Don't forget the obligatory rants about window manager "eye candy", 3D video games, cell phones that do more than make calls, and how there are never any good movies coming out anymore. I've never understood how there can be so many luddites on a technology news site. Maybe it's because this site skews older than most, and as one gets older, the nostalgia memory bias becomes a stronger?
Isn't this just pushing the processing back a level, but still arriving at its destination? I guess you could implement bandwidth-provider-level (i.e. before the customer even gets their packets) spam filtering this way, but I'm sure most organizations would prefer to retain control by doing their own filtering.
For those who don't feel inclined to Google for it:
"The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003 authored by Steve Bellovin. The RFC recommended that the last remaining unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem."
Sounds like the solution for that particular game is to have semi-private servers that are admined by the users themselves. Not roleplaying? You get booted by a user admin.
I've wondered about this too, and if there's a way around it. Lately I've been installing programs on my D: drive in Windows and I wonder, if my C: partition were to be wiped and Windows re-installed, could I make use of those D: drive programs? Or is there so much junk stored in the registry these days that those D:-installed programs would be useless.
Okay, so arguably none of them have been "good", but I can think of a few that were at least okay (and had 5.x or 6.x IMDb ratings): Silent Hill, the Resident Evil movies, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
1. For my media I do two 1 TB external HDDs with a robocopy run every 48 hours (to avoid the "oops, I deleted something I shouldn't have" RAID 1 problem)
2. For my cannot-lose-it small documents (KeePassX file, financial spreadsheets, etc.) I put them in an encrypted archive format and upload periodically to Gmail, to work as an offsite backup.
It'd be sweet if I could simply back up everything offsite, but with only 100 KB/s of upload bandwidth to work with on my DSL connection, that's just not feasible.
I'm in my late 20s, have done the online dating thing off and on since college, as well as asking out people in real life. If I go back and think about which were the best relationships/sex in terms of online vs offline meeting, offline meeting tended to be the best. There's just far too much useful information you get from seeing someone up close, listening them talk, watching their body language. We have lots of mental machinery dedicated to parsing that stuff, and almost none of it is activated during online dating (even pictures are no good, because they're so often old photos or outright deceptive).
So, at this point in my life, I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on IM, forums, computer games, etc. and spend more time around real people in the real world. I think it happens to a lot of nerds as we get older. We look back and realize we don't have much to show for all the thousands of hours spent on inane IRC conversations, first person shooters, and forum flame wars. All that stuff is so much emptiness when you get right down to it...
I haven't found a game shop that has near the selection as buying from Steam, Amazon, NewEgg, etc.
I stopped buying games at the local game store a long time ago. Also, I just don't trust those guys to not slip me a used DVD in a new box, etc.
Unfortunately, I think you may find that it will simply require a human-level brain. I'd be really impressed with software that said, "Yep, this image just *looks* better to me."
Unless, of course, JPG artifacts are systematic and consistent across images, which could well be.
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I don't get the sense that they're trolling; they seem to actually feel the way they present themselves.
RMS is a different case. He's not so much a luddite as an idealogue. He has very strong views on certain political issues within technology.
Don't forget the obligatory rants about window manager "eye candy", 3D video games, cell phones that do more than make calls, and how there are never any good movies coming out anymore. I've never understood how there can be so many luddites on a technology news site. Maybe it's because this site skews older than most, and as one gets older, the nostalgia memory bias becomes a stronger?
You got the CLEP? Sorry to hear that...
I'd like future phones to do two things: 1) Not let people mess with their phone at a movie theater. 2) Not let people use the phone while driving.
Your user account is too young to understand. ;-)
Speak for yourself. Some of us do our best to buy product brands -- my laundry detergent and dish soap, for example -- that aren't tested on animals.
This is Slashdot, home of thousands of Asperger's sufferers. He probably has a whole world that's known only to him.
According to XE.com: 400.00 CAD = 366.871 USD
Other way around. He's teaching his kids.
Oh, and cancelling the contract isn't $200, it's $400.
;-)
Yeah, but that's $400 Canadian, so it's no big deal.
Isn't this just pushing the processing back a level, but still arriving at its destination? I guess you could implement bandwidth-provider-level (i.e. before the customer even gets their packets) spam filtering this way, but I'm sure most organizations would prefer to retain control by doing their own filtering.
For those who don't feel inclined to Google for it:
"The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003 authored by Steve Bellovin. The RFC recommended that the last remaining unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem."
Neither. Since you posted, you cannot mod now.
Sounds like the solution for that particular game is to have semi-private servers that are admined by the users themselves. Not roleplaying? You get booted by a user admin.
I've wondered about this too, and if there's a way around it. Lately I've been installing programs on my D: drive in Windows and I wonder, if my C: partition were to be wiped and Windows re-installed, could I make use of those D: drive programs? Or is there so much junk stored in the registry these days that those D:-installed programs would be useless.
No wonder Lotus software is such a steaming pile. They're spending time working on emotiflags!? Gimme a break.
I suppose it's true to the idea that 7 is "just a Vista service pack," but still seems odd.
Okay, so arguably none of them have been "good", but I can think of a few that were at least okay (and had 5.x or 6.x IMDb ratings): Silent Hill, the Resident Evil movies, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
If I wanted to date a nerd, I'd put on a dress and make out with the mirror.
1. For my media I do two 1 TB external HDDs with a robocopy run every 48 hours (to avoid the "oops, I deleted something I shouldn't have" RAID 1 problem)
2. For my cannot-lose-it small documents (KeePassX file, financial spreadsheets, etc.) I put them in an encrypted archive format and upload periodically to Gmail, to work as an offsite backup.
It'd be sweet if I could simply back up everything offsite, but with only 100 KB/s of upload bandwidth to work with on my DSL connection, that's just not feasible.
I'm in my late 20s, have done the online dating thing off and on since college, as well as asking out people in real life. If I go back and think about which were the best relationships/sex in terms of online vs offline meeting, offline meeting tended to be the best. There's just far too much useful information you get from seeing someone up close, listening them talk, watching their body language. We have lots of mental machinery dedicated to parsing that stuff, and almost none of it is activated during online dating (even pictures are no good, because they're so often old photos or outright deceptive).
...with the exception of Slashdot, of course. ;-)
So, at this point in my life, I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on IM, forums, computer games, etc. and spend more time around real people in the real world. I think it happens to a lot of nerds as we get older. We look back and realize we don't have much to show for all the thousands of hours spent on inane IRC conversations, first person shooters, and forum flame wars. All that stuff is so much emptiness when you get right down to it...
I haven't found a game shop that has near the selection as buying from Steam, Amazon, NewEgg, etc. I stopped buying games at the local game store a long time ago. Also, I just don't trust those guys to not slip me a used DVD in a new box, etc.
Unfortunately, I think you may find that it will simply require a human-level brain. I'd be really impressed with software that said, "Yep, this image just *looks* better to me." Unless, of course, JPG artifacts are systematic and consistent across images, which could well be.
"...painfully easy..."
I think you want a different adjective there.