If this system can be used to parse images and find things which are visually similar to a small error level, could this be extended to form an accurate character recognition system? Is there any reason why it couldn't match up letters, typefaces in the same way? CR being such a difficult field to break through intelligently (as evidenced by the fact that so many sign-up pages now ask you to type in the characters you can see to prove you're not a script), would it be such a leap from this system to a proper CR system?
--- --- --- citi_bank_ wrote: From citi_bank_ Sat Jan 31 02:19:56 2004 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:19:56 -0500 From: citi_bank_ To: Joskyn Subject: citi_bank Email Veerification
Dear _citibank Mebmers,
This leter was sennt by_the Citi_Bank serevr to veerify your E-mail addres_. You must clomptee this psrecos by clicking on the link below and enntering in the litle winddow your Citbiank Debit_ full card nummber and PiN that you_use on_the Atm Machine. That is done for your pocetrtion -m- becourse some of_our memebrs no lengor have accses to their email addseesrs and we must verify it.
...although they have to first get to him. In the veal-fattening pen offices we have today, past evening time the office would be in utter darkness. Finding your office mate would be like a blind lab mice navigating a maze, only of office cubicles. It would take forever (probably longer than the power took to come back on), and would probably only serve to get you more irritated:P
Now my fridge will get spammed (sic), worms will infest my lightbulbs, my appliances will get deleted left right and centre, and my house will reboot at odd times, being slower to switch back on and losing more electricity points each time it does.
Not to mention the 'Blackout.A throgh Blackout.J' DDoS that's gonna be happening on SCO's HQ...
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Try The Postmodernism Generator if you want more randomly-generated lengthy pieces that mean nothing whatsoever:P
actually offer in the way of improvement over current, non-linux handhelds? Surely most people that buy handheld pcs aren't likely to care what it's running, so long as it gets the jobs done that they want?
I know you could code your own handheld distros and so on and so forth, but let's face it - as long as it acts as an organiser, has a nice display that's not too cluttered, accepts input well and doesn't fall over too often (which describes my last handheld perfectly well), why does it really make a difference whether or not it's Linux-based or not? Is this simply a release for those Linuxheads that hate microsoft? Or does it have some other benefits that I have overlooked?
Why leading companies (eg. Creative, Apple, etc.) consistently fail to support, or even downright ignore the Ogg format - it's a good, clean, relatively non-lossy, and compact compression system. Why isn't it supported by the mainstream audio hardware manufacturers?
With further enhancements, Ogg could be set to draw level with MP3 on a usability and listenability basis (is that a word? it is now!), only sadly not on a compatibility basis. We can only hope that Ogg will grow in popularity and so become a more prominent feature in the audio market.
Surely this has,if nothing else, the potential to simply create more problems than it solves?
Solved: Annoying need to wait for a few seconds while my machine comes out of hibernate mode.
Problem: A plethora of BIOS destroying viruses and worms, spread by email, capable of rendering whole systems useless.
Given the (frankly silly) amount of worms circulating in today's email, would this really produce a worthwhile benefit? I fail to see how this produces more good effects than bad. If you really, honestly, have such a pressed schedule that you can't wait for your machine to come out of hibernate mode then
a) You need a less pressing job and b) What are you doing on/.?:P
Technically - if you reduce it down to its basic components - you have a point. But apply this to other ares of life and you start getting problems.
A car is, by your rationale, just a collection of iron, rubber, various textiles, and some other metals. These are in turn just collections of random molecules. You can collect molecules just by digging in the ground! What makes a car special?
The point is that a car is special because it requires input - design, construction, imagination and engineering. You can't just throw a bunch of molecules together and come out with ca r, any more than you can just hammer on a keyboard's 1 and 0 keys and come out with a full dvd copy of the latest movie. It's not that it's just basic components that causes the problems, it's the fact that it has been created.
