Probably not a coincidence, and that's a great example of how it should be fine for advertisers to get some of your info. When I was in a long term relationship a coupla years ago I was getting pretty pissed off at all the 'singles' ads on MSN and such like, because they were of no interest to me, and usually just come across as really sleazy.
I don't think it's any more useless than facebook itself. You don't always know if something's gonna be a flop or not until it all pans out. If I lived in Manchester I'd have a better informed opinion of whether it will in fact be useful or not. To some citizens (nosy people and busybodies) it will probably be quite fun.
13% of who's time? Patrolmen on the beat, or the receptionist's or chief constable? How does being outside help them get their mounds of paperwork filed as well (which is a lot of the reason that I cba to be a policeman even though I then get to 'legally' drive fast and double park - well.. that and the pay sucks)?
If your hasn't been trained to 'defend themself' online, they shouldn't be online. The same as you wouldn't let your kid wander around some shady area of town alone unless they had.. well.. I can't think of any training or weaponry that would be sufficient for me to be happy with any kid I know wandering around alone.
I'd assume the adverts are targeted yes, but I don't actually know because I have an ad-blocker installed. You can install 'applications' and then choose how much information you wan the application to install, and then you get asked (or sometimes required, which is a pain in the ass) to invite a bunch of friends to install the app. Bebo does the same thing.
It's not 'without a warrant' though. You have to install the app and give them permission which parts of your data that you want them to have access to.
The thing is, that you'd be able to do it with the same media, so you could recoup some of your costs that way. And another poster highlighted the possibility that all it may take is a firmware upgrade to the reader to be able to realise the larger storage density, though personally I would have thought that the lasers themselves would need upgrading too
Depends on how much more information we're going to be able to cram into SSD technology, I'd think holographic technology has a lot of potential to be able to store more from the random snippets I've read on/. over the years. Remember that when hard drives came out they stored less than 1MB (I think - my first HD was 80MB though), and were massive!
Yeah sleep is good. I once had one of those moments where you're stuck on a problem, go to bed, and basically as soon as you wake up you've figured out the solution. If I have everything all planned out beforehand, then I think I'd be able to go for 24 hours (though in that time you could probably code a whole OS:P ), it seems kind of pointless though, the quality is bound to suffer by the end as you say.. and if the focus is on the actual coding without stopping to test everything thoroughly, then there will probably be a few nasty bugs too.
Seemed fine when I tried. TFA says that only areas in Asia were having issues, and that everything was sorted by Friday morning. You're seriously trying to say that you couldn't access the CNN server at all? Sure.
But if nobody tries to view CNN, the evil commies will still be getting their way! I'm trying to get on it from all my computers, refreshing every 0.0001 seconds just in case.
Really though, if the chinese guv'ment is behind this, I think they're pretty childish. And it's not like they can just keep it up forever.. sooner or later they're going to want to check their email rather than just hitting refresh.
Exactly, I tend to spend more time wondering which direction to best approach a problem from, trying to find an elegant solution that is succinct, but also flexible. I often spend a lot less time implementing and bugfixing code than I have planning it out.. there is more than one way to do it, as them perl people say - often the challenge is just deciding what is the 'best' way to do it for the application you are writing. I'd give examples but I'd just end up ranting for 2 paragraphs, as usual:p
looks like I could have been sued for libel for suggesting that someone faked an email at work. I really couldn't see any other option at the time - but the real answer was that this woman was so ass-backward, that she used to print out her emails rather than just store them in a PST file or something, and then scanned them back in and sent them to people when she wanted to forward them (or at least she did this in my case). The things that made it seem most dubious was the lack of headers (so she obviously copied and pasted into Word before printing), and the fact that she mentioned the date she sent the email in the body of the actual email (who does that ffs?). Turned out that the email was real though and I must just found it so ludicrous/aggravating that I deleted it almost immediately when I originally received it.. think it said something like "please do [blah blah blah]. Sent on [blah]th of blah twothousan'an'blah..". Man I hate when people do stupid things and I get into trouble for it, but maybe I should be more trusting?:p
I think FTA is wrong: "a fundamental tenant of security is to conservatively estimate the capabilities of attackers". That means that you should always underestimate the capabilities of attackers. WTF?:P Someone needs to look up the definition of 'conservative'!
Meh, don't come crying to me when some guy in [insert-evil-country-here] steals your identity, uses it to buy a few Porsche's and setup illegal goat kid porn themed websites in your name. You keep making your messes, I'm happy to make $50000 a year cleaning them up as long as it doesn't happen more than two or three times a year..
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Probably not a coincidence, and that's a great example of how it should be fine for advertisers to get some of your info. When I was in a long term relationship a coupla years ago I was getting pretty pissed off at all the 'singles' ads on MSN and such like, because they were of no interest to me, and usually just come across as really sleazy.
I don't think it's any more useless than facebook itself. You don't always know if something's gonna be a flop or not until it all pans out. If I lived in Manchester I'd have a better informed opinion of whether it will in fact be useful or not. To some citizens (nosy people and busybodies) it will probably be quite fun.
