...can no longer knowingly "assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise" any device or software that conceals "the existence or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service."
Interesting. So, if you consider the brain and it's systems as hardware and software, ignorance and stupidity are now illegal. Either that or complex systems that can't be understood by the simplest of intellects are illegal.
A mind that can't figure out how to trace a signal through a telecommunications service could be interpreted as being "deceived" about the origin of said signal. So, either stupid people won't be allowed to use such a system, or the system itself should be outlawed.
NOTE: I realize this is my PoV. I'm just ticked and wanted to vent somewhere. If you don't like my comments, just ignore me or intelligently reply. I don't "waste" my mod-points whacking folks with differing opinions, you shouldn't either.
Heck, I'd mod you down just for saying "don't mod me down!"
Nothing's more annoying to me than someone self righteously preplaying the victim card...
This situation is entirely of Microsoft's making
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In '94-'95 I was both a Microsoft contractor (they called us "variable employees") and a full time employee, so I've seen it from both sides. Let me make one point crystal clear: my job duties as a contractor and as a permanent employee were identical. The only thing that changed upon being hired permanently was the color of my badge, increased employment benefits, and higher social status in the company.
The management absolutely treated contractors as second class employees, as completely disposable. Here's a story to illustrate: I worked in the end user phone tech support division. After I was hired on as a permanent, the decision was made to cut ALL contractors due to low end user support demand. My roommate at the time was a contractor, and he was given his walking papers. He had more time at the company than me, far more recognition for his skills, was a member of the trouble ticket escalation team, etc., yet he was fired for no other reason than that he was a contractor. (along with about 400 others...)
Programming is a tool and, with no disrespect to the hard core coders it is a minor part of a CS.
That attitude is why there's so much crappy software out in the world...
There is no computer science without programming.
That's like saying "fermenting grapes is only a tiny part of wine making." If a system cannot exist without a component, then that component is a "big" part.
For Microsoft, this is a win/win. If Opera users change their user-agent identification, it look to browser statistics as if Opera has ceased to exist. "No one is using Opera," says Microsoft. If Opera users fo no change their user-agent identification, Opera users are inconvenienced (and may not use the browser) and no Opera hits are recorded at Microsoft sites. "No one is using Opera," says Microsoft.
Specifically: The real beauty of these types of caches is that they maximize performance while sacrificing none of the site's dynamic nature. More traditional caching solutions implemented by HTTP servers might cache the full output of a given request, but this approach would be impractical where we need to customize the output to the user's specifications.
Consider this: Minimal training is required to point a gun at a plane window and shoot. If anyone can carry a gun onto an airplane, then what's to stop a terrorist organization from getting 100 young men, eager to die for thier cause, to board 100 planes with guns and bring them down? Maybe some of them would be stopped. I'm betting most would not.
And, there's far more than 100 men in the world willing to die for their cause. There are hundreds of thousands. If your blindly pro-gun views were in effect we'd be wide open to terrorist attack.
Is it not possible that, having already made the decision for security over liberty back in the 1970's when the tools of self defense were banned from aircraft
Are you daft? If anyone could carry a gun on an airplane, then ANYONE COULD CARRY A GUN ON AN AIRPLANE. This includes terrorists.
> If Natural Selection were intelligent then the > dinosaurs would not be extinct, nor would the > miryad of complex and promising creatures of the > Edicarian Fauna. Intelligent design would not waste > such potential sources of design diversity.
You assume too much about the nature of an intelligent system.
Anyway, there are many intelligent systems which cover the planet who are wasting our design diversity. We call them "humans."
That "continual learning" concept is kind of what I'm after. I wish Wallace had given a more clear answer to my question, but that's OK. I'll hopefully be applying evolution to his system in a few years.
Have you considered using an evolutionary technique such as genetic programming to test the fitness of AIML rules? Have you tried generating new rules from combinations of old rules via some crossover/mutation mechanism?
Take a base keyboard layout. It doesn't matter which one, as long as you always start with the same one for each individual. Each individual in the population is a list of swapping rules, like "switch key 5 with key 23," or (5,23). Two individuals can have "sex" through crossover. (A new individual is made from the first N of the first parent and last M-N of the second parent, M=# of rules, MN)
Mutation can be used to change a current rule, create a new rule, or delete a rule. (Mutations that create and delete rules can help make individuals of arbitrary complexity, which is an extra added bonus.)
It may be time to boycott Slashdot until they agree to fire Katz.
It's not that I'm particularly fired up over this particular article, but I'm just sick and tired of his drivel. I know, the standard response is "filter out his stories," but do we really want someone like Katz to be a representative of "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? His articles routinely insult the intelligence of Slashdot readers. Do we really want someone who is so blatantly illogical and irrational to be posting on a website which pruports to support the cause of intellectual pursuits and interests?
At the very least, everyone who posted a negative comment on Katz's article should filter him out. I'm going to do it right after I post this. Maybe then the editors, and more importantly the PHB's who employ them, will get an idea of how unpopular Katz really is.
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...can no longer knowingly "assemble, develop, manufacture, possess, deliver, offer to deliver, or advertise" any device or software that conceals "the existence or place of origin or destination of any telecommunications service."
Interesting. So, if you consider the brain and it's systems as hardware and software, ignorance and stupidity are now illegal. Either that or complex systems that can't be understood by the simplest of intellects are illegal.
A mind that can't figure out how to trace a signal through a telecommunications service could be interpreted as being "deceived" about the origin of said signal. So, either stupid people won't be allowed to use such a system, or the system itself should be outlawed.
NOTE: I realize this is my PoV. I'm just ticked and wanted to vent somewhere. If you don't like my comments, just ignore me or intelligently reply. I don't "waste" my mod-points whacking folks with differing opinions, you shouldn't either.
