As a Linux application developer who has used keyring/kwallet for saving secure passwords in the past. I'd recommend not to use them.
Various different distributions have different versions of the these utilities and their libraries. There are so many variations that it becomes hard to support all versions.
Most desktop linux end users have never used them and when they see a warning window popping up (which these utilities tend to show). They cancel the window rather than going through the authentication process.
Indian college educated programmers are cheap. Really cheap. I am an Indian and I can tell you that the reason Zoho does not get good programmers is because they pay ridiculously low compensations.
Sridhar talks about people not being willing to join because his company is not a big name? I'll give him the benefit and say he is being naive. There are tons of startups (or small growing companies like Zoho) in India that get fairly good people. Some I know get outright brilliant people. The trick is to pay people on par with the industry standards and hire the best people you can get to create a good work culture.
As a developer, I do not want to work at a place where people who couldn't even complete their degrees are running riot.
How did this even get such a high mod points.
This guy obviously was never part of the Webkit team.
Apple did a very limited job with Webkit. Had they not forked, KHTML would have been the great engine that Webkit(apple's trademark btw) claims to be.
Apple used BSD and did not contribute anything to the community.
They took KHTML and forked it out. Webkit was just an improved Mac port of KHTML when Apple was working on it. It was only when others like Nokia(who took it to Gtk/Linux), Adobe (who took it to Windows), Qt folks and later Google (who made a skia port) and integrated a new JS engine, it actually started working on it that.
So don't tell me that Apple is some great saviour of open source or anything.
Apple is pulling wool over everyone's eyes by talking of HTML5.
Apple has never promoted an HTML5 based OpenWeb. They are moving the web to Internet enabled mini applications aka Apps from the iTunes apps store.
Netflix, Hulu , DC, tons of publishers have all gone to this closed application model. They have not moved to HTML5.
This is dangerous since it makes the web accessible from only one class of devices.
I really wished we in the Open/FOSS community would realize this danger.
Have you ever used ActionScript? It seems to be that you are ranting about something you have no idea of.
The moment you tell me Steve Jobs coded, I realize that you have drunk way too much Job's kool aid.
Apple is closing down the web by forcing rich internet applications to be built using a platform/sdk that runs only on apple devices.
Flash despite its inconsistencies run all major OS/devices.
Just ask Tim Berners Lee which side of the debate he is on, Adobe's open platform or Apple's closed platform. Maybe you'll realize that you are drinking Steve Job's rather than Lee's kool aid.
The agreement being talked about used to exist some years back. Now it does not.
The Flash 10 specification is completely open and you are free to create your own versions of Flash Player compatible software.
Mods on Crack or what? Who modded this insightful?
Social Anxiety Disorder is a very real disease, quite different from shyness.
It has very real physiological factors which can be countered using proper treatment and medication.
So let's not spread such wrong knowledge on slashdot.
Have you tried using Flex Builder? Flash CS3 is primarily aimed at making flash animation (and not flash applications, although flash applications can be programmed in it). Flex Builder with its flex sdk is more suited to programming.
A flamebait is a comment that has the potential to start a flamewar. I think the moderator is totally in line when he modded the GP a flamebait. On the other hand moderators who modded the parent post insightful rather that off-topic must have been on crack.
What if the content poster changes a random number of pixels in each frame. For some videos as much as 50% of the pixels can be altered with the change being tolerable by the human eye.
An example of this method can be interlacing with doubling of the frame rate. This method could seriously change the hash value, thus breaking any such detection system.
That's breathtakingly evil. But like a lot of breathtakingly evil things, especially the smaller-scale ones, it first requires breathtaking stupidity on the part of the victim.
I don't think this means, what you think it means.
More seriously though, Victim???
Personally, I don't give a damn whether these sites contact people on my contacts list, as long as they keep providing me with the service that I signed up for.
It's not stupidity of any kind. Of course I only sign up for these systems when the service is decently well known like Technocrati, Orkut or such.
The worst they can do is to steal my account and send unauthorized mails. If this starts to happen, while I'll just create a new email account; these companies would lose a big client base.
I am at the CS dept. in one of the highest ranked Indian universities in this years' ACM ICPC (I won't disclose which, but I am sure the same scenario exists at all institutes here).
