But not everything is open. I think of "the great firewall of China" among other things. But adding 6 billon people to the OSS movement might be a good thing.
Each transistor can perform at 2.000.000.000 calculations per second
Wrong
These CPU's uses complementary logic, so even the inverter, the simplest logic gate, uses two transistors. The NAND and XOR uses four and so on. The Rule of Thumb(tm) is two transistor per gate input. A 1-bit fulladder will use some 24-30 transistors. And the adder is the simplest aritmetic module. The transistors operate faster than this anyway, since several logical operations is performed serially i each pipeline step.
You are right... But, how can you see if there is a message in the image, or if its just your sombody sending you some picures from yeaterdays party or a screenshot? If you have "non-geek"- friends, chance is they will be using (iack)Outlook which happily sends HTML.
This may actually be something worth looking into. A lot of todays spam embed the message into images as well. This makes traditionally bayesian filtering impossible, because the rest of the mail can be "poisioned" with ligitimate words.
However combining i.e. Clara OCR with a HTML renderer and a bayesian filtering suit might work. Of course this will require a lot more computing power.
Don't agree. This is sorta the same as the idea behind "full disclosure" of security issues. The underground know all the tricks, and thus it is better that the sysadmins out there also have some idea of whats going on. This keeps us (the filtermakers more exactly) one step closer. Alot of these filters are OSS anyway. So the spammers can design there spam to circumvent the filters. They can even buy properitary filters and just test against them when designing spam.
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But not everything is open. I think of "the great firewall of China" among other things. But adding 6 billon people to the OSS movement might be a good thing.
... one migt want to look at the BriQ instead. Not DIN formfactor but you should be able to fit it in a dashboard.
Each transistor can perform at 2.000.000.000 calculations per second
Wrong
These CPU's uses complementary logic, so even the inverter, the simplest logic gate, uses two transistors. The NAND and XOR uses four and so on. The Rule of Thumb(tm) is two transistor per gate input. A 1-bit fulladder will use some 24-30 transistors. And the adder is the simplest aritmetic module. The transistors operate faster than this anyway, since several logical operations is performed serially i each pipeline step.
You are right... But, how can you see if there is a message in the image, or if its just your sombody sending you some picures from yeaterdays party or a screenshot? If you have "non-geek"- friends, chance is they will be using (iack)Outlook which happily sends HTML.
This may actually be something worth looking into. A lot of todays spam embed the message into images as well. This makes traditionally bayesian filtering impossible, because the rest of the mail can be "poisioned" with ligitimate words.
However combining i.e. Clara OCR with a HTML renderer and a bayesian filtering suit might work. Of course this will require a lot more computing power.
Don't agree. This is sorta the same as the idea behind "full disclosure" of security issues. The underground know all the tricks, and thus it is better that the sysadmins out there also have some idea of whats going on. This keeps us (the filtermakers more exactly) one step closer. Alot of these filters are OSS anyway. So the spammers can design there spam to circumvent the filters. They can even buy properitary filters and just test against them when designing spam.
And for crying out loud, "spam" is not an acronym so stop writing it in upper case!
Actually writing it uppercase suggests that you are crying it out loud.
what the hell do you call CiscoWorks???
Today "CiscoWorks" would probably be a contradiction in terms.