To be fair, we've had almost 10 years. Strike that, 12 years.
We've even had all OS and router support for 5 years.
Fact of the matter is, nobody's moving to IPv6 until they *have* to. We can cry doom and gloom all we want (we have been, after all), and nobody cares. When Comcast can't address new customers, they'll get off their ass.
Though that's a bit of a gamble. The right answer is moving to IPv6, the best answer is doing that in advance, but they'll definitely consider just NATting new customers. Hopefully they'll do things properly, but this is ISPs we're talking about.
I've debated guys who insist biological evolution and geology are "liberal" sciences.
To be fair, that doesn't sound like a debate. It sounds like you were talking at them while they focused as hard as they could into not comprehending anything you said.
Which, considering most of the complaints against Gimp are about its user interface, sounds right up Apple's alley.
But when has Apple ever taken an open-source project, cleaned it up with bugfixes and lots of other improvements, and put a proprietary wrapper around it for ease-of-use?
On the spectrum from 'privacy abuse' to 'legitimately useful', this would be a *lot* closer to legitimately useful than most things we hear about (like the London cameras).
Is there potential for abuse? Of course. But cops are already looking for stolen plates, cars matching stolen descriptions, and I don't think that's a bad thing. This automates that.
If it's done properly, it's not a threat to liberty - require a warrant, etc. It's well-established, whether we like it or not, that our use of the roads by default gives up a bunch of rights - so it's not like this is anything new.
I, for one, would be quite happy with such a system if it found my stolen car.
He *was* authorized to hold them. It was a large part of his job description.
When he was fired, they never asked him for the passwords. What was he supposed to do, whack himself over the head until he forgot them?
When the cops came looking for him for what was effectively their mistake, he clammed up (as he should've), since they nor the low-level guys gunning for them had any right to know the information. He said from the start that he'd tell the mayor, and he told the mayor when they let him.
Had he forgotten the passwords the moment he was fired, he wouldn't be in this mess. This is their fault.
Mod parent down. His job was to keep the network secure, and the people demanding the passwords didn't have a right to know them. He told the mayor instead.
This is, of course, after they fired him without demanding the passwords first.
Winning the game is simply another name for the ending. You could call the inexorable resolution of a conflict in a movie 'winning' as well.
I challenge him to play Half-Life 2 and not call it 'art'. You *feel* for the characters; you experience their universe, and you see their struggle. The cinematic in Dr. Breen's office at the end is fantastic, in a scripting and acting sense (yes, I know they're computer models but still).
Mr. Ebert, I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine the movie "Toy Story" was ported to the PC (actually not far-fetched). You are Woody, and you play through the movie. If you don't follow the script substantially correctly, you die and start from your last good location. By the end, you have effectively recreated the movie. If we grant that the film itself is art, why would this 'game' not be?
In my algorithms class, the code is submitted online and run through a bevvy of JUnit tests that we don't have access to, automatically graded using a custom framework assigning each test a point value, and logged in a database. They do spot-check certain people that they're curious about, outliers, and anything flagged by the cheat program.
In the TA-run programming labs of about 15 people, they do look at coding style - but they're more of the opinion that if it works and doesn't look like Perl, it's fine.
In any case, try implementing A* with a poor coding style and then debugging a problem. You learn really fast how to code properly.
My CS program uses a piece of software developed by another university - we, and several other uni's form an ad-hoc network of code. Occasionally (a few times a semester) a few people get caught by it.
The TA's know us very well, though, so if there was a close-ish match and it was in our code style, they'd write it off as coincidence. This happened to me, actually - I had a method that was almost verbatim of some kid from Washington, but in my coding style. My TA knew that I'd written it, because it matched my other code stylistically.
But I'm also at a very good university. Overworked TA's or professors might not be so careful.
Listen, I think the more science that happens, the better. And I completely support Chinese scientists attempting to make China a science powerhouse.
But at the moment they have no real reason to self-police. If the reputation cost to a journal of accepting a Chinese paper is too high (if fabrication is too rampant), they'll reject them out-of-hand to protect their reputation. Then, the legitimate scientists in China will need to kick some ass in their academia in order to be let back in.
Whether it's factories selling the latest iPod design for cheap knockoffs, or faked research, China has been playing fast and loose with the rules of international relations. They're with the big boys now, for better or worse, and people are starting to not excuse them for it.
To be fair, that game has very little to do with Steam. Pick up a copy of Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Source (Valve games, they own and operate Steam) and get back to me if you have any DRM problems.
