Would be nice to see at last a mail server that discards all legitimate mail and keeps just the spam, because could be the fastest way to be a step ahead of the people that receive that.
How we know that "anything" is sentient? when it have the mediums to communicate us so, i suppose. So far what we created that have any chance to do that are computers, more than full robots, and still, we are pretty far from programming that afaik, and in that case probably even the right of making or not a computer sentient will come far before the the problem of the rights that it could have.
Unless being sentient is something unrelated to the programming, and could be that, let say, that piece of toilet paper is sentient, and we been very unrespectful with a lot of sentient beings from long time ago.
Maybe was "unnatural selection" more than evolution. Those with deep and very evident religious beliefs (specially in accordance with local religion) were the ones that avoided being sacrificed, burnt, hunted, enslaved, etc by the ones that, because their religion and the infrastructure behind it, had the power to do so.
For the ones that believe in the same, they are by itself a group, and the ones that dont are the "others" while for the ones that dont believe, there are no reason to become a group, so no way to have a defense.
Mailing list are a problem, but is something that could have a sustained ratio of sent mails, and maybe more important, a sustained ratio of received mails, if you count mails coming from and going to that host can lower the score as the mix of both traffics can hint a mailing list server there.
But what about announcement lists? You know, you sign up in a site, company, etc, and want to receive a mail when something big changes, a new product, whatever. That are usually unidirectional, targets a lot of people, and happens once in a while, very much like spam, if you look only at the traffic there.
Archeologist of 1000 years from now will get totally puzzled when they dig in ancient ruins, find some sort of rosetta stone of our age, that only will show blue screens. What conclusions they will take about us? A superpowerful civilization with knowledge beyond their imagination, capable to code in that simple blue screen all the knowledge about life, the universe and everything? Only time will tell.
In my country, last week, there were several wildfires in several places in our coast. The culprit, caught this week, alleged that wanted to take photos of them with his cellphone (small newspaper about it in spanish).
Is not just "adding a camera to a cellphone" what is doing the big changes. Is the availability (a good percent of people, depending on where, have cellphones, a good percent of them have cameras, and even some of them can film), and to have internet (with places where to easily publish photos/videos be to general public or just to send by mail) as something to enhance use. Pure digital cameras were making social changes already, but cellphones with cameras are putting them really everywhere and to everyone.
If im reading an article about some topic, and have attached to it a link to i.e. an authoritative book around that topic, there is some sinergy there.... both the article and the one putting the ad benefits from it.
In fact, the wikipedia articles have already links that could count as "ads", links to external sites, some of them commercial, that talk more about that page topic. What if that page have an ad to that site/page in a less plain way?
Im firmly opposed to generic/bulk ads. But some way to synergy between wikipedia articles and the commercial (or not) world that lives around those articles topics could be benefitial in the long term, if it improves articles content/correctness and gives some profit in return to finance the project or associated ones (of course, the terms to comply to put there ads would be different than in most ad sites, i.e. that the advertised site dont goes against what the article says).
that, as briefly discussed in the article: - spams without opt-out - offered fake discounts - had deceptive popups, offering a free scan, that always, in every machine, report that the user had spyware.
From my point of view, google focus is data, with some "sample" programs to access it (but for most, open apis/interfaces/open protocols to access that data in your own way/apps). Its own programs enables more integrated, usually more comfortable, access to that data, but you can still access most of it in other ways (apis for maps/calendars/etc, pop for gmail, jabber for talk, etc)
In the other hand, MS focus programs, and all goes around them. User data, apis, hardware, etc tied to those programs. That ties go in the direction of if you want to use them, you must have MS programs.
Are different? yes. But still Google have the edge on this.
