PS Society for Christian Doctrine, Kevin? ewwwww two dirty words, (sorry about that, cant help it), and BTW their site says IE only sdcmusion even more ewwwww, and ye with no broadband shall go to hell:p (Ok, do not take this too seriously)
Regarding the site, ewwww is not enough. It actually works on firefox, provided you can put up with all the flash. And if the flash animated menus are not enough, there is background music. At least the guest book is full of "congratulations for the professional site" style comments:-)
This does not seem like very open source, it is just available for free to police departments. In this article on itworld.com, the importance of keeping the technology secret is highlighted:
Details of how the system works are being kept secret, Hemler (Microsoft Canada president) said. "We're intentionally coy about the technology that is used in this because we think it gives the good guys an advantage over the bad guys," he said. "Think of it as an assembly of commonly available Microsoft software, using techniques from Microsoft Research and best practices that the law enforcement community shared with us."
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Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is child pornography or child abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time.
The article indicates that the new law just requires that if an ISP is made aware of child abuse material accessable using their service, the ISP should inform the AFP about the material. Not that unenforcable, is it?
I was not talking about applications, but about the development platform. A present Windows developer might be willing to restrict himself to a subset of the Microsoft development platform so that his application would work on other systems.
Having something similar to the Microsoft platform would encourage developers to develop cross-platform. If a usable subset is developed on mono, the restriction to that subset is the price for a cross-platform application - better than a reimplementation.
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Maybe a small part of the recycling fee added to a new computer should be refunded when the old computer is taken for recycling. This gives a recycling fee + a non-recycling penalty.
Not everyone returns empty bottles, but the refund makes the bottle returns worth the hassle.
When the industrial revolution came about, I guess there were predictions of the machines taking all the worker's jobs. But then there were operator jobs, engineering jobs, etc.
I think the 'humanoid robots' might change our jobs, not take them.
How do DirectTV program their own cards? Where are the other satellite companies? They should be suing DirectTV for owning smart card programming equipment.
I am not sure about the Atari keyboard, but I had a Z80 Spectrum +2. The keyboard was not a serial port sending characters sequentially, it was implemented using parallel inputs. I guess you would need a microcontroller to convert the Atari keyboard to a PS2 keyboard.
There actually were terrorists. It was their crash strategy that was covered up. They forced all passengers to phone home, and that was how they brought down the planes.
If a hacker can publish such a report, a hacker can exploit it. So why keep the report secret? If it is published, at least administrators of affected systems can take measures to protech their systems.
Keeping the report "secret" does not block access to crackers.
Since FLAC is designed specifically for audio, it can take advantage of audio statistics, enabling it to compress better. AFAIK general lossless compression programs such as zip perform bad on audio, since audio seems fairly random to them.
Actually, computers do not use just brute force, they do choose the best set of moves to concentrate about. The difference is that this set is much larger for a computer than for a human. As for random, it is a must. Otherwise all an opponent would need to win would be to remember JUST ONE way the computer was defeated and repeat the moves.
The largest advantage Deep Blue had was that while its programmers could analyse all Kasparov's games, Deep Blue never played any competitive chess. Kasparov had to play against an unknown opponent, and had no chance of observing its style/weeknesses.
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1. e4 f5 2. c3 g5 3. h5++ shit!
That should be 3. Qh5++
Amazing what you can learn by reading this thing.
PS Society for Christian Doctrine, Kevin? ewwwww two dirty words, (sorry about that, cant help it), and BTW their site says IE only sdcmusion even more ewwwww, and ye with no broadband shall go to hell :p (Ok, do not take this too seriously)
:-)
Regarding the site, ewwww is not enough. It actually works on firefox, provided you can put up with all the flash. And if the flash animated menus are not enough, there is background music. At least the guest book is full of "congratulations for the professional site" style comments
Inequality and Risk
Mind the Gap
Ubuntu 5.1 != Ubuntu 5.10. The first one doesn't even exist...
Come on, if ZDNet says Ubuntu 5.1, then it must exist. We all know internet news sites are accurate. -- Run For Fun
My name is Simon, I am a Linux addict, and this is my story.
So long for Linux Anonymous.
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Run for Fun
Linus was never Tannenbaums student.
Still, Linus learned a lot from Tanenbaum's book on operating systems.
Details of how the system works are being kept secret, Hemler (Microsoft Canada president) said. "We're intentionally coy about the technology that is used in this because we think it gives the good guys an advantage over the bad guys," he said. "Think of it as an assembly of commonly available Microsoft software, using techniques from Microsoft Research and best practices that the law enforcement community shared with us."
A copy of NWL can be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/14/47/:
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Under the new laws, an ISP or ICH will face penalties of $11,000 for the individual and $55,000 for body corporates if they are made aware that their service can be used to access material that they have reasonable grounds to believe is child pornography or child abuse material and they do not refer details of that material to the AFP within a reasonable time.
The article indicates that the new law just requires that if an ISP is made aware of child abuse material accessable using their service, the ISP should inform the AFP about the material. Not that unenforcable, is it?
I was not talking about applications, but about the development platform. A present Windows developer might be willing to restrict himself to a subset of the Microsoft development platform so that his application would work on other systems.
Having something similar to the Microsoft platform would encourage developers to develop cross-platform. If a usable subset is developed on mono, the restriction to that subset is the price for a cross-platform application - better than a reimplementation.
Maybe a small part of the recycling fee added to a new computer should be refunded when the old computer is taken for recycling. This gives a recycling fee + a non-recycling penalty.
Not everyone returns empty bottles, but the refund makes the bottle returns worth the hassle.
Spammers crack a server to make it send their emails (do spammers ever do so?) and the server owner gets a tax bill?
When the industrial revolution came about, I guess there were predictions of the machines taking all the worker's jobs. But then there were operator jobs, engineering jobs, etc.
I think the 'humanoid robots' might change our jobs, not take them.
How do DirectTV program their own cards? Where are the other satellite companies? They should be suing DirectTV for owning smart card programming equipment.
I am not sure about the Atari keyboard, but I had a Z80 Spectrum +2. The keyboard was not a serial port sending characters sequentially, it was implemented using parallel inputs. I guess you would need a microcontroller to convert the Atari keyboard to a PS2 keyboard.
You are close, but not 100% accurate.
There actually were terrorists. It was their crash strategy that was covered up. They forced all passengers to phone home, and that was how they brought down the planes.
> GPL caused SCO to lose their IP!
If anything, they lose their right to the GPL'ed code rather than their IP.
If a hacker can publish such a report, a hacker can exploit it. So why keep the report secret? If it is published, at least administrators of affected systems can take measures to protech their systems.
Keeping the report "secret" does not block access to crackers.
In chess championships a tie means the champion retains his title. In this case, it simply remains a tie.
IIRC there was discussion about a man champion vs computer champion match every year.
Since FLAC is designed specifically for audio, it can take advantage of audio statistics, enabling it to compress better. AFAIK general lossless compression programs such as zip perform bad on audio, since audio seems fairly random to them.
Actually, computers do not use just brute force, they do choose the best set of moves to concentrate about. The difference is that this set is much larger for a computer than for a human. As for random, it is a must. Otherwise all an opponent would need to win would be to remember JUST ONE way the computer was defeated and repeat the moves.
The largest advantage Deep Blue had was that while its programmers could analyse all Kasparov's games, Deep Blue never played any competitive chess. Kasparov had to play against an unknown opponent, and had no chance of observing its style/weeknesses.