I do not use a mainstream AV program (i.e. Norton or McAfee) - I use Avira Antivir. Just a thought, but maybe they know what AV software you use because you posted it on slashdot.
My nano recieved countless direct hits from me falling off my skateboard and snowboard, got thrown out the window of a moving vehicle, and got the spin cycle 4 times before it died.
Your 'solution' is trivial to crack. The problem here is that these questions have all been answered online a million times. Math problems are the easiest- try googling "3 + two", "three plus 2", or even "four times two to the third power". Every time, the solution is sitting there on the top of the front page.
Other text-processing problems are only slightly harder to solve. The internet has a huge amount of data on it, and it has search engines that are designed for finding particular answers. The hard part has already been done. Google "Is Paris Hilton a whore?" or "What color is the sky", send the first page of results through some basic contextual processing algorithms, and 9 times out of 10, you'll have the answer.
The real problem with captchas is that they fundamentally are, and always will be, a kludge.
After they demanded far too much personal information, then gave me crap about refusing to give it out. After finally getting the supervisor to approve my signing up, they set up an install date several weeks away, saying they couldn't do it any sooner. The appointment came and went, the installer showed up 4 hours late, when I wasn't there. Naturally, no install happened. I called them back demanding that they send somebody the next day and was told that I'd have to wait another 3 weeks. I told them to fuck themselves.
1 month later, the city installed fiber optic and I couldn't have been happier.
C'mon. Even some (most?) of us geeks don't have anything convenient to ssh to that would give us unfettered access to the Net. I've got about a hundred of them. I know I'm not alone.
Now that you mention it, it occurs to me how seriously cool that would be.
I mean, you've always wanted to demolish that eyesore dump across the street? Now with the magic of 3d tech, you can!
And think of other, non-violent applications- the next Tony Hawk Pro Skater could be in my home town, the next Amped could be on my home mountain (though I'll never forgive them for Amped 3)...
I don't know. I think robotic armies would completely eliminate the horrors of war. Either you go to war with another country with a robot army (in which case you have a protracted war of production, same as any war between world powers since 1914 except with no human lives lost in the process) or you totally overpower the enemy (meaning they immediately surrender). Now, it would suck if the wrong people had robots, but war would be a remarkably tidy business. I have a better idea. Instead of having wars, let's just have an international battle of the bands- winner take all. That's cheaper, and it has entertainment value!
Except when the loser doesn't like the result and pulls a gun on the winner, the winner retaliates with tanks, and we're back to square 1.
Not all backups are for archival purposes. A full backup every few weeks for disaster recovery, and you don't really need a shelf life of more than a year.
Of course, there's lots of situations where it's nice to be able to go back to a certain date and find a certain version of a certain file, but there's lots of situations where it's not an issue.
I go food shopping at 11pm on Friday or Saturday night. While I appreciate most of your post, this bit suggests that you don't live in a college town.
You may not care, but I found it interesting. Where I live, this is the busiest time of the entire week. Of course, my town doesn't drink or shop on Sundays either (guess where I am).
The soybean oil and soybean-derived mono- and diglycerides put me in bed for 2-3 days when I eat it. This may make me sound like a dick, but you probably shouldn't eat that ice cream then.
And what is this about startups failing because the business people hire crappy programmers. I dealt with the client from hell for most of last year. Without revealing too much, his project involved a community-oriented website, tailored to America's least likely demographic to have computers, much less spend time using them, that would require users to pay for membership after the beginning of the year.
He predicted 50k users by the end of the year, and blames my company for his not meeting the goal. The beginning of the year rolled around, the paid membership kicked in, and no surprise, zero of his 85 users decided to pay the subscription.
But his business plan was sound. It even had sales projections. Mustabeen my fault. Last I heard, he's looking for a second round of investors.
Last time I watched TV news was almost a year ago, and it was a story about Britney shaving her head. Kurt Cobain ate a shotgun and didn't get anywhere near as much coverage.
Cobain created a genre and heavily influenced nearly every musician to play a guitar since. Britney danced badly for a few years, then got fat.
Still, you can't buy Linux No, but if you ask nice, they may download and burn you a live CD for a test run. It may help that I knew the guy, but still...
I've been using firefox for my normal browsing and opera for my secure transactions for years now.
It's probably worth noting that Jeremiah Grossman is a security researcher and most likely knowingly visits sites containing malware, xss attempts, etc. on a daily basis. He is right to be paranoid, though I suspect that he has a dedicated machine (or network) for that kind of work.
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It's been out for years, but only the cool people have access to the other internet, and you have to know somebody to get in.
