Hmm.. by "It's a fair trade", I meant: open sourcing it (something I was considering anyway) is a good trade for the participants it could bring along.
Counting keystrokes seems more like trivia than science
Who ever said anything about science?? And it's not distributed computing either. Nice how my project has been known for less than a day and is already blown way off its original base.
I wouldn't. Had this old IBM keyboard where noone else was able to find the A, E, ^ or any other common used key. The chars just vanished:)
I wish someone had thought of this the day before I started using the computer for the first time. I'd love to know how close I am to 1,000,000,000, if I haven't passed it already
THAN" is the comparative you dumb shit! "THEN" is temporal!
How many times do you have to make the same stupid third grade grammatical error? Are you completely retarded, Taco?
It counts as 4 keystrokes either way. Soon that will be all that matters. Will save kids time, not having to take English.
But, it doesn't address the real point of this program at all: to count raw keypresses. I have no idea how many keypresses I make in a day. Whatever it is, I'm sure my estimate would be low.
Think roughly a million per month. But hey, it'll all become clear soon:)
It seems like it would be *really* easy to cheat. What prevents me from typing
Well zoombah, I've already taken this most obvious of sabotage concerns into mind. I asked myself that question, then fixed it so it's not a concern, then asked myself the next most obvious question, and continued like that until I was at the point where any user that had sabotage in mind that far would keep pursuing it ad infinitum, at which point I stopped.
I'm sure this program will get dissected, monitored, scrutinized, and poked at by dozens of people -- and if anything suspicious is found, it will be reported everywhere, and legal threats might even be thrown around.
That's why I'm making every effort to strictly adhere to this.
Maybe I should have paid more attenation to that article on document retention. How long should I keep my old mail? Oh, who cares, he'll have it all logged for me anyways..:)
Heh, that reminds me of the old joke (I don't know exactly how it goes): The US lost all its secret document stashes to a fire or something, and the Chinese embassy chimed in, "Don't worry, we've got backups of it all for you"
Someone should calculate how much energy it takes to press a key, and write a program that counts how many calories you've burned. "Mom, let me have that extra desert, I've been playing Quake for two weeks!"
I thought I'd thought of it all too. This is brilliant...
What is stopping any other kind of distributed program from recording key-strokes, and sending it back. I wonder if they are reading my keypresses right now.
Exactly. If I was planning to trap all yoru keys and build up information on all of you, I wouldn't make the emphasis on the very action I was trying to hide from everybody. I thought that would be more obvious, but alas...
I expected maybe after a few years this project would gather up enough popularity to get slashdotted, and after enough time perhaps even be the frist page hit via a "project dolphin" google search (rather than the actual page about actual dolphins being studied). But it's not even gone public yet and suddenly I'm worrying about bandwidth running out:)
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Hmm.. by "It's a fair trade", I meant: open sourcing it (something I was considering anyway) is a good trade for the participants it could bring along.
So why not open source it? Are you going to sell this commercially or something?
Selling it commercially... the concept makes me feel sick. And it will be open source soon... it's a fair trade :)
Counting keystrokes seems more like trivia than science
Who ever said anything about science?? And it's not distributed computing either. Nice how my project has been known for less than a day and is already blown way off its original base.
I wouldn't. Had this old IBM keyboard where noone else was able to find the A, E, ^ or any other common used key. The chars just vanished :)
I wish someone had thought of this the day before I started using the computer for the first time. I'd love to know how close I am to 1,000,000,000, if I haven't passed it already
THAN" is the comparative you dumb shit! "THEN" is temporal!
How many times do you have to make the same stupid third grade grammatical error? Are you completely retarded, Taco?
It counts as 4 keystrokes either way. Soon that will be all that matters. Will save kids time, not having to take English.
First keyboard I remember destroying that did not involve punching it after dieing in some game...
On a related, off-topic note, my mouse is currently feeling the strain of a crash-happy VC++.... ;)
Poor thing.. oh well, it's optical == no moving parts.
But, it doesn't address the real point of this program at all: to count raw keypresses. I have no idea how many keypresses I make in a day. Whatever it is, I'm sure my estimate would be low.
Think roughly a million per month. But hey, it'll all become clear soon :)
If I ever write Pulse plugins, I'm coming to you for ideas. This is also brilliant.
Really, this would also teach us that some key are COMPLETELLY USELESS, such as Caps-Lock, INSERT and SCroll -lock!
Oh but the LED lights must stay.... *wink*It seems like it would be *really* easy to cheat. What prevents me from typing
Well zoombah, I've already taken this most obvious of sabotage concerns into mind. I asked myself that question, then fixed it so it's not a concern, then asked myself the next most obvious question, and continued like that until I was at the point where any user that had sabotage in mind that far would keep pursuing it ad infinitum, at which point I stopped.
I'm sure this program will get dissected, monitored, scrutinized, and poked at by dozens of people -- and if anything suspicious is found, it will be reported everywhere, and legal threats might even be thrown around.
That's why I'm making every effort to strictly adhere to this.Maybe I should have paid more attenation to that article on document retention. How long should I keep my old mail? Oh, who cares, he'll have it all logged for me anyways.. :)
Heh, that reminds me of the old joke (I don't know exactly how it goes): The US lost all its secret document stashes to a fire or something, and the Chinese embassy chimed in, "Don't worry, we've got backups of it all for you"
Unfortunately, I don't think the protocol of this thing does that; moreover, the only people that will install this thing are geeks. ;)
Which of course was my intent from the start ;)
Damn... they've found me out (again)
Someone should calculate how much energy it takes to press a key, and write a program that counts how many calories you've burned. "Mom, let me have that extra desert, I've been playing Quake for two weeks!"
I thought I'd thought of it all too. This is brilliant...
percentages (out of _The Code Book_, by Simon Singh, page 19):
That book is amazing. I'd recommend anybody who hasn't read it, read it. Try the cipher challenge too.. it's pretty fun.
What is stopping any other kind of distributed program from recording key-strokes, and sending it back. I wonder if they are reading my keypresses right now.
Exactly. If I was planning to trap all yoru keys and build up information on all of you, I wouldn't make the emphasis on the very action I was trying to hide from everybody. I thought that would be more obvious, but alas...
Blatant sarcasm aside, this is moderately interesting. Any chances we'll see a linux client?
Linux clients... not in the very near future. Though of course it's possible.
I expected maybe after a few years this project would gather up enough popularity to get slashdotted, and after enough time perhaps even be the frist page hit via a "project dolphin" google search (rather than the actual page about actual dolphins being studied). But it's not even gone public yet and suddenly I'm worrying about bandwidth running out :)
The trust complexes start today I guess...