13% of who's time? Patrolmen on the beat, or the receptionist's or chief constable? How does being outside help them get their mounds of paperwork filed as well (which is a lot of the reason that I cba to be a policeman even though I then get to 'legally' drive fast and double park - well.. that and the pay sucks)?
If your hasn't been trained to 'defend themself' online, they shouldn't be online. The same as you wouldn't let your kid wander around some shady area of town alone unless they had .. well.. I can't think of any training or weaponry that would be sufficient for me to be happy with any kid I know wandering around alone.
Yeah, perhaps the article could have been better titled "British Police use web-enabled phones, PS3s and George Foreman Grills to Gather Evidence"
I'd assume the adverts are targeted yes, but I don't actually know because I have an ad-blocker installed. You can install 'applications' and then choose how much information you wan the application to install, and then you get asked (or sometimes required, which is a pain in the ass) to invite a bunch of friends to install the app. Bebo does the same thing.
It's not 'without a warrant' though. You have to install the app and give them permission which parts of your data that you want them to have access to.
The thing is, that you'd be able to do it with the same media, so you could recoup some of your costs that way. And another poster highlighted the possibility that all it may take is a firmware upgrade to the reader to be able to realise the larger storage density, though personally I would have thought that the lasers themselves would need upgrading too
Wow, is there anything they can't do? Next year it'll be a flying car and a space elevator! Oh and full DirectX 9 & 10 compatability for WINE!
It's 300 for the current read/write device. Theoretically, it's unlimited.
Depends on how much more information we're going to be able to cram into SSD technology, I'd think holographic technology has a lot of potential to be able to store more from the random snippets I've read on /. over the years. Remember that when hard drives came out they stored less than 1MB (I think - my first HD was 80MB though), and were massive!
Yeah sleep is good. I once had one of those moments where you're stuck on a problem, go to bed, and basically as soon as you wake up you've figured out the solution. If I have everything all planned out beforehand, then I think I'd be able to go for 24 hours (though in that time you could probably code a whole OS :P ), it seems kind of pointless though, the quality is bound to suffer by the end as you say.. and if the focus is on the actual coding without stopping to test everything thoroughly, then there will probably be a few nasty bugs too.
You wish you were me? >_> That's messed up
you forgot peggy.su!! And Maibat.su! We.su?
Seemed fine when I tried. TFA says that only areas in Asia were having issues, and that everything was sorted by Friday morning. You're seriously trying to say that you couldn't access the CNN server at all? Sure.
But if nobody tries to view CNN, the evil commies will still be getting their way! I'm trying to get on it from all my computers, refreshing every 0.0001 seconds just in case.
Really though, if the chinese guv'ment is behind this, I think they're pretty childish. And it's not like they can just keep it up forever.. sooner or later they're going to want to check their email rather than just hitting refresh.
Exactly, I tend to spend more time wondering which direction to best approach a problem from, trying to find an elegant solution that is succinct, but also flexible. I often spend a lot less time implementing and bugfixing code than I have planning it out.. there is more than one way to do it, as them perl people say - often the challenge is just deciding what is the 'best' way to do it for the application you are writing. I'd give examples but I'd just end up ranting for 2 paragraphs, as usual :p
looks like I could have been sued for libel for suggesting that someone faked an email at work. I really couldn't see any other option at the time - but the real answer was that this woman was so ass-backward, that she used to print out her emails rather than just store them in a PST file or something, and then scanned them back in and sent them to people when she wanted to forward them (or at least she did this in my case). The things that made it seem most dubious was the lack of headers (so she obviously copied and pasted into Word before printing), and the fact that she mentioned the date she sent the email in the body of the actual email (who does that ffs?). Turned out that the email was real though and I must just found it so ludicrous/aggravating that I deleted it almost immediately when I originally received it.. think it said something like "please do [blah blah blah]. Sent on [blah]th of blah twothousan'an'blah..". Man I hate when people do stupid things and I get into trouble for it, but maybe I should be more trusting? :p
They removed it when /. descended into a continuous series of insults, glove slapping, and duels.
What aboot a singularity/black hole? Eh? :P
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$comment =~ s/FTA/TFA/ ;
It wasn't null, it was just empty >_>
:P Someone needs to look up the definition of 'conservative'!
I think FTA is wrong: "a fundamental tenant of security is to conservatively estimate the capabilities of attackers". That means that you should always underestimate the capabilities of attackers. WTF?
Meh, don't come crying to me when some guy in [insert-evil-country-here] steals your identity, uses it to buy a few Porsche's and setup illegal goat kid porn themed websites in your name. You keep making your messes, I'm happy to make $50000 a year cleaning them up as long as it doesn't happen more than two or three times a year..
Aye, I wasn't sure if it was just a typo or misheard phrase :p
I'm guessing the mobs will only turn to green energy when the government legalises marijuana and electric VW camper vans.
Yeah, how are we going to 'fend for ourselves' without superconductors? :O