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Wow
...this freezing Florida day -- 53 degrees was the lowest launch-time temperature...
Man, that's really cold! And we Europeans think -10 is a cold wave...
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Think for yourselves
Instead of parroting the dailykos line.
First, on the accuracy of this poll.
Second, for all those parroting the msm about FISA, according to the administration, over 1200 warrants were obtained under FISA. So FISA is being used where FISA is applicable. One cable news network took the time to parse through the text of the FISA law and pointed out that in the specific language of the law, there are particular circumstances where FISA law does not and cannot be applied. It is assumed that under these circumstances among others that FISA wasn't used. Also, some experts on this topic were brought on and he quickly pointed out a handful of examples where FISA could not be used, yet surveillance would be critical for stopping terrorists.
According to every example I've seen, as long as one end of the call originated or ended outside the US, FISA doesn't apply and the administration would be within the law in intercepting, tracing and trapping, or listening in on these calls.
The presumed leaker within the NSA, can't recall his name right now, was interviewed a while back on a news channel. After being asked the question several times, he admitted that ALL calls, ALL calls, that he was aware of (he admitted he wasn't participating directly in the program itself) either originated or terminated outside the US. That would make every call he was aware of an International call.
Not the "domestic surveillance" that the msm has been parroting, using as the phrase in their crawls, and the phrase that the NYT used in its poll.
Further, again on dailykos and elswhere, either intentionally or through sheer stupidity, they are ignoring the fact that the 9/11 commission found that FISA was problematic in the time it took to get a FISA warrant (because of paperwork even after the 72 hour limit and because of the level of threshold required, probable cause, which required gathering more evidence which may not even exist due to the nature of the calls). Post 9/11 commission report, it was recommended that this be shortened, fixed, sped up.
Again on dailykos and elswhere, it's being repeated that the administration stated that FISA didn't need adjusting, that they believed that lowering the standard would be unconstitutional and would jeopardize cases. Either intentional or sheer stupidity is leaving out that this is DOMESTIC calls, not International calls. It was brought to the attention of the 9/11 commission and others within the administration that even Osama Bin Laden would have greater protection under FISA had he entered the US and calls originated and terminated wholly within the US.
Further, dailykos and others, either intentionally or through sheer stupidity, are confusing the text of the 4th amendment, and the statements of the administration. The 4th amendment has both suspicion and probable cause as a part of it and as part of supreme court decisions. But the administration is correctly quoting the part with reasonable suspicion because their program has to do with International calls, which has a different, lesser threshold than wholly domestic calls. Also, read up on some constitutional history. Read up on the amendments, and the meaning of a comma separating text within individual amendments.
Putting aside the 4th amendment and FISA, the President has inherent powers under the Constitution that can't be taken away by Congress through laws such as FISA. If FISA is upheld (hasn't been tested yet), the President would still have additional inherent powers under the Constitution.
One of the arguments against Alito during the confirmation hearings was whether the President could unilaterally attack Syria or Iran. Newsflash, where have the senators been during their grade school history lessons? The Constitution itself gives the President the power to "commit troops" along with other powers to defend the US. And as part of the separation of po -
Think for yourselves
Instead of parroting the dailykos line.
First, on the accuracy of this poll.
Second, for all those parroting the msm about FISA, according to the administration, over 1200 warrants were obtained under FISA. So FISA is being used where FISA is applicable. One cable news network took the time to parse through the text of the FISA law and pointed out that in the specific language of the law, there are particular circumstances where FISA law does not and cannot be applied. It is assumed that under these circumstances among others that FISA wasn't used. Also, some experts on this topic were brought on and he quickly pointed out a handful of examples where FISA could not be used, yet surveillance would be critical for stopping terrorists.
According to every example I've seen, as long as one end of the call originated or ended outside the US, FISA doesn't apply and the administration would be within the law in intercepting, tracing and trapping, or listening in on these calls.
The presumed leaker within the NSA, can't recall his name right now, was interviewed a while back on a news channel. After being asked the question several times, he admitted that ALL calls, ALL calls, that he was aware of (he admitted he wasn't participating directly in the program itself) either originated or terminated outside the US. That would make every call he was aware of an International call.
Not the "domestic surveillance" that the msm has been parroting, using as the phrase in their crawls, and the phrase that the NYT used in its poll.
Further, again on dailykos and elswhere, either intentionally or through sheer stupidity, they are ignoring the fact that the 9/11 commission found that FISA was problematic in the time it took to get a FISA warrant (because of paperwork even after the 72 hour limit and because of the level of threshold required, probable cause, which required gathering more evidence which may not even exist due to the nature of the calls). Post 9/11 commission report, it was recommended that this be shortened, fixed, sped up.
Again on dailykos and elswhere, it's being repeated that the administration stated that FISA didn't need adjusting, that they believed that lowering the standard would be unconstitutional and would jeopardize cases. Either intentional or sheer stupidity is leaving out that this is DOMESTIC calls, not International calls. It was brought to the attention of the 9/11 commission and others within the administration that even Osama Bin Laden would have greater protection under FISA had he entered the US and calls originated and terminated wholly within the US.
Further, dailykos and others, either intentionally or through sheer stupidity, are confusing the text of the 4th amendment, and the statements of the administration. The 4th amendment has both suspicion and probable cause as a part of it and as part of supreme court decisions. But the administration is correctly quoting the part with reasonable suspicion because their program has to do with International calls, which has a different, lesser threshold than wholly domestic calls. Also, read up on some constitutional history. Read up on the amendments, and the meaning of a comma separating text within individual amendments.
Putting aside the 4th amendment and FISA, the President has inherent powers under the Constitution that can't be taken away by Congress through laws such as FISA. If FISA is upheld (hasn't been tested yet), the President would still have additional inherent powers under the Constitution.
One of the arguments against Alito during the confirmation hearings was whether the President could unilaterally attack Syria or Iran. Newsflash, where have the senators been during their grade school history lessons? The Constitution itself gives the President the power to "commit troops" along with other powers to defend the US. And as part of the separation of po -
Re:Censored Google is Good for China ....if you look at a search for "other stuff" look at the bottom of the page. Google.cn - "other stuff"
then look at this search for Google.cn - "tiananmen square"
on the apparantly censored search after the search results thare is a fairly long line of black text
according to babelfish the line of black text reads"According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate"
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Re:Censored Google is Good for China ....if you look at a search for "other stuff" look at the bottom of the page. Google.cn - "other stuff"
then look at this search for Google.cn - "tiananmen square"
on the apparantly censored search after the search results thare is a fairly long line of black text
according to babelfish the line of black text reads"According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate"
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Yes!
Sure! Just tell me your ip and root password!
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Tridge or Tridgell?
But is it Tridge or Tridgell? Is spelt both ways in the article, but in samba.org seem to call him Tridge.
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Re:Implications.
Should have applied for a job then...
http://tinyurl.com/7ug7f
Anyone could have gotten a job. And they had open positions like, "Head Of Marketing" or "Webmaster". Damn me and timing. -
Re:Implications.
Shame on me for not using preview. I ain't gon' get fooled again!
http://tinyurl.com/36hj8 (1998 version)
http://tinyurl.com/dk37w (1999 version) -
Re:Implications.
Shame on me for not using preview. I ain't gon' get fooled again!
http://tinyurl.com/36hj8 (1998 version)
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[Piracy review] Currently in Kyiv, Ukraine...
...And we have a new piracy-related industry here since the USSR broke down: so-called "Computer Clubs"... It's interesting to see how it evolves.
Imagine an Internet-Café without the Internet. A bunch of computers set up specifically to play games on, connected to a LAN with servers filled with pr0n, muzak and warez. Basically, this is it. You may come to play some games, bring your HDD / iPod / pack of DVD-R's or amuse yourself with the most interesting feature: the pirated Windows that says it is not Windows.
The clubs' owner usually cooperate in order hire several cracker who RES-EDIT an MSWin distribution - change the interface, icons, text and sometimes rewrite the EXPLORER.EXE to look entirely different - it is almost a tradition to use Borland Dephi for this.
