When ace test-pilot Steve Austin's ship crashed, he was nearly dead. Deciding that "we have the technology to rebuild this man", the government decides to rebuild Austin, augmenting him with cybernetic parts which gave him superhuman strength and speed. Austin becomes a secret operative, fighting injustice where it is found.
Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who had walked on the moon, is almost fatally injured in a plane crash. Many of his damaged parts are replaced by experimental bionic limbs, including his right arm, his left eye, and both legs. These bionics give him superpowers such as increased speed and strength and the ability to see long distances. To pay the U.S. Government back the $6,000,000,000 it cost to rebuild him, Austin goes to work for the Office of Scientific Investigation as an agent, investigating foreign spies, mad scientists, bombers, space aliens, and even Bigfoot.
Everyone is aiming at the wrong target. To stop spam effectively, you need to understand the underlining problem.
The underlining problem is that arseholes can send emails to you with complete and total impunity. By the time the email has got to you (or your mailbox) it's already too late. The spammer has won.
The current email system was not designed for the 21st century. It does not have a method of preventing spam.
The solution will only come when a new email system is in place.
The new email system ie. vmail which in my mind works like this.
1) All email senders must have a self generated certificate. IE. private key public key system.
2) When a vmail receiver receives an vmail, the vmail client checks the digital signature of the incoming vmail. Only those vmail whose is signed by a certificate in the vmail receiver's whitelist is allowed. All other vmail is deleted without any reporting to the user.
3) The vmail receiver obtains all the vmail certificates(which are just public keys) of his vmail correspondent and put them in his whitelist. By convention, a person's vmail certificates are available to anybody on their website/homepage.
4) For a (public or private) company, their vmail certificates are also publicly available on the company website. The company may send a (snail) mail to its customers or suppliers asking them to load the company's vmail certificate unto their whitelist
5) In the rarest event where a vmail receiver has received a spam. He may click a button on the spam and find out which vmail certificate allows the spam through. He could then send a courtesy mail to the owner of the vmail certificate to inform them that their certificate has been compromised. He then removes the vmail certificate from his whitelist.
6) To send an vmail to someone who DO NOT have your vmail certificate in their whitelist. You must first buy a once-off certificate from the US post office. The once-off certificate is called a v-stamp and cost US $1 each. Signing your email with the $1 vstamp, you can then send the vmail to that person.
Everybody talks about this and that but no one offers to say what the Language of the future looks like.
Well, I don't know either but I have some ideas on what features it would have.
Feature no 1. The language of the future is highly transformable.
What this means is that it is easy to transform a program written in this language into another program also written in this language. These two programs will do the same functional requirements. The differences is that the transform program would be more efficient than the untransform program. Can you not see the beauty of this thing?
The first compiler for the Language of the future will be the most inefficient compiler ever. Instead it will be the most logically correct compiler.
Next, you compile the compiler (source code) and you get version two of the compiler. Version two is still written(or transformed) in the language of the future. But it will be slightly more efficient than version one. Just slightly. Have a big guess what the next step will be?
That's right. Using Version two of the compiler, compile the version two of the compiler to produce Version three of the compiler.
Version three of the compiler will be more efficient than version two of the compiler which (in turn) is more efficient than Version one of the compiler. All three versions of the compiler does the same functional requirements.
After an infinite versions, you will have the ultimate language of the future's compiler. It will take a program written in that language and produced the most efficient machine code to satisfy the functional requirements of the program.
The key thing is a language which is highly transformable. C will not do. Perl will not do. The language must have minimal data structures or Axioms.
Note that the compiler does two different things. 1. It transform the program into another program in that future language. 2. It converts the future language into machine code (I think this is called the assembler)
Gentleman, here are the three fundamental laws of turmoildynamics in the Computer Industries.
The Zeroth Law The heated discussions and debates in the computer industry will always move from a cold topic area towards a hot topic area.
The First Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Moore's Law The number of transistors per integrated circuit at the most economical price will double every 18 months.
The Second Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Microsoft's Law The retail price of a standard Microsoft package (like Microsoft Office) will double every 60 months.
The Third Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Open Source's Law The amount penetration of GPL open source programs in the commercial business environment will double every 30 months.
I remenber the days of perl 5.004 and boy was that good and compact! Then as time so pass, more and more "features" are added into perl 5.004 and the result is that now you have too many features spoils the broth. As perl 5.004 it is PERFECT for replacing bourne shell, sed and awk. But instead of being stable (and not changing), it kept on changing. This is bad from a system admin point of view because you want to be sure that the script you wrote in 1999 will work in 2019 without any changes (just like bourne shell).
Instead if Perl kept on changing then you can't be sure and when you have literally thousands of little perl scripts everywhere this is intolerable.
Perhaps they should have kept Perl 5 as/usr/bin/perl5 and make sure that it stays static for all eternity. There are values in things which do not change, things you can depend on year after year without fear.
Re:Building a new STS the right way.
