Nobody claimed that video games cause all violence, just that they contribute to it, i.e. that people are more likely to be violent after playing video games. I don't have any evidence one way or another on this.
Asbestos can cause lung cancer, but lots of people have died of lung cancer without being exposed to it (say, by cigarettes).
I thought Theo's comment sounded really arrogant, too. But you might note that the author quoted it with no context, so who knows whether it was in real life.
Now as for Microsoft, if MS patched something within... no, wait, it was patched before the bug came out... anyway, we'd cut them a bit more slack.
Err. I'll just use my computer, thank you very much. I don't watch TV and I don't want to, so I don't own one. It's other people's TVs that are annoying.
Err. Yeah. But my problem with all the todo list managers out there today is that they don't keep it simple. Too much screen real estate (iCal), or too much overhead to see what's up (CheckOff), or too much cpu time (iCal), or tries to do too much (Life Balance) or...
I just want something simple. Todo list, always visible but not too much space, with a notes side-panel and alerts. Like Stickies, but with a notes panel or something. And alerts.
While this may be true for some people, it is not true for me. TVs emit a loud high-pitched whine that most people don't seem to hear but which is very annoying to me. This could be part of why I don't watch TV.
Err, sorry, I missed the character class following ad in your regex. Lots of stuff blocks domains beginning in "ad", which is a PITA for users of such programs. Even your regex blocks some sites I go to, but not those ones.
... that's watermarking. Watermarking technology has more potential in theory, but I think in practice it will also be cracked. But my point is that someone will either buy a song in CD form with cash, or break the watermarking, break the DRM (the stuff that prevents you from copying the song) using some method, an analog gap if necessary, and get it into MP3 form or the like on an uncrippled computer. Then there's little that Big Brother or Big Media can due to stop him from sharing it all over with a mesh like Publius or Freenet, other than outlawing encryption.
There is not, at leasts for several years, any prospect of building tamper-proof encrypted speakers, especially given that audiophiles will want to connect their computer to their existing high-end amp/speakers which are analog. With some decent-quality analog equipment, one can re-record something played by a computer, re-encode it into MP3, and trade it around regardless of crippling (or if the OS somehow magically detects this, via encrypted channel between older, non-crippled computers). Hell, even if the speakers were encrypted you could bring it into a quietroom and record... the big hole in the system is that no matter how high the cost, in only takes one person to do this, and everyone can reap the illicit rewards over P2P networks. This is why DRM is impossible.
Even if a new Fritz-ish law comes into effect that requires all new devices to have magic detector chips that make it impossible to dupe copyrighted content, and such chips can be designed, and they work, all existing computers would have to crumble to dust before this could work. Or the internet would have to be sealed against computers without these chips. Not only that, because you could encrypt it and haul disks around... either encryption would have to be banned, or the digital world would have to be entirely divided, with a perfect sentry at every gate, and hardware modding made illegal......
At the point where DRM against re-recording from analog could be implemented, we'd have far, FAR more to worry about from Big Brother than uncopyable songs.
Your page contains malformed HTMl. You have to put a semicolon after < or it won't (and shouldn't) work in most browsers.
As for your filter, it's inherently unscalable for several reasons.
1) Some of your phrases are found in legitimate emails. Certainly plenty of non-spammy emails, such as receipts (these are really hard to deal with) and legit mailing lists, would get caught by this. I've sent plenty of mails that match your patterns. For instance, s=splhigh(); {critical region} splx(s);. Also, I've sent messages which say "If you have received this in error", (plain text) mails discussing javascripts, and mails refering to spam and viruses.
2) The non-domain regexes will be obfuscated in most spam anyway; see the article.
3) An automated process for harvesting domain names would suck. You'd have to watch out for good names getting put on there by mistake, etc. So you have to enter it all by hand.
Rather than calling a message certain spam if it has one of these phrases, it should only be marked as probably spam. Which is exactly what a Bayesian filter does.
