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This raises the possiblities of halophiles living on Mars. On Earth, halophiles can live in up to 35% salt solutions. Pure water would kill these creatures --causing them to aborb water until they burst.

Its no wonder that Viking found no clear evidence of life on Mars, the low-salt water in Viking's nutirent broth probably killed any halophiles.

Mirror with comments.

Hope it's all just a bluff.

The question you ask is really relevant.

As part of my thesis "How to cope with incorrect HTML" (.ps, University site with link to pdf version) I tested 2.4 million sites in the Open Directory Project.

These tests showed that only 0.7% of all the HTML documents were valid. It feels really odd to have a standard that so few documents adhere to. The thesis describes in much more detail the different errors(see pages 81-91).

"It takes two persons to lie,
one to lie,
and one to listen"
-Homer Simpson
(of course if IE and netscape hadn't listened to HTML "programmers'" lies, this problem never would have evolved... but then would the web have grown?)

The question you ask is really relevant.

As part of my thesis "How to cope with incorrect HTML" (.ps, University site with link to pdf version) I tested 2.4 million sites in the Open Directory Project.

These tests showed that only 0.7% of all the HTML documents were valid. It feels really odd to have a standard that so few documents adhere to. The thesis describes in much more detail the different errors(see pages 81-91).

"It takes two persons to lie,
one to lie,
and one to listen"
-Homer Simpson
(of course if IE and netscape hadn't listened to HTML "programmers'" lies, this problem never would have evolved... but then would the web have grown?)

Actually, Tolkien got that name by applying standard phonetic changes to a completely made-up 'primitive' root orok (search for 'orch' in this page). He came up with 'orch' in Sindarin and 'urco' in Quenya; in the Black Speech the orks used, it became 'uruk'.

In a completely unrelated note, the Mesopotamian city of Uruk is also known as Erech in the bible.

Some English professors I worked with in the past actually worked on something akin to this once. Their goal was to provide a demonstration of either the success or failure of structuralist models of literature, such as those offered by Vladimir Propp in his book Morphology of Folktales.

If you're not familiar with Propp or with structuralism, you really should be before you do any work on this project. The basic idea is that all stories of a given genre have a common core structure, and amount to filling in the blanks in different ways from story to story. Propp only works with folktales, which are a fairly limited type of story, and structuralism collapsed under some of its own theoretical weight before anyone really got too much further with it, but you shouldn't have much trouble coming up with a structure for fantasy stories - Propp's folktales are actually a fairly good start, and you'd only have to complicate it a bit.

This is probably a good place to start looking at information about the program mentioned above. I tried the sites it used to be available for download at, and was unable to find a copy still up, but further research, including getting in touch with its creators, would probably prove fruitful.

AIDS tamed with a helping hand form Bill? Stranger things could happen. I just can't imagine what they are. :-)

I applaud the research and accomplishments of the project!

Jouni

AIDS tamed with a helping hand form Bill? Stranger things could happen. I just can't imagine what they are. :-)

I applaud the research and accomplishments of the project!

Jouni

I don't know, but he didn't even link to Ardalambion (at least not that I saw but I might be blind), a fantastic site for all sorts of info about the langauges of Tolkein.. TONS of information on Elvish Preshley.

(Wow. Shit. I remembered that URL *exactly*, even after not really going there in years...

Craziness.)

I agree with Joren on that one.. the Ardalambion is one of the (if not THE) best reference in terme of the Languages of Tolkien. The Quenya course given there is a 371pages PDF file that include lot of 'meat'. I'm personnaly trying too pass thtough all of it (I'm at page 191!) and I must say that you some willpower in your study to pass trough it.

BTW as said in the course Quenya is NOT a language that contain enough material for us to be able to speak it fluently.. but is a good language for writing poem & song.

"I write in elvish"
I know what you mean, but to be correct, Twengar is an alphabet, not a language. Had you been writing in Quenya or Sindarin you would have indeed been writing in Elvish.

