I'm curious why you assume that Deep Junior always plays "at its best". [...] But one can also play poorly because one has missed noticing an important opportunity simply because one didn't notice it--not because one was distracted and would have otherwise noticed it. Just...didn't think of it. Deep Junior can do that, too.
Yes, but if DJ did do this, then in the same position, with the same time constraints etc. DJ will miss the move every time you repeat it; i.e. there is no way that DJ will play any better in the same position so, by definition, it always plays at its best.
Bruce Schneier has more discussion of this in the latest Crypto-Gram issue, both in the main section and in the letters (including a letter from Tim Mullen).
There is a good justification in Mullen's letter as to why this proposal is different from the RIAA's proposed attacks on computers that they suspect of hosting unauthorised copyrighted material.
Re:So, try and run a real meeting.
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TheConfusedOne wrote (confusedly;-) ):
Get ten to twenty "avatars" and sit them around a virtual conference room table. Now have them start "talking" and all of these baloons start popping up. First off, can you see all of them? If you're on one side of the table how do you see the balloons of the people on your side while watching for balloons of people on the other side?
Great, now who's the poor soul who has to type the transcript of this whole meeting. How are they making sure they get things in the right chronological order. (Certain comments won't make any sense unless they follow the comment they were built upon.)
This is precisely whay you would run these kinds of meeting via a computer interface (though not necessarily the one described in the article which may not have features 1 and 2 below)...
1. Everybody can be presented with a view that includes *all* the other participants on the opposite side of the table if desired
and
2. There is no need for a human to "type the transcript" because, guess what, the server already has the transcript and its in the correct chronological order!
The above s-expression "(psychoanalyze-pinhead)" is an Emacs builtin which takes the output of one "bot" (Actually nothing more than a generator of random quotes from the Zippy the Pinhead cartoon strip) and feeds it as the input to another bot, a version of the original Eliza program by Weizenbaum, which simulates a Rogerian psychoanalyst.
(This is a note of explanation, since the guy who moderated the above as "-1, Overrated" when it was still sitting at the default score of 0 (no score +1 bonus) perhaps didn't realise what it was about!)
Oh Well,
Mark
Just about all of my friends have that broadjump shit on their computer and willingly dont mind. Thats how the American public is, they dont care about privacy, all they want is thier cnn.com and marthastewart.com.
Somebody, (I'm 99% sure that this was Bruce Schneier) summed this up by saying that if McDonalds offered a free Big Mac in return for a DNA sample, then there would be queues round the block.
From the Nasa Voyager page:
Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.6 AU per year.
An Astronomical Unit (AU) is the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Maybe someone who's got some time and a calculator can give how fast its going in MPH and KPH.
Hmm... From memory, distance to the sun is around 93 million miles (probably an a.u. is an average over min and max distances over a year but I'll assume 93 million for ease.)
93000000 * 3.6 = 334800000 miles per year
dividing by ( 365 * 24 ) gives
voyager speed = 38219 miles per hour (a shade over 10 miles per second, or 0.000057c)
This wasn't the final of a competition such as the World Championship. It was a specifically arranged one-off match between a named pair of opponents (Kasparov and Deep Blue). There weren't any "qualification" stages through which Deep Blue had to make it to play this match. The match with Kasparov went ahead because a sponsor was willing to put up a $1.1 million prize fund to see these two players in a match.
Then again, the first thing I do with any win32 machine that I have to use is install GNU Emacs, plus all of the Cygwin tools, including XFree86 (Exceed? ReflectionX? Pah!).
That way I get my X sessions tunneled right to my desktop over ssh, I have Emacs for all text editing (and the rest). I only wish I could persuade Gnus to talk to our Openmail servers (which are set up for MS Lookout and ccmail clients - perversely I think I might have more joy in this once we're moved off b0rkenmail and onto M Sexchange!).
NB. Microsoft hasn't exactly been RFC compliant in their NTP server/client interactions.
If you do a Google groups search for "NTP XP Mills" you'll find a host of articles detailing exactly what David L. Mills (Author of ntpd and the RFC1305) thinks of Microsoft's (intentionally?) b0rken implementation of NTP in WinXP this is one example
Seems kinda silly if we already know what the answer is. Hmm... double checking, perhaps?
