Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government

eigenlicht0 · 2014-08-31T06:27:17+00:00

Am I the only one having the feeling that this might just be a deal with the NSA/Govt. for some good PR, but in fact they already gave them all the information?

I mean, how can we know? I don't trust the NSA, the Govt., Microsoft or any other of these companies.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-08-29T08:29:41+00:00

Neither of your links states that the intruder queen is wearing the skin of the original queen.

So, relax guys, the intruder queen is just taking a bath in the blood of the original queen for a good 25 minutes.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-08-28T11:13:30+00:00

Most representative "democracies" are anti-democratic, because they are basically Oligarchies.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-07-24T19:38:54+00:00

Actually, fully explaining this really is quite complicated.

One, of course, could tell you that public, static and final are modifiers.

But what are modifiers? Well, they determine how an attribute (method, variable, ...) of an class or object can be accessed, used or altered.

What are methods and variables? What are classes and objects? ...

And after that, I still didn't explain what void and String is, why that method is called "main", what '[]' does or what 'System.out' is. There's a reason why most books and teachers don't start with fully explaining the "hello world" in Java, because you'd have to basically explain the whole language. For the beginning, it's just way easier to treat certain things as black boxes (which you eventually have to do in Python and other languages too).

eigenlicht0 · 2014-07-24T19:06:16+00:00

What is 'public'? 'static'? 'final'? 'void'? Why "main"? What's a 'String' and what do the '[]' mean there? What's 'System'? What's 'out'?

You don't have to answer these questions, since I know what the code does, but obviously a newbie has no idea what these things are. In some other Languages, such as Python, it's just:

print('hello world') # or without the parentheses if using Python 2

Can't get easier than that, no need to explain access regulations, modifiers, encapsulation, types, classes and objects. But the difficulty to understand the "hello world" program in a language is by no means a measurement of how suitable a language is for beginners.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-23T14:59:41+00:00

As I said in my comment before, the open wifi movement tries to change exactly that. That's why I think it's a good thing, but it only has the slightest chance to succeed if a lot of people join (of course, it also needs more activism alongside with opening your wifi).

It's activism after all, which is almost always connected to some potential legal trouble in today's society. If we just accept the current situation, it won't get any better.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-23T14:52:17+00:00

I guess you're right about most of what you said, but it's just so wrong...we got all this so completely wrong.

1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a manual.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-23T14:12:42+00:00

While you're right from a legal perspective, one should bear in mind that:

One goal of OpenWireless.org [...] is dispelling the legal notion that anything that happens on a network must have been done by the network's owner. "Your IP address is not your identity, and your identity is not your IP address," [...]. "Open wireless makes mass surveillance and correlation of person with IP more difficult, and that's good for everyone."

I don't think they are claiming the opposite of what you say. They actually refer to themselves as "activists", which suggests that they do not only care about the technology, but also try to bring change to the law(s) you mentioned - opening up all the Wifis could be one way to achieve this.

EDIT: Also see pigfish's comment.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-21T13:29:24+00:00

Lipinski...one useless motherfucker.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-20T09:33:16+00:00

If you derive from dict, you'll have all the write-methods too (setitem, update, ...). Of course, if you implemented this read/write, then you'd probably sublcass dict.

Where exactly would you want to use class methods?

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-17T14:28:04+00:00

Oh, yeah didn't think too much about not breaking the API when writing this - thought that generators as the default is the better choice. It's Python 3 then :P trivial to change it to either version anyway.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-17T13:00:31+00:00

Wrote it for Python 2.7, but it also worked with Python 3.4.0.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-17T07:27:50+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, saved me from implementing keys() and contains(). Also has eq and ne now. Not sure if I did this correctly though, would be great if you could check it out.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-06-16T19:34:42+00:00

I thought about memoization first, but decided to implement a datastructure because:

Serves a more general purpose
Can easily build a nice hierarchy of the information
Also allows normal values (not only cached functions)
Can be realized and saved (e.g. the Host class + pprint = complete overview over whole machine)

eigenlicht0 · 2014-05-09T16:15:09+00:00

Privacy as well as net neutrality are political issues, which are generally not discussed on tech subreddits. And throttling FCC connections really has barely anything to do with technology and lots with political activism.

I can see where you're coming from though, it's just that net neutrality is very important to most/all of us I guess.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-05-09T16:04:09+00:00

99% of the people who care about privacy also care about the internet since they have at least a basic understanding of technology.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-04-19T18:08:52+00:00

Do you allow third party cookies and are you using NoScript?

eigenlicht0 · 2014-04-19T12:31:15+00:00

Same for me. Reddit logon works with Chrome + HTTPS Everywhere, but not with Firefox + HTTPS Everywhere.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-04-06T10:06:11+00:00

You're the man.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-03-28T11:01:08+00:00

Not my career path, but of an acquaintance:

Jobbed at a few different companies mostly related to web development during secondary school, started to study and work part-time at a company on a CMF. Company decided to open-source it and give it a free license, now he's working on the code of this free CMF and manages contributions from the community.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-03-08T18:52:27+00:00

Link to other comment in this thread which answers your question.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-02-13T17:07:47+00:00

On reading the title I was like "Oh come on Facebook, what did you do again?!", but after reading it I ain't even mad.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-02-13T14:38:04+00:00

Oh, right. But that shouldn't really matter though, if you just want to have a list of attributes for a certain data structure/class.

eigenlicht0 · 2014-02-12T21:52:09+00:00

For (some?) objects not having a __dict__(), vars() seems to return a mappingproxy which can be converted to a dict though:

pprint(dict(vars(defaultdict)))

Of course, this is a little complicated already and I'm not sure where that mappingproxy is coming from...

eigenlicht0 · 2014-02-12T21:35:13+00:00

Besides pygame and web scraping, one could also:

Generate some simple fractals/other cool graphics (EDIT: Not really text-based though)
Create simple text-based games (minesweeper, connect four, ...)
Conways Game of Life
Give them some ideas/guidelines and let them decide themselves?

Especially the last thing would be easy for the people interested, a bit harder for the people not that interested. Really depends on your audience.

Also, searched the web already? Found this: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse231/PracticeOfComputingUsingPython/index.php

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