Now does the abbreviation stand for F.irst P.ost or F.irst P.icture? Can anyone else come up with some neat translations? (I guess it would be easier if more people had access to the software...)
It looks like someone has started a project to analyze ComScore's spyware. It looks like one goal is to forge user data so that the spyware servers can be flooded with false data. Check out their Wiki at: http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=1131&doc=C omSpyware
I've always thought that watching movies would be a great way to learn foreign languages. But of course not those cheesy ones that they make you watch in school. I mean real movies that you'd probably watch anyways.
Picture this:
The audio of the movie you're watching is in the foriegn language that you'd like to learn. This would help you get a feel for the pronounciation of words. The subtitles of the movie would display not only the text for the audio (the foreign language), but also your native language so that you know what's going on. This would help you also learn the spelling of words being used.
Although the technology described wouldn't exactly enable this, it's a step towards it and I think it'd be a very cool thing to have. It wouldn't be that hard for DVD companies to implement it.
Something to really keep in mind when looking at psychological/physiological studies is that correlation and causation are two different things. In order to show causation, you need to do more than just show that two things are correlated. Just becuase those that happened to sleep less tend to live longer, doesn't mean that if you sleep less you'll live longer.
One of the best examples of the difference between correlation and causation is that when ice cream sales go up murder rates also tend to go up. So if you start eating more ice cream will you be more violence prone? Nope, it's just that in the summer both ice cream sales and murder rates happen to go up. Must be the heat or something.
Article: "touch-Typing with a Stylus", by David Goldberg and Cate Richardson, (9) pages total/
Xerox patents relating to handwriting recognition, (5) pages total.
Goldberg is the inventor listed on Xerox's patent. I'm sure someone at Palm (perhaps Hawkins and Haitani) saw this one coming a mile away.
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Chinese Manned Space Program: Behind Closed Doors is a very interesting read. It details not only a large chunk of the history of the Chinese space research, but also describes the secrecy that has shrouded most of it.
The annoucement at http://www.isi.edu/uarc.html lists a couple dozen news sites that have covered this announcement.
If you're interested in the AI type stuff behind virtual/synthetic elements that would go along with this sort of thing, check out some SOAR/ASTT documents.
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My interpretation of Alan's actions were that they were more of a joke or satirical political comment. Am I wrong? I don't read the kernel mailing lists or anything, so it's not like I have the best insight into the issue. Would someone who actually somewhat knows Alan mind telling us his real motivation for censoring the changelogs?
If they were scanning for something that could damage the plane or people, why would they care about the software? They would probably be looking for physical things. A modification to control or conceal some weird device, or perhaps some bomb residue.
This is probably BS, however international airports can be weird at times.
It brings up some decent points for both sides. However the paper is definitely shady in some areas. For example, read the section on IDSs if you want a good laugh. (They call Nessus an IDS which is similar to Tripwire.):P
He says the FBI has spent the last two years developing a new surveillance architecture that would concentrate Internet traffic in several key locations
So according to this guy, the FBI thinks that they can not merely tap the backbone of the Internet, but redo the backbone of the Internet so that they can more thoroughly monitor traffic. Does anyone have any idea how much this would cost? It would severely impact the infrastructure of major companies. In fact it may very well substantially alter the way the Internet backbone works if they force backbone providers to combine their pipes.
Also, doing this would take massive amounts of hardware. It takes a ton of hardware to just be able to route traffic at the backbone level, much less actually thoroughly examine the traffic. (Anyone who has worked at a major ISP and played around with big Cisco rule lists has probably seen this first hand.)
Calling a virus a form of terrorism would be similar to calling vandalism a form of terrorism. Normally terrorism is a term reserved for larger scale attacks with a political significance, not some lone person that randomly does something that disrupts things.
This might disrupt the flow of a game in a fantasy setting... This magic vorpal sword +8 drop has been brought to you by Smashdot.
However something like this might work better in a futuristic setting such as the upcoming Star Wars MMORPG. Also, Blizzard currently does some banner advertising at the top of the battle.net chat rooms.
The people that have the greatest need for Internet security are companies/organizations that have a presence on the Internet. These people want patrons to be able to get to their site. In order for people to be able to get to their site, they have to know their IP address. Therefore this technology is not even usable by those who need security the most.
This technology adds only a very small amount of security for your average consumer. Most users' systems are comprimised in one fell swoop and are not the subject of a determined attack because there are always plenty of other possible victims. There are two marginal benefits which I see (although there could very well be more):
Scanning networks will take more time because the attacker can't ever quite be sure that they've scanned all the hosts.
If a system is compromised, you can not simply write down the victim's IP and expect to return to the system at a later date. However this is easily worked around by having the compromised system periodically give you its IP address (via email, IRC, etc.).
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> what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me
Get a lawyer.
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just thought I'd let you all know... FARK PS!
After a bit of trying, here's something rather amusing I've come up with using it...
http://guh.nu/temp/slashdot.html
Now does the abbreviation stand for F.irst P.ost or F.irst P.icture? Can anyone else come up with some neat translations? (I guess it would be easier if more people had access to the software...)
It looks like someone has started a project to analyze ComScore's spyware. It looks like one goal is to forge user data so that the spyware servers can be flooded with false data. Check out their Wiki at:C omSpyware
http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=1131&doc=
I've always thought that watching movies would be a great way to learn foreign languages. But of course not those cheesy ones that they make you watch in school. I mean real movies that you'd probably watch anyways.
Picture this:
The audio of the movie you're watching is in the foriegn language that you'd like to learn. This would help you get a feel for the pronounciation of words. The subtitles of the movie would display not only the text for the audio (the foreign language), but also your native language so that you know what's going on. This would help you also learn the spelling of words being used.
