I can tell you that you should get your facts straight:
1) The Delorean is NOT heavy. My 5-speed, V6 Delorean weighs just over 2700 pounds; about the same as my previous car, a 4-cylinder Plymouth Laser.
2) The government-regulated speedometer only goes to 85. The car can obviously go much faster than that. 85 MPH was NOT any faster back then than it is today.
3) The flux capacitor and 88 MPH jokes really get old. Do you honestly think you're so creative because that's all you can come up with?
4) There is no such thing as perpetual motion, and Tilley is selling crap. Too bad he's defacing Deloreans to do it.
...don't reply to it. If nobody bought spam-marketed wares, the spam would stop because it simply wouldn't be profitable.
As long as we have people on this earth that are actually stupid enough to watch Jerry Springer, convert to Mormonism, or buy penis enlargement pills, there will be lots of lame talk shows, moron dook knockers, and spam. And you will receive some of it.
For every genius that comes up with a cool new way to filter spam, there are thousands of idiots ordering up their first spam-marketed item. All you can do is try to ignore as much of it as possible. Filter, but don't expect to get rid of spammers and regain the resources they waste.
Exactly! How is this news? I have here on my desk a 1996 book by Schneier himself telling me that you shouldn't blindly encrypt and decrypt stuff...
In the section "Resending the Message as a Receipt" on page 43 of Applied Cryptography: If Bob checked the message for comprehensibility before [automatically] sending a receipt, he could avoid this security problem.
Just like any other good security scheme, there's nothing wrong with PGP, assuming it's used correctly.
1) Write your discovery down in a text document on your computer.
2) Save the document in several "safe" places.
3) Take the SHA-1 hash of the document and publish it in the classified or personals section of a large newspaper.
4) Warn the world of your discovery.
5) When it comes time to prove your discovery, show that the document hashes to the value published in the newspaper.
Of course, if you're long gone, someone will have to run across your document by accident, in which case you can have a section of your document explaining something like "The hash of this document will be published in the August 15, 2002 issue of USA Today."
There have been lots of Orwellian societies in existence since the beginning of time. He didn't have the year wrong. It was the magnitude.
Orwellian societies such as the Mormon church (read their laughable history...no, read it again, you might like it this time!), and companies such as Enron and Microsoft all have significant aspects of the Orwellian culture.
Perhaps the barriers to a magnitude of totalitarianism expressed in the book are simply a matter of time. But more than likely, society as a whole will live outside that sort of influence, while small pockets will constantly thrive inside of the bigger picture.
It's a nasty way of asking the question, "What's more important to you, the life of a stranger that you'll never otherwise come in contact with, or a million dollars?"
I've never understood how an advertiser would be able to sell me something by annoying the *shift* out of me. It doesn't seem to make sense.
Unfortunately, these kinds of annoyances really do work. There are actually people out there who think that they can enlarge their penises just because their spam tells them so. There are people who think Mustangs and Camaros are cool. It's easy to take advantage of these people.
99% of television shows are stupid, because it's cost effective for them to be that way. Stupid people watch advertisements and are more easily influenced by them. Why would you want an audience of intelligent people for your next sitcom?
Advertisements are going to get more in-your-face and more annoying, simply because the vast majority of people are easily influenced by them.
...all this despite the fact that MICROSOFT is one of the main reasons why cable companies *aren't* opening up their networks (code red viruses, etc.).
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1) The Delorean is NOT heavy. My 5-speed, V6 Delorean weighs just over 2700 pounds; about the same as my previous car, a 4-cylinder Plymouth Laser.
2) The government-regulated speedometer only goes to 85. The car can obviously go much faster than that. 85 MPH was NOT any faster back then than it is today.
3) The flux capacitor and 88 MPH jokes really get old. Do you honestly think you're so creative because that's all you can come up with?
4) There is no such thing as perpetual motion, and Tilley is selling crap. Too bad he's defacing Deloreans to do it.
Almost every developer I know has at least one linux box. I can count Macintosh friends on one hand, even after OS X.
As long as we have people on this earth that are actually stupid enough to watch Jerry Springer, convert to Mormonism, or buy penis enlargement pills, there will be lots of lame talk shows, moron dook knockers, and spam. And you will receive some of it.
For every genius that comes up with a cool new way to filter spam, there are thousands of idiots ordering up their first spam-marketed item. All you can do is try to ignore as much of it as possible. Filter, but don't expect to get rid of spammers and regain the resources they waste.
In the section "Resending the Message as a Receipt" on page 43 of Applied Cryptography:
If Bob checked the message for comprehensibility before [automatically] sending a receipt, he could avoid this security problem.
Just like any other good security scheme, there's nothing wrong with PGP, assuming it's used correctly.
2) Save the document in several "safe" places.
3) Take the SHA-1 hash of the document and publish it in the classified or personals section of a large newspaper.
4) Warn the world of your discovery.
5) When it comes time to prove your discovery, show that the document hashes to the value published in the newspaper.
Of course, if you're long gone, someone will have to run across your document by accident, in which case you can have a section of your document explaining something like "The hash of this document will be published in the August 15, 2002 issue of USA Today."
I knew my cryptography class would come in handy.
Orwellian societies such as the Mormon church (read their laughable history...no, read it again, you might like it this time!), and companies such as Enron and Microsoft all have significant aspects of the Orwellian culture.
Perhaps the barriers to a magnitude of totalitarianism expressed in the book are simply a matter of time. But more than likely, society as a whole will live outside that sort of influence, while small pockets will constantly thrive inside of the bigger picture.
...I thought that was what Palladium was all about
oooo... you're right, and it's the closest I've seen to the ratio 161:100!!!!! Holy shlamola!!!
It's a nasty way of asking the question, "What's more important to you, the life of a stranger that you'll never otherwise come in contact with, or a million dollars?"
I've never understood how an advertiser would be able to sell me something by annoying the *shift* out of me. It doesn't seem to make sense.
Unfortunately, these kinds of annoyances really do work. There are actually people out there who think that they can enlarge their penises just because their spam tells them so. There are people who think Mustangs and Camaros are cool. It's easy to take advantage of these people.
99% of television shows are stupid, because it's cost effective for them to be that way. Stupid people watch advertisements and are more easily influenced by them. Why would you want an audience of intelligent people for your next sitcom?
Advertisements are going to get more in-your-face and more annoying, simply because the vast majority of people are easily influenced by them.
...all this despite the fact that MICROSOFT is one of the main reasons why cable companies *aren't* opening up their networks (code red viruses, etc.).