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Comment: Re:MegaUpload bust was highly successful (Score 1) 335

by guruevi (#39061779) Attached to: Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down

MegaUpload was (to me at least) more a place where documents and other things got put by whistleblowers. There was very few pirated content on MU, it wasn't the place to go for your latest movie or video game.

Shutting down MU did more damage to whistleblowers, the Anon community and similar groups than to pirates. There was also a host of information on there that has now simply disappeared and needs to be re-uploaded elsewhere.

Comment: I see better applications for this (Score 1) 284

by guruevi (#39044723) Attached to: Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication

a) In a hotel it is going to be useless because those outlets probably cost ~$100 or more PER OUTLET + installation costs and backend headaches. This is going to cost more than you'll ever get out of it especially as you'll need outlets for lamps, tv's etc and the average high-end computer these days lasting 10 hours on a single battery charge. Or are you going to charge $1 for every started kWh (even so how many kWh do you use at a hotel?)

b) Most likely the device that you plug in has to be able to authenticate over the mains. This is a non-trivial problem as you'll have to communicate somehow with 110/220VAC from a low-power device. So all devices will have to have some type of input device and output device (imagine lamps with PDA's attached to them?) that cost is also going to add up as all your devices (TV etc.) have to be switched over.

c) Could be used in applications where you definitely do not want people plugging in other gear into certain outlets. For example hospitals have those special outlets (marked green, yellow and/or red instead of the standard grey/white) where sometimes issues appear because patients plug in their laptop or other chargers into those designated outlets. Those outlets are for specific medical equipment and depending on the outlet are also on the backup generator grids.

Comment: Depending on what your tablet is (Score 1) 260

by guruevi (#39029035) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application?

iPhone Configuration Utility (free, allows you to lock down pretty much any feature of your iDevice). I've seen at least one deployment where an iPod Touch is used for a museums guided audio tour (because those specific IR devices cost a shit-ton more than an iPod Touch).

Android has similar options (paid)

Windows devices have similar options (but you must deploy Active Directory, Windows Server (to run it), SQL Server (backend), Exchange (remote wipe and push the policy) and pay for CAL's for all those)

Comment: Re:What I learned from online "dating" (Score 1) 630

by guruevi (#38967795) Attached to: Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic"

Well, the services for companionship are pricey, girlfriends are cheaper.

If you really don't want to attach yourself to anyone, just put it on your profile and be honest, girls will appreciate it when you tell them: "This is what I want and I'm sticking to it" and I got several dates out of it because they appreciate that you're realistic and I've eventually found someone I like.

Also, the hotties on the dating sites are either never going to reply to you or they're plants. They already get 100's of e-mails daily, yours has to be pretty special for her to read it and even more special for her to reply. You're better off picking someone like that up in real life.

Java

What is the best starter guide/book for beginning with OOP 4

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guruevi writes "A (girl)friend of mine just started a CS course and has been dumped head first into programming with Java.

The textbook sucks in my not-so-humble opinion, the teacher just glossed over the theory, didn't really explain anything other than "just do this and it will work" (until yesterday she had no idea as to what String[] args means in the main and why it should or shouldn't be there) and has given them only a few class methods to implement, feeding them the main and tester classes so far then skipped straight ahead to "now implement the main, this class and the tester" leaving (at least one of) his pupils bewildered as to what it actually all means.

Yes, she can parrot what an object is and a string or an integer and how to write it up but she has no idea how it fits together. Constructor methods same problem, parrot the theory but no idea what it actually means and how object oriented programming makes things look different than the methodical sequential programming people are geared towards thinking.

Since I am an already somewhat seasoned programmer I can explain what everything means and it feels very natural after years of experience but I'm not a great teacher. I also like to introduce what is and isn't good practice (and where her teacher goes horribly wrong is teaching good practice such as commenting, variable naming etc.) but it all gets overwhelming for her.

Since I am not really familiar with Java (more of a P*/C/ObjC/C++ guy) I am looking for either a good guide on Java or any objective oriented programming for beginners, something where people can understand how methods/functions work, how variables are passed and what scoping means (things the textbook doesn't explain until a few chapters later, it just assumes the pupil to copy the examples)"

Comment: Re:Droping X86 may be suide for apple (Score 4, Interesting) 368

by guruevi (#38954115) Attached to: Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM

Adobe deserves to die imho. They were indeed dragged kicking and screaming. Same for MS Office. You either adapt or die, if your code is so shitty you can't port it between slightly different architectures without breaking it, you have a really bad development team.

Comment: If they were really extorting (Score 4, Insightful) 168

by guruevi (#38954061) Attached to: Cops Set Up Extortion Sting On Symantec's Source Code Thieves

They would've taken the money. More likely they "offered" money whether it was in a sting or not in order to be able to claim extortion and put the Anonymous hackers in a bad light.

I don't think the hackers are interested in money as much as they are in the information. The fact is Symantec screwed up and they'll have to take it, if they can't protect themselves then why should we trust them?

Comment: Re:FFS (Score 3, Insightful) 584

It maybe inconsiderate, off-putting and creepy to you but that doesn't mean it's unlawful or wrong. What is creepy to you today may be accepted tomorrow or elsewhere in the world.

Yes, people are allowed to be assholes. You're allowed to use a megaphone and a stand and the government does provide those as well (they're called public parks).

I think churches and preachers are inconsiderate, off-putting and creepy and the government does provide them with money by not having them pay taxes.

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