That Terro stuff is great, you watch them gorge on it and a week later they are gone (works for Argentine Ant that we have in California). Unfortunately I read that Terro doesn't work on these ants.
I wonder who would win an ant war between Argentine Ants and these - I've read that they have yet to find an ant that reliably wins against the Argentine ant.
It's getting to the point where the spammers are solving real, previously unsolved problems with their spamming code. Perhaps this can be harnessed for the good "solve the following protein folding problem", "write a transcript for the following bit of audio" then we'll let you send 100 spam emails.
For Gmail/YMail/Hotmail they could impose account limits for a while. Slowly allow the user to send more email as the email they send is not reported as spam by known good accounts (again older accounts). Never let a user send more than 100 messages/day until their account is 1 year old.
I think that by mining usage patterns you could come up with some good metrics for "is this a spammer".
Several hours of escrow could also be used (queue up, but don't actually send if you suspect spam).
Also, since GMail reads your mail anyway, make sure the user has at least 1 long conversation (reply text included in the email, email parses as having somewhat valid sentences). It's a heuristic, but maybe a decent one.
If they are franchised (eg they pay a fee to the local government in exchange for exclusive access to the community) then they are a "de jure" ( by law ) monopoly. As far as cable services go, this is common, and arguably efficient since it prevents overlapping infrastructure companies from digging up the street.
The quid pro quo is usually community requirements like public access channels and promises not to red line. It seems like neutrality should be part of these franchise agreements.
It's not just his stance, he stood up to Bush against his party and at a time when Bush was popular. Remember, the Democrats would not have stopped this on their own (they certainly weren't going to filibuster war spending to take that stand). He and Paul were the only candidates in the primary debates to take a stand against torture, even though it's not what the base wanted to hear. He's shown real courage and moral clarity where others *in power* on both sides have not.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century? FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
Keep in mind that septic tanks work on this principle, just drop new tablets of the bacteria in every once in a while and processing resumes, clear water leeches out and there is a ready supply of food for them. Been in use on small scale for a very long time. Composting also works with a constant supply of food on a small scale.
As for eating your roof, there are already bacteria that do that, but they have to be in the belly of a termite to survive, likewise if some of these were to get out, I don't imagine they would last long.
"less signs...more profane" - I think it's a judgment call, in this case "signs" probably isn't discrete and measurable. Besides less/more works better than fewer/more.
If you know the algorithm, then you can view the double encryption as a single function - f(f(x))-> g(x). g(x) will be admittedly more complex than f(x), but it will still require only 2^64 brute force attempts.
If you don't know the algorithm, then how are you brute forcing in the first place?
Whether or not you or the other party intended to cause the accident, a crime has occured (most likely a misdemeanor like speeding, or failure to yield). Your black box could be evidence of *their* crime as much as yours. Since this is exactly the reason you want to destroy the black box, most likely there is already a law that you must not destroy it (ie destruction of evidence/obstruction of justice).
All of the analysis of corn ethanol that I have read leaves out the critical point that you also get cattle feed as a side product.
Think about the ratio of corn sugar/corn stalk in the corn plant. Only the ear of corn is used for fermentation currently. The rest is not thrown in a landfill, but instead winds up as agricultural feed (read cattle who can eat the complex cellulose).
Sugar cane has a much higher ratio of sugar / stalk (thus the name). Thus it's a much more efficient fermenter.
This explains the excitement over "swtichgrass". If we can find a way to turn complex cellulose into sugars for fermentation (or directly to fuel) the land efficiency will be much greater. Thus the search for a cheap enzyme a previous poster made.
The beauty of ethanol is that it can essentially work with existing infrastructure and it's a home grown fuel. That's a really good start.
Consider that Apple was able to keep the price of singles down to $.99 in the last round of negotiations. If the record labels could have cut off Apple without losing the iPod market (which they couldn't because Fairplay is closed), they would have (and only sold to retailers willing to sell out their customers).
