whoa, I'd never really thought this one out, but it seems so obvious and yet so full of potential for misuse. How do people see this being (ab)used in the post Opera unite era? I can only imagine the horror...
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Know it's a bit of everyone's (valuable) time I'm asking for, but this is the type of topic I would like to see gain the big discussion threads here on HN. But time is money, so I can't expect too much! Hope some find it interesting at least.
Pandora was the wife of Prometheus (the Titan of Knowledge) who made all the animals and humanity (last of all and out of the only material he had left - clay). In order to give them life, he stole fire from the gods and gave it to his creations, for which he was bitterly punised. In one telling he was tied to a mountain and his heart/liver was eaten by an eagle/vulture and grew back every day. HOWEVER, in another telling, his punishment was PANDORA and her famous box.... I just always found that interesting, vivisection every day for eternity, or a curious wife... fine lines =P
I've never been more appalled by the utter disregard for journalistic competence that a quick browse through this sites archives shows. Mutant dogs are among the more plausible of the articles, a quick list of the shite I managed to find:
Tunguska meteor was effectively T-boned out of the way of high population densities by Alien do-gooders
Direct and two-way communication with the "netherworld" has been established and preceeded information such as the recent "terrorist bombings" of planes in Russia
A child prodigy began reading/painting/storytelling at the age of two, and enters shamanic dreamtime to preach to crowds about his days as a Martian....
Many more unidentified and bizarre animals
The "untold" history of WW2 including much unpublished data suggesting the persecution of the Russian state and it's citizens at the hands of the Allies, including an alternative theory suggesting Poland instigated concentration camps for German civilians and were a Fascist state that deserved invasion by Hitler's army
A piece titled "Hot Chocolate" which was just a dozen or so pictures of scantily clad black women who are vaguely well known in western culture ("hollywood starlets" or some such)
.... seriously the list goes on! I'm not saying ALL of this is untrue, but I'm willing to say I wouldn't wipe my arse with anything this (obvious) propaganda whore /could/ put in print.
"I learned a little about the Stereopsis that are used for this type of model construction in my AI degree."
That, to my mind, doesn't make sense. Whereas the "stereoptics" involved in the _process_ of "stereopsis" seems to fit my Universal Grammar Function (with equal measures of disdain and honour for Chomsky).
Dunno, I'm an anally retentive grammar nazi, this can be easily evidenced by my overt use of the "quotation" "marks" around "my" words..... it's a serious mental condition, people!
EDIT: Wikipedia doesn't seem to agree with me, though
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/elasticmin...
..... ahem
EDIT: besides the flippant humour of the remark I was trying to make a point of gender identities and social profiles when it comes to interaction. It can be surprisingly easy to pick out the "Alpha" and those more subservient or devious when watching a conversation. I wouldn't be surprised at all if speech conventions had a very strict social hierarchy attributed to meaningful measures such as confidence and deviousness.
don't really do podcasts much myself, though. But these did keep me mildly entertained/informed a while back (esp. the HOPE conference about coupon hacking)
One of the problems with this solution is that the content itself must become "location aware" as it wouldn't be fair to stream BBC content to the rest of the world when it's only being paid for by UK license payers. I see this as one of the founding principals of BBC iPlayer:- they have had the technology and the content to distribute BBC media worldwide for a good few years, but to do so fairly and maintain the illusion of order (because as you say "If you can see it you can steal it") the BBC have needed a rather robust piece of software to keep an eye on things. I hope they reach a point where they will turn off the "7 day listings" for license payers and have all the content available for download and sharing via an "in house" iPlayer Torrent.... guess it's not beyond the realms of possibility... and just think, we could finally have Later with Jools Holland on tap! That alone is enough to make it a worthwhile endeavour, when you factor in David Attenborough.... it's almost utopian ;)
For instance he wrote some wonderfully insightful essays on the probability of intelligent life (maybe even just "l.a.w.k.i") on the grounds that most people misinterpret the products of strict evolutionary theory. He claimed that for il/lawki to have evolved one must posit the happenings of not just the simian evolutionary line, but all life and it's corresponding physical environment. If we take this literally, then we can say that for il/lawki, an unbroken line of events 13 billion years long are invested in the simple phrase "intelligent life" or "life as we know it"... and we need not restrict ourselves to any time period as it's a continuum, so we start to get an infinite on this side of the equation that divides the infinity of the universe into a simple and undeniable unity - us. To posit anything further than this is beyond the realms of scientific integrity.
If you can't imagine the Queen saying it - it 'aint a word!
seriously though, any students got access to the OED online? check it out and give us the official definition, I'm dubious, but could do with a new way of insulting peoples' intelligence =P
After just over 6 months I have been passed from pillar to post and received literally NO training whatsoever. Our code implementation is a spider's web Java/Stuts2/Springs/Hibernate setup that boggles the mind of both senior developers (who's combined brain power spent 3 hours trying to figure out the specifics of checkbox implementation on our architecture.... seriously - 3 hours!)
