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17y ago
Are there any software packages out there that do? Word doesn't, and I don't think that InDesign does.
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17y ago
Working on an experiment for my psychology class. It's fun because I made it a web application, and it's been a good chance to mess with Couchdb. (project is here( http://github.com/vault/Word-Superiority-Effect ), it's pretty crappy curren
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17y ago
I'm not sure, because I haven't really looked at any of the api's, but I'm pretty sure that it's hardware controlled. Internally it's hooked up via USB, and none of the software I've seen has used the camera without the light on (including
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17y ago
Minor point, but since the laptops in question are Macbooks, there is most certainly a visible indicator; a little green light next to the camera comes on when it is active. Overall, I agree with you though, there really are no safeguards t
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17y ago
That's interesting to see from an administrator point of view, but also quite disturbing. The school I go to now has a similar program (Macbooks for every student), and the Remote Desktop program is used on our laptops as well. It used to b
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17y ago
You can get a similar effect if you use VLC and open your screen as a video capture device. Or if you use screen sharing software, to have two computer share each other's screens. No echoing audio effects unfortunately.
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17y ago
My biggest issue with it, and other constraints like this though is that it just feels rather contrived. That and it took far too long to some up with a password passing the description...
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17y ago
Wow, that's pretty bad, but it's got nothing on one 'security' measure I ran into on an online college application site. To enumerate, the password had to: - have exactly 8 characters - contain characters from 3 of the following 4 groups --
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17y ago
I thought the same thing. Why would a device created by apple run on a platform created by Microsoft. It can also run Mono, so this makes very little sense.
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17y ago
Either way, learning how memories are stored in the brain is the first step to learning how they are encoded.
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17y ago
I think that if canvas and SVG gain some momentum, then authoring tools will follow. The biggest trouble is getting the momentum though.