I very distinctively remember having a speech recognition application on Windows 3.11. There was one in iPhone 3GS too btw.
Its something used by marketing guys to make it look good to stupid people, and sometimes you can use it to brag with to your (lower IQ) friends. It was done using neural networks ages ago, there really is nothing new to it.
When interacting with machines, using buttons beats speaking any time of the day. Practical use: no. Maybe just for.. NO. HELL NO.
Get serious guys - speech recognision is probably the biggest snake oil in the history of computer.
Because your "needs" are clearly defined and measurable, right?
You need your Notepad to open up between precisely 200 and 400 ms. In no way you could use a blazzing 15ms loading time, or you could settle for a lousy 450ms. RIGHT?
Not that processor speed is the most influential on loading time of a program, but you get the picture. Most of the users don't have a precise measurement for what they "need". And my most I mean pretty much mean ALL personal users, including myself.
Please stop with "this is WAY too much processing power, its overkill" lines. Its getting boring, and we all know you crave it too, you just down-rate what you can't have. Its hypocrisy. Any stupid little user on this planet could have a very nice use for a 1 Petahertz processor, or more.
Outsourcing is a natural move of the global economy trying to balance a huge difference in work force price.
The correct solution is not artificially blocking this ("they took our job!") that would only increase the tension, but by letting it solve itself naturally and by trying to be really competitive globally.
US needs to stop faking stuff, its exactly what brought it in the current horrible situation.
The core of the problem is the advertising system. Its main philosophy idea is flawed, because its based on a lie.
We need a truly micro-transaction oriented paid content system, not the current "who can fake more SEO" to get a pay-check for content. Let the customer payments _directly_ decide who is worthy, not the stupid web of lies driven by advertisements.
New tools make things easier for us. So we spend less effort on that activity. So that area of brain is not used anymore. So we are atrophying. Thus, its better for us to go back to pre-stone age era. Long live sophism!
Every single new technology that actually proved useful and had wide-spread usage had this discussion. Nothing to see here, move on.
Perhaps even more, there will be entire parts of the game that is not being present/executed on the client side. From what they told us, that's exactly whats happening. Creating a "single player" game consists of connecting to a server that hosts the game.
So we are not just talking about a "hack", but an entire part of the game functionality. You will basically need a server emulator to play a self hosted single player game. Eventually, it will happen(just like with Diablo 2 or wow pirated servers), but it will take some time - and it will have just a subset of the features of the official ones.
My advice: just pay for the damn game, its going to be awesome and they deserve the reward for all that work.
They spend most of their time near the scum of the society. Of course they are affected massively by their environment, and they transform into scum. Its very natural.
I fear police the very same way I fear criminals - and I stay away from them at all costs.
The topic of password complexity has been present on Slashdot almost every day lately. Everything that was possible to be said WAS said. You can do massive karma poach with copy & paste if that's your thing, but this is not why I come to Slashdot.
Feel free to mod me down, but can we stop this nonsense? Please?
You assume incorrectly that the user cares about the security of his account always.
I myself create occasionally accounts that I really don't care about them, I just need them for temporary means. In such use cases, a thousand rules and fields to fill are just pointless. And BTW, I always thought the "mystery question/answer" was the most stupid security measure ever invented, even for my main accounts.
Warn the user: YES. Ban the simple or common passwords: NO.
Also, a lot of people here on Slashdot needs to drop this high-and-mighty attitude regarding the complexity of the passwords. They are not really solving the real security issues, its mostly a brag issue: "Oh look, that guy just typed something like 25 characters for his password, he must be so awesome!".
"We believe that Internet Explorer is a really good browser" - Steve Jobs, 1997
I know this is Slashdot and there was some disastrous stuff happening with IE6, but lets get facts right.
Back in 1997, IE4 was launched. IE4 and IE5 WERE really good browsers. They introduced the new DHTML engine in IE4, and it was WAY faster and more powerful and more stable than the real alternative at that time, which was Netscape 4.
Sure, let's go provide coverage on top of the mountains, where nobody uses it, but don't, I mean DON'T ffs provide it in cities, where millions of paying customers need it every single day, every single second - that's lame. After all, real businesses are not afraid to not have customers. They should prioritize the barrens deserts. Now, those are companies with balls of steel.
A sound business plan, my boy. Let me know how it works out for you.
Is somewhere between South America and Antarctica.
Probably a good place to watch it would be in Atacama desert, but sadly its going to be in plain daylight.
Absolute transparency is only in a child mind. Grow up, some information you do not need or want to know. Heck, some crap it would be even dangerous for you.
Some things are good to be secret, and its not up for Wikileaks to be the highest authority on deciding what should be secret or not. Yes. And puppies grow old and die too!
Who the hell will want to invest in a technology owned no longer by its creative creator who made it grow(Sun), but now by a patent troll(Oracle) who is only looking to sue the Java users?
Any non retarded system will not allow more than a few login attempts. Any password longer than 3-4 character doesn't offer any real protection, only psihological comfort.
If someone got a hand of the password hash, its gameover - doesnt matter if its a week or 2 month to crack it.
We need to get our collective heads out of the sand and triage the REAL security values!
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I very distinctively remember having a speech recognition application on Windows 3.11. There was one in iPhone 3GS too btw. Its something used by marketing guys to make it look good to stupid people, and sometimes you can use it to brag with to your (lower IQ) friends. It was done using neural networks ages ago, there really is nothing new to it.
.. NO. HELL NO.
When interacting with machines, using buttons beats speaking any time of the day. Practical use: no. Maybe just for
Get serious guys - speech recognision is probably the biggest snake oil in the history of computer.
The end is here, no more "sign of beta".
Hide the children and women! The Betacolypse is upon us all!
I know, I know! Lets make a game with this: if you kill a civilian, you get lethal injection. Game Over. You can't play the game anymore.
/creates game company start-up
Everyone will want to play it! It will be a blast!
Because your "needs" are clearly defined and measurable, right?
You need your Notepad to open up between precisely 200 and 400 ms. In no way you could use a blazzing 15ms loading time, or you could settle for a lousy 450ms. RIGHT?
Not that processor speed is the most influential on loading time of a program, but you get the picture. Most of the users don't have a precise measurement for what they "need". And my most I mean pretty much mean ALL personal users, including myself.
Please stop with "this is WAY too much processing power, its overkill" lines. Its getting boring, and we all know you crave it too, you just down-rate what you can't have. Its hypocrisy. Any stupid little user on this planet could have a very nice use for a 1 Petahertz processor, or more.
I hear you like bloat, so we've put bloat inside bloat so you can wait while you wait!
Outsourcing is a natural move of the global economy trying to balance a huge difference in work force price.
The correct solution is not artificially blocking this ("they took our job!") that would only increase the tension, but by letting it solve itself naturally and by trying to be really competitive globally.
US needs to stop faking stuff, its exactly what brought it in the current horrible situation.
No - no words. No words to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea.
The core of the problem is the advertising system. Its main philosophy idea is flawed, because its based on a lie.
We need a truly micro-transaction oriented paid content system, not the current "who can fake more SEO" to get a pay-check for content. Let the customer payments _directly_ decide who is worthy, not the stupid web of lies driven by advertisements.
New tools make things easier for us. So we spend less effort on that activity. So that area of brain is not used anymore. So we are atrophying. Thus, its better for us to go back to pre-stone age era. Long live sophism!
Every single new technology that actually proved useful and had wide-spread usage had this discussion. Nothing to see here, move on.
Perhaps even more, there will be entire parts of the game that is not being present/executed on the client side. From what they told us, that's exactly whats happening. Creating a "single player" game consists of connecting to a server that hosts the game.
So we are not just talking about a "hack", but an entire part of the game functionality. You will basically need a server emulator to play a self hosted single player game. Eventually, it will happen(just like with Diablo 2 or wow pirated servers), but it will take some time - and it will have just a subset of the features of the official ones.
My advice: just pay for the damn game, its going to be awesome and they deserve the reward for all that work.
Quality was ALWAYS a secondary selling point. Not just in audio, in everything. And it will always be.
The article is just another "when I was your age" thingy, same shit I've heard 20 years ago.
They spend most of their time near the scum of the society. Of course they are affected massively by their environment, and they transform into scum. Its very natural.
I fear police the very same way I fear criminals - and I stay away from them at all costs.
Its actually 770 times more than a CD-ROM, and a whopping 347222 times more than a 1.44 floppy disc. A ...mazing :P
The topic of password complexity has been present on Slashdot almost every day lately. Everything that was possible to be said WAS said. You can do massive karma poach with copy & paste if that's your thing, but this is not why I come to Slashdot.
Feel free to mod me down, but can we stop this nonsense? Please?
The flu of 2011! Hide the kids and women!
You assume incorrectly that the user cares about the security of his account always.
I myself create occasionally accounts that I really don't care about them, I just need them for temporary means. In such use cases, a thousand rules and fields to fill are just pointless. And BTW, I always thought the "mystery question/answer" was the most stupid security measure ever invented, even for my main accounts.
Warn the user: YES. Ban the simple or common passwords: NO.
Also, a lot of people here on Slashdot needs to drop this high-and-mighty attitude regarding the complexity of the passwords. They are not really solving the real security issues, its mostly a brag issue: "Oh look, that guy just typed something like 25 characters for his password, he must be so awesome!".
"We believe that Internet Explorer is a really good browser" - Steve Jobs, 1997
I know this is Slashdot and there was some disastrous stuff happening with IE6, but lets get facts right.
Back in 1997, IE4 was launched. IE4 and IE5 WERE really good browsers. They introduced the new DHTML engine in IE4, and it was WAY faster and more powerful and more stable than the real alternative at that time, which was Netscape 4.
Phone calls through Tor. You feel like waiting 2 minutes between replies?
Sure, let's go provide coverage on top of the mountains, where nobody uses it, but don't, I mean DON'T ffs provide it in cities, where millions of paying customers need it every single day, every single second - that's lame. After all, real businesses are not afraid to not have customers. They should prioritize the barrens deserts. Now, those are companies with balls of steel.
A sound business plan, my boy. Let me know how it works out for you.
Is somewhere between South America and Antarctica.
Probably a good place to watch it would be in Atacama desert, but sadly its going to be in plain daylight.
FUD + tinfoil hat = Funny, not "Insightful"
Absolute transparency is only in a child mind. Grow up, some information you do not need or want to know. Heck, some crap it would be even dangerous for you.
Some things are good to be secret, and its not up for Wikileaks to be the highest authority on deciding what should be secret or not. Yes. And puppies grow old and die too!
Who the hell will want to invest in a technology owned no longer by its creative creator who made it grow(Sun), but now by a patent troll(Oracle) who is only looking to sue the Java users?
:(
RIP Java, my first true OOP love
you need not sacrifice 50% of screen real estate to accommodate the other player
Yes you do, the 3D display process is already halving your resolution - which is exactly the same thing: you lose 50% of screen.
Any non retarded system will not allow more than a few login attempts. Any password longer than 3-4 character doesn't offer any real protection, only psihological comfort.
If someone got a hand of the password hash, its gameover - doesnt matter if its a week or 2 month to crack it.
We need to get our collective heads out of the sand and triage the REAL security values!