For example, the world's first jetliner, the British built De Havilland Comet, fell out of the sky due to metal failure. When metals are be made to cool with...
Ah, I guess the way it sounded when I heard about it on the radio was that he wasn't accepting essentially money from public sources, and I thought citizens were a 'public source.' So yeah, my foot in my mouth, etc.
Of course, if he really was a "1337 h4x0r" he'd have only bumped up a few of his grades, not given himself straight "A"s.
Yeah, he even could've taken it a step further and altered the system in a way that only his transcripts were altered - he still would have failed but he might have gotten away with having an altered transcript, especially since only a handful of people see them between the school and the student.
Another thing is that, well, even the gthmm notes that covering your tracks is important, and if you don't know how to do that then you shouldn't even be looking at the data on another computer because you're out in the open.
Umm...if you read/. at all, you would have seen the EA proposed DRM that would cause Mass Effect (PC) and Spore to phone home every ten days. This wouldn't hurt pirates, only consumers - pirates hack around these kinds of things.
Social networking sites, and Facebook in particular, seem to be increasingly undesirable.
I concur - and it doesn't help that I haven't had much desire to do any social networking lately, save for a quick check-in if I was expecting something. I cleared my Facebook account of most information and limited my applications to a handful (photos, events, the stuff that isn't so invasive) and tightened my privacy. There were a lot of changes to what was public and how public that I missed in my absence.
"Take the number of hard-drives in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."
"Are there a lot of these kinds of hard-drive failures?"
"Oh, you wouldn't believe."
"... Which... hard-drive manufacturer do you work for?"
"A major one."
To the broken finger crowd and the "few too manys": you should also note that it didn't appear to me that this feature would lock you out, to me it seemed more like it might speed up the login process while making it slightly more secure - no clicking "Login" because it "knows" its you, and if its someone pecking at the keyboard it could send you an alert via/var/log/yourlogofchoice for later review (or mail sms whathaveyou). Of course, I'm sure you could change the level of aggressiveness to not allow someone to login unless the differences is stroke pattern are within a small error tolerance.
The rhythm and speed of my typing in a username depends on which one it is, and the same goes for the password.
I would think the system had some kind of "learning" ability, where it would authenticate you normally via your user:pass pair, and collect data about your typing habits. Once it had x data or was in a "trained" state, it should be able to recognize your rhythm and know which user you're logging in as based on the letters you start typing.
"An interesting idea to be sure but I know I certainly am not that consistent when I type, so I'm skeptical of how well this may work."
I think this could be along the lines of identifying someone's signature, granted there is more detail in handwriting. However, we all have a very specific expectation of how the keys are going to type, we have our rhythm of how we're going to type it in time with the way we mentally chunk out login information. I would think that any habitual computer user can type their username/password in their sleep exactly the same as they would at a terminal, and all of that timing information should vary from person-to-person. Don't forget about pressure and keypress duration (quick taps versus "deeper" presses on keys).
Closed-source seems good for getting a job 10% finished and completely ignoring the 90% polish, bugfixing and competent programmers required to make it an app of the same quality as open-source.
I'd like a keyboard like the Optimus [PRIME!!!!!] but, really, if I paid less because Apple did it a different way, I probably wouldn't be nearly as happy as with the Optimus. I mean, if its anything like a Newton, we amy have evry odd transplations, write?
I have a better idea. When I first stared reading the summary, this is what came to mind and now I'm sorely disappointed in TFA : /
So, you're on the bus/plane/sub or elsewhere with your iPhone or iPod Touch and you pick up another i* device nearby with some sweet tunes that you'd like to have. Why not let you listen to it, like iTunes and other computers in your subnet, but then allow you to purchase the track and download it via wifi to your iPhone/Touch?
Touche, but playing Duke Nukem Forever doesn't solve issues that they had time to fix but didn't, probably because they were high and playing too much Duke Nukem. Regardless, given the time they had to work on Vista, I would have expected a slightly better experience when it came out. Playing games doesn't constitute working and releasing a critically acclaimed disaster that could have been avoided doesn't constitute any surprise from me that SP1 is fumbling too.
Kudos to MS for trying to make the user experience better, shame on them for not getting it right the first time(s).
"As Wine proves, any reimplementation of the Win32 API is inevitably not going to be as good as the real thing."
Let's see, in Wine I have trouble with performance, compatibility and software just working the way its supposed to - sounds like it works a little better than Windows.
