Participants will compete in filtering a live 24-hour e-mail stream Looks like greylisting is acceptable.
Simulated user-feedback will be provided to train learning-based filters. And it looks like gmail-type filters are acceptable.
Good job guys. The results will be interesting to read.
My bet would be on the gmail filter too. I've had my old xemacs.org email address (which has been harvested to death) forwarded through there for some months now. It's not perfect, but it still only lets through about as much spam as my old handcrafted.procmailrc did 8 or 9 years ago. Which is really good considering how much more spam there is today.
If I could tell it to junk everything except text in certain languages it would work even better. It seems to miss a lot of Korean and Russian spam.
Shortly after we were allowed to use the lab to do our class work we got kicked out and back to the TRS80s because someone drew and printed a MS Paint Mouse sketch of a penis. They figured only us computer programming people were only able to do that Boys will be boys. Something similar to that happened in my high school - somebody modified one of the schools two Apple ][s (this was 1979) to print a dirty joke when it was booted and a parent saw it at Open House. Oops or Mission Accomplished or something. I and the rest of the computer guys were called in to the Vice Principal's office to get interrogated. But it wasn't one of us and beyond that they had no proof against anyone so they let the matter drop.
I did get involved hacking a "dirty" DOS - all the usual error messages were replaced with profanity, but that never escaped into the wild. I also used to make to order H2S in chemistry lab for some of my more mean-spirited friends to use as "air freshener" for their least favorite teachers. I had a (well-deserved) reputation as a klutz in chemlab so noone would have believed that I made the stuff, but I don't recall anyone ever getting caught.
I'm sorry, pranking must be considered as part of the job description in High School and that Principal overreacted.
They ended this when people found a few areas where there was a single spawn that the pet could handle AND was high enough to give xp AND was slow enough respawning the pet could heal back up between spawns. Just park the pet on guard and let 'er rip. Ah, that explains why if you never touch an NPC your pet kills, you get no loot or credit for it (which makes putting your pet on Aggressive mostly pointless). Thanks for the history lesson.
there wasn't much of a dark age in computing between the invention of the microprocessor and now Actually, I think there are several candidates for "dark age of computing". Pick one:
The rise of the C/C++/Java (pick one) language instead of a more safe-by-design language as a programming standard.
"Endless September" dating from when AOL users became a significant factor in Usenet
Microsoft Windows 95 - dating from mail and network applications defaulting to behavior that had been proven unsafe a decade or more earlier.
The takeover of email by unscrupulous advertisers - dating from when the majority of people on Usenet started actively discouraging email responses, instead of encouraging it.
The advent of the software patent - stifling most innovation.
Personally, I hope the age of the software patent is short-lived and we can look back on it as a bad dream.
This won't be the first or last time I'm confused about something, so OK.
Let me lay it out in simple terms for you. If I can do it myself within the bounds of the rules, it isn't cheating. If I can do it without modifying anything about the game, it isn't hacking. And if the game was designed to allow me to do it, then it isn't exploiting. Apparently there is stuff in their network protocol that includes information that they do not want players to have. Talking to the enemy (translating Horde/Alliance language) is forbidden, but apparently allowed in the sense that the network protocol allows it. I wouldn't label that "cheating", but Blizzard doesn't like it and I can see where it could be used for creating an unfair advantage.
Based on discussions I've read about using the extension language for writing addons, it seems there is forbidden functionality that is implemented and available, but using it creates an unfair advantage, in Blizzard's official opinion.
I have seen people banned for fully utilizing their programmable keyboards like the logitech G15. Blizzard can't draw a firm line between "helpful" and "unattended playing", which is really their only concern here. Ouch. I'll keep that in mind as I start writing my own macros.
WoWglider is useless without WoW. No one is disputing that.
It has specific knowledge of what WoW.exe looks like in memory and feeds it input based on the state of the game. That is incorrect, but don't bother to read the article before making stupid comments. The WoWGlider uses only published interfaces both from Blizzard on the WoW side and Microsoft on the bootstrap loader side. At least that is what they are claiming in court. Think of WoWGlider as an Expect application for WoW.
the game already has a built-in macro system, so I don't think blizzard would take issue with this. The in-game macro system has designed built-in limitations, such as forbidding macros that require waiting for something to happen (like a spell cooldown), so you cannot chain spells together. This WoW Glider seems designed to specifically circumvent that. I'm not surprised they got sued.
Read Blizzard's response in the court docs. I largely agree with them, as much as I hate the implementation of the Warden. I hate cheaters more.
Because they were waiting for flash memory to be invented? How can you store programs on solar power without persistent memory?
Not that it is a big deal, all the HPs I've owned that ran off the button cells had excellent battery life. Yup.
(The 41CX was the world's finest handheld, perfected)
Anybody else remember the PPC ROM? Yeah and "synthetic" programming. Made me decide to go into computer programming rather than electronics.
Now there's the small Enter/= key instead of the "proud to be RPN"-sized Enter key that was on the 48 and previous RPN devices. I never thought of it that way, but you're right.
Programming-wise, they did away with enter a long time ago. It was described as a way to terminate numeric entry and recommended HP-41 programming practice was to never use it in a program as there were other, faster ways to do that.
To whomever moderated that comment -1 Offtopic. The 11 was referring to your IQ as well as the calculator model. Someone with mod points, please fix. Thanks.
If you paid a premium for your HP and the keys still don't bounce after a decade or more of use, it's hard to go out and buy a new one Yeah, a very fair assessment of HP quality (with their calculators). I lost my '41s after moves, but my original 41CV was still working great after 10+ years, as is my 48G - 12 years and counting.
the last thing I want to see is some "Innovative new calculator design" I don't agree with your other statements, but I can almost agree with this one. I did HP-34C, HP-41, HP-48. They were wonderful tools. I still program the old '48 from time to time and I wish that they would continue with their calculators so I can give new ones to my sons when they get old enough. Handhelds are a great introduction to programming.
