You can always assign new passwords to the users and hash them for storage.Then send the new pass to the users through mail.
There have been several occasions when I received an email saying Slashdot has received a request for my password. I have no idea why anyone would want my password, but there you go.
If your idea was implemented, then people could just continually ask for requests and cause a denial-of-account.
Since accounts are anonymous and trivial to make, I don't really see it making much difference anyway. It would only matter for people like Bruce Perens who has some kind of authority and several would-be imitators.
Ars Magica was created by Johnathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, Mark went on to create the Storyteller system. Johnathan went on to do Over the Edge (the greatest RPG you never heard of) and is editing the new 3rd edition D&D.
Ars Magica was amazing, back in the day, it threw out all the assumptions made since Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson came up with them. I feel that it brought on the rebirth of RPGs, as seen by games like Fading Suns.
Of course, these days I only have time to read the Knight's of the Dinner Table (highly, highly recommended to any (ex?)gamer).
The entire 7.5 to 7.6 debacle almost convinced me to switch to PCs. 7.5 was Apple adding all the 3rd party add-ons to the base OS. And, at the same time, trying to get the PCI systems (x500) working, switching the networking to Open Transport and trying to slam OpenDoc, and other now dead systems into the machine. A friend of mine had a stock 7500 and Internet connections were nearly impossible with that crappy OT 1.0.3.
I think the existence of Update 7.5.3 Revision 2.1 (this time for sure!) speaks for itself. This was roughly the same time period as the "exploding powerbook" and the 6300, the worst Mac ever.
Apple didn't get their act together until 7.6, and nearly killed the company in the meantime.
I stuck with them even so, and have really liked 8.0+, but 7.5.1, yeccch.
But doesn't this make a quantum DOS ridiculously easy? In order to keep the quantum entanglements, the exact same photons need to be sent to the receiver. IP obviously won't work here. There will probably be only a few channels in which to send the message. An attacker simply needs to put a tap into those channels. Yes, the receiver knows that eavedropping has occurred, but what can they do about it?
Also, the other nifty uses for public-key, such as digital cash, zero-knowledge proofs, and digital signatures will be lost. I don't know if elliptic curve has the same vulnerability as factoring primes, so we might be able to keep some of this.
Also, don't forget that creating a machine to crack today's crypto will be faster that rolling out an entirely new network for the new quantum crypto. For a while, everything will be transparent, and what do we do during that time?
Perhaps by "follow up", he means to check out the original song? I listen to a lot of Industrial and would often like to know where the samples came from.
I think it was the tendency to label things like "Gadget" (or "Alice", by the same person) as games that led to their downfall. Gadget is pretty, interesting, but not a game. Your only choice was to click the screen or shut it off. The same goes for stuff like the Resident's "Freak Show". A cool CD-ROM in its day, but not a game. IIRC, the original Myst wasn't sold as a game, either.
The problem is how to sell these things. They needed a category to explain what they were, and the marketing people chose games. They are not games, they have no strategy, tactics, puzzle or reflex requirements at all, just pure exploration. They were reviewed as games, and failed miserably. Too bad, I thought they were interesting works of art. Perhaps they'll get another chance someday.
My favorite is the one from eNom featuring the following:
7. Don't roll out another.com first: If people could only buy food from just one guy, and that guy is required to sell beef (lets say he has a government concession on selling beef, so that he is the only one ably supply food, and it must be beef) then he would have a monopoly, which would be a bad thing, because people would starve if they did not buy beef from him. But then, if you want to introduce competition and other foods slowly, would it be wise to next introduce another competitor who can only sell ever-so-slightly different beef, or, one who could only sell potatoes? By letting the potato guy into the food market next, you not only provide competition to beef (people will not starve if they do not buy beef), but also introduce other benefits as well (a more nutritious and balanced diet for example). Only later, after say introducing apples, chicken, cheese, ice cream, grits, salad, sushi, lobster, gummy-bears, and beer, would it be wise to introduce more beef producers, to provide competition in the beef part of the food market. It would never be wise to introduce spinach, by the way.
If John Carmack doesn't want to work for MS (and I don't think he does), then there is no point in MS buying id. Yes, they'll get Adrian and Kevin, but without JC there is no id. Every other "hot-shot" is gone.
