Damn, blackout, what can I do? I know I'll play some games, oh no wait, hrmm, I'll work on that code, oh, hrmmm, hrmmm, I'll read my mail, doh.. holy crap there is nothing to do:O
Or for a quick and free guide, you can download the secure programming faq from one of the oldest websites on the internet- Securing Programming FAQ --
Ever wanted to know how microsoft patch their software? Gum and putty, they got tonnes of the stuff. Good'ol Bill has the worlds largest bubble bum collection, as for the putty, Ballmer keeps a lump in his back pocket --
Any desktop can have a nice background picture. Trying to improve the screenshot with nice background pictures is just an illusion, a proper screenshot should have a blank background showing menu items and a few application windows open and several screenshots showing this. --
What ever happened to platform games or scrolling shooters like Raiden? Maybe they've turned into 3D world games but scrolling shooters have completely died. I never got into the first person shooters or street fighter copy cat games. Other than that the only good games coming out are car racing games and sports... but that's just me. --
There was a slashdot poll a week or so ago, "favourite email client", think outlook polled the best. Last time they did the poll (in 1999 iirc) pine polled the best.
Okay, my mistake - The forest in the north central area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the mystery ape lives, is known to be populated by chimpanzees.
Until there is solid proof of anything then it may just be the equivalent of a big foot. I don't know how the skull fits into this though. I think the article falls short of explaining alot, like where in Africa these things are. --
Hrmm, I did know what I was talking about - I admit I didn't read the article (I just didn't this time, rarely don't) but I still think I had some interesting points. Leave the article aside for a second and think about what I said, ontopic nonetheless.
Just for you I won't use my "No Karma Bonus" this time.
If there was one, then there would of had to be thousands at the time the species was alive. It's amazing that only a piece of what could of been an entire species is ever found. --
People who run fraudulent businesses and get caught out have nearly always gone to the grave believing they've been doing the right thing and that their business practice was legitimate. They usually don't mean for people to get hurt but they're so far deluded and blinded by greed they're almost out of control. There is also the pathological liar. ---
I wouldn't say to ever arrest someone purely on the results a computer spits out, even if I was the one writing the software (I'm always perfect, hehe).
You missed the point, there is a difference between being hauled down to the station for questioning and being arrested. The police will only arrest you if there is sufficient evidence to make a case against you. Being questioned about something means just that, being asked questions.
In Australia we have this think called a "Fly Buys" card. Everytime you buy something you rack up points (if you give it to the cashier to swipe), if you get a certain amount of points you can get a holiday to etc.. What those idiots don't realise (who have one, idiots may be the wrong word) is that it allows research companies to track your spending and eating habits. Insurance companies buy the information also. What it could mean, is that if you were going to buy life insurance, or ask an insurance company to pay-up for something health related they might use your eating habits against you.
Btw, you're also assuming that you pay for everything with a credit card. Anyone in their right mind that is planning on doing something illegal would pay cash and leave no/false details
Being friends with drug dealers will probably be enough to bring you in for questioning, if you or them stumble over your stories then you're going to be screwed, by the police and then by them. ----
It's almost like Homer Simpson, "he stole, slept on the job, he was even rude to the customers, but there goes the best convenience store attendant that there ever was". (well not really like).
It still follows the line of circumstantial, it will be enough to bring someone in for questioning and can certainly help build a case against that person. More importantly, it does provide leads for a case, but at the end of the day unless your case stands up in court then doesn't matter how many bits of evidence you have from scanning plates, credit card purchases etc, those all can be done by almost anyone - guy steals a car and uses a stolen credit card, guy who it belongs to was asleep and didn't find out till the next morning, but the cops haul his arse in anyway but don't believe his "I was asleep" story.
Solid proof, like forensice or videotaped evidence is always the best way to go. Spying on people is an advantage in this case but doesn't always produce the optimal result - getting the right person.
You're right, I didn't read on, I think that's my fault.
1) Run the plate. Now they have your name, address, SS#, age, height, weight, hair and eye color, and your history of driving.
They have your plate yes, what is to say they have _you? Someone else could be driving. They have your plate, what is to say that the plate wasn't taken off another car and put on another?
Even if this technology did exist (which it does with speed cameras) there are still flaws. ---
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming use the principles of natural selection to evolve solutions to problems that hopefully get better and better. Dadaism "A western European artistic and literary movement (1916-23) that sought the discovery of authentic reality through the abolition of traditional culture and aesthetic forms."
Here is an example Dadaist poem - People who can't develop a taste for the primeval but rather wrangle in this world and in their noseless faces daily brush and paint and lacquer three abundant heraldic stylized moustaches one above another.
