I'd rather trust an AI, which just uses the solid numbers, stochastics and statistics
than some sleazy suit who will ignore all rationality (not that he was that good in math in the first place) and gamble away all my money if he thinks he has a lucky streak...
amongst other things like e-mails addresses and browser history
This is so incedibly wrong...
IF you sent such these informations (OR ANY OTHER) over an unencrypted WLAN (i.e. everybody can read all your data all the time and you're among the stupidest 2.6% of the population) exactly in the second when the google car passed by, then they stored the RAW PACKETS, which MIGHT include some E-Mail addresses (the ones used in the current mails, not your whole addressbook) or URLs that you are requesting right in this moment (NOT you browser history)
IMHO the assumption that google did this on purpose is absolutely absurd, because the expectation value of collected data is so small, that nobody would invest so much into trying it - AND they wouldn't have gone public voluntarily (which they did, but media like to "forget" this little fact...)
when you're really hungry, then you tend to overestimate how much you CAN eat... people just are like that.
I bet this policy (especially in this economic situation) will drive them out of business within 1 year...
Stupid people learn from their mistakes. Smart people learn from other people's mistakes (Chinese Proverb). Apparently the USA don't belong to the second category...
Good, next up we will demand that the kids are taught that rain is gods tears, lightning is gods anger, the earth is flat, dinosaurs never existed (god only put the bones there to test our faith)
and once we got all that, we will demand teaching the fairy godmother, santa clause and the bogeyman.
Does she sue the driver for the loss of a Darwin award? She would have gotten one if only he had hit her harder...
On the plus side, she may get a Stella award... and a Darwin award will probably follow soon, anyway... "but I could have gotten TWO Darwin awards, your honor!"
The guy may be completely different than me, but here's how I went from gaming to coding:
I played a lot of Duke3D. Some day I started using the level-editor and I took the time to read a manual (not the official one). I loved to produce game related things instead of just consuming them.
again, he might be completely different, but learning the level-editor was my first step to becoming a graduate computer scientist.
where such issues are particularly relevant to their discipline.
Do we really have to think about how relevant the fairy godmother and the bogeyman (or however you want to call them) are to formal reasoning about logical structures?
I tell girls that boys will drag them as far down in the gutter as they will allow.
I don't think kids should be taught by someone who is THAT disconnected from reality...
You know, I want gender equality. Sexist men-hating zealots like you are one reason why we will never have that.
stop watching "sex and the city" and get a life, by which I mean GET SOME FRIENDS! Not all men are sex-hungry perverted neanderthals and not all women are innocent little flower-pickers.
But you have to know some ACTUAL people to understand that - not just the stereotypes in your TV shows...
dude, the rules for E-Mail adresses were written in the 1950's, when people had no f*cking clue what they were doing... just look at the SMTP RFC and you'll see that pretty much every design decision about E-Mail is totally idiotic!
the protocol isn't even unambiguously decodable when you think about that "boundary" bullshit or the separation of different mails by a single . which can also be part of the message body - and don't get me started on the CRLF bullshit...
[0-9a-zA-Z\._]+@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]+
would be a perfectly fine regexp for email adresses, if they hadn't screwed up everything so badly, back then... the 255 byte limit in favor of stupid static buffers - this is what really blows the regexp up so much...
I was sick of FF's performance, so tried to improve it. Here are my conclusions:
When you delete (or move) your firefox settings directory, then firefox is fast as hell again, so FF is not inherently slow. It becomes slower over time, so I looked for things that changed over time and I found that the performance stays good (except for flash!) even if you navigate dozens of sites on 4 year old hardware, if you do the following things:
restrict yourself to the indispensable add-ons (although comparing browsers with add-ons to browsers without add-ons is quite pointless, imho)
use f*cking adblock! ads eat up so much performance! adblock is the one add-on that will improve your performance
clear the history and see how fast firefox suddenly becomes again... I have set firefox to delete the history and search history on closing the prog. This can become a pain sometimes, but the performance is woth the sacrifice
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If you are running windows anyway, why bother trying to do ANYTHING securely?
I'd rather trust an AI, which just uses the solid numbers, stochastics and statistics
than some sleazy suit who will ignore all rationality (not that he was that good in math in the first place) and gamble away all my money if he thinks he has a lucky streak...
This is so incedibly wrong...
