26,341,821 blocks were completed yesterday 0.038% of the keyspace) at a sustained rate of 81,841,189 KKeys/sec!
The odds are 1 in 1,309 that we will wrap this thing up in the next 24 hours. (This also means that we'll exhaust the keyspace in 1,309 days at yesterday's rate.)
There have been 298,204 participants since the beginning of this project.
32,230 of them were active yesterday and of those, 99 were brand-new participants.
There are 11,524 registered teams.
4,308 of them submitted blocks yesterday.
(4 of them are brand new!)
I work with credit cards and deal with credit card fraud on a daily basis. Basically e-gold or any credit->"anonymous currency" transfer service is going to attract scum because it can act as a money laundering service to them.
This wouldn't be an issue if the Credit Card Companies would deal with their problems instead of insisting on the merchants eating the fraudulent charges!!!!!
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AMEX just don't want to force accountability on their customers, and haven't provided merchants with a avenue to validate the identity of a customer! If they did this, all these fraud problems would stop, virtually overnight.
No one wants to stop fraud more than the merchants, believe me.
Arg! This subject pisses me off so much because if the card companies could pull their heads out of their asses long enough, they could decide on a key based protocol that could virtually eliminate the easy kind of fraud that happens today.
As a constituent, I can say that his record speaks for itself. He has consistently shown that he "gets it" and that he understands the powers at play here.
I am a resident of Boucher's district, and let me tell you, if I could nominate this guy for President I would. He is the most honest, sane, forward thinking politician that I have ever run across.
I feel privileged to have been able to vote for him twice!
In short, every time I've written to him in regards to a civil liberty issue, a consumer rights issue, or a woman's right issue, not only has he given me an opinion (something I have NEVER gotten from another one of my congresspersons) usually he agrees with me!
read the post again. I said that it was a personal note, and that my intellectual reasons for supporting IP were different. And frankly, I see nothing whatsoever "constitutionally shady" about current copyright law. The constant extensions are a bit annoying, but what is 20 or 50 years after a person's death?
The constant extensions are more than annoying, they're unconstitutional if you follow the arguement of the dissenting judge. Having read his/her arguement I tend to agree.
From the judges text:
"The majority acknowledges that "[i]f the Congress were to make copyright protection permanent, then it surely would exceed the power conferred upon it by the Copyright Clause." Maj. Op. at 10.
However, there is no apparent substantive distinction between permanent protection and permanently available authority to extend originally limited protection. The Congress that can extend the protection of an existing work from 100 years to 120 years; can extend that protection from 120 years to 140; and from 140 to 200; and from 200 to 300; and in effect can accomplish precisely what the majority admits it cannot do directly. This, in my view, exceeds the proper understanding of enumerated powers reflected in the Lopez principle of requiring some definable stopping point.
"
This is close to what I want. Basically I'm looking for a system that is composed of two parts:
1 - A Visor/Palm with Cell-phone capacity
2 - A wireless "hearing-aid" type earpiece that communicates with my visor/palm.
The earpiece would have a button on it that you hit to make the visor "listen" to you, and uses speech recognition to know who to call, and would also use speech synthesis to tell you (via CallerID/ANI) who is calling you. To receive a call you would merely tap your earpiece.
It's so elegant it's not even funny.
To all palm/visor/cell companies, if you make this I WILL BUY ONE! Even if it's $700-$1200.
Anyone heard of FOCI (Friends Of a Competitive Internet)?
http://joinfoci.org/
"We're
mad because the current
ICANN process to introduce new Top Level
Domains (TLDs) into the Internet's Domain Name
System (DNS) is in danger of being hijacked in
a sham designed to extend
Network Solutions, Inc.
(NSI)
and the other Afilias registrars' monopoly control over the
most popular Internet real estate."
Looks like Karl Auerbach already has something to work against at ICANN.
Well, you could build yourself a freenet-to-web gateway, & host it on freenet ( http://freenet.sourceforge.net ) and then no one could ever tell you to take it down.:)
While the processor may be capable of lots of stuff.. My time is honestly worth more than hacking around in an old mac... Hell, I'd rather be hacking around in an old Atari ST ANYWAY. At least there is cool software you can get for the Atari ST, that you just can't get anywhere else.
While I can say that I have found valuable information in the ORA book, I have to say that I enjoy & have found MUCH MORE of what I'm looking for in the book by Paul DuBois. The Ora book gives a good background on DB in general, however it is more aimed at Admins, not people actually trying to use MySQL.
Let me put it this way, I open mSQL/MySQL about twice a week... I open and read Paul's book, everyday.
It is difficult for mainstream America to get their mind around this issue! This weekend I went home to visit the folks, & I was trying to explain the problems with the DCMA, & had a VERY hard time getting my point across.
My father isn't a dolt either, he has a doctorate in Audiology & Speech pathology, and has a couple patents and inventions to his name. We need a simple analogy so that regular people can understand this issue!
Is that this review wasn't published before I saw the movie. This moive SUCKED. In so many ways I can hardly count them all (but I'll try).
