I see ordered sets as all having a specifig color scheme. Like, for example, all 4's are yellow and all 3's are green. The letter J is blue and the letter M is red. And when they get combined together, they form different colors based on some rules that I can't define, but somehow know (19 is black and 76 is blue but 1976 is always blue, 1796, however, would be yellow while 1679 would be blue again, etc.) and those colors and color combinations do not change (I had a friend ask me what "color" a random number was, and then wait a few months and ask me again, and it was the same, even though I had forgotten what I originally said.)
This happens with any kind of set that has a specific order to them. If you just pull 10 random shapes out of the wood-work they would not have any colors, but if you said to me that they all go in order from shape1 to shape10 then I would suddenly begin to see them as colors.
Rule 1 on being a Karma Whore. Say "Linux" Rule 2 on being a Karma Whore. Say "Opes source" Rule 3 on being a Karma Whore. Say nothing else worthwhile.
This force, unlike most others in nature, becomes stronger as the distance between the two quarks increases.
For the physicists out there, if this forces is true, then what stops somone from developing a device based on it and, say, some electromagetic force (or just plain old gravity) where by each side pushes and pulls in balance so that they actually generate energy.
Like for eample, have a "Ds" particle bolted to the top of a room, and drop a second "Ds" particle directly from it, it would be pulled by gravity until the point where the strange inverted force gets strong enough to pull it back up. As it goes back up, that force diminshes, and then gravity takes over again, etc.
This is definitly a good solution... but how do you protect it from abuse? I mean, if one skript kiddie wants to spam his enemy's server, what's to stop him from forging a fake spam that he sends to himself and then posts to the centralized DB as a "spammer"?
There has to be some kid somewhere named "Micheal Jordan" who is a fairly good basket ball player... Why not pay that kid for his likeness and name? I'm sure it would be alot cheaper then the real guy.
I'd be happy to just let the lawyers have whatever damages they can get from the spammers. They could set up a database and an email address and I could forward all my spamassassin tagged email to them and they could handle them on my behalf. I wouldn't pay them anything, and they would get to collect on whatever damages they can get, but I'd still be getting something out of the deal (less spam). Everybody wins! Even the spammers, no doubt, who will then begin spamming each other with, "Are you tired to getting sued for spamming others? Use SekretSpam, only $19.95!"
It's awesome that we can do this, and the implications are incredible if we can apply them to humans, but I wonder if we are going to build a breed of super cancer proof humans and then find out that there is actually a reason why we produce cancers., "Oh, I get it, so THAT what cancer was for..."
I'm just waiting for a cramming call... I'm all prepared now:
Telemarketer: "At this time we will begin your no obligation 30-day free trial. Should you decide to continue after 30 days your company's Web and Internet service is only $29.95 monthly and will be included in your local phone bill appearing under the heading online services..."
Me: "No means yes and yes means no, does your company personally wish to pay for my entire phone bill, including the $30 a month charges, and additionally all long distance charges, once your 30 day free trial expires?"
Just a little thing, but hey, as long as we're on the innovation kick... When exactly did IE get intgrated pop-up blocking? Oh yeah, it didn't. It's probably a 10-lines of code fix, and coulr be rolled out with any of the fifty IE patches that have come out since Mozilla had it standard... but not there. Why not? Well, innovation for Microsoft means innovation that somehow benifits Microsoft directly, while innovation in the OSS community means innovation that helps the "customers".
Up here in silly con valley, I found the phone company not only to be the usual lot of thieves that they normally are, but to actully charge me for thier own incompetence. I signed up for phone service in my new apartment, but they typed the address in wrong and sent it to a different apartment. When I called back to fix it, they told me that they would have to charge me disconnect fees from the wrong address and then a second set of install fees for the right address. After some shouting, eventually the phone was scheduled to get installed in my new place...
Days passed and no phone, so I called back, and I was informed that I was in the system, but it would take a few ore days, and then I discovered that I had been signed up for all the "extras" (3-way calling, caller-id, super8calling, whatever that means) that I never asked for, and in faxt had explicitly NOT asked for. I had all of them removed and went back to waiting. After a few more days I called back and, suprise, suprise, those services had been re-added, but the phone line still hadn't been installed. After about a week's worth of back and forth, seeing serives randomly appear on my not-yet-installed line, finally I got them to give me an actual day they would install it.
That date passed and I called back AGAIN. This time I was informed that I was not in the system whatsoever, and that, according to thier records, I had never even called to ask for service, I was like a new customer calling for the first time. After a little more heated exchange, I signed up for service once again, and they told me it would happen the next day. Amazingly, it did get installed the next day......and then I got my bill...
