I think that this will neither catch on nor be a big hit with the people that it does catch on with. I mean, honestly... I don't think I can game with this "mouse". Also, I think in the end people would end up getting annoyed and going back to their mice... it's too radical a change, and too fast.
You don't need to have a cd to run the game. I could install via a friend and use my account- very useful. The reason blizzard is doing what you're complaining about is because this is creating an extra account, presumably leaving the other one active. If you want to sell and change the game, sell the game and the account that came with it- delete the characters, do whatever you want... but the account is bound to the game. The CDs aren't really needed anymore.
But seriously, I'm not sure how a thumbprint reader would be that secure. It's pretty obvious that Microsoft isn't using professional-quality fingerprint security hardware, so if someone has a similar enough print, they can probably get in. On the other hand, if your attacker doesn't have a similar print, then they're pretty much screwed.
So I guess a lot of it's luck.
I honestly don't think this [the exeem client] is totally necessary, depending on the outcome of the Lokitorrent legal case. Exeem seems as if it will make.torrent files much harder to find, which in turn creates problems. The http section of the web is a lot easier to navigate than an adware-filled, bulky client.
Of course, even if it is legal for sites on the web to host the.torrent files, they are so easily tracked by anyone who cares! If Exeem could possibly get a better degree of anonymity, then it could perhaps boost p2p to an unbeatable level- forcing the MPAA and RIAA to actually work with the file sharers, rather than attack them.
Lastly, and on a bit of an off-topic note, if one is sharing only one part of a file, but not the full thing (or if the file being shares is obfuscated, but easily returnable), can they be prosecuted of illegal copyright violations? Is every single part of a film copyrighted individually? I've always wondered, so pegging it to the end of this post seemed as good a time as any to ask.
The fact that they've raised so much money I think will help them in their case. Why? It shows that what they're doing can be seen as a fight for freedom, whether it is or not. The donations show that people are willing to pay money, but the quality of films (and music?) is not worth paying for.
Of course, on the other hand, the MPAA can say "You fools, if you had money you should have bought the films and saved the legal expense!".
I'm sure that this case will be followed very closely by the Slashdot crowd (and definitely me). I'm really interested to see how this will turn out.
- dshaw
P.S.: Bold of them to keep the site online during the issues...
Somehow I don't think that this is really encrypted. Well... encrypted so that enemies can't intercept it, yes... but not encrypted so that the Air Force itself can't read what's being transmitted. Somehow I doubt they'd leave the risk of transmitting sensitive data with no way to see what's happening completely open to the entire Air Force.
Wow. This story really really amazed me. It made me think of dedication. I can think of people *cough* EA employees *cough* that work those long hours, and that finish a project, but that's because they're forced to... I really wonder if this type of dedication for just the love of the work is existant anymore... I, for one, wish it was a lot more frequent.
I find it fascinating that 50 years ago, a landmark point of surgury (organ transplant) was first successfully done. It makes me wonder if in another 50 years the organs will be home-grown for the patient, no longer requiring donors. It's amazing how fast medicine is advancing.
I've left my close and trusted friends with a copy of DBAN and had them swear to wipe all my boxen completely clean... I really don't want friends and family and the world to know all of my dirty little digital secrets. Frankly I agree with Yahoo's decision.
Yes, I know it's a tiny bit off topic, but I wanted to reinforce something that seemed to be overlooked. In a previous Slashdot article, everyone was wondering how to get kids into tech, and how important it is to push extra (and internal) curricular activities at school. I said that that wasn't necessary, and this story goes to prove it. I gotta say, this is a really interesting read... what I wonder is how much more she could have done if she had gone to college and been an electrical engineering major...
I think it's common sense that if you install a third party tool to index your hard drive, especially one with internet access, you're setting yourself up for disaster. I love Google as much as the next guy, but having a tool that handily stores all of that information is a blatant security risk. Sure MS search is slow (for my Windows boxes), and I'm not even sure if GDS even was released for linux (updatedb | locate something | grep something-more-specific)... but if you're going to index your hard drive, you're taking a risk. I don't see why this would surpise anyone all that much.
If you take a person, and clone his memory and shoot the person in his head, then take an exact replica of his body and insert the memories and personality in it (assuming you could), would it be the same person? No, the original person would be dead. But if you could "freeze" a person then restart it later, it would stay the same being. Ok, now I've confused myself... what would happen if you replicated exactly and kept both alive? Argh, it's like that Ahnuld movie...
Sure, they'll get smarter. And despite what all of us science fiction fans dream, robots will never feel genuine emotion. They will always remain machines (or.exe's!). Granting a machine legal rights is absurd; perhaps the programmer of the software can have a get-out-of-jail-free card, but a machine, even the AI's of the (near) future, can only be a machine. One with a power switch.
I was just wondering what the probability is that this would totally and completely backfire. I mean, think about it for servers... Windows Servers and *nix servers seem to both have their advantages. Even though linux is free and is generally better secured, Microsoft is trying. But wait... take away the free security (attempt) by Microsoft, and you're left with an admittedly insecure system! This is insane, and could possibly give *nix the leading edge that it needs to cut into desktops, perhaps? (Linux seems to already dominate servers, anyway).
Kids that want extracurricular tech stuff will do it on their own, on time already available. I'm co-president of a school sanctioned robotics team, and founder of a school sanctioned computer science club. Kids that are interested in technology join. Overall we have over 50 members in a high school of about 350 kids. Anyway, the point is that if kids are interested in technology, they will, in general, seek it out themselves. I'm 16 and already work at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
No, in fact in my opinion, it would be less dangerous. Yeah, someone can easily find you downloading and sharing... one file. Unlike other clients, you can't search what a user is uploading, or search for a million files and see who is uploading. You may get caught with one album, but so what? That's a lot less than 200,000 mp3s on KaZaA.
I worked on Croquet with colleagues at the San Diego Supercomputer Center... it's some pretty gnarly code, written mainly in Smalltalk. I don't think that a commercial vendor would be able to deal with it; people who love code, yes... people who just want money from it... no.
makes direction 1 green (thus BOTH diretions are green at the same time) before setting direction 2 to red.
*cough* Yeah... um, hrm. That would be a bug!;)
You should probably stop here, you don't know what the code looks like, and hypothesis will probably be nonsensical, and stupid.
The pseudocode I gave would have been a likely solution. And yep, it's my unique opinion.
Also, is that a rhetorical question?
Yes.
I know that the code is ugly and odd, but come on I'm not actually coding a traffic light system. Look at the ideas I'm presenting before flaming them.
Yeah, I know, it's incomplete and ugly but I just wanted to show a general picture. Yeah, this would work for small traffic situations, but, honestly, this could cause a lot of problems (bugs, etc.). Perhaps very limited "learning" traffic lights would be good, but totally self-adapting could cause lots of problems.
- dshaw
Note About the Code: Yeah, i did that in the little Slashdot comment box. It's ugly, unindented, and probably has nonsensical if/then cycles. Please let it be, since it's hypothetical anyway.
I don't think it's this way with all open source products' ads. I seem to recall watching the Super Bowl and seeing a "Linux- The Future is Open" ad... hmm...
[...] verifies email by attempting to verify the sender through lookups (a user customized challenge/response)
Okay, so either (a) a user has to do a challenge/response simulation each time he or she wants to send/receive and email, or (b) it's automated... and a spammer could simply brute force/crack/automate themselves the challenge/response. I don't see how this would really work.
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I think that this will neither catch on nor be a big hit with the people that it does catch on with. I mean, honestly... I don't think I can game with this "mouse". Also, I think in the end people would end up getting annoyed and going back to their mice... it's too radical a change, and too fast.
Just my opinion, though.
- dshaw
You don't need to have a cd to run the game. I could install via a friend and use my account- very useful. The reason blizzard is doing what you're complaining about is because this is creating an extra account, presumably leaving the other one active. If you want to sell and change the game, sell the game and the account that came with it- delete the characters, do whatever you want... but the account is bound to the game. The CDs aren't really needed anymore.
- dshaw
Microsoft? Secure!?
