This is the lamest conclusion I've seen yet on Slashdot - either flame bait or a submitter and editorial combined IQ of 50.
Who has the lower IQ, the submitter, or the person who doesn't understand that encoded QR-code data could easily exploit a bug in the QR-code decoder library to execute arbitrary code? Not saying it's likely, but definitely within the realm of possibility. Remember the JPEG decoder exploit?
save your descendants from having to figure out how to read a QR code.
This sounds like a good "Brewster's Millions" move. Leave in your will a statement that says you have encoded the location of $10,000,000 and laugh from the grave as your greedy heirs try to figure it out...
I'm not so sure. Some of the people we interview here are idiots, and definitely not the kind of people I would want coding for me. So every week you get some newb who knows jack shit about your codebase, possibly even programming, to write some shit and then (possibly) leave forever. Sounds like a great way to fuck up your codebase. Sure they have the programming buddy but all that really means is that you've taken away a week of good programming from one of your good devs in exchange for a week of bad programming from someone you know nothing about...
The Higgs boson was also a common myth. 100 years ago people would have said physics does not allow for quantum entanglement. Stop presuming that we know everything about physics.
It's a good question. I don't have any citations but I do remember reading an article that claimed the intellectually dulling effects go away after a period of disuse..
just use the plastic positive to create a mold and cast the parts in steel. just because you print in plastic doesn't mean you have to fabricate in plastic
If I need a thing to do X I will hunt one down. Fuck your advertising. I could care less about anything that relies on advertising to support itself. Whatever it is, I don't need it, and if it disappeared I could care less. Oh no! Slashdot went away. Boohoo. I can't watch So You Think You Can Dance anymore??! The tragedy!! All the shit in the world that exists solely to help sell products that people don't need can quite happily disappear. You believe that you can't live without all the "free" services that ad revenue provides. You think you're immune to the subconscious programming that advertising does to you. Block the ads, let some other sheep get brainwashed, take advantage while you can...
I find this word to be the most terrifying part of the article:
"certainly the police can track the signal"
It's a very convicted word to use. Like in this guy's mind there is no possible conceivable reality that exists anywhere in which the police wouldn't be able to track something. It's just a few steps closer to getting us from:
"the police can't track the signal"
to:
"certainly the police can search your house without a warrant"
etc... I'm sure it doesn't go on forever like that, but I'd like the end of the list to be closer to police not doing stuff...
Nobody forced them to file a trademark to begin with. They don't _have_ to do anything. If their product is so great, simply having the words Jack Daniels on the bottle should suffice.
I don't get it. You're going to buy a bottle of their whiskey because they tried to censor an artistic expression? It doesn't matter how nice they ask, the fact that they're asking is wrong to begin with.
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This is the lamest conclusion I've seen yet on Slashdot - either flame bait or a submitter and editorial combined IQ of 50.
Who has the lower IQ, the submitter, or the person who doesn't understand that encoded QR-code data could easily exploit a bug in the QR-code decoder library to execute arbitrary code? Not saying it's likely, but definitely within the realm of possibility. Remember the JPEG decoder exploit?
Zawahiri acknowledged the death of his second in command Abu Yahya and urged Libyans to avenge his killing
Yeah because that'll stop the cycle...
why moron? it's not that far-fetched to postulate that some creatures here may have come from elsewhere..
save your descendants from having to figure out how to read a QR code.
This sounds like a good "Brewster's Millions" move. Leave in your will a statement that says you have encoded the location of $10,000,000 and laugh from the grave as your greedy heirs try to figure it out...
Of COURSE this process is good for the company.
I'm not so sure. Some of the people we interview here are idiots, and definitely not the kind of people I would want coding for me. So every week you get some newb who knows jack shit about your codebase, possibly even programming, to write some shit and then (possibly) leave forever. Sounds like a great way to fuck up your codebase. Sure they have the programming buddy but all that really means is that you've taken away a week of good programming from one of your good devs in exchange for a week of bad programming from someone you know nothing about...
That's ok. I sold most of my organs back in the 80's to buy a new deck and a handful of icebreakers..
The Higgs boson was also a common myth. 100 years ago people would have said physics does not allow for quantum entanglement. Stop presuming that we know everything about physics.
It's a good question. I don't have any citations but I do remember reading an article that claimed the intellectually dulling effects go away after a period of disuse..
I love Seal
once a marine, always a marine
He's mentally ill, and really does need help
And you're basing this diagnosis on what exactly?
agreed. this is the most boringest logo they could have possibly come up with. absolutely zero creativity at that company...
just use the plastic positive to create a mold and cast the parts in steel. just because you print in plastic doesn't mean you have to fabricate in plastic
Yeah but last I checked Slashdot isn't owned by PayPal
People still use eBay?
All I have to say is you're an idiot. God help you if you ever actually run a game company...
the consoles will save us all!!! keep telling yourself that, ubi..
If I need a thing to do X I will hunt one down. Fuck your advertising. I could care less about anything that relies on advertising to support itself. Whatever it is, I don't need it, and if it disappeared I could care less. Oh no! Slashdot went away. Boohoo. I can't watch So You Think You Can Dance anymore??! The tragedy!! All the shit in the world that exists solely to help sell products that people don't need can quite happily disappear. You believe that you can't live without all the "free" services that ad revenue provides. You think you're immune to the subconscious programming that advertising does to you. Block the ads, let some other sheep get brainwashed, take advantage while you can...
I find this word to be the most terrifying part of the article:
" certainly the police can track the signal"
It's a very convicted word to use. Like in this guy's mind there is no possible conceivable reality that exists anywhere in which the police wouldn't be able to track something. It's just a few steps closer to getting us from:
"the police can't track the signal"
to:
"certainly the police can search your house without a warrant"
etc... I'm sure it doesn't go on forever like that, but I'd like the end of the list to be closer to police not doing stuff...
I would make mine "Fuck U. Verizon"
"I am Clin-ton. As overlord, all will kneel trembling before me and obey my brutal command. End communication."
I would rather make the mistakes he made then the successes I have made in life.
Be careful what you wish for... I wouldn't trade places with that douchebag for anything.
Nobody forced them to file a trademark to begin with. They don't _have_ to do anything. If their product is so great, simply having the words Jack Daniels on the bottle should suffice.
they will be happy with you.
I couldn't give a single fuck if they are happy with me or not. That cop is not your friend, no matter which side of the law you are on.
I don't get it. You're going to buy a bottle of their whiskey because they tried to censor an artistic expression? It doesn't matter how nice they ask, the fact that they're asking is wrong to begin with.