for developing "niche" applications, aimed for specific ltasks. I don't believe Simputer alone does any magic - but it is the corner stone for providing the exact tool for exact needs - such as for creating an application for increasing milk productivity. You would not guess how complicated (and important) issue something like that can be. There are zillions of cases like this which could be solved with very simple (and intentionally very simple) applications. Before, it was just impossible to have that application reach those in need.
Also, you could also mine your site for smammers like this [cyberian.org].
as one person already mailed me about the unique address per spammer, I thought I should clarify here that it is infact: as unique per spammer as an md5sum of all the details gathered from the requester of the page can be - without attacking the requesting host:) Therefore it is _NOT_ unique per request, that would be insane - instead per host/useragent/referer & some mystical details. yes, you can avoid it, but it seems spammers are not that educated. And when they are, it will just need to be enhanced:)
And to the other question: No, I have not sent any actual invoice to a spammer. Instead I have succesfully made 5 spammers so fall apologize in the fear of being invoiced and stop harvesting my site for emails.
Lately there has been many efforts that seriously help the problem with spam. One of those being Spamnet - today there are already almost 200 000 spamnet clients installed and as the result almost all of the spam gets classified as junk and never consume your time.
Then, I should ofcourse plug this Openchallenge submission about Learning e-mail classifier:The use of a naive bayesian algorithm in automatically filtering spam and classifying e-mail has been discussed and also implemented in the past.
Implement an automatic e-mail classifier system which works together with an IMAP server. The system should:
a) constantly refine the database used to classify messages either by periodically re-analyzing the IMAP folders or by tracking each incoming message and periodically checking to which folder the user actually moves each message.
b) assign each incoming message an extra header item which contains the path of the IMAP folder where the message belongs according to the classification algorithm.
Also, you could also mine your site for smammers like this.
So, my point is that just during last two years the spam problem has exceeded so much that there is enough interest in fighting it seriously. Spam will die.
In fact, if you are hiring a developer for example and the candidate does not have anything conrete which he has done to show to you. If the candidate is asked to program for example 3 simple (and quick) programs related to his/her future work - then both the future employy and employer have much better basis to form their opinion on. Based on my experience, people on LIKE to do these real-life tests, because it makes sense. Why would you want to start a job that you will be uncapable of doing?
Doesn't the cost of EVERYTHING come down when it's mass produced?
To me it seems that the factors that are limiting the price-cuts from mass-productions are ones that are not feasible by current technology. Ofcourse, the price will come down - but is this invention still feasible in say 3-4 years when the technology needed to bring the cost to a fraction of the current is available? Don't know, but...
Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
No - just the opposite, I thought the/. audience would be equipped with the brains to make up the rest of what I wanted to say, after stating the obvious. Sorry:)
A number of issues still need to be worked out, Fourkas said. One is that once data is written to the disk, it can't be changed. Each disk has to be written individually, he said. A mass- production method would need to be found to lower costs. The cost of the laser also is prohibitive. "The one we use is about $100,000," Fourkas said. The cost would come down with mass production, he said.
I believe he mentions it in response to the common belief that OSS is *inherently* more secure than closed source. We use tons of open-source software at CERIAS, so it's not the case that Spaf has a dislike for open source.
Thanks for that info:) I guess the thing that I did not understand, is why he put open source inbetween words that describe specific technologies (VOIP, Bluetooth, open source, automated patching, RFIDs and biometrics) - I mean, open source/closed source/shared source whatever are methods(not maybe the correct word, blame my english) under which you can create the other mentioned specific technologies. It just seemed to me that for some reason, he wanted to put open source in that -wrong- family.
I guess this was mostly a joke, but in case it was not - you might be interested in knowing that:
Amazon Tastes Its Own Patent-Pending Medicine and One-Click Shopping: litigation turns out unexpected real owner: Amazon (internet bookstore) received a US patent on reducing the need for data input in case of repeated ordering through a network like the WWW. Based on this patent, Amazon sought an injunction against a competing bookstore. Amazon had applied for the same patent at the EPO under EP0902381 in Sep. 1998 under the name "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network". By the time a search report was issued by the EPO, this patent had already aroused an uproar in the USA, leading to the discovery of a lot of prior art. Under the impression of these facts, Amazon refrained from further pursuing the patent application at the EPO. Meanwhile it has turned out that the One-Click technique is "owned" by a subsidiary of Thomson Multimedia, which had obtained a similar patent a few years earlier.
