Comment Re:Non-authoritative authentication (Score 1) 132
Yes, it's a drug called "old age". I highly advise that you stay away from it.
Yes, it's a drug called "old age". I highly advise that you stay away from it.
I agree that statistics is very, very useful - if for no other reason than being to identify the useful info in a sea of spreadsheets and log files.
As for the other stuff? Depends on what you're doing. I've had a very successful IT career of 20+ years, and the last several years have involved working on marquee mobile apps. Even when working on high-profile websites (~500M page views/month), I haven't needed to understand Big O beyond a superficial level, and I certainly didn't need anything beyond algebra to understand the output of a profiler (even for iOS, which can be a challenging platform.)
Am I a monkey? No. I have worked on engaging software products that millions of people happily use, all without advanced math knowledge.
Nothing annoys me more than "security" questions. First, so many sites share the "secret" answer that it's really not secret, is it? Second, I'd prefer to not make vulnerable even yet more personally identifying information. Third, I really dislike needing to remember the hundreds of variations of stupid personal trivia that comprise my "answer". "In what city did you first drive a car?" How the hell should I know, I barely remember my name anymore!
Sorry, I beg to differ. I've waited eighteen months for an Android tablet that has pixel-perfect, smooth as butter scrolling, which iPhone has had for several years now.
As a developer who has worked on several marquee apps on iOS and Android, I've always been disappointed by Android. The small details matter.
Vampire snacks! Like cherry-filled chocolates.
I got fired once for circumventing network policy. Afterwords, my former coworkers would refuse to talk to me. I heard from the janitor that they all make fun of me now on a regular basis, and when anyone proposes a truly stupid idea, the common retort has now become, "Oh yeah, sure, and why don't you just SSH tunnel out of the network while you're at it!"
I agree. And just for extra measure, don't do personal banking from your home PC unless it's housed in a windowless room with concrete walls that are least 4 inches thick.
Time for RMS to add a "NewEggization" clause to GPL4.
If your biggest concern, in 10 or 15 years, is that you wasted money on a video game that you only got to play for about 60 to 120 hours but can no longer play because Blizzard goes out of business, congratulations! Most of us are too busy worrying about if the planet will even be habitable by then.
Then again, maybe you've built an underground nuclear fallout shelter, and desperately are looking for Diablo III to be your sole source of entertainment.
What do you think the CEO does all day long?
Bulleted lists. Bulleted lists have been broken since well before 2002.
Oh, and "sections". Sections have been broken for almost as long as bulleted lists.
Oh yeah, they invent stuff...
http://news.cnet.com/Kodak-wins-Java-patent-suit/2100-1014_3-5394765.html
A federal jury on Friday ruled in favor of Kodak, and the photography giant is now seeking damages of $1 billion from Sun.
The case has outraged some opponents of software patents, who claim it is a textbook example of why software should not be patentable.
Kodak's case centered on three patents that it bought from Wang Laboratories in 1997, several years after Java was created. These patents--numbers 5,206,951, 5,421,012, and 5,226,161--referred to the integration of data between object managers, and between data managers, and to the integration of different programs that were manipulating data of different types.
The lawsuit was filed in February 2002 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York.
Kodak argued in court that these patents covered the method where an application "asked for help" from another application--such as in Java's object-oriented programming language.
Yeah, it seems like Kodak really spent a lot of time sitting around, inventing useful stuff. Or, you could realize that Kodak purchased an overly broad patent that should have never been granted in the first place, and then used it as a weapon of extortion against one of the largest innovators in the tech world.
Yeah, I'm pretty much hoping they go down in flames. The Kodak that Steve Jobs loved and admired has long been dead.
It's much more subtle than that. Did you click the link above? Do you notice how CNN chose a picture of Ross Perot where he looks goofy as hell? MSM wants you to read the term "independent party" and then immediately see a picture of a goofy nut, making it so much easier to discredit the serious need for a non-two-party system.
They did the same thing in 2008 with their election poll. All the candidates had dignified, diplomatic headshots in the poll, except for Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel, who all managed to look like they escaped the loony bin together.
(you can't turn PIN guesses off obviously because that would just enable a DOS attack)
I'm not so sure that's true. The PIN is only used during the setup process. If someone DOS'd you out of pin guesses, you could always PUSH THE BIG SETUP BUTTON AGAIN ON YOUR ROUTER.
Your argument is a bit disingenuous, similar to if you had just said, "There are infinite counting numbers, but only one instance of number 2. Shouldn't there be infinite?"
I find you lack of faith in the forth dithturbing. - Darse ("Darth") Vader
