I see spammers as equivilent to Jehovah's Witnesses. They do come to my door and waste my time, but I can always tell them to go away, or I can just close the door. It isn't that much of a burden to do so.
If it becomes and excessive burden, I can put up a "No Jehovah's Witnesses" sign and call the cops if the JWs don't stop bothering me.
However, banning the JWs or putting them on a strict opt-in policy would be a restriction on their free speech. They do have a right to offer to talk to me unless I ask them not to.
Jurisdiction on internet is typically the user - recall mid 90's when a NY porn site was busted in TN for things that were legal in NY but illegal in TN. They should be able to extradict.
By that principle, the Saudis could extradite Americans for posting blasphemous material on Slashdot.
I see a lot of similarity in the two paths, except that they are plotted on different map projections. The only major difference I see is that Magellan had to go south from spain to get to the short-distance-cause-its-near-the-pole route.
Also note that Fosset did it without stopping. I count at least eight places where Magellan's expedition went to shore.
Would you rather he sit on his ass and hoard his money?
If by "hoard", you mean invest, then that money is still in the economy. When you buy a stock or a bond, you buy it from someone. That someone then either buys another stock or bond, or they spend the money.
Even if he were to keep all his money in a big pile and roll around in it like Scrooge McDuck, he'd be taking the money out of circulation so the Federal Reserve could print the same amount of money and lend it out into the economy.
Wouldn't it make more sense to draw the gui on the client machine, rather than putting beefier hardware in the toaster so it can send you bitmaps?
After all, your desktop machine will always have more computational ability than your toaster (the senient talking toaster from Red Dwarf notwithstanding).
Flywheels are (theoretically) more efficient than batteries or fuel cells. IIRC, batteries are 10% efficient, fuel cells 30-40%, while flywheels can be as efficient as the motors (up to 80%).
Since the flywheels are just great big gyroscopes, what happens when the train makes a sharp turn?
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Nontechnical users think of the UI as the whole OS. Even if they know better, they still make a connection at the gut level. By doing a major overhaul of the UI, MS gives users the impression that they're buying a completely new version. People will pay more for that than for a few bug fixes.
I hear they'll be quantifying 'myriad', 'voluminous', and 'uncounted' next year.
Myriad is greek for 10,000. Voluminous still needs a standard, as does uncounted, although the latter standard needs to take into account the fact that 'uncountable' is a subset of 'uncounted'
... they weren't competent enough to detect the hole themselves.
I think that's the main problem. One of the strongest human motivating factors is the desire to feel good about oneself. The best way to piss anyone off is to call them an idiot, and provide proof that you're right.
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where do they get these numbers? $5,000 to cleanup the intrusion??
They only have his word that he didn't do anything malicious. They have to hire someone to come in and make sure that he didn't install a backdoor while he was in there.
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Now tell me if I am wrong but, dont you think if an unsocial geek can program a social robot, the geek himself has the capabilities of being social himself?
Being able to program a computer to do something well doesn't mean you can do it yourself. I've written programs that play chess much better than I can.
Another factor here is the "dancing bear" effect. A dancing bear isn't impressive because it dances well. It is impressive because it dances at all. Behaviour that is amazingly social for a robot may be pretty dismal for a human.
I made two careless mistakes. First, I figured 32 more doublings would take Approx 8.7 years. I rounded this down to 8 instead of up to 9.
My second mistake was not looking up the number of atoms in the universe. I vaugely remembered hearing that it was on the order of 2^64. Now that I think about this, I realize that that figure is far too low, given that 2^10 = approx 10^3, and there's 6.02x10^23 atoms in a gram of hydrogen.
According to this, there was about 1 gbps of internet traffic in 1995.
If this doubled every 100 days, there would be 50,000 terabits per second of internet traffic today. There's actually less than one terabit/sec of traffic.
By 2010, we could expect more bits per second of internet traffic than there are atoms in the universe.
The article says they just logged in with the user's name and password... did they obtain it volutarily, or involuntarily (network sniffer, etc...)?
I can see the security warnings now: "To prevent unauthorized access to your account, do not give your password to anybody, especially not someone claiming to be one of our sysadmins or the Italian Police."
If the content was created in one country and hosted in another country which laws should apply?
If it's an American company making content in American and hosting it in France for a French audience, most slashdotters seem to feel that American laws should apply.
And if it's an Italian making content in Italy for an Italian audience on a site hosted in the US, guess whose laws we think should apply?
Or consider another case. If an American company make an online gambling website, markets it to Americans, but hosts it in the Cayman Islands, whose laws should apply?
These things are rarely as simple as they seem at first glance.
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I see spammers as equivilent to Jehovah's Witnesses. They do come to my door and waste my time, but I can always tell them to go away, or I can just close the door. It isn't that much of a burden to do so.
If it becomes and excessive burden, I can put up a "No Jehovah's Witnesses" sign and call the cops if the JWs don't stop bothering me.
However, banning the JWs or putting them on a strict opt-in policy would be a restriction on their free speech. They do have a right to offer to talk to me unless I ask them not to.
Jurisdiction on internet is typically the user - recall mid 90's when a NY porn site was busted in TN for things that were legal in NY but illegal in TN. They should be able to extradict.
By that principle, the Saudis could extradite Americans for posting blasphemous material on Slashdot.