Heck, I'd mod you down just for saying "don't mod me down!"
Nothing's more annoying to me than someone self righteously preplaying the victim card...
In '94-'95 I was both a Microsoft contractor (they called us "variable employees") and a full time employee, so I've seen it from both sides. Let me make one point crystal clear: my job duties as a contractor and as a permanent employee were identical. The only thing that changed upon being hired permanently was the color of my badge, increased employment benefits, and higher social status in the company.
The management absolutely treated contractors as second class employees, as completely disposable. Here's a story to illustrate: I worked in the end user phone tech support division. After I was hired on as a permanent, the decision was made to cut ALL contractors due to low end user support demand. My roommate at the time was a contractor, and he was given his walking papers. He had more time at the company than me, far more recognition for his skills, was a member of the trouble ticket escalation team, etc., yet he was fired for no other reason than that he was a contractor. (along with about 400 others...)
Yes, there is:
http://www.legacyj.com/isamj/isamj.html
First link on Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ISAM%20java
Programming is a tool and, with no disrespect to the hard core coders it is a minor part of a CS.
That attitude is why there's so much crappy software out in the world...
There is no computer science without programming.
That's like saying "fermenting grapes is only a tiny part of wine making." If a system cannot exist without a component, then that component is a "big" part.
Moulin Dune: Muad'Dib sings show tunes to win back Chani's love. Hilarity ensues.
For Microsoft, this is a win/win. If Opera users change their user-agent identification, it look to browser statistics as if Opera has ceased to exist. "No one is using Opera," says Microsoft. If Opera users fo no change their user-agent identification, Opera users are inconvenienced (and may not use the browser) and no Opera hits are recorded at Microsoft sites. "No one is using Opera," says Microsoft.
Neat, huh?
They do change the content, and they do explain how.
Read this page in the article.
Specifically:
The real beauty of these types of caches is that they maximize performance while sacrificing none of the site's dynamic nature. More traditional caching solutions implemented by HTTP servers might cache the full output of a given request, but this approach would be impractical where we need to customize the output to the user's specifications.
Obviously, you didn't read the article.
Try reading this page
Yeah? Well I sat in line for the opening night of "Phantom Menace" reading James Joyce's "Ulysses". Top that!
And your point would be?
Terrorists aren't your average criminal.
Consider this: Minimal training is required to point a gun at a plane window and shoot. If anyone can carry a gun onto an airplane, then what's to stop a terrorist organization from getting 100 young men, eager to die for thier cause, to board 100 planes with guns and bring them down? Maybe some of them would be stopped. I'm betting most would not.
And, there's far more than 100 men in the world willing to die for their cause. There are hundreds of thousands. If your blindly pro-gun views were in effect we'd be wide open to terrorist attack.
Is it not possible that, having already made the decision for security over liberty back in the 1970's when the tools of self defense were banned from aircraft
Are you daft? If anyone could carry a gun on an airplane, then ANYONE COULD CARRY A GUN ON AN AIRPLANE. This includes terrorists.
> If Natural Selection were intelligent then the
> dinosaurs would not be extinct, nor would the
> miryad of complex and promising creatures of the
> Edicarian Fauna. Intelligent design would not waste
> such potential sources of design diversity.
You assume too much about the nature of an intelligent system.
Anyway, there are many intelligent systems which cover the planet who are wasting our design diversity. We call them "humans."
Geoportal
Geobility
Sigh...
Everyone who has replied to this story is now on a list of potential hackers. Please report to your local police for processing.
> Are you sure this would really be chaper?
:)
Well, given the posts about ethernet adapters for the dreamcast costing $150, probably. Regardless, the cost will be pretty similar.
EPIA 5000 board, with processor (runs fanless) $99
64MB RAM $11
16MB CF card (for boot media) $15
145W Power Supply $25
Total: $150
You can use a cardboard box and duct tape for the case.
The EPIA system also has the advantages of being standard hardware.
A mini-itx case with DC input
I'll bet their motto is "Tough actin' TNACtin'"
Egads! I stand corrected. :)
Heck, just use an EPIA based system. Cheaper than a Dreamcast. Boot from a CF card. Fanless. Silent.
That "continual learning" concept is kind of what I'm after. I wish Wallace had given a more clear answer to my question, but that's OK. I'll hopefully be applying evolution to his system in a few years.
Have you considered using an evolutionary technique such as genetic programming to test the fitness of AIML rules? Have you tried generating new rules from combinations of old rules via some crossover/mutation mechanism?
It's pretty easy to put sex into the algorithm.
Take a base keyboard layout. It doesn't matter which one, as long as you always start with the same one for each individual. Each individual in the population is a list of swapping rules, like "switch key 5 with key 23," or (5,23). Two individuals can have "sex" through crossover. (A new individual is made from the first N of the first parent and last M-N of the second parent, M=# of rules, MN)
Mutation can be used to change a current rule, create a new rule, or delete a rule. (Mutations that create and delete rules can help make individuals of arbitrary complexity, which is an extra added bonus.)
...an avant-garde lawsuit?
It may be time to boycott Slashdot until they agree to fire Katz.
It's not that I'm particularly fired up over this particular article, but I'm just sick and tired of his drivel. I know, the standard response is "filter out his stories," but do we really want someone like Katz to be a representative of "news for nerds, stuff that matters"? His articles routinely insult the intelligence of Slashdot readers. Do we really want someone who is so blatantly illogical and irrational to be posting on a website which pruports to support the cause of intellectual pursuits and interests?
At the very least, everyone who posted a negative comment on Katz's article should filter him out. I'm going to do it right after I post this. Maybe then the editors, and more importantly the PHB's who employ them, will get an idea of how unpopular Katz really is.