I didn't get any of those spams, and in fact lately I get only 3 or 4 spams per day, in part due to my ISP implementing email filtering (postini is the name I believe), and in part due to my aggressive attitude towards spam.
Speaking of which, does anyone remember web poision? It was a cool little CGI script that generated snacks for spambots. A page (linked, or so it appeared to the spambot) would have dozens or hunderds of bogus links and email addy's, and each trip would generate another, completely new page. I want to put something like that on every server I use.
Really? Ultimate for when? For whom? I can log on to space.com and many other sites, like NASA, and keep the $50 in my pocket. To me, it's no more "ultimate" than the White House Dog Cam, which I also did not visit.
As a qualified investor, I was throughly unimpressed by the presentation (for want of a better term) on the Mandrake webpage referenced to in the article. As a user of Red Hat (my first distro back in the day), later Mandrake, M$, and other products, I can state that my confidence in the future of Mandrake, and it's current management, have diminished. I'm not sure if it is even legal to advertise for shares like that: "If you are a qualified investor who would like to participate in the current round of financing, please contact (email) with the amount you wish to invest." Ummm, would you happen to have a prospectus lying around? The whole page looks like someone banged it out late at night while sweating and trying to ignore that ache in the pit of their stomach. I formerly recommended Mandrake to friends who wanted to get into Linux because it was easy abd friendly, but that is no longer the same this day. And if they are as shakey as they appear, then to purchase something intangible (like services) make be a very poor investment, in my opinion. And that's unfortunate, for like the apparent demise of the Russian space program, innovation, however incremental it may seem at the time, will be forever retarded.
I don't intend to be an asshole, or a lawyer, but you defeated your own argument. Observe:
"It's that robots don't age, and Arnie clearly has." Didn't Robin Williams (sorry-bear with me) in Bicentennial Man" age? Or whatshisname in AI (sorry, again). I say we create robots (and I'm still holding out for an interface for my computer like Andromeda or the Borg Queen), we can age them if we so desire. Look at Data (STNG).
Then: "You would never make the outer "skin" of two terminators look alike. It would defeat the whole purpose, unless you were sure that two human resistence "cells" weren't communicating... but why bother? They would clearly just be all different."
Sadamm Hussein aside,(and all his surgical "clones") given the primitive technology of the present, I believe you could make 10,000 terminators, albiet with less distinctive features than Arnold and they'll all get away with whatever you task them to do. People have faulty memory, and people and technology, especially primitive technology, is easily compromised.
I don't intend to write a paper on this subject here, but suffice to say the info is available out there. I appreciate that we have the opportunity to have this stimulating exchange. Thank you.
I'm laughing at these people talking about how old Arnold is. Lift up your shirt and take a look at yourself. Think you look better than Arnold, who is probably old enough to be your Granddad? You don't.
I'd like to see a poll here regarding fitness, or the lack of exercise. An honest poll.
If you think about it, we need more scientists working to develop new technology. If the Russian space program, or that of any nation, tanks, then those scientists and skilled workers will be forced to seek employment elsewhere, and progress will surely suffer.
not only does there seem to be a large number of audio-related posts this day, but...
I can't remember when the last time I listened or watched a news program. I find that I can suck up all the news I need from less than a dozen sites (including/., of course) during the course of a day and all my reading and clicking is still less than the 11-15 minutes of someone droning on between advertisements backed up by video clips and sound bites.
These are some of my observations based on personal experience.
I work for a small mineral exploration company. We use our website to disseminate information, provide an introduction to our projects, provide contact info and forms, collect data, etc. We don't allow advertising on the site, but we provide needed services in a place that has very few roads but is 1/5th the entire U.S. While there are print options, due to the widely varied and far-flung nature of our business, a web site is the most effective way for us to reach people. Yes, we tried some print advertising, and found that the webwork is more effective.
I have also done some side work, setting up webpage and sites for small businesses. I don't do it anymore, because too many people want something beyond their financial or technological reach, and then want to change the color of the border in the third box on page 13 and could I do that right now? I still believe a web presence is an effective way to communicate for any size or style of business, or politicians, or whomever, but with the conditioner that the pages not be done in some crappy app like frontpage, not be done by the business owner (even computer and web service co.s), and the goals and objectives are realistic.
