Well, the system looks interesting; however, I'm more interested in the camera work a video editing. It seems, especially at the beginning, to have been professionally done. Is that the level of sophistication of today's modern video recorders and editing software, is this guy into video production or was there outside help? It seems a mismatch in skills as the hacking is fairly insignificant in comparison to the video skills.
Hmmm, also terminology you are using seems a bit wrong. The fact is that you aren't falling towards an object if you are in orbit because the horizontal velocity is such that even though you are being drawn together your horizontal position is keeping you from ever hitting. Again, you are always falling towards the object, stable orbit just means your horizontal velocity causes you to miss all the time.
Um, no orbits are caused by falling. The fact that the moon is in orbit around the earth doesn't mean that it is not also falling around the sun. Just because the earth is orbiting around the sun, doesn't mean it's not also in orbit around the galaxy.
I'd say the majority of children cannot read at 3. Heck my 3 year old doesn't even know basic numbers much less addition, etc. Reading is not on the agenda at this time. My other daughter didn't start reading til she was 5. Reading at 3 or younger is the exception rather than the rule. I started reading at the age of 2, or so I am told, so I had expected my children to start reading at a young age. Based on my personal life, 5 seems really late, but in the population in general 5 seems to be in the gifted category.
Oh, German courts aren't like US courts? I mean in the US it wouldn't be about winning against the opponent, it's about costing them so much in legal fees that they go out of business.
Heh, I agree with you in that it is less restrictive to those that want to use the code. Personally, I don't use BSD licensing because if I put something out on the market, I don't want someone else taking my work, hiding the code, extend it and resell it without other having the opportunity to do the same. That being said, there is no reason that you need to use GPL over BSD everyone is entitled to their own opinion and beliefs, just because it differs from mine, doesn't automatically make it wrong.
Scantrons are also a way of grading the test and giving a test score without telling the student what questions were missed so that they get used to never questioning the "official" score.
Hell, you don't even have to pay the people that know the subjects all that much. My mentor was taught by PhD's that generally took a sabbatical every 5 years and taught one year in the local schools, it was the accepted practice for the area. Nowadays, unless you have a degree in education, you aren't allowed to teach except at the university level. And since the cost of education is high, with course loads being loaded, how many spare credits do the teachers really have to actually learn the subject they are supposed to be teaching?
Problem is, just like in computers, you have administrators that don't know the subject hiring the people that are supposed to know the subject, but relying on pieces of paper rather than actually finding out whether someone knows something or not. Piss poor way to get qualified people, but hey they graduated from a nice college. Or in the case of outside jobs, hey, they graduated from high school of course they can read, maybe do math, um fuck it, college education required they know how to read right?
Whether or not a song is prettier is culture based. Music is culture based, consider that a complex and beautiful rock ballad, still is played in "rock" format and is just noise to certain people. Whereas the beating of drums and logs in certain societies is impossible for most modern entertainment listeners to recognize as music. So testing if something sounds better or prettier is subjective and not really testable. When you test which one is prettier through a survey, you are testing the people not the song.
Product/production, pretty much the same thing. Unlike television, google is actually supplying me with something that I find of value and is selling advertising to me in order to finance it. I find it a equitable arrangement. Television and other advertising products tend to supply me with crap I don't really want, ie reducing their costs as much as possible while attempting to maintain as many viewers as possible to sell to advertisers. I don't watch commercial television anymore, nor do I listen to the radio much etc because it has gone beyond what I consider acceptable. Also since there are plenty of alternatives, google has to maintain my loyalty if they want me to continue to use their services.
The point being, I have yet to see Google operating in a totally unethical manner, but I have seen that from the other three companies listed.
I don't know how mainstream media covers these companies, but other than google, I can points out all of these companies being run by people that feel that they are better than their customers. Google may mainly hire PhD's to work for it, but I still get the opinion that they value the people that use their productions, I can't say the same for any of the others. Perhaps I'm wrong on the google part, but I know the other companies are just trying to get my money and or control of what I do.
My company is asking me to lie to customers. Okay, so it's all on your morals. Personally, I don't lie and I probably wouldn't work for a company that tells me to do so, but there are a lot of companies out there that do, so it's all on you since whistleblowing is just going to say so what.
Regional, Hmmm guess I don't look at things on a worldwide basis. I should look up more information, just for educational purposes. Do you have a link where I could look this stuff up more throughly?
Doesn't the first D stand for distributed so that distributed DDoS is redundant?
Heh,
Good point. I guess my mind automatically equated DDOS with a DOS. I've called it DDOS so long that I didn't even think about what DDOS stood for. Thanks for the reference check.
Isn't the plug in for the volt an optional feature? I seem to remember that the volt doesn't come with a plug in standard and has to either be specially ordered or converted.
Depends on the type of DDOS you are receiving. If it is a distributed DDOS then you can't do much other than having multiple pipes into the system; however, if there are not too many systems launching the ddos then you can have your provider drop those packets before they are sent down the pipe, ie you can determine what gets sent to you.
For a distributed attack you can host a couple of gateways on a larger pipe that talk to a local backend. When I was handling mission critical stuff back in the day that is how I handled things. Put a proxy server at a couple of OC3 hosting companies and have those machines talk to my backend so that a ddos can't saturate my pipe. Static pages where appropriate, etc. Used to be that Microsoft's hosting was pretty bad at handling dropped connections so for clients that used them I'd throw up an apache proxy server in front to handle dropped connections, load balancing, etc.
I'm sure I'd have to evolve a bit from the ways I used to handle these problems since there a larger botnets and such nowdays, but it really depends on the attack. There are multiple ways to control what packets do reach your system though, ie not all ddos attacks are the same. Some are attacking the IP stack, some attempt to saturate the line and some try to exploit holes in the software you use.
For most sites, unless it's mission critical I wouldn't worry about it until/unless it becomes a problem.
Okay, the problem I have with these video spots are first and foremost they have little to no content. The case mod story would have been interesting, except for the fact that you basically filmed the people talking about stuff rather than showing the case mods. Although you did film the mods a bit, it would have been far better to show more mods with a talkover from the creators in the background, maybe spend a minute or two on each mod.
Slashdot should consider getting a couple of film student interns and sending them out to produce stories. The filming and presentation of the current Slashtv isn't working very well.
Other than that, the 30 second ad at the start of the video or however long it is, really irks me. I no longer watch broadcast television because of all the damn commercials and I tend to forget when I see video posted on the web about advertising, but these web advertisements keep reminding me. I seldom go to youtube anymore, forget hulu, thedailyshow and yes slashtv is teaching me to avoid clicking on those links as well.
I have worked with several companies over the years. The interactions I have had with patents have all been negative. Two companies I have worked with, basically start-ups, were put out of business by patents. One of the companies won their defense against the patent troll, but didn't have enough money to go back to court to get the injunction lifted. Patents may seem like a good idea, but it seems to me in actual practice that rarely will you have anyone that actually gets paid for having a patent, and most of the results ends up hurting everyone else. At least under copyright you have to specifically seek to copy someone elses work, with patents you are trying to avoid coming up with the same idea as someone else in the world and you can lose everything you work for over the course of many years just because someone else took an idea to the patent office.
Heck, even id had the algorithm they came up with patented by someone else and had to pay royalties and lets no even talk about Rhombus and the things they pulled. I think that we need to get rid of patents and come up with some other means of funding research rather than continue the current course where there are a few winners and everyone else loses.
I'll second this. Autonomous aircraft need a license from the FAA I believe and I don't believe they had them out to civilians. So the legal requirements are going to be harder to meet than the engineering requirements. Start by researching those requirements first I would say. The earlier post for diydrones.com is probably the place to start.
The problem I encountered with OS2 and the thing that forced me to migrate away from it was the simple fact that IBM made the decision to kill OS2 before Warp ever came out. It had already dropped support for OS2 before the warp packages even hit the store shelves. That left a bad taste in my mouth and I migrated away from using OS2 once I found that out, ie it wasn't a problem with the product itself, but the corporate mindset that said sell a product that they were going to discontinue.
I can't really sing the praises of OS2 architecture or GUI, I used it, it worked and was stable unlike windows at the time. I would have continued using it, except for the fact that it seems a bit sleasy to sell people a product that you don't intend to support in the future.
People talking about buying 3d or any television because they need it? Frankly, my television is sitting in the corner and hasn't been turned on in 2-3 years. What need is there for a television? I don't see the need to buy DRM encumbered technology, which is what I understand tvs are these days. So really, I doubt anyone "needs" to buy a television. Food on the other hand...
