Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether he is a comic.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with comics?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from comics?
Peasant 1: More comics.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do comics burn?
Peasant 3:...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether he is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of him.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw him into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere:...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If he weighed the same as a duck... he's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2:...A comic!
Wait wait wait... its illegal for Amazon to have a click-share button. But the Slashdot story has a click share button, both linked articles have click-share buttons (and code to send metrics to FB and Google even if you dont click), all 4 articles *they* link to have click-shares. Even Angela Merkel's web page has a Facebook share button. None of that is "unreasonable harassment" but Amazon is? Because some German Amazon reseller got all pissy that another Amazon reseller was selling more than him? Facebook has become more social disease than social media, and the pervasive mad rush to capitalize on it in any way possible at our expense is utterly unconscionable, but letting a court decide which arbitrary cross-marketing implementation is the "unreasonable harassment" du jour is bull.
They apparently had a warrant, so it probably doesnt matter if its hacking or not. However as to what they can collect without a warrant, IANAL but expectation of privacy would almost certainly be the litmus test or at least a factor. A conversation in public is fair game but a conversation in your home is privileged even though "flaws" in your home allow exploits like laser microphones to listen. Some of it comes down to deciding if consuming online media is "speech" and thus (arguably) protected (loss of anonymity can be considered "chilling effect"). Without SCOTUS guidelines it seems to depend on the judge, and what he had for breakfast.
... so unstable that it can only exist for fractions of a second... is basically useless
Oh, I dont know... "attractium" is pretty rare and doesnt last long, but the decay can be delayed with ethanol long enough to have some specific practical, uh, uses. And it's quite stable in the presence of some heavy metals like gold and silver, and especially certain forms of crystallized carbon. Of course the longer you keep it stable, the more dangerous and expensive it is to dispose of when it does finally decay.
Forgetting 'programmers'/'developers' for a minute - contractors and consultants are leading market indicators since their demand peaks during market instability (both growth and contraction). And, IMHO deep embedded work is a leading indicator for the manufacturing sector since they produce hard goods such as appliances and infrastructure. That said, hourly rates are off FY2000 highs by 40% and are flat since the mid 90's, and there are almost no positions open. The only exception is medical devices where there seems to be a bit of a bubble happening, but the financing for the companies hiring is all highly speculative VC and hedge funds, which is a red flag if you expect a gig to run more than a few months. The contract agencies that place workers are compensating for the fewer positions by increasing markup, from as low as 20% on corp-to-corp basis to upwards of 40%, which they can only get away with by submitting cheap inexperienced workers and marking them way up, which seems to work since hiring managers are more likely than not to be clueless to what the job actually requires, which is in part due to hedge fund weenies placing line managers with inexperienced cronies or cheap imported labor.
The view from down here is there was no recovery from 2000 or 2008, there is no recovery on the horizon, R&D infrastructure is being dismantled, manufacturing is gone, and the engineering job market is in a luge-ride race to the bottom. There's a little money to be made picking the bones or sucking up health care dollars or green energy dollars or whatever is fashionable enough to attract foolish greedy investors, but long term it looks bad to me. I'm getting out... buy into a wood pellet fab or something else that will do well when everyone becomes poor.
Proving you were coerced by not getting an audit is a tough sell, just as proving you were audited because you did nothing is tough. "Your Honor, there is no evidence whatsoever so he MUST be guilty"?
Agreed - I remember thinking during that bit "please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher"... and then the Iron Man bit left me thinking a fire extinguisher would have been better. Mostly I thought NASA and Watney would have known that rendezvous would have been nearly impossible with neither the MAV nor ARES having maneuvering thrusters, and could have built one from the hydrazine bottle and palladium he already used for the water synthesis. Except it would have been a "fire extinguisher" except in name only (a "FEINO"?).
I made one in '81 long before I heard of BOFH and way before Ethernet. Our network was serial with some ARCNET and made a mains cable for each as a joke, back when bosses generally had a sense of humor.
There is no such thing as a "good lawyer", perhaps you mean "competent lawyer", but thats not important right now...
