So they got BitTorrent to do what VLC has been able to do all along? BFD. I think someone is drinking a little too much Kool-Aid. I can also do math in the sand with pebbles and sticks, but different isn't necessarily better. It's just a different way of solving an already solved problem. Weeeeee! When will this roller coaster of excitement end?!
What about VLC? It has it's own little web server and customizable http interface. It is trivial to host a page with multiple VLC windows running streaming from remote webcams. I know because I have been given such ridiculous tasks from clients. VLC is so flexible and open, it's not much work to customize it using only basic HTML and Javascript knowledge. Throw in a little AJAX and PHP and you have your shared whiteboard and an upload function. Simple, really.
WTF? Really? That's the big question? Who cares? I also wonder if people are going to turn back into apes. Or maybe we will be forced to return to the sea and become the next whales. I wonder if Microsoft will still be annoying and wasting time in my child's life. Maybe Twitter will be the only thing left because of its simplicity and real world functionality. But again, who the f* cares? Either you use it or you don't. Slow news day/.?
Check out http://twitter.com/DieLaughing and tell me if it's worth it.
I'm working full time on a Multi-Touch Linux Distro (MT-OS) based off of low cost FTIR tracking. So Apple and Microsoft can bite me with their standardized hand waving. They can't see it, but my fingers are curled and I'm jerking them away from my crotch in their direction. That's what I have to say about that.
Is this news? What if someone discovered a better way to hitch a horse to a wagon? I don't think we'll be using mechanical storage in the near future when there are so many solid-state devices ready to hit the market. I think a lot of slashdotters need a course in isomorphic thought. What if someone found a more efficient way to burn a witch? I'm sure it will be titled, "Company announces (Insert Mega Corp. Product here) killer". It's all so 500 processor cycles ago.
So... we can kill all plant life to destroy the atmosphere? Great! But wouldn't it be faster to just burn all the forests and cut out the middleman? We are already doing that? For McDonald's hamburger meat to have grass to graze? Great! Why is this news? Is getting better at planet-wide suicide news? It is? Great!
I swear I'm through with/. Look, IT'S NOT NEWS!!! WTF does it mean to anybody?! If an organization can't continue past it's founder for whatever reason (death, voted out, alien abduction), then THE REMAINING MEMBERS ARE IDIOTS!!! Either way, TFA didn't state any consequences FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE given this decision. What? Open standards are finished because this one guy got fired? All you/. jerks are sheep. I'm outta here.
He also famously made headlines in 2002 when he was "terminated' from his Linux and open source strategist role at Hewlett-Packard.
I wish I got this much press everytime I got fired. One question though... if this guy is most famous (hey, I'm paraphrasing TFA) for getting fired, then what's his next move? What's his next job? And why is this news? So he started the organization. BFD. In TFA he admits that he wasn't that involved or motivated and that it showed. I've been fired for less, and with much less press coverage.
Given the success of NASA in this area, I don't really see how anyone can compete with that braintrust and bankroll. Given the same requirements, I could likely build something similar to Atair's attempt in my garage. I'm very unimpressed. Plus, TFA seems like a weak PR attempt from a fringe, wannabe defense contractor.
It's wabbit season! Oh my god! Everything of value is vulnerable! Air and water are a threat! Did you hear? Speach, human voice, could contain mistruths and even outright lies! If you take candy from a stranger, you could end up molested and dead! No S**t Sherlock. I'm sorry, but did somebody release some technology in the last 30 years that wasn't vulnerable to malicious use? And to say that people have to take idiotic steps to make themselves vulnerable is kinda a red flag, don't you think? Javascript doesn't steal your personal information, hackers steal your personal information. Hmmm... that sounds sorta familiar... where's my bulletproof firewall?
Jargon, Hype, Trends, whatever. It's all about the content. Speculation died with Red Herring. Stop trying to reinflate the internet bubble. It's either consumer-friendly attractive content that will drive advertising, or it won't. The attractiveness (economically) of the internet is that you can ride the marginalia of society and still make a profit. Sometimes it is all about the niche market strategy.
