Why are Internet users and students being attacked the most? Easy targets?
From their standpoint, I'd guess that they see the Internet as a larger expansion risk. Street Vendors aren't going to open up stores and move into major malls, but the web 2.0 epoch is upon us, and the internet shows a lot of potential for expanding that piracy.
Not that I defend them, it's just that I can see how they'd fall into the blunder of fighting the goliath.
You are unlikely to find what you want with a simple Web search
Since..when? Recently I've picked up perl again, and I've found more than what I need to scavenge to make my own personal extensions to blosxom through google searches.
I mean, granted, it depends on your definition of a bite-size task, but it's a blanket statement no matter which way you spin it.
Anybody else think image-in-results-out when they first read the summary? Actually, even TFA doesn't make this plainly obvious until you're decently through it.
Once I was past that, I thought it was pretty interesting. It could lead to more honest tagging of videos on YouTube, for example. No more keyword nonsense, just tags assigned by the engine.
I don't see any particular license on the mp3 files either.
You don't see a license attached to a bootlegged DVD or game, either. Because the license was attached to the ORIGINAL material, and violated in the distribution of the mp3. As several people have brought up, there's a possibility that this code was taken from something that was licensed, and given away as implicitly free.
Regarding the OP, I'm siding with the "forget it and leave it be" camp. If you don't make a fuss, the only person that could get in potential trouble if it turned out to be rotten would be the guy who wrote it. There's no assumed responsibility on you to check everybody else's code for licensing issues, and nobody could prove that you'd made this discovery, so you could feign ignorance. Well, unless a vigilante Slashdotter tracks you down and brings the law down on you. You might want to consider hiding.
Unless you've got some ENORMOUS ethical battle to fight on this particular issue, ignore it. Or rewrite the code on your own time to keep the project on-schedule.
Even the best battery "life" indicators I've ever seen mostly suck. If this one uses the dropoff in voltage as a detection device like every other one has for the last brazillion years, it'll basically be completely full for the life of the charge, and about 10 minutes before it tanks, if you're lucky, you'll get the joy of the sensation of a sloshing, albeit mostly empty sloshing, in your digital device.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
This implementation in-and-of-itself does not really signify any important breakthrough to me. Just a bunch of geeks who took a feature and put a software aspect to it for a unique function. However, this is the second cell-phone shakey article I've seen on Slashdot recently. So, what really matters to me is the meta-content here: adding an accelerometer to a cellphone opens up a lot of functionality on the mobile platform.
While your point is valid enough, it looks like the focus of these efforts is the effects of radiation on grown humans, who have a lot more cells. When the entire organism is derived from just 150 cells, a single messed-up cell could spawn millions down the line.
Yes, it certainly seems this way. It's not RC in the typical sense, though, and applying this kind of automation to UAVs, you'd probably be on the scale of a clever engineer being able to work the weight and space in for an onboard flight computer.
Guild Wars employs this style of gameplay, although there are multiple ways for a lowbie to succeed in high-level content. Strategy, teamplay, and even unconventional things like running (you or somebody in your party makes a mad dash for the end of the instanced area to warp the whole party) mix it up a decent bit.
Still, I like the smallest bit of scaling-to-player in a game. I don't want it to be the core of gameplay, but it really does help smooth out gameplay over a wide range of skill levels.
Google doesn't have the government database cross-references. The camera sees a car driving along the same road: they have no ability to figure out who's car it is and what it's doing there.
Don't trust the times this article points out too solidly, they certainly don't sound like they were derived using proper statistics. More likely, they probably just booted it up once before installing the SP, timed it, and then booted it up after, and timed it.
Could be wrong, but whatever, let's party, SP1 is near!
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From their standpoint, I'd guess that they see the Internet as a larger expansion risk. Street Vendors aren't going to open up stores and move into major malls, but the web 2.0 epoch is upon us, and the internet shows a lot of potential for expanding that piracy.
Not that I defend them, it's just that I can see how they'd fall into the blunder of fighting the goliath.
RTFA is an answer to people who don't read the articles, and get all their information from the summary.
Not an excuse for poorly written summaries that obfuscate the true message of the article.
Stormtrooper #5, is that you?! I love your work!!
