Comment Re:ITS HIM (Score 1) 157
Does the computer have to do everything for you?
It should do everything he wants it to do. Jesus, did you really just ask that on Slashdot? Either you don't belong here, or I don't anymore.
Does the computer have to do everything for you?
It should do everything he wants it to do. Jesus, did you really just ask that on Slashdot? Either you don't belong here, or I don't anymore.
I've felt it (and I've felt plenty of other buzzes, too).
Notably, I have only felt it during the (few, brief) periods in my life that I've been in excellent physical shape. If I'd start exercising but quit before tiring myself out, I'd feel frustrated. But if I exercised to a decent level of fatigue, I'd feel a strong sense of well-being.
At the moment I'm in terrible cardio shape, and all I feel when running is awful. I don't think the "runner's high" happens until you're a runner.
The closest thing to what you're describing was a 2013 SciFi series called http://www.syfy.com/robotcombatleague.
They were hydraulically powered humanoid robots that beat on each other until either one of them stopped functioning or it went to the judges' decision.
I just watched some highlights and man, is that lame. The robots have legs, and the legs move like they're walking, but the robots are actually just stuck on the end of big metal poles that move them around the ring.
I understand that technology isn't to the point where a bipedal robot can balance itself while executing complex movements, let alone while something else is trying to knock it down. But what they have there is stupid enough that they just shouldn't have bothered.
I know they're an AC, but for god's sake mod parent up!
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So every bakery is spending half a million dollars an hour on electricity? That doesn't pass the sniff test.
Subtle...exodus?
I agree that the word "historic" is probably overapplied, but come on, it's going to land on a fucking comet for the first time in, uh, what's that word I'm looking for? Oh yeah, history.
That's not something I'd describe as "reusing passwords".
This is why.
Buying my groceries from a different store for a month is one thing. But how do you expect a boycott of an ISP to work? People cancel their currently-installed service, possibly incurring an early termination fee, then pay to have competing service installed, which probably a) doesn't exist or b) is just another name on the same list?
I'm sorry, but a boycott is just an asinine suggestion in this context.
Too bad the operators of coal plants don't have to take all that into account.
Wow, going from 2000 to 327,661 iterations sounds like a big deal. Does that actually add any value, or is that like doing rot-13 a million times?
Any idiot knows you have to do it a million and one times.
Nope. Consider doubling your password size from 64 to 128 bits. While it would take twice as long to check all the bits and make sure they're correct, brute forcing now has to guess among 2^128, rather than 2^64, possibilities, which is enormously more difficult.
This is a gross simplification of how any real-life security scheme works, but it illustrates the concept.
When did "News for nerds, stuff that matters" disappear from the Slashdot homepage?
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?