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NASA doesn't need 20 or 30 shuttles, however, if we could get the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russians, the Japanese, Aussies, and even the Koreans to join up with the promise of owning their own shuttles, the cost could be easily be spread out.
Getting the Aussies to join up? Are you out of your mind??? There are 280 million people in USA. There is less than 20 million people in Australia. How on earth can we built even one shuttle? The cost will bankrupt the entire Australian nation.
Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz Inc. pushed Judge Barzilay to declare its heroes nonhuman so it could win a lower duty rate on action figures imported from China in the mid-1990s. At the time, tariffs put higher duties on dolls than toys. According to the U.S. tariff code, human figures are dolls, while figures representing animals or "creatures," such as monsters and robots, are deemed toys.
The problem is with the intepretation of the line "human figures are dolls".
What it should be taken to mean is that any figure which resembles a human being even one which dresses up strangely should be consider a doll.
Thus
wolverine is a doll. ie. man in funny suit with fake claws sticking out.
Note: that the actual story and history of the character is irrelevant. It's what the figure resembles.
Spiderman is a doll.
Moleman is a doll. Man with growth disorder.
The thing is a monster.
The sheer arrogance of the slashdot poster is unbelievable. Just listen to this:
This story at New Scientist describes how, using cell simulation in computers, evolution can be simulated. How long until we can work out what the DNA sequence for a Dragon should be I wonder?
Come on! The simulation is about as closer to reality as the economist assumptions of the rational consumers. You don't know how many corners they can cut in their simulation. It's just a simulation and it is as good as the assumptions made by the people who created the simulation. Real life is messy and difficult to predict. It will be hundreds of years before they get the simulation even close to the true working of a real cell.
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Here is a picture of a wearable motorcycle
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It's the bandwidth stupid! Does not matter how fast the CPU is if it is bandwidth limited.
Plot Summary for
"The Six Billion Dollar Man"
When ace test-pilot Steve Austin's ship crashed, he was nearly dead. Deciding that "we have the technology to rebuild this man", the government decides to rebuild Austin, augmenting him with cybernetic parts which gave him superhuman strength and speed. Austin becomes a secret operative, fighting injustice where it is found.
Air Force Colonel Steve Austin, an astronaut who had walked on the moon, is almost fatally injured in a plane crash. Many of his damaged parts are replaced by experimental bionic limbs, including his right arm, his left eye, and both legs. These bionics give him superpowers such as increased speed and strength and the ability to see long distances. To pay the U.S. Government back the $6,000,000,000 it cost to rebuild him, Austin goes to work for the Office of Scientific Investigation as an agent, investigating foreign spies, mad scientists, bombers, space aliens, and even Bigfoot.
T E R M I N A T O R
Cyberdyne Series 101 Terminator Endoskeleton
Height: 1.8 meters
DEX: 4D+2
Blaster 6D, Brawling Parry 5D, Firearms 6D, Grenade 6D,
Melee Combat 6D, Melee Parry 5D
KNO: 3D
Scholar: Human Anatomy 8D, Survival: Wasteland 6D,
Languages 10D, Intimidation 7D,
Scholar: Cyberdyne Systems 6D
MEC: 3D+2
Ground Vehicle Operation 6D
PER: 3D
Investigation 7D, Search 8D
STR: 6D
Brawling 8D, Climbing/Jumping 7D, Lifting 8D, Stamina 8D
TEC: 3D+2
Blaster Repair 6D, Firearms Repair 6D, Demolition 7D,
First Aid 6D, Ground Vehicle Repair 6D, Security, 7D
Move: 11
Equipped with:
Humanoid Construction
Vocabulator
Enhanced Visual Receptors (+2D to any sight-based action)
Adaptive Learning Circuitry
Life Support Circuitry: Power source and/or CPU must be shut
down/destroyed before a terminator will stop hunting
Disadvantages:
Dogs bark at the smell of a terminator.
Everyone is aiming at the wrong target. To stop spam effectively, you need to understand the underlining problem.
The underlining problem is that arseholes can send emails to you with complete and total impunity. By the time the email has got to you (or your mailbox) it's already too late. The spammer has won.
The current email system was not designed for the 21st century. It does not have a method of preventing spam.
The solution will only come when a new email system is in place.
The new email system ie. vmail which in my mind works like this.
1) All email senders must have a self generated certificate. IE. private key public key system.
2) When a vmail receiver receives an vmail, the vmail client checks the digital signature of the incoming vmail. Only those vmail whose is signed by a certificate in the vmail receiver's whitelist is allowed. All other vmail is deleted without any reporting to the user.
3) The vmail receiver obtains all the vmail certificates(which are just public keys) of his vmail correspondent and put them in his whitelist. By convention, a person's vmail certificates are available to anybody on their website/homepage.
4) For a (public or private) company, their vmail certificates are also publicly available on the company website. The company may send a (snail) mail to its customers or suppliers asking them to load the company's vmail certificate unto their whitelist
5) In the rarest event where a vmail receiver has received a spam. He may click a button on the spam and find out which vmail certificate allows the spam through. He could then send a courtesy mail to the owner of the vmail certificate to inform them that their certificate has been compromised. He then removes the vmail certificate from his whitelist.
