Just because one approach wouldn't stop all forms of spam, doesn't mean it couldn't significantly impact spam overall by eliminating one or more vectors.
Do the bees ever get it wrong or at least not perfect? Seems obvious they world. I'd imagine the power lies in "good enough" thinking vs "perfect" thinking.
How apropos of the "good enough" thinking you seem to espouse!
That's funny, because I consider myself in another target group of Ubuntu users. I know all about the guts of Linux, but frankly, computers are not my life. I'm too busy with a wife, kids, social obligations, neighborhood functions, and just living life to bother with all the work that seems to go along with most other distributions. Using Ubuntu allows me to free my time to spend on those things I find important rather than downloading, compiling, and installing the latest kernel once a month. I can just put "aptitude safe-upgrade" in cron to run at 1am on the first Sunday of each month and I know I'm good.
Not really, no, but that's no fault of yours. This seems like one of those issues that can't be neatly wrapped in a few forum posts. I'll have to look for a book on the subject. Thanks, though.
The problem is that, if you click on the ad, now the advertiser has a record of who's gay and who's straight (the study showed that variants of the ad were displayed to users based on their gender and orientation). Just because it's on your Facebook status, doesn't mean you want the whole world to know.
I don't understand, how do you cheat the Planck length? It's one of the constants of the universe (or rather, it's constructed from several constants of the universe). Presumably, if the universe were a simulation, it would be loaded with certain constants, from which we derive the Planck length.
But please continue, I'd love to learn more about this.
What are you talking about? It's already happened once (almost) within my lifetime (the events played out in the months and weeks before I was born). Why do you think the US is no longer on the gold standard? Because Switzerland, France, and other European countries called our loans with them in the early 70s, and the value of that debt was greater than the gold reserves the US currently held. So Nixon declared we were off the gold standard and told the Federal Reserve to turn on the presses to pay off Europe. And suddenly we went from $10,000 per year being a good income to needing $20,000 just to survive.
We are living at the bottom of a deep and steep (gravitational) cliff
And that's why someone, sometime, will set up a colony on the moon. What better way to control the earth than by setting up a simple catapult that can launch 100-ton boulders at any city on the planet at will?
That would kill the franchise car dealer system, so none of the big automotive players will jump on board this concept. It would take a start-up that doesn't have any entrenched interests in their supply and/or sales chains to make something like this a reality. And considering the costs involved in designing a plant that can handle these kinds of orders, I just don't see a start-up having the necessary cash on hand to pull it off.
Long answer: because your question rests on the premise that it is possible to have a universe that is indistinguishable from the real one operating in a virtual capacity, and that to the denizens of that virtual universe there is no way to prove they are or are not virtual, your question is not falsifiable. There's simply no way to prove or disprove your hypothesis. In which case, it's meaningless naval gazing, and the only appropriate answer is "no".
It's the same thing when people as "Is there a God?" Well, can you prove or disprove the existence of such a being? No? Then it doesn't exist.
I've been to ancient buildings where flash photography was strictly forbidden, on the grounds that the excess photons from all those flashing lights could damage the delicate pigments used in the paint, but I've never seen anything forbidding photography outright. Are you sure you remember the rule at the Sistine Chapel correctly?
Very well said, and it neatly sums up what I've suspected about Hill for years: she's some combination of attention whore or drama queen (though you said it much more nicely).
The people who are pushing this will never face an election. They will never be sacked. This is why the plans persist from government to government. Ministers come and go, but the civil service is permanent, and always attempting to expand.
Didn't the BBC used to have a documentary series on that aspect of the British government?
Wanting your own child to succeed doesn't necessarily mean that you want all others to fail. In the same way, being patriotic about one's own country does not mean you think all others are lessor.
Life is not a zero-sum game, though the fact that you (apparently) think it is explains a lot about your political beliefs.
If someone cheats at a slot machine, it's the operators and players who could win. If someone cheats at a voting machine, it's the politicians who could win. Good luck getting politicians to vote in a way for someone to stop them from cheating.
Not to get into a debate about the Hill-Thomas affair (no pun intended), you assume that Hill was telling the truth with her allegations and that they weren't just motivated by politics. That may not be a safe assumption to make, and there's enough evidence from both sides of that he-said/she-said debacle that no one (outside of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, themselves) will ever know if anything untoward ever really happened. So while it's possible that some of the Senators were motivated as you said, it's also possible they were motivated by plain-old partisan politics to defend the person their party leader/President nominated to the Supreme Court (I'm not naive enough to think any of them really cared about the truth of the matter).
I have to ask re: your sig. If patriotism is bigotry, then is feeling proud of something your parents or children did equivalent to hating everyone else's parents or children?
I wonder if this "big rock star" would have the same attitude if his kids (does he even have kids?) were doing it (if?! I'm yet to meet a teen nowadays that doesn't do it).
Clearly you've never watched "Gene Simmons' Family Jewels". He's got two kids, both aspiring musicians/artists, themselves.
Treaties are only valuable as long as the cost of violating them is greater than the cost of abiding by them. In other words, if large deposits of rich mineral deposits were discovered in Antarctica, it would be far more profitable to forget about the treaties and one could then expect a land rush as nations colonize it and began cutting up the landscape.
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Which they aren't doing already?
Just because one approach wouldn't stop all forms of spam, doesn't mean it couldn't significantly impact spam overall by eliminating one or more vectors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor
Though to be fair, I should not have expected someone with the word "rage" in their handle to have much of a sense of humor.
Do the bees ever get it wrong or at least not perfect? Seems obvious they world. I'd imagine the power lies in "good enough" thinking vs "perfect" thinking.
