I RTFA, the girl sent the messages to a group of 4 friends. So that makes it more like one message every 8 minutes. Still sounds like she'd have some pretty sore thumbs.
I don't know, to me it seems FO3 had too much of certain types of content to begin with. Namely, at level 20 you are a god capable of single-handedly killing just about any kind of enemy force you might encounter, and when you have friends with you... Hopefully the combat in the simulation battle will be much more challenging than it was in vanilla Fallout 3, otherwise I don't see the point in having a system for group tactics.
good point - my bank also uses the keycodes for verification over the phone when a customer calls them, so it's not a big stretch that they would call to ask about an "important issue" but say that first they need to verify you are who you say you are...
Using that would probably be more hassle than your average user is willing to put up with. A bigger wtf is, in my opinion: Do so many banking services really rely on a single login/pass combo per user for authentication? When banking security comes up here, I see people worry about having their login+pass revealed, which makes me think that's the only verification their banks use.
My bank at least also uses a one-time pad system, namely a numbered list of 100 pre-generated codes. So I log in using a username and pass, and then to actually do something with the on-line banking system I'm asked to provide the code that relates to a randomly chosen number between 0000 and 0099. A code can only be used once. So basically if the phishing site manages to get hold of a few numbers from a user's passcode list, the chances are still pretty slim they'll be able to do anything with them.
Of course, if they scam hundreds of people, they will get a few successes, but not very many.
The question is whether there's any point to making a film version of a book/graphic novel/whatever if you just try to make a carbon copy of the story already told. What's the point, beyond cashing in? Well, cashing in seems to be what most comic book adaptations on the big screen are about, but films made from novels provide examples of a director taking a book and successfully reinterpreting it. I'm told Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", but it's a phenomenal film, probably precisely because the director didn't let himself be tied down by the source material he was working with. Well, the director being Kubrick probably helped, too.
I think you mean to say "This could make them some money". The question is, would it be as profitable as having a monopoly on the hardware, which, if you look at retail prices, is pretty pricey at the moment. I doubt it.
In the real world, people get lied to all the time. Not just on-off lies, either, but big, huge lies everyone seems to believe for years on end. So maybe being told there's a Santa and then finding out it's not true is a good learning experience for all.
I don't think the mouse is going anywhere for a while, but who would have a touchscreen standing vertically like a regular monitor does now? More likely it would be either a portable tablet or a display device that lies on the table at a slight angle, like a drawing board. That way you can rest your arm while using the touchscreen.
Hey hey hey! What is this? First we get a nice knee-jerk sensationalist story about an M$ drone teacher doing her utmost to keep the kids enslaved to capitalist software, and now you're ruining it all with facts and sensible dialogue between the parties involved? Where would we be if all the major news outlets started following their scaremongering and outright deceitful articles up with corrections and balanced analysis? I mean, what's next, honest reporting without hidden agendas?
The problem with server-side variables in L4D is that with matchmaking you have no way of knowing if you're connecting to a vanilla server or some 4chan hellhole. Of course allowing the user to filter out servers that allow cheats should be trivial, but as it is the matchmaking system doesn't let you do that.
I suspect the case is that you don't actually have an image, in the sense the word is usually used, in your head at all. Daniel Dennett has written about this subject, among others, in his book "Consciousness Explained". There's some interesting food for thought there if you feel inclined to read about these things.
Have you ever known someone who's had an abortion? I think few people with that experience would put it in the same category of unfortunateness as using a condom.
I'd mod you up if I could. It doesn't seem to me that when I imagine something in my head, there is actually a picture being made somewhere in my brain. It's an impression, a sense of shapes, something very fluid and ephemeral. I can, in a way, turn around three-dimensional objects "in my head", but the experience is far from looking at a video of an object turning. A simple dumb read of that kind of thing would probably be very difficult, although a person could perhaps train themselves to solidify their ideas into image form via a neural interface, much as they can ordinarily do with pen and paper, for example.
Maybe, although I personally find, as someone who has spent a considerable amount of time developing technical skill at drawing and painting, that the process of learning to draw has also considerably altered my aesthetic sensibilities. Drawing is ultimately not that much about knowing how to move your hand just right. In fact, it seems to me it is largely about forgetting about the hand, and concentrating on the form of what you are drawing instead... In any case, I doubt a direct mind-to-picture system would in itself be enough to make anyone an artist. Maybe to reproduce what a person sees in front of them, but to be able to make a picture without exact reference, you're still going to need to know very precisely what you want each detail to look like. I think even with this kind of tech there'd still be a pretty intense learning process involved.
I'm not so sure the claim was that distributing linux is a violation of copyright laws or anything such, I think it's more a corrupting-the-kids kind of illegality she suspected...
You can't legalize drugs in one state while the rest of the country keeps the prohibition in effect and expect to get a reasonable picture of what would happen if drugs were legalized everywhere - it'll lead to a massive amount of people going to the one state to get legal narcotics, which will inevitably create a lot of undesirable side-effects.
It'd be nice to see stats on sales versus stats on piracy for some recent top titles. Unfortunately, AFAIK, it's difficult to get stats from legal digital distributors.
if you want to do away with "pirate", you're going to need a seriously catchy alternative. Forcing people to change the words they use is very difficult. Just look at the way the word "hacker" is used.
I think the folks at the Pirate Bay have the right idea - co-opt the word, make it a positive thing.
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I RTFA, the girl sent the messages to a group of 4 friends. So that makes it more like one message every 8 minutes. Still sounds like she'd have some pretty sore thumbs.
