Personally I don't like the "launching counter-attacks to clean infected hosts". It reminds me of what AOL did.
Still what can one do against users who do not care if they have a worm or not? Should we invet a driving-license thing for the internet, with fines for disregarding the rules? But then we would have the "internet must stay free"-activists on it again:-/
Personally I'd vote for some sort of internet driving license, without having thought much about it. But it feels like the right thing.
I've been wondering about that as well. They must be really wide-angel cameras for a 360 view with only three of them. So, if you both (from different cities) do not stand right in front of the camera, it would look like you are both looking at another point (the center of the camera) when in fact you are standing right in front of each other.
On the other hand, having only three cameras keeps the necessary bandwidth low of course. Three video streams with hdtv quality should already need quite some bandwidth, specially if they plan to use the internet as a transfer medium and not dedicated lines. The 22 seperate audio streams should add something on top of that as well.
Still, it seems like a very nice idea. But I'm sure that the same is possible for much less than their projected price of 2 Million Euros using alternative technologies. Think of ordinary TV technology instead of HDTV-Projectors and add the 3 cameras and 22 microphones and speakers on top of that and I'm sure you could go with much less than 2 Million Euros. Add the necessary computer Hardware and the softare and I'm sure you could nicely do it for a tenth of their projected price.
Well, anyways - I love the idea. Reminds me of a Star Trek episode (original series I think) where they find a planet with similar portals to other places.
The latest smart phone is equipped with a 1.1 million mega pixel built-in camera, Intel 400Mhz Xscale processor for PDA, 192MB memory, and 'Pocket PC 2003 Korean version' of Microsoft as its O/S.
There is a company called "paybox" over here (operating in Austria and many other european countries) which allows payment of stuff through your mobile phone. Many shops partecipate, you can even buy real life porn;-) with it.
I personally don't use it, but it's been around for a few years already.
"Modern Operating Systems" costs 250 Indian Rupees which translates to 5.5 USD! And they even call it "Special Indian Price". There is also another version which does not have the "Special Indian Price" thing which costs 5427 (!!) Indian Rupees (122 Dollars): click
I'm curiuos if they will ship the Speical Indian Price book outside India;-)
That could really be a problem for simple filtering based on the address (domain) of the person sending the mail. But I do think that more sophisticated systems do not only use the address of the sender as a criteria to filter mail.
One of my addresses uses "spam assasin" for protection for example. In its configuration it lets me give it a number called "hits" which interpretation is as follows:
"Set the number of hits required before a mail is considered spam. n.nn can be an integer or a real number. 5.0 is the default setting, and is quite aggressive; it would be suitable for a single-user setup, but if you're an ISP installing SpamAssassin, you should probably set the default to be more conservative, like 8.0 or 10.0"
I took a quick look at their homepage to find out more. Apparently they use a "genetic" algorithm to get the score (and therefore classify what is spam and what not). Further research led me to their "Tests" page which gives a very detailed description: http://au.spamassassin.org/tests.htm l
Take a look at it, I have the feeling that this could have saved your email address:-)
It's free to download, license info says
"SpamAssassin lives at http://spamassassin.org/ or in CPAN, and is distributed under the same license as Perl itself."
I did not research the license further.
Have fun
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I use my email address for everything, including usenet. My provider runs a spam filter which reduces my spam / day to about 10 pieces. Of course, it filters out about 100-150 spam mails / day. When I'm bored I go through these filtered spam mails, but I did not find a false hit yet, so it works pretty well for me.
This is convenient, I don't have to care where my email address goes, I just use it.
From their Features Page: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/92/dis covery
8. Compatibility: run MS-Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer
And next to that they show a screenshot of Windows XP running in a Window through VMWare.
If I wouldn't know better (a VMWare license costs around 300 bucks) I would assume that this is included in the Discovery Distribution (which costs 39 bucks) and I would be pretty pi**ed...
