It sounds like it works like the common "people who bought this book also bought X, Y, and Z" (except "people who bought this book" is "people who consider A, B, and C to be real files"). Thus there are three general groups people's votes can fall into: those that like the real files, those that like the fakes (RIAA, spammers), and those that can't tell the difference. Each group has a different "signature" and only votes of those people in your group are used to rank files in your search.
Thus, the anybody making dishonest votes will make their votes irrelevant.
Doesn't the eDonkey2000 network already have a system like this? Users identify fakes and report them [...]
So all the RIAA has to do is report all the real files as fakes? Well, along with the fakes, otherwise the real files would be marked as the fakes and the fakes as the real.
In The Programmers' Stone Alan Carter and Colston Sanger describe mapping, a cognitive strategy they believe explains the difference between average and excellent programmers. It was part of a course about gave at one time about improving one's skill at programming.
What they are effectively saying is, the 30 year experiment that was the space shuttle was a failure.
Maybe the shuttle allowed many experiments that couldn't be done with other designs. At some point the designs for Mars missions will change because the previous designs offer little new data. This is success of the old design, not failure.
You know you're on Slashdot when anything bad, no matter how remote, gets blamed on Windows and/or Microsoft.
Bullshit in this case. The comment would be just as relevant if it said "Mac OS X automatically connects to it" or "Linux automatically connects to it". The point was that it wasn't the user of the laptop specifically trying to access the network, it was the default OS behavior (behavior that is exactly what what one wants with WiFi); it wasn't bashing Windows in this case.
Except for one thing, you can't know if he neighbours INTENT was to share his open wireless connection for sharing. Thats the whole point of Open WiFi afterall, sharing. By doing this they're making Open WiFi illegal, because not only does your computer have to get permission to connect to the network (via the login) but now extra permission is needed too.
Computers (and WiFi specifically) already have a protocol for getting permission: passwords (and other logins). If you want people to get permission before using your Wifi, you enable the password. If you want anyone to be able to use it, you don't enable the password. If a laptop can connect without a password, the WiFi access point is granting permission.
One of my professor's grad students translated a program from MACRO32 into C++, and all without even knowing MACRO32. He looked through the comments to figure out what they were doing. They were so specific that he could easily translate blocks of code over to C++.
What about the readers who knew MACRO32, where they blasted with lots of redundant (and possibly inconsistent) comments when they read the original code?
Every buisness is figuring ways to not sell a product, but to sell a reoccuring service. One day, people won't be able to buy underwear, they will have to buy a license from fruit of the loom. Perhaps washing machines will need to call fruit of the loom before you can wash underwear.
So you won't be buying fruit of the loom anymore, just (recurring) services of the loom.
Second, the net benefit to society is workarounds. If this guy can't do X because someone has a patent on it, then he has to come up with another way of doing X. Maybe he does it a different way, maybe he adds or changes a step, whatever. The net effect is that he increases the possible ways of solving a problem because he has to design around their patent.
So you'd consider it a benefit if, at this very moment, it became illegal to do anything the way it's currently done, because this would cause people to try to find different ways to do things?
I mistakenly selected goatse.cx when printing a document and it thankfully warned me before I caused a loss-of-vision incident at the office. They need to keep a list of these too!
No more analog than morse code. Each encodes a limited set of symbols on an underlying analog medium, with allowance for noise, such that messages can be received without any loss of information (and possibly re-transmitted). This is the essence of a digital system.
I feel ripped off. Everyone talking about this sex scene, and an AO rating, but my copy does not have this sex scene. I certainly won't install any unauthorized patches from third-parties (for all I know it's a virus), and Rockstar sure doesn't provide anything to enable this. Does it have a sex scene or does it not?
The compressed output file created by DataFiles/16 can be used as the
input file to subsequent executions of the program. This feature of
the utility is known as recursive or iterative compression, and will
enable you to compress your data files to a tiny fraction of the
original size. In fact, virtually any amount of computer data can
be compressed to under 1024 bytes using DataFiles/16 to compress its
own output files muliple times. Then, by repeating in reverse the
steps taken to perform the recusive compression, all original data
can be decompressed to its original form without the loss of a single
bit.
A incremental backup is a backup of every file on a filesystem which has changed since the last backup.
The alternatives to an incremental backup are differential backup and full backup.
An incremental backup is the fastest backup and requires the least storage space on the mackup media. However, incremental backups also require the longest time and the most tapes to restore.
Incremental backups should be used only in environments where backup time or backup storage media are extremely constrained. For most environments, a weekly full backup and a daily differential backip represent a better plan.
If you perform a full backup on Sunday along with incremental backups every night and the system crashes on Thursday, you will need to restore the full backup from Sunday along with the incremental backups from Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
In contrast, if you perform a full backup on Sunday and a differential every night, when the system crashes on Thursday you will only need to restore the full backup from Sunday and the differential backup from Wednesday.
it is not often that we hear of new software, hardware or 'appliances' that combat malicious code attacks and data intrusions.
Instead of thinking of defense as adding extra code to stop malicious code, think of it as changing the system so that the attack isn't even possible to begin with. Fundamentally a computer system does nothing but allow things; nothing happens without it being made possible via software.
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Or better yet, give their IM screen names to American teenagers. That'll shut down the terrorist network in no time.
I'll pass on something that makes my house humid and uncomfortable.