The invconvenient truth about "An inconvenient truth" is that is not one documentary. Is 2. One about global warming, and another about Al Gore having some points of touch with the 1st topic. If the documentary were presented by known scientist like the late Carl Sagan, or by someone known by documentaries like Michael Moore, an actor or even by Homer Simpson, would be mostly ok (i hope), but it is so tied about Al Gore, his political career, his last election result and what he could had done if were elected, that make it half documentary, half political campaign (even if he starts saying that he retired of it)
To go to some extreme. If someone does a documentary on selective breeding, shows cows, or dogs races, and show some potential of growing for humanity, is somewhat science, inconvenient truth or not. But if the presenter is called Josef Mengele Jr., shows "desirable" future characteristics of minkind (skin color, hair, race, whatever) and even show experiment of his father/grandfather in the 40's, the science message is somewhat dilluted with the "political" message behind. Should that documentary be showed in schools?
Even for me that dont speak english natively, that could not apply for my "violent death" definition. Falling from a building (ok, hitting the floor after) is violent death, like being hit by a car, or a bullet in the head. But a somewhat slow, maybe taking days death because poison, starving, thirst or whatever dont fall in my category.
Now, also what he could mean is that there are not conclusive evidence to tell if was he was killed, or it was accidental (touching dust/old things from work/whatever and then food?), or was an intentional suicide (dont think so, but still odds are not nil)
Of course, this is unrelated with if Putin was sincere or not saying so, just my understanding of that semantic.
Somewhere i read that the difference between eccentric and rich is the money you have.
For Microsoft, the difference between mature for virtualization and immature is also the money you paid for Vista. If you paid big bucks, and try to use it where is critical that all works perfectly, then is mature for it. But if you try that where blue screens, reboots, corruptions and virus are things you are used to, then no, is immature and im doing you a service to you disabling that.
So i put my cpu cooled by that device, and use the generated electricity to power up the cpu. Obviously that perpetual motion machine will not work, but if so, would be like the Crank movie, when if you slow down or drop your activity, you die.
I think Luis XV said in its own time "After me, the flood"... well, now that phrase have more less figurative sense. People that forgets the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Maybe the judge have no clue on what he decided... showing him some examples could be good as in:
Making his small children/grandchildren receive viagra&porn sites spam
Making his mail address public, so he WILL receive spam, probably some from the very company he is defending
Making him understand the optional part of the equation, and that he should do the same with microsoft, yahoo, google, and practically every decent mail provider in internet as they are also probably avoiding their users to read the spam sent by that company
In the other hand, Spamhaus method of fighting spam dont stops 3/4 of the spam of the world. Probably graylists, bayesian analisys, and other methods stops far more. And taking it out of main DNSs only implies at worst a small breach in the service until a better solution is found (put it in another country? under another top domain? if really a lot of people use it there will appear lots of alternate solutions to keep having that kind of resource.
In one side, we have someone that (not having personal opinion on him) could be paranoid, could be aggresive, could just need to take some measure to prevent that the other side put him in the "axis of evil" or whatever rimbombant name and fulfill his promise of invade him.
In the other side we have someone that looks more worried about gaining more executive power, winning more elections for him or his party (hey, we are in war times, we suspend for now elections for the good of everyone, or just scare all to death if they dont reelect him , his uncle, brother, cousing or his party), than for human lifes (how many civilians died in iraq/afganistan/wherever from direct US troops actions?), human rights (guantanamo), international rights (invading soberan country with excuses that were clear for anyone that were false) or anything else. I can hear lines like "the world cant be hostage of a madman, we must invade" coming, preemtive strikes, dont giving a shit for millons of people of that far away region dying, and if nukes are used killing who know how many innocent people, maybe not even hear an "oops" for the really responsable ones.
Too bad there are no large deposits of oil in NK, that could had saved them of what could come.
A theory that can't be proved or disproved, or can't be used in a practical way right now, can still be pretty useful if describe the real universe more accurately than our previous knowledge. You dont know what will come in the future, what development could be done taking that as a fact. Something that could have been seen in his own moment a small correction to the accepted Newton laws, like relativity (wasnt the one of their 1st experimental proofs observed like 15 years after?) , have a bit of practical uses right now.
