I don't mind what kind of genes they are screening, Alzheimer's, cancer mutation gene, or whatever. As long as they don't try to make babies with IQ of 200+ by genetic engineering.
Look, I don't want to be the last generation of dumb humans, ok?
Well, of course, if the picture is unique, this is the one-time-pad encryption. In order to decrypt, you have to use the same picture (i.e. the same key).
One-time-pad is so-far the most secure, but it is not very practical in daily use. And make sure you don't use the same key more than once, otherwise, it falls into the same weakness as other encryption.
I mean, what do you think they are collecting people's surfing habits information for, if not for spamming/selling later?
It's not like DoubleClick is monitoring how many times per day people go to Monster or HotJobs job board, and how many resumes they have sent, to determine how desparate they are to find a job, and then alert the President to send them a bigger check in the mean time so that they can survive^H^H^H spend and contribute to the growth of the economy?
The cell phone that my company provided us has the service from AT&T (that would not be my first choice if I could choose). And I received all kinds of spam pages on the phone every week (it's not as crazy as email spam, but still...)
Some of them are from AT&T itself (I really can't understand why they spam their own already-service-subscribing customers!). Otheres are from who-knows-whom. Some with messages like "Call this number to make more money", or "Call this number for a free home loan consulting", or some idiotic messages like that.
if we can set up a trap and let the email-harvesting bots come in, and the trap sends back a virus to blow the machine up, or something less dramatic like deleting the contents of the hard drive.
Is this legal? Is this feasible? I'm no expert is email system and scripting.
Yeah, this is for people whom you don't know what to do with. You give them a nice title with no responsibility, until they figure out that they are useless and they leave. But some of them will never do.
In our company, we have some many "chiefs", and not enough Indians. I'm working on a project, and I'm the only architect, system designer, programmer, QA, integration engineer. In another word, a one-man show. But I have to report weekly status to 5 chiefs, each one wants it in a different format.
The 5 are:
- Chief Technology Officer (boy, this is a high visibility project, even the CTO has to know the weekly status. This guy wants the status in MS Project format).
- Chief Product Strategist (What the heck, the guy is responsible of another product, but I don't know why he wants the weekly status of my project. But he makes sure that the CEO knows that he MUST get the status every week, so I can't get the CEO (of the division, that is) off my back. This guy wants it in Excel format, as he has a lot of product matrices in Excel).
- Chief Competitive Office (well, I never figured out his role, and will never figure out why he wants the status either. Ah, but he wants it in PowerPoint. He doesn't want to waste his time to recreate the information when he has to do presentation, does he?).
- Chief Project Management Officer (he can't even keep up with other real projects, but he still run after me every week for this stupid pilot project/prototype. Another MS Project format guy.).
- Chief Customer Service Officer (what the fuck, the project I'm working on is just a prototype, for god sake... This guy wants the status in his searchable database, so I just give him all files that I gave to the other 4 chiefs.)
Hmm, joke aside, this sentence sends a thrill down my spine, thinking of the day when human kind has screwed the planet up so badly that we have to move on.
I don't know about you, but last time I checked, Earth is still the best place to live. So let's take care of our home, while we still can.
Am I the only one who get tired of the MS case already? Is there a way to fast track this, get settled (whatever the outcome) and get over this as soon as possible?
Sure, there are parties who would like to drag on, like lawyers, MS, politicians in the MS camp, MS lobbyists.
But as the case drags on, the big loosers are: American citizens whose tax money is used to prosecute the case, Europeans (for the same reasons, as they are also in the same situation), citizens of the whole world who end up paying more for PC softwares as MS continues its bullying tactics with its monopoly, other software companies that get crushed by MS bullying tactics, employees of those crashed companies, potential companies/project that are afraid to get in MS's way... and the list goes on.
There's not even an injunction that itemizes what MS _can't_ do while the case is in prosecution. So, MS keeps doing the same thing.
By the time the case is over (in 10 years? 20? 30?), the economic (and probably competitive, hopefully) landscape will be very different, and the whole argument of the case probably won't make sense anymore. People would probably have forgotten the purpose of the prosecution already.
And during all these times, almost everyone is loosing big, except those who benefit from the drag.
"Advanced technology only happens when people take a basic idea and add to it," Bemer said. "All this new patent stuff is crazy and counterproductive."
The whole four paragraphs in parent are simply horse shit. I can't believe people have been conditioned to the point of accepting whatever politicians which are bought by special interest groups have slapped to them.
