A better way to do it would be to offload the requesting and downloading of ad content to a separate thread, and render the web page without them first. That way, you both are requesting ads, and not having to see them.
(I (disagree (there (is (a (missing) (parenthesis (somewhere)) in)) (your Lisp code))) ) ;; <-- Was this it? ;; Auto-indenting editors like Emacs make it easy to catch such mistakes, ;; as does breaking your expressions over multiple lines for readability.
What an excellent way to encourage prospective users of VMWare. "Sorry you're too dumb/uneducated, spend bunches of time on training please" basicaly is a direct affirmation of his claim that it doesn't "just work".
Why is VMWare hard (in your eyes)? It seems like it conceptually ought to be simple to set up and run...
robots.txt requires that a crawling app HONOR said file.
I believe you mean "suggests" or "requests", rather than "requires". Well behaving robots do obey robots.txt, but even so, if a URL is accessible, it should be either secured or considered publically available.
Unfortunately, I believe some courts likely have considered modifying URLS to be "hacking", in that it's "unauthorized access" -- simply because the server owners *thought* it was inaccessible, rather than actually protected. I hope such lunacy doesn't last.
Speaking of the GM bacterial spray which prevents tooth decay... what happened to that? I see articles from eight years ago, but not much that's current. Where can I get some?:D
I'm not really up to speed on this... would you care to elaborate on what geohot's "massive fuckup" was? Is it that he cracked the ps3 via the Other OS feature, and that prompted them to patch it away?
Moreover, their vehicles operate in adverse conditions (radiation, temperature extremes, chance of collisions with fast moving things). They might actually be fairly adept at looking at systems which are supposed to be robust and failsafe, and identifying ways in which they are NOT failsafe.
Once a classified document is leaked, measures are taken to ensure that the leak does not spread. While secufrity clearances are still enforced, the document itself is treated as being in danger of becomming public knowledge. Measures are then taken to ensure the document isnt leaked.
Until the security of the document can be ensured, it is considered to be classified but insecure. If the document is widle leaked then for all intents and purpolses, it is no longer classified, despite the official classification
rather than what you originally wrote:
Once a document has been seen by someone without the proper clearance that document is no longer considered to have its classification level.
I would have agreed with you 100%. The document is still considered classified (contrary to what you originally wrote). I'm sorry to hear that you are so upset by my lack of provided information, and that my reply was curt enough to get you to flame me. I was merely saying that a document's official classification is unaffected by wikileaks, disclosures to the washington post, or announcements at a press banquet. The only thing that affects a document's official classification is (according to Executive Order 13526) either a classification process started by a classifying authority or its mandated expiration date.
Executive Order 13526 states that (and I paraphrase): - nothing stays classified forever - documents must have an expiration date for their classification. - it can be extended up to 25 years from document origin - classification may not be used to conceal violations of law, administrative error, inefficiency, or to prevent embarassment. - classification status can be challenged by people who believe that it's improperly classified. - classification can be changed after an FIOA request (subject to a review, of course)
Declassification is covered in part 3 of that executive order. The only automatic declassification that happens is calendar-based; other times it only follows a review prompted by things like FOIA requests.
You are entirely correct that publishing something at Wikileaks (or a similar wide dissemination of classified material) makes the effective classification of a document somewhat moot, but I was talking about the official classification.
Also... it's only remotely on topic, but your FX reel (on the site you have in your sig) is pretty cool.
The skin effects in the Iron Man footage are neat, but the manufactured buildings and landscape composites are fantastic examples of the relative realism of manipulated videos. I really liked the live comparisons of "original" and "retouched" bits, because it was often fairly hard to know what I was looking for (esp on the digital makeup effects in the Iron Man clip). I'm sure it would have been even more interesting had I watched the higher resolution videos. Awesome!
Very true. It just means that they'll be able to fund even more interesting research into it.:D
Eventually, I bet you'd be able to 'shop out the annoying drunk guy on the fringe of your family beach videos, but I expect that seeing it on the big screen (on in commercials) is only a few years away. Frighteningly, I predict that it could also be used for news manipulation -- hide those protesters, hide this pile of bodies, etc. Still, technology is still just a tool, and it's neat to see this sort of research.
Video is just a series of still pictures, that need to be interrelated. I'm certain that this could be applied to video, with enough processing power. If they can look at pixels that are neighboring in one frame, they can do it for pixels that are neighboring in time, too.
I can't help wondering if this ID will operate similar to an EZpass which can be tracked everywhere you go. Granted the "receivers" right now are only limited to toll roads, but once everyone has an ID they can make those receivers ubiquitous, like cameras are inside cities.
Get a wallet that has a built in metal mesh, effectively putting your RFID device in a portable faraday cage. Viola, no ez-pass style tracking of YOUR identification. (Of course, some would say that they'd robably just track your car tires, or your cellular phone.)