I don't know, to me it seems FO3 had too much of certain types of content to begin with. Namely, at level 20 you are a god capable of single-handedly killing just about any kind of enemy force you might encounter, and when you have friends with you... Hopefully the combat in the simulation battle will be much more challenging than it was in vanilla Fallout 3, otherwise I don't see the point in having a system for group tactics.
My bank just issues printed cards with a hundred keycodes on them.
good point - my bank also uses the keycodes for verification over the phone when a customer calls them, so it's not a big stretch that they would call to ask about an "important issue" but say that first they need to verify you are who you say you are...
Using that would probably be more hassle than your average user is willing to put up with. A bigger wtf is, in my opinion: Do so many banking services really rely on a single login/pass combo per user for authentication? When banking security comes up here, I see people worry about having their login+pass revealed, which makes me think that's the only verification their banks use.
My bank at least also uses a one-time pad system, namely a numbered list of 100 pre-generated codes. So I log in using a username and pass, and then to actually do something with the on-line banking system I'm asked to provide the code that relates to a randomly chosen number between 0000 and 0099. A code can only be used once. So basically if the phishing site manages to get hold of a few numbers from a user's passcode list, the chances are still pretty slim they'll be able to do anything with them.
Of course, if they scam hundreds of people, they will get a few successes, but not very many.
No-one ever R's the FA, so the date on the bulletin is completely irrelevant. If it's not in a slashdot summary, we don't know about it.
The question is whether there's any point to making a film version of a book/graphic novel/whatever if you just try to make a carbon copy of the story already told. What's the point, beyond cashing in? Well, cashing in seems to be what most comic book adaptations on the big screen are about, but films made from novels provide examples of a director taking a book and successfully reinterpreting it. I'm told Stephen King hated Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining", but it's a phenomenal film, probably precisely because the director didn't let himself be tied down by the source material he was working with. Well, the director being Kubrick probably helped, too.
I think you mean to say "This could make them some money". The question is, would it be as profitable as having a monopoly on the hardware, which, if you look at retail prices, is pretty pricey at the moment. I doubt it.
In the real world, people get lied to all the time. Not just on-off lies, either, but big, huge lies everyone seems to believe for years on end. So maybe being told there's a Santa and then finding out it's not true is a good learning experience for all.
I don't think the mouse is going anywhere for a while, but who would have a touchscreen standing vertically like a regular monitor does now? More likely it would be either a portable tablet or a display device that lies on the table at a slight angle, like a drawing board. That way you can rest your arm while using the touchscreen.
So a minor casualty would be someone SLIGHTLY lost to service due to death or injury etc?
Hey hey hey! What is this? First we get a nice knee-jerk sensationalist story about an M$ drone teacher doing her utmost to keep the kids enslaved to capitalist software, and now you're ruining it all with facts and sensible dialogue between the parties involved? Where would we be if all the major news outlets started following their scaremongering and outright deceitful articles up with corrections and balanced analysis? I mean, what's next, honest reporting without hidden agendas?
The problem with server-side variables in L4D is that with matchmaking you have no way of knowing if you're connecting to a vanilla server or some 4chan hellhole. Of course allowing the user to filter out servers that allow cheats should be trivial, but as it is the matchmaking system doesn't let you do that.
I suspect the case is that you don't actually have an image, in the sense the word is usually used, in your head at all. Daniel Dennett has written about this subject, among others, in his book "Consciousness Explained". There's some interesting food for thought there if you feel inclined to read about these things.
Have you ever known someone who's had an abortion? I think few people with that experience would put it in the same category of unfortunateness as using a condom.
I'd mod you up if I could. It doesn't seem to me that when I imagine something in my head, there is actually a picture being made somewhere in my brain. It's an impression, a sense of shapes, something very fluid and ephemeral. I can, in a way, turn around three-dimensional objects "in my head", but the experience is far from looking at a video of an object turning. A simple dumb read of that kind of thing would probably be very difficult, although a person could perhaps train themselves to solidify their ideas into image form via a neural interface, much as they can ordinarily do with pen and paper, for example.
Maybe, although I personally find, as someone who has spent a considerable amount of time developing technical skill at drawing and painting, that the process of learning to draw has also considerably altered my aesthetic sensibilities. Drawing is ultimately not that much about knowing how to move your hand just right. In fact, it seems to me it is largely about forgetting about the hand, and concentrating on the form of what you are drawing instead... In any case, I doubt a direct mind-to-picture system would in itself be enough to make anyone an artist. Maybe to reproduce what a person sees in front of them, but to be able to make a picture without exact reference, you're still going to need to know very precisely what you want each detail to look like. I think even with this kind of tech there'd still be a pretty intense learning process involved.
"The Birds" was not a documentary.
I'm not so sure the claim was that distributing linux is a violation of copyright laws or anything such, I think it's more a corrupting-the-kids kind of illegality she suspected...
You can't legalize drugs in one state while the rest of the country keeps the prohibition in effect and expect to get a reasonable picture of what would happen if drugs were legalized everywhere - it'll lead to a massive amount of people going to the one state to get legal narcotics, which will inevitably create a lot of undesirable side-effects.
The question is: married to WHO?
So... what do you do when people are too sheeplike to make sane decisions on their own? Coddle them and make them more like sheep?
It'd be nice to see stats on sales versus stats on piracy for some recent top titles. Unfortunately, AFAIK, it's difficult to get stats from legal digital distributors.
if you want to do away with "pirate", you're going to need a seriously catchy alternative. Forcing people to change the words they use is very difficult. Just look at the way the word "hacker" is used.
I think the folks at the Pirate Bay have the right idea - co-opt the word, make it a positive thing.
Would a demo do the same? Why would you put copy protection on a demo anyway?