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I work in psychiatry, and I recently recieved this spam, which was sent to numerous well-known scientists in the field of psychiatry. Not only does it display some rather poetically bad translations, but it is also a rather cleverly jaded attack on the field of biological psychiatry.... This is the poem:
what happens if i clone 1000 transexuals or 1000 skyzofreniks or 1000 maniacs or 1000 serial killers or 1000 idiots?
so why not to ask this easy routine question
did your parents acted with you like acted with their friends
in evry case eat many phospor. choice if evry phrase is true or false. 3 are the cases : i lie knowing im lying, i lie NOT knowing im lying, i got the reason(and its not important if i know or i dont). if you dont forward this letter to 19 people you will receive an ictus in 4 days.
1) law is exact science, medicine is exact science. eating a cow is cannibalism: the cow has 97.2% DNA matching with human DNA.
2) sigmund freud lies not knowing he's lying: he is a pedophile who say children has sexual attraction for parents(edipus) and that mind is builded with 3 parts (ego superego es) and others funny things. like freud says,the cognitive error is associated with patology : the person trust false thinghs (lies not knowing he is lying) and makes wrongs things.
3) if i menace the child to eat, the child answers with compulsive eating/refuse of food.
>>>>>DID YOUR PARENTS ACTED WITH YOU LIKE ACTED WITH THEIR FRIENDS?? too often this routine question isnt requested.
until opposing prove,there isnt genetical-familiar ereditariety of patological behaviors,which are conditioned reflexs when consequence of imprinting of patological behavior , that is easy to mismatch with the other 1 because familiarly transmitted.
we cant say that there is genetic predisposition to a psychopatology until we have controlled that the subject hasn't taken injuries , of whitch he also been convinced he is guilty and not victim
4)
example: egyptians kill gays but children dont born gays egyptians corrupt and kill children doing a sacrifice to the gay devil
you have to do like god condamned you you dont have to grace by yourself from original sin with baptism otherwise you return immortal ecc.
revolution kamerades will be treated with other comunists
DNA quality would be poor... but good enough to be usable in the laboratory. It basic cell-lysis, seperation of organic/inorganic phases and alcohol-precipitation of DNA.
You could use this for PCR, and then do many things with it. You could potentially have a "deluxe" version of the kit for $1000 dollars, including:
1. Basic thermocylcer 2. Reagents/Enzyme for PCR 3. Primers for PCR 4. Reagents/Enzyme for restriction digestion
The kit could then be used for (basic, potentially problematic) paternity testing.
Re:Anyone know how well it actually works?
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I'm curious as to what they're using for staining - the gold standard in the lab is ethidium bromide. However, I'm certain that isn't in the kit - it is a very powerful mutagen.
Cyber Green? I think that's fairly safe.... Ethidium Bromide would be bad!
Would have been nice if they could have included some cheap and robust restriction enzyme, to produce fingerprints. However this would then require hybridisation with a probe to bring out a few bands - way too complex/expensive. Anyone think of a cheaper and easier way of producing a nice fingerprint? It would be good to have a Mark II kit that actually did something usefull...
Taking these thoughts further, 99% of spam bussiness is based around "Trolling for Newbies".
We have to think outside the box with the spam problem, and this fact may be a novel way to counter spam. Almost all people i know who have been "conned" by spam had been new and naive email users who had got excited becuase they had recieved email.
We may look down on such users, but we were all naive once, its just that spam wasnt around when most of us lot started using email.
Therefore, I suggest, all email services should provide a useful "introduction to spam" tutorial BEFORE users are given an email address.
The initial test email would highlight the spammers test email address. All email to this address would then be allowed through the spamhole, giving the impression to the spammer that everything is hunky dory.
However, the spammer may use multiple test addresses, and the spamhole would not then be aware of these.
Therefore the spamhole could check for any addresses that were used frequently/periodically, and mark these as test addresses.
But the spammer could use a more complex set of test addresses.
The spamhole could use a combination of Bayesian filtering with Hidden Markov Models to renumerate potential test addresses with exponentially decreasing returns, such that the k-tuple value Z1 was never equal or above the Nth degree of reductionist SPAM (SPre). This would thus allow network strategist to implement a theory-based approach to network spam usage, thus continuing ad-infintum the ARMS RACE.
