Well, based on the trailer, they've already started filming, and imdb.com says "Directed by Christopher Nolan." Doesn't seem likely that Darren Aronofski's handling this flick.
It doesn't say that it already knows that it's a spam message. I could run the exact same message through a hundred times, and it would act like it had never seen it before. I'm beginning to think that it's not actually saving the data to the spam.css file (although it is accessing it; `stat spam.css` shows the access, modify & change times all being updated when I run the mailfilter program).
CRM114's best was about 80%, which lasted for a few of weeks (weeks 3-5). Before and after that, it's doing good to catch 25% of the spam. I'm not sure why, but for the last month it's only been catching about 10%. When one gets through, I run it through mailfilter.crm with the learnspam switch. It'll say it's learned it, but if I have it check the spam again, it still lets it past.
Unfortunately, the broadcast flag makes no distinction between this and my taping a show so as to view it later or loan it to a friend. Both of which are legal. For that matter, I know putting TV shows up for others to download gets the studios all worked up, but I don't see much difference with taping a show and letting someone else borrow it. Sure, sure, there are additional copies made, but the end result (download a TV show, watch it once or twice and then delete it) is the same.
Doen't take much work to print even a restricted pdf. I've long since forgotten which files to modify, but several years back I needed a printout from an ebook I'd purchased in pdf format. It had the "no-print" flag set, but I dug around in the source code for xpdf for a few minutes (a couple of grep runs actually), commented out the lines that check for that flag, recompiled and printed.
I'd already paid for the book, it was my paper and printer and I wasn't selling or even giving it to someone else. I just wanted to have it while I was on vacation. Not the most elegant way to read a book, but I three-hole punched it and stuck it a report folder (hard paper covers, adjustable metal strips that run through the top and bottom paper holes). Worked just fine.
Back in the day, when I was a co-op student employee, I spent some time testing Linux drivers on Itanium systems. EFI was about as intuitive as a worm eaten apple (no docs, just a "hey, you're good at figuring things out, test this"). Plus, it kept forgetting changes to its configuration. Eventually, I became familiar with its obtuse ways, but it never exactly brought a smile to my face when I saw the EFI prompt.
That said, the PC BIOS should have been put out of its misery years ago. I'm just not sure EFI's really going to make developer's & users/admin's live that much easier.
What happens if someone invents randomly changing masks/clothing that disrupt the contrast & shadow patterns that face recognition software use.
No more automated surveillance. You want to track someone, do it on foot or monitor the camera in person. Depending on the camera angle, even that might not work.
I agree that even modern plastic surgery often doesn't cut it. Pun intended. However, part of the reason that people don't seem as weirded out by the recipients of face lifts and the like is because plastic surgery techniques have changed considerably over the last decade. It's not just that people have gotten used to fake looking faces and bodies.
A face lift used to mean cutting the skin along the front of the ear/scalp and back of the jaw, pulling it back, snipping the extra and then sewing it back together (basic description). The end result was someone with very tight skin that looked, oddly enough, like the skin on their face had been pulled back and stretched.
Nowadays, they still cut along the same basic lines, but instead of pulling just the skin back, they go under the first layer of facial muscle (the one the skin and subcutanious fat are attached to) and separate it from the lower layers. Then, they pull that whole set of layers back, trim and sew. The end result (although not always completely natural looking) is a much more animated face that doesn't look like they're permanently attached to a G-force simulator.
I use random patterns on the keyboard. I have to consciously remember the password for a little while, but, within a week or so, I no longer even remember what the password is. I just type it without thinking. I found out that I was doing something similar with my GPG key's passphrase. One day, I went to type it in and realized that I couldn't remember it despite the fact that I had just used it a few hours previously. It took me over a week to remember what my passphrase is. I was just about at the point of putting my revocation certificate into ciruclation and generating a new key.
Kind of reminds me of back when I still played the piano. Then, I would practice a piece so much that, after a while, I found it easiest to play with my eyes closed and let my mind just cruise along. The bad thing was, that if something startled or interupted me, I often couldn't remember where in the song I was.
Bummer about IWill using Nvidia. I was really looking forward to the the Nvidia chipsets, "back in the day." Unfortunately, the whole "no specs for you lot" bit put a damper on that.
