- If you would kill people who do this, they won't do it again.
The shooter in Norway was reported to have peacefully given up when the police team arrived, despite of having plenty of ammunition left for booth his guns. Do you think that would have been a just as likely scenario if Norway practiced death penalty?
That's really interesting. I've always wondered why I have passed these CAPTCHAs even when I had to make wild guesses on some of the words because they were so hard to read.
However, how long will it be before a lot of users realize that it is irrelevant what you enter for the unknown word? Even if you don't know for sure which of the word that is the unknown one, knowing the above I think the risk is high that you just type nonsense if you can't read one of the words.
If enough people do this the system will be quite ineffective. reCAPTCHA will probably not accept the wrong solution very often, but it will take a lot of time to get enough users with the same solution to accept it. But with a massive amount of users, even a small amount of the total might be enough to keep it running?
One curious thing about music machines: I have never heard a midi piano that sounded as good as the most sterile yamaha piano. Why is that? I would suppose you could do a decent physical simulation of the interior of a piano these days, capturing such things as interaction with other undampened strings. But they don't do that. The sostenuto pedal is usually just an echo effect...
Actually, there are digital pianos today that do a pretty good job at simulating effects like that. Not that they sounds perfectly like a acoustic piano, but they are getting quite close. You can get things like damper and string resonance that simulates how strings are interacting with each other. They can also recreate key-off effects to simulate the subtle sound you get when you release a key on a real piano. In more advanced models you can even find speakers placed inside the cabinet that produce sounds to be captured by a microphone in order simulate how sound resonances in a real piano.
My IBM keyboard is made in 1985, and it has the small PS/2 mini-DIN connector. I was under impression though that IBM started using the PS/2 contact for keyboards way before other pc manufactors did. Are you sure the old big DIN connector are more common on theese keyboards?
That's kinda interesting, it's exactly the same parts I used for my media PC, except I got a Prescott instead of a Celeron. I've tried running MythTV on it instead though, but the support for my TV card (Hauppauge HVR 1300) turned out to be almost none existing in Linux at this point. So I've started to think about try running WIndows instead, and that DNTV looks neat. I'm curious, what TV card did you use in your setup?
But even a $2K P4/4.3GHz can serve over 1750 simultaneous 500Kbps video streams...
I would think that 500Kbps is on the lower end of what most people would find acceptable for a video stream. However since the numbers in the summary seemed to be so far off I guess your point holds true even when streaming DVD quality streams.
Now with HDTV though, what will the bitrate requirements be? High enough to make one server struggle with only 15 streams perhaps?
How do they decide who gets those seats? By that I mean which individuals are actually in parliment casting the votes? Is there another election where the people vote on who goes or does the party decide who attends?
Here is how it works in Sweden. On the ballot paper for each parties they publish a list of people (or at least the start of it) in order that they will put in the parliament if the get any seats. So, if a party gets 20 seats, the top 20 people on the list will get them. However, for some time now we have also been able to vote for a specific individual on the list at the same time as you vote for the party. If a certain individual gets enough votes like this, he can be bumped ahead of the published order.
However, there are problems with this type of constitution as well. Usually, to get any suggestions accepted in the parliament, several parties have to team up. It's quite rare for one single party here in Sweden at least to have over 50% of the seats. This has divided the different parties here in two blocks, one on the right and one on the left. The unfortunate thing at the moment is that not even one of these blocks have 50% of the seats together. There is one tiny party left in the middle that has become the party which holds the balance of power. This is not particular good, since they only represent a minor fraction of the voters.
However it is exactly this kind of role that the Pirate Party hopes to get if they can get enough seats in the parliament.
Im not sure the quote implied that there should be millions of civilazations solely in our galaxy. So if we asume the estimated number of 125 billion galaxies is somewhat correct, we are not that far off from millions of civilaztions using these calculations.
Could it be that most (all?) pronouns don't have a plural form with an ending s, so an apostrophe is not needed to distinguish from possessive and plural like it is for most nouns.
Well, I think it's pretty safe to say that they are not drawing cards from more than one deck. If that was the case, people would end up with all strange kinds of hands, like five of a kind or pair of king of hearts.
My Asus Riva TNT came with a fan when I bought it early 1999. The Asus card was however one of the few TNT cards that came with a fan.
This fan also failed within a year (started to make alot of noice) so I got the card replaced on warranty. A few years ago the fan broke again, but since the card is now used in a server only running in console, that is not any problem.
But still, that's only two different directions from which you could get hit at your hideout on the Equator. On the South Pole, you would get hit by any debris that flew the right distant, no matter what direction it took off.
I've seen some different approaches to block mail.
The one my ISP (a University) use it to black any incoming tcp connection with dst port 25. This stops spammers to use any badly configure mail server from beeing used as a relay. I can still use any mail server i want to send mails though, i can even run one of my own. What i can't do is handle incoming emails for my own domain. They also monitors how much mail is sent, and if your computer seems to send out "too much" mails, you'll get an email from the sysadmins asking you to explain what's up.
The other approach I've seen used by xDSL providers here is to block any outgoing connections to dst port 25. This way you could run you own mail server for you domain, but you must relay all sent email through the ISP's smtp server.