The result of this is that both spammers and anti-spammers remain in bussiness, spending exponentially increasing efforts attempting to thwart the efforts of the oposition.
Definition of a game: "A constructed conflict with quantifiable outcomes"
Ever get the feeling that the anti-spammers enjoy this whole malarky just as much as the spammers?
Maybe the answer to spam is this:
STOP wasting money and resources on using incresingly sophisticated anti-spam techniques. Re-direct this money into basic education for users, including short courses on:
1. How to identify a spam (People are proven to be far better at pattern recognition than Bayesian models).
2. How not to click on a spam.
3. How to delete a spam.
If AOL, MSN, and all other involved parties put a concerted effort towards this, then spam would soon get diminishing returns, and hence become increasingly unprofitable.
The deep, repetitive da-na-na-nnn, da-na-na-nnn,...
There is a story behind the music. It was written by Delia Derbyshire, who was working for the BBC Radiophonics workshop. She was an absolute pioneer in electronic music, who worked by physically cutting, pasting, splicing and stretching pieces of tape to creat some real groundbreaking noises.
Her work was hugely influential on modern music - you can see her influence in The Beatles, and many fashionable young electronics gurus cite her (e.g Aphex Twin, Autechre).
I guess this is one of the things that makes a cult program - all the stories and folklore that enshroud it.
The shmucks stole the device but not the software?
Which suggests it is an inside job. They already copied the software. Such an ambitious peice of theft would be difficult without some type of insider.
Again, this suggests industrial espionage. Company A (with expertise in such a thing) implants an employee in company B (with expertise in such a thing). There can only be a limited number of people in the world who could peform this theft and make use of it.
How does Google search by location work? Google search by location takes a new approach to helping users find geographic information on the web. For this experiment, we've done something new by analyzing the entire content of a page to extract hints or, what we call "signals," about the geographic nature of a page. From this information, Google determines the corresponding physical location and returns results that match the geographic range you specify (e.g., "near Jacksonville, Florida"). This provides a much broader range of businesses in most cases.
Could it also use the addresses from the WHOIS database? I think this could help in many instances - e.g. alot of personal and bussiness addresses will be correct in the WHOIS database. This could very easily provide correct location data worldwide.
Also, what about those network tools ("hacker trackers") that provide location information according to IP address. I do not think this would work as well, as it would obviously give the server address, rather than the location relevant to the website.
Although RealityProphet is saying it in a fucked up way, he has a point.
It is the fuckwitted users (like that 12yro girl) that are gonna end up getting sued by the RIAA. The people who share *everything* they have ever downloaded, and dont realise Kazaa is still running in the system tray all the time. These are the people that are (unwittingly) dishing out possibly tens of thousands of files to people. The funny thing is, the RIAA are comparing them to warez doodz or something.......when actually the real culprits in copyright theft have there own private ftp servers, encryption etc.
OK, so maybe a minority of people are put off by the (highly unlikely) chances that the RIAA may sue them. However, the feeling I have had through this whole P2P versus RIAA ordeal is that the RIAA are actually helping P2P.
I mean, everyone knew about Napster. After that closed down, Kazaa, Gnutella, WinMX, etc were *real* quiet for some time. And then the RIAA starting hamming it up again, turning up the notch. And Joe Public was informed (via the RIAA and news agencies) that free music was back on.
If they had put up and shut up, the re-growth of P2P would have been much slower, confined largely to geeks who had the impetus to go out and find Napster replacements. However, Joe Public has to be told about it from somewhere. And it was the RIAA who told them.
True. It would have to run for x hours, trying to infect other hosts before "delivering its payload". What would be a good value for x?
X would clearly be PC dependent for optimum worm spread. An obvious thing would be to deliver the fatal payload after the infection had spread to, say, 15 other PC's. This would cause exponential spread until the number of vulnerable machines became limiting.
But thats *boring*. A much more twisted & evil thing to do would be to deliver a payload at a mission-critical point. For example, after MS Word had been used excessively over a few days, and the word CONCLUSION was typed in.
Good bands getting their moneys worth. Ideally, you would convince a major indie band (with an expiring contract with a record label) to distribute their next record this way. I would certainly buy this way if I liked the band. What would make me certian to buy the record would be an exact statement of where my money is going - e.g how much tha band gets, bandwidth and advertising etc.