Since this sort of purchase would be of the "my money, my choice" category, I think I'll go w/ one of the inevitable competitors who comes out w/ a similar design. This might work well for that home-brewed PVR I've been planning for the last two years. Now, if I could only come up with a source of income that would let me pay for it.
I went with a max_upload_rate of 5 partly because I was starting to get warning notices from my cable company about crossing some limit on the amount of outgoing data per month. I managed to get them to leave me alone by pointing out that the terms of service that I signed never said anything about bandwidth caps. However, the cable company doesn't use annual contracts or anything like that, so all they have to do is send me a new "Terms of Service" and boom, I've got bandwidth caps. No choice. I figured that setting my max upload to 5 would allow me to still participate in BitTorrent's give and take w/o banging on the cable company's door too often.
Even with the lower upload speed, I still routinely get download speeds between 100 K/s and 200 K/s on torrents with a large number of people connected. Plus, the lower upload speed allows me to stay connected over a period of a day or so as a seed w/o consuming large amounts of upstream bandwidth.
I've noticed that my download speed can vary rather a bit. It usually starts out quite slow and then kicks up several notches after a while. Also, you can start the official client from the command line with the "--max_upload_rate" argument. I generally set mine to "--max_upload_rate 5". I also use the "tc qdisc" command to limit the maximum outgoing bandwidth to just below my cable modem's upload limit [1].
Most cable modems use a shared pool of resources for incoming and outgoing data and are set to give preference to outgoing packets. If you're running at the maximum upstream bandwidth, your cable modem spends all of its time dealing with those packets and drops incoming data (which severly limits your incoming bandwidth). So, the "tc qdisc" command keeps multiple BT clients from hogging all of my cable modem's resources.
[1] I use `tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 200kbit latency 50ms burst 1540`, which I got off of some webpage, don't remember which one now. It works fairly well, I just turn it off (run the command again, with "del" instead of "add") when I need to send data to another computer on my home network.
I might point out that the most recent road test on the Honda Civic Hybrid was back in 2002 and the Honda Insight back in 2000. So claiming that CR has made such claims, and thus implying they're for recent models, is hardly honest.
There is a new, May 2004, report for the Toyota Prius. In it, CR found its in City mileage to be ~35 and its highway mileage to be around ~50. I am dissappointed in those results. I'd heard much about how the Prius got even better mileage in town than on the road due to the fact that it shuts the gasoline engine off when stopped.
Ah well, I won't be able to afford a different car for some time to come. Hopefully Toyota & Honda will have worked out more of the kinks by then. I'm so disgusted with the "domestic" (AKA, made mostly in Mexico and final assembly in the US) auto makers in regards to acceptable mileage, that I'm very unlikely to buy anything they make, hybrid or not.
Imaging Resource has in-depth reviews of a great many digital cameras and has made similar comments regarding the impact of poor signal-to-noise ratio's in the past. I spent lots of time there before purchasing my current digital camera. Ended up w/ a Canon A70. I'm relatively satisfied w/ it, though I still pull out my old Pentax 35mm when I'm working in low light situations; the Canon's CCD just can't shake the noise w/ long exposures (especially when the image's fairly dark to begin w/).
Yeah, so did I. Well, "Spam Technology to Conquer Everest." I thought maybe someone was going to hook up some sort of wireless/satelite link to the summit. Bloody spammers!
`Course I just got done fiddling w/ my CRM114 installation and then reading O'Reilly's comments on Gmail, so spam was on my mind (Turkey Spam, not Ham Spam, of course;).
I've found a similar problem on one of my machines. All kernels after 2.4.19 have incredibly choppy audio. But only on one machine (an AMD Athlon system with a LSI 1010 based scsi controller, 3com 905C ethernet and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card).
Heck, the one of the last jobs I got turned down for, they actually came straight out and told me that's why they weren't hiring me. "We're afraid that, after your previous experience, you won't find this work challenging and will move on at the first opportunity. For that reason, we've offered it to one of the other candidates."
