Right because you're progressive enough to think that people who believe something other than you should be shut out of the government..
Whoa. I think his point was that people in those positions hold a lot of power. That power can been used to influence the populace and economy as a whole. With the stroke of a pen, one could decree that an entire generation of kids be taught incorrectly that the earth is less that 10000 years old.
Governing a country to ensure that it's citizens are properly educated to sustain the society in the real world is totally separate from your religious beliefs. As long as administrators operate in the fact-based realm then it's fine if they're religious too.
Put another way, just keep Sunday school limited to Sundays and everything's cool.
Good point. So if you're a whitehat and have access to the list of domains, some poisoning could still be applied by simply looking up each domain a (large enough) number of random times.
The results could still be filtered by dictionary/eye but you at least devalue # of hits in their decision making process. Seems like a pretty important variable to take out of their equation.
Well, I just received my copy of The Creationist Times and the reprinted article says "evolved in Africa between 100 and 200 years ago", well within the last 6000 years. So the article linked in the summary is obviously a misprint.
Odd, while reading TFA I kept expecting to see some mention about MS simply buying Valve at some point. Valve is privately held but for a princely sum it could get done, probably even easier than if they were public. And isn't Mr. Newell ex-MS?
You hit a home run because you owned a severely undervalued stock. A real value was applied to their nearest competitor and investors compared their market caps along with a premium. It's standard recognition of price disparity that all investors look for.
As far as the shareholders go, anyone who bought at the last peak in early '06 (around $51) still managed a gain of over 50%.
Btw, now is usually a good time to sell and book the gain. There will be a slight discount to the buyout price which represents the risk of the deal falling through. For a percent or two it's usually not worth waiting for the arbitrage to settle out.
There's actually more potential here. Currently, when you look up an address among mapping services, the location is interpolated. The USPS keeps a database of ZIP+4 segments and the potential addresses along that segment. For example, the left side of one city block for Main St. will be tagged as a range 1-99 odd, even though there may only be one deliverable address there.
You can't get to the USPS's master database of actual addresses unless you're a list broker. However, there are tools available to test for valid addresses. But they need to be approved by the USPS and include draconian measures like shutting down the software if it detects that you're trying to build a valid addresses file.
The best/only publically available map database is Tiger from the Census Bureau. They publish a freely downloadable database in their documented but proprietary format. It's a simple chained structure with the latitude and longitude for the segments that they've compiled. The Tiger file has address ranges also but the ZIPs and ranges won't be totally up to date although they've taken great strides in keeping it updated in recent years. It's sufficient for most purposes though and provides a link between the feature and vector data.
Note that there are no individual addresses in this database and they take special care to make sure that there aren't any because of privacy issues. However, the Census Bureau does keep an internal file (called the Master Address File) for their mandated purpose, gathering statistics. This file does have the actual location of each address they poll but it is not for public consumption.
Google, Mapquest, etc. license their mapping data from Teleatlas and/or Navteq (Teleatlas bought GDT a few years ago). Those guys drive the routes but their primary target is accurate street data for navigation systems. That's where they make their money. However, the same concept as above applies; the addresses are interpolated.
The point? A national database of accurately geocoded addresses is very valuable for the purpose of licensing it as a geocoding database. The rub is that data is only really valuable if it's updated. The initial cost would be sustantial but there are significant costs to snapping/geocoding each new house as it's finished.
Don't know if that's their plan but there's some serious bucks that would be overlooked if they didn't. Adjust your tinfoil hats accordingly.
If anything, patents like this sound like PR. Not to belittle MSFT's R&D but they don't have the same oomph to casual followers as other companies do. Like what happened to their practical speech recognition, mainstream relational file systems, etc. The good kind of stuff that gets/.ers hot and bothered.
Let's say it was Google. I think most readers would pause and, at least for a second, ask "what are they up to" (i.e. GArchive beta). For example, when I first read about putting server centers in cargo boxes there was a "why didn't I think of that" moment. B&M data centers are fixed in our brains.
Most probably don't expect that from MSFT so patents like this serve to bolster their image.