Now, let's find something in between, jwz has just done that - DADADO.. DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings. ---
"Genetic algorithms work by minimizing the amount of searching needed in a search space..."
The key word is minimizing. You're wrong, GAs start off with the entire search space (initially) and during evolution the search space is minimized eventually leading to a local or global optima. If you didn't start with the entire search space in the beginning then you wouldn't be conducting a proper search - as you wouldn't be looking at all the possible solutions to begin with.
Say you wanted to find a number between 1 and 10 that was greater than 4 and less than 6.. the search space is 1..10, not 4..6.
You've missed a point of GAs, they are random, there is no ordering of anything.
What you are suggesting is a brute force approach, ordering the phace space of all possible correct solutions. --
Genetic algorithms work by minimizing the amount of searching needed in a search space by "evolving" candidate solutions and only evolving new ones from the best of the old ones. A candidate solution is evaluated against a fitness (of objective) function that assigns a fitness to a candidate solution.
Don't get to excited about the walking man - the difficulty and also art in Genetic Algorithms is finding a way to represent a candidate solution. The walking man isn't difficult to represent. To make it simple, pretend that the representation is like, work out a way to order the numbers 1..10 - where 1 == man crawling and 10 == man walking and the rest of the numbers in between are ordered to represent a certain posture. The genetic algorithm then searches through all the combinations and permutations of the numbers 1..10 until they are ordered - btw, instead of drawing numbers let's associate a number with a posture.
Now with this problem - think of a pool of numbers, each number associated with a posture and the Genetic Algorithm searches through the pool (of 100) until it finds the numbers 1..10 in order all standing next to each other. ---
As if you would ever expect _anyone to even read your mail (like a lottery). I mean, there probably _are people reading the emails that people send, but it's probably so heavily filtered by several levels of people _and electronic filters, not to mention the usual "we can't be bothered reading half of today's emails, truncate". I bet the president reads about 10 emails a year after all the filter process, if it's anything important I'm sure he'd find about it another way. --
Slashdot Mirror
I'll be glad to give it a moment of silence when shows like Big Brother and Survivor are finally gone. That's the kind of voyeurism is spawned.
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Well, you know how the song goes.
You win the prize :)
"enlightening" ? pardon the pun :)
Damn, blackout, what can I do? I know I'll play some games, oh no wait, hrmm, I'll work on that code, oh, hrmmm, hrmmm, I'll read my mail, doh .. holy crap there is nothing to do :O
Or for a quick and free guide, you can download the secure programming faq from one of the oldest websites on the internet-
Securing Programming FAQ
--
Ever wanted to know how microsoft patch their software? Gum and putty, they got tonnes of the stuff. Good'ol Bill has the worlds largest bubble bum collection, as for the putty, Ballmer keeps a lump in his back pocket
--
Any desktop can have a nice background picture. Trying to improve the screenshot with nice background pictures is just an illusion, a proper screenshot should have a blank background showing menu items and a few application windows open and several screenshots showing this.
--
What ever happened to platform games or scrolling shooters like Raiden? Maybe they've turned into 3D world games but scrolling shooters have completely died. I never got into the first person shooters or street fighter copy cat games. Other than that the only good games coming out are car racing games and sports... but that's just me.
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There was a slashdot poll a week or so ago, "favourite email client", think outlook polled the best. Last time they did the poll (in 1999 iirc) pine polled the best.
Okay, my mistake - The forest in the north central area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the mystery ape lives, is known to be populated by chimpanzees.
Until there is solid proof of anything then it may just be the equivalent of a big foot. I don't know how the skull fits into this though. I think the article falls short of explaining alot, like where in Africa these things are.
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Hrmm, I did know what I was talking about - I admit I didn't read the article (I just didn't this time, rarely don't) but I still think I had some interesting points. Leave the article aside for a second and think about what I said, ontopic nonetheless.
Just for you I won't use my "No Karma Bonus" this time.
And the mystery apes hoot when the moon rises and sets...
How do they know that? Can you tell that from just looking at the bones? Maybe they should give this guy a crystal ball.
If there was one, then there would of had to be thousands at the time the species was alive. It's amazing that only a piece of what could of been an entire species is ever found.
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People who run fraudulent businesses and get caught out have nearly always gone to the grave believing they've been doing the right thing and that their business practice was legitimate. They usually don't mean for people to get hurt but they're so far deluded and blinded by greed they're almost out of control. There is also the pathological liar.
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I wouldn't say to ever arrest someone purely on the results a computer spits out, even if I was the one writing the software (I'm always perfect, hehe).
You missed the point, there is a difference between being hauled down to the station for questioning and being arrested. The police will only arrest you if there is sufficient evidence to make a case against you. Being questioned about something means just that, being asked questions.
