Cats have _____ (a) fur (b) hair (c-d) other bogus choices
Ice is made of ________ (a) water (b) purple (c) grass (d) trees
Just use things that are common knowledge to humans but that'd be tough for computers to figure out. Of course, CAPTCHA systems are always vulnerable (the attacker can just pass through the challenge to the victim), but they provide more than zero security.
I'm against the coining of new words without a good reason, but in this instance it makes sense. Ten-plus years ago, "screenshot" might have seemed to be a stupid neologism, but obviously it stuck because we needed a word to describe screenshots. Screencasting is much easier than saying "a video of somebody showing off a product."
This is exactly right. The scaffolding is seen as the major feature of Ruby on Rails by far too many people. It's not. In fact, if anyone were making a serious, production-level app, they wouldn't even use the scaffolding. It serves only three purposes: to help newcomers to the language become familiar, to jumpstart a simple Web app, and to look amazing on the screencasts.
Ruby on Rails is great. At the very least, everybody should try it. It's no silver bullet, but it is a huge improvement over most everything else out there.
Using Rails is a bit like using a Mac: you always run into these little helpful features that make you think it was created just for you.
I bought a lot of the O'Reilly CD bookshelves and I find them indispensible.
I burned them all onto one giant DVD along with every RFC, MySQL docs, Perl docs, PHP docs, PostgreSQL docs, etc. I use this all the time when I am coding.
I also have a few Project Gutenberg e-books on the DVD for pleasure reading on vacation.
I highly recommend everyone to make their own "resource CD"--the time you spend making it will pale in comparison to the time you save by having all of the reference material you need available easily.
I can post some more tips for making a resource CD if anyone has any questions. Also, I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I got it from a friend.
Actually, PayPal has a call center in Omaha with 800 people, and they are expanding that every day.
Also, here's how I found PayPal's phone number. 1. Log in 2. Click "Help" in the top right 3. Click "Contact Us" in "Still having trouble? Contact Us" 4. Click on "service center" in "If you have an issue of immediate concern and cannot find your answer in the Help Center, call our Service Center."
PayPal Customer Service Agents are available to help you 7 days a week, from 6 A.M. to midnight CST.
Call us toll-free at: 1.888.221.1161
We may only discuss an account with the account-holder. Please have the following information available when you call:
* Your telephone number
* Your email address
* The last 4 digits of your credit card or bank account
registered with PayPal
For security reasons, we must verify the above details before discussing any account-specific information.
Actually, it's according to Nielsen Net Ratings via Reuters. CNN did not write the article. It's a syndicated article. Still, you have a good point that is worth noting in most cases; this, however, is not one of them.
My favorite bit from SCO CEO Darl McBridge's interview is this:
There's a widespread perception SCO is doing this to make a quick buck because your core business hasn't panned out. What's your response?
We are taking these actions to protect our property. It's a little bit as if you have a jewelry store and you have some very valuable diamonds in it, and one day you wake up and realize people are walking into your store and taking the diamonds and not paying on the way out. Now we are stepping up and saying, "Hold on, you've got to go through this cash register first."
Even if Slashdot stops covering it, every other industry magazine and newspaper will cover it. So Slashdot ignoring the SCO issue would just mean that IT pros and hobbyists would be less informed than managers and decision-makers.
Some news has to be covered even if coverage seems to encourage bad behavior.
Shouldn't he be fined for what he did, and not loaded with huge fines just to set an example? The example to set for spammers is that every spammer will be prosecuted. There's no need to ruin the life of one in order to make him an example. Spammers, believe it or not, are people too, and though they made a bad decision they do not deserve to have their lives ruined with gigantic fines.
How would you feel if you were jailed for jaywalking to set an example? People ought to be punished for what they did only.
I don't believe it one bit. They purport to be able to send "video" through the air? Over long distances? Sorry, but for now I think we're stuck with cable television and cabled monitors. I just don't see how receiving pictures from thin air would work.
But think of the possibilities if it did! We could turn on a TV anywhere and receive the latest news and watch our favorite shows. We would no longer be restricted by wires. Imagine that, wireless TV!
They have ported all of Mac OS X to x86? Not just the kernel?
