Couldn't you fix this by adding an additional layer of password creation on your end?
Say you have a simple encryption algorithm. Your password is "shpadoinkle". You type "shpadoinkle" into your crypto program, and it churns out a consistant phrase every time, say "g55yg546+6^4g5fjjk#6Y~t6SDg". Now you copy/paste that and use it as your password for a service.
Thus you only have to remember a simpler password and the program used to encode it. Then you chuck that password into whatever you're trying to protect, and it gets encrypted yet again.
If it requires any kind of intricate or fast movement a tablet is generallybad. But there's loads of games that could still run just fine. RTSes might work decently. Board and puzzle games are a definite. Old school adventure games like Myst would be awesome if someone would make an iPod/Android version.
There's more to games than headshots and rocket jumps.
Well, it's honestly not worth finding exploits for Linode or most other forms of Linux. (Not a flamebait.) Why bother trying to break into the computers of less than 1% of people.
(See, others can do it too!)
Can we get a "Macs don't get viruses!" guy to chime in? And maybe someone from Amiga or BSD?
1) Find more fellow pissed off video game employees. 2) Form your own company. 3) Make and sell games domestically at a lower rate. 4) Sell games to Americans for $60 (when they're $30 in Australia). 5) Profit!
What baffles me on Point & Click games is this: why the hell aren't there more of them on phones?
Any of the original turn-based games that don't require any realtime movement (Ogre Tactics, Fallout, Myst, SWAT 2, etc.) are PERFECT for the phone platform. Hell, add a zoom function and rebind the key controls and you're pretty damn set. I'd much rather play a Myst game than Bejeweled on a phone. Then, my only concern would be throwing my phone out the window instead of throwing my whole PC.
Companies that won't support H.264: Mozilla Companies that won't support WebM: Many..
Agreed, this battle is already well lost.
Too little, too late.
What the open-source community needs to do is innovate in such a fashion that something becomes "killer" - clearly better in every fashion. From there, it's all a matter of the project avoiding selling out for a briefcase full of money and stock options and not having their information stolen and/or patented first by an existing, more lawyered-up company.
What would honestly help - painting the stock bright, neon green or orange. They'll either think it's a toy or not a gun.
The whole 'Toy guns are bright colors thing" has only conditioned us to not feel threatened when we see a brightly-colored gun. I'm sure you could down a few people with a Hot Pink shotgun before anyone noticed.
They did the same thing in America with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They created it, they appointed Elizabeth Warren (a longtime supporter of consumer protections and more regulation), and then made her completely ineffective at getting anything actually done.
Please understand my concern that this will be abused. How many times have Slashdotters been burned by other websites betraying their principles in one fashion or another?
I understand that it is now used to assist in flagging posts for spam or trolling so accounts can be banned, but I have a difficult time seeing the necessity of it given the moderation system. As you've stated, it can be abused just as easily as the moderation system is abused. Couldn't a moderation of "-1, Spam" be added and essentially accomplish the same thing without making anyone feel uncomfortable?
I'm sure to you it's a convenience thing for moderating a massive and complex comments section, but (to myself at least) a flag is a symbol that a post can be reported and eventually "disappeared". Until someone writes up a scraper tool to hunt Slashdot for dead PostIDs, we'll have to trust you guys and that's rarely worked out for the geek community.
Since it was you that replied, though, I'm not remotely as worried as I once was. At least someone still gives a shit around here. Thanks samzenpus.
So, you believe that life owes you something for nothing, eh?
I believe that with our current technology, we can feed, clothe, and provide clean water for everybody on the planet today. And we should, at least for the basics. But we won't, because it isn't profitable.
Slashdot Mirror
Buying overpriced, shiny toys posing as computers isn't normal...
. . . . . but on meth it is.
MAC: Not even once.
Couldn't you fix this by adding an additional layer of password creation on your end?
Say you have a simple encryption algorithm. Your password is "shpadoinkle". You type "shpadoinkle" into your crypto program, and it churns out a consistant phrase every time, say "g55yg546+6^4g5fjjk#6Y~t6SDg". Now you copy/paste that and use it as your password for a service.
Thus you only have to remember a simpler password and the program used to encode it. Then you chuck that password into whatever you're trying to protect, and it gets encrypted yet again.
Two minutes behind this guy and I'm "Redundant".
xkcd's take on this. Will the Slashdotters have the balls to say one of their patron deities might be wrong?
Definitely a troll, but I'll bite.
