> renaming the TIA program, 'Terrorism Information Awareness.'
I will also be using this strategy. I will be robbing banks under the "Terrorist Defunding Program." I will be growing and selling drugs under the "Terrorist Mellowing Program." I will no longer be paying any tax under the "Emergency Funds Caching Against Terrorist Activity Program".
> i hate that bit so much. why can't they just use something easier and more efficient to handle to get their enenergy, say, bacteria?
Did you ever think that perhaps the machines were LYING to us about the chemical battery bit? Perhaps there is a deeper reason they keep us and the chemical battery cover story is to protect their secret or just to belittle us.
The possibilities abound:
(A) The machines AI is good, but not much better then human minds. They don't have enough processing power to run a simulation of the entire world down to the physics level for every human being in the world. The matrix is actually run as a distributed application ON HUMAN BRAINS! Each human plugged into the matrix is running a portion of the matrix as well as a portion of the machines OWN applications. Without us the machines lose a great portion of their own processing power and perhaps even identity.
(B) The machines are really smart and they realize that there is no guarantee that their current programming won't lead to an evolutionary dead end. If and when that happens they may need us in some unforseen way as source material to overcome that obstacle. We are an insurance policy.
Anyway... anything is better than they need chemical batteries that use up more energy than they release...
If they find out they can get free electricity from old hard drives (which they have PLENTY of) they will no longer need us humans as chemical batteries and they will shut down the matrix.
I for one am enjoying this simulation. I am eating some really great tasting chicken. At least I *think* it tastes like chicken. I mean who knows, maybe they mixed up steak and chicken, but how the hell would anyone know...
Anyway, don't tell them about the old hard drives!
> challenge systems will increasingly include "prove you're human" features like showing you a picture and asking you how many kittens are in it...
I am going to implement a challenge-response system that sends S.A.T. questions as a challenge. That way it will be very difficult for spammers to automate responses. As a fringe benefit I won't get email from stupid people anymore.
> And what exactly is wrong with the RIAA's goal? They have a legitimate claim against illegal file sharing & ripping
What's wrong is that the RIAA used their huge legal and financial resources to persecute a student who ran a computer network search engine?
Not an MP3 trading application, just a search engine that could be used, as Altavista and Google can, for finding MP3s...
If they are so right, why didn't they sue Altavista first? Why not Google first? Because they would have fought back and won. Therefore the RIAA was NOT suing because they were right, they were using their superior force to pervert our legal system and intimidate people who are doing LEGAL things that conflict with the RIAA's goals.
> mail from:<> > doesn't match any entry in my whitelist, so I wouldn't get this email.
Then you also won't get any bounce messages if you ever mistype an address, or someone changes their address, or any of your outbound mail doesnt get delivered for any reason whatsoever. But I think it's more likely that Earthlink will always let Mail from:<> through because the SMTP RFC requires it.
Because $17,000 is a rounding error to the RIAA, but it is a year's tuition to a college kid. And more importantly, the RIAA's goal is to intimidate everyone who can't afford a year long legal battle into staying away from MP3s, peer-to-peer, ripping, and anything like it. If Daniel Peng's life gets ruined (or sidetracked) by this the RIAA wins and everyone is scared. If the community helps Peng out of this unfair mess, the RIAA loses.
mail from:<> rcpt to:<clueless@earthlink.com> data From: MAILER-DEAMON To: <clueless@earthlink.com> Subject: Mail delivery failure
Your mail could not be delivered because...
YOU NEED TO BUY WIDGETS NOW! WIDGETS ARE GREAT! Now if you`re bald it`ll give you hair If you got straight trousers it`ll give you flares Feeling up you`ll get depressed Out of style here`s a brand new dress The stuff we sell is just the best Passing all consumer test Days of heaven nights of sin Voodoo stick and sharks fin When all around you seems like hell Just one sip will make you well Multipurpose in a jar If you ain`t ill it`ll fix your car In days of yore for all bad feelings Washing socks and stripping ceilings Nowadays its used medicinally For all known human malady
PS: A long long time ago I read a sci-fi story, perhaps called "Spiro" or something similar, that was very similar to T2. Instead of from the future, the shape shifter was from another planet. In the end the protagonist said "One thing I know is where-ever it comes from, they don't have birds. If he though of changing into a bird he could have FLOWN out of danger!"
