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How Many Keys Have You Pressed?
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CmdrTaco
on Sun Jan 27, 2002 01:55 PM
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from the and-how-many-have-all-of-us-pressed dept.
teardrop.ca writes
"A new project created by Jason Hooper involves the counting and displaying of statistical information regarding the number of keys you have pressed since sign-up to this project. A change from the distributed problem solving projects that have been around for awhile. " Finally
a truly frivelous use of distributed computing! It's a bit thin, looks like it
could be easily gamed, but damn it'd be funny if the whole world did this (never mind
the security and privacy issues). I'm curious how many more times some keys
are pressed then others (perhaps this would explain why my spacebars
always seem to break on my laptops :/)
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And if you used a Dragon Dictate? (Score:3, Offtopic)
The most pressed Slashdot keys... (Score:5, Funny)
F-I-R-S-T P-O-S-T
Ironic considering this might be the first post.
Pardon? (Score:4, Insightful)
Am I the only one... (Score:3, Interesting)
Among other things...
Ahh, Technology at work... (Score:4, Funny)
I knew a long time ago that distributed computing would truly make a difference in humanity's quest for knowledge. But I would never have imagined that we would be able to count and analyze keystroke data from users around the world. It is truly a great day for science! :p
Blatant sarcasm aside, this is moderately interesting. Any chances we'll see a linux client?
Oh good another way to monitor performance... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My GOD! Can we say "security risk" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:My GOD! Can we say "security risk" (Score:5, Interesting)
Despite the dubious value of this little enterprise, there is one solution that would appease the fears of all the paranoid security people out there: Open source. If any random C-literate individual is concerned about the keylogging capabilities of the system, he can just check the source code and see that it's just keys_pressed++; inside a loop.
The people who run this really ought to consider opening the source, otherwise privacy concerns could cause their project to fail.
Letter counting (Score:3, Funny)
*WHICH* keys do you hit the most... (Score:5, Funny)
I bet it's 1, 2, 3, and 4 this past year since all I seem to do is play D2, drink potions, and die anyway....
No offense teardrop.ca, but ah duh, did you expect any intelligent responses on this story?!
RSI (Score:3, Interesting)
But, could a local version help with RSI? I remember obnoxious programs which popped up every hour reminding you to take a break
Re:RSI (Score:5, Funny)
Howabout, Something wich popped up every 100
Re:Self-optimizing keyboard (Score:5, Funny)
Congratulations, you just invented the telegraph.
Read the site! (Score:5, Informative)
It is the intent of Pulse to transmit the following information to dolphin.bitdevil.com on a basis whose periodicity is decided by the user through Pulse's configuration menus:
- user's account name as provided by user
- user's password for Project Dolphin as provided by user
- one integer that represents the total number of keys typed since last contact with dolphin.bitdevil.com for the same purpose
- the current time (represented by the number of seconds elapsed since midnight, 1 Jan 1970 UTC), according to the system clock on the user's computer
What it is guaranteed Pulse does not record, collect, or transmit to this server or any other destination:
- which keys the user types, with exception to the analysis of the very last key hit, in order to decide if it is a key that "counts" as a key being hit
- the contents of the user's hard drive or any other attached or internal or external storage device that may hold any type of data
- anything on the user's screen
So, for the benefit of the lazy people who can't be bothered to actually read the important information on a product's website, there you go - the important bits of the privacy policy. Oh, can I get your addresses? I'd like to send you a hard-copy of the link on a big fscking piece of clue-by-four. Jesus.
Quick someone.... (Score:3, Funny)
On a side note the keys at the support center here would be EU does not RTFM.
Wouldn't this fit the standard pattern? (Score:5, Informative)
In terms of frequency, here are the percentages (out of _The Code Book_, by Simon Singh, page 19):