Actually, cellphones work like that already. In a recent trip to Japan (less than 4 months ago) everyone I knew used predictive input exactly like that.
And it wasn't the fancy phones. I bought the cheapest one at 100USD from au by KDDI and had that feature. Also, mine doesn't have predictive input for romajii (roman characters), and I have no idea if the fancier ones do.
The point is, it was very easy for my friends (as they told me) to input text very quickly.
Wow, it's amazing how many posts are in here about how everyone could defeat the technology pretty easy.
Do you know the algorithms for doing this? Do you know the flaws and strengths of it? Have you seen the experimental data to infer some obvious weakness?
It seems logical to think that some stones in a shoe will change the way you walk, but is the difference large enough to fool the program?
Aside from/insert "New to/." joke here/, seriously, why does everyone always jump at such news so hastely?
Almost every new research being done is bashed away, even when few of the stories provide the actual paper to read (let alone someone understanding it).
I remember the first SuSE with a GUI I installed (can't remember the version) back in 98, came with a screensaver of a 4D cube...or more precisely, the 2D shadow of a 4D cube...just like the article says.
Ok, I agree that in a technical conference people will more likely be exposed, but it doesn't mean it SHOULD.
For the sake fo changing the car analogy, think of a firing range. When you go there, you are specifically told you shoot in a particular area, and told NOT to shoot wildly at will. Going to a firing range doesn't mean you are more exposed to bullets IF people follow the instructions. I shouldn't be required to wear high impact body armor, just because "going to a firing range without body armor is asking for trouble".
I believe it was a wise decision to boot them off the conference, or else they would risk eveyone just saying fuck the rules, you get no punishment, and then it wouldn't be a technical conference as much as it would be a hacking playing ground, which is not something bad per se, just don't advertise it as a conference then.
...in fact, it is so good that just as compact disks did for audio...
You clearly haven't been putting enough attention to vinyls, right?. In particular with electronic music. Those DJs aren't using big black discs for show. IF you have a nice enough sound system, an average ear system and pay attetion, listen to the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a cd. Then listen to the difference between a cd and a vinyl and you will easily differentiate between vinyl and cd. Vinyl sound is much more richer and "deep".
Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous.
Exactly. Specially when "protecting them like fort knox" means protection of the kind the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant uses, in that episode where Mr. Burns goes through a series of high-tech doors, face-scanned, palm-scanned and introducing a password in a keypad, finally to reach the control board....that has a, literally, unprotected backdoor.
When I read stories like this this episode comes to my mind everytime. They scan your socks, even strip-searches in extreme cases, and then they leave the data unencrypted....hilarious...sorta...
50Mbps? Hah. I bet with all the throttling going around, it will take forever to open notepad.exe...
An online OS would probably work with a REAL 1Mbps unthrottled symmetric link...ah...one can dream.
From your post, it seems that you don't charge Internet access to residents, or maybe you are charging too little money.
Wouldn't it be better if you guys charged heavier on the heaviest users?. That way, you might be able to upgrade to $superExpensivePlanOfTheMonth, and then the headaches would go away.
You say it yourself:
Sooner or later all of those students will be paying for their own bandwidth and they will learn the lesson about how their abuse is hurting the rest of us...
Maybe that should be sooner instead of later for the people living there.
Just a honest suggestion. No sarcasm at all.
I',m not making fun of anything. I said I was honestly curious about an example of:
the intellectual property rights that historically have fostered unparalleled innovation and growth in the global software industry.
Meaning that, Microsoft says "IP fosters unparalled innovation and growth", and I would like to know about an example of this particular bit. Do you or anyone else knows how IP has fostered innovation?
And again, I'm sorry if you though I was making fun. I'm not. I'm not an MS-basher-zealot or any other kind of zealot whatsoever.
...Through the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft advances several important objectives:
...
Preserve the intellectual property rights that historically have fostered unparalleled innovation and growth in the global software industry.