Ahh, but you're forgetting that the Earth wasn't designed to calculate the answer, (Deep Thought had, as you rightly note already told us what that is) it was designed to calculate the question.
Would've worked, too if the pesky Golgafrinchans hadn't turned up and perturbed the calculations. By the time the Vogons demolished it, the algorithms were way out of whack anyway.
5. The GSO -- Galactic Standards Organization (the future counterpart to the ISO and W3.org) -- has been so successful that not only have ALL major industrial manufacturers adopted the same data access, networking, and transfer protocols throughout the Republic, but so have secret, guerilla arms factories -- and besides, those same factories wouldn't use security software or electronic countermeasures to defend themselves against network intrusions anyway.
And they have a standardised head/neck connector for robots, so ubiquitous that everyone from mass producers of military hardware to home hobbyist slave kids on Tatooine use it.
Speaking of this scene, probably the coolest sound effect I have ever heard was when Jango Fett shot those seismic charges at Obi-Wan. Does anyone else remember the noise they made? SOOOO cool. Much better than the normal explosion sound we've all heard so much.
Hmm... It sounded a bit too much like a power chord on an electric guitar to me. I kept expecting Ozzy Osbourne to start singing at any moment;)
I did notice a friend's (yes - really!) copy of the Shakira album had warning notices both on the outside of the case and on the disk itself, stating that the CD would not play in a computer.
I don't know which of the particular copy protection schemes are in use on that disk, or whether they are amongst the CDDA standards violating ones, but it did (almost) not display any CDDA logos:-
It didn't, as far as I could see, have any Compact Disc Digital Audio logos on the outside of the case or on the disk itself.
It did however have a CD Digital Audio logo moulded into the inside of the jewel case, towards the top right of where the disk clips in.
When transfering money from a swiss bank, they type into a terminal (as I recall): "telnet money 642.567.36.37 953.347.26.36"
Using telnet to acomplish this is indeed very amusing
Incredible!
Everybody knows that you'd need to use ftp to do that. Or scp/sftp if you didn't want random people nicking your cash en route!
Except in the US, it IS a legal requirement. The EULA licenses the software for the machine, not the user.
Your comment about the EULA is correct, but the only bearing it has on the matter in hand is that if you do replace the pre-installed OS on a computer, you cannot install the original OS anywhere else. i.e. you can put it in the bin, incinerate it, blast it into orbit or whatever. The only thing you can't do is to use that copy of that OS on any computer other than the one it was licensed for (i.e the one it came pre-installed on).
Absolutely the only thing that the EULA on a piece of software can can dictate is what you can (or rather what you can't!) do with that software. It cannot affect what you can or can't do with the computer that the software was installed on, or some other legally licensed OS that you install instead.
Microsoft seem to have (deliberately? who knows?) stated the requirement the wrong way round. Maybe someone should remind them that just because all cricket bats are made of wood it doesn't mean that everything made of wood is a cricket bat.
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Yes, but if DJ did do this, then in the same position, with the same time constraints etc. DJ will miss the move every time you repeat it; i.e. there is no way that DJ will play any better in the same position so, by definition, it always plays at its best.
But that would require more than one pass over the data to process ;-)
There is a good justification in Mullen's letter as to why this proposal is different from the RIAA's proposed attacks on computers that they suspect of hosting unauthorised copyrighted material.
This is precisely whay you would run these kinds of meeting via a computer interface (though not necessarily the one described in the article which may not have features 1 and 2 below)...
1. Everybody can be presented with a view that includes *all* the other participants on the opposite side of the table if desired
and
2. There is no need for a human to "type the transcript" because, guess what, the server already has the transcript and its in the correct chronological order!
Dude, you're definitely wearing your dongle in the wrong place!
Of course! ... Wait... You do know you're meant to get consent first, right?
Unless you are writing the key to the backup media as well and just relying on the passphrase protection of the key!
The above s-expression "(psychoanalyze-pinhead)" is an Emacs builtin which takes the output of one "bot" (Actually nothing more than a generator of random quotes from the Zippy the Pinhead cartoon strip) and feeds it as the input to another bot, a version of the original Eliza program by Weizenbaum, which simulates a Rogerian psychoanalyst. (This is a note of explanation, since the guy who moderated the above as "-1, Overrated" when it was still sitting at the default score of 0 (no score +1 bonus) perhaps didn't realise what it was about!) Oh Well, Mark
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I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.