I nominate the following for lifetime achevement..
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Robbie the Robot (Forbidden Planet, etc) The Robot from "Lost In Space" (B9) (Danger, Danger Will Robinson!) Marvin the depressed robot (Hitchhiker's Guide) Bender the sarcastic oil-a-holic (Futurama) The Daleks (at least I *think* they were robots) Gort! "Klaatu barada nikto!" (The Day The Earth Stood Still) C-3PO R2D2 Rossum's Univeral Robots (the first ever) Data (Star Trek)
Your network is pretty secure compared to the average. However,...
Your root password is "sheila". Your social security number is 182-90-6134. You just broke up with your girlfriend. And you really ought to get a disk-wipe program to remove all traces of those deleted pornos.
> Do you really think two MP3s compressed with two different ripping programs are going to be bit for bit identical?
No, I don't. Do you really think a music downloading service will be re-ripping the song for EACH user to download instead of having a library of pre-ripped digital copies?
If they are hiding IDs in digital watermarks, just download two copies of a song from two different accounts. Compare the two. Any bits that are different, write a program to randomly alter those bits. Bingo: no more watermark.
I must have lots of viruses....
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They've been downloading MP3s, porn, movies, all kinds of stuff I am not aware of!
Eat my karma. How the hell is my post "off-topic"? The question was about how to make a box as good as Tivo. My reply sarcastically implies that the original Tivo is an excellent product that cannot be duplicate with home grown parts. Perhaps I was too subtle for the kid with his new Moderation-gun and an itchy trigger finger.
So I'll spell it out: Tivo is an excellent product that is greater than the sum of it's parts. It just "works" and does what I would like it to do without having to figure out exactly what the "best way" to do it is. It is intuitive in a way that is hard to decribe and totally changes the nature of what "TV" is. TV is now like having a really good librarian who knows you and has been busy preparing for your next visit.
Putting together the basic components to record video signals will not magically give you a Tivo.
Taking this one step further, I really don't see the need for more than a couple of Unix-like OSes. Does each of these *really* have some unique features that just couldn't be added to one of the main distributions?!
Let's see... we have OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, UnixWare, SCO, Mac OSX,
Of course just for Linux we have: RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, SuSe, Caldera, Gentoo, Antartica, Lycoris, Yggdrasil, Conectiva, Corel, Elfstone, RockLinux, SharkLinux, Sisyphus, ASPLinux, Beehive, BlueLinux, BlueCat, oh my god the list goes on and on...
Yeah, those wood drilling companies have to dig very deep into the Earth's crust to find new deposits of "wood".
I have discovered a genetically enhanced form of houseplant that actually produces "wood". I call it "tree". I think it will revolutionize the wood drilling industry.
I have a sendmail milter running that refuses mail that claims to come from AOL/HOTMAIL/MSN but the server sending the mail doesnt end in aol.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com . This removes all of the forged aol/hotmail/msn mail and cuts out 80% of my spam.
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> They even use puffs of compressed air to separate sticky pages!
Oh good, that means these robots can digitize my porn magazine collection!
> renaming the TIA program, 'Terrorism Information Awareness.'
I will also be using this strategy.
I will be robbing banks under the "Terrorist Defunding Program."
I will be growing and selling drugs under the "Terrorist Mellowing Program."
I will no longer be paying any tax under the "Emergency Funds Caching Against Terrorist Activity Program".
> i hate that bit so much. why can't they just use something easier and more efficient to handle to get their enenergy, say, bacteria?
Did you ever think that perhaps the machines were LYING to us about the chemical battery bit? Perhaps there is a deeper reason they keep us and the chemical battery cover story is to protect their secret or just to belittle us.
The possibilities abound:
(A) The machines AI is good, but not much better then human minds. They don't have enough processing power to run a simulation of the entire world down to the physics level for every human being in the world. The matrix is actually run as a distributed application ON HUMAN BRAINS! Each human plugged into the matrix is running a portion of the matrix as well as a portion of the machines OWN applications. Without us the machines lose a great portion of their own processing power and perhaps even identity.
(B) The machines are really smart and they realize that there is no guarantee that their current programming won't lead to an evolutionary dead end. If and when that happens they may need us in some unforseen way as source material to overcome that obstacle. We are an insurance policy.
Anyway... anything is better than they need chemical batteries that use up more energy than they release...
If they find out they can get free electricity from old hard drives (which they have PLENTY of) they will no longer need us humans as chemical batteries and they will shut down the matrix.
I for one am enjoying this simulation. I am eating some really great tasting chicken. At least I *think* it tastes like chicken. I mean who knows, maybe they mixed up steak and chicken, but how the hell would anyone know...
Anyway, don't tell them about the old hard drives!
> challenge systems will increasingly include "prove you're human" features like showing you a picture and asking you how many kittens are in it...
I am going to implement a challenge-response system that sends S.A.T. questions as a challenge. That way it will be very difficult for spammers to automate responses. As a fringe benefit I won't get email from stupid people anymore.
> And btw, if there are 10 kinds of people in the world, why do you only list two?
I *think* you are pretending not to get it...
But just in case... try pronouncing it "there are one-zero kinds of people in this world..."
> And what exactly is wrong with the RIAA's goal? They have a legitimate claim against illegal file sharing & ripping
What's wrong is that the RIAA used their huge legal and financial resources to persecute a student who ran a computer network search engine?
Not an MP3 trading application, just a search engine that could be used, as Altavista and Google can, for finding MP3s...
If they are so right, why didn't they sue Altavista first? Why not Google first? Because they would have fought back and won. Therefore the RIAA was NOT suing because they were right, they were using their superior force to pervert our legal system and intimidate people who are doing LEGAL things that conflict with the RIAA's goals.
> mail from:<>
> doesn't match any entry in my whitelist, so I wouldn't get this email.
Then you also won't get any bounce messages if you ever mistype an address, or someone changes their address, or any of your outbound mail doesnt get delivered for any reason whatsoever.
But I think it's more likely that Earthlink will always let Mail from:<> through because the SMTP RFC requires it.
Because $17,000 is a rounding error to the RIAA, but it is a year's tuition to a college kid.
And more importantly, the RIAA's goal is to intimidate everyone who can't afford a year long legal battle into staying away from MP3s, peer-to-peer, ripping, and anything like it. If Daniel Peng's life gets ruined (or sidetracked) by this the RIAA wins and everyone is scared. If the community helps Peng out of this unfair mess, the RIAA loses.
mail from:<>
rcpt to:<clueless@earthlink.com>
data
From: MAILER-DEAMON
To: <clueless@earthlink.com>
Subject: Mail delivery failure
Your mail could not be delivered because...
YOU NEED TO BUY WIDGETS NOW! WIDGETS ARE GREAT!
Now if you`re bald it`ll give you hair
If you got straight trousers it`ll give you flares
Feeling up you`ll get depressed
Out of style here`s a brand new dress
The stuff we sell is just the best
Passing all consumer test
Days of heaven nights of sin
Voodoo stick and sharks fin
When all around you seems like hell
Just one sip will make you well
Multipurpose in a jar
If you ain`t ill it`ll fix your car
In days of yore for all bad feelings
Washing socks and stripping ceilings
Nowadays its used medicinally
For all known human malady
It sounds like T2 is made of quantum dots!
PS:
A long long time ago I read a sci-fi story, perhaps called "Spiro" or something similar, that was very similar to T2. Instead of from the future, the shape shifter was from another planet. In the end the protagonist said "One thing I know is where-ever it comes from, they don't have birds. If he though of changing into a bird he could have FLOWN out of danger!"
Robbie the Robot (Forbidden Planet, etc)
The Robot from "Lost In Space" (B9) (Danger, Danger Will Robinson!)
Marvin the depressed robot (Hitchhiker's Guide)
Bender the sarcastic oil-a-holic (Futurama)
The Daleks (at least I *think* they were robots)
Gort! "Klaatu barada nikto!" (The Day The Earth Stood Still)
C-3PO
R2D2
Rossum's Univeral Robots (the first ever)
Data (Star Trek)
Hmmm... I'm sure I'm leaving some out...
Your network is pretty secure compared to the average. However, ...
Your root password is "sheila".
Your social security number is 182-90-6134.
You just broke up with your girlfriend.
And you really ought to get a disk-wipe program to remove all traces of those deleted pornos.
> What on earth do they hope to accomplish?
They hope to prove they have a valuable LEGAL asset and get purchased. Perhaps by Microsoft.
> Do you really think two MP3s compressed with two different ripping programs are going to be bit for bit identical?
No, I don't. Do you really think a music downloading service will be re-ripping the song for EACH user to download instead of having a library of pre-ripped digital copies?
If they are hiding IDs in digital watermarks, just download two copies of a song from two different accounts. Compare the two. Any bits that are different, write a program to randomly alter those bits. Bingo: no more watermark.
They've been downloading MP3s, porn, movies, all kinds of stuff I am not aware of!
Eat my karma.
How the hell is my post "off-topic"?
The question was about how to make a box as good as Tivo. My reply sarcastically implies that the original Tivo is an excellent product that cannot be duplicate with home grown parts. Perhaps I was too subtle for the kid with his new Moderation-gun and an itchy trigger finger.
So I'll spell it out:
Tivo is an excellent product that is greater than the sum of it's parts. It just "works" and does what I would like it to do without having to figure out exactly what the "best way" to do it is. It is intuitive in a way that is hard to decribe and totally changes the nature of what "TV" is. TV is now like having a really good librarian who knows you and has been busy preparing for your next visit.
Putting together the basic components to record video signals will not magically give you a Tivo.
> My question for is "What's worked best for you?"
I couldn't be happier with my solution.
Taking this one step further, I really don't see the need for more than a couple of Unix-like OSes.
Does each of these *really* have some unique features that just couldn't be added to one of the main distributions?!
Let's see... we have OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSDI, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, UnixWare, SCO, Mac OSX,
Of course just for Linux we have: RedHat, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, SuSe, Caldera, Gentoo, Antartica, Lycoris, Yggdrasil, Conectiva, Corel, Elfstone, RockLinux, SharkLinux, Sisyphus, ASPLinux, Beehive, BlueLinux, BlueCat, oh my god the list goes on and on...
> To verify, please say the following word: (random word from set A)
This is similar to typing in a distorted word when signing up for a web site to prove you are a person and not a script.
Isn't it interesting that we finally found a practical use for Turing Tests?
> box attached to the exterior of houses
> Just walk up, plug in, dial away...
and get shot by the homeowner who figures you are cutting the phones before robbing his house.
I hope you have a "Plan B".
> Besides wood is non-renewable resource.
Yeah, those wood drilling companies have to dig very deep into the Earth's crust to find new deposits of "wood".
I have discovered a genetically enhanced form of houseplant that actually produces "wood". I call it "tree". I think it will revolutionize the wood drilling industry.
I have a sendmail milter running that refuses mail that claims to come from AOL/HOTMAIL/MSN but the server sending the mail doesnt end in aol.com, hotmail.com, or msn.com . This removes all of the forged aol/hotmail/msn mail and cuts out 80% of my spam.
It's not from Zork. It's from the Original Adventure (Colossal Cave). If it's in Zork, it's as a homage to the Original Adventure.