The only way for two files to have the same MD5 hash is for them to both be encoded with the same encoder, from the same WAV file, with the same bitrate and all advanced options, and to have exactly the same ID3 information, the same filesize, and to be identical to the last bit.
There are only a handful of popular encoders used. Many people will produce a file by ripping straight from a CD, which , given the same CD, will result in an identical source file. Almost everyone encodes at 128kbps. Most people set the advanced options to the defaults. The ID3 information is often generated automatically by software, with information downloaded automatically from a public CD database.
If two people use the same software to rip the same CD, the MD5 has will be the same.
The only things SPEWS and services like it do, are suggest that you might be someone I want to ignore. I then ignore you. You are not directly affected by SPEWS, it's only an automated way of sysadmins saying "Don't accept mail from foo.com, they harbour spammers."
I am affected if SPEWS adds me though, whether directly or indirectly. The intention of adding my IP address to the SPEWS list is to cause that email address to be blocked. I'd say it does more than suggest that a site should be ignored. Their suggestions are taken as good advice (no idea why).
There's no product involved, so it can hardly be a crappy product. Perhaps SPEWS advice is crappy, but then considering what you pay for it, it's a pretty good deal.
Okay. It's a crappy service. The fact that its free does not excuse it from being crappy. My crappy operating system and crappy web browser seem to work perfectly well thank you.
It's apparently true that peanuts are legumes, making them more pea than nut.
I have no idea whether it's true that the reason for the warning is that nuts and peanuts are not the same thing.
I've always assumed it was just because some guy was given the job of labelling any item that may contain nuts, and felt that he simply wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't label the nuts as containing nuts
That is complete and utter tripe. Admins do not have to use Spews, and the don't have to use only Spews.
I never said they did. However, if they do, they will typically be rejecting email as SPEWS sees fit.
They can use as many and varied collection of blacklists as they wish.
Indeed they can. I would suggest that SPEWs should not be in this list
An administrator does not have to reject all email that querys as spam positive - it is his choice on how he deals with Spews query results on the incoming mail.
Why else would he be using SPEWs?
If an admin requires the knowledge of which sites are blocked, then he can get that information when he needs it by configuring his mail servers accordingly.
He doesn't require this knowledge. He simply requires an assurance that measures are taken to ensure that the number of false positives is kept to a minimum. If the admin is obliged to check this for himself, then the list is worthless since it will be as much effort to create his own list.
Good point, because we know that all ethics are clearly spelled out in the TOS agreement, and it isn't simply a legal mechanism to prevent people from suing an ISP for negligence.
The point is that SPEWS is a crappy product that affects people who don't use it. We therefore have a responsibility to tell admins thatit is a crappy product, and urge them not to use it.
Secondly, it doesn't allow admins to refuse email as they see fit. It allows them to reject email as SPEWS sees fit. While you could argue that the admin has the right to unblock any site he wants, this ability is worthless without the knowledge of which sites are wrongfully blocked.
Why not abolish a different area - synchronous computing.
Rather than considering them to be 3 valid values, we simply have invalid, 0 and 1, and if any of the inputs are invalid, the output is invalid. The value isn't propogated until all the inputs are valid.
No offence intended. It's just that women have a completely different form of logic than men. While female reasoning seems to come up with the correct answer at least as often as male reasoning, the logic behind it is usually incomprehensible to guys.
They're great, but they do require that almost everyone knows how to use them. In England, we have them all over the place, and succesfully negotiating one is part of the driving test, so they work perfectly well. Visitors may find them slightly intimidating, but they can follow the lead of all the other drivers.
Presumably, in New Jersey, most drivers had never seen one before, and weren't quite sure how to use one. I guess they just can't be retrofitted to an existing road network.
Surprisingly, there a number of European countries that do not flouridate their water.
Flouruide is not all good. It does increase mottling, and excessive amounts do a lot of damage to teeth. And some people dislike impurities in their tap water, even if they're "good" impurities. Whether to add flouride or not is essentially a judgement call.
IMHO, them Brits need to be more embracing of the "right to bear arms". You'd be amazed how much things can change when the government is made to realise who is supposed to have controll and who isn't.
Yes indeed. I make a point of ensuring I have a decent supply of anti-tank weapons, radar jammers, and anti-aircraft guns just in casethe government tries to oppress me.
Ministry Of Transport Roadworthiness test. Basically a legal requirements that all cars have to have to have good enough tread on their tyres, working headlights, emmisions and so on.
What happens when you sell a vehicle? What incentive would the lot or private citizen have to ensure that the registration information on the chip is changed?