"I write in elvish"
I know what you mean, but to be correct, Twengar is an alphabet, not a language. Had you been writing in Quenya or Sindarin you would have indeed been writing in Elvish.

A fantastic site for this stuff, and very highly thought of in the Tolkien language community (yes, it exists, stop laughing. :P Language is a profession taken more seriously in Europe you know) is Ardalambion. Here the author has compiled a ton of info on all of Tolkien's many languages (even ones that are not related to the world of Middle-earth), and even a course to learning the Elvish language Quenya! Very cool stuff. :) Also, I have a handy quick-and-dirty reference guide to Tolkien at my site here: http://jerek.deciv.com/tolkien.htm.

Enjoy, all ye pursuers of Elvish. :)

The world needs no more than one computer, it's just very spread out.

Here's a few more links :

The history of :
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here

And introduction to
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Glad I could be of help.

• Most Ryu make a big deal about doing things the traditional way. (Look at all the controversy that the shinkendo people caused when they decided that they were the only ones using "traditional" tsuka lengths.) This emphasis on doing things the same way as the previous generation makes it unlikely that a tradition would be changed without there being a record of it occuring. Many Ryu are so tradition-bound that they won't allow any useful innovation.
• Clavell is not a solid source for anything. I used to love shogun until I got a hold of the Musashi series by Eiji Yoshikawa. Those books have a much better reputation with people like Edwin O. Reischauer, who said:

  Comparisons with James Clavell's Shogun seem inevitable, because for most Americans today Shogun, as a book and a television mini-series, vies with samurai movies as their chief source of knowledge about Japan's past. [...] With the exception of Blackthorne, the historical Will Adams, Shogun deals largely with the great lords and ladies of Japan, who appear in thin disguise under names Clavell has devised for them. [...] Clavell freely distorts historical fact to fit his tale and inserts a Western-type love story that not only flagrantly flouts history but is quite unimaginable in the Japan of that time.

With all of these name conflict why don't they go with maybe the same meaning of Firebird and Phoenix but maybe in another language, where they can be more creative and have a lesser chance of coming up with name conflicts?

Maybe go with Quenya (Middle-Earth Language, from Lord of the Rings/Tolkien)

Pardon my poor quenya but i pulled the following together from word stems of bird and fire from this English-Quenya dictionary (RTF file)

Naraiwe in quenya which if i got it correctly is firebird/phoenix. It has the meaning, certainly sounds cool and i doubt there some other project out there using this name.

Ok so searching google shows up some guy with naraiwe as his nickname, well he's not a project!!

My point stands :)

The Summer Institute in Linguistics has a much more comprehensive list of languages in their compendium entitled the Ethnologue (Available for perusing online.

UNESCO, an agency of the United Nations has compiled The Redbook of Endangered Languages listing many endangered languages around the world.

Another source for those interested in endangered languages is The Foundation For Endangered Languages.

For those more interested in creating languages of their own, or "conlangs" like Tolkien created, might I suggest Langmaker, Mark Rosenfelder's excellent Virtual Verduria (including his Language Construction Kit), and for those interested in Tolkiens' tongues (such as Quenya, almost unanimously considered the most beautiful conlang created) there is the very informational Ardalambion.

Hope those links will help people interested in the topics of endangered and model languages.

Does this *need* language recognition? I'm assuming that there are enough differences in the words between the two languages that your Norwegian emails will have relatively few English words and the English emails with probably even fewer Norwegian works in them.

Most of these bayesian methods really don't care what the words *are*. (CM114 doesn't even store words for that matter, it stores hashes.) So in your case, your non-spam (good mail) corpus would be heavily weighted with a lot of words that I probably can't pronounce, but are unique to your good mail. Your spam corpus would supply mostly English words. Since you'll need to "feed" these two corpi into any of the Bayes tools, you'll be essentially "teaching" it the differences.

Then any new mail getting filtered will get tested against these two sets. Clearly your Norwegian mail is more likely to get matched as non-spam than your English mail will.