If the alternative is that everyone have and use every day a personal car then taxes will be the lesser of your problems in the long run. Environmental problems and oil scarcity could be closer than you think, and those "socialist services" are a step in the right direction.
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Clouded? Maybe they meant how a leopard looks as seen thru broken windows.
Would be nice to see at last a mail server that discards all legitimate mail and keeps just the spam, because could be the fastest way to be a step ahead of the people that receive that.
Unless being sentient is something unrelated to the programming, and could be that, let say, that piece of toilet paper is sentient, and we been very unrespectful with a lot of sentient beings from long time ago.
Maybe was "unnatural selection" more than evolution. Those with deep and very evident religious beliefs (specially in accordance with local religion) were the ones that avoided being sacrificed, burnt, hunted, enslaved, etc by the ones that, because their religion and the infrastructure behind it, had the power to do so.
For the ones that believe in the same, they are by itself a group, and the ones that dont are the "others" while for the ones that dont believe, there are no reason to become a group, so no way to have a defense.
Hope soon we will see the "Microsoft Apologizes for Selling Malware" headline.
Mailing list are a problem, but is something that could have a sustained ratio of sent mails, and maybe more important, a sustained ratio of received mails, if you count mails coming from and going to that host can lower the score as the mix of both traffics can hint a mailing list server there.
But what about announcement lists? You know, you sign up in a site, company, etc, and want to receive a mail when something big changes, a new product, whatever. That are usually unidirectional, targets a lot of people, and happens once in a while, very much like spam, if you look only at the traffic there.
Archeologist of 1000 years from now will get totally puzzled when they dig in ancient ruins, find some sort of rosetta stone of our age, that only will show blue screens. What conclusions they will take about us? A superpowerful civilization with knowledge beyond their imagination, capable to code in that simple blue screen all the knowledge about life, the universe and everything? Only time will tell.
Is not just "adding a camera to a cellphone" what is doing the big changes. Is the availability (a good percent of people, depending on where, have cellphones, a good percent of them have cameras, and even some of them can film), and to have internet (with places where to easily publish photos/videos be to general public or just to send by mail) as something to enhance use. Pure digital cameras were making social changes already, but cellphones with cameras are putting them really everywhere and to everyone.
They should ask for help to the Vatican, after all, is a miracle what they are looking for.
In fact, the wikipedia articles have already links that could count as "ads", links to external sites, some of them commercial, that talk more about that page topic. What if that page have an ad to that site/page in a less plain way?
Im firmly opposed to generic/bulk ads. But some way to synergy between wikipedia articles and the commercial (or not) world that lives around those articles topics could be benefitial in the long term, if it improves articles content/correctness and gives some profit in return to finance the project or associated ones (of course, the terms to comply to put there ads would be different than in most ad sites, i.e. that the advertised site dont goes against what the article says).
that, as briefly discussed in the article:
- spams without opt-out
- offered fake discounts
- had deceptive popups, offering a free scan, that always, in every machine, report that the user had spyware.
From my point of view, google focus is data, with some "sample" programs to access it (but for most, open apis/interfaces/open protocols to access that data in your own way/apps). Its own programs enables more integrated, usually more comfortable, access to that data, but you can still access most of it in other ways (apis for maps/calendars/etc, pop for gmail, jabber for talk, etc)
In the other hand, MS focus programs, and all goes around them. User data, apis, hardware, etc tied to those programs. That ties go in the direction of if you want to use them, you must have MS programs.
Are different? yes. But still Google have the edge on this.
Other analogies could fit better, like the ligth at the end of the tunnel, as for Microsoft one would like to be an incoming train.
Not putting them as related, only putting a situation of the same "shape" (but far more pointy edges) that you must agree that is wrong.