Every single add and deletion that I went through was charged to the bill. I didn't add them, I just ordered them to remove them, but I got charged both and installation fee and an removal fee, and this was before teh line was even installed. On top of that was the connection fees for both my house and the wrong apartment, and, in the end, all the services that I kept removing ended up on my phone anyway... along with a final set of installation fees.
What if what you think is a bad gene is really a good gene? In the instance of a disease like Sickle Cell Anemia, what is a disease on one hand is also a protection against malaria. Imagine if you had a genetic disease and it was removed. Later on a plague (like SARS) moves through civilisation and you get it because the gene you had removed confered immunity. Bad luck there. Genetics is always a game of dice even if you are GM'd.
So the hemophilia gene is a natural defense against... pillows?:)
I believe that if we have the knowledge and the power to identify a Parkinson's, cancer, MS, Autistic, Down's, Lou Gehrig's, or a thousand other markers in our zygote's genetic code, and to eliminate that threat, then who in their right mind *wouldn't* do it? Why *wouldn't* you want your child to not have to go through the agony of being deaf or suffering through their twilight years consumed in the sad cloud of Alzheimer's?
Environmentalists already deride GM crops as "frankenfood"
So, I don't know how many of you ever read the book, but the gist is, the "monster" that Frankenstein makes is really sweet and loving, and essentially "good", until the blind hatred and fear of humanity and self-loathing of the Dr. turns him into the terrible, vengeful creature that he is at the end of the book.
So, take productive, tax paying, probably highly trained (computer geeks tend to be the biggest mp3 collectors) members out of your society, along with whatever money and goods they would be contributing back to the economy, and spend lots of additional money to store them in prision. Don't forget the fact that they will have a hell of a time finding work once they get out, couple that with the intensive criminal training they will receive by associating with known felons, and the end result is that you not only decimate your economy, but you breed a clan of highly intelligent uber criminals who would like nothing better but to run the state even further into the ground. Yeah, sounds like a plan. At least the RIAA will have enough money to hire 24/7 body guards to protect them when the world decends into anarchy... Well, at least until one of those newly trained bad guys gets his home made rail gun up and running...
First, there is negligence for allowing one's computer to become infected. A related precedent would be the owner of a condemned house allowing it to become a crack house. IANAL, but in a lot of ways it seems the cases are similar. One could claim that the software manufacturer (MS) was responsible for faulty software, or that the virus writer was responsible for letting loose his creation. In the same way, the crackhouse owner could claim that the lock manufacturer did a poor job, or that the addicts breaking into his house were at fault.
If a real virus infects your body and causes damage to other people who get infected around you, how liable are you?
There is a naive notion going around that hiding your secrets is a proper way to do security. This makes sense to many people because they are making assumptions about how well things are hidden and how "secret" secrecy really is.
I think of it the same way that I think of airport screening. Since the terrorists were arabs, the naive solution to finding terrorists is to simply stop every arab man woman and child and be done with it. It makes sense, right? Forget all the claims to political correctness, and think about it "logically". If the terrorists are all arabs, then by searching all arabs then you will be securing your airplanes, right?
Wrong, of course. Becuase you can't search 100% of the people, by selecting a non-random group you will be searching, all it would require is to find a single non-arab terrorist and the next thing you know a plane is crashing into Los Angeles.
This same naive logic is what makes windows look so secure. Because you can't see teh source, of course you can't find the holes, right? If the holes can be exploited, they eventually will be, and if they are really subtle, then only a select group of really hard-core bad guys will know about it, and YOU are probably not in that select group. You will never know that they are currently controlling your network, becuase the chance of you finding that hole and knowing to patch it is nil.
'These antispammers should get a life[...] Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
"By contrast, she said, '70 million people have bad credit. Guess what? Now I can't get mail through to them to help them.'"
By contrast, I say, '70 million spammers need a beating. Guess what? Since they forge thier headers I can't get thier home addresses so I can go help them.
Apparently you missed that whole "diversity" and "equality" kick that people have been on since the 1960s.
Ah, diversity for the sake of diversity? Yeah, I've always thought we needed more asian men on the Black Women's Alliance... I'm sure they would happy about that, too.
one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates, hence promising extended talktimes
If this were really possible then it would also be possible to charge the phone by talking to it (producing acoustic vibrations). Wouldn't that be cool? The more you talk the longer your battery life gets!
So two years of dead/dying/sick people is ok if it will mildly placate the luddite population? It's not like the scientists actually were worried about the 9-headed dogs, they knew what they were doing wasn't magic voodoo, it's the uneducated populace who felt it was needed, and probaly just a small, vocal section of them. I hope they enjoyed the dead people.
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I see ordered sets as all having a specifig color scheme. Like, for example, all 4's are yellow and all 3's are green. The letter J is blue and the letter M is red. And when they get combined together, they form different colors based on some rules that I can't define, but somehow know (19 is black and 76 is blue but 1976 is always blue, 1796, however, would be yellow while 1679 would be blue again, etc.) and those colors and color combinations do not change (I had a friend ask me what "color" a random number was, and then wait a few months and ask me again, and it was the same, even though I had forgotten what I originally said.)