Contrary to what you are saying, our institute places absolutely no emphasis on such programming challenges. Unlike some Russian univs (I don't know about US ones) we have no regular coaches. Nor do we have any year long "focussed" practice either.
We just attend the regular courses and if we feel like it, we try our skills at some local competition(like Google Code Jam) . The best performers become the team for ICPC.
Most institutes in India pay more attention in making a student either a researcher(motivating them for a PhD) or else someone suitable for the job market.
I recently applied for a number crunching job(from massive databases) at a large investment bank.
With my CS major(with a Data mining specialization and a Management minor) I was sure that I was completely qualified. The interviewer told me that I needed an MBA "degree" for the job.
The question can be reduced to the question : "Is there another way to represent colors which is totally independent of wavelength? And whether color perception is built into humans physically or do we learn it.". I have no answer.
For discussions sake, let us assume that we are on the verge of building a robot with visual perception. Now how do we make sure that he sees red as red (my brand of red) etc. The answer is simple: We don't. We just let is process based on the wavelengths on its sensors. And then program a particular band of wavelength to mean a colour.
In short it doesn't matter what color he actually sees(much like human's today). But what if the internal representation is not related to wavelengths and there exists a way to copy from one such bot to another. Then a)The copy can be done easily b)There may be a total color mismatch or c)The representations differ so much that such a transfer requires a translator. And as soon as we use a translator we can always recover the original image.
a) will occur if the visual perception is built into the bot physically,else if some form of learning algo or a ANN structure is used c) is much more probable.
And how do you make sure that your child has just one profile.
Most likely, a barrage of fake 'for the parents' profiles would spring up now. And that will kill the efficacy of both spying software and any other parental coaxing method.
Actually, its more like {1 in 2 in USA+Europe+China & 1 in 4 in India} = 1.25 billion
The question is can the rest of the world account for the remaining 1.25 billion. But if we take into account that the number in Europe + USA would be actually higher (esp. Europe). I think it is quite probable that there are 2.5 billion cellular phones are operational at any given time.
And if you see the title of TFA there are more than 2.5 billions cellular lines in the world not connections as/. summary states..
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As a Linux application developer who has used keyring/kwallet for saving secure passwords in the past. I'd recommend not to use them.
Various different distributions have different versions of the these utilities and their libraries. There are so many variations that it becomes hard to support all versions. Most desktop linux end users have never used them and when they see a warning window popping up (which these utilities tend to show). They cancel the window rather than going through the authentication process.
Just my 2 cents.
Any other reason? Perhaps they are a bit cheaper?
Thank you. Finally somebody gets it.
Indian college educated programmers are cheap. Really cheap. I am an Indian and I can tell you that the reason Zoho does not get good programmers is because they pay ridiculously low compensations.
Sridhar talks about people not being willing to join because his company is not a big name? I'll give him the benefit and say he is being naive. There are tons of startups (or small growing companies like Zoho) in India that get fairly good people. Some I know get outright brilliant people. The trick is to pay people on par with the industry standards and hire the best people you can get to create a good work culture.
As a developer, I do not want to work at a place where people who couldn't even complete their degrees are running riot.
How did this even get such a high mod points. This guy obviously was never part of the Webkit team. Apple did a very limited job with Webkit. Had they not forked, KHTML would have been the great engine that Webkit(apple's trademark btw) claims to be.
Apple used BSD and did not contribute anything to the community.
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They took KHTML and forked it out. Webkit was just an improved Mac port of KHTML when Apple was working on it. It was only when others like Nokia(who took it to Gtk/Linux), Adobe (who took it to Windows), Qt folks and later Google (who made a skia port) and integrated a new JS engine, it actually started working on it that
So don't tell me that Apple is some great saviour of open source or anything.
Apple is pulling wool over everyone's eyes by talking of HTML5.
Apple has never promoted an HTML5 based OpenWeb. They are moving the web to Internet enabled mini applications aka Apps from the iTunes apps store. Netflix, Hulu , DC, tons of publishers have all gone to this closed application model. They have not moved to HTML5.
This is dangerous since it makes the web accessible from only one class of devices.
I really wished we in the Open/FOSS community would realize this danger.
Dear mqbastard, you sir are incorrect.
Have you ever used ActionScript? It seems to be that you are ranting about something you have no idea of.
The moment you tell me Steve Jobs coded, I realize that you have drunk way too much Job's kool aid.