Though extreme, you could have a license (lol My House EULA), and upon entering anyone must sign and agree to the terms that "you may be raped." And while you, the homeowner, assume legal liability as far as the act of rape is concerned, a person signing this form would therby be consenting to possible rape, and since "rape is a crime wherein the victim is forced into sexual activity against his or her will, in particular sexual penetration," your contract would be sufficent enough to say that this person has agreed to the idea that they may be sexually violated. This is not rape.
Just remember: It isn't rape if you yell "Surprise!"
I hope that everyone going to the mall this afternoon can shell out the $ for every song you hear over the PA while window shopping - oh, and that Sony executive might want to get her checkbook out too, what with hold music, evelvator music, I'm sure she listens to the radio occaisionally, and I bet she takes car rides with friends (ok, not FRIENDS) and they listen to the same CD (didn't they each pay for a copy?) She likely owns some sort of portable music player - I wonder how she got music onto that? Surely, she didn't copy it from her library...right?
Thats illegal, or well, it should be. And once it is, I hope she sets a stunning example by being the first one of us on trial!
P.S. When is Sony going to release a CD-to-Portable Media device? It would have to be able to take a CD and transfer (not copy) the tracks to a usb-connected device, probably using some kind of keyboard/mouse input interface and a screen of some sort. Any suggestions?
kind of. You see, the thing that got me into Linux - and that really makes it special IMHO is that the community will find a way to do it. Hack the firmware, reverse engineer it, etc.
And while vendor support wouldn't be bad, you should also consider that some companies, such as M$ and Apple, have more of a working relationship with hardware manufacturers so they're more likely to get support first, and likely last as well. And just as well - if you're a Linux user you're used to this kind of treatment in the world of hardware and drivers, so you do your homework. I don't go to Best Buy looking for a DVD of Rush Hour when I own a VHS deck, so why pick a new device that isn't compatible with my primary operating system? (granted, TomTom isn't just something to interface with your computer, but then again your whole post is about the device's [in]compatibility with Linux, so...yeah)
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I was reading the article...
...and now I'm thinkin' Arby's
For example, the world's first jetliner, the British built De Havilland Comet, fell out of the sky due to metal failure. When metals are be made to cool with...
I, for one, welcome our green-thing-in-space-in-a-/.-post overlords
Ah, I guess the way it sounded when I heard about it on the radio was that he wasn't accepting essentially money from public sources, and I thought citizens were a 'public source.' So yeah, my foot in my mouth, etc.
Of course, if he really was a "1337 h4x0r" he'd have only bumped up a few of his grades, not given himself straight "A"s.
Yeah, he even could've taken it a step further and altered the system in a way that only his transcripts were altered - he still would have failed but he might have gotten away with having an altered transcript, especially since only a handful of people see them between the school and the student.
Another thing is that, well, even the gthmm notes that covering your tracks is important, and if you don't know how to do that then you shouldn't even be looking at the data on another computer because you're out in the open.
"I'm done with giving Obama money."
Perhaps you weren't aware that Obama doesn't want any more public finanacing? However, ObamaDonations.com is still willing to take your monies...
Umm...if you read /. at all, you would have seen the EA proposed DRM that would cause Mass Effect (PC) and Spore to phone home every ten days. This wouldn't hurt pirates, only consumers - pirates hack around these kinds of things.
Social networking sites, and Facebook in particular, seem to be increasingly undesirable.
I concur - and it doesn't help that I haven't had much desire to do any social networking lately, save for a quick check-in if I was expecting something. I cleared my Facebook account of most information and limited my applications to a handful (photos, events, the stuff that isn't so invasive) and tightened my privacy. There were a lot of changes to what was public and how public that I missed in my absence.
Now thats a job title!
"Take the number of hard-drives in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X... If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." "Are there a lot of these kinds of hard-drive failures?" "Oh, you wouldn't believe." "... Which... hard-drive manufacturer do you work for?" "A major one."
To the broken finger crowd and the "few too manys": you should also note that it didn't appear to me that this feature would lock you out, to me it seemed more like it might speed up the login process while making it slightly more secure - no clicking "Login" because it "knows" its you, and if its someone pecking at the keyboard it could send you an alert via /var/log/yourlogofchoice for later review (or mail sms whathaveyou). Of course, I'm sure you could change the level of aggressiveness to not allow someone to login unless the differences is stroke pattern are within a small error tolerance.
The rhythm and speed of my typing in a username depends on which one it is, and the same goes for the password.
I would think the system had some kind of "learning" ability, where it would authenticate you normally via your user:pass pair, and collect data about your typing habits. Once it had x data or was in a "trained" state, it should be able to recognize your rhythm and know which user you're logging in as based on the letters you start typing.
