Don't know if the situation has changed, but if you use an alias to send email to your Y! email account, the spam filters silently don't learn.
I trained it with around 1500 messages and still "C*ck crazed sluts" still got through. So after much nagging, I finally got the response that messages that are sent to an aliased name aren't spam filtered.
And how damn hard is it to add a naughty word filter? Seeing they failed me with spam guard, that leaves trying to bumble it with filters. You can only set up a small number of filters, so that's out.
It would be trivial of them to just have a special single filter you could select that would catch the most common spamming words.
I remember when Y! had much higher standards. Everyone I knew at Y! sounded a lot like Google does now. Everyone and their brother was raving about Seth Godin's Permission marketing book. How it considered internally, from my perspective , was very close to how I imagine Google views itself now.
Then slowly as the pinch was on, they started shifting away from the idealism. As far as "merchandising", things that they seemed to consider bad form became practice.
100% with ya. I don't understand why anyone with a clue would click on anything in email.
Don't even cut and paste, just type. Companies could make it easier by using shorter and easier to type urls as well. Banks and other sites with sensitive info, should make it policy to not include links at all.
Then they should send an email (or letter) to customers informing them of the policy.
They didn't show it long, but it did look like it had a little bit of fisheye at the edges so I'm assuming the FOV is a bit wide but not too much. It seemed little less than my backup camera (which is around ~150 degrees horizontal), but like I said, they didn't show it too long.
It was funny as the woman made some comment to the effect of needing a taller camera and that was all that was said about it. Just seems like an obvious problem in tight quarters.
Though for all I know, you might be able to adjust the pitch. I'm assuming it's just a weight in the housing, seems like it would be easy enough to give you an adjustment screw to set the angle.
I saw a demonstration today on tv. It rotates horizontally after it rights itself. Though the reporter was only a few feet away from where it landed and mostly saw her legs.
I imagine it's mostly politcal/religous pressure and some math.
Many kids see R rated movies. No way with an NC17. It hurts box office, so they don't show them. Maybe the blanket policy is a kind of pressure from the theatre owners as they don't want product they can't make maximum profit off of. So if you know it's the kiss of death, then you'll submit to the R.
Funny, Evil Dead would have received an X which was why I and II were unrated. Now they show them on network tv, mostly uncut (except for the tree rape).
What's the difference between the women presented in Maxim and Cosmo? Not a hell of a lot.
For the most part, they look just like guy magazines, but the photos are slightly less smutty, and the articles are much more so.
The impact of this on society is another story, but I don't think it's that much of a barrier in and of itself.
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"HTML isn't a very good language for making Web pages."
This is based on what? That it's not postscript or flash? Granted there are improvments that could be made, but by and large, it works wonderfully. A simple and universal UI and a markup that almost anyone can learn.
How is bloating it to do everything you could ever want going to improve things?
Why do I need to be able to use it as an etch-a-sketch? You want to be able to draw or run around a maze? Get a plugin. Now if they want to standardize plugins, that's another issue.
Forms could use some work, but personally, I think the limited control of layout is a big plus. Almost anyone who has filled out a form, can figure out any other form. Client side validation? What's the point? Still need to validate server side. Maybe it saves a trip, but that is probably negated by all the extra markup that will be coming over the pipe.
I like the direction google is taking things. I think incorporating a few smaller changes and we can get most of what's desirable.
<RANT> And author control over auto-completion of form elements? Maybe an author hint, but control? Um, no. Fuck off. For some reason, this somewhat benign point really vexes me. Not to go off on too much of a Dennis Leary tangent, but goddamn it, I'm getting sick of computers and devices doing what they feel like and not what I tell them to. Like power buttons. I want a power button that shuts off that fucking power, not suggests that it should, if it feels it's appropriate. I press open on a drive tray, it better damn open. </RANT>
These people are idiots. All it would take is a little organization to increase the efficiency.
Of course with a larger number of potential victims, fewer percentage-wise will be hit. But they also contradict themselves.
They say...
ID Analytics said it discovered that identity thieves have a hard time using a stolen credit cards to hijack the identity of cardholders. That's because the cards are usually quickly canceled and because piecing together an identity based on the information on the card is hard work. Not one of the card breaches it studied resulted in a subsequent identity takeover.
Now if credit card companies don't report it, who says the cards will be canceled?
I can't remember which company it was, but I remember a breach a couple years ago, the initial numbers where in the tens of thousands, after the FBI got involved the true number was over a million IIRC.
They should never be able to hide their culpability. If they can, they will always minimize their liability.