Unless I missed it, while reading the article I kept expecting there to be a mention about the possible inclusion of a backdoor. Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight but it seems like a valid question these days when discussing the NSA and operating systems. Especially for an upcoming consumer OS given that the sixpack set is reading more and more about privacy and fourth ammendment concerns in the mainstream press.
Point being, it seems like something that the vendor would want to dispel pronto. (Yes, Apple and Novell also as they collaborate with the NSA per TFA).
My electrolytes are low this morning so I currently don't have the energy or capacity post a reactive response to your highly charged and (possibly) polarizing comments.
The summary looks tantalizing though.
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Well, when I code, I sprinkle niceties like "you look really nice today" and "have you lost weight?" among my comments.
Just in case it's a buxom blonde that peruses my c++ in the future.
I'd like to add that the link is not "www.freecreditreport.com". Experian has been advertising this link on TV so people think of it before the correct one: http://www.annualcreditreport.com./
For example, in the past year two relatives called and asked me why are the reports $39.95 when it's supposed to be free ("freecreditreport" was burned into their brains). I had to point out the blue on blue text that looks like legalese on the left side. They totally missed it.
Can't blame Experian for trying to hijack the process, but it's scummy enough where folks like us just need to spread the "correct" link.
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Right because you're progressive enough to think that people who believe something other than you should be shut out of the government..
Whoa. I think his point was that people in those positions hold a lot of power. That power can been used to influence the populace and economy as a whole. With the stroke of a pen, one could decree that an entire generation of kids be taught incorrectly that the earth is less that 10000 years old.
Governing a country to ensure that it's citizens are properly educated to sustain the society in the real world is totally separate from your religious beliefs. As long as administrators operate in the fact-based realm then it's fine if they're religious too.
Put another way, just keep Sunday school limited to Sundays and everything's cool.
Wow, your 'b' key must be having a nervous breakdown after that post.
Give him the rest of the day off before he goes postal on v or n.
Good point. So if you're a whitehat and have access to the list of domains, some poisoning could still be applied by simply looking up each domain a (large enough) number of random times.
The results could still be filtered by dictionary/eye but you at least devalue # of hits in their decision making process. Seems like a pretty important variable to take out of their equation.
Too bad we'll never be able to do anything with this discovery.
Sigh.
Lesser known was the remix, "Fat Bottomed Bald Guys".
Well, I just received my copy of The Creationist Times and the reprinted article says "evolved in Africa between 100 and 200 years ago", well within the last 6000 years. So the article linked in the summary is obviously a misprint.
/. editors check anything anymore?
Sheesh, don't the
I felt really smug and proud of myself halfway through:
"Aha! I know what the punchline is...the last page will transfer to Yahoo!"
Sigh, back to my anonymous cubicle.
But your honor, my box got injected with a Little Bobby!
(note to self: please don't hit submit. seriously, don't do it.)
Wanna bet the spell checker caught "sneek" before the article was posted?
(my karma's finally excellent...just kidding Zonk!)
They could adopt this idea.
Replacing the profs with hot naked swimsuit models solves the attrition rate, too.
Bob's your uncle.
Odd, while reading TFA I kept expecting to see some mention about MS simply buying Valve at some point. Valve is privately held but for a princely sum it could get done, probably even easier than if they were public. And isn't Mr. Newell ex-MS?
Outlandish?
Fwiw, a few points for perspective:
After the Tom-Tom purchase of TeleAtlas, Navteq almost doubled from July (wow!): http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/details?Symbol=NVT&csize=10&PositionId=3072161788&Event=peek&period=d.
You hit a home run because you owned a severely undervalued stock. A real value was applied to their nearest competitor and investors compared their market caps along with a premium. It's standard recognition of price disparity that all investors look for.
As far as the shareholders go, anyone who bought at the last peak in early '06 (around $51) still managed a gain of over 50%.
Btw, now is usually a good time to sell and book the gain. There will be a slight discount to the buyout price which represents the risk of the deal falling through. For a percent or two it's usually not worth waiting for the arbitrage to settle out.
Congratulations on a great trade.
There's actually more potential here. Currently, when you look up an address among mapping services, the location is interpolated. The USPS keeps a database of ZIP+4 segments and the potential addresses along that segment. For example, the left side of one city block for Main St. will be tagged as a range 1-99 odd, even though there may only be one deliverable address there.
