It has already been established that a collection of facts is not protected by copyrights. Way back when the first phone books were published by phone companies, competitors would use the information from those phone directories in their own phone directories. It turned out that this was perfectly legal because the list of phone numbers was not covered by copyright law. So, I would guess that a list of spells from a fictional universe would be not protected by copyright law.
So students who download files illegally are not hardworking? Also, you make it sound like the act of breaking a law is unethical and wrong, which is simply not true.
If the goal is to have them switch, you have to address their needs.
Considering that the G part of GIMP is for GNU, I would say that the GIMP people would like have people switch because of a desire for software freedom rather than technical superiority. The kind of people that would switch in the interest of freedom would probably take the time to learn a new GUI. The GNU project's primary goal has never been about writing good quality software (this is a pleasant side effect of free software in general), but about writing a complete free software system.
Note: I don't know anything about the GIMP people. Just speculating.
E-mail is electronic, so the message is NOT viewable in transit without making an effort to intercept and decode it, [...]
If your computer is connected to a hub or an unsecured wireless network, you are sharing a communication medium with other computers where everyone can read your packets. So, in these cases, sending an e-mail is like having a conversation in a crowded room where only one person can speak at a time. Reading your e-mail here is trivial unless your connection to the server is secured, like with web-mail using https.
Of course, this is even the case in some "secured" networks (i.e. WEP).
Using a bot also had to do with escaping the normal ethical constraints when experimenting with humans. From TFA, they previously had undergrad students do this work. By using a bot, they felt that they did not need to get permission to run the experiment.
If you didn't have notability guidelines, everyone would be writing articles about themselves, and then adding links to themselves from truly relevant articles. Those guidelines help keep Wikipedia from filling up with useless trivia, which would negatively affect important articles.
"One of their primary concerns is a flexible schedule and healthy work/life balance." Apparently Generation Taco lacks basic counting skills. Nope, he was using zero indexing: 0) flexible schedule, 1) healthy work/life balance. That's one primary concern.
i wonder how much data can be encrypted using Steganography
Steganography isn't really encryption, but it does go hand-in-hand with encryption. Using it without encryption is an "security through obscurity" policy. Plus encrypting steganographic messages decreases their chances of detection dramatically.
I once read about one particular method where you encrypted your message, gzipped the cipher-text, then removed the gzip header bytes (there are just a few of them). Then you hid it in the least significant bits of a picture. With the missing gzip header, detecting if the message even exists is incredibly difficult, unless you have an original image to compare to.
Also, using a well-known image like goatse, while humorous, would be even worse for hiding data because your image would be slightly different from the standard goatse image, of which there are plenty of copies.
There seems to be this mass mis-concept that CD's are not digital music
You seem to be only the third person to point that out -- and on the site labeled "new for nerds". Come on people!
That probably explains why there are plenty of clueless audiophiles who spend money on worthless snake-oil like the
Audioprism CD Stop Light Pen. Thanks to the media being digital, CDs are already read perfectly every time (unless terribly damaged).
And, reading the title assuming they know what they are talking about, of course people still selling only cassette tapes will go out of business, if they haven't already.
I have no problem seeing someone prosecuted for stealing
If you look at the article carefully you will see that no one got in trouble for stealing anything. No theft was invovled at all. You must have read the wrong article.:-P
she deserves what she got for having a connection to the internet that was not 100% secure.
Unless you are using a one-time-pad to communicate with your router, your connection to your router (which you confused with the Internet), is not 100% secure. By your definition, you are an idiot.
A visualization toolkit? Just write some C from scratch.:-P
More seriously, I recently wrote a Mandelbrot set renderer in C. The program is geared towards running on clusters because it uses many processes to generate a single fractal or series of fractals as part of a zoom sequence. I happened to have just done a writeup about it over at my website, null program. I have videos of some zoom sequences up there for viewing pleasure.
Slashdot Mirror
Contrary to the clueless beliefs of most people at /., these two terms are not exclusive in any way. Think of it as saying,
CNET is promoting fruit versus the alternative: bananas.IANAL
It has already been established that a collection of facts is not protected by copyrights. Way back when the first phone books were published by phone companies, competitors would use the information from those phone directories in their own phone directories. It turned out that this was perfectly legal because the list of phone numbers was not covered by copyright law. So, I would guess that a list of spells from a fictional universe would be not protected by copyright law.
Read Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service
It is really just a poor solution to an artifical problem ... like DRM.
So students who download files illegally are not hardworking? Also, you make it sound like the act of breaking a law is unethical and wrong, which is simply not true.
Considering that the G part of GIMP is for GNU, I would say that the GIMP people would like have people switch because of a desire for software freedom rather than technical superiority. The kind of people that would switch in the interest of freedom would probably take the time to learn a new GUI. The GNU project's primary goal has never been about writing good quality software (this is a pleasant side effect of free software in general), but about writing a complete free software system.
Note: I don't know anything about the GIMP people. Just speculating.
If your computer is connected to a hub or an unsecured wireless network, you are sharing a communication medium with other computers where everyone can read your packets. So, in these cases, sending an e-mail is like having a conversation in a crowded room where only one person can speak at a time. Reading your e-mail here is trivial unless your connection to the server is secured, like with web-mail using https.
Of course, this is even the case in some "secured" networks (i.e. WEP).
Using a bot also had to do with escaping the normal ethical constraints when experimenting with humans. From TFA, they previously had undergrad students do this work. By using a bot, they felt that they did not need to get permission to run the experiment.
If you didn't have notability guidelines, everyone would be writing articles about themselves, and then adding links to themselves from truly relevant articles. Those guidelines help keep Wikipedia from filling up with useless trivia, which would negatively affect important articles.
prelink can randomize the addressing. It will do the job without having to modify the kernel, too.
The same mistake was made last week, too. News for Nerds? Doesn't seem like it.
The book Code 2.0 was written online in a wiki.
What everyone is worried about is this,
Don't you know the rules?
"Every application grows until it can read e-mail."OO is just going along the predicted path.
Steganography isn't really encryption, but it does go hand-in-hand with encryption. Using it without encryption is an "security through obscurity" policy. Plus encrypting steganographic messages decreases their chances of detection dramatically.
I once read about one particular method where you encrypted your message, gzipped the cipher-text, then removed the gzip header bytes (there are just a few of them). Then you hid it in the least significant bits of a picture. With the missing gzip header, detecting if the message even exists is incredibly difficult, unless you have an original image to compare to.
Also, using a well-known image like goatse, while humorous, would be even worse for hiding data because your image would be slightly different from the standard goatse image, of which there are plenty of copies.
They already do. You need to have some real balls to blow yourself up like that.
You seem to be only the third person to point that out -- and on the site labeled "new for nerds". Come on people!
That probably explains why there are plenty of clueless audiophiles who spend money on worthless snake-oil like the Audioprism CD Stop Light Pen. Thanks to the media being digital, CDs are already read perfectly every time (unless terribly damaged).
And, reading the title assuming they know what they are talking about, of course people still selling only cassette tapes will go out of business, if they haven't already.
Yes, because you would have to be neurotic to play a game where 16th century archers can destroy modern tanks.
If you look at the article carefully you will see that no one got in trouble for stealing anything. No theft was invovled at all. You must have read the wrong article. :-P
I read that as being plenty of "piece of shit" software projects listed at both. Fortunately, the statement still holds.
Unless you are using a one-time-pad to communicate with your router, your connection to your router (which you confused with the Internet), is not 100% secure. By your definition, you are an idiot.
Answer: pidgin-encryption
It creates temporary sessions keys just like SSH. These keys are destroyed when the IM window is closed.
A visualization toolkit? Just write some C from scratch. :-P
More seriously, I recently wrote a Mandelbrot set renderer in C. The program is geared towards running on clusters because it uses many processes to generate a single fractal or series of fractals as part of a zoom sequence. I happened to have just done a writeup about it over at my website, null program. I have videos of some zoom sequences up there for viewing pleasure.
Free software is commercial software. It is not exclusive.