I knew violent video games were entertaining, but I didn't realize that they were taking development time away from Empathy http://live.gnome.org/Empathy. We need things like Empathy to communicate effectively.
I think the next step forward is to start adopting acronyms of acronyms, as we often do in technology names (AJAX). Clearly it takes far too many keystrokes to express such emotions. And as a bonus we can build up fun chains of searches in the dictionary.
OL = OMG LOL = Oh my god, laugh out loud.
IW = IMHO WTH/F = In my humble opinion, what the hell.
I half agree. Linux does not have to be "like Windows" to be suitable as a Desktop OS. It does however help people make the transition, and it could certainly use the market share in order to influence driver developers and video game developers to think of Linux. There is something to be said for keeping the things that make Linux lovers love it, but this is the beauty of having hundreds of distributions.
I could run a script to count the number of SSH login attempts I get daily but I can guarantee you it's in the 1000s. Windows is not the only system that gets targeted. In this case I assume they're trying to get in with weak passwords, but if there was some security vulnerability I bet they would use that instead.
Personally I think people are just as self centered now as always and we've just gotten better (supposedly) at measuring it.
Considering each of the questions is on a scale perhaps a more accurate conclusion is that we've become more honest about our own lack of empathy; maybe because such tests have become more anonymous and we are far less accountable for our answers than we used to be. Although that would mean that we've gotten better at measuring it...
The moral of the second game seems to be that if you (and this is an encouraged practice) dig through a potential date's belongings while they are busy preparing dinner for you, you will find all the necessary evidence to pass judgment upon them in a couple minutes. In fact, you really don't need to dig much further than the first piece of evidence because if they are a bad person, everything in their house will point to it! The situation is completely black and white, and hence the logical extension is that if you find yourself in such a relationship you aren't very smart because the signs were everywhere.
If creating a server that actually implements the save-game functionality is too difficult, then perhaps they could just save the process's memory to a file and reload it. Sure the save files would be on the order of gigabytes but disk space is cheap.
I don't think training it to react to what you are thinking about is the best idea. It should be the combination of the words you're thinking about and the intent to write it down on the computer. This way you can still have mental tangents without having to worry about constantly turning off the device.
Seems to me, those that are _not_ predisposed to violence have a better chance of rehabilitating than those that aren't. Shouldn't they need less time in the slammer to rehabilitate?
Assuming that time in jail does rehabilitate, someone who is not predisposed to violence and has in spite of that committed a violent act is probably in need of more rehabilitation than someone who let slip their violent nature. Nevertheless, I believe all sentences should be equal, and exceptions like these allow for a corrupt system.
Obviously Texas lawmakers are unfamiliar with the legal principle "Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" If I post online that Cmdr Taco is a goat fucker, have I really "harmed" him or his reputation in any way? It's not slander unless a reasonable person would believe it to be true, and no rational person believes Taco actually dates outside his own species (unlike Captain Kirk).
We all saw it, time to put out an affidavit for the arrest of Coward, first name Anonymous.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the technological "leap" here seems to be that any node can be the server of a wireless communication.
Wi-Fi Direct devices can connect in pairs or in groups. With Wi-Fi Direct only one of the devices needs to be compliant with Wi-Fi Direct to establish the peer-to-peer connection. So, for example, a Wi-Fi Direct-enabled mobile phone could establish a connection with a non-Wi-Fi Direct notebook computer to transfer files between the two.
Seems to be suggesting that a Wi-Fi Direct device will host an access point for the notebook computer to connect to. Otherwise how could such communication with a non Wi-Fi Direct node be possible? There are already certain wireless cards that allow running your device in master mode (appearing as an access point) so that others can connect to you. Combined with a repeater configuration and wireless N speeds and you have the equivalent connectivity of Wi-Fi Direct. So is the leap here that it will be made easy and standard?
That said, it has always been the case with computers (and robots are just computers with moving appendages) that if a hacker has physical access to the device, you're basically screwed anyways.
Yes but the vulnerabilities they studied were all over the network vulnerabilities which could be exploited without physical access.
