There's a difference between signing and sending an encrypted message, though. The whole point of signing is so that you can verify with someone's public key that the message really came from whom it says it came from. Unless I were to sign all my message to you with your key, all my messages to Bob with Bob's key, etc., but that would get ugly.
Or am I misunderstanding something basic here?
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You're comparing to more than just.coms, though - Transmeta isn't really a.com, just a new IPO of a hardware company. The IPO market is bad, and not just for.coms.
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We all know the aliens from another Stargate set up the pyramids!
Speaking of which, my wife and I were very disappointed after we saw the beginning of a trailer for "Atlantis" with just the stylized 'A' sticking above the waves - we both mistook it for a stargate chevron, and leaped to the conclusion that a stargate movie was in the works. Imagine our disappointment to find out it was just another Disney flick.
Another stargate movie, of course, with the TV cast. Not that the original wasn't pretty good too.
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So now it's gone from entirely unintuitive to just being a "mystery meat" interface? Waving the disk icon around to try to find out where to put it is almost as annoying as the original behavior.
Kudos to Woz for his hack and all, but this is something Apple should have done on their own at least 15 years ago. It's a tragedy that it hasn't been done by now, not a great hack.
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How willing would we be to preserve this tree if it produced a noxious gas as a waste product, instead of oxygen
as most plants do?
People felt the same way about wolves and other "varmints" in the U.S., and now some areas have way too many deer as a result. Until the tree's been studied, how do we know that the noxious gas isn't keeping down the mosquito population?
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The only problem is that this treaty would enforce the lowest common denominator of repressive laws. I have no problem with common international law as long as it's good law, but that sort of thing should be negotiated in public by the people of the world. We shouldn't just pick the laws we have today and suddenly enforce them worldwide.
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I'm amazed - for once one of the Prez' dumb utterances has turned around and I now agree with it in a certain sense. I hope that doesn't happen too often:)
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Great idea - that will piss off administrative assistants and clerks all over Capitol Hill. Senators don't care about this stuff because they never read email. Heck, even the President has quit using email (although in his case it was apparently so as to not leave a paper trail) - it will be a while before the people running things ever "get it" WRT the spam epidemic.
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I think you could argue this one in circles for hours, but here's a thought for you: can you prove that you are actually "intelligent" and not just a sufficiently-complex system of rules and syntactic manipulation? Maybe you just appear to be intelligent, but are not, like the Turing machines you describe. This isn't a slight at you; I'm probably constructed the same way.
It seems to me that the Turing test is still relevant - if you can fool a person into treating you as an intelligent being over an extended period of time, then by what right is the complete outward evidence of intelligence not intelligence? A difference which makes no difference is no difference (thank you, Mr. Spock) - if you can't prove that something is not intelligent based on its actions, even though you know how it works and that theoretically it cannot be intelligent, on what basis do you say that in practical terms it is not intelligent? I would say in that case that if the theory does not match the facts, the theory is wrong.
I don't know if it is actually possible to successfully simulate intelligence in any mechanical form. But if it was a successful simulation, and it was impossible to tell the difference between the intelligence of that machine and the intelligence of an average human, then for all intents and purposes the machine is intelligent, no matter how much you swear it ain't.
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That site was wrong in so many ways, but I wouldn't worry too much about kids coming across it. It takes several minutes of concentrated effort to be able to spell "Schwarzenegger", after all.
But wait, then how did a/. editor ever get it worked out?:)
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The RMS and FSF answer is that all proprietary rights are wrong, and offer absolutely no alternative means for
programmers, artists, etc to protect their rights to make a living off their own works. In fact that go so far as to say
any attempt to retain proprietary rights and charge for ones own work is evil.
Absolutely untrue. The FSF (who's "the RMS"?) have always said that you can charge for free software, and that free software is about freedom, not about zero cost. Heck, RMS used to charge for emacs!
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It sounds like there's a lot of stuff Mr. Kuznetsky can't bring up because that information is reserved to subscribers of their research. Maybe/. should ask a subscriber to share what they get out of the data and how they use it? I imagine they're not allowed to just release the whole report, but some info on the general conclusions that they reached from it and how those differ from the results of the public portions of the research might be interesting.
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All search engines spider ahead of time and store; to do otherwise would take forever to get you any search results ("It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.":) My impression from the article was not that they generate whole searches ahead of time, but that they categorize by the individual search words, and then when you type in a query they generate the intersection of the pages on their many word lists. Then one miracle occurs, and...
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Easy - just run Sendmail on an underpowered box so it's as slow as Exchange, and every once in a while go back into the computer room and whack the box with a big axe to simulate the Microsoft showstopper bug-o-the-moment. Then, after a week of downtime, announce that your internal IT team has received great support from Microsoft to solve your problem (note: not their problem!), and slowly crank up the sendmail box again.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Slashdot Mirror
Ah, that's better then. I hadn't noticed this on the last Mac I played around with. Glad to see some thought's gone into the problem.
