I've never been able to get a full understanding of an unfamiliar project by simply reading the code (and mapping out relationships, though I have done that from time to time). The most insight (for me at least) comes from running the code, changing it to see how it breaks, and running it again. Nothing tells you more about a piece of code than seeing how it works normally, then seeing how your changes affect it.
How do you know when things might interact when you don't know the premises of the system?
By deliberately breaking it. When you make a change and something else breaks you know immediately that those components are coupled. No reading/mapping required. Once that coupling is identified you can focus your code reading to understanding how tightly or loosely coupled they really are.
Rinse and repeat. It might seem simplistic or naive, however, once you've spent hours/days reading and mapping code, you're ultimately going to need to run it and modify it. In which case you are going to break it and learn something about component interactions that reading alone didn't tell you. My personal preference is to skip all that business up front and dive in. I'll still end up reading all the code. Just focused on certain areas of functionality one at a time.
You will never fully understand the code just by reading it. My approach is to ignore all of it until something needs to be changed. When you need to change something, add a feature, etc... find where in the code the functionality is and tweak it a bit. See what happens. Tweak it some more. See what breaks. You will start to get a deep understanding of a focused section of the code and not have to worry (yet) about other unrelated areas.
Start with small changes first. Larger changes may require a deeper understanding of the architecture and how pieces interact. This will come in time.
After a few iterations of this and you will eventually become intimately familiar with all the pieces of the code.
I worked on a piece of software that gathered data from various sensors. The application stored the calibration settings in the system registry which were configured at installation time and should never need to be touched by the user. To make life easy (for us) we created a fancy interface in the application to enter the data but hid it behind a weird hot key combination so the user wouldn't find it and be tempted to monkey with it. AFAIK no one has ever stumbled upon it.
Interesting point. There were fewer devices in '98 available to be used to receive a back channel message. Could this be a case of technology evolving so fast it obviates a patent before it has expired? What might have been considered non-obvious then would certainly be obvious now.
They have some pretty neat equipment for finding the utility lines. Just the other week I saw the water company come through marking the water lines. One guy with a spray can followed the other who was holding this stick with a fork in it. The pointy end always pointing at the ground.
When a technical person who isn’t familiar with patent law reads a patent they often come away with a misunderstanding of what the patent actually covers – usually thinking that it is much broader than it actually is. This gives the impression that the patent covers things it doesn’t, and then leads to the impression that it is overly broad, obvious and shouldn’t have been granted.
My impression that a patent is overly broad does not stem from a misunderstanding from reading the patent. It comes from the overly broad litigation tactics wielded by the patent holder.
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A new driver does not add 2 days to delivery. If it's on the truck for delivery it will be dropped off that day. I've never had a package that was marked as out for delivery on the tracking site not arrive that day. I've had them come late in the day (after 6 pm) but never the next day.
If there was a delay, it occurred before arrival at your local distribution center.
Goodwill is in partnership with Dell to recycle old computer equipment: http://dell.com/reconnect. I've donated both working and non-working machines. They'll resell working machines if they can or recycle them.
Planned obsolescence. My dad was restoring a '67 GTO and discovered rubber tubes that ran from the molding above the windows to inside the rear wheel wells. Specifically designed to channel water and cause it to rust prematurely.
This is what I would have done in the same situation (and I have). I agree though, given the competence of this "agent", she probably wouldn't have accepted that either even though that is also perfectly legal and the correct thing to do.
To discriminate is to distinguish, in this case people or groups of people, by discerning or exposing differences among those groups. Discrimination is not defined solely by the negative connotation usually associated with it.
So, yes targeting ads for baby formula to a customer in their 20s is discriminating. It is deliberate, purposeful and accepted.
It's not that cut and dry. They don't necessarily hate their parents (though they might "think" they do). Teenagers are self-centered, rebellious assholes. I know, I was one of them. I "hated" my parents. They wouldn't let me run out till all hours of the night. They didn't buy me the latest Judas Priest album as soon as it was released. They didn't satisfy my every want and desire. They made me work for it and earn them on my own. I had to earn my "stuff" by getting a job and buying them. I had to earn my freedoms by showing some responsibility.
I rebelled. I snuck out of the house at night. I stole money from them. I got in trouble with the law. I did some pretty stupid shit and I learned the hard lessons that my parents were trying to teach me to avoid. But there were no punishments my parents could impose that would make me not be such an asshole.
In the case of these teens, sometimes there is no lesson or punishment the parents can impose that will have the same effect as exposure to the system. They are already rebellious and showing contempt for their parents. They've already surpassed the point where any punishment the parents can legally impose will have any effect. At least with juvenile courts they can see the seriousness of their actions without having a lasting record into their adult life. (I can't say the same for me.)
I'm grown now and in my 40s with my own kids. I've realized what an asshole I was and have apologized profusely to my parents for putting them through all that. I realize why they had the rules in place and I know why no punishment they could impose would keep me from breaking them. I had to learn the hard way. I love my parents dearly and I can only hope that I am as good (and patient) a parent as they were.
Not to mention illegal and will result in juvenile detention. Plus, I don't think I'd want to trust a few self-centered teenagers with their own agenda to make that decision for me.
I'm not sure I'd trust a couple teenagers (who are also not doctors) seeking to satisfy their own self centered agenda to take the time to measure and administer the proper dosage.
What they did was reckless and dangerous and could have resulted in serious injury or death.
Serious actions have serious consequences. This is not something where putting them in timeout will really have much of an effect.
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Was there a link in the email that took them to a page to confirm their login information before Google deleted there accounts?
He should have used the SarcMark[!]
How do you know when things might interact when you don't know the premises of the system?
