Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers! Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
Yes, clearly. Americans need to be afraid of MORE things. Since cancer, terrorism, guns, murder, disease, nuclear (nuk-you-lar) war, security levels blue through hot pink, killer bees, and France aren't scary enough.
If I was handing out free snowcones on the street with a small asterisk next to "free" that said "also contains Methylenedioxymethamphetamine", do you think people would eat it just because Ecstacy is tough to understand in medical terms?
Surely not.
People are smart enough to know that all things come at a cost.
Right, because no one who uses AOL Instant Messenger ever visits websites without trying.
Seriously, a combo exploit that affected webservers and AIM would net not only thousands of servers but thousands upon thousands of PCs. Individual PCs with no services are difficult to infect by worm with even the most minimal security settings, this would tank thousands of PCs because people are so naive when it comes to the 'net. AIM has always been "safe", they don't want to listen to how it might be "dangerous".
Of course, AOL can push out an update to the client tomorrow, and as long as the next version has more flashing lights, people will download it right away.
The real solution is to teach people not to accept ActiveX Downloads and other such things without reading the screen.
I'm not really sure what the problem is. Reading the computer screen is not a difficult or scary task. Understanding words like "install" and "security hazard" and "caution" are not that difficult.
I know it would be terrible UI design, but IE should really scramble the buttons at the bottom of ActiveX Dialogue boxes to keep people from instinctively clicking without reading. There are one or two ActiveX Components on the ENTIRE (effing) INTERNET that need to be installed.
Teaching people basic computer security along with their basic computer skills is a useful and worthwhile thing.
Especially sad is that the companies and lobbyists who push this sort of thing can easily pay off "experts" to convince the public that their way is better.
Expert opinion is so clouded these days with money from various sources that the public has very little objective truth to trust. Educated "Experts" need to start realizing that the money they personally gain is a wealth of freedom lost by the people, and the "People" need to start realizing that anti-intellectualism is fueled by their own laziness to be skeptics.
Rockstar looks awful. This game is awful. I couldn't stand it. You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
It's awful. I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone.
Not that this should prevent the publication of said speech, but it's still not anything Rockstar's going to look pretty over.
Part of a contract to use DoubleClick ought to be a server-flag. They send you a packet every 30 seconds that says their servers are operational and a flag is set on your machine. If more than 30 seconds goes by, the flag is automatically set to "off". Their scripts [which run on your machine] check that flag before they serve up ad content, otherwise, the scripts print out either white-space or a set of pre-loaded advertisements (that they don't have to find on double-click servers).
Doubleclick, and 99% of websites out there, can easily handle the load of setting a flag on servers that load their content. This would virtually solve this problem.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking to trade his insomnia for alcoholism.//smirk
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Most Slashdotters probably don't notice how much caffeine they consume during a regular day - and there's even a whole bunch that think, "It has no effect on me whatsoever!"
But, it realy does. On days I'm not feeling well or have sleeping issues, I simply cut my caffeine intake for the next two or three days and my body usually cycles back to normal.
It IS possible to be "over-tired". Try doing something quiet with the lights low, like reading a light book in bed, or talking to a friend on the phone with the lights off. It may take a while, but you'll usually doze off.
If you have kids named Arthur MyDoom, are you going to stick to the old standard (Arthur MyDoom the 3rd, the 4th, etc), or the new approach - Arthur MyDoom.B, Arthur MyDoom.C, Arthur MyDoom.D...?
Here's the question: Why don't game developers take care to run the game on a certain number of de-optimized systems and then release demos with those configurations as well?
I mean, I think it would be nice to see exactly what the game looks like on the Min specs, and if recent games have proven anything, it ought to look incredible.
I ran the UT2004 demo at what must have been hovering near the recommended mark (practically all the special spiffies were turned off), and the graphics still blew me away.
If anything, this might convince me to buy the game or to upgrade hardware to "release" level, and it would also give people a *real* taste of what the game will look like.
This may be an ignorant comment, as I'm not really sure if they *do* make air-tight seals on spacecraft not carrying humans, but it seems as though nothing Nasa could do would be quite as effective as a few month ride through space with no possibility of nutrition followed by a real hot descent into an alien atmosphere with no water.