Yeah, so I love to learn new things. I'm very good at it. Yeah, I taught myself how to write Linux network device drivers via a source browser and a couple of "Rusty's Unreliable Guides."[1] Yeah, the resulting driver was responsible for over $100k in hardware sales in the time before I was laid off. I wouldn't be applying for a job if I didn't think I'd find it at least moderately interesting. I'm flexible as far as salary goes. I don't want to get rich (thought I can think of a few things I'd do if I was). Give me a chance.
[1] That, plus being persistent in asking questions on various mailing lists. Sometimes it takes a little while to figure out how to frame the question in a manner that will get a helpful response.
I've got a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and I enjoy the work, when it exists. However, work for Linux/Unix developers w/ a mix of low-level (kernel & device drivers) and higher-level (task automation and web) experience seems to be very thin on the ground.
One of my other interests is biochemistry, but I'd have to go back to school for my Masters/Ph.D. That requires money and relocating (I'm currently sitting around in Wichita, KS). I've got nothing against relocating, but that requires either money or a job on the other end (see above).
Even I would have bought a new Sam & Max game.
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I haven't bought or played a PC (or console) game in almost nine years. I find them to be boring and pointless. However, "Sam & Max Hit the Road" was one of the few games I've ever played that I actually enjoyed (joined only by Abuse, Day of the Tentacle and the original Full Throttle).
For a new "Sam & Max" game, I would have scraped up the pennies off the sidewalk and borrowed my dad's laptop (`cause the new Sam & Max would no doubt be Windows) in order to play.
Just saw "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Talk about overrated. I kept watching, thinking, surely it'll get better. I was wrong. It rather reminded me of "2001: A Space Odessey." There were bits and pieces that were pretty good, but they were overwhelmed by the rest of it.
The big kicker is that they require an email address. This means they're going to not activate the account, until you click/paste a link that's only available by providing a real email address that you have access to. Makes it more difficult to create cypherpunk/cypherpunk accounts[1]. Not impossible, just more difficult.
[1] Some sites got wise to the cypherpunk/cypherpunk combo a few years back and started deleting them. In such cases, ciferpunk is oftentimes there.
Hmmm. Based on the characters (Chinese, though I read neither Japanese nor Chinese, there is a visible difference) and the.tw suffix on the domain name, it's more likely that the site is Tiawanese.
The U.S. site has a small gallery. Click on one of the Lubic kits, then the gallery link at the top of the resulting page.
It's not just the Mediterranean or Europe in general where free WiFi is a thing of the past (if it ever existed). Once you get outside of a few major cities here in the U.S. (Seattle, Baltimore, maybe LA and NY), you're doing good if local businesses have even vaguely considered providing WiFi.
For example, I have the misfortune to be located in the Wichita, KS area (2000 Census population: 344,284). The first Starbucks opened less than a year ago (and it charges for WiFi). The Borders on the east side of town started advertising a WiFi hotspot a few months back. I thought, "cool, I spend lots of time there, now I can sip my occasional $4-5 mocha, try not to spend a fortune on books[1] and use their WiFi." Then I opened the brochure. Turns out Borders has outsourced their WiFi service to T-Mobile. Free? Nyet, nAo, nein, non, a, aaa, no. $10/hr (seems to be a pretty common price) or $19.99/month. The first Starbucks opened less than a year ago, and they charge for WiFi also.
There's an independant bookstore in central Wichita (Watermark) that I hear has free WiFi access. Problem is, they're even further away than the 15-25 minutes to Borders and they don't have much of a selection if you're not looking for literary fiction or mystery novels (their poetry shelf's pretty good, but not very big). I make a point of ordering books through them if I have to special order, but I'm not going to drive all the way there to browse and use their WiFi.
[1] Unemployed software engineer/developer, pretty much no discretionary spending money (and not much non-discretionary money either, as the unemployment benefits ran out long ago).
The Cato Institute, if it must be catagorized, is more "libertarian" than left or right wing. This translates into, we'll do whatever we want and no one can tell us otherwise. This pushes their economic and environmental views in a direction that often is close to so called conservative/right-wing territory and their views on sex and drugs more in a liberal/left-wing direction.