Being open and honest about money would encourage people to part with it. If I knew the band were getting more cash this way than through a major label, I would prefer to download than buy a CD.
All the raw sequence trace files for the human genome project (not the finished sequence) are so massive, they are flown across the atalantic between US and UK. This has been happening for a few years, as it is just loads more economical and faster for the vast quantities of data.
This film came out in the UK a few months back. It's basically a zombie flick, so you should ignore any scientific ponderings about the nature of viruses, and suspend disbelief.
However, this is in places an intelligent film, and worthy of good review. However, Varmus critisices the scientific implications of the film, whereas the artistic and social aspects of the film are much more insightful.
For example, the film contains a nice twist on the whole zombie-movie genre. The fact that in a post-apocolyptic world, the survivors will be the last people you want to inherit the earth (e.g. stupid young men tooled up with ridiculous firepower), is a good point, and speaks some volumes about the direction our world could go.
"or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools"
So how come most of amazon is cached in google (and elsewhere)?
Do I bypass amazon's stupidly fucking ludicrous & legally dubious legalese if I say, scrape the information from google's cache rather than from the amazon website?
Nice work on Samba btw. I Have to point out that you are deliberately leaving out a large part of the disclosure argument. If you gave out further details about these security issues with MS SMB, it may prompt microsoft to do something about it. This is (arguably) the best thing to do - expolits for these holes may exist in the wild without MS knowing (like there was with samba...), so they should really be pushed harder to do something about it.
I get the feeling that you are being a little politicol here: Not disclosing _any_ information about the bugs is very much playing into microsfts hands. Gives you a little something to "blackmail" them with, no? In the nicest possible way, of course.....
I have heard that at times MS have been suprisingly helpful to the Samba team.... dont you go out for dinner with them sometimes?
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I work in psychiatry, and I recently recieved this spam, which was sent to numerous well-known scientists in the field of psychiatry. Not only does it display some rather poetically bad translations, but it is also a rather cleverly jaded attack on the field of biological psychiatry....
.
This is the poem:
what happens if i clone 1000 transexuals
or 1000 skyzofreniks
or 1000 maniacs
or 1000 serial killers
or 1000 idiots?
so why not to ask this easy routine question
did your parents acted with you like acted with their friends
in evry case eat many phospor.
choice if evry phrase is true or false.
3 are the cases : i lie knowing im lying, i lie NOT knowing im lying, i got the reason(and its
not important if i know or i dont).
if you dont forward this letter to 19 people you will receive an ictus in 4 days.
1)
law is exact science, medicine is exact science.
eating a cow is cannibalism: the cow has 97.2% DNA matching with human DNA.
2)
sigmund freud lies not knowing he's lying: he is a pedophile who say children has sexual attraction for parents(edipus) and that mind is builded with 3 parts (ego superego es) and others funny things
like freud says,the cognitive error is associated with patology : the person trust false thinghs (lies not knowing he is lying) and makes wrongs things.
3)
if i menace the child to eat, the child answers with compulsive eating/refuse of food.
>>>>>DID YOUR PARENTS ACTED WITH YOU LIKE ACTED WITH THEIR FRIENDS??
too often this routine question isnt requested.
until opposing prove,there isnt genetical-familiar ereditariety of patological behaviors,which are conditioned reflexs when consequence of imprinting of patological behavior , that is easy to mismatch with the other 1 because familiarly transmitted.
we cant say that there is genetic predisposition to a psychopatology until we have controlled that the subject hasn't taken injuries , of whitch he also been convinced he is guilty and not victim
4)
example:
egyptians kill gays
but children dont born gays
egyptians corrupt and kill children
doing a sacrifice to the gay devil
you have to do like god condamned you
you dont have to grace by yourself from original sin with baptism
otherwise you return immortal ecc.
revolution kamerades will be treated with other comunists
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of..... OMFG the Smell!!! The United States of Stink
DNA quality would be poor... but good enough to be usable in the laboratory. It basic cell-lysis, seperation of organic/inorganic phases and alcohol-precipitation of DNA.
You could use this for PCR, and then do many things with it. You could potentially have a "deluxe" version of the kit for $1000 dollars, including:
1. Basic thermocylcer
2. Reagents/Enzyme for PCR
3. Primers for PCR
4. Reagents/Enzyme for restriction digestion
The kit could then be used for (basic, potentially problematic) paternity testing.
