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Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked
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I would like to point out that "non-automated" Captcha processing (i.e. paying people to work at home entering the "solution" manually) is itself not 100%.
I fail at it about 10% of the time, entering it manually so I can download that pr0n mpeg download a funny video.
That's a pretty solid statistic over hundreds of downloads.
I suppose the real issue is whether these drugs would have languished, never used, unless this company had proven them out (or had a big hand in it.)
So did it? Or is it an interloper trying to jam their foot in the way of already-developed, already-demonstrated drugs?
If it yanked, perhaps not into existence, but definitely into usefulness, these drugs via hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditure, then they should reap the profits.
The choice isn't between expensive and cheap drugs; that is a fraudulent concept. The choice is between expensive drugs and no drugs at all.
On the other hand, if they're just an interloper, then overturned patents is a good result.
Can we get any honest answers? Fraud [i]on either side[/i] (interloping, or losing patents to help people-in-the-moment) leads to more deaths in the long run, and that's what we must not have.
Rather than anectodes and claims of evil profiteering, how about some actual studies as to rates of development in private vs. public sector?
And even then, you have to remember that just because the "public sector" does research into X (thus making private money pointless) does not mean that private money would not have done it. Like saying without the government creating a mail service, there would be no mail service. Or without it paving roads, there'd be no paved roads. Or without it generating power, there'd be no power.
Barracuda has been able to leverage open source to bring down the cost of security. Early on Barracuda was blocking spam and viruses at roughly 1/10 the price of the nearest proprietary competitor
Yes, we know you can lower prices by not paying for the patent. That's why there are patents! So people can't just rip off other people's ideas, after all their hard work, and start selling the desirable product of all that work.
Now, if you want to claim the patent is obvious or has prior art, good luck forging new ground where Symantec and McAfee couldn't.
I don't know if Eve is really all that big, population-wise. They do have all their people on one server (not counting the test one), which has been topping out around 40k per evening recently.
It was a refreshing diversion (I did start paying after their recent "free 14 day trial" a couple of months ago) but I quit in a rage after my expensive cruiser got killed due to sudden lag brought on by an attack by 10 NPC ships.
While getting wiped is part of the game, I'm not gonna stand for it when it's due to 1/5 fps (one frame every 5s) which only occurs during sudden burst combat.
I'm just glad I didn't get to the 1.5 gigadollar mini-dreadnauts for sale on the market.
That'd be $500,000 a day, if all 10 million paid $15 per month. However, the vast majority are Chinese accounts that only pay a small fraction of that much.
Still, it's not shabby whatsoever for a hundred people or so.
Well yes, but if the bursts were of the suspected type, and gravity waves exist, then these instruments should have been more than sensitive enough to detect them at the point they should, according to theory, have arrived.
So something is wrong, and as many (including the article) have stated, this could be because:
1. Gravitational waves don't exist
2. The gamma burst is of a different type (which doesn't generate them) or much further away than expected (and the waves would have too low energy to be detected) or travel much slower than predicted (itself a good observation if they are later detected.)
I.e. good old-fashioned science. Something is wrong, therefore (at least) one premise must be wrong.
If it didn't detect your sex-waves, either, then you must be lying about actually successfully completing a mating dance followed by copulation, o Slashdot Nerdling.
Every Saturday morning at college, with nothing better to do, and not having stayed up late on a date or drinking or something productive, I would go down to the arcade and play games, primarily Mystic Marathon, a cutsey game where you ran a marathon through mystical things.
I got pretty good at it, but one day I found I could play it indefinitely. I guessed they had set it slightly easier to attract other business, who knows.
Anyway, after about an hour and a half on the same quarter, I was getting bored, so I just left it and went to get some Big Macs at McDonald's, then ate 'em back in my dorm room and cried myself to sleep, as being a video game star didn't get me any girls.
Losing weight over the summer sure as hell did tho, but that's another tale.
That's similar to professional boxing where, for each real top match, there's a half dozen were the up-and-commer beats down has-beens who take a dive just for the loser's purse.
Yes, that's much better, spending hours "crafting" things tediously, than just logging in your donk for a minute each day, playing the AH, then logging in your "real" char and going to have some fun.
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I would like to point out that "non-automated" Captcha processing (i.e. paying people to work at home entering the "solution" manually) is itself not 100%.
I fail at it about 10% of the time, entering it manually so I can download that pr0n mpeg download a funny video.
That's a pretty solid statistic over hundreds of downloads.
I suppose the real issue is whether these drugs would have languished, never used, unless this company had proven them out (or had a big hand in it.)
So did it? Or is it an interloper trying to jam their foot in the way of already-developed, already-demonstrated drugs?
If it yanked, perhaps not into existence, but definitely into usefulness, these drugs via hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditure, then they should reap the profits.
The choice isn't between expensive and cheap drugs; that is a fraudulent concept. The choice is between expensive drugs and no drugs at all.
On the other hand, if they're just an interloper, then overturned patents is a good result.
Can we get any honest answers? Fraud [i]on either side[/i] (interloping, or losing patents to help people-in-the-moment) leads to more deaths in the long run, and that's what we must not have.
Rather than anectodes and claims of evil profiteering, how about some actual studies as to rates of development in private vs. public sector?
And even then, you have to remember that just because the "public sector" does research into X (thus making private money pointless) does not mean that private money would not have done it. Like saying without the government creating a mail service, there would be no mail service. Or without it paving roads, there'd be no paved roads. Or without it generating power, there'd be no power.
Oh, wait. Power is done privately.
Yes, we know you can lower prices by not paying for the patent. That's why there are patents! So people can't just rip off other people's ideas, after all their hard work, and start selling the desirable product of all that work.
Now, if you want to claim the patent is obvious or has prior art, good luck forging new ground where Symantec and McAfee couldn't.
> Microsoft officials have themselves conceded that Vista is "bloated"
If'n only this had happened to previous Microsoft products so Microsoft would have known to catch it before releasing Vista.
Ahh, well. Live and learn, even a giant corp. like that.
"Ethics of Robots in War"?
Does the ethics paper discuss lying about the existence of gods who want you to help kill off that god's political enemies for Him?
"Do not shine in eyes."
Huh. I guess Helms of Int +30 actually do exist.
But that's not a problem for Slashdotters. Now a Helm of Cha +30, that's what's needed around here!
Dreadnaught! Sorry, sorry, sorry!
It dreads nothing, dreads naught. Damnit. Nerd error. Must sterilize. Must sterilize!
I don't know if Eve is really all that big, population-wise. They do have all their people on one server (not counting the test one), which has been topping out around 40k per evening recently.
It was a refreshing diversion (I did start paying after their recent "free 14 day trial" a couple of months ago) but I quit in a rage after my expensive cruiser got killed due to sudden lag brought on by an attack by 10 NPC ships.
While getting wiped is part of the game, I'm not gonna stand for it when it's due to 1/5 fps (one frame every 5s) which only occurs during sudden burst combat.
I'm just glad I didn't get to the 1.5 gigadollar mini-dreadnauts for sale on the market.
They do have hot bodies, but kind of stupid-looking faces, don't they?
That'd be $500,000 a day, if all 10 million paid $15 per month. However, the vast majority are Chinese accounts that only pay a small fraction of that much.
Still, it's not shabby whatsoever for a hundred people or so.
Your last sentence makes the whole thing worth its weight in gold. +1000 awesome
Hey man, don't knock the goth chicks running the cash register down at the comic book store!
Ehh, it's a symbolic error...
"There is no honor among thieves."
Actually, it's kind of comical that in games like World of Warcraft, not only do warriors and paladins talk about honor, but so to do thieves rogues.
Cutpurs3: Yeah, have a little honor, won't you? Just go invis and stab the guy in the back.
> science, robot, skynet (tagging beta)
Thank you!
A single ampersand is bitwise-and.
10001
10010
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10011 = 19
And 19, in hex, is, of course, 35. HOLY SHIT!
In the words of my 17 year old stepson, "We go to Quality 16 because they don't card."
Well yes, but if the bursts were of the suspected type, and gravity waves exist, then these instruments should have been more than sensitive enough to detect them at the point they should, according to theory, have arrived.
So something is wrong, and as many (including the article) have stated, this could be because:
1. Gravitational waves don't exist
2. The gamma burst is of a different type (which doesn't generate them) or much further away than expected (and the waves would have too low energy to be detected) or travel much slower than predicted (itself a good observation if they are later detected.)
I.e. good old-fashioned science. Something is wrong, therefore (at least) one premise must be wrong.
If it didn't detect your sex-waves, either, then you must be lying about actually successfully completing a mating dance followed by copulation, o Slashdot Nerdling.
Underflows for negative gold, negative charisma. You'd be surprised what geeks are capable of when they put their minds to it!
Every Saturday morning at college, with nothing better to do, and not having stayed up late on a date or drinking or something productive, I would go down to the arcade and play games, primarily Mystic Marathon, a cutsey game where you ran a marathon through mystical things.
I got pretty good at it, but one day I found I could play it indefinitely. I guessed they had set it slightly easier to attract other business, who knows.
Anyway, after about an hour and a half on the same quarter, I was getting bored, so I just left it and went to get some Big Macs at McDonald's, then ate 'em back in my dorm room and cried myself to sleep, as being a video game star didn't get me any girls.
Losing weight over the summer sure as hell did tho, but that's another tale.
That's similar to professional boxing where, for each real top match, there's a half dozen were the up-and-commer beats down has-beens who take a dive just for the loser's purse.
Very realistic. I'm impressed, World of Warcraft!
Yes, that's much better, spending hours "crafting" things tediously, than just logging in your donk for a minute each day, playing the AH, then logging in your "real" char and going to have some fun.