"i don't want my captcha taking up more than 2 seconds, let alone like 30 seconds."
Okay, I recently suggested that the problem with bots is that they can do things more efficiently than humans, and the actual solution is to base the whole registration process on human responses that are impossible or take too much time from automated bots.
My question to you is, is 30 seconds to figure something out every once in a while worth it to keep bots from taking over the world?
Personally, I don't have a problem taking 30 seconds if it keeps a bot out. None at all.
This gives me an idea about how to catch automated bots filling in forms.
I suspect that they actually fill in the forms much much faster than humans can type. Therefore the solution to detecting bots filling in forms is to time the process using some sort of Java Script against the form being filled out.
Most people also have a rhythmic pattern to actually typing that I would think would be much harder to duplicate in a bot.
As the bots integrated this type of patterns, it would necessarily slow them down. Anyone want to create a Javascript form that tests the typing speed of the person filling in the form?
Another possible solution is instead of having forms that use text based labels (Name, Nickname, Password) in predictable locations and orders, use CAPTCHA style labels, in random locations, requiring bots to increase their intelligence.
The solution is to slow the bots down basing the forms on things humans can do, but bots have a hard time doing. Timing keystrokes, and using Images instead of Text for Labels would definitely slow the bots down.
I meant 5th Amendment, not necessarily the 4th. If my laptop requires a password to open and search it, then I've necessarily forced to testify against myself.
If they required me to hand over the laptop and they used a PW cracking tool to unlock it, then it would be 4th Amendment right, since they violated the reasonably secured documents.
But what do I know. I'm just a guy who can read the Constitution and I can clearly see that either the 4th or the 5th Amendment applies here.
This has nothing to do with Security. Reminds me of that oft quoted, Security for Liberty trade.
I'd specifically ask what the heck they were searching my laptop for.
Unless they declare what they are searching for, and have a list of exactly it is prepared ahead of time, then anything they find, I would argue, would be inadmissible in court.
While I think that child pornographers and those that subscribe/collect/view that kind of material are the lowest form of scum and villainy in the world, and deserve whatever crap they get in life, there is a line between sanity and insanity here that has been crossed.
Now if you're going to search for kiddie porn or whatever, then it should be clear that is what is being searched for before they leave whatever nation (where kiddie porn may or may not be legal) they were in previously.
Did I mention, I hate to fly these days, because I'm a big 6'5" and have a beard, so I must be bad, and I get all the "special" treatment by our fine TSA officials?
I can assure you, that my tastes are fairly unique. I doubt that there are ten people that have my tastes and interests.
That being said, Slashdot is one of my favorite places, not necessarily for Tech news, but rather for the wild assortment of people that visit here. I have a little in common with most people here. But I also have very little in common with most, individually.
"the old concept of push media, but in a far more refined way.'"
You push it! You push it real good!
All joking aside, I have serious doubts that push media could account for my eclectic tastes. My friends can't even figure me out, how is a stupid computer going to?
You say that before I mention that UNIONS and other left leaning groups are equally excluded.
My suggestion is neither (R) or (D), because I'm neither. You see, I'm libertarian (and Libertarian), and I think all of the "groups" that influence politics are evil, and drown out the voice of the "people".
Remember, my suggestion cuts both (R) and (D) groups equally. I wonder if you'd support neutering of groups like the NEA, NOW, AFL-CIO, and PITA, at least politically.
The fact that you think of me as a (R) is clue that you have no idea how my suggestion cuts both ways.
I suggest that you go back and replace "corporations" and "pacs" with Unions and other left leaning groups, in your statement above, and see of you still agree.
"pass some legislation to limit the efforts and effectiveness of professional lobbyist groups."
My suggestion is quite simple, and elegant, but too many leftists would protest. So, here it is anyway.
Only REGISTERED voters can contribute to political and candidate Campaigns.
This would break all the lobbyists, PACs and other "groups" that are formed to gain an unfair advantage over people who don't want to join a group to be herd (sic / pun intended).
Okay, I might consider CITIZENS instead of Registered Voters, but the effect is the same. However, my point is this: if you're a citizen who doesn't vote, why should we listen to you? You're part of the problem!
It looks like Big Business is about ten years behind the industry curve. If my understanding is correct, big business will start paying attention to Desktop Linux in about eight more years, when they start replacing Windows with Linux Desktops.
Unless you're doing the discovery yourself, nothing is "original research". Unless you verify the results yourself, it is just a matter of degree how far away you are from THE ORIGINAL source.
This is the fallacy of the whole anti-Wikipedia, anti-web. What is important is that the information is sourced back to its closest point possible.
If Wikipedia does a great job of anything, it is summarizing that information so that most people interested in the subject can find accurate (or relatively accurate) information that is sourced.
