try to use it to send a mail to myself...
I can tell the difference between a test mail and a spam mail.
I meant, try to send one, and then wait until it arrives... since the test mail would fall into a black hole I wouldn't bother sending the subsequent 50 million....
Does this actually work? It seems to me that, were I to take up spamming, the first thing I would do on encountering a seemingly open relay would be to try to use it to send a mail to myself... if I never recieved said message, I'd give up and go on to the next one? Then again, I suppose there could be some pretty stupid spammers out there... so, does it work?
I guess this Turing Test proves that the "intelligence" of the computer can only be judged by reviewing the intelligence of the User?
From the article, page 2...
If you were conversing with an entity and you could not tell whether that entity was human or merely human-made, then whatever you were conversing with was at least as intelligent as you were.
So the person who assumes that the weird answers are from a weird person can, by that rule, be assumed to be no more intelligent than a couple hundred lines of ELIZA code...
To form an opinion based on reading... Slashdot takes a lot more work than soaking up a newspaper headline or drooling in front of the six o'clock news.... [O]ne has to read the original article, and think, or at least wade through the posts.
You have to read the article and think? Who knew?
Seriously, though, good article, though I think I can sum it up pretty quickly: To maintain a good reputation, tell the truth and offer good service (where applicable). Whodathunkit.
The other point is the question of when/if the Web will become something that can transform opinions... right now most of the vociferous opinion-raising is of the "preaching to the choir" sort, since if my visitor doesn't agree with me, they'll probably just leave...
I really don't see the problem. Or have I been trolled?
No, I don't troll (intentionally, at least). Though I'm afraid I can't remember why it was that I thought that sort of thing wouldn't be enough... only thing I can think of this morning (I really ought to wait until I'm awake before posting) is that if you've got a few dozen pieces of software from vendor X and X wants you to verify *all* of them, that ten-minute walk around the lab gets a lot longer...
I can think of a few other issues, but most of them have to do with specific implementation details, so I'll just leave this at "I can't see how to implement this properly without *some* sort of issue, privacy or otherwise"; if you want to carry this discussion on, feel free to shoot me an e-mail with a system design and I'll be happy to try to pick it apart...:-)
No, it's better if the software keeps track of its own legality, in a way that can't be faked. This would increase slightly the overhead on software companies, but THEY are the ones with the burden of proof. If it increases the cost of the software by 5 dollars, that's a lot cheaper than the thousands for a full software audit.
Congratulations, I think you've just invented Palladium! Or the Pentium serial number. Or something that's sure to be equally well-received by the privacy-conscious public...
Amen on the Gimli/comic relief bit... that was the primary complaint I raised just after seeing TTT (even over what they did to Faramir!).... though it was definitely present in FOTR as well... what was that line? something about the eyes of a hawk, and the ears of a fox, and oh dear this elf is pointing an arrow at me...
In the movies Peter Jackson seems to be using the parallels between Beren/Luthien and Aragorn/Arwen to flesh out the whole romance storyline that was barely present in the books.
The love story is there, down to the parallel to Beren & Luthien, you just have to slog through the appendices to get there... too tired to go give you chapter numbers right now, but when Aragorn first saw Arwen, he called her "Tinuviel" because he thought he was seeing Luthien... not to mention the (to me) obvious matter of the man/elf pairing... but yeah, P.J. does seem to be pulling in a lot of good material from the appendices, like Gimli's discourse on dwarf women...
p.s. - if anyone can actually find the "liberal media" please tell me! i will gladly subscribe if i can find it.
Minneapolis (MN) Star-Tribune. Well, the editorial board, at least... I'm afraid I don't have any examples handy, but the views that they express generally tend to be well left of center...
Keep using that bold text as a lazy substitution for ignoring people who make trite and obvious points, and you'll can encourage even more people to submit silly little comments by giving them so much attention. I'm serious. Every paragraph of bold text wears down the effect of the tag.
You might as well scream. ("Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.")
