In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, there is a scene that it reminds me. Reading the rules for efficiency every morning to see what changes. Giving an average reading time for a document, which is a no-win scenario. She ends up scrolling down to read the times, then scans through it, scrolling back as if she was reading it to give the computer the impression she actually cared. There were other aspects of the US government from that book that also reminded me of the real-time presence indicators.
I found it slightly frustrating that no one has created an APT repository for any x.org release that I can find. I know I could do it, but I have neither the resources or energy to actually figure out how to make up that rather... impressive package.
One of my major problems with the flash 6 for linux was how it handled the fade ins and outs that you find in a lot of things on newgrounds. It took 5 to 10 times longer to actually do it compared to the Windows version. Some games also had a problem with the same timing. For a long time, I used crossover office just for the flash plugin but I got frustrated with it crashed constantly and having to reload or cleanup just to download a new flash. Thankfully, the new version actually does a fade in and out properly and one of my favorite music videos in flash, There she is! is almost perfect on my box.
Yeah, but isn't a side effect of a pure sale-based tax system one of people banking their money. When people have to pay obvious taxes on something they spend, they frequently choose not to. If everything is income based tax, they once they paid the taxes, there is no reason to bank it... so, they spend it. In the first case, no one spends money and economy suffers. In the second case, everyone spends money and there is nothing out there to recover from issues, like losing your job.
Now, not everyone follows that, but I remember reading that it is a trend. One of the jobs of the federal banking system is to create a balance between influcing people to spend money and boost their economy and saving enough so the country has something in its coffers.
With head-up display, it is only a short step to missile targeting, built-in radar mapping, and video phones while moving at high speeds. Now, as long as the movie doesn't spent half of it showing someone on a television explaining how to install the weapon systems on the bike. Or, the universal power supply being the innards to a computer (or at least it looks like one).
At our tiny little webhosting company (whichmall.com, 15/month, 150/year), we use Jetty to do our theme engine and the back end for the shopping cart, etc. I started with Tomcat/Apache, but had trouble with the virtual host setup and the various domains (Apache wouldn't behave), so I tried a few other things.
Eventually, I found out about Jetty. One of the major advantages of it is the deploy setup is very nice (drop the.war or.ear file into a directory and it works) and the integeration of the EJB container with the webserver (no RMI). We've had very good uptime (months) with Jetty and very few memory-style leaks. Now, I'm sure Tomcat has a good deploy, but I could never get it to work. Also, Jetty has a nice interface for handlers, to handle SSO (single-signon) before displaying the page, which makes it worth it.
So, my vote it Jetty (and Postgres and Xdoclet and Emacs, but that's beside the point).
In my opinion, I think that a good, secure password is a good approach, but forcing someone to change it every 15, 30, or even 60 days sort of defeats the purpose. Too many people can't remember 10 digit passwords with a minimum of 2 numbers and/or special characters. After a while, they start picking something somewhat secure and taking on numbers or random garbage in the middle or end. For those sites that require X characters change, they just use the same X+1 number of passwords, to get around the system.
I would rather see a good policy on creating a password (including automated password cracking) and let them keep it for an extended time. In sites where password snooping is important (not as many as needing a secure password), then it should be rotated, but someone snooping the password isn't going to wait 15 days before using it, they are going to use it in about... say... 10 minutes, or that night.
Give a good password (10-15 characters with all those extras that people seem to think is important) and let them keep it. Let them use the same password on multiple machines, but don't expire it as often as possible. It just makes more insecure passwords because they don't want to remember as many damn passwords that keep changing every 5 hours and require everything to be different.
Yes, I have a lot of passwords. More than I need, but that is a different issue.
Is there a bill number and a text copy of the to-be-bill out there somewhere. If there isn't, can you keep us up to date so we can write to our political fronts (who really want the bill number or whatever they call it). I want the text because I really like to see what else is added in there.
If you do choose the route to go, make sure you are very careful about where you choose to host things. There was a site not too long ago that rebroadcasted television across the internet. Even though they were based on Canada, the US govt was able to go after them because he intially registered his domain in the US, even though he aparently never ran it from the US.
I think a good use of AI would be to reduce the amount of information presented on the web. A lot of people get information overload (natural effect that reduces how many days you spend online in one sitting) and reducing that much information would be helpfull.
An AI might also be able to reduce the amount of bandwidth something takes. Integrated into a browser or proxy, it might automatically lower the image quality of banner ads (I'm not in favor of getting rid of them) or marking them as ads. With browser integration, the user might be able to mark a specific image as "ad" and have the AI figure out what related sites/links, etc are also ads.
Another use would be to use the AI to help set the security settings for the browser automatically. In theory, if I were to wander warez or adult sites (notice I don't use numbers in an english word), the AI might be able to determine that most of the popup's, links, etc are all false or misleading and automatically mark them as such. This would speed up the navigation process considerably. Or, given some ethics, have the AI agent go those those voting sites and vote for the site without having to show the user the links. This is all theory, since I don't go to those site.:P
Another use for AI is to produce a client-side news service that pulls from various sites (slashdot, freshmeat, register, etc) and produces a simplifed listing that points to those sites (automatically stripping out duplicates). Yes, decent scripts can produce the same thing, but the AI might be able to handle changes to the page or even different types of information.
An AI could keep track of the pages you visit (automatically going up if there is user login, etc) and let you know when they change content, not just graphics. The AI might also be able to track moving pages and update your bookmarks as needed.
Another use for AI (get the impression I thought about this before) is to expand on the auto-login feature. IE remembers what password/login you use for a specific site. An AI might be able to automatically login into the site also. But for people who use multiple accounts at the same site, a low-level AI might be able to bring up a list of those login/password combinations. Some sites attempt to defeat these features and an AI might be able to recoginze them.
Some of these can be used with simple scripts, perl, etc but the AI might add a little bit more that makes life easier to you. The primary one is reducing information overload. We can process only so much information before we get "full" and a good summarizer might increase how much knowlege we can handle before we hit that point.
Does the DCMA limit the defination of fair use that I'm used to? And more importantly, does the quoting of the specs consitute fair use according to the copyright laws.
I seem to recall you are allowed to quote parts of copyrighted works to make a point or to bring focus to a specific part.
If the DCMA is going to limit that, then the whole point of "fair use" is going out the door. The limitations on the DCMA may just give all the power to a few companies (not people).
On a side point, I'm not fond of the almost reactionary grasping of older companies against the new technologies. Unfortunally, I think companies lost the reason to be in business (to supply services) and went for a desire for more money and power. Power corrupts, I guess.
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In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, there is a scene that it reminds me. Reading the rules for efficiency every morning to see what changes. Giving an average reading time for a document, which is a no-win scenario. She ends up scrolling down to read the times, then scans through it, scrolling back as if she was reading it to give the computer the impression she actually cared. There were other aspects of the US government from that book that also reminded me of the real-time presence indicators.
I found it slightly frustrating that no one has created an APT repository for any x.org release that I can find. I know I could do it, but I have neither the resources or energy to actually figure out how to make up that rather... impressive package.
One of my major problems with the flash 6 for linux was how it handled the fade ins and outs that you find in a lot of things on newgrounds. It took 5 to 10 times longer to actually do it compared to the Windows version. Some games also had a problem with the same timing. For a long time, I used crossover office just for the flash plugin but I got frustrated with it crashed constantly and having to reload or cleanup just to download a new flash. Thankfully, the new version actually does a fade in and out properly and one of my favorite music videos in flash, There she is! is almost perfect on my box.
Yeah, but isn't a side effect of a pure sale-based tax system one of people banking their money. When people have to pay obvious taxes on something they spend, they frequently choose not to. If everything is income based tax, they once they paid the taxes, there is no reason to bank it... so, they spend it. In the first case, no one spends money and economy suffers. In the second case, everyone spends money and there is nothing out there to recover from issues, like losing your job.
Now, not everyone follows that, but I remember reading that it is a trend. One of the jobs of the federal banking system is to create a balance between influcing people to spend money and boost their economy and saving enough so the country has something in its coffers.
With head-up display, it is only a short step to missile targeting, built-in radar mapping, and video phones while moving at high speeds. Now, as long as the movie doesn't spent half of it showing someone on a television explaining how to install the weapon systems on the bike. Or, the universal power supply being the innards to a computer (or at least it looks like one).
Spend a couple bucks and put an add on kuro5hin.org, slashdot, and even google's text ads. It's cheap, but it does bring some notice.
