Hold on, here's the crux of the issue. If the state had an active role in selected projects to receive money and choose this theme park, there may be a problem here. If, however, the incentives were made available to all and the theme park applied them of their own volition, then there's no problem.
It's like the difference between someone handing out sandwiches only to Christians versus a Christian joining a line that says "free sandwiches".
The actual accomplishment, not specifically stated until the FOURTH paragraph of the New Scientist article with the same terrible headline, is that it's the first time a computer has beaten a professional human player; in this case, Ichiyo Shimizu, the female shogi champion.
The problem with this is that the scammers can send just out another mail calling him the scammer and 'reassuring' the customers that everything is okay and keep the money flowing. Who are they going to believe, originalguy@gmail.com or admin@originaldomain.com?
He needs some way of proving who he is. He may have to resort to calling each customer directly to convince them, perhaps by referencing details of their relationship and past transactions that the scammers shouldn't know.
You've made a mistake; RockYou Live is in their "penalty box", not RockBox. The two are totally unrelated; RockBox isn't even a webapp, it's an (excellent) open source firmware for portable music players. They don't ask for your personal information at all.
Once again, the Slashdot title has got it wrong. TFA doesn't say that Google's overall cost for bandwidth is zero, simply that their transit costs are near zero, which specifically refers money paid to a network provider to carry your traffic.
I can't speak on how to get them digitalized, but once you do, look to the web to get others to help geocode and get them into shape for overlays. Put them online in a liberal CC license and invite other people to use them. Given the popularity of google maps and the community that's grown up making mashups and apps, I'd be willing to bet there already existing communities of people good at, and interested in, doing this.
Worse yet, it appears that 14 of the 32 bits of the ESN are fixed for a given product (emphasis mine):
The Electronic Serial Number (ESN) is a 32-bit number assigned by the mobile station manufacturer which uniquely identifies the mobile station equipment. The rules to be followed by manufacturers for assigning the ESN are given in the IS-95 standard. Binary digits are allocated for a manufacturer's identity code (8 bits), the equipment serial number (18 bits), and 6 bits are reserved. ESN, and MIN1, along with other digital input, are used during the authentication process.
Also, it is NOT pointless because the average person will look at that long string of seemingly random numbers, and the strings are different for each unit because the string is the ESN of the chip, and will think that it is a secure, randomly generated number.
You raise a good point. Any time you ship with a dummy/example/default value that should be changed, you need to make it blindingly obvious to the user--or better yet, require it be changed on first use. Being excessively tolerant to bogus data often just hides or delays problems until a later time.
You must be joking. Side mirrors are made to allow the driver to see out of the car, not to let others see in. Trusting your safety to a glimpse, taken at speed, of a reflection in a six inch mirror at least ten feet away is madness.
The latter option mentioned in the summary - each monitor being a distinct X session - is sometimes called Zaphod mode.
I have opted for it myself, but the downside of not being able to drag windows is sometimes a real pain. You can mitigate this to some degree for text programs using screen or dtach. I am interested in trying out xpra, which promises to be like 'screen for x-windows', but I haven't had time yet.
Another issue is that some programs, like Firefox, don't like to run multiple instances. So if you fire it up on one session while it's running on the other, it will try to connect to the existing instance but fail because its on a different session. I work around this with a small script that detects what screen firefox is running on and prepends the appropriate DISPLAY variable.
You can use ClickToFlash on Safari in 10.6 to tell the Youtube site to serve the H.264 iPhone version to your browser instead of the flash version too - much nicer.
It makes sense only in a short-sighted way. It's ridiculous to assume programs will be shown online with the same exact ads to all audiences. The presentation of content must be adapted to the medium if there is any hope that it is to be successful.
While I agree with you, I should point out that the new Wii Super Mario does use motion sensor; a few actions, like using the propeller hat, require you to shake the controller.
Curious, you're right, I hadn't noticed that. It appears that Firefox actually changes the href in the DOM as soon as you right click on the link
1. Search for "CPAN".. 2. However over the first link (to cpan.org)
Status bar shows the unadorned link, "http://www.cpan.org" 3. Right click on the link
Status bar now shows the google passthrough link, "http://www.google.com/url?..." 4. Hightlight the CPAN hyperlink, right click and view source
The href has been changed
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Morality and ethics are not exclusively defined by what is legal.
Or in other words, it is not the end-all and be-all argument to say "it's legal so you should have no problem with it".
Do you really think the ISPs are paying their lobbyists to push a bill through Congress so they can save their customers money?
Hold on, here's the crux of the issue. If the state had an active role in selected projects to receive money and choose this theme park, there may be a problem here. If, however, the incentives were made available to all and the theme park applied them of their own volition, then there's no problem.
It's like the difference between someone handing out sandwiches only to Christians versus a Christian joining a line that says "free sandwiches".
Just about to say this. It's certainly plausible, though, that Bughouse was inspired by Shogi.
The actual accomplishment, not specifically stated until the FOURTH paragraph of the New Scientist article with the same terrible headline, is that it's the first time a computer has beaten a professional human player; in this case, Ichiyo Shimizu, the female shogi champion.
He said they usually don't, not never.
I misread this as "Portal Lemmings" and am now seriously disappointed.
Someone needs to make that.
Don't count on it. There's still plenty of demand for no-contract iPhones, even if they are last-gen.
They knew his name and that he had a Facebook page. Shouldn't be too hard to contact him from there...
The problem with this is that the scammers can send just out another mail calling him the scammer and 'reassuring' the customers that everything is okay and keep the money flowing. Who are they going to believe, originalguy@gmail.com or admin@originaldomain.com?
He needs some way of proving who he is. He may have to resort to calling each customer directly to convince them, perhaps by referencing details of their relationship and past transactions that the scammers shouldn't know.
You've made a mistake; RockYou Live is in their "penalty box", not RockBox. The two are totally unrelated; RockBox isn't even a webapp, it's an (excellent) open source firmware for portable music players. They don't ask for your personal information at all.
Once again, the Slashdot title has got it wrong. TFA doesn't say that Google's overall cost for bandwidth is zero, simply that their transit costs are near zero, which specifically refers money paid to a network provider to carry your traffic.
I can't speak on how to get them digitalized, but once you do, look to the web to get others to help geocode and get them into shape for overlays. Put them online in a liberal CC license and invite other people to use them. Given the popularity of google maps and the community that's grown up making mashups and apps, I'd be willing to bet there already existing communities of people good at, and interested in, doing this.
That sounds like an iPod touch plus an app. And I wouldn't be surprised if the app already exists.
Worse yet, it appears that 14 of the 32 bits of the ESN are fixed for a given product (emphasis mine):
The Electronic Serial Number (ESN) is a 32-bit number assigned by the mobile station manufacturer which uniquely identifies the mobile station equipment. The rules to be followed by manufacturers for assigning the ESN are given in the IS-95 standard. Binary digits are allocated for a manufacturer's identity code (8 bits), the equipment serial number (18 bits), and 6 bits are reserved. ESN, and MIN1, along with other digital input, are used during the authentication process.
Source
Also, it is NOT pointless because the average person will look at that long string of seemingly random numbers, and the strings are different for each unit because the string is the ESN of the chip, and will think that it is a secure, randomly generated number.
You raise a good point. Any time you ship with a dummy/example/default value that should be changed, you need to make it blindingly obvious to the user--or better yet, require it be changed on first use. Being excessively tolerant to bogus data often just hides or delays problems until a later time.
You must be joking. Side mirrors are made to allow the driver to see out of the car, not to let others see in. Trusting your safety to a glimpse, taken at speed, of a reflection in a six inch mirror at least ten feet away is madness.
The latter option mentioned in the summary - each monitor being a distinct X session - is sometimes called Zaphod mode.
I have opted for it myself, but the downside of not being able to drag windows is sometimes a real pain. You can mitigate this to some degree for text programs using screen or dtach. I am interested in trying out xpra, which promises to be like 'screen for x-windows', but I haven't had time yet.
Another issue is that some programs, like Firefox, don't like to run multiple instances. So if you fire it up on one session while it's running on the other, it will try to connect to the existing instance but fail because its on a different session. I work around this with a small script that detects what screen firefox is running on and prepends the appropriate DISPLAY variable.
But what if I need iPants now because iShatMyself?
You can use ClickToFlash on Safari in 10.6 to tell the Youtube site to serve the H.264 iPhone version to your browser instead of the flash version too - much nicer.
Or, as of last week, you can have YouTube give you H.264 videos with HTML5.
And it keeps the rest of your keys from hitting your leg.
It makes sense only in a short-sighted way. It's ridiculous to assume programs will be shown online with the same exact ads to all audiences. The presentation of content must be adapted to the medium if there is any hope that it is to be successful.
While I agree with you, I should point out that the new Wii Super Mario does use motion sensor; a few actions, like using the propeller hat, require you to shake the controller.
SwitchingToUbuntuFromWindows on the Ubuntu wiki is the first hit on both for me.
Bing search
Google search
Curious, you're right, I hadn't noticed that. It appears that Firefox actually changes the href in the DOM as soon as you right click on the link
1. Search for "CPAN"..
2. However over the first link (to cpan.org)
Status bar shows the unadorned link, "http://www.cpan.org"
3. Right click on the link
Status bar now shows the google passthrough link, "http://www.google.com/url?..."
4. Hightlight the CPAN hyperlink, right click and view source
The href has been changed