Then the game should adaptively judge your intelligence and make things more obvious for stupid people.
So then the optimal strategy for victory is to pretend to be stupid? It seems such a game would prepare our young gamers for a wide variety of career paths.
You can one-up this by using multiple desktops. On most Linux distros you can easily have, say, four desktops in one, which you switch between with the key combo window-1 through window-4. If you combine this with alt-tab window switching it allows you to organize your windows in a highly intuitive way, and switch between them rapidly without having to reach for the mouse very often.
You can achieve the same effect under Windows by installing a program such as MultiDesk (free).
The CV2 code is known only to the cardholder and the issuing bank.
Right. How about, the cardholder, the issuing bank, anyone who has looked at the card, and any of the countless businesses that has ever asked for the CVV2 code.
And... The more businesses that ask for the CVV2 code, the more stolen credit card databases will have the CVV2 code as part of them.
It's illegal to photocopy and distribute even sections from copyrighted books or music, even in a classroom environment.
False. Check the page the U.S. Copyright Office provides about fair use provisions. Among the things they explicitly say are covered by fair use and have been tested in the courts, they list "reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson", in particular when used for "nonprofit educational purposes".
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Those who would trade a little security for a little obscurity, deserve only the latter."
More seriously, security through obscurity is only of marginal usefulness for obscure purposes. Maybe Joe Schmoe can't find his way past some obscurity defense, but if something is widely distributed, such as a publicly distributed software radio, then any obscurity element will likely be compromised quite quickly and quite trivially as soon as someone qualified to do so gets his or her hands on one. And then of course the way past the obscurity becomes publicly available knowledge, and if anyone was counting on that obscurity, then that person has gained nothing from its presence.
When the code is up to your standards (and the evidence is the flat rate of bugs) then the code is included in the kernel.
There was a time (long ago) when Linus wrote ALL of the code himself. If you look at just that metric, Linus barely writes anything anymore (percentage-wise).
This of course implies that code is now checked more times and more carefully BEFORE inclusion, which is a win for everyone.
Our shape has proven to have greater survival value than the shape of our ancestors.
Perhaps more precisely, the shapes of your ancestors had greater survival values than some of your more distant cousins.
Consider this perspective: Every single one of your ancestors, all the way back to single-celled organisms, survived long enough to procreate successfully.
It also includes targeted denial of service attacks. Kids decide they don't like someone at school, and then they go out on the internet and get a few dozen people to "attack" this person by smearing graffiti all over blog or myspace pages, spamming thousands of emails to a person's email account, flooding a person's IM account with hundreds of pop-up messages rendering the account unusable, and getting a bunch of people to repeatedly call a person's cell phone. Often this is done with the intention of making someone's accounts unusable, and sometimes such things are done with the intent of causing a person excessive financial expense (which the young usually do not have to spare).
This can also include significant violations of privacy which could easily lead to later occupational damage. Imagine you're 16 or so, and someone takes a few unflattering photos of you with the pervasive cameras that are now carried into schools on cell phones, and then uses these to create a thread or web page entirely about you which perhaps pretends to be written by you and contains lies about you and the things you like to do to sheep. Now what if this is the first google hit for your name a few years later when you try to get a job?
Yes, there are laws in most countries on the internet to handle such things, but there are countless places where enforcement is minimal to non-existant. Being mean is one thing, but targeted harassment is a completely different thing. When it starts affecting people's finances, lives, and careers, it'd be hard to argue that it doesn't matter or that people should just grow thicker skin.
"Almost instantaneously" seems to be another way of saying "not instantaneously", which we could have guessed anyway. So why not say how fast it actually is?
Quantum teleportation requires the transmission of classical information before the "teleportation" can be completed, and the transmission of this classical information is done by conventional means which are limited to the speed of light. For some reason there seems to be a popular and often repeated misconception that quantum teleportation is instantaneous, but it is not, due to this classical information requirement.
That's another thing to look out for: passive agression. There's quite a lot of it on the Internet. There's about ten times as much in the F/OSS world. I'm not really sure why. People seem to get more possessive about things that they're giving away.
Because most of them are not giving it away. They're trading it for respect and recognition. And for some reason there are many people who think that they have to act "superior" or arrogantly for people to respect them. This usually doesn't work, however, but people still think it.
Sometimes stuff on the TODO list is straightforward. But sometimes the reason something's stuck on the TODO list is that people aren't really sure yet what exactly needs to be done.
For beginners to programming or just to a project, it may be wiser to start out fixing the more recent and less critical bugs. These are more likely to be straightforward, and are probably not done yet just because someone hasn't gotten around to it. After doing a few of these and becoming familiar with the code base, one can move up the chain to more difficult bugs.
Regular developers will appreciate this contribution, because it will free up more of their time to focus on the bugs which require more experience with that particular project.
