"What's next? A virtual boyfriend who will only talk to you if you encourage him to spend all his time watching the game and going to strip clubs with his friends?"
The tivo hacking faq addresses this. http://www.tivofaq.com/ or rather, http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq0 1.010.htp
Basically, TiVo has been very "understanding" with the tivo hacking community, so the practice of hacking it to break the subscription model is avoided.
I can only speculate that this "understanding" as a barrier would dissolve if the company ever went under.
The overfitting you describe is correct AFAICT. The Naive Bayesian approach assumes that the overall form of the mail being classified is reasonably consistent - if you train the Naive Bayesian classifier on a different pool of spam and then treat that as a "static" classifier, its classification accuracy will certainly be reduced.
You're missing the point - when they sue you, you must defend yourself. That whole legal process is expensive - so a mistake by the patent office is inherently very expensive to the entire court system, which is funded by taxpayers. So, byt not doing their job and properly vetting patent applications, the USPTO is likely costing taxpayers more money in the long run.
I would imagine that your ISP could be considered a "financial institution" as well. Big Bro is now allowed to man-in-the-middle anything you do online, your ISP is compelled to acquiesce, and you are not allowed to find out from them by law.
You're missing something there - jewels and precious metals can be sold, and such transactions are usually done through jewelry stores.
This provides a mechanism to surrepticiously move money around, without all the bother of large quantities of hard currency. Terrorist organizations require money to function just like any other. And if they cannot move money easily via financial institutions, they'll do it via other precious materials that will not suffer inflationary degredation, like art, jewelry, and similar items.
Indeed, however, their old competition was Sun (and Java) and Mainframes, and they paid a LOT of attention to those. We don't see as many new installations of those anymore (some, but fewer in number), so they established themselves a bit more, and hence now have some resources to target at the next blip on their radar.
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Quick - go apply for a patent!
This seems to go well with that story involving _cherry_ earlier.
The tivo hacking faq addresses this. http://www.tivofaq.com/ or rather, http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq0 1.010.htp
Basically, TiVo has been very "understanding" with the tivo hacking community, so the practice of hacking it to break the subscription model is avoided.
I can only speculate that this "understanding" as a barrier would dissolve if the company ever went under.
Probably the marketing department.
Good.
But when your absentee vote is drowned out by the electronic machines, you are just as effectively disenfranchised.
Sounds more like he is trying to train them in target practice to me.
Oh, its just our new server farm. Whew!
One for the conservatives, one for the liberals.
But with radio, at least they get royalties. With MP3s, they get nada.
Not sure you'd want those "good names" anyway, as the older they get, the more spam lists they get added to...
The overfitting you describe is correct AFAICT. The Naive Bayesian approach assumes that the overall form of the mail being classified is reasonably consistent - if you train the Naive Bayesian classifier on a different pool of spam and then treat that as a "static" classifier, its classification accuracy will certainly be reduced.
You're missing the point - when they sue you, you must defend yourself. That whole legal process is expensive - so a mistake by the patent office is inherently very expensive to the entire court system, which is funded by taxpayers. So, byt not doing their job and properly vetting patent applications, the USPTO is likely costing taxpayers more money in the long run.
I would imagine that your ISP could be considered a "financial institution" as well. Big Bro is now allowed to man-in-the-middle anything you do online, your ISP is compelled to acquiesce, and you are not allowed to find out from them by law.
You're missing something there - jewels and precious metals can be sold, and such transactions are usually done through jewelry stores. This provides a mechanism to surrepticiously move money around, without all the bother of large quantities of hard currency. Terrorist organizations require money to function just like any other. And if they cannot move money easily via financial institutions, they'll do it via other precious materials that will not suffer inflationary degredation, like art, jewelry, and similar items.
Indeed, however, their old competition was Sun (and Java) and Mainframes, and they paid a LOT of attention to those. We don't see as many new installations of those anymore (some, but fewer in number), so they established themselves a bit more, and hence now have some resources to target at the next blip on their radar.
At least there is legal recourse against junk fax, and it still costs something to send one long-distance.
http://www.vandyke.com/products/vshell/