A probability can of course be mistaken, but there is little ambiguity about what it means, or how evidence should be combined to calculate it. Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a.97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates.99 probability. And Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that an email containing both words would, in the (unlikely) absence of any other evidence, have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
Tough filter for users of dating services who happen to be gynecologists...
In my home mailbox, I don't receive spam. And I only got two 419 nigerian invesment frauds on my professional address in a whole year, despite the fact that my corporate email address is widly publicized and easy to find on google. And amazingly, I never receive spam in my "special bogus registration" hotmail account (useful for programs like RealPlayer, or nytimes.com).
So existing mail filters work for me, more or less. The few unwanted mails that pass through are easily taken care of by my trusted delete button. This leads me to ask:
- Do other people really receive that much spam, or am I an isolated case ?
- Do people who receive spam purchase things online, or register software and other services with their real names and email ?
"An anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating currencies of several countries." I wonder what GimpPrint would think of being forced to print or not print certain documents based on their contents.
I don't think it'd make any difference for printing software. The only software that would be likely to sport anti-counterfeiting is the firmware in the printer itself.
Anyhow, good luck to make a piece of software that detects fake banknotes, and even if it did detect fake dollars with 100% accuracy (fat chance), I'll just print fake Irakian dinars and off I'll be to the currency exchange counter. No wait...
I had a friend in the US who underwent LASIK surgery. He told me that his wife, who was computer-savvy, and was watching him being operated on, saw a Win95 box dedicated to controlling the laser and the mount's stepper motors, and that the operator was repeatedly hitting ENTER to make that recurring message box with a red X disappear. She got worried but the surgery was already under way, so she didn't say anything.
Fortunately, his LASIK succeeded. Later on however, he went back to the hospital and asked about the operator's behaviour : the response was "well, we were worried at first, but that error message comes back every five minutes and the machine always works anyway".
How to get open-source music
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Open Source Music
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· Score: 4, Funny
- download openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz - tar -zxf openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz - cd./2b3 - make config - make single - make install_single - xmms 2b2.mp3
*** core dump ***
patch a hole in the left wing using odds and ends, including stainless steel parts, insulation, soft tiles ripped from the side of the shuttle, an ice pack and heat resistant tape.
two or three rolls of duct-tape and it would've been as good as new.
I don't know much about space engineering, but wouldn't it have been possible to send one of these russian Soyuz pods they use to supply the ISS ? if I remember correctly, there's also one of these things attached permanently to the space station as an escape pod that can be used if the crew needs to bail out. And even if hatches aren't compatible between a Soyuz and a space shuttle, maybe the crew can spacewalk to it ? surely it's less dicey than docking two shuttles together and risking the lives of two crews instead of just one. Oh and yes, launching a Soyuz is a fraction of the price of a shuttle launch, but that's hardly a consideration in this case.
yeah sure, like Taco calling the guys up saying : "hey, we're about to link to one of your page and your server may die as a result, your expensive T1 will be DoS'ed to uselessness for 2 hours, and your admin may have to work overtime. Do you mind ?"
And forget about caching the pages on/. : my news ticker already gets kicked out when it pulls headlines more than twice an hour, so forget about VA authorizing that kind of extra load.
produce great ice wine and other fine vintages...with the help of judicious watering, a knowledge of the age-old art of viniculture
We in France never mix great, fine wintage and age-old art with ice wine and watering in our phrases. (Then again, since all our phrases are in french, I suppose it explains...)
I wanted to check it out, but to be extra sure, I went to org.org.org.org (better four.orgs than one to be extra sure) : what do I find ? A DEBIAN BOX ! That computer has been taken over by Debian ! It's Stallman's evil plot to take over.org !!
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Then check out this bike:
http://www.bromptonbike.com/
I use this bike everywhere I have to be socially acceptable, and in the bus, train and airplanes. Granted it's not given, but it's a lot less than a car, or a segway for that matter.
Then again, I live in Europe;-)
$20/30mins ? $5 for a test drive ???
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In less than 2 segway hours, you can buy an okay used bicycle. For around 20 segway hours, you can get yourself a brand new bicycle with electric assistance that'll go just as well as the segway, for hundreds or thousands of miles, faster, and without letting you fall flat on your face when the batteries die.
I know it's cool technology, and the balancing act is impressive to watch, but from an economics standpoint, no segway for me, no siree...
This rat-to-robot or robot-to-rat research thing is strange. Two things spring to mind:
- Isn't this rat brain interfacing business just a clever way of saying "ahem, moving right along" after decades of general-purpose AI research failure ?
