Want to make someone look like they're on the take? Deposit 20k in their bank account in cash. This particular attack is not going to work. Any cash transaction 10k and over must be reported to the IRS so there is going to be a paper trail (if they're allowed to do it at all, bank laws here really suck now - financial privacy is only for the elite).
Probably more effective would be to make a series of deposits just under 10k (to avoid the reporting requirement) and make it look like tax evasion.
Protecting against blackmail made sense when it was the Soviet government and the KGB you were dealing with. They could and did do those kinds of things. A terrorist (as opposed to a freedom fighter) is fundamentally an irrational and stupid person. I don't think there's any proof that a terrorist organization has ever used blackmail as a weapon.
That first job didn't pay well enough for a Corvette, and by now I've turned into a cheap bastard.:-) That first job didn't pay well enough for a Corvette, and by now I've turned into a mature adult.:-)
I'm sure prior art does exist, though -- when usenet was king, moderated newsgroups did something similar. No, they didn't. This patent is describing an intelligent SPAM filter.
I'm sure procmail can do that, but unless they procmail included an example of doing just that, it's not prior art. Time to read the patent much closer, they list procmail as prior art.
They have patented something like SPAM filters with a lot of extensions.
I can see why google would settle than fight it.:(
We have been kdawson'ed again. This looks to me like a valid patent with only a sensational but meaningless title.
The only patents Microsoft would be giving away are among the mythical 235 patents they say Linux plus distro cover. Microsoft's patent portfolio is not threatened, only their ability to sling FUD at the open source community over alleged patent infringements. (And if some of those mythical 235 patents only apply to the Linux kernel, whether Microsoft is bound by the GPL v3 or not, they are not affected because the Linux kernel is GPL v2).
I can't really see any third option. Open source the whole thing and let the community fix it.
The only game I care about is WoW and I've played it on Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OS X and there's no comparison. Mac OS X doesn't crash, doesn't give you the delayed untyped ALT-TAB death by scheduling (which conveniently occurs most often right after you've engaged an enemy) and it looks and sounds better. I haven't played it yet under the newest version of WINE, but early reports say it works excellently there.
Open source the whole thing and charge for enterprise users and all of you folks who rely on that code would be better off. Oh wait...
Well, "SILICON FREAKING VALLEY" has a distinctly 3rd world feel to it. It's nothing compared to metro Tokyo both in services and infrastructure and has much of the same look and feel as Manila.
Everyone seems to be missing the point. There are millions of zombied computers out there endlessly spewing SPAM and stuff, could this not be an example of that?
Singapore Airlines is one of the best airlines in the world (I'd rank only ANA ahead of them). The last time I rode them across the Pacific I was amazed at the service their stewardesses gave. I was seated second row from a bulkhead and behind infant row and was amazed at all the attention the parents got to help their crying babies. They gave them more personal attention in an hour than an entire US carrier plane gets an entire flight.
They already offered a computer equivalent entertainment system (in coach!), but this sounds even better.
I hate most carriers and I hate flying with all the security and no-smoking crap, but in a bad environment, Singapore Airlines and their sister Silk Air do quite a nice job and Changi Airport is *sweet* as International airports go.
The Singapore government may have issues with some, but all my experiences with Singapore have been positive. Reading this makes my day.
Thats exactly what you are doing when you purchase commercial software. Nope. Consider the ongoing discussion about Microsoft Vista and an apparent network slow down while playing music. The question of what's happening would be settled quickly by a code audit, except that no one outside of Microsoft is able to do that.
There is no opportunity with closed source to prove it for yourself. There is opportunity with open source whether you choose to do so or not. And by no means does this argument mean that open source is inherently better than closed source, it isn't necessarily in the short term. It's just that with closed source you must take it on faith that the vendor did a good job and with open source you're not forced to do that.
In the long term, open source is measurably better. You can always have bugs fixed even after the original vendor has stopped supporting it.
My own "conversion" to open source came after I bought an AT&T Unix PC in the fire sale after they discontinued them. It was a wonderful development environment, especially for its time. Among the software defects it had was a strip(1) that would delete an executable if it was already stripped. Probably a couple line patch to fix, but I had no opportunity to fix it other than to move the original strip out of the way and substitute a wrapper program that tested for that condition before allowing the original binary to run.