I use CRM114, which does Bayesian phrase analysis and white/black listing. Instead of working with words, it uses phrases up to 5 words long, including phrases that skip a word. Its tokenizer (the weakest part of any spam filter, but in this case the easiest to edit because most of it is in a script) is pretty good, and no spam has gotten through it in half a year, and only a few false positives (mostly receipts). I don't get much spam in the first place, but this is still pretty impressive. The downside of CRM114 is that its data files are huge and it can sometimes be piggish on memory and CPU. This might preclude its use in huge domains, but for a few dozen it should be no big deal.
That's like saying, for example, that just because working perpetual motion machines haven't been made in the past doesn't mean they won't be made in the future.
No it's not. Predicting earthquakes is not known to be impossible, whereas perpetual motion machines are.
As far as weather, water and earth... energy inputs to those systems cannot be mapped to specific output results.... they are not deterministic! Small changes in inputs can result in wildly different outputs (insensitive to initial conditions), or a given input doesn't always give the same output (nonuniqueness) or the system goes into wild oscillations (instability).
This isn't true... the system is deterministic, disregarding quantum effects. It is chaotic, which means, as you said, that small changes can result in wildly different outputs. You also don't cite any evidence that earthquakes are highly chaotic. Given that many of the effects leading up to an earthquake take place on long timescales, chaos isn't so much of an issue as in weather prediction. Also, the amount of energy involved could make it like predicting a hurricane. You know there will be hurricanes in the Carribbean when the energy is there, and once one starts forming, you can tell approximately where it will hit. And unlike weather, the stress patterns that control earthquakes don't move much at all.
What's more of a problem is getting the data. It's hard to tell the stress on the rocks several miles beneath the surface, so a detailed model that allows computation of these stresses from other data is key.
If these people truely had the ability to create models which accurately predict the dynamics of chaotic systems they'd test them first in the stock market. That they don't says volumes.
Err? What are you talking about? You can't take a model for one chaotic system and port it to another, entirely dissimilar one (except for a few error-bounding theorems and the like). The forces in the market are entirely different from those under the earth, and modeling one does not mean you can model another. Furthermore, the market is a minority game, so any improvement in modeling has a tendency to cancel itself out as more people begin using it.
With regard to OpenBSD however, there are many security enhancements that put its security far ahead of the rest.
Yes, except for access control lists. There are no ACLs in OpenBSD! As a result, you have to run more programs as root, which is definitely a security problem.
First of all, don't take it as a given that we will go extrasolar ever. It's also quite possible that we will be (largely) killed by an asteroid or nuke ourselves into oblivion.
Second, unless the universe is an awful lot bigger than physicists think, the prospects of having more than 2^128 devices seem pretty dim. Heck, there's probably not enough energy in our galaxy to make that many devices, so...
The problem with the LSBs of an image is that they aren't quite random. Unless the image is raytraced or otherwise artificially produced, there's a fair amount of order there. Even a raytraced image might not be quite random.
The same holds with audio. For instance, crypted data is white noise, but concert noise is "pink noise" which has a characteristic spectrum. The noise produced by converters is closer to white, but it isn't quite either. People like Neils Provos have been studying this for a while, trying to find out which bits they can change without altering the statistics of the image or audio, but with limited success. As of last year (don't know how it is this year), all published steganography schemes at least a few months old had been broken.
Seriously, SSL is good to secure pretty much everything. You might have to worry about padding if your packets' lengths vary depending on content, but if not, don't reinvent the wheel.
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Yup. Just like nukes did. Just like smart bombs did. Just like cruise missiles did.
That's another rant. I love how I can be drafted into military service if Congress deems it necessary at 18 yet I can't touch booze until I'm 21.
You can drink at 18 with a military ID.
Computers, there's only one way to risk killing yourself, and you'd have to be TRYING to do it.
Actually, messing around with power supplies can get you electrocuted if you aren't careful.
Link please? I want to be able to cite that study :-)
Nobody claimed that video games cause all violence, just that they contribute to it, i.e. that people are more likely to be violent after playing video games. I don't have any evidence one way or another on this.
Asbestos can cause lung cancer, but lots of people have died of lung cancer without being exposed to it (say, by cigarettes).
I thought Theo's comment sounded really arrogant, too. But you might note that the author quoted it with no context, so who knows whether it was in real life.
Now as for Microsoft, if MS patched something within... no, wait, it was patched before the bug came out... anyway, we'd cut them a bit more slack.
This has been discussed before. Not only is it not guaranteed to work, if it does work, it's a very good way to start a fire (hint: "fry").
--Mike
89-103 Watts max power dissipation
Ick. That's gonna hurt.
Err. I'll just use my computer, thank you very much. I don't watch TV and I don't want to, so I don't own one. It's other people's TVs that are annoying.
Err. Yeah. But my problem with all the todo list managers out there today is that they don't keep it simple. Too much screen real estate (iCal), or too much overhead to see what's up (CheckOff), or too much cpu time (iCal), or tries to do too much (Life Balance) or...
I just want something simple. Todo list, always visible but not too much space, with a notes side-panel and alerts. Like Stickies, but with a notes panel or something. And alerts.
I know. But I like the stickies approach more. I'll keep looking, otherwise it should be trivial to write something like stickies but better in cocoa.
I'll try it out. I like to have it always visible though, and this program is shareware too (although it's going free/gpl soon).
While this may be true for some people, it is not true for me. TVs emit a loud high-pitched whine that most people don't seem to hear but which is very annoying to me. This could be part of why I don't watch TV.
That said, I'd definitely vote alarm clock.
Err, sorry, I missed the character class following ad in your regex. Lots of stuff blocks domains beginning in "ad", which is a PITA for users of such programs. Even your regex blocks some sites I go to, but not those ones.
Adium users though. Nor you like Adobe stuff -- you know, Photoshop and Illustrator and Acrobat and all that.
I'm running Privoxy, and I've created specific exceptions for those, but it's still a bit annoying.
Is there any way using iCal to show ONLY the to-do list? I'm currently using Stickies for a to-do list and I'd like something more useful.
... that's watermarking. Watermarking technology has more potential in theory, but I think in practice it will also be cracked. But my point is that someone will either buy a song in CD form with cash, or break the watermarking, break the DRM (the stuff that prevents you from copying the song) using some method, an analog gap if necessary, and get it into MP3 form or the like on an uncrippled computer. Then there's little that Big Brother or Big Media can due to stop him from sharing it all over with a mesh like Publius or Freenet, other than outlawing encryption.
It's all well and good to give 20 MB of space, great service, etc with no ads, but... where does the money come from?
If they're not making any money, they'll either have to change their policies or go down in flames.
There is not, at leasts for several years, any prospect of building tamper-proof encrypted speakers, especially given that audiophiles will want to connect their computer to their existing high-end amp/speakers which are analog. With some decent-quality analog equipment, one can re-record something played by a computer, re-encode it into MP3, and trade it around regardless of crippling (or if the OS somehow magically detects this, via encrypted channel between older, non-crippled computers). Hell, even if the speakers were encrypted you could bring it into a quietroom and record... the big hole in the system is that no matter how high the cost, in only takes one person to do this, and everyone can reap the illicit rewards over P2P networks. This is why DRM is impossible.
Even if a new Fritz-ish law comes into effect that requires all new devices to have magic detector chips that make it impossible to dupe copyrighted content, and such chips can be designed, and they work, all existing computers would have to crumble to dust before this could work. Or the internet would have to be sealed against computers without these chips. Not only that, because you could encrypt it and haul disks around... either encryption would have to be banned, or the digital world would have to be entirely divided, with a perfect sentry at every gate, and hardware modding made illegal......
At the point where DRM against re-recording from analog could be implemented, we'd have far, FAR more to worry about from Big Brother than uncopyable songs.
Your page contains malformed HTMl. You have to put a semicolon after < or it won't (and shouldn't) work in most browsers.
As for your filter, it's inherently unscalable for several reasons.
1) Some of your phrases are found in legitimate emails. Certainly plenty of non-spammy emails, such as receipts (these are really hard to deal with) and legit mailing lists, would get caught by this. I've sent plenty of mails that match your patterns. For instance, s=splhigh(); {critical region} splx(s);. Also, I've sent messages which say "If you have received this in error", (plain text) mails discussing javascripts, and mails refering to spam and viruses.