They speak of "compromising" these robots as if user programmable devices are inherently bad. I don't want to see devices locked down into black box "no touch" state because of some fear mongering.
All these robots need is a lightweight linux installation running an ssh daemon to communicate through. Then nobody has anything to worry about.
That may be so, but do you really think the value of that extra click is worth anything from a/. reader with this mindset. Next thing you know you'll be suggesting they should follow some of the ad links on the site, or buy some of the site's affiliate's products. This may even be enforced by having your affiliates track when each user visits their site or fills out some survey. Nevertheless, no matter what you do, people who believe that the web should be free will continue to believe so.
There's also a greater cause being supported. Paywalls are not conducive to an enjoyable internet. It's similar to the radio where I used to be able to enjoy music throughout the day. Over time radio air-time has been increasingly filled with ads to the point that it's no longer enjoyable to listen to. If websites require more forced advertising it will get to the point that you are forced to see more advertisement content than what you actually wanted to read in a day.
Yea, so tell me, Mr. anonymous dumbass, what're you going to do when EMPs wipe out all 'digital' capability, hmmm?
You're a fucking moron.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but EMP does not just wipe out 'digital' circuits. I believe it will just as effectively destroy any circuitry, including the kind in ham radios. From what I have read, power cables (which act as giant antennas) and directly attached antennas make devices particularly more prone to electro-magnetic pulses, which will surge through the attached circuitry destroying weak components. I think people should take more care in not stating something as fact if they do not know for sure, especially if you're going to insult someone else's intelligence.
Or better yet, you can just leave the netbook at home and use your flash drive on a PC at your destination.
It's not a good idea to trust a host PC. It could easily copy the data off of your flash drive at the point when it's plugged in, not to mention the potential for keyloggers logging your online passwords. One solution to using an unfamiliar host PC is to carry with you a linux live CD such as Knoppix. Running this live CD and using your USB key will keep your data safe. Your passwords will also be safe from software keyloggers, but hardware keyloggers exist (although these could be visually checked for).
By extrapolating, in two years people will be buying five copies. I guess Windows 7 will finally be the prize winning cash cow Microsoft has been dying to create!
Let's say they are successful, and they do make it such that you can't play online, or even at all without a legitimate copy. These copyright measures are obviously annoying to their legitimate customers, as evidenced by many/.ers here, and I'd venture a guess that they don't increase sales. I think that most people who pirate games wouldn't buy them anyways, they will just find something else to pirate. They may end up getting 5% of the people who would have pirated the game to buy it, but by annoying their paying customer base with limited functionality or a required connection to play I think it hurts sales more than it helps them in the long run. Pirates will always be there, freeloading your games, companies should worry about impressing their paying customer base.
Did anyone notice that their facts just changed? I thought facts were supposed to be universal truths. Here's the two examples I noticed, but I can tell the wording of some of the others changed too.
Manageability:
< Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That's just not nice.
> Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That's just not nice.
Developer Tools:
< Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one. There's no need to install tools separately, and it offers better features like JavaScript profiling.
> Internet Explorer 8 has the most comprehensive developer tools built in, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing, but also JavaScript profiling; other browsers have developer tools available, but either require you to download them separately, or aren't as complete.
In the future, programming will all be in XML, as this is will prove more adaptable to change. Open source software will of course embrace this open extensible language.
for (i=0;i<10;i++)
printf("%d\n", i);
Will be replaced with the following code which is not only much easier to read, and type, but is also adaptable to whatever extra options may be added to for loops over the years.
Slashdot Mirror
I knew violent video games were entertaining, but I didn't realize that they were taking development time away from Empathy http://live.gnome.org/Empathy. We need things like Empathy to communicate effectively.
I think the next step forward is to start adopting acronyms of acronyms, as we often do in technology names (AJAX). Clearly it takes far too many keystrokes to express such emotions. And as a bonus we can build up fun chains of searches in the dictionary.
OL = OMG LOL = Oh my god, laugh out loud.