Speaking of dead ants. I once got a ton of them coming from a crack along where the tub meets the floor.
So I put out some ant traps and noticed something that seemed odd, at least to me.
As they started dying, the started stacking the bodies in small piles along lines that ran diagonal to the floor tiles. It looked like a point grid. Fairly evenly spaced as well
I know they are just ants, but I actually started feeling pretty guilty when the few that were left were just hauling the corpses of the others, until there was one single ant trying to move all these bodies into these neatly stacked piles until he too succumbed to the poison.
The sensors aspect is wiz bang but the articulation is an old puppetry idea...
"Each of the five fingers is articulated and has one motor dedicated to its joint flexing for autonomous control. It features an opposable thumb, so the device can perform different grasping actions.
Taking inspiration from the real hand, where a muscle pulls a tendon inside a synovial sheath, CYBERHAND's finger cables run through a Teflon sheath pulled by a DC motor.
I made something like this in the late 80s when I did FX. I in turned read about it in GoreZone and some instructional videos.:)
Normally for the fingers you'd use stiff hex shaped plastic air tubing as making or purchasing metal armetures was expensive.
You'd cut notches out where they were to flex. You'd use teflon coated tubing with a wire (bike brake cable basically) and attach one end to the fingertip and the other to a motor or a set of rings so you could operate the fingers remotely via remotely or your own hand motions.
You can actually get a good range of motion and even grasp things decently (and this is with plastic tubing).
So I'm curious, in the area of limb replacement, is this the first time the overall design was applied? I'd be really suprised if it were.
When I was a kid, my friend moved and I found this elongated Coke bottle in the new house in the oven. Figure it was stretched to about twice it's normal length.
Anyway, being 9 or 10, it seemed cool. When I got it home, I put it on the mantel and there it stayed.
One day, a commercial for the Carol Burnett show was playing. I think she was supposed to be in jail, she let out this loud "LAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH" in a parody of an opera singer.
Sure enough, the bottle (behind us) shattered scaring the hell out of me and my grandmother. I suppose the glass having been reheated and stretched thin didn't help it.
I hate all the new movies, but the first three are still great if imperfect movies.
Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet. lol
It can't really be done. You can make it harder, but never bulletproof.
You can use Filter::decrypt or similar to encrypt the source, but if someone's really determined, they can you the B:: modules to look at the opcodes and convert it back to Perl.
I will say that the situation has improved quite a bit. I hadn't installed linux on a new system in quite some time. Most of my current systems are all source installs. I remember quite a bit of fighting with driver issues.
I wanted to use my dell laptop as the basis for a car pc. Real hesitant. Thinking back to my prior experiences and the fact that it was a laptop.
I can't believe for the most part how easy it was to get everything running. Pretty much everything worked as it should right of the bat. The only thing that gave me trouble was using my LG PM325 sprint phone with Bluez.
While I'd love to be able to use my instant dvd for a pvr or something, I think in general, binary drivers are a bad idea. If you give them the option, that's what they'll do. I think there's also a potential for subtrufuge.
Comfort Keyboards are like that. Nicely made but expensive. I went through a point were I couldn't type any more. Just too painful. Used this for six months and all was right. I did end up going back to a normal keyboard though.
"As development EVOLVES, there is NO REASON with the AI in the development tools and the AI in the code produced by these development tools should not be used. Why should a person in the 21st century truly have to fully understand memory allocation, advanced recursion, or even see program past advanced event handlers, as that is what programs ARE - event handlers..."
I'm not against making things easier, but what happens when the tools don't work properly? I think at the very least, a decent understanding of the underpinnings should be required learning.
That seems right. I purchased a Latitude in, I think 2000, might have been 2001. Died after a week or so. They sent out a guy, (He knew nothing of the BIOS settings:O ), just replaced the motherboard. A few months later, the same thing happens. Out he comes again to replace it. Hasn't had a problem since. I'm assuming it was just a bad batch of something or other. Though was very suprised that the tech didn't really know anything about configuring, and just how to replace stuff.
Though as an aside, I did notice recently when I went to take it apart, that he only put half the screws back in.
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Don't know if the situation has changed, but if you use an alias to send email to your Y! email account, the spam filters silently don't learn.
I trained it with around 1500 messages and still "C*ck crazed sluts" still got through. So after much nagging, I finally got the response that messages that are sent to an aliased name aren't spam filtered.
And how damn hard is it to add a naughty word filter? Seeing they failed me with spam guard, that leaves trying to bumble it with filters. You can only set up a small number of filters, so that's out.
