No, because the "lock" feature of the captcha isn't the word that is being digitised, it is an unmodified run-of-the-mill captcha (GPP). This merely adds a little bit of work for the user (and I'm assuming once the mystery word has been verified by consensus, they'd begin to exclusively use the mystery word). They may even just take the mystery word in the original text (the one being digitised) and couple it with the one before/after that *WAS* translatable, but was then captcha-tised for regular captcha use. This would help the user by providing some for the word (that might appear to be one of many solutions - as you said, they're sometimes indecipherable).
Recently Gmail *has* been getting spam (at a rate of about 1 every 2 days), but they're always relegated to the spambox (and there doesnt seem to be any option for marking it as spam to update the filter, if they're already in the spam box).//*
>> an external memory bank to the card would make upgrades a lot nicer.
It's funny, I've said that exact same thing. What's more interesting is that it turns out that they did actually used to make graphics cards with their own external memory banks, but they discontinued it because it was much cheaper and faster to stick with onboard memory. Plus, the cynic in me would be willing to bet that the graphics card providers prefer charging much more money for the few extra dollars worth of memory.
>>They're doing it to save money
Really? The NYSE aren't doing it purely support the FOSS community? Dang, and I thought I knew the NYSE better than that..
If they have half a brain, they'd put a physical shunt between the server containing the blacklist and the server which hosts the inbox. Since they'd obviously have to have a person sitting somewhere and clicking "is spam"/"not spam", they could just have their interface copy all the "is spam" to say, a flash key, and at the end of the day they unplug it and input it into the blacklist server. It would only be marginally more inefficient, and it would mean the worst case scenario is no new spam can be reported until they stop/fix the DDOS attack, but the old ones would still be on report.
Ah, but who would want to secure their information with something that isn't secure? They may as well use another insecure method that doesn't have dubious IP laws surrounding it..
>>Just had a weird flashback of playing online games and seeing corpses dissolve into thin air. How do they do it....;)
Ah, nuts to THAT! Iwant to know how they manage to RESPAWN.
I'm an aussie, and I don't see any of this censorship. In fact, many people I know are appalled by the censorship in american society (watch an episode of mythbusters if you don't believe me - look at how many often they blur things out and play sound bites over swear words), especially given how enamoured the US is to it's beloved constitution/free speech/etc. Given that Australia has no guaranteed free speech, and aren't typically as ridiculously overpassionate about FREE SPEECH as America (despite stories of similar censorship coming from America), the "australia is overly zealous with censorship!" view is a bit off-target.
I went to *my* old schools page on ratemyteacher, and most of the teachers had posted reviews of themselves as a joke (of course all giving themselves 5/5/5), so it's not like every teacher in the country is a foam-mouthed ruler waving maniac.
>>A better idea would be to try to harness the anger and frustration of those of us who drive the NJ Turnpike. You could really >>support the power grid with all that wasted energy.
>>but won't the turbines cause a drag effect on the cars, resulting in the cars burning more fuel? Is so, aren't they just >>moving the problem from one place to another? There's no such thing as free energy, right?
Putting two and two together.. wouldn't harnessing the anger make people ANGRIER? There's no such thing as free anger!
If I'm understanding what you're advocating correctly, then it's a very problematic solution. For one thing, you'd somehow have to make two mouse cursors each controlled by two independant mice, you'd need to keep each cursor within it's own screen (it'd be a bit kooky to see someone elses' mouse keep popping into your side of the screen). Same deal with keyboards - you'd need to make sure anything typed would stay on the screen it was delegated to. There are solutions to this - but they are rare BECAUSE not many people would use this
If I were the OP and had a computer powerful enough to even consider this, I'd sell or trade it for several crappier and stripped down machines - network boot to save on multiple hard disks, low wattage power supplies, onboard everything, etc.. You might end up using more power when they're ALL running with this solution, but given that you'd otherwise be powering up more power-hungry hardware just for two or three students in most cases, it'd probably work out in the end.