Close Combat I and II (distributed by MS) were cross platform, Close Combat III dropped the Mac. I believe the company was assimilated after already starting the original's Mac version.
Bungie could be the next to follow this route. I remember the developers saying the Mac market was too small, they really wanted to, but, sniff, it just wasn't possible.
"I, of course, had my suspicions", Peter Bazooka by the Dead Milkmen
There is a way to abuse blending and texture mapping to fake out per-pixel in OpenGL. Check this out. Basically, you calculate the impact of each axis as a seperate bit map.
I recall long-ago, Brian Hook saying that Quake3 does 6 bump-map passes, so I wonder if they use this technique. There's a followup article on the OpenGL site using a 12(!) pass lighting method.
COuld you give a link or some explanation of what the Kolman Predictor is? It sounds quite interesting and I didn't find anything on a basic web search.
It's basically a giant room where people say "I have such & such a song" and other people are asking for "such & such's song." Clearly you can't say that the room is illegal.. it's just there. Everyone I've talked to always agrees on that point. They may not be thinking, like me, about online distribution models, about convenience, etc. But they do agree, it's pretty stupid to outlaw a room.
If a room is created for illegal acts, then the room can too be illegal. For example, selling sex for money is illegal. If you create a bordello, you are simply creating a room. Yet, even if you don't sell sex personally as the owner, you can get jailed.
Of course, you can argue that copying isn't illegal, but given that as a premise, what is different between Napster and a bordello?
Many good points, however I don't think most jobs can easily be automated. Such "simple" tasks as receptionist, cook, and janitor are far more complicated than any machine I know of can handle.
As as example of trying to automate everything, look at McDonald's. This is what you get when you make everything as automatic as possible. See The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer. He makes a case that this is the natural result of "rationalization".
I, for one, would love to live in the world you envision, but I'm not sure if we can get there from here.
Schneier's (sp?) Applied Cryptography has an explanation of what went on here. In order to use as a cryto-system there needs to be a solvable version of the knapsack, which is converted to the complete version. It is the weaker knapsack which was broken, the general problem remains NP-complete.
Now, what if an inifinite number of people showed up and wanted a room?
Move everyone to a room twice their current room, and interleave the new guests with the old. This works for "omega" guests where omega is "countable", there are larger cardinals which cannot fit into the hotel, but omega is easy. For much more, check out Rudy Rucker's Infinity and the Mind or Raymond Smullyan's Satan, Cantor and Infinity.
Apparently, these people don't get the Internet either. They list all kinds of uses which all involve getting information. There is no mention of the fact that the Internet allows anyone (well, almost anyone) to publish worldwide, and I think the importance of this is far greater.
This is a question I definitely want to know about, I thought Mostly Harmless was bleak and awful. Yes, all of the HHGTTG books are bleak and cynical, but this one was overly so and not very funny to boot.
It reminded me mostly of when Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle killed of Holmes because he was sick of people asking for more. It didn't work for him, no one wanted anything else so he brought Sherlock back later. I wonder if Adam's decided to kill everyone off in such a heavy-handed manner to discourage anyone from asking for more.
Hmm, put into the form of a question: Why was the tone of Mostly Harmless so much darker than the rest of the series?
He also write one other, which name I cannot recall. It involved a spaceship blowing up on Earth a billion years ago and starting life on Earth. The pilot was split in pieces scattered through time. There was a sub-plot involving multiple Mona Lisas and IIRC a cameo by John Cleese. The basic idea was lifted whole for Dirk Gently, and it remains a favorite Dr. Who episode of mine.
The question "what do you get when you multiply six times nine" is noise. Since the Golgafrincham (sp?) B ark came to Earth and wiped out the Neanderthals the experiment was ruined. At one point, in at least one version, Marvin says he can see the answer in Arthur's brain. Funny that the mice didn't complain at the time, though. And I'm sure Deep Blue was at least inspired by Deep Thought.
Did the site have advertising banners? IIRC, the Lyrics Archive (www.lyrics.ch) was shut down because the banners meant they were using the lyrics to earn money. The fact that the banner sites were just to offset the cost doesn't matter.