The pointy head crowd is pissed because their lies have been exposed. People don't have to go to the Ivory Towers anymore.
"But currently you can't improve the technology basing on patents they hold"
Sure you can. You just can't build anything with said patents. This is used all the time to cross license the technology, to actually build the device / thing with the improvements. Both sides gain from this.
While I despise software patents just like most of slashdot, I hate seeing the solution being legislation from the bench.
Software Patents are just about as silly as can be. If one thinks about it, anyone can use patents for PERSONAL or CORPORATE use, that patents should only apply to items being sold/marketed as a product or an improvement to an existing product for sale.
Lets just look at how this works, using some ancient tech, Stills. Lets say that I came up with a process or improvement that increases still production or the quality of the spirits being distilled. I can then market that improvement to all the other still makers, or start marketing stills that have that improvement built in.
However, if Joe Whitelighting makes his own stills, for his own use, and he happens upon building a still with said improvement, built by himself, then the person with the patent has no recourse.
The point of Patents is to get them into use as efficiently as possible. Not to horde patents to ideas and inventions that never get built.
In the case of software patents, Amazon isn't distributing, selling, or otherwise offering for license "OneClick". It is using this patent to keep others from using it, even if the others are building it (or something similar) themselves.
In this case the Patent is being used not to reward Amazon for something they are selling, but rather to punish anyone using a similar or related idea.
You have no idea what you're talking about. There are plenty of people LEAVING California because of the HIGH taxes, being used to support all sorts of wacky "progressive" entitlements. And people keep voting for the idiots who keep legislating these entitlements, and people who can afford to leave are.
I know people who go to Nevada and Oregon to buy stuff, because the sales tax here is 7.25%, and it pays them to drive to another state to avoid it.
And By Entitlements I mean legislatively mandated services to people. Like Prescription drugs, Health Care and other Heath services, being provided to anyone, including illegal aliens and other non-residents.
I can't get these services because I actually earn a living.
Typical of Liberal Tax and Spend Democrats (as opposed to the Tax and Spend Lite Republicans).
Every year it is more of the same. New "entitlements" where people are "entitled" to money and services that they don't have to pay for.
What the idiots in the legislature don't realize is that all the "rich" people and "evil" companies, who can afford to leave, have and are leaving the state. Meanwhile we can't ask for ID to make sure that the people using these new "entitlements" are residents of the state (legal or otherwise).
Instead of fixing the problem they are adding to it. One of these days all the poor idiots who came to the state to get "free _______" will realize that there's nobody left to pay for it all, and they aren't as "entitled" as they thought.
Marketing Droid speaks Marketing Noise, to people who really don't care.
"Did you ever post something that Microsoft wished you hadnâ(TM)t?
The first post I put up was on the use of BitTorrents to distribute Beta 2, and I gave it a rather sensationalistic title. It got senior managementâ(TM)s attention, and from there we had a blank check to engage anyone we needed in order to get the story in time for it to be relevant to our readers. So while it was perhaps a risky route to go in the short-term, it was that story that ensured our blog was apportioned the resources necessary to get the job done right. In short, Iâ(TM)d do it again and in the same way (only Iâ(TM)d blame it all on my managers:) )."
If you read this, he never answer the freakin question, as asked! In fact, he said he'd do it again. I don't know if that was sarcasm, which doesn't work well in written form, or what.
Why can't people ever answer the question? Seriously. Crap crap crap. I just wasted 5 minutes
Most of the people being killed in Iraq as insurgents aren't Iraqis, which makes them not "insurgents" but rather "terrorists". The Iraqis hate them more than they hate us right now.
AND, we shouldn't have invaded, but we're there now, so we have to stay until it is stable enough for us to leave.
WHICH is why I suggest we pull our troops home from everywhere else, and from Iraq as soon as it is stable without us.
I also suggest that if IRAQ wants us there, they should be paying us in OIL to stay, or else we should leave. I'm sick of paying for other people who can't seem to get along (Sunni and Shiite) (Catholics and Protestants) (Cats and Dogs).
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"i don't want my captcha taking up more than 2 seconds, let alone like 30 seconds."
Okay, I recently suggested that the problem with bots is that they can do things more efficiently than humans, and the actual solution is to base the whole registration process on human responses that are impossible or take too much time from automated bots.
My question to you is, is 30 seconds to figure something out every once in a while worth it to keep bots from taking over the world?
Personally, I don't have a problem taking 30 seconds if it keeps a bot out. None at all.
This gives me an idea about how to catch automated bots filling in forms.
I suspect that they actually fill in the forms much much faster than humans can type. Therefore the solution to detecting bots filling in forms is to time the process using some sort of Java Script against the form being filled out.
Most people also have a rhythmic pattern to actually typing that I would think would be much harder to duplicate in a bot.