The Qt Jambi Generator is a command-line tool that reads class definitions written in C++
and generates code that maps a C++ library onto an equivalent Java API. The generated
code ensures that method calls made in Java are redirected to the corresponding method in
the C++ library.
The generator supports a selected subset of C++, covering the most common constructs such
as multiple inheritance and operator overloading.
Well, I for one welcome our new void setText(String overlords);
If it was "completely" unrelated... why not wait until after he spoke? What? They couldn't find him before arresting him in front of a lot of people? Come on.
Oh, see, I think that FAR too often, people pick up the PHONE and CALL me when a tiny IM would have done the trick.
So a tiny IM is called an email? Get off it. You didn't even grok my post. Sending a one-way communication that you can encrypt, ignore, whatever, is why we use email. Having a conversation would best be served by a phone call. Having a conversation in real-time by typing is awkward, clumsy, and basically retarded. Just because you belong to the one percent of the population that uses IM "correctly" (if that's even possible), doesn't make it less stupid for what ninty-nine percent of what other people are using it for.
If I have something really important to communicate, I communicate by semaphore, you know, flag waving. Because lord knows it's more fun to communicate in awkward, clumsy ways that slow down our train of thought to a trickle. I hate to bash chatting, but it's used too often when a simple phone call would do. People spend hours chatting to communicate what could have been said in a few minutes verbally. I'm sure there are people that would argue that IM'ing allows them to keep their anonymity. But we've seen (at that very HOPE gathering) that anonymity is an illusion. Also, if you are hiding your identity to protect yourself from people you don't trust, why are you even talking to them? And as far as encryption goes, email can virtually eliminate the man-in-the-middle attack and basic spoofing if the third party doesn't know exactly when the message will be sent. Or at least make it not worth the effort. And all of it is really ridiculous when you realize that phones are really efficient means of communicating. The above issues could be solved by not phoning strangers and using payphones. Don't even get me started on text messaging...
I am sure that this is going to fall under the broad and sweeping legislation that has passed in recent years to combat hackers and terrorists. No doubt using a computer to commit a crime will soon be like using a gun in a crime in California: Mandatory minimum sentences that put everyone (evil and ignorant) into the same catagory and take discretion out of the hands of judges (or liberal judges at least). At least electronic voting booths are still insecure...
My scientific calculator user group had 10 people meet at last years event! This year I plan on TWICE as many people attending. It should be the event of the season! There will be talks on the more unused features of the calculator, as well life-affirming mantras to fend off thoughts of suicide. Of course, this isn't as big as LUGradio, but it's not like Slashdot is posting AA meeting times or yardsale locations... THIS IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE!!!
I can see premade RFID tags containing SQL code being sold on eBay. Lower your grocery store prices, evade background checks, travel anonymously, use VIP entrances, ignore 'Authorized Personnel' signs! This is total FUD. The database equivalent of believing everything you hear. If there is no authenticating, then it's no surprise that there could be malicious hacking. The real story is that if it is possible to have a single binary check system, someone could change their Zero value to a One to defeat it. Noooooooooooooooooo!!!
In related news, the start of a new project at Microsoft to figure out exactly how much code needs to be changed to patent OSS ideas and inline them into Vista. The lawyers say 80% of the comments need to be altered. The QA testers say 51% more bugs need to be added. And the developers say that you just need to change all the names of the variables, make pointers to everything you can, and cut-n-paste inline assembler code before the linker kicks in.
They have already hooked up a device to sex offender's penises to measure arousal, a penile plethysmograph (PPG), and shown the subjects various pr0n images to determine interest in the particular photographs. Switching this to a EEG is only a minor change, the results bypassing the subjects ability to control a physical response. Unfortunately for researchers, using a EEG, the subject must confirm each individual EEG result as positive or negative because the subject's EEG responses are not universal enough to establish a positive or negative threshold. Although it is easy enough to confirm whether a subject recognizes a photo as this makes a unique result in a EEG that cannot be controlled by a subject. A Scanner Darkly anyone?