I think both solutions offers some protection against spammers, without putting to mych restrions on the users. Not sure which one is most effectiv e though, if any.
This is also something that I also find very irritating along with the delete key operating in the wrong direction. It can be quite aggravating when switching fast and often between different operating systems.
The same problem exist in some windows apps, that have the very bad habit of placing what you delete in the clipboard, and thereby erasing what was previously there. If I would have wanted to cut something out, I would have used that command and not delete.
When buying computer parts, I value the amount of warrenty high. Unfortunatly, after having two of these faulty IBM drives, I will most likely not buy any IBM/Hitachi drive again, atleast not in the near future. Luckily, Western Digital also offer 3-year warrenty on their 8 mb cache drives.
The company behind the.nu addreses (www.nunames.nu) has used this practise with not returning a proper domain not existant error message as long as I can remember. Instead you get to a page with info where you can sign up for this.nu address.
I realize that.com and.net are _far_ more used than.nu addresses, but it's still the same principal, right?
That would be true, if I had been reading the Swedish version just before I read the english one.
Now, there were a few days in between, and by then I only remembered the context of the Swedish text, and not the particular words used. Also, the text it not translated exactly word for word, and the order of words differ too. So in the end I don't believe this affected my abilites to read the english text very much at all.
Also, I don't find much difference in reading the user made up scrambled texts made on this thread, compared to the one in Swedish that were made on the first thread where i read the Swedish version.
However, I do believe that the avarage slashdotter may have an easier time reading these kinds of texts than I do, but I think that is just becuase they have read much more english texts then I have done in my life.
Actaully, im not sure you really have to be native english to be able to read that pretty well.
I'm native Swedish myself, and happened to stumble on this little thing translated into Swedish first. I had not problems at all reading that, but once I found the english version, I didn't find it much more difficult to read.
I would believe it has more to do with how much english texts you have read in you past, and not how much english you have spoken, or how fluent you are in speaking.
Have never thought of this but I think it could be very usefull for people who could play piano.
You also say that trombonists might get problems when using this method. But as a tromboneplayer I can tell you that a trombone have 7 major fixed positions, 1,2,...,7. If you imagine that you play a short song, say 30 notes. For each note you type the positions for it and then you have a 30 digit number that souldn't be too hard to remember.
Im not a cryptographic expert, but a 30 digit number couldn't be that easy to crack with a brute force attack. Please correct me if this isn't right.
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- If you would kill people who do this, they won't do it again.
The shooter in Norway was reported to have peacefully given up when the police team arrived, despite of having plenty of ammunition left for booth his guns. Do you think that would have been a just as likely scenario if Norway practiced death penalty?
That's really interesting. I've always wondered why I have passed these CAPTCHAs even when I had to make wild guesses on some of the words because they were so hard to read.
However, how long will it be before a lot of users realize that it is irrelevant what you enter for the unknown word? Even if you don't know for sure which of the word that is the unknown one, knowing the above I think the risk is high that you just type nonsense if you can't read one of the words.
If enough people do this the system will be quite ineffective. reCAPTCHA will probably not accept the wrong solution very often, but it will take a lot of time to get enough users with the same solution to accept it. But with a massive amount of users, even a small amount of the total might be enough to keep it running?
One curious thing about music machines: I have never heard a midi piano that sounded as good as the most sterile yamaha piano. Why is that? I would suppose you could do a decent physical simulation of the interior of a piano these days, capturing such things as interaction with other undampened strings. But they don't do that. The sostenuto pedal is usually just an echo effect...
Actually, there are digital pianos today that do a pretty good job at simulating effects like that. Not that they sounds perfectly like a acoustic piano, but they are getting quite close. You can get things like damper and string resonance that simulates how strings are interacting with each other. They can also recreate key-off effects to simulate the subtle sound you get when you release a key on a real piano. In more advanced models you can even find speakers placed inside the cabinet that produce sounds to be captured by a microphone in order simulate how sound resonances in a real piano.
And once again you wish you could mod the moderation +1 funny
My IBM keyboard is made in 1985, and it has the small PS/2 mini-DIN connector. I was under impression though that IBM started using the PS/2 contact for keyboards way before other pc manufactors did. Are you sure the old big DIN connector are more common on theese keyboards?
That's kinda interesting, it's exactly the same parts I used for my media PC, except I got a Prescott instead of a Celeron. I've tried running MythTV on it instead though, but the support for my TV card (Hauppauge HVR 1300) turned out to be almost none existing in Linux at this point. So I've started to think about try running WIndows instead, and that DNTV looks neat. I'm curious, what TV card did you use in your setup?
I would think that 500Kbps is on the lower end of what most people would find acceptable for a video stream. However since the numbers in the summary seemed to be so far off I guess your point holds true even when streaming DVD quality streams.
Now with HDTV though, what will the bitrate requirements be? High enough to make one server struggle with only 15 streams perhaps?
How do they decide who gets those seats? By that I mean which individuals are actually in parliment casting the votes? Is there another election where the people vote on who goes or does the party decide who attends?
Here is how it works in Sweden. On the ballot paper for each parties they publish a list of people (or at least the start of it) in order that they will put in the parliament if the get any seats. So, if a party gets 20 seats, the top 20 people on the list will get them. However, for some time now we have also been able to vote for a specific individual on the list at the same time as you vote for the party. If a certain individual gets enough votes like this, he can be bumped ahead of the published order.
However, there are problems with this type of constitution as well. Usually, to get any suggestions accepted in the parliament, several parties have to team up. It's quite rare for one single party here in Sweden at least to have over 50% of the seats. This has divided the different parties here in two blocks, one on the right and one on the left. The unfortunate thing at the moment is that not even one of these blocks have 50% of the seats together. There is one tiny party left in the middle that has become the party which holds the balance of power. This is not particular good, since they only represent a minor fraction of the voters.
However it is exactly this kind of role that the Pirate Party hopes to get if they can get enough seats in the parliament.
How can there be a lot of space left, when there were not even a lot of space to begin with?
I think he is refering to this one.
Im not sure the quote implied that there should be millions of civilazations solely in our galaxy. So if we asume the estimated number of 125 billion galaxies is somewhat correct, we are not that far off from millions of civilaztions using these calculations.
Could it be that most (all?) pronouns don't have a plural form with an ending s, so an apostrophe is not needed to distinguish from possessive and plural like it is for most nouns.
How about the probability that you have a better hand than any opponent?
Well, I think it's pretty safe to say that they are not drawing cards from more than one deck. If that was the case, people would end up with all strange kinds of hands, like five of a kind or pair of king of hearts.
My Asus Riva TNT came with a fan when I bought it early 1999. The Asus card was however one of the few TNT cards that came with a fan.
This fan also failed within a year (started to make alot of noice) so I got the card replaced on warranty. A few years ago the fan broke again, but since the card is now used in a server only running in console, that is not any problem.
But still, that's only two different directions from which you could get hit at your hideout on the Equator. On the South Pole, you would get hit by any debris that flew the right distant, no matter what direction it took off.
I've seen some different approaches to block mail.
The one my ISP (a University) use it to black any incoming tcp connection with dst port 25. This stops spammers to use any badly configure mail server from beeing used as a relay. I can still use any mail server i want to send mails though, i can even run one of my own. What i can't do is handle incoming emails for my own domain. They also monitors how much mail is sent, and if your computer seems to send out "too much" mails, you'll get an email from the sysadmins asking you to explain what's up.
The other approach I've seen used by xDSL providers here is to block any outgoing connections to dst port 25. This way you could run you own mail server for you domain, but you must relay all sent email through the ISP's smtp server.
I think both solutions offers some protection against spammers, without putting to mych restrions on the users. Not sure which one is most effectiv e though, if any.
But once GATOR is removed, DivX will not encode anything for you anymore. At least, that is what happened when i tried.
Read the Fucking Summary ;)
This is also something that I also find very irritating along with the delete key operating in the wrong direction. It can be quite aggravating when switching fast and often between different operating systems.
The same problem exist in some windows apps, that have the very bad habit of placing what you delete in the clipboard, and thereby erasing what was previously there. If I would have wanted to cut something out, I would have used that command and not delete.
When buying computer parts, I value the amount of warrenty high. Unfortunatly, after having two of these faulty IBM drives, I will most likely not buy any IBM/Hitachi drive again, atleast not in the near future. Luckily, Western Digital also offer 3-year warrenty on their 8 mb cache drives.
The company behind the .nu addreses (www.nunames.nu) has used this practise with not returning a proper domain not existant error message as long as I can remember. Instead you get to a page with info where you can sign up for this .nu address.
.com and .net are _far_ more used than .nu addresses, but it's still the same principal, right?
I realize that
That would be true, if I had been reading the Swedish version just before I read the english one.
Now, there were a few days in between, and by then I only remembered the context of the Swedish text, and not the particular words used. Also, the text it not translated exactly word for word, and the order of words differ too. So in the end I don't believe this affected my abilites to read the english text very much at all.
Also, I don't find much difference in reading the user made up scrambled texts made on this thread, compared to the one in Swedish that were made on the first thread where i read the Swedish version.
However, I do believe that the avarage slashdotter may have an easier time reading these kinds of texts than I do, but I think that is just becuase they have read much more english texts then I have done in my life.
Actaully, im not sure you really have to be native english to be able to read that pretty well.
I'm native Swedish myself, and happened to stumble on this little thing translated into Swedish first. I had not problems at all reading that, but once I found the english version, I didn't find it much more difficult to read.
I would believe it has more to do with how much english texts you have read in you past, and not how much english you have spoken, or how fluent you are in speaking.
Have never thought of this but I think it could be very usefull for people who could play piano.
You also say that trombonists might get problems when using this method. But as a tromboneplayer I can tell you that a trombone have 7 major fixed positions, 1,2,...,7. If you imagine that you play a short song, say 30 notes. For each note you type the positions for it and then you have a 30 digit number that souldn't be too hard to remember.
Im not a cryptographic expert, but a 30 digit number couldn't be that easy to crack with a brute force attack. Please correct me if this isn't right.