Of course MD5 uses a table of sines as a modification factor and there is no reason that table needs to start at sine(0) so a p2p program could say "give me the hash of block 34 using seed 12" which uses an MD5 with the table starting at sine(12) and that will break this sort of thing very quickly.
You are correct. Most of what a modern traffic engineer does is make traffic worse buy using stuff they call "traffic calming". One interesting bit is that when traffic calming became the norm was when road rage started being a real problem.
Most area planners have this idea that if they make the road less attractive then their roads won't be used major roads. The odd thing is as soon as they do that, they cause so much grid lock that they areas don't work very well and the other costs go way up. Some of the costs are wasted energy, wasted time, pollution and stress related illness. In countries where the gov't provides health care, traffic calming does increase heart attack costs as well as a wide assortment of other health problems.
It turns out that big rewards to solve real problems does seem to work and I think the US Gov't should go way out with the rewards for the hard problems.
For example give a billion dollars to the person(s) and not the company the comes up with a cure for aids. If someone does win the prize, then look at the cost savings over the long run. In the case of aids, a billion dollar one off payment is cheap.
Out of curiosity, why is Microsoft bothering to litigate?
One reason is that if they don't stop the spam from zombie windows boxes, they can get sued by others for engineering negligence combined with innocent third party issues. At this point they have no option but to show they are doing their best to go after the spamers and deal with a technical solution or else they are going to end up on the wrong end of a class action suit.
The case to sue MS for the spam issue is getting stronger every day and one of these days they are going to wish they had done something sooner.
Once the spam zombies are gone, the stupid hosters will be a much easier problem.
The consumer buying toothpaste isn't the one the ad company is selling their product to, its the tooth paste company. As long as they convince the company to keep paying, the ad company could care less if anyone watches the show and they are very good at doing that. For example, ever notice how many new ads come out at the peak of shopping season and how ads for stuff you buy throughout the year disappear? The reason is the ad companies will tell the top company they can increase sales and sell them an ad. After christmas the toy company looks at the info from the ad company and their sales and wrongly assume the ad was the only reason their sales went way up. The ad business is also one of the few were you get paid to do a sales pitch.
Thats why if you congresscritter supports longer copyright, call them and ask them to extended it even more and keep extending until Disney gets burned.
I know people who payed the 1st $5k but were smart enough not to do it twice but that might have been a result of explaining how people with baseball bats might visit him assuming the spam company actually sent out any spam. I don't know how many are repeat suckers but its non-zero.
If the clueless get scared about singing up for DSL, then maybe the big ISP's will figure out they have to protect their clueless users from the net and start offering real security.
99% of the spam you get is via hacked MS boxes. Ford has been sued by innocent 3rd parties that got hit by joy riders because the Ford they sole has piece of shit locks but for some reason lawyers don't seem to think that M$ has deep enough pockets even though they have a far worse track record in court than Ford.
Why hasn't anyone written an extention to cycle between windows? The way I work doesn't work well with their idea of cycling and the cmd-~ doesn't seem to keep any sort of sane window order. Whne I work, I'll have a set of tasks and thouse tasks will have windows assocated with them, not applications. So I may have x-code, two terminals and a few web windows open for one task and for a second task a word processor and a pdf viewer and another terminal window.
Your making bad assumptions on the cash flow with the.0000003% rate.
That only applies for spamers who buy a list of a million names and send them ads.
Most spam is of the type where clueless company pays spaming company to send their out for them. They tend to get no hits and are seperated with $5k or so.
This will work because it may tip the scales of where people have to start paying for the extra bandwidth and that might get some clueless idiots to secure their computers.
Spam won't stop until M$ is sued by someone that never uses their software and gets damaged as an innocent 3rd party. From what I can tell, right now M$ paying off people like that.
My father got me a trackman marble wheel years ago and at first I didn't like it but now I can't stant a real mouse. I don't like the design you use since you use fingers to roll the ball and I find the thumb trackballs work much better.
Too bad Logictech got rid of the old white design which was gery good and replaced it with a stylish thing that isn't nearly as good.
Its just like 64 bit processing. What does it buy you? In 99.999% of the cases it means more crud to move around and less effecent use of memory. Going from 32 bits to 64 bits didn't buy as much as going from 16 to 32 did and going 64 to 128 is almost pointless. Now a 32 bit machine that can munch on 1024 bit data at a time in an effecent way would be useful but now they call that a "video card"
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Its happened on every player I've seen. It takes a very good player to be able to cope with the fast pan and zoom sceens in LOTR and most of them show too many pixel artifacts.
The local stero/electronics place has a number of LCD displays for use with in-car DVD players. They cost about AU$230 (~US$160) for a 5" and about $240 for 7". You can get a portable DVD player with a 5" display for about $230 as well and I expect it might just use a standard video signal for the display.
So, technical issues or marketing issues ? You for got religious issues.
It seems that the environmental religious nuts love them as they love to say how much better for the environment they are. And the ESBs are better than incandescent if you forget about their manufacture costs or their landfill / recycling costs. There are about 100 different very toxic chemicals that go into making the different parts of the screw in energy saving bulbs and they take far more energy to produce. When you throw them out, they end up in the land fill where they leak mercury into the area.