If you want to stop that sort of silly comment, you should note that you can specify a score penalty for short comments, so you can ignore them instead of reaming them out.
...and could you moderators please raise your standards a little? (See how much more effective it is when I only do the one word?)
Is there some way to preserve these plugins that I don't know about?
Install to a new directory each time. What I do is install to/usr/local/mozilla-$version and then symlink/usr/local/mozilla to that. Then, once you've installed, copy the plugins directory from the old version to the new one (though you'd probably better leave libnullplugin.so alone; easy way to do this is 'cp -iR mozilla-old/plugins mozilla-new/plugins' and say 'no' to the overwrite request. (And remember to change the symlink!)
And why oh why do I have to be root to install mouse-gestures under linux?
Well, were you root when you installed mozilla? If not, I don't know... but if you were, then there's the problem! I think there's some sort of script thingy you can do that might help with that though. Check with someone who knows more than I do.
The problem that I'm running into here is that the installer segfaults while it's trying to install the EN-US language pack. Anyone else have any idea what's going on here?
Ok, let's compare... with either speech-to-text or speech-to-graphics, you first start off with speech-to-phonemes. This is highly nontrivial and likely to be a large part of whatever you end up with.
To do speech-to-text well, you have to know the language being spoken, so that you can pick out the words and try to spell them right (since phoneme-to-letter mappings are not well-defined or predictable for most languages). On top of this, you have to somehow deal with slurrings (people on the phone are not necessarily the best enunciators in the world), slang, names, etc. etc. Then you have to do this for every language that you want to support.
Text-to-graphics, on the other hand, is comparitively simple. Humans the world over have a relatively small number of sounds that they use (probably on the order of 300, if you don't count tonal variations, and you're trying to count every distinction that's made in some language) and the mapping from these onto facial shapes is fairly well-understood. There is (in theory) no tweaking needed to make it understand other languages, so when your deaf Chinese friend borrows it to call home it'll work without trouble. Tonal languages could be an issue... but really, deaf people are going to have trouble with that anyway, and this could even help there, since extra cues (a raised or lowered chin, say) could be used to indicate tone.
It's not so much that there's anything wrong with speech-to-text as that this has the potential to be more right, esp. if used in combination w/ s2t. The fact that no word DB is needed makes it much more likely that s2g'll appear on a PDA that s2t, at least in the near future.
But then what would the karma whores do for points? Admit it, you love it when the highest-rated comment on the page is the one that has the entire text of the linked page...
Close, but your information is antiquated. The Disorder Formerly Known as MPD is now called Dissociative Identity Disorder (as of about five years ago now), for a number of reasons...
The root cause of many cases is that a person is undergoing such horrendous treatment that s/he (usually she, I gather, so I'll use that pronoun) takes herself away from the situation, essentially convincing herself that it's some other person going through that suffering
DID is a much less understandable name than MPD, so commoners aren't as likely to bandy the term about, thinking that they know what they're talking about.
No, IANAPshrink, but my mother is, and deals with this sort of thing regularly, so I've got a fairly decent idea of what I'm talking about here.
Range. This thing can talk to the receiver at something like 10 meters. I've tried doing a presentation with a non-Bluetooth (IR) cordless mouse; it wasn't terribly pretty. The geography was such that the receiver could only hear the mouse if I extended my arm directly toward it, and even then it sometimes took a few tries. I would've loved to have something that could work at 10 meters.
Not quite. I don't think even Outlook was ever set to just run code automatically. What went wrong was that for a long time (and, in unpatched versions, even today), Outlook would implicitly trust the "Content-type" header for an attachment or message, and, if it was a "safe" type (like text/html or image/jpeg) then the attachment would be handed off to the document-opener to be rendered & displayed inline. Problem was, the document-opener didn't go by the MIME type but by the extension. So if you had something like
then the document-opener would say "ah, this is a screensaver, I should execute it" and before the poor user knew what was going on, all hell was breaking loose...
