As another piece of anecdotal evidence, I use rdesktop to access a machine at work. I used to have only one monitor. The default for switching between full-screen and windowed in rdesktop is Ctrl-Alt-Enter. Enter is right below the Backspace on my keyboard.
Instead of one lame act selling lots of records, another did.
Setting aside our obvious differences in musical taste, you're wrong. There's no "instead", both acts sold lots of records and RATM sold around 500,000. I doubt that the people buying "Killing in the name" would ever have bought the X-factor single instead.
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do.
"When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart."
"It was supposedly a kick against the commercialism of Christmas and commercial dominance in the music scene"
In a way, but it was more the fact that the previous 4 years' Christmas Number Ones had been X-Factor winners. It's slightly disingenuous to say that the Facebook campaign was a "kick against the commercialism of Christmas"...
"Commercial dominance" ever was a factor in the race for christmas number one in the UK, but at least it was a race, not a foregone conclusion. Like when the Spice Girls went up against Chef and his Chocolate Salty Balls. The trend in recent years is for the X-Factor winner (whoever it is, it doesn't matter) to win. This is just a big "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"...music lovers taking back the Christmas #1 slot.
(Either that or it's a cynical ploy by Sony BMG to sell 500,000 records that they wouldn't have sold otherwise...)
For a second I couldn't remember the last time I had to look at a hardware compatibility list, but then it hit me...when I was shopping for a new video card. I went with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500TV by the way. Oh and the time before that it was when shopping for a new modem. I went with a Diamond Supra 56k...
Maybe I've been lucky, or the hardware I buy just isn't esoteric enough, but everything just works for me, and has done for ~8 years running Slackware, of all things. New DVD burner, new nvidia graphics card, dual wide-screen monitors, digital camera, Razer gaming mouse, USB SD/Compact Flash/etc. card reader all worked with so little pain I was actually shocked, because even though it hasn't been my experience, this FUD about hardware compatibility seeps in at the edges.
Now, *software* compatibility is another matter, but even now I find myself buying games without checking Wine's appdb first. The only game I have that I can't run in Linux is a copy of Supreme Commander that a friend gave me. Left 4 dead runs a little choppily, but that's not helped by my now aging video card...time to go shopping:)
Of course, since it's utterly impossible to buy health insurance yourself.
Government health care by contrast, is forced on everyone. That specific fact is what makes it a death panel. The person does not decide for himself what he is insured against, and is forbidden from doing so.
Cretin. A National Health Service...at least mine...doesn't preclude me from buying private health insurance, nor my employer from providing me with a private health plan. What it does do is provide a large section of the population (who can't afford private health insurance, or whose employer cannot or will not provide them with a private health plan) to have access to health care. Including, but not limited to, the terminally ill, the young, the elderly and the un-employed.
You can quote specific corner-cases affecting very expensive treatments or treatments with dubious efficacy all you want, but you seem to be overlooking the fact that in the U.S., over 60% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. The U.S. may be a lot of things, but a model of a first-world health-care provider it is not. Give me a "death-panel" any day of the week.
Asus are distributing a copy of the software on a CD so that the OP can install it. They should be either providing the source code, or providing a way to access the source code.
There's an instructable showing how to make a laser mic like this for under $50 iirc.
Leaning an electric toothbrush against the window may work well enough to defeat it ofc.
This rather peculiar way of learning Unix shell probably had the bizarrest of influences on my habits. For example, for e-mail I used 'elm', despite 'pine' being way more popular at the time. Why? It was earlier in the alphabet, so I tried it first. I used 'rn' for months before I found 'trn'.
In addition to this, what about those humans who just happen to fall into the seemingly 'mechanical pattern' that a computer registrant would? I know some parents of friends who very meticulously and methodically fill out forms, reading every box and explanation to ensure that they're inputting the right data.
Even the most "mechanical" of your friends wouldn't download the page, parse it in its entirety without scrolling the page in their browser, then enter all form fields in a fraction of a second, before submitting it. In fact what you're describing is probably exactly the kind of thing that the test would detect as normal human behaviour. Scroll down, read field label, read form field explanation, type answer into form field, scroll down, repeat.
The tricksiness of defining a useful (i.e. easy for a human to pass, difficult for a machine to pass) test will be in measuring, "by how much did the browser viewport move that time?", "how fast did they type that word into the field", "did they need to scroll the page to see the field", "is the scroll exactly 20px every time?", "how much time has elapsed since the viewport was last scrolled?" etc. All of which will have to be measured client-side, *ahem*. THEN, you have to feed that into your algorithm and determine how human those inputs make the form submitter. The test could be calibrated by having a number of known humans fill out the form and observing the inputs you get, how much variance there is etc.
The simplest version of the proposed test is to calculate the amount of time between a computer X requesting the form and computer X submitting the form. If you've recorded the time of the fastest human as 30 seconds, then you prevent all form submissions before 30 seconds has elapsed. But that's a single data point and if you were writing a bot,it would be trivial to put in a wait time of 30 seconds between form load and submission, if you were willing to wait. Similarly, it will be possible to emulate a human browsing a form and submitting it...but it would hopefully involve a lot more time, effort and money than is economical for the spammer...
Players could compete to claim the most on expenses (homes, fridges, televisions, diamond rings, porn, et cetera) on expenses without being caught by the News of the World.
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It's hard enough for SOLDIERS on the ground NOW to tell the difference, let alone robots. Maybe that's why it keeps coming up?
