This seems to me to be one of those plea-bargain "crimes", that's just ladled on as part of the charges. They charge you six ways for the same crime, then heap on a load of side-issues and associated minor whatsits like "conspiracy" and "fraudulent DNS" - the idea being, that the sum total theoretical max sentence would leave you jailed until the heat-death of the universe. That way you can be bargained down into pleading guilty to, say, murdering the pope - without the inconvenience of needing evidence, proof, the guy even being dead, etc etc.
Then add procmail recipes to filter it into maildirs. That's what I do anyhow.
Spam is indeterminate, but mailing lists are determinate - using Bayesian filtering on them is using sledgehammers to crack nuts. A rule on the "From:" should be sufficient.
Spambayes catches the lot. Worst case, they make into "unsure". I assume it's because while they don't contain much that's "spammy", they contain absolutely no "ham" at all. So the least smidgen of spamminess gets them dumped.
...because we already have in our official capacity snooped all that information seperately". So the fact that the USA already was a piecemeal police state, is the justification for making it a unified and offical one?
There is no longer any law, just legislation. There is no longer any law-enforcement - just enforcement. It is no longer possible to be a policeman, and also a good man. The law does not recognise rights; so, rights do not recognise the law. I hereby declare anarchy!
I have not only my home dir (and tmp and spool dirs) encrypted, but also my swap space. No use encrypting a file if they can lift the decrypted version from swap.
Now wol I preie mekely every discret persone that redith or herith this litel tretys to have my rude endityng for excusid, and my superfluite of wordes, for two causes. The first cause is for that curious endityng and hard sentence is ful hevy at onys for such a child to lerne. And the secunde cause is this, that sothly me semith better to writen unto a child twyes a god sentence, than he forgete it onys.
Translation:
Now, I would ask meekly of everyone that reads or hears this little treatise, to excuse me my crude editing, and my wordiness. For two reasons. First, that proper editing and hard sentences are hard for such a child to learn. Second, that it seems better to me to write a good sentence twice to a child, than that he forget it once.
Not selling product, just begging votes, but still... check it out. Is that or is that not true advertising genius? And the site content's pretty damn excellent too.
Warning: flash-heavy site. But it's the best use you've ever seen made of flash.
Leaving the old Saturn V out in the rain and "losing" the blueprints was probably NASA's way of defending the Shuttle program from any attempt to reinstate the "big firework you use once and throw away" approach to space flight.
The additional "episodes" in the contract are probably just legal ass-covering, on a just-in-case basis, so as to avoid the actors holding them for ransom. Any "postsequels" have to star Chewie, so it makes sense to preemptive-negotiate with his actor, before the viewing figures come in.
I have a suggestion. By analogy with the crypto geeks who always encrypt, just so that any REAL messages will be lost in the chaff.
Add a doodad to The Gimp. What this doodad does, is slurp a bunch of bytes from/dev/urandom, and stego them into every single image file it saves. At least make it a checkbox, and checked by default for any lossy compression format.
Stego is suposed to be visually undetectable; that means this won't actually hurt your prized pr0n collection. But it will chaff the heck out of The Man.
The obvious supply they'd want to mine for, is water. That gives you air, drinking water, hydroponic substrate for plants, and hydrodgen gas to use as rocket reaction-mass. Nobody's yet sure how much there is available, but I'd guess getting it probably won't involve digging, so much as distilling it out of the dust.
The moon has half the space station problem licked. Physical containment and radiation-shielding? Just dig down into rock. Supplies? Mine for them. Storage space? Plenty going begging, on the surface or dug down into rock, and no atmophere to blow stuff around or rain on it.
Its low gravity and lack of atmosphere make cheap slow-acceleration launch tech like linear motors perfectly sensible. It's ideal as a place to build spacecraft or spacecraft parts, to launch things into earth orbit, to park and refuel spacecraft, and to land, warehouse and refine things mined in bulk from elsewhere in the solar system.
Seeing the moon as a planetary colony is IMO the wrong model. Seeing it as the ultimate ready-made orbital space station makes much more sense.