Right. Because any two things that follow in chronological order are neccessarily related. Just this morning, lightning struck down the street and, a few minutes later, my bank called about a bounced check.
At the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con CBG: Someone has mixed an "Amazing Spiderman" in with the "Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spiderman" series. This will not stand. Woman: Pardon me, but I wish to tender a serious cash offer for this stack of water damaged Little Lulus. CBG: Huh, "A" that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pib, and "B" I... (CBG turns to look at the woman) Ohh... Err... Tell me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still live with their parents? Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on. CBG: Don't try to change me baby.
Yeah, and the worst part is, it's almost an admission that they don't know the value of public libraries.
If the public library has a complete and total music collection and sued publishers to provide them with books, only to recieve 593 copies of "Martha Stewart's: 'Cooking with the Neighbors", 1,989 copies of "Maxim: The Uncensored Cut", 184 copies of "Pete Rose: How I Gambled and Stuff", and 8,948 copies of "A Year of Baseball Cards: The 1947 Digest", NO ONE WOULD USE THE SERVICE.
It seems as though the algorithm they have works on the fact that there's some statistical difference between a real image and a faked one, but not 100% of the time.
Why wouldn't someone simply build a filter into a program that changed bits in an image until it passed a check by their algorithm - on failing, it would simply go back and change more appropriate bits?
Seems as though it would be a computationally intensive but a logically easy task.
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ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!
Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers!
Das computermachine ist nicht fuer gefingerpoken und mittengrabben.
Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken
mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen.
Das rubbernecken sichtseeren keepen das cotten-pickenen hans in das
pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
No kidding. Base 0 doesn't make any sense, because there are 0 digits.
Easy! Just convert to base (whatever) and you can make your numbers have however many digits you want.
Yes, clearly. Americans need to be afraid of MORE things. Since cancer, terrorism, guns, murder, disease, nuclear (nuk-you-lar) war, security levels blue through hot pink, killer bees, and France aren't scary enough.
You say this, though a friend of mine who dropped out of his Ph.D. program after getting his Masters in *Psychology* is a full-time programmer.
They're looking for educated, bright individuals with an aptitude for the tasks they need done. Not ones with slips of paper that say so.
If I was handing out free snowcones on the street with a small asterisk next to "free" that said "also contains Methylenedioxymethamphetamine", do you think people would eat it just because Ecstacy is tough to understand in medical terms?
Surely not.
People are smart enough to know that all things come at a cost.
Right, because no one who uses AOL Instant Messenger ever visits websites without trying.
Seriously, a combo exploit that affected webservers and AIM would net not only thousands of servers but thousands upon thousands of PCs. Individual PCs with no services are difficult to infect by worm with even the most minimal security settings, this would tank thousands of PCs because people are so naive when it comes to the 'net. AIM has always been "safe", they don't want to listen to how it might be "dangerous".
Of course, AOL can push out an update to the client tomorrow, and as long as the next version has more flashing lights, people will download it right away.
The real solution is to teach people not to accept ActiveX Downloads and other such things without reading the screen.
I'm not really sure what the problem is. Reading the computer screen is not a difficult or scary task. Understanding words like "install" and "security hazard" and "caution" are not that difficult.
I know it would be terrible UI design, but IE should really scramble the buttons at the bottom of ActiveX Dialogue boxes to keep people from instinctively clicking without reading. There are one or two ActiveX Components on the ENTIRE (effing) INTERNET that need to be installed.
Teaching people basic computer security along with their basic computer skills is a useful and worthwhile thing.
Especially sad is that the companies and lobbyists who push this sort of thing can easily pay off "experts" to convince the public that their way is better.
Expert opinion is so clouded these days with money from various sources that the public has very little objective truth to trust. Educated "Experts" need to start realizing that the money they personally gain is a wealth of freedom lost by the people, and the "People" need to start realizing that anti-intellectualism is fueled by their own laziness to be skeptics.
Coz right now, our current situation is sad.
Mod down if you must, but... they're right.
Rockstar looks awful. This game is awful. I couldn't stand it. You get points for murdering people in gruesome ways, with weapons like "the plastic bag", with which you strangle, snap necks, and break noses - all in a live-motion cutscene EVERY TIME you kill.
It's awful. I wouldn't recommend the game to anyone.