I'm really beginning to see that my limitations as a developer are more imposed by upper-middle management and the lack of interest my fellow developers seem to have in my skill set (they actually ignore me when I ask for help most the time (and it isn't because it's a rtfm issue - it's usually because they are still trying to unravel this awful code!))... I'm looking forward to a time when I can recapture that invigorating enthusiasm for collaboration and learning that came so easily at Uni.
and in regard to "that guy" in the office (some other comment post on this thread) - my favourite excuse for not being able to help is "oh, I don't know - I'd have to look at the code"
..... even though he's sat next to me! but still we're on an svn!!!.... how is that an excuse for not helping a fellow dev!? would you be able to help /without/ looking at the code!?
bah
Hell, for a mind boggling position on where my doubts are loosely based, read the Quine-Duhem Thesis or The Indeterminacy of Translation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhem%E2%80%93Quine_thesis
The first states that the search for "meaning" in language is a dead end, due to the problem of translation (an agonising and paradoxical conclusion to realise).
While the second states that no scientific theory (that of "the singularity" for instance) can ever be tested or even contemplated in isolation. All knowledge essentially "faces the tribunal of sense-experience, not alone, but as a cohesive unit". So my primary assumption that "singularity" refers to "black wholes and baby universes" refuses the "singularity meme" to be accepted by my cohesive knowledge web... as ever - food for thought
peace
This is the obvious answer, but we're hackers - we need to be pedantic and anal otherwise there's no real fun in forcing others to think beyond there assumptions.
;)
keep trying
I really can't see the useful application of the metaphor here. It's not a singularity... a wave, certainly. This gives us the idea of the "seventh wave" which concentrates the potency of the waveform. Or how about a renaissance? It will get to the point where software development, especially in AI, reaches a functional plateau. Branching out and diversifying into many stylistic forms. Or (my personal favourite) a "Babel Event", where we construct a universal medium, shattering the old converging paradigms and multiplying our complexities by an order of magnitude. <br/> Surely these are far more "useful metaphors" than the idea of a singularity - the point at which the rules change, or the classical conventions are destroyed? I think this is insidiously vague (and might be why the "singularity meme" has spread so far/fast?)
doin a quick bit of research while waiting for the day to finish (trans: working), I found that the chemical composition of Egg shell is mostly Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) and that this can be effectively dissolved using many common acids. So putting an egg in vinegar (acetic acid) for some time would eventually dissolve away the shell (which is technically not _breaking_ it).
.... any others?
EDIT: saved by the common brainfart
the problem with Sulfuric is that you have to be able to eat the egg itself afterwards ;)
made me think of a Vaudeville Villain laughing maniacally while twisting the ends of his waxed moustache and contemplating the fate of his scrambled egg addicted clientèle.... =S
The way that I've seen it develop is that the general public now uses the term "crack" pretty exclusively (in tech terms that is) to mean the breaking of copy protection on proprietary software. Whereas the term "hack" or "hacker" still languishes in the "romanticised" picture of a lone wolf stalking the internet for system vulnerabilities to take advantage of, subvert and abuse an innocent box....
I'm now lost in the "problem" (to paraphrase a recent post - "programmers don't _love to code_ they _love to solve problems_) of how to eat an egg without braking the shell?
I think this should be a contest - best answer gets upvotes?
I think the primary assumptions of the problem must be thrashed out first.
1. The Egg is to be an average sized chicken egg - none of them quails jive! 2. Eat: as in to consume the whole, 3. Egg: as in the Yolk and the White (albumen for the l334) 4. Without "Breaking the Shell": I think this needs to be defined as it would seem that careful incisions that could be reversed so as to leave the overall shape of the shell intact should be allowed. 5. ABSOLUTELY NO PUNS!
Some purists may be against my referring to what is a distributed and loosely organised menagerie of differently compromised systems as a singular entity, but I find it inspiring to think of this as the common enemy that binds the internet civilisation.
I have heard many a deeply fascinating story about the exploits of this web marauder, such as the well known Estonia ddos: http://tinyurl.com/3ashwk
as well as theories that dispute the controlling agents of the botnet, arguing for and against the autonomy of "The Botnet" itself. With some stating it's defence mechanisms mirror those of immune systems or other organic systems. (not sure where my reference is for that one)
With this being such a massive force on the internet, what do people know of vigilante justice that seeks to control "The Botnet"? I find it hard to believe that the old-school "white hat hackers" would allow themselves to be pushed aside by this mother of all script kiddies!
I had a quick look around and all I could find was this interesting little morsel: http://tinyurl.com/de4t5l
essentially a distributed proxy shield that (if I'm not mistaken) inverts the tor architecture and incorporates a relatively expensive authorisation to perturb the activity of a botnet attack on a particular server.
But what I'm really looking for is a legitimate attempt to set up some distributed system to attack the botnet itself?
just some food for thought, I thought.
my definition of "hacking" is somewhat skewed
I take your point, I did mean _wikipedia_ as there is no doubt that an in house wiki is a very good way of content management. But there are a lot of preconceived prejudices about open wiki's among the less well informed. I'm preaching to the converted here on HN, but then I thought people would appreciate the pretty colours =D