Isn't the simplest idea a cheap hdmi-out computer with a remote keyboard and scroll wheel?
You mean the very thing I've been doing for over a decade (sans HDMI, until it was available)? How is anyone supposed to sell that? And you mean people are using their OLD computers for this task? They're not buying new hardware? And it's compatible with everything? And they can already access the FULL internet with whatever browser they CHOOSE? And they can multitask? Share files over a network? They can fucking COPY discs with the included DVD/CD burner? They can strip out the ads? They can normalize the volume? They can completely bypass or menus and waste-of-time interfaces? And the subscription cost is ZERO?!
If people spent half an hour thinking, dusting off their old PC, and hooking up cables, they'd be GODS of their media.
But no - they choose to restrict themselves, let themselves get fucked by the media corporations, endure ads, use hardware that's tiny and shiny but functionally deficient, etc. And they pay for the privilege.
They get excited at the prospect of "apps for my TV!". Fuck them. "Apps" are what you get at Chili's. (I recommend the sampler or the Texas Cheese Fries.) Software. Programs. Perhaps even applications. Not "apps".
They see a commercial and genuinely feel the excitement of the fake dad who says "Look son, you're on the big screen now, boy!". Fuck them again. I've told those idiots a billion times how computers are useful things. They have a cable box outputting over coax through 2 daisy-chained VCRs. Yet only when faced with the prospect of computer + t do they go "Uh... why?". They fail to see any potential. It takes a fucking marketing term to get their dumb assed to figure out that computers are useful, TVs are accessible, and that the two might be able to cooperate. Those fucks figured out applesauce and pork chops without a problem. But somehow computer + tv only results in blank stares.
IP filtering has always been useless from a security standpoint. Same goes for MAC address filtering.
Anyone anywhere can change both easily. Blocking addresses is only a matter of convenience.
Foolproof? No. Useless? Hardly.
Locks on your front door are useless. You can buy a hammer really cheap from, well, pretty much anywhere. The fact that windows exist, however, does not diminish the fact that door locks provide a very important layer of security - just as IP filtering does.
Bad analogy is bad.
Blocking an IP or a MAC address is completely pointless. It requires less than 5 seconds of effort to get a new one. There are no windows or hammers involved. You simply walk right in the front door because it will be unlocked when you say "My name is... Mr. Snrub.".
IP filtering has always been useless from a security standpoint. Same goes for MAC address filtering.
Anyone anywhere can change both easily. Blocking addresses is only a matter of convenience.
This "news" just means that tons of "security" software and filtering hardware (Barricuda, anyone?), is being exposed as the useless, inflexible crap that they are, and the companies behind them are trying to point fingers at large network operators while simultaneously touting their next version, which will have IPv6 support. Maybe. Which totally won't solve the IPv4 issues, but never you mind that.
I'm not blaming anyone, altough I am somewhat surprised why Microsoft bothers to write Firefox plugins. I'm just saying Microsoft doesn't mind providing a solution that specifically works on Windows and not on any other platform Firefox runs on.
How is it surprising? MS wants its users to be able to do shit. MS recognizes many of its users use firefox. MS wants h.264 video to work for them just as much as they want it to work for IE users.
Everything I said is 100% correct. The original dongle was stolen. The original backup manager is in the SDK. GeoHot achieved nothing other than strobing some ram and editing a couple of text files that affect only the display of a couple of UI dialogs.
Eliminate that make-believe accuracy, as the original was probably rounded at least +/-50 F to the round 1000 figure. 800 Kelvin is plenty accurate here.
Wrong. 1: You're confusing accuracy and precision. 2: Significant digits have nothing to do with calculation or conversion - they're only for measurements. The fact that teachers and professors don't understand this doesn't mean that you should go lopping off digits willy-nilly.
If you measure something as being.25 meters, you don't then say it's 9.8 inches. It's 9.842519685039370078740157480315 inches +/- the accuracy of your original measurement.
If you were only precise to 2 decimal places, then your shit probably is between.245 and.255 meters. Or 9.6456692913385826771653543307087 and 10.039370078740157480314960629921 inches. (Or, if you practice the even dumber version where you just truncate shit instead of round, it'll be between.25 and.26).
No amount of rounding or truncation of the original 9.842519685039370078740157480315 inches result will represent those bound.
You can round these results however you want for the final results, but all internal calculations should use as much precision as possible. The more calculations you do, the more your rounding errors grow. Depending on what you're doing, they can grow geometrically or exponentially at each fucking step.
Significant digits are what you use when you don't understand your measuring equipment or how variances will effect the upper and lower bounds of a result. I.E., they're for people who shouldn't be doing anything that important anyway.
Convert 1 meter to inches, then meters, then inches, then meters, etc.
1 meter = X inches. By definition, 1 inch =.0254 meters. Using significant digits, 1 inch = 3x10^-2 meters
1 meter = 33.333333 inches. Using significant digits, 1 meter = 3x10^1 inches
Now take that result and convert back to meters...
3x10^1 inches = X meters By definition, 1 meter = 39.37007874015748031496062992126 inches Using significant digits, 1 meter = 4x10^1 inches
You can see how this is getting fucked up now, can't you? You get even worse problems when you truncate instead of round. Significant digits, as taught and practiced, is a TERRIBLE THING.
GeoHot. And he never actually hacked anything. And none of the hackers have actually hacked anything with regards to the PS3.
They simply stole a Sony USB dongle that lets you boot a PS3 into a debug/restore/etc. mode. Even the initial tool that lets you install to and run from the internal HDD was written by Sony.
From there, Sony released new firmwares and dev kits, and then the cat and mouse game of "find the key, hide the key" began.
The only work done on the PS3 scene so far has been rudimentary tweaks to the "backup" program, and some token "run Linux again!...kinda...over the network..." shit.
We haven't seen work or enthusiasm anywhere near the scale the 360 or Wii have had.
This is slashdot, the most anyone actually ever does is rise up from their Cheetos-encrusted trance and yell out "TACO IS TEH SUXOR!" and then collapse back down into a greasy heap, only to be revived by a timely swig of lukewarm store brand grape soda.
Rob Malda has a MICRO PENIS and I've got a story about how one time I found a turd Obama left in a public toilet. YOU KNOW I ATE IT.
This is a myth. There is no way at all to face jail time for not getting health insurance. You can be fined and you can have your wages garnished or assets seized to cover the cost, but there is no route from not buying healthcare to jail time unless you commit some other crime, like shooting at the tax collector.
Seems to me we've jailed plenty of men for being "deabeat dads" (men who can't afford kids/ridiculous "child support" awards and penalties and who have no legal say in the matter). Of course, they're jailed for "failing to pay", not for "owing $x". You see, you don't go to jail for not paying off your debts, you go to jail for committing the crime of not paying a bill, failing to properly respond to a court order, etc.
If you try to dodge this shit they'll clamp down. If they need more money they'll threaten you with jail. If they need to make people take them seriously, they'll jail people.
Have you not heard of this government thing before?
People seem to think that being decentralized will stop the lawyers from shutting down P2P or suing individuals.
You can never really decentralize - you always need to connect to other peers. The best way to find peers is via a central server that maintains a list of peers. It's possible to set it up so that you can "trust" this list of peers. In reality, however, P2P networks live or die by content availability and speed. How do you up those? Add more peers. If you had to wait 6 weeks to get an invite to a private tracker, that doesn't mean the RIAA/MPAA/etc. did the exact same thing.
If you take out the tracker, how do you find peers? People talk about distributed hash tables and peer exchange. No one really says the obvious - you go looking for peers. And from there you can find other peers. So how do you start looking? Where do you send your initial packets? You've either got a centralized server to handle the bootstrapping, or you just spam subnets, becoming the center of your own network map. This is akin to walking down the street yelling "Anyone got crack for sale???". If this is what you're doing, you've got no guarantee that you won't get fucked. In fact, you make it easier to piss off someone who wasn't even looking for you.
Being decentralized does nothing to make an individual anonymous, safe, etc. But surely it will help the network as a whole, right? Wrong. Instead of going after trackers and sites, they'll go after the initial distributors. For movies and games, there are only a handful of guys supplying 90% of the content. I guess music is easier for the average schlub to rip and share, but who the fuck wants the shitty music they put out today? Honestly. If you take out the ability to easily go after big sites, they'll just ramp up their efforts to go after the sources. They'll always focus on the easiest targets. They USED to focus on the sources (and did so successfully) until Napster came out.
So in the end, decentralization may protect the network, but it doesn't protect the users. As a downloader, you can feel relatively safe. As a source, you'll have a bigger target on your back. As a downloader, if sources are targeted, you'll have less to download.
As for trusting other users for searching? Do we not remember Kazaa, LimeWire, BearShare, etc. etc. ? I hope your friends and family all run selinux.
It's the reverse for me. The Insert key is so close to the Delete key that I sometimes hit it by accident. What does anyone need the Insert key for?
Hey guys, scroll lock and pause/break are useless! Also, this control key? What's the point of that?!
Protip: Every key on the keyboard is useful. Just because you and your programs don't make use of a key doesn't mean you should have any input about the layout of my input devices.
Real talk: Got Excel? Click a cell, use the arrow keys. Hit scroll lock. Click a cell, use the arrow keys. HOLY SHIT A FUNCTION FOR A KEY YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. (Might work in Calc. I wouldn't know, since I'm not a masochist.)
The CRT is a mature technology too. Doesn't mean it's ideal, or nearly ideal.
CRTs are the best display technology we have. I'm sorry if you've only dealt with shitty consumer CRTs, but you can't just go shitting on the Display King like that without getting called out.
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At which point, said keypresses are processed by a driver. You can easily make the driver count keypresses that appear in one poll and disappear in the next as appearing in both.
Indeed, this is exactly what many anti-masking keyboards do (as well as throwing in hardware to be able to physically detect the keypresses). Often with a little bit of location-based guessery as to the probability of something being held down. As well as "lol increasing the polling rate" hacks.
I don't know of any that use USB 2.0 in order to shove more shit down the pipe in a single poll, but that's also a workable option.
The driver can do whatever it wants. The (default) polling frequency is slow for a computer, but it's more than fast enough for human input. You can get all the keypresses you want through the USB 1.0/1.1 pipe, just not in the same poll.
You CANNOT get all the keypresses you want, at a physical level, until someone makes a keyboard with a dedicated circuit for each key (be it logically-distinct circuits through diode trickery as in the link I provided, or actual traces). Even the anti-masking/ghosting keyboards don't have individual circuits for each key - they simply mash up the grids, so A, F7, End, and NUM_DIVIDE are on one grid. Their logic being, who's gonna press all those at once?
The problem most rational people have with this is that picking the moment of conception as the beginning of life is completely arbitrary
If where you draw that line makes no difference, why not draw the line even earlier? Why decide that 'life' starts when sperm and egg come together, and instead take the Every Sperm is Sacredmantra? A sperm cell and an egg cell on their own aren't all that different from the two cells together. People picked that point because it's an easily identifiable step in the process of procreation, but that doesn't make it particularly special.
I'd say this is a troll, but I know there are morons out there who would actually believe this shit.
"picking the moment of conception as the beginning of life is completely arbitrary"
As is picking the moment of birth. As is picking the moment the fetus is viable - our medical technology increases all the time and the moment of viability could one day be the moment of conception.
"A sperm cell and an egg cell on their own aren't all that different from the two cells together."
Actually, they're vastly and fundamentally different.
The point of conception IS particularly special, because it's the point where actual human DNA is formed, instead of two disparate half sets that can't ever do anything. Said DNA proceeds to replicate and do it's thing, making all other points simply an application of the Grow() function.
The point of conception is indeed unique from all other points in life. Whether or not you feel it's wrong to kill a person ever, while they're a child, while they're unborn, while they're unborn and don't pose a risk to the mother's life, while they're unborn and don't pose a risk to the parents' life (financially, emotionally), while they're unborn and show defects, while they're unborn and don't look like a person, etc. if up to you and completely arbitrary. And when things are arbitrary, you're just going to have to fucking deal with people having different opinions than you. Spouting arbitrary bullshit and claiming you're being "rational" and other are stupid makes you the irrational, stupid fuck.
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This has nothing to do with USB vs PS/2. This has to do with masking.
The bottom line is that keyboards don't have a dedicated circuit for each key - they use a bunch of small grids and detect key presses at the ends of rows/columns in the grid.
Multiple key presses within a grid can cause masking - where a keypress simply isn't recognized at a physical level. Ghosting can also happen, where a keypress is recognized when there isn't one.
How the grids are laid out plays a big role in whether or not a user will experience the problems.
If you have masking in a game, you can try rebinding your controls. A typical masking scenario involves trying to press something like: W for forward A for strafe left CTRL for crouch Shift for run/walk
If you remap one of the controls to another key you can often get around the masking. I would recommend moving control over to C or Alt if either are unused. Your options will depend on the game and the amount of claw hand you are willing to suffer. You could also always map a control to the mouse. Side buttons are great for shit like a crouch toggle, a grenade toss, etc. Middle click is the bees knees for scope zoom.
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle. Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
4 inches? POV videos would be DOUBLE life size for CmdrTaco!
In this case, the eBay (re)seller is the one datamining. Typically, these are people who have X subscriptions they have to give away / sell for super cheap as part of some shitty MLM / publisher clearing house "we'll buy out your future college loans though we expect you to never go to college lol!" scheme.
It may be the actual magazine publisher that is datamining. In this case, the magazine subscriptions have already been bought (at a severely reduced rate) from themselves. The magazine owners and operators still get $ from those subscriptions, even if they go unclaimed. It is the publishing house that is looking to datamine specific demographics. So they give away / discount subscriptions for magazines in certain categories. The publishing house will publish for dozens or hundreds of different magazines. They then sell this data to other marketers.
Individual magazines don't give a fuck because their focus is so narrow the only demographic they care about is that of their reader base - and they already have it. When the magazine itself is giving away subscriptions, it means one of two things:
A - It's in danger of going under and it's a desperate attempt to secure ad contracts and financial loans.
B - It went under, and someone else bought it, "retooled" it, and put it out again under the same name.
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Isn't the simplest idea a cheap hdmi-out computer with a remote keyboard and scroll wheel?
You mean the very thing I've been doing for over a decade (sans HDMI, until it was available)? How is anyone supposed to sell that? And you mean people are using their OLD computers for this task? They're not buying new hardware? And it's compatible with everything? And they can already access the FULL internet with whatever browser they CHOOSE? And they can multitask? Share files over a network? They can fucking COPY discs with the included DVD/CD burner? They can strip out the ads? They can normalize the volume? They can completely bypass or menus and waste-of-time interfaces? And the subscription cost is ZERO?!
If people spent half an hour thinking, dusting off their old PC, and hooking up cables, they'd be GODS of their media.
But no - they choose to restrict themselves, let themselves get fucked by the media corporations, endure ads, use hardware that's tiny and shiny but functionally deficient, etc. And they pay for the privilege.
They get excited at the prospect of "apps for my TV!".
Fuck them. "Apps" are what you get at Chili's. (I recommend the sampler or the Texas Cheese Fries.) Software. Programs. Perhaps even applications. Not "apps".
They see a commercial and genuinely feel the excitement of the fake dad who says "Look son, you're on the big screen now, boy!".
Fuck them again. I've told those idiots a billion times how computers are useful things. They have a cable box outputting over coax through 2 daisy-chained VCRs. Yet only when faced with the prospect of computer + t do they go "Uh... why?". They fail to see any potential. It takes a fucking marketing term to get their dumb assed to figure out that computers are useful, TVs are accessible, and that the two might be able to cooperate. Those fucks figured out applesauce and pork chops without a problem. But somehow computer + tv only results in blank stares.
IP filtering has always been useless from a security standpoint. Same goes for MAC address filtering.
Anyone anywhere can change both easily. Blocking addresses is only a matter of convenience.
Foolproof? No. Useless? Hardly.
Locks on your front door are useless. You can buy a hammer really cheap from, well, pretty much anywhere. The fact that windows exist, however, does not diminish the fact that door locks provide a very important layer of security - just as IP filtering does.
Bad analogy is bad.
Blocking an IP or a MAC address is completely pointless. It requires less than 5 seconds of effort to get a new one. There are no windows or hammers involved. You simply walk right in the front door because it will be unlocked when you say "My name is ... Mr. Snrub.".
IP filtering has always been useless from a security standpoint. Same goes for MAC address filtering.
Anyone anywhere can change both easily. Blocking addresses is only a matter of convenience.
This "news" just means that tons of "security" software and filtering hardware (Barricuda, anyone?), is being exposed as the useless, inflexible crap that they are, and the companies behind them are trying to point fingers at large network operators while simultaneously touting their next version, which will have IPv6 support. Maybe. Which totally won't solve the IPv4 issues, but never you mind that.
Tought it was "Republicans create cider to stop net neutrality"
If it's brown and yella', you got juice there, fella. If it's tangy and brown you're in cider town!
And of course in Canada the whole thing's flip-flopped.
So when 40% of their MT service usage is contrary to the ToS, everything's fine and dandy.
But when Wikileaks is in full compliance with the ToS of their EC2 service, they get the boot?
Wow... I can't think of any good reason to still be running anything less than XP, if you're going to go down the windows road...
I can: Because corporate policy says so.
He said good reason.
I'm not blaming anyone, altough I am somewhat surprised why Microsoft bothers to write Firefox plugins. I'm just saying Microsoft doesn't mind providing a solution that specifically works on Windows and not on any other platform Firefox runs on.
How is it surprising?
MS wants its users to be able to do shit.
MS recognizes many of its users use firefox.
MS wants h.264 video to work for them just as much as they want it to work for IE users.
Everything I said is 100% correct.
The original dongle was stolen.
The original backup manager is in the SDK.
GeoHot achieved nothing other than strobing some ram and editing a couple of text files that affect only the display of a couple of UI dialogs.
Eliminate that make-believe accuracy, as the original was probably rounded at least +/-50 F to the round 1000 figure. 800 Kelvin is plenty accurate here.
Wrong.
1: You're confusing accuracy and precision.
2: Significant digits have nothing to do with calculation or conversion - they're only for measurements. The fact that teachers and professors don't understand this doesn't mean that you should go lopping off digits willy-nilly.
If you measure something as being .25 meters, you don't then say it's 9.8 inches. It's 9.842519685039370078740157480315 inches +/- the accuracy of your original measurement.
If you were only precise to 2 decimal places, then your shit probably is between .245 and .255 meters. Or 9.6456692913385826771653543307087 and 10.039370078740157480314960629921 inches. (Or, if you practice the even dumber version where you just truncate shit instead of round, it'll be between .25 and .26).
No amount of rounding or truncation of the original 9.842519685039370078740157480315 inches result will represent those bound.
You can round these results however you want for the final results, but all internal calculations should use as much precision as possible. The more calculations you do, the more your rounding errors grow. Depending on what you're doing, they can grow geometrically or exponentially at each fucking step.
Significant digits are what you use when you don't understand your measuring equipment or how variances will effect the upper and lower bounds of a result. I.E., they're for people who shouldn't be doing anything that important anyway.
Convert 1 meter to inches, then meters, then inches, then meters, etc.
1 meter = X inches. .0254 meters.
By definition, 1 inch =
Using significant digits, 1 inch = 3x10^-2 meters
1 meter = 33.333333 inches.
Using significant digits, 1 meter = 3x10^1 inches
Now take that result and convert back to meters...
3x10^1 inches = X meters
By definition, 1 meter = 39.37007874015748031496062992126 inches
Using significant digits, 1 meter = 4x10^1 inches
You can see how this is getting fucked up now, can't you? You get even worse problems when you truncate instead of round. Significant digits, as taught and practiced, is a TERRIBLE THING.
GeoHot.
And he never actually hacked anything.
And none of the hackers have actually hacked anything with regards to the PS3.
They simply stole a Sony USB dongle that lets you boot a PS3 into a debug/restore/etc. mode. Even the initial tool that lets you install to and run from the internal HDD was written by Sony.
From there, Sony released new firmwares and dev kits, and then the cat and mouse game of "find the key, hide the key" began.
The only work done on the PS3 scene so far has been rudimentary tweaks to the "backup" program, and some token "run Linux again!...kinda...over the network..." shit.
We haven't seen work or enthusiasm anywhere near the scale the 360 or Wii have had.
Shit, I just found it. How'd we miss this before?
if (Password == "JOSHUA")
{
printf("Greetings Professor Falken");
godmode = true;
return;
}
Play... Global Thermonuclear War
This is slashdot, the most anyone actually ever does is rise up from their Cheetos-encrusted trance and yell out "TACO IS TEH SUXOR!" and then collapse back down into a greasy heap, only to be revived by a timely swig of lukewarm store brand grape soda.
Rob Malda has a MICRO PENIS and I've got a story about how one time I found a turd Obama left in a public toilet. YOU KNOW I ATE IT.
This is a myth. There is no way at all to face jail time for not getting health insurance. You can be fined and you can have your wages garnished or assets seized to cover the cost, but there is no route from not buying healthcare to jail time unless you commit some other crime, like shooting at the tax collector.
Seems to me we've jailed plenty of men for being "deabeat dads" (men who can't afford kids/ridiculous "child support" awards and penalties and who have no legal say in the matter). Of course, they're jailed for "failing to pay", not for "owing $x". You see, you don't go to jail for not paying off your debts, you go to jail for committing the crime of not paying a bill, failing to properly respond to a court order, etc.
If you try to dodge this shit they'll clamp down.
If they need more money they'll threaten you with jail. If they need to make people take them seriously, they'll jail people.
Have you not heard of this government thing before?
You also do not need to buy auto insurance if you don't own a car.
You also don't need to buy auto insurance if you can prove you have $x set away in an account.
They've been trying to get rid of this option, however.
DoubleClick and MSN?
Let's just call it like it is, please.
Google and Microsoft.
My sarcasm detector is out of batteries. Does WoW really require subscribers to donate their upstream bandwidth for patches? Honest question.
Require? No. You can turn it off.
If you want to get the patch before the next patch rolls out, then yes.
This.
People seem to think that being decentralized will stop the lawyers from shutting down P2P or suing individuals.
You can never really decentralize - you always need to connect to other peers. The best way to find peers is via a central server that maintains a list of peers. It's possible to set it up so that you can "trust" this list of peers. In reality, however, P2P networks live or die by content availability and speed. How do you up those? Add more peers. If you had to wait 6 weeks to get an invite to a private tracker, that doesn't mean the RIAA/MPAA/etc. did the exact same thing.
If you take out the tracker, how do you find peers? People talk about distributed hash tables and peer exchange. No one really says the obvious - you go looking for peers. And from there you can find other peers. So how do you start looking? Where do you send your initial packets? You've either got a centralized server to handle the bootstrapping, or you just spam subnets, becoming the center of your own network map. This is akin to walking down the street yelling "Anyone got crack for sale???". If this is what you're doing, you've got no guarantee that you won't get fucked. In fact, you make it easier to piss off someone who wasn't even looking for you.
Being decentralized does nothing to make an individual anonymous, safe, etc. But surely it will help the network as a whole, right? Wrong. Instead of going after trackers and sites, they'll go after the initial distributors. For movies and games, there are only a handful of guys supplying 90% of the content. I guess music is easier for the average schlub to rip and share, but who the fuck wants the shitty music they put out today? Honestly. If you take out the ability to easily go after big sites, they'll just ramp up their efforts to go after the sources. They'll always focus on the easiest targets. They USED to focus on the sources (and did so successfully) until Napster came out.
So in the end, decentralization may protect the network, but it doesn't protect the users. As a downloader, you can feel relatively safe. As a source, you'll have a bigger target on your back. As a downloader, if sources are targeted, you'll have less to download.
As for trusting other users for searching?
Do we not remember Kazaa, LimeWire, BearShare, etc. etc. ? I hope your friends and family all run selinux.
It's the reverse for me. The Insert key is so close to the Delete key that I sometimes hit it by accident. What does anyone need the Insert key for?
Hey guys, scroll lock and pause/break are useless!
Also, this control key? What's the point of that?!
Protip: Every key on the keyboard is useful. Just because you and your programs don't make use of a key doesn't mean you should have any input about the layout of my input devices.
Real talk: Got Excel? Click a cell, use the arrow keys. Hit scroll lock. Click a cell, use the arrow keys. HOLY SHIT A FUNCTION FOR A KEY YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT. (Might work in Calc. I wouldn't know, since I'm not a masochist.)
The CRT is a mature technology too. Doesn't mean it's ideal, or nearly ideal.
CRTs are the best display technology we have.
I'm sorry if you've only dealt with shitty consumer CRTs, but you can't just go shitting on the Display King like that without getting called out.
At which point, said keypresses are processed by a driver. You can easily make the driver count keypresses that appear in one poll and disappear in the next as appearing in both.
Indeed, this is exactly what many anti-masking keyboards do (as well as throwing in hardware to be able to physically detect the keypresses). Often with a little bit of location-based guessery as to the probability of something being held down. As well as "lol increasing the polling rate" hacks.
I don't know of any that use USB 2.0 in order to shove more shit down the pipe in a single poll, but that's also a workable option.
See this comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1903236&cid=34500434 for a case in point.
The driver can do whatever it wants. The (default) polling frequency is slow for a computer, but it's more than fast enough for human input. You can get all the keypresses you want through the USB 1.0/1.1 pipe, just not in the same poll.
You CANNOT get all the keypresses you want, at a physical level, until someone makes a keyboard with a dedicated circuit for each key (be it logically-distinct circuits through diode trickery as in the link I provided, or actual traces). Even the anti-masking/ghosting keyboards don't have individual circuits for each key - they simply mash up the grids, so A, F7, End, and NUM_DIVIDE are on one grid. Their logic being, who's gonna press all those at once?
The problem most rational people have with this is that picking the moment of conception as the beginning of life is completely arbitrary
If where you draw that line makes no difference, why not draw the line even earlier? Why decide that 'life' starts when sperm and egg come together, and instead take the Every Sperm is Sacredmantra? A sperm cell and an egg cell on their own aren't all that different from the two cells together. People picked that point because it's an easily identifiable step in the process of procreation, but that doesn't make it particularly special.
I'd say this is a troll, but I know there are morons out there who would actually believe this shit.
"picking the moment of conception as the beginning of life is completely arbitrary"
As is picking the moment of birth.
As is picking the moment the fetus is viable - our medical technology increases all the time and the moment of viability could one day be the moment of conception.
"A sperm cell and an egg cell on their own aren't all that different from the two cells together."
Actually, they're vastly and fundamentally different.
The point of conception IS particularly special, because it's the point where actual human DNA is formed, instead of two disparate half sets that can't ever do anything. Said DNA proceeds to replicate and do it's thing, making all other points simply an application of the Grow() function.
The point of conception is indeed unique from all other points in life. Whether or not you feel it's wrong to kill a person ever, while they're a child, while they're unborn, while they're unborn and don't pose a risk to the mother's life, while they're unborn and don't pose a risk to the parents' life (financially, emotionally), while they're unborn and show defects, while they're unborn and don't look like a person, etc. if up to you and completely arbitrary. And when things are arbitrary, you're just going to have to fucking deal with people having different opinions than you. Spouting arbitrary bullshit and claiming you're being "rational" and other are stupid makes you the irrational, stupid fuck.
This has nothing to do with USB vs PS/2.
This has to do with masking.
http://www.dribin.org/dave/keyboard/one_html/
The bottom line is that keyboards don't have a dedicated circuit for each key - they use a bunch of small grids and detect key presses at the ends of rows/columns in the grid.
Multiple key presses within a grid can cause masking - where a keypress simply isn't recognized at a physical level. Ghosting can also happen, where a keypress is recognized when there isn't one.
How the grids are laid out plays a big role in whether or not a user will experience the problems.
If you have masking in a game, you can try rebinding your controls. A typical masking scenario involves trying to press something like:
W for forward
A for strafe left
CTRL for crouch
Shift for run/walk
If you remap one of the controls to another key you can often get around the masking. I would recommend moving control over to C or Alt if either are unused. Your options will depend on the game and the amount of claw hand you are willing to suffer. You could also always map a control to the mouse. Side buttons are great for shit like a crouch toggle, a grenade toss, etc. Middle click is the bees knees for scope zoom.
Your posts are indecipherable.
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle. Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
4 inches?
POV videos would be DOUBLE life size for CmdrTaco!
In this case, the eBay (re)seller is the one datamining. Typically, these are people who have X subscriptions they have to give away / sell for super cheap as part of some shitty MLM / publisher clearing house "we'll buy out your future college loans though we expect you to never go to college lol!" scheme.
It may be the actual magazine publisher that is datamining. In this case, the magazine subscriptions have already been bought (at a severely reduced rate) from themselves. The magazine owners and operators still get $ from those subscriptions, even if they go unclaimed.
It is the publishing house that is looking to datamine specific demographics. So they give away / discount subscriptions for magazines in certain categories. The publishing house will publish for dozens or hundreds of different magazines. They then sell this data to other marketers.
Individual magazines don't give a fuck because their focus is so narrow the only demographic they care about is that of their reader base - and they already have it. When the magazine itself is giving away subscriptions, it means one of two things:
A - It's in danger of going under and it's a desperate attempt to secure ad contracts and financial loans.
B - It went under, and someone else bought it, "retooled" it, and put it out again under the same name.