The thing he misses is the principle of competition. Basically, by its mere existence, a free alternative threatens the nonfree version into playing nice.
He alludes to Java. The GPL implementation is a piece of crud, so nobody uses it. But its existence is enough to prevent Sun from playing at silly buggers. Regardless of the theoretical license terms. If they tried, IBM or some such would just pile behind kaffe.org and grind them into dust.
Thus freedom spreads outwards from comparatively humble free software efforts, de-facto freeing the proprietary software too.
Just the usual leftist whining about sweatshops. When will people realise, sweatshops are how a developing economy bootstraps?
Big Biz outsources to pesthole country X, paying locals much more than they could hope to earn from any local employer, even if it is only a few dollars a month. The locals save up, gain skills, gain reputation, and soon enough X isn't anymore a pesthole but a thriving hub of business, and the locals can raise prices. See the recent discussions of rising outsource costs in India.
Globalization may "rush to the bottom" - but it quickly fills in that bottom. Making, I'll add, improvements that leftist redistribution consistently fails to do, and sweatshop-boycotts actively reverse!
Now you don't even need to sneak a terrorist onto a plane. Just hack the "softwalls" into a tunnel pointing unerringly at the target - and sit back to watch the pilot struggle in vain, and die.
Can you say "stupidest damnfool idea since the u-bend revolver"? I knew you could.
The problem with the "friendly virus" approach: you're trying to install software on zillions of strangers' computers, blindfold. Assuming this is windoze we're talking about here, there are scads of different versions and subversions and patched and hacked OSes. It's a certainty that your "upgrade" will fry the OS in a fair percentage of cases, even if you wrote it without a single bug. Which you won't have done, because its first real test-run will be live.
The first "great internet worm" was a friendly program that went haywire.
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This seems to me to be one of those plea-bargain "crimes", that's just ladled on as part of the charges. They charge you six ways for the same crime, then heap on a load of side-issues and associated minor whatsits like "conspiracy" and "fraudulent DNS" - the idea being, that the sum total theoretical max sentence would leave you jailed until the heat-death of the universe. That way you can be bargained down into pleading guilty to, say, murdering the pope - without the inconvenience of needing evidence, proof, the guy even being dead, etc etc.
:0 fw: $HOME/tmp/spambayes.lock
|sb_filter.py -d $HOME/.spambayes.db
Then add procmail recipes to filter it into maildirs. That's what I do anyhow.
Spam is indeterminate, but mailing lists are determinate - using Bayesian filtering on them is using sledgehammers to crack nuts. A rule on the "From:" should be sufficient.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
In particular, I like their "unsure" categorization. All the "false positives" go in there, and cleaning that one folder out regularly is easy.
Spambayes catches the lot. Worst case, they make into "unsure". I assume it's because while they don't contain much that's "spammy", they contain absolutely no "ham" at all. So the least smidgen of spamminess gets them dumped.
Standardize for documents recieved, and you can OCR inbound letters.
Standardize for documents sent, and people who want to OCR your outbound letters can do it easily.
...because we already have in our official capacity snooped all that information seperately". So the fact that the USA already was a piecemeal police state, is the justification for making it a unified and offical one?
There is no longer any law, just legislation. There is no longer any law-enforcement - just enforcement. It is no longer possible to be a policeman, and also a good man. The law does not recognise rights; so, rights do not recognise the law. I hereby declare anarchy!
I have not only my home dir (and tmp and spool dirs) encrypted, but also my swap space. No use encrypting a file if they can lift the decrypted version from swap.
Now, I would ask meekly of everyone that reads or hears this little treatise, to excuse me my crude editing, and my wordiness. For two reasons. First, that proper editing and hard sentences are hard for such a child to learn. Second, that it seems better to me to write a good sentence twice to a child, than that he forget it once.
Destroy the incentive.
Give away free porn WITHOUT having to jump through any hoops!
Hah! That'll show 'em!
Which must be what you meant.
Don't see any better way they can do it tho if they want you to vote in 3 places.
It opens windows? I never noticed, I use Moz and it blocks that sort of stuff.