The once mighty fair-use could apply to fan sites, could it not? Or have we lost it entirely? There exist many fan sites with annotated and commented lyrics, I won't list any here (the RIAA can do it's own damn searches). Are these legal? Seveeral sites also seem to have endorsement of the musicians, who check in every once in a while. Who holds the copyright: the writer, singer, band, ASCAP/BMI company (e.g. "Creeping Death Music"), recording company or Harry Fox?
I don't think the legality of lyric sites is quite so black-and-white.
Wrong, what you have shown is that for any center, there must be primes equidistant from it. This is not the same as saying that by knowing one point and centre, we can deduce another point. That "one point" has to be one with a specific property. If we know the center and the proper point to use, well then were really back at the beginning, except using:
Are you saying that Landau essentially said that this is one conjecture that cannot be proved? If so is it possible to prove that it cannot be proved? Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis states that the "cardinality" (roughly count) of the real numbers is 2^(cardinality of integers). This is usually written using the Hebrew alpha, but I can't find this on my keyboard. See any of the references I gave in an earlier comment for more details.
Anyway, it has been proven that this hypothesis cannot be proven or disproven with current set theory. I won't pretend to understand either proof at all, but they are generally well accepted.
The book Satan, Cantor and Infinity by Raymond Smullyan has a good description of this problem and a proposed solution. (as well as lots of nifty truth-telling puzzles). Basically, the problem stems from the "Unlimited Abstraction Principle", which is that for any property description you can make a set of all things having that property. This is usually (Zermelo-Frankel set theory) replaced with the "Limited Abstraction Principle), which is that for a given set, a property divides that set into elements with that property and without. This allows all of Cantor's niftiness without the messy paradox.
Other sources of good, understandable infinity:
Mind Tools and Inifinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker
The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway and Guy (don't know his first name, offhand.
This link is to Mike Keith's home page. Among other things, it has Poe's The Raven rewritten so the word lengths match the digits of pi, while keeping the style, rhythm and meaning of the original. It is later expanded into the Cadaeic Cadenza which is a masterpiece.
Slashdot Mirror
There have been several occasions when I received an email saying Slashdot has received a request for my password. I have no idea why anyone would want my password, but there you go.
If your idea was implemented, then people could just continually ask for requests and cause a denial-of-account.
Since accounts are anonymous and trivial to make, I don't really see it making much difference anyway. It would only matter for people like Bruce Perens who has some kind of authority and several would-be imitators.
Look at yahoo
Which doesn't send passwords, AFAIK.
Ars Magica was amazing, back in the day, it threw out all the assumptions made since Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson came up with them. I feel that it brought on the rebirth of RPGs, as seen by games like Fading Suns.
Of course, these days I only have time to read the Knight's of the Dinner Table (highly, highly recommended to any (ex?)gamer).
I think the existence of Update 7.5.3 Revision 2.1 (this time for sure!) speaks for itself. This was roughly the same time period as the "exploding powerbook" and the 6300, the worst Mac ever.
Apple didn't get their act together until 7.6, and nearly killed the company in the meantime. I stuck with them even so, and have really liked 8.0+, but 7.5.1, yeccch.
Also, the other nifty uses for public-key, such as digital cash, zero-knowledge proofs, and digital signatures will be lost. I don't know if elliptic curve has the same vulnerability as factoring primes, so we might be able to keep some of this.
Also, don't forget that creating a machine to crack today's crypto will be faster that rolling out an entirely new network for the new quantum crypto. For a while, everything will be transparent, and what do we do during that time?
Perhaps by "follow up", he means to check out the original song? I listen to a lot of Industrial and would often like to know where the samples came from.
Enlgish Link here
German site
I recommend Verehrt und Angespien to anyone who appeciates the musical site of metal.
The problem is how to sell these things. They needed a category to explain what they were, and the marketing people chose games. They are not games, they have no strategy, tactics, puzzle or reflex requirements at all, just pure exploration. They were reviewed as games, and failed miserably. Too bad, I thought they were interesting works of art. Perhaps they'll get another chance someday.
My favorite is the one from eNom featuring the following:
This is obviously the guy I want handling my TLD.
If John Carmack doesn't want to work for MS (and I don't think he does), then there is no point in MS buying id. Yes, they'll get Adrian and Kevin, but without JC there is no id. Every other "hot-shot" is gone.