2) The non-domain regexes will be obfuscated in most spam anyway; see the article.
3) An automated process for harvesting domain names would suck. You'd have to watch out for good names getting put on there by mistake, etc. So you have to enter it all by hand.
Rather than calling a message certain spam if it has one of these phrases, it should only be marked as probably spam. Which is exactly what a Bayesian filter does.
I use CRM114, which does Bayesian phrase analysis and white/black listing. Instead of working with words, it uses phrases up to 5 words long, including phrases that skip a word. Its tokenizer (the weakest part of any spam filter, but in this case the easiest to edit because most of it is in a script) is pretty good, and no spam has gotten through it in half a year, and only a few false positives (mostly receipts). I don't get much spam in the first place, but this is still pretty impressive. The downside of CRM114 is that its data files are huge and it can sometimes be piggish on memory and CPU. This might preclude its use in huge domains, but for a few dozen it should be no big deal.
... your post seems to have little actual merit.
That's like saying, for example, that just because working perpetual motion machines haven't been made in the past doesn't mean they won't be made in the future.
No it's not. Predicting earthquakes is not known to be impossible, whereas perpetual motion machines are.
As far as weather, water and earth... energy inputs to those systems cannot be mapped to specific output results.... they are not deterministic! Small changes in inputs can result in wildly different outputs (insensitive to initial conditions), or a given input doesn't always give the same output (nonuniqueness) or the system goes into wild oscillations (instability).
This isn't true... the system is deterministic, disregarding quantum effects. It is chaotic, which means, as you said, that small changes can result in wildly different outputs. You also don't cite any evidence that earthquakes are highly chaotic. Given that many of the effects leading up to an earthquake take place on long timescales, chaos isn't so much of an issue as in weather prediction. Also, the amount of energy involved could make it like predicting a hurricane. You know there will be hurricanes in the Carribbean when the energy is there, and once one starts forming, you can tell approximately where it will hit. And unlike weather, the stress patterns that control earthquakes don't move much at all.
What's more of a problem is getting the data. It's hard to tell the stress on the rocks several miles beneath the surface, so a detailed model that allows computation of these stresses from other data is key.
If these people truely had the ability to create models which accurately predict the dynamics of chaotic systems they'd test them first in the stock market. That they don't says volumes.
Err? What are you talking about? You can't take a model for one chaotic system and port it to another, entirely dissimilar one (except for a few error-bounding theorems and the like). The forces in the market are entirely different from those under the earth, and modeling one does not mean you can model another. Furthermore, the market is a minority game, so any improvement in modeling has a tendency to cancel itself out as more people begin using it.
With regard to OpenBSD however, there are many security enhancements that put its security far ahead of the rest.
Yes, except for access control lists. There are no ACLs in OpenBSD! As a result, you have to run more programs as root, which is definitely a security problem.
First of all, don't take it as a given that we will go extrasolar ever. It's also quite possible that we will be (largely) killed by an asteroid or nuke ourselves into oblivion.
Second, unless the universe is an awful lot bigger than physicists think, the prospects of having more than 2^128 devices seem pretty dim. Heck, there's probably not enough energy in our galaxy to make that many devices, so...
The problem with the LSBs of an image is that they aren't quite random. Unless the image is raytraced or otherwise artificially produced, there's a fair amount of order there. Even a raytraced image might not be quite random.
The same holds with audio. For instance, crypted data is white noise, but concert noise is "pink noise" which has a characteristic spectrum. The noise produced by converters is closer to white, but it isn't quite either. People like Neils Provos have been studying this for a while, trying to find out which bits they can change without altering the statistics of the image or audio, but with limited success. As of last year (don't know how it is this year), all published steganography schemes at least a few months old had been broken.
Seriously, SSL is good to secure pretty much everything. You might have to worry about padding if your packets' lengths vary depending on content, but if not, don't reinvent the wheel.