Geeks pride themselves on their attention to technical excellence to the exclusion of such base tricks as free junk and hot booth babes. So how do you get the attention of a typical geek wandering around LinuxWorld? Fast triangle performance projected on the ceiling? Huge LCDs showing large uptimes on your show boxii? What catches a geeks eye?
Fighting spam as individuals isn't going to work, there are always going to be ways to get around filters and such. I think the problem needs a mathematical treatment at a global level and I would like to suggest a basis for that treatment.
First of all, let's realize that email is communication is data transmission. Spam is noise. This immediately brings to mind Claude Shannin's work on information and entropy. He made it very clear that noise can be reduced to a level that is O log(n) that of the information transmitted. This means that as we have more and more email out there, we are going to get more and more noise, unless we change something.
Let's go back to the definition of information. Basically, it's stuff that nobody knows about. If it is surprising to you, it is information (in non-technical language). That suggests that perhaps the information content (and therefore spam) could be reduced if, instead of secretively emailing our friends individually, we CC'd them on all our missives. This would make the amount of information lower (since people would be less surprised by our further revelations, having seen the foregoing matter) and therefore spam might even be eliminated.
This would probably be a fun read, but I can't imagine "serious business types" gaining any insights. Real business people already know you have to have a good plan and a product to make money. Very few of these failed dotcoms had either one and almost none of them were run by anybody with any business sense. Most of them were a couple of college dropouts with a meager knowledge of web site "design" *cough*slashdot*cough*.
Ah, but if Linux really makes the inn roads we are all hoping for, maybe that won't be the case for long. For too long the Corporate Overlords have held sway over HR and bid them decree a restrictive dress code. The day of the Geek is at hand! Elinuxdil! Elinuxdil!
This thing doesn't have much mass but it's going to have a huge rotational inertia. I can see somebody carrying this in a laptop and walking around a corner only to be flung to the ground. I guess if they installed two, one upside down the angular momentum would cancel and they could be hauled around safely. Assuming the cases were strong enough not to crush each other.
I think you might be able to utilize the Six Sigma backbone to leverage the synergy of your expected net gain while remaining focused on your core competencies. But it might be smarter to start printing out resumes.
I've heard that you've expressed regret over the actions that landed you in jail and I think I even heard you say that you think you were in the wrong. So how do you respond to the hundreds of wannabes who hacked sites "in your honor" and wore "Free Kevin" shirts at the risk of repelling girls? Do you owe them anything, even a little guidance towards the straight and narrow?
The operating system is the "government" of the computer. (It's a totalitarian dictatorship, but still.). Programming languages are...languages. Would you say that "English and Democracy are practically the same thing, look there's an English word for 'vote'!"
Whoever gave this talk needs to go back to CS 101.
First of all, this doesn't really do much to prevent sharing. I FTP MP3s (and even Oggs) back and forth all the time.
But worse, they are too late. P2Ps are already almost useless. I'm using gtk-gnutella right now and I have stuff in my download list that's been there for literally WEEKS. It's impossible to find anything and even impossibler to get anything you do find. Not because of the RIAA, but because of the leeches and idiots out there.
Not more than people without cell phones, anyway. People talk loud (during movies, at restaurants, etc) already, adding cell phones doesn't really make the problem worse. In fact, it makes it better because it (generally) means that fewer loud parties are present since one must be on the remote end of the call.
IMO, a lot of this cell phone bashing is jealousy that these people can afford phones and have friends to talk to.
not about tricking folks into providing sensitive information, but rather about how to cleverly manipulate computers
The DMCA says these are the same. Given this is a democracy, maybe we should start listening to the majority and stop thinking about illegal activities as "harmless playing". Just a thought.
Remember, their only valuable asset was the code and Linus owns that. He's a man of principle and I'm sure he'd never sell out, so we are probably safe. What we need to focus on is making Linux stronger than ever. It doesn't matter if 1 or 5 or 10 or a million Linux companies go out of business, because Linux isn't about making money, it's about making choices. Apparently Mandrake made some wrong choices and I hope RedHat avoids the errors Mandrake made, such as a reliance on bells and whistles instead of hardware compliance.
I understand why they used to do it back in the 50's--there wasn't much other way to talk to people far away, plus radio technology was still cool back then. But with the rise of the Internet and the replacement of vacuum tubes with computers in the hearts of true geeks, why does anybody continue hamming anymore?
If we want to push Microsoft down to a level playing field in the marketplace, we all have to work together. That's why Apple didn't license the NT kernel and why Apple doesn't use the biggest chipmaker on the planet. They are trying to help break the back of the monopoly.
Which is why they should have used Mozilla. It's both Free and free (unlike most of KDE). I wonder if this choice of their reflects a fundamental change at Apple--are they in bed with Microsoft now?
