After they take your song order, someone then downloads the music from Kazaa or LimeWire for you.:-) What a great deal for AOL newbies who don't know how to run the programs for themselves!
There's some more detail on this method at the TMDA project [sourceforge.net].
I'm not convinced TMDA will be sufficient to thwart spammers if they only have to reply to a verification message to get their message delivered. It seems TMDA is depending on the assumption that a spammer's address is invalid immediately after the spammer sends a message and has no associated email account. This may often be the case now, but may not be the case once TMDA becomes popular.
I think he's advocating a more tolerant version of the "small, specific routines for processing data". Imagine passing a parameter that is out of focus to a routine. That routine could choose which of its valid inputs the parameter appears to be, and could return an out of focus result. The caller could choose which result that appears to be. This way the program continues to execute, even when a parameter or return value is erroneous.
I think Microsoft plans to release the source code to all of its programmers' "hello world" programs. If you want more, you'll have to pay. Hey, they didn't say what kind of source, did they?:-)
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is that as the Internet bubble was bursting, many companies were likely motivated to move numbers around to make it look as if they were doing okay while they looked around for someone to buy the company. I think the stock market is mostly a game of musical chairs for grownups. The music stopped unexpectedly for Enron and WorldCom. Who's next?
This is a cool article. There's one thing I don't understand, though. How do you steer the crazy thing? Wouldn't these subs just move quickly in random directions?
I don't know much about Darwin, but I think it is probably a pretty small and stable piece of the OS. If that's true, it doesn't get changed much, and therefore doesn't get any media coverage.
These guys are going to snoop. One might even argue that they have to. Actively work to keep encryption and anonymization legal and to stay one step ahead of them.
The link between sleeplessness and memory loss has always been intuitively known for eons.
This doesn't seem true for me. When I get 8 hours or more of sleep I feel groggier all day. When I was programming all day and getting 6 hours or less of sleep my memory worked much better for weeks at a time. I really enjoy sleep, so I'm usually groggy:P
I wonder if different brain chemistries yield different results...
I recently watched a nerve transplant and other gruesome but cool microsurgeries on the Discovery Channel. The show was called something like "Micro Machines". Maybe you can catch a rerun.
In addition to the nerve transplant, they re-attached a finger and removed a mass from the inside of an eyeball. It was fascinating to see how they do it.
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If NASA could figure out how Pluto could give us a strategic advantage in wartime Congress might add a few zeros to their budget!
After they take your song order, someone then downloads the music from Kazaa or LimeWire for you. :-) What a great deal for AOL newbies who don't know how to run the programs for themselves!
That's a good point. TMDA will serve as a validity check of the sender's address.
I'm not convinced TMDA will be sufficient to thwart spammers if they only have to reply to a verification message to get their message delivered. It seems TMDA is depending on the assumption that a spammer's address is invalid immediately after the spammer sends a message and has no associated email account. This may often be the case now, but may not be the case once TMDA becomes popular.
Rather than applying fuzzy logic on every function call, you could potentially apply it only when the input needed clarification.
I think he's advocating a more tolerant version of the "small, specific routines for processing data". Imagine passing a parameter that is out of focus to a routine. That routine could choose which of its valid inputs the parameter appears to be, and could return an out of focus result. The caller could choose which result that appears to be. This way the program continues to execute, even when a parameter or return value is erroneous.
I think Microsoft plans to release the source code to all of its programmers' "hello world" programs. If you want more, you'll have to pay. Hey, they didn't say what kind of source, did they? :-)
One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is that as the Internet bubble was bursting, many companies were likely motivated to move numbers around to make it look as if they were doing okay while they looked around for someone to buy the company. I think the stock market is mostly a game of musical chairs for grownups. The music stopped unexpectedly for Enron and WorldCom. Who's next?
This is a cool article. There's one thing I don't understand, though. How do you steer the crazy thing? Wouldn't these subs just move quickly in random directions?
Move over, Ebola! Time for a real plague! :)
I watched this show once and became impatient waiting for them to stop building and try out their ideas! Is this how the shows always go?
I don't know much about Darwin, but I think it is probably a pretty small and stable piece of the OS. If that's true, it doesn't get changed much, and therefore doesn't get any media coverage.
These guys are going to snoop. One might even argue that they have to. Actively work to keep encryption and anonymization legal and to stay one step ahead of them.
The link between sleeplessness and memory loss has always been intuitively known for eons.
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This doesn't seem true for me. When I get 8 hours or more of sleep I feel groggier all day. When I was programming all day and getting 6 hours or less of sleep my memory worked much better for weeks at a time. I really enjoy sleep, so I'm usually groggy
I wonder if different brain chemistries yield different results...
I recently watched a nerve transplant and other gruesome but cool microsurgeries on the Discovery Channel. The show was called something like "Micro Machines". Maybe you can catch a rerun. In addition to the nerve transplant, they re-attached a finger and removed a mass from the inside of an eyeball. It was fascinating to see how they do it.
Heh! I thought Rambus was Diddy Kong's bud!
Dumbo makes a pact with the devil. heh!
Copyrights protect people's ability to make money. What's the definition of wrong in this context?