On the off chance that your suggestion wasn't a troll: Who's going to generate the questions? They obviously have to be unique for each e-mail, or someone can just draft up a set of responses. More importantly, who's going to judge what constitutes an intelligent response? Logically it has to be a human, which means you're STILL wasting time manually checking whether or not the message is authentic. I could have glanced at it and told you in under a second whether or not it was spam, but now you've made that process three times more complicated, since I now have to come up with a question, then verify the answer, then read the mail itself (which still might be spam).
Not to mention, there are a fair number of people out there who probably couldn't pass a Turing test.
You're right. Let's just give up now, because anything we do is a wasted effort. Let's do away with firewalls and virus protection because they just keep coming up with new exploits. Heck, I'm just gonna stop showering, because I'll just get dirty again. Thanks for your insight.
If posting took 200 sec of computation then only people with something interesting to say would bother. Much less spam and karma-whoring.
There's already a 20 second minimum between hitting "Reply" and "Post." Anything faster than that will be rejected.. also there's something like a two minute minimum wait between posts.
Not that I know either of these things from experience. I was just, uh.. Look, a flying squirrel!
I have that happen all the time.. I thought it was just me. Any time I cold boot, it BSOD's on the first attempt, and I have to find a pen to poke the reset button. It never notices that it failed to boot though, it just tries again like the Little Engine That Could.
Basically, the moral of the story is: Even Microsoft can get an OS up and running if it tries long enough.
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Seventh grade? We were learning LOGO in second grade on Commodore 64s. I found LOGO on my Debian installation the other day, and I could still remember how to draw those amazing spirals.
Regardless, in seventh grade, we were writing databases in (yuck) Pascal and designing user interfaces. LOGO is a great introductory language, but there's no reason to wait that long to teach it. The concept of a Turtle is pretty much designed for and easily absorbed by children.
In all seriousness, don't we all pretend to be normal? Most social interaction is learned behavior. Normality isn't some objective quality that can be measured quantitatively, rather it's an agreed upon set of rules for behavior. (Not agreed upon on paper, although some "normal" things are reinforced by laws). Most people have thoughts, ideas, and feelings that would be qualified as abnormal behavior were they carried out -- we just don't act on them.
You did not see any of the networks or the AP put out misleading reports of a Kerry lead nationally - or in the battleground states of Florida or Ohio. The editors, producers and executives who run these MSM organizations, in typical responsible, dinosaur fashion, know it would be wrong to do so.
Although we did see ALL of the networks AND the AP put out misleading reports of a Gore lead nationally.
I'm not saying he's wrong, just that his memory has a convenient gap right around the 1467-days-ago mark, aka the last presidential election.
"Otherwise, anyone who wanted to offer Internet phone services could be subject to 51 different sets of state regulations."
I could be wrong, but aren't there only 50 states? Did we grow a 51st state recently? Or maybe he meant Washington, D.C., which isn't a state? Or maybe Puerto Rico, which also isn't a state, and ignores the territories of Guam and the US Virgin Islands. I guess if you want to get really technical, Virginia and Connecticut(?) are commonwealths.
Ah, I forgot about North and South California.. two completely different states.
Or we could just stick with, say, ICBMs. A ten megaton warhead detonating on a concrete bunker at any speed has got to hurt.
I guess what I'm saying is, we've already got plenty of conventional and unconventional weapons that are easier to use and more reliable. Sure, we could spend tons of cash to launch giant rocks so we could drop them on people, but in the end it's just more of a PITA than any sort of accomplishment.
As a result, a handset becomes a mobile tool for convenient new uses, serving as e-money, credit card, ticket, or even house or office key.
Now when I lose my phone, it will be even more of a pain in the ass. Not to mention the increased likelyhood of someone just grabbing your phone right out of your hand while you're talking on it. And using it as a house key!?!? Now I've got to buy TWO phones so I can throw one under the doormat? It'll be hard to explain to my friends to disregard the lump under the mat, while at the same time being careful not to step on it. (Just kidding, I have no friends).
The press release doesn't mention anything about security either.. At least my credit card has a signature on the back for the cashiers to pretend to examine.