With a large marketshare behind them Apple was able to leverage buying power for its customers and drive down price. Other examples of this include Wal-Mart or CostCo.
Until they come out with a video card that can capture Analog HD Video, it's not interesting. Yes there are $3,000 cards that can do it, but why doesn't the AVIVO technology from ATI? They've got the H.264 in hardware and 16x PCIe, so the bandwidth should be manageable.
Actually, I really like the B3 soundtrack. The kids still like the angry/angsty music I guess.
I have one question though - is the soundtrack still disabled in multiplayer mode? It was my one complaint w/B3.
There are many aspects that RRT touched on that could be revisited better with today's technology. Three that I can think of are
1) Surveying - picking the best route through the mountains or otherwise optimizing the captial vs. train speed. With modern graphics you could greatly increase granularity.
2) Cities - again, bringing things down to a smaller scale, how to run a subway system/commuter rail/etc.
3) More advanced economics - fuel costs, city growth, and better AI could really make for a compelling challenge.
RRT was a brilliant game in it's time. Have you thought about going back to an economic/transport simulation type game either via rails or airplanes?
It sounds like Google and Yahoo have already beaten Microsoft to the punch. Both desktop clients can find content within a file or related to a file almost instantaneously from an "overlayed" application.
Slashdot Mirror
That Terro stuff is great, you watch them gorge on it and a week later they are gone (works for Argentine Ant that we have in California). Unfortunately I read that Terro doesn't work on these ants.
I wonder who would win an ant war between Argentine Ants and these - I've read that they have yet to find an ant that reliably wins against the Argentine ant.
It's getting to the point where the spammers are solving real, previously unsolved problems with their spamming code. Perhaps this can be harnessed for the good "solve the following protein folding problem", "write a transcript for the following bit of audio" then we'll let you send 100 spam emails.
For Gmail/YMail/Hotmail they could impose account limits for a while. Slowly allow the user to send more email as the email they send is not reported as spam by known good accounts (again older accounts). Never let a user send more than 100 messages/day until their account is 1 year old.
I think that by mining usage patterns you could come up with some good metrics for "is this a spammer".
Several hours of escrow could also be used (queue up, but don't actually send if you suspect spam).
Also, since GMail reads your mail anyway, make sure the user has at least 1 long conversation (reply text included in the email, email parses as having somewhat valid sentences). It's a heuristic, but maybe a decent one.
If they are franchised (eg they pay a fee to the local government in exchange for exclusive access to the community) then they are a "de jure" ( by law ) monopoly. As far as cable services go, this is common, and arguably efficient since it prevents overlapping infrastructure companies from digging up the street.
The quid pro quo is usually community requirements like public access channels and promises not to red line. It seems like neutrality should be part of these franchise agreements.
That's the funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in a long time.
It's not just his stance, he stood up to Bush against his party and at a time when Bush was popular. Remember, the Democrats would not have stopped this on their own (they certainly weren't going to filibuster war spending to take that stand). He and Paul were the only candidates in the primary debates to take a stand against torture, even though it's not what the base wanted to hear. He's shown real courage and moral clarity where others *in power* on both sides have not.
LEELA: Didn't you have ads in the twentieth century?
FRY: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio... and in magazines... and movies, and at ballgames, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written in the sky. But not in dreams, no sirree.
Keep in mind that septic tanks work on this principle, just drop new tablets of the bacteria in every once in a while and processing resumes, clear water leeches out and there is a ready supply of food for them. Been in use on small scale for a very long time. Composting also works with a constant supply of food on a small scale.
As for eating your roof, there are already bacteria that do that, but they have to be in the belly of a termite to survive, likewise if some of these were to get out, I don't imagine they would last long.
"less signs...more profane" - I think it's a judgment call, in this case "signs" probably isn't discrete and measurable. Besides less/more works better than fewer/more.
