cce, how did you confirm a successful application of your method? If each site used a unique 'secret key' to salt the hash, would it prevent breakability?
I run a small site that uses globally recognized avatars, which are implemented with hashed email addresses. Thanks for doing this study!
Exactly. You take normal people and put them into a position of power, and it changes them. In my experience, treating them with respect instead of antagonizing them tends to soften the effect. I don't see why more people don't give it a shot. Plus, out of all the cops out there, how many of them are truly bad people? I don't think there are that many.
The point is, police are public servants. When they begin to act like public bullies, the hammer should be brought down so hard that cops DO HESITATE before roughing someone up, drawing their guns, or writing someone a ticket. The badge, the gavel, the senator's office are not licenses for personal gain and power trips.
I've been pulled over so many times for ridiculous things like "drifting over the white line," "your brights were on" (no they weren't), "it's illegal to drive with your foot out the window" (the state troopers' office says it isn't), "it's illegal to pull a u-turn at an intersection" (again, no it isn't), etc. While I was in court for the last offense I mentioned (the u-turn), the officer who had pulled me over actually lied to the judge to make the charge more serious. I was shocked and infuriated at witnessing a public servant lying about a citizen's actions, even something as small as a possible traffic offense.
My point is that we shouldn't have to tread lightly around cops, judges and other public servants. They should make us feel more safe, not less.
How does iTunes currently record play counts? I'm not sure, but my guess is that with the movies, they'll explicitly spell out how play count works, since in that context it will be more important. If I open the movie just to show my buddy one cool fight scene, is that a viewing? What about if I watch all of the movie minus one very boring segment?
My guess is that the restriction will will be a set number of days, not a set number of viewings; but if they want to do the latter, they could just give you a certain multiple of the movie's running length. E.g. if the movie is 120 minutes, you can watch it for 360 minutes - either three full viewings, or a number of partial viewings, however you prefer to cut it.
This is quite a troll. However, here are some relevant quotes from wikipedia:
In response to the telegrammed question of New York's Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in 1929: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid 50 words." Einstein replied "I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."
"I do not think that it is necessarily the case that science and religion are natural opposites. In fact, I think that there is a very close connection between the two. Further, I think that science without religion is lame and, conversely, that religion without science is blind. Both are important and should work hand-in-hand"
He who speaks, preaches, teaches, condones or practices SINGULARITY - an evil that equates DEATH by cancellation of universal OPPOSITES - hemispheres, sexes, seasons, races, temperatures, marriages and divided cell (the human Cubic who rotates a 4 corner stage family rotating metamorphic lifetime) - should have their evil lying tongue cut out. Educators are lying bastards.
TFAs mention the device's ability to give the user a summary of what it sees. I wonder whether this includes correctly interpreting layout, font weight, etc. in order to tell the user, "I see a list of seven items, each with supplementary data. The list includes Vegetable Lo Mein, Egg Fried Rice..." Otherwise it seems like it would be very inefficient for most practical uses (menus, directories, phone books, etc).
Future versions of CSS will allow you to choose which kind of bounding box you want to use - the kind where you're specifying the content box, or the kind where you're specifying the "total" box.
Instead, you blow some smoke at them. Appease them, if you will. You throw some trivial copy protection on there, enough so you can say "hey, we told them not to steal music," but which makes it easy for anybody with half a brain to download Senuti (or any of the other dozen utilities that are out there) and share their music with anyone else.
It's a good compromise, and I much prefer it to the alternative, which is that they wait for the RIAA to either sue them into the ground, or use their pet politicians to pass some bullshit law requiring really onerous DRM. Because that's the alternative.
Remember also that the RIAA will only be around (in a relevant way) for a few more years, now...
I don't know about anybody else, but for the first few minutes that this article was listed (as a secondary article on/. main page), the headline linked to a nonexistent URL, and the story didn't appear on the games.slashdot main page.
This is totally unrelated to the original topic, but I found your comment interesting and have a relevant anecdote.
A few weeks ago I was sitting on a couch in a room full of people, and I was thinking about how strange it is that we consider there to be such a thing as a "frame," or quantum, of sight - for example, your entire field of vision at an instant in time - but there is no such thing, practically speaking, as a quantum of sound. If you tried, you couldn't mentally isolate a frame of auditory sensation the way you can a frame of visual sensation.
Anyhow, as I was sitting there I decided to try to perceive the passage of time not as a singular flow, but as a solid composed of infinite particles.
The weirdest thing happened: It worked. I felt as if I was viewing and experiencing a million disconnected images that flashed in and out of my mind at an incredible speed. It was disorienting, but felt like some kind of drug-induced high. I enjoyed it, even though it was unsettling.
Also: "Both use their return link to link a web page which is, in my opinion, pretty worthless." Um, hello? You've not heard of Google, page rank, and the uncountable fortunes that await someone with a high google score? Please. You *know* this is a hugely popular site. You *know* the power of it, and google's. Leaving the combined power of these two sites in the hands of anyone with scads of free time is silly.
I think he meant that the websites these guys run are worthless, not that/. links to them are worthless.
The people who are so insistent that $userinfo['belief'] simply re-interpret and filter what facts will fit their $userinfo['theory']; anything that disagrees with their conclusions are simply ignored or swept under the rug.
What - on earth. That was supposed to be AC, but it logged me in when I previewed the post.
I don't think anybody I know knows my slashdot handle. Oh well.
This is off-topic, I know. I feel strange doing it, but right now I don't know who else to talk to,
I was up so high for most of the evening, then about an hour and a half ago I began to crash. I had been ecstatic, extremely hyper, excited, unthinking. Then there was a tangible change, very sudden. When it happens, it feels like it's mental and physical at the same time. You suddenly lose all motivation, your emotions drain away to a sad dull grey, and you feel as if you haven't slept in days. You also hate your life and most of the people in it.
I started seeing a psychologist a month or two ago, and she's been recommending that I go to a psychiatrist for a medication evaluation, but I'm nervous about it and feel like it's the easy way out. I'm also afraid of side-effects and just - don't know what to expect.
Right now I feel like crap and somehow posting to slashdot as an anonymous coward felt like a reasonable thing to do. I don't know how to end the post. Sorry if this inconveniences anybody.
Isn't that one of the marks of a genuine filmmaker/author/musician/insert artist here? You and I may hate what Lucas has done with his series, but if he *were* to leave it alone, wishing to change them but cowing to the public, he'd be a coward.
Google confirmed today that African-Americans using the service were automatically prevented from viewing search results pertaining to organizations that ban blacks from their assemblies.
If the squares three-by-three grid are numbered 1-9:
Square 6 (computer chooses 5) Square 8 (computer chooses 1) Square 9 (computer chooses 7) Square 3, game over
As far as I can tell, this is the only way to win, because of the priority the game appears to give to square 1. I haven't looked at the script, though.
It seems like at least one a week or so I see people noting duplicate articles on slashdot, but I think this is the first time I've actually seen one and said "hey, I've seen that here before."
I wonder what guidelines Slashdot editors follow in order to make sure they're not posting dupes? Obviously the process isn't a science, since there are dupes every once in a while, but I'm curious as to how you can make sure.
Also, I'm not a subscriber but I understand subscribers are able to view posts at least a few minutes before they hit the main page... Would it be possible to allow subscribers to mark stories as duplicates and (pending editor approval) make sure they don't get published?
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Even if it's his own last name?
cce, how did you confirm a successful application of your method? If each site used a unique 'secret key' to salt the hash, would it prevent breakability? I run a small site that uses globally recognized avatars, which are implemented with hashed email addresses. Thanks for doing this study!
How does iTunes currently record play counts? I'm not sure, but my guess is that with the movies, they'll explicitly spell out how play count works, since in that context it will be more important. If I open the movie just to show my buddy one cool fight scene, is that a viewing? What about if I watch all of the movie minus one very boring segment? My guess is that the restriction will will be a set number of days, not a set number of viewings; but if they want to do the latter, they could just give you a certain multiple of the movie's running length. E.g. if the movie is 120 minutes, you can watch it for 360 minutes - either three full viewings, or a number of partial viewings, however you prefer to cut it.
He who speaks, preaches, teaches, condones or practices SINGULARITY - an evil that equates DEATH by cancellation of universal OPPOSITES - hemispheres, sexes, seasons, races, temperatures, marriages and divided cell (the human Cubic who rotates a 4 corner stage family rotating metamorphic lifetime) - should have their evil lying tongue cut out. Educators are lying bastards.
TFAs mention the device's ability to give the user a summary of what it sees. I wonder whether this includes correctly interpreting layout, font weight, etc. in order to tell the user, "I see a list of seven items, each with supplementary data. The list includes Vegetable Lo Mein, Egg Fried Rice..." Otherwise it seems like it would be very inefficient for most practical uses (menus, directories, phone books, etc).
Future versions of CSS will allow you to choose which kind of bounding box you want to use - the kind where you're specifying the content box, or the kind where you're specifying the "total" box.
Would it really be that hard to learn how to get around at 1/6 gravity? Don't spray the whole moon, I want to play basketball up there some day.
Instead, you blow some smoke at them. Appease them, if you will. You throw some trivial copy protection on there, enough so you can say "hey, we told them not to steal music," but which makes it easy for anybody with half a brain to download Senuti (or any of the other dozen utilities that are out there) and share their music with anyone else.
It's a good compromise, and I much prefer it to the alternative, which is that they wait for the RIAA to either sue them into the ground, or use their pet politicians to pass some bullshit law requiring really onerous DRM. Because that's the alternative.
Remember also that the RIAA will only be around (in a relevant way) for a few more years, now...
I don't know about anybody else, but for the first few minutes that this article was listed (as a secondary article on /. main page), the headline linked to a nonexistent URL, and the story didn't appear on the games.slashdot main page.
This is totally unrelated to the original topic, but I found your comment interesting and have a relevant anecdote.
A few weeks ago I was sitting on a couch in a room full of people, and I was thinking about how strange it is that we consider there to be such a thing as a "frame," or quantum, of sight - for example, your entire field of vision at an instant in time - but there is no such thing, practically speaking, as a quantum of sound. If you tried, you couldn't mentally isolate a frame of auditory sensation the way you can a frame of visual sensation.
Anyhow, as I was sitting there I decided to try to perceive the passage of time not as a singular flow, but as a solid composed of infinite particles.
The weirdest thing happened: It worked. I felt as if I was viewing and experiencing a million disconnected images that flashed in and out of my mind at an incredible speed. It was disorienting, but felt like some kind of drug-induced high. I enjoyed it, even though it was unsettling.
Also: "Both use their return link to link a web page which is, in my opinion, pretty worthless." Um, hello? You've not heard of Google, page rank, and the uncountable fortunes that await someone with a high google score? Please. You *know* this is a hugely popular site. You *know* the power of it, and google's. Leaving the combined power of these two sites in the hands of anyone with scads of free time is silly. I think he meant that the websites these guys run are worthless, not that /. links to them are worthless.
The people who are so insistent that $userinfo['belief'] simply re-interpret and filter what facts will fit their $userinfo['theory']; anything that disagrees with their conclusions are simply ignored or swept under the rug.
What - on earth. That was supposed to be AC, but it logged me in when I previewed the post. I don't think anybody I know knows my slashdot handle. Oh well.
This is off-topic, I know. I feel strange doing it, but right now I don't know who else to talk to,
I was up so high for most of the evening, then about an hour and a half ago I began to crash. I had been ecstatic, extremely hyper, excited, unthinking. Then there was a tangible change, very sudden. When it happens, it feels like it's mental and physical at the same time. You suddenly lose all motivation, your emotions drain away to a sad dull grey, and you feel as if you haven't slept in days. You also hate your life and most of the people in it.
I started seeing a psychologist a month or two ago, and she's been recommending that I go to a psychiatrist for a medication evaluation, but I'm nervous about it and feel like it's the easy way out. I'm also afraid of side-effects and just - don't know what to expect.
Right now I feel like crap and somehow posting to slashdot as an anonymous coward felt like a reasonable thing to do. I don't know how to end the post. Sorry if this inconveniences anybody.
Isn't that one of the marks of a genuine filmmaker/author/musician/insert artist here? You and I may hate what Lucas has done with his series, but if he *were* to leave it alone, wishing to change them but cowing to the public, he'd be a coward.
Yes, American machines were used by many people [http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com] during WWII.
Google confirmed today that African-Americans using the service were automatically prevented from viewing search results pertaining to organizations that ban blacks from their assemblies.
Also, if the squares of the three-by-three grid are numbered 1-9: Square 6 (computer chooses 5) Square 8 (computer chooses 1) Square 9 (computer chooses 7) Square 3
If the squares three-by-three grid are numbered 1-9:
Square 6 (computer chooses 5)
Square 8 (computer chooses 1)
Square 9 (computer chooses 7)
Square 3, game over
As far as I can tell, this is the only way to win, because of the priority the game appears to give to square 1. I haven't looked at the script, though.
It seems like at least one a week or so I see people noting duplicate articles on slashdot, but I think this is the first time I've actually seen one and said "hey, I've seen that here before." I wonder what guidelines Slashdot editors follow in order to make sure they're not posting dupes? Obviously the process isn't a science, since there are dupes every once in a while, but I'm curious as to how you can make sure. Also, I'm not a subscriber but I understand subscribers are able to view posts at least a few minutes before they hit the main page... Would it be possible to allow subscribers to mark stories as duplicates and (pending editor approval) make sure they don't get published?
i think you meant venn diagrams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn sorry for nit-picking, i like venn diagrams tho.
I just patented First Posting(TM). Your charge comes to $39,750.
That's why I can't see the wrinkles in my shirt but everyone else notices?