I don't understand it either... I think the article is misleading. On the Peppercoin website it says they don't rely on aggregation i.e. no upfront $10 fee. If that's the case then the only way I can see this system working is if it is in fact symmetric and both the customer only pays $10 some of the time and the retailer only recieves $10 some of the time.
No, I'm sorry. Perhaps _you_ should do a bit of reading! The US Dollar is now a fiat currency. It is no longer backed by gold it is now simply backed by the fiat of the government. This has been the case officially for around 30 years and in reality for about 80.
for example, Bush's proposal for an extra $25 billion for AIDS assistance to Africa would more than double the budget of NASA
I'd hardly call this pork. This funding is necessary to save millions of lives and stop Africa from descending into chaos. The huge tax cuts for the rich might however be a better place to look for bacon
I remember reading the first subs produced by the english where actually coal and steam powered!!! They tested them up in the scottish locks but I think the tests weren't very successful.
So in fact it's going:
Wood-fired subs -> Diesel Powered -> Nuclear Powered -> Wood-fired subs
At the risk of feeding a troll.... That was exactly what I was pointing out, that this aspect of the implementation does nullify this person's point! That by comparing the message with both spam and ham you reduce the possibility that spammers can get around this technique by just adding random noise.
Perhaps you should read people's comments more carefully before making stupid replies!
To counteract that you could also create a second zip containing legitimate emails. The spam mails (even with randomness) should compress better in the Spam zip than the other....
I think you can solve this problem by also storing a gzip file with legitimate emails as well. Try adding the email to both and see whether it gets most compressed by being added to the spam or the legitimate mail file.
If it's spam the mail should then compress better in the spam zip and hence still be classified as spam.
No that's _not_ irony!!!! That's a common misperception of what irony means ala Alanis Morisette.
(from Cambridge International Dictionary of English) irony (WRONG RESULT) noun [U] a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result The irony (of it) is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help. The boy who fell in the river survived but the man who jumped in to save him drowned - a tragic irony.
A sword swaller choking on a toothpick is NOT irony!!!
This might be an idea if it wasn't for the fact that legislation has made the length of copyright period essentially indefinite (aka the Sonny-Bono/Mickey Mouse copyright act)! Not to mention most so called 'DRM' systems prevent me from doing what I would be entitled to do anyway under the law. No this is not a good idea!
No, there are multiple interpretations of what probability means. The particular interpretation of probability you're talking about is in fact rather problematic. There are some classes of event that cannot be derived in the manner in which you describe....
I didn't think FTP required packets to arrive in sequence. Although FTP and TCP acknowledge packets in sequence they don't actually require the packets to be recieved in sequence.
They don't really make clear why this product is interesting at all except giving it a cute name.
More exciting is the posibility of having director's cuts and the normal version of a movie on the one DVD or being able to download fan re-edits ala 'The Phantom Edit' for movies.
If everyone has to pay 1c per page how are search engines like Google going to actually get their content??? Won't that kind of eat their profits??
Does anyone _seriously_ see this happening???
Penny Arcade on this very issue
There was a resturaunt in Vancouver called De Niro's. Robert De Niro took them to court saying they were infringing on his copyright by calling the resturaunt by that name. He won and as a result the resturaunt changed it's name to "Section 11" or something, the section of the copyright act he sued them under..... So there are precedents of similar things happening.
This proposal doesn't necessarily show ignorance it may in fact just show incredibly callous calculating cynical attempt to pass this ridiculous legislation. Under normal circumstances this legislation probably wouldn't pass but by saying it's "anti-terrorist" they'll be able to get whatever legislation they want passed. Who's going to vote against "anti-terrorist" legislation?
Why not actually attack the source of the problem rather than the symptoms.
Money would be far better spent removing the motivation for people to become terrorists rather than putting out fires by stopping individual terrorists.
I thought there was an international UN treaty against the development of jokes as offensive weapons.
I guess Bush is shoving it to the international community yet again...;)
It really annoys me the way book shops etc lump sci-fi and fantasy together. They're two very different genres with different styles and different (admittedly often overlapping) readerships.
Giving a science fiction award like this to a fantasy book just annoys me because it means bookshops are less likely to have distinct fantasy and sci-fi sections...
Please if anyone who runs a bookshop reads this please please please consider having seperate science fiction and fantasy sections, they are different.
The fact there has been such a huge reaction to Prof. Singers appointment says more about America's intolerance for new ideas than it does about ethics. Prof. Singer has been lecturing for years without the need for security guards in his classes and unmarked offices. This just goes to show the intolerance of american society.
In Australia we appreciate people's rights to differing opinions. This is in contrast I don't think the question has a cut and dried answer, and just because you have a differing opinion to some. Don't use the counter example of our internet censorship legislation because that is very un-Australian and the current government sucks.
I think the security analysts at the ASX would have checked this out pretty thoughly before they made any claims liket this about the US military. It's a serious claim and I'm sure they checked it seriously before alerting the media and making formal complaints to the US government. Note they're not blaming the US military the attack just origninated from a US military institution. It's not the Aust. media, the head of the ASX made these claims.
It' only really when I read about people's experiences like this that I realise how lucky I was. I went to a selective (based on academic merit) school. As a result although I was a bit of a geek there there wasn't really any of the victimisation that I would have experienced at a normal school.