I'm curious as to what they're using for staining - the gold standard in the lab is ethidium bromide. However, I'm certain that isn't in the kit - it is a very powerful mutagen.
Cyber Green? I think that's fairly safe.... Ethidium Bromide would be bad!
Would have been nice if they could have included some cheap and robust restriction enzyme, to produce fingerprints. However this would then require hybridisation with a probe to bring out a few bands - way too complex/expensive. Anyone think of a cheaper and easier way of producing a nice fingerprint? It would be good to have a Mark II kit that actually did something usefull...
Amen.
Taking these thoughts further, 99% of spam bussiness is based around "Trolling for Newbies".
We have to think outside the box with the spam problem, and this fact may be a novel way to counter spam. Almost all people i know who have been "conned" by spam had been new and naive email users who had got excited becuase they had recieved email.
We may look down on such users, but we were all naive once, its just that spam wasnt around when most of us lot started using email.
Therefore, I suggest, all email services should provide a useful "introduction to spam" tutorial BEFORE users are given an email address.
This is a total Arms Race.
The initial test email would highlight the spammers test email address. All email to this address would then be allowed through the spamhole, giving the impression to the spammer that everything is hunky dory.
However, the spammer may use multiple test addresses, and the spamhole would not then be aware of these.
Therefore the spamhole could check for any addresses that were used frequently/periodically, and mark these as test addresses.
But the spammer could use a more complex set of test addresses.
The spamhole could use a combination of Bayesian filtering with Hidden Markov Models to renumerate potential test addresses with exponentially decreasing returns, such that the k-tuple value Z1 was never equal or above the Nth degree of reductionist SPAM (SPre). This would thus allow network strategist to implement a theory-based approach to network spam usage, thus continuing ad-infintum the ARMS RACE.
The result of this is that both spammers and anti-spammers remain in bussiness, spending exponentially increasing efforts attempting to thwart the efforts of the oposition.
Definition of a game: "A constructed conflict with quantifiable outcomes"
Ever get the feeling that the anti-spammers enjoy this whole malarky just as much as the spammers?
Maybe the answer to spam is this:
STOP wasting money and resources on using incresingly sophisticated anti-spam techniques. Re-direct this money into basic education for users, including short courses on:
1. How to identify a spam (People are proven to be far better at pattern recognition than Bayesian models).
2. How not to click on a spam.
3. How to delete a spam.
If AOL, MSN, and all other involved parties put a concerted effort towards this, then spam would soon get diminishing returns, and hence become increasingly unprofitable.
Thanks for clearing that up.... I did know that, was just being sloppy!
Anyhow, i allways much preffered the prisoner (as a series) to Dr Who!
The deep, repetitive da-na-na-nnn, da-na-na-nnn, ...
There is a story behind the music. It was written by Delia Derbyshire, who was working for the BBC Radiophonics workshop. She was an absolute pioneer in electronic music, who worked by physically cutting, pasting, splicing and stretching pieces of tape to creat some real groundbreaking noises.
Her work was hugely influential on modern music - you can see her influence in The Beatles, and many fashionable young electronics gurus cite her (e.g Aphex Twin, Autechre).
I guess this is one of the things that makes a cult program - all the stories and folklore that enshroud it.
The shmucks stole the device but not the software?
Which suggests it is an inside job. They already copied the software. Such an ambitious peice of theft would be difficult without some type of insider.
Again, this suggests industrial espionage. Company A (with expertise in such a thing) implants an employee in company B (with expertise in such a thing). There can only be a limited number of people in the world who could peform this theft and make use of it.
Shock Horror Slashdot Headline: Americans still dont understand sarcasm
I thought this was slashdot, not the onion....
It works like this, according to the FAQ:
How does Google search by location work? Google search by location takes a new approach to helping users find geographic information on the web. For this experiment, we've done something new by analyzing the entire content of a page to extract hints or, what we call "signals," about the geographic nature of a page. From this information, Google determines the corresponding physical location and returns results that match the geographic range you specify (e.g., "near Jacksonville, Florida"). This provides a much broader range of businesses in most cases.
Could it also use the addresses from the WHOIS database? I think this could help in many instances - e.g. alot of personal and bussiness addresses will be correct in the WHOIS database. This could very easily provide correct location data worldwide.
Also, what about those network tools ("hacker trackers") that provide location information according to IP address. I do not think this would work as well, as it would obviously give the server address, rather than the location relevant to the website.
Although RealityProphet is saying it in a fucked up way, he has a point.
...when actually the real culprits in copyright theft have there own private ftp servers, encryption etc.
It is the fuckwitted users (like that 12yro girl) that are gonna end up getting sued by the RIAA. The people who share *everything* they have ever downloaded, and dont realise Kazaa is still running in the system tray all the time. These are the people that are (unwittingly) dishing out possibly tens of thousands of files to people. The funny thing is, the RIAA are comparing them to warez doodz or something....
Oh come on dude, wake up.... YHBT
that was really quite obvious.
OK, so maybe a minority of people are put off by the (highly unlikely) chances that the RIAA may sue them. However, the feeling I have had through this whole P2P versus RIAA ordeal is that the RIAA are actually helping P2P.
I mean, everyone knew about Napster. After that closed down, Kazaa, Gnutella, WinMX, etc were *real* quiet for some time. And then the RIAA starting hamming it up again, turning up the notch. And Joe Public was informed (via the RIAA and news agencies) that free music was back on.
If they had put up and shut up, the re-growth of P2P would have been much slower, confined largely to geeks who had the impetus to go out and find Napster replacements. However, Joe Public has to be told about it from somewhere. And it was the RIAA who told them.
What would be a good value for x?
X would clearly be PC dependent for optimum worm spread. An obvious thing would be to deliver the fatal payload after the infection had spread to, say, 15 other PC's. This would cause exponential spread until the number of vulnerable machines became limiting.
But thats *boring*. A much more twisted & evil thing to do would be to deliver a payload at a mission-critical point. For example, after MS Word had been used excessively over a few days, and the word CONCLUSION was typed in.
mod parent up
Craig Charles is an evil fucking brummy rapist!!!!!!!!!
What would make me buy in to this?
Good bands getting their moneys worth. Ideally, you would convince a major indie band (with an expiring contract with a record label) to distribute their next record this way. I would certainly buy this way if I liked the band. What would make me certian to buy the record would be an exact statement of where my money is going - e.g how much tha band gets, bandwidth and advertising etc.
Being open and honest about money would encourage people to part with it. If I knew the band were getting more cash this way than through a major label, I would prefer to download than buy a CD.
All the raw sequence trace files for the human genome project (not the finished sequence) are so massive, they are flown across the atalantic between US and UK. This has been happening for a few years, as it is just loads more economical and faster for the vast quantities of data.
This film came out in the UK a few months back. It's basically a zombie flick, so you should ignore any scientific ponderings about the nature of viruses, and suspend disbelief.
However, this is in places an intelligent film, and worthy of good review. However, Varmus critisices the scientific implications of the film, whereas the artistic and social aspects of the film are much more insightful.
For example, the film contains a nice twist on the whole zombie-movie genre. The fact that in a post-apocolyptic world, the survivors will be the last people you want to inherit the earth (e.g. stupid young men tooled up with ridiculous firepower), is a good point, and speaks some volumes about the direction our world could go.
ROFL
nice one...
So how come most of amazon is cached in google (and elsewhere)?
Do I bypass amazon's stupidly fucking ludicrous & legally dubious legalese if I say, scrape the information from google's cache rather than from the amazon website?
Hi Jeremy,
Nice work on Samba btw. I Have to point out that you are deliberately leaving out a large part of the disclosure argument. If you gave out further details about these security issues with MS SMB, it may prompt microsoft to do something about it. This is (arguably) the best thing to do - expolits for these holes may exist in the wild without MS knowing (like there was with samba...), so they should really be pushed harder to do something about it.
I get the feeling that you are being a little politicol here: Not disclosing _any_ information about the bugs is very much playing into microsfts hands. Gives you a little something to "blackmail" them with, no? In the nicest possible way, of course.....
I have heard that at times MS have been suprisingly helpful to the Samba team.... dont you go out for dinner with them sometimes?
--mb
Insightful.
Not as far out as it sounds - the drug companies managed to get patents on DNA, so why not brain processes?
Scary.