So if I write a GPLed spambot and put it on Sourceforge, it will be a good program? Or will I have to insert positive mentions of Gator/Claria Bonzi buddy weatherbug into the spam mails sent by it?:-)
Of course Mao managed to get good people to do evil things without a religion. The trick of getting good people doing evil things is to make them think those evil things are good. Religion is quite easily misused for that purpose, but it isn't the only abusable thing. The Nazis managed to misuse Darwin for their racism. Basically anything can be abused that way as long as four key factors apply:
1. Enough people believe that it's true (or you can manage to get people believe it).
2. Most of those people don't really understand it.
3. It can be mutilated to "say" what you want it to say.
4. The mutilated version divides the people in "good" and "bad" ones, where the "good" have the duty to eliminate the "bad".
All religion is inherently a bad thing, even when "good" things are done in it's name, because it is based on a falsehood [...] It's wrong, and that makes it bad.
It's a sure bet that a lot of what you do or think is based on a falsehood (or more likely several falsehoods). No matter whether you are religious or not. Therefore from your own logic, a lot of what you do or think is bad.
Of course, a program which detects images consisting of slanted, wobbly, colored text with random background wouldn't have to OCR that text anyway: Any such image has almost 100% spam probability.
Of course, someone you want to meet in Germany could send you a mail how to get to him, containing the words: "Then you have to take the B12" (B12 here means Bundesstraße 12, i.e. federal street 12). Unless you get lots of mail with way descriptions from Germany, it's quite unlikely that "B12->german street" will have a high probability to your spam filter. OTOH this is the type of mail which you certainly don't want to get filtered out.
Intel have a CPUID opcode that returns INTELINSIDE in some ascii encoding across the registers. AMD return AMDINSTEAD. The string is of the right length not to break anything. I thought it's "GenuineIntel" and "AuthenticAMD"?
But couldn't Autodesk then be sued for anticompetitive behaviour?
Of course one could counter this warning box by accompanying the file with some warning text: "If your CAD program warns about this file when opening, you might have installed bad software. Be careful about working on this file with the software in that case!" And if anyone asks, just say that you cannot exclude the possibility that there's some software which isn't able to read the file reliably and therefore might corrupt it; such software would likely warn because it doesn't completely understand the file. You just want to make sure that your file is not corrupted by use of bad software. It is, of course, unfortunate that AutoCAD gives a warning as well, but then, it's Autodesks job to fix that problem.:-)
When I do an rm which removes more than a single file, I quite often first type it prefixed with echo, look at the output, and after having verified that it is really what I want I go back in the command history, remove the echo and press enter. This is especially good with wildcards, which unintentionally might match something I didn't intend to remove.
So you're also posting as an AC, and you decided to paste the same rant twice? Why isn't that flamebait? The first time it may be flaimbait. The second time it's simply redundant.
Here in the future hibernation isn't needed anymore because computers boot instantly with everything kept on a 100TB flash drive that runs at... What? You still use internal drives in the future? I thought in the future all memory would be replaced by non-volatile faster-than-DRAM main memory, making obsolete all sort of internal drives and trivially causing instant power-on? Please, don't tell me you don't have flying cars either!
the RIAA maintains that in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically.
Is it just me or does this sentence make no fucking sense? Here's the proper decomposition:
the RIAA maintains that (in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry) profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically.
You probably just forgot to buy the gold-plated ethernet cables as well. BTW, that combination also improves the sound quality of audio files transmitted over the network.
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So if I write a GPLed spambot and put it on Sourceforge, it will be a good program? Or will I have to insert positive mentions of Gator/Claria Bonzi buddy weatherbug into the spam mails sent by it? :-)
Well, I'm quite open to everyone about my computer's IP address: it's 127.0.0.1
Linux already exists, so there's no need to make a new OS.
You mean like "What's related"?
That's probably because Umlaut letters are not legal in URLs. The URL you wanted correctly reads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erm%C3%A4chtigungsges etz
Of course Mao managed to get good people to do evil things without a religion. The trick of getting good people doing evil things is to make them think those evil things are good. Religion is quite easily misused for that purpose, but it isn't the only abusable thing. The Nazis managed to misuse Darwin for their racism. Basically anything can be abused that way as long as four key factors apply:
1. Enough people believe that it's true (or you can manage to get people believe it).
2. Most of those people don't really understand it.
3. It can be mutilated to "say" what you want it to say.
4. The mutilated version divides the people in "good" and "bad" ones, where the "good" have the duty to eliminate the "bad".
It's a sure bet that a lot of what you do or think is based on a falsehood (or more likely several falsehoods). No matter whether you are religious or not. Therefore from your own logic, a lot of what you do or think is bad.
The creative part?
Of course, a program which detects images consisting of slanted, wobbly, colored text with random background wouldn't have to OCR that text anyway: Any such image has almost 100% spam probability.
Of course, someone you want to meet in Germany could send you a mail how to get to him, containing the words: "Then you have to take the B12" (B12 here means Bundesstraße 12, i.e. federal street 12). Unless you get lots of mail with way descriptions from Germany, it's quite unlikely that "B12->german street" will have a high probability to your spam filter. OTOH this is the type of mail which you certainly don't want to get filtered out.
Maybe the spammers will find a new use for their botnets ... imagine all Windows computers on the net turning into a single, gigantic distributed AI!
It will get interesting when AIs start edit wars at Wikipedia :-)
Maybe the AI just has to understand how to use the Wikipedia page history. And maybe run the Wikipedia pages through some spam filter ...
Nothing can beat small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri!
That's no proof that it did indeed fall in between.
But couldn't Autodesk then be sued for anticompetitive behaviour?
:-)
Of course one could counter this warning box by accompanying the file with some warning text: "If your CAD program warns about this file when opening, you might have installed bad software. Be careful about working on this file with the software in that case!" And if anyone asks, just say that you cannot exclude the possibility that there's some software which isn't able to read the file reliably and therefore might corrupt it; such software would likely warn because it doesn't completely understand the file. You just want to make sure that your file is not corrupted by use of bad software. It is, of course, unfortunate that AutoCAD gives a warning as well, but then, it's Autodesks job to fix that problem.
If there is nobody in the forest to see it, does the tree actually fall?
When I do an rm which removes more than a single file, I quite often first type it prefixed with echo, look at the output, and after having verified that it is really what I want I go back in the command history, remove the echo and press enter. This is especially good with wildcards, which unintentionally might match something I didn't intend to remove.
http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/gc c/gcc_4.html
Here in the future hibernation isn't needed anymore because computers boot instantly with everything kept on a 100TB flash drive that runs at... What? You still use internal drives in the future? I thought in the future all memory would be replaced by non-volatile faster-than-DRAM main memory, making obsolete all sort of internal drives and trivially causing instant power-on? Please, don't tell me you don't have flying cars either!
Is it just me or does this sentence make no fucking sense? Here's the proper decomposition:
the RIAA maintains that (in the modern period when piracy began devastating the record industry) profits to publishers from sales of ringtones and other 'innovative services' grew dramatically.
You probably just forgot to buy the gold-plated ethernet cables as well. BTW, that combination also improves the sound quality of audio files transmitted over the network.