It would be trivial of them to just have a special single filter you could select that would catch the most common spamming words.
Hopefully not the case, but you never know.
I remember when Y! had much higher standards. Everyone I knew at Y! sounded a lot like Google does now. Everyone and their brother was raving about Seth Godin's Permission marketing book. How it considered internally, from my perspective , was very close to how I imagine Google views itself now.
Then slowly as the pinch was on, they started shifting away from the idealism. As far as "merchandising", things that they seemed to consider bad form became practice.
100% with ya.
I don't understand why anyone with a clue would click on anything in email.
Don't even cut and paste, just type. Companies could make it easier by using shorter and easier to type urls as well. Banks and other sites with sensitive info, should make it policy to not include links at all.
Then they should send an email (or letter) to customers informing them of the policy.
Isn't this called Chaffing and winnowing?
They didn't show it long, but it did look like it had a little bit of fisheye at the edges so I'm assuming the FOV is a bit wide but not too much. It seemed little less than my backup camera (which is around ~150 degrees horizontal), but like I said, they didn't show it too long.
It was funny as the woman made some comment to the effect of needing a taller camera and that was all that was said about it. Just seems like an obvious problem in tight quarters.
Though for all I know, you might be able to adjust the pitch. I'm assuming it's just a weight in the housing, seems like it would be easy enough to give you an adjustment screw to set the angle.
It is unless you're a calf man.
I saw a demonstration today on tv. It rotates horizontally after it rights itself. Though the reporter was only a few feet away from where it landed and mostly saw her legs.
I imagine it's mostly politcal/religous pressure and some math.
Many kids see R rated movies. No way with an NC17. It hurts box office, so they don't show them. Maybe the blanket policy is a kind of pressure from the theatre owners as they don't want product they can't make maximum profit off of. So if you know it's the kiss of death, then you'll submit to the R.
Funny, Evil Dead would have received an X which was why I and II were unrated. Now they show them on network tv, mostly uncut (except for the tree rape).
What's the difference between the women presented in Maxim and Cosmo? Not a hell of a lot.
For the most part, they look just like guy magazines, but the photos are slightly less smutty, and the articles are much more so.
The impact of this on society is another story, but I don't think it's that much of a barrier in and of itself.
"HTML isn't a very good language for making Web pages."
This is based on what? That it's not postscript or flash? Granted there are improvments that could be made, but by and large, it works wonderfully. A simple and universal UI and a markup that almost anyone can learn.
How is bloating it to do everything you could ever want going to improve things?
Why do I need to be able to use it as an etch-a-sketch? You want to be able to draw or run around a maze? Get a plugin. Now if they want to standardize plugins, that's another issue.
Forms could use some work, but personally, I think the limited control of layout is a big plus. Almost anyone who has filled out a form, can figure out any other form. Client side validation? What's the point? Still need to validate server side. Maybe it saves a trip, but that is probably negated by all the extra markup that will be coming over the pipe.
I like the direction google is taking things. I think incorporating a few smaller changes and we can get most of what's desirable.
<RANT>
And author control over auto-completion of form elements? Maybe an author hint, but control? Um, no. Fuck off. For some reason, this somewhat benign point really vexes me. Not to go off on too much of a Dennis Leary tangent, but goddamn it, I'm getting sick of computers and devices doing what they feel like and not what I tell them to. Like power buttons. I want a power button that shuts off that fucking power, not suggests that it should, if it feels it's appropriate. I press open on a drive tray, it better damn open.
</RANT>
These people are idiots. All it would take is a little organization to increase the efficiency.
Of course with a larger number of potential victims, fewer percentage-wise will be hit. But they also contradict themselves.
They say...
ID Analytics said it discovered that identity thieves have a hard time using a stolen credit cards to hijack the identity of cardholders. That's because the cards are usually quickly canceled and because piecing together an identity based on the information on the card is hard work. Not one of the card breaches it studied resulted in a subsequent identity takeover.
Now if credit card companies don't report it, who says the cards will be canceled?
I can't remember which company it was, but I remember a breach a couple years ago, the initial numbers where in the tens of thousands, after the FBI got involved the true number was over a million IIRC.
They should never be able to hide their culpability. If they can, they will always minimize their liability.
More importantly, does it share the limited lifespan of Eclipse and Xposure coatings? I think they "wear out" after a year or so.
Speaking of dead ants. I once got a ton of them coming from a crack along where the tub meets the floor.
So I put out some ant traps and noticed something that seemed odd, at least to me.
