I work in London and have lived in the UK all my life. I haven't actually been to the US ever - although I'd like to live out there for a couple of months one day and see what it's all about.
If the movie studios had to make tapes for all the cinemas in the world, it would cost them a load of money; so instead, they make tapes for the cinemas in the US, run the film until its run ends, get the tapes back, clean them up, and send them to other countries
Wouldn't a simpler solution be to release a film on the same day in every region? I'm sure at the beginning it might be a bit of a logistical nightmare (what with a year of stuff to catch up on plus the whole global release thing) but over time (say 6 months) it wouldn't be much of a problem.
It would also go some ways to curb the film downloading from the net. For example us Brits can actually go and see a film that's being shown in the US rather than having to wait just under a year for it to come out and (for some) be tempted to download it in that time.
To summarise, it makes little sense for Apple to design and build its own phone - a partnership with Sony and Ericson would be more reasonable.
Just so long as neither Sony nor Ericsson have any input what-so-ever when it comes to the user interface.
I've used plenty of their phones (including the joint venture T68i) and without sounding rude, their interface has been designed by the technical for the technical. Slashdot readers may have no problem with it - but it's not particulary nice, structured or clean compared to Nokia's.
Mind you, to be honest, I'd rather Apple work on a PDA over a phone since I find Palm woefully slow and behind the times (still no built in bluetooth, limited OS means a requirement to install 20 odd "hacks" and a tonne of replacement apps to get something a bit more flexible) and PPC overkill, buggy, complex and horribly unstable.
I've got another idea which might work using Markov chains. You strip the text, work out the probabilities of groups of words appearing after each other and then score that way. As spam changes so would this.
However to test such an idea I need a repository of spam mail - something I don't have. Hotmail junk is no good, it's just the same old adverts regurgitated over and over again.
Does anyone have anything like the 4000 junk emails that this guy has? If so, please could you pop me an email to org dot ewtoo at silver as I'd really appreciate it!
The scripts work by checking the address of the sender each time a message is received. That address is looked up in a database. If it exists in the db, and it's marked as "authorized", it's just passed into my mailbox.
Whilst this is a very good and effective method, for a person on the end of this it's an absolute pain in the butt to go through this palava just so you can send someone one email, get one response and then never communicate with them again.
I'm not knocking your solution, but personally I'd rather something that didn't inconveniance the legitimate people that do want to contact me.
(plus, this sort of thing looks rather poor corporate-wise)
This looks like something that could easily be done in Perl.
Although to be honest, I don't understand how the algorithm works. However I'm sure some enterprising soul can probably work it out and code something (hell I will if someone can explain it in decent mathematical terms).
All we need then is a repository of spam mail and non-spam mail to "teach it".
Didn't somebody set up an ICQ bot posing as female to flirt with people, then put the logs on the web a long time ago? I can't seem to dig it up.
I don't know about that but i wrote one using the eliza perl module and made it connect to an ewtoo talker well known for having a lot of over-sexed 14 year olds on there.
The page and code is here. You can read the log directly here.
The last question is...have any NEX II users found an armband style case that fits the NEX II?
I asked this very same question in rec.running and didn't get much of an answer. There appears to be straps you can purchase for your biceps but I can't find a shop so far (although amazon z-shops was mentioned a lot)
The only other suggestion someone gave was this tunebelt mp3 holder. Can't vouch for it myself but I'd rather somthing that went around the bicep.
If anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know!
I've found that I've always had a problem with spam to my hotmail account. I don't sign up for anything, I don't ask for anything and I certainly don't publish my email address as it was only used for a couple of months.
Granted, a lot of spam gets through on guesswork (such as every common permutation of John Smith @ hotmail.com) but you have to wonder if something odd is going within the company when (as a test) you register ibtgsrq at hotmail dot com and within two weeks it starts receiving the usual fake degrees, penis enlargment and general porn stuff.
subnote: ibtgsrq stands for I Bet This Gets Spam Real Quick - and it did.
I wonder how long the "hacker" should give the company. And is the government really the next best step? I work for the government and I seriously doubt that will get the ball rolling.
Well Microsoft and others having been pushing their "reasonable disclosure" requests and that states 30 days.
Which i think is fair enough.
Let them know. If they haven't released a fix within that time then fully disclose it.
