Wow, my first time ever called a Troll.
Can you post some links explaining how it compares to 2/3rds in full color? I tried googling but couldn't find anything.
Thanks
Since each pixel is not a true "Color" pixel but can only see intensity it really only sees 3MP of true RGB color.
Only 1/4 of the pixels see red, 1/4 see blue and 1/2 see green.
1) They are way underpowered, even compared to the 2008 front runners.
2) There currently is NO electric car class at all
3) LeMans is by "Invitation only", not just anyone can show up and race.
~2008 specs for the front runners:
Audi R10: 650 hp-1100 Nm-925 kg
Peugeot 908: 700 hp-1200 Nm-925 kg
Yup, carrying of weapons is definitely a no-no.
But there is nothing against having fuel on board and an ignition source. If they could rig up some sort of flame thrower and have it serve a dual purpose so it was not deemed a 'weapon' but a necessary system then it could be used for defensive purposes too.
We have a small mail-order business in Canada selling die-cast model cars and if a US customer orders over $200 worth of model cars, we need to supply Fedex their SSN so they can pass that along to Homeland Security so the shipment can clear US customs. We do get a fair number of customers who refuse, but there is nothing we can do about it, most of our long-term customers don't have a problem with it.
Step 1) Have a human crack it ( in exchange for viewing pr0n etc.)
Step 2) Build a hash-code for the image or images
Step 3) Save answer and hash-code into a database
Any CAPTCHA system can easily be cracked by building a large database with the inputs and outputs that was actually solved by humans and then saved into the database for lookup later.
The inputs don't need to be text, they can contain images ( or hash codes representing images ), or css or whatever is needed to define the input data.
The only feasable way to stop this kind of caching of answers is to have no duplicate tests.
For example, a large field of randomly colored circles that all vary in size and position and move slowly around, then tell the user to hover the mouse over the largest blue circle and then next have them move the mouse over the green triangle, etc. Then base their "pass or fail" on how well they could move the mouse fast enough. And change the test often, like, put the mouse over the shape that looks like a bunny etc.
The Down's Syndrome Research Foundation: http://www.dsrf.org/
They do Fundraising dinners 4 times a year ( Vancouver / Calgary / Montreal / Toronto )
Along with dinner for about 350-400 professionals in the financial industry, the evenings entertainment is a stock trading simulation program that was originally written 15 years ago in APL, two years ago I converted it to c++ and now attend all the shows to help run it.
This program runs on 10 laptops. One is the Game machine, one is the Graphics machine and is connected to the two large screens. The remaining 8 machines are for trade input. The program uses a mysql database to keep track of the transactions and results. Each round consists of printing out order tickets for each table (usually 40-50) then sending these out to the tables. Then the tickets are collected and the trades are input using the 8 input computers. Once all the trades have been input, the the Game machine does the round calculations. There are then two reports generated for each table, an individual results report showing their status and a group report showing all the tables. The Graphics machine then shows multiple results graphs on the big screens. Then the next trading round opens and order tickets are printed for the new round. The game plays for a variable number of rounds, typically 5 or 6 until the winner is declared at the end of the game.
Screenshot here: http://www.scale18.com/updown.jpg
Remains were found in the wreckage.
on
Fossett's Plane Found
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· Score: 5, Informative
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/steve.fossett.search/index.html
MAMMOTH LAKES, California (CNN) -- A small amount of human remains has been found in the wreckage of the plane that adventurer Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday.
I have my own mail-order business based in Canada selling toy collectibles. When a customer from the USA buys over $200 worth of them I need to collect and forward their SSN to Fedex so the shipment will clear US customs. It is REQUIRED for orders over $2000, and for orders over $200 they can be refused for any reason and we can be forced to get them ( and have our whole shipment delayed until we get it). The Fedex Trans-Border Distribution system requires that we have at least one per shipping cycle (we ship once per week to the US). Talk about a big deterrent to cross border shopping.
http://www.fedex.com/ca_english/international/regulatorynews/EIN.html
The 'extra' noise in the image each time it is displayed will cause it to be 'different' and not found in the database each time it is rendered and then looked up to see if it has already been cracked. You could even have a real-time faint webcamera image in the background behind it so it would never match in a million years.
Essentially what it comes down to is that any of these question and answer pairs can be saved in a database and reused over and over. Questions and answers can be images or text or whatever but the fact is, once each one is solved it can be saved and valid from then on.
One way to make it hard is to hide the question somewhere on the page so a human can easily see it but it would be hard for a bot to find it and archive it. That way it's harder for them to store the question in their database. For example, remember the image of homer simpson that was generated using text and css. Using that style, generate a question and then add some random css text around it. It would be hard for the bot to seperate the question and the noise and therefore hard to store it in a database.
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html
I seriously doubt there are very many non-copyrighted items on YouTube. Just because you post a video of your cat on a RC car or your child eating breakfast doesn't mean the video is in the public domain, someone would have a copyright on it until said copyright expired. So their whole copyrighted vs non-copyrighted seems a bit crazy.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoosh!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche_Mixte_Hybrid
I posted about this last week but it never made it to the front page.
Tim Langdell & the IGDA on Wednesday August 05, @03:31PM KPexEA
Submitted by KPexEA on Wednesday August 05, @03:31PM
Wow, my first time ever called a Troll.
Can you post some links explaining how it compares to 2/3rds in full color? I tried googling but couldn't find anything.
