It's probably in part due to Dean Kamen's influence - the man who made the segway and other mobility devices. The competition pushes more of the mechanical portion of robotics rather than the software. There are other competitions that focus on other areas, but I'm sure the fun of getting to drive around a robot attracts a lot of people (personally I prefer seeing a creation handle itself). The younger FIRST with legos does a bit more autonomous actions (though even there it was usually "drive forwards until mechanical action takes place, drive backwards")
Continuing on the subject of autonomy - It's an area that basically requires miany more sensors/inputs (can bring up the costs quite a bit) and pushes a lot more time into the software, most of which can only be done after the robot is fully functional. If the challenge was the same every year (like playing soccer), then it would be reasonable to have fully autonomous or longer autonomous sessions, but as it is, the engineering/design of the robot is more interesting, so no one wants to see the super clever robot design flailing for 2 minutes around because a ball knocked a sensor out of place.
People don't understand what "Genetically Modified" means. They picture spiderman-type mutations, not apple farmers mixing their trees.
You could say washing your apples before they get sold is "Chemically Processed Food", but people are going to go for the ones that don't have the sticker in the same way.
So it looks like it centers around an attacker having your private key - which if they have would cause other major issues anyways. Not exactly newsworthy.
I imagine the cost is from support for these apps. If a user has their ePet get sick or something when it wasn't suppose to, they're going to be trying to contact the company to get it fixed. No contact for petville? well mafiawars seems close enough!
While getting people mental help is the best solution desperately needed, we can't just ignore the half dozen mass killings with guns (along with the thousands of other gun deaths). It's best to teach people to stay away from the cliff edge, but putting up a fence doesn't hurt either.
But that's just an arms race where everyone needs to have the most powerful weapon to counter the other powerful weapons. If just reduce the whole number of dangerous weapons, then things get a lot safer.
There's no "natural right" to own an armory. The US has the second amendment that gives the right so that citizens can defend their states as part of a militia, but that doesn't make guns some sort of unregulated pokemon. We could easily limit guns to people with proper training and proper evaluation similar to how we let people have other dangerous items like cars.
I think it's more that many explicit pages are poorly tagged and tend to use innuendo a lot which pollutes that normal searches. If I'm working on something and trying to find an image of a part, I don't want the sex images of some small penis men coming up when I search for "2 inch screws"
The law was kind of an outdated one. It seems like the purpose of it was to prevent the kid at blockbuster from disclosing the senator's history of borrowing those porno-betamax tapes.
That's just because you can buy Microsoft products at your local Wal-mart, BestBuy, Staples, Target, etc. No need to go out of your way to the specialty store unless you're looking for a wide selection of xbox games
It looks like the control group was big name movies that people would go to see with friends no matter what happened on the Internet. I guess the theory is people will have heard of them so the social aspect of sharing movies online wouldn't affect them, but at the same time the people who share the movies and watch them either don't go to movies at all, or will still go to a big name movie with their friends.
No, a proper one time pad is random and the results will also appear random. The only vulnerability is if the pad it was generated off of isn't truly random or if it's improperly used. If the pad was used more than once or used repeatedly over the message, then there might be hints to decode it. Otherwise, you can brute force it all you want, but you're just as likely to come up with an incorrect "decoded" message as the real one. Since each letter of each word is coded with its own key, guessing the word "Germany" doesn't help you figure out if the word after is "attacks" or "retreats".
Hardly fair to use a ranking from 7 years go. Even 2 years later, the same website ranked them #6 and I'm sure things have even changed in the past half decade
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It's probably in part due to Dean Kamen's influence - the man who made the segway and other mobility devices. The competition pushes more of the mechanical portion of robotics rather than the software. There are other competitions that focus on other areas, but I'm sure the fun of getting to drive around a robot attracts a lot of people (personally I prefer seeing a creation handle itself). The younger FIRST with legos does a bit more autonomous actions (though even there it was usually "drive forwards until mechanical action takes place, drive backwards")
Continuing on the subject of autonomy - It's an area that basically requires miany more sensors/inputs (can bring up the costs quite a bit) and pushes a lot more time into the software, most of which can only be done after the robot is fully functional. If the challenge was the same every year (like playing soccer), then it would be reasonable to have fully autonomous or longer autonomous sessions, but as it is, the engineering/design of the robot is more interesting, so no one wants to see the super clever robot design flailing for 2 minutes around because a ball knocked a sensor out of place.