If it requires any kind of intricate or fast movement a tablet is generallybad. But there's loads of games that could still run just fine. RTSes might work decently. Board and puzzle games are a definite. Old school adventure games like Myst would be awesome if someone would make an iPod/Android version.
There's more to games than headshots and rocket jumps.
(Oh man, I feel really dirty saying that.)
I see many more people playing Facebook games than they play with their Wii.
What the hell kind of fantastic Facebook game is actually stopping people from mastu-
Oh, the console.
Well, it's honestly not worth finding exploits for Linode or most other forms of Linux. (Not a flamebait.) Why bother trying to break into the computers of less than 1% of people.
(See, others can do it too!)
Can we get a "Macs don't get viruses!" guy to chime in? And maybe someone from Amiga or BSD?
Solution:
1) Find more fellow pissed off video game employees.
2) Form your own company.
3) Make and sell games domestically at a lower rate.
4) Sell games to Americans for $60 (when they're $30 in Australia).
5) Profit!
Edmonton
No, he said "habitable".
Hm... how about "The Saul Zaentz is a 'unt"?
In other news, DeBeers are sitting on large stockpiles of diamonds in order to "protect the war-torn orphans".
Nope, not about artificially high prices at all. Nope.
Scott Adams
Just to clarify, this isn't the Dilbert guy, is it?
What baffles me on Point & Click games is this: why the hell aren't there more of them on phones?
Any of the original turn-based games that don't require any realtime movement (Ogre Tactics, Fallout, Myst, SWAT 2, etc.) are PERFECT for the phone platform. Hell, add a zoom function and rebind the key controls and you're pretty damn set. I'd much rather play a Myst game than Bejeweled on a phone. Then, my only concern would be throwing my phone out the window instead of throwing my whole PC.
Companies that won't support H.264: Mozilla
Companies that won't support WebM: Many..
Agreed, this battle is already well lost.
Too little, too late.
What the open-source community needs to do is innovate in such a fashion that something becomes "killer" - clearly better in every fashion. From there, it's all a matter of the project avoiding selling out for a briefcase full of money and stock options and not having their information stolen and/or patented first by an existing, more lawyered-up company.
Easy!
What would honestly help - painting the stock bright, neon green or orange. They'll either think it's a toy or not a gun.
The whole 'Toy guns are bright colors thing" has only conditioned us to not feel threatened when we see a brightly-colored gun. I'm sure you could down a few people with a Hot Pink shotgun before anyone noticed.
"Oh wow, NERF has gotten fucking hardcore!"
I don't that strategy is viable.
I 100% your post.
They did the same thing in America with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. They created it, they appointed Elizabeth Warren (a longtime supporter of consumer protections and more regulation), and then made her completely ineffective at getting anything actually done.
Yeah, eventually someone will invent holohookers and make a fortune.
Please understand my concern that this will be abused. How many times have Slashdotters been burned by other websites betraying their principles in one fashion or another?
I understand that it is now used to assist in flagging posts for spam or trolling so accounts can be banned, but I have a difficult time seeing the necessity of it given the moderation system. As you've stated, it can be abused just as easily as the moderation system is abused. Couldn't a moderation of "-1, Spam" be added and essentially accomplish the same thing without making anyone feel uncomfortable?
I'm sure to you it's a convenience thing for moderating a massive and complex comments section, but (to myself at least) a flag is a symbol that a post can be reported and eventually "disappeared". Until someone writes up a scraper tool to hunt Slashdot for dead PostIDs, we'll have to trust you guys and that's rarely worked out for the geek community.
Since it was you that replied, though, I'm not remotely as worried as I once was. At least someone still gives a shit around here. Thanks samzenpus.
(Please don't aim the Geeknet Orbital Ion Cannon at me... my roof is leaking enough as it is.)
Hell, all the title needs is "Apple", "Raspberry PI", and "geohashing" and it's the perfect storm of a Slashdot article.
Yep, just look at them stopping those dangerous people from helping that guy up! Threat contained, return to your home citizen.
Indeed, due to deaths from rubber bullets, TASERs, etc. they are now more commonly called "less lethal".
slashdot excels in that it's unmoderated in the sense that comments don't disappear into the void if a mod chooses so.
It won't for long. Take a look at that little flag on the bottom right of every post and imagine what that means for us now.
Atlantic Fleet/F&M/200+
So, you believe that life owes you something for nothing, eh?
I believe that with our current technology, we can feed, clothe, and provide clean water for everybody on the planet today. And we should, at least for the basics. But we won't, because it isn't profitable.