Now that I have my ``APPLE,'' I comprehend COST ACCOUNTING!!
Is it because you have your apple '' you comprehend cost accounting that you came to me?
I'll eat ANYTHING that's BRIGHT BLUE!!
Why do you say you will eat anything that's bright blue?
A GRAM?? A BRAM... A GROOM... A BROOM... Oh, Yeh!! Wash the ROOM!!
Earlier you said you have your apple '' you comprehend cost accounting?
There's a SALE on STRETCH SOCKS down at the "7-11"!!
Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
Either CONFESS now or we go to ``PEOPLE'S COURT''!!
What makes you believe that?
Did an Italian CRANE OPERATOR just experience uninhibited sensations in a MALIBU HOT TUB?
You mentioned that you have your apple '' you comprehend cost accounting?
Bagels...
Can you elaborate on that?
etc.etc.....
Somebody, (I'm 99% sure that this was Bruce Schneier) summed this up by saying that if McDonalds offered a free Big Mac in return for a DNA sample, then there would be queues round the block.
93000000 * 3.6 = 334800000 miles per year
dividing by ( 365 * 24 ) gives
voyager speed = 38219 miles per hour (a shade over 10 miles per second, or 0.000057c)
This wasn't the final of a competition such as the World Championship. It was a specifically arranged one-off match between a named pair of opponents (Kasparov and Deep Blue). There weren't any "qualification" stages through which Deep Blue had to make it to play this match. The match with Kasparov went ahead because a sponsor was willing to put up a $1.1 million prize fund to see these two players in a match.
Come on, make up your mind! What's it to be? "Flamebait" or "Troll". ;)
(I know. My response is just screaming out for -1, Offtopic) :)
It's probably your bicycle.
Then again, the first thing I do with any win32 machine that I have to use is install GNU Emacs, plus all of the Cygwin tools, including XFree86 (Exceed? ReflectionX? Pah!).
That way I get my X sessions tunneled right to my desktop over ssh, I have Emacs for all text editing (and the rest). I only wish I could persuade Gnus to talk to our Openmail servers (which are set up for MS Lookout and ccmail clients - perversely I think I might have more joy in this once we're moved off b0rkenmail and onto M Sexchange!).
Cheers, Mark
"Where did he get the plutonium?"
(yes I know it's not the same Jon Katz, at least I think I know it's not the same Jon Katz - the writing style sure looks different). ;)
ObJargonFileRef: ISO pizza? How about an ANSI Standard Pizza?
If you do a Google groups search for "NTP XP Mills" you'll find a host of articles detailing exactly what David L. Mills (Author of ntpd and the RFC1305) thinks of Microsoft's (intentionally?) b0rken implementation of NTP in WinXP this is one example
Ahh, but you're forgetting that the Earth wasn't designed to calculate the answer, (Deep Thought had, as you rightly note already told us what that is) it was designed to calculate the question.
Would've worked, too if the pesky Golgafrinchans hadn't turned up and perturbed the calculations. By the time the Vogons demolished it, the algorithms were way out of whack anyway.
(Yeah, I know: -1, Offtopic)
And they have a standardised head/neck connector for robots, so ubiquitous that everyone from mass producers of military hardware to home hobbyist slave kids on Tatooine use it.
Hmm... It sounded a bit too much like a power chord on an electric guitar to me. I kept expecting Ozzy Osbourne to start singing at any moment ;)
I don't know which of the particular copy protection schemes are in use on that disk, or whether they are amongst the CDDA standards violating ones, but it did (almost) not display any CDDA logos:-
It didn't, as far as I could see, have any Compact Disc Digital Audio logos on the outside of the case or on the disk itself.
It did however have a CD Digital Audio logo moulded into the inside of the jewel case, towards the top right of where the disk clips in.
Everybody knows that you'd need to use ftp to do that. Or scp/sftp if you didn't want random people nicking your cash en route!
Absolutely the only thing that the EULA on a piece of software can can dictate is what you can (or rather what you can't!) do with that software. It cannot affect what you can or can't do with the computer that the software was installed on, or some other legally licensed OS that you install instead.
Microsoft seem to have (deliberately? who knows?) stated the requirement the wrong way round. Maybe someone should remind them that just because all cricket bats are made of wood it doesn't mean that everything made of wood is a cricket bat.