The above is, of course, a gross generalization that should be taken in the spirit intended. What that spirit is is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Well, based on the trailer, they've already started filming, and imdb.com says "Directed by Christopher Nolan." Doesn't seem likely that Darren Aronofski's handling this flick.
It doesn't say that it already knows that it's a spam message. I could run the exact same message through a hundred times, and it would act like it had never seen it before. I'm beginning to think that it's not actually saving the data to the spam.css file (although it is accessing it; `stat spam.css` shows the access, modify & change times all being updated when I run the mailfilter program).
CRM114's best was about 80%, which lasted for a few of weeks (weeks 3-5). Before and after that, it's doing good to catch 25% of the spam. I'm not sure why, but for the last month it's only been catching about 10%. When one gets through, I run it through mailfilter.crm with the learnspam switch. It'll say it's learned it, but if I have it check the spam again, it still lets it past.
Unfortunately, the broadcast flag makes no distinction between this and my taping a show so as to view it later or loan it to a friend. Both of which are legal. For that matter, I know putting TV shows up for others to download gets the studios all worked up, but I don't see much difference with taping a show and letting someone else borrow it. Sure, sure, there are additional copies made, but the end result (download a TV show, watch it once or twice and then delete it) is the same.
Doen't take much work to print even a restricted pdf. I've long since forgotten which files to modify, but several years back I needed a printout from an ebook I'd purchased in pdf format. It had the "no-print" flag set, but I dug around in the source code for xpdf for a few minutes (a couple of grep runs actually), commented out the lines that check for that flag, recompiled and printed.
I'd already paid for the book, it was my paper and printer and I wasn't selling or even giving it to someone else. I just wanted to have it while I was on vacation. Not the most elegant way to read a book, but I three-hole punched it and stuck it a report folder (hard paper covers, adjustable metal strips that run through the top and bottom paper holes). Worked just fine.
Back in the day, when I was a co-op student employee, I spent some time testing Linux drivers on Itanium systems. EFI was about as intuitive as a worm eaten apple (no docs, just a "hey, you're good at figuring things out, test this"). Plus, it kept forgetting changes to its configuration. Eventually, I became familiar with its obtuse ways, but it never exactly brought a smile to my face when I saw the EFI prompt.
That said, the PC BIOS should have been put out of its misery years ago. I'm just not sure EFI's really going to make developer's & users/admin's live that much easier.
What happens if someone invents randomly changing masks/clothing that disrupt the contrast & shadow patterns that face recognition software use.
No more automated surveillance. You want to track someone, do it on foot or monitor the camera in person. Depending on the camera angle, even that might not work.
I agree that even modern plastic surgery often doesn't cut it. Pun intended. However, part of the reason that people don't seem as weirded out by the recipients of face lifts and the like is because plastic surgery techniques have changed considerably over the last decade. It's not just that people have gotten used to fake looking faces and bodies.
A face lift used to mean cutting the skin along the front of the ear/scalp and back of the jaw, pulling it back, snipping the extra and then sewing it back together (basic description). The end result was someone with very tight skin that looked, oddly enough, like the skin on their face had been pulled back and stretched.
Nowadays, they still cut along the same basic lines, but instead of pulling just the skin back, they go under the first layer of facial muscle (the one the skin and subcutanious fat are attached to) and separate it from the lower layers. Then, they pull that whole set of layers back, trim and sew. The end result (although not always completely natural looking) is a much more animated face that doesn't look like they're permanently attached to a G-force simulator.
I use random patterns on the keyboard. I have to consciously remember the password for a little while, but, within a week or so, I no longer even remember what the password is. I just type it without thinking. I found out that I was doing something similar with my GPG key's passphrase. One day, I went to type it in and realized that I couldn't remember it despite the fact that I had just used it a few hours previously. It took me over a week to remember what my passphrase is. I was just about at the point of putting my revocation certificate into ciruclation and generating a new key.
Kind of reminds me of back when I still played the piano. Then, I would practice a piece so much that, after a while, I found it easiest to play with my eyes closed and let my mind just cruise along. The bad thing was, that if something startled or interupted me, I often couldn't remember where in the song I was.