They want to turn IBM Building 025 (the south San Jose campus where the hard drive was invented) into a Lowe's
http://www.preservation.org/ibm25_background.html
The Wii vs PS3 commercial was definitely a funny parody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZOHnZNaBc
You're thinking of stove-top popcorn (the kind that's got foil) - but then only if you are near an exploding supernova.
"Oh, a lesson in not changing time from Mr. 'I'm my own grandfather'"
-Professor Farnsworth
If you know the algorithm, then you can view the double encryption as a single function - f(f(x))-> g(x).
g(x) will be admittedly more complex than f(x), but it will still require only 2^64 brute force attempts.
If you don't know the algorithm, then how are you brute forcing in the first place?
Whether or not you or the other party intended to cause the accident, a crime has occured (most likely a misdemeanor like speeding, or failure to yield). Your black box could be evidence of *their* crime as much as yours. Since this is exactly the reason you want to destroy the black box, most likely there is already a law that you must not destroy it (ie destruction of evidence/obstruction of justice).
All of the analysis of corn ethanol that I have read leaves out the critical point that you also get cattle feed as a side product.
Think about the ratio of corn sugar/corn stalk in the corn plant. Only the ear of corn is used for fermentation currently. The rest is not thrown in a landfill, but instead winds up as agricultural feed (read cattle who can eat the complex cellulose).
Sugar cane has a much higher ratio of sugar / stalk (thus the name). Thus it's a much more efficient fermenter.
This explains the excitement over "swtichgrass". If we can find a way to turn complex cellulose into sugars for fermentation (or directly to fuel) the land efficiency will be much greater. Thus the search for a cheap enzyme a previous poster made.
The beauty of ethanol is that it can essentially work with existing infrastructure and it's a home grown fuel. That's a really good start.
This may only serve to help the record labels.
Consider that Apple was able to keep the price of singles down to $.99 in the last round of negotiations. If the record labels could have cut off Apple without losing the iPod market (which they couldn't because Fairplay is closed), they would have (and only sold to retailers willing to sell out their customers).
With a large marketshare behind them Apple was able to leverage buying power for its customers and drive down price. Other examples of this include Wal-Mart or CostCo.
Even better than using your own GPS is using Google's
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/
GREAT site for calculating run distances.
Is if they could get it on Caltrain like they have it on the ACE. It's not a lot of square miles.
I submitted this joke to rec.humor.funny (with attribution) and it was accepted. Absolutely brilliant.
All your Base are belong to us -Google
Until they come out with a video card that can capture Analog HD Video, it's not interesting. Yes there are $3,000 cards that can do it, but why doesn't the AVIVO technology from ATI? They've got the H.264 in hardware and 16x PCIe, so the bandwidth should be manageable.
Actually, I really like the B3 soundtrack. The kids still like the angry/angsty music I guess. I have one question though - is the soundtrack still disabled in multiplayer mode? It was my one complaint w/B3.
"Mod the parent up".
There are many aspects that RRT touched on that could be revisited better with today's technology. Three that I can think of are
1) Surveying - picking the best route through the mountains or otherwise optimizing the captial vs. train speed. With modern graphics you could greatly increase granularity.
2) Cities - again, bringing things down to a smaller scale, how to run a subway system/commuter rail/etc.
3) More advanced economics - fuel costs, city growth, and better AI could really make for a compelling challenge.
RRT was a brilliant game in it's time. Have you thought about going back to an economic/transport simulation type game either via rails or airplanes?
It sounds like Google and Yahoo have already beaten Microsoft to the punch. Both desktop clients can find content within a file or related to a file almost instantaneously from an "overlayed" application.
Well of course they are not equal, you made the assignment that way.
You made the common rookie programmer error of assigning what you wanted to test.
What I think you meant to say was
ChoicePoint != CheckPoint
Though if you are communicating to us in Java you want
!ChoicePoint.equals(CheckPoint)
Hope that helps.