Hence the thing called intellectual property. Yes, it may just be a collection of 1s and 0s to you, or to anyone else, in all its bare glory - but the point is that it's somebody's collection of 1s and 0s. You can't contend that it's as much yours as the person's who created it just because it consists of basic components, any more than you can contend that the latest car on the street is as much yours as the company's who created it.
It seems that the instant reaction by so many, including the music industry, is to make an enemy of something which could so easily be a potential friend.
The music industry instantly took a dislike to the filesharing apps and p2p networks - why? Because they were causing lost sales...certainly. But so often in this day and age, music (and other) companies fail to see the bigger picture. Loss of sales isn't the only thing that p2p networks cause.
Why don't they also look at p2p networks as massive, global advertising? And not only that, massive, global free advertising. Why does the thing that could help you so much instantly have to be rejected?
One could hark back to the days of the first submarine - another invention widely regarded as counter-productive as an example. You can almost hear them saying "A boat that's designed to sink? You're insane!" The fact that these "sinking boats" would become massively useful, widely used, and fulfil their great potential (albeit a potential to blow people up) was largely ignored.
And we have the same today. In the form of global, user-viewable, massively-multi-user (to coin a phrase) free advertising. I never understand why knee-jerk reactions such as "it's losing us sales, it's bad, kill kill kill, sue sue sue", having been shown to be so often counter-productive in the past, can't be avoided, and the full potential realised.
...Human Wars. Robots of superior intelligence build highly aggressive, hugely muscular humans to beat the crap out of one another on RoboTV. Eventually they will evolve to become more intelligent than their creators, and we'll go full circle...maybe:P
Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.
Interesting actually. Einstein didn't. A common misconception amongst many religious groups in some desperate hope to hang onto some credibility in this age of reason and common sense, is that Einstein was religious, and believed in god.
While a Jew by descent, he had no religious beliefs of his own - in fact when this nonsense was brought to his attention he was indignant at the suggestion:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.". (From Albert Einstein, "The Human Side", ed. H. Dukas and B. Hoffman (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981).
He's also got three hundred college diplomas and has access to every single pr0n page in the world. Not to mention probably having had three liver transplants to make right for all the herbal supplements he's been taking.
...my comment on the other thread. It seems there really are people out there who value their inbox being filled with mindless junk.
In a survey by MailShell, a San Francisco antispam company, 8% of respondents said they have bought products via spam. Spammers say that percentage is probably low because many people are too embarrassed to admit responding to spam.
Well, there you go. Far higher than I'd ever have imagined...and the spammers admit that replying to spam is embarrassing. Guess they realise a bad thing when they see it.
Although
Mr. Soto recently spent more than $100 on vitamins
you do have to question the man's ability to appreciate the value of a dollar. 100 bucks on vitamins? I'll go down the high street and get three bottles for 10, thank you very much.
The best thing to do to stop the ridiculous tide of spam would surely be to force spammers to eat one can of SPAM per piece of spam sent.
Eventually, they'd all be either so scared of their SPAM punishment that no more spam was sent, or they'd be dead from SPAM poisoning. Either way, we acheive the desired effect.
I believe the madness is so intense that it recently rose to an estimated 60%.
Say you send out a million spam emails. How many of those do you expect to reply? 30? 50? How many people are actually insane or rich (or both) enough to think "hey, actually, I'll have some of this v1@g|r..-A stuff"?
Can it really be worth being a spammer, given the cash you have to lay out in the first place? OR is the idea these days to simply send as much e-mail as possible to no particular end?
I know you have to spend money to make money, but $2000? Even 2000 Canadian?
Agreed. A monopoly is a monopoly is a monopoly. You can't discriminate just because it's a smaller market, or one that's likely to have less publicity.
Unfair business monopolies are rife these days - and a step in the right direction would undoubtedly be welcome.
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If this system can be used to parse images and find things which are visually similar to a small error level, could this be extended to form an accurate character recognition system? Is there any reason why it couldn't match up letters, typefaces in the same way? CR being such a difficult field to break through intelligently (as evidenced by the fact that so many sign-up pages now ask you to type in the characters you can see to prove you're not a script), would it be such a leap from this system to a proper CR system?