Yes, research is allowed. You are free to research any of your own creations. Feel free to investigate the laws of nature. Feel free to experiment to come up with different ways to travel. Feel free to write software, create art in original ways. None of that is illegal.
Wake up, man. All researches are based upon previous knowledge and discovery. Imagine if all data structures and algorithms have been patented/copyrighted. Feel free to write software without violating someone's patent. How are you gonna do that? My wife is a Ph.D and working on early cancer detection research, based on some hereditary genes. And guess what, genes and the process of splicing/cutting/purifying/etc are all patented. The whole process of the research violates someone's patents on more than half of the steps required. Even the result analysis process is patented. Go figure.
Come on man, your ID shows that you are an early/.er, and you should know better./. is not really about news. It's about anything considered geeky, cool, neat. It's about a religion called Linux^H^H^HGNU/Linux, and it's about bashing MS. It's also about testing web server load and capability.
if the Harry Potter eBook contained video, sound, games, etc.
Gee, if you want these on your book, I'd say you should watch a movie and play the video game. At our home, if I'm reading a book, no one is allow to talk, make noise, or make any movement. Even the bug in the backyard is not allow to hum.
Seriously, a good book should let your imagination run. It shouldn't need that kind of esthetic add-ons. Except for text books, which you might want to have some kind of interactive exercises, etc.
I agree totally that electronic version (without crappy lockup, that is) is sorely needed.
Those who claim that they prefer paper-based, obviously have not tried to carry more than one paperback novel. I picked up my wife's accouting book for her MBA class last night, and put it to weigh, it's a darn 12-pound brick! Those poor college/high schhool students would really welcome electronic version of their text books. Remember your school day, and those books you had to carry around?
And I will welcome to have my whole library on a stamp-size microdrive. I don't know how many good books I had to give away when we moved. It's a shame.
Comcast is just an ISP, and I don't understand why ISPs want to record that kind of information. For god sake, if you are an ISP, concentrate on providing good bandwidth and good customer services. Why stretching thin (like collecting user's surfing behavior) and pissing off your customers on all fronts? ISP can be a profitable business if you do it right, just like any other businesses anyways.
These two environments tend to come with huge packages (e.g. gnome-applets, kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, koffice,...).
Sometimes, you just need one or two in the packages, and you are forced to install the whole jumbo packages. Why? Why can't we pick and choose?
E.g. I use Kword sometimes for simple word processing, but I never use the spreadsheet and the presentation app. Same for kdenetwork. I use KMail and KNode, but I don't need korn,ktalkd,ksirc,.... And kdemultimedia, I don't do MIDI stuff, and I don't want to waste 10MB for timidity++ and other junks.
Oh yeah, same for Gnome. Why do I need to install the whole gnome-applet package if I only need one applet? Same for other jumbo packages.
I'm on RPM-based distro. How about apt-get-based?
I don't know the internal details of the code, but isn't there a way to separate them out?
Hey dude, upgrading for the sake of upgrading is how you make the economy move. Beside, the US president is asking people to go out and spend money, it's an act of patriotism.
I used to help keeping the cost of stamp down. I received tons of junk mails everyday, with the reply envelop that says "no stamp needed if mailed in the US". So, I inserted a couple of junk papers (yeah, from other junk mailers, of course, and with my name/code/bar code, etc removed). On top of that, I added in some hummingbird poo from my backyard, or some crashed snails/slug, or just some glueish thing (But don't put those from when you blow your nose, just in case they do DNA matching:).
I'm having a hard time imagining how those people react tothat, when they open the envelop to process it, especially when it's printed on the envelop to process it immediately and it is urgent.
But I stop doing this after all this 911 anthrax scare. It was fun though.
Well, I think this guy does not have the Sumerian clay that has the code to crack its mind-control implant. So it's a water testing to try to get some clue on who might have it. It's stupid to go ahead with a project, knowing that someone has a tool to completely destroy it.
Oh wait, didn't RIAA do this with SMDI? Never mind...
I stuck to Gnome initially, coz KDE was based on closed source QT. Then QT opens itself, and Gnome moved to Bono and eventually to.Net. And I switched to KDE, so that I won't get myself stuck in some proprietory architecture.
Some/. posted here that MS might be on something really good (if.Net is that good). If that's the case, good for them. But it's a proprietory architecture. And I think it's a lost cause to base a whole entire open source platform on some proprietory architecture which you have to play catch-up all the time, and which you have to reverse engineer to know how it works (correct me if I'm wrong here). How many companies have been trying to make their apps work with the proprietory format of MS Word and get burned?