Whoever is going to try to force it - will be in trouble. Seems like there is previous art more than carry. Even I have made such a wonderful thing in 1997. Who has not:) :)
This is good, but final celebration is to be held later. And there are still changes that find some new heave artillery against this. Anyway, good work!
The Working Group hopes to advance to Proposed Recommendation in February or March 2003, with a final policy to be adopted by May 2003.
1) Open Source is a technology. 2) Open Source is inherently less secure than closed source projects because you have more people analyzing the algorithms and processes in an open source project. 3) Open Source is a fad. Does that clear things up for you?
Yes, it clears some things up *hidden message here* - but not related to my guestion.:)
Consumers and technologists will continue to be enamored with fads and flash rather than quality and safety. Wireless will continue to be deployed in sensitive locations despite the terrible vulnerabilities and risks. Furthermore, we'll see policymakers and technicians continue to place faith in technology to solve our problems instead of investing in sound management and trained personnel. Other technologies about which we should exercise caution include VOIP, Bluetooth, open source, automated patching, RFIDs and biometrics.
Is exactly what? Placing open source in that list makes no sense to me. Why?
I'm turning to the Slashdot community to see if anyone has either practical experience or informative insight into a problem like this? The objective is to determine the TCO of deploying Linux as a core part of our operational environment so what does that mean in the sense of hardware, software, middleware and management impact?"
Without that information it is impossible to even try to guess the TCO. You should describe your environment, human resources and everything else in quite much detail to have beneficial input. As you might have read from some TCO reports, replacing things with Linux might have anything between a negative and very postive TCO impact. Anyway, I would suggest first trying with a dedicated group of individuals - then if it works, enlarge to one division (if your company has divisions). Take smaller steps. Or... do you already have results from tries like this?
(this one for the one who was not looking for only an online degree)
Depending on what is the field you would like to specialize in, think about studying abroad. For example, I have heard that studying in Finland in HUT or TUT for example might be a major boost both for your skills and employment opportunities especially if you plan to specialize in wireless stuff. (Why? Much of it originates from Nokia)
So copying encrypted content is good and fine. So Intertrust spends is energy instead trying to make sure that encrypted content stays encrypted all the time, up to the point where it goes analog and hits your screen or your speakers or your whatever.
This is exactly the thing which puzzles me - is there really the common interest to provide encrypted ladders to the level, that it is not easy or feasible to snoop and copy the data - as any phase where the content is in non-encrypted (digital) form will do. Maybe it works, but I am sceptical.
I have not yet understood how any DRM or copyprotection will overcome the problem, that when the content is downloaded/played through legitimate HW&SW it can at the same time be resaved without the copyprotection - atleast in the case of video and audio. The case for software is not much more easier, as long as the software is run a non-trusted environment. Ofcourse DRM is not just about this , and it might be very much useful for collecting money from those who want to pay for what they use and not steal the content. But I don't think there's any more magic in it.
...there needs to be some more elegant solution for this.
Who is going to buy them? Why is everyone suddenly manufacturing them? What has changed in the world during one year? Is it only the fact that flat/touch screens are cheaper now? Where should I place one? I already had a VT220 terminal in my toilet 5 or so years ago, but it did not work out that well.
I mean really - why does everyone just suddenly believe these things have a future? I don't mean they would not, but why now?
Happy to see this:) If you want to remove your cover show your identity, get in contact with me, I would like to write a little article about this for some publications (including the employer's view) to promote this aspect of Openchallenge and open source in general. Find my contact info here.
What can I do to acquire these essential new skills
Instead, you should find a good way to demonstrate your skills (and maybe learn a bit of something new while demonstrating). Maybe you could do that by contributing something significant to an existing open source project - or maybe by taking a challenge and implmeneting someone's idea.
I do think, and based on my experience, employers will contact you - if you can show evidence like this.
I guess time has done miracles in polishing the memories related to it then. I only remember the amazingly long loading times - which, on second thought, might be one the main reasons which triggered me into drinking lots of coffee already in the early years:)
"Marvel has reported millions of dollars in earnings from the film but has told Lee the company has seen no "profits" as defined by their contract."