Here are the screenshots: http://tinyurl.com/9ddgo
One of the popular "pre-modified" distributions in "BedOS 2 [Tanya]" - a heavily hacked Win98. Yet the computer illiteracy of the "copyright protectors" lets people who run the "Computer Clubs" to get past the law by claiming that what they are using _is not actually Windows_ (!). See http://winbeos98.km.ru/ for further deteil -
Re:Winer is not a reliable source
Nothing so reliable these days.
There were lots of stories,comments about "how evil it is if Microsoft breaks RSS" and now Apple actually breaks it, nothing can be said bad about it because it is "Apple".
"iLife" is not some shareware authors $10 shareware, it is one of the most successful multimedia suites ever.
It is number 5 on Amazon top sellers (ALL PLATFORMS) now: http://tinyurl.com/95wzb
If it breaks RSS somehow and we start to get "different RSS" everywhere, we will have a problem. It will also give Microsoft the perfect excuse. -
MP3 webs
If you're into music playlists webs you really have to check Pandora, a great page that creates playlists based on genetic algorithms that relate an entire collection of songs to the one you describe as your favourite.
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Re:Convenience
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Mobile devices
I believe the mobile market is about to explode, if it hasn't done it yet, and Pentium M's laptops are an overhelming majority over the AMD's powered (Turion?). And now here are the Yonah... AMD has a long road to be the king of the hill.
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Oh
Google Makes Plenty of Mikstakes
Oh, the irony...
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Stevie
and people who dislike the company
I didn't STFV so... what does Steve "Developers!" Ballmer say?
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Sure it does...
Sure it does. My word processor has never had a virus:
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Re:I don't think many people too Gibson seriously.
Gibson is an idiot with a talent for self-promotion.
Big time. He's the guy who came up with broken SYNcookies and blathered on and on about how they were "Beautiful and Perfect". Gibson is a quack and no serious attention should be paid to his ramblings. -
Triple?
In other news, Slashdot readers needed 50 miliseconds to realize that this is the third time this very same history is posted.
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Already in use...
3M manufactures a line of electronic marking tags for underground utilities, and a "geiger counter" type device for finding them:
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But why?
It was a great movie! Why would they not listed in the credits???
... Hacker? What do you... doh!
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Re:You can already do this with Javascript
Consider a simple redirect URL.
Which can be easily bypassed.
Bypassed? That may demand definition, for example,
Where does http://tinyurl.com/161 go?
How about http://freshmeat.net/redir/cexec/57387/url_homepag e/?
How do you know without making a URL connection?
Oh sure, you can ignore links that look like that, and even block them. Nobody's suggesting that you cannot block PING-requested URLs.
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Re:On the other hand. . .
It has been discussed at Tidbits a while ago that Clamav does NOT check for OS X spesific viruses (there are none), Malware (Oh that exists, check MS Office Trial installer on gnutella) or OS 9 viruses (they exist)
It is an excellent program to transform a Mac (g3 even!) to a PC virus scanning dedicated machine IMHO.
I can understand his feelings. Even being a PC convert (2003) and innocently asking if there are spyware for mac on any platform including usenet, you get flamed. You get flamed to a point that you think if you were a spyware developer, MAC IS THE PERFECT TARGET. There are (always flamed) Symantec Firewall, Intego Firewall (netbarrier) on Mac OS X for Application filtering firewalls. There is "little snitch" as a program to check what opens outgoing connection. Notice for spyware, IP/Port filtering firewall built in is irrelevant.
If you combine macupdate/versiontracker total downloads of 3 programs, you will understand what I mean.
Also check that tiny url of google cache, if he is reading and he is a one could dare to make it story, I wish he check too.
http://tinyurl.com/cu7o2
I can't remember how many posters on usenet including ones actually code parts of OS X flamed when I kept saying there were spyware on OS X and there will be.
Also as they got flamed for finding a huge finder vulnerability, I don't think Intego will "share" their findings that easy. Last time I checked, they were "snake oil" selling people. -
Doomsday Repetition Study January 17 2006Finding the American Dream through repetition > http://tinyurl.com/763fc
http://www.newpath4.com/skyisfallingendoftheworld
p rocessexplainedindetail06062006.htmEssentially, Boccacio is WRONG. Mostly because he doesn't know about my engines. But, that's the way it is being CAPITALISTS. Everybody wanting to get Rich off the impending Doom by writing about the Sky Falling. It won't fall as soon as my engine gets finish designed & popping off a conveyor line >
http://www.newpath4.com/millenialdawnpowerandligh
t secure21.htmAnd the Rich?! They'll get EVEN RICHER by investing in everything but crude oil because once we get OFF CRUDE OIL all companies will increase Profits. (Sudden decrease in fuel & transportation costs.)