Thanks
Since each pixel is not a true "Color" pixel but can only see intensity it really only sees 3MP of true RGB color.
Only 1/4 of the pixels see red, 1/4 see blue and 1/2 see green.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
I've got one of them, fun little toy to play with.
http://www.stm32circle.com/hom/index.php
A device for removing money from stupid people: http://store.theonion.com/yu-wan-mei-device-p-1021.html
The Twitpic link works fine from the place I found it but not when clicked via slashdot???
http://twitpic.com/966ee
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1) They are way underpowered, even compared to the 2008 front runners.
2) There currently is NO electric car class at all
3) LeMans is by "Invitation only", not just anyone can show up and race.
~2008 specs for the front runners:
Audi R10: 650 hp-1100 Nm-925 kg
Peugeot 908: 700 hp-1200 Nm-925 kg
Yup, carrying of weapons is definitely a no-no. But there is nothing against having fuel on board and an ignition source. If they could rig up some sort of flame thrower and have it serve a dual purpose so it was not deemed a 'weapon' but a necessary system then it could be used for defensive purposes too.
Just have motion activated flamethrowers around the edges of the boat.
We have a small mail-order business in Canada selling die-cast model cars and if a US customer orders over $200 worth of model cars, we need to supply Fedex their SSN so they can pass that along to Homeland Security so the shipment can clear US customs. We do get a fair number of customers who refuse, but there is nothing we can do about it, most of our long-term customers don't have a problem with it.
Step 1) Have a human crack it ( in exchange for viewing pr0n etc.)
Step 2) Build a hash-code for the image or images
Step 3) Save answer and hash-code into a database
Any CAPTCHA system can easily be cracked by building a large database with the inputs and outputs that was actually solved by humans and then saved into the database for lookup later. The inputs don't need to be text, they can contain images ( or hash codes representing images ), or css or whatever is needed to define the input data. The only feasable way to stop this kind of caching of answers is to have no duplicate tests. For example, a large field of randomly colored circles that all vary in size and position and move slowly around, then tell the user to hover the mouse over the largest blue circle and then next have them move the mouse over the green triangle, etc. Then base their "pass or fail" on how well they could move the mouse fast enough. And change the test often, like, put the mouse over the shape that looks like a bunny etc.
The Down's Syndrome Research Foundation: http://www.dsrf.org/ They do Fundraising dinners 4 times a year ( Vancouver / Calgary / Montreal / Toronto ) Along with dinner for about 350-400 professionals in the financial industry, the evenings entertainment is a stock trading simulation program that was originally written 15 years ago in APL, two years ago I converted it to c++ and now attend all the shows to help run it. This program runs on 10 laptops. One is the Game machine, one is the Graphics machine and is connected to the two large screens. The remaining 8 machines are for trade input. The program uses a mysql database to keep track of the transactions and results. Each round consists of printing out order tickets for each table (usually 40-50) then sending these out to the tables. Then the tickets are collected and the trades are input using the 8 input computers. Once all the trades have been input, the the Game machine does the round calculations. There are then two reports generated for each table, an individual results report showing their status and a group report showing all the tables. The Graphics machine then shows multiple results graphs on the big screens. Then the next trading round opens and order tickets are printed for the new round. The game plays for a variable number of rounds, typically 5 or 6 until the winner is declared at the end of the game. Screenshot here: http://www.scale18.com/updown.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDOn639E114
The article not clear on that. http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/files/2008/10/davidaxmark-larrysyacht-2005-08-15-l.jpg
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/02/steve.fossett.search/index.html MAMMOTH LAKES, California (CNN) -- A small amount of human remains has been found in the wreckage of the plane that adventurer Steve Fossett was flying when he disappeared last year, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Thursday.
I have my own mail-order business based in Canada selling toy collectibles. When a customer from the USA buys over $200 worth of them I need to collect and forward their SSN to Fedex so the shipment will clear US customs. It is REQUIRED for orders over $2000, and for orders over $200 they can be refused for any reason and we can be forced to get them ( and have our whole shipment delayed until we get it). The Fedex Trans-Border Distribution system requires that we have at least one per shipping cycle (we ship once per week to the US). Talk about a big deterrent to cross border shopping. http://www.fedex.com/ca_english/international/regulatorynews/EIN.html
How about TheRapist Locator :-)
http://www.therapistlocator.net/
The 'extra' noise in the image each time it is displayed will cause it to be 'different' and not found in the database each time it is rendered and then looked up to see if it has already been cracked. You could even have a real-time faint webcamera image in the background behind it so it would never match in a million years.
Essentially what it comes down to is that any of these question and answer pairs can be saved in a database and reused over and over. Questions and answers can be images or text or whatever but the fact is, once each one is solved it can be saved and valid from then on. One way to make it hard is to hide the question somewhere on the page so a human can easily see it but it would be hard for a bot to find it and archive it. That way it's harder for them to store the question in their database. For example, remember the image of homer simpson that was generated using text and css. Using that style, generate a question and then add some random css text around it. It would be hard for the bot to seperate the question and the noise and therefore hard to store it in a database. http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html
I seriously doubt there are very many non-copyrighted items on YouTube. Just because you post a video of your cat on a RC car or your child eating breakfast doesn't mean the video is in the public domain, someone would have a copyright on it until said copyright expired. So their whole copyrighted vs non-copyrighted seems a bit crazy.