Since this sort of purchase would be of the "my money, my choice" category, I think I'll go w/ one of the inevitable competitors who comes out w/ a similar design. This might work well for that home-brewed PVR I've been planning for the last two years. Now, if I could only come up with a source of income that would let me pay for it.
I went with a max_upload_rate of 5 partly because I was starting to get warning notices from my cable company about crossing some limit on the amount of outgoing data per month. I managed to get them to leave me alone by pointing out that the terms of service that I signed never said anything about bandwidth caps. However, the cable company doesn't use annual contracts or anything like that, so all they have to do is send me a new "Terms of Service" and boom, I've got bandwidth caps. No choice. I figured that setting my max upload to 5 would allow me to still participate in BitTorrent's give and take w/o banging on the cable company's door too often.
Even with the lower upload speed, I still routinely get download speeds between 100 K/s and 200 K/s on torrents with a large number of people connected. Plus, the lower upload speed allows me to stay connected over a period of a day or so as a seed w/o consuming large amounts of upstream bandwidth.
I've noticed that my download speed can vary rather a bit. It usually starts out quite slow and then kicks up several notches after a while. Also, you can start the official client from the command line with the "--max_upload_rate" argument. I generally set mine to "--max_upload_rate 5". I also use the "tc qdisc" command to limit the maximum outgoing bandwidth to just below my cable modem's upload limit [1].
Most cable modems use a shared pool of resources for incoming and outgoing data and are set to give preference to outgoing packets. If you're running at the maximum upstream bandwidth, your cable modem spends all of its time dealing with those packets and drops incoming data (which severly limits your incoming bandwidth). So, the "tc qdisc" command keeps multiple BT clients from hogging all of my cable modem's resources.
[1] I use `tc qdisc add dev eth0 root tbf rate 200kbit latency 50ms burst 1540`, which I got off of some webpage, don't remember which one now. It works fairly well, I just turn it off (run the command again, with "del" instead of "add") when I need to send data to another computer on my home network.
I might point out that the most recent road test on the Honda Civic Hybrid was back in 2002 and the Honda Insight back in 2000. So claiming that CR has made such claims, and thus implying they're for recent models, is hardly honest.
There is a new, May 2004, report for the Toyota Prius. In it, CR found its in City mileage to be ~35 and its highway mileage to be around ~50. I am dissappointed in those results. I'd heard much about how the Prius got even better mileage in town than on the road due to the fact that it shuts the gasoline engine off when stopped.
Ah well, I won't be able to afford a different car for some time to come. Hopefully Toyota & Honda will have worked out more of the kinks by then. I'm so disgusted with the "domestic" (AKA, made mostly in Mexico and final assembly in the US) auto makers in regards to acceptable mileage, that I'm very unlikely to buy anything they make, hybrid or not.
Imaging Resource has in-depth reviews of a great many digital cameras and has made similar comments regarding the impact of poor signal-to-noise ratio's in the past. I spent lots of time there before purchasing my current digital camera. Ended up w/ a Canon A70. I'm relatively satisfied w/ it, though I still pull out my old Pentax 35mm when I'm working in low light situations; the Canon's CCD just can't shake the noise w/ long exposures (especially when the image's fairly dark to begin w/).
Yeah, so did I. Well, "Spam Technology to Conquer Everest." I thought maybe someone was going to hook up some sort of wireless/satelite link to the summit. Bloody spammers!
;).
`Course I just got done fiddling w/ my CRM114 installation and then reading O'Reilly's comments on Gmail, so spam was on my mind (Turkey Spam, not Ham Spam, of course
I've found a similar problem on one of my machines. All kernels after 2.4.19 have incredibly choppy audio. But only on one machine (an AMD Athlon system with a LSI 1010 based scsi controller, 3com 905C ethernet and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card).
None of my other systems have this problem.
Google caches only work if there aren't lots of images and dynamic content in the page (cause those still get pulled from the webserver itself).
Heck, the one of the last jobs I got turned down for, they actually came straight out and told me that's why they weren't hiring me. "We're afraid that, after your previous experience, you won't find this work challenging and will move on at the first opportunity. For that reason, we've offered it to one of the other candidates."