Actually, since this runs without special cooling needs, I'd be worried about a certain ZeroCool getting in on it.
Tom, is that you? You gotta come out of the closet, Tom!
Writing to inform isn't that hard either, you should try it sometime.
Slashdot is not the place for subtle subtext and prose. Unless it's trolling or misinterpreted sarcasm. Then, go for it.
The respondent posted his reply because your comment was not a complete maturation of an idea, and was more commentary than discussion-invoking.
Absolutely. It's foolish to think one could strike out against the holy employer.
Since..when? Recently I've picked up perl again, and I've found more than what I need to scavenge to make my own personal extensions to blosxom through google searches.
I mean, granted, it depends on your definition of a bite-size task, but it's a blanket statement no matter which way you spin it.
Information is not free, and it wants to be largely neglected by a significant poriton of [american] society!
Heil Physical Media!
Facebook also recently introduced a thumbs-up/down system in your personalized newsfeed.
Anybody else think image-in-results-out when they first read the summary? Actually, even TFA doesn't make this plainly obvious until you're decently through it.
Once I was past that, I thought it was pretty interesting. It could lead to more honest tagging of videos on YouTube, for example. No more keyword nonsense, just tags assigned by the engine.
You don't see a license attached to a bootlegged DVD or game, either. Because the license was attached to the ORIGINAL material, and violated in the distribution of the mp3. As several people have brought up, there's a possibility that this code was taken from something that was licensed, and given away as implicitly free.
Regarding the OP, I'm siding with the "forget it and leave it be" camp. If you don't make a fuss, the only person that could get in potential trouble if it turned out to be rotten would be the guy who wrote it. There's no assumed responsibility on you to check everybody else's code for licensing issues, and nobody could prove that you'd made this discovery, so you could feign ignorance. Well, unless a vigilante Slashdotter tracks you down and brings the law down on you. You might want to consider hiding.
Unless you've got some ENORMOUS ethical battle to fight on this particular issue, ignore it. Or rewrite the code on your own time to keep the project on-schedule.
If you had a Beowulf cluster of kamikaze-servers, you'd have processed this joke yesterday.
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
This implementation in-and-of-itself does not really signify any important breakthrough to me. Just a bunch of geeks who took a feature and put a software aspect to it for a unique function. However, this is the second cell-phone shakey article I've seen on Slashdot recently. So, what really matters to me is the meta-content here: adding an accelerometer to a cellphone opens up a lot of functionality on the mobile platform.
While your point is valid enough, it looks like the focus of these efforts is the effects of radiation on grown humans, who have a lot more cells. When the entire organism is derived from just 150 cells, a single messed-up cell could spawn millions down the line.
Still, not sure I buy this.
Too bad your average OS X user thinks Perl is something that's not as expensive as a mac *duck*
The editors and assholes that release sensationalist claims have to get their initial lead to follow into stupid bullshit.
Maybe PR in the field of science needs a little sprucing up.
Yes, it certainly seems this way. It's not RC in the typical sense, though, and applying this kind of automation to UAVs, you'd probably be on the scale of a clever engineer being able to work the weight and space in for an onboard flight computer.
I see nothing that suggests that the MIT plane is remote-controlled. It was inspired by a pilot's skill on an RC model.
Unless the controls are issued by a remote computer?
Guild Wars employs this style of gameplay, although there are multiple ways for a lowbie to succeed in high-level content. Strategy, teamplay, and even unconventional things like running (you or somebody in your party makes a mad dash for the end of the instanced area to warp the whole party) mix it up a decent bit.
Still, I like the smallest bit of scaling-to-player in a game. I don't want it to be the core of gameplay, but it really does help smooth out gameplay over a wide range of skill levels.
Have you tried the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button?!
As cool as it'd look, from what I understand about slow light experiments, this wouldn't look like what you'd think.
I think there's some kind of error with Slashdot, the article link is not working for me.
It's just taking me to the Skymall catalog.
Don't trust the times this article points out too solidly, they certainly don't sound like they were derived using proper statistics. More likely, they probably just booted it up once before installing the SP, timed it, and then booted it up after, and timed it.
Could be wrong, but whatever, let's party, SP1 is near!
Ah, this is exactly what I was looking for, just a little more detail. Thanks!