only supporting standards compliant browsers is NOT a walled garden because anyone can implement a working browser as it's well defined and spec'd out standard with compliance tests and all. dont want to follow the agreed upon standard? fine but dont come back with crocodile tears. no browser (not even Chrome) should have any exceptions made for their bad behavior. it's a standard, not a suggestion.
It is hardly newsworthy that a group of IT network techs 'fixed' their coverage and performance problems using directional antenna technology. Radio techs have been doing exactly that since they learnt about propagation.
so... does this mean you aren't interested in the story about how they replaced the batteries in the remote?
"Microsoft released an advisory today warning users about a new zero-day flaw that we'll fix when we damn well feel like it. The digital holy war is targeting the Middle East and South Asia. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability resides in the Microsoft Graphics component and impacts certain versions of Windows, Microsoft Office and Some Failed Skype Imitation. The problem exists in our poorly written TIFF reader. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker will email you and when you open it, you are fucked. It will download and install malware and there is nothing you can do about it. The vulnerability affects those new versions of Office that we insisted you needed to upgrade to and Shoddy Server 2008 and Windows 7 - 1. Right now, opening a Microsoft Word document could ruin your week or your month."
What is going on? It seems that while Google could really care less about your site and has no real interest in hacking you, their automated bots can be used to do the heavy lifting for an attacker.
no, what's really happening is someone posted an injection url on a forum somewhere and googlebot ran across it. come on, google bot hasn't become sentient or som-SORRY THIS POST WAS A MISTAKE DISREGARD ALL INFORMATION.
if everything goes awry and they manage to destroy the area, this could become a cautionary tale. we can only hope politicians have the insight and backbone to act when it other shoe drops.
While unemployment generally may be high, in the tech sector it is very low. Tech companies, led by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, are lobbying Congress to relax immigration rules so they can hire more foreign talent because they believe domestic talent has gotten too scarce and too expensive. It's driving up wages bills like crazy. Matt Allen, a tech recruiter at Vertical Move, told me recently:
of course he told you that, he's a recruiter! the truth is that the tech sector jobs are either offering insultingly low wages or out-sourcing to save a buck, the bigger the pool, the more control they can screw people over, especially if you are under the threat of being deported if they fire you. The whole rent-a-coder thing went awry because people offer to work for wages below minimum wage because in their country, $3/hr is a good wage and tax free by keeping it in paypal.
You don't see every tech person driving around in beamers.
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice, getting somewhere outside of local star group won't be ever possible, and the same will be for everyone else, no matter how advanced they are, and how much similarities are between their culture and ours (at least, our culture willingness to go to space and communicate with others).
you seem to have forgotten relativity. if you get to really close to C then you could travel millions of parsecs in what would seem like an hour. it would seem like most of your trip was spent accelerating and slowing down when really that hour took you much further than anything else. then again, you may want to put yourself into solid or suspended state to avoid issues with acceleration and you could travel slower if you wanted. interstellar and even intergalactic travel is completely possible. the only limiting factor is the dedication to figuring how to make such a propulsion system. oh and the whole space dust argument is stupid because if you have that much power, you might as well make a large high density mass shield.
also, you have discounted the possibility of generating wormholes or anything else that we dont know about.
I hope this gets shared widely in school science classes and among the home schooled.
Science is open to people of all ages.
not going to happen. do you really think the government wants kids finding spy sats and posting info about it online? i recall an incident where a kid asked what the object he found was and then his place was raided and they took his computer and telescope.
I have a friend who worked with facial recognition stuff and at a college where they tested the tech, he kept getting the same face showing up at multiple places hundreds of times. Upon further investigation, he found out that t-shirts with Bob Marley's face on it were popular there.
If you want to be anonymous, wear a t-shirt with a popular person's face on it and a hat or hood. The software will pick the easy target instead of trying repeatedly to grab your face.
if it's a choice between using a slower chip that is reliable and a chip that is blistering fast but makes mistakes, i'll take the slower chip every time.
