I've always thought it would be cool to have a tool that could take scenes from old movies where the camera was pointing out the window of a car and convert it into a perfect 3-d map.
You could even extract the people and build models from them including movement.
It's kind of the same as when they put all those dots/lines on a person's body to be able to model the exact movements of the body, just using smarter software instead of dots...
You could gather massive amounts of data from a single shot once a computer can fully comprehend what's going on in the shot.
The post, IIRC said someone with a computer that is used to browse the web.
If he didn't, then you could be right, but if there is an assumption they are on the web then all bets are off. There have been dozens of exploits in all sorts of types used by browsers--some that really shouldn't be vulnerabilities at all.
I've seen 2 or 3 in the last couple years that could be triggered just by visiting a web site--from then on, assume you are root kitted.
Also, I'm not saying that running AV software will make it perfect either--none are good at finding root kits last time I checked--none seem to even try.
RTFS... It mentioned that this was in part to combat piracy, so yeah... it will probably not allow you to share CD codes.
Pretty reasonable solution--the ability to just download all the old games (in both PC and Mac--even if you just have an old PC game key) more than makes up for it.
Man you need to seriously have your system evaluated if you are relying on a firewall alone to prevent attacks. Virtually useless--many entry vectors exist that bypass firewalls easily, and if one of your co-worker's machines are infected, then you have no firewall!
I absolutely refuse to do anything involving my financial information on a PC since I noticed how difficult it was to detect root kits.
> One person or company making the problem, and the solution to the problem, does not look good.
Although I see exactly what you mean from a "programmers" point of view (It's not good for a programmer to QA his own code), looking at that line again made me laugh.
"No, you are not allowed to solve your own problems, it doesn't look good. Go find someone else to solve your problems or you will be severely frowned upon!"
Our world is a strange one where a line like that could go un-laughed-at.
>>What does his job/trade/profession have to do with this case? >His utter lack of respect for boundaries when dealing with a minor. That was possibly the best point in this entire discussion.
The thing in quotes is supposed to be "tru2way" in angle brackets.. I forgot about the HTML formatting, but that's their trademark deal--in anglebrackets. I suppose if it fails they will have to have a/tru2way project...
Mostly Linux based (BusyBox) around a custom micro kernel (VxWorks and others, depends on box manufacturer). I don't see that level much because I'm a java developer mostly.
The next generation called "" is all java based with the ability to run apps from alternative sources--the guide is even being rewritten in java and the platform will be a good deal more open. There are some other cool things going on but I think I'm getting close to "the line" and I'd rather not cross it.
And I don't blame you for believing AC, he said it with such certainty that I had to look around and make sure I hadn't been transported to Seattle. The use of my name in there really made it look like he knows me.
I'm guessing he has an agenda, but I don't have the balls to just come out and recklessly assert something I have no clue about with such certainty.
Umm, have you looked at my posts? The AC was a total troll, I actually despise windows and wouldn't use it at all except my company wouldn't get me a mac when I asked (we do development for cable boxes and the emulator software runs on windows).
Kinda makes me wonder if the AC was working for one of these sleazy companies that sells AV software with viruses built in.
On the other hand it amused the hell out of me! I've been showing that post to everyone I know. Also that a few people fell for it was kinda funny.
Were I reading this as a fantasy or sci-fi book, I'd say her power sounds more like healing than anti-aging.
Even when they gave her growth hormones she just stayed the same, and she grew a brain tumor then healed it. This kind of thing (Developing a serious problem then healing it on her own) has happened throughout her young life.
Wow, the fact that there is even a question here is just bizarre to me.
Facts: The earthquake IS going to happen. The longer we wait before it happens the worse it gets.
So how is it in any way a good idea to wait?
kind of like the economy, Bush has been taking on buckets of debt while saying "not raising taxes". This is just beyond insane into evil (true evil, not the word that people keep trying to throw at google because of the hate they generate for trying to generally be a good company). The debts HAVE to be paid and the interest is just piling up.
Every time a law (or war) is proposed with a cost, every cent of the cost should be calculated and allocated as part of the proposal.
As for the topic under discussion, any belief that such an undertaking might cause a major earthquake in my time as opposed to a catastrophic one in my child's time is about the most short-sighted selfish view one could take. At least if we were to do something we knew might cause it, we could be SOMEWHAT prepared if we so chose to be.
