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Comment: Re:Teacher should of been ready (Score 1) 215

by Starteck81 (#43610339) Attached to: Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers
When I was in high school (late 90s) the "Computer Teacher" was really nothing more than a word processing teacher. All of the classes focused on teaching typing and some very basic computer usage. i.e what is RAM, HD, keyboard, mouse. I phished his password on the regular and he never knew I had it. I did it by having him unlock the computer so I could fix something. I would then install a key logger and re-lock the security software. Once that was done I would tell him that I forgot to make one more change, have him unlock it once more and then recover the password for the key logger.

I mostly used it for good. (fixing network printer mappings, repairing broken OS or network settings) About as mischievous as I got was was installing a first person shooter on a number of the computers and starting an underground FPS club that played during lunch.

Comment: Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? (Score 1) 625

by Starteck81 (#43564619) Attached to: 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon
Predators look for easy targets. You almost never see a lion go after the strongest members of the herd they're hunting. Any creature that has their self preservation instinct intact will retreat unless they are really desperate to win what ever prize they are after. Hence the show of force with a gun is often all that is needed to send a burglar running out the way they came in. They simply didn't bargain for that level of resistance. This is especially true if they didn't think anyone was home. On the other hand if the person that breaks into your house is mentally unstable or coked up out of their mind they may not have any self preservation instinct left and they will kill you unless you put them down. In that case it is better to have the best lethal firepower you can buy.
Government

Hockey Sticks Among Carry-On Items TSA Has Cleared For Planes 276

Posted by samzenpus
from the clearing-stick dept.
coondoggie writes "As of April 25th the Transportation Security Administration will let a bunch of previously prohibited items such as small pocket knives and what it calls 'novelty' or toy bats to be taken on aircraft as carry-ons. The idea the agency said was to let Transportation Security Officers better focus their efforts on spotting higher-threat items such as explosives and guns."
Privacy

Ask Slashdot: How Would You Feel About Recording Your Entire Life? 379

Posted by Unknown Lamer
from the just-ask-for-your-file dept.
skade88 writes "As I get older, I find the little details of my life slip away from my memory after years and decades pass. I find myself wishing I had a way to record at least sound and video of my entire life. It would be nice to be able to go back and see what I was like when I was younger without the fog of memory clouding my view of the past. It would be cool to share with my boy friend and future kids how I was when I was younger by just showing them video from my life. Do y'all know of any good way to do this? I would settle for recording what I see from a first person point of view. There is also concerns that range beyond the technical. If I were to record my entire life, that would mean also recording other people, when they are interacting with me on a daily basis. What sort of privacy laws pertain to this? Even without laws, would others act differently around me because they were being recorded with my life record? How would it make you feel if your friend or family member did this?"

Comment: Re:Clip (Score 1) 1862

by Starteck81 (#42611135) Attached to: 3D Printable Ammo Clip Skirts New Proposed Gun Laws

The only excuses for guns are the hobbies of hunting and target shooting. It's not worth it.

So self defense of life/property or rebelling against a government, if it tries to ignore the majority will of the people, are not legitimate uses of guns? Someone should have told our nation's founding fathers that before they started the revolutionary war. So many lives could have been spared...

Programming

TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript 488

Posted by samzenpus
from the no-code-on-the-block dept.
mikejuk writes "Everyone seems to have a replacement for JavaScript — Google even has two. Now Microsoft has revealed that Anders Hejlsberg, the father of C# among other languages, has been working on a replacement and it has released a preview of TypeScript. The good news is that it is compatible with JavaScript — you can simply load JavaScript code and run it. JavaScript programs are TypeScript programs. To improve on JavaScript, TypeScript lets you include annotations that allow the compiler to understand what objects and functions support. The annotations are removed by the compiler, making it a zero overhead facility. It also adds a full class construct to make it more like traditional object oriented languages. Not every JavaScript programmer will be pleased about the shift in emphasis, but the way it compiles to a JavaScript constructor is fairly transparent. At this early stage it is difficult to see the development as good. It isn't particularly good for JavaScript developers who already have alternatives, and it isn't good for C# developers who now have confirmation that Ander Hejlsberg is looking elsewhere for his future." Update: 10/01 20:34 GMT by U L : It's also freely available under under the Apache 2.0 license, and there's a language specification available. It looks pretty interesting: it even has ML-style type inference (including e.g. deducing the types of higher order functions).

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