IW = IMHO WTH/F = In my humble opinion, what the hell.
I half agree. Linux does not have to be "like Windows" to be suitable as a Desktop OS. It does however help people make the transition, and it could certainly use the market share in order to influence driver developers and video game developers to think of Linux. There is something to be said for keeping the things that make Linux lovers love it, but this is the beauty of having hundreds of distributions.
I could run a script to count the number of SSH login attempts I get daily but I can guarantee you it's in the 1000s. Windows is not the only system that gets targeted. In this case I assume they're trying to get in with weak passwords, but if there was some security vulnerability I bet they would use that instead.
Personally I think people are just as self centered now as always and we've just gotten better (supposedly) at measuring it.
Considering each of the questions is on a scale perhaps a more accurate conclusion is that we've become more honest about our own lack of empathy; maybe because such tests have become more anonymous and we are far less accountable for our answers than we used to be. Although that would mean that we've gotten better at measuring it...
The moral of the second game seems to be that if you (and this is an encouraged practice) dig through a potential date's belongings while they are busy preparing dinner for you, you will find all the necessary evidence to pass judgment upon them in a couple minutes. In fact, you really don't need to dig much further than the first piece of evidence because if they are a bad person, everything in their house will point to it! The situation is completely black and white, and hence the logical extension is that if you find yourself in such a relationship you aren't very smart because the signs were everywhere.
If creating a server that actually implements the save-game functionality is too difficult, then perhaps they could just save the process's memory to a file and reload it. Sure the save files would be on the order of gigabytes but disk space is cheap.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people :-D
Is this a recurrence relation? Accidents in cars cause people ... more people in cars to cause more accidents.
I don't think training it to react to what you are thinking about is the best idea. It should be the combination of the words you're thinking about and the intent to write it down on the computer. This way you can still have mental tangents without having to worry about constantly turning off the device.
Not to mention some sort of a power source, unless they have ways of running it off of your body's energy.
Seems to me, those that are _not_ predisposed to violence have a better chance of rehabilitating than those that aren't. Shouldn't they need less time in the slammer to rehabilitate?
Assuming that time in jail does rehabilitate, someone who is not predisposed to violence and has in spite of that committed a violent act is probably in need of more rehabilitation than someone who let slip their violent nature. Nevertheless, I believe all sentences should be equal, and exceptions like these allow for a corrupt system.
Obviously Texas lawmakers are unfamiliar with the legal principle "Sticks and stones make break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" If I post online that Cmdr Taco is a goat fucker, have I really "harmed" him or his reputation in any way? It's not slander unless a reasonable person would believe it to be true, and no rational person believes Taco actually dates outside his own species (unlike Captain Kirk).
We all saw it, time to put out an affidavit for the arrest of Coward, first name Anonymous.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the technological "leap" here seems to be that any node can be the server of a wireless communication.
Wi-Fi Direct devices can connect in pairs or in groups. With Wi-Fi Direct only one of the devices needs to be compliant with Wi-Fi Direct to establish the peer-to-peer connection. So, for example, a Wi-Fi Direct-enabled mobile phone could establish a connection with a non-Wi-Fi Direct notebook computer to transfer files between the two.
Seems to be suggesting that a Wi-Fi Direct device will host an access point for the notebook computer to connect to. Otherwise how could such communication with a non Wi-Fi Direct node be possible? There are already certain wireless cards that allow running your device in master mode (appearing as an access point) so that others can connect to you. Combined with a repeater configuration and wireless N speeds and you have the equivalent connectivity of Wi-Fi Direct. So is the leap here that it will be made easy and standard?
That said, it has always been the case with computers (and robots are just computers with moving appendages) that if a hacker has physical access to the device, you're basically screwed anyways.
Yes but the vulnerabilities they studied were all over the network vulnerabilities which could be exploited without physical access.
They speak of "compromising" these robots as if user programmable devices are inherently bad. I don't want to see devices locked down into black box "no touch" state because of some fear mongering.
All these robots need is a lightweight linux installation running an ssh daemon to communicate through. Then nobody has anything to worry about.