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Tell them you'll quit as soon as those managerial types quit sending you email with random VB scripts attached :)
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There's a difference between signing and sending an encrypted message, though. The whole point of signing is so that you can verify with someone's public key that the message really came from whom it says it came from. Unless I were to sign all my message to you with your key, all my messages to Bob with Bob's key, etc., but that would get ugly.
Or am I misunderstanding something basic here?
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You're comparing to more than just .coms, though - Transmeta isn't really a .com, just a new IPO of a hardware company. The IPO market is bad, and not just for .coms.
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I doubt it - Google never seems to take that long to return me any results. Maybe he'd be a millionaire if he had used Google...
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Speaking of which, my wife and I were very disappointed after we saw the beginning of a trailer for "Atlantis" with just the stylized 'A' sticking above the waves - we both mistook it for a stargate chevron, and leaped to the conclusion that a stargate movie was in the works. Imagine our disappointment to find out it was just another Disney flick.
Another stargate movie, of course, with the TV cast. Not that the original wasn't pretty good too.
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So now it's gone from entirely unintuitive to just being a "mystery meat" interface? Waving the disk icon around to try to find out where to put it is almost as annoying as the original behavior.
Kudos to Woz for his hack and all, but this is something Apple should have done on their own at least 15 years ago. It's a tragedy that it hasn't been done by now, not a great hack.
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I would love to see Microsoft convince someone to "upgrade" from Office 2005 to Office 2003. Although, I suppose if anyone could they could :)
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Somehow I imagine for thylacines there's some biting and scratching involved, too :)
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People felt the same way about wolves and other "varmints" in the U.S., and now some areas have way too many deer as a result. Until the tree's been studied, how do we know that the noxious gas isn't keeping down the mosquito population?
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Pun intended, I hope!
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So it's OK to ban speech about Nazis in Europe, then, because at least you're not hypocrites? Good for you!
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The only problem is that this treaty would enforce the lowest common denominator of repressive laws. I have no problem with common international law as long as it's good law, but that sort of thing should be negotiated in public by the people of the world. We shouldn't just pick the laws we have today and suddenly enforce them worldwide.
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Implausible - his spelling was like this before Andover came knocking.
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I'm amazed - for once one of the Prez' dumb utterances has turned around and I now agree with it in a certain sense. I hope that doesn't happen too often :)
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Great idea - that will piss off administrative assistants and clerks all over Capitol Hill. Senators don't care about this stuff because they never read email. Heck, even the President has quit using email (although in his case it was apparently so as to not leave a paper trail) - it will be a while before the people running things ever "get it" WRT the spam epidemic.
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Don't do it! Judging by their logo, Javien is clearly a front for the Klingon empire! Their true motto: "A warrior answers spam with steel".
:)
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Eliza?
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I think you could argue this one in circles for hours, but here's a thought for you: can you prove that you are actually "intelligent" and not just a sufficiently-complex system of rules and syntactic manipulation? Maybe you just appear to be intelligent, but are not, like the Turing machines you describe. This isn't a slight at you; I'm probably constructed the same way.
It seems to me that the Turing test is still relevant - if you can fool a person into treating you as an intelligent being over an extended period of time, then by what right is the complete outward evidence of intelligence not intelligence? A difference which makes no difference is no difference (thank you, Mr. Spock) - if you can't prove that something is not intelligent based on its actions, even though you know how it works and that theoretically it cannot be intelligent, on what basis do you say that in practical terms it is not intelligent? I would say in that case that if the theory does not match the facts, the theory is wrong.
I don't know if it is actually possible to successfully simulate intelligence in any mechanical form. But if it was a successful simulation, and it was impossible to tell the difference between the intelligence of that machine and the intelligence of an average human, then for all intents and purposes the machine is intelligent, no matter how much you swear it ain't.
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That site was wrong in so many ways, but I wouldn't worry too much about kids coming across it. It takes several minutes of concentrated effort to be able to spell "Schwarzenegger", after all.
But wait, then how did a /. editor ever get it worked out? :)
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Absolutely untrue. The FSF (who's "the RMS"?) have always said that you can charge for free software, and that free software is about freedom, not about zero cost. Heck, RMS used to charge for emacs!
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You don't pay for junk mail or flyers on your windshield, but you pay for spam. That's the difference.
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It sounds like there's a lot of stuff Mr. Kuznetsky can't bring up because that information is reserved to subscribers of their research. Maybe /. should ask a subscriber to share what they get out of the data and how they use it? I imagine they're not allowed to just release the whole report, but some info on the general conclusions that they reached from it and how those differ from the results of the public portions of the research might be interesting.
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All search engines spider ahead of time and store; to do otherwise would take forever to get you any search results ("It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists." :) My impression from the article was not that they generate whole searches ahead of time, but that they categorize by the individual search words, and then when you type in a query they generate the intersection of the pages on their many word lists. Then one miracle occurs, and ...
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Easy - just run Sendmail on an underpowered box so it's as slow as Exchange, and every once in a while go back into the computer room and whack the box with a big axe to simulate the Microsoft showstopper bug-o-the-moment. Then, after a week of downtime, announce that your internal IT team has received great support from Microsoft to solve your problem (note: not their problem!), and slowly crank up the sendmail box again.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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