Haha! I was planning to buy my son Spiderman related stuff for the christmas, but not I will have to find a new super hero. Any suggestions, how about the dust puppy from user friendly ?:))
...oh, I just noticed that I was just echoing what 3-State Bit said earlier (althought his response was much more street-wise:))
"As long as you use MY version, it's the same as closed-source, except that I receive contributions more readily, and can't start charging you for it [or you'd get my version elsewhere]. But if I start fucking you over and my version starts sucking, because I'm trying to limit what you're able to do, then you can find a version of MY SOFTWARE that doesn't include my fucking you over, and it's totally legit. Imagine if Microsoft had to deal with the idea that if they did things to alienate their users, their users would run not simply WINE, which is okay at running SOME windows programs, but WINDOWS ITSELF, only without the crippling antifeatures. At the most basic level, open source means that if your "benign dictatorship" isn't all that benign, they can get the same dictatorship with all the benignity they want, for FREE, elsewhere. It's democracy. It's Freedom. It's.... OPEN SOURCE."
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for developing "niche" applications, aimed for specific ltasks. I don't believe Simputer alone does any magic - but it is the corner stone for providing the exact tool for exact needs - such as for creating an application for increasing milk productivity. You would not guess how complicated (and important) issue something like that can be. There are zillions of cases like this which could be solved with very simple (and intentionally very simple) applications. Before, it was just impossible to have that application reach those in need.
as one person already mailed me about the unique address per spammer, I thought I should clarify here that it is infact: as unique per spammer as an md5sum of all the details gathered from the requester of the page can be - without attacking the requesting host :) Therefore it is _NOT_ unique per request, that would be insane - instead per host/useragent/referer & some mystical details. yes, you can avoid it, but it seems spammers are not that educated. And when they are, it will just need to be enhanced :)
And to the other question: No, I have not sent any actual invoice to a spammer. Instead I have succesfully made 5 spammers so fall apologize in the fear of being invoiced and stop harvesting my site for emails.
Then, I should ofcourse plug this Openchallenge submission about Learning e-mail classifier:The use of a naive bayesian algorithm in automatically filtering spam and classifying e-mail has been discussed and also implemented in the past. Implement an automatic e-mail classifier system which works together with an IMAP server. The system should: a) constantly refine the database used to classify messages either by periodically re-analyzing the IMAP folders or by tracking each incoming message and periodically checking to which folder the user actually moves each message. b) assign each incoming message an extra header item which contains the path of the IMAP folder where the message belongs according to the classification algorithm.
Also, you could also mine your site for smammers like this.
So, my point is that just during last two years the spam problem has exceeded so much that there is enough interest in fighting it seriously. Spam will die.
In fact, if you are hiring a developer for example and the candidate does not have anything conrete which he has done to show to you. If the candidate is asked to program for example 3 simple (and quick) programs related to his/her future work - then both the future employy and employer have much better basis to form their opinion on. Based on my experience, people on LIKE to do these real-life tests, because it makes sense. Why would you want to start a job that you will be uncapable of doing?
To me it seems that the factors that are limiting the price-cuts from mass-productions are ones that are not feasible by current technology. Ofcourse, the price will come down - but is this invention still feasible in say 3-4 years when the technology needed to bring the cost to a fraction of the current is available? Don't know, but...
Why is it that when someone gets interviewed about their cool idea, they suddenly think that anyone that will read or hear the interview is a complete moron?
No - just the opposite, I thought the /. audience would be equipped with the brains to make up the rest of what I wanted to say, after stating the obvious. Sorry :)
A number of issues still need to be worked out, Fourkas said. One is that once data is written to the disk, it can't be changed. Each disk has to be written individually, he said. A mass- production method would need to be found to lower costs. The cost of the laser also is prohibitive. "The one we use is about $100,000," Fourkas said. The cost would come down with mass production, he said.
Thanks for that info :) I guess the thing that I did not understand, is why he put open source inbetween words that describe specific technologies (VOIP, Bluetooth, open source, automated patching, RFIDs and biometrics) - I mean, open source/closed source/shared source whatever are methods(not maybe the correct word, blame my english) under which you can create the other mentioned specific technologies. It just seemed to me that for some reason, he wanted to put open source in that -wrong- family.
