Yes, there is a reason, but it's a bad reason. The reason is that they are incompetent. I've never implemented a password-storage system in my life, and I know not to store unsalted hashes.
Actually, that's not true, I once implemented the weakest of all password schemes, and I employed a salted MD5 hash. So I guess it wasn't quite the weakest of all.
I came here to say that QWERTY as a layout isn't the problem. The problem is the staggered keys. I used to own a Fingerworks keyboard, which was awesome, and now I own a Truly Ergonomic keyboard, which is awesome. With keys laid out in columns, my wrists don't constantly twitch back and forth while typing. With some of the special keys moved to the center of the keyboard, I can hit them with my strong index fingers instead of my weak pinkies. I got used to the Truly Ergonomic in about a day and a half. The other reason I like the TE is that it did away with the useless numberpad, which just sits there like a goiter on the side of most keyboards, forcing me to reach four times farther to find my mouse with my right hand.
If I were the king of keyboards, this is the change I would make as a gift to the world. People can cleave to their beloved layout (including me, I think qwerty is fine), and we can slightly evolve the keyboard in a way that will improve health and typing speed. All keyboards should have columnar layouts.
I came here to say that as a grammar Nazi I'd love to claim that only dumb people fail at grammar, but the person in my life who has the most egregious grammar is my wife's doctor, who I attest is not dumb. I figure he doesn't give a shit. He makes ladies well, so grammar isn't what motivates him. Still, to me it seems unprofessional. Not only is his grammar poor, but he will DROP IN ALL CAPS in sentences where it isn't appropriate even in email-grammar contexts.
Actually, I happen to know personally the guys who design the FireFox interface, and they told me that they moved that button specifically in order to piss you off. I mean you, personally, Slashdot user handle 'Tough Love'. They told me that. If you customize your layout to show the button again, I bet they'll switch it back, just to piss you off some more.
I bet it was just a mistake. Once you mod, you can't retract, or you might not even notice the mistake.
I copied down the puzzle and wrote down the possibilities for each square, but haven't spent time to solve it yet. What did you do to get to fill in the first number?
Wow. I've tried to think up a response, but you've stumped me. I can't possibly get through to a person who doesn't think the presence of the police is a preventative to crime, or that the fire department doesn't reduce destruction from fire.
It's a $600 tax on what will be a few percent of the 300m American residents. Let's round to 3.3 percent for easy numbers, that's ten million people times six hundred dollars, equals six billion dollars. How did you get from six billion to a trillion? You're off by more than two orders of magnitude. Even if every single person in the country had no insurance and refused to buy it, the number would be a hundred million. You might not agree, however, that using the phrase "over a trillion dollars" should be accurate within 99%, though, so you're probably okay with that.
Anyway, it's a tax I support. It's a tax on freeloaders who refuse to be responsible. The rest of us are sick and tired of paying for your medical care. You're getting off easy only paying six hundred dollars.
Agreed, and the way to do that is simple: eliminate the tax break for benefits. Done and done. If it would cost the same amount to simply give you cash (salary) or to give you benefits, then employers will opt for the simple cash.
I currently enjoy that tax break, but it is bad for the country, so I want to eliminate it.
Me too. I'm at the top end of what the government considers "middle class". The cost of my health insurance is deducted from what would otherwise be a higher salary. I suppose I could save money by simply buying catastrophic insurance and paying out of pocket for medical procedures, but only because I am a well person (today), and I don't at all mind subsidizing old, sick people. (I do wish the very old and very sick would just die instead of sucking up so much care at the very end, though.)
When the fire department puts out a fire, they stop all the other houses in the neighborhood from burning down. Is this a concept you find too difficult to understand? That's a serious question, because your statement boggles my mind.
The police "don't have a duty to protect you" and "the courts have stated this" in the sense that you can't sue the police when somebody robs you. That is a circumstance unrelated to the fact that the police do, in fact, for the most part prevent and investigate crimes. Once again, is that a concept you have never considered before now?
You use the local school system even when you aren't enrolled it, and even when your children aren't enrolled in it, by enjoying the social and economic benefits of an educated citizenry. Public education is the number one most beneficial government program in the history of humanity, literally, bar none. Most people agree that we can do even better, but only a jackass would consider razing it because it is short of perfection. You didn't suggest razing it, so I am not calling you a jackass.