You may not like RMS, but as far as I know, he is one of the few who stick to his lines over the years.
MS must be laughing really hard now for causing a little political turmoil among OSSers. At the end of the day, MS is still the winner.
What is your budget? A shoe string or a budget that would allow you to build an Exodus-like data center?
I'm actually thinking of wiring my house for security too. This is what I'm looking at:
- A bunch of motion sensors, installed at all entry points (actually, pointing to the entry point), including windows and fireplace.
- A few micro camera, pointing to those entry points (I can save a few cameras, if I figure out how to control the head of the camera from the computer)
- An old computer (P166) with a large HD.
- A few cron tasks to activate the system, when we are not at home, or activate only certain areas while we are sleeping.
- Motion sensor signals are sent to the computer for processing.
- Cameras are controlled by computer remotely.
- In order to save disk space, the cameras are activated and start taking video, only when a motion signal is received by the computer. Cameras are turned off 3 hours after last motion signal.
I'm also considering to have 802.11b on my palm, so I can remotely de/activate the system.
I haven't done the total cost estimate yet. But a motion sensor cost around $29, an 80GB HD around $250. Camera's price varies, depends on whether you want b/w or color. I think the wiring part is going to be the most expensive, as I'm no electician.
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No thanks, I think I'll leave that piece of technology for others. I'd really be embarrased, sitting there, extreme programming with my sexy colleague. It's already hard enough to keep my eyes on the screen. So, no thanks.
By ignoring the political route and espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, you have now entered the realm of "terrorist" or "freedom fighter."
Yeah, tell that to George Washington and companies, and those who participated in the Boston Tea Party.
I'm not suggesting violence here, and somehow, people happily forget how this country was created. Maybe GW (the founder, not the current GW!) should have taken the political route, eh? And going to London to argue his point, maybe?
The line between "freedom fighter" and "terrorist" is very fine, dude. History is written by the winner.
Spam is spam, period. There's no such thing as trusted spam, or untrusted spam. This is a PR stunt from a bunch of companies that profit from spamming, consulting, hosting, collecting users data, selling softwares and/or selling users data. Is this supposed to make everyone feel good now, just because you put a word "trusted" in front of it?
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I don't mind what kind of genes they are screening, Alzheimer's, cancer mutation gene, or whatever. As long as they don't try to make babies with IQ of 200+ by genetic engineering.
Look, I don't want to be the last generation of dumb humans, ok?
He is the one who invented the internet in the first place.
Well, of course, if the picture is unique, this is the one-time-pad encryption. In order to decrypt, you have to use the same picture (i.e. the same key).
One-time-pad is so-far the most secure, but it is not very practical in daily use. And make sure you don't use the same key more than once, otherwise, it falls into the same weakness as other encryption.
I mean, what do you think they are collecting people's surfing habits information for, if not for spamming/selling later?
It's not like DoubleClick is monitoring how many times per day people go to Monster or HotJobs job board, and how many resumes they have sent, to determine how desparate they are to find a job, and then alert the President to send them a bigger check in the mean time so that they can survive^H^H^H spend and contribute to the growth of the economy?
The cell phone that my company provided us has the service from AT&T (that would not be my first choice if I could choose). And I received all kinds of spam pages on the phone every week (it's not as crazy as email spam, but still...)
Some of them are from AT&T itself (I really can't understand why they spam their own already-service-subscribing customers!). Otheres are from who-knows-whom. Some with messages like "Call this number to make more money", or "Call this number for a free home loan consulting", or some idiotic messages like that.
if we can set up a trap and let the email-harvesting bots come in, and the trap sends back a virus to blow the machine up, or something less dramatic like deleting the contents of the hard drive.
Is this legal? Is this feasible? I'm no expert is email system and scripting.
Yeah, this is for people whom you don't know what to do with. You give them a nice title with no responsibility, until they figure out that they are useless and they leave. But some of them will never do.
In our company, we have some many "chiefs", and not enough Indians. I'm working on a project, and I'm the only architect, system designer, programmer, QA, integration engineer. In another word, a one-man show. But I have to report weekly status to 5 chiefs, each one wants it in a different format.
The 5 are:
- Chief Technology Officer (boy, this is a high visibility project, even the CTO has to know the weekly status. This guy wants the status in MS Project format).
