What would you rather do? Control a single element with my entire hand or control 5+ things with that same hand? With all the buttons we have on top of and below the controller these days,you have a lot more to do with that one hand. There are the old joysticks that have multiple triggers and buttons on top, but there is no way you can pull off the kind of sensitivity you need for a first person shooter, and few other games that are suitable other than flight sims. Even if somebody did reinvent the joystick to work great with a particular game, it probably would ONLY work well for that one game. The lesson we have all learned from the most popular interface tools is keep it simple! Mouse and Keyboard, wiimote, the Playstation controller, all accept this fact, and thats why they are hard to beat.
First of all, the behavior people display during a study would be highly skewed from normal day to day behavior. To really make a determination of this, something less deliberate would need to be done. Most people in this study would go ahead just for the purpose of being agreeable. I know I would be hesistant to screw over a Harvard study if I was participating in it.
On another note, I have many times wondered what would prevent a phishing site from asking bank of america for the site key based upon the entered SSN. How can bank of america know the phishing site from the user?
That is the most deceptive headline you have successfully posted ever. This death could not have less to do with the Wii. It is ONLY about a radio station that tried an irresponsible stunt, and a lady who put her own health at risk to win a competition. The Wii is only related in name, but has ZERO relevance to her death. Stop trying to decieve people and learn to post honestly for once. Thanks!
This clearly is not a solution that would go by itself. If a person could get pass this system, they would have already gotten through every other security measure in place, so it is not reasonable to suggest lowered safety resulting from this procedure. The harm from being a false positive would also be minimal. I have not heard so much as a suggestion that this technology be used to press charges. If you cause a flag, you wait in line a while longer while they check you out in detail. This sounds a lot smarter than the current "terrorists only go one way" policy. Also keep in mind that the system caught 85% of the the role acting terrorists, there was no mention of false positives, so this only tells us that 85% were not caught. This of if a plot consisted of 5 terrorists, run that through statistical analysis and this system would have better than 98% change of catching at least one of them. Do not be closed to new technology like this. I am not saying it is not too intrusive or that it is perfect, but it sounds worthy of consideration.
I'm with coward on this one, that is totally weak if you could be "devestated" by something so harmless. I use long file names all the time at work and nobody complains. If somebody did take a cheap shot at me, I am not sure why I would care about it.
The human race is not even close to its demise. Unless Dr Hawkings is speaking about nuclear war or some other plague on humanity, our LIFE CRITICAL resources are not so close to their end. The question is how will the quality of life be as good as it is today in one hundred years. We do not need cheap easy transportation to live, we need it for quality of life. Mankind has thrived for thousands of years on virtually no technology at all, and it only made us stronger.
It is a shame that some people insist on telling such dishonest predictions of doom that it trivializes the cause. I hear things like this and it makes it sound like the entire fight for the future is a sham, but I know that is not the case at all.
The question does apply, if you mean a thousand years or a million, humanity is reaching an end and we do not want to hand our descendants a lesser world than the one we were born into. Aside from technological breakthroughs, there is no way for humanity to continue increasing in population without totally destroying the possibility of having some degree of equilibrium between us and our environment. It would be irresponsible to continue at this rate only equipped with unfounded hopes of colonizing on other planets and invention of effective fusion reactors. Population control is clearly the only possibility that we can actually count on. To have a child, you need two people. Two children per couple should be sufficient for any family, especially considering the consequences of over population. This balance can be tweaked according to resources and current population, but keep in mind that many people will chose not to have children at all, so 2 children per couple could effectively DECREASE the population. China has already had to make this move and pulled it off only because they are not a democracy. Clearly any American politician would be slaughtered to recommend similar solutions to population control, so the best we can do for now is be honest about expectations and try to share with as many people as possible that our descendants will have better future if we do not introduce them into a crowded planet with no hope of letting up. This is just going to be one of those things that we have to share the knowledge with others before we can expect policy to become effective.