My phone has a similar version of this, (though I can't figure out whether it's by design or defect..). It makes me press the "ok" button (and we all know how tiny they make those things on any halfway modern phone), and it takes any other key to mean "snooze" (which is 5 minutes). It's near impossible to press the OK button in a groggy state, which involves flipping the phone open (without bumping the side buttons) and hitting the button which is in the dead centre of 4 larger and more extruded buttons.
But even if you have a complex alarm (ie, waking up different times each day), a lot of people I've found wake up within half an hour and don't bother going back to sleep.
And of course, you can STILL run your favourite legacy software on Vista, with over ONE THOUSAND (outoftensofthousands) pieces of compatible PC software! (tfa).
Although to be entirely fair, Windows Media Player on XP plays DVDs and has since version (I think, 7?)
"usually works"? I don't know about you, but I have *never* had that work, and I've tried it dozens and dozens of times. Someone should create a *good* automatic repository of drivers, for both windows *AND* linux (OSX already has no major problems, what with proprietary hardware and all).
It's really not difficult to put a whitelist on your router to only allow certain MAC addresses (to stop warchalkers), and WPA/WPA2 (to stop snoopers). These are both options on every access point and wireless router I've dealt with. Besides, most peoples' desktops use wires (much cheaper and less fuss, given that the jacks are included onboard on almost all modern motherboards), and wireless is for laptops/portables (where you aren't likely to do any of your super-secret important work, for reasons of obvious security) - so if it bothers you that much, just switch your access point off or on standby when you aren't using it.
Uh, this actually exists. It's called *JUNK MAIL* (and yes, there are actually a few companies that use registered post to post a whole fat envelope of ads, at least here in Australia).
O....k, I agree with most of what you're saying, but what is this bit about $5 account? I've done a little research of my own (ahem), and I don't see a difference at all between the motivation for someone to get a paid slashdot account (a little money to make the ads go bysies) and for someone to get a paid empornium account (a little money to make the dirty pictures that I want to see in a non-ad format go bysies). If you've lived in a western culture and have more than half a brain (which I'm guessing is most of the people here) then you'll learn to just screen 99% of ads out (the only ones that seem to have any effect are the ones with catchy jingles). Hell, I've had a gmail account for about a year and a half or so now, and I only noticed the ads about 3 months ago..
*I* laugh at people who use MythTV in Australia, since there is absolutely nothing on TV that is worth watching - there is next to no good local content, and anything from overseas is shown up to 18 months late, so you can download it or buy the DVDs before it even airs here. Spending time and money setting up a box that is basically only good for viewing aired (not prerecorded) content only makes sense if there's something aired that's worth viewing.
PS. By "Media PC", I assumed you meant a PC with lots of disk space for prerecorded media..
If you know what you're doing this isn't an issue. Just underclock your CPU as much as you can bring to bear (this way you can unplug the fan, saving 2 or so watts..) as a seeding server wouldn't need much CPU power at all. Then, power down/uninstall every device you aren't using (sound, video, etc). Besides, it's well worth the fact that you don't have to sleep in the heat and noise of your desktop/gaming box. Also, it means you can dump your non-boot disk (eg, media disks) in the other box and use it for serving up media/etc; since 100mb is more than enough for serving up even video media. You can set the other box to shutdown and wakeup (WOL) on command, or on schedule, or just set its power management to spin down anything it doens't use, so it's no more inefficient than having it all in your desktop box.
"Maybe you shouldn't make a family of four in the first place if you can't get a decent job to afford kids?". I agree with you in principle, but it's not like they can legally/morally fix the whole "children" problem, and it's no use crying over *ahem* spilt milk.
"...any visible physical disabilites". Yeah, and NONE of them have mental disabilities, they're simply starving because they don't want to work whilst jobs are just being thrown their direction. "GO AND FIND A JOB AND WORK". Uh, I don't know if you've been in a position to employ people, but most companies tend NOT TO hire people whos resume consists entirely of "lives in gutter". Since most people think that homeless people will steal (and quite often they will), companies won't even let them work for free. Also, most low-skilled jobs are in the service industry, and they tend to frown upon bad hygene, and their employees wear uniforms (which a homeless person cannot afford and cannot clean). As for your job offer, why are you doing it here? Go out to the freeway exit ramps you frequently pass and offer them the job - or are you worried they'll steal and have poor work ethic? I cannot fathom how you can think that someone of sound mind and body would WANT to live on the streets if they had the ability and opportunity to work and live in a house/unit.