- Chief Product Strategist (What the heck, the guy is responsible of another product, but I don't know why he wants the weekly status of my project. But he makes sure that the CEO knows that he MUST get the status every week, so I can't get the CEO (of the division, that is) off my back. This guy wants it in Excel format, as he has a lot of product matrices in Excel).
- Chief Competitive Office (well, I never figured out his role, and will never figure out why he wants the status either. Ah, but he wants it in PowerPoint. He doesn't want to waste his time to recreate the information when he has to do presentation, does he?).
- Chief Project Management Officer (he can't even keep up with other real projects, but he still run after me every week for this stupid pilot project/prototype. Another MS Project format guy.).
- Chief Customer Service Officer (what the fuck, the project I'm working on is just a prototype, for god sake... This guy wants the status in his searchable database, so I just give him all files that I gave to the other 4 chiefs.)
Life sucks sometimes.
Last one out, turn off the light
Hmm, joke aside, this sentence sends a thrill down my spine, thinking of the day when human kind has screwed the planet up so badly that we have to move on.
I don't know about you, but last time I checked, Earth is still the best place to live. So let's take care of our home, while we still can.
Am I the only one who get tired of the MS case already? Is there a way to fast track this, get settled (whatever the outcome) and get over this as soon as possible?
Sure, there are parties who would like to drag on, like lawyers, MS, politicians in the MS camp, MS lobbyists.
But as the case drags on, the big loosers are: American citizens whose tax money is used to prosecute the case, Europeans (for the same reasons, as they are also in the same situation), citizens of the whole world who end up paying more for PC softwares as MS continues its bullying tactics with its monopoly, other software companies that get crushed by MS bullying tactics, employees of those crashed companies, potential companies/project that are afraid to get in MS's way... and the list goes on.
There's not even an injunction that itemizes what MS _can't_ do while the case is in prosecution. So, MS keeps doing the same thing.
By the time the case is over (in 10 years? 20? 30?), the economic (and probably competitive, hopefully) landscape will be very different, and the whole argument of the case probably won't make sense anymore. People would probably have forgotten the purpose of the prosecution already.
And during all these times, almost everyone is loosing big, except those who benefit from the drag.
This can't be said enough. Read my other post here
Ok, I'll bite too.
The whole four paragraphs in parent are simply horse shit. I can't believe people have been conditioned to the point of accepting whatever politicians which are bought by special interest groups have slapped to them.
Yes, research is allowed. You are free to research any of your own creations. Feel free to investigate the laws of nature. Feel free to experiment to come up with different ways to travel. Feel free to write software, create art in original ways. None of that is illegal.
Wake up, man. All researches are based upon previous knowledge and discovery. Imagine if all data structures and algorithms have been patented/copyrighted. Feel free to write software without violating someone's patent. How are you gonna do that? My wife is a Ph.D and working on early cancer detection research, based on some hereditary genes. And guess what, genes and the process of splicing/cutting/purifying/etc are all patented. The whole process of the research violates someone's patents on more than half of the steps required. Even the result analysis process is patented. Go figure.
Come on man, your ID shows that you are an early /.er, and you should know better. /. is not really about news. It's about anything considered geeky, cool, neat. It's about a religion called Linux^H^H^HGNU/Linux, and it's about bashing MS. It's also about testing web server load and capability.
if the Harry Potter eBook contained video, sound, games, etc.
Gee, if you want these on your book, I'd say you should watch a movie and play the video game. At our home, if I'm reading a book, no one is allow to talk, make noise, or make any movement. Even the bug in the backyard is not allow to hum.
Seriously, a good book should let your imagination run. It shouldn't need that kind of esthetic add-ons. Except for text books, which you might want to have some kind of interactive exercises, etc.
I'll take plain-text ebook anytime.
I agree totally that electronic version (without crappy lockup, that is) is sorely needed.
Those who claim that they prefer paper-based, obviously have not tried to carry more than one paperback novel. I picked up my wife's accouting book for her MBA class last night, and put it to weigh, it's a darn 12-pound brick! Those poor college/high schhool students would really welcome electronic version of their text books. Remember your school day, and those books you had to carry around?
And I will welcome to have my whole library on a stamp-size microdrive. I don't know how many good books I had to give away when we moved. It's a shame.