It sounds like it works like the common "people who bought this book also bought X, Y, and Z" (except "people who bought this book" is "people who consider A, B, and C to be real files"). Thus there are three general groups people's votes can fall into: those that like the real files, those that like the fakes (RIAA, spammers), and those that can't tell the difference. Each group has a different "signature" and only votes of those people in your group are used to rank files in your search.
Thus, the anybody making dishonest votes will make their votes irrelevant.
Doesn't the eDonkey2000 network already have a system like this? Users identify fakes and report them [...]
So all the RIAA has to do is report all the real files as fakes? Well, along with the fakes, otherwise the real files would be marked as the fakes and the fakes as the real.
In The Programmers' Stone Alan Carter and Colston Sanger describe mapping, a cognitive strategy they believe explains the difference between average and excellent programmers. It was part of a course about gave at one time about improving one's skill at programming.
What they are effectively saying is, the 30 year experiment that was the space shuttle was a failure.
Maybe the shuttle allowed many experiments that couldn't be done with other designs. At some point the designs for Mars missions will change because the previous designs offer little new data. This is success of the old design, not failure.
now they'll probably charge you as a terrorist if you dumpster drive in the wrong place.
I think that extra 'r' might be what's causing the problems.
He said he was fascinated by how much computer viri actually resembled biological viri in the way they worked and spread.
Nature and virus writers both converged on the same (only?) optimal solution.
You know you're on Slashdot when anything bad, no matter how remote, gets blamed on Windows and/or Microsoft.
Bullshit in this case. The comment would be just as relevant if it said "Mac OS X automatically connects to it" or "Linux automatically connects to it". The point was that it wasn't the user of the laptop specifically trying to access the network, it was the default OS behavior (behavior that is exactly what what one wants with WiFi); it wasn't bashing Windows in this case.
Except for one thing, you can't know if he neighbours INTENT was to share his open wireless connection for sharing. Thats the whole point of Open WiFi afterall, sharing. By doing this they're making Open WiFi illegal, because not only does your computer have to get permission to connect to the network (via the login) but now extra permission is needed too.
Computers (and WiFi specifically) already have a protocol for getting permission: passwords (and other logins). If you want people to get permission before using your Wifi, you enable the password. If you want anyone to be able to use it, you don't enable the password. If a laptop can connect without a password, the WiFi access point is granting permission.
One of my professor's grad students translated a program from MACRO32 into C++, and all without even knowing MACRO32. He looked through the comments to figure out what they were doing. They were so specific that he could easily translate blocks of code over to C++.
What about the readers who knew MACRO32, where they blasted with lots of redundant (and possibly inconsistent) comments when they read the original code?
Every buisness is figuring ways to not sell a product, but to sell a reoccuring service. One day, people won't be able to buy underwear, they will have to buy a license from fruit of the loom. Perhaps washing machines will need to call fruit of the loom before you can wash underwear.
So you won't be buying fruit of the loom anymore, just (recurring) services of the loom.
Second, the net benefit to society is workarounds. If this guy can't do X because someone has a patent on it, then he has to come up with another way of doing X. Maybe he does it a different way, maybe he adds or changes a step, whatever. The net effect is that he increases the possible ways of solving a problem because he has to design around their patent.
So you'd consider it a benefit if, at this very moment, it became illegal to do anything the way it's currently done, because this would cause people to try to find different ways to do things?
Mars is covered with deep gorges, apparently carved out by rivers and glaciers, although most of the water vanished millions of years ago.
Also known as evaporation, though not as dramatic.
I mistakenly selected goatse.cx when printing a document and it thankfully warned me before I caused a loss-of-vision incident at the office. They need to keep a list of these too!
Seriously. I feel stupid complaining about the editors; I don't often. But this is ridiculous.
You think they'll have time to read complaints, if they don't even read submissions?
(personally I don't care; Slashdot is a source of good jokes, the end)
...is improvement of the ability to carry out science seen as a bad thing.
Be sure to see the video clip where Lucas introduces the amazing Power Glove, in the unforgettable movie The Wizard .
OMG Apple shouldn't have ditched PowerPC!!!
- or -
The x86 implementation of the codec isn't up to speed yet.
No more analog than morse code. Each encodes a limited set of symbols on an underlying analog medium, with allowance for noise, such that messages can be received without any loss of information (and possibly re-transmitted). This is the essence of a digital system.
I feel ripped off. Everyone talking about this sex scene, and an AO rating, but my copy does not have this sex scene. I certainly won't install any unauthorized patches from third-parties (for all I know it's a virus), and Rockstar sure doesn't provide anything to enable this. Does it have a sex scene or does it not?
(fictitious post; I have never even seen GTA)
2. Place encrypted file PlansToBlowUpParliament.zip on AC's computer.
Going further, make it a 1-byte file and claim it's super-compressed using an unlimited compression algorithm:
Please enlighten me, if you experience is different.
From the ad-infested http://www.tech-faq.com/incremental-backup.shtml
After all, it [Morse Code] is one of the earliest forms of digital communications. [link added]
How about spoken language, or even animal squaks?
it is not often that we hear of new software, hardware or 'appliances' that combat malicious code attacks and data intrusions.
Instead of thinking of defense as adding extra code to stop malicious code, think of it as changing the system so that the attack isn't even possible to begin with. Fundamentally a computer system does nothing but allow things; nothing happens without it being made possible via software.