Yeah, but downloading and uploading are activities that are supposed to happen in the background. This means that you're typically running something in the foreground. Whatever resources are being used in the background will not available for your foreground tasks.
And if you do any kind of photo or video processing, or play with Google Maps on Firefox, you know you'll need all the resources you can get. Not to mention that bloated software tends to affect your foreground tasks sporadically regardless of how powerful your system is. while(true); is still going to take up 100% CPU, regardless of whether it runs 10 times in a second or a billion times.
I don't think this works well. It's almost as easy to break this as breaking a regular captcha, with the additional step of having to make a bitmap out of the characters first. In fact, it might even be easier, since it would appear that the same letters all use the same pattern for each font, with only minor random noise to obscure the character. Since reloading produces a new captcha, it would only be necessary for an attacker to reload enough to get the full alphabet. This would be trivial, especially over a botnet.
A better ascii art captcha would require a little more variation in the individual letters, and a little more variation in the separator between the letters, which is currently just a space character. And it would be even better if they mixed and matched within the character itself, and transformed the letters a bit more.
I think GP is referring to ASCII art, as in, making an airplane or something out of letters, and then asking the user to identify it. I'm not sure that would be any more difficult to break than the existing image captchas out there, though it would certainly have the same limitation.
That's the sound of the hammer connecting with the nailhead.
Too bad your thumb got in the way first.
Payment for information that can otherwise freely be acquired and for use that falls under fair use is never going to happen. Unless all of the content originators lock up their content and charge to either view or copy, they're just dreaming the pipe dream.
Now, there are so-called "content aggregrators" that blatantly rip off more than what is protected by fair use. Those can be prosecuted, and money can be had from the people who run them. But you can't charge the mere excerpts that a service like Google News aggregates.
Trying to squeeze blood from a stone only results in hurting your own hand.
Typesafety is good for development ease--extensibility, ease of maintenance, and generally readable code, not scalability. Scalability more depends on a forward-looking design and implementation. These two concepts are orthogonal. For example, forseeing that you might have more than 64K users and using a 32-bit int to store your user ID's instead of an unsigned short. A good library is a plus for scalability, but not required, since it's possible to develop your own massively-scalable library. Thus, even something coded in asm can be scalable. As I've stated before, it depends on design and implementation.
Unless what you mean by scalability has nothing to do with mine.
But I approve of this move in general. I think the putting together little bricks to make something much bigger really fits with idea of a lot of little comments to "put together" a person.
Granted, you won't remember because a remodeling of your house is quite the big deal. But if you were like Stevens and had remodeling concurrently done on all seven of your houses--oh wait. Sorry, wrong guy.
"To big to fail" comes from the Democrat's appeasement of unions. If GM filed for bankruptcy, a lot of unionized workers are going to lose their pensions and other very lucrative benefits they're getting from being in a union. And the blue-collared middle-american worker does not want that at all.
As you've said, it's hard to not be an improvement on the previous guy. And by extension, being better than Bush is a very low bar and really not saying much. It certainly isn't enough to satisfy the claims made during Obama's marketing campaign.
Write to him and tell him how disappointed you are. Even something as abridged as what you just put into your/. post would be sufficient, if your letter was hand-written, signed, and delivered by post.
You think he might not be listening, that as president, he'd have better things to do than pay attention to one person. That may be true. But he has people to tally up all of the genuine complaints into a report. And he listens to his people.
Obama isn't a lame duck yet. And he's not going to get that chance if his voters start deserting him. He knows better than anyone else that the loss of the youth vote might just be enough to swing the next election to the other side.
Because if there was a hell, the guys who invented pop-ups would all end up there, next to the telemarketers and autodialers. No, not the people who use autodialers, the machines themselves.
Offtopic, but Clearwire really needs to change its name. The first thing I thought of when I read the headlines was, "What is Rupert Murdoch trying to do by isolating Silicon Valley from the rest of us?"
There are separate stores for used books. It's a separate market from new books, though used book stores may sell the occasional new book.