Ask the criminal carrying a weapon to calmly surrender to the unarmed TSA agents (the most hated people in all of the USA), so that you can be detained without trial for the next twenty years and tortured for information?
whoa there. that's going overboard. i mean, have you no respect for the absolute and utter disdain that everyone has for Congress? the TSA gets attention on occasion but Congress is making fools of themselves on a daily basis on a global stage.
seriously, "Mind Control"? yeah, i'm sure you were thinking "everyone will know i'm talking about man-machine-interfaces" when you wrote that headline. fear based headlines are NOT helpful.
Logic is a wonderful thing and we need more critical thinking and less hyperbole with regards to green energy. Strident hyperbole with regards to the anti-nuclear energy has resulted in the real world build of coal power plants as renewals simply are suitable for baseline power.
ARE YOU CRAZY?! if we do that, we'll bankrupt the economy, everyone will be homeless and we'll be slaves to Big Green and Big Nuke! before you know it, we'll be GLOWING green because of all that radiation! DO YOU WANT THAT?!
"Those energy sources cannot scale up fast enough" to deliver the amount of cheap and reliable power the world needs
The cheapness of the energy is IMO the largest part of the problem. We have way too many devices slowly sipping the power, while an average house still leaks way too much of the (heat) energy.
i agree we use too much energy but i disagree with your solution. jacking up the price of electricity is going to hurt the poor a lot more than everyone else. i think the correct approach is to require devices to meet a certain level of efficiency based on it's device type (CRTs and x86 would be goners!) and gradually increase that. same goes for newly constructed buildings. as the amount of energy being used goes down, the price of it will go up. if you do this in reverse, more efficient products will be expensive and you will get deceptive efficiency numbers because they aren't tested under standardized conditions.
either way, when the price of distributed electricity goes up, solar will become an attractive option.
that is not a solution, it's a stopgap. a solution requires a global overhaul in our war driven societies. unfortunately, these changes challenge the existing dogma that is being drilled into everyone on the planet. in the evolutionary sense, the human race is still a race of children. it might be thousands of years before people stop trying to harm each other... assuming we survive that long.
it's simple: they didn't do enough testing and bug fixing. there should have been at least 6 months of testing and debugging to get this system working well. the information i found was that 248 people were able to sign up on the first day. so it works... kind of. there were bugs like spouses sometimes ending up being filed as children.
it's obviously a complex system but i take the 80m lines of code number with a grain of salt because i'm sure that includes all the libraries they (re)used too and maybe even an entire JVM. as such, it's probably all in house crap for each and every contractor, 55 if i remember correctly. there was obviously lazy coding involved to get that much bloat. there could be a swath of libs included that arent even used but were thrown in there "just in case i need it".
i hope the companies helping them gut the use of most proprietary libs because they are an easy way to get terrible bugs and gaping security holes. i also hope they move to a unified OO language to get a handle on this feral system. however, if i find out that google convinced them to rewrote it all in Go, i'll just cry.
why is it that i cant get a cellphone that is a cellphone and not a tiny computer that has to be rechanged daily? i want a cellphone that i only have to charge once a month or so. is it too much to ask for?! MOTOFONE was my last hope but alas it is dead.
what people are missing is how the subject is taught. i actually looked at the whole test and it's clear to me that visual aids were used in teaching this, specifically pennies. if you aren't thinking about psychology, you aren't considering how children process information. the test uses terms like "number sentence" but you dont see people screaming "it's an equation, not a sentence!" because it's something they can somewhat grasp. i assure you that if you were in the class, you would understand the test.
we arent teaching teens or college students, these are children with no knowledge of mathematics. take a moment and realize that the cognitive capabilities of a small child is like that of a chimpanzee. applying our knowledge of child psychology to teach children is a good thing because it will yield better results.
stop assuming you understand the best way to teach a child.
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only supporting standards compliant browsers is NOT a walled garden because anyone can implement a working browser as it's well defined and spec'd out standard with compliance tests and all. dont want to follow the agreed upon standard? fine but dont come back with crocodile tears. no browser (not even Chrome) should have any exceptions made for their bad behavior. it's a standard, not a suggestion.
It is hardly newsworthy that a group of IT network techs 'fixed' their coverage and performance problems using directional antenna technology.
