This happens, placebo effect works as good with alcohol as with other drugs. Not just that, different cultures have different behaviours associated to alcohol intake, and placebo drunk people tend to take the behaviours from their culture, which appears to imply that many (although not all) of the effects of alcohol are cultural.
For a second I read the "Android" in the headline as talking of a humanoid robot instead of the smartphone OS, and it was a really good base for a sci-fi story
I can provide you with this english link. This has not been reported in english speaking media yet, sorry for not having something better but this is breaking news yet. https://gist.githubusercontent...
Just FTR, the group organizing this election is the government of the city of Buenos Aires. which is not run by the Kirchner but one of the opposition parties
Yes, an evil plot from ex-communists to take the world hostage threatening to eat it with an artificial black hole.
There you have it, a plot for the next James Bond Movie.
There's a project called InfoLeg Trying to do exactly this... I'm not sure if they've been able to keep up, but they have a lot of content browsable in a way that resembles revision control a lot.
As an example you have here our copyright law passed in 1933. The three links there can show you the original text, the most recent text applying all updates (i.e. "HEAD":) ), and a link to a list of laws/decrees that updated modified it later.
That's more or less what you were looking for? I know people who were close to the project in the past, I can get you a couple of names if you're really interested...
A lot of developers I've known had made their first game during Pyweek contests. Pyweek is a free and open game creation contest, using python. It has a very friendly and open community, so even if it is a contest there is a lot of people around wanting to help newbies and provide advice.
But the best thing of participating in the contest is that the rules help you to FINISH a game. Starting work on a game is easy, but it's too tempting to fall into scope creep and start adding characters, places, game mechanisms, enemy behaviour ad infinitum, and you are always starting new stuff but never getting to have something finished.
Try it. Most of the people I known to go into the contest have had a lot of fun.
They imagined 2.5 megawatt turbines crisscrossing the terrestrial globe, excluding 'areas classified as forested, areas occupied by permanent snow or ice, areas covered by water, and areas identified as either developed or urban,'
I hope the power is enough to make all the food replicators work. Otherwise I don't know what we will eat when we cover every arable field (read: the places where we grow most food now, which are not forested, with ice, water, nor urban) with wind turbines.
You want a solution? How about this: Windows should only hide file extensions for files that don't use custom icons. IOW, a.doc would show up as a Word document (by icon), so it doens't need the.doc. But if you change the icon of your.exe file to be the word doc icon, then the.exe still shows up.
I have an easier, better one: executability is not part of the file type. Use extensions to indicate file type (and hide it or show it at leisure), but put executability as an extra attribute of the file in the filesystem.
If it sounds familiar, it's because that's what UNIX has been doing since the '70s
To solve this security issue (malicious execution), you don't need separate forks, complex metadata, or anything like that. You just need a single bit of metadata, telling you if the file is executable or not.
In other words (Henry Spencer's, not mine): Those who do not understand UNIX, are comdemned to reinvent it, poorly.
With that metadata, the worst that somebody can do is name a file foo.txt.jpg to trick you into opening an image making you think it's a text file, but nothing that makes a security risk.
It is hard to think a good solution without knowing what you mean by "locals" (is there a simple offline way to get them a passphrase?), what kind of users you have (will they be thrown off from the site if they have to login?), etc.
Anyway, something that might work and can be used together with other filtering methods mention by other people here is filtering by HTTP referrer field.
This is assumming that your users have alternate ("local") ways of getting the URL of your site, and you don't mind being a bit detached from the rest of the web (apparently, you don't). So what you do, is filter every HTTP request where the referrer field is not empty or inside your site.
This will essentially stop people from following links from other sites (google, blogs, whatever) into your site. You will be able to enter your site only by entering your URL (like knowing the BBS phone number), and then following internal links. Of course, this is not "secure" (for someone who knows http, it is not very hard to enter directly once they realize how the filter works), but I think it will stop a lot of "casual bypassers".
Btw, if you avoid being in google (robots.txt covering your whole site) you will avoid a lot of visitors already.
I recommend you to read this study about CS education... it mentions that even if you can try changing paradigms, techniques, tools, there is a single factor that students bring on already when starting the course which has more impact on their results than any other change.
I am not saying that every paradigm is the same, only that you're not starting "optimization" of the course at the most relevant problem.
Sometimes you feel that working from scratch "would have been better". But you might be missing lot of details you have taken for granted or even never knew they were there, and you will have to face them.
There is a great article from Joel related to this... he actually speaks about saying "this sucks, let's rewrite it" so it's not exactly the same, but the points have a lot in common with your case. I recommend you to take a look at it.
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This happens, placebo effect works as good with alcohol as with other drugs. Not just that, different cultures have different behaviours associated to alcohol intake, and placebo drunk people tend to take the behaviours from their culture, which appears to imply that many (although not all) of the effects of alcohol are cultural.
For a second I read the "Android" in the headline as talking of a humanoid robot instead of the smartphone OS, and it was a really good base for a sci-fi story
Sorry for the summary. I sent this yesterday and sunday looked more like "next week"
I can provide you with this english link. This has not been reported in english speaking media yet, sorry for not having something better but this is breaking news yet. https://gist.githubusercontent...