IF you sent such these informations (OR ANY OTHER) over an unencrypted WLAN (i.e. everybody can read all your data all the time and you're among the stupidest 2.6% of the population) exactly in the second when the google car passed by, then they stored the RAW PACKETS, which MIGHT include some E-Mail addresses (the ones used in the current mails, not your whole addressbook) or URLs that you are requesting right in this moment (NOT you browser history)
IMHO the assumption that google did this on purpose is absolutely absurd, because the expectation value of collected data is so small, that nobody would invest so much into trying it - AND they wouldn't have gone public voluntarily (which they did, but media like to "forget" this little fact...)
Dear Australia, you are now officially on par with the STASI. congratulations!
maybe you should look up what "zero-day" means...
when you're really hungry, then you tend to overestimate how much you CAN eat... people just are like that.
I bet this policy (especially in this economic situation) will drive them out of business within 1 year...
Why would I WANT to come back to a place where I'm treated like an asshole, just because I'm full?
If they think they are better off without customers, then good luck...
Do you want to know how to win at roulettes? it's really simple: open up a casino...
The "only" in there is judgemental, throw it out or it's not a dry summary... (disclaimer: I used the figure of speech "hyperbole")
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/16/1647213/A-History-of-Media-Technology-Scares
1565: books have to much information, this is too much for the human brain...
same shit, different medium - there will always be reactionist... move along, nothing to see here...
Stupid people learn from their mistakes. Smart people learn from other people's mistakes (Chinese Proverb). Apparently the USA don't belong to the second category...
That explains so much... damn!
f*cking awesome!
Good, next up we will demand that the kids are taught that rain is gods tears, lightning is gods anger, the earth is flat, dinosaurs never existed (god only put the bones there to test our faith)
and once we got all that, we will demand teaching the fairy godmother, santa clause and the bogeyman.
Does she sue the driver for the loss of a Darwin award? She would have gotten one if only he had hit her harder...
On the plus side, she may get a Stella award... and a Darwin award will probably follow soon, anyway... "but I could have gotten TWO Darwin awards, your honor!"
1. fuzzy logic
2. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/08/1716235
The guy may be completely different than me, but here's how I went from gaming to coding:
I played a lot of Duke3D. Some day I started using the level-editor and I took the time to read a manual (not the official one). I loved to produce game related things instead of just consuming them.
again, he might be completely different, but learning the level-editor was my first step to becoming a graduate computer scientist.
Horst Köhler just hesitated to sign the law because he wanted to inspect it thoroughly. Later he signed it
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Bundespraesident-unterzeichnet-Websperren-Gesetz-933180.html
Do we really have to think about how relevant the fairy godmother and the bogeyman (or however you want to call them) are to formal reasoning about logical structures?
Your imaginary numbers are as real as rational numbers are integral...
I don't think kids should be taught by someone who is THAT disconnected from reality...
You know, I want gender equality. Sexist men-hating zealots like you are one reason why we will never have that.
stop watching "sex and the city" and get a life, by which I mean GET SOME FRIENDS!
Not all men are sex-hungry perverted neanderthals and not all women are innocent little flower-pickers. But you have to know some ACTUAL people to understand that - not just the stereotypes in your TV shows...
Stop protecting kids from reality and making them unable to live their own lives...
and do yourself a favor: go to youtube and watch "child worship" by george carlin
dude, the rules for E-Mail adresses were written in the 1950's, when people had no f*cking clue what they were doing... just look at the SMTP RFC and you'll see that pretty much every design decision about E-Mail is totally idiotic!
the protocol isn't even unambiguously decodable when you think about that "boundary" bullshit or the separation of different mails by a single . which can also be part of the message body - and don't get me started on the CRLF bullshit...
[0-9a-zA-Z\._]+@([0-9a-zA-Z_]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]+
would be a perfectly fine regexp for email adresses, if they hadn't screwed up everything so badly, back then... the 255 byte limit in favor of stupid static buffers - this is what really blows the regexp up so much...
Although I have to say that UI and rendering should run in different threads...
When you delete (or move) your firefox settings directory, then firefox is fast as hell again, so FF is not inherently slow. It becomes slower over time, so I looked for things that changed over time and I found that the performance stays good (except for flash!) even if you navigate dozens of sites on 4 year old hardware, if you do the following things: