A couple of days ago I registered with my bank for internet banking. It would be far easier but probably less secure if there was just a userid and password scheme in place. At the bank I use you have to enter your account number (9 digits), sort code (6 digits) and security number (4 digits). The account number and sort code can be got from your bank card or cheques, the security number is something only you know. But then, they go on to ask you a question, pretty generic but they can have specific answers that must be spelled right. When I was registering over the phone, after I had put in the account number, sort code and security number they asked me for all six or so of the security questions. I then discovered that at each login atempt at the banks internet site I'm asked one of these questions at random.
Maybe a bit of a ramble but everything I'm asked is easy enough to remember, it's a matter of finding a good way for people not to have to put this number anywhere else but in their memory. It seems secure enough for me?
And to add to that, my computer most of the time has a screensaver with a password. Everytime I'm asked by someone for my password when the screensavers up I say to them "What's the point of a password if you tell someone it?".
Yep, I get back from doing 7 hours at a fixed focus (vdu) and most nights the last thing I want to do is again fix my focus. So, off to the pub I go!
As for books, I started reading Penrose's Emperors New Mind but gave up after I realised that most nights on the way home from work I was so mentally exhausted I couldn't take on board what he was saying. So I switched back to Terry Pratchet's (brilliant) discworld series, light, easy going, very funny reading.
Any engineer worth there salt could make you a machine that would be able to tear off a human arm within a split second of the match starting. That isn't the point here, I'm saying that the title refers to strength and if you want that from a machine, you got it. Just don't expect intelligence.
Wikipedia is so high up on my list for information on the internet that combined with the suggestion towards using it in google I would completely agree it with and would like it. If they do, google should apply the same kind of intelligence towards search as they search wikipedia.
Wikipedia may not be an authority but as we all should know any information should be validated, the process of wikipedia lends me to the idea that this is intrinsic (is it?)
When I got my SGI Indys I was blown away by the fact that it had about the same multimedia port options as my then brand new PC, I'm talking 1.5 grands worth of computer here, nice graphics card, sound card etc. And yet the 1996 SGI Indy workstations had pretty much the same: video out/inputs, sound, on-board ethernet, sterescopic goggles, SCSI I think too and others that I just don't know what the hell they are.
In terms of number crunching a modern computer blows it way by a massive factor, but for the absolute range of devices/inputs available I was very impressed.
I too have an Indy (two of them picked up on the cheap from eBay) and I have a similar problem. Although I don't even have a set of disks to speak of, but it's what I really want as I wanted to try IRIX.
I need the disks because the boxes where supplied as-is, I was not supplied with either the bios or administrator password. The bios password is easy enough, if you open up the Indy there's a jumper available on the motherboard that will disable the bios password when removed. Once the jumper is removed I'm then stuck with needing (I think) Disk 2 of the installation disks which has a utility to reset the root password, as I have no disks I can't do this. From what I've read previously the IRIX license is per machine and not per user/set of disks so I think I should be perfectlly legal running both boxes with IRIX, just I need the disks, I too would be happy to pay for them with a no strings attached policy from SGI.
I've been considering putting either Debian MIPS or FreeBSD MIPS, but am reluctant to do so because I really wanted the Indys for the IRIX. As far as the status of those projects, I beleive Debian MIPS is good to go once I've setup a DHCP net booting system to bootstrap the install on the Indy and FreeBSD is still in development. Come to think of it, I bet my favourite flavor, NetBSD, has got a MIPS port (go 2.0!).
The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments and thus confuse them into failing to take account of the opposing arguments and, ultimately, to reject them.
I find that Microsoft applications purchased seperately from Windows integrate themselves as it is. If it does the job then it won't be Microsoft that will be doing the integration it will be the middle men as it will become an expected feature of windows computers (I can imagine it being installed on pre-installed os bundles routinely).
It is bad that it isn't as standard and you have to pay extra for it but come to think of it if I had the option of a cheaper windows license without the AV I'd go for it. People who use free AV software and those with outstanding licenses for AV software can save themselves some money.
(free reg required, someone'll post the Google link any minute now)
I understand that this is not on the topic of the article and that it may have been answered before but can someone please enlighten me as to why the google link can't be posted directly from the/. article?
I could have a guess that it is to do with the agreement between google and the NYTimes, maybe/. will be taken to court if they where to post the link on the front page, if thats the case then the person posting the link could be taken to court too, couldn't they?
I may be horribly wrong but I beleive everquest costs money to play, you have to pay a subscription to the game?
If so I think everquest maybe a little miss-representative of the set of people that this research found less of.
why? money... People under 18 don't have credit cards, which is a big barrier in getting money out of them and younger members of society generally have less income, or none at all (intermitent at best).
Therefore, no regular flow of money, no everquest?
Take a game you pick up off the shelf and pay once for, the games that teenagers can afford...
I don't mean to troll, just pointing out an observation
Call me a peace loving hippy but I don't think the prospeect of a weapon thats designed to kill and injure should be put under a category that is about fun and enterntainment (toys).
I'm going to be an engineer, or atleast, thats what my degree title states. Bachelor of Engineering in Computing, BEng Computing and I'm looking at working as a programmer after this. I wonder if this would apply in texas, im presuming that my degree would be a recognized qualification there.
Me and a few friends rent a server for the popular game Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike is a modification to the game Halflife. Halflife has a system where by each game purchased has a unique serial key which directly maps to a "WonID", there are no halflife keygens known and only one WonID can play on the internet at anyone time.
Part of the server administrators command set includes commands for banning WonIDs from the server, these can be accessed in game or remotley through RCON (remote console).
We deal with cheaters by banning the wonid they play on, almost 99% of cheaters do not come back on when we have banned their WonID. There are cheaters who have many serial keys (therefore they have many WonIDs), but this doesnt matter to us. They may beleive they can come back on and cheat once again but the ban isnt by a peice of software monitoring wonid's its by a person and a person can not be circumvented. If their banned, their banned. We report bans to each other through the forums we use, therefore all of the admins know of specific player names that have been banned.
Admins quickly get accustomed to how a player acts when cheating. A disproportionate number of good hits is a sign of an aim bot and the dead give away for "wallhack" (seeing through walls) is that of a player getting kills through walls or following players movement through walls.
Cheaters may always have the upper hand when it comes to technology but experience almost always wins out.
Does this mean that all those l33t hax0r txtz I got nocking arround and make out like it runs every computer system on the net can be put to some purpose?
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My watch has a capacity of 128MB, it's made by LAKS and was covered by Slashdot here http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/ 21/0046230&tid=159&tid=137
I've had it for two years without fault.
For high-security Web sites such as banks
A couple of days ago I registered with my bank for internet banking. It would be far easier but probably less secure if there was just a userid and password scheme in place. At the bank I use you have to enter your account number (9 digits), sort code (6 digits) and security number (4 digits). The account number and sort code can be got from your bank card or cheques, the security number is something only you know. But then, they go on to ask you a question, pretty generic but they can have specific answers that must be spelled right. When I was registering over the phone, after I had put in the account number, sort code and security number they asked me for all six or so of the security questions. I then discovered that at each login atempt at the banks internet site I'm asked one of these questions at random.
Maybe a bit of a ramble but everything I'm asked is easy enough to remember, it's a matter of finding a good way for people not to have to put this number anywhere else but in their memory. It seems secure enough for me?
And to add to that, my computer most of the time has a screensaver with a password. Everytime I'm asked by someone for my password when the screensavers up I say to them "What's the point of a password if you tell someone it?".
Yep, I get back from doing 7 hours at a fixed focus (vdu) and most nights the last thing I want to do is again fix my focus. So, off to the pub I go!
As for books, I started reading Penrose's Emperors New Mind but gave up after I realised that most nights on the way home from work I was so mentally exhausted I couldn't take on board what he was saying. So I switched back to Terry Pratchet's (brilliant) discworld series, light, easy going, very funny reading.
My guess this is a sponsored story, fuck you /.
Sega Mega Drive = translate("Sega Genesis", EUROPE);
Any engineer worth there salt could make you a machine that would be able to tear off a human arm within a split second of the match starting. That isn't the point here, I'm saying that the title refers to strength and if you want that from a machine, you got it. Just don't expect intelligence.
Wikipedia is so high up on my list for information on the internet that combined with the suggestion towards using it in google I would completely agree it with and would like it. If they do, google should apply the same kind of intelligence towards search as they search wikipedia.
Wikipedia may not be an authority but as we all should know any information should be validated, the process of wikipedia lends me to the idea that this is intrinsic (is it?)
TMC tmcgames.com
Where's my crowbar?
You left it in the black mesa research facility?
When I got my SGI Indys I was blown away by the fact that it had about the same multimedia port options as my then brand new PC, I'm talking 1.5 grands worth of computer here, nice graphics card, sound card etc. And yet the 1996 SGI Indy workstations had pretty much the same: video out/inputs, sound, on-board ethernet, sterescopic goggles, SCSI I think too and others that I just don't know what the hell they are.
In terms of number crunching a modern computer blows it way by a massive factor, but for the absolute range of devices/inputs available I was very impressed.
I too have an Indy (two of them picked up on the cheap from eBay) and I have a similar problem. Although I don't even have a set of disks to speak of, but it's what I really want as I wanted to try IRIX.
I need the disks because the boxes where supplied as-is, I was not supplied with either the bios or administrator password. The bios password is easy enough, if you open up the Indy there's a jumper available on the motherboard that will disable the bios password when removed. Once the jumper is removed I'm then stuck with needing (I think) Disk 2 of the installation disks which has a utility to reset the root password, as I have no disks I can't do this. From what I've read previously the IRIX license is per machine and not per user/set of disks so I think I should be perfectlly legal running both boxes with IRIX, just I need the disks, I too would be happy to pay for them with a no strings attached policy from SGI.
I've been considering putting either Debian MIPS or FreeBSD MIPS, but am reluctant to do so because I really wanted the Indys for the IRIX. As far as the status of those projects, I beleive Debian MIPS is good to go once I've setup a DHCP net booting system to bootstrap the install on the Indy and FreeBSD is still in development. Come to think of it, I bet my favourite flavor, NetBSD, has got a MIPS port (go 2.0!).
Please note. If you wish to run the test multiple times, then please refresh this page before each test.
"It's not working, maybe I'll refresh" *refresh* "nope, still nothing" *refresh*.
Multiply that by Slashdot...
Jambo is swahili for hello (AFAIK).
The Chewbacca Defense is a satirical term for any legal strategy that seeks to overwhelm its audience with nonsensical arguments and thus confuse them into failing to take account of the opposing arguments and, ultimately, to reject them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense
I find that Microsoft applications purchased seperately from Windows integrate themselves as it is. If it does the job then it won't be Microsoft that will be doing the integration it will be the middle men as it will become an expected feature of windows computers (I can imagine it being installed on pre-installed os bundles routinely).
It is bad that it isn't as standard and you have to pay extra for it but come to think of it if I had the option of a cheaper windows license without the AV I'd go for it. People who use free AV software and those with outstanding licenses for AV software can save themselves some money.
(free reg required, someone'll post the Google link any minute now)
/. article?
/. will be taken to court if they where to post the link on the front page, if thats the case then the person posting the link could be taken to court too, couldn't they?
I understand that this is not on the topic of the article and that it may have been answered before but can someone please enlighten me as to why the google link can't be posted directly from the
I could have a guess that it is to do with the agreement between google and the NYTimes, maybe
Thanks! Anoter link I can direct idiots.. er.. friends to when they're saying Java and they really mean JavaScript :-)
I think someone just fragged the web server. hey you... put that rocket launcher down.
I may be horribly wrong but I beleive everquest costs money to play, you have to pay a subscription to the game?
If so I think everquest maybe a little miss-representative of the set of people that this research found less of.
why? money... People under 18 don't have credit cards, which is a big barrier in getting money out of them and younger members of society generally have less income, or none at all (intermitent at best).
Therefore, no regular flow of money, no everquest?
Take a game you pick up off the shelf and pay once for, the games that teenagers can afford...
I don't mean to troll, just pointing out an observation
Call me a peace loving hippy but I don't think the prospeect of a weapon thats designed to kill and injure should be put under a category that is about fun and enterntainment (toys).
I'm going to be an engineer, or atleast, thats what my degree title states. Bachelor of Engineering in Computing, BEng Computing and I'm looking at working as a programmer after this. I wonder if this would apply in texas, im presuming that my degree would be a recognized qualification there.
Me and a few friends rent a server for the popular game Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike is a modification to the game Halflife. Halflife has a system where by each game purchased has a unique serial key which directly maps to a "WonID", there are no halflife keygens known and only one WonID can play on the internet at anyone time.
Part of the server administrators command set includes commands for banning WonIDs from the server, these can be accessed in game or remotley through RCON (remote console).
We deal with cheaters by banning the wonid they play on, almost 99% of cheaters do not come back on when we have banned their WonID. There are cheaters who have many serial keys (therefore they have many WonIDs), but this doesnt matter to us. They may beleive they can come back on and cheat once again but the ban isnt by a peice of software monitoring wonid's its by a person and a person can not be circumvented. If their banned, their banned. We report bans to each other through the forums we use, therefore all of the admins know of specific player names that have been banned.
Admins quickly get accustomed to how a player acts when cheating. A disproportionate number of good hits is a sign of an aim bot and the dead give away for "wallhack" (seeing through walls) is that of a player getting kills through walls or following players movement through walls.
Cheaters may always have the upper hand when it comes to technology but experience almost always wins out.
LAN party/cafe with the added extras of lots of money, a need to make revenue and appeal to more than just the /. crowd ?
Does this mean that all those l33t hax0r txtz I got nocking arround and make out like it runs every computer system on the net can be put to some purpose?
hmm, a better thought, why doesnt someone create a language that is similar to both and can be translated directly into either for compilation.
;)
Suggestions for names?
JavaRender ?
Why dont they work together and stop thinking about the shareholders! It would be positive for everyone involved.