This is not a fucking hobby project. This is a retail device, sold for profit. You are NOT encouraged to take it apart. This entitlement attitude of being able to reverse engineer everyone elses IP is starting to piss me off.
Profane statement, 36 characters. Statement, 41 characters, two parts. Emphatic statement, 40 characters. Statement, 105 characters.
Conclusion: Each sentence is twitterable. How about you post your rants there?
As I understand it, they use your user agent to determine whether you are a search engine or not. If you are a search engine, they give you all the answers (this is probably how they get so high in search rankings)..otherwise.. you get the "pay here" page.
As I understand it, they got slammed by some lawsuit so they had to duplicate their "covered up" answers at the bottom of the page. They're still allowed to trick people into paying, but no one has to.
Some of the most arcane (and useful) tips I've ever gotten were from experts exchange. What, you don't scroll all the way to the bottom where the real answers are?
there's a third option you missed that is having some success in the middle east.
Certainly you've heard by now that Egypt's "interim" Martial Law government has attacked the revolutionists in Tahrir Square? There was a minor skirmish with some unidentified thugs, and then the army came in guns blazing. The revolutionists were like "hey cool, the army's here to save our butts and restore order", then the army attacked them and has taken the square. Unless you're *really* careful, revolutions tend to devolve into worse totalitarianism. Also, Libya's people are being slaughtered in bombing raids by their own leader. Oh, wait, maybe you meant the third option of US invasion and nation building, since that seems to actually be doing something in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, how the US invades the US, I'll never know.
The Senate will fall to these fools in time, and than it's all over.
What will be all over? The world? The country? The economic prosperity? The tax 'n spend?
Don't be so melodramatic. Republicans have had the House and Senate before, and Armageddon didn't result.
Did you see where the summary said, "voted 15-8 along party lines"? How does that support your thesis that every politician comes from the same party?
Every politician comes from the same party, but they have to appear to fight. Jets fans and Patriots fans will both agree that Soccer is for pansies, but if a Jets fan knows a Patriots fan is talking smack about Soccer, the Jets fan will pretend to support the lesser-known Futball.
Yo Mr Engineer, I'm really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Surgeons are the best human hackers evar.
This. I'm fine with "hacking" meaning "to bypass computer security" instead of replacing hardware or coding, but "hacking" when referring to humans has a long history. Not quite surgeon level, but there are always sharp tools involved. "Social Engineering" is good enough.
Please add professional photographers to that list of the abused. We are constantly asked for "favors." I farking hate it!
I'm beginning to see a pattern. If others consider your profession a "hobby" rather than a "real" profession, then they may be more likely to ask for free help.
And the bad part is if you enjoy your line of work enough, it might be a "hobby" in your off-hours, or truly was a hobby before you started getting paid for it. They more you enjoy your work, the more people assume you'd enjoy helping them in your free time.
SSDs wear out gracefully so that you can still read your data after many failures. Spinning drives just die and you go to a backup.
Most spinning disks, give signs that they are about to give up the ghost. My understanding is that SSDs work perfectly fine one moment and the next they are completely unresponsive.
You're both right. It all depends on how each drive fails. No matter what, any drive can have catastrophic failure without warning.
And if you bought them all at the same time from the same place, chances are, when one finally dies from old age, more than one may perish simultaneously.
The likelihood of two devices failing at the same time due to old age is incredibly small, unless by "old age" you mean something like "a meteorite striking the storage system".
But the likelihood of two devices failing at the same time a few months after installation due to manufacturing defect is high enough that It warrants minor caution.
Most software today is applications of long solved problems and is developed in high level development environments that do most of the work (especially compared with the old "enter your machine code line by line using theses 8 switches" days). The logical conclusion of that tend will be most companies replacing their software developers with a development environment that allows the marketing department to enter a specification document and outputs a compliant program.
LOL A specification document of that quality is just another high level programming language. Marketing folk won't understand the specialized use of english; "do it A times for every instance of B plus C", so there will have to be a programmer in each department.
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This is not a fucking hobby project. This is a retail device, sold for profit. You are NOT encouraged to take it apart. This entitlement attitude of being able to reverse engineer everyone elses IP is starting to piss me off.
Profane statement, 36 characters. Statement, 41 characters, two parts. Emphatic statement, 40 characters. Statement, 105 characters.
Conclusion: Each sentence is twitterable. How about you post your rants there?
I do work in central Indiana, and it's really really annoying. Not only do they not use DST, but their time zone splits the state in half
Not in the last few years you haven't. Indiana switched to DST in 2005. Arizona and Hawaii are the last holdouts of sanity.
and [Ron Paul's] supporters do wonderful things like shoot congresswomen and little girls.
What? I thought that shooter was a Palin herp derper.
I thought the shooter was a Gabriel Giffords supporter, but an insane one.
Things that can be copyrighted: Books, nicknacks, travel brochures, the pattern on my boxers...
"Sir, this skidmark is clearly derivative."
