owner. The more that you know about the measures they are using to keep you away, the more likely you are not to try to cheat in the first place. There is also a show on TV currently on Court TV called The Takedown. It's a team of prior casino cheats and thieves that are now hired to go and test the security in casinos by beating them at their game. Interesting show, even more interesting concepts.
How many of you drive old cars, trucks, vans, or SUV's that say they are a joy to drive and run like the day they were brand new? No one would say that. Why NASA is using a shuttle that is 20 years old is beyond me. When I was 16 my parents gave me the old family '81 Datsun 310. I was grateful and even a bit excited to have it. I even thought I was "the man" because I had a car and most of my friends didn't, but it was a 13 year old car by the time I got it and had plenty of quirks. It had more than 300K miles on it when I got it. It ran pretty well and didn't cause me any major malfunctions, (Other than a clutch) but as soon as I could afford it I got a newer car! The car made it a year or two for my brother before giving up. I think it finally died in '97 with well over 400K miles on it. Those Damn shuttles have TONS more miles on them than that stupid car. Plus they are in a tad more hostile condition than the local freeways and roads. It baffles me that they are still willing to send astronauts up in them? Beyond that, I'm just as perplexed by the fact that there are astronauts blinded by the "I'm going to be in a text book one day" mentality that they are willing to ride up in the damn thing! Just plain stupidity if you asked me. It's time to produce something new with new seals, gaskets, and gap filler, and maybe a satelite dish. (Weather shouldn't affect their picture up there being so close to the satelites themselves.) If they plan on putting a man on Mars they've got a long way to go with those shitty shuttles they're still nursing along.
I mean, how many of you would really rather be sitting at say a 20 year old computer right now versus the one you're on reading /. on at this moment? I mean c'mon, be honest with yourself!
-- My Rant is now over, we'll return you to your regularly scheduled blah.
LOL! All that says is that the company plans on spending the money. Not to be a Troll, I just admire Google's vague honesty about what it's going to be used for. Obviosuly they need more money to work with. Funny. It's like if I was to post something like, "Today is payday, and I plan to use the money earned to finance certain portions of what I'd deam to be my projects in relation to my personal needs and wants". I just need to pay rent, want a beer, and need some gas in my car. Concise.
Whether or not these dilute the current holings
.50 cents each. The reason for that is that Google didn't create more worth by issuing new shares, they just broke up the current share holders worth from $2 a share to $.50 a share. In most cases those people are given the opportunity to purchase shares to even out their holdings so that they dont' "take it in the shorts" on the deal. Some opt not to and so others are able to buy them.
There is absolutely no doubt that this will dilute their current holdings. Think about what that'll do to the current shareholders.
Quick Example: For ease let's just say that google is worth 1 million dollars. (Purely for ease of numbers) Let's say they issue 1 million shares for $1 each. Let's just say that those shares grow to $2 a share. No google is worth 2 Million. Let's say that they now want to issue another 2 Million shares. What that actually does is break up their 2 dollar per share worth into
Moral of the story: When a company issues more share the current share holders net worth goes down. Most of the time expectations are that the company is going to issue the shares to fund more growth and more projects so there's a nice trade off. Current dip in value vs. future growth.
Ahhh, the financial world is wonderful.
This one was blown out of proportion because it hit some media computers.
I happen to know that Microsoft has a rather large contract with the State Govt. Offices most if not all of my state's Office computers. A few years back I used to work for a Tech company that had a contract to service the computers for the state. They were all running WIN 2K and 98. If one state starts to move to Open Source soon more should follow. Decreasing MSFT's domination in the maket. Nice thing though, both systems should still need to be services on occasion so there's always going to be tech support work. :)
There are plenty of places other than websites to get all the pr0n you want. IRC, P2P Filesharing, Instant Messagers, and ftp are all places that are not being monitored. I'm not sure about any of you, but I was hired along with a friend to test the capability of accessing pr0n through an internet filtered site. Within 5 minutes I had downloaded mIRC and was in a room that was serving free videos and pictures. I also rana search on google.com for something like "pr0n sex .ftp video". It listed a bunch of ftp sites. We were able to get access to about half that we connected to with Anonymous login and no pass. Then there are the P2P programs. Just type in sex .mpg and you'll find hundreds of shared programs. There's no real limit to the amount of pr0n you can get a hold of that's not contained in any .com, .org, .gov, .biz, or ... You get my point.
I'd like to pose this question if I may.
How can all of that be stopped?