At school (didn't go as far as maths degree but could have done) they never taught us about the existance of radians. I learned about them when I first got a ZX81 and just considered it a quirk of the language.. always seem them as a computing thing not a real world thing - I've never heard them mentioned.. in fact this article is the first time I've heard the term in years!
Not sure why anyone would want to work on something that relies on multiples of an indefinable number (3.141somethingsometinh) when you can just say 360 degrees in a circle just like the rest of the world.
You don't need AI to beat a capcha. They follow a fixed pattern on a single website, so to break the hotmail one you just need to look at a few hotmail sites and figure out how to reverse the graphical munging that has been done. Once that's done you chuck that in a script and churn them out as fast as you like.
Defeating *any* capcha is an AI problem. Defeating the capcha for a website (or group of websites that use the same software) is just a programming task.
The answer to hotmail spam is to block msn and yahoo???
Let me guess.. you work for microsoft...
(I already block hotmail at the border because it's been a continual source of spam for years.. they have no effective anti spam policy and reporting the spam does nothing).
First, it encourages people to create so that they'll be paid.
No it doesn't. There's no link between paying ASCAP and getting paid. Even if your song is entirely original just play local bars ASCAP/BMI insist their dues. You get zip (I know several artists who are pretty bummed about this, but it's the way it is).
The only people who make money from this are big bands who can afford the representation to claim the fees.
SuSe/Novel are big enough to fork gcc... it's not like new versions are really needed - all they seem to do these days is break compatibility with older versions.
If you modify the code and don't want your code under gpl v3 you remove the clause because it's not longer true for 100% of the code. It's part of the preamble not the license itself, so there's no problem changing it. What you can't do is add an 'or later' clause to a file that didn't have it because that would violate the wishes of the original authors (same problem - once any part of a gpl project doesn't have the clause you can't put it anywhere).
If they have any sense they'll have VPN gateways in each country that they operate in. They're dirt cheap to setup, and wouldn't be travelling over home but business ones, so no restrictions.
Now say you are in the same situation, but don't have the capital to produce the first widget. With no patent, you can't even solicit investors because each and every one of them would simply make the widget themselves and leave you nothing.
If you don't have that capital you probably don't have the money to defend the patent against large corporations who would do exactly the same. Good patent lawyers always advise that if you can't afford to defend the patent, don't patent it.
Even gorrillas have been known wage war on each other. No religion or missile weapons required. Your assertion that war was a later invention doesn't make sense.
They were using gas cylinders not dynamite... sure they could have used a little knowledge in how a detonator works, but they were smart people (at least half of them were qualified doctors) and knew how to use google.. the info is out there, they just didn't use it.
You can't say 'I murdered him because he was a pedophile'. You get tried for murder, he (if he lives) gets tried for pedophilia. They're separate crimes.
So they can't say 'we spied on him because he is a pirate' and get away with it. You get tried for copyright infringement, they get tried for breach of privacy laws.
It's a honeypot if they didn't advertise it and there was no obvious inducement. A PC with open ports can be a honeypot. A PC with open ports and a webpage that says 'hack this PC!!' is entrapment.
Once they put up a page that days 'download movies free!' it's entrampment, because they've induced someone to commit a crime they (arguably, but that's enough) wouldn't have done otherwise.
Log in. Select fly mode. You can go anywhere, right through walls, ceilings, people... one of the first things I hated about it. It's not *remotely* realistic - there's no physics at all.
Nothing there you can't do in WoW with a bit of imagination (that's what the RP servers are for). The scripting is fine if you're a combination graphics artist/programmer with the money to afford the dev tools, but for us mere mortals, forget it.
Except SL runs at 5fps on a Core 2 Duo with a top of the line graphics card, and Wow runs at 20fps on this old 1.4ghz mac mini.
Science isn't "the ultimate truth" -- that's a straw man argument from your side. It's a method to approach truth, and requires no belief. In fact, taking belief out of the equation makes science work better, whether the belief is in super strings, deities or one's own infallibility. Thus the requirements for reproducibility and falsifiability.
That belief is in fact extremely common.. I've heard it called scientism - science as religion. It's understandable.. we aren't told scientific method in school, or the true meaning of 'theory', just that science will solve everything and make an eventual utopia (ref: star trek). Look at all the hair product adverts... 'now here's the science...' meaning here's a lot of pseudoscientific gobbledygook that will make you by the product because 'science' says it's better.
There's even the standard joke of 'it must be true because the man in the white coat said it' that crops up in comedy.. we know it's stupid but we do it every day.
Slashdotters are not the general population (I'd reckon they have a higher average IQ and a college education at least).
That's what faith is though - in that case the belief that something that has happend 99 million times previously will happen the same way again. It's a faith based on emphirical data, but a faith nontheless. I've never heard anyone use the term in any other way, whether faith in a god/gods (often based on experience, upbringing, etc.) or faith that the bus will arrive on time (based on experience) of faith that if you stick your hand in a fire it'll hurt (also based on experience).
We back these things up with explanations etc. but we are *always* making assumptions. We haven't all personally proved the theory of gravity, or that 2+2=4 or that the moon goes around the earth or that electrons flow from negative to positive, we have accepted what others tell us about it, added that to our worldview and that leads us to conclusions based on that. We may be completely wrong and all living in the matrix. Who knows? Who cares for that matter, as long as it's consistent and you're happy (OK postmodern worldview but that's what I have).
Worse.. they're imaginary sex toys being sold to imaginary people.
I mean.. at least go down the f..ing street and buy a real sex toy if you want one, don't f..ing pretend you've bought one with pretend money in a pretend world...
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They did moot it but it was shot down as being impractical.
You require a license fee for a TV card of course.
Creative types tend to be.. I probably know more mac owners than 'pc' owners.
Really surprised they didn't cut a deal with realaudio to add any missing features into their system rather than this windows
drm sillyness.
I won't rest until I've eaten a McMammoth with extra fries.
WTF is a grad anyway? Even the windows calculator has it but to this day I've got now clue what you would use it for.
At school (didn't go as far as maths degree but could have done) they never taught us about the existance of radians. I learned about them when I first got a ZX81 and just considered it a quirk of the language.. always seem them as a computing thing not a real world thing - I've never heard them mentioned.. in fact this article is the first time I've heard the term in years!
Not sure why anyone would want to work on something that relies on multiples of an indefinable number (3.141somethingsometinh) when you can just say 360 degrees in a circle just like the rest of the world.
You don't need AI to beat a capcha. They follow a fixed pattern on a single website, so to break the hotmail one you just need to look at a few hotmail sites and figure out how to reverse the graphical munging that has been done. Once that's done you chuck that in a script and churn them out as fast as you like.
Defeating *any* capcha is an AI problem. Defeating the capcha for a website (or group of websites that use the same software) is just a programming task.
The answer to hotmail spam is to block msn and yahoo???
Let me guess.. you work for microsoft...
(I already block hotmail at the border because it's been a continual source of spam for years.. they have no effective anti spam policy and reporting the spam does nothing).
First, it encourages people to create so that they'll be paid.
No it doesn't. There's no link between paying ASCAP and getting paid. Even if your song is entirely original just play local bars ASCAP/BMI insist their dues. You get zip (I know several artists who are pretty bummed about this, but it's the way it is).
The only people who make money from this are big bands who can afford the representation to claim the fees.
That works both ways.. so now there are two mutually incompatible licenses.
Personally I'll adopt v3 when hell freezes over - there's too much v2 only stuff I'd be giving up to use it.
SuSe/Novel are big enough to fork gcc... it's not like new versions are really needed - all they seem to do these days is break compatibility with older versions.
If you modify the code and don't want your code under gpl v3 you remove the clause because it's not longer true for 100% of the code. It's part of the preamble not the license itself, so there's no problem changing it. What you can't do is add an 'or later' clause to a file that didn't have it because that would violate the wishes of the original authors (same problem - once any part of a gpl project doesn't have the clause you can't put it anywhere).
If they have any sense they'll have VPN gateways in each country that they operate in. They're dirt cheap to setup, and wouldn't be travelling over home but business ones, so no restrictions.
Now say you are in the same situation, but don't have the capital to produce the first widget. With no patent, you can't even solicit investors because each and every one of them would simply make the widget themselves and leave you nothing.
If you don't have that capital you probably don't have the money to defend the patent against large corporations who would do exactly the same. Good patent lawyers always advise that if you can't afford to defend the patent, don't patent it.
Even gorrillas have been known wage war on each other. No religion or missile weapons required. Your assertion that war was a later invention doesn't make sense.
They were using gas cylinders not dynamite... sure they could have used a little knowledge in how a detonator works, but they were smart people (at least half of them were qualified doctors) and knew how to use google.. the info is out there, they just didn't use it.
s/malware/vista/
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Umm yes it does. That's why it's called a *copy*right.
If they don't give you permission you cannot copy it.
Plus one crime has no bearing on the other.
You can't say 'I murdered him because he was a pedophile'. You get tried for murder, he (if he lives) gets tried for pedophilia. They're separate crimes.
So they can't say 'we spied on him because he is a pirate' and get away with it. You get tried for copyright infringement, they get tried for breach of privacy laws.
It's a honeypot if they didn't advertise it and there was no obvious inducement. A PC with open ports can be a honeypot. A PC with open ports and a webpage that says 'hack this PC!!' is entrapment.
Once they put up a page that days 'download movies free!' it's entrampment, because they've induced someone to commit a crime they (arguably, but that's enough) wouldn't have done otherwise.
In fact they were innocent - the MPAA are acting for the copyright holders, so if they give something away it's completely legal.
No it doesn't.
Log in. Select fly mode. You can go anywhere, right through walls, ceilings, people... one of the first things I hated about it. It's not *remotely* realistic - there's no physics at all.
not a game...It's a virtual sandbox playtoy
So it's a game then?
Nothing there you can't do in WoW with a bit of imagination (that's what the RP servers are for). The scripting is fine if you're a combination graphics artist/programmer with the money to afford the dev tools, but for us mere mortals, forget it.
Except SL runs at 5fps on a Core 2 Duo with a top of the line graphics card, and Wow runs at 20fps on this old 1.4ghz mac mini.
Science isn't "the ultimate truth" -- that's a straw man argument from your side. It's a method to approach truth, and requires no belief. In fact, taking belief out of the equation makes science work better, whether the belief is in super strings, deities or one's own infallibility. Thus the requirements for reproducibility and falsifiability.
That belief is in fact extremely common.. I've heard it called scientism - science as religion. It's understandable.. we aren't told scientific method in school, or the true meaning of 'theory', just that science will solve everything and make an eventual utopia (ref: star trek). Look at all the hair product adverts... 'now here's the science...' meaning here's a lot of pseudoscientific gobbledygook that will make you by the product because 'science' says it's better.
There's even the standard joke of 'it must be true because the man in the white coat said it' that crops up in comedy.. we know it's stupid but we do it every day.
Slashdotters are not the general population (I'd reckon they have a higher average IQ and a college education at least).
That's what faith is though - in that case the belief that something that has happend 99 million times previously will happen the same way again. It's a faith based on emphirical data, but a faith nontheless. I've never heard anyone use the term in any other way, whether faith in a god/gods (often based on experience, upbringing, etc.) or faith that the bus will arrive on time (based on experience) of faith that if you stick your hand in a fire it'll hurt (also based on experience).
We back these things up with explanations etc. but we are *always* making assumptions. We haven't all personally proved the theory of gravity, or that 2+2=4 or that the moon goes around the earth or that electrons flow from negative to positive, we have accepted what others tell us about it, added that to our worldview and that leads us to conclusions based on that. We may be completely wrong and all living in the matrix. Who knows? Who cares for that matter, as long as it's consistent and you're happy (OK postmodern worldview but that's what I have).
Worse.. they're imaginary sex toys being sold to imaginary people.
I mean.. at least go down the f..ing street and buy a real sex toy if you want one, don't f..ing pretend you've bought one with pretend money in a pretend world...