Hopefully these things will accidentally train existing filters to be even sharper. But more than likely, they'll create enough entropy to confuse filters at a certain point.
The next step should be to create the following system (Send me a bottle of wine if you get rich off it): - User enters a few sentences or a list of things they're involved in. - System Googles those items and related items within a certain degree of separation. This could be one GOOD use of private data being searchable to a certain extent because it could lookup your contacts and all people even remotely close to you. Bayesian filter applied to these results to clean out some of the junk. - Results used to create a Superset Bayesian Filter and a whitelist. - Incoming mail goes through Whitelist, Super Filter, and traditional "Bad Messages" filters. - Sentience achieved.
It's pretty hard, as a company that relied heavily on R&D to distinguish itself, to be pinned to the mat and say "we're going to spend a bunch of money to develop something unique and valuable."
Sun is currently clawing onto the edge of the cliff by slapping together existing technologies in ways nobody else has been willing to do so far, but the only way I could envision SGI doing that would be to use Linux and create some huge MRAM or RAM disk based quad CPU quad GPU editing stations and then mark the price up heavily from the cost of building such a beast.
Add to this the recent relevations that the Pentagon still considers homosexuality a mental disorder more than 25 years after mainstream Psycology determined that's false.
And if the Patriot Act was used in leiu of just cause to issue a warrant or to snoop without a warrant in this case, I would consider it a complete breach of our government's entire foundation.
I think the idea is to first demonstrate that it is illegal in the UK, and subsequently threaten to go after UK users who use the site. Or perhaps they'll make this cause for a UK state firewall under the guise of "There's no legitimate use for the site and others like it which will be hosted offshore, and this is the only way."
I know it's a huge leap, but with their cameras and complete impotance on otherwise
Does modern flash memory degrade more quickly per write than hard drives?
How much faster is flash storage memory than hard drives?
While 256MB would still speed boots for hibernate files larger than 256MB, current boot speed of a 256MB hibernate file from a hard drive is nearly instantaneous anyway, negating any real value to this. The real value would only kick in for systems with more than a gig of memory.
As a decision maker for this kind of purchase for my company, I feel I now have to wait to evaluate Vista before I can buy into one, the other, or both.
Lenovo was a couple of drivers shy of abstracting themselves from the coming mess. Now I am compelled to wait on my purchases.
It's actually a personality "trait" when you often find things too overwhelming to just dive in and start. I have it, and it's something you should talk to a specialist about if you want to save yourself years of difficulty before you learn to overcome it on your own.
That said, computer technology and programming is truly one of the most complex systems mankind has ever created. Don't feel bad. Just pick a language and start working on Hello World. You don't have to be able to write your own Sockets interface right away.
VNC has always had exploits. It was never designed to be secure. It was built for cross-platform system management on LANs, and everyplace I've ever downloaded it (except the RealVNC site) has always carried the original AT&T labs disclaimer that it is not a secure service.
RealVNC has always tried to market up their version, and has been the fastest to add new features; two common warning signs when looking at a software's level of security.
Proper translation for international affairs requires in-depth understanding of culture as well as printed text. Automated translation is nice for basic tasks, but when a low-level government official reads "jihad" and starts telling everyone that someone has declared war, the worst is at hand.
It will always be easy to point to specific movies and say that movies today suck. But that is a lie. There have been at least a dozen or two top notch, unique movies that even the sharpest critics rate above 8/10 or call "great movies" in each of the last 4 years.
Things were really dry prior to the huge upsurge in piracy, but just because the marketing machines are pumping crap, there's no excuse for any claim that movies today suck. That's just something people who haven't been paying attention say because it used to be blaringly true.
Where was this investigation a decade ago when it was price fixing and racketeering of the music printing and distribution business that resulted in $18 CDs as the cost of doing business and bringing the product to market declined?
It's funny too because all the clean-up this investigation could possibly lead to won't save the labels of the RIAA. They long ago crossed the line, laughed, and STILL refuse to acknowledge their misdeeds. It's a good thing consumers aren't suffering their tyranny anymore.
Let's face it, the NSA has changed the way it spies, and is hesitant to explain that for two reasons.
First, they're probably spying on all of us. That is to say, they are probably just recording as much as humanly possible and then going back to review calls and other communications which their datamining and watch lists suggest have the highest probability of yielding results. They can't explain this to anyone, save for a few pliable Congressional reps, because the law says they're not supposed to do that first part without a warrant. I believe they started the program under the belief that if a tree falls in the woods, but nobody goes back to review the tape, then they weren't spying on the tree. The problem with this is that now we're getting even further away from this concept of Democracy our leaders spout off about when referring to the rest of the world. I know we've always been a representative democracy, but if we can't have transparency to the voters, it's really just a dictatorship by whomever presents the cleanest TV image.