Can I get the recipe?: "Yu and his team collected food scraps from a restaurant and blended them with water to create a grimy, slurry mix. The concoction was stored in a warm, airtight container for a few weeks so that strains of bacteria that survive without oxygen would multiply."
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This snappy contribution from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (aka Lord Acton).
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887. 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men'. Source: http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/22900.html
Does anyone else get the feeling that this group of thugs need to be stopped? I almost said 'before they form their own "shadow government",' but hell, why bother? It appears "the entertainment industry" already owns the U.S. Government, or at least what they need to. And as they control all the mainstream "news", they can dispense with their propanganda all they like. The Average American Viewer just bellies up to the trough and laps it up, blissfully ignorant.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! Where's the "War on The Entertainment Industry Axis of Evil"? Sign me up!
I'd also like to point out that we can all file "Pro Se" civil suits against the companies/individuals (once we have a list of the perpetrators), and many jurisdictions have provision for a "Public Interest" suit. Still, it'll only cost you $100 (at least that is the filing fee for Superior Court-where you can ask for any amount in damages), but it'll cost them thousands of dollars PER HOUR, per case. But I don't want to be the 'Little Red Hen', or else I'll be eating my bread alone.
"In an industry scrutinized by the government as a drug infested haven that pollutes our communities and destroys the ability to lead a productive life, there is another industry that has the potential to become even more dangerous than any drug addiction."
After reading through the article, I fail to find what the first industry alluded to in that paragraph is. It doesn't seem to be gaming, or more correctly, online gaming. It does seem to be a "drug infested haven". Sounds like the U.S. Congress, or perhaps Big Business.
...my computer looks like "Romy" (from "Andromeda"). Furthermore, I would not care WHAT os she's running. Right now my machine looks more like Janet Reno, is forgetful sometimes, and certainly appears to have a mind of its own. And like the Enterprise and Voyager, critical systems only fail when I need them most, and then I have to tell the damn thing every little thing it has to do. I'm hoping for, at the least, a Borg Queen interface, as she just seems more like Linux than Romy.
I've seen great battles fought thousands of light-years from my house, centuries into the future. If I relied only on my visual input alone, then I might believe it. Instead, I am a skeptic, and know that it is not real. I also know rabbits cannot speak English nor drive cars.
The headline posted to/. read "...Adobe investigators have found not a single e-book that was decrypted by Elcomsoft's Advanced e-Book Processor, even despite the months of intensive searching of around 100,000 pirated e-books that they could find(i.e. something else was used to crack them)". Yet, nowhere in the article did it state anything to the effect of the headline.
What the article states is "Adobe Systems has not been able to find proof that anyone made illegal copies of electronic books using software that could sidestep copyright safeguards in the company's eBook software, an Adobe engineer has testified." That is quite a departure from the 'blurb'. In fact, the article to which the blurb was referenced does not state how many searches were executed.
Perhaps this is the source of the "100,000": "In testimony in U.S. federal court, Daryl Spano, who formerly worked on Adobe's anti-piracy team, said the software company gets hundreds of tips on alleged piracy daily and could not follow up on all of them."
Oops. If they can't even follow up on "hundreds of tips daily", then how did they cover 100,000? If they did ten tips per day, every day, they'd have 27 years to get the data. Have people been pirating Adobe software for 27 years? Or can Adobe engineers (or "investigators") see future crimes now? Even at 100 tips per day its a three year chug, and I dare say imagining Adobe getting 100 or even 10 search warrents per day, every day for years is highly unlikely.
I read that, too, and it just points back to the Reuters article. In fact, I would not call the blurb on black mask an article at all. A rumor and a link, perhaps. Thanks for trying, though.
...someone will make a TV show out of it, something along the lines of "Dog Eat Dog" or "Fear Factor". I expect someone is already rushing out some episodes. If people watch those shows, then why not watch other people play games? There would also be some ability for true viewer interaction.
"We're not censoring anything. We're just going to try to provide a domain that's safe for children." And then, at the bottom: "The act says that Web site with a kids.us address cannot post hyperlinks to locations outside of the kids.us domain. It also prohibits chat and instant messaging features, except in cases where a site operator can guarantee the features adhere to kid-friendly standards developed for the domain."
