As the creator of RunABot.com, I can't tell you how much I hate these software patents. Granted, there is a lot of prior art on IM and chat bots. EggDrop, AOLEliza, UltraHal AIM bot, ALICE gaim plugin, and many more were all online before this patent was filed. The problem is the threats to enforce this patent. I think that it will HARM innovation in this area, maybe even spread into AI and other agents and ultimately harm them.
Nullsoft's NSIS is great and it took me no time to learn. I've been using it for ages and it works perfect. It is much smaller and faster the your "WISE" installer, and it is a hell of a lot less expensive. This is especially important if you are going to standardize on it!
I think by definition, Artificial Intelligence is Fake. That is not to say "bad", it's just not REAL. It is the perception of intelligence. The perception of reasoning. I think that ALICE bot has done a great job in perceived intelligence. I run a site with over 50,000 chat bots running w/ ALICE, and I have to say that many of them hold conversations quite well.
That is not to say that they are "reasoning," but they do have intelligent things to say.
Maybe you are just looking for Real Intelligence?
I work at a bank. They take your fingerprints and share them with the FBI. They do tell you this before they take them, so if your uncomfortable with that, you shouldn't work at a bank. I see no reason why they wouldn't start doing this with other biometric data when it becomes more standard.
I for one feel safer knowing that all the people working at my bank have at least been through a fingerprint check with the FBI. And if a vault is broken into, and they find someones fingerprints, they have a bunch to check.
Now, I certainly hope they don't start selling the
information for profit. That seems like it'd be a little harder to do with employee information. However, maybe a customer of a big store? Maybe a window shopper? It certainly has potential to be exploited in other areas.
- You don't need the warrenty to keep the product. - Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, or Marriage License are all kept on file and can be re-issued. - you only need customs stuff just for the immediate moment of traveling / taxes.
This whole software thing is to prove that you actually own it way after you bought it. That should not be required... do they even look in/their/ records to see if you had bought it?
Just thought I'd let you in on the service I'm using: runabot.com. It lets you create and customize the bot using simple web forms. You can then run in on AIM with a downloadable client. Even cooler is all the shared modules that can be loaded in!
4) Within 10 days of initial notification, the Vendor's Security
Response Capability SHOULD provide a clear response to the Reporter
and any involved Coordinators.
That seems about right, but, it in other parts of the document it seems to say that you can't skip steps. What to do if the Vender doesn't conform?
We've already spent way to much just for the software from someone else. Still have yet to launch it though. Google should have done this long ago as soon as they realized their software works. Well, ok, that's an oversimplification, but still, the worked on these corporate search programs before, and they just weren't up to par.
Sounds to me like Debian is a little too tied to it's package format. And now it'll have to support 2 package formats to be LSB complient. In addition, none of the debian.deb packages can be considered LSB complient since they are not.rpm. In my opinion, too much time has been wasted on.deb, and anymore time wasted on it is time wasted. Going forward, packages HAVE TO BE.rpm to be standard and cross LSB compatible, which is a good thing.
Well, I guess I should mention my site, WebComics.com here. Can't believe/. runs a story on Webcomics with out mentioning my site. Ok granted, my site is mostly comics strips where this story seems to be about comic books, but we've been around for 6 years and have a great community of cartoonists. Some have moved on to become syndicated, others have websites that have taken off.
Anyway, we of course have been trying to deal with this making money thing for 6 years at WebComics. We've had competitors come and go (like toonscape.com and mycomics.com) which all thought they could make lots of money I guess.
As with most messed up web companies, the problem is very simple, they just spend too much money. The web lets you do things so efficiently and a company has to take advantage of that.
I've had an open security issue on their site for
months. [ http://www.devitry.com/security.html ] They don't seem to be too concerned with it, even though they are running the Passport system. Will this Gates email change their minds and get their butts in gear?
Unfortunately, Passport, (which I believe offers the authentication for.NET services?) is really only secure as the least secure server it's deployed on. More unfortunately, it's deployed on microsoft.com. Even more unfortunately, there are still OPEN SECURITY HOLES on microsoft.com... Oh, how many many ways are their to hijack cookies or script actions with Cross Site Scripting? A lot.
At least that's what I thought this article would be about. I may be running a 1/7th of a marathon in good ol' NYC tonight if I can get my but out of bed.
They have a cross site scripting vulnerability that was still open the last time I checked. Dunno how they can claim it's unbreakable when they have unfixed holes.
FYI, if you're using C2IT.com: CitiBank has been unresponsive to fixing their security holes. They do not secure your CC number or bank account numbers and other sites can script transactions out of your account.
My note on security holes.
I was trying to do this too. I don't have a hd installed and there didn't seem to be enough space to store the image in the ram disk before burning it in. Anyone have a tips on how to do this?
As a security bug hunter myself, I know that the
sooner you disclose the sooner it gets fixed.
The more serious the hole, the sooner it should
get fixed. period. 2 weeks ago, I published an alert on a bunch of website security holes, including microsoft.com. Knowing how ms reacts to disclosure, I didn't disclose the specifics on microsoft.com's site, but I did on the others. Guess what? The hole on microsoft.com is still not fixed, while most other sites have moved to fix their holes. Now, this hole also affect thousands (if not millions? ) of sites, but it seems to require disclosure to get things moving.