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Google also knows how to spell his name... watch what happens when you commit a typo...
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If I'm not greatly mistaken, that's what the (Google) link is for. Try it out, see if it works.
I can tell the difference between a test mail and a spam mail.
I meant, try to send one, and then wait until it arrives... since the test mail would fall into a black hole I wouldn't bother sending the subsequent 50 million....
Does this actually work? It seems to me that, were I to take up spamming, the first thing I would do on encountering a seemingly open relay would be to try to use it to send a mail to myself... if I never recieved said message, I'd give up and go on to the next one? Then again, I suppose there could be some pretty stupid spammers out there... so, does it work?
Seriously, though, good article, though I think I can sum it up pretty quickly: To maintain a good reputation, tell the truth and offer good service (where applicable). Whodathunkit.
The other point is the question of when/if the Web will become something that can transform opinions... right now most of the vociferous opinion-raising is of the "preaching to the choir" sort, since if my visitor doesn't agree with me, they'll probably just leave...
I can think of a few other issues, but most of them have to do with specific implementation details, so I'll just leave this at "I can't see how to implement this properly without *some* sort of issue, privacy or otherwise"; if you want to carry this discussion on, feel free to shoot me an e-mail with a system design and I'll be happy to try to pick it apart... :-)
*ducks*
Amen on the Gimli/comic relief bit... that was the primary complaint I raised just after seeing TTT (even over what they did to Faramir!).... though it was definitely present in FOTR as well... what was that line? something about the eyes of a hawk, and the ears of a fox, and oh dear this elf is pointing an arrow at me...
You might as well scream. ("Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.")
If you want to stop that sort of silly comment, you should note that you can specify a score penalty for short comments, so you can ignore them instead of reaming them out.
I'm sorry I had to be satirical...
The problem that I'm running into here is that the installer segfaults while it's trying to install the EN-US language pack. Anyone else have any idea what's going on here?
To do speech-to-text well, you have to know the language being spoken, so that you can pick out the words and try to spell them right (since phoneme-to-letter mappings are not well-defined or predictable for most languages). On top of this, you have to somehow deal with slurrings (people on the phone are not necessarily the best enunciators in the world), slang, names, etc. etc. Then you have to do this for every language that you want to support.
Text-to-graphics, on the other hand, is comparitively simple. Humans the world over have a relatively small number of sounds that they use (probably on the order of 300, if you don't count tonal variations, and you're trying to count every distinction that's made in some language) and the mapping from these onto facial shapes is fairly well-understood. There is (in theory) no tweaking needed to make it understand other languages, so when your deaf Chinese friend borrows it to call home it'll work without trouble. Tonal languages could be an issue... but really, deaf people are going to have trouble with that anyway, and this could even help there, since extra cues (a raised or lowered chin, say) could be used to indicate tone.
It's not so much that there's anything wrong with speech-to-text as that this has the potential to be more right, esp. if used in combination w/ s2t. The fact that no word DB is needed makes it much more likely that s2g'll appear on a PDA that s2t, at least in the near future.
But then what would the karma whores do for points? Admit it, you love it when the highest-rated comment on the page is the one that has the entire text of the linked page...
*runs off to bathroom*
flusssssssssssshhhhhhhh
Is everything better now?
Oh. I get it now. Thank you. (Still have yet to see that movie.)
I have no idea what you're talking about. sorry.
- Sufferers don't necessarily manifest distinct personalities, because...
- The root cause of many cases is that a person is undergoing such horrendous treatment that s/he (usually she, I gather, so I'll use that pronoun) takes herself away from the situation, essentially convincing herself that it's some other person going through that suffering
- DID is a much less understandable name than MPD, so commoners aren't as likely to bandy the term about, thinking that they know what they're talking about.
No, IANAPshrink, but my mother is, and deals with this sort of thing regularly, so I've got a fairly decent idea of what I'm talking about here.I expect it went sort of like this: "Can you hear me now? Good..."