Yes, people will argue that as soon as it's found out, others may be using it so it would be better to know all the details immediately.
However the likelyhood of someone finding the problem and writing a worm or something that exploits it is substantially less when they don't have all the gory details laid out for them in a nice document. Which is the major downside to full disclosure.
I fancy learning Go and I've got a Palm Vx. Does anyone know of any Palm Pilot versions of Go that have some sort of AI and configurable board sizes (since I'm told beginners should start with 9x9 and work upwards).
I looked on PalmGear but they only have apps that give you a Go board which can record and replay games. I need someone to play against!
The AI doesn't have to be that great as I'm only a beginner.
Any ideas?
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The guy caught it because of the installer automatically checking the MD5 checksum
I'm a little confused. How can you trust a package to check it's own MD5 checksum? If I'd slipped a malicious program into another app, the next thing I would do is hack the checking code to falsly tell the user than the checksum is fine.
Unless the security issues keep you awake at night (and they don't for me) then you could always just download CrazyBrowser.
It's 698k, has a tabbed interface, can kill most unrequested pop-ups and has a number of other nifty features included. It uses the IE rendering engine (hence the comment about security) but that does mean that you can access pretty much every site on the internet.
If you're on a modem, this has the advantage as well of being a lot more paletable than the 9.8 meg needed for Mozilla.
I could release software for the ZX81. It still doesn't mean that it isn't dead though.
But seriously, Linux on the desktop isn't dead. Just struggling. But it holds it's own as a server which suits me (and I suspect a lot of people) just fine.
When you factor in that MP3PRO isn't available at anything but such low bitrates and that it's substantially more propritary then MP3, it seems like pretty much a no-contest.
Except that to get the best quality with Ogg I have to encode in one of two ways depending on the type of music.
With MP3Pro, there is only one.
For the music purists and geeks, this would matter. But for everyone else on the planet they'd rather have one encoding that does well.
It would appear that MP3Pro is pretty close to that.
Let's assume that anyone who likes Ogg and is seriously into music will compress their music with both Ogg variants and use the best variant for each file. Therefore we should also consider taking the best of the two results and comparing it to mp3.
No we shouldn't.
You would be chronically distorting the results by merging both Ogg variants. What you would end up with is MP3Pro vs. some super-Ogg thing that doesn't actually exist.
They should be tested seperately. If people are going to do what you suggest then, yes, they will get the best. The problem is that you're making additional assumptions about usage which will serve no other purpose than to boost Ogg's results.
My question last time the EULA article came around never seemed to be answered so I'll try again.
In short, for a hobbiest programmer who doesn't want to release his code under an "open" licence, what can they do if EULA's cannot be legally enforced? If this means, that they're going to be held liable if the program breaks then you're getting to the point when you could get in legal hot water.
Secondly, I hate sounding dense but can someone give me a PROPER description of the legality of these EULA's with both purchased products and downloaded items. I've heard so much stuff at the moment about whether or not EULA's are legally enforcable (with different rulings in different countries) that I'm not sure what the hell is going on.
If you have to start your post with IANAL (or similar) then please don't bother replying! It would be nice to have some solid facts instead of comment or guesswork!
You can! Notice the little pushpin looking doodad at the end of the username/date line, right after the message number. Click on it. Now, make that person your friend.
The problem with this is that you need to know if they have a high karma before you make them your friend.
I'd like to be able to say something like "anyone with a karma over 40, bump their post up by 2" but as of yet, i don't think that is possible.
But then CmdrTaco has updated the FAQ abt the new changes
Granted I missed that and should have looked.
However it would still be nice if they tell us what the changes are rather than us having to scan through all the FAQ's periodically to find out has been changed as a result of the update. Or just stumbling across something and going "oh, i think that might have changed, better check the FAQ".
I did moot the idea to CmdrTaco that karma values be public so that you could tell how "respected" (if you like) other people thought of your views. Not surprisingly, he didn't like it.
I still think it would be nice to assign additional points to people with a high karma so that I can view their (probably) insightful views even though several idiots have marked it as "Redundant" or "Flamebait".
We talked geeky stuff (and complained about the new word based karma system).
Yeah, what is up with that? And what does "Excellent" mean?
Maybe I'm being really dense but I didn't see any announcement about the changes. It would be nice for a news posting to go up with the details when that happens. Generally users don't like seeing changes that they don't know about suddenly appear without any details.