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So they got BitTorrent to do what VLC has been able to do all along? BFD. I think someone is drinking a little too much Kool-Aid. I can also do math in the sand with pebbles and sticks, but different isn't necessarily better. It's just a different way of solving an already solved problem. Weeeeee! When will this roller coaster of excitement end?!
All time favorite twitter that pretty much sums up Twitter: http://twitter.com/DieLaughing/statuses/247877862
Did anyone else see the typo in his paper? So close...
I just defeated it. Got the private key using Van Eck Phreaking on the TPM chip. Next!
What about VLC? It has it's own little web server and customizable http interface. It is trivial to host a page with multiple VLC windows running streaming from remote webcams. I know because I have been given such ridiculous tasks from clients. VLC is so flexible and open, it's not much work to customize it using only basic HTML and Javascript knowledge. Throw in a little AJAX and PHP and you have your shared whiteboard and an upload function. Simple, really.
WTF? Really? That's the big question? Who cares? I also wonder if people are going to turn back into apes. Or maybe we will be forced to return to the sea and become the next whales. I wonder if Microsoft will still be annoying and wasting time in my child's life. Maybe Twitter will be the only thing left because of its simplicity and real world functionality. But again, who the f* cares? Either you use it or you don't. Slow news day /.?
Check out http://twitter.com/DieLaughing and tell me if it's worth it.
I'm working full time on a Multi-Touch Linux Distro (MT-OS) based off of low cost FTIR tracking. So Apple and Microsoft can bite me with their standardized hand waving. They can't see it, but my fingers are curled and I'm jerking them away from my crotch in their direction. That's what I have to say about that.
Is this news? What if someone discovered a better way to hitch a horse to a wagon? I don't think we'll be using mechanical storage in the near future when there are so many solid-state devices ready to hit the market. I think a lot of slashdotters need a course in isomorphic thought. What if someone found a more efficient way to burn a witch? I'm sure it will be titled, "Company announces (Insert Mega Corp. Product here) killer". It's all so 500 processor cycles ago.
So... we can kill all plant life to destroy the atmosphere? Great! But wouldn't it be faster to just burn all the forests and cut out the middleman? We are already doing that? For McDonald's hamburger meat to have grass to graze? Great! Why is this news? Is getting better at planet-wide suicide news? It is? Great!
I swear I'm through with /. Look, IT'S NOT NEWS!!! WTF does it mean to anybody?! If an organization can't continue past it's founder for whatever reason (death, voted out, alien abduction), then THE REMAINING MEMBERS ARE IDIOTS!!! Either way, TFA didn't state any consequences FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE given this decision. What? Open standards are finished because this one guy got fired? All you /. jerks are sheep. I'm outta here.
I wish I got this much press everytime I got fired. One question though... if this guy is most famous (hey, I'm paraphrasing TFA) for getting fired, then what's his next move? What's his next job? And why is this news? So he started the organization. BFD. In TFA he admits that he wasn't that involved or motivated and that it showed. I've been fired for less, and with much less press coverage.
Given the success of NASA in this area, I don't really see how anyone can compete with that braintrust and bankroll. Given the same requirements, I could likely build something similar to Atair's attempt in my garage. I'm very unimpressed. Plus, TFA seems like a weak PR attempt from a fringe, wannabe defense contractor.
It's wabbit season! Oh my god! Everything of value is vulnerable! Air and water are a threat! Did you hear? Speach, human voice, could contain mistruths and even outright lies! If you take candy from a stranger, you could end up molested and dead! No S**t Sherlock. I'm sorry, but did somebody release some technology in the last 30 years that wasn't vulnerable to malicious use? And to say that people have to take idiotic steps to make themselves vulnerable is kinda a red flag, don't you think? Javascript doesn't steal your personal information, hackers steal your personal information. Hmmm... that sounds sorta familiar... where's my bulletproof firewall?
