Imagine growing up with embedded tracking devices and getting used to it.. so when it comes time to track all people (well, all people without mass quantites of money anyway) these kids/future-generation won't mind.
They admit that 20% of the email addresses is false. However this is easy to check.
I'm not sure this can 'easily' be checked -- issuing a VRFY is no longer reliable and even sending mail and not receiving a bounce is not foolproof. Just because someone puts 'sfc@foo.com' and it doesn't bounce means it's a real address..
No sane advertiser will pay for a spot based on research data where such an easily checked piece of data is already proven to be false 1 out of 5 times.
That should be true, but does the advertiser know (or care)? Perhaps they're only paying on pay-per-click and the demographics are sold, not given to advertisers..
also: I do know that newspapers have to make money and that giving their content away for free does not make too much sense.
True, but perhaps the newspapers could feature content-related ads? They wouldn't necessarily have to recreate GoogleWords, they could have humans browse the headlines and place relevant ads. Shouldn't be too difficult.
Don't forget about the Firefox BugMeNot extention. Very useful.
If only sites like these were hosted on some sort of P2P network where any browser could access it, but the 'site' could distribute load across many hosts (and have differing information -- bad that it's not global and constant, but good that it's not controlled and thus can always exist -- an acceptible trade-off).
Imagine this on your corporate or even home lan. A long freight train rolls thru town and you say "damn it, Jim is using bit torrent again". Or the calm stream starts over-flowing and you exclaim "damn Kathy, stop streaming your radio and turn a real one on!".
Or on the corporte lan where user Joe has a 'house' and all of a sudden cars and people are jamming around it (he just emailed a link to his beta web project stored on his local PC).
And the BOFH could stomp through as King Kong and wreak havoc on Jane's mail-merge (since she attached a 5MB file instead of linking to it).
If not already posted, check this summary here: visual summary
Ok, so who's going to use perl/php with Ming modules to do this? (or something better of course).
In an era where programming labour is relatively cheap and computer connectivity more frequent can artificial, marketing-driven, barriers between technology products, last?
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On another note, open-source/libre spell checkers are common; but where are the grammar checkers? OOo is a decent product, but I was half-expecting a grammar checker. There's gotta be academic research in the area.. but simple searches didn't return anything promising.
IF the mailserver IPs have to be listed in the dns record of the from domain, then perhaps some records will contain hundreds of zombie hosts. Various parties would be interested in this information...
Neuros 20GB:
- Needs software like the Karma (but open source, linux version, cool dev community)
- MP3, WAV, OGG, (FLAC beta)
- Voice, radio, line-in recording to WAV, MP3
- FM tuner and Transmitter
- other Misc features (site)
IMO, you can't really have a compressed audio "jukebox" without the ability to play your music anywhere with almost any device.
The song browsing by filesystem or media library on the iHP is nice though.
i dig galeon and mozilla, but for a simple IE wrapper, Crazy Browser rocks. It's tabbed by default and auto-blocks pop-ups. Quickly add 4 search engines to the 'address' bar and easily translate with the fish. Only a 700k download too.
well, I dig mozilla and galeon, but for a quick fix I usually install CrazyBrowser. It's just a 'wrapper' for IE that uses tabs and auto-blocks pop-ups. (If you want the pop-up you click on, it'll open in a new tab.) It's only a 700k download.
I don't see how anyone can use IE without it. You can easily send queries to your 4 favorite search engines. Also, it can easily translate with the fish (replaces the useless 'go' button).
I'm an American who visited Australia for the first time. I just returned from a 3 week holiday there less than a week ago. I must say, it is a vast and beautiful place. However, it is more similar to Canada and the UK than the US -- in terms of government intervention in telecommunications and transportation.
Last I heard, the Australian government owns approx. 49% of Telstra, a major telco. I believe the previous poster is correct in that the AU gov is looking to liquidate some of its shares.
Talking to Australians who live in Toowoomba, Dalby, and Longreach (L. is near the edge of the 'outback'), the residents feel that a fully privately owned telco would not provide adequate (or any) service to those living in the countryside. Granted that this is a small amount of the population (and problems like this also exist in the rural US), the purpose of being publically owned is in the intrest of ALL people. So that all Australians can communicate.
I don't think you'll see any console maker bundling FPSs or any 'violent' games with their consoles. They want to sell to the widest audience possible -- from little nagging kids who can barely hold the controller to adult gamers.
Personally, I think both SegaGT and JSRF are great games that you can play for a long time -- so kids that got their xbox for christmas will be able to enjoy them for awhile. (However, the music with GT is terrible.)
seems like we're in a crazy new age of intellectual property being the new gold. I wonder what other areas of research should be limited on new issued patents. Will there soon be a trend of lowering the patent issue rate for all types of patents? Or is this only local to genetics..
That's why intellectual property is property, because it's gone when someone else gets it.
How is intellectual property "gone" when someone else gets it? If I used my "replicator" technology to copy your car, then drive it around, you would still have your car.
