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Comment Re:What I have been telling people. (Score 1) 229

dear nvidia,
this is how to make this article irrelevant. that dial for depth control? that needs to be a 3 way switch for min, middle and max. the dial itself? convergence. our webcams don't interface with your software to detect pupil position/distance, yet. please fix this as well as plaster the importance of adjusting convergence (preferably at max depth, imo) by adjusting til the gun in their hand is crystal, then adjust slightly for range. using the webcam idea as a calibration springboard, if you could then adjust convergence from outside of the game automatically at a comfortable rate based on what the ingame 'camera' is looking at and fixing this treacherous laser sight bs, i'd be ecstatic.

love,
adrian

Comment Re:What I have been telling people. (Score 1) 229

to expand on this; CONVERGENCE! the controls for these setting are disabled by default when nvidia SERIOUSLY needs to be putting more emphasis on the use of these. as much as i'd love convergence calibration via pupil distance/position measured via webcam in conjunction with a game engine that comfortably adjusts convergence automatically based on what you are looking at... these tucked away settings with crappy ctrl combos are what we got when this seriously needed to be built into the same device that allows depth control. come on, DEPTH CONTROL? that could be a 3 way freaking switch. the dial is supposed to be for convergence. Honestly! Nvidia, fix this before somebody takes this from you. love, adrian :)

Comment another dumb article. (Score 1) 532

Technology doesn't progress unless you can show an audience why they like it. 3D tech has to start somewhere. Looking at history, a lot of new technology started off appearing as a scam to some moderately intelligent douchebag, sold to an even less informed person.

Is slashdot about quantity or quality, i wonder.

Comment this article is a bad idea. (Score 3, Interesting) 156

there is no mystery to this 'deep web'. massive data reserves? quite likely. personal, but unsecured servers hosting copyrighted content? even more likely.

This kind of article will only make things worse for a future defendant trying to explain he wasn't coordinating with 'the deep' in the distribution of his movies from his computer to his Mythbuntu box.

Comment Do the math. (Score 1) 497

~1,000,000 auth failures per year = ~2740 failures per day. from 1200 IPs, that's 833 failures PER IP ADDRESS. how in the bloody hell does that go amiss? i like to think most people could figure out their password within 10 guesses (per ip). for a problem this minimal, you don't even need to consider adding a delay between auth requests.

Comment Re:Dear Slashdot (Score 2, Insightful) 533

that's always been the truth; security is very much inversely proprotional to convenience. and most (99.999%) people want nothing more with your information than to provide all the best services you would like to use.

Security isn't the joke on the internet, the ones expecting it are.

You shouldn't be asking yourself how to be more secure, but who you are trying to secure your information from. If you are trying to secure your information from the government, you have no more problems than an overinflated ego.

Comment Re:Truth is, there is no privacy anywhere. (Score 2, Insightful) 533

Don't even think about typing what you want kept secret. that's the first step on the path to idiocy. contrary to popular belief, the telephone was actually invented BEFORE the internet.

lastly, don't trust any computer but your own if you're saavy enough to trust your computer. and more importantly, you shouldn't trust security software anymore than you would a virus with your personal information. software meant to secure your information and computer is meant for the paranoid, not the security conscious.

to be secure is a state of mind, not something you can simply buy or use.
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Submission + - Sys Admins: What separates the best from the rest?

SinShiva writes: After months of job hunting, I constantly find myself asking if I'd be good enough for a selected posting. Are the only things required to be considered an 'Expert' as a Linux Systems Administrator proficiency with shell script/awk/sed? Personally, I've never had problems solving my own problems as well as any issues any of my recently converted friends came across. I've installed and played with what seems like a hundred and more different types of server applications and my CLI-fu is quite strong. As an employer, what discrepancies would immediately disqualify an applicant who may otherwise have a high aptitude for the real IT stage? Should Systems Administrators have the skill set of a developer as well as networking technology? Cheers.

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