Worms work by finding an open port (like a P2P client), copying themselves to the target and then executing themselves on the remote machine. This means that all the machines must be able to run the same binary program format. It also means that the software must be exploitable.
I really doubt 95% of all P2Pers are running the same OS. In fact, given the mindset of Linux users in general, I would expect their representation among IP "sharers" would be much higher than the regular population. So that makes about 25-50% of targets unimpeachable, due to quality Open Source bug-finding.
When we questioned S3 about this they stated that they've only tested DeltaChrome at 300MHz, but they're hoping that the final part will be clocked higher.
Well, you keep hoping. Meanwhile I'm going to stick with my 1.2 Ghz Athlon which is going to be able to process almost 4 operations in the time it would take this lame-ass video card to do just one. Why even put a processor on a video card if it's going to be so slow?
I'm a reasonably technological person. I run Linux, I have a Mindstorms set, I get DSL. But I have never seen one of these "WiFI hotspot" things. Is it just for the uber-rich, LA/NY tech-set or what?
Well, obviously content producers are going to adopt it. Is that really a question? We've seen everyone from movies to music to TV to books adopting various content protection schemes for several years now, an overarching standard would be a godsend to them.
As for consumers, well I have a simple faith in humanity. I think most people are honest and will use the DRM systems as a show of support of the artists they love against hackers, crackers and pirates.
It's a good idea. I applaud the bold step toward IP reform that this represents and of course I love saving money.
But I have to wonder about the hardworking folk in the publishing industry who don't have the artistic talent to create content themselves. How do they feed their families when authors bypass the "production chain" and give their work away?
For that matter, what about the workers in the chain that they didn't bypass--the people that created the software and infrastructure that allow authors to do this kind of thing? When the author makes no money, they don't either. Is it really ethical for an artist to deny his "coworkers" any cash renumeration?
At first I was going to say this was going to become a porn playground within minutes after launch. Then I checked out the screenshot. It looks like this would be realistic and entertaining only to those who still play old CGA Leisure Suit Larry games.
It's getting to be a hard choice these days. If I listen to WMPs, I'm indirectly $upporting an evil mono$poly not to mention the totalitarian DRM scheme.
If I listen to MP3's, there's the Fraunhofer patent regime to deal with.
I guess in the end I have to go with Ogg. Perhaps someone knowledgable will submit some code to them that fixes the fourier compression algorithms in their codec so that it doesn't cause these aural damage problems. That's one of the problems of having musicians and other non-trained programmers creating your software.
Could someone explain the point of source distros to me? It's about optimization, which equals saving time, right? How much time has this person spent downloaded megabytes of source code and poring over the docs trying to get the compiler options just so? And all to save a measily.001 microsecond per day?
When pharmaceutical companies hold poor African nations over a barrel to get effect AIDS medication, I definitely applaud acts that break their monopolies. There's clearly a strong argument to be made for the very poorest, very sickest people of the world to have access to the medicine that can help them, damn the cost.
But Canada grabbing a gene patent? Canada is among the richest countries in the world and this patent does nothing to help poverty-stricken, plague-addled victims. This looks like yet another socialist power grab by our neighbors to the north.
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Geeks pride themselves on their attention to technical excellence to the exclusion of such base tricks as free junk and hot booth babes. So how do you get the attention of a typical geek wandering around LinuxWorld? Fast triangle performance projected on the ceiling? Huge LCDs showing large uptimes on your show boxii? What catches a geeks eye?
that Slashdot went Politically Correct on us. "Visually handicapped"? Why not just use the existing word for it? These people are deaf.
First of all, let's realize that email is communication is data transmission. Spam is noise. This immediately brings to mind Claude Shannin's work on information and entropy. He made it very clear that noise can be reduced to a level that is O log(n) that of the information transmitted. This means that as we have more and more email out there, we are going to get more and more noise, unless we change something.
Let's go back to the definition of information. Basically, it's stuff that nobody knows about. If it is surprising to you, it is information (in non-technical language). That suggests that perhaps the information content (and therefore spam) could be reduced if, instead of secretively emailing our friends individually, we CC'd them on all our missives. This would make the amount of information lower (since people would be less surprised by our further revelations, having seen the foregoing matter) and therefore spam might even be eliminated.
This would probably be a fun read, but I can't imagine "serious business types" gaining any insights. Real business people already know you have to have a good plan and a product to make money. Very few of these failed dotcoms had either one and almost none of them were run by anybody with any business sense. Most of them were a couple of college dropouts with a meager knowledge of web site "design" *cough*slashdot*cough*.
Ah, but if Linux really makes the inn roads we are all hoping for, maybe that won't be the case for long. For too long the Corporate Overlords have held sway over HR and bid them decree a restrictive dress code. The day of the Geek is at hand! Elinuxdil! Elinuxdil!
This thing doesn't have much mass but it's going to have a huge rotational inertia. I can see somebody carrying this in a laptop and walking around a corner only to be flung to the ground. I guess if they installed two, one upside down the angular momentum would cancel and they could be hauled around safely. Assuming the cases were strong enough not to crush each other.
I think you might be able to utilize the Six Sigma backbone to leverage the synergy of your expected net gain while remaining focused on your core competencies. But it might be smarter to start printing out resumes.
I've heard that you've expressed regret over the actions that landed you in jail and I think I even heard you say that you think you were in the wrong. So how do you respond to the hundreds of wannabes who hacked sites "in your honor" and wore "Free Kevin" shirts at the risk of repelling girls? Do you owe them anything, even a little guidance towards the straight and narrow?
Sharks have jumped themselves.
Whoever gave this talk needs to go back to CS 101.
But worse, they are too late. P2Ps are already almost useless. I'm using gtk-gnutella right now and I have stuff in my download list that's been there for literally WEEKS. It's impossible to find anything and even impossibler to get anything you do find. Not because of the RIAA, but because of the leeches and idiots out there.
IMO, a lot of this cell phone bashing is jealousy that these people can afford phones and have friends to talk to.
The DMCA says these are the same. Given this is a democracy, maybe we should start listening to the majority and stop thinking about illegal activities as "harmless playing". Just a thought.
Remember, their only valuable asset was the code and Linus owns that. He's a man of principle and I'm sure he'd never sell out, so we are probably safe. What we need to focus on is making Linux stronger than ever. It doesn't matter if 1 or 5 or 10 or a million Linux companies go out of business, because Linux isn't about making money, it's about making choices. Apparently Mandrake made some wrong choices and I hope RedHat avoids the errors Mandrake made, such as a reliance on bells and whistles instead of hardware compliance.
I understand why they used to do it back in the 50's--there wasn't much other way to talk to people far away, plus radio technology was still cool back then. But with the rise of the Internet and the replacement of vacuum tubes with computers in the hearts of true geeks, why does anybody continue hamming anymore?
Which is why they should have used Mozilla. It's both Free and free (unlike most of KDE). I wonder if this choice of their reflects a fundamental change at Apple--are they in bed with Microsoft now?
I really doubt 95% of all P2Pers are running the same OS. In fact, given the mindset of Linux users in general, I would expect their representation among IP "sharers" would be much higher than the regular population. So that makes about 25-50% of targets unimpeachable, due to quality Open Source bug-finding.
In short, hoax.
Well, you keep hoping. Meanwhile I'm going to stick with my 1.2 Ghz Athlon which is going to be able to process almost 4 operations in the time it would take this lame-ass video card to do just one. Why even put a processor on a video card if it's going to be so slow?
I'm a reasonably technological person. I run Linux, I have a Mindstorms set, I get DSL. But I have never seen one of these "WiFI hotspot" things. Is it just for the uber-rich, LA/NY tech-set or what?
As for consumers, well I have a simple faith in humanity. I think most people are honest and will use the DRM systems as a show of support of the artists they love against hackers, crackers and pirates.
But I have to wonder about the hardworking folk in the publishing industry who don't have the artistic talent to create content themselves. How do they feed their families when authors bypass the "production chain" and give their work away?
For that matter, what about the workers in the chain that they didn't bypass--the people that created the software and infrastructure that allow authors to do this kind of thing? When the author makes no money, they don't either. Is it really ethical for an artist to deny his "coworkers" any cash renumeration?
At first I was going to say this was going to become a porn playground within minutes after launch. Then I checked out the screenshot. It looks like this would be realistic and entertaining only to those who still play old CGA Leisure Suit Larry games.
If I listen to MP3's, there's the Fraunhofer patent regime to deal with.
And if I go with the totally free Ogg, there's the danger of destroying my hearing.
I guess in the end I have to go with Ogg. Perhaps someone knowledgable will submit some code to them that fixes the fourier compression algorithms in their codec so that it doesn't cause these aural damage problems. That's one of the problems of having musicians and other non-trained programmers creating your software.
Could someone explain the point of source distros to me? It's about optimization, which equals saving time, right? How much time has this person spent downloaded megabytes of source code and poring over the docs trying to get the compiler options just so? And all to save a measily .001 microsecond per day?
But Canada grabbing a gene patent? Canada is among the richest countries in the world and this patent does nothing to help poverty-stricken, plague-addled victims. This looks like yet another socialist power grab by our neighbors to the north.