Radio techs have been doing exactly that since they learnt about propagation.
so... does this mean you aren't interested in the story about how they replaced the batteries in the remote?
To stab or not to stab <y/n> y
Is no longer a question. Die you fleshbags!
"Microsoft released an advisory today warning users about a new zero-day flaw that we'll fix when we damn well feel like it. The digital holy war is targeting the Middle East and South Asia. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability resides in the Microsoft Graphics component and impacts certain versions of Windows, Microsoft Office and Some Failed Skype Imitation. The problem exists in our poorly written TIFF reader. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker will email you and when you open it, you are fucked. It will download and install malware and there is nothing you can do about it. The vulnerability affects those new versions of Office that we insisted you needed to upgrade to and Shoddy Server 2008 and Windows 7 - 1. Right now, opening a Microsoft Word document could ruin your week or your month."
What is going on?
It seems that while Google could really care less about your site and has no real interest in hacking you, their automated bots can be used to do the heavy lifting for an attacker.
no, what's really happening is someone posted an injection url on a forum somewhere and googlebot ran across it. come on, google bot hasn't become sentient or som-SORRY THIS POST WAS A MISTAKE DISREGARD ALL INFORMATION.
seriously, it could only have been worse if there was "ON SALE NOW!" in the summary. then again, there is "Nvidia cut GeForce prices" so meh.
if everything goes awry and they manage to destroy the area, this could become a cautionary tale. we can only hope politicians have the insight and backbone to act when it other shoe drops.
While unemployment generally may be high, in the tech sector it is very low.
Tech companies, led by Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, are lobbying Congress to relax immigration rules so they can hire more foreign talent because they believe domestic talent has gotten too scarce and too expensive. It's driving up wages bills like crazy. Matt Allen, a tech recruiter at Vertical Move, told me recently:
of course he told you that, he's a recruiter! the truth is that the tech sector jobs are either offering insultingly low wages or out-sourcing to save a buck, the bigger the pool, the more control they can screw people over, especially if you are under the threat of being deported if they fire you. The whole rent-a-coder thing went awry because people offer to work for wages below minimum wage because in their country, $3/hr is a good wage and tax free by keeping it in paypal.
You don't see every tech person driving around in beamers.
it's not a bribe, it's a contract. how is this news?
If the speed of light is the absolute max speed in the universe, with no shortcuts in practice, getting somewhere outside of local star group won't be ever possible, and the same will be for everyone else, no matter how advanced they are, and how much similarities are between their culture and ours (at least, our culture willingness to go to space and communicate with others).
you seem to have forgotten relativity. if you get to really close to C then you could travel millions of parsecs in what would seem like an hour. it would seem like most of your trip was spent accelerating and slowing down when really that hour took you much further than anything else. then again, you may want to put yourself into solid or suspended state to avoid issues with acceleration and you could travel slower if you wanted. interstellar and even intergalactic travel is completely possible. the only limiting factor is the dedication to figuring how to make such a propulsion system. oh and the whole space dust argument is stupid because if you have that much power, you might as well make a large high density mass shield.
also, you have discounted the possibility of generating wormholes or anything else that we dont know about.
I hope this gets shared widely in school science classes and among the home schooled.
Science is open to people of all ages.
not going to happen. do you really think the government wants kids finding spy sats and posting info about it online? i recall an incident where a kid asked what the object he found was and then his place was raided and they took his computer and telescope.
I have a friend who worked with facial recognition stuff and at a college where they tested the tech, he kept getting the same face showing up at multiple places hundreds of times. Upon further investigation, he found out that t-shirts with Bob Marley's face on it were popular there.
If you want to be anonymous, wear a t-shirt with a popular person's face on it and a hat or hood. The software will pick the easy target instead of trying repeatedly to grab your face.
if it's a choice between using a slower chip that is reliable and a chip that is blistering fast but makes mistakes, i'll take the slower chip every time.