It looks like a distro bug. Your tty should not be world writable for security reasons -- on some terminals it's possible to blast an escape sequence at it that it will use as input as if the user typed it in. (See the man pages for write and/or wall they both should filter their input to prevent this).
This isn't exactly what the article author indicates - she believes that if you are dealing in Lindens, then you're essentially engaging in barter with intangible property - but I would argue that Lindens are worthless until there is an interface with a non-virtual good, service, or money, and that's the point at which tax could be assessed. I don't know about 2nd Life, but for WoW, that's exactly what she's talking about. Transactions, drops, etc. kept in-game are not taxable. However, if you sell your stuff for US$ to those guys whisper spamming us every few minutes, that should be taxable (in her opinion). It's difficult to argue against that under present US law.
In fact for games like WoW that is the only way I can see that you would be able to tax it, since there is no generally agreed upon standard for converting WoW Gold into US dollars. Third party out of country gold farmers do not make for a nationally recognizable conversion rate. If you had read the article you would have seen that those gold farmers are the only ones she is proposing to tax.
I can't believe that there are THAT many pathological liars on/. You must be new here. It works both ways, by the way. My only experience with Microsoft Windows XP is as a bootstrap loader for WoW. Games are the main application people here require for Microsoft Windows, right? And Microsoft Windows XP is solid, right? My experience does not match that reality. XP crashes a lot and is particularly bad about crashing in the game. My point here is yes, there are people who shade the truth here and that's always been the case.
I was making the point that they guy saying that Linux is taking over the world is off his rocker. As are the folks who are making the absurd claim that Microsoft Windows XP is solid. Touche.
And no, I've never seen Linux running on ANY PC, ever. Interesting. By the same logic, I've never seen Microsoft Vista running on ANY PC, ever, so, Vista has 0 users? I've been a Unix or Linux desktop user at home since 1985, but whatever.
But what if you have candidates whose sole purpose of running is to get certain people NOT elected? They'll slander, lie and do anything to get that effect, should that be protected by free speech? Absolutely. Free speech is free speech whether you agree with it or not. Besides these attack campaigns don't always work. In my hometown congressional district, which is mostly conservative except for either Santa Barbara or Monterrey depending on how we get gerrymandered that decade, in the second Bordanaro (pro-life) -vs- Capps (pro-abortion) congressional election, a pro-life group ran non-stop excessively graphic anti-abortion issue ads. And it didn't work. Capps won, and she's still the rep from that district.
Maybe the current Mayor of Tokyo, Ishihara is afraid some of his racist rantings will be seen outside Japan. Is he the one who used the word sankokujin (insulting word for foreigner) and said that foreigners were in a conspiracy to riot and loot if there was ever an emergency? Or am I thinking of someone else?
It's too bad Tokyo is represented by idiots. I enjoyed living in Tokyo (Setagaya-ku), except for
those bloody election sound trucks. Yup. Thing is though, they're much louder in the Philippines.
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Good job guys. The results will be interesting to read.
My bet would be on the gmail filter too. I've had my old xemacs.org email address (which has been harvested to death) forwarded through there for some months now. It's not perfect, but it still only lets through about as much spam as my old handcrafted .procmailrc did 8 or 9 years ago. Which is really good considering how much more spam there is today.
If I could tell it to junk everything except text in certain languages it would work even better. It seems to miss a lot of Korean and Russian spam.
I did get involved hacking a "dirty" DOS - all the usual error messages were replaced with profanity, but that never escaped into the wild. I also used to make to order H2S in chemistry lab for some of my more mean-spirited friends to use as "air freshener" for their least favorite teachers. I had a (well-deserved) reputation as a klutz in chemlab so noone would have believed that I made the stuff, but I don't recall anyone ever getting caught.
I'm sorry, pranking must be considered as part of the job description in High School and that Principal overreacted.
Personally, I hope the age of the software patent is short-lived and we can look back on it as a bad dream.
Based on discussions I've read about using the extension language for writing addons, it seems there is forbidden functionality that is implemented and available, but using it creates an unfair advantage, in Blizzard's official opinion. I have seen people banned for fully utilizing their programmable keyboards like the logitech G15. Blizzard can't draw a firm line between "helpful" and "unattended playing", which is really their only concern here. Ouch. I'll keep that in mind as I start writing my own macros.
Read Blizzard's response in the court docs. I largely agree with them, as much as I hate the implementation of the Warden. I hate cheaters more.
Programming-wise, they did away with enter a long time ago. It was described as a way to terminate numeric entry and recommended HP-41 programming practice was to never use it in a program as there were other, faster ways to do that.
To whomever moderated that comment -1 Offtopic. The 11 was referring to your IQ as well as the calculator model.
Someone with mod points, please fix. Thanks.
Amen!
It looks like a distro bug. Your tty should not be world writable for security reasons -- on some terminals it's possible to blast an escape sequence at it that it will use as input as if the user typed it in. (See the man pages for write and/or wall they both should filter their input to prevent this).
That sounds vaguely familiar, is that near Sakura Josui station?
I lived in Kita Karasuyama, between the women's school (I forgot the name) and Chitose Karasuyama station.
That style of driving would work in Japan except for Metro Tokyo.
It's too bad Tokyo is represented by idiots. I enjoyed living in Tokyo (Setagaya-ku), except for those bloody election sound trucks. Yup. Thing is though, they're much louder in the Philippines.