Ha ha.
Considering the lunacy that this topic attracts, I think I can be excused for thinking you were serious. See many other posts on this topic for examples.
Since antibiotic resistant bacteria come mainly from people who don't finish their medication, you might consider it an act of selective breeding, because it is the result of a human action, not random chance.
No, it is not "selective breeding", as when you take two domestic animals and mate them to accentuate their desirable characteristics. The bacteria which breed are those that survive the antibiotic. The environment has been manipulated, but the response is "natural selection" leading to evolution of new strains.
Just because someone disagrees with you about some point (which doesn't make any practical difference to most people's lives anyway) doesn't make them ignorant.
It does make a large practical difference to the understanding of biology, medicine, disease, immunity, etc... all rather vital for a doctor, especially one who wants to go into research, which was what the original story was about.
Not according to the FA. Basically, what is proposed is an organisation that certifies commercial email. "Certified email" would have a working unsubscribe. More usefully, it would have specified headers, so that if it said you had subscribed, it was actually true (if not, the company would lose its certification). The problem being addressed is that newsletters and other bulk mail that you may really want are being bounced by aggressive filters.
If this organisation can be trusted, you can use it to allow mail with specifc headers through. The incentive is that if they certify spam, peolke will just filter out everything they send. Of course, there are details, such as spammers forging these headers, that must be solved.
Ah com on! Arnold does speak English! (He just has a think accent:)
I saw it first in a cinema in Thailand, dubbed into Thai. I didn't understand WHY the mercenaries were in the jungle to begin with, but aside from that it's one of those movies where the dialogue isn't really that important.
True Lies came first - and was a bigger hit - than the Lamentable Action Hero. The problem was the LAC was both formula (evil guy with minions, the kid saves the day, etc, etc) and anti-formula, so audiences felt completely manipulated. And worse - were aware of it. And doubly-worse - really identified Arhnuld with the role, since it was "typical Arhnuld" fare.
According to usually reliable sources, Last Action Hero was released in 1993 and True Lies in 1994. You say "formula and anti-formula", I say "parody". Anyway, if audiences objected to blatant manipulation, Spielberg wouldn't be a billionaire.
And he swaggered. Modern audiences hate swagger.
Here I disagree. Slater (the movie detective) started off that way, but he became very sympathetic as it went on, especially when he realises that his life (and his wife's death) is just an amusement for the movie makers. Particularly good was when he confronted Arnie, the conceited real world actor, and told him how much he hated him. That was brave, and about the best acting he's done.
Perhaps the problem was that it was marketed as, and people expected, a brainless summer blockbuster, when in fact it was a movie ABOUT brainless summer blockbusters.
Actually, in my humble opinion, LAH was one of Arnie's best movies. It did an excellent job of deconstructing the whole big-budget action genre. I think that's exactly why it was panned by insiders -- for pointing out how dumb most of those movies are. I think his next movie was True Lies, which was lauded as a return to form, but which was actually a vapid and forgettable piece of eye candy -- exactly the style parodied in LAH.
wonder what percentage of the "viewed" statistic is generated by similar responses?
They can only know if you've opened it if there is some action performed by your mailer -- such as fetching an image -- from their site. Most mailers will have some way to turn this off -- or failing that, after downloading and before reading, break your net connection (if you have some "connect on demand setting" it might go back on again unless you turn off your modem or whatever). I use an old version of Eudora, which displays HTML mail tolerably well, but doesn't run any scripts or get images. Since only spammers do that, I'm happy with that. But they may also assume that if the message doesn't bounce, that it's been received. There are methods to generate bounces too...
. That means that Google's whole approach of recursively defining the importance of a document's links according the importance of the links coming to it won't necessarily work.
Yes it would -- if later documents refer to an earlier one, it means that it is of some inportance, the more references the more important. This metric was used long ago (maybe 20 years, IIRC) to make lists of "important" scientific papers, by simply counting the number of later ones that cited them.
There are many old, static documemts that come up on Google searches as #1 because of this effect, though they may have no external links in them at all.
Or better, just implement a script that automatically checks URLs in about-to-be-posted articles against all the URLs in recently-posted-articles and warns if the same URL has already appeared recently.