Please reply if this is an inaccurate summary of your post: You think that people who view child porn might be "pushed over the edge" by it and abuse children where they previously would not, therefore imposing some responsibility on the CP peddler for subsequent acts of child abuse.
I don't think that's his argument at all.
He said that the existence of a market (or a larger market) drives some people (NOT VIEWERS) to make it, due to it (somehow) being a lucrative endeavour. IF there were no one to sell it to, people would only make it to share amongst themselves. His argument is not about viewers, but about producers.
Except, when you escalate it to your (crooked) superiors, and their (crooked) lawyers, and they tell you that it's all A-OK and perhaps even required for XYZ compliance, how would you know they were wrong? You can still refuse to do it, but it's quite possible they'd convince you, depending on how obfuscated the crookedness was.
Whoops! That's what I get for reading the whole thread (or article!). Apparently, it wasn't a felony charge? In that case, much of my indignation is diminished, though I still feel he got screwed.
I must say, I never knew about this feature, so I'm really glad for this article (and, specifically, your links). Watching the videos on their site are both Really Awesome, and extra scary when you think about the "not 'if', but 'when'" part of power tool accidents.
I know I won't be buying a table saw without this.
It really didn't take all that much effort. Uninstall the old one, install the new one. If they can't at least learn that much they shouldn't be using a computer.
How do you tell your father, who spends much of his spare time doing e-mail or playing with iTunes, "Dad, you're too clueless to use your computer."? My dad has had trouble updating AVG, iTunes, and You-name-it that has a downloadable "run this to update your crap" step in it. While sometimes I wish I could tell him that, I don't think it's a viable solution.
I don't think it can be done tactfully. My father would be pissed at me, and I don't want that coloring our relationship. It won't be productive: he'd stop asking me for advice, and then continue on with a semi-broken and unsafe computer. Similarly, I can't put him on Linux, because (for similar reasons) he'd be pissed that mail wasn't Outlook and he couldn't play any of his music from iTunes, so the challenge is to ensure that he's a safe and productive user of Windows.
I'd prefer that software, once it finds it needs an update, would give a big button: "Do you want me to automatically update myself?" When the user clicks yes, it would automatically contact its server, download (and resume as necessary) its update, and then completely update itself, with no further interaction from the user. If the user has to find where they downloaded your new installer, it's going to be over the head of many users.
Moreover, I would imagine that US courts would rule that pets and plants do not have an expectation of privacy, and thus could have their DNA harvested pretty much without your knowledge, consent, or even with a warrant.
I was going to ask you for a better explanation of How Peering Works, but I'll go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering instead. I may have more questions: if you can give a better layman's explanation than Wikipedia, I expect you'd get some upmods.:D
Slashdot Mirror
A better way to do it would be to offload the requesting and downloading of ad content to a separate thread, and render the web page without them first. That way, you both are requesting ads, and not having to see them.
(I (disagree ;; <-- Was this it?
;; Auto-indenting editors like Emacs make it easy to catch such mistakes,
;; as does breaking your expressions over multiple lines for readability.
(there (is (a (missing)
(parenthesis (somewhere))
in))
(your Lisp code)))
)
What an excellent way to encourage prospective users of VMWare. "Sorry you're too dumb/uneducated, spend bunches of time on training please" basicaly is a direct affirmation of his claim that it doesn't "just work".
Why is VMWare hard (in your eyes)? It seems like it conceptually ought to be simple to set up and run...
It does? I tried it on several videos and they had no textp option. Perhaps I am doing it wrong.
I believe you mean "suggests" or "requests", rather than "requires". Well behaving robots do obey robots.txt, but even so, if a URL is accessible, it should be either secured or considered publically available.
Unfortunately, I believe some courts likely have considered modifying URLS to be "hacking", in that it's "unauthorized access" -- simply because the server owners *thought* it was inaccessible, rather than actually protected. I hope such lunacy doesn't last.
Speaking of the GM bacterial spray which prevents tooth decay ... what happened to that? I see articles from eight years ago, but not much that's current. Where can I get some? :D
I'm not really up to speed on this ... would you care to elaborate on what geohot's "massive fuckup" was? Is it that he cracked the ps3 via the Other OS feature, and that prompted them to patch it away?
Moreover, their vehicles operate in adverse conditions (radiation, temperature extremes, chance of collisions with fast moving things). They might actually be fairly adept at looking at systems which are supposed to be robust and failsafe, and identifying ways in which they are NOT failsafe.
If you'd said this originally:
rather than what you originally wrote:
I would have agreed with you 100%. The document is still considered classified (contrary to what you originally wrote). I'm sorry to hear that you are so upset by my lack of provided information, and that my reply was curt enough to get you to flame me. I was merely saying that a document's official classification is unaffected by wikileaks, disclosures to the washington post, or announcements at a press banquet. The only thing that affects a document's official classification is (according to Executive Order 13526) either a classification process started by a classifying authority or its mandated expiration date.
