This is exactly what I do. If I'm doing any questionable browsing I pop open Opera. Most browsers have a delete/clear/private browsing option but I don't trust them to be completely thorough.
I've recently discovered though that Flash stories an equivalent to cookies across browsers that don't get cleared out or filtered. There's always something.
I am colorblind. I would not have been able to register for this site without enlisting the help of a friend or coworker. That is a very broken system.
The problem with semantic CAPTCHA replacements is that the problem space is extremely finite. For your boat example, you'd have a set of boat images you'd have to find or create and a subset of them would be steam boats. It would be a labor intensive process to generate all the images. A bot/script to reload the sign up form could quickly aggregate all the images and questions that would come up by refreshing the page a few thousand times. A human could answer all questions for all images once, and have a bot with a 100% success rate.
CAPTCHA works because the problem space is theoretically infinite. Bots that break them don't get through every time, just most of the time. Your proposed system would be defeated 100% of the time by the above bot.
The logical extension to this problem would be to blur or obfuscate the images of boats so that the bot couldn't just easily identify them, but then you're just re-creating CAPTCHA except with blurry boats...
There are a few flaws with this idea. Primarily that it blocks colorblind individuals from registering for the site, and there are much more colorblind internet users than visually and hearing impaired.
This is also not very difficult to break. Assuming that the letters and numbers aren't obfuscated the same way CAPTCHA images are (if they are then this is just another CAPTCHA), a bot would be able to parse the characters out of the image. It could then classify the characters into groups of colors, pick one group randomly, and guess. There couldn't be more than four or five colors in the image since asking to differentiate between aqua/navy/royal/pale blue is unreasonable for a human (but interestingly enough, not difficult for a computer). That would give you a bot with a ~20-25% accuracy rate.
Beyond that, you could parse the question as well, looking for the words red, blue, green, black, etc. and classify ranges of hex colors into associated color names. That would greatly increase success rate of guesses.
This is not a reliable CAPTCHA replacement and in fact seems not very difficult to break.
Well I have an R4. It's amazing, but there are a few games that don't run or lock up because of speed issues. The two above mentioned have apparently fixed that.
It's really by far the most elegant piracy/hacking/homebrew/etc. tool that I have ever used.
Either the CycloDS or Acekard seem to be best. Your best bet would be an Acekard 2i, which will work on the new DSi hardware.
Not having to carry around carts pretty much makes the console for me. There's no good reason to for everyone to be carrying around the little plastic boxes other than copy protection. Not to mention being able to audit games. There is an overwhelming amount of terrible games for the DS, even with first party and reliable franchises.
Most of this software has been written and maintained by people who donate their time to build something amazing and give it away for free, and you're griping about contributing less than 1GB of your upload bandwidth? Yeesh...
AWN is a similar "dock" for Linux with lots of applets and launchers. A great bit of open source that probably doesn't stand a chance against a patent like this.
In my opinion it's the best photo management application on Windows or Linux, hands down. From sorting to basic editing and touch-ups it does everything you could want it to, without making a mess of your photo directories.
To fulfil Slashdot tradition and make a somewhat clunky and inappropriate car analogy: I can attach rockets to my car and blast along at 300mph on my own land and it's none of the manufacturer's damn business. If I then paid them to take it on their test track which had a rule saying "No rocket cars" they'd be well within their rights to kick me out.
In this case, Blizzard is forcing the rocket manufacturer to stop making rockets.
Only because the rockets are designed specifically for use with (only function on?) cars that will only ever be used in the No Rocket Cars Allowed Test Track.
Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble in the US and Canada and it was them that took legal action against Scrabulous. When last I tried to play my Scrabulous games I was greeted with a message telling me that the application was no longer available to users in US and Canada. Presumably, until Mattel takes legal action in the UK, Scrabulous can stay active.
The lighter vehicle is less likely to be in the accident in the first place, though. Overall, occupants are twice as safe in a VW Jetta than in a Ford Explorer. But that's more likely a function of the driver, not the vehicle.
You should try Boom Blox. The game is basically a physics engine and a whole lot of little games that use it. The throwing physics are extremely realistic, to the point of exhausting your arm if you play for more than a few minutes. The jenga-like levels use extremely sensitive Wii controls to let you delicately pull blocks out of towers in all directions.
Nintendo may not be taking full advantage of the controls, but someone is...
I'm planning on doing the same thing with Linux. Put the same desktop background, same launchers on the desktop, import documents and bookmarks. Wonder how long it'd take her to notice...
I have fundamental issues with the authorization that's required for the license - see Bioware/Mass Effect - but at least it's only one time, and it doesn't appear to be tied to your hardware. (A post on the official forums said someone could use their license key on their laptop and their desktop, different operating systems, with no problem.) I emailed tech support about this. My Linux system is (clearly) not spec-ed for games. They let me know that I could use my same license key to activate the Mac version on my laptop. No hardware fingerprinting. No license limits. I can live with a system like that.
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This is exactly what I do. If I'm doing any questionable browsing I pop open Opera. Most browsers have a delete/clear/private browsing option but I don't trust them to be completely thorough.
I've recently discovered though that Flash stories an equivalent to cookies across browsers that don't get cleared out or filtered. There's always something.
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
I am colorblind. I would not have been able to register for this site without enlisting the help of a friend or coworker. That is a very broken system.