6) To send an vmail to someone who DO NOT have your vmail certificate in their whitelist. You must first buy a once-off certificate from the US post office. The once-off certificate is called a v-stamp and cost US $1 each. Signing your email with the $1 vstamp, you can then send the vmail to that person.
A good movie is simply not a bad movie.
A movie can be bad in N ways.
Therefore a good movie is one which fails to be bad in all N ways.
Everybody talks about this and that but no one offers to say what the Language of the future looks like.
Well, I don't know either but I have some ideas on what features it would have.
Feature no 1. The language of the future is highly transformable.
What this means is that it is easy to transform a program written in this language into another program also written in this language. These two programs will do the same functional requirements. The differences is that the transform program would be more efficient than the untransform program. Can you not see the beauty of this thing?
The first compiler for the Language of the future will be the most inefficient compiler ever. Instead it will be the most logically correct compiler.
Next, you compile the compiler (source code) and you get version two of the compiler. Version two is still written(or transformed) in the language of the future. But it will be slightly more efficient than version one. Just slightly. Have a big guess what the next step will be?
That's right. Using Version two of the compiler, compile the version two of the compiler to produce Version three of the compiler.
Version three of the compiler will be more efficient than version two of the compiler which (in turn) is more efficient than Version one of the compiler. All three versions of the compiler does the same functional requirements.
After an infinite versions, you will have the ultimate language of the future's compiler. It will take a program written in that language and produced the most efficient machine code to satisfy the functional requirements of the program.
The key thing is a language which is highly transformable. C will not do. Perl will not do. The language must have minimal data structures or Axioms.
Note that the compiler does two different things. 1. It transform the program into another program in that future language. 2. It converts the future language into machine code (I think this is called the assembler)
Gentleman, here are the three fundamental laws of turmoildynamics in the Computer Industries.
The Zeroth Law
The heated discussions and debates in the computer industry will always move from a cold topic area towards a hot topic area.
The First Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Moore's Law
The number of transistors per integrated circuit at the most economical price will double every 18 months.
The Second Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Microsoft's Law
The retail price of a standard Microsoft package (like Microsoft Office) will double every 60 months.
The Third Law of turmoildynamics: aka the Open Source's Law
The amount penetration of GPL open source programs in the commercial business environment will double every 30 months.
I remenber the days of perl 5.004 and boy was that good and compact! Then as time so pass, more and more "features" are added into perl 5.004 and the result is that now you have too many features spoils the broth. As perl 5.004 it is PERFECT for replacing bourne shell, sed and awk. But instead of being stable (and not changing), it kept on changing. This is bad from a system admin point of view because you want to be sure that the script you wrote in 1999 will work in 2019 without any changes (just like bourne shell).
/usr/bin/perl5 and make sure that it stays static for all eternity. There are values in things which do not change, things you can depend on year after year without fear.
Instead if Perl kept on changing then you can't be sure and when you have literally thousands of little perl scripts everywhere this is intolerable.
Perhaps they should have kept Perl 5 as
You said
NASA doesn't need 20 or 30 shuttles, however, if we could get the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russians, the Japanese, Aussies, and even the Koreans to join up with the promise of owning their own shuttles, the cost could be easily be spread out.
Getting the Aussies to join up? Are you out of your mind??? There are 280 million people in USA. There is less than 20 million people in Australia. How on earth can we built even one shuttle? The cost will bankrupt the entire Australian nation.
Have you ever used PALM OS on a palm pilot?
Marvel subsidiary Toy Biz Inc. pushed Judge Barzilay to declare its heroes nonhuman so it could win a lower duty rate on action figures imported from China in the mid-1990s. At the time, tariffs put higher duties on dolls than toys. According to the U.S. tariff code, human figures are dolls, while figures representing animals or "creatures," such as monsters and robots, are deemed toys. The problem is with the intepretation of the line "human figures are dolls". What it should be taken to mean is that any figure which resembles a human being even one which dresses up strangely should be consider a doll. Thus wolverine is a doll. ie. man in funny suit with fake claws sticking out. Note: that the actual story and history of the character is irrelevant. It's what the figure resembles. Spiderman is a doll. Moleman is a doll. Man with growth disorder. The thing is a monster.
The sheer arrogance of the slashdot poster is unbelievable. Just listen to this:
This story at New Scientist describes how, using cell simulation in computers, evolution can be simulated. How long until we can work out what the DNA sequence for a Dragon should be I wonder?
Come on! The simulation is about as closer to reality as the economist assumptions of the rational consumers. You don't know how many corners they can cut in their simulation. It's just a simulation and it is as good as the assumptions made by the people who created the simulation. Real life is messy and difficult to predict. It will be hundreds of years before they get the simulation even close to the true working of a real cell.
You (the receiver) have to pay for incoming SMS message? What country are you in?