In Australia we have this think called a "Fly Buys" card. Everytime you buy something you rack up points (if you give it to the cashier to swipe), if you get a certain amount of points you can get a holiday to etc.. What those idiots don't realise (who have one, idiots may be the wrong word) is that it allows research companies to track your spending and eating habits. Insurance companies buy the information also. What it could mean, is that if you were going to buy life insurance, or ask an insurance company to pay-up for something health related they might use your eating habits against you.
Btw, you're also assuming that you pay for everything with a credit card. Anyone in their right mind that is planning on doing something illegal would pay cash and leave no/false details
Being friends with drug dealers will probably be enough to bring you in for questioning, if you or them stumble over your stories then you're going to be screwed, by the police and then by them.
----
It's almost like Homer Simpson, "he stole, slept on the job, he was even rude to the customers, but there goes the best convenience store attendant that there ever was". (well not really like).
It still follows the line of circumstantial, it will be enough to bring someone in for questioning and can certainly help build a case against that person. More importantly, it does provide leads for a case, but at the end of the day unless your case stands up in court then doesn't matter how many bits of evidence you have from scanning plates, credit card purchases etc, those all can be done by almost anyone - guy steals a car and uses a stolen credit card, guy who it belongs to was asleep and didn't find out till the next morning, but the cops haul his arse in anyway but don't believe his "I was asleep" story.
Solid proof, like forensice or videotaped evidence is always the best way to go. Spying on people is an advantage in this case but doesn't always produce the optimal result - getting the right person.
You're right, I didn't read on, I think that's my fault.
1) Run the plate. Now they have your name, address, SS#, age, height, weight, hair and eye color, and your history of driving.
They have your plate yes, what is to say they have _you? Someone else could be driving. They have your plate, what is to say that the plate wasn't taken off another car and put on another?
Even if this technology did exist (which it does with speed cameras) there are still flaws.
---
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming use the principles of natural selection to evolve solutions to problems that hopefully get better and better.
Dadaism "A western European artistic and literary movement (1916-23) that sought the discovery of authentic reality through the abolition of traditional culture and aesthetic forms."
Here is an example Dadaist poem -
People who can't develop a taste
for the primeval
but rather wrangle in this world
and in their noseless faces
daily brush and paint and lacquer
three abundant heraldic
stylized moustaches
one above another.
Now, let's find something in between, jwz has just done that - DADADO..
DadaDodo is a program that analyses texts for word probabilities, and then generates random sentences based on that. Sometimes these sentences are nonsense; but sometimes they cut right through to the heart of the matter, and reveal hidden meanings.
---
I meant what I said -
"Genetic algorithms work by minimizing the amount of searching needed in a search space..."
The key word is minimizing. You're wrong, GAs start off with the entire search space (initially) and during evolution the search space is minimized eventually leading to a local or global optima. If you didn't start with the entire search space in the beginning then you wouldn't be conducting a proper search - as you wouldn't be looking at all the possible solutions to begin with.
Say you wanted to find a number between 1 and 10 that was greater than 4 and less than 6.. the search space is 1..10, not 4..6.
You've missed a point of GAs, they are random, there is no ordering of anything.
What you are suggesting is a brute force approach, ordering the phace space of all possible correct solutions.
--
Genetic algorithms work by minimizing the amount of searching needed in a search space by "evolving" candidate solutions and only evolving new ones from the best of the old ones. A candidate solution is evaluated against a fitness (of objective) function that assigns a fitness to a candidate solution.
Don't get to excited about the walking man - the difficulty and also art in Genetic Algorithms is finding a way to represent a candidate solution. The walking man isn't difficult to represent. To make it simple, pretend that the representation is like, work out a way to order the numbers 1..10 - where 1 == man crawling and 10 == man walking and the rest of the numbers in between are ordered to represent a certain posture. The genetic algorithm then searches through all the combinations and permutations of the numbers 1..10 until they are ordered - btw, instead of drawing numbers let's associate a number with a posture.
Now with this problem - think of a pool of numbers, each number associated with a posture and the Genetic Algorithm searches through the pool (of 100) until it finds the numbers 1..10 in order all standing next to each other.
---
As if you would ever expect _anyone to even read your mail (like a lottery). I mean, there probably _are people reading the emails that people send, but it's probably so heavily filtered by several levels of people _and electronic filters, not to mention the usual "we can't be bothered reading half of today's emails, truncate". I bet the president reads about 10 emails a year after all the filter process, if it's anything important I'm sure he'd find about it another way.
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Is there an 80's home entertainment rebirth going on? First it was the atari 2600, now the commodore 64. This is what emulators are for.
Anyway, they should bring back the commodore 64 to set a revival in the good old "GOTO".