Write a Haystack plugin that performs image analysis on the images/selected movie frames and categorizes them, and you could probably make a fortune with the pr0n site people.
That would mean they could spend their entire days drinking coctails at the beach, instead of wasting their current 1 hour day of labour.
...if they'd put the thing up for grabs themselves to whoever was willing to pay, say 5 bucks for the download. People like myself who really want to see this movie will still be headed to the cinemas.
What on earth are the ISP's complaining about? I pay a monthly fee to a company that gives me a 1024/512 ADSL connection to the net at any time. My limit is the maximum transfer rates.
So what's the real complaint here? Flat rates are what I and everyone else is paying for.
"Dear sir, Uhm, you seem to be actually making full use of the product you've paid for. We didn't really expect you to, so now we're forced to er... make you pay extra for the exact same product you're allready paying for... Well, it's kinda complicated, but expect prices to rise in the next few months.
Seeing that my apartment's state of affairs is generally comparable to the syntax of Perl, maybe this thing can help me keep it clean. Or maybe not.
How immature of Mr. Packard...
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...it is to just start planning a fork behind the curtains without _first_ venting his concerns with the rest of the XFree86 team first.
After all, it would do no harm to at least start discussing his plans with the rest of the XFree86 team. If no agreement can be reached, then two separate camps are likely to form, and a fork will be made.
If the majority agrees with his opinions problems can be solved, and there's no need for a fork.
XFree86 is one of the core packages in most linux distros, and a fork would only make things even less standard than they are today. Taking this into consideration, Packards "I don't like this, I'm not going to play with you no more" attitude is insanely childish.
Some people here seem to think that forking is unconditionally a good thing about open source development, but if everyone started forking the kernel, glibc, gcc, and XFree among other core packages, where would that leave us?
For those of us developing with gcc, this is not an unknown fact at all.
-O3 pulls out the big guns and invoke agressive optimizations which do _not_ necessarily increase performance. Actually, more often than not, -O3 decreases performance and increases the size of the generated code.
I work in a small company offering services to the pharmaceutical (aka "life science companies").
First off, it comes as absolutely NO suprise that they are keeping this close to heart. These people keep their birthdates and surnames close to heart. The only place you can possibly find a higher level of paranoia is probably at the annual DefCon.
Second, the pharmaceutical industry NEEDS TO TAKE OUT PATENTS TO SURVIVE.
Developing one new drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. If the drug turns out to be a complete failure near the end of the project (i.e. clinical testing on animals/humans), then they've wasted those hundreds of millions of dollars. That means they have to make a decent profit on their successes, otherwise one or two failures would send them straight out of business.
If they didn't patent and protect their discoveries that would mean some other company could just start producing the drug themselves, and as they didn't spend all that money on developing it, competitive pricing is not exactly a problem and again the inventor is driven out of business.
Either have your government use some of your tax money to fund this sort of research, or just accept the facts:
1. We need medicine. 2. Medicine is insanely expensive to develop. 3. That means it will eventually cost you.
All the people that are nagging on about how "all medicine should be freely available to everyone around the world", please take a moment and understand that if it was free then there wouldn't be any medicine in the first place. Yes the pharmaceutical industry does make a good profit, but it's needed to finance the failures.
So you're a geeky cybernetics guy? And no good at sports I presume? Not to worry, if you can beat this challenge you're better than any olympic competitor.
"Loebner Prize Gold Medal
(Solid 18 carat, not gold-plated like the Olympic "Gold" medals)"
Nick H., webmaster and spokesperson, at the very bottom is according to the text "certainly one of the most insane people on earth".
They say looks can deceive, but _come on_!:)
1. Make sure you're one of those people who seem to have just a little _too_ much spare time on your hands. 2. Call up the bank just to say "Hi" and ask them if there's a few million bucks to spare on your savings account. 3. Did you write your will yet? 4. Get "Submarines for Dummies" and the highly acclaimed SAMS "Build your own submarine in 24 hours". 5. Buy a nice tube and tons of electronics which you may get a need for. 6. Start building!
I seem to remember a TV show about a 16 year old that made a lot of money this way, i.e. buy a lot of cheap stock in some company, send out thousands of email tipping people off: "Watch this stock, it'll really roof in a week". Thousands of other buy the stock and the price on it goes up.
I think he got to keep 500k or something, the rest was taken away (by who I don't remember).
Meganet has a beauty on their Web site: "The base of VME is a Virtual Matrix, a matrix of binary values which is infinity in size in theory and therefore have no redundant value. The data to be encrypted is compared to the data in the Virtual Matrix. Once a match is found, a set of pointers that indicate how to navigate inside the Virtual Matrix is created. That set of pointers (which is worthless unless pointing to the right Virtual Matrix) is then further encrypted in dozens other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect. The result is an encrypted file that even if decrypted is completely meaningless since the decrypted data is not the actual data but rather a set of pointers. Considering that each session of VME has a unique different Virtual Matrix and that the data pattern within the Virtual Matrix is completely random and non-redundant, there is no way to derive the data out of the pointer set." This makes no sense, even to an expert.
Warning Sign #5: Ridiculous key lengths.
Meganet takes the ridiculous a step further : "1 million bit symmetric keys -- The market offer's [sic] 40-160 bit only!!"
Longer key lengths are better, but only up to a point. AES will have 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit key lengths. This is far longer than needed for the foreseeable future. In fact, we cannot even imagine a world where 256-bit brute force searches are possible. It requires some fundamental breakthroughs in physics and our understanding of the universe. For public-key cryptography, 2048-bit keys have same sort of property; longer is meaningless.
Warning Sign #8: Security proofs.
There are two kinds of snake-oil proofs. The first are real mathematical proofs that don't say anything about real security. The second are fake proofs. Meganet claims to have a proof that their VME algorithm is as secure as a one-time pad. Their "proof" is to explain how a one-time pad works, add the magic spell "VME has the same phenomenon behavior patterns, hence proves to be equally strong and unbreakable as OTP," and then give the results of some statistical tests. This is not a proof. It isn't even close.
OK, I've seen this sooooo many times now. Dev-C++ is an IDE. Yes, Integrated Development Environment, which means it integrates tools like an editor, compiler, and debugger, and possibly a GUI design tool for that toolkit or the other.
Dev-C++ is no exception, and it integrates the MinGW tools like you say. There is NO SUCH THING as a "GUI compiler", it's called and IDE and it has in general nothing to do with the compiler at all. KDevelop and Dev-C++ are different IDE's, but they use the same compiler and debugger.
1. It's self installing without asking the users consent. 2. It then illegally changes a users personal data. 3. It's impossible to remove for Joe Sixpack.
Which in my mind means that this works the same way as any computer virus, and that the company in question should be prosecuted for willfully creating and spreading it, just like in any other case.
It seems like finally the americans have found a decent way to reestablish their faltering economy!
According to the Kazaa website, there has been 179 million client downloads. Estimating that about half of these are dupe downloads, and that about 25% of the users are americans, this means about 22.375 million americans are liable for a law suit under the NET Act.
This means an income of 5,593,750 million dollars in fees, and an INCREDIBLE boost in income for the prison industry, which to my knowledge is the second biggest in the US.
This again means the US government will get rid of some of their most dangerous criminals, as well as having enough money to make Iraq disappear from the map. Personally I can't wait!
...but don't you think the NSA has had the means to crack common cryptosystems for quite some time? They usually make an objection when they can't (ref. the NSA intervening and reducing the security in IBM's suggested DES standard back in the days).
AFAIK there are secure ways of removing data from a HD writing so-and-so bit patterns that many times to the disk.
What I don't understand is why tools for performing such erasure is not more widely known and spread. Hell, why they are not incorporated into OS distributions as a tool.
Somebody make an 'srm' (secure remove) command for UNI*'s, a "Do you really, really, really want to remove this file" option in W**, and a linux boot disk totally wiping complete disks before you trash them, or sell them off eBay.
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Write a Haystack plugin that performs image analysis on the images/selected movie frames and categorizes them, and you could probably make a fortune with the pr0n site people.
That would mean they could spend their entire days drinking coctails at the beach, instead of wasting their current 1 hour day of labour.
...if they'd put the thing up for grabs themselves to whoever was willing to pay, say 5 bucks for the download. People like myself who really want to see this movie will still be headed to the cinemas.
What on earth are the ISP's complaining about? I pay a monthly fee to a company that gives me a 1024/512 ADSL connection to the net at any time. My limit is the maximum transfer rates.