I've literally *NEVER HEARD* of anybody having Steam DRM issues aside from the general philosophical one with the concept. Literally NOT ONCE have I heard of somebody having a problem with Valve's specific implementation. But again, COD MW2 uses their own DRM.
Look, I'm completely against DRM. What's with the cognitive dissonance then? Steam/Valve's DRM isn't one-sided. It's not so much DRM as running the game like a service. If I do a reinstall of my OS, get a new computer, or even go to a friend's house I can log on to Steam, download all my games, and be playing in an hour or so. No trouble. I can even have my (encrypted) games on literally dozens of computers, as long as I'm only playing online with one at a time. It's not even too much trouble to play offline on all of them simultaneously. It works offline (to anyone having trouble: go offline while online at least once, and it'll be fine later). And when the Mac version comes out (supposedly later this month), I'll get the ports without needing to spend a cent.
DRM sucks largely because they take away rights I used to have, while breaking my computer. And the legitimate customers have more trouble than the pirates. Steam's DRM is the opposite: I get an unlimited license to any game I've purchased, across any and all computers, as long as only one is used at a time. It doesn't impact my computer in the slightest. And while there are noSteam versions of most games, you can't connect to VAC servers, so you're flooded with cheaters.
Admittedly a good bit of this depends on Valve not being dicks. But they have such tremendous good will at the moment, and a long history of respecting their customers, that I can't imagine them changing their stance.
Really? Harder than if they confessed saying "this was school policy"?
I strongly support the right to plead the 5th. But while it's certainly not an admission of guilt, it would only be done by someone who could contribute nothing, or very little, positive to their own defense (since otherwise they'd be telling their side).
This is definitely possible. I don't understand the slightly derogatory tone in the article/summary.
And the Wii Fit didn't cause the injury, a fall did.
Seriously, come on Slashdot. A stupid article summarized stupidly. This is no different than if she had bumped a knee and damaged a nerve, and was left with minor parasthesia (pins and needles).
I occasionally smoke cigarettes (we're talking a few times a month). They're horrible for your lungs, full of tar, and your lungs work like a sponge. Ask a smoking friend to see their cigarette when they're done and look at the filter.
The less people who smoke cigarettes, the better. It's terrible for them, but it's also bad for people around them inhaling the smoke. Good riddance.
But these e-cigarettes are nicotine and some flavoring, with a battery vaporizer. Now, nicotine's not harmless in the slightest - it is, in fact, rat poison. But nicotine alone vs. nicotine, tar, formaldehyde, etc... all in one package - it doesn't take a genius to figure out which you should be encouraging people to use.
Most smokers I know are acutely aware of how bad it is for them (actually, most are medical professionals of some sort). Some of them want to stop and can't, and some of them just don't care. But they know it's bad, they're not in denial about it. The people I hang out tend to be well educated about this sort of stuff, but many aren't. If the ALA were to come out and say "hey guys, smoke this instead! same great effects, no tar, woohoo... vastly vastly reduced risk of cancer" well they'd probably switch.
In fact, straight nicotine basically doesn't affect the lungs - it'll mess up your arteries and brain, but largely ignore your lungs. <conspiracy_theory>Maybe they're worried about being put out of business</conspiracy_theory>
All 'useless twits' jokes aside, this is pretty interesting. But I wonder if they'd run into any copyright laws.
Reading the Twitter ToS turns up with this:
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).
which looks to me like posters retain copyright, but Twitter retains the right to grant others the same license you've granted them (non-exclusive license to provide their service).
So based on my reading, Twitter (and the LoC) are in the clear?
Simple enough - just have a satellite convert it into powerful microwaves which you then beam down to reflector dishes. It works great! But you have to be careful, as occasionally the satellite gets out of whack and cooks large portions of your town.
That, or Godzilla. Unless you've turned disasters off.
but perhaps not for the reasons he's suggesting or the outcome he wants.
I think that the study of UFO's *societal* genesis and spread could be quite interesting, as part of some sociology thing. But as a serious study into their existence? I think not. Weren't there no UFO sightings before space movies? And if so, did they just happen to co-arrive?
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To be fair, we've had almost 10 years. Strike that, 12 years.
We've even had all OS and router support for 5 years.
Fact of the matter is, nobody's moving to IPv6 until they *have* to. We can cry doom and gloom all we want (we have been, after all), and nobody cares. When Comcast can't address new customers, they'll get off their ass.
Though that's a bit of a gamble. The right answer is moving to IPv6, the best answer is doing that in advance, but they'll definitely consider just NATting new customers. Hopefully they'll do things properly, but this is ISPs we're talking about.
Well then just emulate the computer used to host the emulator!
I've debated guys who insist biological evolution and geology are "liberal" sciences.
To be fair, that doesn't sound like a debate. It sounds like you were talking at them while they focused as hard as they could into not comprehending anything you said.
I'm not sure which would be worse.
To be fair, they tried to return the changes upstream and got a lot of angst from KDE. So they stopped bothering and maintained their own fork.
All the license says is that changes need to be available to everyone. They are.
Do you have your history wrong , or are you just trolling? Either way, cut it out.
Which, considering most of the complaints against Gimp are about its user interface, sounds right up Apple's alley.
But when has Apple ever taken an open-source project, cleaned it up with bugfixes and lots of other improvements, and put a proprietary wrapper around it for ease-of-use?
On the spectrum from 'privacy abuse' to 'legitimately useful', this would be a *lot* closer to legitimately useful than most things we hear about (like the London cameras).
Is there potential for abuse? Of course. But cops are already looking for stolen plates, cars matching stolen descriptions, and I don't think that's a bad thing. This automates that.
If it's done properly, it's not a threat to liberty - require a warrant, etc. It's well-established, whether we like it or not, that our use of the roads by default gives up a bunch of rights - so it's not like this is anything new.
I, for one, would be quite happy with such a system if it found my stolen car.
On the other hand, I have it checked, and I'm working through my 4th week with constant modpoints, save for a few days here and there.
He *was* authorized to hold them. It was a large part of his job description.
When he was fired, they never asked him for the passwords. What was he supposed to do, whack himself over the head until he forgot them?
When the cops came looking for him for what was effectively their mistake, he clammed up (as he should've), since they nor the low-level guys gunning for them had any right to know the information. He said from the start that he'd tell the mayor, and he told the mayor when they let him.
Had he forgotten the passwords the moment he was fired, he wouldn't be in this mess. This is their fault.
Why does it stop? Probably because some guy set a couple of oil drums on fire, which lit the grassland and started a forest fire.
Mod parent down. His job was to keep the network secure, and the people demanding the passwords didn't have a right to know them. He told the mayor instead.
This is, of course, after they fired him without demanding the passwords first.
What's the problem with File\ Name.txt?
Winning the game is simply another name for the ending. You could call the inexorable resolution of a conflict in a movie 'winning' as well.
I challenge him to play Half-Life 2 and not call it 'art'. You *feel* for the characters; you experience their universe, and you see their struggle. The cinematic in Dr. Breen's office at the end is fantastic, in a scripting and acting sense (yes, I know they're computer models but still).
Mr. Ebert, I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine the movie "Toy Story" was ported to the PC (actually not far-fetched). You are Woody, and you play through the movie. If you don't follow the script substantially correctly, you die and start from your last good location. By the end, you have effectively recreated the movie. If we grant that the film itself is art, why would this 'game' not be?
In my algorithms class, the code is submitted online and run through a bevvy of JUnit tests that we don't have access to, automatically graded using a custom framework assigning each test a point value, and logged in a database. They do spot-check certain people that they're curious about, outliers, and anything flagged by the cheat program.
In the TA-run programming labs of about 15 people, they do look at coding style - but they're more of the opinion that if it works and doesn't look like Perl, it's fine.
In any case, try implementing A* with a poor coding style and then debugging a problem. You learn really fast how to code properly.
My CS program uses a piece of software developed by another university - we, and several other uni's form an ad-hoc network of code. Occasionally (a few times a semester) a few people get caught by it.
The TA's know us very well, though, so if there was a close-ish match and it was in our code style, they'd write it off as coincidence. This happened to me, actually - I had a method that was almost verbatim of some kid from Washington, but in my coding style. My TA knew that I'd written it, because it matched my other code stylistically.
But I'm also at a very good university. Overworked TA's or professors might not be so careful.
Listen, I think the more science that happens, the better. And I completely support Chinese scientists attempting to make China a science powerhouse.
But at the moment they have no real reason to self-police. If the reputation cost to a journal of accepting a Chinese paper is too high (if fabrication is too rampant), they'll reject them out-of-hand to protect their reputation. Then, the legitimate scientists in China will need to kick some ass in their academia in order to be let back in.
Whether it's factories selling the latest iPod design for cheap knockoffs, or faked research, China has been playing fast and loose with the rules of international relations. They're with the big boys now, for better or worse, and people are starting to not excuse them for it.
To be fair, that game has very little to do with Steam. Pick up a copy of Team Fortress 2 or Counter-Strike: Source (Valve games, they own and operate Steam) and get back to me if you have any DRM problems.
I've literally *NEVER HEARD* of anybody having Steam DRM issues aside from the general philosophical one with the concept. Literally NOT ONCE have I heard of somebody having a problem with Valve's specific implementation. But again, COD MW2 uses their own DRM.
Look, I'm completely against DRM. What's with the cognitive dissonance then? Steam/Valve's DRM isn't one-sided. It's not so much DRM as running the game like a service. If I do a reinstall of my OS, get a new computer, or even go to a friend's house I can log on to Steam, download all my games, and be playing in an hour or so. No trouble. I can even have my (encrypted) games on literally dozens of computers, as long as I'm only playing online with one at a time. It's not even too much trouble to play offline on all of them simultaneously. It works offline (to anyone having trouble: go offline while online at least once, and it'll be fine later). And when the Mac version comes out (supposedly later this month), I'll get the ports without needing to spend a cent.
DRM sucks largely because they take away rights I used to have, while breaking my computer. And the legitimate customers have more trouble than the pirates.
Steam's DRM is the opposite: I get an unlimited license to any game I've purchased, across any and all computers, as long as only one is used at a time. It doesn't impact my computer in the slightest. And while there are noSteam versions of most games, you can't connect to VAC servers, so you're flooded with cheaters.
Admittedly a good bit of this depends on Valve not being dicks. But they have such tremendous good will at the moment, and a long history of respecting their customers, that I can't imagine them changing their stance.
Really? Harder than if they confessed saying "this was school policy"?
I strongly support the right to plead the 5th. But while it's certainly not an admission of guilt, it would only be done by someone who could contribute nothing, or very little, positive to their own defense (since otherwise they'd be telling their side).
This is definitely possible. I don't understand the slightly derogatory tone in the article/summary.
And the Wii Fit didn't cause the injury, a fall did.
Seriously, come on Slashdot. A stupid article summarized stupidly. This is no different than if she had bumped a knee and damaged a nerve, and was left with minor parasthesia (pins and needles).
Oh, it's samzenpus. Carry on.
ot: what's with all the stupid stories today?
I occasionally smoke cigarettes (we're talking a few times a month). They're horrible for your lungs, full of tar, and your lungs work like a sponge. Ask a smoking friend to see their cigarette when they're done and look at the filter.
The less people who smoke cigarettes, the better. It's terrible for them, but it's also bad for people around them inhaling the smoke. Good riddance.
But these e-cigarettes are nicotine and some flavoring, with a battery vaporizer. Now, nicotine's not harmless in the slightest - it is, in fact, rat poison. But nicotine alone vs. nicotine, tar, formaldehyde, etc... all in one package - it doesn't take a genius to figure out which you should be encouraging people to use.
Most smokers I know are acutely aware of how bad it is for them (actually, most are medical professionals of some sort). Some of them want to stop and can't, and some of them just don't care. But they know it's bad, they're not in denial about it. The people I hang out tend to be well educated about this sort of stuff, but many aren't. If the ALA were to come out and say "hey guys, smoke this instead! same great effects, no tar, woohoo... vastly vastly reduced risk of cancer" well they'd probably switch.
In fact, straight nicotine basically doesn't affect the lungs - it'll mess up your arteries and brain, but largely ignore your lungs. <conspiracy_theory>Maybe they're worried about being put out of business</conspiracy_theory>
Though to be fair, if you have a rootkit on your corporate machines, the MSRT is the least of your worries.
Tycho is being a douche... alright, poop time... okay, poop is coming out.
I'm a twitter shitter!
I saw that episode. "Just remember, Scooty Puff Jr. sucks..."
All 'useless twits' jokes aside, this is pretty interesting. But I wonder if they'd run into any copyright laws.
Reading the Twitter ToS turns up with this:
You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).
which looks to me like posters retain copyright, but Twitter retains the right to grant others the same license you've granted them (non-exclusive license to provide their service).
So based on my reading, Twitter (and the LoC) are in the clear?
Simple enough - just have a satellite convert it into powerful microwaves which you then beam down to reflector dishes. It works great! But you have to be careful, as occasionally the satellite gets out of whack and cooks large portions of your town.
That, or Godzilla. Unless you've turned disasters off.
but perhaps not for the reasons he's suggesting or the outcome he wants.
I think that the study of UFO's *societal* genesis and spread could be quite interesting, as part of some sociology thing. But as a serious study into their existence? I think not. Weren't there no UFO sightings before space movies? And if so, did they just happen to co-arrive?