True, I think it is meant for very special applications only. I recently acquired two 18" LCD Screens wo work with and I'm feeling really comfortable with them. But I'm not sure if I would really find use for a third or even more ones. I don't think it's the same thing as with harddrives where you can't have enough storage space.
read the wired story. sony is claiming 10 hrs on a 20 gig or something like that.
Hmm...when I backup my DVDs I usually use a 352x288 MPEG-2 Video Stream with 1500 kbps (variable bitrate) and a 128 kbps MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (mp2) audio stream. This gives me pretty good quality and it allows me to put ~3 movies on a DVD, usually with place to spare. Each 90 minute movie has around 1.2 GB that way. So with 20 GB that gets me 25 hours of viewtime in pretty good quality on my TV. If you chose to only watch your movies on a small screen connected to your IPod (or to that new Sony Player) you could reduce the resolution even further.
Something I forgot. They also state in the article that the _initial_ costs for hard-tooling equipment are extraordinary high compared to soft-tooling.
I'm working on two 18" TFT's at the moment. Good ones and I can really feel that they put _much_ less strain on my eyes. But still, I would prefer something written on paper any day. Even if I read longer documents, I prefer to print them out...I dunno, maybe there is no difference in eye strain, but I definitely _believe_ there is and that may be the reason...
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Personally I don't like the "launching counter-attacks to clean infected hosts". It reminds me of what AOL did.
:-/
;)
Still what can one do against users who do not care if they have a worm or not? Should we invet a driving-license thing for the internet, with fines for disregarding the rules? But then we would have the "internet must stay free"-activists on it again
Personally I'd vote for some sort of internet driving license, without having thought much about it. But it feels like the right thing.
Oh well, babbled enough, back to work
... but it certainly is ugly
I've been wondering about that as well. They must be really wide-angel cameras for a 360 view with only three of them. So, if you both (from different cities) do not stand right in front of the camera, it would look like you are both looking at another point (the center of the camera) when in fact you are standing right in front of each other.
On the other hand, having only three cameras keeps the necessary bandwidth low of course. Three video streams with hdtv quality should already need quite some bandwidth, specially if they plan to use the internet as a transfer medium and not dedicated lines. The 22 seperate audio streams should add something on top of that as well.
Still, it seems like a very nice idea. But I'm sure that the same is possible for much less than their projected price of 2 Million Euros using alternative technologies. Think of ordinary TV technology instead of HDTV-Projectors and add the 3 cameras and 22 microphones and speakers on top of that and I'm sure you could go with much less than 2 Million Euros. Add the necessary computer Hardware and the softare and I'm sure you could nicely do it for a tenth of their projected price.
Well, anyways - I love the idea. Reminds me of a Star Trek episode (original series I think) where they find a planet with similar portals to other places.
I mean really, this is actually really inovative for them, there must be something patentable in this.
Welcome! You must be new to patenting.
Really? So a team member could drive in front of me with this really big car and I could just drive in his lee? Problem solved, no solar necessary =)
;-)
Or better yet, mount some really big ass halogen lamps on the car in front of you and point them to the solar cells of my vehicle
Well yes, but you know, if I hear P2P war, I think of nodes which are independent...can be server or client...and that reminds me of guerilla ;P
Heh, is this some kind of guerilla warfare?
The latest smart phone is equipped with a 1.1 million mega pixel built-in camera, Intel 400Mhz Xscale processor for PDA, 192MB memory, and 'Pocket PC 2003 Korean version' of Microsoft as its O/S.
;-)
Freaky
There is a company called "paybox" over here (operating in Austria and many other european countries) which allows payment of stuff through your mobile phone. Many shops partecipate, you can even buy real life porn ;-) with it.
I personally don't use it, but it's been around for a few years already.