Apple is closing down the web by forcing rich internet applications to be built using a platform/sdk that runs only on apple devices.
Flash despite its inconsistencies run all major OS/devices.
Just ask Tim Berners Lee which side of the debate he is on, Adobe's open platform or Apple's closed platform. Maybe you'll realize that you are drinking Steve Job's rather than Lee's kool aid.
Fuck the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
YSR is dead now. The current CM of AP is a big fool. Many Indians would join your rally cry now. Fuck him!
The agreement being talked about used to exist some years back. Now it does not. The Flash 10 specification is completely open and you are free to create your own versions of Flash Player compatible software.
Mods on Crack or what? Who modded this insightful?
Social Anxiety Disorder is a very real disease, quite different from shyness. It has very real physiological factors which can be countered using proper treatment and medication.
So let's not spread such wrong knowledge on slashdot.
Have you tried using Flex Builder? Flash CS3 is primarily aimed at making flash animation (and not flash applications, although flash applications can be programmed in it). Flex Builder with its flex sdk is more suited to programming.
A flamebait is a comment that has the potential to start a flamewar. I think the moderator is totally in line when he modded the GP a flamebait. On the other hand moderators who modded the parent post insightful rather that off-topic must have been on crack.
and isn't that ironical?
What if the content poster changes a random number of pixels in each frame. For some videos as much as 50% of the pixels can be altered with the change being tolerable by the human eye. An example of this method can be interlacing with doubling of the frame rate. This method could seriously change the hash value, thus breaking any such detection system.
More seriously though, Victim???
Personally, I don't give a damn whether these sites contact people on my contacts list, as long as they keep providing me with the service that I signed up for.
It's not stupidity of any kind. Of course I only sign up for these systems when the service is decently well known like Technocrati, Orkut or such. The worst they can do is to steal my account and send unauthorized mails. If this starts to happen, while I'll just create a new email account; these companies would lose a big client base.
Where are you drawing a line and classifying marketing mails as spam or not. For me many stupid forwards sent even by friends, are spam too.
Does you service help people who don't have any friends?
Contrary to what you are saying, our institute places absolutely no emphasis on such programming challenges. Unlike some Russian univs (I don't know about US ones) we have no regular coaches. Nor do we have any year long "focussed" practice either.
We just attend the regular courses and if we feel like it, we try our skills at some local competition(like Google Code Jam) . The best performers become the team for ICPC.
Most institutes in India pay more attention in making a student either a researcher(motivating them for a PhD) or else someone suitable for the job market.
Its not a troll.
You are quoting very old data. Most of India's recent advancement has come in the last 4-5 years.
With my CS major(with a Data mining specialization and a Management minor) I was sure that I was completely qualified. The interviewer told me that I needed an MBA "degree" for the job.
The question can be reduced to the question : "Is there another way to represent colors which is totally independent of wavelength? And whether color perception is built into humans physically or do we learn it.". I have no answer.
For discussions sake, let us assume that we are on the verge of building a robot with visual perception. Now how do we make sure that he sees red as red (my brand of red) etc. The answer is simple: We don't. We just let is process based on the wavelengths on its sensors. And then program a particular band of wavelength to mean a colour.
In short it doesn't matter what color he actually sees(much like human's today). But what if the internal representation is not related to wavelengths and there exists a way to copy from one such bot to another. Then a)The copy can be done easily b)There may be a total color mismatch or c)The representations differ so much that such a transfer requires a translator. And as soon as we use a translator we can always recover the original image.
a) will occur if the visual perception is built into the bot physically,else if some form of learning algo or a ANN structure is used c) is much more probable.
And how do you make sure that your child has just one profile.
Most likely, a barrage of fake 'for the parents' profiles would spring up now. And that will kill the efficacy of both spying software and any other parental coaxing method.
That one word says more than what you can say in a million words.
Ahh... The 'They Used My English' syndrome....
Actually, its more like {1 in 2 in USA+Europe+China & 1 in 4 in India} = 1.25 billion
/. summary states..
The question is can the rest of the world account for the remaining 1.25 billion. But if we take into account that the number in Europe + USA would be actually higher (esp. Europe). I think it is quite probable that there are 2.5 billion cellular phones are operational at any given time.
And if you see the title of TFA there are more than 2.5 billions cellular lines in the world not connections as