According to bug 55583, that problem was fixed a long time ago. I tested it just now on one of Slashdot's lame-filters, and it is fixed. I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040114 Firebird/0.8.0+ (MozJF).
team including experts of pattern recognition, geodynamics, seismology, chaos theory, statistical physics and public safety... has developed algorithms to detect precursory earthquake patterns
Are the public safety experts there to help account for Murphy's Law?
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Quantum computers don't exist yet (which could crack RSA in the blink of an eye), so things are pretty safe.
How do you know the NSA hasn't secretly built quantum computers capable of cracking RSA?
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they rely on known calculations that are extremely difficult (astronomically computationally expensive) to run backwards
Not quite. They're believed to be extremely difficult to run backwards. And there are some subtleties beyond that... read "A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity" from Russell Impagliazzo's page.
When he said "green filter" he meant "a filter which passes green" not "a filter which blocks green"... though the latter is the more accurate use of "filter".
Then why did he say "Look into the room and notice how everything looks pinkish in the room."?
This also brings up an interesting point- it's always easier to start with doing this stuff to scumbags first- once it becomes common practice, then you can start doing it to other people.
You will notice that once you have become accustom to the light in the room that objects in the room sort of look "normal" (not quite though) and everything outside of the room looks pink.
Why would stuff outside of the room look pink? I would expect stuff outside of the room to look green, since there's more green in the light outside the room than inside.
Replying to your sig: I'm happy with clicking to start flash animations, but I see how a whitelist of sites allowed to play Flash (without requiring me to click at all) could be useful.
it could make Tivo a target for buyout by large copyright holders. If you can't outlaw digital time-shifting, owning a patent on it is the next best thing.
An operating system that allows malicious software to run isn't exactly "user-friendly". But more seriously, I don't think you have to sacrifice much ease of use to protect users from malicious software. Windows almost completely fails to distinguish between programs and documents, so users often don't know that they're running software. (Have you memorized the list of extensions for video files? Do you check the extension of each porn video you download before double-clicking it?) Furthermore, Windows allows any program to make itself start when Windows starts, touch any files it wants, etc.
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Where are these shadows you're talking about? On menus? Form elements in web pages?
http://www.mojira.org/
According to bug 55583, that problem was fixed a long time ago. I tested it just now on one of Slashdot's lame-filters, and it is fixed. I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040114 Firebird/0.8.0+ (MozJF).
By taking pictures of a smaller area and stitching them together
Doesn't that require the subject to be still?
team including experts of pattern recognition, geodynamics, seismology, chaos theory, statistical physics and public safety ... has developed algorithms to detect precursory earthquake patterns
Are the public safety experts there to help account for Murphy's Law?
I don't think so.
Quantum computers don't exist yet (which could crack RSA in the blink of an eye), so things are pretty safe.
How do you know the NSA hasn't secretly built quantum computers capable of cracking RSA?
they rely on known calculations that are extremely difficult (astronomically computationally expensive) to run backwards
Not quite. They're believed to be extremely difficult to run backwards. And there are some subtleties beyond that... read "A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity" from Russell Impagliazzo's page.
When he said "green filter" he meant "a filter which passes green" not "a filter which blocks green"... though the latter is the more accurate use of "filter".
Then why did he say "Look into the room and notice how everything looks pinkish in the room."?
But the light in the room is pink-tinted, not green-tinted. My question still stands.
This also brings up an interesting point- it's always easier to start with doing this stuff to scumbags first- once it becomes common practice, then you can start doing it to other people.
You mean like this?
You will notice that once you have become accustom to the light in the room that objects in the room sort of look "normal" (not quite though) and everything outside of the room looks pink.
Why would stuff outside of the room look pink? I would expect stuff outside of the room to look green, since there's more green in the light outside the room than inside.
Replying to your sig: I'm happy with clicking to start flash animations, but I see how a whitelist of sites allowed to play Flash (without requiring me to click at all) could be useful.
At first I read that as "over-affinity for my arm"...
What does donating to charity have to do with winning back your trust?
it could make Tivo a target for buyout by large copyright holders. If you can't outlaw digital time-shifting, owning a patent on it is the next best thing.
Furthermore, tiny print saying "copy protected" in any other language than Norwegian is also against the law.
Is tiny print in Elvish illegal, or does it just carry no legal weight?
Just wait until your spell-checker corrects "gonna" to "gonad" and decides to block the e-mail.
But what if one spammer uses "v1@gr@", one uses "v|agra", and one uses "vi agra"?
Waimate said "better at some things", not "superior".
Does your slashdot nickname, "dandelion_wine", come from the book or from the Blackmore's Night song?
An operating system that allows malicious software to run isn't exactly "user-friendly". But more seriously, I don't think you have to sacrifice much ease of use to protect users from malicious software. Windows almost completely fails to distinguish between programs and documents, so users often don't know that they're running software. (Have you memorized the list of extensions for video files? Do you check the extension of each porn video you download before double-clicking it?) Furthermore, Windows allows any program to make itself start when Windows starts, touch any files it wants, etc.
POTS at my house doesn't work when the power goes out, but I think it's our fault for using fancy phones.
I got an Aragorn-and-Legolas calendar. From my parents. I'm also male.
Plus the bonus if i'm late, I can shave while in rush hour traffic... it's not like I need to pay attention to the road or anything.
I regularly read Slashdot while shaving in the morning. I use a Norelco. The battery has died, so I have to use it plugged in.