As the bots integrated this type of patterns, it would necessarily slow them down. Anyone want to create a Javascript form that tests the typing speed of the person filling in the form?
Another possible solution is instead of having forms that use text based labels (Name, Nickname, Password) in predictable locations and orders, use CAPTCHA style labels, in random locations, requiring bots to increase their intelligence.
The solution is to slow the bots down basing the forms on things humans can do, but bots have a hard time doing. Timing keystrokes, and using Images instead of Text for Labels would definitely slow the bots down.
I meant 5th Amendment, not necessarily the 4th. If my laptop requires a password to open and search it, then I've necessarily forced to testify against myself.
If they required me to hand over the laptop and they used a PW cracking tool to unlock it, then it would be 4th Amendment right, since they violated the reasonably secured documents.
But what do I know. I'm just a guy who can read the Constitution and I can clearly see that either the 4th or the 5th Amendment applies here.
This has nothing to do with Security. Reminds me of that oft quoted, Security for Liberty trade.
I'd specifically ask what the heck they were searching my laptop for.
Unless they declare what they are searching for, and have a list of exactly it is prepared ahead of time, then anything they find, I would argue, would be inadmissible in court.
While I think that child pornographers and those that subscribe/collect/view that kind of material are the lowest form of scum and villainy in the world, and deserve whatever crap they get in life, there is a line between sanity and insanity here that has been crossed.
Now if you're going to search for kiddie porn or whatever, then it should be clear that is what is being searched for before they leave whatever nation (where kiddie porn may or may not be legal) they were in previously.
Did I mention, I hate to fly these days, because I'm a big 6'5" and have a beard, so I must be bad, and I get all the "special" treatment by our fine TSA officials?
GRRRRRR.
Dang, this is exactly what I was going to say! I mean you use different words than I would, but it is EXACTLY what I was going to post.
... tracked.
In order to not be tracked, one would have to be
I can assure you, that my tastes are fairly unique. I doubt that there are ten people that have my tastes and interests.
That being said, Slashdot is one of my favorite places, not necessarily for Tech news, but rather for the wild assortment of people that visit here. I have a little in common with most people here. But I also have very little in common with most, individually.
How does a computer rate such things?
"the old concept of push media, but in a far more refined way.'"
You push it! You push it real good!
All joking aside, I have serious doubts that push media could account for my eclectic tastes. My friends can't even figure me out, how is a stupid computer going to?
You say that before I mention that UNIONS and other left leaning groups are equally excluded.
My suggestion is neither (R) or (D), because I'm neither. You see, I'm libertarian (and Libertarian), and I think all of the "groups" that influence politics are evil, and drown out the voice of the "people".
Remember, my suggestion cuts both (R) and (D) groups equally. I wonder if you'd support neutering of groups like the NEA, NOW, AFL-CIO, and PITA, at least politically.
The fact that you think of me as a (R) is clue that you have no idea how my suggestion cuts both ways.
I suggest that you go back and replace "corporations" and "pacs" with Unions and other left leaning groups, in your statement above, and see of you still agree.
Excellent addition.
"pass some legislation to limit the efforts and effectiveness of professional lobbyist groups."
My suggestion is quite simple, and elegant, but too many leftists would protest. So, here it is anyway.
Only REGISTERED voters can contribute to political and candidate Campaigns.
This would break all the lobbyists, PACs and other "groups" that are formed to gain an unfair advantage over people who don't want to join a group to be herd (sic / pun intended).
Okay, I might consider CITIZENS instead of Registered Voters, but the effect is the same. However, my point is this: if you're a citizen who doesn't vote, why should we listen to you? You're part of the problem!
It looks like Big Business is about ten years behind the industry curve. If my understanding is correct, big business will start paying attention to Desktop Linux in about eight more years, when they start replacing Windows with Linux Desktops.
Screw the Ceasefire, time to employ Guerrilla Warfare
You forgot to add in all the extras required to actually do anything on a PC
XP Pro = $27 (Additional Charge Lenovo)
Install Antivirus = $39
Buy Office = $60 (VLA) to $229 (Lenovo) (OpenOffice =Free)
etc
I could go one, but you get the point. Apples aren't just "Hardware and OS", the the Apple OS is better than what is Possible on the T61.
My point, there are no "Apples" to oranges comparison. Period.
Unless you're doing the discovery yourself, nothing is "original research". Unless you verify the results yourself, it is just a matter of degree how far away you are from THE ORIGINAL source.
This is the fallacy of the whole anti-Wikipedia, anti-web. What is important is that the information is sourced back to its closest point possible.
If Wikipedia does a great job of anything, it is summarizing that information so that most people interested in the subject can find accurate (or relatively accurate) information that is sourced.
The pointy head crowd is pissed because their lies have been exposed. People don't have to go to the Ivory Towers anymore.
