To effectively compute female emotions, you'd need something like a quantum computer where you get all possible results at once (and I do mean simultaneously), usually with lots of yelling, doors slamming, and things being thrown.
It's noble of you to suggest, but I don't have what it takes to risk my life for science.
Because I'd say that/.ers are more interested in the challenge for the challenge's sake, and interested in proving that it can be done. If somebody reads the article here and sets out to find a flaw in Adeona's security model, and they win, chances are they'll publish it in order to brag, or, if they're the FOSS type, contribute to the project in their own way.
I'd much rather a/.er try to beat the system now than have some lucky/bright thief figure it out and keep it to themselves while they horde laptops and sell them on the streets.
it may be more difficult for Adeona to gain traction with non-technical law enforcement officers.
"So who do I call to confirm that this laptop is stolen?" "Umm, me. You see, there's this free software called Adeona that anyone can set up to track their own laptop." "Never heard of it..."
In previous threads about stolen laptops (like the AskSlashdot thread on how best to recover a stolen laptop) I read some anecdotes where people were in a similar situation with similarly-purposed software that they rolled themselves. Perhaps the software having a common face (same name and features) will be enough to solve this problem.
The widget toolkits (QT & GTK+) aren't the only toolkits/libraries involved in creating KDE and Gnome applications. There are libraries used for accessing files across a network (SMB shares, NFS shares, HTTP, FTP, etc.), handling sound (ARTS and eventually Phonon for KDE, GStreamer/PulseAudio on Gnome)*, etc. While completely unifying Gnome and KDE would be stupid, and IMO, counterproductive, seeing a merge between the underlying technologies would be great. It would save third-party developers the time of having to re-implement the functionality contained in those libraries, without having to commit their application to a specific desktop environment. Meanwhile, the DE developers could still maintain their philosophy and have their desktop-specific applications keep their look and feel.
I'm not sure. Warcraft II and Starcraft, as I recall have none. Warcraft III uses an old version of SecuROM that isn't invasive like today's SecuROM, which gives me hope that Blizzard will stick to a similar scheme for Starcraft 2 and Diablo III, or nothing at all.
Another point of consideration for those games is that much of their focus is online (for Diablo III, basically all of it is). While there are sure to be a few people who will pirate the game just to play the campaign, the excitement and competition of the game is all on Battle.net. It will probably take much longer for the PvPGN (a Battle.net + Westwood Online emulator) to add support than it would to simply crack the client. They can stop most serious piracy without hurting their customers by simply basing the restrictions around adding gateways/servers to the online server listing. Of course, I hope they don't do that, since I use a PvPGN server for LAN parties and tournaments.:-\
That sounds very interesting; thanks for the tip! I'll ask one of my friends with Netflix to see if he can grab it for me. If I like it, when school starts up I'll recommend it to our Film Club.
But knowledge? Is viewwing a simulation of a physic phenomenon the same as taking the weighs in the labs and proving them yourself? Is it the same viewing a simulation of the parabolic shot, than actually going into the lab, meassuring force, launching a thingie, see how far it got and THEN using newtons tools to see if they still work.
In a word: can we ever substitute experience through tech?
Worse: do we WANT to do that?
This is really more of a philosophical question than a practical one if you ask me. What we see and hear and otherwise experience is not the same as what is actually, really, and absolutely "out there". Our perspective of reality is already limited.
If we really could effectively "substitute experience through technology" I would say we should, but I think it's more likely that we'll try to do that and fail.
I know one personal thing about books and paper versus a keyboard and a text editor (I don't care if it's a palm pilot or some weird device or a regular PC) and that's that I basically don't take notes on paper since I write very slowly.
what if an unverifiable, untraceable voice announces in your ear "rob the bank or I shoot your wife", what would you do?
Don't react. If they believe they can't contact you, then they'll try something else to get whatever they want out of you before killing your wife. It will at least give you some awareness of the situation and probably buy your wife some more time.
Eh. IM on computers is generally better than SMS in terms of grammar/spelling and even subject matter. I leave my IM client running pretty much all the time and use it frequently, and neither me nor anyone I talk to (and we're all teenagers) use any kind of "chatspeak" unless we're joking about it.
Some IM clients also offer end-to-end encryption. Combine that with some enhanced logging features (log management and log encryption) and it would be ready, feature-wise, to completely supplant email, IMO.
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It's noble of you to suggest, but I don't have what it takes to risk my life for science.
Because I'd say that /.ers are more interested in the challenge for the challenge's sake, and interested in proving that it can be done. If somebody reads the article here and sets out to find a flaw in Adeona's security model, and they win, chances are they'll publish it in order to brag, or, if they're the FOSS type, contribute to the project in their own way.
I'd much rather a /.er try to beat the system now than have some lucky/bright thief figure it out and keep it to themselves while they horde laptops and sell them on the streets.
it may be more difficult for Adeona to gain traction with non-technical law enforcement officers.
"So who do I call to confirm that this laptop is stolen?"
"Umm, me. You see, there's this free software called Adeona that anyone can set up to track their own laptop."
"Never heard of it..."
In previous threads about stolen laptops (like the AskSlashdot thread on how best to recover a stolen laptop) I read some anecdotes where people were in a similar situation with similarly-purposed software that they rolled themselves. Perhaps the software having a common face (same name and features) will be enough to solve this problem.
The widget toolkits (QT & GTK+) aren't the only toolkits/libraries involved in creating KDE and Gnome applications. There are libraries used for accessing files across a network (SMB shares, NFS shares, HTTP, FTP, etc.), handling sound (ARTS and eventually Phonon for KDE, GStreamer/PulseAudio on Gnome)*, etc. While completely unifying Gnome and KDE would be stupid, and IMO, counterproductive, seeing a merge between the underlying technologies would be great. It would save third-party developers the time of having to re-implement the functionality contained in those libraries, without having to commit their application to a specific desktop environment. Meanwhile, the DE developers could still maintain their philosophy and have their desktop-specific applications keep their look and feel.
*Yeah, I know those aren't completely comparable.
The other topic is about a day older. Besides, to really discuss this, you need a knowledge of functional programming.
To bash windows, all you need is a rock (or Cygwin). ;-)
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I'm not sure. Warcraft II and Starcraft, as I recall have none. Warcraft III uses an old version of SecuROM that isn't invasive like today's SecuROM, which gives me hope that Blizzard will stick to a similar scheme for Starcraft 2 and Diablo III, or nothing at all.
Another point of consideration for those games is that much of their focus is online (for Diablo III, basically all of it is). While there are sure to be a few people who will pirate the game just to play the campaign, the excitement and competition of the game is all on Battle.net. It will probably take much longer for the PvPGN (a Battle.net + Westwood Online emulator) to add support than it would to simply crack the client. They can stop most serious piracy without hurting their customers by simply basing the restrictions around adding gateways/servers to the online server listing. Of course, I hope they don't do that, since I use a PvPGN server for LAN parties and tournaments. :-\
Could you phrase that another way? I'm not sure I understood you 100%.
After you found out it was ZoneAlarm, you should have pretended it was something else and changed that, too.
What? Somebody's gotta keep your girlfriend in line, and I sure ain't got time!
Best Buy will install it for you--and they'll charge you $150.
You don't have to supply source code if you made no modifications to the already-available source code, IIRC.
Does anyone know if there's a way to make bsd.slashdot.org show up as a section on the main lefthand menu?
That sounds very interesting; thanks for the tip! I'll ask one of my friends with Netflix to see if he can grab it for me. If I like it, when school starts up I'll recommend it to our Film Club.
This is really more of a philosophical question than a practical one if you ask me. What we see and hear and otherwise experience is not the same as what is actually, really, and absolutely "out there". Our perspective of reality is already limited.
If we really could effectively "substitute experience through technology" I would say we should, but I think it's more likely that we'll try to do that and fail.
I know one personal thing about books and paper versus a keyboard and a text editor (I don't care if it's a palm pilot or some weird device or a regular PC) and that's that I basically don't take notes on paper since I write very slowly.
What if somebody genuinely stupid has an equally genuine need for advanced math?
Don't react. If they believe they can't contact you, then they'll try something else to get whatever they want out of you before killing your wife. It will at least give you some awareness of the situation and probably buy your wife some more time.
He said he does not personally have any financial interest in them, but you can bet that his company does.
The chance/skill ratio in chess is 0, because there's no chance in chess. I don't understand how you can say that.
I think you're cute when you're winded, but a "What definition of broadband are you using?" would have been sufficient. ;-)
why not? Have a problem with acronyms containing other acronyms (recursive ones, at that!)? Also, what C compiler(s) do you prefer to use?
Nuh-uh! AIM has supported that for some time now.
So you're saying the Hotmail developers are dishonest?
Man, whose side are you on here!?
Eh. IM on computers is generally better than SMS in terms of grammar/spelling and even subject matter. I leave my IM client running pretty much all the time and use it frequently, and neither me nor anyone I talk to (and we're all teenagers) use any kind of "chatspeak" unless we're joking about it.
Some IM clients also offer end-to-end encryption. Combine that with some enhanced logging features (log management and log encryption) and it would be ready, feature-wise, to completely supplant email, IMO.
I believe it's a well-known fact that the current mod system allows users to only have mod points or a clue.