1) I have never seen Tim Robbins in a movie where his acting wasn't convicing. This is the first. He looked like he was embarrased to be a part of Mission to Mars, & he should have been.
2) Yes, TOO MANY PRODUCT PLUGS! The only one I thought was interesting was the square Budweiser "cans". It was awful.
3) The "Green House" on Mars was A JOKE.
4) The CG was, A JOKE. About the same quality of The Mummy, but more cartoony.
5) It was completely overdramatic. Very overdone. I can't emphasis that enough.
6) Ok, I feel bad paying $4.75 for the matinee, I can't imagine how the people who paid $7.00+!!
7) I could go on, but I've wasted enough of my time on this movie.
I'm getting it!! The PSX2 promises to be the cheapest DVD player on the market, that alone is worth the price. And it has incredible graphics & games? What more could you ask for in a console?
It seems that every day our rights are being taken away from us. Our right to privacy, our right to free speech, our rights to be innocent until PROVEN guilty.... You want to keep this from happening, Do something! Below are a myraid of links to the ACLU which will allow you to contact your congressional representitive (via a FREE fax) to speak out against new laws that would restrict our freedoms and eliminate our privacy further.
Secret Evidence - Currently, about two dozen people are being held in American prisons solely on the basis of evidence that neither they or their lawyers have been able to review and dispute. This completely un-American process was authorized in 1996 as part of a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria.
Person possibly affected : Linus Torvalds
Senate must stop law enforcement from seizing American's property - Abuses in law enforcement's ability to seize your property have become a nightmare for many Americans. Under a system called "civil asset forfeiture," federal law enforcement officials have the right to seize your home, your car, your business - even when you haven't even been convicted of a crime!
Person possibly affected : YOU - for posting the DeCSS code.
MedicalRecords Privacy - For the first time in history, national medical privacy regulations were proposed on November 3, 1999 by the Clinton Administration. These regulations were proposed after Congress missed its self-imposed deadline to enact legislation that dealt with privacy concerns in an increasingly connected health-care industry. The ACLU believes that these proposed regulations are an important first step in a process that we hope will lead to comprehensive medical privacy protections, but we strongly urge that the regulations be strengthened.
Person possibly affected : YOU - when you apply for your next job. *NOTE = this is a good law to protect our private medical records.
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If you look at the stats it says:
26,341,821 blocks were completed yesterday 0.038% of the keyspace) at a sustained rate of 81,841,189 KKeys/sec!
The odds are 1 in 1,309 that we will wrap this thing up in the next 24 hours. (This also means that we'll exhaust the keyspace in 1,309 days at yesterday's rate.)
There have been 298,204 participants since the beginning of this project.
32,230 of them were active yesterday and of those, 99 were brand-new participants.
There are 11,524 registered teams.
4,308 of them submitted blocks yesterday.
(4 of them are brand new!)
"Oh well" you say, consider that your average monitor is only 72dpi, 80dpi is an improvement.
And therein lies the vagueness of a shrinkwrap license.
I like tetherware, because it seems apropriate, but it's obviously taken. So:
Leashware!
Slogan "Treating the customer like the dog that they are"
try the dollar store & radio shack
I work with credit cards and deal with credit card fraud on a daily basis. Basically e-gold or any credit->"anonymous currency" transfer service is going to attract scum because it can act as a money laundering service to them.
This wouldn't be an issue if the Credit Card Companies would deal with their problems instead of insisting on the merchants eating the fraudulent charges!!!!!
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AMEX just don't want to force accountability on their customers, and haven't provided merchants with a avenue to validate the identity of a customer! If they did this, all these fraud problems would stop, virtually overnight.
No one wants to stop fraud more than the merchants, believe me.
Arg! This subject pisses me off so much because if the card companies could pull their heads out of their asses long enough, they could decide on a key based protocol that could virtually eliminate the easy kind of fraud that happens today.
As a constituent, I can say that his record speaks for itself. He has consistently shown that he "gets it" and that he understands the powers at play here.
The link below has his opinions on such things.
http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
I said it once and I'll say it again.
If you're looking for history. Check out his website and look at what he's done lately for the Internet.
Specifically the link below :
http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
This last election he won by a landslide.
And he will continue to do so, because he actually is intelligent & protects the rights of his constituents.
I am a resident of Boucher's district, and let me tell you, if I could nominate this guy for President I would. He is the most honest, sane, forward thinking politician that I have ever run across.
I feel privileged to have been able to vote for him twice!
In short, every time I've written to him in regards to a civil liberty issue, a consumer rights issue, or a woman's right issue, not only has he given me an opinion (something I have NEVER gotten from another one of my congresspersons) usually he agrees with me!
It's true, he does "GET IT".
That's illegal you know. They are required to respond.
I should know, I have a stack of replies from Warner, Boucher, & Rob (VA)
:)
The constant extensions are more than annoying, they're unconstitutional if you follow the arguement of the dissenting judge. Having read his/her arguement I tend to agree.
From the judges text:
Then just do what I do, put in your favorite 80s/90s show!!!
9 0 2 1 0
Woo hoo.
This is close to what I want. Basically I'm looking for a system that is composed of two parts:
1 - A Visor/Palm with Cell-phone capacity
2 - A wireless "hearing-aid" type earpiece that communicates with my visor/palm.
The earpiece would have a button on it that you hit to make the visor "listen" to you, and uses speech recognition to know who to call, and would also use speech synthesis to tell you (via CallerID/ANI) who is calling you. To receive a call you would merely tap your earpiece.
It's so elegant it's not even funny.
To all palm/visor/cell companies, if you make this I WILL BUY ONE! Even if it's $700-$1200.
Anyone heard of FOCI (Friends Of a Competitive Internet)?
http://joinfoci.org/
" We're mad because the current ICANN process to introduce new Top Level Domains (TLDs) into the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) is in danger of being hijacked in a sham designed to extend Network Solutions, Inc. ( NSI ) and the other Afilias registrars' monopoly control over the most popular Internet real estate."
Looks like Karl Auerbach already has something to work against at ICANN.
Mine came in its own box, not with a magazine.
No indication of what it was on the outside of the box either.
Well, you could build yourself a freenet-to-web gateway, & host it on freenet ( http://freenet.sourceforge.net ) and then no one could ever tell you to take it down. :)
What we really need is an AI widget that can actually find WHAT WE WANT off the net. But that's probably 10-20 years away.
An AI that can recognize the different meanings of things _In_Context_. That way I don't get "HOT PORN SEX!!" when I'm searching for "Heat sinks".
This is what we need.
Ok,
While the processor may be capable of lots of stuff.. My time is honestly worth more than hacking around in an old mac... Hell, I'd rather be hacking around in an old Atari ST ANYWAY. At least there is cool software you can get for the Atari ST, that you just can't get anywhere else.
The ORA book & the New Riders.
While I can say that I have found valuable information in the ORA book, I have to say that I enjoy & have found MUCH MORE of what I'm looking for in the book by Paul DuBois. The Ora book gives a good background on DB in general, however it is more aimed at Admins, not people actually trying to use MySQL.
Let me put it this way, I open mSQL/MySQL about twice a week... I open and read Paul's book, everyday.
2 thumbs up!
It is difficult for mainstream America to get their mind around this issue! This weekend I went home to visit the folks, & I was trying to explain the problems with the DCMA, & had a VERY hard time getting my point across.
My father isn't a dolt either, he has a doctorate in Audiology & Speech pathology, and has a couple patents and inventions to his name. We need a simple analogy so that regular people can understand this issue!
Is that this review wasn't published before I saw the movie. This moive SUCKED. In so many ways I can hardly count them all (but I'll try).
1) I have never seen Tim Robbins in a movie where his acting wasn't convicing. This is the first. He looked like he was embarrased to be a part of Mission to Mars, & he should have been.
2) Yes, TOO MANY PRODUCT PLUGS! The only one I thought was interesting was the square Budweiser "cans". It was awful.
3) The "Green House" on Mars was A JOKE.
4) The CG was, A JOKE. About the same quality of The Mummy, but more cartoony.
5) It was completely overdramatic. Very overdone. I can't emphasis that enough.
6) Ok, I feel bad paying $4.75 for the matinee, I can't imagine how the people who paid $7.00+!!
7) I could go on, but I've wasted enough of my time on this movie.
I'm getting it!! The PSX2 promises to be the cheapest DVD player on the market, that alone is worth the price. And it has incredible graphics & games? What more could you ask for in a console?
Who exacly said it was for children?
It seems that every day our rights are being taken away from us. Our right to privacy, our right to free speech, our rights to be innocent until PROVEN guilty.... You want to keep this from happening, Do something! Below are a myraid of links to the ACLU which will allow you to contact your congressional representitive (via a FREE fax) to speak out against new laws that would restrict our freedoms and eliminate our privacy further.
/me steps off soapbox.
Secret Evidence - Currently, about two dozen people are being held in American prisons solely on the basis of evidence that neither they or their lawyers have been able to review and dispute. This completely un-American process was authorized in 1996 as part of a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria.
Person possibly affected : Linus Torvalds
Senate must stop law enforcement from seizing American's property - Abuses in law enforcement's ability to seize your property have become a nightmare for many Americans. Under a system called "civil asset forfeiture," federal law enforcement officials have the right to seize your home, your car, your business - even when you haven't even been convicted of a crime!
Person possibly affected : YOU - for posting the DeCSS code.
MedicalRecords Privacy - For the first time in history, national medical privacy regulations were proposed on November 3, 1999 by the Clinton Administration. These regulations were proposed after Congress missed its self-imposed deadline to enact legislation that dealt with privacy concerns in an increasingly connected health-care industry. The ACLU believes that these proposed regulations are an important first step in a process that we hope will lead to comprehensive medical privacy protections, but we strongly urge that the regulations be strengthened.
Person possibly affected : YOU - when you apply for your next job. *NOTE = this is a good law to protect our private medical records.
Join the ACLU. Join the EFF. Protect your rights!
- Stuart Horner