Consider it a different way, if the guy was saying I need a new computer, when my current system works fine and beyond that telling me that I have to buy one with features that I won't use for years, you gotta be kidding right?
So he makes a mistake and rather than pointing out what the error is politely, you have to come in calling him basically a script kiddie with no real training. You know, as a computer scientist, I frequently expect to spend hours researching and double checking all information that I post in a casual information blog. For that matter, I typically refer to wikipedia as an authoritative source of information.
It seems to me that most scientists/engineers worry about the issue being discussed not how the person presented the information. The formatting and grammar nazi treatment is used by the journals and politicians.
Seriously, if you disagree with someone point out the problems, don't start by insulting them. I'm not stylish enough to be a geek, don't really care about the looks, just about the code, but I do claim to be a computer scientist and I can very well understand posting incorrect information. The proper response is to point out why the person is wrong and where the proper information can be found. Then the proper response of the first poster is to thank you for feedback and look into it, or to point out why he/she thinks you are wrong, not to start throwing around insults.
In my experience, a computer science degree is not needed to work within IT, what mainly counts is your skills. That being said, a lot of companies weed out applicants based on education; however, most are just looking for a degree of some sort, not necessarily a degree in computer science. Put together a portfolio of your work and be able to discuss technical issues when they do the techie call and you should be fine.
I'm not sure what else to tell you, but if you hit the job market and see what's out there, it will probably be more informative than advice from people here. I worked at a time where you didn't even need a college degree as long as you knew how to use a computer. Things have become more difficult in the last 10 years since the tech crash, since then HR generally weeds out people without degrees, but I don't think they've gotten to the point where they require a computer science degree. Most students in the computer science field won't have the skills that someone interested in computers and spends their own time working on them will have. And since most college is just proving that you can learn, and since most graduates need to learn about the actual job they take, it shouldn't be a big deal.
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Well, the system looks interesting; however, I'm more interested in the camera work a video editing. It seems, especially at the beginning, to have been professionally done. Is that the level of sophistication of today's modern video recorders and editing software, is this guy into video production or was there outside help? It seems a mismatch in skills as the hacking is fairly insignificant in comparison to the video skills.
Hmmm, also terminology you are using seems a bit wrong. The fact is that you aren't falling towards an object if you are in orbit because the horizontal velocity is such that even though you are being drawn together your horizontal position is keeping you from ever hitting. Again, you are always falling towards the object, stable orbit just means your horizontal velocity causes you to miss all the time.
Um, no orbits are caused by falling. The fact that the moon is in orbit around the earth doesn't mean that it is not also falling around the sun. Just because the earth is orbiting around the sun, doesn't mean it's not also in orbit around the galaxy.
I'd say the majority of children cannot read at 3. Heck my 3 year old doesn't even know basic numbers much less addition, etc. Reading is not on the agenda at this time. My other daughter didn't start reading til she was 5. Reading at 3 or younger is the exception rather than the rule. I started reading at the age of 2, or so I am told, so I had expected my children to start reading at a young age. Based on my personal life, 5 seems really late, but in the population in general 5 seems to be in the gifted category.
Oh, German courts aren't like US courts? I mean in the US it wouldn't be about winning against the opponent, it's about costing them so much in legal fees that they go out of business.
Heh, I agree with you in that it is less restrictive to those that want to use the code. Personally, I don't use BSD licensing because if I put something out on the market, I don't want someone else taking my work, hiding the code, extend it and resell it without other having the opportunity to do the same. That being said, there is no reason that you need to use GPL over BSD everyone is entitled to their own opinion and beliefs, just because it differs from mine, doesn't automatically make it wrong.
Scantrons are also a way of grading the test and giving a test score without telling the student what questions were missed so that they get used to never questioning the "official" score.
Hell, you don't even have to pay the people that know the subjects all that much. My mentor was taught by PhD's that generally took a sabbatical every 5 years and taught one year in the local schools, it was the accepted practice for the area. Nowadays, unless you have a degree in education, you aren't allowed to teach except at the university level. And since the cost of education is high, with course loads being loaded, how many spare credits do the teachers really have to actually learn the subject they are supposed to be teaching?
Problem is, just like in computers, you have administrators that don't know the subject hiring the people that are supposed to know the subject, but relying on pieces of paper rather than actually finding out whether someone knows something or not. Piss poor way to get qualified people, but hey they graduated from a nice college. Or in the case of outside jobs, hey, they graduated from high school of course they can read, maybe do math, um fuck it, college education required they know how to read right?
Hmmm, why is this labelled funny? Shouldn't it be insightful, sad really, not really funny.
Whether or not a song is prettier is culture based. Music is culture based, consider that a complex and beautiful rock ballad, still is played in "rock" format and is just noise to certain people. Whereas the beating of drums and logs in certain societies is impossible for most modern entertainment listeners to recognize as music. So testing if something sounds better or prettier is subjective and not really testable. When you test which one is prettier through a survey, you are testing the people not the song.
Product/production, pretty much the same thing. Unlike television, google is actually supplying me with something that I find of value and is selling advertising to me in order to finance it. I find it a equitable arrangement. Television and other advertising products tend to supply me with crap I don't really want, ie reducing their costs as much as possible while attempting to maintain as many viewers as possible to sell to advertisers. I don't watch commercial television anymore, nor do I listen to the radio much etc because it has gone beyond what I consider acceptable. Also since there are plenty of alternatives, google has to maintain my loyalty if they want me to continue to use their services.
The point being, I have yet to see Google operating in a totally unethical manner, but I have seen that from the other three companies listed.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook.
I don't know how mainstream media covers these companies, but other than google, I can points out all of these companies being run by people that feel that they are better than their customers. Google may mainly hire PhD's to work for it, but I still get the opinion that they value the people that use their productions, I can't say the same for any of the others. Perhaps I'm wrong on the google part, but I know the other companies are just trying to get my money and or control of what I do.
My company is asking me to lie to customers. Okay, so it's all on your morals. Personally, I don't lie and I probably wouldn't work for a company that tells me to do so, but there are a lot of companies out there that do, so it's all on you since whistleblowing is just going to say so what.
Regional, Hmmm guess I don't look at things on a worldwide basis. I should look up more information, just for educational purposes. Do you have a link where I could look this stuff up more throughly?
Doesn't the first D stand for distributed so that distributed DDoS is redundant?
Heh,
Good point. I guess my mind automatically equated DDOS with a DOS. I've called it DDOS so long that I didn't even think about what DDOS stood for. Thanks for the reference check.
Isn't the plug in for the volt an optional feature? I seem to remember that the volt doesn't come with a plug in standard and has to either be specially ordered or converted.
Depends on the type of DDOS you are receiving. If it is a distributed DDOS then you can't do much other than having multiple pipes into the system; however, if there are not too many systems launching the ddos then you can have your provider drop those packets before they are sent down the pipe, ie you can determine what gets sent to you.
For a distributed attack you can host a couple of gateways on a larger pipe that talk to a local backend. When I was handling mission critical stuff back in the day that is how I handled things. Put a proxy server at a couple of OC3 hosting companies and have those machines talk to my backend so that a ddos can't saturate my pipe. Static pages where appropriate, etc. Used to be that Microsoft's hosting was pretty bad at handling dropped connections so for clients that used them I'd throw up an apache proxy server in front to handle dropped connections, load balancing, etc.
I'm sure I'd have to evolve a bit from the ways I used to handle these problems since there a larger botnets and such nowdays, but it really depends on the attack. There are multiple ways to control what packets do reach your system though, ie not all ddos attacks are the same. Some are attacking the IP stack, some attempt to saturate the line and some try to exploit holes in the software you use.
For most sites, unless it's mission critical I wouldn't worry about it until/unless it becomes a problem.
Okay, the problem I have with these video spots are first and foremost they have little to no content. The case mod story would have been interesting, except for the fact that you basically filmed the people talking about stuff rather than showing the case mods. Although you did film the mods a bit, it would have been far better to show more mods with a talkover from the creators in the background, maybe spend a minute or two on each mod.
Slashdot should consider getting a couple of film student interns and sending them out to produce stories. The filming and presentation of the current Slashtv isn't working very well.