Ask the criminal carrying a weapon to calmly surrender to the unarmed TSA agents (the most hated people in all of the USA), so that you can be detained without trial for the next twenty years and tortured for information?
whoa there. that's going overboard. i mean, have you no respect for the absolute and utter disdain that everyone has for Congress? the TSA gets attention on occasion but Congress is making fools of themselves on a daily basis on a global stage.
seriously, "Mind Control"? yeah, i'm sure you were thinking "everyone will know i'm talking about man-machine-interfaces" when you wrote that headline. fear based headlines are NOT helpful.
Logic is a wonderful thing and we need more critical thinking and less hyperbole with regards to green energy. Strident hyperbole with regards to the anti-nuclear energy has resulted in the real world build of coal power plants as renewals simply are suitable for baseline power.
ARE YOU CRAZY?! if we do that, we'll bankrupt the economy, everyone will be homeless and we'll be slaves to Big Green and Big Nuke! before you know it, we'll be GLOWING green because of all that radiation! DO YOU WANT THAT?!
"Those energy sources cannot scale up fast enough" to deliver the amount of cheap and reliable power the world needs
The cheapness of the energy is IMO the largest part of the problem. We have way too many devices slowly sipping the power, while an average house still leaks way too much of the (heat) energy.
i agree we use too much energy but i disagree with your solution. jacking up the price of electricity is going to hurt the poor a lot more than everyone else. i think the correct approach is to require devices to meet a certain level of efficiency based on it's device type (CRTs and x86 would be goners!) and gradually increase that. same goes for newly constructed buildings. as the amount of energy being used goes down, the price of it will go up. if you do this in reverse, more efficient products will be expensive and you will get deceptive efficiency numbers because they aren't tested under standardized conditions.
either way, when the price of distributed electricity goes up, solar will become an attractive option.
You seem to be a bit lost. Gizmodo is over that way. Or perhaps you're looking for Wired?
YEAH, HE MAD.
that is not a solution, it's a stopgap. a solution requires a global overhaul in our war driven societies. unfortunately, these changes challenge the existing dogma that is being drilled into everyone on the planet. in the evolutionary sense, the human race is still a race of children. it might be thousands of years before people stop trying to harm each other... assuming we survive that long.
what's the battery life of it if you install Android?
just sayin
it's simple: they didn't do enough testing and bug fixing. there should have been at least 6 months of testing and debugging to get this system working well. the information i found was that 248 people were able to sign up on the first day. so it works... kind of. there were bugs like spouses sometimes ending up being filed as children.
it's obviously a complex system but i take the 80m lines of code number with a grain of salt because i'm sure that includes all the libraries they (re)used too and maybe even an entire JVM. as such, it's probably all in house crap for each and every contractor, 55 if i remember correctly. there was obviously lazy coding involved to get that much bloat. there could be a swath of libs included that arent even used but were thrown in there "just in case i need it".
i hope the companies helping them gut the use of most proprietary libs because they are an easy way to get terrible bugs and gaping security holes. i also hope they move to a unified OO language to get a handle on this feral system. however, if i find out that google convinced them to rewrote it all in Go, i'll just cry.
that's a pretty usual line to say on smartphone thread.
so, why don't you fucking go and buy one so called africa dumbphone.
U MAD, BRO?
why is it that i cant get a cellphone that is a cellphone and not a tiny computer that has to be rechanged daily? i want a cellphone that i only have to charge once a month or so. is it too much to ask for?! MOTOFONE was my last hope but alas it is dead.
what people are missing is how the subject is taught. i actually looked at the whole test and it's clear to me that visual aids were used in teaching this, specifically pennies. if you aren't thinking about psychology, you aren't considering how children process information. the test uses terms like "number sentence" but you dont see people screaming "it's an equation, not a sentence!" because it's something they can somewhat grasp. i assure you that if you were in the class, you would understand the test.
we arent teaching teens or college students, these are children with no knowledge of mathematics. take a moment and realize that the cognitive capabilities of a small child is like that of a chimpanzee. applying our knowledge of child psychology to teach children is a good thing because it will yield better results.
stop assuming you understand the best way to teach a child.
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A leader of the union representing TSA officers deplored the incident.
i agree it is deplorable... and so is the TSA.