Now if you were selling that car, and I copied it, then sold mine for less, you may have potentially lost a sale.
but if you can handle strings in C as easily as in java, please post a link the the libraries you are using. strings suck so much in C, I have to use C++. C++ sucks ass for strings too, so I'm left with java and perl.
I think it's cool that this group received part of a research grant to fund this project. An important thing to note is that software experiments like this are a science in a way -- they're looking at a problem and trying to solve it in a new way, and publishing their results.
more open source projects could easily benefit from a funding model like this. There seems to be research money floating around universities (mine included) that could easily go to open source projects; it just may not be the project you want to work on, but hey, getting paid isn't so bad.
just like this contest has been promoting for years, obfuscated code may "fool" any automated tool that would somehow parse various languages. Virus writers already display some talent -- this would just encourage them to be more creative with the source.
The slope would make a difference. However, you could run the thing like an ice/roller rink: every hour the angle of the entire disc could change. So and advanced ski-time would tilt the disc more. A beginner ski-time would tilt it less. The advanced people could always work on their form, etc. during a low angle ski-time. As the article mentioned, however, the mechanics behind this must be quite elaborate.
Assuming the whole 'run' is groomed (no moguls allowed to form) it shouldn't be a problem. In fact, with the new snow application every cycle and a grooming device, you could end up skiing fresh corduroy all day.
I might worry about some of the snow melting (if it wasn't getting too compressed, it'd have to go somewhere), but an adequate run-off system at the outer edge of the disc should suffice.
I think it's cool that Corel is still developing products for the unix world. However, they do not seem to continue selling the ones they have created! This link says that Corel no longer sells CorelDRAW 9 for linux. I've been a loyal CorelDRAW fan for years and I want to buy the linux version. What's going on here?
What's your personal opinion so far of warcraft III? Specifically, how does it compare to starcraft, RA2, and AE2? This is slightly off topic, but the article
detail doesn't have much to say..
This article reminds me of a similar system developed at my university. It has threat levels and the software can act on those threat levels. Check it out here. Unfortunately, the documentation on the web is a bit out of date, but conference papers have been written on it and it's available for download.
I agree that the "universal" IDS information format will be a long time comming. It's been worked on and thought about for years, but the security corporations seem to be doing just fine on their own. In the realm of security, implementation is usually the most difficult obstacle to any solution.
I agree with another comment in this thread.
that's what #ifndef/ifdef...#endif are for. You simply add windows and linux specific code in those locations. It will take more than a few minutes to work compatibility issues out -- you may want to think about running VMware (or something similar so you don't have to spend time rebooting; it's probably even cheaper than some of your textbooks).
In the end, you'll have written portable code and it will be a much greater accomplishment on a resume.
I agree that ISPs do not have a simple way to charge users. From threads I've seen here, it seems a compromise between exact charges and flat rates seems the best. An incremental scale of various flat-rate combinations may cause higher administration overhead, but should make everyone happy. The previously listed utilities are either one way (cable, water, power) or one at a time (phone). Internet Protocol is really a unique technology and so the service should be more complex. Perhaps clients could select their upstream and downstream caps with an incremental charge for each MB/GB used beyond those caps (so if they need to upgrade after the first month, they can).
Maybe any combination (different for down and up) of: 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 384, 512, 768, 1024, etc. could fit most people. For the average user that may not know how much bw they'll need, pre-packaged deals might work -- they'd just be charged a small rate for any additional bw they use and make it easy for them to upgrade/downgrade when they get the bill.
unfortunately, I believe smaller ISPs buy flat-rated bw from larger ones so this may be a lost cause...
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seriously, this is scary.
I'm not sure this can 'easily' be checked -- issuing a VRFY is no longer reliable and even sending mail and not receiving a bounce is not foolproof. Just because someone puts 'sfc@foo.com' and it doesn't bounce means it's a real address..
No sane advertiser will pay for a spot based on research data where such an easily checked piece of data is already proven to be false 1 out of 5 times.
That should be true, but does the advertiser know (or care)? Perhaps they're only paying on pay-per-click and the demographics are sold, not given to advertisers..
also:
I do know that newspapers have to make money and that giving their content away for free does not make too much sense.
True, but perhaps the newspapers could feature content-related ads? They wouldn't necessarily have to recreate GoogleWords, they could have humans browse the headlines and place relevant ads. Shouldn't be too difficult.
If only sites like these were hosted on some sort of P2P network where any browser could access it, but the 'site' could distribute load across many hosts (and have differing information -- bad that it's not global and constant, but good that it's not controlled and thus can always exist -- an acceptible trade-off).
Or on the corporte lan where user Joe has a 'house' and all of a sudden cars and people are jamming around it (he just emailed a link to his beta web project stored on his local PC).
And the BOFH could stomp through as King Kong and wreak havoc on Jane's mail-merge (since she attached a 5MB file instead of linking to it).