Comcast is just an ISP, and I don't understand why ISPs want to record that kind of information. For god sake, if you are an ISP, concentrate on providing good bandwidth and good customer services. Why stretching thin (like collecting user's surfing behavior) and pissing off your customers on all fronts? ISP can be a profitable business if you do it right, just like any other businesses anyways.
This applies to KDE as well as Gnome.
...).
These two environments tend to come with huge packages (e.g. gnome-applets, kdenetwork, kdemultimedia, kdegraphics, koffice,
Sometimes, you just need one or two in the packages, and you are forced to install the whole jumbo packages. Why? Why can't we pick and choose?
E.g. I use Kword sometimes for simple word processing, but I never use the spreadsheet and the presentation app. Same for kdenetwork. I use KMail and KNode, but I don't need korn,ktalkd,ksirc,.... And kdemultimedia, I don't do MIDI stuff, and I don't want to waste 10MB for timidity++ and other junks.
Oh yeah, same for Gnome. Why do I need to install the whole gnome-applet package if I only need one applet? Same for other jumbo packages.
I'm on RPM-based distro. How about apt-get-based?
I don't know the internal details of the code, but isn't there a way to separate them out?
Hey dude, upgrading for the sake of upgrading is how you make the economy move. Beside, the US president is asking people to go out and spend money, it's an act of patriotism.
I used to help keeping the cost of stamp down. I received tons of junk mails everyday, with the reply envelop that says "no stamp needed if mailed in the US". So, I inserted a couple of junk papers (yeah, from other junk mailers, of course, and with my name/code/bar code, etc removed). On top of that, I added in some hummingbird poo from my backyard, or some crashed snails/slug, or just some glueish thing (But don't put those from when you blow your nose, just in case they do DNA matching :).
I'm having a hard time imagining how those people react tothat, when they open the envelop to process it, especially when it's printed on the envelop to process it immediately and it is urgent.
But I stop doing this after all this 911 anthrax scare. It was fun though.
Oh wait, didn't RIAA do this with SMDI? Never mind...
I stuck to Gnome initially, coz KDE was based on closed source QT. Then QT opens itself, and Gnome moved to Bono and eventually to .Net. And I switched to KDE, so that I won't get myself stuck in some proprietory architecture.
/. posted here that MS might be on something really good (if .Net is that good). If that's the case, good for them. But it's a proprietory architecture. And I think it's a lost cause to base a whole entire open source platform on some proprietory architecture which you have to play catch-up all the time, and which you have to reverse engineer to know how it works (correct me if I'm wrong here). How many companies have been trying to make their apps work with the proprietory format of MS Word and get burned?
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You may not like RMS, but as far as I know, he is one of the few who stick to his lines over the years.
MS must be laughing really hard now for causing a little political turmoil among OSSers. At the end of the day, MS is still the winner.
I'm actually thinking of wiring my house for security too. This is what I'm looking at:
- A bunch of motion sensors, installed at all entry points (actually, pointing to the entry point), including windows and fireplace.
- A few micro camera, pointing to those entry points (I can save a few cameras, if I figure out how to control the head of the camera from the computer)
- An old computer (P166) with a large HD.
- A few cron tasks to activate the system, when we are not at home, or activate only certain areas while we are sleeping.
- Motion sensor signals are sent to the computer for processing.
- Cameras are controlled by computer remotely.
- In order to save disk space, the cameras are activated and start taking video, only when a motion signal is received by the computer. Cameras are turned off 3 hours after last motion signal.
I'm also considering to have 802.11b on my palm, so I can remotely de/activate the system.
I haven't done the total cost estimate yet. But a motion sensor cost around $29, an 80GB HD around $250. Camera's price varies, depends on whether you want b/w or color. I think the wiring part is going to be the most expensive, as I'm no electician.
By ignoring the political route and espousing the virtues of a violent overthrow, you have now entered the realm of "terrorist" or "freedom fighter."
Yeah, tell that to George Washington and companies, and those who participated in the Boston Tea Party.
I'm not suggesting violence here, and somehow, people happily forget how this country was created. Maybe GW (the founder, not the current GW!) should have taken the political route, eh? And going to London to argue his point, maybe?
The line between "freedom fighter" and "terrorist" is very fine, dude. History is written by the winner.
Spam is spam, period. There's no such thing as trusted spam, or untrusted spam. This is a PR stunt from a bunch of companies that profit from spamming, consulting, hosting, collecting users data, selling softwares and/or selling users data. Is this supposed to make everyone feel good now, just because you put a word "trusted" in front of it?
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