Since those mutation are random, and spread over the whole text, you can just buy or take 6 or 10 text, then compare them all. The difference will be local. Return to the average and you can build a version which is safe.

Example:
The red poney, the traitor all, is dead !
The red poney; the traitor all, is dead ?
The red poney, The traitor all, is dead !
The red poney, the traitor All, is dead !
The red poney, the traitor All, is dead !

You look at all the changes and find out :

(The red poney)*5 ,*4;*1 t*4T*1 (he traitor )*5 a*3A*2 (ll, is dead )*5 !*4?*1

You then compare all the frequency and take the highest. And you get :

(The red poney)*5 ,*4 t*4 (he traitor )*5 a*3 (ll, is dead )*5 !*4

In other word all mutation are stripped.

Why should I be for or against some product? Everybody should buy what they like and can afford. What do I care?

With my last series 4 it actually took no less than 5 service visits over three weeks from Cox, trying a grand total of something like 15 different cable cards, before they found a set that would work ("pair" was their technical term, I think). I even at one point had a TiVo rep talking to a Cox rep on the line with me. I understood from the service guys that having to try multiple cards is a fairly typical experience (although my case is a bit on the extreme side). Its been great since then though.

Whatever it is that is making those cable cards so flaky *really* needs to be gotten to the bottom of and fixed. However, I've got a sneaking suspicion that the issue is on the cable company's side, and they have no incentive whatsoever to make the things work better.

I have three (operating) TiVos in my house right now. With a wife and three kids that seems to be the magic number that prevents (most) TV viewing strife. When the Series 5 comes out, they will doubtless run one of those deals where I can upgrade for $100 or so again, so most likely I will get one.

I've talked with everyone about cutting the cable and just doing Netflix or something, but there's things they all watch that aren't easy to get that way. For me its live sports. Good luck watching live Tottenham Hotspurs games on Sunday mornings in Oklahoma without some kind of home cable service. I know you can usually find some kind of stream from Russia or something if you surf around, but the quality is total crap compared to my HD TV.

So you say they make some money on the side selling their patents? Well, if that gets me a cheaper deal on my Series 5 upgrade, I'm all for that.

The person who initiates the process by first making the item available does not have the right to give it away in the first place

Sharing information is a basic human right, and no one has any right to use force to prevent a person from sharing information that they have.

you think it is perfectly acceptable to not pay for something that someone else produced because somehow, magically, people don't need to get paid for what they produce.

I failed to pay for access to things other people produced for a long time before the net came around. We called it a "library".

One can believe that it's good for authors and musicians and the like to get paid, without believing that a state-backed artificial monopoly on the making of copies is a useful or even acceptable means to that end.

Ahh. So all they really have to do is hire a lawyer to get that paperwork filled out properly and shepherd it through the system, and once that is all complete they will probably have access back to their property?

To quote that great ancient philosopher Lando Calrissian: This deal's getting worse all the time!

At least in germany valve would get a beating unless they would add a patch to remove the DRM shortly before shutting down the server. First sale and stuff.

Quote: Must connect to the internet once a day or locks you out, extreme limitations on lending or buying used games, etc. An excellent reason to play Steam games under Linux overall.

Normally I'd snark this, but I got nothing. I mean, I'm just bone dry here. It's so stupidifying that I think it may have temporarily caused my brain to seize up like an old VW bug. /Quote


it appears to be paradoxical, unless you realize that a lot of us do not have wifi, and jsut *one* internet cable. In my case for example the basic DSL modem I have got has a cat 5 cable linked to my PC. I literally cannot connect a console unless I physically either add a wifi router, or physically remove the connection from the PC and put it in the console.

Therefore I can connect to steam but cannot connect to anything on my console. It isn't a rare situation either, although now the trend by ISP is to provide for free a wifi DSL modem router, it was not the case years ago.

"Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?"

Yes because most consumer , are not geek, don't even know what a rootkit is, and probably would not care to be rooted. On the other hand many people I discuss at work knows very very well what Xbone restriction entails, some are shocked to be forced to log in every day they want to play (and don't have internet linked to their console today) some are shocked that they won't be able to bring a disk to a friend and play. Bottom line is all are dumb founded at Xbone, but none of them knows about the "other" OS story, and most of them except one ever heard of the rootkit thingy. Sure it is anecdotal, but try asking around yourself to normal people, not the type reading slashdot, but still the type liking to game on console and keeping up to date with gaming news.

Knowing the data structures gives you the ground work for understanding what the code is doing. The data structures are a more direct description of the design decisions.

Brains are as much physical organs as livers or ovaries.

... and this kind of thing is what keeps me coming back to Slashdot. :)

Step 1 : check an image from TV, say every 15 minutes or so.

Step 2 : if no image can be detected (and even in the complete darkness with only the TV light tehre will be an image with contrast light/darkness) announce "no person detected" , then show an automatic shutdown in a few minutes message.

Step 3 : announce this feature in the manual as a power saving measure.

I mean, look auto convention :

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/01/sexism-fashion-models-start-returning-to-us-auto-shows/1

Sexism at comic book convention :

http://everythingstheworst.wordpress.com/tag/sexism-at-comic-book-conventions/

And tehre are similar stuff for gun convention (one of the weapomn show had sexy fashion model on their tank), I even saw it at downright other normal book convention.

I am not saying it is good, It annoy me too, but game convention are not the only one it happens. but domain which are seen by publisher as populated by men, they misuse sex appeal as advertising. And before you says me "but but there is 50% women in gaming!", check it up : triple AAA is still sadly the province of the young man/male teenager where they dwell in majority.

Imagine the tantrum North Korea will throw when one of these drifts through its airspace and gives the population unfiltered Internet access.

They're not the only place that would have an explosion over uncontrolled Internet.