Perhaps, but we would both be cheating in the same way, right? Both cheating, and I cheat last, therefore I win. Maybe the robot could be reprogrammed to continue cheating even after my cheat, then we could just both sit there wiggling our fingers at one another forever -- then we would tie at the least interesting competition ever attempted.
Point: this is not impressive at all. Of course you can build a robot which quickly distinguishes between three completely different hand positions; that's not a feat.
Agreed, and that is why the article is wrong. If cheating is allowed, then I guarantee that I can beat the machine 100% of the time. I will simply throw one sign, wait for it to play, then change my sign. Done and done, both of us have played according to the same rules and I have defeated it 100% of the time....and that is why this is so stupid. It's not beating anyone, ever. It's not playing the game according to the rules we all understand, so it isn't playing the game. It's playing some other game, a game nobody has ever cared to play, because R.P.S. with cheating isn't R.P.S.
I've never used an iPhone, but don't they have widgets? Widgets aren't apps. Tiles are pretty much like widgets aren't they? I haven't used a Windows phone either so these are honest questions, but your griping sounds more like an attempt to convince yourself that your iPhone is totally sweet.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry, dude I just looked it up, and this page
says that no, iPhone doesn't have widgets. Seriously? Ha, if true that is hilarious! How do you use your pods then? The amount of time I spend inside of apps is less than half. Most of the time I just flip on my pod, click Play in one of a couple widgets, and flip the pod off again. I'll drop into an app if I need to manage data or something.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all interested in the Windows phone, but if your reason is "because it has widgets" then take it from me, you're missing out because you are stuck on iPhone.
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Yes, there is a reason, but it's a bad reason. The reason is that they are incompetent. I've never implemented a password-storage system in my life, and I know not to store unsalted hashes.
Actually, that's not true, I once implemented the weakest of all password schemes, and I employed a salted
MD5 hash. So I guess it wasn't quite the weakest of all.
I came here to say that QWERTY as a layout isn't the problem. The problem is the staggered keys. I used to own a Fingerworks keyboard, which was awesome, and now I own a Truly Ergonomic keyboard, which is awesome. With keys laid out in columns, my wrists don't constantly twitch back and forth while typing. With some of the special keys moved to the center of the keyboard, I can hit them with my strong index fingers instead of my weak pinkies. I got used to the Truly Ergonomic in about a day and a half. The other reason I like the TE is that it did away with the useless numberpad, which just sits there like a goiter on the side of most keyboards, forcing me to reach four times farther to find my mouse with my right hand.
If I were the king of keyboards, this is the change I would make as a gift to the world. People can cleave to their beloved layout (including me, I think qwerty is fine), and we can slightly evolve the keyboard in a way that will improve health and typing speed. All keyboards should have columnar layouts.
I came here to say that as a grammar Nazi I'd love to claim that only dumb people fail at grammar, but the person in my life who has the most egregious grammar is my wife's doctor, who I attest is not dumb. I figure he doesn't give a shit. He makes ladies well, so grammar isn't what motivates him. Still, to me it seems unprofessional. Not only is his grammar poor, but he will DROP IN ALL CAPS in sentences where it isn't appropriate even in email-grammar contexts.
Good one. I'd never heard that. Here's a snopes article which mentions it: http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/noprice.asp
Actually, I happen to know personally the guys who design the FireFox interface, and they told me that they moved that button specifically in order to piss you off. I mean you, personally, Slashdot user handle 'Tough Love'. They told me that. If you customize your layout to show the button again, I bet they'll switch it back, just to piss you off some more.
The nice thing about Python is that it enforces formatting. That is a major bonus to noobs.
I bet it was just a mistake. Once you mod, you can't retract, or you might not even notice the mistake.
I copied down the puzzle and wrote down the possibilities for each square, but haven't spent time to solve it yet. What did you do to get to fill in the first number?
What? No, it's not. Of course it's not all menial work. A lot of it is, these days, but hardly all of it.
LOL. Yeah, right. "Finland"? Dude if you're going to make up fake placenames, make them a little more believable. Pfft, "Finland" indeed.
flamebait? is that a mistaken mod?
Wrong. The answer is 31. That is a list of all my favorite numbers. The last one in the list is 70.
My question, though, is whether such a setup would ever halt.
I can never, ever read her name without thinking of that one meme owl. That woman is like a parody of herself.