One reason for the difference is that people hold on to their books far longer than they hold on to their video games. So having a smaller supply, used books tend to be a much smaller market. Very old books go out of print, while old games either cannot be played (format change), or can be found via other sources (P2P). So while very old books can be worth a pretty penny, very old games probably aren't worth cents.
I fail to see the difference; you're also watching that which you can't touc^H^H^H^Hpartake in, and with no small amount of wonder, awe, and respect, I'll bet.
It's the same reason as why the ancient Romans liked to watch gladiators do battle.
When you watch a sports team play, you are watching the fruits of countless hours of training and practice being put into use. That kind of dedication simultaneously generates awe, wonder, and respect, deservedly, I would say. And it may have been among your many unrealized childhood ambitions to do what they are doing now, or it may be one of your current fantasies, but that bit of empathy that every person has at least a little of puts you into the athlete's shoes if only for a moment. And the brief adrenaline rush from that is extremely satisfying.
That's why people watch sports of any kind. Some are more interesting to watch, depending on how well people are able to relate to it.
Personally, I'd agree with your unspoken sentiments, that it's probably more interesting to be the player than the spectator. I don't watch for entertainment any sport that I play, and I only watch critically the sports that I partake in seriously. It's why I find competitive gaming to be absolutely boring to watch. But this may not be so for others.
Not just Linux, FOSS in general. Look at Firefox and the "awesome" bar debacle.
Such "my way or the highway" attitudes are completely counterproductive towards greater adoption. Today, it is the "awesome" bar. Who knows what feature will next get forced upon the users, or forcibly taken away from the users, in the future.
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and please change the links in the summary to point to the proper author of the article.
Yeah, but downloading and uploading are activities that are supposed to happen in the background. This means that you're typically running something in the foreground. Whatever resources are being used in the background will not available for your foreground tasks.
And if you do any kind of photo or video processing, or play with Google Maps on Firefox, you know you'll need all the resources you can get. Not to mention that bloated software tends to affect your foreground tasks sporadically regardless of how powerful your system is. while(true); is still going to take up 100% CPU, regardless of whether it runs 10 times in a second or a billion times.
And it wasn't rent that they were paying for with their money.
I don't think this works well. It's almost as easy to break this as breaking a regular captcha, with the additional step of having to make a bitmap out of the characters first. In fact, it might even be easier, since it would appear that the same letters all use the same pattern for each font, with only minor random noise to obscure the character. Since reloading produces a new captcha, it would only be necessary for an attacker to reload enough to get the full alphabet. This would be trivial, especially over a botnet.
A better ascii art captcha would require a little more variation in the individual letters, and a little more variation in the separator between the letters, which is currently just a space character. And it would be even better if they mixed and matched within the character itself, and transformed the letters a bit more.
I think GP is referring to ASCII art, as in, making an airplane or something out of letters, and then asking the user to identify it. I'm not sure that would be any more difficult to break than the existing image captchas out there, though it would certainly have the same limitation.
yeah, but now it can also be .porn; .pron; .pr0n; .porno; .xrated; .softcore; .hardcore; .hc; .sc;
It'd be madness...
The .tv and .info all those new TLD's were crazy enough as it were.
What thoughtful, practical, sensical, terror training camp did you come out from, and what did you do with /.?
That's the sound of the hammer connecting with the nailhead.
Too bad your thumb got in the way first.
Payment for information that can otherwise freely be acquired and for use that falls under fair use is never going to happen. Unless all of the content originators lock up their content and charge to either view or copy, they're just dreaming the pipe dream.
Now, there are so-called "content aggregrators" that blatantly rip off more than what is protected by fair use. Those can be prosecuted, and money can be had from the people who run them. But you can't charge the mere excerpts that a service like Google News aggregates.
Trying to squeeze blood from a stone only results in hurting your own hand.
Typesafety is good for development ease--extensibility, ease of maintenance, and generally readable code, not scalability. Scalability more depends on a forward-looking design and implementation. These two concepts are orthogonal. For example, forseeing that you might have more than 64K users and using a 32-bit int to store your user ID's instead of an unsigned short. A good library is a plus for scalability, but not required, since it's possible to develop your own massively-scalable library. Thus, even something coded in asm can be scalable. As I've stated before, it depends on design and implementation.