Let me throw in one additional important point for the original question-asker: Be nice to people. Other developers will welcome you into the fold if in addition to your contributions you seem like a nice person. There are plenty of egos in the world, so leave yours at home and just contribute in a positive and friendly way.
This is basically a big FU to Bush, one of many that will come out of Congress over the next 2 years. The relative merit of appropriations is irrelevant - this is the "We Hate Bush" congress, and their actions will typically have that as a primary element.
It sounds to me more like a bit of basic rare common sense. If you want a mission to Mars, that mission will cost money, and money must be allocated for it. NASA does quite a lot of valuable things, and terminating all of those things to just barely have enough money to start thinking about a mission to Mars is not the right way to go about that.
I'm in favor of a mission to Mars quite a bit more than Bush is. (He just wanted to sound like a visionary without having to budget for it, whereas I actually see intrinsic economic, technological, and scientific value to such a pursuit.) But to do it, we need to dedicate the appropriate resources. It's not that we are unable to afford it, but until the money is properly allocated, we cannot really go to Mars.
For blindness, you can just have a braille voter card with a raised box to punch a hole out of.
So how about paraplegia, bilateral hand amputation, etc.?
They have to find some way to interface with the world, whether by feet, hands, assistance, or voice command to a computer. But then for their vote to have any verified chance of being counted, they will also need some way to verify its contents after being printed out to a physical copy, either by touch (braille) or by sight.
Using a computer interface is NOT incompatible with using a paper ballot. But the voter must have some way to verify the contents of the paper ballot, or the voter has not been granted his or her voting rights. I for one believe that the disabled should have the same right to verify that their vote has been counted as everyone else. Locking their votes away in a computer and never printing it to hard copy is not an acceptable solution, but using a computer as an interface for generating a paper ballot IS an acceptable solution.
In the end it could make things cheaper for the large companies. Right now they are reluctantly filing patents in huge quantities on tiny things just to stay competitive with the other large companies. If most of the irrelevant patents start getting systematically discarded, then none of the large companies will have to file them, and each of them will save money on patent fees.
It might raise the cost for an individual inventor filing a single patent, particularly if someone challenges it with prior art which has to be disputed, but this is a small price to pay for a patent system that might start to make a little more sense.
Microsoft simply had to pay more in licensing fees since their revenue is higher.
In the world of reality, I believe this is what we call an excuse. Every so often that world of reality leaks into the legal process and has an impact on it.
Err, right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the true value so far being shown in negative dollars?:) Microsoft had to pay Novell to take the deal, which says their ambiguous patents are more trouble than value. Lawyers fighting future cases will not be blind to this fact.
Anyways, it doesn't matter what the US signs into law if there is no meaningful oversight, penalties and enforcement.
It can, actually. If the American people believe they have a legal right to privacy, and expect it, then eventually oversight, penalties, and enforcement will come around, even if they don't start out in place.
Sometimes we have to aim for gradual cultural shifts if we can't immediately obtain sweeping and effective legislation.
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This is well in line with Microsoft's long standing motto, Do Mo' Evil.
That'd certainly get you to Kevin Bacon a few times.
So then the optimal strategy for victory is to pretend to be stupid? It seems such a game would prepare our young gamers for a wide variety of career paths.
You can one-up this by using multiple desktops. On most Linux distros you can easily have, say, four desktops in one, which you switch between with the key combo window-1 through window-4. If you combine this with alt-tab window switching it allows you to organize your windows in a highly intuitive way, and switch between them rapidly without having to reach for the mouse very often.
You can achieve the same effect under Windows by installing a program such as MultiDesk (free).
Making a system this easy to do a denial of service attack is essentially making a broken system.
Right. How about, the cardholder, the issuing bank, anyone who has looked at the card, and any of the countless businesses that has ever asked for the CVV2 code.
And... The more businesses that ask for the CVV2 code, the more stolen credit card databases will have the CVV2 code as part of them.
False. Check the page the U.S. Copyright Office provides about fair use provisions. Among the things they explicitly say are covered by fair use and have been tested in the courts, they list "reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson", in particular when used for "nonprofit educational purposes".
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Those who would trade a little security for a little obscurity, deserve only the latter."
More seriously, security through obscurity is only of marginal usefulness for obscure purposes. Maybe Joe Schmoe can't find his way past some obscurity defense, but if something is widely distributed, such as a publicly distributed software radio, then any obscurity element will likely be compromised quite quickly and quite trivially as soon as someone qualified to do so gets his or her hands on one. And then of course the way past the obscurity becomes publicly available knowledge, and if anyone was counting on that obscurity, then that person has gained nothing from its presence.
This of course implies that code is now checked more times and more carefully BEFORE inclusion, which is a win for everyone.
Perhaps more precisely, the shapes of your ancestors had greater survival values than some of your more distant cousins.
Consider this perspective: Every single one of your ancestors, all the way back to single-celled organisms, survived long enough to procreate successfully.
It also includes targeted denial of service attacks. Kids decide they don't like someone at school, and then they go out on the internet and get a few dozen people to "attack" this person by smearing graffiti all over blog or myspace pages, spamming thousands of emails to a person's email account, flooding a person's IM account with hundreds of pop-up messages rendering the account unusable, and getting a bunch of people to repeatedly call a person's cell phone. Often this is done with the intention of making someone's accounts unusable, and sometimes such things are done with the intent of causing a person excessive financial expense (which the young usually do not have to spare).
This can also include significant violations of privacy which could easily lead to later occupational damage. Imagine you're 16 or so, and someone takes a few unflattering photos of you with the pervasive cameras that are now carried into schools on cell phones, and then uses these to create a thread or web page entirely about you which perhaps pretends to be written by you and contains lies about you and the things you like to do to sheep. Now what if this is the first google hit for your name a few years later when you try to get a job?
Yes, there are laws in most countries on the internet to handle such things, but there are countless places where enforcement is minimal to non-existant. Being mean is one thing, but targeted harassment is a completely different thing. When it starts affecting people's finances, lives, and careers, it'd be hard to argue that it doesn't matter or that people should just grow thicker skin.
You could use it to make a Beowulf cluster of quantum computers.
(I kid you not.)
Quantum teleportation requires the transmission of classical information before the "teleportation" can be completed, and the transmission of this classical information is done by conventional means which are limited to the speed of light. For some reason there seems to be a popular and often repeated misconception that quantum teleportation is instantaneous, but it is not, due to this classical information requirement.
What are you talking about? They've got the original.
Because most of them are not giving it away. They're trading it for respect and recognition. And for some reason there are many people who think that they have to act "superior" or arrogantly for people to respect them. This usually doesn't work, however, but people still think it.
For beginners to programming or just to a project, it may be wiser to start out fixing the more recent and less critical bugs. These are more likely to be straightforward, and are probably not done yet just because someone hasn't gotten around to it. After doing a few of these and becoming familiar with the code base, one can move up the chain to more difficult bugs.
Regular developers will appreciate this contribution, because it will free up more of their time to focus on the bugs which require more experience with that particular project.
Let me throw in one additional important point for the original question-asker: Be nice to people. Other developers will welcome you into the fold if in addition to your contributions you seem like a nice person. There are plenty of egos in the world, so leave yours at home and just contribute in a positive and friendly way.
* Blackout dates may apply.
Exactly. It's not like they asked people to give up the internet.
It sounds to me more like a bit of basic rare common sense. If you want a mission to Mars, that mission will cost money, and money must be allocated for it. NASA does quite a lot of valuable things, and terminating all of those things to just barely have enough money to start thinking about a mission to Mars is not the right way to go about that.
I'm in favor of a mission to Mars quite a bit more than Bush is. (He just wanted to sound like a visionary without having to budget for it, whereas I actually see intrinsic economic, technological, and scientific value to such a pursuit.) But to do it, we need to dedicate the appropriate resources. It's not that we are unable to afford it, but until the money is properly allocated, we cannot really go to Mars.
They have to find some way to interface with the world, whether by feet, hands, assistance, or voice command to a computer. But then for their vote to have any verified chance of being counted, they will also need some way to verify its contents after being printed out to a physical copy, either by touch (braille) or by sight.
Using a computer interface is NOT incompatible with using a paper ballot. But the voter must have some way to verify the contents of the paper ballot, or the voter has not been granted his or her voting rights. I for one believe that the disabled should have the same right to verify that their vote has been counted as everyone else. Locking their votes away in a computer and never printing it to hard copy is not an acceptable solution, but using a computer as an interface for generating a paper ballot IS an acceptable solution.
In the end it could make things cheaper for the large companies. Right now they are reluctantly filing patents in huge quantities on tiny things just to stay competitive with the other large companies. If most of the irrelevant patents start getting systematically discarded, then none of the large companies will have to file them, and each of them will save money on patent fees.
It might raise the cost for an individual inventor filing a single patent, particularly if someone challenges it with prior art which has to be disputed, but this is a small price to pay for a patent system that might start to make a little more sense.
In the world of reality, I believe this is what we call an excuse. Every so often that world of reality leaks into the legal process and has an impact on it.
Err, right. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the true value so far being shown in negative dollars?
It can, actually. If the American people believe they have a legal right to privacy, and expect it, then eventually oversight, penalties, and enforcement will come around, even if they don't start out in place.
Sometimes we have to aim for gradual cultural shifts if we can't immediately obtain sweeping and effective legislation.
Flip phones are so TOS. How about a pin we can wear on our shirts?