So what's the real complaint here? Flat rates are what I and everyone else is paying for.
"Dear sir,
Uhm, you seem to be actually making full use of the product you've paid for. We didn't really expect you to, so now we're forced to er... make you pay extra for the exact same product you're allready paying for... Well, it's kinda complicated, but expect prices to rise in the next few months.
Yours truly,
ISP"
Seeing that my apartment's state of affairs is generally comparable to the syntax of Perl, maybe this thing can help me keep it clean. Or maybe not.
...it is to just start planning a fork behind the curtains without _first_ venting his concerns with the rest of the XFree86 team first.
After all, it would do no harm to at least start discussing his plans with the rest of the XFree86 team. If no agreement can be reached, then two separate camps are likely to form, and a fork will be made.
If the majority agrees with his opinions problems can be solved, and there's no need for a fork.
XFree86 is one of the core packages in most linux distros, and a fork would only make things even less standard than they are today. Taking this into consideration, Packards "I don't like this, I'm not going to play with you no more" attitude is insanely childish.
Some people here seem to think that forking is unconditionally a good thing about open source development, but if everyone started forking the kernel, glibc, gcc, and XFree among other core packages, where would that leave us?
"Project's that aren't profitable"?
It has a quite obvious public relations effect, doesn't it? Just look at all the goodwill Rockstar suddenly gained from the Slashdot community...
For those of us developing with gcc, this is not an unknown fact at all.
-O3 pulls out the big guns and invoke agressive optimizations which do _not_ necessarily increase performance. Actually, more often than not, -O3 decreases performance and increases the size of the generated code.
I work in a small company offering services to the pharmaceutical (aka "life science companies").
First off, it comes as absolutely NO suprise that they are keeping this close to heart. These people keep their birthdates and surnames close to heart. The only place you can possibly find a higher level of paranoia is probably at the annual DefCon.
Second, the pharmaceutical industry NEEDS TO TAKE OUT PATENTS TO SURVIVE.
Developing one new drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. If the drug turns out to be a complete failure near the end of the project (i.e. clinical testing on animals/humans), then they've wasted those hundreds of millions of dollars. That means they have to make a decent profit on their successes, otherwise one or two failures would send them straight out of business.
If they didn't patent and protect their discoveries that would mean some other company could just start producing the drug themselves, and as they didn't spend all that money on developing it, competitive pricing is not exactly a problem and again the inventor is driven out of business.
Either have your government use some of your tax money to fund this sort of research, or just accept the facts:
1. We need medicine.
2. Medicine is insanely expensive to develop.
3. That means it will eventually cost you.
All the people that are nagging on about how "all medicine should be freely available to everyone around the world", please take a moment and understand that if it was free then there wouldn't be any medicine in the first place. Yes the pharmaceutical industry does make a good profit, but it's needed to finance the failures.
I can picture it allready. "Sorry but you can only save your document to the digitally signed CD that this product was delivered on".
Other than that, it's just bollocks. Blank CD's are down to $0.05 any day soon.
So you're a geeky cybernetics guy? And no good at sports I presume?
Not to worry, if you can beat this challenge you're better than any olympic competitor.
"Loebner Prize Gold Medal
(Solid 18 carat, not gold-plated like the Olympic "Gold" medals)"
Nick H., webmaster and spokesperson, at the very bottom is according to the text "certainly one of the most insane people on earth". :)
They say looks can deceive, but _come on_!
1. Make sure you're one of those people who seem to have just a little _too_ much spare time on your hands.
2. Call up the bank just to say "Hi" and ask them if there's a few million bucks to spare on your savings account.
3. Did you write your will yet?
4. Get "Submarines for Dummies" and the highly acclaimed SAMS "Build your own submarine in 24 hours".
5. Buy a nice tube and tons of electronics which you may get a need for.
6. Start building!
That was the point he was trying to make IIRC.
He didn't get to keep up his business though.
I seem to remember a TV show about a 16 year old that made a lot of money this way, i.e. buy a lot of cheap stock in some company, send out thousands of email tipping people off: "Watch this stock, it'll really roof in a week". Thousands of other buy the stock and the price on it goes up.
I think he got to keep 500k or something, the rest was taken away (by who I don't remember).
Doesn't Opera have some "Identify as IE6" stuff like Konqueror? So why not just switch to that setting for MSN?