Had nothing to do with hard drives, or even processor speed. It merely stated that technology was advancing such that the number of transistors on a chip doubled every 18 months.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) the Declaration of Independance is not a law, it's just a document. They represent the ideas that we've supposedly based our government on, but it has no legal merit. I'm sure you weren't implying that, but some people seem to think it's part of the Constitution.
I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation.. IIS is included with XP and Server editions, therefore it's more readily available to experiment with. You don't learn to hack (sorry, crack) on a live network -- you play with what you have installed on your PC first, unless you've got more balls than brains. Sure, anyone can download Apache, just like they could download Netscape in the past, etc. Perhaps if Apache came installed (or available) on every NT OS, it would receive an equal trial by fire. I'm not saying Apache isn't as secure as it's built up to be, I'm just saying I don't find proof of that in the mere ratio of installed servers.
Not to mention, what percentage of Apache servers are run on *nix? If an apache server is run with chroot with its own login, doesn't that make it inherintly(sp) more secure than an apache server running on Windows?
That's actually an interesting idea.. the reflection from the discs would theoretically save on energy too, at least if it's hot outside. The glare might be an issue for low flying aircraft though. It might be distracting to look down and see a plane coming straight at you.
While I'm skeptical about electronic voting machines, this "proof," against them is far from it. There's just as much, if not more, of a likelyhood that the previous method of voting would be vulnerable to errors on a much greater scale than one or two per machine. We all saw what happened in FLA, and we understand how much of a difference one vote can potentially make, but this isn't any sort of argument against computerized voting -- it's an argument to get out and vote..
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On the off chance that your suggestion wasn't a troll: Who's going to generate the questions? They obviously have to be unique for each e-mail, or someone can just draft up a set of responses. More importantly, who's going to judge what constitutes an intelligent response? Logically it has to be a human, which means you're STILL wasting time manually checking whether or not the message is authentic. I could have glanced at it and told you in under a second whether or not it was spam, but now you've made that process three times more complicated, since I now have to come up with a question, then verify the answer, then read the mail itself (which still might be spam).
Not to mention, there are a fair number of people out there who probably couldn't pass a Turing test.
You're right. Let's just give up now, because anything we do is a wasted effort. Let's do away with firewalls and virus protection because they just keep coming up with new exploits. Heck, I'm just gonna stop showering, because I'll just get dirty again. Thanks for your insight.
If posting took 200 sec of computation then only people with something interesting to say would bother. Much less spam and karma-whoring.
There's already a 20 second minimum between hitting "Reply" and "Post." Anything faster than that will be rejected.. also there's something like a two minute minimum wait between posts.
Not that I know either of these things from experience. I was just, uh.. Look, a flying squirrel!
Unfortunately, the carrier is probably not going to move an inch without a full crew and military grade servicing.
You make military grade service sound like a good thing. Silly civilians...
I have that happen all the time.. I thought it was just me. Any time I cold boot, it BSOD's on the first attempt, and I have to find a pen to poke the reset button. It never notices that it failed to boot though, it just tries again like the Little Engine That Could.
Basically, the moral of the story is: Even Microsoft can get an OS up and running if it tries long enough.
Tell that to all the other popular facial tissue and plastic bandage brands. Oh wait..
Don't forget Texas Instruments.
Seventh grade? We were learning LOGO in second grade on Commodore 64s. I found LOGO on my Debian installation the other day, and I could still remember how to draw those amazing spirals.
Regardless, in seventh grade, we were writing databases in (yuck) Pascal and designing user interfaces. LOGO is a great introductory language, but there's no reason to wait that long to teach it. The concept of a Turtle is pretty much designed for and easily absorbed by children.
In all seriousness, don't we all pretend to be normal? Most social interaction is learned behavior. Normality isn't some objective quality that can be measured quantitatively, rather it's an agreed upon set of rules for behavior. (Not agreed upon on paper, although some "normal" things are reinforced by laws). Most people have thoughts, ideas, and feelings that would be qualified as abnormal behavior were they carried out -- we just don't act on them.