I see a lot of similarity in the two paths, except that they are plotted on different map projections. The only major difference I see is that Magellan had to go south from spain to get to the short-distance-cause-its-near-the-pole route.
Also note that Fosset did it without stopping. I count at least eight places where Magellan's expedition went to shore.
Would you rather he sit on his ass and hoard his money?
If by "hoard", you mean invest, then that money is still in the economy. When you buy a stock or a bond, you buy it from someone. That someone then either buys another stock or bond, or they spend the money.
Even if he were to keep all his money in a big pile and roll around in it like Scrooge McDuck, he'd be taking the money out of circulation so the Federal Reserve could print the same amount of money and lend it out into the economy.
Wouldn't it make more sense to draw the gui on the client machine, rather than putting beefier hardware in the toaster so it can send you bitmaps?
After all, your desktop machine will always have more computational ability than your toaster (the senient talking toaster from Red Dwarf notwithstanding).
Flywheels are (theoretically) more efficient than batteries or fuel cells. IIRC, batteries are 10% efficient, fuel cells 30-40%, while flywheels can be as efficient as the motors (up to 80%).
Since the flywheels are just great big gyroscopes, what happens when the train makes a sharp turn?
Nontechnical users think of the UI as the whole OS. Even if they know better, they still make a connection at the gut level. By doing a major overhaul of the UI, MS gives users the impression that they're buying a completely new version. People will pay more for that than for a few bug fixes.
In the USA, libraries buy their books from the publishers. Authors and publishers love libraries because:
1) There are hundreds of thousands of public libraries in the US. Sell one copy to each library...
2) People borrow one book by an author from a library, then they like it and start buying that author's new books.
Books in libraries are like free samples that get paid for.
good idea! Public libraries have been operating like this for centuries.
Not to mention Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.
I hear they'll be quantifying 'myriad', 'voluminous', and 'uncounted' next year.
Myriad is greek for 10,000.
Voluminous still needs a standard, as does uncounted, although the latter standard needs to take into account the fact that 'uncountable' is a subset of 'uncounted'
... they weren't competent enough to detect the hole themselves.
I think that's the main problem. One of the strongest human motivating factors is the desire to feel good about oneself. The best way to piss anyone off is to call them an idiot, and provide proof that you're right.
where do they get these numbers? $5,000 to cleanup the intrusion??
They only have his word that he didn't do anything malicious. They have to hire someone to come in and make sure that he didn't install a backdoor while he was in there.
Now tell me if I am wrong but, dont you think if an unsocial geek can program a social robot, the geek himself has the capabilities of being social himself?
Being able to program a computer to do something well doesn't mean you can do it yourself. I've written programs that play chess much better than I can.
Another factor here is the "dancing bear" effect. A dancing bear isn't impressive because it dances well. It is impressive because it dances at all. Behaviour that is amazingly social for a robot may be pretty dismal for a human.
I made two careless mistakes. First, I figured 32 more doublings would take Approx 8.7 years. I rounded this down to 8 instead of up to 9.
My second mistake was not looking up the number of atoms in the universe. I vaugely remembered hearing that it was on the order of 2^64. Now that I think about this, I realize that that figure is far too low, given that 2^10 = approx 10^3, and there's 6.02x10^23 atoms in a gram of hydrogen.
Thank you for checking my work.
1 Tbps = 1000 Gbps will be produced typically by 50 Million DSL/cable users alone.
1 Terapit/sec of TRAFFIC, not bandwidth. Not everyone downloads their full quota of music, movies, and porn 24/7.
BTW, Tbps can also stand for tablespoon, an English/Conventional unit of measure equal to about 16 mL.
According to this, there was about 1 gbps of internet traffic in 1995.
If this doubled every 100 days, there would be 50,000 terabits per second of internet traffic today. There's actually less than one terabit/sec of traffic.
By 2010, we could expect more bits per second of internet traffic than there are atoms in the universe.
Nasa's explanation of the palermo scale
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/19/ 1411209
5 tbsp of chocolate syrup
750g of semi-sweet chocolate chips
You're mixing metric and english units in the same recipe. That means these cookies might crash into Mars.
Only crimes of a violent nature, those which constitute a clear and present danger to life or property, are considered emergencies.
A DDOS attack against the 911 system doesn't constitute a danger to life or property?
Part of the purpose of 911 is to report crimes.
Hacking is a serious crime.
The virus is just calling 911 to report itself.
And underneath the picture, the words:
"Missing. Have you seen this spacecraft?"
Only for Mars Observer.
The article says they just logged in with the user's name and password... did they obtain it volutarily, or involuntarily (network sniffer, etc...)?
I can see the security warnings now: "To prevent unauthorized access to your account, do not give your password to anybody, especially not someone claiming to be one of our sysadmins or the Italian Police."
If the content was created in one country and hosted in another country which laws should apply?
If it's an American company making content in American and hosting it in France for a French audience, most slashdotters seem to feel that American laws should apply.
And if it's an Italian making content in Italy for an Italian audience on a site hosted in the US, guess whose laws we think should apply?
Or consider another case. If an American company make an online gambling website, markets it to Americans, but hosts it in the Cayman Islands, whose laws should apply?
These things are rarely as simple as they seem at first glance.