Not that this should prevent the publication of said speech, but it's still not anything Rockstar's going to look pretty over.
Those monsters! They killed her before she could get the prize!
Sort of. I squirted 70% ethanol on the lab floor.
Directed Panspermia?
This sounds like a low budget Japanese film.
I'm not sure why.
Part of a contract to use DoubleClick ought to be a server-flag. They send you a packet every 30 seconds that says their servers are operational and a flag is set on your machine. If more than 30 seconds goes by, the flag is automatically set to "off". Their scripts [which run on your machine] check that flag before they serve up ad content, otherwise, the scripts print out either white-space or a set of pre-loaded advertisements (that they don't have to find on double-click servers).
Doubleclick, and 99% of websites out there, can easily handle the load of setting a flag on servers that load their content. This would virtually solve this problem.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't looking to trade his insomnia for alcoholism. //smirk
Most Slashdotters probably don't notice how much caffeine they consume during a regular day - and there's even a whole bunch that think, "It has no effect on me whatsoever!"
But, it realy does. On days I'm not feeling well or have sleeping issues, I simply cut my caffeine intake for the next two or three days and my body usually cycles back to normal.
It IS possible to be "over-tired". Try doing something quiet with the lights low, like reading a light book in bed, or talking to a friend on the phone with the lights off. It may take a while, but you'll usually doze off.
If it had, there wouldn't have been any money involved.
Duh. That's the first rule of Lawyernomics.
Number of Lawyers Involved in any given cause increases in direct proportion to the Potential for Money Making and inversely to the Legal Merit.
If you have kids named Arthur MyDoom, are you going to stick to the old standard (Arthur MyDoom the 3rd, the 4th, etc), or the new approach - Arthur MyDoom.B, Arthur MyDoom.C, Arthur MyDoom.D...?
Here's the question: Why don't game developers take care to run the game on a certain number of de-optimized systems and then release demos with those configurations as well?
I mean, I think it would be nice to see exactly what the game looks like on the Min specs, and if recent games have proven anything, it ought to look incredible.
I ran the UT2004 demo at what must have been hovering near the recommended mark (practically all the special spiffies were turned off), and the graphics still blew me away.
If anything, this might convince me to buy the game or to upgrade hardware to "release" level, and it would also give people a *real* taste of what the game will look like.
This may be an ignorant comment, as I'm not really sure if they *do* make air-tight seals on spacecraft not carrying humans, but it seems as though nothing Nasa could do would be quite as effective as a few month ride through space with no possibility of nutrition followed by a real hot descent into an alien atmosphere with no water.
Right. Because any two things that follow in chronological order are neccessarily related. Just this morning, lightning struck down the street and, a few minutes later, my bank called about a bounced check.
Damn Lightning. It always causes problems.
At the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con
CBG: Someone has mixed an "Amazing Spiderman" in with the "Peter Parker - The Spectacular Spiderman" series. This will not stand.
Woman: Pardon me, but I wish to tender a serious cash offer for this stack of water damaged Little Lulus.
CBG: Huh, "A" that is not water, it is Diet Mr. Pib, and "B" I... (CBG turns to look at the woman) Ohh... Err... Tell me, how do you feel about 45 year old virgins who still live with their parents?
Woman: Comb the Sweet Tarts out of your beard and you're on.
CBG: Don't try to change me baby.
Yeah, and the worst part is, it's almost an admission that they don't know the value of public libraries.
If the public library has a complete and total music collection and sued publishers to provide them with books, only to recieve 593 copies of "Martha Stewart's: 'Cooking with the Neighbors", 1,989 copies of "Maxim: The Uncensored Cut", 184 copies of "Pete Rose: How I Gambled and Stuff", and 8,948 copies of "A Year of Baseball Cards: The 1947 Digest", NO ONE WOULD USE THE SERVICE.
It seems as though the algorithm they have works on the fact that there's some statistical difference between a real image and a faked one, but not 100% of the time.
Why wouldn't someone simply build a filter into a program that changed bits in an image until it passed a check by their algorithm - on failing, it would simply go back and change more appropriate bits?
Seems as though it would be a computationally intensive but a logically easy task.
Yeah, but the Tech Support default response of "Power Cycle" isn't very interesting when the only possible machine state is "off".