I didn't say I was impressed with MS or anything, but yeah, it was better when it was built in. The alternatives were annoying and expensive, brutally hard to get anything working right with them just due to the nature of there not being a single stack to support.
There are a few huge problems with the free market theories. Basically free-market is broke because of them.
One is monopoly. If someone holds a monopoly on the one thing you want, they can charge any amount for it. If you have other sources, great! But how many other sources do you have for the new Star Trek movie? Well, actually you have 1, piracy. So in this case, piracy almost makes free-market better because it gives the vendors a reason to try.
Second is the too many idiots problem. If Wal-mart destroys civilizations and murders children and kittens, you not buying from them isn't going to effect their sails one iota. Hell, a million people deciding to join a nation-wide movement to boycott wal-mart would probably just increase their sales due to the publicity. Too many idiots won't look into WHY you are boycotting them even if you put it right in front of their faces.
The ideal "free-market" is as much a religion as Christianity. People have faith it will work because they like the way it sounds. It sounds like being ruthless and cheap is "altruistic".
It barely holds together if you include well thought-out regulation and controls--but in general it's broken.
There are tiny odds of just about anything happening, why is it news?
I know you're mostly being sarcastinc & funny (+1) but generally it's nice to pull things like this out every so often to remind people that the universe and our planet are not static-state. Things change over time and we are living in a temporary niche (at best).
Weather people believe in some God or not, they tend to fall into this "Everything has always been this way, so it always will be this way" mindset. Sometimes it helps to kick out the cobwebs and remind you that we have had a hell of a lot of luck to get to where we are now, and it's balancing on a precipice--eventually it WILL change, the question is simply when.
From San Diego, yeah, quite the improvement. I replied to another post with what I thought the goods/bads were, but I really like Portland. My house was 15-20 minutes from the freeway, so traffic was irrelevant for the most part, but more tailored for someone from SD--Spokane and Santa Ana are the only places I've had my car robbed, the snow gets really incredible if you are outside/north of the city, and the down-town/community areas are minimal (a block or so, which considering the size of Spokane is pitiful).
They are working on the downtown--Could be a great place to live if they keep at it.
It's nice actually, but very rural and on the edge of racist country.
I was told it's also the per-capita meth capital of the US.
They are the only civilization in hundreds of miles, and they don't have much, so if you want to see a good band or play you end up traveling a few hundred miles to Seattle or Portland. There are one or two good restaurants, but for the most part nothing exciting.
Oh, and I had to shovel feet of snow every weekend for much of the last two winters (The area I was in got like 50% more snow than the rest of Spokane).
Very Pretty nature-stuff though, totally worth it if you're into mountain, lake or snow activity.
I'm selling my house in Spokane. You can generally see the milky way, and hang out with the deer and elk while you do it.
Nice spot, 10 acres of farmland within viewing distance of a lake (barely), miles of bike trails along the river,... but I couldn't take the trade-off.
You see, to get all that you have to live in Spokane.
When you make the Choice to make something closed, especially something this important, you really should be taking on the responsibility for any errors, bugs, security flaws or back-doors that end up in the software.
If you're willing to take the responsibility, than any error should be considered criminal--as in jail time for the CEO and others who made the (now obviously wrong) decision to keep the information private.
If you don't want the responsibiliy, that's totally understandable--just open the software for peer review by anyone.
I'm getting kind of tired of CEOs and politicians with no competency doing jobs they obviously don't understand, taking authority and reward without responsibility. I realize they are hard jobs, but doesn't that make it even more important to hire someone intellictually and morally competent instead of some college drinking bud from the good ole' boy network?
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> Anything more then "Huh, what an odd error" and you really need to check your reality.
If you really checked your reality, you would most likely think "Huh, what an odd error. Holy shit, this could be the end of my life".
Errors are not always resolved in the "Obvious" way you might be assuming.
If you don't have the money and time to make a fuss, they may not be resolved at all.
I've always thought it would be cool to have a tool that could take scenes from old movies where the camera was pointing out the window of a car and convert it into a perfect 3-d map.
You could even extract the people and build models from them including movement.
It's kind of the same as when they put all those dots/lines on a person's body to be able to model the exact movements of the body, just using smarter software instead of dots...
You could gather massive amounts of data from a single shot once a computer can fully comprehend what's going on in the shot.