Of course, if i'm being blind then feel free to mod me into oblivion (and send me down to "Not so bad" or whatever the next Karma category is).
I have a product that isn't open source but given away for free. You have the executables, you can copy it and give to your friends - you just don't have the source. In short, it's a free beer application rather than free speech.
Now, I used a EULA (if you like) on my installer to disclaim responsibility if the program breaks and other various stuff.
Now, as I see it (and please correct me if i'm wrong) the UCITA would benifit me because my disclaimers would be legally enforcable. If the UCITA went away, then I would be stuck in a rather tricky situation where I could be held liable for all the stuff that my licence disclaims.
Or am I wrong? Can someone please explain how the UCITA would appect the hobbyiest programmer like myself that doesn't use the GPL (and hence doesn't distribute source).
If I own a car, but cannot produce a receipt for it, does that mean I must have stolen the car?
No, but a car and a piece of software is different. One is a tangible good, the other isn't.
You have to steal a car, you can't copy it or download it. By stealing a car you deprive someone of a car, by copying software you only deprive someone of *possible* revenue had you bought it instead.
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I don't know about anyone else but I get this quite erie vision of this thing out there with nothing around it for millions of miles.
Fraid not :o)
I work in London and have lived in the UK all my life. I haven't actually been to the US ever - although I'd like to live out there for a couple of months one day and see what it's all about.
I don't know about AP, but i'm pretty damn sure you got SW earlier than us here in the UK.
You learn something new every day. Thanks.
It would also go some ways to curb the film downloading from the net. For example us Brits can actually go and see a film that's being shown in the US rather than having to wait just under a year for it to come out and (for some) be tempted to download it in that time.
Just so long as neither Sony nor Ericsson have any input what-so-ever when it comes to the user interface.
I've used plenty of their phones (including the joint venture T68i) and without sounding rude, their interface has been designed by the technical for the technical. Slashdot readers may have no problem with it - but it's not particulary nice, structured or clean compared to Nokia's.
Mind you, to be honest, I'd rather Apple work on a PDA over a phone since I find Palm woefully slow and behind the times (still no built in bluetooth, limited OS means a requirement to install 20 odd "hacks" and a tonne of replacement apps to get something a bit more flexible) and PPC overkill, buggy, complex and horribly unstable.
However to test such an idea I need a repository of spam mail - something I don't have. Hotmail junk is no good, it's just the same old adverts regurgitated over and over again.
Does anyone have anything like the 4000 junk emails that this guy has? If so, please could you pop me an email to org dot ewtoo at silver as I'd really appreciate it!
Whilst this is a very good and effective method, for a person on the end of this it's an absolute pain in the butt to go through this palava just so you can send someone one email, get one response and then never communicate with them again.
I'm not knocking your solution, but personally I'd rather something that didn't inconveniance the legitimate people that do want to contact me.
(plus, this sort of thing looks rather poor corporate-wise)
Although to be honest, I don't understand how the algorithm works. However I'm sure some enterprising soul can probably work it out and code something (hell I will if someone can explain it in decent mathematical terms).
All we need then is a repository of spam mail and non-spam mail to "teach it".
Whatcha reckon?
I don't know about that but i wrote one using the eliza perl module and made it connect to an ewtoo talker well known for having a lot of over-sexed 14 year olds on there.
The page and code is here. You can read the log directly here.
It is rather amusing.
I asked this very same question in rec.running and didn't get much of an answer. There appears to be straps you can purchase for your biceps but I can't find a shop so far (although amazon z-shops was mentioned a lot)
The only other suggestion someone gave was this tunebelt mp3 holder. Can't vouch for it myself but I'd rather somthing that went around the bicep.
If anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know!
Granted, a lot of spam gets through on guesswork (such as every common permutation of John Smith @ hotmail.com) but you have to wonder if something odd is going within the company when (as a test) you register ibtgsrq at hotmail dot com and within two weeks it starts receiving the usual fake degrees, penis enlargment and general porn stuff.
subnote: ibtgsrq stands for I Bet This Gets Spam Real Quick - and it did.
Well Microsoft and others having been pushing their "reasonable disclosure" requests and that states 30 days.
Which i think is fair enough.
Let them know. If they haven't released a fix within that time then fully disclose it.
