and you'll find z-code interpreters for pretty much any device you can think of. I like in particular Gargoyle [1][2] which stands out as the only one with great font rendering/typography.
One of the coolest/ridiculous things about infocom games were the feelies [3] (a term they coined) There is a great collection [4] of photographs of all the packages and extras, some of which were including necessary clues to solve the games.
Well that didn't make a whole lot of sense. The most methodical use of the methods of rationality you'll find are the natural sciences and they are incredibly open to anyone interested. Its just that most people are not actually interested at all. Nor are they in rationality.
This guy is a bit like a confused version of Noam Chomsky.
Your initial assumption was correct, it is widely deployed in the industry, there are multiple vendors that provide fingerprinting technology that is orders of magnitude more advanced then what the article suggests.
The visible fingerprint might just have been there to deter the clueless. In any case even with a fingerprint its hard to proof without a doubt, the individual who actually stole it.
They could atleast work together with the internet archive to conserve it, but no of course not that would require be a bit of an effort, google can't do that, because google doesn't care if thousands of open source projects are going to be lost forever to the world. Don't be evil my ass. Archive team is now our last hope as usual.
I always thought its kind of funny that everyone believed this to be true when in reality you could just deactivate the sound in the driver settings. Which I did pretty much immediately, but nobody I knew ever even thought of.
Its a perfect example for the fact that most people will never ever change the default settings.
You upload your files to dropbox servers, how in the world can you come to the delusion that you would notice when they accessed/searched/data mined your files?!
I think we are talking about CGI faces here and thats just not doable yet and this research won't change a thing about it.
The last movie I remember having a CG face was Clu in Tron Legacy which certainly was state of the art CG, unfortunately 'state of the art'[1] in face modeling/animation is just not perfect yet.
Now practically speaking I've been playing on a server with qcraft in survival and found that its of little to no real use.
> Entangled (grouped) blocks are far to expensive, needing 12 (!) dust per entangled block which makes it impractical to build anything large with it. I find it a little less frequent than redstone.
> There is no compressed block of 9 dust like ALL vanilla ores have, which makes storing a bit annoying.
> The automatic observer that activates through a redstone signal only works from the sides not top/bottom which makes it more difficult/impossible to build any redstone activated structures.
> You cannot pickup once placed qcraft blocks, which is super annoying.
> only a few basic full-block types can be used as quantum blocks, no tile entities and no blocks from other mods (zero mod interoperability)
> the player portal is ugly and fixed to an even size (even multiblock structures are annoying) and why no teleport across dimensions, I mean its expensive enough
> ...
It seem to me this mod is very unfinished and not really made for survival nor created by people who actually play the game, and I think its annoying that it introduces its own ore into the world with such little practical use.
Now if anyone thinks thats too harsh of a critic, you need to realize how good minecraft mods have become, look a thaumcraft[1] for instance. The bar is much much higher now when it comes to mod quality.
My thought was: they draw a map like this, if thats any indication of there ability to scientific/rational thinking, no wonder they never find the origin of (their particular) Hum.
Also if you ask the internet if they too, see a pink elephant on the moon every 2th full moon, theres going to be a lot of responses telling you that they too, see a pink elephant on the moon every 2th full moon.
Lavabit closed down because they would otherwise be required by law to compromise their entire customers security. Also as it is part of a NSL that no one is allowed to talk about it by fear of a prison sentence, it is very reasonable to assume that this happens a lot more often than the public knows.
I think its a moot point, if the government is the attacker, who tries to spy on you specifically, there is absolutely NOTHING you can do to prevent that from happening.
The US government has (literally) secret laws, that grants themselves the right to go to another country and kill someone without due process or trial or any kind of repercussion if they 'accidentally' kill innocent bystanders.
Its sort of laughable to talk about end to end encryption and possible NSL when you really think about it.
I guess thats pseudo DRM. On the other end you have things like RTMPe, a proprietary highly complex binary protocol that is only implemented in the adobe flash plugin binary blob. Or something like HDCP (the copy protection part of HDMI) that builds a hardware encryption platform, with an central authority and certified hardware vendors.
Those are just 2 examples of "strong" DRM, but since even those two have been so thoroughly broken, we can just assert that any DRM that is based on W3C EME is gonna be childsplay. I don't think anyone actually believes that this W3C crap is gonna be "secure".
One of the coolest/ridiculous things about infocom games were the feelies [3] (a term they coined) There is a great collection [4] of photographs of all the packages and extras, some of which were including necessary clues to solve the games.
[1] http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/ [2] https://github.com/garglk/garglk [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feelie [4] http://gallery.guetech.org/