Second, they don't want to explain how they're spying because any system is easy to circumvent when you know how that system works. Unfortunately, if you really believe in our system and our morals and our way of life, then you have to stand behind it and expect that it will hold up to a little transparency. Anyone who simply discards our rules as they see fit is, quite simply, un-American.
One of the difficulties with this venture is the limited set of hardware VMWare, and virtualization in general, supports. You get basic audio, hard drives, network cards, USB, SCSI, and video which I'll get to in a minute. But most of the open source effort to date focuses on PCI versions of various tools (capture cards) rather than their USB equivalents. And for really odd hardware that you might wish to use to make a useful appliance, you'll probably need to write at least two low level layers for. Perhaps with more time and money VMWare would see contestants take on that hurdle and write some extra hardware interfaces for VMWare.
And now that most major operating systems have fledgeling GPU accelerated interfaces, you can't take advantage of that in VMWare.
Virtualization works well for developing appliances like a m0n0wall router or other tools commonly performed by computers with basic computer components, but I doubt we'll see anything seriously groundbreaking out of this considering the limitations (including the student requirement).
So there are all these instances where leaders we hold in great esteem arranged pervasive wiretaps, but what was the actual value of those taps? What information did the yield that was really that worthwhile?
And how does that valuation fit into the current "legal" system involving FISA as opposed to the illegal system that skips FISA?
This article is a good history lesson, but it doesn't succeed in supporting unchecked spying? Checks and balances are the foundation of our society, and to destroy them is undeniably to chip away at that society.
Intel is back on track, albeit not entirely caught up yet, and it seems like analysts are just now catching hint of the lead AMD has held for almost 2 years now. The analysts are just behind the times. Apple's addition of Core Duo to desktops is just the first step, but it is the beginning of the end for the decisive performance lead AMD held for so long that probably once had Dell considering the switch.
As has been said, Dell uses AMD to get better prices from Intel, and always remains with Intel. It sounds smart, but it's going to hurt them when Intel has the lead.
This seems to be derived almost entirely from Terrorism vs. No Clear Argument against. This shows how little privacy is valued in political debates when it is pitted against crime. And hypothetical arguments are also subjugated to concrete examples of crime that could have been prevented or brought to justice by these kinds of measures.
Privacy advocates are going to have to step it up a notch if they're going to prevent this kind of idiocy. Even the politicians who don't like these measures can't really argue or vote against them in most cases because nobody has put forth a simplistic and stunning argument against yet.
What's the point of calling it a blame game? They've traced a major effort to attack systems to a specific location, and are now publicly stating that it's coming from China. I'll grant you the way they worded the "no other organization could do this" part was folly, but it's completely fair to say it's coming from China if it is. The Chinese government and military should take swift action to put an end to it whether it's them or not. That's a perfectly fair assertion, and failure to act in this case is nearly as malicious as being the perpetrator.
Upon recently turning 30, I told myself that if I'm ever working for a company again that tries something like this, I will stand up and say "That is a great idea! I don't see how it could possibly fail." Then, if by the end of the meeting I haven't totally convinced everyone who matters to drop the idea, I will quit or be fired.
You can spend hours telling me about how this will work for the majority of non-hackers and how it will be of some benefit to some very wealthy companies, but in the end all you're going to have done is waste investor money.
In this case, it is especially so. Because once any business driven benefit of such a service takes off and gains any kind of momentum, the hacks and workarounds and consumer desire to be rid of or take advantage of this fundamentally flawed concept will be fueled by that very momentum. There's nowhere to go with it that is of significant business interest that won't generate significant and more powerful subversion.
And I'm not saying this is a shining example of why we need the DMCA to protect innovation. I'm simply saying this is a lackluster / broken innovation that does not deserve financial success because it is so ignorant of how things work and so uncreative about how it solves a problem.
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Hopefully these things will accidentally train existing filters to be even sharper. But more than likely, they'll create enough entropy to confuse filters at a certain point.
The next step should be to create the following system (Send me a bottle of wine if you get rich off it):
- User enters a few sentences or a list of things they're involved in.
- System Googles those items and related items within a certain degree of separation. This could be one GOOD use of private data being searchable to a certain extent because it could lookup your contacts and all people even remotely close to you. Bayesian filter applied to these results to clean out some of the junk.