This is already dealt with. All registered cars have a certificate (generally known as the log book), which you fill in, send the detachable slip of to the apppropriate government agency, and they send a certificate back to you.
You are permitted to use BSD code in closed source applications. Actually, strictly speaking, it's GPLed apps that can't be used with it (As far as I understand it, BSD insists on a few things that the GPL doesn't, and the GPL doesn't allow you to insist on any conditions not already in the GPL). This doesn't make a lot of difference though since BSD copyright is none of SCO's concern.
Well, I used to be summed up quite nicely by the equally meaningless "Semi-pro". (Meaningless because [a] you're either professional or not - semi-pro is like having half a hole, and [b] Most of the people in that market would be more accurately described as "keen and very wealthy ameteur"). That sounds a lot nicer, and summed up pretty much the same people. "Prosumer" makes me sound like a target market segment, because it is one. I don't want to be a target market segment though. I want to be a valued discerning customer with my own special needs.
That's what I mean. It wasn't defending MS, but criticising it.
Crashing when an app crashes means an OS is faulty. My point is that an OS staying up when it's running a single application which doesn't crash is not evidence that the OS is stable. The post I responded to suggested it was.
It's hardly impressive. No modern operating system randomly crashes for no reason at all (Windows 95 and the others that did crash after the counter wrapped were not modern operating systems). Windows isn't doing anything here, apart from memory allocation and a few highly predictable tasks.
It's bad handling of errors in third party apps and drivers that usually kills Windows.
Well, why not try a different interface for a car? If you can come up with a better way to do something it's worth trying! And why not try a different keymap from QWERTY? DVORAK was an attempt to innovate! Innovation, you see. The fact that is wasn't hugely succesful doesn't mean it wasn't worth trying?
Why did we bother to use a GUI? We had a perfectly adequate command line interface. Because a GUI is a better interface! If someone comes up with a better intefrface than WIMP, they should try it and see if it works!
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Yes.
Just like if I decide to borrow your car to drive home because I'm too lazy to walk to the other side of the carpark.
The only way for two files to have the same MD5 hash is for them to both be encoded with the same encoder, from the same WAV file, with the same bitrate and all advanced options, and to have exactly the same ID3 information, the same filesize, and to be identical to the last bit.
There are only a handful of popular encoders used. Many people will produce a file by ripping straight from a CD, which , given the same CD, will result in an identical source file. Almost everyone encodes at 128kbps. Most people set the advanced options to the defaults. The ID3 information is often generated automatically by software, with information downloaded automatically from a public CD database.
If two people use the same software to rip the same CD, the MD5 has will be the same.
The only things SPEWS and services like it do, are suggest that you might be someone I want to ignore. I then ignore you. You are not directly affected by SPEWS, it's only an automated way of sysadmins saying "Don't accept mail from foo.com, they harbour spammers."
I am affected if SPEWS adds me though, whether directly or indirectly. The intention of adding my IP address to the SPEWS list is to cause that email address to be blocked. I'd say it does more than suggest that a site should be ignored. Their suggestions are taken as good advice (no idea why).
There's no product involved, so it can hardly be a crappy product. Perhaps SPEWS advice is crappy, but then considering what you pay for it, it's a pretty good deal.
Okay. It's a crappy service. The fact that its free does not excuse it from being crappy. My crappy operating system and crappy web browser seem to work perfectly well thank you.
It's apparently true that peanuts are legumes, making them more pea than nut.
I have no idea whether it's true that the reason for the warning is that nuts and peanuts are not the same thing.
I've always assumed it was just because some guy was given the job of labelling any item that may contain nuts, and felt that he simply wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't label the nuts as containing nuts
That is complete and utter tripe. Admins do not have to use Spews, and the don't have to use only Spews.
I never said they did. However, if they do, they will typically be rejecting email as SPEWS sees fit.
They can use as many and varied collection of blacklists as they wish.
Indeed they can. I would suggest that SPEWs should not be in this list
An administrator does not have to reject all email that querys as spam positive - it is his choice on how he deals with Spews query results on the incoming mail.
Why else would he be using SPEWs?
If an admin requires the knowledge of which sites are blocked, then he can get that information when he needs it by configuring his mail servers accordingly.
He doesn't require this knowledge. He simply requires an assurance that measures are taken to ensure that the number of false positives is kept to a minimum. If the admin is obliged to check this for himself, then the list is worthless since it will be as much effort to create his own list.
Peanuts - "May contain peanuts". I really like the lack of certainty with this one.
Good point, because we know that all ethics are clearly spelled out in the TOS agreement, and it isn't simply a legal mechanism to prevent people from suing an ISP for negligence.
Firstly, that's not the point.
The point is that SPEWS is a crappy product that affects people who don't use it. We therefore have a responsibility to tell admins thatit is a crappy product, and urge them not to use it.
Secondly, it doesn't allow admins to refuse email as they see fit. It allows them to reject email as SPEWS sees fit. While you could argue that the admin has the right to unblock any site he wants, this ability is worthless without the knowledge of which sites are wrongfully blocked.
Why not abolish a different area - synchronous computing.
Rather than considering them to be 3 valid values, we simply have invalid, 0 and 1, and if any of the inputs are invalid, the output is invalid. The value isn't propogated until all the inputs are valid.
No offence intended. It's just that women have a completely different form of logic than men. While female reasoning seems to come up with the correct answer at least as often as male reasoning, the logic behind it is usually incomprehensible to guys.
That's totally logical, you idiot.
Women and logic don't mix. Don't even try.
They're great, but they do require that almost everyone knows how to use them. In England, we have them all over the place, and succesfully negotiating one is part of the driving test, so they work perfectly well. Visitors may find them slightly intimidating, but they can follow the lead of all the other drivers.
Presumably, in New Jersey, most drivers had never seen one before, and weren't quite sure how to use one. I guess they just can't be retrofitted to an existing road network.
Surprisingly, there a number of European countries that do not flouridate their water.
Flouruide is not all good. It does increase mottling, and excessive amounts do a lot of damage to teeth. And some people dislike impurities in their tap water, even if they're "good" impurities. Whether to add flouride or not is essentially a judgement call.
IMHO, them Brits need to be more embracing of the "right to bear arms". You'd be amazed how much things can change when the government is made to realise who is supposed to have controll and who isn't.
Yes indeed. I make a point of ensuring I have a decent supply of anti-tank weapons, radar jammers, and anti-aircraft guns just in casethe government tries to oppress me.
WTF is an 'MOT'?
Ministry Of Transport Roadworthiness test. Basically a legal requirements that all cars have to have to have good enough tread on their tyres, working headlights, emmisions and so on.
What happens when you sell a vehicle? What incentive would the lot or private citizen have to ensure that the registration information on the chip is changed?
This is already dealt with. All registered cars have a certificate (generally known as the log book), which you fill in, send the detachable slip of to the apppropriate government agency, and they send a certificate back to you.
it's not a criminal trial, but a civil case.
You are permitted to use BSD code in closed source applications. Actually, strictly speaking, it's GPLed apps that can't be used with it (As far as I understand it, BSD insists on a few things that the GPL doesn't, and the GPL doesn't allow you to insist on any conditions not already in the GPL). This doesn't make a lot of difference though since BSD copyright is none of SCO's concern.
I think you were joking
Not quite a joke. I genuinely do have this low a regard for the honesty of a casino.
Why not track the cards? Simply shuffle when the odds favour the player too much.
Well, I used to be summed up quite nicely by the equally meaningless "Semi-pro". (Meaningless because [a] you're either professional or not - semi-pro is like having half a hole, and [b] Most of the people in that market would be more accurately described as "keen and very wealthy ameteur"). That sounds a lot nicer, and summed up pretty much the same people. "Prosumer" makes me sound like a target market segment, because it is one. I don't want to be a target market segment though. I want to be a valued discerning customer with my own special needs.
Untioll they ditch that stupid "Prosumer" word.
Marketting people should be kept away from the English language. Hasn't it been through enough!?
That's what I mean. It wasn't defending MS, but criticising it.
Crashing when an app crashes means an OS is faulty. My point is that an OS staying up when it's running a single application which doesn't crash is not evidence that the OS is stable. The post I responded to suggested it was.
It's hardly impressive. No modern operating system randomly crashes for no reason at all (Windows 95 and the others that did crash after the counter wrapped were not modern operating systems). Windows isn't doing anything here, apart from memory allocation and a few highly predictable tasks.
It's bad handling of errors in third party apps and drivers that usually kills Windows.
I agree. They're highly unsatisfying. A proof would have told us how many routes there are for an arbitrary sized chessboard as well.
Well, why not try a different interface for a car? If you can come up with a better way to do something it's worth trying! And why not try a different keymap from QWERTY? DVORAK was an attempt to innovate! Innovation, you see. The fact that is wasn't hugely succesful doesn't mean it wasn't worth trying?
Why did we bother to use a GUI? We had a perfectly adequate command line interface. Because a GUI is a better interface! If someone comes up with a better intefrface than WIMP, they should try it and see if it works!