So, Skype is that program that uses a P2P network (like KaZaA) as a fall-back if one of the two computers chatting don't have world-accessible skype ports, right? This would be a bit like what happens when two people have an argument and tell each other, "I'm not talking to you." -- the people in the middle get to hear all the (encrypted) communications.
Intellectual Property, like Cloud Computing, is a nebulous term. It covers at least three distinct areas: trademark law, copyright law, and patent law.
That's nowhere near enough color to make it worthwhile for children's books.
Last time I checked, children's books had fewer colours than adult picture books. It's more common to see a few high-contrast colours than lots of different colours.
instantly he gets 500 anonymous comments trying to sell pills, "my political party is better than the other party", troll troll troll.
That reminds me, can I interest you in some tasty fudge? I've heard that it works quite well as a pain reliever for newborn babies, and also for pain relief in sexually active adult males.
What about allowing people to have a display name (that by default is the same as the real name), and the option of exposing the real name to selected circles?
Rather conveniently, the definition of a bitcoin is a quite specific bit of math, rather than some natural language handwaving, so it would arguably be a better defined trademark than many — unlike patents and copyrights, which are enforceable against all comers with only a few 'fair use' and such exceptions, so long as they aren't being used deceptively.
FTFY, by removing those unsightly parentheses. It's almost understandable now!
That's great, but I'd like to know if there's any chance of doing this in reverse. That is, a non-invasive method of receiving electrical hand signals and converting them to inputs to a computer. Such a device would be much better than the previous idea I've been wheeling out every now and then on/. as a replacement for electrodes in the brain for computer feedback.
approach to computer security. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( X ) Remote access and other legitimate computer uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( X ) It will stop insecure PCs for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( X ) Users of computers will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( X ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( X ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( X ) Many computer users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( X ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for security ( ) VPNs in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny numeric address space of all computers ( X ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( X ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in security ( X ) Susceptibility of protocols other than HTTP to attack ( X ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( X ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( X ) Technically illiterate politicians ( X ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( X ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Microsoft
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( X ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) HTTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( X ) Blacklists suck ( X ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( X ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending traffic should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( X ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( X ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time passwords are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( X ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
They'd only need an understanding of the popcon list format, which could be obtained from looking at the source without installing. This is Debian — every package has source which can be perused by those with a wary eye.
I'm amazed that they stuck this release freeze out long enough to get the RC bugs for the testing release down to what looks like the lowest since the graph began tracking testing in 2004 -- I would like to believe that this means squeeze will end up being the most stable/reliable release so far.
Now that the release is done and the freeze is over, an upgrade of the Linux kernel (from 2.6.32 to 2.6.37) in unstable should be soon to follow. Also, Firefox (probably 3.5.9 -> 4) and LibreOffice (OOO 3.2.1 -> LO 3.3).
And spamgourmet has been doing something like this as well, but better and more anonymously:
If you haven't done it yet, create a spamgourmet account. Enter your user name and the email address you want to be protected. You will be asked to identify the word in a picture and pick a password.
Spamgourmet will forward to this address all the emails sent to your spamgourmet disposable addresses -- that way you don't have to tell anyone else what it is -- this is why it's called the protected address. Of course, this protected address must exist. That's why you have to confirm it. You'll receive an email asking you to confirm.
After you have confirmed your protected address, you can give out self-destructing disposable email addresses whenever you want. The disposable addresses are like 'someword.x.user@spamgourmet.com'
All they need to know is a user name and your email address (because they need something to forward emails to).
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So, Skype is that program that uses a P2P network (like KaZaA) as a fall-back if one of the two computers chatting don't have world-accessible skype ports, right? This would be a bit like what happens when two people have an argument and tell each other, "I'm not talking to you." -- the people in the middle get to hear all the (encrypted) communications.
Intellectual Property, like Cloud Computing, is a nebulous term. It covers at least three distinct areas: trademark law, copyright law, and patent law.
I've never quite understood how paying to read other people's research encourages good science.
where did you find this. everywhere I have looked has claimed it is extremely long single crystalline sapphire strands
You could start with the article:
They are made from single crystals of sapphire strung together and glued in place with a specialized ceramic coating.