This is slashdot and car analogies seem to be popular here. The model of selling cars as closed source computers are sold now collapsed a long time ago. The manuals (detailed specification on how the car is built) and the parts are available so that anyone with a clue (usually mechanics who specialize in that sort of thing) can fix older automobiles. It is not a case of "we do not support 1986 Ford Escorts any more, please upgrade to the latest version" when there's a problem. The sooner the software world learns that Times Have Changed, the better.
First of all, it is rare that only one person reads the source for any commercial software product. But you're admitting that it is not guaranteed? "rare" != "never".
Of the bugs I found disassembling PC DOS 2.0 once upon a time, most of them were of the variety that a code review or audit should have caught. I did find plenty of code I would have fired the coder for if he had been working for me.
You have only your faith in the company who wrote the code that it was properly reviewed and audited prior to release.
Second, with open source apps, you really don't know that. It is perfectly possible for someone to submit a bad patch and no one bothers to really look at it in depth (at least not as in depth as you would need to catch a well disguised security breach). That's every bit as much of faith-based statement as your first one and "it is possible" is a bit of hedge.
I've managed both open source projects and proprietary source projects. The major difference being my hands were largely tied in a corporate environment and when I had a chance to make the rules (as in XEmacs), I restructured development to require more eyeballs on incoming code.
The difference with open source is that while you may take it on faith that the code has been reviewed, you have the opportunity to do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you. Neither of those possibilities are available with closed source.
Interesting, that's a Malaysian newspaper and Christians are a minority there. Next door in the Philippines, I've seen cigarette ads with Jesus and they're 90% Catholic. I'll try to get a picture when I'm there next week.
Actually, the most offensive thing I ever saw there was a shop with side by side posters on the wall, one of the blonde-haired blue-eyed Catholic Jesus next to Brittney Spears.
Linux development does not need "refocusing". Most of us are volunteers and work on stuff that is either useful to us or fun or both. Bad term.
When I was in a position to donate substantial personal time and resources into Linux Development, I focused on XEmacs because it was almost, but not quite, the perfect development tool, so I lead the fixing of it with help of countless other volunteers.
To answer your question though, I'd have to say it would be a web browser (ie fixing W3 in XEmacs). All web browsers suck, with the exception of Lynx, which has limited but most useful function to some and I would not expect my wife to be able to deal with it, alas.
Opera is decent, but doesn't run anywhere useful. Firefox is marginally acceptible, but only marginally. Everything else, just plain sucks and (with respect to Microsoft Windows where it is considered a user shell) is substantially a regression from proprietary code I wrote 20 years ago.
So, I'd send those Kenyan monkeys after Mrs. Perry until William agreed to head a team of programmers working on W3. XEmacs with a true world-class browser/local file manager would be heaven, in my opinion.
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The lone exception is WoW which works great now, That's wonderful news. I'm not much for graphical games besides QT Nethack, but I've got to have WoW.
I also recommend logging. Kids are going to find a way around any obstacle to get at something they really want. "Keep out of reach of children" is a serious problem in the earliest years (my youngest son has now figured out how his hands work and he'll start walking in a few weeks, joy). I think the bigger problem is that some parents never get out of that mode and at some point you must start trusting your kids' better judgment. Americans have largely forgotten this.
Never underestimate intelligence unless you're dealing with (most, but not all) people.
My first dog, who was most effective at scaring away stupid dangerous people much bigger than him, was stealthily poisoned by an individual who was not unlike the monkeys in the article (and since it was in the 3rd world, maybe for similar reasons).
Size sometimes doesn't matter. Mosquitoes kill. African hyenas can group up and take on much larger prey than themselves. I have no doubt that a group of monkeys smart enough to have learned human sexual gestures could kill a lone dog. Much as I love dogs, they're just not smart enough to run away fast enough when they're in the most danger (and running away isn't enough if the attackers are smart enough).
Same principle as raid teams to kill boss monsters in Outlands instances, scaled down somewhat.
