This is interesting, not just for the game nuts but for other server-related possibilities. I wonder how "smart" this build of Linux is. Could dropping a pile of cash on this card actually turn out a solution comparable to setting up a dedicated proxy box?
Probably the best approach is for everyone to create content on their own site. The content must be signed, and then a reference submitted as a contribution. The site receiving the contribution can verify the signature, and check the web-of-trust associated with the key. The essence here being a web-of-trust to avoid abuse. The biggest problem being the need for widespread (global) adoption to be usable.
The main problem with that is not everyone's a web app programmer. The vast majority of people want to go out and find an app to use that fits their needs. In the case of a Captcha, as soon as a spam-prevention app works well enough to use on one high-traffic site, other sites will want to use it as well. As soon as more than a few obscure sites use somethng, it becomes widespread enough to be worth cracking for the spammers, people need a new app, and so the cycle continues.
Use a browser speech plugin to play a string of words randomly selected from a large dictionary, ask the user to repeat them. Good for blind people, too.
Sucks for the deaf, though.
That's the biggest problem with image or sound based captchas, you're going to screw your accessibility in one direction or the other. The only sort of captcha that won't is a simple text-based question and answer, which are unfortunately the easiest for a bot to crunch.
A few months ago I finally got the chance to ride a Segway, at the HOPE convention. They had rented a pair and sectioned off a safe area to zoom around in, and it was a load of fun to ride around the hotel's mezzanine while laughing like Pee-Wee Herman.
However, there was also a little bicycle that someone left lying around, and I got the chance to ride around the mezzanine on that for a while, also while laughing like Pee-Wee Herman. That was also a load of fun, one that wouldn't cost me four-figures to duplicate, require me to remain standing, or control my direction with what may be the most unnatural steering mechanism ever.
Both rides gave me a sore throat friom all that Pee-Wee Herman laughing, though.
I've never liked football, and would rather watch paint dry than watch a game being played or (ugh) actually playing a game. It's pretty safe to say I have no love for the sport at all. Hoever, I have found a few itereations of it on consoles surprisingly catchy. Many a boring day was brightened by getting some friends together and playing stuff from "Tecmo Bowl" on NES to "NFL Blitz" on PS1 and in 1990s arcades.
Never touched a Madden game in my life, though. It's bad enough watching his TV commercials.
Nothing says "e-mail what now? Must have gotten caught in my spam filter, heh..." like going into work anyway, and forcing the boss to say it to your damned face.
I'm obsessed with pie, synthpop, Marx Brothers films, payphones, subways, Tex Avery cartoons, steak, cat-shaped badges, and lime green. If I go out and murder someone, hide all of the above you've got!
I love the fact that people are discovering the so-called "junk" DNA might actually be there for a reason. It brings to mind the old chestnuts about the ancient Egyptians; when mummifying someone they would delicately preserve the heart, stomach, and other organs in canopic jars, but not knowing what the brain was for they simply threw it away.
Nature tends toward efficiency. Just because we don't currently know what something is for is no reason to suspect it has no function, and until you know every aspect of something right down to the smallest possible unit you really can't begin to judge how "complex" it is.
None of these are even remotely qualifiable as "myths."
The Playstation 3 will Fail - This is still wild speculation either way, until it is released and either does well or flops. Either way, speculation on the future is not a myth.
PC Games are Doomed - Groundless FUD, not a myth.
You Need a $500 Graphics Card - Not a myth for even the most basic Slashdotter with the slightest grasp on the subject.
Console Games are for Twitch Gamers - See above.
Handheld Games are for Kids - See above.
Console Games are Too Simple - See above.
PC Games are Too Complicated - See above.
PC Copy Protection is Too Onerous - Mostly a subjective argument, and too widely ranged a subject to debate in one chunk. It's an issue, not a myth.
Games are Too Violent - See above.
I'm Embarrassed About Gaming - See above.
I'm sick of Quantum Cryptography. Every time I try and encrypt something, this smartass time-travelling scientist guy takes over my body, kisses some girl I know, and solves one of my lifelong problems before disappearing in a flash of cartoon FX.
This may be the best, simplest answer to the whole question. As fluid as a Wiki's content is, the basic idea is still you sucking down info from a site. Forums are a multidirectional exchange of info with other human beings.
There is also the purely social aspect of a forum will never be replaced by a Wiki, simply because you don't have to be trying to write a reference book when you post to a forum. You can post to a board for your favorite (TV show/scientist/actor/religion/historical period/political subgroup/flavor of pudding) with something like "Wow, how about that (last episode/recent theory/talk show interview/spiritual revelation/new textbook/recent speech/vanilla bean controversy)?" and start a fruitful discussion. Try that with nearly any Wiki community and you'll be tarred and feathered before they ban you.
I didn't mean to imply those clips were the work of New Voyages, I was just mentioning that NV have done some neat TOS CGI as well. Sorry for the confusion!
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This is interesting, not just for the game nuts but for other server-related possibilities. I wonder how "smart" this build of Linux is. Could dropping a pile of cash on this card actually turn out a solution comparable to setting up a dedicated proxy box?
If things continue in this direction, it looks like we may be buying game consoles to hook to our computers instead of our televisions.
That rattling sound you hear is everyone on Slashdot changing their passwords at once.
That's the biggest problem with image or sound based captchas, you're going to screw your accessibility in one direction or the other. The only sort of captcha that won't is a simple text-based question and answer, which are unfortunately the easiest for a bot to crunch.
Have Scifi snuck hidden cameras back into my house? Bastards.
All I know about this show is it made me a lot harder to Google.
I'd like to be the one to doodle futuristic cars in all the margins.
You've seen me off the thing, it's not much better.
Slashdotters will want to link back to this and call "dupe" in 94 years.
A few months ago I finally got the chance to ride a Segway, at the HOPE convention. They had rented a pair and sectioned off a safe area to zoom around in, and it was a load of fun to ride around the hotel's mezzanine while laughing like Pee-Wee Herman.
However, there was also a little bicycle that someone left lying around, and I got the chance to ride around the mezzanine on that for a while, also while laughing like Pee-Wee Herman. That was also a load of fun, one that wouldn't cost me four-figures to duplicate, require me to remain standing, or control my direction with what may be the most unnatural steering mechanism ever.
Both rides gave me a sore throat friom all that Pee-Wee Herman laughing, though.
I've never liked football, and would rather watch paint dry than watch a game being played or (ugh) actually playing a game. It's pretty safe to say I have no love for the sport at all. Hoever, I have found a few itereations of it on consoles surprisingly catchy. Many a boring day was brightened by getting some friends together and playing stuff from "Tecmo Bowl" on NES to "NFL Blitz" on PS1 and in 1990s arcades.
Never touched a Madden game in my life, though. It's bad enough watching his TV commercials.
What's the legalese translation for "free as in beer?"
Veriz0wn3d!
Nothing says "e-mail what now? Must have gotten caught in my spam filter, heh..." like going into work anyway, and forcing the boss to say it to your damned face.
Would a boat in nearby water be in any danger from the shock waves?
Of course Jack the Ripper didn't have violent Internet porn! It was all BBSes back then.
I'm obsessed with pie, synthpop, Marx Brothers films, payphones, subways, Tex Avery cartoons, steak, cat-shaped badges, and lime green. If I go out and murder someone, hide all of the above you've got!
What from the list would you describe as a myth?
I love the fact that people are discovering the so-called "junk" DNA might actually be there for a reason. It brings to mind the old chestnuts about the ancient Egyptians; when mummifying someone they would delicately preserve the heart, stomach, and other organs in canopic jars, but not knowing what the brain was for they simply threw it away.
Nature tends toward efficiency. Just because we don't currently know what something is for is no reason to suspect it has no function, and until you know every aspect of something right down to the smallest possible unit you really can't begin to judge how "complex" it is.
None of these are even remotely qualifiable as "myths."
The Playstation 3 will Fail - This is still wild speculation either way, until it is released and either does well or flops. Either way, speculation on the future is not a myth.
PC Games are Doomed - Groundless FUD, not a myth.
You Need a $500 Graphics Card - Not a myth for even the most basic Slashdotter with the slightest grasp on the subject.
Console Games are for Twitch Gamers - See above.
Handheld Games are for Kids - See above.
Console Games are Too Simple - See above.
PC Games are Too Complicated - See above.
PC Copy Protection is Too Onerous - Mostly a subjective argument, and too widely ranged a subject to debate in one chunk. It's an issue, not a myth.
Games are Too Violent - See above.
I'm Embarrassed About Gaming - See above.
I'm sick of Quantum Cryptography. Every time I try and encrypt something, this smartass time-travelling scientist guy takes over my body, kisses some girl I know, and solves one of my lifelong problems before disappearing in a flash of cartoon FX.
This may be the best, simplest answer to the whole question. As fluid as a Wiki's content is, the basic idea is still you sucking down info from a site. Forums are a multidirectional exchange of info with other human beings.
There is also the purely social aspect of a forum will never be replaced by a Wiki, simply because you don't have to be trying to write a reference book when you post to a forum. You can post to a board for your favorite (TV show/scientist/actor/religion/historical period/political subgroup/flavor of pudding) with something like "Wow, how about that (last episode/recent theory/talk show interview/spiritual revelation/new textbook/recent speech/vanilla bean controversy)?" and start a fruitful discussion. Try that with nearly any Wiki community and you'll be tarred and feathered before they ban you.
I didn't mean to imply those clips were the work of New Voyages, I was just mentioning that NV have done some neat TOS CGI as well. Sorry for the confusion!