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  1. Re:An slightly better approach to this idea: on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 1

    Consider this: If I sign up for 3 porn sites, and 2 shady etailers, assume 50 spammers will receive my email address. Each of these spammers will send me 5-20 emails in a week. My address will slowly leak into more spammers' hands, but generally ones in the same market; so the spams will all be similar according to the Bayesian probability. That way, if my filter is tuned exactly to the spam that I receive on a regular basis, thats all I need. But if I use a global hashtable, either the chances of false-positives will increase because the filter will get more and more paranoid, or the chances of false-negatives will increase because the filter will be looking at a broader set of words.

    And every user should have their own non-spam hashtable... my friends don't write like the average netizen... and as a result, I think that most people write email that looks like spam. In short, my hashtable would expect a much higher level of intelligence than the spammer/skriptkiddie/14-year-old-punk who I don't want to hear from.

  2. Re:My engagement ring on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    lol. Thats great 'till she crashes it... they say "diamonds are forever" because they're next to invincible. A '69 Camero, in addition to being the very symbol of white trash, will last maybe 200k miles, IF you get lucky and take perfect care of it. But she'll crash it, and divorce your ass. We'll be laughing.

  3. Re:Computers usually stand up well on Computers That Thrive in Salty, Humid Environments? · · Score: 1

    Man.... you are dumb as a brick. The site I linked you to is about the "modern invention" of the ocean. My point was, its not fucking modern, dipshit. Also, I'm perfectly familiar with the logistical problems of that completely sarcastic idea; a joke that went so far over your head that you think that the ocean is a modern invention!

  4. Re:Fear the Digital Age - Rising Dark Age Looms - on FCC Mandates Digital Tuners · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but you're forgetting about prior art. If you encrypt something that somebody already has available for free in plain text, you don't suddenly win the rights to their content. If that was the case, I could download the Library of Congress, zip it up and encrypt it, and sue the government for violation of the DMCA. For all that "reality check" bullshit, you're sure out of touch with reality.

  5. Re:At last... on Funky Robotic Hand · · Score: 1

    Did you take a look at that hand? I think the wrist would break... think The Fly meets Terminator.

  6. Re:Computers usually stand up well on Computers That Thrive in Salty, Humid Environments? · · Score: 1

    Water cooling, with the modern invention of the ocean, requires FAR less power than a CPU fan. You could build the computer into the boat so that the hull acts as a heat sink... your CPU would never get over 80 degrees.

  7. The Solution on RIAA Smacked by DoS · · Score: 1

    This will be an easy problem to solve. Write a counter-DoSer, and slip it into GNUtella. Simply, there are many more of us than there are of them. If a GNUtella client detects a DoS attack, we respond with a DDoS attack. We win, hands down, every time.