Executive Order 13526 states that (and I paraphrase):
- nothing stays classified forever
- documents must have an expiration date for their classification.
- it can be extended up to 25 years from document origin
- classification may not be used to conceal violations of law, administrative error, inefficiency, or to prevent embarassment.
- classification status can be challenged by people who believe that it's improperly classified.
- classification can be changed after an FIOA request (subject to a review, of course)
Declassification is covered in part 3 of that executive order. The only automatic declassification that happens is calendar-based; other times it only follows a review prompted by things like FOIA requests.
You are entirely correct that publishing something at Wikileaks (or a similar wide dissemination of classified material) makes the effective classification of a document somewhat moot, but I was talking about the official classification.
Also ... it's only remotely on topic, but your FX reel (on the site you have in your sig) is pretty cool.
The skin effects in the Iron Man footage are neat, but the manufactured buildings and landscape composites are fantastic examples of the relative realism of manipulated videos. I really liked the live comparisons of "original" and "retouched" bits, because it was often fairly hard to know what I was looking for (esp on the digital makeup effects in the Iron Man clip). I'm sure it would have been even more interesting had I watched the higher resolution videos. Awesome!
Very true. It just means that they'll be able to fund even more interesting research into it. :D
Eventually, I bet you'd be able to 'shop out the annoying drunk guy on the fringe of your family beach videos, but I expect that seeing it on the big screen (on in commercials) is only a few years away. Frighteningly, I predict that it could also be used for news manipulation -- hide those protesters, hide this pile of bodies, etc. Still, technology is still just a tool, and it's neat to see this sort of research.
Video is just a series of still pictures, that need to be interrelated. I'm certain that this could be applied to video, with enough processing power. If they can look at pixels that are neighboring in one frame, they can do it for pixels that are neighboring in time, too.
If such events happened, and if such pictures exist, they're probably highly classified, and thus we'd never hear about it.
Wrong. Classified information is still considered classified even if someone without clearance has seen it.
Get a wallet that has a built in metal mesh, effectively putting your RFID device in a portable faraday cage. Viola, no ez-pass style tracking of YOUR identification. (Of course, some would say that they'd robably just track your car tires, or your cellular phone.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket
Apparently, Los Alamos did some research into it, and had four designs that they tested. Not all of them were flown, due to atmospheric pollution.
I don't think that's his argument at all.
He said that the existence of a market (or a larger market) drives some people (NOT VIEWERS) to make it, due to it (somehow) being a lucrative endeavour. IF there were no one to sell it to, people would only make it to share amongst themselves. His argument is not about viewers, but about producers.
Except, when you escalate it to your (crooked) superiors, and their (crooked) lawyers, and they tell you that it's all A-OK and perhaps even required for XYZ compliance, how would you know they were wrong? You can still refuse to do it, but it's quite possible they'd convince you, depending on how obfuscated the crookedness was.
Whoops! That's what I get for reading the whole thread (or article!). Apparently, it wasn't a felony charge? In that case, much of my indignation is diminished, though I still feel he got screwed.
Assault being a felony, I think that the sentence will be more than is warranted. I do hope he gets as light a sentence as possible.
I must say, I never knew about this feature, so I'm really glad for this article (and, specifically, your links). Watching the videos on their site are both Really Awesome, and extra scary when you think about the "not 'if', but 'when'" part of power tool accidents.
I know I won't be buying a table saw without this.
Axes, molotov cocktails, Fiona Apple albums.
How do you tell your father, who spends much of his spare time doing e-mail or playing with iTunes, "Dad, you're too clueless to use your computer."? My dad has had trouble updating AVG, iTunes, and You-name-it that has a downloadable "run this to update your crap" step in it. While sometimes I wish I could tell him that, I don't think it's a viable solution.
I don't think it can be done tactfully. My father would be pissed at me, and I don't want that coloring our relationship. It won't be productive: he'd stop asking me for advice, and then continue on with a semi-broken and unsafe computer. Similarly, I can't put him on Linux, because (for similar reasons) he'd be pissed that mail wasn't Outlook and he couldn't play any of his music from iTunes, so the challenge is to ensure that he's a safe and productive user of Windows.
I'd prefer that software, once it finds it needs an update, would give a big button: "Do you want me to automatically update myself?" When the user clicks yes, it would automatically contact its server, download (and resume as necessary) its update, and then completely update itself, with no further interaction from the user. If the user has to find where they downloaded your new installer, it's going to be over the head of many users.
Moreover, I would imagine that US courts would rule that pets and plants do not have an expectation of privacy, and thus could have their DNA harvested pretty much without your knowledge, consent, or even with a warrant.
I was going to ask you for a better explanation of How Peering Works, but I'll go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering instead. I may have more questions: if you can give a better layman's explanation than Wikipedia, I expect you'd get some upmods. :D