Yes, people will argue that as soon as it's found out, others may be using it so it would be better to know all the details immediately.
However the likelyhood of someone finding the problem and writing a worm or something that exploits it is substantially less when they don't have all the gory details laid out for them in a nice document. Which is the major downside to full disclosure.
I looked on PalmGear but they only have apps that give you a Go board which can record and replay games. I need someone to play against!
The AI doesn't have to be that great as I'm only a beginner.
Any ideas?
I'm a little confused. How can you trust a package to check it's own MD5 checksum? If I'd slipped a malicious program into another app, the next thing I would do is hack the checking code to falsly tell the user than the checksum is fine.
Unless the security issues keep you awake at night (and they don't for me) then you could always just download CrazyBrowser.
It's 698k, has a tabbed interface, can kill most unrequested pop-ups and has a number of other nifty features included. It uses the IE rendering engine (hence the comment about security) but that does mean that you can access pretty much every site on the internet.
If you're on a modem, this has the advantage as well of being a lot more paletable than the 9.8 meg needed for Mozilla.
It's free (as in beer) too.
But seriously, Linux on the desktop isn't dead. Just struggling. But it holds it's own as a server which suits me (and I suspect a lot of people) just fine.
Except that to get the best quality with Ogg I have to encode in one of two ways depending on the type of music.
With MP3Pro, there is only one.
For the music purists and geeks, this would matter. But for everyone else on the planet they'd rather have one encoding that does well.
It would appear that MP3Pro is pretty close to that.
Therefore we should also consider taking the best of the two results and comparing it to mp3.
No we shouldn't.
You would be chronically distorting the results by merging both Ogg variants. What you would end up with is MP3Pro vs. some super-Ogg thing that doesn't actually exist.
They should be tested seperately. If people are going to do what you suggest then, yes, they will get the best. The problem is that you're making additional assumptions about usage which will serve no other purpose than to boost Ogg's results.
In short, for a hobbiest programmer who doesn't want to release his code under an "open" licence, what can they do if EULA's cannot be legally enforced? If this means, that they're going to be held liable if the program breaks then you're getting to the point when you could get in legal hot water.
Secondly, I hate sounding dense but can someone give me a PROPER description of the legality of these EULA's with both purchased products and downloaded items. I've heard so much stuff at the moment about whether or not EULA's are legally enforcable (with different rulings in different countries) that I'm not sure what the hell is going on.
If you have to start your post with IANAL (or similar) then please don't bother replying! It would be nice to have some solid facts instead of comment or guesswork!
The problem with this is that you need to know if they have a high karma before you make them your friend.
I'd like to be able to say something like "anyone with a karma over 40, bump their post up by 2" but as of yet, i don't think that is possible.
Granted I missed that and should have looked.
However it would still be nice if they tell us what the changes are rather than us having to scan through all the FAQ's periodically to find out has been changed as a result of the update. Or just stumbling across something and going "oh, i think that might have changed, better check the FAQ".
I did moot the idea to CmdrTaco that karma values be public so that you could tell how "respected" (if you like) other people thought of your views. Not surprisingly, he didn't like it.
I still think it would be nice to assign additional points to people with a high karma so that I can view their (probably) insightful views even though several idiots have marked it as "Redundant" or "Flamebait".
Yeah, what is up with that? And what does "Excellent" mean?
Maybe I'm being really dense but I didn't see any announcement about the changes. It would be nice for a news posting to go up with the details when that happens. Generally users don't like seeing changes that they don't know about suddenly appear without any details.
Of course, if i'm being blind then feel free to mod me into oblivion (and send me down to "Not so bad" or whatever the next Karma category is).
Now, I used a EULA (if you like) on my installer to disclaim responsibility if the program breaks and other various stuff.
Now, as I see it (and please correct me if i'm wrong) the UCITA would benifit me because my disclaimers would be legally enforcable. If the UCITA went away, then I would be stuck in a rather tricky situation where I could be held liable for all the stuff that my licence disclaims.
Or am I wrong? Can someone please explain how the UCITA would appect the hobbyiest programmer like myself that doesn't use the GPL (and hence doesn't distribute source).
No, but a car and a piece of software is different. One is a tangible good, the other isn't.
You have to steal a car, you can't copy it or download it. By stealing a car you deprive someone of a car, by copying software you only deprive someone of *possible* revenue had you bought it instead.