The invconvenient truth about "An inconvenient truth" is that is not one documentary. Is 2. One about global warming, and another about Al Gore having some points of touch with the 1st topic. If the documentary were presented by known scientist like the late Carl Sagan, or by someone known by documentaries like Michael Moore, an actor or even by Homer Simpson, would be mostly ok (i hope), but it is so tied about Al Gore, his political career, his last election result and what he could had done if were elected, that make it half documentary, half political campaign (even if he starts saying that he retired of it)
To go to some extreme. If someone does a documentary on selective breeding, shows cows, or dogs races, and show some potential of growing for humanity, is somewhat science, inconvenient truth or not. But if the presenter is called Josef Mengele Jr., shows "desirable" future characteristics of minkind (skin color, hair, race, whatever) and even show experiment of his father/grandfather in the 40's, the science message is somewhat dilluted with the "political" message behind. Should that documentary be showed in schools?
Now, also what he could mean is that there are not conclusive evidence to tell if was he was killed, or it was accidental (touching dust/old things from work/whatever and then food?), or was an intentional suicide (dont think so, but still odds are not nil)
Of course, this is unrelated with if Putin was sincere or not saying so, just my understanding of that semantic.
For Microsoft, the difference between mature for virtualization and immature is also the money you paid for Vista. If you paid big bucks, and try to use it where is critical that all works perfectly, then is mature for it. But if you try that where blue screens, reboots, corruptions and virus are things you are used to, then no, is immature and im doing you a service to you disabling that.
So i put my cpu cooled by that device, and use the generated electricity to power up the cpu. Obviously that perpetual motion machine will not work, but if so, would be like the Crank movie, when if you slow down or drop your activity, you die.
I think Luis XV said in its own time "After me, the flood"... well, now that phrase have more less figurative sense. People that forgets the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
... by Douglas Adams. Wonder what rate of compression is putting the meaning of life, universe and everything in just the number 42.
In this very discussion already we have blue (water), white (air), and several flamewars, why he think we are not vastu compliant?
- Making his small children/grandchildren receive viagra&porn sites spam
- Making his mail address public, so he WILL receive spam, probably some from the very company he is defending
- Making him understand the optional part of the equation, and that he should do the same with microsoft, yahoo, google, and practically every decent mail provider in internet as they are also probably avoiding their users to read the spam sent by that company
In the other hand, Spamhaus method of fighting spam dont stops 3/4 of the spam of the world. Probably graylists, bayesian analisys, and other methods stops far more. And taking it out of main DNSs only implies at worst a small breach in the service until a better solution is found (put it in another country? under another top domain? if really a lot of people use it there will appear lots of alternate solutions to keep having that kind of resource.Too bad there is no "peacetime" now.
In one side, we have someone that (not having personal opinion on him) could be paranoid, could be aggresive, could just need to take some measure to prevent that the other side put him in the "axis of evil" or whatever rimbombant name and fulfill his promise of invade him.
In the other side we have someone that looks more worried about gaining more executive power, winning more elections for him or his party (hey, we are in war times, we suspend for now elections for the good of everyone, or just scare all to death if they dont reelect him , his uncle, brother, cousing or his party), than for human lifes (how many civilians died in iraq/afganistan/wherever from direct US troops actions?), human rights (guantanamo), international rights (invading soberan country with excuses that were clear for anyone that were false) or anything else. I can hear lines like "the world cant be hostage of a madman, we must invade" coming, preemtive strikes, dont giving a shit for millons of people of that far away region dying, and if nukes are used killing who know how many innocent people, maybe not even hear an "oops" for the really responsable ones.
Too bad there are no large deposits of oil in NK, that could had saved them of what could come.
A theory that can't be proved or disproved, or can't be used in a practical way right now, can still be pretty useful if describe the real universe more accurately than our previous knowledge. You dont know what will come in the future, what development could be done taking that as a fact. Something that could have been seen in his own moment a small correction to the accepted Newton laws, like relativity (wasnt the one of their 1st experimental proofs observed like 15 years after?) , have a bit of practical uses right now.
If the alternative is that everyone have and use every day a personal car then taxes will be the lesser of your problems in the long run. Environmental problems and oil scarcity could be closer than you think, and those "socialist services" are a step in the right direction.