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I dunno man, really cool special effects have been making movies succeed despite the ridiculous stories attached to them for a long time now..
No, because the "lock" feature of the captcha isn't the word that is being digitised, it is an unmodified run-of-the-mill captcha (GPP). This merely adds a little bit of work for the user (and I'm assuming once the mystery word has been verified by consensus, they'd begin to exclusively use the mystery word). They may even just take the mystery word in the original text (the one being digitised) and couple it with the one before/after that *WAS* translatable, but was then captcha-tised for regular captcha use. This would help the user by providing some for the word (that might appear to be one of many solutions - as you said, they're sometimes indecipherable).
Recently Gmail *has* been getting spam (at a rate of about 1 every 2 days), but they're always relegated to the spambox (and there doesnt seem to be any option for marking it as spam to update the filter, if they're already in the spam box). //*
can you roll it up and use it to store fish and chips in?
If they have half a brain, they'd put a physical shunt between the server containing the blacklist and the server which hosts the inbox. Since they'd obviously have to have a person sitting somewhere and clicking "is spam"/"not spam", they could just have their interface copy all the "is spam" to say, a flash key, and at the end of the day they unplug it and input it into the blacklist server. It would only be marginally more inefficient, and it would mean the worst case scenario is no new spam can be reported until they stop/fix the DDOS attack, but the old ones would still be on report.
Ah, but who would want to secure their information with something that isn't secure? They may as well use another insecure method that doesn't have dubious IP laws surrounding it..
"usually works"? I don't know about you, but I have *never* had that work, and I've tried it dozens and dozens of times. Someone should create a *good* automatic repository of drivers, for both windows *AND* linux (OSX already has no major problems, what with proprietary hardware and all).
It's really not difficult to put a whitelist on your router to only allow certain MAC addresses (to stop warchalkers), and WPA/WPA2 (to stop snoopers). These are both options on every access point and wireless router I've dealt with. Besides, most peoples' desktops use wires (much cheaper and less fuss, given that the jacks are included onboard on almost all modern motherboards), and wireless is for laptops/portables (where you aren't likely to do any of your super-secret important work, for reasons of obvious security) - so if it bothers you that much, just switch your access point off or on standby when you aren't using it.
Uh, this actually exists. It's called *JUNK MAIL* (and yes, there are actually a few companies that use registered post to post a whole fat envelope of ads, at least here in Australia).
O....k, I agree with most of what you're saying, but what is this bit about $5 account? I've done a little research of my own (ahem), and I don't see a difference at all between the motivation for someone to get a paid slashdot account (a little money to make the ads go bysies) and for someone to get a paid empornium account (a little money to make the dirty pictures that I want to see in a non-ad format go bysies). If you've lived in a western culture and have more than half a brain (which I'm guessing is most of the people here) then you'll learn to just screen 99% of ads out (the only ones that seem to have any effect are the ones with catchy jingles). Hell, I've had a gmail account for about a year and a half or so now, and I only noticed the ads about 3 months ago..
If you know what you're doing this isn't an issue. Just underclock your CPU as much as you can bring to bear (this way you can unplug the fan, saving 2 or so watts..) as a seeding server wouldn't need much CPU power at all. Then, power down/uninstall every device you aren't using (sound, video, etc). Besides, it's well worth the fact that you don't have to sleep in the heat and noise of your desktop/gaming box. Also, it means you can dump your non-boot disk (eg, media disks) in the other box and use it for serving up media/etc; since 100mb is more than enough for serving up even video media. You can set the other box to shutdown and wakeup (WOL) on command, or on schedule, or just set its power management to spin down anything it doens't use, so it's no more inefficient than having it all in your desktop box.