How apropos of the "good enough" thinking you seem to espouse!
That's funny, because I consider myself in another target group of Ubuntu users. I know all about the guts of Linux, but frankly, computers are not my life. I'm too busy with a wife, kids, social obligations, neighborhood functions, and just living life to bother with all the work that seems to go along with most other distributions. Using Ubuntu allows me to free my time to spend on those things I find important rather than downloading, compiling, and installing the latest kernel once a month. I can just put "aptitude safe-upgrade" in cron to run at 1am on the first Sunday of each month and I know I'm good.
Not really, no, but that's no fault of yours. This seems like one of those issues that can't be neatly wrapped in a few forum posts. I'll have to look for a book on the subject. Thanks, though.
Did you not read the article? This was information that was marked as private, but obviously is not. That's the problem.
The problem is that, if you click on the ad, now the advertiser has a record of who's gay and who's straight (the study showed that variants of the ad were displayed to users based on their gender and orientation). Just because it's on your Facebook status, doesn't mean you want the whole world to know.
Of course Iran won't use them immediately, but they have their proxies who they can make use of them or related material.
And as soon as they do, we'll know it was Iran that gave them the goods based on isotope testing, then we'll obliterate Tehran.
The Iranian mullahs are crazy, but they're not stupid.
I don't understand, how do you cheat the Planck length? It's one of the constants of the universe (or rather, it's constructed from several constants of the universe). Presumably, if the universe were a simulation, it would be loaded with certain constants, from which we derive the Planck length.
But please continue, I'd love to learn more about this.
What are you talking about? It's already happened once (almost) within my lifetime (the events played out in the months and weeks before I was born). Why do you think the US is no longer on the gold standard? Because Switzerland, France, and other European countries called our loans with them in the early 70s, and the value of that debt was greater than the gold reserves the US currently held. So Nixon declared we were off the gold standard and told the Federal Reserve to turn on the presses to pay off Europe. And suddenly we went from $10,000 per year being a good income to needing $20,000 just to survive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
We are living at the bottom of a deep and steep (gravitational) cliff
And that's why someone, sometime, will set up a colony on the moon. What better way to control the earth than by setting up a simple catapult that can launch 100-ton boulders at any city on the planet at will?
That would kill the franchise car dealer system, so none of the big automotive players will jump on board this concept. It would take a start-up that doesn't have any entrenched interests in their supply and/or sales chains to make something like this a reality. And considering the costs involved in designing a plant that can handle these kinds of orders, I just don't see a start-up having the necessary cash on hand to pull it off.
In other words, ain't gonna happen.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: because your question rests on the premise that it is possible to have a universe that is indistinguishable from the real one operating in a virtual capacity, and that to the denizens of that virtual universe there is no way to prove they are or are not virtual, your question is not falsifiable. There's simply no way to prove or disprove your hypothesis. In which case, it's meaningless naval gazing, and the only appropriate answer is "no".
It's the same thing when people as "Is there a God?" Well, can you prove or disprove the existence of such a being? No? Then it doesn't exist.
I've been to ancient buildings where flash photography was strictly forbidden, on the grounds that the excess photons from all those flashing lights could damage the delicate pigments used in the paint, but I've never seen anything forbidding photography outright. Are you sure you remember the rule at the Sistine Chapel correctly?
Very well said, and it neatly sums up what I've suspected about Hill for years: she's some combination of attention whore or drama queen (though you said it much more nicely).
The people who are pushing this will never face an election. They will never be sacked. This is why the plans persist from government to government. Ministers come and go, but the civil service is permanent, and always attempting to expand.
Didn't the BBC used to have a documentary series on that aspect of the British government?
Wanting your own child to succeed doesn't necessarily mean that you want all others to fail. In the same way, being patriotic about one's own country does not mean you think all others are lessor.
Life is not a zero-sum game, though the fact that you (apparently) think it is explains a lot about your political beliefs.
If someone cheats at a slot machine, it's the operators and players who could win. If someone cheats at a voting machine, it's the politicians who could win. Good luck getting politicians to vote in a way for someone to stop them from cheating.
Not to get into a debate about the Hill-Thomas affair (no pun intended), you assume that Hill was telling the truth with her allegations and that they weren't just motivated by politics. That may not be a safe assumption to make, and there's enough evidence from both sides of that he-said/she-said debacle that no one (outside of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, themselves) will ever know if anything untoward ever really happened. So while it's possible that some of the Senators were motivated as you said, it's also possible they were motivated by plain-old partisan politics to defend the person their party leader/President nominated to the Supreme Court (I'm not naive enough to think any of them really cared about the truth of the matter).
I have to ask re: your sig. If patriotism is bigotry, then is feeling proud of something your parents or children did equivalent to hating everyone else's parents or children?
I wonder if this "big rock star" would have the same attitude if his kids (does he even have kids?) were doing it (if?! I'm yet to meet a teen nowadays that doesn't do it).
Clearly you've never watched "Gene Simmons' Family Jewels". He's got two kids, both aspiring musicians/artists, themselves.
From your lips to CmdrTaco's ears.
Treaties are only valuable as long as the cost of violating them is greater than the cost of abiding by them. In other words, if large deposits of rich mineral deposits were discovered in Antarctica, it would be far more profitable to forget about the treaties and one could then expect a land rush as nations colonize it and began cutting up the landscape.
I'm pretty sure one of my kids is already a ninja. I haven't seen him in weeks, though somebody keeps eating all the breakfast cereal.
People got distracted with developing the flying car. Now that that's done, it's on to Mars!