If stupid people do it stupidly, of course you are correct. But give Google, Apple, GM, Ford, Amazon, Verizon, AT&T, GEICO, McDonalds and everyone some credit, that if you dangle a monster revenue stream in front of them they'll connive a way to exploit it legally. Look at Waze... data entry is disabled while driving unless you (wink wink) click the "Im a passenger" button. Ha ha ha. "Gee your Honor, we spent years, YEARS DAMMIT, making the system safe, and the driver LIED to bypass it! If only he had opted out of windshield pop-ups by buying a Happy Meal and visiting the dealer as stated in his EULA this senseless tragedy could have been avoided!"
Normally yes. But most of these were paired by the factory or professional installers who set them to more or less effectively random-ish codes. The few I've looked at had nothing I recognized as blatantly stupid.
Yep. I havent seen a fixed code DIP-switch remote for 20 years. And the last door I hacked with one only took 10 minutes brute force guessing. Even if its 29 minutes, who needs a hack? And, to do it in 10 seconds you need to know the frequency in advance.
If you're looking for a hack for the IM_ME this Spectrum Analyzer mod looks downright cool and possibly even useful. Pretty wide frequency response too.
"It was garbage, but it had been cooked by an expert. Oh, yes. You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for [Justin Amash], although “synergistically” had probably been a whore from the start." - T Pratchett
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A comic! Burn him! Burn him!
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether he is a comic. ...because they're made of... wood? ...Exactly. So, logically... ...A comic!
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with comics?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from comics?
Peasant 1: More comics.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do comics burn?
Peasant 3:
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether he is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of him.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw him into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere:
Peasant 1: If he weighed the same as a duck... he's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2:
Maybe, maybe not. I for one will make it a point to shop on Newegg just a little bit more.
Actually, now that you mention it, health tourism would be a phenomenal growth industry for Cuba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wait wait wait... its illegal for Amazon to have a click-share button. But the Slashdot story has a click share button, both linked articles have click-share buttons (and code to send metrics to FB and Google even if you dont click), all 4 articles *they* link to have click-shares. Even Angela Merkel's web page has a Facebook share button. None of that is "unreasonable harassment" but Amazon is? Because some German Amazon reseller got all pissy that another Amazon reseller was selling more than him? Facebook has become more social disease than social media, and the pervasive mad rush to capitalize on it in any way possible at our expense is utterly unconscionable, but letting a court decide which arbitrary cross-marketing implementation is the "unreasonable harassment" du jour is bull.
how frigid was it?
+3 Hillary's?
They apparently had a warrant, so it probably doesnt matter if its hacking or not. However as to what they can collect without a warrant, IANAL but expectation of privacy would almost certainly be the litmus test or at least a factor. A conversation in public is fair game but a conversation in your home is privileged even though "flaws" in your home allow exploits like laser microphones to listen. Some of it comes down to deciding if consuming online media is "speech" and thus (arguably) protected (loss of anonymity can be considered "chilling effect"). Without SCOTUS guidelines it seems to depend on the judge, and what he had for breakfast.
... I recall having the option to opt out of this behavior by Windows 10
You may be given the option, but Windows just ignores it:
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
Then again this article is from August, so Microsoft has probably fixed all that by now (ha ha ha I almost finished typing that with a straight face!)
... so unstable that it can only exist for fractions of a second ... is basically useless
Oh, I dont know... "attractium" is pretty rare and doesnt last long, but the decay can be delayed with ethanol long enough to have some specific practical, uh, uses. And it's quite stable in the presence of some heavy metals like gold and silver, and especially certain forms of crystallized carbon. Of course the longer you keep it stable, the more dangerous and expensive it is to dispose of when it does finally decay.
Forgetting 'programmers'/'developers' for a minute - contractors and consultants are leading market indicators since their demand peaks during market instability (both growth and contraction). And, IMHO deep embedded work is a leading indicator for the manufacturing sector since they produce hard goods such as appliances and infrastructure. That said, hourly rates are off FY2000 highs by 40% and are flat since the mid 90's, and there are almost no positions open. The only exception is medical devices where there seems to be a bit of a bubble happening, but the financing for the companies hiring is all highly speculative VC and hedge funds, which is a red flag if you expect a gig to run more than a few months. The contract agencies that place workers are compensating for the fewer positions by increasing markup, from as low as 20% on corp-to-corp basis to upwards of 40%, which they can only get away with by submitting cheap inexperienced workers and marking them way up, which seems to work since hiring managers are more likely than not to be clueless to what the job actually requires, which is in part due to hedge fund weenies placing line managers with inexperienced cronies or cheap imported labor.