The problem with semantic CAPTCHA replacements is that the problem space is extremely finite. For your boat example, you'd have a set of boat images you'd have to find or create and a subset of them would be steam boats. It would be a labor intensive process to generate all the images. A bot/script to reload the sign up form could quickly aggregate all the images and questions that would come up by refreshing the page a few thousand times. A human could answer all questions for all images once, and have a bot with a 100% success rate.
CAPTCHA works because the problem space is theoretically infinite. Bots that break them don't get through every time, just most of the time. Your proposed system would be defeated 100% of the time by the above bot.
The logical extension to this problem would be to blur or obfuscate the images of boats so that the bot couldn't just easily identify them, but then you're just re-creating CAPTCHA except with blurry boats...
There are a few flaws with this idea. Primarily that it blocks colorblind individuals from registering for the site, and there are much more colorblind internet users than visually and hearing impaired.
This is also not very difficult to break. Assuming that the letters and numbers aren't obfuscated the same way CAPTCHA images are (if they are then this is just another CAPTCHA), a bot would be able to parse the characters out of the image. It could then classify the characters into groups of colors, pick one group randomly, and guess. There couldn't be more than four or five colors in the image since asking to differentiate between aqua/navy/royal/pale blue is unreasonable for a human (but interestingly enough, not difficult for a computer). That would give you a bot with a ~20-25% accuracy rate.
Beyond that, you could parse the question as well, looking for the words red, blue, green, black, etc. and classify ranges of hex colors into associated color names. That would greatly increase success rate of guesses.
This is not a reliable CAPTCHA replacement and in fact seems not very difficult to break.
I'm curious how they can be sure it is you in the picture given the look of the full costume.
"You have been tagged in 1 photo"
Well I have an R4. It's amazing, but there are a few games that don't run or lock up because of speed issues. The two above mentioned have apparently fixed that.
It's really by far the most elegant piracy/hacking/homebrew/etc. tool that I have ever used.
Lots of info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS_storage_devices
Either the CycloDS or Acekard seem to be best. Your best bet would be an Acekard 2i, which will work on the new DSi hardware. Not having to carry around carts pretty much makes the console for me. There's no good reason to for everyone to be carrying around the little plastic boxes other than copy protection. Not to mention being able to audit games. There is an overwhelming amount of terrible games for the DS, even with first party and reliable franchises.
It's sometimes sad how >15 yro devices outlive new products.
There. Fixed that for you.
What in the world? "Potentially damaging information"?
/b/ That is all I am going to say.
You have a very loose definition of "information".
I use Gnome and I happen to think AmaroK is the best music player/manager I've ever had the pleasure of using on any OS.
AmaroK has a lot more cred then you're giving it, but you're right that this is all subjective and anecdotal.
Most of this software has been written and maintained by people who donate their time to build something amazing and give it away for free, and you're griping about contributing less than 1GB of your upload bandwidth? Yeesh...
AWN is a similar "dock" for Linux with lots of applets and launchers. A great bit of open source that probably doesn't stand a chance against a patent like this.
Also, yes it does run on Linux using Wine. Though 3.0 seems to only be available through beta at the moment.
In my opinion it's the best photo management application on Windows or Linux, hands down. From sorting to basic editing and touch-ups it does everything you could want it to, without making a mess of your photo directories.
To fulfil Slashdot tradition and make a somewhat clunky and inappropriate car analogy: I can attach rockets to my car and blast along at 300mph on my own land and it's none of the manufacturer's damn business. If I then paid them to take it on their test track which had a rule saying "No rocket cars" they'd be well within their rights to kick me out.
In this case, Blizzard is forcing the rocket manufacturer to stop making rockets.
Only because the rockets are designed specifically for use with (only function on?) cars that will only ever be used in the No Rocket Cars Allowed Test Track.
Great. That's much clearer. Thanks.
Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble in the US and Canada and it was them that took legal action against Scrabulous. When last I tried to play my Scrabulous games I was greeted with a message telling me that the application was no longer available to users in US and Canada. Presumably, until Mattel takes legal action in the UK, Scrabulous can stay active.
almost as much as showing up in a $80,000 ride.
Actually, it mostly just makes them thing you have a small penis. You must be compensating for something, after all.
And the Wii gets no love.
So if this is a browser based game, what are the requirements for hardware, or even more interestingly, for software?
Is it "browser" based needing MS IE7 and ActiveX, or does it actually make an attempt at being cross-platform? Id has been good with this in the past.
Get the Big Photo application.
It's not ideal, but it works quite well. A friend of mine is a professional photographer and she puts all her work up there. Works well for her.
There are now over 300 spore penis monsters on YouTube. Really...
Bask in the phallic glory of five years of development.
You should try Boom Blox. The game is basically a physics engine and a whole lot of little games that use it. The throwing physics are extremely realistic, to the point of exhausting your arm if you play for more than a few minutes. The jenga-like levels use extremely sensitive Wii controls to let you delicately pull blocks out of towers in all directions.
Nintendo may not be taking full advantage of the controls, but someone is...
I'm planning on doing the same thing with Linux. Put the same desktop background, same launchers on the desktop, import documents and bookmarks. Wonder how long it'd take her to notice...
OT but it seems legit:
http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/products/deposits/nolimit/index.html