- What the hell do these people target rats that much ? don't mice do the trick too ? or cats or dogs ? Some years ago, bio-computer interfacing experiments were conducted with squids, because they have very large neurons that are easy to work with : have squids complained to the PETA ? or maybe some of these researchers have pest have family members who work in the rats control business.
The EULA also claims that you may not allow a visiting friend to use your LindowsOS computer
Bob, buzzing Roger : hey buddy, can I pop to your place to play with your new Lindows box ? Roger : Err, actually Bob, I'd love to but we're friends and you'd be visiting me, so you couldn't use my box. The EULA says it, ya know... Bob : What does that mean ? are you kidding me ? you suck ass man ! Roger : hey, don't you dare insult me !
Bob : F*ck you man, you're talking bollocks. You're not my friend anymore. There !
Roger : well then, if we're not friends anymore, I suppose you can come visit me and try out my Lindows box...
Which offers the best stability and protection from future obsolescence?
This guy must have installed too many versions of the same Microsoft products.
In the GNU/Linux world, BSD world, and to some extend in the entire Unix world, good designs do not become obsolete. Even not-so-good designs often stick around, for the sake of backward compatibility. In the newest greatest Linux kernel, you can still have a.out support, NFS, Minix, FAT16 filesystem support... You can still configure you networking using scripts for 2.0- or 2.2-based distros. You can often use 20 year old programs under Unix, albeit sometimes with some effort.
Only in the M$ world is obsolescence such a big issue, because that obsolescence is planned. In short, don't worry that much about obsolescence : if Coda is as good as it looks, it'll be there for a long time. If SomeCrappyDistributedFS FileSystem is used by enough users, it'll stay around for compatibility's sake anyway, even if it sucks.
I've seen fake M$ holograms, in the form of a roll of stickers. I don't know where they came from, but I know the used computers shop I've seen it at is closed today and its owner will be housed by the government for some time to come.
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From Paul Graham's page :
.97 probability of the containing email being a spam, whereas "sexy" indicates .99 probability. And Bayes' Rule, equally unambiguous, says that an email containing both words would, in the (unlikely) absence of any other evidence, have a 99.97% chance of being a spam.
...
A probability can of course be mistaken, but there is little ambiguity about what it means, or how evidence should be combined to calculate it. Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a
Tough filter for users of dating services who happen to be gynecologists
In my home mailbox, I don't receive spam. And I only got two 419 nigerian invesment frauds on my professional address in a whole year, despite the fact that my corporate email address is widly publicized and easy to find on google. And amazingly, I never receive spam in my "special bogus registration" hotmail account (useful for programs like RealPlayer, or nytimes.com).
:
So existing mail filters work for me, more or less. The few unwanted mails that pass through are easily taken care of by my trusted delete button. This leads me to ask
- Do other people really receive that much spam, or am I an isolated case ?
- Do people who receive spam purchase things online, or register software and other services with their real names and email ?
Viagra often spelled V-l-a-g-r-a online
I-f I t-r-o-l-l l-i-k-e t-h-i-s, w-i-l-l i-t p-a-s-s S-l-a-s-h-d-o-t.'s t-r-o-l-l f-i-l-t-e-r ?
print it on glossy photo paper, not on cheapo recycled office paper.
"An anti-digifeiting system for cheaper printers may consist of printer driver software capable of recognizing data patterns indicating currencies of several countries." I wonder what GimpPrint would think of being forced to print or not print certain documents based on their contents.
...
I don't think it'd make any difference for printing software. The only software that would be likely to sport anti-counterfeiting is the firmware in the printer itself.
Anyhow, good luck to make a piece of software that detects fake banknotes, and even if it did detect fake dollars with 100% accuracy (fat chance), I'll just print fake Irakian dinars and off I'll be to the currency exchange counter. No wait
err... that wasn't a troll, I really know that guy
I had a friend in the US who underwent LASIK surgery. He told me that his wife, who was computer-savvy, and was watching him being operated on, saw a Win95 box dedicated to controlling the laser and the mount's stepper motors, and that the operator was repeatedly hitting ENTER to make that recurring message box with a red X disappear. She got worried but the surgery was already under way, so she didn't say anything.
...
Fortunately, his LASIK succeeded. Later on however, he went back to the hospital and asked about the operator's behaviour : the response was "well, we were worried at first, but that error message comes back every five minutes and the machine always works anyway".
Scary
The official history of Unix.