This is just total genius...
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--- citi_bank_ wrote:
From citi_bank_ Sat Jan 31 02:19:56 2004
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:19:56 -0500
From: citi_bank_
To: Joskyn
Subject: citi_bank Email Veerification
Dear _citibank Mebmers,
This leter was sennt by_the Citi_Bank serevr to veerify your E-mail addres_. You must clomptee this psrecos by clicking on the link below and enntering in the litle winddow your Citbiank Debit_ full card nummber and PiN that you_use on_the Atm Machine. That is done for your pocetrtion -m- becourse some of_our memebrs no lengor have accses to their email addseesrs and we must verify it.
http://www.citibankonline.com:4%4e%50%74%708%4d
To veerify _your_ _email_ adress and access _your_ _citibank account, clic on_the link below_.
Thank you.
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You just can't make stuff up like that.
Oh, wait...
...although they have to first get to him. In the veal-fattening pen offices we have today, past evening time the office would be in utter darkness. Finding your office mate would be like a blind lab mice navigating a maze, only of office cubicles. It would take forever (probably longer than the power took to come back on), and would probably only serve to get you more irritated :P
Now my fridge will get spammed (sic), worms will infest my lightbulbs, my appliances will get deleted left right and centre, and my house will reboot at odd times, being slower to switch back on and losing more electricity points each time it does.
Not to mention the 'Blackout.A throgh Blackout.J' DDoS that's gonna be happening on SCO's HQ...
Try The Postmodernism Generator if you want more randomly-generated lengthy pieces that mean nothing whatsoever :P
actually offer in the way of improvement over current, non-linux handhelds? Surely most people that buy handheld pcs aren't likely to care what it's running, so long as it gets the jobs done that they want?
I know you could code your own handheld distros and so on and so forth, but let's face it - as long as it acts as an organiser, has a nice display that's not too cluttered, accepts input well and doesn't fall over too often (which describes my last handheld perfectly well), why does it really make a difference whether or not it's Linux-based or not? Is this simply a release for those Linuxheads that hate microsoft? Or does it have some other benefits that I have overlooked?
Why leading companies (eg. Creative, Apple, etc.) consistently fail to support, or even downright ignore the Ogg format - it's a good, clean, relatively non-lossy, and compact compression system. Why isn't it supported by the mainstream audio hardware manufacturers? With further enhancements, Ogg could be set to draw level with MP3 on a usability and listenability basis (is that a word? it is now!), only sadly not on a compatibility basis. We can only hope that Ogg will grow in popularity and so become a more prominent feature in the audio market.
So THAT'S what Leela had on her wrist all the way through Futurama...:)
Start --> Programs --> ATM --> Configure --> Flush Cash (sic)
Surely this has,if nothing else, the potential to simply create more problems than it solves?
/.? :P
Solved: Annoying need to wait for a few seconds while my machine comes out of hibernate mode.
Problem: A plethora of BIOS destroying viruses and worms, spread by email, capable of rendering whole systems useless.
Given the (frankly silly) amount of worms circulating in today's email, would this really produce a worthwhile benefit? I fail to see how this produces more good effects than bad. If you really, honestly, have such a pressed schedule that you can't wait for your machine to come out of hibernate mode then
a) You need a less pressing job
and
b) What are you doing on
Their public web display of current tracking information has already been /.ed. Wonder if it took out their database as well? :P
Technically - if you reduce it down to its basic components - you have a point. But apply this to other ares of life and you start getting problems.
A car is, by your rationale, just a collection of iron, rubber, various textiles, and some other metals. These are in turn just collections of random molecules. You can collect molecules just by digging in the ground! What makes a car special?
The point is that a car is special because it requires input - design, construction, imagination and engineering. You can't just throw a bunch of molecules together and come out with ca r, any more than you can just hammer on a keyboard's 1 and 0 keys and come out with a full dvd copy of the latest movie. It's not that it's just basic components that causes the problems, it's the fact that it has been created.