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Finding the American Dream through repetition
Finding the American Dream through repetition > http://tinyurl.com/763fc
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MLK The Advantage of Knowing Everything MLKIn response to this article > http://tinyurl.com/b56rq >
"What I don't understand is how this article can be constructive".
The importance of articles like Boccacio's is that it gives me opportunity
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Martin Luther King Day is about to end. Some thoughts.
Missing Sasquatch piece of the racism/racist discrimination puzzle even MLK
didn't foresee > Economic progress drove into a drum of crude oil.Martin Luther had a dream, a dream of raising Blacks up to the level of everyone else. Did he succeed? To a large extent I like to think so. But what has really happened?! Much the same thing that happened by everyone's wife going to work... Wages lowered, benefits lowered, and the cost of health insurance went higher!
Which means the so-called "American Dream" came 3 steps closer and 2 steps back. That's my personal opinion, that we have been pulling a wagon that turned out to have SQUARE WHEELS. We work Harder it fights back harder. Apparently our economy has some built-in FAILURES that even a Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King didn't anticipate would act as a giant Jake Brake.
MLK was ahead of the starting pistol, WAY AHEAD. Willpower? We've
all got GOBS OF THAT. Willpower alone can't do it
otherwise IT WOULD HAVE ALREADY.What is the missing piece of the puzzle? What would free up
the riches we all know this country has?!
We pay trillions out for crude oil that poisons us,
we pay trillions out for healthcare to cure us of petroleum poisoning,
we pay billions or trillions out for toxic waste cleanup & saving the environment
FROM ALL THE CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS WE PURCHASED.
The missing piece of the puzzle is to ERASE crude oil from that
Equation. After that, those trillion$ go into healthcare,
higher wages & restored job benefits, caring for the elderly & >eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.http://free.seekon.com/NonNuclearFusionEngines/
http://www.renewamerica.us/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3975
And, by the way, the SKY really is FALLING!
http://www.newpath4.com/skyisfallingendoftheworldp rocessexplainedindetail06062006.htm ....Reprint of Forum post made today on http://www.renewamerica.us/ as >
17. Elementary Math Man http://tinyurl.com/exp99
- Roanoke, VA - Posted on Jan 16, 2006, at 10:59:46 pm -
MLK The Advantage of Knowing Everything MLKIn response to this article > http://tinyurl.com/b56rq >
"What I don't understand is how this article can be constructive".
The importance of articles like Boccacio's is that it gives me opportunity
**** TO TELL EVERYONE THE ANSWER: MINE ****http://free.seekon.com/NonNuclearFusionEngines/
Martin Luther King Day is about to end. Some thoughts.
Missing Sasquatch piece of the racism/racist discrimination puzzle even MLK
didn't foresee > Economic progress drove into a drum of crude oil.Martin Luther had a dream, a dream of raising Blacks up to the level of everyone else. Did he succeed? To a large extent I like to think so. But what has really happened?! Much the same thing that happened by everyone's wife going to work... Wages lowered, benefits lowered, and the cost of health insurance went higher!
Which means the so-called "American Dream" came 3 steps closer and 2 steps back. That's my personal opinion, that we have been pulling a wagon that turned out to have SQUARE WHEELS. We work Harder it fights back harder. Apparently our economy has some built-in FAILURES that even a Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King didn't anticipate would act as a giant Jake Brake.
MLK was ahead of the starting pistol, WAY AHEAD. Willpower? We've
all got GOBS OF THAT. Willpower alone can't do it
otherwise IT WOULD HAVE ALREADY.What is the missing piece of the puzzle? What would free up
the riches we all know this country has?!
We pay trillions out for crude oil that poisons us,
we pay trillions out for healthcare to cure us of petroleum poisoning,
we pay billions or trillions out for toxic waste cleanup & saving the environment
FROM ALL THE CRUDE OIL PRODUCTS WE PURCHASED.