Not a complete solution, because often a story is reported on multiple sites with different URLS (though in this case, all three dupes had the same URL). Also, a lot (even most) stories seem to use this stupid style: "The NYT (www.nytimes.com link) reports (www.nytimes.com/story.html) that..." so you'd get a lot of false positives from top level domains (maybe you could filter out top levels....). But really, you have a human in the loop for a reason, he's supposed to use his fucking brain, and thinking up likely search terms for a story before posting it would only take about 5 seconds. Considering they only publish an average of one story every hour or two, this does not scream out for a complex AI system, just waiting till your shift is over before dropping the Quaaludes.
except that the other articles were posted by Cowboy Neal and Michael, respectively.
In any case, part of the problem is that in reading the submissions they will undoubtedly see the same story many times, so a link would show as visited if you'd scanned through a bunch of those, published or not. The same goes for just trusting your memory, there must be a serious deja-vu problm. But there's no fucking excuse at all for such unprofessionalism. Just type "spam" into the search box on the Slashdot front page and you see the earlier stories (along with both "AOL sues spammers" of a few days ago). More specifically, typing in "cdt.org" shows all three dupes at the top of the list.
I can't think of any explanation except serious drug abuse in the workplace.
Sometimes I wonder if the novelty has worn off for the admins and they just really don't care anymore.
Seems to be the case. Her's a reply to an email I sent Malda a few weeks ago:
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:11:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Tarproxy story is a dupe
From: Rob Malda
Yup. Course its sunday, adn there's not much else to post, so I'm just
saying whatever;) CNN can post the same story 3 times. I don't see
why we can't!
On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 11:01 AM, you wrote:
>Dear Rob,
>
>as subject:
>
>TarProxy Creates Tar Pit... For Spammers
>Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 02,
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/141525 7
>
>Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain
>Posted by michael on Saturday March 01,
> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/0 2/28/2033230
Newspapers no longer care about typesetting quality.
Publishers in general. Especially on book covers you now often see typewriter quotes instead of typographic ones. I put his down to simple ignorance, as though every decent DTP app has some kind of "smart quotes" function to make up for the idiocy of the keyboard layout that gives you easy access to fairly esoteric characters like ^ {} | \, all good for programmers but hardly ever seen in prose, while completely omitting real single and double quotes (I was particular annoyed that the conventional use of ` and ' as left and right quotes -- i.e. they usually printed as the typographic characters -- in DOS and Unix got turned into the odd geometric representation we get now. Of course if you do turn on the translation, then you get the problem of how the hell to actually write straight ' and " when you need to, or force an apostrophe instead of an open quote at the beginning of a word ( 'er indoors).
I've just gone through over a dozen revision cycles of a book that the layout people made graphically very nice, but fucked up every quote and dash, despite my carefully encoding them in the text, and warning them to take care with that specifically.
Another project was a paperback release of a book originally done by Random House. Typographically nice, but they obviously never bothered to spellcheck it, a simple new layout turned into a complete copyedit when I started to proof it.
Of course the game is control. If Microsoft doesn't control the environment that their product is running in, then how can they possibly support it? Afterall, people have a way of blaming Microsoft for other people's problems.
So they can decline to support it. In any case, the products in question are not so much FoxPro itself, but packaged applications that are written, sold and supported by FoxPro programmers, not MS. MS wants to make these illegal to run on anything but Windows.
These films are not about some possible future. Like all SF, they're about the here-and-now, but masked.
I strongly differ. "Much", maybe, but not "all". A lot of "hard SF" is exploration of strange worlds, and though you can read an allegory into any random story (as reading tealeaves), that is often far from the reason it was written or read. It's also why some critics who make careers out of finding such parables denigrate SF for lacking them. A few examples: Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, most of Hal Clement's stories (eg Mission of Gravity) Greg Egan's Permutation City, most of Arthur C Clarke's...
I once read a review of a (non-fiction) book on cosmology, and the reviewer said something like "and the wider lesson to be applied from this.." going to mention some parallelism she saw with modern society, as if that was "wider" than the creation of the universe itself.
By that test, Star Wars isn't too original, either. Ever seen Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress?
Or Buck Rogers? Or read Dune or Edgar Rice Burroughs or Leigh Brackett... Star Wars was a lot of fun (the original trilogy, anyway), but it has no claims to originality in anything except marketing.
It's sort of like if authors were forced to give speaking tours in support of their freely-given-away books.
That's exactly what Charles Dickens and other British authors did in the 19th century, because the US didn't recognise overseas copyrights and so American publishers were free to "pirate" any popular overseas books. (Now that America produces more IP it lobbies ferociously to compel foreign countries to enforce its copyrights.) More currently, if authors want to get anywhere it's almost mandatory for them to do the publicity mill; bookshop signings and readings, TV for those better connected.