I would almost expect better response from this approach (once you have some content in your corpus) since you're not counting on someone else's use of the language or approach of implementation. Maybe they use Norwegian and English a little differently than you...

If you still want to screen based on language, you could always just add a filter to whatever mail client or filtering tool you use that just checks for the top 10 words in Norwegian and assumes that that message isn't English. (this site seems to have just such a list) You could do it the other way too. The top 10 english words are: (the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it )

Anyway, I'd be curious to see if bayesian filtering resolves the issue without explicit language checking.. I'd almost expect that it would....

Oh, and the twin SCART sockets may be ideal for European users, but there is no mention of composite or S-VHS socketry for the US - so Americans will have to get a SCART-to-S-VHS cable to use this box.

Maybe you should do a little research before spouting off about how there are no useful distributed computing projects out there.

Microsoft Process Kill Utility has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

Please tell Microsoft about this problem. ...

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Got this error message from Oracle on windows a couple times:

'The OracleORACLE_HOMEManagementServer service Terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s) The following corrective action will be taken in 0 milliseconds: No action'

Oracle - no action

For people with no idea what we're talking about: South Park Episode 609 (RealPlayer format).

>The grammar is terrible for a non-Finn

>I'm impressed but not surpised that Tolkein could
>speak Finnish though

Actually, it seems that Tolkien loved Finnish grammar. Check this essay out that I just googled.

Ok, so this is out of context...

correct me if I'm wrong

Gladly...

Regarding Babbage - first off, the concepts underlying the Difference Engine came to Babbage in 1812 (and, since Babbage was born in 1792 - that would make him 19 or 20 years old at the time!), as he was thinking on logarithms and the inacuracies that could occur during their calculation. He didn't follow up on his ideas until 1819, at which point he began building a small Difference Engine, finishing it in 1822. In 1823 he applied for and got a grant to build a larger engine (which was not completed). The Difference Engine, however, was more a calculator, and not a computer. The later Analytical Engine (began in 1833 - also not completed) was a true programmable device. More information can be found here and here...

Ada Lovelace, however - didn't invent the loom you refer to - that goes to Joseph Marie Jacquard, who invented the Jacquard Loom in 1802 - which utilised a series of punched cards to control warp threads on each pass of the weft thread. Ada obviously knew quite a bit about these looms (as did Babbage, who conceived of using punch cards for the control of Analytical Engine, presumably after seeing such a loom in action - indeed, the names he settled upon for what we today call the CPU (Mill) and memory (the Store), happen to be derived from terms used in the weaving industry at the time!), and so wrote in her Sketch of the Analytical Engine in 1842:

The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of abstract algebra, is the introduction into it of the principle which Jacquard devised for regulating, by means of punched cards, the most complicated patterns in the fabrication of brocaded stuffs. It is in this that the distinction between the two engines lies. Nothing of the sort exists in the Difference Engine. We may say most aptly, that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Indeed - even she understood the value of the Analytical Engine over that of the Difference Engine - its programmability (weavability?)!

I could indeed go on - you neglect to mention Konrad Zuse, as well as the contribution of Atanasoff and Berry (the ABC) for the first electronic stored program computer.

But I will stop here...

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

This is Java 1.0 at its worst -- this is not some magic box (yet) that takes your Java 1.3 app and makes it native.

Here are some quotes from the gcj FAQ, just for context.

> What Java API's are supported? How complete is the support?
>
> Matt Welsh writes:
> Just look in the 'libjava' directory of libgcj
and see what classes are there.
> Most GUI stuff isn't there yet, that's true, but many of the other classes are easy to add if they don't yet exist.
...
> Considering that AWT support isnt here yet there is no chance of getting Swing running.
> Once we have AWT support the Swing 1.1.1 may be useable and even redistributable,
> but JFC will be another issue...

This quote means that we're talking Java 1.0. Don't bother asking about Java3D yet! :^D
> GCJ supports all Java language constructs as per the Java language
> Specification v1.0. Recent GCJ snapshots have added support for
> most JDK1.1 language features, including inner classes.