Although the technology described wouldn't exactly enable this, it's a step towards it and I think it'd be a very cool thing to have. It wouldn't be that hard for DVD companies to implement it.
Something to really keep in mind when looking at psychological/physiological studies is that correlation and causation are two different things. In order to show causation, you need to do more than just show that two things are correlated. Just becuase those that happened to sleep less tend to live longer, doesn't mean that if you sleep less you'll live longer.
One of the best examples of the difference between correlation and causation is that when ice cream sales go up murder rates also tend to go up. So if you start eating more ice cream will you be more violence prone? Nope, it's just that in the summer both ice cream sales and murder rates happen to go up. Must be the heat or something.
In Palm's patent on "Method and apparatus for handwriting input on a pen based palmtop computing device" check out a couple of the references that are cited:
Article: "touch-Typing with a Stylus", by David Goldberg and Cate Richardson, (9) pages total/
Xerox patents relating to handwriting recognition, (5) pages total.
Goldberg is the inventor listed on Xerox's patent. I'm sure someone at Palm (perhaps Hawkins and Haitani) saw this one coming a mile away.
Here are the details on Xerox's patent on Unistrokes for computerized interpretation of handwriting which was granted in 1997.
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Their site's definitely acting better now. Before it was denying 80% of the requests to it. If only I could now mod myself down.
Looks my 'cache' is ok according to their usage guidelines. (Even if it wasn't I still might be able to pull off the whole 'fair use' thing.)
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Because the site is being uber-flakey, I'm caching some of the images from their site and putting them on my website at http://guh.nu/temp/
These images are probably copyrighted by digitalglobe.com so um, yeah.
Chinese Manned Space Program: Behind Closed Doors is a very interesting read. It details not only a large chunk of the history of the Chinese space research, but also describes the secrecy that has shrouded most of it.
The annoucement at http://www.isi.edu/uarc.html lists a couple dozen news sites that have covered this announcement.
If you're interested in the AI type stuff behind virtual/synthetic elements that would go along with this sort of thing, check out some SOAR/ASTT documents.
Taken from http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/ne treg.htm :
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(1) Inciting to resist or breaking the Constitution or laws or the implementation of administrative regulations;
(2) Inciting to overthrow the government or the socialist system;
(3) Inciting division of the country, harming national unification;
(4) Inciting hatred or discrimination among nationalities or harming the unity of the nationalities;
(5) Making falsehoods or distorting the truth, spreading rumors, destroying the order of society;
(6) Promoting feudal superstitions, sexually suggestive material, gambling, violence, murder,
(7) Terrorism or inciting others to criminal activity; openly insulting other people or distorting the truth to slander people;
(8) Injuring the reputation of state organs;
(9) Other activities against the Constitution, laws or administrative regulations.
Section Six No unit or individual may engage in the following activities which harm the security of computer information networks:
(1) No-one may use computer networks or network resources without getting proper prior approval
(2) No-one may without prior permission may change network functions or to add or delete information
(3) No-one may without prior permission add to, delete, or alter
materials stored, processed or being transmitted through the network.
(4) No-one may deliberately create or transmit viruses.
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Section Seven The freedom and privacy of network users is protected by law. No unit or individual may, in violation of these regulations, use the Internet to violate the freedom and privacy of network users.
My interpretation of Alan's actions were that they were more of a joke or satirical political comment. Am I wrong? I don't read the kernel mailing lists or anything, so it's not like I have the best insight into the issue. Would someone who actually somewhat knows Alan mind telling us his real motivation for censoring the changelogs?
Anyone else smell some BS?
If they were scanning for something that could damage the plane or people, why would they care about the software? They would probably be looking for physical things. A modification to control or conceal some weird device, or perhaps some bomb residue.
This is probably BS, however international airports can be weird at times.
You can read it at: http://praetor.bus.utexas.edu/leibrock/index.htm
It brings up some decent points for both sides. However the paper is definitely shady in some areas. For example, read the section on IDSs if you want a good laugh. (They call Nessus an IDS which is similar to Tripwire.) :P
So according to this guy, the FBI thinks that they can not merely tap the backbone of the Internet, but redo the backbone of the Internet so that they can more thoroughly monitor traffic. Does anyone have any idea how much this would cost? It would severely impact the infrastructure of major companies. In fact it may very well substantially alter the way the Internet backbone works if they force backbone providers to combine their pipes.
Also, doing this would take massive amounts of hardware. It takes a ton of hardware to just be able to route traffic at the backbone level, much less actually thoroughly examine the traffic. (Anyone who has worked at a major ISP and played around with big Cisco rule lists has probably seen this first hand.)
Calling a virus a form of terrorism would be similar to calling vandalism a form of terrorism. Normally terrorism is a term reserved for larger scale attacks with a political significance, not some lone person that randomly does something that disrupts things.
This might disrupt the flow of a game in a fantasy setting... This magic vorpal sword +8 drop has been brought to you by Smashdot.
However something like this might work better in a futuristic setting such as the upcoming Star Wars MMORPG. Also, Blizzard currently does some banner advertising at the top of the battle.net chat rooms.
FastTrack is a closed source C++ based protocol
Any care to tell me what a C++ based networking protocol is? Last time I checked you couldn't serialize a C++ object.
The people that have the greatest need for Internet security are companies/organizations that have a presence on the Internet. These people want patrons to be able to get to their site. In order for people to be able to get to their site, they have to know their IP address. Therefore this technology is not even usable by those who need security the most.
This technology adds only a very small amount of security for your average consumer. Most users' systems are comprimised in one fell swoop and are not the subject of a determined attack because there are always plenty of other possible victims. There are two marginal benefits which I see (although there could very well be more):