Lots of apps were suddenly banned due to "negative user experience". Appeals are being rejected with canned replies. Facebook developers (see link, scroll down) are basically saying "you deserved it, our only fault is not telling you earlier why".
The entire system works on the assumption that a single entity will never have enough computational power to recompute a chain longer than the currently-existing, ever-growing chain. It basically means having to re-do all work already done by all Bitcoin nodes.
The biggest problem I see with this "pending changes" is that there will be so many edits that intentional subtle trolling (deliberately inserting incorrect facts/statistics) is more likely to get through just by the nature of the fact that experienced editors will have to read thousands of edits.
I wouldn't agree with this - for the main reason that (AFAIK) anti-vandalism currently relies a lot on automated processes that check for common vandalism patterns. This change will bring the changes under the scrutiny of real people (for example, if they'll add a tool to show a diff between the public version and latest unapproved version, it'll be plain obvious someone changed some numbers, etc.). There's also that "anti-vandalism patrol" involves people reading random articles in which they have no personal interest - I imagine that the task of reviewing and publishing changes with the new feature would fall to editors with some interest in the article in question.
How does this change affect any of this? Previously, when a new/anonymous user wanted to change something in a semi-protected article, they had to suggest the changes on the talk page and get an "approved" user to do them. Now, anyone can make changes to the page in a way that's not visible to Wikipedia visitors, and they can be approved by experienced editors. It's the same thing, except now it requires less work on both sides.
I participated in that contest, and was one of the people who disassembled the ROM and emulated the RNG. One of the biggest hurdles was that they decided to use UDP for the network protocol, which means you had to account for lost packets. In the end, partly due to poor time management on my behalf, I had only half a day left to implement the actual logic:(
You can find magazine scans (in German) at the above link as well.
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Looks like the video was reuploaded in 1080p today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4
The forum moderators also said the facebook staff "has been ignoring them (and everyone on the forums too) for weeks or months".
Found it.
I just read somewhere someone from Facebook saying that the content is only hidden until the app is unbanned, but now I can't find where...
Lots of apps were suddenly banned due to "negative user experience". Appeals are being rejected with canned replies. Facebook developers (see link, scroll down) are basically saying "you deserved it, our only fault is not telling you earlier why".
I'm surprised nothing was said about spatial navigation (particularly because Opera touts this as a big feature). It looks like Chrome is getting this too, though.
Note that paypalsucks.com is affiliated with (has ads plastered over linking to) another payment processor.
Not defending PayPal, but I wouldn't consider that website as an unbiased source.
I posted this in the last thread, but PSN users are already seeing their credit cards being fraudulently used!
Note that this information is currently based on a single e-mail.
Wouldn't jumping through tiny hoops be harder?
As opposed to HDDs, which aside from being comparatively slow, supposedly allow recovering information after it's been overwritten multiple times?
It looks like someone enlightened him, and they've since changed their minds:
http://twitter.com/#!/SuperMeatBoy/status/10377369512583168
There is already a project for this: ie7-js.
The entire system works on the assumption that a single entity will never have enough computational power to recompute a chain longer than the currently-existing, ever-growing chain. It basically means having to re-do all work already done by all Bitcoin nodes.
Um, wouldn't creating a hash of your personal details which uniquely identify you be practically the same thing?
I wouldn't agree with this - for the main reason that (AFAIK) anti-vandalism currently relies a lot on automated processes that check for common vandalism patterns. This change will bring the changes under the scrutiny of real people (for example, if they'll add a tool to show a diff between the public version and latest unapproved version, it'll be plain obvious someone changed some numbers, etc.). There's also that "anti-vandalism patrol" involves people reading random articles in which they have no personal interest - I imagine that the task of reviewing and publishing changes with the new feature would fall to editors with some interest in the article in question.
Isn't this exactly what this change is about?
How does this change affect any of this? Previously, when a new/anonymous user wanted to change something in a semi-protected article, they had to suggest the changes on the talk page and get an "approved" user to do them. Now, anyone can make changes to the page in a way that's not visible to Wikipedia visitors, and they can be approved by experienced editors. It's the same thing, except now it requires less work on both sides.
Since neither the summary nor the story link to the actual source:
Mobile advertising and the iPhone
Also:
Really? Google acquired AdMob only a little over two weeks ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiN2F1o2qwY
I know, I was referring to the same line Wine folks have been saying, and the recursive acronym (Wine Is Not an Emulator).
* frowns at emulator tag *
I participated in that contest, and was one of the people who disassembled the ROM and emulated the RNG. One of the biggest hurdles was that they decided to use UDP for the network protocol, which means you had to account for lost packets. In the end, partly due to poor time management on my behalf, I had only half a day left to implement the actual logic :(
You can find magazine scans (in German) at the above link as well.
Bomb-dropping worms and no one mentions the Worms series from Team17?
Opera supports user style sheets, which allow you to do exactly this (and more). You can even have per-site style sheets.