How's the low-life going to generate the token validating another low-life's bank account without the hardware device... By VNCing into the the bank account owner's PC while the hardware device is connected? The only foolproof way is to use a challenge response with a calculator-like device not connected to the PC. Bank issue challenge code, use types it into separate device, then types the response from separate device into computer. It works, but what sane person would want to go through this PITA procedure every time they transfer money? Anybody that has ever tried typing in 20 character activation keys knows that it is impossible to do without making occasional mistakes.
This guy doesn't have enough sense to anonymously leak the recordings to the web so he can't be sanctioned for them, and he has the nerve to call himself a professor? Dude, put it up on Bittorent, not your own website!
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, so yes, occasionally FOX might report something correctly. Now, if we could just get them to stop automatically calling politicians "Democrats" when they are involved in a sex scandal, regardless of their party affiliation, they might be worth watching...
Sounds like the game mechanics are seriously broken. Exploiting a bug in the game implementation is cheating, but it sounds like this guy was exploiting a bad design. If you leave loopholes in the game mechanics big enough to drive a truck through, you shouldn't be surprised when somebody with no social conscience takes advantage. Bitch at the implementers to fix the game, not at the asshole who is demonstrating that the game is broken.
I've always thought MMOs should have a karma system where you can grant others positive karma for helping you out or negative karma for pissing you off. The accumulated karma would then bias your "dice rolls" so that if you pissed too many people off, you would never be able to win a battle. Unfortunately, most games instead reward amoral behavior.
Only if he distributes the image. Then he is subject to copyright infringement, misrepresentation, defamation, and possibly other civil causes of action. But I don't see how the act of photoshopping itself can be considered illegal, any more than painting a portrait can be illegal.
nobody is even suggesting that Miley Cyrus is in any way responsible for the porn. My personal opinion is that it isn't child porn unless actual children were used in the making of it. Start outlawing pictures just because some perv somewhere might get off on it, and you've basically outlawed ALL pictures of children. The only way the pictures could be interpreted as breaking the law is if somebody tried to pass them off as actual photos of Miley Cyrus, in which case Miley could sue for defamation and misrepresentation. Let's put it this way -- if somebody painted a portrait of a naked girl with a face that looked like a child, would that be child porn? If so, then Michelangelo has got some explaining to do!
"Yes officer, I did have in my possession 10 pounds or marijuana, a case of Everclear, and several thousand Bukake DVDs... but I assure you, these were all purely for medicinal purposes!"
I typed in your slashdot name at a command prompt, and my computer told me "'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."!!!
No. Books are available for free from your local public library, and you've already got a computer capable of downloading online content, or you wouldn't be posting to slashdot. In short, there is nothing you can do with a kindle that you can't do without one. And trust me, it WILL NOT get you laid more often!
Seems to me that it is impossible to verify that the machine analysis is correct, only that it matches the analysis done by a trained human. Proving correct attribution would require either a signature on each piece or the testimony of the original artisans.
You mean, there are people out there with personalities to spare, while us poor slashdotters don't even have a single personality to our name? They really need to spread the wealth around...
Toys are a lot easier to build than manned aircraft. It is widely believed that Galileo built working toy ornithopters that could fly around the room 500 years ago (granted, they probably could not hover).
Governments provide services. Those receiving the services must be taxed to pay for those services. If you purchase something from a company without operations in your state, then the company should not be taxed, as they have received no services from your state. However, you DO receive services from your state, and you CAN be taxed. This amounts to a luxury tax on all purchases made by residents of your state. The only question is, does your state or local government have any right to force an external entity to collect it's luxury taxes for it? Amazon's response to this question is See figure 1
If a resident of Maryland physically goes to Pennsylvania and buys something, the sales tax on the transaction is owed to Pennsylvania. There is no reimbursement, even if Maryland also demands a "use tax" on the item.
If I go to Washington state to buy something and show them my Oregon Driver's License, then they don't charge me sales tax for anything that will be consumed in Oregon, which has no sales tax. (Restaurant meals and hotels rooms are consumed in Washington, so they are still taxed.) So at least as far as Washington state's interpretation of the law, it matters not where I buy it; the sales tax is a tax on in-state consumption of a product. Likewise, if I am a resident of Washington and buy something in Oregon to take home, then I am legally obliged to pay Washington state sales tax on it even though in practice this is unenforceable and nobody does (the highest grossing Safeway store in the world is located on the south end of the interstate bridge between Washington and Oregon. I have a strong suspicion that not all the people shopping there are from Oregon. In fact, there are mostly Washington plates in the parking lot.)
Is energy density really a top requirement for submarine use? It seems to me most submersibles contain thousands of pounds of ballast anyway -- might as well carry heavy batteries. Plus "reacts violently to any contact with water" doesn't really sound like a property I would want in my submersible battery. Unless these are significantly cheaper or more reliable than li-ion, they don't sound like a win underwater. In cell phones and laptops, however, weight and volume are king, and any technology that stores more energy in less weight or volume will be an economic success.
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How's the low-life going to generate the token validating another low-life's bank account without the hardware device... By VNCing into the the bank account owner's PC while the hardware device is connected? The only foolproof way is to use a challenge response with a calculator-like device not connected to the PC. Bank issue challenge code, use types it into separate device, then types the response from separate device into computer. It works, but what sane person would want to go through this PITA procedure every time they transfer money? Anybody that has ever tried typing in 20 character activation keys knows that it is impossible to do without making occasional mistakes.
This guy doesn't have enough sense to anonymously leak the recordings to the web so he can't be sanctioned for them, and he has the nerve to call himself a professor? Dude, put it up on Bittorent, not your own website!
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while, so yes, occasionally FOX might report something correctly. Now, if we could just get them to stop automatically calling politicians "Democrats" when they are involved in a sex scandal, regardless of their party affiliation, they might be worth watching...
Sounds like the game mechanics are seriously broken. Exploiting a bug in the game implementation is cheating, but it sounds like this guy was exploiting a bad design. If you leave loopholes in the game mechanics big enough to drive a truck through, you shouldn't be surprised when somebody with no social conscience takes advantage. Bitch at the implementers to fix the game, not at the asshole who is demonstrating that the game is broken.
I've always thought MMOs should have a karma system where you can grant others positive karma for helping you out or negative karma for pissing you off. The accumulated karma would then bias your "dice rolls" so that if you pissed too many people off, you would never be able to win a battle. Unfortunately, most games instead reward amoral behavior.
Only if he distributes the image. Then he is subject to copyright infringement, misrepresentation, defamation, and possibly other civil causes of action. But I don't see how the act of photoshopping itself can be considered illegal, any more than painting a portrait can be illegal.
That's a straw man argument if I ever saw one...
nobody is even suggesting that Miley Cyrus is in any way responsible for the porn. My personal opinion is that it isn't child porn unless actual children were used in the making of it. Start outlawing pictures just because some perv somewhere might get off on it, and you've basically outlawed ALL pictures of children. The only way the pictures could be interpreted as breaking the law is if somebody tried to pass them off as actual photos of Miley Cyrus, in which case Miley could sue for defamation and misrepresentation. Let's put it this way -- if somebody painted a portrait of a naked girl with a face that looked like a child, would that be child porn? If so, then Michelangelo has got some explaining to do!
Wrong! The correct response is "42!"
"Yes officer, I did have in my possession 10 pounds or marijuana, a case of Everclear, and several thousand Bukake DVDs... but I assure you, these were all purely for medicinal purposes!"
...after a little digging I found that it's not quite there yet for my use. Yeah, greyscale sucks for porn, doesn't it...
I typed in your slashdot name at a command prompt, and my computer told me "'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."!!!
Is it just me, or are responses to random nonsensical trolls getting more randomly nonsensical?
No. Books are available for free from your local public library, and you've already got a computer capable of downloading online content, or you wouldn't be posting to slashdot. In short, there is nothing you can do with a kindle that you can't do without one. And trust me, it WILL NOT get you laid more often!
An input device for those of us that have been frustrated for many years by the fact that computers can never tell when we are flipping them off!
I'm not sure I'd want to eat a porn star... especially since they've all been eaten so many times before.
Seems to me that it is impossible to verify that the machine analysis is correct, only that it matches the analysis done by a trained human. Proving correct attribution would require either a signature on each piece or the testimony of the original artisans.
Remember: you're never alone with a schizophrenic.
(Well, actually you're never alone with someone with multiple personality disorder, but that doesn't roll off the tongue like "schizophrenic" does.
I don't normally do angry rants Glad to hear the meds are working (most of the time)...
You mean, there are people out there with personalities to spare, while us poor slashdotters don't even have a single personality to our name? They really need to spread the wealth around...
Toys are a lot easier to build than manned aircraft. It is widely believed that Galileo built working toy ornithopters that could fly around the room 500 years ago (granted, they probably could not hover).
Pity nobody has thought of this before
What do you mean "we", you copyright infringer?
Does Gladwell also have a problem with the Wikipedia articles that Anderson plagiarized for the book?
Governments provide services. Those receiving the services must be taxed to pay for those services. If you purchase something from a company without operations in your state, then the company should not be taxed, as they have received no services from your state. However, you DO receive services from your state, and you CAN be taxed. This amounts to a luxury tax on all purchases made by residents of your state. The only question is, does your state or local government have any right to force an external entity to collect it's luxury taxes for it? Amazon's response to this question is See figure 1
If a resident of Maryland physically goes to Pennsylvania and buys something, the sales tax on the transaction is owed to Pennsylvania. There is no reimbursement, even if Maryland also demands a "use tax" on the item.
If I go to Washington state to buy something and show them my Oregon Driver's License, then they don't charge me sales tax for anything that will be consumed in Oregon, which has no sales tax. (Restaurant meals and hotels rooms are consumed in Washington, so they are still taxed.) So at least as far as Washington state's interpretation of the law, it matters not where I buy it; the sales tax is a tax on in-state consumption of a product. Likewise, if I am a resident of Washington and buy something in Oregon to take home, then I am legally obliged to pay Washington state sales tax on it even though in practice this is unenforceable and nobody does (the highest grossing Safeway store in the world is located on the south end of the interstate bridge between Washington and Oregon. I have a strong suspicion that not all the people shopping there are from Oregon. In fact, there are mostly Washington plates in the parking lot.)
Is energy density really a top requirement for submarine use? It seems to me most submersibles contain thousands of pounds of ballast anyway -- might as well carry heavy batteries. Plus "reacts violently to any contact with water" doesn't really sound like a property I would want in my submersible battery. Unless these are significantly cheaper or more reliable than li-ion, they don't sound like a win underwater. In cell phones and laptops, however, weight and volume are king, and any technology that stores more energy in less weight or volume will be an economic success.