People don't understand what "Genetically Modified" means. They picture spiderman-type mutations, not apple farmers mixing their trees.
You could say washing your apples before they get sold is "Chemically Processed Food", but people are going to go for the ones that don't have the sticker in the same way.
Personally, I'm waiting on the iPhone shuffle.
So it looks like it centers around an attacker having your private key - which if they have would cause other major issues anyways. Not exactly newsworthy.
Wasn't it also Jefferson that said "The great thing about the Internet, is anyone can attribute quotes to a founding father"?
You can't even get a handful of real quotes without slipping in a fake one
I imagine the cost is from support for these apps. If a user has their ePet get sick or something when it wasn't suppose to, they're going to be trying to contact the company to get it fixed. No contact for petville? well mafiawars seems close enough!
Just saying...there's a 100% chance Ron Paul won't be elected president in 2012, not matter how much you want it.
Well also actual reality...
While getting people mental help is the best solution desperately needed, we can't just ignore the half dozen mass killings with guns (along with the thousands of other gun deaths). It's best to teach people to stay away from the cliff edge, but putting up a fence doesn't hurt either.
But that's just an arms race where everyone needs to have the most powerful weapon to counter the other powerful weapons. If just reduce the whole number of dangerous weapons, then things get a lot safer.
There's no "natural right" to own an armory. The US has the second amendment that gives the right so that citizens can defend their states as part of a militia, but that doesn't make guns some sort of unregulated pokemon. We could easily limit guns to people with proper training and proper evaluation similar to how we let people have other dangerous items like cars.
So that's saying that guns kill more than all other personal weapons combined! Bombs/fire are a different kind of mass murder.
Read the summary and you'll find out!
I think it's more that many explicit pages are poorly tagged and tend to use innuendo a lot which pollutes that normal searches. If I'm working on something and trying to find an image of a part, I don't want the sex images of some small penis men coming up when I search for "2 inch screws"
We all know that real terrorists take a photo and place it in front of the camera. Obviously they would just put a sonic-photo on the microphone.
Why don't you start a kickstarter to fix those issues then?
The law was kind of an outdated one. It seems like the purpose of it was to prevent the kid at blockbuster from disclosing the senator's history of borrowing those porno-betamax tapes.
So basically it's for the original coders to show off their awesome coding skills
That's just because you can buy Microsoft products at your local Wal-mart, BestBuy, Staples, Target, etc. No need to go out of your way to the specialty store unless you're looking for a wide selection of xbox games
But according to TFA, that costs "a crazy $99"
It looks like the control group was big name movies that people would go to see with friends no matter what happened on the Internet. I guess the theory is people will have heard of them so the social aspect of sharing movies online wouldn't affect them, but at the same time the people who share the movies and watch them either don't go to movies at all, or will still go to a big name movie with their friends.
No, a proper one time pad is random and the results will also appear random. The only vulnerability is if the pad it was generated off of isn't truly random or if it's improperly used. If the pad was used more than once or used repeatedly over the message, then there might be hints to decode it. Otherwise, you can brute force it all you want, but you're just as likely to come up with an incorrect "decoded" message as the real one. Since each letter of each word is coded with its own key, guessing the word "Germany" doesn't help you figure out if the word after is "attacks" or "retreats".
Phone calls aren't encrypted either - they're probably even a bit easier to intercept as they don't need the post office involved.
They still need a warrant to listen in on, however.
Law enforcement also can't go back to see all my old post cards and listen to my old phone conversations they same way they could view my old emails.
Hardly fair to use a ranking from 7 years go. Even 2 years later, the same website ranked them #6 and I'm sure things have even changed in the past half decade