As they started dying, the started stacking the bodies in small piles along lines that ran diagonal to the floor tiles. It looked like a point grid. Fairly evenly spaced as well
I know they are just ants, but I actually started feeling pretty guilty when the few that were left were just hauling the corpses of the others, until there was one single ant trying to move all these bodies into these neatly stacked piles until he too succumbed to the poison.
Agreed.
Though a good book not for dummies that covers a lot of theory is Computer Graphics Prinicples and Practice by Foley and Van Dam.
I think the newer versions have C code instead of abstract code.
The sensors aspect is wiz bang but the articulation is an old puppetry idea...
:)
"Each of the five fingers is articulated and has one motor dedicated to its joint flexing for autonomous control. It features an opposable thumb, so the device can perform different grasping actions.
Taking inspiration from the real hand, where a muscle pulls a tendon inside a synovial sheath, CYBERHAND's finger cables run through a Teflon sheath pulled by a DC motor.
I made something like this in the late 80s when I did FX. I in turned read about it in GoreZone and some instructional videos.
Normally for the fingers you'd use stiff hex shaped plastic air tubing as making or purchasing metal armetures was expensive.
You'd cut notches out where they were to flex. You'd use teflon coated tubing with a wire (bike brake cable basically) and attach one end to the fingertip and the other to a motor or a set of rings so you could operate the fingers remotely via remotely or your own hand motions.
You can actually get a good range of motion and even grasp things decently (and this is with plastic tubing).
So I'm curious, in the area of limb replacement, is this the first time the overall design was applied? I'd be really suprised if it were.
When I was a kid, my friend moved and I found this elongated Coke bottle in the new house in the oven. Figure it was stretched to about twice it's normal length.
Anyway, being 9 or 10, it seemed cool. When I got it home, I put it on the mantel and there it stayed.
One day, a commercial for the Carol Burnett show was playing. I think she was supposed to be in jail, she let out this loud "LAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH" in a parody of an opera singer.
Sure enough, the bottle (behind us) shattered scaring the hell out of me and my grandmother. I suppose the glass having been reheated and stretched thin didn't help it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/
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I hate all the new movies, but the first three are still great if imperfect movies.
Comparing it to Battlestar Galactica is a bit of a reach. I loved that show growing up. I recently bought it. Somehow in my memories of the show, I forgot about the trip to the cannibal disco planet. lol
It can't really be done. You can make it harder, but never bulletproof.
You can use Filter::decrypt or similar to encrypt the source, but if someone's really determined, they can you the B:: modules to look at the opcodes and convert it back to Perl.
I will say that the situation has improved quite a bit. I hadn't installed linux on a new system in quite some time. Most of my current systems are all source installs. I remember quite a bit of fighting with driver issues.
I wanted to use my dell laptop as the basis for a car pc. Real hesitant. Thinking back to my prior experiences and the fact that it was a laptop.
I can't believe for the most part how easy it was to get everything running. Pretty much everything worked as it should right of the bat. The only thing that gave me trouble was using my LG PM325 sprint phone with Bluez.
While I'd love to be able to use my instant dvd for a pvr or something, I think in general, binary drivers are a bad idea. If you give them the option, that's what they'll do. I think there's also a potential for subtrufuge.
Comfort Keyboards are like that. Nicely made but expensive. I went through a point were I couldn't type any more. Just too painful. Used this for six months and all was right. I did end up going back to a normal keyboard though.
With Mongo? I can remember lot's of offensive (and hilarious) things in that movie, but can't think of too much with Mongo.
"As development EVOLVES, there is NO REASON with the AI in the development tools and the AI in the code produced by these development tools should not be used. Why should a person in the 21st century truly have to fully understand memory allocation, advanced recursion, or even see program past advanced event
handlers, as that is what programs ARE - event handlers..."
I'm not against making things easier, but what happens when the tools don't work properly? I think at the very least, a decent understanding of the underpinnings should be required learning.
I get 529 hits on google.
Then I typed in "cheese fetish" and got 936, lol
That seems right. :O ), just replaced the motherboard. A few months later, the same thing happens. Out he comes again to replace it. Hasn't had a problem since. I'm assuming it was just a bad batch of something or other. Though was very suprised that the tech didn't really know anything about configuring, and just how to replace stuff.
I purchased a Latitude in, I think 2000, might have been 2001. Died after a week or so. They sent out a guy, (He knew nothing of the BIOS settings
Though as an aside, I did notice recently when I went to take it apart, that he only put half the screws back in.