The view from down here is there was no recovery from 2000 or 2008, there is no recovery on the horizon, R&D infrastructure is being dismantled, manufacturing is gone, and the engineering job market is in a luge-ride race to the bottom. There's a little money to be made picking the bones or sucking up health care dollars or green energy dollars or whatever is fashionable enough to attract foolish greedy investors, but long term it looks bad to me. I'm getting out... buy into a wood pellet fab or something else that will do well when everyone becomes poor.
Proving you were coerced by not getting an audit is a tough sell, just as proving you were audited because you did nothing is tough. "Your Honor, there is no evidence whatsoever so he MUST be guilty"?
Agreed - I remember thinking during that bit "please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher please dont use a fire extinguisher"... and then the Iron Man bit left me thinking a fire extinguisher would have been better. Mostly I thought NASA and Watney would have known that rendezvous would have been nearly impossible with neither the MAV nor ARES having maneuvering thrusters, and could have built one from the hydrazine bottle and palladium he already used for the water synthesis. Except it would have been a "fire extinguisher" except in name only (a "FEINO"?).
Note the above does not include Fukishima. Other sources that account for that increase nuclear to .09 (90 dead per trillion kWh)
I made one in '81 long before I heard of BOFH and way before Ethernet. Our network was serial with some ARCNET and made a mains cable for each as a joke, back when bosses generally had a sense of humor.
Whitespace FTFY
*Love* whitespace, since a whitespace program and a C program can coexist in the same source file.
And unlike most PhD degrees, this one has numerous career paths!
... if "air traffic control offline around Washington" isn't begging to have a Bruce Willis movie, I don't know what is...
"Die Hard Drive"?
How about "Bjarne Stroustrup Must Die Hard"?
I'm not sure if its funny ironic or disturbing that the *reason* it's no longer authorized is only because the gun might go off and hit a bystander.
But if the police use it to hit you, it is a "non-lethal compliance tool" (unless you have the video then it's a "civil rights lawsuit").
We can't cure stupid. Yet.
Oh, sure we can! Why, the cure was just posted yesterday!
There is no such thing as a "good lawyer", perhaps you mean "competent lawyer", but thats not important right now...
If stupid people do it stupidly, of course you are correct. But give Google, Apple, GM, Ford, Amazon, Verizon, AT&T, GEICO, McDonalds and everyone some credit, that if you dangle a monster revenue stream in front of them they'll connive a way to exploit it legally. Look at Waze... data entry is disabled while driving unless you (wink wink) click the "Im a passenger" button. Ha ha ha. "Gee your Honor, we spent years, YEARS DAMMIT, making the system safe, and the driver LIED to bypass it! If only he had opted out of windshield pop-ups by buying a Happy Meal and visiting the dealer as stated in his EULA this senseless tragedy could have been avoided!"
Normally yes. But most of these were paired by the factory or professional installers who set them to more or less effectively random-ish codes. The few I've looked at had nothing I recognized as blatantly stupid.
Yep. I havent seen a fixed code DIP-switch remote for 20 years. And the last door I hacked with one only took 10 minutes brute force guessing. Even if its 29 minutes, who needs a hack? And, to do it in 10 seconds you need to know the frequency in advance.
If you're looking for a hack for the IM_ME this Spectrum Analyzer mod looks downright cool and possibly even useful. Pretty wide frequency response too.
"It was garbage, but it had been cooked by an expert. Oh, yes. You had to admire the way perfectly innocent words were mugged, ravished, stripped of all true meaning and decency, and then sent to walk the gutter for [Justin Amash], although “synergistically” had probably been a whore from the start." - T Pratchett
HORSE MANURE is a backronym, though I don't remember what it means
How Ordinary Rabble States Etymology with Mangled Acronyms Naming Universal Random Epithets?
FREEDOM is a backronym, though I don't remember what it means
"Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act."
I feel like I need to take a shower after just typing that load of horse manure...