As another piece of anecdotal evidence, I use rdesktop to access a machine at work. I used to have only one monitor. The default for switching between full-screen and windowed in rdesktop is Ctrl-Alt-Enter. Enter is right below the Backspace on my keyboard.
There was text in Serious Sam??
The ironing is delicious.
Setting aside our obvious differences in musical taste, you're wrong. There's no "instead", both acts sold lots of records and RATM sold around 500,000. I doubt that the people buying "Killing in the name" would ever have bought the X-factor single instead.
The other end result of course is that the Facebook group raised £70k for charity, and RATM are now pledging to donate the profits from sales of the record to charity too, something which I highly doubt Joe McElderberry, X-Factor winner, will do.
- Tom Morello via Wikipedia
In a way, but it was more the fact that the previous 4 years' Christmas Number Ones had been X-Factor winners. It's slightly disingenuous to say that the Facebook campaign was a "kick against the commercialism of Christmas"...
"Commercial dominance" ever was a factor in the race for christmas number one in the UK, but at least it was a race, not a foregone conclusion. Like when the Spice Girls went up against Chef and his Chocolate Salty Balls. The trend in recent years is for the X-Factor winner (whoever it is, it doesn't matter) to win. This is just a big "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me"...music lovers taking back the Christmas #1 slot.
(Either that or it's a cynical ploy by Sony BMG to sell 500,000 records that they wouldn't have sold otherwise...)
Cloverfield had an estimated budget of $30 million and grossed $170,602,318.
For a second I couldn't remember the last time I had to look at a hardware compatibility list, but then it hit me...when I was shopping for a new video card. I went with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500TV by the way. Oh and the time before that it was when shopping for a new modem. I went with a Diamond Supra 56k...
:)
Maybe I've been lucky, or the hardware I buy just isn't esoteric enough, but everything just works for me, and has done for ~8 years running Slackware, of all things. New DVD burner, new nvidia graphics card, dual wide-screen monitors, digital camera, Razer gaming mouse, USB SD/Compact Flash/etc. card reader all worked with so little pain I was actually shocked, because even though it hasn't been my experience, this FUD about hardware compatibility seeps in at the edges.
Now, *software* compatibility is another matter, but even now I find myself buying games without checking Wine's appdb first. The only game I have that I can't run in Linux is a copy of Supreme Commander that a friend gave me. Left 4 dead runs a little choppily, but that's not helped by my now aging video card...time to go shopping
Kinky
Knew it wouldn't be long before a Rule 34 thread broke out. Niiiice.
Apt.
Cretin. A National Health Service...at least mine...doesn't preclude me from buying private health insurance, nor my employer from providing me with a private health plan. What it does do is provide a large section of the population (who can't afford private health insurance, or whose employer cannot or will not provide them with a private health plan) to have access to health care. Including, but not limited to, the terminally ill, the young, the elderly and the un-employed.
You can quote specific corner-cases affecting very expensive treatments or treatments with dubious efficacy all you want, but you seem to be overlooking the fact that in the U.S., over 60% of bankruptcies are due to medical bills. The U.S. may be a lot of things, but a model of a first-world health-care provider it is not. Give me a "death-panel" any day of the week.
Asus are distributing a copy of the software on a CD so that the OP can install it. They should be either providing the source code, or providing a way to access the source code.
GPL. Section 6. Seems pretty clear cut to me.
This is /. ... 99% of us our dating ourselves.
Or like this?
And somewhere, someone will still be browsing the internet from his C64.
There are those who claim this has already happened.
1.08: Hans Brix's skereton in the shark tank
1.21: Kim-Jong Ir statue which is actuarry Kim-Jong Ir painted to rook rike a statue.
Hirarious.
Great. Now I have to change the combination on my luggage.
There's an instructable showing how to make a laser mic like this for under $50 iirc.
Leaning an electric toothbrush against the window may work well enough to defeat it ofc.
I deduce that SunOS had no apropos command...
Even the most "mechanical" of your friends wouldn't download the page, parse it in its entirety without scrolling the page in their browser, then enter all form fields in a fraction of a second, before submitting it. In fact what you're describing is probably exactly the kind of thing that the test would detect as normal human behaviour. Scroll down, read field label, read form field explanation, type answer into form field, scroll down, repeat.
The tricksiness of defining a useful (i.e. easy for a human to pass, difficult for a machine to pass) test will be in measuring, "by how much did the browser viewport move that time?", "how fast did they type that word into the field", "did they need to scroll the page to see the field", "is the scroll exactly 20px every time?", "how much time has elapsed since the viewport was last scrolled?" etc. All of which will have to be measured client-side, *ahem*. THEN, you have to feed that into your algorithm and determine how human those inputs make the form submitter. The test could be calibrated by having a number of known humans fill out the form and observing the inputs you get, how much variance there is etc.
The simplest version of the proposed test is to calculate the amount of time between a computer X requesting the form and computer X submitting the form. If you've recorded the time of the fastest human as 30 seconds, then you prevent all form submissions before 30 seconds has elapsed. But that's a single data point and if you were writing a bot,it would be trivial to put in a wait time of 30 seconds between form load and submission, if you were willing to wait. Similarly, it will be possible to emulate a human browsing a form and submitting it...but it would hopefully involve a lot more time, effort and money than is economical for the spammer...
You mean: wioll haven (Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional)
Source: Dr D. Streetmentioner
Or a newspaper.