- download openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz ./2b3
- tar -zxf openboyzband-0.2.3.tar.gz
- cd
- make config
- make single
- make install_single
- xmms 2b2.mp3
*** core dump ***
patch a hole in the left wing using odds and ends, including stainless steel parts, insulation, soft tiles ripped from the side of the shuttle, an ice pack and heat resistant tape.
two or three rolls of duct-tape and it would've been as good as new.
I don't know much about space engineering, but wouldn't it have been possible to send one of these russian Soyuz pods they use to supply the ISS ? if I remember correctly, there's also one of these things attached permanently to the space station as an escape pod that can be used if the crew needs to bail out. And even if hatches aren't compatible between a Soyuz and a space shuttle, maybe the crew can spacewalk to it ? surely it's less dicey than docking two shuttles together and risking the lives of two crews instead of just one. Oh and yes, launching a Soyuz is a fraction of the price of a shuttle launch, but that's hardly a consideration in this case.
yeah sure, like Taco calling the guys up saying : "hey, we're about to link to one of your page and your server may die as a result, your expensive T1 will be DoS'ed to uselessness for 2 hours, and your admin may have to work overtime. Do you mind ?"
/. : my news ticker already gets kicked out when it pulls headlines more than twice an hour, so forget about VA authorizing that kind of extra load.
And forget about caching the pages on
produce great ice wine and other fine vintages...with the help of judicious watering, a knowledge of the age-old art of viniculture
...)
We in France never mix great, fine wintage and age-old art with ice wine and watering in our phrases.
(Then again, since all our phrases are in french, I suppose it explains
This story is about russian hackers, and that's the only one where there's no "in soviet russia" post ...
Then check out this bike :
;-)
http://www.bromptonbike.com/
I use this bike everywhere I have to be socially acceptable, and in the bus, train and airplanes. Granted it's not given, but it's a lot less than a car, or a segway for that matter.
Then again, I live in Europe
In less than 2 segway hours, you can buy an okay used bicycle. For around 20 segway hours, you can get yourself a brand new bicycle with electric assistance that'll go just as well as the segway, for hundreds or thousands of miles, faster, and without letting you fall flat on your face when the batteries die.
...
I know it's cool technology, and the balancing act is impressive to watch, but from an economics standpoint, no segway for me, no siree
This rat-to-robot or robot-to-rat research thing is strange. Two things spring to mind :
- Isn't this rat brain interfacing business just a clever way of saying "ahem, moving right along" after decades of general-purpose AI research failure ?
- What the hell do these people target rats that much ? don't mice do the trick too ? or cats or dogs ? Some years ago, bio-computer interfacing experiments were conducted with squids, because they have very large neurons that are easy to work with : have squids complained to the PETA ? or maybe some of these researchers have pest have family members who work in the rats control business.
Bob, buzzing Roger : hey buddy, can I pop to your place to play with your new Lindows box ? ... ...
Roger : Err, actually Bob, I'd love to but we're friends and you'd be visiting me, so you couldn't use my box. The EULA says it, ya know
Bob : What does that mean ? are you kidding me ? you suck ass man !
Roger : hey, don't you dare insult me ! Bob : F*ck you man, you're talking bollocks. You're not my friend anymore. There ! Roger : well then, if we're not friends anymore, I suppose you can come visit me and try out my Lindows box
This guy must have installed too many versions of the same Microsoft products. ... You can still configure you networking using scripts for 2.0- or 2.2-based distros. You can often use 20 year old programs under Unix, albeit sometimes with some effort.
In the GNU/Linux world, BSD world, and to some extend in the entire Unix world, good designs do not become obsolete. Even not-so-good designs often stick around, for the sake of backward compatibility. In the newest greatest Linux kernel, you can still have a.out support, NFS, Minix, FAT16 filesystem support
Only in the M$ world is obsolescence such a big issue, because that obsolescence is planned. In short, don't worry that much about obsolescence : if Coda is as good as it looks, it'll be there for a long time. If SomeCrappyDistributedFS FileSystem is used by enough users, it'll stay around for compatibility's sake anyway, even if it sucks.
I've seen fake M$ holograms, in the form of a roll of stickers. I don't know where they came from, but I know the used computers shop I've seen it at is closed today and its owner will be housed by the government for some time to come.
That's right, Microsoft have done that for years and they've never been copied. Ever.
I'm color-blind, so to me it's still a green black.
From the main page at emarketersamerica.org :
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Everyone hates spam... and that includes e-mail marketers.
Gee, I'd say, I wouldn't want to eat my own crap