What we have here is a buffer overflow condition which can be exploited, with some difficulty, by using the ID3v2 tag which contains information about the audio file, such as artist, title, images, etc. It can also contain quite a bit more than that. Indeed, it can contain a separate file and can be as much as 256MB in total size.
Man, can you believe "exploding MP3" guy? Maybe if you bribed the Winamp people to leave some really absurd buffer overflow in the software
No need, see WinAmp's 'malicious MP3' vuln.
What we have here is a buffer overflow condition which can be exploited, with some difficulty, by using the ID3v2 tag which contains information about the audio file, such as artist, title, images, etc. It can also contain quite a bit more than that. Indeed, it can contain a separate file and can be as much as 256MB in total size.
It is mostly in our western Christian and athiest culture (the minority of the world population) that some (and far from all) people aren't homophobic.
I am simply stating a fact.
No, not a fact at all. For instance, if you'd ever been to Thailand, a Buddhist, Eastern country of over 50 million, you'd find that gays, transsexuals etc are generally allowed to get on with their lives without suffering the rabid discrimination of the avowedly Christian midwest US, for instance. Conversely, consider China, an atheist eastern country which is rather homophobic.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha ha.
Considering the lunacy that this topic attracts, I think I can be excused for thinking you were serious. See many other posts on this topic for examples.
No, it is not "selective breeding", as when you take two domestic animals and mate them to accentuate their desirable characteristics. The bacteria which breed are those that survive the antibiotic. The environment has been manipulated, but the response is "natural selection" leading to evolution of new strains.
Still works for me -- I refreshed, I don't think it's cached.
It does make a large practical difference to the understanding of biology, medicine, disease, immunity, etc... all rather vital for a doctor, especially one who wants to go into research, which was what the original story was about.
Not according to the FA. Basically, what is proposed is an organisation that certifies commercial email. "Certified email" would have a working unsubscribe. More usefully, it would have specified headers, so that if it said you had subscribed, it was actually true (if not, the company would lose its certification). The problem being addressed is that newsletters and other bulk mail that you may really want are being bounced by aggressive filters.
If this organisation can be trusted, you can use it to allow mail with specifc headers through. The incentive is that if they certify spam, peolke will just filter out everything they send. Of course, there are details, such as spammers forging these headers, that must be solved.
Did anyone check that it works?
HOWEVER, if you follow the "free" links on the site, you can read it, here.
If you mean by that: asinine plots, irrational motives and unbelievable "science; yes.
Since she's a robot and doesn't have muscles in the meat sense, it's clear that looking either soft or hard is no more than decoration.
I saw it first in a cinema in Thailand, dubbed into Thai. I didn't understand WHY the mercenaries were in the jungle to begin with, but aside from that it's one of those movies where the dialogue isn't really that important.
According to usually reliable sources, Last Action Hero was released in 1993 and True Lies in 1994. You say "formula and anti-formula", I say "parody". Anyway, if audiences objected to blatant manipulation, Spielberg wouldn't be a billionaire.
And he swaggered. Modern audiences hate swagger.
Here I disagree. Slater (the movie detective) started off that way, but he became very sympathetic as it went on, especially when he realises that his life (and his wife's death) is just an amusement for the movie makers. Particularly good was when he confronted Arnie, the conceited real world actor, and told him how much he hated him. That was brave, and about the best acting he's done.
Perhaps the problem was that it was marketed as, and people expected, a brainless summer blockbuster, when in fact it was a movie ABOUT brainless summer blockbusters.
Actually, in my humble opinion, LAH was one of Arnie's best movies. It did an excellent job of deconstructing the whole big-budget action genre. I think that's exactly why it was panned by insiders -- for pointing out how dumb most of those movies are. I think his next movie was True Lies, which was lauded as a return to form, but which was actually a vapid and forgettable piece of eye candy -- exactly the style parodied in LAH.
They can only know if you've opened it if there is some action performed by your mailer -- such as fetching an image -- from their site. Most mailers will have some way to turn this off -- or failing that, after downloading and before reading, break your net connection (if you have some "connect on demand setting" it might go back on again unless you turn off your modem or whatever). I use an old version of Eudora, which displays HTML mail tolerably well, but doesn't run any scripts or get images. Since only spammers do that, I'm happy with that. But they may also assume that if the message doesn't bounce, that it's been received. There are methods to generate bounces too...
Yes it would -- if later documents refer to an earlier one, it means that it is of some inportance, the more references the more important. This metric was used long ago (maybe 20 years, IIRC) to make lists of "important" scientific papers, by simply counting the number of later ones that cited them.
