That was my thought. I suppose you could let the first five people through automatically, then use their answers to check everyone else; but what's the point of a CAPTCHA that lets a certain minimum portion through?
Turning people away when they actually got it right is worse, though; that way you potentially lose customers in trying to fight spam.
Seems like an interesting idea, but I don't see how it can work...
Why does it let Ctrl-Alt-Del through to the hosted machine? It pops up a box telling you that you probably didn't want to do that, since both the server and the host see the keypress; but it sends it anyway. Result: lock your windows PC and reboot your virtual Linux box. Well, fine, I can get around that. (Just stop Ctrl-Alt-Del from rebooting the Linux box).
But why have Ctrl-R reboot the hosted machine? Ctrl-R which is used all the time when interacting with a shell. It's not exactly difficult to accidentally press Ctrl-R when the VM window has focus but the hosted machine itself does not. Gah.
You'd hope that in something as critical as a nuclear power plant the answer would be, very quickly, "no, it didn't come from an external source because that's impossible". Followed by detailed analysis of the logs to determine which internal system screwed up.
That said, the article is a bit sparse on actual technical details, so my derision may be unwarranted.
Hmm. I don't think driving is a luxury in the UK; it's a necessity for most. The public transport simply isn't that good, and it's expensive.
Living in London I can get by without a car (wouldn't have anywhere to keep it if I wanted one); but that would hardly be true in most of the country. At least, so far as I can tell; I've never really tried.
I suppose one thing we do have is that it's often straightforward to walk or cycle instead of driving.
1) Most people will never realise or care. 2) Of those who do realise and care, most won't switch until there's a competitor that's at least as good. I've yet to see another search engine as good as google, and their other offerings tend to be top of the pile, too.
Even with no lockin at all, it's very hard to take on google. The word "google" has become a verb! How's that for free advertising?
Er. That's a good trick, but it really doesn't apply.
For an strong eight character password with numbers the chance of guessing the correct one is one in 3x10^32.
It is more likely that the same numbers will come up three weeks in a row in your favourite megalottery than that you'll get the answer correct with your first guess. It will effectively never happen.
Of course weak passwords are an entirely different story.
Touchscreen is irrelevant. It's multitouch that's the big story.
Apple's multitouch technology came from Fingerworks (allegedly!) and I can tell you with great certainty that for a professional computer user, multitouch is the way to go. The Fingerworks Touchstream vastly better than the standard keyboard/mouse combination for programming; and I expect the advantages would be greater still for graphic design, CAD, etc.
It's all about 1) removing the need to alternative between keyboard/mouse -- the freedom gained is huge; 2) utilising considerable extra input bandwidth from chords, gestures, hot-switchable layouts; and 3) reducing injury and stress through zero-force typing.
Huh. I remember reading an alleged quote of Ballmer saying "We could fix all the bugs if we spent enough money, but I'd rather spend that money on marketing where there's a return on the investment." (Heavily paraphrased from the depths of memory). But I can't actually find a source for this one. Does anyone know if he did indeed say that, or am I merely spreading evil rumours?
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That statement can be generalised nicely.
And poster above has explained nicely how it works. Thanks. They could have put that in the article... (or summary!)
That was my thought. I suppose you could let the first five people through automatically, then use their answers to check everyone else; but what's the point of a CAPTCHA that lets a certain minimum portion through?
Turning people away when they actually got it right is worse, though; that way you potentially lose customers in trying to fight spam.
Seems like an interesting idea, but I don't see how it can work...
I few 'doh' moments using VMWare.
Why does it let Ctrl-Alt-Del through to the hosted machine? It pops up a box telling you that you probably didn't want to do that, since both the server and the host see the keypress; but it sends it anyway. Result: lock your windows PC and reboot your virtual Linux box. Well, fine, I can get around that. (Just stop Ctrl-Alt-Del from rebooting the Linux box).
But why have Ctrl-R reboot the hosted machine? Ctrl-R which is used all the time when interacting with a shell. It's not exactly difficult to accidentally press Ctrl-R when the VM window has focus but the hosted machine itself does not. Gah.
Sigh.
...writing unreliable, poorly-documented, just-about-does-the-job-and-only-if-you-get-lucky code would go out of fashion.
Sadly it seems to be here to stay. In fact with the better availability/quality of scripting languages it is, if anything, becoming more popular...
Eh? What did Nintendo do that was as bad as Sony's CDs?
For me, at least, there aren't any second chances. The great thing about the Linux market is there's plenty of choice. Why choose Novell now?
I won't be.
(Same idea behind not buying Sony ever again.)
I remember a sequence on Sesame Street that went very much along those lines.
It inspired me to draw this cartoon and its rather tragic second part.
Sadly the "should" is currently a very long way from the "does"...
You'd hope that in something as critical as a nuclear power plant the answer would be, very quickly, "no, it didn't come from an external source because that's impossible". Followed by detailed analysis of the logs to determine which internal system screwed up.
That said, the article is a bit sparse on actual technical details, so my derision may be unwarranted.
Hmmmmmm. What gave it away?
Hmm. I don't think driving is a luxury in the UK; it's a necessity for most. The public transport simply isn't that good, and it's expensive.
Living in London I can get by without a car (wouldn't have anywhere to keep it if I wanted one); but that would hardly be true in most of the country. At least, so far as I can tell; I've never really tried.
I suppose one thing we do have is that it's often straightforward to walk or cycle instead of driving.
Why is tax on gasoline in the USA so ridiculously low?
Either that or our (UK here, but I'm sure it applies elsewhere in Europe) tax is ridiculously high. Hmmmmm.
Huh? No offense, but... that's crazy talk.
1) Most people will never realise or care. 2) Of those who do realise and care, most won't switch until there's a competitor that's at least as good. I've yet to see another search engine as good as google, and their other offerings tend to be top of the pile, too.
Even with no lockin at all, it's very hard to take on google. The word "google" has become a verb! How's that for free advertising?
Er. That's a good trick, but it really doesn't apply.
For an strong eight character password with numbers the chance of guessing the correct one is one in 3x10^32.
It is more likely that the same numbers will come up three weeks in a row in your favourite megalottery than that you'll get the answer correct with your first guess. It will effectively never happen.
Of course weak passwords are an entirely different story.
How in the world did this get modded interesting?
It should be clear to anyone that you were being sarcastic :p
Huh. That is awesome.
Touchscreen is irrelevant. It's multitouch that's the big story.
Apple's multitouch technology came from Fingerworks (allegedly!) and I can tell you with great certainty that for a professional computer user, multitouch is the way to go. The Fingerworks Touchstream vastly better than the standard keyboard/mouse combination for programming; and I expect the advantages would be greater still for graphic design, CAD, etc.
It's all about 1) removing the need to alternative between keyboard/mouse -- the freedom gained is huge; 2) utilising considerable extra input bandwidth from chords, gestures, hot-switchable layouts; and 3) reducing injury and stress through zero-force typing.
It's the future -- at least, I hope so.
Indeed. Adium == awesome.
It has a green duck that jumps up and down! What more could you ask for?
Is all about not pushing the big red button no matter how much you want to.
I never thought there would *actually* be a campaign to use up all the GUIDs.
Huh. I remember reading an alleged quote of Ballmer saying "We could fix all the bugs if we spent enough money, but I'd rather spend that money on marketing where there's a return on the investment." (Heavily paraphrased from the depths of memory). But I can't actually find a source for this one. Does anyone know if he did indeed say that, or am I merely spreading evil rumours?
Hmm, the fact that the source is available is the only reason I was able to beat it :)
Yeah, so I cheated. And it was *still* hard...
Not a bad desert island choice, then.
Hey, I recognise that quote... isn't it from an episode of Red Dwarf?
Is of course quite different from a Creative Commons license. (Assuming by "uncopyrighted" they mean "into the public domain").
Seems like a good idea, anyway. What's the point of having a debate if you don't let people debate the debate?
(That was a rhetorical question, please don't comment on it).
What a strange world the US is...