Other than that, the 30 second ad at the start of the video or however long it is, really irks me. I no longer watch broadcast television because of all the damn commercials and I tend to forget when I see video posted on the web about advertising, but these web advertisements keep reminding me. I seldom go to youtube anymore, forget hulu, thedailyshow and yes slashtv is teaching me to avoid clicking on those links as well.
I have worked with several companies over the years. The interactions I have had with patents have all been negative. Two companies I have worked with, basically start-ups, were put out of business by patents. One of the companies won their defense against the patent troll, but didn't have enough money to go back to court to get the injunction lifted. Patents may seem like a good idea, but it seems to me in actual practice that rarely will you have anyone that actually gets paid for having a patent, and most of the results ends up hurting everyone else. At least under copyright you have to specifically seek to copy someone elses work, with patents you are trying to avoid coming up with the same idea as someone else in the world and you can lose everything you work for over the course of many years just because someone else took an idea to the patent office.
Heck, even id had the algorithm they came up with patented by someone else and had to pay royalties and lets no even talk about Rhombus and the things they pulled. I think that we need to get rid of patents and come up with some other means of funding research rather than continue the current course where there are a few winners and everyone else loses.
I'll second this. Autonomous aircraft need a license from the FAA I believe and I don't believe they had them out to civilians. So the legal requirements are going to be harder to meet than the engineering requirements. Start by researching those requirements first I would say. The earlier post for diydrones.com is probably the place to start.
The problem I encountered with OS2 and the thing that forced me to migrate away from it was the simple fact that IBM made the decision to kill OS2 before Warp ever came out. It had already dropped support for OS2 before the warp packages even hit the store shelves. That left a bad taste in my mouth and I migrated away from using OS2 once I found that out, ie it wasn't a problem with the product itself, but the corporate mindset that said sell a product that they were going to discontinue.
I can't really sing the praises of OS2 architecture or GUI, I used it, it worked and was stable unlike windows at the time. I would have continued using it, except for the fact that it seems a bit sleasy to sell people a product that you don't intend to support in the future.
The price tag did not stop the frantic push to get one by an eager group of contenders
Really? How come NASA had to drop its price to actually sell the shuttles if everyone was so eager to buy one?
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/17/1714204/lacking-buyers-nasa-cuts-prices-on-shuttles-and-old-engines
People talking about buying 3d or any television because they need it? Frankly, my television is sitting in the corner and hasn't been turned on in 2-3 years. What need is there for a television? I don't see the need to buy DRM encumbered technology, which is what I understand tvs are these days. So really, I doubt anyone "needs" to buy a television. Food on the other hand...
Consider it a different way, if the guy was saying I need a new computer, when my current system works fine and beyond that telling me that I have to buy one with features that I won't use for years, you gotta be kidding right?
So he makes a mistake and rather than pointing out what the error is politely, you have to come in calling him basically a script kiddie with no real training. You know, as a computer scientist, I frequently expect to spend hours researching and double checking all information that I post in a casual information blog. For that matter, I typically refer to wikipedia as an authoritative source of information.
It seems to me that most scientists/engineers worry about the issue being discussed not how the person presented the information. The formatting and grammar nazi treatment is used by the journals and politicians.
Seriously, if you disagree with someone point out the problems, don't start by insulting them. I'm not stylish enough to be a geek, don't really care about the looks, just about the code, but I do claim to be a computer scientist and I can very well understand posting incorrect information. The proper response is to point out why the person is wrong and where the proper information can be found. Then the proper response of the first poster is to thank you for feedback and look into it, or to point out why he/she thinks you are wrong, not to start throwing around insults.
In my experience, a computer science degree is not needed to work within IT, what mainly counts is your skills. That being said, a lot of companies weed out applicants based on education; however, most are just looking for a degree of some sort, not necessarily a degree in computer science. Put together a portfolio of your work and be able to discuss technical issues when they do the techie call and you should be fine.
I'm not sure what else to tell you, but if you hit the job market and see what's out there, it will probably be more informative than advice from people here. I worked at a time where you didn't even need a college degree as long as you knew how to use a computer. Things have become more difficult in the last 10 years since the tech crash, since then HR generally weeds out people without degrees, but I don't think they've gotten to the point where they require a computer science degree. Most students in the computer science field won't have the skills that someone interested in computers and spends their own time working on them will have. And since most college is just proving that you can learn, and since most graduates need to learn about the actual job they take, it shouldn't be a big deal.