(bold mine, natch)
Looks like "faceless" apps should compile, but don't expect much else.

So check out... gcj FAQ
the gcj site
... before getting too excited! ;^)

For more info on AWT and gcj, check out the peerlib work. Not much has happened in a while from the looks of it.

So gcj might be integrated with gcc, but as any two-bit Java programmer like myself can tell you, this ain't my Java. This is several generations behind any other platform. You'd be writing code for the absolute lowest denominator, using deprecated methods in today's Java world. You'd nearly be teaching yourself COBOL, if I can put an exaggerated spin on it. No GUI, no XML API, no Collections, no...

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Pictures fro mthe last event are available here

"Light and Matter Physics" High School/Community college level.

"Handbook Of Applied Cryptography"

"Numerical Recipes in {c, fortran}"

"The Scientist & Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing"

"Using Z"

"The Red Book"

etc. I'm sure there are a ton of others.

You may wish to check out this website for a quick and clean comparison of the security of the different proposals.

As events like these at MIT show, and as slashdot quickly approaches a quarter of a million users, it's time for a slashdot reunion. Below is enclosed a list of the first 50 users, the folks who really know what it means to say, "I remember the good ol' days." How many of these users are still active? Reply, and show your true colors. The who replies with the lowest userid gets a prize! CmdrTaco (1) email: malda@slashdot.org
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The History of Mechanical Computers

Early Calculators

Zuse

• The algorithm has to be free and unencumbered by patents. The ElGamal public key algorithm is an example of an unencumbered algorithm, but it did not become unencumbered until the DH patent expired in 1997. The symmetric key algorithm Blowfish is the first unencumbered post-DES algorithm that people believe is secure, which is why it is so popular.
• The algorithm has to feel secure. This is way people stull use 3DES, even though it is far slower than Blowfish and most of the other new SK algorithms at the block cipher lounge and the AES candidates.
• The algorithm has to, once it meets the above two criteria, be efficient. Blowfish has an inefficient key generation cycle, but is otherwise efficient. Rijndael is the most efficient of the AES candidates.

One thing people can do is use a cryptosystem instead of a single algorithm. This makes implememtation much easier, since people don't need to become familiar with Applied Cryptography and the literature on crypto. This is why people like SSL--it is free outside of the US, and will become free in the US on September 20th, and is a complete system belived to be secure.

One of the nice things about crypto research is that most of the research papers out there are freely available on the internet.

- Sam

• People seem to think that the applications group has been secretly waiting for the day that they could port Office to Unix.

I've been thinking about this for some time too. Why isn't there (really?) a MS-Linux. Why not port MS-Office to Linux or *BSD? And why open-source programmers in general seem to try to stay away from Windows?

One of the main concerns one has upon deciding on what OS to use is app availability. Porting Office to Linux would be a dumb move from MS, for it would plug one of Linux's holes. Now, in a splitted MS scenario, with Mac OS X being a strong contender, maybe it would be interesting for them to do whatever they can to prevent Mac OS X from taking a larger market share, and that may mean writing(or releasing?) a Linux port of Office. You know, divide and rule. Releasing a Linux distro would be an easy and very sinergic (sp?) action. And, yes, I tried StarOffice, its problems are well known, but the initiative points in the right direction. Now, is Sun making money with it? Do their business depend in any degree on fixing whatever may be wrong with SO? Wouldn't a stable port of MS-Office be good for a lot of us? Wouldn't MS make money out of it? I'm ok with paying for software.

Now, why do we see so little Windows open source software (as compared to Linux/BSD)? Would that be because most Linux apps are poorly coded and consequently hard to port? I doubt so. Would it be lack of tools? Nope. Strategy? No either. I really think it's almost religious. More than once I saw a project website where the project leader says he/she just doesn't care to port to Windows because it's just lame or something. MacBeth is one that springs to mind. I don't have a problem with that, but is that intelligent?