Let's pool $100,000 (Blender-style) and bribe the guy who runs their internal CVS repositories. Anyone wanna throw in a few bucks for macosx-x86-0dayl33t.iso?:)
It looks like it was fixed in the title but not in the body text. I expect that/. editors will fix it shortly, but I must assume that a lot of Slashdotters don't know what its correct name is. I'll repeat it.
It's the DMCA. Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Not DCMA!
Spamming is not a technological problem, it is a problem of society. Trying to use technology to solve our problems that weren't created by technology is not going to get us very far. References: face recognition at the airport, censorware, and anti-spam filters.
I'll play devil's advocate. Isn't it partially the responsibility of our ambassador to promote trade with Peru? Why would an ambassador tell a country to take action to decrease the import from the US?
Not that I agree with what our ambassador said, but I thought I'd just throw this out there.
I know I might get modded down for being a troll, but this is an honest question that I wish to pose.
Ask him where his socks, keys, or TV remote controls are. Men never know where these things are, so if the respondent knows their whereabouts then it is not truly Dr. Richard Wallace. Foolproof.
If they need help, why don't they ask? Something a bit less subtle than a "Donations" link on their page, of course.
If I knew that any of the open source apps I use needed money, I'd donate some money. It would only be fair, because they have all spared me from buying their commercial equivalents (which often exceed $100).
It worked for Kuro5hin. Rusty posted an article about the financial situation and about three days later he had raised $40,000. During the donation drive there was a meter on the top of every page that showed the progress towards $40,000. So, if you donated $50, you could see the meter inch forward maybe a pixel or two.
So, instead of putting "STUFF THE MONKEY'S EYES DOWN ITS THROAT AND EMBALM IT" ads on the splash screen, how about a prominent notice on the website and a K5-style meter?
It's their show, and they can do anything they want. Nobody's free speech rights are being infringed upon, since this is a private event. Apple is only trying to stop the wild speculation that diminishes the surprise of Jobs' announcements.
How can the Declaration of Independence be unconstitutional when it isn't even a law or an action? It was not even written by our government, it was written by a private group of revolutionists.
It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"
Does this mean that they will sue MS for creating Windows? It impairs any computer it's installed onto.:)
Slashdot Mirror
What about these?
Choose the correct answer:
Cats have _____ (a) fur (b) hair (c-d) other bogus choices
Ice is made of ________ (a) water (b) purple (c) grass (d) trees
Just use things that are common knowledge to humans but that'd be tough for computers to figure out. Of course, CAPTCHA systems are always vulnerable (the attacker can just pass through the challenge to the victim), but they provide more than zero security.
I'm against the coining of new words without a good reason, but in this instance it makes sense. Ten-plus years ago, "screenshot" might have seemed to be a stupid neologism, but obviously it stuck because we needed a word to describe screenshots. Screencasting is much easier than saying "a video of somebody showing off a product."
This is exactly right. The scaffolding is seen as the major feature of Ruby on Rails by far too many people. It's not. In fact, if anyone were making a serious, production-level app, they wouldn't even use the scaffolding. It serves only three purposes: to help newcomers to the language become familiar, to jumpstart a simple Web app, and to look amazing on the screencasts.
Ruby on Rails is great. At the very least, everybody should try it. It's no silver bullet, but it is a huge improvement over most everything else out there.
Using Rails is a bit like using a Mac: you always run into these little helpful features that make you think it was created just for you.
I burned them all onto one giant DVD along with every RFC, MySQL docs, Perl docs, PHP docs, PostgreSQL docs, etc. I use this all the time when I am coding.
I also have a few Project Gutenberg e-books on the DVD for pleasure reading on vacation.
I highly recommend everyone to make their own "resource CD"--the time you spend making it will pale in comparison to the time you save by having all of the reference material you need available easily.
I can post some more tips for making a resource CD if anyone has any questions. Also, I wish I could take credit for the idea, but I got it from a friend.
70 Used Computer Books For Sale
Also, here's how I found PayPal's phone number.
1. Log in
2. Click "Help" in the top right
3. Click "Contact Us" in "Still having trouble? Contact Us"
4. Click on "service center" in "If you have an issue of immediate concern and cannot find your answer in the Help Center, call our Service Center."
That wasn't too hard.
Actually, it's according to Nielsen Net Ratings via Reuters. CNN did not write the article. It's a syndicated article. Still, you have a good point that is worth noting in most cases; this, however, is not one of them.
The size of each company is irrelevant. Slashdot users would support any company that they perceive as doing the right thing.
Nice analogy there, Darl.
(from http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-1017308.html)
Even if Slashdot stops covering it, every other industry magazine and newspaper will cover it. So Slashdot ignoring the SCO issue would just mean that IT pros and hobbyists would be less informed than managers and decision-makers.
Some news has to be covered even if coverage seems to encourage bad behavior.
First, don't name it a Network Gaming Marathon. Some gamers might see the "marathon" and avoid your event.
Call it "extravaLANza." I dunno. I just made that up. Just name it anything that doesn't invoke images of sweat and toil.
Also today a new base pair was found. In addition to TA,AT,GC,CG the EV pair was found.
Scientists are calling this the EVIL PAIR. Finding this in DNA insures that the organism is PURE EVIL.
Shouldn't he be fined for what he did, and not loaded with huge fines just to set an example? The example to set for spammers is that every spammer will be prosecuted. There's no need to ruin the life of one in order to make him an example. Spammers, believe it or not, are people too, and though they made a bad decision they do not deserve to have their lives ruined with gigantic fines.
How would you feel if you were jailed for jaywalking to set an example? People ought to be punished for what they did only.
All your case are belong to us?
I don't believe it one bit. They purport to be able to send "video" through the air? Over long distances? Sorry, but for now I think we're stuck with cable television and cabled monitors. I just don't see how receiving pictures from thin air would work.
But think of the possibilities if it did! We could turn on a TV anywhere and receive the latest news and watch our favorite shows. We would no longer be restricted by wires. Imagine that, wireless TV!
They have ported all of Mac OS X to x86? Not just the kernel?
:)
Let's pool $100,000 (Blender-style) and bribe the guy who runs their internal CVS repositories. Anyone wanna throw in a few bucks for macosx-x86-0dayl33t.iso?
It's "DMCA." Not "DCMA."
/. editors will fix it shortly, but I must assume that a lot of Slashdotters don't know what its correct name is. I'll repeat it.
It looks like it was fixed in the title but not in the body text. I expect that
It's the DMCA. Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Not DCMA!
Are LCDs any easier to dispose cleanly? I am just curious because everything here is talking about CRTs.
Spamming is not a technological problem, it is a problem of society. Trying to use technology to solve our problems that weren't created by technology is not going to get us very far. References: face recognition at the airport, censorware, and anti-spam filters.
More than one way to do it, there is.
I'll play devil's advocate. Isn't it partially the responsibility of our ambassador to promote trade with Peru? Why would an ambassador tell a country to take action to decrease the import from the US?
Not that I agree with what our ambassador said, but I thought I'd just throw this out there.
I know I might get modded down for being a troll, but this is an honest question that I wish to pose.
Ask him where his socks, keys, or TV remote controls are. Men never know where these things are, so if the respondent knows their whereabouts then it is not truly Dr. Richard Wallace. Foolproof.
If they need help, why don't they ask? Something a bit less subtle than a "Donations" link on their page, of course.
If I knew that any of the open source apps I use needed money, I'd donate some money. It would only be fair, because they have all spared me from buying their commercial equivalents (which often exceed $100).
It worked for Kuro5hin. Rusty posted an article about the financial situation and about three days later he had raised $40,000. During the donation drive there was a meter on the top of every page that showed the progress towards $40,000. So, if you donated $50, you could see the meter inch forward maybe a pixel or two.
So, instead of putting "STUFF THE MONKEY'S EYES DOWN ITS THROAT AND EMBALM IT" ads on the splash screen, how about a prominent notice on the website and a K5-style meter?
It's their show, and they can do anything they want. Nobody's free speech rights are being infringed upon, since this is a private event. Apple is only trying to stop the wild speculation that diminishes the surprise of Jobs' announcements.
How can the Declaration of Independence be unconstitutional when it isn't even a law or an action? It was not even written by our government, it was written by a private group of revolutionists.
It states that a person is guilty of an offence if they cause, or intend to cause, 'degradation, failure or other impairment of function of a computerised system.'"
:)
Does this mean that they will sue MS for creating Windows? It impairs any computer it's installed onto.