It's quite nice though. All the pron you could want, free of copyright restrictions, and blazing fast speeds.
that's also where all the hot geek girls hang out, while you guys are all reading slashdot.
Hehe. Weapons of Mass Distraction.
Thank you, I'll be here all week
My nano recieved countless direct hits from me falling off my skateboard and snowboard, got thrown out the window of a moving vehicle, and got the spin cycle 4 times before it died.
I went out and bought another one the next day.
I'm slightly more careful with it now.
Yahoo contributed PHP, the YUI library, many Apache and MySQL patches, to start with.
Your 'solution' is trivial to crack. The problem here is that these questions have all been answered online a million times. Math problems are the easiest- try googling "3 + two", "three plus 2", or even "four times two to the third power". Every time, the solution is sitting there on the top of the front page.
Other text-processing problems are only slightly harder to solve. The internet has a huge amount of data on it, and it has search engines that are designed for finding particular answers. The hard part has already been done. Google "Is Paris Hilton a whore?" or "What color is the sky", send the first page of results through some basic contextual processing algorithms, and 9 times out of 10, you'll have the answer.
The real problem with captchas is that they fundamentally are, and always will be, a kludge.
My friend, you need to watch less movies.
I tried to sign up for Comcast, but didn't.
After they demanded far too much personal information, then gave me crap about refusing to give it out. After finally getting the supervisor to approve my signing up, they set up an install date several weeks away, saying they couldn't do it any sooner. The appointment came and went, the installer showed up 4 hours late, when I wasn't there. Naturally, no install happened. I called them back demanding that they send somebody the next day and was told that I'd have to wait another 3 weeks. I told them to fuck themselves.
1 month later, the city installed fiber optic and I couldn't have been happier.
I can't speak for everybody, but I downloaded the album via bittorrent, and paid for it via the website.
And I don't even like Radiohead, really.
You are aware that voice recognition is a feature built into most cell phones these days, right?
Now that you mention it, it occurs to me how seriously cool that would be.
I mean, you've always wanted to demolish that eyesore dump across the street? Now with the magic of 3d tech, you can!
And think of other, non-violent applications- the next Tony Hawk Pro Skater could be in my home town, the next Amped could be on my home mountain (though I'll never forgive them for Amped 3)...
Except when the loser doesn't like the result and pulls a gun on the winner, the winner retaliates with tanks, and we're back to square 1.
I do so fairly regularly. I spend a *lot* of money (over 300/month) at concerts on merchandise, tickets, copies of albums for the artist to sign, etc.
If an artist I've downloaded via p2p comes to town, there's a damn good chance they'll be more than compensated for the music I "stole" from them.
Not all backups are for archival purposes. A full backup every few weeks for disaster recovery, and you don't really need a shelf life of more than a year.
Of course, there's lots of situations where it's nice to be able to go back to a certain date and find a certain version of a certain file, but there's lots of situations where it's not an issue.
I havent played asteroids in years, but IIRC, they dont actually collide with anything but your ship and its weapons.
I'd like to second the vote for Zulupad and thank its creator.
You may not care, but I found it interesting. Where I live, this is the busiest time of the entire week. Of course, my town doesn't drink or shop on Sundays either (guess where I am).
He predicted 50k users by the end of the year, and blames my company for his not meeting the goal. The beginning of the year rolled around, the paid membership kicked in, and no surprise, zero of his 85 users decided to pay the subscription.
But his business plan was sound. It even had sales projections. Mustabeen my fault. Last I heard, he's looking for a second round of investors.
Last time I watched TV news was almost a year ago, and it was a story about Britney shaving her head. Kurt Cobain ate a shotgun and didn't get anywhere near as much coverage.
Cobain created a genre and heavily influenced nearly every musician to play a guitar since. Britney danced badly for a few years, then got fat.
You tell me which is more worthy of a headline.
(raises hand)
I've been using firefox for my normal browsing and opera for my secure transactions for years now.
It's probably worth noting that Jeremiah Grossman is a security researcher and most likely knowingly visits sites containing malware, xss attempts, etc. on a daily basis. He is right to be paranoid, though I suspect that he has a dedicated machine (or network) for that kind of work.
Still...
Try Gnod. I haven't played with it in a while, but it did help me find some new punk bands I wasn't familiar with.
You're comparing apples and oranges.
Aircraft rarely fly in the path of my stove while I'm cooking a pot of soup.
The laser is intended to be used as a sky pointer, and that's how it's marketed. That is its purpose as a consumer device.