You can't get to the USPS's master database of actual addresses unless you're a list broker. However, there are tools available to test for valid addresses. But they need to be approved by the USPS and include draconian measures like shutting down the software if it detects that you're trying to build a valid addresses file.
The best/only publically available map database is Tiger from the Census Bureau. They publish a freely downloadable database in their documented but proprietary format. It's a simple chained structure with the latitude and longitude for the segments that they've compiled. The Tiger file has address ranges also but the ZIPs and ranges won't be totally up to date although they've taken great strides in keeping it updated in recent years. It's sufficient for most purposes though and provides a link between the feature and vector data.
Note that there are no individual addresses in this database and they take special care to make sure that there aren't any because of privacy issues. However, the Census Bureau does keep an internal file (called the Master Address File) for their mandated purpose, gathering statistics. This file does have the actual location of each address they poll but it is not for public consumption.
Google, Mapquest, etc. license their mapping data from Teleatlas and/or Navteq (Teleatlas bought GDT a few years ago). Those guys drive the routes but their primary target is accurate street data for navigation systems. That's where they make their money. However, the same concept as above applies; the addresses are interpolated.
The point? A national database of accurately geocoded addresses is very valuable for the purpose of licensing it as a geocoding database. The rub is that data is only really valuable if it's updated. The initial cost would be sustantial but there are significant costs to snapping/geocoding each new house as it's finished.
Don't know if that's their plan but there's some serious bucks that would be overlooked if they didn't. Adjust your tinfoil hats accordingly.
Muslix gives new meaning to the term "blueballs".
Err, "bluballs".
Nevermind, you guys can finish the joke properly.
If anything, patents like this sound like PR. Not to belittle MSFT's R&D but they don't have the same oomph to casual followers as other companies do. Like what happened to their practical speech recognition, mainstream relational file systems, etc. The good kind of stuff that gets /.ers hot and bothered.
Let's say it was Google. I think most readers would pause and, at least for a second, ask "what are they up to" (i.e. GArchive beta). For example, when I first read about putting server centers in cargo boxes there was a "why didn't I think of that" moment. B&M data centers are fixed in our brains.
Most probably don't expect that from MSFT so patents like this serve to bolster their image.
And it was awfully nice of you to share that comment! You really didn't have to do that.
;)
Really.
Excellent link, very professional.
Someone mod this up.
Cool post.
Which reminds us of everyone's first reaction to discovering the Obfuscated Perl Contest:
"Wow, now that's redundant."
Unless I missed it, while reading the article I kept expecting there to be a mention about the possible inclusion of a backdoor. Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight but it seems like a valid question these days when discussing the NSA and operating systems. Especially for an upcoming consumer OS given that the sixpack set is reading more and more about privacy and fourth ammendment concerns in the mainstream press.
Point being, it seems like something that the vendor would want to dispel pronto. (Yes, Apple and Novell also as they collaborate with the NSA per TFA).
My electrolytes are low this morning so I currently don't have the energy or capacity post a reactive response to your highly charged and (possibly) polarizing comments.
The summary looks tantalizing though.
Well, when I code, I sprinkle niceties like "you look really nice today" and "have you lost weight?" among my comments.
Just in case it's a buxom blonde that peruses my c++ in the future.
"The first place I heard of shady deals like this, of course, were the porn sites."
;)
s/heard of/experienced
Me too.
I'd like to add that the link is not "www.freecreditreport.com". Experian has been advertising this link on TV so people think of it before the correct one: http://www.annualcreditreport.com./
For example, in the past year two relatives called and asked me why are the reports $39.95 when it's supposed to be free ("freecreditreport" was burned into their brains). I had to point out the blue on blue text that looks like legalese on the left side. They totally missed it.
Can't blame Experian for trying to hijack the process, but it's scummy enough where folks like us just need to spread the "correct" link.
Wait, are you saying Britney isn't a semiconductor physicist?
Lol, next you're gonna say K-Fed doesn't have a PhD in Evolutionary Microbiology.
50 posts and no mention of the granddaddy of all celebrity+science sites?
http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm