What year? 2011? The summary was posted Aug 19, 2010, at ~1PM GMT... There's no place on Earth that's -13 or -14 GMT, so it had to be the 19th when it was posted to the front page.
We live in a relatively closed system. If we were trying to "heat" you up, that heat will come back around and hit our west coast. But, as with most conspiracies, it's hilarious to watch at least. Somehow people think we can come up with a grand scheme to manipulate the weather of foreign nations, put it into action, _and_ keep it quiet, yet our government can't figure out how to win a simple war and keep the documents classified during it (WikiLeaks/Afghanistan)?
Manhattan Project. I hear two localized areas in Japan got very hot very fast.
I share a name with a famous athlete. I am a needle in a haystack as far as my real name in a google search.
That's nice. Google has one cpu core for every straw... in every haystack in all the fields in the tri-state area. I think they'll find your needle eventually. Of course, their current search interface doesn't allow the public to find info on you easily, but they may have an interface soon that does something like: "give me height/weight for $FamousAthleteName, but not the famous athlete. I think he lived in $City once".
What's fun is when you're discussing a racing game. "You can choose to race in the IRL" "Um, I bought the game because I want to race fake Indy Cars, not real ones." "Not the IRL IRL, the in game IRL." "Oh!"
How many IT workers might "steal" code or complicated scripts they wrote while working as a programmer or sysadmin, even if it's just via memorization?
At my severance interview, the boss told me that the really good pens were on the top shelf.
And when Joseph's brothers left Egypt, he planted a goblet in one of Benjamin's sacks. Make sure you're not accidentally taking anything if you don't want a psycho higher-up to stir up trouble should they find out.
As if companies had incentives to lie. It's a good thing they don't, or we'd need some sort of third party to make sure they didn't rip anybody off. Where the hell would we get one of those?
Well, we have two parties, and I hear China has only one party, so they could be the third party.
So instead you mix up your stream with all the other streams so that there is a bit of your stream everywhere. This causes their minds to be boggled and you win.
If one bit of your stream comes from the BAD website, they take you out to a soccer stadium and shoot you. Their minds might be boggled, but you still lose.
1. Only nerds read or even know what a "bugzilla DB" is.
2. Not everyone wants to mess with the whole administrator vs user accounts thing.
3. Not everyone uses that crappy browser known as Firefox.
I'll give you 1 and 2 (as reasons why people don't know better), but 3 is irrelevant. Every browser has had problems like these, even lynx. Ever heard of Safari? I hear mobile Safari had a pdf exploit recently.
They are introducing multi-touch in 10.10 because in 11.04 the close and minimize buttons
will run around the borders of your windows and you'll need two hands to catch them.
This is much better than the current 10.04 "Memory" min-game where you try to remember which side the buttons are on.
I usually use the Zork like game to turn the recent memory game off. The magic words elude mee at the moment, but they have something to do with sed and gconf.
Apart from Internet Explorer and ActiveX, how the hell can a web page infect a computer via a Web browser?
AFAIK Javascript can't write files to the OS, so how are they doing it?
You haven't seen any of the entries in mozilla's bugzilla DB with "arbitrary code execution"? http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/
Run any browser as an Admin-priviledged user (as many-many ordinary home users do), and you're going to get owned at some point. Mis-type a URL, and you've suddenly hit a Network Solutions holding site. Or a Google-ad will get pre-fetched, or, or, or.
Javascript can't write to a file, but firefox can, and if it's made to run arbitrary code as a root/admin user, game over.
Doesn't that mean that the "Bad Furrin Terrorists" fight using American "Honorable" tactics (no suicide car-bombs because they think they're the USA side)?
Make it a game. Every one of those apps (with a few exceptions) are just spam. You can block them by clicking on the "posted by 'stupid app'" then on the apps page click on "block application".
A couple years ago, I found a list of the most popular facebook apps and ran a script with wgets to block them all for me. My FB account has thousands of blocked apps (and yes, there is a limit in their DB to how many you can block, which is kind of annoying as I've hit that limit).
The problem is that American students think an equals sign is like an "execute" button, not a passive statement of equality.
The real problem is that American teachers of young children barely know algebra, so when they design a curriculum for arithmetic, they treat the equals sign as a separator between problem/solution, so the students don't learn any differently. The arithmetic/algebra jump is hard for US students because the teachers prepare them for mere computation.
'Students who have learned to memorize symbols and who have a limited understanding of the equal sign will tend to solve problems such as 4+3+2=( )+2 by adding the numbers on the left, and placing it in the parentheses, then add those terms and create another equal sign with the new answer,' he explains. 'So the work would look like 4+3+2=(9)+2=11.'
So because students are taught with years of 1 + 2 = ( ) "Fill in the blank"
They are suddenly supposed to understand that "= ( )" doesn't mean "do the math on the left and put the answer on the right"?
There's a teacher fail in the lower grades. They should be teaching "=" as "equals", ie 1=1, 5+2=3+4, etc.
Although, I bet if they changed the problem in the article, students would get it quickly. 4+3+2=2+() There's no "= ()" to screw with their minds.
'If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them.' This in part led to hiring bad programmers
Did anyone else read this as, they hired lousy programmers so they could compete with Microsoft?
I read it as: Yahoo bought a Mary-Kay Pink colored car so that Microsoft wouldn't steal it if they had to park on the street.
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What year? 2011? The summary was posted Aug 19, 2010, at ~1PM GMT... There's no place on Earth that's -13 or -14 GMT, so it had to be the 19th when it was posted to the front page.
We live in a relatively closed system. If we were trying to "heat" you up, that heat will come back around and hit our west coast. But, as with most conspiracies, it's hilarious to watch at least. Somehow people think we can come up with a grand scheme to manipulate the weather of foreign nations, put it into action, _and_ keep it quiet, yet our government can't figure out how to win a simple war and keep the documents classified during it (WikiLeaks/Afghanistan)?