Thats a problem with some of the relativity tests when they put clocks in orbit. One of them was on a rocket that fired up the engines and shutdown and never left the pad but the clock had already shown drift.
If they had got it right, then a foot would have been closer to 30.00cm and c would be closer to 3.000e8 and a liter would have been even closer to to the average of the quarts commonly in use.
You infringe a patent if you infringe any of the claims**. To infringe a claim, however, you have to be doing all the steps described in the claim. If you can see a phrase in a claim and can say "my system does not do that" then you don't infringe that claim.
A "claim" is sort of a mini-patent made of up the claim and a chain of other details. In general you can get sued for violating any complete chain of claims.
Remember that according to US law, only a Patent Atty can decided if something infringes.
It will prevent someone from making an open source version of the.net basic.
They got burned badly by Samba and they aren't going to let that happen again.
Now if someone could find someone in a newsgroup asking for this feature, then the Patent office could be advised of the "prior art" because while this may be obvious to anyone who has ever used an OOD language with pointers, the patent can be granted based on the novel idea of needing this feature in BASIC.
China is exempt to protect jobs in Europe and the US for the long term but too many people are too stupid to see the end game the diplomats are playing. The idea is to get developed countries into this while letting the developing countries continue to copy the older manufacturing systems and then in 2015 or so, force places like China to meet the 2012 requirements for the developed. This will result in a higher operating costs for China and bring them in line with Western Europe's pollution and equipment costs.
Maybe the Research Consortium will allow this but with a very heavy entry price? After all the MPAA is known to do that with its members who are outsiders so how about a hundred million dollar setup fee? Think how much research and new gear that could cover. I know in most parts of the world, its typical for a company that wants to join and eudcation group to help its own bottom line will tend to be charged a substantial amount to join.
You run Solaris on a SS2? God intended only BSD flavor unixes for the SS1 and SS2 so you should sun os 4.1.4 with its patches and enough bsd and gnu utils so your tab completion still works. The SS2 is only what 13 years old these days? Put a real OS on it and it should keep going at least as long as my SS1 which only about 15 years old now and still kicking. How many/. readers aren't that old:-)
If your real estate has gone up more than about 7%, then it can go down much faster. Remember 7% means it will double in 10 years and every sane investment will. If you get more than that, your playing a risky game and you might come out better if your vigilant but on average the risky stuff will deliver less.
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Of course MD5 uses a table of sines as a modification factor and there is no reason that table needs to start at sine(0) so a p2p program could say "give me the hash of block 34 using seed 12" which uses an MD5 with the table starting at sine(12) and that will break this sort of thing very quickly.
You are correct. Most of what a modern traffic engineer does is make traffic worse buy using stuff they call "traffic calming". One interesting bit is that when traffic calming became the norm was when road rage started being a real problem.
Most area planners have this idea that if they make the road less attractive then their roads won't be used major roads. The odd thing is as soon as they do that, they cause so much grid lock that they areas don't work very well and the other costs go way up. Some of the costs are wasted energy, wasted time, pollution and stress related illness. In countries where the gov't provides health care, traffic calming does increase heart attack costs as well as a wide assortment of other health problems.
It turns out that big rewards to solve real problems does seem to work and I think the US Gov't should go way out with the rewards for the hard problems.
For example give a billion dollars to the person(s) and not the company the comes up with a cure for aids. If someone does win the prize, then look at the cost savings over the long run. In the case of aids, a billion dollar one off payment is cheap.
Out of curiosity, why is Microsoft bothering to litigate?
One reason is that if they don't stop the spam from zombie windows boxes, they can get sued by others for engineering negligence combined with innocent third party issues. At this point they have no option but to show they are doing their best to go after the spamers and deal with a technical solution or else they are going to end up on the wrong end of a class action suit.
The case to sue MS for the spam issue is getting stronger every day and one of these days they are going to wish they had done something sooner.
Once the spam zombies are gone, the stupid hosters will be a much easier problem.
Why don't people understand your point?
The consumer buying toothpaste isn't the one the ad company is selling their product to, its the tooth paste company. As long as they convince the company to keep paying, the ad company could care less if anyone watches the show and they are very good at doing that. For example, ever notice how many new ads come out at the peak of shopping season and how ads for stuff you buy throughout the year disappear? The reason is the ad companies will tell the top company they can increase sales and sell them an ad. After christmas the toy company looks at the info from the ad company and their sales and wrongly assume the ad was the only reason their sales went way up. The ad business is also one of the few were you get paid to do a sales pitch.
Thats why if you congresscritter supports longer copyright, call them and ask them to extended it even more and keep extending until Disney gets burned.
I know people who payed the 1st $5k but were smart enough not to do it twice but that might have been a result of explaining how people with baseball bats might visit him assuming the spam company actually sent out any spam. I don't know how many are repeat suckers but its non-zero.
If the clueless get scared about singing up for DSL, then maybe the big ISP's will figure out they have to protect their clueless users from the net and start offering real security.