Bruce's main site.
Information on Skipjack
Information on impossible-differential cryptanalysis
Information on attacks unknown to the NSA
About the Windows NSAKEY flap
Probable NSA backdoors
Information on the Blowfish algo
Information on the Twofish algo
Speed comparison of known algos
Speed comparison of the AES candidates
Summary of attacks on various algos
Breaking crypto isn't the best way to beat security. Article 1 Article 2
Information on the Solitare algo
Information on the Yarrow algo
Importance of peer-reviewed crypto
Comments on propriatary encryption
Dismissal of cracking contests
You say you can't break it; well, who the hell are you?"
Twofish team's published papers
David Wagner's published papers
So you wanna become a cryptographer?
Information on side-channel attacks
Information on power-analysis attacks
More information on side-channel attacks
Article on Quantum computing
The problems with the public-key infrastructure
The problem with longer keys
l0phtcrack
Biometrics as keys?

me: jlcooke@jlcooke.net

"The new codes are virtually unbreakable with as many as 340^35 possible keys, according to sources"

First of all DES was NOT 256bit. Secondly, it's not 340^35. it's 2^128 = (2^64)^2 = 18446744073709551616^2 = 340.... (40 digits).

And ths BIG stink in my eyes is tha fact the NIST eliminated stronger contestants. HPC and CAST-256 have no known weeknesses. MARS, RC6 and TWOFISH all have weekneses!!!!!!!

That's right. Read this again. Attckes have been shown to work for them. Not break them wide open mind you, just it's not 2^128 or 2^256 possibilities anymore.

Read it all here

You missed part of the URL; this is the real link for the Block Cipher Lounge

Me: jlcooke@jlcooke.net I strongly suggest that everyone take a look at: The Block Cipher Lounge [Cypher vs Cipher is a British vs. USA thing]. You'll notice that CAST-256 did not make it the the second round. Nor did Hasty Pudding. These were arguably the two most advanced algorithims out there. And both have no known weeknesses. Why didn't the make it? First of all CAST-256 has been chosen as (loosly termed) "Canada's AES". The original CAST algorithims have been hailed by the likes of Phil Zimmerman in this PGP white papers as well as all over the crypto community. The good old US gov't is once again afraid. And Hasty Pudding, developed in the US, I feel wasn't included because the submission wasn't in PDF or an other fancy presentation. It was in plain text. I seems to me that NIST is more concrened with public image and parotizum than the greater good of the privacy of their citizens. This in indeed a sad sad day.

Go to my site, download my dune32 source code, have a look at my assembler code (it's in C++ file) designeg for Watcom.

The reason this lib is not in Asm is most likely because you wanted to make it portable, besides in game 10% of code runs 90% of time, and I DO know optimization rules, that's why I was not suggesting insane idea to write it all in asm. Only few functions must be in Asm.

About instructions I do complain: this was OBVIOUS optimization, and if you could not do that, than you probably can't do other, inside loops.
Pipelines are easy to figure out as long as you don't be lazy to look at timings for mainstream processors, I would optimize for Pentium+.

;)

You don't need to ruin my world, it's already ruined. And yes I am amateur, as you could see from my page my main profession is business, BUSINESS, programming is my hobby, see the difference? Interesting, did you look at MY asm, while I have looked at yours? I think you didn't.

Look, I am not saying you bad programmer, you probably even better than me, this is not my point.


To the AC below me: I've had job interview I did HAVE work offers, since my study will end in June this year I postponed my final decisions ;P

Now, if you want to see some real guy who kicked some major ID ass look here:

http://www.ii.uib.no/~alexey/

Look for PolyEngine, he is my old friend from high school.

The main reason he and me quit games programming is because we are way out of colledges now and need to make some money for life, dammit! If you still studying than you won't understand that at all.

He is now doing Java browsers: http://www.icesoft.no

Peace, and good luck, don't be mad at me ;)

AtW,
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