That's nowhere near enough color to make it worthwhile for children's books.
Last time I checked, children's books had fewer colours than adult picture books. It's more common to see a few high-contrast colours than lots of different colours.
two-sided die: http://www.diceagegame.com/images/compendium/3hydra1.jpg
instantly he gets 500 anonymous comments trying to sell pills, "my political party is better than the other party", troll troll troll.
That reminds me, can I interest you in some tasty fudge? I've heard that it works quite well as a pain reliever for newborn babies, and also for pain relief in sexually active adult males.
What about allowing people to have a display name (that by default is the same as the real name), and the option of exposing the real name to selected circles?
And for those people who don't have the intellectual desire to tinker away at a shell, Simon Tatham has a few puzzles for you:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
I accept no responsibility for loss of work months due to the use of these puzzles.
Rather conveniently, the definition of a bitcoin is a quite specific bit of math, rather than some natural language handwaving, so it would arguably be a better defined trademark than many — unlike patents and copyrights, which are enforceable against all comers with only a few 'fair use' and such exceptions, so long as they aren't being used deceptively.
FTFY, by removing those unsightly parentheses. It's almost understandable now!
it cleared the ISS at 0008GMT this morning
Sorry but in what way 8 minutes past midnight is 'morning'?
In the Hong Kong or Tokyo way (or pick some other country in a similar area of the world).
That's great, but I'd like to know if there's any chance of doing this in reverse. That is, a non-invasive method of receiving electrical hand signals and converting them to inputs to a computer. Such a device would be much better than the previous idea I've been wheeling out every now and then on /. as a replacement for electrodes in the brain for computer feedback.
I'm okay. I have a double story house
Last time I checked, a 20-foot wave would roll over the top of most two storey houses.
If "the camera adds 5 kilos", can those be digitally removed as well?
How is this solution better than a screensaver with the 'lock after X mins of inactivity' option?
Isn't a simple inactivity timer just as effective?
Actually, that's not a half bad idea if I can get one to work in XP. I'll have to look around for that.
It's called a screensaver, with the 'password protect' option. Even Microsoft puts one of those on their default system installation.
So it does not cover the 99% of DNA that is the same between people
There's no need for it to cover that. The consensus DNA sequence (human genome reference sequence) is freely available from the NCBI website.
Modified from this:
Your post advocates a
( X ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to computer security. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( X ) Remote access and other legitimate computer uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( X ) It will stop insecure PCs for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( X ) Users of computers will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( X ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( X ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( X ) Many computer users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( X ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for security
( ) VPNs in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny numeric address space of all computers
( X ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( X ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in security
( X ) Susceptibility of protocols other than HTTP to attack
( X ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( X ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( X ) Technically illiterate politicians
( X ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( X ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Microsoft
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( X ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) HTTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( X ) Blacklists suck
( X ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( X ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending traffic should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( X ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( X ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time passwords are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( X ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
they'd still need popcon to generate the list
They'd only need an understanding of the popcon list format, which could be obtained from looking at the source without installing. This is Debian — every package has source which can be perused by those with a wary eye.
How the hell do the other 0.24% report them?
Probably privacy purists who don't want software sending things automatically over the internet, and send their results off manually.
Gentoo is in very fine shape these days, I'm compiling it daily!
FTFY
did you use autorun to post that?
I'm amazed that they stuck this release freeze out long enough to get the RC bugs for the testing release down to what looks like the lowest since the graph began tracking testing in 2004 -- I would like to believe that this means squeeze will end up being the most stable/reliable release so far.
Now that the release is done and the freeze is over, an upgrade of the Linux kernel (from 2.6.32 to 2.6.37) in unstable should be soon to follow. Also, Firefox (probably 3.5.9 -> 4) and LibreOffice (OOO 3.2.1 -> LO 3.3).
Favimon, you have my axe. I've got Slashdot with 10 armour and a stolen double click from interface.org.nz.
And spamgourmet has been doing something like this as well, but better and more anonymously:
All they need to know is a user name and your email address (because they need something to forward emails to).