Not selling product, just begging votes, but still... check it out. Is that or is that not true advertising genius? And the site content's pretty damn excellent too.
Warning: flash-heavy site. But it's the best use you've ever seen made of flash.
Leaving the old Saturn V out in the rain and "losing" the blueprints was probably NASA's way of defending the Shuttle program from any attempt to reinstate the "big firework you use once and throw away" approach to space flight.
The additional "episodes" in the contract are probably just legal ass-covering, on a just-in-case basis, so as to avoid the actors holding them for ransom. Any "postsequels" have to star Chewie, so it makes sense to preemptive-negotiate with his actor, before the viewing figures come in.
I have a suggestion. By analogy with the crypto geeks who always encrypt, just so that any REAL messages will be lost in the chaff.
/dev/urandom, and stego them into every single image file it saves. At least make it a checkbox, and checked by default for any lossy compression format.
Add a doodad to The Gimp. What this doodad does, is slurp a bunch of bytes from
Stego is suposed to be visually undetectable; that means this won't actually hurt your prized pr0n collection. But it will chaff the heck out of The Man.
The obvious supply they'd want to mine for, is water. That gives you air, drinking water, hydroponic substrate for plants, and hydrodgen gas to use as rocket reaction-mass. Nobody's yet sure how much there is available, but I'd guess getting it probably won't involve digging, so much as distilling it out of the dust.
The moon has half the space station problem licked. Physical containment and radiation-shielding? Just dig down into rock. Supplies? Mine for them. Storage space? Plenty going begging, on the surface or dug down into rock, and no atmophere to blow stuff around or rain on it.
Its low gravity and lack of atmosphere make cheap slow-acceleration launch tech like linear motors perfectly sensible. It's ideal as a place to build spacecraft or spacecraft parts, to launch things into earth orbit, to park and refuel spacecraft, and to land, warehouse and refine things mined in bulk from elsewhere in the solar system.
Seeing the moon as a planetary colony is IMO the wrong model. Seeing it as the ultimate ready-made orbital space station makes much more sense.
It's a 256 color format. Useless for true-color photos.
Oh and it's patented.
Strange huh?
Oh man, I wish I were a cartoonist, that is too funny to pass up...
The thing he misses is the principle of competition. Basically, by its mere existence, a free alternative threatens the nonfree version into playing nice.
He alludes to Java. The GPL implementation is a piece of crud, so nobody uses it. But its existence is enough to prevent Sun from playing at silly buggers. Regardless of the theoretical license terms. If they tried, IBM or some such would just pile behind kaffe.org and grind them into dust.
Thus freedom spreads outwards from comparatively humble free software efforts, de-facto freeing the proprietary software too.
Isn't GPS too imprecise over those sort of scales? Racehorses win races by lots less than "fifteen meters, plus or minus".
Just the usual leftist whining about sweatshops. When will people realise, sweatshops are how a developing economy bootstraps?
Big Biz outsources to pesthole country X, paying locals much more than they could hope to earn from any local employer, even if it is only a few dollars a month. The locals save up, gain skills, gain reputation, and soon enough X isn't anymore a pesthole but a thriving hub of business, and the locals can raise prices. See the recent discussions of rising outsource costs in India.
Globalization may "rush to the bottom" - but it quickly fills in that bottom. Making, I'll add, improvements that leftist redistribution consistently fails to do, and sweatshop-boycotts actively reverse!
So I say again: blah.
Now you don't even need to sneak a terrorist onto a plane. Just hack the "softwalls" into a tunnel pointing unerringly at the target - and sit back to watch the pilot struggle in vain, and die.
Can you say "stupidest damnfool idea since the u-bend revolver"? I knew you could.
The problem with the "friendly virus" approach: you're trying to install software on zillions of strangers' computers, blindfold. Assuming this is windoze we're talking about here, there are scads of different versions and subversions and patched and hacked OSes. It's a certainty that your "upgrade" will fry the OS in a fair percentage of cases, even if you wrote it without a single bug. Which you won't have done, because its first real test-run will be live.
The first "great internet worm" was a friendly program that went haywire.