Just FTR, the group organizing this election is the government of the city of Buenos Aires. which is not run by the Kirchner but one of the opposition parties
I meant... helium
Until this stuff is installed on the Google Street View cars!
I'd try to get my hands in a high-altitude weather balloon... The FBI might have an interesting day wondering what's my car doing at 100000 feet.
"I feel sorry for you, puny human, my future slave! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Yes, an evil plot from ex-communists to take the world hostage threatening to eat it with an artificial black hole. There you have it, a plot for the next James Bond Movie.
Shouldn't the successor to KGB be called LHC... oh!
There's a project called InfoLeg Trying to do exactly this... I'm not sure if they've been able to keep up, but they have a lot of content browsable in a way that resembles revision control a lot.
As an example you have here our copyright law passed in 1933. The three links there can show you the original text, the most recent text applying all updates (i.e. "HEAD" :) ), and a link to a list of laws/decrees that updated modified it later.
That's more or less what you were looking for? I know people who were close to the project in the past, I can get you a couple of names if you're really interested...
Microsoft has told skydivers that they don't recommend using parachutes, because a parachute adds to their weight.
This (as the advice stated by microsoft) is based on strictly true facts (greater attack area) but it is also strictly useless advice...
A lot of developers I've known had made their first game during Pyweek contests. Pyweek is a free and open game creation contest, using python. It has a very friendly and open community, so even if it is a contest there is a lot of people around wanting to help newbies and provide advice.
But the best thing of participating in the contest is that the rules help you to FINISH a game. Starting work on a game is easy, but it's too tempting to fall into scope creep and start adding characters, places, game mechanisms, enemy behaviour ad infinitum, and you are always starting new stuff but never getting to have something finished.
Try it. Most of the people I known to go into the contest have had a lot of fun.
They imagined 2.5 megawatt turbines crisscrossing the terrestrial globe, excluding 'areas classified as forested, areas occupied by permanent snow or ice, areas covered by water, and areas identified as either developed or urban,'
I hope the power is enough to make all the food replicators work. Otherwise I don't know what we will eat when we cover every arable field (read: the places where we grow most food now, which are not forested, with ice, water, nor urban) with wind turbines.
You want a solution? How about this: Windows should only hide file extensions for files that don't use custom icons. IOW, a .doc would show up as a Word document (by icon), so it doens't need the .doc. But if you change the icon of your .exe file to be the word doc icon, then the .exe still shows up.
I have an easier, better one: executability is not part of the file type. Use extensions to indicate file type (and hide it or show it at leisure), but put executability as an extra attribute of the file in the filesystem.
If it sounds familiar, it's because that's what UNIX has been doing since the '70s
To solve this security issue (malicious execution), you don't need separate forks, complex metadata, or anything like that. You just need a single bit of metadata, telling you if the file is executable or not. In other words (Henry Spencer's, not mine): Those who do not understand UNIX, are comdemned to reinvent it, poorly. With that metadata, the worst that somebody can do is name a file foo.txt.jpg to trick you into opening an image making you think it's a text file, but nothing that makes a security risk.
It is hard to think a good solution without knowing what you mean by "locals" (is there a simple offline way to get them a passphrase?), what kind of users you have (will they be thrown off from the site if they have to login?), etc.
Anyway, something that might work and can be used together with other filtering methods mention by other people here is filtering by HTTP referrer field.
This is assumming that your users have alternate ("local") ways of getting the URL of your site, and you don't mind being a bit detached from the rest of the web (apparently, you don't). So what you do, is filter every HTTP request where the referrer field is not empty or inside your site. This will essentially stop people from following links from other sites (google, blogs, whatever) into your site. You will be able to enter your site only by entering your URL (like knowing the BBS phone number), and then following internal links. Of course, this is not "secure" (for someone who knows http, it is not very hard to enter directly once they realize how the filter works), but I think it will stop a lot of "casual bypassers".
Btw, if you avoid being in google (robots.txt covering your whole site) you will avoid a lot of visitors already.
Take a look at this video from the it crowd...
If there was no copyright, he could have downloaded a new copy of Halo 3 and keep playing without bothering to kill his parent!
He killed them because of copyright! We should ban it!
I had to nitpick about this: Lando Calrisian didn't die!
I recommend you to read this study about CS education... it mentions that even if you can try changing paradigms, techniques, tools, there is a single factor that students bring on already when starting the course which has more impact on their results than any other change.
I am not saying that every paradigm is the same, only that you're not starting "optimization" of the course at the most relevant problem.
I have actually used sleep 8h; while true; do echo -e '\a'; sleep 0.5; done
Sometimes you feel that working from scratch "would have been better". But you might be missing lot of details you have taken for granted or even never knew they were there, and you will have to face them.
There is a great article from Joel related to this... he actually speaks about saying "this sucks, let's rewrite it" so it's not exactly the same, but the points have a lot in common with your case. I recommend you to take a look at it.
"Second system effect"