No, I phrased that wrong. I meant: ...if you only had the key from an old PC version...
The post, IIRC said someone with a computer that is used to browse the web.
If he didn't, then you could be right, but if there is an assumption they are on the web then all bets are off. There have been dozens of exploits in all sorts of types used by browsers--some that really shouldn't be vulnerabilities at all.
I've seen 2 or 3 in the last couple years that could be triggered just by visiting a web site--from then on, assume you are root kitted.
Also, I'm not saying that running AV software will make it perfect either--none are good at finding root kits last time I checked--none seem to even try.
RTFS... It mentioned that this was in part to combat piracy, so yeah... it will probably not allow you to share CD codes.
Pretty reasonable solution--the ability to just download all the old games (in both PC and Mac--even if you just have an old PC game key) more than makes up for it.
Above all those, I think it'll happen when they release the next round of their biggest games without XP support.
We never complained because things always got better, not worse.
(Except Windows ME--I think I heard a complaint about that somewhere along the line)
And you had a modem!?!? In my day we had to write our data on a magnetic cassette made for voice and walk it over to it's destination!
We were happy to get those 110 baud half-duplex acoustic modems!
Man you need to seriously have your system evaluated if you are relying on a firewall alone to prevent attacks. Virtually useless--many entry vectors exist that bypass firewalls easily, and if one of your co-worker's machines are infected, then you have no firewall!
I absolutely refuse to do anything involving my financial information on a PC since I noticed how difficult it was to detect root kits.
> One person or company making the problem, and the solution to the problem, does not look good.
Although I see exactly what you mean from a "programmers" point of view (It's not good for a programmer to QA his own code), looking at that line again made me laugh.
"No, you are not allowed to solve your own problems, it doesn't look good. Go find someone else to solve your problems or you will be severely frowned upon!"
Our world is a strange one where a line like that could go un-laughed-at.
If this is the case, shouldn't "Slightly Overweight" be redefined to "Ideal weight" and "Ideal Weight" be slightly underweight?
Or do we consider dying early a side effect of being perfect?
>>What does his job/trade/profession have to do with this case?
>His utter lack of respect for boundaries when dealing with a minor.
That was possibly the best point in this entire discussion.
The thing in quotes is supposed to be "tru2way" in angle brackets.. I forgot about the HTML formatting, but that's their trademark deal--in anglebrackets. I suppose if it fails they will have to have a /tru2way project...
Mostly Linux based (BusyBox) around a custom micro kernel (VxWorks and others, depends on box manufacturer). I don't see that level much because I'm a java developer mostly.
The next generation called "" is all java based with the ability to run apps from alternative sources--the guide is even being rewritten in java and the platform will be a good deal more open. There are some other cool things going on but I think I'm getting close to "the line" and I'd rather not cross it.
And I don't blame you for believing AC, he said it with such certainty that I had to look around and make sure I hadn't been transported to Seattle. The use of my name in there really made it look like he knows me.
I'm guessing he has an agenda, but I don't have the balls to just come out and recklessly assert something I have no clue about with such certainty.
Umm, have you looked at my posts? The AC was a total troll, I actually despise windows and wouldn't use it at all except my company wouldn't get me a mac when I asked (we do development for cable boxes and the emulator software runs on windows).
Kinda makes me wonder if the AC was working for one of these sleazy companies that sells AV software with viruses built in.
On the other hand it amused the hell out of me! I've been showing that post to everyone I know. Also that a few people fell for it was kinda funny.
Were I reading this as a fantasy or sci-fi book, I'd say her power sounds more like healing than anti-aging.
Even when they gave her growth hormones she just stayed the same, and she grew a brain tumor then healed it. This kind of thing (Developing a serious problem then healing it on her own) has happened throughout her young life.
Her body just seems to resist any change at all.
Wow, the fact that there is even a question here is just bizarre to me.
Facts:
The earthquake IS going to happen.
The longer we wait before it happens the worse it gets.
So how is it in any way a good idea to wait?
kind of like the economy, Bush has been taking on buckets of debt while saying "not raising taxes". This is just beyond insane into evil (true evil, not the word that people keep trying to throw at google because of the hate they generate for trying to generally be a good company). The debts HAVE to be paid and the interest is just piling up.
Every time a law (or war) is proposed with a cost, every cent of the cost should be calculated and allocated as part of the proposal.