"But currently you can't improve the technology basing on patents they hold"
Sure you can. You just can't build anything with said patents. This is used all the time to cross license the technology, to actually build the device / thing with the improvements. Both sides gain from this.
"You cant kill the beast but cutting its head off when the beast has a million heads."
Then explain all the FPS games out there?
Answer, because it is FUN when done right.
two wrongs don't make a right (pun intended)
While I despise software patents just like most of slashdot, I hate seeing the solution being legislation from the bench.
Software Patents are just about as silly as can be. If one thinks about it, anyone can use patents for PERSONAL or CORPORATE use, that patents should only apply to items being sold/marketed as a product or an improvement to an existing product for sale.
Lets just look at how this works, using some ancient tech, Stills. Lets say that I came up with a process or improvement that increases still production or the quality of the spirits being distilled. I can then market that improvement to all the other still makers, or start marketing stills that have that improvement built in.
However, if Joe Whitelighting makes his own stills, for his own use, and he happens upon building a still with said improvement, built by himself, then the person with the patent has no recourse.
The point of Patents is to get them into use as efficiently as possible. Not to horde patents to ideas and inventions that never get built.
In the case of software patents, Amazon isn't distributing, selling, or otherwise offering for license "OneClick". It is using this patent to keep others from using it, even if the others are building it (or something similar) themselves.
In this case the Patent is being used not to reward Amazon for something they are selling, but rather to punish anyone using a similar or related idea.
You have no idea what you're talking about. There are plenty of people LEAVING California because of the HIGH taxes, being used to support all sorts of wacky "progressive" entitlements. And people keep voting for the idiots who keep legislating these entitlements, and people who can afford to leave are.
I know people who go to Nevada and Oregon to buy stuff, because the sales tax here is 7.25%, and it pays them to drive to another state to avoid it.
And By Entitlements I mean legislatively mandated services to people. Like Prescription drugs, Health Care and other Heath services, being provided to anyone, including illegal aliens and other non-residents.
I can't get these services because I actually earn a living.
"Hopefully, someone can slap some sense into him."
What the hell are you thinking, man? He a freaking politician.
Typical of Liberal Tax and Spend Democrats (as opposed to the Tax and Spend Lite Republicans).
Every year it is more of the same. New "entitlements" where people are "entitled" to money and services that they don't have to pay for.
What the idiots in the legislature don't realize is that all the "rich" people and "evil" companies, who can afford to leave, have and are leaving the state. Meanwhile we can't ask for ID to make sure that the people using these new "entitlements" are residents of the state (legal or otherwise).
Instead of fixing the problem they are adding to it. One of these days all the poor idiots who came to the state to get "free _______" will realize that there's nobody left to pay for it all, and they aren't as "entitled" as they thought.
Marketing Droid speaks Marketing Noise, to people who really don't care.
:) )."
"Did you ever post something that Microsoft wished you hadnâ(TM)t?
The first post I put up was on the use of BitTorrents to distribute Beta 2, and I gave it a rather sensationalistic title. It got senior managementâ(TM)s attention, and from there we had a blank check to engage anyone we needed in order to get the story in time for it to be relevant to our readers. So while it was perhaps a risky route to go in the short-term, it was that story that ensured our blog was apportioned the resources necessary to get the job done right. In short, Iâ(TM)d do it again and in the same way (only Iâ(TM)d blame it all on my managers
If you read this, he never answer the freakin question, as asked! In fact, he said he'd do it again. I don't know if that was sarcasm, which doesn't work well in written form, or what.
Why can't people ever answer the question? Seriously. Crap crap crap. I just wasted 5 minutes
In the new octagon (8-way processors), a battle of the ages, Crapware vs AntiCrapware
Most of the new cores are being used to isolate crapware and anticrapware in a Battle Royal.
And it looks like Crapware is going to win in a submission tapout at the current rate.
Most of the people being killed in Iraq as insurgents aren't Iraqis, which makes them not "insurgents" but rather "terrorists". The Iraqis hate them more than they hate us right now.
AND, we shouldn't have invaded, but we're there now, so we have to stay until it is stable enough for us to leave.
WHICH is why I suggest we pull our troops home from everywhere else, and from Iraq as soon as it is stable without us.
I also suggest that if IRAQ wants us there, they should be paying us in OIL to stay, or else we should leave. I'm sick of paying for other people who can't seem to get along (Sunni and Shiite) (Catholics and Protestants) (Cats and Dogs).
Apple sells non-DRMed music. So Apple's non-DRMed music good, Apples DRMed music bad, the problem isn't Apple or the music, it is DRM.
Let make this simple Apple is neither good nor bad, Music is neither good nor bad. DRM is bad, period.
DRM is bad. Lets focus here and repeat after me, DRM Bad, DRM bad , DRM bad.