Now, RedHat maybe shouldn't have ever made this "agreement" to pospone patches. Maybe they
noticed that people were already making use of
this not-so-secret-to-black-hats bug. Or, maybe it was just a mistake... I don't know. I'm just glad I don't have a public wu-ftp server to deal with.
I haven't tried dragon's product, there is a review of it somewhere. I won the VV at LinuxWorld. I wouldn't have paid for it, when it comes down to it, I can type much better then I can speak.;-) The SDK didn't work as well because of the learning, and maybe vocabulary? I think that if you have the commercial version, you can transfer the files to an SDK project, but I didn't try that.
The "ViaVoice Dictation Run Time Kit for for Linux V3" seems to be the same as the version you buy, minus the headset (which makes a hugh difference)... it should at least have the free text dictation to try out.
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I think that ActiveBuddy is running out of money to pay AOL to keep it on. smarterchild has moved onto MSN and yahoo..
As the creator of RunABot.com, I can't tell you how much I hate these software patents. Granted, there is a lot of prior art on IM and chat bots. EggDrop, AOLEliza, UltraHal AIM bot, ALICE gaim plugin, and many more were all online before this patent was filed. The problem is the threats to enforce this patent. I think that it will HARM innovation in this area, maybe even spread into AI and other agents and ultimately harm them.
Nullsoft's NSIS is great and it took me no time to learn. I've been using it for ages and it works perfect. It is much smaller and faster the your "WISE" installer, and it is a hell of a lot less expensive. This is especially important if you are going to standardize on it!
I think by definition, Artificial Intelligence is Fake. That is not to say "bad", it's just not REAL. It is the perception of intelligence. The perception of reasoning. I think that ALICE bot has done a great job in perceived intelligence. I run a site with over 50,000 chat bots running w/ ALICE, and I have to say that many of them hold conversations quite well. That is not to say that they are "reasoning," but they do have intelligent things to say. Maybe you are just looking for Real Intelligence?
Has any one w/ XP snooped the software update?
I for one feel safer knowing that all the people working at my bank have at least been through a fingerprint check with the FBI. And if a vault is broken into, and they find someones fingerprints, they have a bunch to check.
Now, I certainly hope they don't start selling the information for profit. That seems like it'd be a little harder to do with employee information. However, maybe a customer of a big store? Maybe a window shopper? It certainly has potential to be exploited in other areas.
- You don't need the warrenty to keep the product.
/their/ records to see if you had bought it?
- Birth Certificate, Death Certificate, or Marriage License are all kept on file and can be re-issued.
- you only need customs stuff just for the immediate moment of traveling / taxes.
This whole software thing is to prove that you actually own it way after you bought it. That should not be required... do they even look in
Just thought I'd let you in on the service I'm using: runabot.com. It lets you create and customize the bot using simple web forms. You can then run in on AIM with a downloadable client. Even cooler is all the shared modules that can be loaded in!
We've already spent way to much just for the software from someone else. Still have yet to launch it though. Google should have done this long ago as soon as they realized their software works. Well, ok, that's an oversimplification, but still, the worked on these corporate search programs before, and they just weren't up to par.
Sounds to me like Debian is a little too tied to it's package format. And now it'll have to support 2 package formats to be LSB complient. In addition, none of the debian .deb packages can be considered LSB complient since they are not .rpm. In my opinion, too much time has been wasted on .deb, and anymore time wasted on it is time wasted. Going forward, packages HAVE TO BE .rpm to be standard and cross LSB compatible, which is a good thing.
Anyway, we of course have been trying to deal with this making money thing for 6 years at WebComics. We've had competitors come and go (like toonscape.com and mycomics.com) which all thought they could make lots of money I guess. As with most messed up web companies, the problem is very simple, they just spend too much money. The web lets you do things so efficiently and a company has to take advantage of that.
I've had an open security issue on their site for months. [ http://www.devitry.com/security.html ] They don't seem to be too concerned with it, even though they are running the Passport system. Will this Gates email change their minds and get their butts in gear?
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/19/javaviru s.idg/ and I'm sure it's not the only one...
Unfortunately, Passport, (which I believe offers the authentication for .NET services?) is really only secure as the least secure server it's deployed on. More unfortunately, it's deployed on microsoft.com. Even more unfortunately, there are still OPEN SECURITY HOLES on microsoft.com... Oh, how many many ways are their to hijack cookies or script actions with Cross Site Scripting? A lot.
http://www.RunABot.com/ - has over 8,000 online chat bots. Create your own.
NYC running site
http://www.devitry.com/security.html
FYI, if you're using C2IT.com: CitiBank has been unresponsive to fixing their security holes. They do not secure your CC number or bank account numbers and other sites can script transactions out of your account. My note on security holes.
I was trying to do this too. I don't have a hd installed and there didn't seem to be enough space to store the image in the ram disk before burning it in. Anyone have a tips on how to do this?
devitry.com is reporting on a NYTIMES article about the faked Moon Landings. How can they publish those lies?
Now, RedHat maybe shouldn't have ever made this "agreement" to pospone patches. Maybe they noticed that people were already making use of this not-so-secret-to-black-hats bug. Or, maybe it was just a mistake... I don't know. I'm just glad I don't have a public wu-ftp server to deal with.
glad my Linksys lets me remap the mac addresses. now, what messages should I hide in the macs for them to see?
The "ViaVoice Dictation Run Time Kit for for Linux V3" seems to be the same as the version you buy, minus the headset (which makes a hugh difference) ... it should at least have the free text dictation to try out.