I'm not sure what project you were seeking help on, but i have gotten quite a good reception from #mythtv on freenode, whenever i get some strange bug that google can't help with. So maybe it just depends on the particular group surrounding a given project. My typical order of sources for most oss projects is still TFM/FAQ, then google, then IRC, then after all that, the mailing list (if there is one of course). My point being don't be so quick to abandon IRC as a resource just because of this one experience. Still i have to admit that i haven't found myself just leisurely chatting in IRC for many years, for many of the reasons that other posters have mentioned.
The reason this analogy doesn't hold is that for the automobile, you have to put the work into breaking into each one individually, whereas with a common enough computer related security vulnerability you can do the work once, i.e. research and write the exploit program/script, and use it afterwards repeatedly with much less effort. So while a car thief has to start over with each car, and can only steal one at a time, an exploit writer can do the real work once, and perform the job on as many similar machines as he can find effectively simultaneously. This is why computer security is requires so much more rigor.
I, too, made a doom map of my middle school grounds. My mom thought it was neat that i was doing something creative with the computer that she and my dad bought me. They never associated me blowing up imps and zombie space marines as anything other than mindless entertainment.
This was pre-columbine, though, and my parents were fairly progressive.
If that's the case then make a point of asking all the people of american descent that you know if they have any native american blood in them. You'll be surprised how many do.
while i would in most circumstances never defend visacorp et al over the merchant, in this case i will. All an authorization means is that the cardholder has at least x dollars of available credit, and that you as a valid cc merchant want to reserve x dollars from said credit for a charge to be made at a later date. It in no way means that the charge is legit, only that you (as the merchant) agree to properly bill the customer through your merchant bank at a later time, typically the next business day. The authorization and the actual charge are actually two different processes, even though the auth is needed for the charge to be valid.
The point that i am working towards is that when a merchant aquires a visa/mc/etc merchant account, they bear the responsibility to only charge for what they in good faith believe to be legitimate transactions, and visa/mc/etc only acts as a middle man in such transactions. Neither more or less than they claim to be. In this case if the merchant accepts a fraudulent transaction, the burden is on them to make good, not the cc company who is only acting as a banking agent. Now if the cc company were to charge customers for transactions not made, then this would be completely different, but that is not what TFA is referring to.
And as much as i like to favor the merchant over the banking industry, i honestly think this is the most fair way to handle this situation,.
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that's exactly what i thought when i read the GP post. I am not a pilot and know nothing of this subject admittedly, but it would seem that the spot directly above the airport was an ideal spot for aircraft which were holding to be, as none of the planes that were landing or taking off would ever be there.
Didn't seem to interfere with the navigation systems. I'm curious as to how much the terrorists used the navigation systems. I am not a pilot, and admittedly have no idea how feasible this may be, but i speculate that they may have simply used dead reckoning. Not that this (even if true) has any bearing on whether or not cell phones affect such systems.
Simple in concept - tricky in execution. Take, for example, the three phase mains power - the three rings have to be far enough apart to avoid sparking. The brushes and rings are subject to wear and sensitive to contamination.... Nor do these rings work real well for RF (read cable) frequency transmission. I was thinking the same thing when i read that, it's got to be a maintenance nightmare. Not to mention that the bearings needed to spin such a large weight as an entire building must be huge! Nevermind the motors that drive the thing. Even if they last 100 years, what happens when they do eventually fail?
Come to think of it though, anyone have info on how those large rotating restaurants (ala the space needle, that q-tip looking thing in dallas, etc...) do it?
The Water Wiggle was a toy which would attach to the end of a garden hose, and jet the water out of a plastic hood looking thing in such a manner as to chaotically fly around the lawn. Responsible for at least one death according to this page.
I am not old enough to have experienced this thing myself, but have heard horror stories both from my parents and a and the mother of a friend of mine. She actually knew someone who was seriously messed up by one when she was growing up. Surprising it wasn't mentioned in this particular article.
How will the one laptop per child project discourage genocide?
While i fully support the OLPC project in spirit, and fully believe that the aims of the OLPC project are completely chivalristic (sp?) in nature, where did they ever promise to end genocide? I honenstly believed their aim to be to simply lower the tech barrier between poor and priveleged children. No more, no less. Where in the hell did the issue of genocice (of any stripe) come into play?
