It's amazing (to mouse users, anyway) what kind of damage a keyboard-only person can do. Right up until my mother banned FPSs at home (shortly after Columbine), I was a keyboard user all the way, usually in the top 20% on whatever servers I was hanging out on.
Well...that was before grappling hooks became popular. You really need a mouse to aim a grapple well.
For a brief while, I played Diablo 2 online. I figured I'd earn my own way through the game, getting everything I needed through my own efforts.
I was amazed when helpful people kept giving me things, without me ever asking for them.
(More frustrating, and less enjoyable, was when I played at home with my brother and cousin, who were already well on their way through the game when I started playing with them. They yanked me through the acts much faster than I liked...I was never able to go outside the civilized portion of the map alone in whatever act they'd most recently raised me to.)
For those who don't know much journalism terminology, "Hard news" refers to strictly objective, factual stories. As opposed to "features," which are essentially reviews of a person, place, thing, event, etc., or "editorials," which reflect the opinion of the writer. (Or the opinion of the person who told him what to write.)
I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned using it to exchange insurance information, so I am not sure why you are getting so worked up about it.
Gah...I meant to add that that may not be in the plans now, but it is a logical direction for it to continue.
If someone wanted to ring up false charges, it would be very easy for them just write down your license plate number and work it that way. Besides, I would think that any insurance company that has a chance of staying in business would require a police report or other verification besides the fact that you have their customers information before paying out a claim.
Lucky me, not having had to deal with it yet. (I plead ignorance.)
Regarding the enviro-nazi angle: why would they focus on someone who was just in an accident? "Look that guy just wrecked his SUV! Let's get his name and address in case he buys another one." Why not just drive down random streets slashing tires and egging cars instead of hoping to come upon an accident involving an SUV? It's not exactly like they are hard to find.
That was intended to suggest that such ad-hoc networks could be listened to using the same tools commonly used in wardriving, and give a possible example.
Using IPv6 is a good start for security. However, consider this scenario:
My car gets in a severe accident, it broadcasts a warning to other drivers. Municipal nodess on the road also receive the signal. Police, fire, ambulance and insurance are automatically notified. Pretty convenient.
An activist group's pringles can (pointed at the road) also picks up the signal, collects my information, and archives it. From there...what? If I drive an SUV, will I be targeted and listed on an environmentalist equivalent of the "Nuremburg Files" website?
Intentionally-promiscuous third car claims it was hit, so my car and the other car give that car insurance info, too. The third car was never hit...but the owner might take the info and ring up some false charges.
Second scenario:
I hit a car in a mall parking lot. The two cars exchange insurance info. Convenient.
Activist records information. My SUV's tires get slashed and my paint gets egged by someone who got my address off the activist's website.
Another car left in the parking lot grabs insurance information, to add to the data collected from five or six other such events that day. More fraud follows.
SO...the point is, what about privacy? I hope they take that into account.
Go with the detached network. With enough people at a party, someone's going to have fun digitally spelunking. Better it be on machines owned by attendees than on machines owned by the school.
As long as I can remember, it's been assumed that editors can see who made which anonymous posts. Unless the person wasn't logged in when he posted. But, even in that case, analysis of the httpd logs can tell you what other posts that particular IP can be associated with, not to mention the username associated with the post.
No...posting anonymously on Slashdot hides your identity from the casual observer. Not from someone with the ability to follow through with a lawsuit or subpoena.
It's easy to find a way to do something. It's not easy to find the best way to do something. Which is why people will often ask, "What's the best way to ___?"
As an example, look at one of my questions posted to USENET. Look at the solution I came up with, then look at the solution I was presented with.
"Ask Slashdot" is a moderated method for people to ask questions of a larger community, getting moderated responses.
in this case, his is a social question, one that there's no single answer to. Any solution is going to have to come from people who've encountered it before, and who can describe their situation.
If you don't like it, disable the Ask Slashdot topic in your user preferences.
Linux or win32? The AC post had useful directions that I'll try on Windows at some point. I only get to use Linux at home, where I don't have an internet connection...
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It's amazing (to mouse users, anyway) what kind of damage a keyboard-only person can do. Right up until my mother banned FPSs at home (shortly after Columbine), I was a keyboard user all the way, usually in the top 20% on whatever servers I was hanging out on.
Well...that was before grappling hooks became popular. You really need a mouse to aim a grapple well.
For a brief while, I played Diablo 2 online. I figured I'd earn my own way through the game, getting everything I needed through my own efforts.
I was amazed when helpful people kept giving me things, without me ever asking for them.
(More frustrating, and less enjoyable, was when I played at home with my brother and cousin, who were already well on their way through the game when I started playing with them. They yanked me through the acts much faster than I liked...I was never able to go outside the civilized portion of the map alone in whatever act they'd most recently raised me to.)
And was promptly offered for sale...
Hehe. "Hard news"
For those who don't know much journalism terminology, "Hard news" refers to strictly objective, factual stories. As opposed to "features," which are essentially reviews of a person, place, thing, event, etc., or "editorials," which reflect the opinion of the writer. (Or the opinion of the person who told him what to write.)
I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned using it to exchange insurance information, so I am not sure why you are getting so worked up about it.
Gah...I meant to add that that may not be in the plans now, but it is a logical direction for it to continue.
If someone wanted to ring up false charges, it would be very easy for them just write down your license plate number and work it that way. Besides, I would think that any insurance company that has a chance of staying in business would require a police report or other verification besides the fact that you have their customers information before paying out a claim.
Lucky me, not having had to deal with it yet. (I plead ignorance.)
Regarding the enviro-nazi angle: why would they focus on someone who was just in an accident? "Look that guy just wrecked his SUV! Let's get his name and address in case he buys another one." Why not just drive down random streets slashing tires and egging cars instead of hoping to come upon an accident involving an SUV? It's not exactly like they are hard to find.
That was intended to suggest that such ad-hoc networks could be listened to using the same tools commonly used in wardriving, and give a possible example.
Using IPv6 is a good start for security. However, consider this scenario:
My car gets in a severe accident, it broadcasts a warning to other drivers. Municipal nodess on the road also receive the signal. Police, fire, ambulance and insurance are automatically notified. Pretty convenient.
An activist group's pringles can (pointed at the road) also picks up the signal, collects my information, and archives it. From there...what? If I drive an SUV, will I be targeted and listed on an environmentalist equivalent of the "Nuremburg Files" website?
Intentionally-promiscuous third car claims it was hit, so my car and the other car give that car insurance info, too. The third car was never hit...but the owner might take the info and ring up some false charges.
Second scenario:
I hit a car in a mall parking lot. The two cars exchange insurance info. Convenient.
Activist records information. My SUV's tires get slashed and my paint gets egged by someone who got my address off the activist's website.
Another car left in the parking lot grabs insurance information, to add to the data collected from five or six other such events that day. More fraud follows.
SO...the point is, what about privacy? I hope they take that into account.
I would, but linking to porn or warez sites from Slashdot isn't a good idea...
I've done tech support. Believe me, the word Internet in "Internet Explorer" provides a clue to woefully few.
Go with the detached network. With enough people at a party, someone's going to have fun digitally spelunking. Better it be on machines owned by attendees than on machines owned by the school.
"A real good designer needs to know how the old stuff works."
I won't argue with that!
Is the side with the text facing up?
(I'd hate to take that call.)
what keyboards are out there that allow you to rearrange the keys? (And the functions of the keys are re-arranged with their movement)
:)
I want to change a QWERTY keyboard to a rot13("QERTY") keyboard...memorizing transposition encryption was never easier.
Imagine a beowulf cluster. Just try not to think about replacing a brick at the bottom of the stack...
As long as I can remember, it's been assumed that editors can see who made which anonymous posts. Unless the person wasn't logged in when he posted. But, even in that case, analysis of the httpd logs can tell you what other posts that particular IP can be associated with, not to mention the username associated with the post.
No...posting anonymously on Slashdot hides your identity from the casual observer. Not from someone with the ability to follow through with a lawsuit or subpoena.
It's easy to find a way to do something. It's not easy to find the best way to do something. Which is why people will often ask, "What's the best way to ___?"
As an example, look at one of my questions posted to USENET. Look at the solution I came up with, then look at the solution I was presented with.
whine whine whine.
"Ask Slashdot" is a moderated method for people to ask questions of a larger community, getting moderated responses.
in this case, his is a social question, one that there's no single answer to. Any solution is going to have to come from people who've encountered it before, and who can describe their situation.
If you don't like it, disable the Ask Slashdot topic in your user preferences.
Linux or win32? The AC post had useful directions that I'll try on Windows at some point. I only get to use Linux at home, where I don't have an internet connection...
Trading Technologies isn't going to let such big fish slide away so easily. That's a hell of a lot of revenue to give up for a one-time fee.
Something tells me there aren't a whole lot of potential licensees for these patents, anyway.
No...it's going to be the new one-line +5 funny phrase. Right up with the plastic-wielding overlords and other cliches.
Well, that is how the kooks think and operate, you see...
Will try that at some point. Hopefully it works like that under win32, too. :)
It's just unfortunate it's not compatible with the way open-source software developers have been doing business for the past thirty years...
Not sure, but I think Opera has the ability for you to browse your history by date. But it's been a while since I last used Opera.
(No disrespect intended; Opera is a great product. But Firefox can run off my USB disk, and store my profile in a specified directory to boot.)
Yes. And x86 isn't the only architecture that does that. POWER and PowerPC. Actually, I think it's standard practice.
Try writing a Purity test...
LEGOs would give me an advantage. My craftsmanship isn't all that great, meaning it's "measure twice, cut three times," for me.
Having uniform building blocks really helps.