Look here: click
;-)
"Modern Operating Systems" costs 250 Indian Rupees which translates to 5.5 USD! And they even call it "Special Indian Price". There is also another version which does not have the "Special Indian Price" thing which costs 5427 (!!) Indian Rupees (122 Dollars): click
I'm curiuos if they will ship the Speical Indian Price book outside India
That could really be a problem for simple filtering based on the address (domain) of the person sending the mail. But I do think that more sophisticated systems do not only use the address of the sender as a criteria to filter mail.
m l
:-)
One of my addresses uses "spam assasin" for protection for example. In its configuration it lets me give it a number called "hits" which interpretation is as follows:
"Set the number of hits required before a mail is considered spam. n.nn can be an integer or a real number. 5.0 is the default setting, and is quite aggressive; it would be suitable for a single-user setup, but if you're an ISP installing SpamAssassin, you should probably set the default to be more conservative, like 8.0 or 10.0"
I took a quick look at their homepage to find out more. Apparently they use a "genetic" algorithm to get the score (and therefore classify what is spam and what not). Further research led me to their "Tests" page which gives a very detailed description:
http://au.spamassassin.org/tests.ht
Take a look at it, I have the feeling that this could have saved your email address
It's free to download, license info says
"SpamAssassin lives at http://spamassassin.org/ or in CPAN, and is
distributed under the same license as Perl itself."
I did not research the license further.
Have fun
I use my email address for everything, including usenet. My provider runs a spam filter which reduces my spam / day to about 10 pieces. Of course, it filters out about 100-150 spam mails / day. When I'm bored I go through these filtered spam mails, but I did not find a false hit yet, so it works pretty well for me.
This is convenient, I don't have to care where my email address goes, I just use it.
We got no problem calling it Taiwan all the other times, so why not now ;-P
From their Features Page:s covery
...
:)
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/92/di
8. Compatibility: run MS-Windows and Mandrake Linux on the same computer
And next to that they show a screenshot of Windows XP running in a Window through VMWare.
If I wouldn't know better (a VMWare license costs around 300 bucks) I would assume that this is included in the Discovery Distribution (which costs 39 bucks) and I would be pretty pi**ed
But other than that it looks interesting
Remember the shotgun-equipped penguins from that futurama episode? :))
Shouldn't that read Pitybyte or something like that? ;-P
Okay okay, it's PebiByte, but hey...one can try =)
Only one word for it:
owned!
Oh yeah, I'll get this one for my gf's birthday, I'm sure she will _love_ it and let me feel her appreciation for it!
</sarcasm>
True, I think it is meant for very special applications only. I recently acquired two 18" LCD Screens wo work with and I'm feeling really comfortable with them. But I'm not sure if I would really find use for a third or even more ones. I don't think it's the same thing as with harddrives where you can't have enough storage space.
read the wired story. sony is claiming 10 hrs on a 20 gig or something like that.
Hmm...when I backup my DVDs I usually use a 352x288 MPEG-2 Video Stream with 1500 kbps (variable bitrate) and a 128 kbps MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 (mp2) audio stream. This gives me pretty good quality and it allows me to put ~3 movies on a DVD, usually with place to spare. Each 90 minute movie has around 1.2 GB that way. So with 20 GB that gets me 25 hours of viewtime in pretty good quality on my TV. If you chose to only watch your movies on a small screen connected to your IPod (or to that new Sony Player) you could reduce the resolution even further.
That would be legal, only if you are MOVING the files, and not COPYING them. Technically it's a small difference, but legally it is major.
So as long as I have them, noone else can watch them on TV?
What about all these Gigabytes (Gigibytes?) of uh... "home videos" everyone is supposed to have?
Something I forgot. They also state in the article that the _initial_ costs for hard-tooling equipment are extraordinary high compared to soft-tooling.
No. While they say that hard-tooling is superiour, they do admit that they use soft-tooling as well for lower production amount units.
I'm working on two 18" TFT's at the moment. Good ones and I can really feel that they put _much_ less strain on my eyes. But still, I would prefer something written on paper any day. Even if I read longer documents, I prefer to print them out...I dunno, maybe there is no difference in eye strain, but I definitely _believe_ there is and that may be the reason ...