The missing piece of the puzzle is to ERASE crude oil from that
Equation. After that, those trillion$ go into healthcare,
higher wages & restored job benefits, caring for the elderly & >eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.
eliminating all taxes on seniors > The American Dream.http://free.seekon.com/NonNuclearFusionEngines/
http://www.renewamerica.us/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3975
And, by the way, the SKY really is FALLING!
http://www.newpath4.com/skyisfallingendoftheworldp rocessexplainedindetail06062006.htm ....Reprint of Forum post made today on http://www.renewamerica.us/ as >
17. Elementary Math Man http://tinyurl.com/exp99
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maybe he's been reading too much J.G. Ballard
http://tinyurl.com/dlxjm/The Wind from Nowhere
http://tinyurl.com/9jtf3/The Drought
(or for counterpoint)
http://tinyurl.com/7pnh3/The Drowned World
http://tinyurl.com/akd8o/The Crystal World -
maybe he's been reading too much J.G. Ballard
http://tinyurl.com/dlxjm/The Wind from Nowhere
http://tinyurl.com/9jtf3/The Drought
(or for counterpoint)
http://tinyurl.com/7pnh3/The Drowned World
http://tinyurl.com/akd8o/The Crystal World -
maybe he's been reading too much J.G. Ballard
http://tinyurl.com/dlxjm/The Wind from Nowhere
http://tinyurl.com/9jtf3/The Drought
(or for counterpoint)
http://tinyurl.com/7pnh3/The Drowned World
http://tinyurl.com/akd8o/The Crystal World -
maybe he's been reading too much J.G. Ballard
http://tinyurl.com/dlxjm/The Wind from Nowhere
http://tinyurl.com/9jtf3/The Drought
(or for counterpoint)
http://tinyurl.com/7pnh3/The Drowned World
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Re:It's crap like this...Don't forget soccer moms. I was listening to HVSC, and liked a tune from Ultima IV, looking it up I found:
Richard Garriott has stated that he began writing this game when he realized (partly from letters of enraged parents) that in the earlier games immoral actions like stealing and murder of peaceful citizens had been necessary or at least very useful actions in order to win the game, and that such features might be objectionable. Furthermore, organizations like BADD were drawing attention to the supposedly satanic content in role-playing games in general, and the demonic nature of the antagonist of Ultima III was a good target.
And BADD just happens to be "a one-person advocacy group dedicated to the elimination of the famous role playing game Dungeons and Dragons" created by a mom who's son suicided. Exactly the same as Columbine, but it's what to expect in a society educated by TV, and what does it censor? - rock n roll, games, movies. -
Link
Here's the link to the official red-flag linux web.
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New York needs to know about these.
If this article at Open Source Energy Network is to be believed, a new alternative form of turbine will solve a lot of problems and might get them all on the same page.
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Re:Grassroots to repeal this and how it passed
Information to contact Congress is found at this link. It is time to "Slash.dot" Congress and encourage our friends to do the same. As more people find out about this piece of $h!t law, more people will get pissed and they should demand repeal !
In addition, this Real ID Act was going to require states to sign the Driver License Agreement which would open our driving databases not only between the states but as a start, foreign countries such as Canada and Mexico as a start. A couple of states already signed the Driver License Agreement - Connecticut and Arkansas. More information can be found at WikiPedia. There is another bill to require states to sign that just passed the House, sponsored of course, by Sensenbrenner. It is HR4437 concerning Immigration. The AAMVA is a non-government organization. They push policies that affect everyone such as this DLA but if you go to their web site, most of their pages are off limits, restricted to their members. They should be required to comply with open door laws. They are especially secretive concerning the DLA. Most people if they realize what it is about would be up in arms on it. -
Wow
downloaded over 100,000 programs from the top million Web sites
You know you have too much free time when you download 10^11 programs just to test them for spyware.
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Re:Spyware is bad for your server
You guys are network terrorists. How about installing Coralize firefox extension.
Here is a link that works
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Re:slashdot blocked
oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Try this one (not sure if it'll work, but it's worth a shot): Bug 24418, via TinyUrl.