Hence the thing called intellectual property. Yes, it may just be a collection of 1s and 0s to you, or to anyone else, in all its bare glory - but the point is that it's somebody's collection of 1s and 0s. You can't contend that it's as much yours as the person's who created it just because it consists of basic components, any more than you can contend that the latest car on the street is as much yours as the company's who created it.
...that makes people instantly fear it?
It seems that the instant reaction by so many, including the music industry, is to make an enemy of something which could so easily be a potential friend.
The music industry instantly took a dislike to the filesharing apps and p2p networks - why? Because they were causing lost sales...certainly. But so often in this day and age, music (and other) companies fail to see the bigger picture. Loss of sales isn't the only thing that p2p networks cause.
Why don't they also look at p2p networks as massive, global advertising? And not only that, massive, global free advertising. Why does the thing that could help you so much instantly have to be rejected?
One could hark back to the days of the first submarine - another invention widely regarded as counter-productive as an example. You can almost hear them saying "A boat that's designed to sink? You're insane!" The fact that these "sinking boats" would become massively useful, widely used, and fulfil their great potential (albeit a potential to blow people up) was largely ignored.
And we have the same today. In the form of global, user-viewable, massively-multi-user (to coin a phrase) free advertising. I never understand why knee-jerk reactions such as "it's losing us sales, it's bad, kill kill kill, sue sue sue", having been shown to be so often counter-productive in the past, can't be avoided, and the full potential realised.
...Human Wars. Robots of superior intelligence build highly aggressive, hugely muscular humans to beat the crap out of one another on RoboTV. Eventually they will evolve to become more intelligent than their creators, and we'll go full circle...maybe :P
Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein believed in God. So do I.
Interesting actually. Einstein didn't. A common misconception amongst many religious groups in some desperate hope to hang onto some credibility in this age of reason and common sense, is that Einstein was religious, and believed in god.
While a Jew by descent, he had no religious beliefs of his own - in fact when this nonsense was brought to his attention he was indignant at the suggestion:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religion then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.". (From Albert Einstein, "The Human Side", ed. H. Dukas and B. Hoffman (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1981).
He's also got three hundred college diplomas and has access to every single pr0n page in the world. Not to mention probably having had three liver transplants to make right for all the herbal supplements he's been taking.
...my comment on the other thread. It seems there really are people out there who value their inbox being filled with mindless junk.
In a survey by MailShell, a San Francisco antispam company, 8% of respondents said they have bought products via spam. Spammers say that percentage is probably low because many people are too embarrassed to admit responding to spam.
Well, there you go. Far higher than I'd ever have imagined...and the spammers admit that replying to spam is embarrassing. Guess they realise a bad thing when they see it.
Although
Mr. Soto recently spent more than $100 on vitamins
you do have to question the man's ability to appreciate the value of a dollar. 100 bucks on vitamins? I'll go down the high street and get three bottles for 10, thank you very much.
The best thing to do to stop the ridiculous tide of spam would surely be to force spammers to eat one can of SPAM per piece of spam sent.
Eventually, they'd all be either so scared of their SPAM punishment that no more spam was sent, or they'd be dead from SPAM poisoning. Either way, we acheive the desired effect.
I believe the madness is so intense that it recently rose to an estimated 60%. Say you send out a million spam emails. How many of those do you expect to reply? 30? 50? How many people are actually insane or rich (or both) enough to think "hey, actually, I'll have some of this v1@g|r..-A stuff"? Can it really be worth being a spammer, given the cash you have to lay out in the first place? OR is the idea these days to simply send as much e-mail as possible to no particular end? I know you have to spend money to make money, but $2000? Even 2000 Canadian?
Agreed. A monopoly is a monopoly is a monopoly. You can't discriminate just because it's a smaller market, or one that's likely to have less publicity. Unfair business monopolies are rife these days - and a step in the right direction would undoubtedly be welcome.