By deliberately breaking it. When you make a change and something else breaks you know immediately that those components are coupled. No reading/mapping required. Once that coupling is identified you can focus your code reading to understanding how tightly or loosely coupled they really are.
Rinse and repeat. It might seem simplistic or naive, however, once you've spent hours/days reading and mapping code, you're ultimately going to need to run it and modify it. In which case you are going to break it and learn something about component interactions that reading alone didn't tell you. My personal preference is to skip all that business up front and dive in. I'll still end up reading all the code. Just focused on certain areas of functionality one at a time.
You will never fully understand the code just by reading it. My approach is to ignore all of it until something needs to be changed. When you need to change something, add a feature, etc... find where in the code the functionality is and tweak it a bit. See what happens. Tweak it some more. See what breaks. You will start to get a deep understanding of a focused section of the code and not have to worry (yet) about other unrelated areas. Start with small changes first. Larger changes may require a deeper understanding of the architecture and how pieces interact. This will come in time. After a few iterations of this and you will eventually become intimately familiar with all the pieces of the code.
Of course when called out on it he said he meant that the NSA doesn't read citizens email:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/intel-chief-clapper-gave-least-untruthful-answer-u-164742798.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/spy-chief-clapper-denies-misleading-congress-spying-americans-221024826.html
Which 1) no longer denies phone records are collected and 2) no longer answers the question that was asked in the first place!
They don't need to decipher it in transit. They just send a NSL to the ISP to give it to them once it's been received.
No. SSL/TLS only encrypts data in transit. Once it reaches it's destination, i.e. Google, it is decrypted so it can be processed.
I worked on a piece of software that gathered data from various sensors. The application stored the calibration settings in the system registry which were configured at installation time and should never need to be touched by the user. To make life easy (for us) we created a fancy interface in the application to enter the data but hid it behind a weird hot key combination so the user wouldn't find it and be tempted to monkey with it. AFAIK no one has ever stumbled upon it.
like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...
Interesting point. There were fewer devices in '98 available to be used to receive a back channel message. Could this be a case of technology evolving so fast it obviates a patent before it has expired? What might have been considered non-obvious then would certainly be obvious now.
They have some pretty neat equipment for finding the utility lines. Just the other week I saw the water company come through marking the water lines. One guy with a spray can followed the other who was holding this stick with a fork in it. The pointy end always pointing at the ground.
I think her justification for the title of the song was that none of the examples in it were actually ironic... which in itself is ironic.
My impression that a patent is overly broad does not stem from a misunderstanding from reading the patent. It comes from the overly broad litigation tactics wielded by the patent holder.
A new driver does not add 2 days to delivery. If it's on the truck for delivery it will be dropped off that day. I've never had a package that was marked as out for delivery on the tracking site not arrive that day. I've had them come late in the day (after 6 pm) but never the next day.
If there was a delay, it occurred before arrival at your local distribution center.
Goodwill is in partnership with Dell to recycle old computer equipment: http://dell.com/reconnect. I've donated both working and non-working machines. They'll resell working machines if they can or recycle them.
Perhaps I phrased that wrong. By "inside" I mean behind the quarter panel depositing directly on top the wheel well. Not to the "outside" of the car.
Planned obsolescence. My dad was restoring a '67 GTO and discovered rubber tubes that ran from the molding above the windows to inside the rear wheel wells. Specifically designed to channel water and cause it to rust prematurely.
But then a NPE could enlist a more shady company as a "member" (think SCO) and make the same argument.
This is what I would have done in the same situation (and I have). I agree though, given the competence of this "agent", she probably wouldn't have accepted that either even though that is also perfectly legal and the correct thing to do.
Yes genius, do you?
To discriminate is to distinguish, in this case people or groups of people, by discerning or exposing differences among those groups. Discrimination is not defined solely by the negative connotation usually associated with it.
So, yes targeting ads for baby formula to a customer in their 20s is discriminating. It is deliberate, purposeful and accepted.
Targeted ads are by definition discriminating.
It's not that cut and dry. They don't necessarily hate their parents (though they might "think" they do). Teenagers are self-centered, rebellious assholes. I know, I was one of them. I "hated" my parents. They wouldn't let me run out till all hours of the night. They didn't buy me the latest Judas Priest album as soon as it was released. They didn't satisfy my every want and desire. They made me work for it and earn them on my own. I had to earn my "stuff" by getting a job and buying them. I had to earn my freedoms by showing some responsibility.
I rebelled. I snuck out of the house at night. I stole money from them. I got in trouble with the law. I did some pretty stupid shit and I learned the hard lessons that my parents were trying to teach me to avoid. But there were no punishments my parents could impose that would make me not be such an asshole.
In the case of these teens, sometimes there is no lesson or punishment the parents can impose that will have the same effect as exposure to the system. They are already rebellious and showing contempt for their parents. They've already surpassed the point where any punishment the parents can legally impose will have any effect. At least with juvenile courts they can see the seriousness of their actions without having a lasting record into their adult life. (I can't say the same for me.)
I'm grown now and in my 40s with my own kids. I've realized what an asshole I was and have apologized profusely to my parents for putting them through all that. I realize why they had the rules in place and I know why no punishment they could impose would keep me from breaking them. I had to learn the hard way. I love my parents dearly and I can only hope that I am as good (and patient) a parent as they were.
Not to mention illegal and will result in juvenile detention. Plus, I don't think I'd want to trust a few self-centered teenagers with their own agenda to make that decision for me.
I'm not sure I'd trust a couple teenagers (who are also not doctors) seeking to satisfy their own self centered agenda to take the time to measure and administer the proper dosage.
What they did was reckless and dangerous and could have resulted in serious injury or death.
Serious actions have serious consequences. This is not something where putting them in timeout will really have much of an effect.