Jargon, Hype, Trends, whatever. It's all about the content. Speculation died with Red Herring. Stop trying to reinflate the internet bubble. It's either consumer-friendly attractive content that will drive advertising, or it won't. The attractiveness (economically) of the internet is that you can ride the marginalia of society and still make a profit. Sometimes it is all about the niche market strategy.
I see they "conveniently" left out the boxes where you upgrade to linux instead.
Well, I for one welcome our new void setText(String overlords);
If it was "completely" unrelated... why not wait until after he spoke? What? They couldn't find him before arresting him in front of a lot of people? Come on.
So a tiny IM is called an email? Get off it. You didn't even grok my post. Sending a one-way communication that you can encrypt, ignore, whatever, is why we use email. Having a conversation would best be served by a phone call. Having a conversation in real-time by typing is awkward, clumsy, and basically retarded. Just because you belong to the one percent of the population that uses IM "correctly" (if that's even possible), doesn't make it less stupid for what ninty-nine percent of what other people are using it for.
If I have something really important to communicate, I communicate by semaphore, you know, flag waving. Because lord knows it's more fun to communicate in awkward, clumsy ways that slow down our train of thought to a trickle. I hate to bash chatting, but it's used too often when a simple phone call would do. People spend hours chatting to communicate what could have been said in a few minutes verbally. I'm sure there are people that would argue that IM'ing allows them to keep their anonymity. But we've seen (at that very HOPE gathering) that anonymity is an illusion. Also, if you are hiding your identity to protect yourself from people you don't trust, why are you even talking to them? And as far as encryption goes, email can virtually eliminate the man-in-the-middle attack and basic spoofing if the third party doesn't know exactly when the message will be sent. Or at least make it not worth the effort. And all of it is really ridiculous when you realize that phones are really efficient means of communicating. The above issues could be solved by not phoning strangers and using payphones. Don't even get me started on text messaging...
I am sure that this is going to fall under the broad and sweeping legislation that has passed in recent years to combat hackers and terrorists. No doubt using a computer to commit a crime will soon be like using a gun in a crime in California: Mandatory minimum sentences that put everyone (evil and ignorant) into the same catagory and take discretion out of the hands of judges (or liberal judges at least). At least electronic voting booths are still insecure...
My scientific calculator user group had 10 people meet at last years event! This year I plan on TWICE as many people attending. It should be the event of the season! There will be talks on the more unused features of the calculator, as well life-affirming mantras to fend off thoughts of suicide. Of course, this isn't as big as LUGradio, but it's not like Slashdot is posting AA meeting times or yardsale locations... THIS IS IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE!!!
Google Gadget viruses.
I can see premade RFID tags containing SQL code being sold on eBay. Lower your grocery store prices, evade background checks, travel anonymously, use VIP entrances, ignore 'Authorized Personnel' signs! This is total FUD. The database equivalent of believing everything you hear. If there is no authenticating, then it's no surprise that there could be malicious hacking. The real story is that if it is possible to have a single binary check system, someone could change their Zero value to a One to defeat it.
Noooooooooooooooooo!!!
In related news, the start of a new project at Microsoft to figure out exactly how much code needs to be changed to patent OSS ideas and inline them into Vista. The lawyers say 80% of the comments need to be altered. The QA testers say 51% more bugs need to be added. And the developers say that you just need to change all the names of the variables, make pointers to everything you can, and cut-n-paste inline assembler code before the linker kicks in.
They have already hooked up a device to sex offender's penises to measure arousal, a penile plethysmograph (PPG), and shown the subjects various pr0n images to determine interest in the particular photographs. Switching this to a EEG is only a minor change, the results bypassing the subjects ability to control a physical response. Unfortunately for researchers, using a EEG, the subject must confirm each individual EEG result as positive or negative because the subject's EEG responses are not universal enough to establish a positive or negative threshold. Although it is easy enough to confirm whether a subject recognizes a photo as this makes a unique result in a EEG that cannot be controlled by a subject. A Scanner Darkly anyone?