"Um, Parody?"
Naw, man. The results are plainly visible underneath.
As I understand it, they use your user agent to determine whether you are a search engine or not. If you are a search engine, they give you all the answers (this is probably how they get so high in search rankings)..otherwise.. you get the "pay here" page.
As I understand it, they got slammed by some lawsuit so they had to duplicate their "covered up" answers at the bottom of the page. They're still allowed to trick people into paying, but no one has to.
Some of the most arcane (and useful) tips I've ever gotten were from experts exchange. What, you don't scroll all the way to the bottom where the real answers are?
Tongue was in cheek. Not fut in mouth.
there's a third option you missed that is having some success in the middle east.
Certainly you've heard by now that Egypt's "interim" Martial Law government has attacked the revolutionists in Tahrir Square? There was a minor skirmish with some unidentified thugs, and then the army came in guns blazing. The revolutionists were like "hey cool, the army's here to save our butts and restore order", then the army attacked them and has taken the square. Unless you're *really* careful, revolutions tend to devolve into worse totalitarianism. Also, Libya's people are being slaughtered in bombing raids by their own leader. Oh, wait, maybe you meant the third option of US invasion and nation building, since that seems to actually be doing something in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, how the US invades the US, I'll never know.
Why in blazes would we expect people in government to be omniscient?
Because they have access to a free and open Internet.
The Senate will fall to these fools in time, and than it's all over.
What will be all over? The world? The country? The economic prosperity? The tax 'n spend?
Don't be so melodramatic. Republicans have had the House and Senate before, and Armageddon didn't result.
Did you see where the summary said, "voted 15-8 along party lines"? How does that support your thesis that every politician comes from the same party?
Every politician comes from the same party, but they have to appear to fight. Jets fans and Patriots fans will both agree that Soccer is for pansies, but if a Jets fan knows a Patriots fan is talking smack about Soccer, the Jets fan will pretend to support the lesser-known Futball.
Maps!? Baww! In my day we didn't have maps and we liked it! We found our way by reading the stars!
Stars!? Baww! in my day we didn't have stars and we liked it! We found our way by having everything localized in the same infinitesimal dot!
Yo Mr Engineer, I'm really happy for you, and imma let you finish, but Surgeons are the best human hackers evar.
This. I'm fine with "hacking" meaning "to bypass computer security" instead of replacing hardware or coding, but "hacking" when referring to humans has a long history. Not quite surgeon level, but there are always sharp tools involved. "Social Engineering" is good enough.
Please add professional photographers to that list of the abused. We are constantly asked for "favors." I farking hate it!
I'm beginning to see a pattern. If others consider your profession a "hobby" rather than a "real" profession, then they may be more likely to ask for free help.
And the bad part is if you enjoy your line of work enough, it might be a "hobby" in your off-hours, or truly was a hobby before you started getting paid for it. They more you enjoy your work, the more people assume you'd enjoy helping them in your free time.
Apparently word hasn't gotten out that you "know horses"
If word spreads in an Amish community that you "know horses" no one will ever leave you alone with their horses.. Or talk to you.
No, no. He uses them in series, not parallel. Web pages are so sanitized he might as well just use lynx.
Or my response: "I haven't touched Windows since Window 2000...
Friend interrupts: "Great! My computer's Windows 2000 Workstation that I stole from work five years ago. I'll be right over!"
I totally know what you mean.
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Isn't there a law or something like that that states that anything that can be written in 10 lines of Perl can be written in 1 line of Perl?
It was ruled unconstitutional last week.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-1036.pdf
That's awweady been done. But I can't show an exampow, because Swashdot appawentwy specificawy wequested that this site not be twanswitewated.
SSDs wear out gracefully so that you can still read your data after many failures. Spinning drives just die and you go to a backup.
Most spinning disks, give signs that they are about to give up the ghost. My understanding is that SSDs work perfectly fine one moment and the next they are completely unresponsive.
You're both right. It all depends on how each drive fails. No matter what, any drive can have catastrophic failure without warning.
And if you bought them all at the same time from the same place, chances are, when one finally dies from old age, more than one may perish simultaneously.
The likelihood of two devices failing at the same time due to old age is incredibly small, unless by "old age" you mean something like "a meteorite striking the storage system".
But the likelihood of two devices failing at the same time a few months after installation due to manufacturing defect is high enough that It warrants minor caution.
Most software today is applications of long solved problems and is developed in high level development environments that do most of the work (especially compared with the old "enter your machine code line by line using theses 8 switches" days). The logical conclusion of that tend will be most companies replacing their software developers with a development environment that allows the marketing department to enter a specification document and outputs a compliant program.
LOL A specification document of that quality is just another high level programming language. Marketing folk won't understand the specialized use of english; "do it A times for every instance of B plus C", so there will have to be a programmer in each department.
Vacuum is a darn good insulator, so it would be a terrible datacenter unless it used eject-able heatsinks of some sort.