Wow. I've tried to think up a response, but you've stumped me. I can't possibly get through to a person who doesn't think the presence of the police is a preventative to crime, or that the fire department doesn't reduce destruction from fire.
Damnit. A hundred billion, obviously, not a hundred million. At a hundred billion, if every single American paid the tax, you are still off by 90%.
It's a $600 tax on what will be a few percent of the 300m American residents. Let's round to 3.3 percent for easy numbers, that's ten million people times six hundred dollars, equals six billion dollars. How did you get from six billion to a trillion? You're off by more than two orders of magnitude. Even if every single person in the country had no insurance and refused to buy it, the number would be a hundred million. You might not agree, however, that using the phrase "over a trillion dollars" should be accurate within 99%, though, so you're probably okay with that.
Anyway, it's a tax I support. It's a tax on freeloaders who refuse to be responsible. The rest of us are sick and tired of paying for your medical care. You're getting off easy only paying six hundred dollars.
Agreed, and the way to do that is simple: eliminate the tax break for benefits. Done and done. If it would cost the same amount to simply give you cash (salary) or to give you benefits, then employers will opt for the simple cash.
I currently enjoy that tax break, but it is bad for the country, so I want to eliminate it.
Me too. I'm at the top end of what the government considers "middle class". The cost of my health insurance is deducted from what would otherwise be a higher salary. I suppose I could save money by simply buying catastrophic insurance and paying out of pocket for medical procedures, but only because I am a well person (today), and I don't at all mind subsidizing old, sick people. (I do wish the very old and very sick would just die instead of sucking up so much care at the very end, though.)
When the fire department puts out a fire, they stop all the other houses in the neighborhood from burning down. Is this a concept you find too difficult to understand? That's a serious question, because your statement boggles my mind.
The police "don't have a duty to protect you" and "the courts have stated this" in the sense that you can't sue the police when somebody robs you. That is a circumstance unrelated to the fact that the police do, in fact, for the most part prevent and investigate crimes. Once again, is that a concept you have never considered before now?
You use the local school system even when you aren't enrolled it, and even when your children aren't enrolled in it, by enjoying the social and economic benefits of an educated citizenry. Public education is the number one most beneficial government program in the history of humanity, literally, bar none. Most people agree that we can do even better, but only a jackass would consider razing it because it is short of perfection. You didn't suggest razing it, so I am not calling you a jackass.
Perhaps, but we would both be cheating in the same way, right? Both cheating, and I cheat last, therefore I win. Maybe the robot could be reprogrammed to continue cheating even after my cheat, then we could just both sit there wiggling our fingers at one another forever -- then we would tie at the least interesting competition ever attempted.
Point: this is not impressive at all. Of course you can build a robot which quickly distinguishes between three completely different hand positions; that's not a feat.
Agreed, and that is why the article is wrong. If cheating is allowed, then I guarantee that I can beat the machine 100% of the time. I will simply throw one sign, wait for it to play, then change my sign. Done and done, both of us have played according to the same rules and I have defeated it 100% of the time. ...and that is why this is so stupid. It's not beating anyone, ever. It's not playing the game according to the rules we all understand, so it isn't playing the game. It's playing some other game, a game nobody has ever cared to play, because R.P.S. with cheating isn't R.P.S.
These "researchers" wasted their time, and ours.
Let's start calling the actions of the RIAA "cultural rape" and see if they like that.
Ha! No. Nobody bought Apple because of the brand back then. That happened because of the iPod, so the iPod necessarily preceded the brand strength.
Ha, you got trolled. Don't feed the trolls!
I thought this submission was just fine, if maybe a little wordier than it needed to be.
I've never used an iPhone, but don't they have widgets? Widgets aren't apps. Tiles are pretty much like widgets aren't they? I haven't used a Windows phone either so these are honest questions, but your griping sounds more like an attempt to convince yourself that your iPhone is totally sweet.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Sorry, dude I just looked it up, and this page
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/hiner/15-android-widgets-that-will-make-iphone-users-jealous/5649
says that no, iPhone doesn't have widgets. Seriously? Ha, if true that is hilarious! How do you use your pods then? The amount of time I spend inside of apps is less than half. Most of the time I just flip on my pod, click Play in one of a couple widgets, and flip the pod off again. I'll drop into an app if I need to manage data or something.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not at all interested in the Windows phone, but if your reason is "because it has widgets" then take it from me, you're missing out because you are stuck on iPhone.