Manhattan Project. I hear two localized areas in Japan got very hot very fast.
I share a name with a famous athlete. I am a needle in a haystack as far as my real name in a google search.
That's nice. Google has one cpu core for every straw... in every haystack in all the fields in the tri-state area. I think they'll find your needle eventually. Of course, their current search interface doesn't allow the public to find info on you easily, but they may have an interface soon that does something like: "give me height/weight for $FamousAthleteName, but not the famous athlete. I think he lived in $City once".
Well played.
Wut U sa?
I've also heard people say IRL IRL.
What's fun is when you're discussing a racing game. "You can choose to race in the IRL" "Um, I bought the game because I want to race fake Indy Cars, not real ones." "Not the IRL IRL, the in game IRL." "Oh!"
How many IT workers might "steal" code or complicated scripts they wrote while working as a programmer or sysadmin, even if it's just via memorization?
At my severance interview, the boss told me that the really good pens were on the top shelf.
And when Joseph's brothers left Egypt, he planted a goblet in one of Benjamin's sacks. Make sure you're not accidentally taking anything if you don't want a psycho higher-up to stir up trouble should they find out.
my home-assembled truck overlord is also baking pizzas. It runs Linux.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those things.
In Soviet Russia, pizza delivers you to the overlord!
I'll just use the puppet master feat I unlocked from playing so many hours.
As if companies had incentives to lie. It's a good thing they don't, or we'd need some sort of third party to make sure they didn't rip anybody off. Where the hell would we get one of those?
Well, we have two parties, and I hear China has only one party, so they could be the third party.
So instead you mix up your stream with all the other streams so that there is a bit of your stream everywhere. This causes their minds to be boggled and you win.
If one bit of your stream comes from the BAD website, they take you out to a soccer stadium and shoot you. Their minds might be boggled, but you still lose.
I know what people do with it, but why do they do it?
They long dreamily for the stalkers the rest of us have and don't want.
1. Only nerds read or even know what a "bugzilla DB" is.
2. Not everyone wants to mess with the whole administrator vs user accounts thing.
3. Not everyone uses that crappy browser known as Firefox.
I'll give you 1 and 2 (as reasons why people don't know better), but 3 is irrelevant. Every browser has had problems like these, even lynx. Ever heard of Safari? I hear mobile Safari had a pdf exploit recently.
They are introducing multi-touch in 10.10 because in 11.04 the close and minimize buttons will run around the borders of your windows and you'll need two hands to catch them. This is much better than the current 10.04 "Memory" min-game where you try to remember which side the buttons are on.
I usually use the Zork like game to turn the recent memory game off. The magic words elude mee at the moment, but they have something to do with sed and gconf.
Load a fps on it. Touch heads for headshots. Get banned for using an aimbot.
Apart from Internet Explorer and ActiveX, how the hell can a web page infect a computer via a Web browser? AFAIK Javascript can't write files to the OS, so how are they doing it?
You haven't seen any of the entries in mozilla's bugzilla DB with "arbitrary code execution"? http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/
Run any browser as an Admin-priviledged user (as many-many ordinary home users do), and you're going to get owned at some point. Mis-type a URL, and you've suddenly hit a Network Solutions holding site. Or a Google-ad will get pre-fetched, or, or, or.
Javascript can't write to a file, but firefox can, and if it's made to run arbitrary code as a root/admin user, game over.
Doesn't that mean that the "Bad Furrin Terrorists" fight using American "Honorable" tactics (no suicide car-bombs because they think they're the USA side)?
That would be a much better game IMHO.
"But it's not art" -Roger Ebert
Make it a game. Every one of those apps (with a few exceptions) are just spam. You can block them by clicking on the "posted by 'stupid app'" then on the apps page click on "block application".
A couple years ago, I found a list of the most popular facebook apps and ran a script with wgets to block them all for me. My FB account has thousands of blocked apps (and yes, there is a limit in their DB to how many you can block, which is kind of annoying as I've hit that limit).
Jar Jar Bings
you must have watched the special edition version where he was replaced with Miss Chanandler Bong.
60-70 years ago, who heard of Afghanistan? Who heard about a victim in a city one state away, let alone had time for victims in the same city?
The problem is that American students think an equals sign is like an "execute" button, not a passive statement of equality.
The real problem is that American teachers of young children barely know algebra, so when they design a curriculum for arithmetic, they treat the equals sign as a separator between problem/solution, so the students don't learn any differently. The arithmetic/algebra jump is hard for US students because the teachers prepare them for mere computation.
Shaming - permanent and otherwise - is part of America's new commitment
Shshsshuuuun!
'Students who have learned to memorize symbols and who have a limited understanding of the equal sign will tend to solve problems such as 4+3+2=( )+2 by adding the numbers on the left, and placing it in the parentheses, then add those terms and create another equal sign with the new answer,' he explains. 'So the work would look like 4+3+2=(9)+2=11.'
So because students are taught with years of 1 + 2 = ( ) "Fill in the blank"
They are suddenly supposed to understand that "= ( )" doesn't mean "do the math on the left and put the answer on the right"?
There's a teacher fail in the lower grades. They should be teaching "=" as "equals", ie 1=1, 5+2=3+4, etc.
Although, I bet if they changed the problem in the article, students would get it quickly. 4+3+2=2+() There's no "= ()" to screw with their minds.
'If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them.' This in part led to hiring bad programmers
Did anyone else read this as, they hired lousy programmers so they could compete with Microsoft?
I read it as: Yahoo bought a Mary-Kay Pink colored car so that Microsoft wouldn't steal it if they had to park on the street.