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But seriously, I'm not sure how a thumbprint reader would be that secure. It's pretty obvious that Microsoft isn't using professional-quality fingerprint security hardware, so if someone has a similar enough print, they can probably get in. On the other hand, if your attacker doesn't have a similar print, then they're pretty much screwed.
So I guess a lot of it's luck.
- dshaw
I honestly don't think this [the exeem client] is totally necessary, depending on the outcome of the Lokitorrent legal case. Exeem seems as if it will make .torrent files much harder to find, which in turn creates problems. The http section of the web is a lot easier to navigate than an adware-filled, bulky client.
.torrent files, they are so easily tracked by anyone who cares! If Exeem could possibly get a better degree of anonymity, then it could perhaps boost p2p to an unbeatable level- forcing the MPAA and RIAA to actually work with the file sharers, rather than attack them.
Of course, even if it is legal for sites on the web to host the
Lastly, and on a bit of an off-topic note, if one is sharing only one part of a file, but not the full thing (or if the file being shares is obfuscated, but easily returnable), can they be prosecuted of illegal copyright violations? Is every single part of a film copyrighted individually? I've always wondered, so pegging it to the end of this post seemed as good a time as any to ask.
- dshaw
The fact that they've raised so much money I think will help them in their case. Why? It shows that what they're doing can be seen as a fight for freedom, whether it is or not. The donations show that people are willing to pay money, but the quality of films (and music?) is not worth paying for.
Of course, on the other hand, the MPAA can say "You fools, if you had money you should have bought the films and saved the legal expense!".
I'm sure that this case will be followed very closely by the Slashdot crowd (and definitely me). I'm really interested to see how this will turn out.
- dshaw
P.S.: Bold of them to keep the site online during the issues...
Somehow I don't think that this is really encrypted. Well... encrypted so that enemies can't intercept it, yes... but not encrypted so that the Air Force itself can't read what's being transmitted. Somehow I doubt they'd leave the risk of transmitting sensitive data with no way to see what's happening completely open to the entire Air Force.
- dshaw
Wow. This story really really amazed me. It made me think of dedication. I can think of people *cough* EA employees *cough* that work those long hours, and that finish a project, but that's because they're forced to... I really wonder if this type of dedication for just the love of the work is existant anymore... I, for one, wish it was a lot more frequent.
- dshaw
I find it fascinating that 50 years ago, a landmark point of surgury (organ transplant) was first successfully done. It makes me wonder if in another 50 years the organs will be home-grown for the patient, no longer requiring donors. It's amazing how fast medicine is advancing.
- dshaw
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I've left my close and trusted friends with a copy of DBAN and had them swear to wipe all my boxen completely clean... I really don't want friends and family and the world to know all of my dirty little digital secrets. Frankly I agree with Yahoo's decision.
- dshaw
Yes, I know it's a tiny bit off topic, but I wanted to reinforce something that seemed to be overlooked. In a previous Slashdot article, everyone was wondering how to get kids into tech, and how important it is to push extra (and internal) curricular activities at school. I said that that wasn't necessary, and this story goes to prove it. I gotta say, this is a really interesting read... what I wonder is how much more she could have done if she had gone to college and been an electrical engineering major...
- dshaw
I think it's common sense that if you install a third party tool to index your hard drive, especially one with internet access, you're setting yourself up for disaster. I love Google as much as the next guy, but having a tool that handily stores all of that information is a blatant security risk. Sure MS search is slow (for my Windows boxes), and I'm not even sure if GDS even was released for linux (updatedb | locate something | grep something-more-specific)... but if you're going to index your hard drive, you're taking a risk. I don't see why this would surpise anyone all that much.
- dshaw
If you take a person, and clone his memory and shoot the person in his head, then take an exact replica of his body and insert the memories and personality in it (assuming you could), would it be the same person? No, the original person would be dead. But if you could "freeze" a person then restart it later, it would stay the same being. Ok, now I've confused myself... what would happen if you replicated exactly and kept both alive? Argh, it's like that Ahnuld movie...