Leave R2D2 out of this.
You did not see any of the networks or the AP put out misleading reports of a Kerry lead nationally - or in the battleground states of Florida or Ohio. The editors, producers and executives who run these MSM organizations, in typical responsible, dinosaur fashion, know it would be wrong to do so.
Although we did see ALL of the networks AND the AP put out misleading reports of a Gore lead nationally.
I'm not saying he's wrong, just that his memory has a convenient gap right around the 1467-days-ago mark, aka the last presidential election.
"Otherwise, anyone who wanted to offer Internet phone services could be subject to 51 different sets of state regulations."
I could be wrong, but aren't there only 50 states? Did we grow a 51st state recently? Or maybe he meant Washington, D.C., which isn't a state? Or maybe Puerto Rico, which also isn't a state, and ignores the territories of Guam and the US Virgin Islands. I guess if you want to get really technical, Virginia and Connecticut(?) are commonwealths.
Ah, I forgot about North and South California.. two completely different states.
Someone better check these ships for rockets and/or lasers
Right, because the last place you'd want to see a rocket is on a space err.. Rockets and space don't mi.. hmm.
Or we could just stick with, say, ICBMs. A ten megaton warhead detonating on a concrete bunker at any speed has got to hurt.
I guess what I'm saying is, we've already got plenty of conventional and unconventional weapons that are easier to use and more reliable. Sure, we could spend tons of cash to launch giant rocks so we could drop them on people, but in the end it's just more of a PITA than any sort of accomplishment.
As a result, a handset becomes a mobile tool for convenient new uses, serving as e-money, credit card, ticket, or even house or office key.
Now when I lose my phone, it will be even more of a pain in the ass. Not to mention the increased likelyhood of someone just grabbing your phone right out of your hand while you're talking on it. And using it as a house key!?!? Now I've got to buy TWO phones so I can throw one under the doormat? It'll be hard to explain to my friends to disregard the lump under the mat, while at the same time being careful not to step on it. (Just kidding, I have no friends).
The press release doesn't mention anything about security either.. At least my credit card has a signature on the back for the cashiers to pretend to examine.
Had nothing to do with hard drives, or even processor speed. It merely stated that technology was advancing such that the number of transistors on a chip doubled every 18 months.
What's next, you're going to tell me they can fit an entire operating system on a 20Kb ROM? That's preposterous.
Unfortunately (fortunately?) the Declaration of Independance is not a law, it's just a document. They represent the ideas that we've supposedly based our government on, but it has no legal merit. I'm sure you weren't implying that, but some people seem to think it's part of the Constitution.
I'm not sure I agree with your interpretation.. IIS is included with XP and Server editions, therefore it's more readily available to experiment with. You don't learn to hack (sorry, crack) on a live network -- you play with what you have installed on your PC first, unless you've got more balls than brains. Sure, anyone can download Apache, just like they could download Netscape in the past, etc. Perhaps if Apache came installed (or available) on every NT OS, it would receive an equal trial by fire. I'm not saying Apache isn't as secure as it's built up to be, I'm just saying I don't find proof of that in the mere ratio of installed servers.
Not to mention, what percentage of Apache servers are run on *nix? If an apache server is run with chroot with its own login, doesn't that make it inherintly(sp) more secure than an apache server running on Windows?
HL2 for the PC?
If HL2 is never released to a console ever, that's still sooner than it will be released on the PC.
(Yeah, I know, I know, it's gone gold already. Just laugh).
That's actually an interesting idea.. the reflection from the discs would theoretically save on energy too, at least if it's hot outside. The glare might be an issue for low flying aircraft though. It might be distracting to look down and see a plane coming straight at you.
While I'm skeptical about electronic voting machines, this "proof," against them is far from it. There's just as much, if not more, of a likelyhood that the previous method of voting would be vulnerable to errors on a much greater scale than one or two per machine. We all saw what happened in FLA, and we understand how much of a difference one vote can potentially make, but this isn't any sort of argument against computerized voting -- it's an argument to get out and vote..
Oh, you're Patrick Draper?