Relevant parts for the lazy:
Warning Sign #1: Pseudo-mathematical gobbledygook.
Meganet has a beauty on their Web site: "The base of VME is a Virtual Matrix, a matrix of binary values which is infinity in size in theory and therefore have no redundant value. The data to be encrypted is compared to the data in the Virtual Matrix. Once a match is found, a set of pointers that indicate how to navigate inside the Virtual Matrix is created. That set of pointers (which is worthless unless pointing to the right Virtual Matrix) is then further encrypted in dozens other algorithms in different stages to create an avalanche effect. The result is an encrypted file that even if decrypted is completely meaningless since the decrypted data is not the actual data but rather a set of pointers. Considering that each session of VME has a unique different Virtual Matrix and that the data pattern within the Virtual Matrix is completely random and non-redundant, there is no way to derive the data out of the pointer set." This makes no sense, even to an expert.
Warning Sign #5: Ridiculous key lengths.
Meganet takes the ridiculous a step further : "1 million bit symmetric keys -- The market offer's [sic] 40-160 bit only!!"
Longer key lengths are better, but only up to a point. AES will have 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit key lengths. This is far longer than needed for the foreseeable future. In fact, we cannot even imagine a world where 256-bit brute force searches are possible. It requires some fundamental breakthroughs in physics and our understanding of the universe. For public-key cryptography, 2048-bit keys have same sort of property; longer is meaningless.
Warning Sign #8: Security proofs.
There are two kinds of snake-oil proofs. The first are real mathematical proofs that don't say anything about real security. The second are fake proofs. Meganet claims to have a proof that their VME algorithm is as secure as a one-time pad. Their "proof" is to explain how a one-time pad works, add the magic spell "VME has the same phenomenon behavior patterns, hence proves to be equally strong and unbreakable as OTP," and then give the results of some statistical tests. This is not a proof. It isn't even close.
OK, I've seen this sooooo many times now. Dev-C++ is an IDE. Yes, Integrated Development Environment, which means it integrates tools like an editor, compiler, and debugger, and possibly a GUI design tool for that toolkit or the other. Dev-C++ is no exception, and it integrates the MinGW tools like you say. There is NO SUCH THING as a "GUI compiler", it's called and IDE and it has in general nothing to do with the compiler at all. KDevelop and Dev-C++ are different IDE's, but they use the same compiler and debugger.
(Given the facts stated are true)
1. It's self installing without asking the users consent.
2. It then illegally changes a users personal data.
3. It's impossible to remove for Joe Sixpack.
Which in my mind means that this works the same way as any computer virus, and that the company in question should be prosecuted for willfully creating and spreading it, just like in any other case.
Well, assuming "w32.leave.worm" means "Win32 please leave us" it's almost a shame it didn't pass through...
It seems like finally the americans have found a decent way to reestablish their faltering economy!
According to the Kazaa website, there has been 179 million client downloads. Estimating that about half of these are dupe downloads, and that about 25% of the users are americans, this means about 22.375 million americans are liable for a law suit under the NET Act.
This means an income of 5,593,750 million dollars in fees, and an INCREDIBLE boost in income for the prison industry, which to my knowledge is the second biggest in the US.
This again means the US government will get rid of some of their most dangerous criminals, as well as having enough money to make Iraq disappear from the map. Personally I can't wait!
...but don't you think the NSA has had the means to crack common cryptosystems for quite some time? They usually make an objection when they can't (ref. the NSA intervening and reducing the security in IBM's suggested DES standard back in the days).
AFAIK there are secure ways of removing data from a HD writing so-and-so bit patterns that many times to the disk.
What I don't understand is why tools for performing such erasure is not more widely known and spread. Hell, why they are not incorporated into OS distributions as a tool.
Somebody make an 'srm' (secure remove) command for UNI*'s, a "Do you really, really, really want to remove this file" option in W**, and a linux boot disk totally wiping complete disks before you trash them, or sell them off eBay.
Now where did I read about that new SATA 750 interface... or was that USB 10.0? Oh well...
Back in those days the true Scene existed on Amiga (and C64) - the 286/386 guys were all lamers. Next time make a DVD with some propre stuff on it.
And for a teenager with little or no money, a "whopping fine" would be equal to a looong sentence indeed.