I'm honestly not trolling or being sarcastic. I just wanna know if someone here agrees with this and can provide an example.
On the other hand, I don't know if Microsoft has an automatic webpage content-generator, like those "create your own story" old javascript pages, where you enter keywords and get a "custom" text back, because all their objectives seems...let's say "plastic".
Agreed. This reminds me of a racist joke (please to understand that, I didn't created the joke nor I endorse it, but I think it draws a pretty clear picture on "equality" nowadays) that goes like this:
Country X's government realizes the fact that speaking of "black and white people" doesn't cut it anymore, so they pass a law that states that now everyone is "Green".
...only to quickly add that "Light green" people should stand on this side and "Dark green" people should stand on the other side...
So, I'm pretty sure that if he ever gets to set foot in jail, it will be on "light green's people jail" for sure.
...I'm tired of listening to multi millionaires whine about how people are stealing money from them. So skip the gold plated toilet for the new mansion and settle for the ceramic one...
Do you really think they are making all this fuss because they are actually losing a significant amount of money? Conspiracy theories aside, I truly believe it's just a way of whining so they ultimately get to bend the law as they please, for whatever *other* reasons they see fit (not just piracy).
Imagine a really really spoiled kid, that will cry and scream whenever his parents don't do as he says. At first it will be about the $10 toy, and later it will be about the $xxxxxxxxx car, and...etc etc. You get the point.
Does anyone know if there exists any research on this?
The parent is referring to Moire patterns (see here, but how about an analog to this, like a specially "anti-digital-encoder"-encoder, such that when the film is re-encoded (or compressed) with DivX, Xvid, mp4, etc, it will generate heavy artifacting, but won't modify the image as a human eye would see it. Or even more advanced, something to fool the camera's CCD directly. Not IR beacuse as someone posted already, an IR cutoff filter would prevent this.
I know it's not the same, but there's already a way to generate visual patterns visible to an optical device, but not to the naked eye, like the thesis-related project of Johnny Chung Lee (look under "Moveable Interactive Projected Displays Using Projector Based Tracking").
Agreed totally. But what can you expect from big corporations which seem to play mommy and daddy with governments that do exactly the same?
If you keep your population undereducated (ie in ignorance), you get far more chances to control them (ie get their money). Ever read Fahrenheit 451?
What impresses me the most is, how come they don't have uber-special-un-counterfittable tickets (they could borrow the design from the Homerpalooza Simpsons episode maybe) if knowing the identity of the attendants is so important?
For an event this size and with such resources, I don't think it would be over the top to use passport-like tickets, with picture and everything.
I think RembrandtX is right about this. They just want to know who's not getting tickets the next year.
I agree completely. I don't even see how this particular page is an example of Internet bullying.
It seems as if the "bully" is genuinely asking clarification, even when he might not be showing too much interest (ie not reading tutorials, etc). So, lazy as he might seem, I couldn't find a single insult or otherwise offensive attitude.
I believe he's talking about how constant linear velocity will make the motor much more reliable and last longer. Which is something Nintendo knows how to do (in my experience at least)
TFA is not talking about user-generated content when saying "rights owners". It's referring to copyright owners, "...by posting copyrighted video of Viacom's Comedy Central shows on YouTube, for example..."
As opposed to "the Web company", "...the Web company is not liable."
So, in that particular context, "the law is increasingly sliding with rights owners" is correctly stated, me believes.
"Mr. Bush" and "tought process" in the same sentence? Something's not ri...Wait a sec...lemme got back a bit... "Mr. Bush" and "thought" in the same sentence? Are you feeling ok?
If the computer has a conencted webcam, try to take pictures. There was a/. story about someone who did this with a Mac. I'm just too lazy to search for the link.
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Actually, cellphones work like that already. In a recent trip to Japan (less than 4 months ago) everyone I knew used predictive input exactly like that.