Who wants to come to my Windows 7 Ultimate Frisbee party? MS is supplying the frisbee.
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play.
I wonder how many people play WoW offline?
That may be so, but do you really think the value of that extra click is worth anything from a /. reader with this mindset. Next thing you know you'll be suggesting they should follow some of the ad links on the site, or buy some of the site's affiliate's products. This may even be enforced by having your affiliates track when each user visits their site or fills out some survey. Nevertheless, no matter what you do, people who believe that the web should be free will continue to believe so.
There's also a greater cause being supported. Paywalls are not conducive to an enjoyable internet. It's similar to the radio where I used to be able to enjoy music throughout the day. Over time radio air-time has been increasingly filled with ads to the point that it's no longer enjoyable to listen to. If websites require more forced advertising it will get to the point that you are forced to see more advertisement content than what you actually wanted to read in a day.
you can have it a) realistic b)fast c)not take up all the processing power of a system
you can only choose 2 outta 3 though
not take up all the processing power of a system = fast
You just get 1 out of 2.
Yea, so tell me, Mr. anonymous dumbass, what're you going to do when EMPs wipe out all 'digital' capability, hmmm?
You're a fucking moron.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but EMP does not just wipe out 'digital' circuits. I believe it will just as effectively destroy any circuitry, including the kind in ham radios. From what I have read, power cables (which act as giant antennas) and directly attached antennas make devices particularly more prone to electro-magnetic pulses, which will surge through the attached circuitry destroying weak components. I think people should take more care in not stating something as fact if they do not know for sure, especially if you're going to insult someone else's intelligence.
Or better yet, you can just leave the netbook at home and use your flash drive on a PC at your destination.
It's not a good idea to trust a host PC. It could easily copy the data off of your flash drive at the point when it's plugged in, not to mention the potential for keyloggers logging your online passwords. One solution to using an unfamiliar host PC is to carry with you a linux live CD such as Knoppix. Running this live CD and using your USB key will keep your data safe. Your passwords will also be safe from software keyloggers, but hardware keyloggers exist (although these could be visually checked for).
By extrapolating, in two years people will be buying five copies. I guess Windows 7 will finally be the prize winning cash cow Microsoft has been dying to create!
Let's say they are successful, and they do make it such that you can't play online, or even at all without a legitimate copy. These copyright measures are obviously annoying to their legitimate customers, as evidenced by many /.ers here, and I'd venture a guess that they don't increase sales. I think that most people who pirate games wouldn't buy them anyways, they will just find something else to pirate. They may end up getting 5% of the people who would have pirated the game to buy it, but by annoying their paying customer base with limited functionality or a required connection to play I think it hurts sales more than it helps them in the long run. Pirates will always be there, freeloading your games, companies should worry about impressing their paying customer base.
Sorry, my copy paste failed me, the second one for manageability should read: "Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools."
Did anyone notice that their facts just changed? I thought facts were supposed to be universal truths. Here's the two examples I noticed, but I can tell the wording of some of the others changed too.
Manageability:
< Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That's just not nice.
> Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools. That's just not nice.
Developer Tools:
< Of course Internet Explorer 8 wins this one. There's no need to install tools separately, and it offers better features like JavaScript profiling.
> Internet Explorer 8 has the most comprehensive developer tools built in, including HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing, but also JavaScript profiling; other browsers have developer tools available, but either require you to download them separately, or aren't as complete.
In the future, programming will all be in XML, as this is will prove more adaptable to change. Open source software will of course embrace this open extensible language.
for (i=0;i<10;i++)
printf("%d\n", i);
Will be replaced with the following code which is not only much easier to read, and type, but is also adaptable to whatever extra options may be added to for loops over the years.
<for>
<initialization><assignmentvariable="i"><int>0</int></assignment></initialization>
<condition><expression>i<10</expression></condition>
<increment><assignmentvariable="i"><expression>i+1</expression></assignment></increment>
<body>
<output><expression>i</expression></output>
</body>
</for>