I don't think there will ever be a perfect form of communication. However the internet enables whatever form of communication you choose. It enables it to be distributed to as many or as few people as you choose. That's the power of the internet.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't understand it either... I think the article is misleading. On the Peppercoin website it says they don't rely on aggregation i.e. no upfront $10 fee. If that's the case then the only way I can see this system working is if it is in fact symmetric and both the customer only pays $10 some of the time and the retailer only recieves $10 some of the time.
No, I'm sorry. Perhaps _you_ should do a bit of reading! The US Dollar is now a fiat currency. It is no longer backed by gold it is now simply backed by the fiat of the government. This has been the case officially for around 30 years and in reality for about 80.
for example, Bush's proposal for an extra $25 billion for AIDS assistance to Africa would more than double the budget of NASA
I'd hardly call this pork. This funding is necessary to save millions of lives and stop Africa from descending into chaos. The huge tax cuts for the rich might however be a better place to look for bacon
I remember reading the first subs produced by the english where actually coal and steam powered!!! They tested them up in the scottish locks but I think the tests weren't very successful.
So in fact it's going:
Wood-fired subs -> Diesel Powered -> Nuclear Powered -> Wood-fired subs
At the risk of feeding a troll.... That was exactly what I was pointing out, that this aspect of the implementation does nullify this person's point! That by comparing the message with both spam and ham you reduce the possibility that spammers can get around this technique by just adding random noise.
Perhaps you should read people's comments more carefully before making stupid replies!
To counteract that you could also create a second zip containing legitimate emails. The spam mails (even with randomness) should compress better in the Spam zip than the other....
I think you can solve this problem by also storing a gzip file with legitimate emails as well. Try adding the email to both and see whether it gets most compressed by being added to the spam or the legitimate mail file.
If it's spam the mail should then compress better in the spam zip and hence still be classified as spam.
No that's _not_ irony!!!! That's a common misperception of what irony means ala Alanis Morisette.
(from Cambridge International Dictionary of English)
irony (WRONG RESULT)
noun [U]
a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result
The irony (of it) is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help.
The boy who fell in the river survived but the man who jumped in to save him drowned - a tragic irony.
A sword swaller choking on a toothpick is NOT irony!!!
This might be an idea if it wasn't for the fact that legislation has made the length of copyright period essentially indefinite (aka the Sonny-Bono/Mickey Mouse copyright act)! Not to mention most so called 'DRM' systems prevent me from doing what I would be entitled to do anyway under the law. No this is not a good idea!
No, there are multiple interpretations of what probability means. The particular interpretation of probability you're talking about is in fact rather problematic. There are some classes of event that cannot be derived in the manner in which you describe....
I believe curious yellow is more likely to be a reference to vurt by jeff noon. Which is an amazing book by the way.
I didn't think FTP required packets to arrive in sequence. Although FTP and TCP acknowledge packets in sequence they don't actually require the packets to be recieved in sequence.
They don't really make clear why this product is interesting at all except giving it a cute name.
More exciting is the posibility of having director's cuts and the normal version of a movie on the one DVD or being able to download fan re-edits ala 'The Phantom Edit' for movies.
If everyone has to pay 1c per page how are search engines like Google going to actually get their content??? Won't that kind of eat their profits?? Does anyone _seriously_ see this happening??? Penny Arcade on this very issue
There was a resturaunt in Vancouver called De Niro's. Robert De Niro took them to court saying they were infringing on his copyright by calling the resturaunt by that name. He won and as a result the resturaunt changed it's name to "Section 11" or something, the section of the copyright act he sued them under..... So there are precedents of similar things happening.
This proposal doesn't necessarily show ignorance it may in fact just show incredibly callous calculating cynical attempt to pass this ridiculous legislation. Under normal circumstances this legislation probably wouldn't pass but by saying it's "anti-terrorist" they'll be able to get whatever legislation they want passed. Who's going to vote against "anti-terrorist" legislation?
Why not actually attack the source of the problem rather than the symptoms.
Money would be far better spent removing the motivation for people to become terrorists rather than putting out fires by stopping individual terrorists.
I thought there was an international UN treaty against the development of jokes as offensive weapons. ;)
I guess Bush is shoving it to the international community yet again...
It really annoys me the way book shops etc lump sci-fi and fantasy together. They're two very different genres with different styles and different (admittedly often overlapping) readerships.
Giving a science fiction award like this to a fantasy book just annoys me because it means bookshops are less likely to have distinct fantasy and sci-fi sections...
Please if anyone who runs a bookshop reads this please please please consider having seperate science fiction and fantasy sections, they are different.
I think the biggest barrier to the development of open source games is more the lack of artwork and sounds etc.
Here's the URL for the asynchronous design group's homepage There's more info there.
In Australia we appreciate people's rights to differing opinions. This is in contrast
I don't think the question has a cut and dried answer, and just because you have a differing opinion to some. Don't use the counter example of our internet censorship legislation because that is very un-Australian and the current government sucks.
Hamish
I think the security analysts at the ASX would have checked this out pretty thoughly before they made any claims liket this about the US military. It's a serious claim and I'm sure they checked it seriously before alerting the media and making formal complaints to the US government. Note they're not blaming the US military the attack just origninated from a US military institution. It's not the Aust. media, the head of the ASX made these claims.
It' only really when I read about people's experiences like this that I realise how lucky I was. I went to a selective (based on academic merit) school. As a result although I was a bit of a geek there there wasn't really any of the victimisation that I would have experienced at a normal school.
Another good Katz article.
I don't think there will ever be a perfect form of communication.
However the internet enables whatever form of communication you choose. It enables it to be distributed to as many or as few people as you choose.
That's the power of the internet.