And it wasn't the fancy phones. I bought the cheapest one at 100USD from au by KDDI and had that feature. Also, mine doesn't have predictive input for romajii (roman characters), and I have no idea if the fancier ones do.
The point is, it was very easy for my friends (as they told me) to input text very quickly.
Wow, it's amazing how many posts are in here about how everyone could defeat the technology pretty easy.
/insert "New to /." joke here/, seriously, why does everyone always jump at such news so hastely?
Do you know the algorithms for doing this? Do you know the flaws and strengths of it? Have you seen the experimental data to infer some obvious weakness? It seems logical to think that some stones in a shoe will change the way you walk, but is the difference large enough to fool the program?
Aside from
Almost every new research being done is bashed away, even when few of the stories provide the actual paper to read (let alone someone understanding it).
It's not really underwater. It's under the sea level.
;)
Would be pretty cool if underwater
Isn't this way to old, even for /. standards?
I remember the first SuSE with a GUI I installed (can't remember the version) back in 98, came with a screensaver of a 4D cube...or more precisely, the 2D shadow of a 4D cube...just like the article says.
Micron isn't official, but micro- as a prefix is. So micrometer is correct or micrometre
Ok, I agree that in a technical conference people will more likely be exposed, but it doesn't mean it SHOULD.
For the sake fo changing the car analogy, think of a firing range. When you go there, you are specifically told you shoot in a particular area, and told NOT to shoot wildly at will. Going to a firing range doesn't mean you are more exposed to bullets IF people follow the instructions. I shouldn't be required to wear high impact body armor, just because "going to a firing range without body armor is asking for trouble".
I believe it was a wise decision to boot them off the conference, or else they would risk eveyone just saying fuck the rules, you get no punishment, and then it wouldn't be a technical conference as much as it would be a hacking playing ground, which is not something bad per se, just don't advertise it as a conference then.
...in fact, it is so good that just as compact disks did for audio...
You clearly haven't been putting enough attention to vinyls, right?. In particular with electronic music. Those DJs aren't using big black discs for show. IF you have a nice enough sound system, an average ear system and pay attetion, listen to the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a cd. Then listen to the difference between a cd and a vinyl and you will easily differentiate between vinyl and cd. Vinyl sound is much more richer and "deep".
SSL is not the panacea it would seem to be
In fact, SSL certs are themselves dependent on DNS
Also, the site has a video and even a DNS checker to see if you are vulnerable.
Continuing to secure them like they're bloody fort knox is ridiculous.
Exactly. Specially when "protecting them like fort knox" means protection of the kind the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant uses, in that episode where Mr. Burns goes through a series of high-tech doors, face-scanned, palm-scanned and introducing a password in a keypad, finally to reach the control board....that has a, literally, unprotected backdoor.
When I read stories like this this episode comes to my mind everytime. They scan your socks, even strip-searches in extreme cases, and then they leave the data unencrypted....hilarious...sorta...
50Mbps? Hah. I bet with all the throttling going around, it will take forever to open notepad.exe... An online OS would probably work with a REAL 1Mbps unthrottled symmetric link...ah...one can dream.
So there's gonna be a THIRD term!?!? OMG please no.
Wouldn't it be better if you guys charged heavier on the heaviest users?. That way, you might be able to upgrade to $superExpensivePlanOfTheMonth, and then the headaches would go away.
You say it yourself:
Sooner or later all of those students will be paying for their own bandwidth and they will learn the lesson about how their abuse is hurting the rest of us...
Maybe that should be sooner instead of later for the people living there.
Just a honest suggestion. No sarcasm at all.
the intellectual property rights that historically have fostered unparalleled innovation and growth in the global software industry.
Meaning that, Microsoft says "IP fosters unparalled innovation and growth", and I would like to know about an example of this particular bit. Do you or anyone else knows how IP has fostered innovation?
And again, I'm sorry if you though I was making fun. I'm not. I'm not an MS-basher-zealot or any other kind of zealot whatsoever.
...Through the Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft advances several important objectives:
... Preserve the intellectual property rights that historically have fostered unparalleled innovation and growth in the global software industry.
I'm honestly not trolling or being sarcastic. I just wanna know if someone here agrees with this and can provide an example.
On the other hand, I don't know if Microsoft has an automatic webpage content-generator, like those "create your own story" old javascript pages, where you enter keywords and get a "custom" text back, because all their objectives seems...let's say "plastic".
Who knows? Maybe he's The One...
Agreed. This reminds me of a racist joke (please to understand that, I didn't created the joke nor I endorse it, but I think it draws a pretty clear picture on "equality" nowadays) that goes like this:
...only to quickly add that "Light green" people should stand on this side and "Dark green" people should stand on the other side...
Country X's government realizes the fact that speaking of "black and white people" doesn't cut it anymore, so they pass a law that states that now everyone is "Green".
So, I'm pretty sure that if he ever gets to set foot in jail, it will be on "light green's people jail" for sure.
...I'm tired of listening to multi millionaires whine about how people are stealing money from them. So skip the gold plated toilet for the new mansion and settle for the ceramic one...
Do you really think they are making all this fuss because they are actually losing a significant amount of money? Conspiracy theories aside, I truly believe it's just a way of whining so they ultimately get to bend the law as they please, for whatever *other* reasons they see fit (not just piracy).
Imagine a really really spoiled kid, that will cry and scream whenever his parents don't do as he says. At first it will be about the $10 toy, and later it will be about the $xxxxxxxxx car, and...etc etc. You get the point.
Does anyone know if there exists any research on this?
The parent is referring to Moire patterns (see here, but how about an analog to this, like a specially "anti-digital-encoder"-encoder, such that when the film is re-encoded (or compressed) with DivX, Xvid, mp4, etc, it will generate heavy artifacting, but won't modify the image as a human eye would see it. Or even more advanced, something to fool the camera's CCD directly. Not IR beacuse as someone posted already, an IR cutoff filter would prevent this.
I know it's not the same, but there's already a way to generate visual patterns visible to an optical device, but not to the naked eye, like the thesis-related project of Johnny Chung Lee (look under "Moveable Interactive Projected Displays Using Projector Based Tracking").
Agreed totally. But what can you expect from big corporations which seem to play mommy and daddy with governments that do exactly the same?
If you keep your population undereducated (ie in ignorance), you get far more chances to control them (ie get their money). Ever read Fahrenheit 451?
I completely agree with parent.
What impresses me the most is, how come they don't have uber-special-un-counterfittable tickets (they could borrow the design from the Homerpalooza Simpsons episode maybe) if knowing the identity of the attendants is so important?
For an event this size and with such resources, I don't think it would be over the top to use passport-like tickets, with picture and everything.
I think RembrandtX is right about this. They just want to know who's not getting tickets the next year.
I agree completely. I don't even see how this particular page is an example of Internet bullying.
It seems as if the "bully" is genuinely asking clarification, even when he might not be showing too much interest (ie not reading tutorials, etc). So, lazy as he might seem, I couldn't find a single insult or otherwise offensive attitude.
I believe he's talking about how constant linear velocity will make the motor much more reliable and last longer.
Which is something Nintendo knows how to do (in my experience at least)
TFA is not talking about user-generated content when saying "rights owners". It's referring to copyright owners, "...by posting copyrighted video of Viacom's Comedy Central shows on YouTube, for example..." As opposed to "the Web company", "...the Web company is not liable."
So, in that particular context, "the law is increasingly sliding with rights owners" is correctly stated, me believes.
"Mr. Bush" and "tought process" in the same sentence? Something's not ri...Wait a sec...lemme got back a bit...
"Mr. Bush" and "thought" in the same sentence? Are you feeling ok?
If the computer has a conencted webcam, try to take pictures. There was a /. story about someone who did this with a Mac. I'm just too lazy to search for the link.