- Results used to create a Superset Bayesian Filter and a whitelist.
- Incoming mail goes through Whitelist, Super Filter, and traditional "Bad Messages" filters.
- Sentience achieved.
"exploded in popularity" ...
"corners of the web"
Which is it? I'm pretty sure these sites are at the forefront of web usage, and shouldn't take too much to police with traditional methods.
Their dreams being that they would create an open source project, and everybody else would do the work for them.
It's pretty hard, as a company that relied heavily on R&D to distinguish itself, to be pinned to the mat and say "we're going to spend a bunch of money to develop something unique and valuable."
Sun is currently clawing onto the edge of the cliff by slapping together existing technologies in ways nobody else has been willing to do so far, but the only way I could envision SGI doing that would be to use Linux and create some huge MRAM or RAM disk based quad CPU quad GPU editing stations and then mark the price up heavily from the cost of building such a beast.
Add to this the recent relevations that the Pentagon still considers homosexuality a mental disorder more than 25 years after mainstream Psycology determined that's false.
And if the Patriot Act was used in leiu of just cause to issue a warrant or to snoop without a warrant in this case, I would consider it a complete breach of our government's entire foundation.
Shouldn't Romero have picked a project with a more finite scope after his last fiasco consumed at least 6 years of his working life?
I think the idea is to first demonstrate that it is illegal in the UK, and subsequently threaten to go after UK users who use the site. Or perhaps they'll make this cause for a UK state firewall under the guise of "There's no legitimate use for the site and others like it which will be hosted offshore, and this is the only way."
I know it's a huge leap, but with their cameras and complete impotance on otherwise
Does modern flash memory degrade more quickly per write than hard drives?
How much faster is flash storage memory than hard drives?
While 256MB would still speed boots for hibernate files larger than 256MB, current boot speed of a 256MB hibernate file from a hard drive is nearly instantaneous anyway, negating any real value to this. The real value would only kick in for systems with more than a gig of memory.
An official pull-out would just get them blocked.
Gradually eroding, or issuing a joint statement along with the rest of the world's tech giants are the best things Google et al can do there.
Both options would require serious dedication to work, but they're worth it.
As a decision maker for this kind of purchase for my company, I feel I now have to wait to evaluate Vista before I can buy into one, the other, or both.
Lenovo was a couple of drivers shy of abstracting themselves from the coming mess. Now I am compelled to wait on my purchases.
One bite at a time.
It's actually a personality "trait" when you often find things too overwhelming to just dive in and start. I have it, and it's something you should talk to a specialist about if you want to save yourself years of difficulty before you learn to overcome it on your own.
That said, computer technology and programming is truly one of the most complex systems mankind has ever created. Don't feel bad. Just pick a language and start working on Hello World. You don't have to be able to write your own Sockets interface right away.
This is why we can't have nice guns
VNC has always had exploits. It was never designed to be secure. It was built for cross-platform system management on LANs, and everyplace I've ever downloaded it (except the RealVNC site) has always carried the original AT&T labs disclaimer that it is not a secure service.
RealVNC has always tried to market up their version, and has been the fastest to add new features; two common warning signs when looking at a software's level of security.
Proper translation for international affairs requires in-depth understanding of culture as well as printed text. Automated translation is nice for basic tasks, but when a low-level government official reads "jihad" and starts telling everyone that someone has declared war, the worst is at hand.
It will always be easy to point to specific movies and say that movies today suck. But that is a lie. There have been at least a dozen or two top notch, unique movies that even the sharpest critics rate above 8/10 or call "great movies" in each of the last 4 years.
Things were really dry prior to the huge upsurge in piracy, but just because the marketing machines are pumping crap, there's no excuse for any claim that movies today suck. That's just something people who haven't been paying attention say because it used to be blaringly true.
Where was this investigation a decade ago when it was price fixing and racketeering of the music printing and distribution business that resulted in $18 CDs as the cost of doing business and bringing the product to market declined?
It's funny too because all the clean-up this investigation could possibly lead to won't save the labels of the RIAA. They long ago crossed the line, laughed, and STILL refuse to acknowledge their misdeeds. It's a good thing consumers aren't suffering their tyranny anymore.
Let's face it, the NSA has changed the way it spies, and is hesitant to explain that for two reasons.
First, they're probably spying on all of us. That is to say, they are probably just recording as much as humanly possible and then going back to review calls and other communications which their datamining and watch lists suggest have the highest probability of yielding results. They can't explain this to anyone, save for a few pliable Congressional reps, because the law says they're not supposed to do that first part without a warrant. I believe they started the program under the belief that if a tree falls in the woods, but nobody goes back to review the tape, then they weren't spying on the tree. The problem with this is that now we're getting even further away from this concept of Democracy our leaders spout off about when referring to the rest of the world. I know we've always been a representative democracy, but if we can't have transparency to the voters, it's really just a dictatorship by whomever presents the cleanest TV image.
Second, they don't want to explain how they're spying because any system is easy to circumvent when you know how that system works. Unfortunately, if you really believe in our system and our morals and our way of life, then you have to stand behind it and expect that it will hold up to a little transparency. Anyone who simply discards our rules as they see fit is, quite simply, un-American.
One of the difficulties with this venture is the limited set of hardware VMWare, and virtualization in general, supports. You get basic audio, hard drives, network cards, USB, SCSI, and video which I'll get to in a minute. But most of the open source effort to date focuses on PCI versions of various tools (capture cards) rather than their USB equivalents. And for really odd hardware that you might wish to use to make a useful appliance, you'll probably need to write at least two low level layers for. Perhaps with more time and money VMWare would see contestants take on that hurdle and write some extra hardware interfaces for VMWare.
And now that most major operating systems have fledgeling GPU accelerated interfaces, you can't take advantage of that in VMWare.
Virtualization works well for developing appliances like a m0n0wall router or other tools commonly performed by computers with basic computer components, but I doubt we'll see anything seriously groundbreaking out of this considering the limitations (including the student requirement).
So there are all these instances where leaders we hold in great esteem arranged pervasive wiretaps, but what was the actual value of those taps? What information did the yield that was really that worthwhile?
And how does that valuation fit into the current "legal" system involving FISA as opposed to the illegal system that skips FISA?
This article is a good history lesson, but it doesn't succeed in supporting unchecked spying? Checks and balances are the foundation of our society, and to destroy them is undeniably to chip away at that society.
Intel is back on track, albeit not entirely caught up yet, and it seems like analysts are just now catching hint of the lead AMD has held for almost 2 years now. The analysts are just behind the times. Apple's addition of Core Duo to desktops is just the first step, but it is the beginning of the end for the decisive performance lead AMD held for so long that probably once had Dell considering the switch.
As has been said, Dell uses AMD to get better prices from Intel, and always remains with Intel. It sounds smart, but it's going to hurt them when Intel has the lead.
Yeah really. Bruce ought to know better. I haven't heard Java enthusaists for 5 years now, but I see a lot of work getting done.
There is no US/EU war.
This seems to be derived almost entirely from Terrorism vs. No Clear Argument against. This shows how little privacy is valued in political debates when it is pitted against crime. And hypothetical arguments are also subjugated to concrete examples of crime that could have been prevented or brought to justice by these kinds of measures.
Privacy advocates are going to have to step it up a notch if they're going to prevent this kind of idiocy. Even the politicians who don't like these measures can't really argue or vote against them in most cases because nobody has put forth a simplistic and stunning argument against yet.
What's the point of calling it a blame game? They've traced a major effort to attack systems to a specific location, and are now publicly stating that it's coming from China. I'll grant you the way they worded the "no other organization could do this" part was folly, but it's completely fair to say it's coming from China if it is. The Chinese government and military should take swift action to put an end to it whether it's them or not. That's a perfectly fair assertion, and failure to act in this case is nearly as malicious as being the perpetrator.
Upon recently turning 30, I told myself that if I'm ever working for a company again that tries something like this, I will stand up and say "That is a great idea! I don't see how it could possibly fail." Then, if by the end of the meeting I haven't totally convinced everyone who matters to drop the idea, I will quit or be fired.
You can spend hours telling me about how this will work for the majority of non-hackers and how it will be of some benefit to some very wealthy companies, but in the end all you're going to have done is waste investor money.
In this case, it is especially so. Because once any business driven benefit of such a service takes off and gains any kind of momentum, the hacks and workarounds and consumer desire to be rid of or take advantage of this fundamentally flawed concept will be fueled by that very momentum. There's nowhere to go with it that is of significant business interest that won't generate significant and more powerful subversion.
And I'm not saying this is a shining example of why we need the DMCA to protect innovation. I'm simply saying this is a lackluster / broken innovation that does not deserve financial success because it is so ignorant of how things work and so uncreative about how it solves a problem.