I guess this was mostly a joke, but in case it was not - you might be interested in knowing that:
Amazon Tastes Its Own Patent-Pending Medicine and One-Click Shopping: litigation turns out unexpected real owner:
Amazon (internet bookstore) received a US patent on reducing the need for data input in case of repeated ordering through a network like the WWW. Based on this patent, Amazon sought an injunction against a competing bookstore. Amazon had applied for the same patent at the EPO under EP0902381 in Sep. 1998 under the name "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network". By the time a search report was issued by the EPO, this patent had already aroused an uproar in the USA, leading to the discovery of a lot of prior art. Under the impression of these facts, Amazon refrained from further pursuing the patent application at the EPO. Meanwhile it has turned out that the One-Click technique is "owned" by a subsidiary of Thomson Multimedia, which had obtained a similar patent a few years earlier.
Whoever is going to try to force it - will be in trouble. Seems like there is previous art more than carry. Even I have made such a wonderful thing in 1997. Who has not :) :)
Sorry, s/changes/chances/
The Working Group hopes to advance to Proposed Recommendation in February or March 2003, with a final policy to be adopted by May 2003.
Yes, it clears some things up *hidden message here* - but not related to my guestion. :)
Is exactly what? Placing open source in that list makes no sense to me. Why?
Without that information it is impossible to even try to guess the TCO. You should describe your environment, human resources and everything else in quite much detail to have beneficial input. As you might have read from some TCO reports, replacing things with Linux might have anything between a negative and very postive TCO impact. Anyway, I would suggest first trying with a dedicated group of individuals - then if it works, enlarge to one division (if your company has divisions). Take smaller steps. Or... do you already have results from tries like this?
Depending on what is the field you would like to specialize in, think about studying abroad. For example, I have heard that studying in Finland in HUT or TUT for example might be a major boost both for your skills and employment opportunities especially if you plan to specialize in wireless stuff. (Why? Much of it originates from Nokia)
This is exactly the thing which puzzles me - is there really the common interest to provide encrypted ladders to the level, that it is not easy or feasible to snoop and copy the data - as any phase where the content is in non-encrypted (digital) form will do. Maybe it works, but I am sceptical.
Not convincing. I would stick to my Communicator for that use. You can do most about everything with it and the SSH client for Symbian/EPOC.
I mean really - why does everyone just suddenly believe these things have a future? I don't mean they would not, but why now?
Uhmm.. Actually I have written some this and that. But, as you might guess from the context of this thread - nothing very original ;))))
Happy to see this :) If you want to remove your cover show your identity, get in contact with me, I would like to write a little article about this for some publications (including the employer's view) to promote this aspect of Openchallenge and open source in general. Find my contact info here.
Instead, you should find a good way to demonstrate your skills (and maybe learn a bit of something new while demonstrating). Maybe you could do that by contributing something significant to an existing open source project - or maybe by taking a challenge and implmeneting someone's idea.
I do think, and based on my experience, employers will contact you - if you can show evidence like this.
Thanks for posting that :) this is definitely good news for my son :)
I guess time has done miracles in polishing the memories related to it then. I only remember the amazingly long loading times - which, on second thought, might be one the main reasons which triggered me into drinking lots of coffee already in the early years :)
Haha! I was planning to buy my son Spiderman related stuff for the christmas, but not I will have to find a new super hero. Any suggestions, how about the dust puppy from user friendly ? :))
"As long as you use MY version, it's the same as closed-source, except that I receive contributions more readily, and can't start charging you for it [or you'd get my version elsewhere]. But if I start fucking you over and my version starts sucking, because I'm trying to limit what you're able to do, then you can find a version of MY SOFTWARE that doesn't include my fucking you over, and it's totally legit. Imagine if Microsoft had to deal with the idea that if they did things to alienate their users, their users would run not simply WINE, which is okay at running SOME windows programs, but WINDOWS ITSELF, only without the crippling antifeatures. At the most basic level, open source means that if your "benign dictatorship" isn't all that benign, they can get the same dictatorship with all the benignity they want, for FREE, elsewhere. It's democracy. It's Freedom. It's.... OPEN SOURCE."