This happens with any kind of set that has a specific order to them. If you just pull 10 random shapes out of the wood-work they would not have any colors, but if you said to me that they all go in order from shape1 to shape10 then I would suddenly begin to see them as colors.
responsible for 45% of traffic
But spam is responsible for, what was it Taco, 60% of traffic on networks?
I'm at 105% utilization already!
Didn't you see that the article was about Microsoft? I'm sure there is at least SOME overlap in the spam/patch metrics.
Rule 1 on being a Karma Whore.
Say "Linux"
Rule 2 on being a Karma Whore.
Say "Opes source"
Rule 3 on being a Karma Whore.
Say nothing else worthwhile.
Ok, I'll bite:
Linux
Opes source
...quake quake quake quake!
This force, unlike most others in nature, becomes stronger as the distance between the two quarks increases.
For the physicists out there, if this forces is true, then what stops somone from developing a device based on it and, say, some electromagetic force (or just plain old gravity) where by each side pushes and pulls in balance so that they actually generate energy.
Like for eample, have a "Ds" particle bolted to the top of a room, and drop a second "Ds" particle directly from it, it would be pulled by gravity until the point where the strange inverted force gets strong enough to pull it back up. As it goes back up, that force diminshes, and then gravity takes over again, etc.
This is definitly a good solution... but how do you protect it from abuse? I mean, if one skript kiddie wants to spam his enemy's server, what's to stop him from forging a fake spam that he sends to himself and then posts to the centralized DB as a "spammer"?
There has to be some kid somewhere named "Micheal Jordan" who is a fairly good basket ball player... Why not pay that kid for his likeness and name? I'm sure it would be alot cheaper then the real guy.
I'd be happy to just let the lawyers have whatever damages they can get from the spammers. They could set up a database and an email address and I could forward all my spamassassin tagged email to them and they could handle them on my behalf. I wouldn't pay them anything, and they would get to collect on whatever damages they can get, but I'd still be getting something out of the deal (less spam). Everybody wins! Even the spammers, no doubt, who will then begin spamming each other with, "Are you tired to getting sued for spamming others? Use SekretSpam, only $19.95!"
It's awesome that we can do this, and the implications are incredible if we can apply them to humans, but I wonder if we are going to build a breed of super cancer proof humans and then find out that there is actually a reason why we produce cancers., "Oh, I get it, so THAT what cancer was for..."
I'm just waiting for a cramming call... I'm all prepared now:
..."
Telemarketer: "At this time we will begin your no obligation 30-day free trial. Should you decide to continue after 30 days your company's Web and Internet service is only $29.95 monthly and will be included in your local phone bill appearing under the heading online services
Me: "No means yes and yes means no, does your company personally wish to pay for my entire phone bill, including the $30 a month charges, and additionally all long distance charges, once your 30 day free trial expires?"
foreach $file (@uploadedfiles) {
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}
Just a little thing, but hey, as long as we're on the innovation kick... When exactly did IE get intgrated pop-up blocking? Oh yeah, it didn't. It's probably a 10-lines of code fix, and coulr be rolled out with any of the fifty IE patches that have come out since Mozilla had it standard... but not there. Why not? Well, innovation for Microsoft means innovation that somehow benifits Microsoft directly, while innovation in the OSS community means innovation that helps the "customers".
Up here in silly con valley, I found the phone company not only to be the usual lot of thieves that they normally are, but to actully charge me for thier own incompetence. I signed up for phone service in my new apartment, but they typed the address in wrong and sent it to a different apartment. When I called back to fix it, they told me that they would have to charge me disconnect fees from the wrong address and then a second set of install fees for the right address. After some shouting, eventually the phone was scheduled to get installed in my new place...
...and then I got my bill...
Days passed and no phone, so I called back, and I was informed that I was in the system, but it would take a few ore days, and then I discovered that I had been signed up for all the "extras" (3-way calling, caller-id, super8calling, whatever that means) that I never asked for, and in faxt had explicitly NOT asked for. I had all of them removed and went back to waiting. After a few more days I called back and, suprise, suprise, those services had been re-added, but the phone line still hadn't been installed. After about a week's worth of back and forth, seeing serives randomly appear on my not-yet-installed line, finally I got them to give me an actual day they would install it.
That date passed and I called back AGAIN. This time I was informed that I was not in the system whatsoever, and that, according to thier records, I had never even called to ask for service, I was like a new customer calling for the first time. After a little more heated exchange, I signed up for service once again, and they told me it would happen the next day. Amazingly, it did get installed the next day...
Every single add and deletion that I went through was charged to the bill. I didn't add them, I just ordered them to remove them, but I got charged both and installation fee and an removal fee, and this was before teh line was even installed. On top of that was the connection fees for both my house and the wrong apartment, and, in the end, all the services that I kept removing ended up on my phone anyway... along with a final set of installation fees.
What if what you think is a bad gene is really a good gene? In the instance of a disease like Sickle Cell Anemia, what is a disease on one hand is also a protection against malaria. Imagine if you had a genetic disease and it was removed. Later on a plague (like SARS) moves through civilisation and you get it because the gene you had removed confered immunity. Bad luck there. Genetics is always a game of dice even if you are GM'd.
:)
So the hemophilia gene is a natural defense against... pillows?
I believe that if we have the knowledge and the power to identify a Parkinson's, cancer, MS, Autistic, Down's, Lou Gehrig's, or a thousand other markers in our zygote's genetic code, and to eliminate that threat, then who in their right mind *wouldn't* do it? Why *wouldn't* you want your child to not have to go through the agony of being deaf or suffering through their twilight years consumed in the sad cloud of Alzheimer's?
It builds character.
Environmentalists already deride GM crops as "frankenfood"
So, I don't know how many of you ever read the book, but the gist is, the "monster" that Frankenstein makes is really sweet and loving, and essentially "good", until the blind hatred and fear of humanity and self-loathing of the Dr. turns him into the terrible, vengeful creature that he is at the end of the book.
Irony?
So, take productive, tax paying, probably highly trained (computer geeks tend to be the biggest mp3 collectors) members out of your society, along with whatever money and goods they would be contributing back to the economy, and spend lots of additional money to store them in prision. Don't forget the fact that they will have a hell of a time finding work once they get out, couple that with the intensive criminal training they will receive by associating with known felons, and the end result is that you not only decimate your economy, but you breed a clan of highly intelligent uber criminals who would like nothing better but to run the state even further into the ground. Yeah, sounds like a plan. At least the RIAA will have enough money to hire 24/7 body guards to protect them when the world decends into anarchy... Well, at least until one of those newly trained bad guys gets his home made rail gun up and running...
First, there is negligence for allowing one's computer to become infected. A related precedent would be the owner of a condemned house allowing it to become a crack house. IANAL, but in a lot of ways it seems the cases are similar. One could claim that the software manufacturer (MS) was responsible for faulty software, or that the virus writer was responsible for letting loose his creation. In the same way, the crackhouse owner could claim that the lock manufacturer did a poor job, or that the addicts breaking into his house were at fault.
If a real virus infects your body and causes damage to other people who get infected around you, how liable are you?
There is a naive notion going around that hiding your secrets is a proper way to do security. This makes sense to many people because they are making assumptions about how well things are hidden and how "secret" secrecy really is.
I think of it the same way that I think of airport screening. Since the terrorists were arabs, the naive solution to finding terrorists is to simply stop every arab man woman and child and be done with it. It makes sense, right? Forget all the claims to political correctness, and think about it "logically". If the terrorists are all arabs, then by searching all arabs then you will be securing your airplanes, right?
Wrong, of course. Becuase you can't search 100% of the people, by selecting a non-random group you will be searching, all it would require is to find a single non-arab terrorist and the next thing you know a plane is crashing into Los Angeles.
This same naive logic is what makes windows look so secure. Because you can't see teh source, of course you can't find the holes, right? If the holes can be exploited, they eventually will be, and if they are really subtle, then only a select group of really hard-core bad guys will know about it, and YOU are probably not in that select group. You will never know that they are currently controlling your network, becuase the chance of you finding that hole and knowing to patch it is nil.
'These antispammers should get a life[...] Do their fingers hurt too much from pressing the delete key? How much time does that really take from their day?"
"By contrast, she said, '70 million people have bad credit. Guess what? Now I can't get mail through to them to help them.'"
By contrast, I say, '70 million spammers need a beating. Guess what? Since they forge thier headers I can't get thier home addresses so I can go help them.
Apparently you missed that whole "diversity" and "equality" kick that people have been on since the 1960s.
Ah, diversity for the sake of diversity? Yeah, I've always thought we needed more asian men on the Black Women's Alliance... I'm sure they would happy about that, too.
one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates, hence promising extended talktimes
If this were really possible then it would also be possible to charge the phone by talking to it (producing acoustic vibrations). Wouldn't that be cool? The more you talk the longer your battery life gets!
...will be made of luddites?
So two years of dead/dying/sick people is ok if it will mildly placate the luddite population? It's not like the scientists actually were worried about the 9-headed dogs, they knew what they were doing wasn't magic voodoo, it's the uneducated populace who felt it was needed, and probaly just a small, vocal section of them. I hope they enjoyed the dead people.
Parallel universes have twins of YOU...