If not already posted, check this summary here: visual summary
Ok, so who's going to use perl/php with Ming modules to do this? (or something better of course).
On another note, open-source/libre spell checkers are common; but where are the grammar checkers? OOo is a decent product, but I was half-expecting a grammar checker. There's gotta be academic research in the area.. but simple searches didn't return anything promising.
IF the mailserver IPs have to be listed in the dns record of the from domain, then perhaps some records will contain hundreds of zombie hosts. Various parties would be interested in this information...
link
Neuros 20GB:
- Needs software like the Karma (but open source, linux version, cool dev community)
- MP3, WAV, OGG, (FLAC beta)
- Voice, radio, line-in recording to WAV, MP3
- FM tuner and Transmitter
- other Misc features (site)
IMO, you can't really have a compressed audio "jukebox" without the ability to play your music anywhere with almost any device.
The song browsing by filesystem or media library on the iHP is nice though.
I don't know how anyone can use IE without it.
I don't see how anyone can use IE without it. You can easily send queries to your 4 favorite search engines. Also, it can easily translate with the fish (replaces the useless 'go' button).
Last I heard, the Australian government owns approx. 49% of Telstra, a major telco. I believe the previous poster is correct in that the AU gov is looking to liquidate some of its shares.
Talking to Australians who live in Toowoomba, Dalby, and Longreach (L. is near the edge of the 'outback'), the residents feel that a fully privately owned telco would not provide adequate (or any) service to those living in the countryside. Granted that this is a small amount of the population (and problems like this also exist in the rural US), the purpose of being publically owned is in the intrest of ALL people. So that all Australians can communicate.
Yes, [A]DSL sucks there now, but consider that the entire population of the contry/continent of Australia is about the same as the population of New York State.
From other posts in this topic, sounds like alternatives are slowly becomming available.
Personally, I think both SegaGT and JSRF are great games that you can play for a long time -- so kids that got their xbox for christmas will be able to enjoy them for awhile.
(However, the music with GT is terrible.)
seems like we're in a crazy new age of intellectual property being the new gold. I wonder what other areas of research should be limited on new issued patents. Will there soon be a trend of lowering the patent issue rate for all types of patents? Or is this only local to genetics..
How is intellectual property "gone" when someone else gets it? If I used my "replicator" technology to copy your car, then drive it around, you would still have your car.
Now if you were selling that car, and I copied it, then sold mine for less, you may have potentially lost a sale.
but if you can handle strings in C as easily as in java, please post a link the the libraries you are using. strings suck so much in C, I have to use C++. C++ sucks ass for strings too, so I'm left with java and perl.
more open source projects could easily benefit from a funding model like this. There seems to be research money floating around universities (mine included) that could easily go to open source projects; it just may not be the project you want to work on, but hey, getting paid isn't so bad.
just like this contest has been promoting for years, obfuscated code may "fool" any automated tool that would somehow parse various languages. Virus writers already display some talent -- this would just encourage them to be more creative with the source.
The slope would make a difference. However, you could run the thing like an ice/roller rink: every hour the angle of the entire disc could change. So and advanced ski-time would tilt the disc more. A beginner ski-time would tilt it less. The advanced people could always work on their form, etc. during a low angle ski-time. As the article mentioned, however, the mechanics behind this must be quite elaborate.
I might worry about some of the snow melting (if it wasn't getting too compressed, it'd have to go somewhere), but an adequate run-off system at the outer edge of the disc should suffice.
I think it's cool that Corel is still developing products for the unix world. However, they do not seem to continue selling the ones they have created! This link says that Corel no longer sells CorelDRAW 9 for linux. I've been a loyal CorelDRAW fan for years and I want to buy the linux version. What's going on here?
What's your personal opinion so far of warcraft III? Specifically, how does it compare to starcraft, RA2, and AE2? This is slightly off topic, but the article detail doesn't have much to say..
I agree that the "universal" IDS information format will be a long time comming. It's been worked on and thought about for years, but the security corporations seem to be doing just fine on their own. In the realm of security, implementation is usually the most difficult obstacle to any solution.
that's what #ifndef/ifdef...#endif are for. You simply add windows and linux specific code in those locations. It will take more than a few minutes to work compatibility issues out -- you may want to think about running VMware (or something similar so you don't have to spend time rebooting; it's probably even cheaper than some of your textbooks).
In the end, you'll have written portable code and it will be a much greater accomplishment on a resume.
Maybe any combination (different for down and up) of: 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 384, 512, 768, 1024, etc. could fit most people. For the average user that may not know how much bw they'll need, pre-packaged deals might work -- they'd just be charged a small rate for any additional bw they use and make it easy for them to upgrade/downgrade when they get the bill.
unfortunately, I believe smaller ISPs buy flat-rated bw from larger ones so this may be a lost cause...
or, as in the case of Total Recall, wrapping wet towels around our heads may get pretty popular.