99% of the spam you get is via hacked MS boxes. Ford has been sued by innocent 3rd parties that got hit by joy riders because the Ford they sole has piece of shit locks but for some reason lawyers don't seem to think that M$ has deep enough pockets even though they have a far worse track record in court than Ford.
Why hasn't anyone written an extention to cycle between windows? The way I work doesn't work well with their idea of cycling and the cmd-~ doesn't seem to keep any sort of sane window order. Whne I work, I'll have a set of tasks and thouse tasks will have windows assocated with them, not applications. So I may have x-code, two terminals and a few web windows open for one task and for a second task a word processor and a pdf viewer and another terminal window.
Your making bad assumptions on the cash flow with the .0000003% rate.
That only applies for spamers who buy a list of a million names and send them ads.
Most spam is of the type where clueless company pays spaming company to send their out for them. They tend to get no hits and are seperated with $5k or so.
This will work because it may tip the scales of where people have to start paying for the extra bandwidth and that might get some clueless idiots to secure their computers.
Spam won't stop until M$ is sued by someone that never uses their software and gets damaged as an innocent 3rd party. From what I can tell, right now M$ paying off people like that.
My father got me a trackman marble wheel years ago and at first I didn't like it but now I can't stant a real mouse. I don't like the design you use since you use fingers to roll the ball and I find the thumb trackballs work much better.
Too bad Logictech got rid of the old white design which was gery good and replaced it with a stylish thing that isn't nearly as good.
Its just like 64 bit processing. What does it buy you? In 99.999% of the cases it means more crud to move around and less effecent use of memory. Going from 32 bits to 64 bits didn't buy as much as going from 16 to 32 did and going 64 to 128 is almost pointless. Now a 32 bit machine that can munch on 1024 bit data at a time in an effecent way would be useful but now they call that a "video card"
Its happened on every player I've seen. It takes a very good player to be able to cope with the fast pan and zoom sceens in LOTR and most of them show too many pixel artifacts.
The local stero/electronics place has a number of LCD displays for use with in-car DVD players. They cost about AU$230 (~US$160) for a 5" and about $240 for 7". You can get a portable DVD player with a 5" display for about $230 as well and I expect it might just use a standard video signal for the display.
So, technical issues or marketing issues ?
You for got religious issues.
It seems that the environmental religious nuts love them as they love to say how much better for the environment they are. And the ESBs are better than incandescent if you forget about their manufacture costs or their landfill / recycling costs. There are about 100 different very toxic chemicals that go into making the different parts of the screw in energy saving bulbs and they take far more energy to produce. When you throw them out, they end up in the land fill where they leak mercury into the area.
Thats a problem with some of the relativity tests when they put clocks in orbit. One of them was on a rocket that fired up the engines and shutdown and never left the pad but the clock had already shown drift.
If they had got it right, then a foot would have been closer to 30.00cm and c would be closer to 3.000e8 and a liter would have been even closer to to the average of the quarts commonly in use.
Who has the source code? Will it build as is under OS X?
You infringe a patent if you infringe any of the claims**. To infringe a claim, however, you have to be doing all the steps described in the claim. If you can see a phrase in a claim and can say "my system does not do that" then you don't infringe that claim.
A "claim" is sort of a mini-patent made of up the claim and a chain of other details. In general you can get sued for violating any complete chain of claims.
Remember that according to US law, only a Patent Atty can decided if something infringes.
It will prevent someone from making an open source version of the .net basic.
They got burned badly by Samba and they aren't going to let that happen again.
Now if someone could find someone in a newsgroup asking for this feature, then the Patent office could be advised of the "prior art" because while this may be obvious to anyone who has ever used an OOD language with pointers, the patent can be granted based on the novel idea of needing this feature in BASIC.
China is exempt to protect jobs in Europe and the US for the long term but too many people are too stupid to see the end game the diplomats are playing. The idea is to get developed countries into this while letting the developing countries continue to copy the older manufacturing systems and then in 2015 or so, force places like China to meet the 2012 requirements for the developed. This will result in a higher operating costs for China and bring them in line with Western Europe's pollution and equipment costs.
Maybe the Research Consortium will allow this but with a very heavy entry price? After all the MPAA is known to do that with its members who are outsiders so how about a hundred million dollar setup fee? Think how much research and new gear that could cover. I know in most parts of the world, its typical for a company that wants to join and eudcation group to help its own bottom line will tend to be charged a substantial amount to join.
You run Solaris on a SS2? God intended only BSD flavor unixes for the SS1 and SS2 so you should sun os 4.1.4 with its patches and enough bsd and gnu utils so your tab completion still works. The SS2 is only what 13 years old these days? Put a real OS on it and it should keep going at least as long as my SS1 which only about 15 years old now and still kicking. How many /. readers aren't that old :-)
Been there, done that.
If your real estate has gone up more than about 7%, then it can go down much faster. Remember 7% means it will double in 10 years and every sane investment will. If you get more than that, your playing a risky game and you might come out better if your vigilant but on average the risky stuff will deliver less.
maybe we should run an ad campaign in DC along the lines of "if you vote for it, you've signed it" and "don't sign anything without voting for it"
If SS fails, what will your other investments be worth? It looks to me like you have all your eggs in mostly the same basket.