Eventually, I found out about Jetty. One of the major advantages of it is the deploy setup is very nice (drop the .war or .ear file into a directory and it works) and the integeration of the EJB container with the webserver (no RMI). We've had very good uptime (months) with Jetty and very few memory-style leaks. Now, I'm sure Tomcat has a good deploy, but I could never get it to work. Also, Jetty has a nice interface for handlers, to handle SSO (single-signon) before displaying the page, which makes it worth it.
So, my vote it Jetty (and Postgres and Xdoclet and Emacs, but that's beside the point).
In my opinion, I think that a good, secure password is a good approach, but forcing someone to change it every 15, 30, or even 60 days sort of defeats the purpose. Too many people can't remember 10 digit passwords with a minimum of 2 numbers and/or special characters. After a while, they start picking something somewhat secure and taking on numbers or random garbage in the middle or end. For those sites that require X characters change, they just use the same X+1 number of passwords, to get around the system.
I would rather see a good policy on creating a password (including automated password cracking) and let them keep it for an extended time. In sites where password snooping is important (not as many as needing a secure password), then it should be rotated, but someone snooping the password isn't going to wait 15 days before using it, they are going to use it in about... say... 10 minutes, or that night.
Give a good password (10-15 characters with all those extras that people seem to think is important) and let them keep it. Let them use the same password on multiple machines, but don't expire it as often as possible. It just makes more insecure passwords because they don't want to remember as many damn passwords that keep changing every 5 hours and require everything to be different.
Yes, I have a lot of passwords. More than I need, but that is a different issue.
Is there a bill number and a text copy of the to-be-bill out there somewhere. If there isn't, can you keep us up to date so we can write to our political fronts (who really want the bill number or whatever they call it). I want the text because I really like to see what else is added in there.
If you do choose the route to go, make sure you are very careful about where you choose to host things. There was a site not too long ago that rebroadcasted television across the internet. Even though they were based on Canada, the US govt was able to go after them because he intially registered his domain in the US, even though he aparently never ran it from the US.
I think a good use of AI would be to reduce the amount of information presented on the web. A lot of people get information overload (natural effect that reduces how many days you spend online in one sitting) and reducing that much information would be helpfull.
:P
An AI might also be able to reduce the amount of bandwidth something takes. Integrated into a browser or proxy, it might automatically lower the image quality of banner ads (I'm not in favor of getting rid of them) or marking them as ads. With browser integration, the user might be able to mark a specific image as "ad" and have the AI figure out what related sites/links, etc are also ads.
Another use would be to use the AI to help set the security settings for the browser automatically. In theory, if I were to wander warez or adult sites (notice I don't use numbers in an english word), the AI might be able to determine that most of the popup's, links, etc are all false or misleading and automatically mark them as such. This would speed up the navigation process considerably. Or, given some ethics, have the AI agent go those those voting sites and vote for the site without having to show the user the links. This is all theory, since I don't go to those site.
Another use for AI is to produce a client-side news service that pulls from various sites (slashdot, freshmeat, register, etc) and produces a simplifed listing that points to those sites (automatically stripping out duplicates). Yes, decent scripts can produce the same thing, but the AI might be able to handle changes to the page or even different types of information.
An AI could keep track of the pages you visit (automatically going up if there is user login, etc) and let you know when they change content, not just graphics. The AI might also be able to track moving pages and update your bookmarks as needed.
Another use for AI (get the impression I thought about this before) is to expand on the auto-login feature. IE remembers what password/login you use for a specific site. An AI might be able to automatically login into the site also. But for people who use multiple accounts at the same site, a low-level AI might be able to bring up a list of those login/password combinations. Some sites attempt to defeat these features and an AI might be able to recoginze them.
Some of these can be used with simple scripts, perl, etc but the AI might add a little bit more that makes life easier to you. The primary one is reducing information overload. We can process only so much information before we get "full" and a good summarizer might increase how much knowlege we can handle before we hit that point.
Does the DCMA limit the defination of fair use that I'm used to? And more importantly, does the quoting of the specs consitute fair use according to the copyright laws.
I seem to recall you are allowed to quote parts of copyrighted works to make a point or to bring focus to a specific part.
If the DCMA is going to limit that, then the whole point of "fair use" is going out the door. The limitations on the DCMA may just give all the power to a few companies (not people).
On a side point, I'm not fond of the almost reactionary grasping of older companies against the new technologies. Unfortunally, I think companies lost the reason to be in business (to supply services) and went for a desire for more money and power. Power corrupts, I guess.