Well, which is it?
This smells to me like a bunch of old politi-cons sitting around dreaming up ways to make themselves look less like criminals and posers. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting kids, but this is as toothless as the authors of the bill.
"The case is out of aluminium and ZAMAC, a supposed alloy..." Hmmm, not sure what it is? A "supposed alloy".
"...and can pile up horizontally on other of the same peripherals models..." Hey! Get off my other of the same peripherals models!
"Sympathetic, the new system of comment, Ca will avoid the comment of twisted which spends their time insulting:p" Sounds like my voice recognition software is glitching up again.
And many more.
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Speaking of which, does anyone remember web poision? It was a cool little CGI script that generated snacks for spambots. A page (linked, or so it appeared to the spambot) would have dozens or hunderds of bogus links and email addy's, and each trip would generate another, completely new page. I want to put something like that on every server I use.
Augmented Reality. I'm stuck with my imagination until then. Oh, and I still have to type this message on a keyboard.
Ultimate is not here yet.
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As a qualified investor, I was throughly unimpressed by the presentation (for want of a better term) on the Mandrake webpage referenced to in the article. As a user of Red Hat (my first distro back in the day), later Mandrake, M$, and other products, I can state that my confidence in the future of Mandrake, and it's current management, have diminished. I'm not sure if it is even legal to advertise for shares like that: "If you are a qualified investor who would like to participate in the current round of financing, please contact (email) with the amount you wish to invest." Ummm, would you happen to have a prospectus lying around? The whole page looks like someone banged it out late at night while sweating and trying to ignore that ache in the pit of their stomach. I formerly recommended Mandrake to friends who wanted to get into Linux because it was easy abd friendly, but that is no longer the same this day. And if they are as shakey as they appear, then to purchase something intangible (like services) make be a very poor investment, in my opinion. And that's unfortunate, for like the apparent demise of the Russian space program, innovation, however incremental it may seem at the time, will be forever retarded.
Just add a GPS, and your employer will know you're at the bar instead of the conference room.
It's the new larger size pop-up web ads. It's the beta version, I hear. Read about the web-enabled spacecraft for more details.
"It's that robots don't age, and Arnie clearly has." Didn't Robin Williams (sorry-bear with me) in Bicentennial Man" age? Or whatshisname in AI (sorry, again). I say we create robots (and I'm still holding out for an interface for my computer like Andromeda or the Borg Queen), we can age them if we so desire. Look at Data (STNG).
Then: "You would never make the outer "skin" of two terminators look alike. It would defeat the whole purpose, unless you were sure that two human resistence "cells" weren't communicating ... but why bother? They would clearly just be all different."
Sadamm Hussein aside,(and all his surgical "clones") given the primitive technology of the present, I believe you could make 10,000 terminators, albiet with less distinctive features than Arnold and they'll all get away with whatever you task them to do. People have faulty memory, and people and technology, especially primitive technology, is easily compromised.
I don't intend to write a paper on this subject here, but suffice to say the info is available out there. I appreciate that we have the opportunity to have this stimulating exchange. Thank you.
Truth Hurts.
Dang! I just read this story, here on /. a few days ago? You guys tring to mess me up? Freakin me out.
If you think about it, we need more scientists working to develop new technology. If the Russian space program, or that of any nation, tanks, then those scientists and skilled workers will be forced to seek employment elsewhere, and progress will surely suffer.
I can't remember when the last time I listened or watched a news program. I find that I can suck up all the news I need from less than a dozen sites (including /., of course) during the course of a day and all my reading and clicking is still less than the 11-15 minutes of someone droning on between advertisements backed up by video clips and sound bites.
"Hey! Who grabbed my ass?"
...it's the Terrestrial Planet Finder at http://www.space.com/searchforlife/new_approach_02 0510.html
I work for a small mineral exploration company. We use our website to disseminate information, provide an introduction to our projects, provide contact info and forms, collect data, etc. We don't allow advertising on the site, but we provide needed services in a place that has very few roads but is 1/5th the entire U.S. While there are print options, due to the widely varied and far-flung nature of our business, a web site is the most effective way for us to reach people. Yes, we tried some print advertising, and found that the webwork is more effective.