This reminds me of when I used to work in a call center doing credit card customer service. I was passed over for a lead rep position for two reasons:
1. My average call time was 1min 30sec, the quota was 2min. Despite the fact that all my other stats were in the perfect ranges, I got ganked for handling calls TOO QUICK! (Without talking fast or rushing or anything. I was just good at going through the various screens in out terminal software while talking simultaneously.)
2. While i normally got very positive comments on my reviews for the clarity of my voice, this particular review cited me for having too much of a southern twang. (the call center was located in St. Petersburg, FL and most of our customers were credit unions in Georgia/South Carolina.)
Of course no one else got the position that quarter either. The next quarter I got it without even having a review.
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Really makes you wonder exactly what it is that makes middle management tick.
That would apply only had he initially believed that the 0.002 cent/KB rate was wrong. I gather that had he been told later that he was misquoted, and the actual rate was 0.002 dollar/KB, and was thus being charged correctly, he might have dropped it there. Notice, though, that he was repeatedly quoted the 0.002 cent/KB rate.
On the other side, however, anyone who has ever worked any kind of retail job should know that if something is marked a certain price on the shelf, and the register rings the item up as a higher price, the customer is only expected to pay the price listed on the shelf. I don't know if there is any law behind this, but I have seen it many of times both when working retail in my younger years and as a consumer in later life. What's posted is what the customer pays (barring sticker swapping which, i believe is a form of shoplifting under the law). The same should apply in this case, and Verison should honor their quoted rate. I think, however, it's pretty obvious that this is just a case of mathematical ignorance on the part of the verison reps, and not some attempt at some kind of a scam.
This is great that they have acknowledged the cedega community as legitimate users, and i salute them for eventually making the right decision, despite initial blunders. But what about users (like myself) who use vanilla wine as opposed to cedega to play wow? I would hope that in their infinite wisdom they would allow us the privelege to pay them money every month just like windows/mac/cedega users can.
I seem to remember a really annoying meme from my middle school days ('92-'94) where kids would make a terribly annoying "woop woop" noise like a siren, in immitation of a popular rap song of the day. Possibly not related to w00t, but it's what i hear in my head whenever i see it online.
What confuses me (and this is an honest question from an ignorant mind) is let's say i want to skrew with the experiment.
I intend to send one of two messages back in time, either msg1 or msg2. i'm not going to define the messages other that being discreet and being transmissable through this proposed medium. I send the message from t1 to t0, t0 obviously being before t1 by our reckoning of time. I do the experiment repeatedly, and it works every time. Then I decide, just to be silly, to read the message at t0 and send the exact opposite message at t1. What happens?
I'm sure the physics community has asked this very question already. Is it that i cannot determine the msg to be sent at t1? This paradox seems, to me at least, to be the most basic thing wrong with the concept of being able to travel back in time.
My problem with capital punishment is that it implies 100% faith in the system.
This is somewhat similar to my opinion on Capital Punishment. I really don't have a moral objection to executing individuals who have both engaged in premeditated murder, and who also have shown no remorse (i.e. will quite likely kill again). Not as a deterrant, or as a token of justice, but simply because they have made society choose between the individuals' safety and everyone elses.
That being said, I am not sure if the state should weild that right. Too much possibility of the state executing someone who simply committed a crime of passion, or an act of self defense, or to be totally innocent in the first place, etc....
I honestly don't remember the name of it, but there was a documentary on this very subject something like 5 years ago. Maybe the slashdot groupthink can remember. They basically investigated a bunch of death row inmates in TX and CA, and followed their cases. It really changed my mind on this subject, rare thing for a video documentary.
Some deprecated features, such as the feedback buffer, that are no longer commonly used are left out as well.
Just out of curiosity, how is picking usually done nowadays, if not with the feedback buffer? Geometrically (i.e. outside of the OpenGL Machine)? Or does OpenGL provide another tool for picking?
Your point is well taken, (that being that apathy can be very dangerous both to the individual and to society as a whole), and i am therefore against any permanent therapy of this type (at least for all but extreme cases), either drug or gene based. It seems to me, however, that everyone should experience such carefreeness at at least at some point in their lives.