"An interesting idea to be sure but I know I certainly am not that consistent when I type, so I'm skeptical of how well this may work."
I think this could be along the lines of identifying someone's signature, granted there is more detail in handwriting. However, we all have a very specific expectation of how the keys are going to type, we have our rhythm of how we're going to type it in time with the way we mentally chunk out login information. I would think that any habitual computer user can type their username/password in their sleep exactly the same as they would at a terminal, and all of that timing information should vary from person-to-person. Don't forget about pressure and keypress duration (quick taps versus "deeper" presses on keys).
Zing!
Closed-source seems good for getting a job 10% finished and completely ignoring the 90% polish, bugfixing and competent programmers required to make it an app of the same quality as open-source.
Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
I'd like a keyboard like the Optimus [PRIME!!!!!] but, really, if I paid less because Apple did it a different way, I probably wouldn't be nearly as happy as with the Optimus. I mean, if its anything like a Newton, we amy have evry odd transplations, write?
Also, first post (hopefully!>)
I have a better idea. When I first stared reading the summary, this is what came to mind and now I'm sorely disappointed in TFA : /
:P
So, you're on the bus/plane/sub or elsewhere with your iPhone or iPod Touch and you pick up another i* device nearby with some sweet tunes that you'd like to have. Why not let you listen to it, like iTunes and other computers in your subnet, but then allow you to purchase the track and download it via wifi to your iPhone/Touch?
Oh, and Apple, this is patent pending
Touche, but playing Duke Nukem Forever doesn't solve issues that they had time to fix but didn't, probably because they were high and playing too much Duke Nukem. Regardless, given the time they had to work on Vista, I would have expected a slightly better experience when it came out. Playing games doesn't constitute working and releasing a critically acclaimed disaster that could have been avoided doesn't constitute any surprise from me that SP1 is fumbling too.
Kudos to MS for trying to make the user experience better, shame on them for not getting it right the first time(s).
Microsoft rushes Vista out to market.
Step 2. Rush out Service Pack and fumble over yourself trying to fix bugs you knew about before plus the slew of new ones that came after release
Step 3. ???
Step 4. Profit
How do they do it?
Let's see, in Wine I have trouble with performance, compatibility and software just working the way its supposed to - sounds like it works a little better than Windows.
*Donut*Reverse*Reverse*FORWARD*Stop*Start*Reverse*Speed Up*Sloooow Dowwwwwn*
Is like having a law that says that I am not allowed to force you to sign your name, phone and address when you enter my home.
Fixed
You see, I can lock you out of my website, I just can't log who you were. Kind of OK for keeping you out - kind of.
Though extreme, you could have a license (lol My House EULA), and upon entering anyone must sign and agree to the terms that "you may be raped." And while you, the homeowner, assume legal liability as far as the act of rape is concerned, a person signing this form would therby be consenting to possible rape, and since "rape is a crime wherein the victim is forced into sexual activity against his or her will, in particular sexual penetration," your contract would be sufficent enough to say that this person has agreed to the idea that they may be sexually violated. This is not rape.
Just remember: It isn't rape if you yell "Surprise!"
I hope that everyone going to the mall this afternoon can shell out the $ for every song you hear over the PA while window shopping - oh, and that Sony executive might want to get her checkbook out too, what with hold music, evelvator music, I'm sure she listens to the radio occaisionally, and I bet she takes car rides with friends (ok, not FRIENDS) and they listen to the same CD (didn't they each pay for a copy?) She likely owns some sort of portable music player - I wonder how she got music onto that? Surely, she didn't copy it from her library...right?
Thats illegal, or well, it should be. And once it is, I hope she sets a stunning example by being the first one of us on trial!
P.S. When is Sony going to release a CD-to-Portable Media device? It would have to be able to take a CD and transfer (not copy) the tracks to a usb-connected device, probably using some kind of keyboard/mouse input interface and a screen of some sort. Any suggestions?
kind of. You see, the thing that got me into Linux - and that really makes it special IMHO is that the community will find a way to do it. Hack the firmware, reverse engineer it, etc.
And while vendor support wouldn't be bad, you should also consider that some companies, such as M$ and Apple, have more of a working relationship with hardware manufacturers so they're more likely to get support first, and likely last as well. And just as well - if you're a Linux user you're used to this kind of treatment in the world of hardware and drivers, so you do your homework. I don't go to Best Buy looking for a DVD of Rush Hour when I own a VHS deck, so why pick a new device that isn't compatible with my primary operating system? (granted, TomTom isn't just something to interface with your computer, but then again your whole post is about the device's [in]compatibility with Linux, so...yeah)