As for the topic under discussion, any belief that such an undertaking might cause a major earthquake in my time as opposed to a catastrophic one in my child's time is about the most short-sighted selfish view one could take. At least if we were to do something we knew might cause it, we could be SOMEWHAT prepared if we so chose to be.
I didn't say I was impressed with MS or anything, but yeah, it was better when it was built in. The alternatives were annoying and expensive, brutally hard to get anything working right with them just due to the nature of there not being a single stack to support.
There was talk about antitrust suits when Microsoft first included the TCP/IP stack in windows. Before that you had to go to another vendor.
It made life a LOT more easy once it was built into the OS.
I'm pretty sure the same thing will be true of AV software.
I don't think Sun kills rock--I think sun burns paper, paper covers rock and rock blots out sun..
There are a few huge problems with the free market theories. Basically free-market is broke because of them.
One is monopoly. If someone holds a monopoly on the one thing you want, they can charge any amount for it. If you have other sources, great! But how many other sources do you have for the new Star Trek movie? Well, actually you have 1, piracy. So in this case, piracy almost makes free-market better because it gives the vendors a reason to try.
Second is the too many idiots problem. If Wal-mart destroys civilizations and murders children and kittens, you not buying from them isn't going to effect their sails one iota. Hell, a million people deciding to join a nation-wide movement to boycott wal-mart would probably just increase their sales due to the publicity. Too many idiots won't look into WHY you are boycotting them even if you put it right in front of their faces.
The ideal "free-market" is as much a religion as Christianity. People have faith it will work because they like the way it sounds. It sounds like being ruthless and cheap is "altruistic".
It barely holds together if you include well thought-out regulation and controls--but in general it's broken.
Still, not sure there is a better way to do it :(
There are tiny odds of just about anything happening, why is it news?
I know you're mostly being sarcastinc & funny (+1) but generally it's nice to pull things like this out every so often to remind people that the universe and our planet are not static-state. Things change over time and we are living in a temporary niche (at best).
Weather people believe in some God or not, they tend to fall into this "Everything has always been this way, so it always will be this way" mindset. Sometimes it helps to kick out the cobwebs and remind you that we have had a hell of a lot of luck to get to where we are now, and it's balancing on a precipice--eventually it WILL change, the question is simply when.
From San Diego, yeah, quite the improvement. I replied to another post with what I thought the goods/bads were, but I really like Portland. My house was 15-20 minutes from the freeway, so traffic was irrelevant for the most part, but more tailored for someone from SD--Spokane and Santa Ana are the only places I've had my car robbed, the snow gets really incredible if you are outside/north of the city, and the down-town/community areas are minimal (a block or so, which considering the size of Spokane is pitiful).
They are working on the downtown--Could be a great place to live if they keep at it.
And yeah, the real-estate prices are awesome.
It's nice actually, but very rural and on the edge of racist country.
I was told it's also the per-capita meth capital of the US.
They are the only civilization in hundreds of miles, and they don't have much, so if you want to see a good band or play you end up traveling a few hundred miles to Seattle or Portland. There are one or two good restaurants, but for the most part nothing exciting.
Oh, and I had to shovel feet of snow every weekend for much of the last two winters (The area I was in got like 50% more snow than the rest of Spokane).
Very Pretty nature-stuff though, totally worth it if you're into mountain, lake or snow activity.
I'm selling my house in Spokane. You can generally see the milky way, and hang out with the deer and elk while you do it.
Nice spot, 10 acres of farmland within viewing distance of a lake (barely), miles of bike trails along the river, ... but I couldn't take the trade-off.
You see, to get all that you have to live in Spokane.
When you make the Choice to make something closed, especially something this important, you really should be taking on the responsibility for any errors, bugs, security flaws or back-doors that end up in the software.
If you're willing to take the responsibility, than any error should be considered criminal--as in jail time for the CEO and others who made the (now obviously wrong) decision to keep the information private.
If you don't want the responsibiliy, that's totally understandable--just open the software for peer review by anyone.
I'm getting kind of tired of CEOs and politicians with no competency doing jobs they obviously don't understand, taking authority and reward without responsibility. I realize they are hard jobs, but doesn't that make it even more important to hire someone intellictually and morally competent instead of some college drinking bud from the good ole' boy network?