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Not the first
Some commenters have said that, althought every Google is working on is labelled as Beta, all of them seem to be very polished and ready.
They must have forgotten that little cache app fiasco, the web browsing accelerator that was so crappy it had to be removed from the public access.
Not because is by Google it has to be good by definition.
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Hotmail servers
One of the funniest trivia about hotmail is that, from a long time, it ran entirely over *BDS, even after it was bought by Microsoft.
I suppose they have changed to W2003 by now, but the image damage was done.
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Not really
Gmail must have not receibe that Bill's memo, because my account not only receives almost 80 spams a day but about 7 o 8 make their way to my incoming folder.
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The avoidable danger: Bias'they're trying to build the machine that will pass the Turing test'
The profound danger of a biased AI here is quite avoidable. The theoretic problem of unbiased AI has been formally solved by Marcus Hutter with AIXI:
Computational AI. There are strong arguments that AIXI is the most intelligent unbiased agent possible in the sense that AIXI behaves optimally in any computable environment.
This is the reason I set up the following definition of the C-Prize:
Let anyone submit a program that produces, with no inputs, one of the major natural language corpora as output.
S = size of uncompressed corpus
P = size of program outputting the uncompressed corpus
R = S/P (the compression ratio).Award monies in a manner similar to the M-Prize:
Previous record ratio: R0
New record ratio: R1=R0+X
Fund contains: $Z at noon GMT on day of new record
Winner receives: $Z * (X/(R0+X))Compression program and decompression program are made open source.
Explanation For an idea of why the C-Prize can solve the AI problem, if it is solvable, see Matthew Mahoney's comment on it:
Matt Mahoney
Jun 17, 7:18 pm show options
Newsgroups: comp.compression
From: "Matt Mahoney"
Date: 17 Jun 2005 20:18:59 -0700
Local: Fri, Jun 17 2005 7:18 pm
Subject: Re: The C-PrizeHutter's AIXI, http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/ai/paixi.htm makes another argument for the connection between compression and AI that is more general than the Turing test. He proves that the optimal behavior of an agent (an interactive system that receives a reward signal from an unknown environment) is to guess that the environement is most likely computed by the shortest possible program that is consistent with the behavior observed so far. In other words, the most likely outcome for any experiment is the one with the simplest explanation, where "simplest" means the smallest program that could model what you currently know about the universe.
He gives a formal proof, but it basically says that the only possible distribution of the infinite set of programs (or strings) with nonzero probability is one which favors shorter programs over longer ones. Given any string of length n with probability p > 0, there are an infinite set of strings longer than n, but only a finite number of these can have probability higher than p.
-- Matt Mahoney
Matt Mahoney is the author of Text Compression as a Test for Artificial Intelligence which states:
It is shown that optimal text compression is a harder problem thanartificial intelligence as defined by Turing's (1950) imitation game; thus compression ratio on a standard benchmark corpuscould be used as an objective and quantitative alternative test for AI (Mahoney, 1999).
(Mahoney is also a competitor who has some winnings from The Calgary Corpus Compression Challenge.)
Now a big question here is whether it might be possible to create a verifiably unbiased AI without making the compression program open source. In any case I don't think it is wise to trust any AI that hasn't at least gone through a compression competition with other purportedly unbiased AI's compressing an open source corpus.
Now, who might fund something like the C-Prize?
Well, here's a suggestion:
Since:
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Re:Uninstalling Norton can be very time consuming
They have uninstall capability. In my PC times (2003) you click on add remove programs and uninstall like regular program.
As they moved to MSI (microsoft installer built with installshield) it was even easier to stop services etc.
Look, there explains how to uninstall with add/remove or even remove features
http://tinyurl.com/c6dnt
If you corrupt your registry or windows somehow stupidly loses the data (happened a lot), you need that program to uninstall safely without thousands of files in protected recycle bin which are PROTECTED.
Protected recycle bin is designed to make _you_ (and malware you run) stop from doing evil things to your files/documents so it is not very surprising that they hide it from system.
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Enviroment friendly?
Maybe it hurts the trees... I don't think the current is so important but the fact of the continous electron's movemente around the tree.
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DOA4
Wasn't this the game that had a bug wich prevented the restoring of game saves?
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