Yeah, so I love to learn new things. I'm very good at it. Yeah, I taught myself how to write Linux network device drivers via a source browser and a couple of "Rusty's Unreliable Guides."[1] Yeah, the resulting driver was responsible for over $100k in hardware sales in the time before I was laid off. I wouldn't be applying for a job if I didn't think I'd find it at least moderately interesting. I'm flexible as far as salary goes. I don't want to get rich (thought I can think of a few things I'd do if I was). Give me a chance.
[1] That, plus being persistent in asking questions on various mailing lists. Sometimes it takes a little while to figure out how to frame the question in a manner that will get a helpful response.
I've got a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, and I enjoy the work, when it exists. However, work for Linux/Unix developers w/ a mix of low-level (kernel & device drivers) and higher-level (task automation and web) experience seems to be very thin on the ground.
One of my other interests is biochemistry, but I'd have to go back to school for my Masters/Ph.D. That requires money and relocating (I'm currently sitting around in Wichita, KS). I've got nothing against relocating, but that requires either money or a job on the other end (see above).
I haven't bought or played a PC (or console) game in almost nine years. I find them to be boring and pointless. However, "Sam & Max Hit the Road" was one of the few games I've ever played that I actually enjoyed (joined only by Abuse, Day of the Tentacle and the original Full Throttle).
For a new "Sam & Max" game, I would have scraped up the pennies off the sidewalk and borrowed my dad's laptop (`cause the new Sam & Max would no doubt be Windows) in order to play.
Just saw "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Talk about overrated. I kept watching, thinking, surely it'll get better. I was wrong. It rather reminded me of "2001: A Space Odessey." There were bits and pieces that were pretty good, but they were overwhelmed by the rest of it.
The big kicker is that they require an email address. This means they're going to not activate the account, until you click/paste a link that's only available by providing a real email address that you have access to. Makes it more difficult to create cypherpunk/cypherpunk accounts[1]. Not impossible, just more difficult.
[1] Some sites got wise to the cypherpunk/cypherpunk combo a few years back and started deleting them. In such cases, ciferpunk is oftentimes there.
Hmmm. Based on the characters (Chinese, though I read neither Japanese nor Chinese, there is a visible difference) and the .tw suffix on the domain name, it's more likely that the site is Tiawanese.
The U.S. site has a small gallery. Click on one of the Lubic kits, then the gallery link at the top of the resulting page.
It's not just the Mediterranean or Europe in general where free WiFi is a thing of the past (if it ever existed). Once you get outside of a few major cities here in the U.S. (Seattle, Baltimore, maybe LA and NY), you're doing good if local businesses have even vaguely considered providing WiFi.
For example, I have the misfortune to be located in the Wichita, KS area (2000 Census population: 344,284). The first Starbucks opened less than a year ago (and it charges for WiFi). The Borders on the east side of town started advertising a WiFi hotspot a few months back. I thought, "cool, I spend lots of time there, now I can sip my occasional $4-5 mocha, try not to spend a fortune on books[1] and use their WiFi." Then I opened the brochure. Turns out Borders has outsourced their WiFi service to T-Mobile. Free? Nyet, nAo, nein, non, a, aaa, no. $10/hr (seems to be a pretty common price) or $19.99/month. The first Starbucks opened less than a year ago, and they charge for WiFi also.
There's an independant bookstore in central Wichita (Watermark) that I hear has free WiFi access. Problem is, they're even further away than the 15-25 minutes to Borders and they don't have much of a selection if you're not looking for literary fiction or mystery novels (their poetry shelf's pretty good, but not very big). I make a point of ordering books through them if I have to special order, but I'm not going to drive all the way there to browse and use their WiFi.
[1] Unemployed software engineer/developer, pretty much no discretionary spending money (and not much non-discretionary money either, as the unemployment benefits ran out long ago).
The Cato Institute, if it must be catagorized, is more "libertarian" than left or right wing. This translates into, we'll do whatever we want and no one can tell us otherwise. This pushes their economic and environmental views in a direction that often is close to so called conservative/right-wing territory and their views on sex and drugs more in a liberal/left-wing direction.
The above is, of course, a gross generalization that should be taken in the spirit intended. What that spirit is is left as an exercise to the reader.