I have also done some side work, setting up webpage and sites for small businesses. I don't do it anymore, because too many people want something beyond their financial or technological reach, and then want to change the color of the border in the third box on page 13 and could I do that right now? I still believe a web presence is an effective way to communicate for any size or style of business, or politicians, or whomever, but with the conditioner that the pages not be done in some crappy app like frontpage, not be done by the business owner (even computer and web service co.s), and the goals and objectives are realistic.
I'll bet the smell would gag a maggot.
Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 1887. 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men'. Source: http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/22900.html
Remember when the Aussie guv'ment tried to punish Bart Simpson? Ha! They couldn't even boot an 8-year old boy! I love that episode.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! Where's the "War on The Entertainment Industry Axis of Evil"? Sign me up!
I'd also like to point out that we can all file "Pro Se" civil suits against the companies/individuals (once we have a list of the perpetrators), and many jurisdictions have provision for a "Public Interest" suit. Still, it'll only cost you $100 (at least that is the filing fee for Superior Court-where you can ask for any amount in damages), but it'll cost them thousands of dollars PER HOUR, per case. But I don't want to be the 'Little Red Hen', or else I'll be eating my bread alone.
After reading through the article, I fail to find what the first industry alluded to in that paragraph is. It doesn't seem to be gaming, or more correctly, online gaming. It does seem to be a "drug infested haven". Sounds like the U.S. Congress, or perhaps Big Business.
...my computer looks like "Romy" (from "Andromeda"). Furthermore, I would not care WHAT os she's running. Right now my machine looks more like Janet Reno, is forgetful sometimes, and certainly appears to have a mind of its own. And like the Enterprise and Voyager, critical systems only fail when I need them most, and then I have to tell the damn thing every little thing it has to do. I'm hoping for, at the least, a Borg Queen interface, as she just seems more like Linux than Romy.
The headline posted to /. read "...Adobe investigators have found not a single e-book that was decrypted by Elcomsoft's Advanced e-Book Processor, even despite the months of intensive searching of around 100,000 pirated e-books that they could find(i.e. something else was used to crack them)". Yet, nowhere in the article did it state anything to the effect of the headline.
What the article states is "Adobe Systems has not been able to find proof that anyone made illegal copies of electronic books using software that could sidestep copyright safeguards in the company's eBook software, an Adobe engineer has testified." That is quite a departure from the 'blurb'. In fact, the article to which the blurb was referenced does not state how many searches were executed.
Perhaps this is the source of the "100,000": "In testimony in U.S. federal court, Daryl Spano, who formerly worked on Adobe's anti-piracy team, said the software company gets hundreds of tips on alleged piracy daily and could not follow up on all of them."
Oops. If they can't even follow up on "hundreds of tips daily", then how did they cover 100,000? If they did ten tips per day, every day, they'd have 27 years to get the data. Have people been pirating Adobe software for 27 years? Or can Adobe engineers (or "investigators") see future crimes now? Even at 100 tips per day its a three year chug, and I dare say imagining Adobe getting 100 or even 10 search warrents per day, every day for years is highly unlikely.
I read that, too, and it just points back to the Reuters article. In fact, I would not call the blurb on black mask an article at all. A rumor and a link, perhaps. Thanks for trying, though.
I read the story, and I didn't see any 100,000 figure. I also didn't read the method used to obtain this "100,000".
...someone will make a TV show out of it, something along the lines of "Dog Eat Dog" or "Fear Factor". I expect someone is already rushing out some episodes. If people watch those shows, then why not watch other people play games? There would also be some ability for true viewer interaction.
Well, which is it?
This smells to me like a bunch of old politi-cons sitting around dreaming up ways to make themselves look less like criminals and posers. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for protecting kids, but this is as toothless as the authors of the bill.
"...and can pile up horizontally on other of the same peripherals models..." Hey! Get off my other of the same peripherals models!
"Sympathetic, the new system of comment, Ca will avoid the comment of twisted which spends their time insulting:p" Sounds like my voice recognition software is glitching up again. And many more.