Admittedly, not everyone in Clearwater is a Scientologist. In fact the largest demographic in the county, by far, is retired people. A large portion of businesses in the area, particularly in downtown Clearwater, is however either financed heavily by the church or is run by/heavily staffed by scientologists.
Note that i lived on Clearwater Beach from '89 to '01, went to high school there, and flipped burgers/bussed tables at various jobs during this time. I can assure you that $cientology has it's tentacles in a large part of the local economy of the west side of Clearwater.
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I'm not sure what project you were seeking help on, but i have gotten quite a good reception from #mythtv on freenode, whenever i get some strange bug that google can't help with. So maybe it just depends on the particular group surrounding a given project. My typical order of sources for most oss projects is still TFM/FAQ, then google, then IRC, then after all that, the mailing list (if there is one of course). My point being don't be so quick to abandon IRC as a resource just because of this one experience. Still i have to admit that i haven't found myself just leisurely chatting in IRC for many years, for many of the reasons that other posters have mentioned.
i feel ya buddy. I've had the same nick since '93 myself, back in the BBS days.
The reason this analogy doesn't hold is that for the automobile, you have to put the work into breaking into each one individually, whereas with a common enough computer related security vulnerability you can do the work once, i.e. research and write the exploit program/script, and use it afterwards repeatedly with much less effort. So while a car thief has to start over with each car, and can only steal one at a time, an exploit writer can do the real work once, and perform the job on as many similar machines as he can find effectively simultaneously. This is why computer security is requires so much more rigor.
I, too, made a doom map of my middle school grounds. My mom thought it was neat that i was doing something creative with the computer that she and my dad bought me. They never associated me blowing up imps and zombie space marines as anything other than mindless entertainment.
This was pre-columbine, though, and my parents were fairly progressive.
If that's the case then make a point of asking all the people of american descent that you know if they have any native american blood in them. You'll be surprised how many do.
while i would in most circumstances never defend visacorp et al over the merchant, in this case i will. All an authorization means is that the cardholder has at least x dollars of available credit, and that you as a valid cc merchant want to reserve x dollars from said credit for a charge to be made at a later date. It in no way means that the charge is legit, only that you (as the merchant) agree to properly bill the customer through your merchant bank at a later time, typically the next business day. The authorization and the actual charge are actually two different processes, even though the auth is needed for the charge to be valid.
The point that i am working towards is that when a merchant aquires a visa/mc/etc merchant account, they bear the responsibility to only charge for what they in good faith believe to be legitimate transactions, and visa/mc/etc only acts as a middle man in such transactions. Neither more or less than they claim to be. In this case if the merchant accepts a fraudulent transaction, the burden is on them to make good, not the cc company who is only acting as a banking agent. Now if the cc company were to charge customers for transactions not made, then this would be completely different, but that is not what TFA is referring to.
And as much as i like to favor the merchant over the banking industry, i honestly think this is the most fair way to handle this situation,.
that's exactly what i thought when i read the GP post. I am not a pilot and know nothing of this subject admittedly, but it would seem that the spot directly above the airport was an ideal spot for aircraft which were holding to be, as none of the planes that were landing or taking off would ever be there.
Come to think of it though, anyone have info on how those large rotating restaurants (ala the space needle, that q-tip looking thing in dallas, etc...) do it?
The Water Wiggle was a toy which would attach to the end of a garden hose, and jet the water out of a plastic hood looking thing in such a manner as to chaotically fly around the lawn. Responsible for at least one death according to this page.
I am not old enough to have experienced this thing myself, but have heard horror stories both from my parents and a and the mother of a friend of mine. She actually knew someone who was seriously messed up by one when she was growing up. Surprising it wasn't mentioned in this particular article.
While i fully support the OLPC project in spirit, and fully believe that the aims of the OLPC project are completely chivalristic (sp?) in nature, where did they ever promise to end genocide? I honenstly believed their aim to be to simply lower the tech barrier between poor and priveleged children. No more, no less. Where in the hell did the issue of genocice (of any stripe) come into play?
This reminds me of when I used to work in a call center doing credit card customer service. I was passed over for a lead rep position for two reasons:
1. My average call time was 1min 30sec, the quota was 2min. Despite the fact that all my other stats were in the perfect ranges, I got ganked for handling calls TOO QUICK! (Without talking fast or rushing or anything. I was just good at going through the various screens in out terminal software while talking simultaneously.)
