What makes you think the retail stores have any advantage over digital stores? Nothing stops game developers from following the same model -- as far as I'm concerned, developers of the Humble Bundle games did just that -- all of the games were sold for several months for their full prices before they went "on sale" in the Humble Bundle.
The "pay as you want" could just be considered some kind of a "last tier" in the tiered system you described -- instead of selling products for some minimal price like $1, you can let people pay what they want, which probably gets you more money anyway.
So what's the attack scenario? I'm at work and a malicious co-worker can use this against me, how?
If you access your home router administration interface from work, the attacker will be able to sniff the communication (including the password), even if you access the administration interface via SSL.
The attacker will not be able to sniff the communication between you and your bank (or any other SSL website) -- the SSL private key stored in your router (and now published) does not play any part in this.
A hexadecimal dollar is 100 hexadecimal = 256 decimal cents. There's a semantic difference in "1 (hexadecimal dollar)" (Knuth's version) vs "(1 hexadecimal) dollar" (your version).
Yes, because people have proven that having more than one drug store, supermarket, or fast food chain inevitably disorients them and fouls up their lives.
And things using it kept selling quite well in the interim?
Things using it will keep selling exactly as well as they did before. Maybe even better, now that people will be able to use them with Linux or other non-supported configurations.
This is not about HD movies being available on BitTorrent (they always were), but about people who actually bought them being able to do whatever they want with them.
Actually, this is a much more important result than the summary claims. Until now, there was always a gap between the proved lower bound and upper bound on necessary moves. They now proved that the known lower bound (20, proved in 1995) is also an upper bound (ie. there is no position which requires 21 or more moves to solve) and thus concluded research that lasted for 30 years.
This article could very well be listed on the Slashdot main page, it has nothing to do in Idle. The algorithms that were designed during this research are nothing to laugh at and will surely advance other research fields as well.
One-dimensional, cliched characters that portray IT people as social inadequates.
I'd say The IT Crowd takes these cliches to absurd levels, which actually makes them less cliche and more just parody. I believe that if you see through it, they actually make fun of the cliches you mention it, instead of embracing them.
Now, if you want to see real cliched characters (and storylines), try watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
What is your problem with that? Is the information he provided less relevant, insightful or interesting in any way?
Oh, right. You're posting that as AC, so you probably already know you're just trolling.
I'm afraid your post is a bit misleading too. They are also requiring developers to use base-10 in most places:
base-10 should be used to represent network bandwidth and disk sizes while RAM sizes should use base-2. File sizes can either be shown in both base-10 and base-2, only base-10, or a user option to choose between the two (but with base-10 set as the default).
The article also mentions that Mac OS X already does this since 10.6. Maybe there's a Slashdot article about that too?
Even when you're only using libraries, math helps you a lot to pick the right one for the job. The difference between a TreeSet and a HashSet is just math. You also don't need to know what regular languages are to successfully use regular expressions, but for some problems, it might come handy.
The research mentioned in the article isn't really research at all. It's based on a poll, which would assume that women know what they want. This is not a good assumption.
Even TFA seems to agree with you:
More specifically, about how women say they want one kind of man, but really want another.
So they actually assumed that women don't say what they want and then published a research based on what they said? Good job!
Also, Bill Gates is not Microsoft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Bill Gates supports these projects from his own sallary, while Google used their shareholders money. I'm not saying either is good or bad, just that it is kind of an important difference.
Sometimes I wonder if a 4-digit slashID# really does make you a better hacker...
Actually, mplayer outputs this command to stderr if you try to play a video your machine can't catch up with. We seven-digit people just copy&paste it then.
So, make every asset encrypted under a unique key that isn't stored on the DVD. As the player progresses through the game, it informs the server of where the player is up to. The server sends a small program to the game which then runs and gathers a hash of various bits of in-game state (like the values of certain memory locations) which "prove" the player has actually played that part of the game. The results of those hashes unlock the keys for the next areas. Of course all the usual anti-debugging tricks can be used, which are actually very effective (most cracks these days are about emulating the dvd drive rather than removing the checks, right).
In a non-linear game this approach will prove difficult to crack, because the cracker will have to play the game over and over to ensure he has actually reached every room, every level, every boss, every weapon. If he misses one, he produces an incomplete crack that will crash the game for some players.
Mac OS X is a UNIX, it shouldn't be that hard to port Photoshop to Linux and other variants. The market must be really small if they haven't done it yet.
The only thing about JavaScript that is a quick hack is its name. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language (funny how this link finds its way into every Slashdot story that mentions JavaScript) as well as the first (only?) functional language accepted by maistream.
You might argue that most of the JavaScript code on the Internet is a quick hack (or at least was, before frameworks like Prototype and jQuery became popular), but that doesn't make it a bad language.
At the current rate, people will shy away from Google as it's becoming an omnipresence on the internet which is raising concern.
"Shying away" is not such a common phenomenom as it might seem from reading Slashdot comments, an average Joe is probably just happy to see a familiar brand on yet another product.
OK then, let's be physicists here for a while, and let's assume we can create a perfect mirror (like pure aluminium, just a little better, reflecting all kinds of light, including infrared and ultraviolet, or the whole EM spectrum for that matter, whatever). Now, would covering a missile in this material render all EM-radiation based weapons like lasers completely useless against such missile?
And, more interestingly: would this perfect mirror reflect all EM-radiation, independently on the amount of energy that this radiation carries? (i.e. if there was a much more powerful (in terms of watts) laser created later, would it change anything?) Does the law of conservation of energy have anything to do with this?
Is all this so unrealistic that such kind of defense is not even considered? Doesn't seem so:
Reflective coatings which attempt to reflect a large proportion of the incident radiation which is incident upon the aimed projectiles. This would not necessarily reduce the absorbed incident radiation to such an extent that the projectile is not destroyed - but in combination with other types of countermeasure, reflective coatings would feasibly ensure that target kill is achieved despite the use of THEL.
Slashdot Mirror
True. It's a bit like asking Google to change it's name cause it's a generic term for googling something and competitors should be able to use it.
That actually happens, which is why Google actively prevents spreading of the verb "to google".
What makes you think the retail stores have any advantage over digital stores? Nothing stops game developers from following the same model -- as far as I'm concerned, developers of the Humble Bundle games did just that -- all of the games were sold for several months for their full prices before they went "on sale" in the Humble Bundle.
The "pay as you want" could just be considered some kind of a "last tier" in the tiered system you described -- instead of selling products for some minimal price like $1, you can let people pay what they want, which probably gets you more money anyway.
So what's the attack scenario? I'm at work and a malicious co-worker can use this against me, how?
If you access your home router administration interface from work, the attacker will be able to sniff the communication (including the password), even if you access the administration interface via SSL.
The attacker will not be able to sniff the communication between you and your bank (or any other SSL website) -- the SSL private key stored in your router (and now published) does not play any part in this.
A hexadecimal dollar is 100 hexadecimal = 256 decimal cents. There's a semantic difference in "1 (hexadecimal dollar)" (Knuth's version) vs "(1 hexadecimal) dollar" (your version).
See Donald Knuth's FAQ.
Also, it's a joke, so there's probably no point in arguing technicalities.
Actually, it was one hexadecimal dollar, which amounted to 256 (standard) cents.
Actually, it does. Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. However, it also has its advantages, which is the reason we have them anyway.
And things using it kept selling quite well in the interim?
Things using it will keep selling exactly as well as they did before. Maybe even better, now that people will be able to use them with Linux or other non-supported configurations.
This is not about HD movies being available on BitTorrent (they always were), but about people who actually bought them being able to do whatever they want with them.
Actually, this is a much more important result than the summary claims. Until now, there was always a gap between the proved lower bound and upper bound on necessary moves. They now proved that the known lower bound (20, proved in 1995) is also an upper bound (ie. there is no position which requires 21 or more moves to solve) and thus concluded research that lasted for 30 years.
This article could very well be listed on the Slashdot main page, it has nothing to do in Idle. The algorithms that were designed during this research are nothing to laugh at and will surely advance other research fields as well.
I have trouble thinking of anything else that's achieved this.
Babylon 5's Michael Straczynsky also had everything planned from the beginning. And it had quite a lot of plot. And humor.
Except they then told him not to wrap it up, thus the somewhat arbitrary fifth season.
One-dimensional, cliched characters that portray IT people as social inadequates.
I'd say The IT Crowd takes these cliches to absurd levels, which actually makes them less cliche and more just parody. I believe that if you see through it, they actually make fun of the cliches you mention it, instead of embracing them.
Now, if you want to see real cliched characters (and storylines), try watching an episode of The Big Bang Theory.
Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!
What is your problem with that? Is the information he provided less relevant, insightful or interesting in any way? Oh, right. You're posting that as AC, so you probably already know you're just trolling.
I'm afraid your post is a bit misleading too. They are also requiring developers to use base-10 in most places:
The article also mentions that Mac OS X already does this since 10.6. Maybe there's a Slashdot article about that too?
Even when you're only using libraries, math helps you a lot to pick the right one for the job. The difference between a TreeSet and a HashSet is just math. You also don't need to know what regular languages are to successfully use regular expressions, but for some problems, it might come handy.
like a hearing-impaired person.
Or anyone else with a lip-reading mobile phone.
Alice? Alice, is that you?
We were using SSL over L2TP over WPA over IPsec. Who else have you been seeing?
Bob
You don't want to know.
Trust me.
Trent
The research mentioned in the article isn't really research at all. It's based on a poll, which would assume that women know what they want. This is not a good assumption.
Even TFA seems to agree with you:
More specifically, about how women say they want one kind of man, but really want another.
So they actually assumed that women don't say what they want and then published a research based on what they said? Good job!
Also, Bill Gates is not Microsoft. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that Bill Gates supports these projects from his own sallary, while Google used their shareholders money. I'm not saying either is good or bad, just that it is kind of an important difference.
Sometimes I wonder if a 4-digit slashID# really does make you a better hacker...
Actually, mplayer outputs this command to stderr if you try to play a video your machine can't catch up with. We seven-digit people just copy&paste it then.
Let's just hope UbiSoft doesn't read this.
i'd pay a lot for a solid *NIX port.
Mac OS X is a UNIX, it shouldn't be that hard to port Photoshop to Linux and other variants. The market must be really small if they haven't done it yet.
Washington Monument is probably already in public domain, the architect died in 1855.
But you are right to ask, something natural (like a mountain or a cave, etc.) would probably be a better example in parent's post.
The only thing about JavaScript that is a quick hack is its name. JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language (funny how this link finds its way into every Slashdot story that mentions JavaScript) as well as the first (only?) functional language accepted by maistream.
You might argue that most of the JavaScript code on the Internet is a quick hack (or at least was, before frameworks like Prototype and jQuery became popular), but that doesn't make it a bad language.
That's right- in the end the high reflectivity just means you need a bigger laser.
Even when it's 100% reflective? (Yes, I know it's impossible.)
If so, can you elaborate a little? As far as I know, you can't "deplete" a mirror.
At the current rate, people will shy away from Google as it's becoming an omnipresence on the internet which is raising concern.
"Shying away" is not such a common phenomenom as it might seem from reading Slashdot comments, an average Joe is probably just happy to see a familiar brand on yet another product.
OK then, let's be physicists here for a while, and let's assume we can create a perfect mirror (like pure aluminium, just a little better, reflecting all kinds of light, including infrared and ultraviolet, or the whole EM spectrum for that matter, whatever). Now, would covering a missile in this material render all EM-radiation based weapons like lasers completely useless against such missile?
And, more interestingly: would this perfect mirror reflect all EM-radiation, independently on the amount of energy that this radiation carries? (i.e. if there was a much more powerful (in terms of watts) laser created later, would it change anything?) Does the law of conservation of energy have anything to do with this?
Is all this so unrealistic that such kind of defense is not even considered? Doesn't seem so: