Also, as someone points out below, http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1282009&cid=28470091, you don't use the same algorithm as before - but you instead "encrypt" the algorithm so it's working in the same space as the encrypted data. I'm sort of imagining some sort of encrypted virtual machine. Otherwise some of the flaws being talked about would be an issue.
So you're saying that we should all quit our jobs and cease production in order to help people find jobs? Imagine that, an economy entirely made up of homeless shelters.
Definitely sound good. I'm currently making a map and don't really look forward to learning Lightwave to model lots of fiddly bits rather than using brushwork in Hammer, and Sketchup sounds ideal for it.
Given that amount of post-release content that Valve releases, and that since Microsoft charges significant amounts to the developer for anything beyond a free initial patch they don't patch as often on PC - it's not that wise to get any Valve game that you could get for PC.
Last time this came up, I suggested the idea of constant bayesian analysis on HTTP logs to determine the likelyhood of the current user being a bot.
It could take things into account like if the user bothered to visit previous pages, request images, the time between requests etc. You could then either just make the webserver kill the connection, or you could add a function to your preferred web language (e.g. PHP) that returned the probability that the current user is a bot, and so redirect them to a more annoying turing test or block them.
This'd also work pretty effectively if people wanted to stop scrapers and bots in browser games.
Of course a bot could mimic all this, but it'd raise the cost of entry significantly - and it might end up being that the bot is no more effective than a human working 24/7, though even then you'd need to be changing ips constantly.
I was thinking of trying to implement this over the summer, based on comment spam bots on my website, all without any need for client-side spying
Yeah, I'm not seeing the difference between DLC and what Valve did in the patches for the original HL (i.e. practically remade the game with addons) except you have to pay for it.
Some sort of bayesian analysis of the http access logs of a specific ip would probably suffice as a general stratergy.
Whenever I've looked at automating scraping or whatever of some sites, it's occured to me how easy it would be to block by behaviour - like how scraping tools tend not to download images or make attempts at precise intervals. Obviously all this behaviour could be replicated, but it'd be a lot more work and would put limits on what the bot could do.
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Facebook doesn't use PHP for the backend, it's mostly C++, Python and Erlang.
Don't worry, that'll be outlawed in time - you'll only be allowed to download children's TV and watch party political broadcasts (so long as they aren't too worrying).
Yes, seriously, why is HALO of all games the most influential FPS of all time? Doom, quake, wolfenstein, Half-life, Counter-strike, Unreal Tournament are all more important in terms of how they affected the industry than that, quite frankly, bland game.
This article HAS to be a troll to get more pageviews.
That and the PC interface is pretty horrible, with concurrent buttons on opposite sides of the screen (which isnt a problem on a console controller) coupled with slow mouse movement.
Also the guns feel quite strange to use - give me CoD4 style weapons, not this peashooter.
I currently study Physics at University of Cambridge and I have to generally agree - I find lectures totally worthless. Even with good lectuers, I rarely find the motivation to bother getting out of bed. This is mostly because I'm not a mornings person, but also because I generally find lectures always go at a pace either too slow or too fast to how fast I'm reading through the notes, so all it really ends up being is an hour in which I catch up on notes or read ahead.
I do most of my learning when I actually do the problem sheets, where I augment the notes (which are all available online) with other sources - such as google or wikipedia. Then, most importantly for the Oxbridge system and maybe what MIT is really going towards, when I have my supervision (me and a couple of other physicists with a PhD student or professor sitting down for an hour and discussing the problem sheet) I also get the most change in the way I look at things.
In summary, I generally find I learn very little in lectures and do most of it while doing problems and discussing them in a small personal environment. A remote environment isn't the answer, that'd just be doing the problems and reading the notes, you still need the compulsory personal contact to be able to discuss problems with people who know more than you.
Writing student run websites inside a University with its own public centralized-login system is pretty fantastic. I don't have to worry about getting people to sign up for just that small service, I can establish identity reliably and identities are transferable between projects (say, populating a dinner event signup with information from LDAP, or pulling up our own photos of students for admin purposes).
I realize that for most of the applications mentioned, reliable identity is a feature not offered by the likes of OpenID - but it does allow a much more unix-like small apps development than large monolithic web projects.
Given that you can now buy a PC that can stomp on the PS3's performance for a similar price, no, overpriced rigs are just an artefact of the higher end market (i.e. idiots with too much money).
I think the main thing harming PC gaming is in fact laptops - most of my friends now own laptops, and they mostly have miserable 3D performance.
I was amazed at how awful the animation was, particually facial. You'd think after HL2 came out 4 years ago, most developers would be able to achieve similar results?
It seems that the BBC is suggesting that ISPs could offer a package that includes high-quality streams from iPlayer.
This isn't the ISPs threatening to restrict iPlayer access unless users buy a more expensive package, it's the BBC offering ISPs an item to throw into their best packages. It's no different to paying for Sky HD or whatever.
I suspect that few to no-one will take it, and this is just a stopgap measure to make the ISPs happier while the network catches up to demand.
Once again, you're confused between special relativity (which QM meshes well with) and GR, which it doesn't. E=mc^2 is a result of special relativity, and so this isn't wholly suprising.
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Also, as someone points out below, http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1282009&cid=28470091, you don't use the same algorithm as before - but you instead "encrypt" the algorithm so it's working in the same space as the encrypted data. I'm sort of imagining some sort of encrypted virtual machine. Otherwise some of the flaws being talked about would be an issue.
So you're saying that we should all quit our jobs and cease production in order to help people find jobs? Imagine that, an economy entirely made up of homeless shelters.
Definitely sound good. I'm currently making a map and don't really look forward to learning Lightwave to model lots of fiddly bits rather than using brushwork in Hammer, and Sketchup sounds ideal for it.
Given that amount of post-release content that Valve releases, and that since Microsoft charges significant amounts to the developer for anything beyond a free initial patch they don't patch as often on PC - it's not that wise to get any Valve game that you could get for PC.
Is this a troll? PHP a nice language? Use something like Python or C# if you want a nice language that's easy to make GUIs in.
Last time this came up, I suggested the idea of constant bayesian analysis on HTTP logs to determine the likelyhood of the current user being a bot.
It could take things into account like if the user bothered to visit previous pages, request images, the time between requests etc. You could then either just make the webserver kill the connection, or you could add a function to your preferred web language (e.g. PHP) that returned the probability that the current user is a bot, and so redirect them to a more annoying turing test or block them.
This'd also work pretty effectively if people wanted to stop scrapers and bots in browser games. Of course a bot could mimic all this, but it'd raise the cost of entry significantly - and it might end up being that the bot is no more effective than a human working 24/7, though even then you'd need to be changing ips constantly.
I was thinking of trying to implement this over the summer, based on comment spam bots on my website, all without any need for client-side spying
Yeah, I'm not seeing the difference between DLC and what Valve did in the patches for the original HL (i.e. practically remade the game with addons) except you have to pay for it.
Some sort of bayesian analysis of the http access logs of a specific ip would probably suffice as a general stratergy.
Whenever I've looked at automating scraping or whatever of some sites, it's occured to me how easy it would be to block by behaviour - like how scraping tools tend not to download images or make attempts at precise intervals. Obviously all this behaviour could be replicated, but it'd be a lot more work and would put limits on what the bot could do.
Facebook doesn't use PHP for the backend, it's mostly C++, Python and Erlang.
There ain't much sun in Cambridge.
Don't worry, that'll be outlawed in time - you'll only be allowed to download children's TV and watch party political broadcasts (so long as they aren't too worrying).
Yes, seriously, why is HALO of all games the most influential FPS of all time? Doom, quake, wolfenstein, Half-life, Counter-strike, Unreal Tournament are all more important in terms of how they affected the industry than that, quite frankly, bland game. This article HAS to be a troll to get more pageviews.
Write it in ML.
It might be "noise", but it's still a distinct power band - not a black body distribution at all.
That and the PC interface is pretty horrible, with concurrent buttons on opposite sides of the screen (which isnt a problem on a console controller) coupled with slow mouse movement. Also the guns feel quite strange to use - give me CoD4 style weapons, not this peashooter.
I'd expect that the imagine compression issues are short term to handle the large amount of traffic they're expecting now. Because they're damn ugly.
I currently study Physics at University of Cambridge and I have to generally agree - I find lectures totally worthless. Even with good lectuers, I rarely find the motivation to bother getting out of bed. This is mostly because I'm not a mornings person, but also because I generally find lectures always go at a pace either too slow or too fast to how fast I'm reading through the notes, so all it really ends up being is an hour in which I catch up on notes or read ahead.
I do most of my learning when I actually do the problem sheets, where I augment the notes (which are all available online) with other sources - such as google or wikipedia. Then, most importantly for the Oxbridge system and maybe what MIT is really going towards, when I have my supervision (me and a couple of other physicists with a PhD student or professor sitting down for an hour and discussing the problem sheet) I also get the most change in the way I look at things.
In summary, I generally find I learn very little in lectures and do most of it while doing problems and discussing them in a small personal environment. A remote environment isn't the answer, that'd just be doing the problems and reading the notes, you still need the compulsory personal contact to be able to discuss problems with people who know more than you.
Writing student run websites inside a University with its own public centralized-login system is pretty fantastic. I don't have to worry about getting people to sign up for just that small service, I can establish identity reliably and identities are transferable between projects (say, populating a dinner event signup with information from LDAP, or pulling up our own photos of students for admin purposes). I realize that for most of the applications mentioned, reliable identity is a feature not offered by the likes of OpenID - but it does allow a much more unix-like small apps development than large monolithic web projects.
Also it seems to assume that complex things can't be built out of simple things - which flies in the face of all emergent behaviour.
Given that you can now buy a PC that can stomp on the PS3's performance for a similar price, no, overpriced rigs are just an artefact of the higher end market (i.e. idiots with too much money). I think the main thing harming PC gaming is in fact laptops - most of my friends now own laptops, and they mostly have miserable 3D performance.
I was amazed at how awful the animation was, particually facial. You'd think after HL2 came out 4 years ago, most developers would be able to achieve similar results?
It seems that the BBC is suggesting that ISPs could offer a package that includes high-quality streams from iPlayer. This isn't the ISPs threatening to restrict iPlayer access unless users buy a more expensive package, it's the BBC offering ISPs an item to throw into their best packages. It's no different to paying for Sky HD or whatever. I suspect that few to no-one will take it, and this is just a stopgap measure to make the ISPs happier while the network catches up to demand.
That "M+" button on your calculator that no-one knows how to use. That's what it does.
Indeed - I think it's a nice way to keep the crackpots out of the science articles, and allows most researchers to get their work in fine.
Once again, you're confused between special relativity (which QM meshes well with) and GR, which it doesn't. E=mc^2 is a result of special relativity, and so this isn't wholly suprising.