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it would be nice if the isps that are fighting spam would share caller id info. Since many isps are simply virtual isps, it would make sense for who ever is running the digital ras to keep track of spamers and they numbers they dialed into. If they were clever the spamer would never even know this is how they are being tracked and radius can warn the staff about a recently dialed in spamer.
Re:Spammers cheat, this will not work
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while upgrading sendmail, I had somehow allowed the world to realy:-(
A spamer hit my box and out of 23 messages only 6 were valid.
Australia used to do this up until the middle of this year. The import taxes were based on about 22% (or 32% in some caes) of the retail price and paid by the importers. This resulted in a high level of markup since the tax paid was also marked up. Now that the tax is paid on the back end, the markups are falling quickly.
What do you need 64 bits for? To double the stack size on a context switch? 32 bits means each register can hold one of 4 billion different numbers. Thats more than enough for most applications and with those apps where its not enough, 64 bits isn't going to help much at all.
This concept is already done. It is used in movies for soundtracks. Remeber how many top-40 songs came out of Miami Vice? A major part of their budget was for music. Most local music stores have an ever increaseing sound track section and the % of good music there is increasing.
Most of the earyly CDs were 14 bit or worse. While most of them had the "16 bit" flag set on the packets, they didn't the last bits.
The raw CD format has some interesting things. It can go down to about 10 bits (if I remember correctly) as well as more than 16 bits (22?) and a number of channles. What it means is you should be able to burn an audio mono cd with several hours worth of voice on one CD.
>The question is not whether fingerprints are globally unique -- as the article points out, given enough detail, they
most certainly are, like all natural things. But when you scan them at a low enough resolution they all end up being the same. The trick is to adjust the resolution of the scan so the unique details show up.
Gold....
King Tut had a bunch of gold. Someone even recently tried to steal the coffin but found out its quite heavy.
If the older kings used gold masks, its likly that they gold was stolen by later kings. There is also the real possability that they didn't have any gold at all. King Tut did a number of things that are unique to his tomb. To me it looks like everyone tried something for some reason. You know those gods are hard to please and you never know exactly what they want.
Um... they did (kind of).
Astrology was popular in Egypt. The Spynix was as we know it today was done at the start of "the age of Leo". The temple at Luxor has a line of Sphinx that had their lion heads choped off and replaced with ram head at the start of the next age.
The four major temples (Karnack Luoxr,...,...) were the temples of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.
Sorry but it can't happen that way. There isn't enough material to do it thay way. Argument ended...
except... some of the internal stones are huge. Way too big to move anyway except ramps. So ramps were likly used in the construction of things like the grand gallery which isn't all that high up and they would have had about 1.5 million smallish stones (which they were real good at moving) laying about.
For thouse looking for your own theorys, most of the stones weigh about a ton. They do get smaller as you go up. The first few rows are about 1m*1m*.6m. American pine splits at about 2000 lbs/sq inch. Oh, thers about 3 million of them and they are spaced within 2 inches of each other.
I found a few stones in on pyramid that show they were siting on vertial logs. Herodous says they pyramids were built with machines made from wooden planks. Problem with that theory is that there is no evidence of any wood ('cept the solar boat) at Giza. None whatsoever. Funny that. Wood being a rare thing and it does get cold at night there and 4+ thousand years of scavengers looking for something to burn.
Different pyramids were covered with different things. I don't think any of the big ones were totaly completed. Even today there is a mindset in Cairo to leave buildings unfinished.
The step pyramid was basicly sand and sandstone. The third pyramid at Giza had red granite.
I'm not sure I buy the story about the stones being used in other buildings. If that was true, there would be lots of nice angle cut stones at places like the Market (Cahn-el-????) and the Mosques. There seems to be a taboo about using stones from a different religion's building to build a Mosque.
My theory is that the great pyramids were built starting with a small chamber dug in the ground, and a small pyramid built on top. Then sides were added till as it got bigger. From time to time major reworks would be done and the chamber would be moved higer up in the structure with more adornments. These people knew that people were only likely to die as some ages and the structure of the largest two fit that. (people then woudl tend to die at ages 2, 10-16, sometime 20-30, about 45 or from old age which was about 60 then)
The story of Herodous also tells of the building of the pyramid and how the queen had obtained her own stones for her own pyramid. I'm wondering if the King's father-in-law owend a quary since that fact could easily turn into the recored story years later.
One last thing. I don't call the kings Pharos. The Pharos were kings of an area now inside Iraq. These words come from the bible and when the french "rediscovered" the land we now know as Egypt, they assumed it was the land talked about in the bible and called it "Aegypt". The Hewbrew word means basicly "over the (big?) water (or river)". There is no evidence of the people of Isreal ever being in what is now modern Egypt.