If this article is an "urban legend" kind of thing, it's a masterful one. From what I've read about the Kenya/Congo part of Africa and all of my own experiences in somewhat less then technological societies, I believe it. It matches reality as I have experienced it.
end the women out to do whatever the men are doing now. Fighting wars with their neighbors and killing people. That part of the world is not very civilized by any standard. It's worse next door in the Congo.
Look at it positively. Being productive is women's work there. Killing people is a job for a man.
Forcibly switching gender roles is as dangerous as nation building and probably as productive. Look at the peaceful role model of democracy that the US has just created in Iraq after years of tyranny. I lost my first marriage due to cultural differences in male/female roles and it's just not something you can change lightly and expect it to work.
We put some strapon dildos... Whoever moderated this off-topic is on drugs. This isn't off-topic, this is one of those monkeys come over here to spy on us! Quick somebody, shoot him!
They can sanction the whole village and given current conditions in other places in Africa, one would suppose those monkeys have friends in high places in that country and I suppose a lot can happen in retaliation.
After all, how did they learn to make rude human sexual gestures in the first place? Somebody taught them and TFA does say they are a protected species. Put two and two together and what do you get?
My dream is that knowing this will so enrage the Slashdot community that everyone will call their senator and tell them to force the state department to make the ITAR list less inclusive, and only include things that have weaponry as a primary purpose - and get congress to force state to change. You must be new here. Most of/. is either too young to vote or not a USian who can legally vote in a US election (and many others who don't get out of the basement much), or just jaded like me. My Senators are so corrupt that I just want nothing to do with them at all.
I'm registering Republican just for a chance of voting for Ron Paul in the primary, but I doubt I'll be allowed to. The reasonable candidates are always gone by the time California gets to vote and not that my vote has ever counted. California elections are always stolen, at least in the last 30 years when I've been able to vote.
If I had a brood mare, I'd offer you a pony.
(I must be new here too. I use the term "USian" to distance myself from the Americans running the government in Washington DC and hell bent on killing everyone in the world who has something they want. Am I a meme short of a full deck?).
I've often wondered why magazines aren't formated for the different levels of expertise. Games Magazine (the pencil and paper type games) used to do exactly what you suggested.
That way you'd appeal to every range in your audience AND your magazines would be worth keeping. It was quite enjoyable. Most of the content was too easy, but there was always a couple of outstanding expert crosswords and a British-style cryptic crossword and I bought a copy every month at the local supermarket right up until I moved to Japan. Does it still exist?
Fongboy found their (likely) patent application. That paper tells they use dictionaries in predicting input text in various computer devices. Well, I found these two 1989 patents with very relevant summaries. I read their abstract and indeed, that kind of stuff has been done in Japan since the 90's. Good job.
You're correct, but predictive software has been around a long time - Omron was doing Wnn (an extremely clever predictive dictionary engine for entering Japanese) since at least the early 1990's. Still, I'd like to read the patent itself just be clear. I didn't see a link to the patent in TFA.
Maybe they're only patenting stupid T9 dictionaries. The one in my AT&T Samsung is stupid and way behind technology in Japan.
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Probably more effective would be to make a series of deposits just under 10k (to avoid the reporting requirement) and make it look like tax evasion.
Protecting against blackmail made sense when it was the Soviet government and the KGB you were dealing with. They could and did do those kinds of things. A terrorist (as opposed to a freedom fighter) is fundamentally an irrational and stupid person. I don't think there's any proof that a terrorist organization has ever used blackmail as a weapon.
There, fixed that for you.
They have patented something like SPAM filters with a lot of extensions.
I can see why google would settle than fight it.
We have been kdawson'ed again. This looks to me like a valid patent with only a sensational but meaningless title.
The only patents Microsoft would be giving away are among the mythical 235 patents they say Linux plus distro cover. Microsoft's patent portfolio is not threatened, only their ability to sling FUD at the open source community over alleged patent infringements. (And if some of those mythical 235 patents only apply to the Linux kernel, whether Microsoft is bound by the GPL v3 or not, they are not affected because the Linux kernel is GPL v2).
Clear now?
The only game I care about is WoW and I've played it on Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OS X and there's no comparison. Mac OS X doesn't crash, doesn't give you the delayed untyped ALT-TAB death by scheduling (which conveniently occurs most often right after you've engaged an enemy) and it looks and sounds better. I haven't played it yet under the newest version of WINE, but early reports say it works excellently there.
Open source the whole thing and charge for enterprise users and all of you folks who rely on that code would be better off. Oh wait
Well, "SILICON FREAKING VALLEY" has a distinctly 3rd world feel to it. It's nothing compared to metro Tokyo both in services and infrastructure and has much of the same look and feel as Manila.
Everyone seems to be missing the point. There are millions of zombied computers out there endlessly spewing SPAM and stuff, could this not be an example of that?
Singapore Airlines is one of the best airlines in the world (I'd rank only ANA ahead of them). The last time I rode them across the Pacific I was amazed at the service their stewardesses gave. I was seated second row from a bulkhead and behind infant row and was amazed at all the attention the parents got to help their crying babies. They gave them more personal attention in an hour than an entire US carrier plane gets an entire flight.
They already offered a computer equivalent entertainment system (in coach!), but this sounds even better.
I hate most carriers and I hate flying with all the security and no-smoking crap, but in a bad environment, Singapore Airlines and their sister Silk Air do quite a nice job and Changi Airport is *sweet* as International airports go.
The Singapore government may have issues with some, but all my experiences with Singapore have been positive. Reading this makes my day.
There is no opportunity with closed source to prove it for yourself. There is opportunity with open source whether you choose to do so or not. And by no means does this argument mean that open source is inherently better than closed source, it isn't necessarily in the short term. It's just that with closed source you must take it on faith that the vendor did a good job and with open source you're not forced to do that.
In the long term, open source is measurably better. You can always have bugs fixed even after the original vendor has stopped supporting it.
My own "conversion" to open source came after I bought an AT&T Unix PC in the fire sale after they discontinued them. It was a wonderful development environment, especially for its time. Among the software defects it had was a strip(1) that would delete an executable if it was already stripped. Probably a couple line patch to fix, but I had no opportunity to fix it other than to move the original strip out of the way and substitute a wrapper program that tested for that condition before allowing the original binary to run.
This is slashdot and car analogies seem to be popular here. The model of selling cars as closed source computers are sold now collapsed a long time ago. The manuals (detailed specification on how the car is built) and the parts are available so that anyone with a clue (usually mechanics who specialize in that sort of thing) can fix older automobiles. It is not a case of "we do not support 1986 Ford Escorts any more, please upgrade to the latest version" when there's a problem. The sooner the software world learns that Times Have Changed, the better.
Of the bugs I found disassembling PC DOS 2.0 once upon a time, most of them were of the variety that a code review or audit should have caught. I did find plenty of code I would have fired the coder for if he had been working for me.
You have only your faith in the company who wrote the code that it was properly reviewed and audited prior to release. Second, with open source apps, you really don't know that. It is perfectly possible for someone to submit a bad patch and no one bothers to really look at it in depth (at least not as in depth as you would need to catch a well disguised security breach). That's every bit as much of faith-based statement as your first one and "it is possible" is a bit of hedge.
I've managed both open source projects and proprietary source projects. The major difference being my hands were largely tied in a corporate environment and when I had a chance to make the rules (as in XEmacs), I restructured development to require more eyeballs on incoming code.
The difference with open source is that while you may take it on faith that the code has been reviewed, you have the opportunity to do it yourself or pay someone to do it for you. Neither of those possibilities are available with closed source.
Interesting, that's a Malaysian newspaper and Christians are a minority there. Next door in the Philippines, I've seen cigarette ads with Jesus and they're 90% Catholic. I'll try to get a picture when I'm there next week.
Actually, the most offensive thing I ever saw there was a shop with side by side posters on the wall, one of the blonde-haired blue-eyed Catholic Jesus next to Brittney Spears.
Offense is absolutely in the eye of the beholder.
Linux development does not need "refocusing". Most of us are volunteers and work on stuff that is either useful to us or fun or both. Bad term.
When I was in a position to donate substantial personal time and resources into Linux Development, I focused on XEmacs because it was almost, but not quite, the perfect development tool, so I lead the fixing of it with help of countless other volunteers.
To answer your question though, I'd have to say it would be a web browser (ie fixing W3 in XEmacs). All web browsers suck, with the exception of Lynx, which has limited but most useful function to some and I would not expect my wife to be able to deal with it, alas.
Opera is decent, but doesn't run anywhere useful. Firefox is marginally acceptible, but only marginally. Everything else, just plain sucks and (with respect to Microsoft Windows where it is considered a user shell) is substantially a regression from proprietary code I wrote 20 years ago.
So, I'd send those Kenyan monkeys after Mrs. Perry until William agreed to head a team of programmers working on W3. XEmacs with a true world-class browser/local file manager would be heaven, in my opinion.
- steve:*:500:500:Steven L. Baur:/home/steve:/bin/xemacs
They sure do. I remember the FSF boycott and etc/APPLE in Emacs (which I agreed with at the time).
GEM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_litigation_of _Apple_Inc.
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There appears to be some thing wrong with that link, which I got through google (search for apple look feel lawsuit).
Try this one: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:dE9LIfMY7VAJ:
Interesting that I'm having trouble cutting & pasting that link on a Mac.
I also recommend logging. Kids are going to find a way around any obstacle to get at something they really want. "Keep out of reach of children" is a serious problem in the earliest years (my youngest son has now figured out how his hands work and he'll start walking in a few weeks, joy). I think the bigger problem is that some parents never get out of that mode and at some point you must start trusting your kids' better judgment. Americans have largely forgotten this.
Never underestimate intelligence unless you're dealing with (most, but not all) people.
My first dog, who was most effective at scaring away stupid dangerous people much bigger than him, was stealthily poisoned by an individual who was not unlike the monkeys in the article (and since it was in the 3rd world, maybe for similar reasons).
Size sometimes doesn't matter. Mosquitoes kill. African hyenas can group up and take on much larger prey than themselves. I have no doubt that a group of monkeys smart enough to have learned human sexual gestures could kill a lone dog. Much as I love dogs, they're just not smart enough to run away fast enough when they're in the most danger (and running away isn't enough if the attackers are smart enough).
Same principle as raid teams to kill boss monsters in Outlands instances, scaled down somewhat.
If this article is an "urban legend" kind of thing, it's a masterful one. From what I've read about the Kenya/Congo part of Africa and all of my own experiences in somewhat less then technological societies, I believe it. It matches reality as I have experienced it.
Look at it positively. Being productive is women's work there. Killing people is a job for a man.
Forcibly switching gender roles is as dangerous as nation building and probably as productive. Look at the peaceful role model of democracy that the US has just created in Iraq after years of tyranny. I lost my first marriage due to cultural differences in male/female roles and it's just not something you can change lightly and expect it to work.
Eating chimps is a bad idea because they are genetically similar enough to humans that all of the problems of cannibalism arise.
They can sanction the whole village and given current conditions in other places in Africa, one would suppose those monkeys have friends in high places in that country and I suppose a lot can happen in retaliation.
After all, how did they learn to make rude human sexual gestures in the first place? Somebody taught them and TFA does say they are a protected species. Put two and two together and what do you get?
I'm registering Republican just for a chance of voting for Ron Paul in the primary, but I doubt I'll be allowed to. The reasonable candidates are always gone by the time California gets to vote and not that my vote has ever counted. California elections are always stolen, at least in the last 30 years when I've been able to vote.
If I had a brood mare, I'd offer you a pony.
(I must be new here too. I use the term "USian" to distance myself from the Americans running the government in Washington DC and hell bent on killing everyone in the world who has something they want. Am I a meme short of a full deck?).
That's not the patent you're looking for. Those are guys in Singapore, not Canada and the application date is 2004 not 2000.
You're correct, but predictive software has been around a long time - Omron was doing Wnn (an extremely clever predictive dictionary engine for entering Japanese) since at least the early 1990's. Still, I'd like to read the patent itself just be clear. I didn't see a link to the patent in TFA.
Maybe they're only patenting stupid T9 dictionaries. The one in my AT&T Samsung is stupid and way behind technology in Japan.