2. While i normally got very positive comments on my reviews for the clarity of my voice, this particular review cited me for having too much of a southern twang. (the call center was located in St. Petersburg, FL and most of our customers were credit unions in Georgia/South Carolina.)
Of course no one else got the position that quarter either. The next quarter I got it without even having a review.
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Really makes you wonder exactly what it is that makes middle management tick.
That would apply only had he initially believed that the 0.002 cent/KB rate was wrong. I gather that had he been told later that he was misquoted, and the actual rate was 0.002 dollar/KB, and was thus being charged correctly, he might have dropped it there. Notice, though, that he was repeatedly quoted the 0.002 cent/KB rate.
On the other side, however, anyone who has ever worked any kind of retail job should know that if something is marked a certain price on the shelf, and the register rings the item up as a higher price, the customer is only expected to pay the price listed on the shelf. I don't know if there is any law behind this, but I have seen it many of times both when working retail in my younger years and as a consumer in later life. What's posted is what the customer pays (barring sticker swapping which, i believe is a form of shoplifting under the law). The same should apply in this case, and Verison should honor their quoted rate. I think, however, it's pretty obvious that this is just a case of mathematical ignorance on the part of the verison reps, and not some attempt at some kind of a scam.
This is great that they have acknowledged the cedega community as legitimate users, and i salute them for eventually making the right decision, despite initial blunders. But what about users (like myself) who use vanilla wine as opposed to cedega to play wow? I would hope that in their infinite wisdom they would allow us the privelege to pay them money every month just like windows/mac/cedega users can.
I seem to remember a really annoying meme from my middle school days ('92-'94) where kids would make a terribly annoying "woop woop" noise like a siren, in immitation of a popular rap song of the day. Possibly not related to w00t, but it's what i hear in my head whenever i see it online.
I intend to send one of two messages back in time, either msg1 or msg2. i'm not going to define the messages other that being discreet and being transmissable through this proposed medium. I send the message from t1 to t0, t0 obviously being before t1 by our reckoning of time. I do the experiment repeatedly, and it works every time. Then I decide, just to be silly, to read the message at t0 and send the exact opposite message at t1. What happens?
I'm sure the physics community has asked this very question already. Is it that i cannot determine the msg to be sent at t1? This paradox seems, to me at least, to be the most basic thing wrong with the concept of being able to travel back in time.
No results from the search box on FIC's website either. So much for karma whoring with a nice informative link, i guess.
huh?
This is somewhat similar to my opinion on Capital Punishment. I really don't have a moral objection to executing individuals who have both engaged in premeditated murder, and who also have shown no remorse (i.e. will quite likely kill again). Not as a deterrant, or as a token of justice, but simply because they have made society choose between the individuals' safety and everyone elses.
That being said, I am not sure if the state should weild that right. Too much possibility of the state executing someone who simply committed a crime of passion, or an act of self defense, or to be totally innocent in the first place, etc....
I honestly don't remember the name of it, but there was a documentary on this very subject something like 5 years ago. Maybe the slashdot groupthink can remember. They basically investigated a bunch of death row inmates in TX and CA, and followed their cases. It really changed my mind on this subject, rare thing for a video documentary.
Your point is well taken, (that being that apathy can be very dangerous both to the individual and to society as a whole), and i am therefore against any permanent therapy of this type (at least for all but extreme cases), either drug or gene based. It seems to me, however, that everyone should experience such carefreeness at at least at some point in their lives.
I told you i'd shoot!
But you didn't believe me!
Whhhyyyy didn't you believe me!
Admittedly, not everyone in Clearwater is a Scientologist. In fact the largest demographic in the county, by far, is retired people. A large portion of businesses in the area, particularly in downtown Clearwater, is however either financed heavily by the church or is run by/heavily staffed by scientologists.
Note that i lived on Clearwater Beach from '89 to '01, went to high school there, and flipped burgers/bussed tables at various jobs during this time. I can assure you that $cientology has it's tentacles in a large part of the local economy of the west side of Clearwater.
goddam +5 insightful for just the word "who?".
lemme give this a shot,
why?
Admittably, IANAAE (i am not an aeronautical engineer), but lack of wings maybe?