- dshaw
Because, you know, of the four channels the plane is able to receive, they would prioritize Cartoon Network over anything else available.
Yeah; children generally like cartoons.
- dshaw
Sure, they'll get smarter. And despite what all of us science fiction fans dream, robots will never feel genuine emotion. They will always remain machines (or .exe's!). Granting a machine legal rights is absurd; perhaps the programmer of the software can have a get-out-of-jail-free card, but a machine, even the AI's of the (near) future, can only be a machine. One with a power switch.
- dshaw
I was just wondering what the probability is that this would totally and completely backfire. I mean, think about it for servers... Windows Servers and *nix servers seem to both have their advantages. Even though linux is free and is generally better secured, Microsoft is trying. But wait... take away the free security (attempt) by Microsoft, and you're left with an admittedly insecure system! This is insane, and could possibly give *nix the leading edge that it needs to cut into desktops, perhaps? (Linux seems to already dominate servers, anyway).
- dshaw
Kids that want extracurricular tech stuff will do it on their own, on time already available. I'm co-president of a school sanctioned robotics team, and founder of a school sanctioned computer science club. Kids that are interested in technology join. Overall we have over 50 members in a high school of about 350 kids. Anyway, the point is that if kids are interested in technology, they will, in general, seek it out themselves. I'm 16 and already work at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
- dshaw
No, in fact in my opinion, it would be less dangerous. Yeah, someone can easily find you downloading and sharing... one file. Unlike other clients, you can't search what a user is uploading, or search for a million files and see who is uploading. You may get caught with one album, but so what? That's a lot less than 200,000 mp3s on KaZaA.
- dshaw
I worked on Croquet with colleagues at the San Diego Supercomputer Center... it's some pretty gnarly code, written mainly in Smalltalk. I don't think that a commercial vendor would be able to deal with it; people who love code, yes... people who just want money from it... no.
- dshaw
Ironic... since linux is free :)
I think that Microsoft will take a big blow from this news, since even though linux is free, it's raking in $9.1bn...
- dshaw
Half-Life 2 is not a learning experience.
I'm going to blame Slashdot on all of my sub-A grades now. And I'll blame the intarweb in general on all my A's... or perhaps vice versa!
- dshaw
makes direction 1 green (thus BOTH diretions are green at the same time) before setting direction 2 to red.
;)
*cough* Yeah... um, hrm. That would be a bug!
You should probably stop here, you don't know what the code looks like, and hypothesis will probably be nonsensical, and stupid.
The pseudocode I gave would have been a likely solution. And yep, it's my unique opinion.
Also, is that a rhetorical question?
Yes.
I know that the code is ugly and odd, but come on I'm not actually coding a traffic light system. Look at the ideas I'm presenting before flaming them.
- dshaw (yes, again, Mr. Anonymous Coward!)
if(cars.dir(1) > cars.dir(2)) { // LIMIT is defined
if(green.dir(1)) {
if(time.dir(1) < LIMIT) {
light.green(1);
light.red(2);
}
else if(green.dir(1) != true) {
if(time.dir(2) < LIMIT - (cars.dir(1) - cars.dir(2)) {
light.green(1);
light.red(2);
}
}
Yeah, I know, it's incomplete and ugly but I just wanted to show a general picture. Yeah, this would work for small traffic situations, but, honestly, this could cause a lot of problems (bugs, etc.). Perhaps very limited "learning" traffic lights would be good, but totally self-adapting could cause lots of problems.
- dshaw
Note About the Code: Yeah, i did that in the little Slashdot comment box. It's ugly, unindented, and probably has nonsensical if/then cycles. Please let it be, since it's hypothetical anyway.
I don't think it's this way with all open source products' ads. I seem to recall watching the Super Bowl and seeing a "Linux- The Future is Open" ad... hmm...
- dshaw
[...] verifies email by attempting to verify the sender through lookups (a user customized challenge/response)
Okay, so either (a) a user has to do a challenge/response simulation each time he or she wants to send/receive and email, or (b) it's automated... and a spammer could simply brute force/crack/automate themselves the challenge/response. I don't see how this would really work.
- dshaw