Unless what you mean by scalability has nothing to do with mine.
No way in hell will Amazon overshadow Apple's solution.
Yet.
...gone with minifig scale.
But I approve of this move in general. I think the putting together little bricks to make something much bigger really fits with idea of a lot of little comments to "put together" a person.
Granted, you won't remember because a remodeling of your house is quite the big deal. But if you were like Stevens and had remodeling concurrently done on all seven of your houses--oh wait. Sorry, wrong guy.
"To big to fail" comes from the Democrat's appeasement of unions. If GM filed for bankruptcy, a lot of unionized workers are going to lose their pensions and other very lucrative benefits they're getting from being in a union. And the blue-collared middle-american worker does not want that at all.
As you've said, it's hard to not be an improvement on the previous guy. And by extension, being better than Bush is a very low bar and really not saying much. It certainly isn't enough to satisfy the claims made during Obama's marketing campaign.
Write to him and tell him how disappointed you are. Even something as abridged as what you just put into your /. post would be sufficient, if your letter was hand-written, signed, and delivered by post.
You think he might not be listening, that as president, he'd have better things to do than pay attention to one person. That may be true. But he has people to tally up all of the genuine complaints into a report. And he listens to his people.
Obama isn't a lame duck yet. And he's not going to get that chance if his voters start deserting him. He knows better than anyone else that the loss of the youth vote might just be enough to swing the next election to the other side.
Change is what that cup in your hand is for.
Even if 80% of the time was the wrong hole.
M -- a thousand. From Roman numerals.
As opposed to scientific lingo, where it's K, or street lingo, where it's G.
Allowing ports to be an integral part of the perpetual economic stimulus plan.
To quote a most observant poster from above (bold emphasis mine):
We're talking about an entertainment columnist from Fox News.
If you were expecting Hemmingway or James, you should probably look elsewhere.
How do you know there are no ads in Heaven?
Because if there was a hell, the guys who invented pop-ups would all end up there, next to the telemarketers and autodialers. No, not the people who use autodialers, the machines themselves.
I'm worried about any president holding such powers, not just the current or future one.
It's a slippery slope. Today, they censor the internet. Tomorrow, they censor the phones. Then it's mail. Then our speech.
Offtopic, but Clearwire really needs to change its name. The first thing I thought of when I read the headlines was, "What is Rupert Murdoch trying to do by isolating Silicon Valley from the rest of us?"
There are separate stores for used books. It's a separate market from new books, though used book stores may sell the occasional new book.
One reason for the difference is that people hold on to their books far longer than they hold on to their video games. So having a smaller supply, used books tend to be a much smaller market. Very old books go out of print, while old games either cannot be played (format change), or can be found via other sources (P2P). So while very old books can be worth a pretty penny, very old games probably aren't worth cents.
I fail to see the difference; you're also watching that which you can't touc^H^H^H^Hpartake in, and with no small amount of wonder, awe, and respect, I'll bet.
It's the same reason as why the ancient Romans liked to watch gladiators do battle.
When you watch a sports team play, you are watching the fruits of countless hours of training and practice being put into use. That kind of dedication simultaneously generates awe, wonder, and respect, deservedly, I would say. And it may have been among your many unrealized childhood ambitions to do what they are doing now, or it may be one of your current fantasies, but that bit of empathy that every person has at least a little of puts you into the athlete's shoes if only for a moment. And the brief adrenaline rush from that is extremely satisfying.
That's why people watch sports of any kind. Some are more interesting to watch, depending on how well people are able to relate to it.
Personally, I'd agree with your unspoken sentiments, that it's probably more interesting to be the player than the spectator. I don't watch for entertainment any sport that I play, and I only watch critically the sports that I partake in seriously. It's why I find competitive gaming to be absolutely boring to watch. But this may not be so for others.
Not just Linux, FOSS in general. Look at Firefox and the "awesome" bar debacle.
Such "my way or the highway" attitudes are completely counterproductive towards greater adoption. Today, it is the "awesome" bar. Who knows what feature will next get forced upon the users, or forcibly taken away from the users, in the future.