However it seems that the Chatolics have lots in common with the old Egypt religion. Things like the Trinity (it was a Quadinty in Egypt but included the dude of the underworld), Blood of the God, Reserection, Eternal life, Heaven, Hell, Pergatory, Final Judgement before God. I'm guessing that Jesus and his clan picked up some of thouse concepts and took them to the Jews. Egypt also had cures for many common ailments that the Jews considered unclean (types of blindness and skin conditions, types of lameness) When it was illegal to touch a sick person, someone with a bit of medical knowlege would be a quite impressive healer.
If there was a large transatlantic culture, there would be more genetic traces. There are some cases where this appears to have happened. For example the Africans near the Gold Coast (a very unresearched old culture) has the red-head gene that is so widespread in Ireland. Things like that could have resulted in a small group of people taking a one way trip which does happen from time to time even today with small boats that get too far from shore. (but Ireland is the wrong way from Africa for the main currents). One last thing to consider is that long trips (like Marko Polo) take many years and were offten one way trips when the life expectancy was often as low as 25 years.
Keep in mind that the "solar" boat found at Gizi was larger and had more load capacity than the first boats used by Europeans to visit North America.
The Egyteans knew of 4 races other than their own and often showed pictures of Africans and Indians (from India) in their pictures.
The surveys of the differnt areas of acient Egypt show they knew the basis for surveys since the 4000 yr old ones are more accurate than the ones from 100 years ago. That sort of implys that they knew about astronomey based surveys which would imply they could navigate long distances. There are rumors about them navigating around Africa. They had the boats, why not?
The Egypteans seemed to want to stay at home and didn't seen to have a spirit of adventure. The old writings say they would use forien crews for their boats. I wonder if there was something about their religion that keep them from going far.
>My own theory is that it could have been a warning and/or navigational beacon I think your close with the navigation.
There is water under the Sphinx. The water table under egypt is quite large but tends to be very deep except in some places and the Sphinx is one of them. The sphinx is also what I would guess is the first days travel out from the markets in Cairo which means its a likly resting place. The "hidden chambers" under the Sphinx lead to water.
If you talk to American Indians about acient navigation they talk about rocks that have shapes like that look like animals or gods or other things that show up in storys that were used to remember navigational information. Its likly that navigation in acient egypt was done something like that.
My theory is that it was a outcrop that looked kind of like a lion head and was adapted over time to make it look more like one till a powerful man decided to go the whole way and put his face on it. that was only done because there was water there.
If you look at the scope of what is taught in calc, you will find that it fits in a small scope of problems that are basicly interesting to the engineering department and solvable. While I do use calc from time to time (a few times a year), I would have be much better off taking 2 years of advanced automata theory. I see it as an entire segment of mathematics that is close to being ignored by most universities.
Out of my personal friends, I can't say any of them are into computer games anymore. Some of them used to spend lots of time with the likes Moria and rouge but that was decades ago. On the other hand very person we have considered for jr positions at work is a gamer. Maybe a better question is "What makes the games you play good?"
I think the best answer would be that of one of the ID developers "The computer is the game." With such a deep understanding of the game, I still wonder why they were shocked when the wolf3d maps were hacked.
I have found that asking for a MS is a great way to screen out good talent. If you can't get into a decent school (MIT, UCB, etc) a Masters program could simply be more useless crud on piled on top of the other junk.
I can say that I did not learn one useful thing about coding in any programming class I ever took. I did learn a few lessions. Like the "impossable" assignment in Systems class it to teach you to work with others. I messed that up by building a tool to batch the Ada compiler so it would complete its task more than 10% of time, and by completeing the assignment which was to write an "windowing os" in Ada that would run 4 processes in different windows in vt100ish terminal. The first thing the class was tring to teach was cooperation on your team. The vax could deal with 2 compiles at once. The second one would die after about 10 minutes. If you fired up a 3rd, all three died but one would work fine. I wrote a program that watched the virutal memory and would allocate and deallocate a block of ram based on the runnign state. Simple solution and about 1/2 the class started using my batching program -- the other 1/2 complained I was cheating. A lession leaarend but it wasn't about coding. The other part of the class was that one person would write the "os" and one person would write the "windowing" and since 4 different programs had to be running, the other team members would work on thouse. That was fine except that the os loader (which is the hard part) has to be done before those people at do their jobs so you end up with all the pressure on the OS guy till they are done with their job and then the few days before the project is due, everyone else starts to do real coding.
A masters from the wrong school is worthless. For example I took Dr Lan's (at the Univ Missouri's CS department) C and Unix class. While appealing the grade, I had answered the question with exactly what was in the K&R book. Dr Lan said he didn't recoginse the book. One test question was "what is the unix shell", His only correct answer was "c shell" (which wasn't on 1/2 the machines used in the class) and he didn't even know what the Borne shell was. After posting some of his test questions to Usenet, I was shocked that someone with the uid of dmr at some place called bell labs couldn't even answer the questions correctly.
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I've had to deal with these bozos before. I ran one of the news servers they tried to hack when I refused to allow them to cancel of a few articles about them. They tried to run exploits aginst the news server. When the OSI visted some of the bozos and told them to stop, more attacks came from other places. We even got letters from one of their attys. I'm not sure why they gave up in the end. Maybe they finaly understod the.mil on the end of the domain name.
So the next time you asked to take an IQ test, ask the idiot how L R's head is doing and when its going to thaw out.
If you make a scientoligst cry, does that mess with their orb or what ever it is? do they have to pay more to get back to the same level?
If I buy a pirate copy of a M$ product, under good faith that I was obtaining a legit copy, I'm under no legal obligation to M$ to prove it. Its M$ that has to prove its an illegal copy and then they have to go after the supplier. Once they find the supplier then it becomes an issue where the justice system has obligations.
So not only does tax money got to buy the junk in the first place, now the state has to spend lots of time (= tax money) to protect M$ from pirate sales? This is an unfair advantage to M$ that their competitors don't have and it needs to be brought to the attention of every city atty in the country.
What you would find is some companies would take advantage of the advances and leave their competition in the dust. Wal-mart did this with the likes of Ben Franklyn, TG&Y, K-mart, etc. In their early days they used barcodes and charged the producers something like $.02 per product that didn't have a bar code. It then raised to over $1 and now I expect that Wal-mart won't even consider an non-barcoded product. Wal-mart also was early in the concept of restocking after hours has lots of people in the store so why not keep it open.
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it would be nice if the isps that are fighting spam would share caller id info. Since many isps are simply virtual isps, it would make sense for who ever is running the digital ras to keep track of spamers and they numbers they dialed into. If they were clever the spamer would never even know this is how they are being tracked and radius can warn the staff about a recently dialed in spamer.
while upgrading sendmail, I had somehow allowed the world to realy :-(
A spamer hit my box and out of 23 messages only 6 were valid.
Australia used to do this up until the middle of this year. The import taxes were based on about 22% (or 32% in some caes) of the retail price and paid by the importers. This resulted in a high level of markup since the tax paid was also marked up. Now that the tax is paid on the back end, the markups are falling quickly.
What do you need 64 bits for? To double the stack size on a context switch? 32 bits means each register can hold one of 4 billion different numbers. Thats more than enough for most applications and with those apps where its not enough, 64 bits isn't going to help much at all.
So who gets john.smith.name?
This concept is already done. It is used in movies for soundtracks. Remeber how many top-40 songs came out of Miami Vice? A major part of their budget was for music. Most local music stores have an ever increaseing sound track section and the % of good music there is increasing.
Maybe the old model is just broken.
Most of the earyly CDs were 14 bit or worse. While most of them had the "16 bit" flag set on the packets, they didn't the last bits.
The raw CD format has some interesting things. It can go down to about 10 bits (if I remember correctly) as well as more than 16 bits (22?) and a number of channles. What it means is you should be able to burn an audio mono cd with several hours worth of voice on one CD.
>The question is not whether fingerprints are globally unique -- as the article points out, given enough detail, they
most certainly are, like all natural things.
But when you scan them at a low enough resolution they all end up being the same. The trick is to adjust the resolution of the scan so the unique details show up.
There are almost a million users that have used the public access systems that use pine as a mail program and most used it without too much trouble.
Gold....
King Tut had a bunch of gold. Someone even recently tried to steal the coffin but found out its quite heavy.
If the older kings used gold masks, its likly that they gold was stolen by later kings. There is also the real possability that they didn't have any gold at all. King Tut did a number of things that are unique to his tomb. To me it looks like everyone tried something for some reason. You know those gods are hard to please and you never know exactly what they want.
uh dude,
go vist the damn thing and then tell me about how good the alignment of the stones is.
Um... they did (kind of).
...,...) were the temples of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water.
Astrology was popular in Egypt. The Spynix was as we know it today was done at the start of "the age of Leo". The temple at Luxor has a line of Sphinx that had their lion heads choped off and replaced with ram head at the start of the next age.
The four major temples (Karnack Luoxr,
Re: Ramps
Sorry but it can't happen that way. There isn't enough material to do it thay way. Argument ended...
except... some of the internal stones are huge. Way too big to move anyway except ramps. So ramps were likly used in the construction of things like the grand gallery which isn't all that high up and they would have had about 1.5 million smallish stones (which they were real good at moving) laying about.
For thouse looking for your own theorys, most of the stones weigh about a ton. They do get smaller as you go up. The first few rows are about 1m*1m*.6m. American pine splits at about 2000 lbs/sq inch. Oh, thers about 3 million of them and they are spaced within 2 inches of each other.
I found a few stones in on pyramid that show they were siting on vertial logs. Herodous says they pyramids were built with machines made from wooden planks. Problem with that theory is that there is no evidence of any wood ('cept the solar boat) at Giza. None whatsoever. Funny that. Wood being a rare thing and it does get cold at night there and 4+ thousand years of scavengers looking for something to burn.
Different pyramids were covered with different things. I don't think any of the big ones were totaly completed. Even today there is a mindset in Cairo to leave buildings unfinished.
The step pyramid was basicly sand and sandstone. The third pyramid at Giza had red granite.
I'm not sure I buy the story about the stones being used in other buildings. If that was true, there would be lots of nice angle cut stones at places like the Market (Cahn-el-????) and the Mosques. There seems to be a taboo about using stones from a different religion's building to build a Mosque.
My theory is that the great pyramids were built starting with a small chamber dug in the ground, and a small pyramid built on top. Then sides were added till as it got bigger. From time to time major reworks would be done and the chamber would be moved higer up in the structure with more adornments. These people knew that people were only likely to die as some ages and the structure of the largest two fit that. (people then woudl tend to die at ages 2, 10-16, sometime 20-30, about 45 or from old age which was about 60 then)
The story of Herodous also tells of the building of the pyramid and how the queen had obtained her own stones for her own pyramid. I'm wondering if the King's father-in-law owend a quary since that fact could easily turn into the recored story years later.
One last thing. I don't call the kings Pharos. The Pharos were kings of an area now inside Iraq. These words come from the bible and when the french "rediscovered" the land we now know as Egypt, they assumed it was the land talked about in the bible and called it "Aegypt". The Hewbrew word means basicly "over the (big?) water (or river)". There is no evidence of the people of Isreal ever being in what is now modern Egypt.
However it seems that the Chatolics have lots in common with the old Egypt religion. Things like the Trinity (it was a Quadinty in Egypt but included the dude of the underworld), Blood of the God, Reserection, Eternal life, Heaven, Hell, Pergatory, Final Judgement before God. I'm guessing that Jesus and his clan picked up some of thouse concepts and took them to the Jews. Egypt also had cures for many common ailments that the Jews considered unclean (types of blindness and skin conditions, types of lameness) When it was illegal to touch a sick person, someone with a bit of medical knowlege would be a quite impressive healer.
If there was a large transatlantic culture, there would be more genetic traces. There are some cases where this appears to have happened. For example the Africans near the Gold Coast (a very unresearched old culture) has the red-head gene that is so widespread in Ireland. Things like that could have resulted in a small group of people taking a one way trip which does happen from time to time even today with small boats that get too far from shore. (but Ireland is the wrong way from Africa for the main currents). One last thing to consider is that long trips (like Marko Polo) take many years and were offten one way trips when the life expectancy was often as low as 25 years.
Keep in mind that the "solar" boat found at Gizi was larger and had more load capacity than the first boats used by Europeans to visit North America.
The Egyteans knew of 4 races other than their own and often showed pictures of Africans and Indians (from India) in their pictures.
The surveys of the differnt areas of acient Egypt show they knew the basis for surveys since the 4000 yr old ones are more accurate than the ones from 100 years ago. That sort of implys that they knew about astronomey based surveys which would imply they could navigate long distances. There are rumors about them navigating around Africa. They had the boats, why not?
The Egypteans seemed to want to stay at home and didn't seen to have a spirit of adventure. The old writings say they would use forien crews for their boats. I wonder if there was something about their religion that keep them from going far.
>My own theory is that it could have been a warning and/or navigational beacon
I think your close with the navigation.
There is water under the Sphinx. The water table under egypt is quite large but tends to be very deep except in some places and the Sphinx is one of them. The sphinx is also what I would guess is the first days travel out from the markets in Cairo which means its a likly resting place. The "hidden chambers" under the Sphinx lead to water.
If you talk to American Indians about acient navigation they talk about rocks that have shapes like that look like animals or gods or other things that show up in storys that were used to remember navigational information. Its likly that navigation in acient egypt was done something like that.
My theory is that it was a outcrop that looked kind of like a lion head and was adapted over time to make it look more like one till a powerful man decided to go the whole way and put his face on it. that was only done because there was water there.
If you look at the scope of what is taught in calc, you will find that it fits in a small scope of problems that are basicly interesting to the engineering department and solvable. While I do use calc from time to time (a few times a year), I would have be much better off taking 2 years of advanced automata theory. I see it as an entire segment of mathematics that is close to being ignored by most universities.
Out of my personal friends, I can't say any of them are into computer games anymore. Some of them used to spend lots of time with the likes Moria and rouge but that was decades ago. On the other hand very person we have considered for jr positions at work is a gamer. Maybe a better question is "What makes the games you play good?"
I think the best answer would be that of one of the ID developers "The computer is the game." With such a deep understanding of the game, I still wonder why they were shocked when the wolf3d maps were hacked.
I have found that asking for a MS is a great way to screen out good talent. If you can't get into a decent school (MIT, UCB, etc) a Masters program could simply be more useless crud on piled on top of the other junk.
I can say that I did not learn one useful thing about coding in any programming class I ever took. I did learn a few lessions. Like the "impossable" assignment in Systems class it to teach you to work with others. I messed that up by building a tool to batch the Ada compiler so it would complete its task more than 10% of time, and by completeing the assignment which was to write an "windowing os" in Ada that would run 4 processes in different windows in vt100ish terminal. The first thing the class was tring to teach was cooperation on your team. The vax could deal with 2 compiles at once. The second one would die after about 10 minutes. If you fired up a 3rd, all three died but one would work fine. I wrote a program that watched the virutal memory and would allocate and deallocate a block of ram based on the runnign state. Simple solution and about 1/2 the class started using my batching program -- the other 1/2 complained I was cheating. A lession leaarend but it wasn't about coding. The other part of the class was that one person would write the "os" and one person would write the "windowing" and since 4 different programs had to be running, the other team members would work on thouse. That was fine except that the os loader (which is the hard part) has to be done before those people at do their jobs so you end up with all the pressure on the OS guy till they are done with their job and then the few days before the project is due, everyone else starts to do real coding.
A masters from the wrong school is worthless. For example I took Dr Lan's (at the Univ Missouri's CS department) C and Unix class. While appealing the grade, I had answered the question with exactly what was in the K&R book. Dr Lan said he didn't recoginse the book. One test question was "what is the unix shell", His only correct answer was "c shell" (which wasn't on 1/2 the machines used in the class) and he didn't even know what the Borne shell was. After posting some of his test questions to Usenet, I was shocked that someone with the uid of dmr at some place called bell labs couldn't even answer the questions correctly.
The Catholics. They are what the CO$ aspire to be.
What are priest doing in their spare time?
I've had to deal with these bozos before. I ran one of the news servers they tried to hack when I refused to allow them to cancel of a few articles about them. They tried to run exploits aginst the news server. When the OSI visted some of the bozos and told them to stop, more attacks came from other places. We even got letters from one of their attys. I'm not sure why they gave up in the end. Maybe they finaly understod the .mil on the end of the domain name.
So the next time you asked to take an IQ test, ask the idiot how L R's head is doing and when its going to thaw out.
If you make a scientoligst cry, does that mess with their orb or what ever it is? do they have to pay more to get back to the same level?
If I buy a pirate copy of a M$ product, under good faith that I was obtaining a legit copy, I'm under no legal obligation to M$ to prove it. Its M$ that has to prove its an illegal copy and then they have to go after the supplier. Once they find the supplier then it becomes an issue where the justice system has obligations.
So not only does tax money got to buy the junk in the first place, now the state has to spend lots of time (= tax money) to protect M$ from pirate sales? This is an unfair advantage to M$ that their competitors don't have and it needs to be brought to the attention of every city atty in the country.
Are they going to get sued for doing what cue-cat is tring to do?
What you would find is some companies would take advantage of the advances and leave their competition in the dust. Wal-mart did this with the likes of Ben Franklyn, TG&Y, K-mart, etc. In their early days they used barcodes and charged the producers something like $.02 per product that didn't have a bar code. It then raised to over $1 and now I expect that Wal-mart won't even consider an non-barcoded product. Wal-mart also was early in the concept of restocking after hours has lots of people in the store so why not keep it open.