There are many old, static documemts that come up on Google searches as #1 because of this effect, though they may have no external links in them at all.
Not a complete solution, because often a story is reported on multiple sites with different URLS (though in this case, all three dupes had the same URL). Also, a lot (even most) stories seem to use this stupid style: "The NYT (www.nytimes.com link) reports (www.nytimes.com/story.html) that..." so you'd get a lot of false positives from top level domains (maybe you could filter out top levels....). But really, you have a human in the loop for a reason, he's supposed to use his fucking brain, and thinking up likely search terms for a story before posting it would only take about 5 seconds. Considering they only publish an average of one story every hour or two, this does not scream out for a complex AI system, just waiting till your shift is over before dropping the Quaaludes.
except that the other articles were posted by Cowboy Neal and Michael, respectively.
In any case, part of the problem is that in reading the submissions they will undoubtedly see the same story many times, so a link would show as visited if you'd scanned through a bunch of those, published or not. The same goes for just trusting your memory, there must be a serious deja-vu problm. But there's no fucking excuse at all for such unprofessionalism. Just type "spam" into the search box on the Slashdot front page and you see the earlier stories (along with both "AOL sues spammers" of a few days ago). More specifically, typing in "cdt.org" shows all three dupes at the top of the list.
I can't think of any explanation except serious drug abuse in the workplace.
Seems to be the case. Her's a reply to an email I sent Malda a few weeks ago:
Publishers in general. Especially on book covers you now often see typewriter quotes instead of typographic ones. I put his down to simple ignorance, as though every decent DTP app has some kind of "smart quotes" function to make up for the idiocy of the keyboard layout that gives you easy access to fairly esoteric characters like ^ {} | \, all good for programmers but hardly ever seen in prose, while completely omitting real single and double quotes (I was particular annoyed that the conventional use of ` and ' as left and right quotes -- i.e. they usually printed as the typographic characters -- in DOS and Unix got turned into the odd geometric representation we get now. Of course if you do turn on the translation, then you get the problem of how the hell to actually write straight ' and " when you need to, or force an apostrophe instead of an open quote at the beginning of a word ( 'er indoors).
I've just gone through over a dozen revision cycles of a book that the layout people made graphically very nice, but fucked up every quote and dash, despite my carefully encoding them in the text, and warning them to take care with that specifically.
Another project was a paperback release of a book originally done by Random House. Typographically nice, but they obviously never bothered to spellcheck it, a simple new layout turned into a complete copyedit when I started to proof it.
So they can decline to support it. In any case, the products in question are not so much FoxPro itself, but packaged applications that are written, sold and supported by FoxPro programmers, not MS. MS wants to make these illegal to run on anything but Windows.
I strongly differ. "Much", maybe, but not "all". A lot of "hard SF" is exploration of strange worlds, and though you can read an allegory into any random story (as reading tealeaves), that is often far from the reason it was written or read. It's also why some critics who make careers out of finding such parables denigrate SF for lacking them. A few examples: Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, most of Hal Clement's stories (eg Mission of Gravity) Greg Egan's Permutation City, most of Arthur C Clarke's...
I once read a review of a (non-fiction) book on cosmology, and the reviewer said something like "and the wider lesson to be applied from this.." going to mention some parallelism she saw with modern society, as if that was "wider" than the creation of the universe itself.
Or Buck Rogers? Or read Dune or Edgar Rice Burroughs or Leigh Brackett... Star Wars was a lot of fun (the original trilogy, anyway), but it has no claims to originality in anything except marketing.
That's exactly what Charles Dickens and other British authors did in the 19th century, because the US didn't recognise overseas copyrights and so American publishers were free to "pirate" any popular overseas books. (Now that America produces more IP it lobbies ferociously to compel foreign countries to enforce its copyrights.) More currently, if authors want to get anywhere it's almost mandatory for them to do the publicity mill; bookshop signings and readings, TV for those better connected.
Man, can you believe "exploding MP3" guy? Maybe if you bribed the Winamp people to leave some really absurd buffer overflow in the software
No need, see WinAmp's 'malicious MP3' vuln.
No need, see WinAmp's 'malicious MP3' vuln.
No, not a fact at all. For instance, if you'd ever been to Thailand, a Buddhist, Eastern country of over 50 million, you'd find that gays, transsexuals etc are generally allowed to get on with their lives without suffering the rabid discrimination of the avowedly Christian midwest US, for instance. Conversely, consider China, an atheist eastern country which is rather homophobic.