That really is a stretch, the analogy about the camera filming the screen nails it, at least that way you get properly synched sound. Speaking of which, you forgot to mention that you should open up sound recorder so you can capture the audio in sub par format as well. Of course there are applications that could be created and probably already exist that would allow the recording of each frame the computer displays. This would prove to be ineffective, inefficient, and probably low quality as well when you attempted to compile the frames for distribution. I know that we aren't big fans of the encryption features, but its probably not good use of Slashdot to fill its boards with absurdly obvious "hacks" that don't work.
"If we can reinvent the car, imagine the jobs we can create." said bill sponsor Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C.
This sounded like an attrocity at first, since the idea of reworking problems to create jobs is a total economic fallacy. If you think about it though, if America could create a new kind of car that ran on hydrogen fuel and had massive economic and environmental benefits, this would in fact revitalize the car industry in America and provide lots more jobs to Americans to provide his new service, especially considering how these cars could be sold across the world, this would have a similar effect as the car industry had back in the first days of Ford. The quote sounded pretty thick headed, but I think he was going for something that actually makes sense.
One of the biggest problems with the internet and legal issues like this is that lack of ability for people to use analogy to see how inconsistant the laws and regulations can be. Imagine if everytime a new book came out, somebody put out a crappy one with an almost identical name. Go to the book store to get a present for your mother and you come back with "The DiVinco Code". Such there are lots of weasels who would clain they are not the same, but clearly this is a NO value added knockoff. If somebody wants to create sites that show advertisements, they should either pay advertising for other web sites, or add value in a way that brings people in and spreads the word. Not only is the networking traffic created by this a loss, there is also the loss in time for those people who have to evaluate the squatter and determine if it is the desired site. Trademarks allow organizations to be referenced to, and develop a reputation. Think of companies like NewEgg, benchmarks like Anandtech, articles like Slashdot. If you tell people to visit slashdot for news on technology(like I have many times) it hurts Slashdot AND the viewer when they mistakingly go to slushdot, or sashdot and this devalues the ability of organizations to build a name based upon their trademarks. If my friends go to Neweg(by mistake) and gets faulty video card from a lousy organization, this hurts my friends, Newegg, and everybody else who is duped into making a purchase from an undeserving company. I realize that money will be a driving factor in this chaos, but I think it would be interesting if there was a project(maybe firefox or DNS based) where people could register all of the squatter scam sites and keep an updated database so that when such mistakes were made, the correction was made before any harm could be done. Anybody up for it?
I work a lot with other companies in my business and this is a common issue. You pay a fortune for a service and usually the good contractors will provide a little extra value without charging. Sometimes though there are groups that are well known for nickle and diming us for everything we need, and its not large things. Sometimes its petty concerns even as pathetic as pencils and pens. Guess who I will give a contract to when I have the choice between the two companies? Horse armor is barely worth 50 cents, and any charge under $10 is just plain bad character. It just shows the kind of mentality Bethesda Software Microsoft have about their customers. Rather than seeing us as people who they want to make happy, they clearly see us as walking money pots and they want to grab all they can. Just keep this in mind. Next time you are at the store, think about this when you can choose between a Bethesda game and one from a company who actually likes to share content with fans in a more appropriate manner.
Every time there is new technology, it makes crime easier, and some news guru will always spin an article out of that. Do you know how criminals usually find out that it makes crime easier? They realize the technology makes LIFE easier and just start to apply it to their crimes. Look at cell phones, internet, with emails. These are all used all the time by criminals and new laws have been made because of these technologies, but its not likw the technology is the problem. Just about every step forward for technological progress turns into a step forward for criminals, but the pros just about always will out weight the cons. Just remember that you read the articles with these headlines, so reports will always be there to produce them, stating the hazards of fusion, quantum computers, and Playstation 4.
To make such a system work it seems like every computer in the country would need the fingerprint reader, or else, it would just be insane to knowingly submit yourself to such a system if you wanted to have full rights over your software. I agree that this certainly has a lot more to do with private security than DRM. I know a lot of companies with security issues and this technology would help. Don't forget Wells Fargo, millions of dollars spent recovering from a single laptop theft, where thousands of customers' personal information was put at risk. In fact, if companies did NOT use such robust security procedures, I would be reading an article later on about how fingerprint based technology SHOULD be used as it protects the rights of the consumers through better security. Having a watch dog is great, but it lowers how much you trust it's bark when you hear a warnings every time a fly lands in its vicinity.
Since when did pornography become such a great thing? By no means is it professional or something that has any place in a professional setting. Try taking a playboy to work, what happens. Try looking at internet porn, see what happens. I am not saying you should not be allowed to look if you want, but certain places it is appropriate, and some it is not. In terms of actual law, I can see how looking at pornography in a library might be ok as long as you don't hold it up for children to see, but it is still in poor character. It was not the job of the guards to enforce such things. On the message that said how they guards reflected the will of their superiors, do you even know anybody who works for the DHS? That in no way represents their will, their job has nothing to do with things such as pornography. It might as well have been sanitation workers who made this error.
That is a fair enough point, but I hope you do not relate this point to the article as far as the federal government goes. Understand that some people out there do not know that pronographic magazines are available at the library, as they have articles. It was foolish of the guards but they were not acting on behalf of the DHS when they did this. It was not federal, state, or local policy being enforced. Just a couple of guys who stepped beyond their duties. To be honest, if I didn't learn years ago that libraries carried playboy for its articles, I might have said something to the man myself. It does seem inappropriate to look at pornography in a public place like a library. What they did was out of ignorance and simply has nothing to do with the position of the government. It was most likely an honest mistake and did not cause any real harm, as they guards were corrected and sent on their way.
The article states nothing about these employees actually trying to enforce Homeland Security regulatinos, they were clearly speaking on their own behalf. This was irresponsible, as they were in uniform and on duty. Keep on mind that they were also part of a subsidiary of the DHS. This is the same thing as if a fey Marines still in uniform did the same thing. It isn't Department of Defense policy to enforce indecency, but that doesn't mean they can keep every one of their thousands of employees from doing this kind of thing out of personal ignorance. Homeland Security is only focused on the safety of people, look at their site and look into their operations(http://www.dhs.gov./ They are not investigators, they are not crime stoppers, those guards were sent there to patrol and they stepped out of bounds. Look into the matter more and you can be sure they got in trouble for this irresponsible move on their part. Some people just are not aware that playboy is available at the library for its articles. If this mess was actually caused by a Homeland Security rule, I would say it might be a big deal, but clearly it had NOTHING to do with them except for that two employees stepped out of bounds while in uniform, and they need to be reprimanded.
Personally I think that practices like this should be flat out illegal, as they incourage monopolies while they hinder fair competition. That is not necessary though as we all have the right to let go of any unethical developers who choose to participate in such practices. I will avoid purchasing any software vender who does anything like this, and I think it would benefit us all to stage boycotts where ever this kind of mafia mentality is being used. Can anybody here start a Slashdot section dedicated towards staging boycotts against organizations wh odo this?
Its a hospital ICU. Think about this, a place where people are healed! It would appear that if a group of terrorist attacked this same place, you would say that the hospital shared some of the blame, as they were not locked up quite as well as Fort Knox. The BLAME lies entirely with those the break the law will full intent.
Is there no end to the chaotic suggestion that the victims are at fault? People SHOULD lock their doors, they SHOULD keep their children from strangers, they SHOULD avoid walking down dark alleys late at night. That doesn't mean they are the ones at fault with the burgler, rapist, or thug attack. When you even suggest the fault lies with anybody but the attacker, you only validate them as being victims of lose security. This breeds contemptable statements such as "it wasn't my fault I killed the man, he should of had a gun to stop me". Absurd? I agree, Zonk's suggestion certainly was.
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What would you rather do? Control a single element with my entire hand or control 5+ things with that same hand? With all the buttons we have on top of and below the controller these days,you have a lot more to do with that one hand. There are the old joysticks that have multiple triggers and buttons on top, but there is no way you can pull off the kind of sensitivity you need for a first person shooter, and few other games that are suitable other than flight sims. Even if somebody did reinvent the joystick to work great with a particular game, it probably would ONLY work well for that one game. The lesson we have all learned from the most popular interface tools is keep it simple! Mouse and Keyboard, wiimote, the Playstation controller, all accept this fact, and thats why they are hard to beat.
First of all, the behavior people display during a study would be highly skewed from normal day to day behavior. To really make a determination of this, something less deliberate would need to be done. Most people in this study would go ahead just for the purpose of being agreeable. I know I would be hesistant to screw over a Harvard study if I was participating in it. On another note, I have many times wondered what would prevent a phishing site from asking bank of america for the site key based upon the entered SSN. How can bank of america know the phishing site from the user?
That is the most deceptive headline you have successfully posted ever. This death could not have less to do with the Wii. It is ONLY about a radio station that tried an irresponsible stunt, and a lady who put her own health at risk to win a competition. The Wii is only related in name, but has ZERO relevance to her death. Stop trying to decieve people and learn to post honestly for once. Thanks!
This clearly is not a solution that would go by itself. If a person could get pass this system, they would have already gotten through every other security measure in place, so it is not reasonable to suggest lowered safety resulting from this procedure. The harm from being a false positive would also be minimal. I have not heard so much as a suggestion that this technology be used to press charges. If you cause a flag, you wait in line a while longer while they check you out in detail. This sounds a lot smarter than the current "terrorists only go one way" policy. Also keep in mind that the system caught 85% of the the role acting terrorists, there was no mention of false positives, so this only tells us that 85% were not caught. This of if a plot consisted of 5 terrorists, run that through statistical analysis and this system would have better than 98% change of catching at least one of them. Do not be closed to new technology like this. I am not saying it is not too intrusive or that it is perfect, but it sounds worthy of consideration.
I'm with coward on this one, that is totally weak if you could be "devestated" by something so harmless. I use long file names all the time at work and nobody complains. If somebody did take a cheap shot at me, I am not sure why I would care about it.
The human race is not even close to its demise. Unless Dr Hawkings is speaking about nuclear war or some other plague on humanity, our LIFE CRITICAL resources are not so close to their end. The question is how will the quality of life be as good as it is today in one hundred years. We do not need cheap easy transportation to live, we need it for quality of life. Mankind has thrived for thousands of years on virtually no technology at all, and it only made us stronger. It is a shame that some people insist on telling such dishonest predictions of doom that it trivializes the cause. I hear things like this and it makes it sound like the entire fight for the future is a sham, but I know that is not the case at all. The question does apply, if you mean a thousand years or a million, humanity is reaching an end and we do not want to hand our descendants a lesser world than the one we were born into. Aside from technological breakthroughs, there is no way for humanity to continue increasing in population without totally destroying the possibility of having some degree of equilibrium between us and our environment. It would be irresponsible to continue at this rate only equipped with unfounded hopes of colonizing on other planets and invention of effective fusion reactors. Population control is clearly the only possibility that we can actually count on. To have a child, you need two people. Two children per couple should be sufficient for any family, especially considering the consequences of over population. This balance can be tweaked according to resources and current population, but keep in mind that many people will chose not to have children at all, so 2 children per couple could effectively DECREASE the population. China has already had to make this move and pulled it off only because they are not a democracy. Clearly any American politician would be slaughtered to recommend similar solutions to population control, so the best we can do for now is be honest about expectations and try to share with as many people as possible that our descendants will have better future if we do not introduce them into a crowded planet with no hope of letting up. This is just going to be one of those things that we have to share the knowledge with others before we can expect policy to become effective.
That really is a stretch, the analogy about the camera filming the screen nails it, at least that way you get properly synched sound. Speaking of which, you forgot to mention that you should open up sound recorder so you can capture the audio in sub par format as well. Of course there are applications that could be created and probably already exist that would allow the recording of each frame the computer displays. This would prove to be ineffective, inefficient, and probably low quality as well when you attempted to compile the frames for distribution. I know that we aren't big fans of the encryption features, but its probably not good use of Slashdot to fill its boards with absurdly obvious "hacks" that don't work.
"If we can reinvent the car, imagine the jobs we can create." said bill sponsor Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C. This sounded like an attrocity at first, since the idea of reworking problems to create jobs is a total economic fallacy. If you think about it though, if America could create a new kind of car that ran on hydrogen fuel and had massive economic and environmental benefits, this would in fact revitalize the car industry in America and provide lots more jobs to Americans to provide his new service, especially considering how these cars could be sold across the world, this would have a similar effect as the car industry had back in the first days of Ford. The quote sounded pretty thick headed, but I think he was going for something that actually makes sense.
One of the biggest problems with the internet and legal issues like this is that lack of ability for people to use analogy to see how inconsistant the laws and regulations can be. Imagine if everytime a new book came out, somebody put out a crappy one with an almost identical name. Go to the book store to get a present for your mother and you come back with "The DiVinco Code". Such there are lots of weasels who would clain they are not the same, but clearly this is a NO value added knockoff. If somebody wants to create sites that show advertisements, they should either pay advertising for other web sites, or add value in a way that brings people in and spreads the word. Not only is the networking traffic created by this a loss, there is also the loss in time for those people who have to evaluate the squatter and determine if it is the desired site. Trademarks allow organizations to be referenced to, and develop a reputation. Think of companies like NewEgg, benchmarks like Anandtech, articles like Slashdot. If you tell people to visit slashdot for news on technology(like I have many times) it hurts Slashdot AND the viewer when they mistakingly go to slushdot, or sashdot and this devalues the ability of organizations to build a name based upon their trademarks. If my friends go to Neweg(by mistake) and gets faulty video card from a lousy organization, this hurts my friends, Newegg, and everybody else who is duped into making a purchase from an undeserving company. I realize that money will be a driving factor in this chaos, but I think it would be interesting if there was a project(maybe firefox or DNS based) where people could register all of the squatter scam sites and keep an updated database so that when such mistakes were made, the correction was made before any harm could be done. Anybody up for it?
I work a lot with other companies in my business and this is a common issue. You pay a fortune for a service and usually the good contractors will provide a little extra value without charging. Sometimes though there are groups that are well known for nickle and diming us for everything we need, and its not large things. Sometimes its petty concerns even as pathetic as pencils and pens. Guess who I will give a contract to when I have the choice between the two companies? Horse armor is barely worth 50 cents, and any charge under $10 is just plain bad character. It just shows the kind of mentality Bethesda Software Microsoft have about their customers. Rather than seeing us as people who they want to make happy, they clearly see us as walking money pots and they want to grab all they can. Just keep this in mind. Next time you are at the store, think about this when you can choose between a Bethesda game and one from a company who actually likes to share content with fans in a more appropriate manner.
Every time there is new technology, it makes crime easier, and some news guru will always spin an article out of that. Do you know how criminals usually find out that it makes crime easier? They realize the technology makes LIFE easier and just start to apply it to their crimes. Look at cell phones, internet, with emails. These are all used all the time by criminals and new laws have been made because of these technologies, but its not likw the technology is the problem. Just about every step forward for technological progress turns into a step forward for criminals, but the pros just about always will out weight the cons. Just remember that you read the articles with these headlines, so reports will always be there to produce them, stating the hazards of fusion, quantum computers, and Playstation 4.
To make such a system work it seems like every computer in the country would need the fingerprint reader, or else, it would just be insane to knowingly submit yourself to such a system if you wanted to have full rights over your software. I agree that this certainly has a lot more to do with private security than DRM. I know a lot of companies with security issues and this technology would help. Don't forget Wells Fargo, millions of dollars spent recovering from a single laptop theft, where thousands of customers' personal information was put at risk. In fact, if companies did NOT use such robust security procedures, I would be reading an article later on about how fingerprint based technology SHOULD be used as it protects the rights of the consumers through better security. Having a watch dog is great, but it lowers how much you trust it's bark when you hear a warnings every time a fly lands in its vicinity.
Since when did pornography become such a great thing? By no means is it professional or something that has any place in a professional setting. Try taking a playboy to work, what happens. Try looking at internet porn, see what happens. I am not saying you should not be allowed to look if you want, but certain places it is appropriate, and some it is not. In terms of actual law, I can see how looking at pornography in a library might be ok as long as you don't hold it up for children to see, but it is still in poor character. It was not the job of the guards to enforce such things. On the message that said how they guards reflected the will of their superiors, do you even know anybody who works for the DHS? That in no way represents their will, their job has nothing to do with things such as pornography. It might as well have been sanitation workers who made this error.
That is a fair enough point, but I hope you do not relate this point to the article as far as the federal government goes. Understand that some people out there do not know that pronographic magazines are available at the library, as they have articles. It was foolish of the guards but they were not acting on behalf of the DHS when they did this. It was not federal, state, or local policy being enforced. Just a couple of guys who stepped beyond their duties. To be honest, if I didn't learn years ago that libraries carried playboy for its articles, I might have said something to the man myself. It does seem inappropriate to look at pornography in a public place like a library. What they did was out of ignorance and simply has nothing to do with the position of the government. It was most likely an honest mistake and did not cause any real harm, as they guards were corrected and sent on their way.
The article states nothing about these employees actually trying to enforce Homeland Security regulatinos, they were clearly speaking on their own behalf. This was irresponsible, as they were in uniform and on duty. Keep on mind that they were also part of a subsidiary of the DHS. This is the same thing as if a fey Marines still in uniform did the same thing. It isn't Department of Defense policy to enforce indecency, but that doesn't mean they can keep every one of their thousands of employees from doing this kind of thing out of personal ignorance. Homeland Security is only focused on the safety of people, look at their site and look into their operations(http://www.dhs.gov./ They are not investigators, they are not crime stoppers, those guards were sent there to patrol and they stepped out of bounds. Look into the matter more and you can be sure they got in trouble for this irresponsible move on their part. Some people just are not aware that playboy is available at the library for its articles. If this mess was actually caused by a Homeland Security rule, I would say it might be a big deal, but clearly it had NOTHING to do with them except for that two employees stepped out of bounds while in uniform, and they need to be reprimanded.
Personally I think that practices like this should be flat out illegal, as they incourage monopolies while they hinder fair competition. That is not necessary though as we all have the right to let go of any unethical developers who choose to participate in such practices. I will avoid purchasing any software vender who does anything like this, and I think it would benefit us all to stage boycotts where ever this kind of mafia mentality is being used. Can anybody here start a Slashdot section dedicated towards staging boycotts against organizations wh odo this?
Its a hospital ICU. Think about this, a place where people are healed! It would appear that if a group of terrorist attacked this same place, you would say that the hospital shared some of the blame, as they were not locked up quite as well as Fort Knox. The BLAME lies entirely with those the break the law will full intent.
Is there no end to the chaotic suggestion that the victims are at fault? People SHOULD lock their doors, they SHOULD keep their children from strangers, they SHOULD avoid walking down dark alleys late at night. That doesn't mean they are the ones at fault with the burgler, rapist, or thug attack. When you even suggest the fault lies with anybody but the attacker, you only validate them as being victims of lose security. This breeds contemptable statements such as "it wasn't my fault I killed the man, he should of had a gun to stop me". Absurd? I agree, Zonk's suggestion certainly was.