I get it. I actually study music in psychology. =)
I was simply poining out that the poster's criticism (people's taste affects their intelligence, that's why the mozart effect manifests) isn't really a good one in this case. =)
You know, this is a very frequent MMO complaint, and let me break the bad news: This is what players ask for, this is what players get.
It's like any genre. There's still innovation in minor areas, but the basic themes are all the same. I don't know why this should upset you so.
There are lots of different Genres of games. MMO Creators aren't trying to hide old systems behind new graphics, they're trying to make those systems playable in ways you haven't seen before. I mean, look, when you read a Murder Mystery novel, you know a few things coming in: There's a murder, and someone's trying to solve it. You don't accuse the author of trying to hide a murder mystery behind a new plot of descriptive phrase. You don't think, "Oh, damn that clever author! He made the murder really tricky this time! But the hero STILL figured it out! I wanted something new!"
You play MMO because you want to buy into the current MMO system: Lots of people level their character for mindless reasons and make friends doing it.
I would say the best possible example of the last "grey goo is bad!" technology was the advent of restriction enzymes, which cut the DNA chain at specific intervals and are used to study microbiology.
Lots of Universities had all sorts of problems getting these things used in the lab, now they're commonly used in beginning level biology classes.
I'm not saying there's NO danger from nanotechnology, I'm just saying a lot of what people are doing is keying into insanely low probability risks which could really be associated with any item if you put enough thought into it.
At least it's not like final fantasy X, which somehow passes for "interactive fiction":
> [press right button on D-pad] You have found another cutscene! Feel free to grab another soda and order a pizza or two, because lord knows our animation studio has created 30 minutes more of stunning footage depicting some relatively unimportant and excessively corny love sequence between two minor characters! [music begins to play].
Not only that, but the common anglicized name for the lord, "Yahweh", is nothing but a transliteration of untranslatable characters designed specifically so that people wouldn't be using the Lord's name.
Not only that, but there's no "w" sound in hebrew.
Google's script could analyze the content of the email and then analyze the google cache of the page.
Because slashdot.org has nothing to do with viagra, it wouldn't nerf the pagerank of some spammer who cleverly inserted slashdot at the bottom of his viagra spam.
If someone did put slashdot in a spam email with lots of things about news for nerds, the spam filter wouldn't pick it up - because most people wouldn't have things like that labeled as spam.
Plus, with all the data google will be collecting, google will be able to link the sender-address of the mail to other recent spams and disqualify the message based on inconsitency (the message content is radically different from other messages sent by the same company).
Because they a) make people happy, b) make money with advertising, and c) gather millions of files worth of content to analyze (by machine, obviously).
If you're google, exactly how is this a losing venture?
Only one of them would be filtered routinely as spam, though. Also, only the spam would have information in common with the webpage which it linked to, something google could easily check by parsing the cached copy of the page.
Google right now faces a huge issue: "spam" websites designed to bomb it's search engine.
The one common thing about all spam emails is that they have a link to a product page [unless they're *scam* emails, a completely different thing]. Google can use algorithms on mail that gets marked and checked as spam to nerf the page rankings of those webpages.
Why is this important? Because it gives people a free service, gives google advertising money, and has a huge benefit to the search engine.
The best filtering "algorithm" is 5 million users doing your filtering for you. Google doesn't have that right now, because they don't ask anyone to rate their web results. Google stands to gain a huge statistical advantage by incorportating email into their services.
You discover something. To let everyone know about it, you write a paper, and you send it off to a journal. That Journal has other experts in the field read what you've done. If they like it, they tell everyone else about it by printing it up in this little book. If they don't, they tell you to a) revise it, or b) go away.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure thats what you're looking for.
The parent is suggesting that sending the "knock" is no more secure than sending the password over plaintext, since anyone sniffing can easily sniff out and reproduce the "knock" as well.
Slashdot Mirror
I get it. I actually study music in psychology. =)
I was simply poining out that the poster's criticism (people's taste affects their intelligence, that's why the mozart effect manifests) isn't really a good one in this case. =)
If you actually read the study, it has nothing to do about musical preference.
Subjects in the human study were recruited randomly and placed into one of three conditions: Mozart, No Music, Popular Music.
They performed better under the 'Mozart' condition.
Rumor has it the next version will also incorporate teledildonics.
Word has it, by the time the expansion gets released, there will be THREE WHOLE JEDI!
//lame
My internet connection IS my Neighbor's WiFi, you insensitive clod!
You know, this is a very frequent MMO complaint, and let me break the bad news: This is what players ask for, this is what players get.
It's like any genre. There's still innovation in minor areas, but the basic themes are all the same. I don't know why this should upset you so.
There are lots of different Genres of games. MMO Creators aren't trying to hide old systems behind new graphics, they're trying to make those systems playable in ways you haven't seen before. I mean, look, when you read a Murder Mystery novel, you know a few things coming in: There's a murder, and someone's trying to solve it. You don't accuse the author of trying to hide a murder mystery behind a new plot of descriptive phrase. You don't think, "Oh, damn that clever author! He made the murder really tricky this time! But the hero STILL figured it out! I wanted something new!"
You play MMO because you want to buy into the current MMO system: Lots of people level their character for mindless reasons and make friends doing it.
Apple might release iOser and iAme just to see what Linspire does with them.
Actually:
Q: Are you interested in switching to broadband?
A: Well, I haven't really considered it before. I mean, the costs are high, but it seems to be the rage these days, so I'd really be in-NO CARRIER
IANA*?
I am not a... wildcard?
You don't exist?
How did this metaphysical thing get on slashdot, anyway?
Clearly a reference to Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, a novel (fiction) about nanotechnology.
I would say the best possible example of the last "grey goo is bad!" technology was the advent of restriction enzymes, which cut the DNA chain at specific intervals and are used to study microbiology.
Lots of Universities had all sorts of problems getting these things used in the lab, now they're commonly used in beginning level biology classes.
I'm not saying there's NO danger from nanotechnology, I'm just saying a lot of what people are doing is keying into insanely low probability risks which could really be associated with any item if you put enough thought into it.
That 50 mil # is from FOUR YEARS AGO.
Think about how much that number has changed in four years.
At least it's not like final fantasy X, which somehow passes for "interactive fiction":
> [press right button on D-pad]
You have found another cutscene! Feel free to grab another soda and order a pizza or two, because lord knows our animation studio has created 30 minutes more of stunning footage depicting some relatively unimportant and excessively corny love sequence between two minor characters! [music begins to play].
Sorry, I mean, the script could be hosted someplace else.
Why not write a simple PHP script that grabs information from a website and adds blah tags at random intervals that don't affect the display?
Makes filters useless, and you wouldn't need to SSH, etc.
Not only that, but the common anglicized name for the lord, "Yahweh", is nothing but a transliteration of untranslatable characters designed specifically so that people wouldn't be using the Lord's name.
Not only that, but there's no "w" sound in hebrew.
Meh.
Sorry - that should say "wouldn't nerf the page rank of slashdot if some spammer cleverly inserted slashdot at the bottom of his viagra spam".
Google's script could analyze the content of the email and then analyze the google cache of the page.
Because slashdot.org has nothing to do with viagra, it wouldn't nerf the pagerank of some spammer who cleverly inserted slashdot at the bottom of his viagra spam.
If someone did put slashdot in a spam email with lots of things about news for nerds, the spam filter wouldn't pick it up - because most people wouldn't have things like that labeled as spam.
Plus, with all the data google will be collecting, google will be able to link the sender-address of the mail to other recent spams and disqualify the message based on inconsitency (the message content is radically different from other messages sent by the same company).
Because they a) make people happy, b) make money with advertising, and c) gather millions of files worth of content to analyze (by machine, obviously).
If you're google, exactly how is this a losing venture?
Only one of them would be filtered routinely as spam, though. Also, only the spam would have information in common with the webpage which it linked to, something google could easily check by parsing the cached copy of the page.
Which is a good point, right?
Google right now faces a huge issue: "spam" websites designed to bomb it's search engine.
The one common thing about all spam emails is that they have a link to a product page [unless they're *scam* emails, a completely different thing]. Google can use algorithms on mail that gets marked and checked as spam to nerf the page rankings of those webpages.
Why is this important? Because it gives people a free service, gives google advertising money, and has a huge benefit to the search engine.
The best filtering "algorithm" is 5 million users doing your filtering for you. Google doesn't have that right now, because they don't ask anyone to rate their web results. Google stands to gain a huge statistical advantage by incorportating email into their services.
The two-headed ogre of spyware will tell it what to do.
It's called Science.
Here's how it works.
You discover something. To let everyone know about it, you write a paper, and you send it off to a journal. That Journal has other experts in the field read what you've done. If they like it, they tell everyone else about it by printing it up in this little book. If they don't, they tell you to a) revise it, or b) go away.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure thats what you're looking for.
The parent is suggesting that sending the "knock" is no more secure than sending the password over plaintext, since anyone sniffing can easily sniff out and reproduce the "knock" as well.
You know those times in life when you don't think you've won at anything, when everything is dim, when life seems like it can't get any worse...
Just remember.
You beat ALL those other sperm to the egg.
You won at something.