Bungie could be the next to follow this route. I remember the developers saying the Mac market was too small, they really wanted to, but, sniff, it just wasn't possible.
"I, of course, had my suspicions", Peter Bazooka by the Dead Milkmen
I recall long-ago, Brian Hook saying that Quake3 does 6 bump-map passes, so I wonder if they use this technique. There's a followup article on the OpenGL site using a 12(!) pass lighting method.
COuld you give a link or some explanation of what the Kolman Predictor is? It sounds quite interesting and I didn't find anything on a basic web search.
If a room is created for illegal acts, then the room can too be illegal. For example, selling sex for money is illegal. If you create a bordello, you are simply creating a room. Yet, even if you don't sell sex personally as the owner, you can get jailed.
Of course, you can argue that copying isn't illegal, but given that as a premise, what is different between Napster and a bordello?
As as example of trying to automate everything, look at McDonald's. This is what you get when you make everything as automatic as possible. See The McDonaldization of Society by George Ritzer. He makes a case that this is the natural result of "rationalization".
I, for one, would love to live in the world you envision, but I'm not sure if we can get there from here.
Schneier's (sp?) Applied Cryptography has an explanation of what went on here. In order to use as a cryto-system there needs to be a solvable version of the knapsack, which is converted to the complete version. It is the weaker knapsack which was broken, the general problem remains NP-complete.
Move everyone to a room twice their current room, and interleave the new guests with the old. This works for "omega" guests where omega is "countable", there are larger cardinals which cannot fit into the hotel, but omega is easy. For much more, check out Rudy Rucker's Infinity and the Mind or Raymond Smullyan's Satan, Cantor and Infinity.
Apparently, these people don't get the Internet either. They list all kinds of uses which all involve getting information. There is no mention of the fact that the Internet allows anyone (well, almost anyone) to publish worldwide, and I think the importance of this is far greater.
It reminded me mostly of when Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle killed of Holmes because he was sick of people asking for more. It didn't work for him, no one wanted anything else so he brought Sherlock back later. I wonder if Adam's decided to kill everyone off in such a heavy-handed manner to discourage anyone from asking for more.
Hmm, put into the form of a question:
Why was the tone of Mostly Harmless so much darker than the rest of the series?
He also write one other, which name I cannot recall. It involved a spaceship blowing up on Earth a billion years ago and starting life on Earth. The pilot was split in pieces scattered through time. There was a sub-plot involving multiple Mona Lisas and IIRC a cameo by John Cleese. The basic idea was lifted whole for Dirk Gently, and it remains a favorite Dr. Who episode of mine.
The question "what do you get when you multiply six times nine" is noise. Since the Golgafrincham (sp?) B ark came to Earth and wiped out the Neanderthals the experiment was ruined. At one point, in at least one version, Marvin says he can see the answer in Arthur's brain. Funny that the mice didn't complain at the time, though. And I'm sure Deep Blue was at least inspired by Deep Thought.
The once mighty fair-use could apply to fan sites, could it not? Or have we lost it entirely? There exist many fan sites with annotated and commented lyrics, I won't list any here (the RIAA can do it's own damn searches). Are these legal? Seveeral sites also seem to have endorsement of the musicians, who check in every once in a while. Who holds the copyright: the writer, singer, band, ASCAP/BMI company (e.g. "Creeping Death Music"), recording company or Harry Fox?
I don't think the legality of lyric sites is quite so black-and-white.
- 2*N-prime = prime
for your equation.Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis states that the "cardinality" (roughly count) of the real numbers is 2^(cardinality of integers). This is usually written using the Hebrew alpha, but I can't find this on my keyboard. See any of the references I gave in an earlier comment for more details.
Anyway, it has been proven that this hypothesis cannot be proven or disproven with current set theory. I won't pretend to understand either proof at all, but they are generally well accepted.
Other sources of good, understandable infinity:
Mind Tools and Inifinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker
The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway and Guy (don't know his first name, offhand.
This link is to Mike Keith's home page. Among other things, it has Poe's The Raven rewritten so the word lengths match the digits of pi, while keeping the style, rhythm and meaning of the original. It is later expanded into the Cadaeic Cadenza which is a masterpiece.