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yikes, your right.
thats such a horrifically blatant error that it almost makes me wonder if these pics are genuine. after all, given that the contested versions of both system V and linux will compile, and this little snippit would certainly cause a compile error, it follows that this code cannot be from a working build of either linux or system V.
i dunno if you have a need for a multi-gigabyte audioplayer, but if you get yourself a palmpilot, such as the palm Tungsten|T you can get a program called aeroplayer for that which plays mp3 and ogg. the ogg part is free, but the mp3 ability expires after 14 days and costs ~US$20
compared to a standalone audioplayer, the Tungsten is rather pricy, but keep in mind its really designed as a PDA. besides, your average audioplayer doesn't have a 320x320 color screen.
how does a spammer know that the person behind foo@hotmail.com is a 7 year old. Furthermore, how can you possibly control this. As far as I can tell, most spams arn't specifically targetted, but are just sent out to as many adresses as possible.
furthermore, how can one implement a system for determining who is what age.
children these days are taught never to give out thier age online for thier own saftey. As I see it, the issue is that because the internet is anonymous, there isn't a reliable way for anyone, spammers included, to determine the age of someone on line.
That said, spam of all kinds irritates the hell out of me, but i just don't see how the spammers can control what agegroup they send thier spam to except by not sending any spam at all (this might not be such a bad thing, but thats a topic for antohter post).
ah yes, it probably would be possible, but then, you would be "circumventing a security device" and would surly get sued under the DMCA.
That said, palladium will probably be cracked/reverse engineered withing months or weeks of its release. at which point, microsoft will blow a head gasket and demand the immediate execution of whoever is responsible.
We need to fight this technology. I know it will be possible to turn it off at first, but this will surely cease to be possible. what palladium and other DRM technologies do is restrict the ability to freely use your own property.
Imagine owning a grill that only allowed you to grill meat produced by Boars Head. Now imagine that it is also possible to insert a small piece of paper in a slit near the handle that just happened to turn off this restriction. now, imagine that doing this, or telling others that it can be done is a crime. This is what the DMCA and DRM technologies do.
If people do not object to these technologies, they will surely be implemented, this implementation would be absolutly devistating to the free/open source community and must be stopped.
I might be wrong, but I thought that a court had ordered that you could order just one cable channell. Thus, if you just want HBO, you can get it, just be prepared to argue.
I have used this ruling to get the food network without its package of other garbage i dont need.
The scientist making these claims is demonstratably incorrect. Allow me to explain:
were the SARS virus from space, it would be expected that it would have little relationship genetically to other viri on earth. In other words, there would be no genes in sars that are genetically similar to those found in other species. However, at the beginning of the SARS virus there is a replicase gene that is identical to one found in other viruses. If you would like to confirm this for yourself, here are some instructions:
1. go to the National center for bioinformatics webpage: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2. in the search box on top, search for "sars" under nucleotide, or go here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=n ucleotide&cmd=search&term=sars
3. select one of the complete genome sequences, for the sake of this discussion, lets pick the one with the accession number AY274119.
4. go back to the NCBI homepage, and click the "hotspot" link on the left called ORF finder:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gorf/gorf.html
5. ORF finder searches for areas of a genome where a protein can be coded and thus a gene might exist. What an Open Reading Frame (ORF) is is a subject for another lengthy post, so I suggest you google for it. in any case, enter the acession number collected in step 3, enter it in the box, and click ORFfind.
6. you will now see six lines with a bunch of teal areas in them. there is a table at left showing the length of the Open Reading Frame, which frame it is in, and how long it is. This chart is organized by size, click the little blue square in the first line of this table.
7. The page will reload and the area you selected turns pink. you now will see a form at the top of the page that we will use later, and the DNA and protein sequence of the area you selected at the bottom of the page.
8. in the form at the top of the page, select "blastp" under program and "nr" for database, then click BLAST. This will begin running a program called BLAST on the section of the sequence you selected. BLAST takes a dna, or in this case, a protien sequence and compares it to every other sequence in the NCBI database.
9. a page will load telling you that blast has added your query to they queue. click the big blue format button.
10. at this point you can go and due get a cup of coffee, eat lunch, or something else, as BLAST runs, if there are a lot of people running queries, it might take quite a while.
11. when the query is done the page automatically reloads with a large table of the similar sequences found. The part we are particulary interested is the column titled "E value" this is the similarity between the query sequence and the found sequence. A value of 0.0 is an identical match. As you can see, there are many identical matches. Most of them are from various other strains of SARS, however, there are a few lines which are especially intersting:
gb|AAL57315.1| replicase [bovine coronavirus] 1896 0.0 this is from a coronavirus in cows.
ref|NP_068668.2| ORF1ab polyprotein [Murine hepatitis virus] 1863 0.0 and this one is from a hepatitis virus in mice.
both of these sequences are identical to a gene found in SARS. It strikes me that a virus originating in space would have evolved a replicase virus identical to one found on earth.
if anyone has anything to add or correct me on, I am more than happy to listen.
However, they have met with failure as the holograms degrade easily. It is extremely important that a security feature on the bill be durable, so that the bill can still be circulated if crumpled, dropped in the mud, put through a washing machine, etc.
When the $20 was last redesigned they attempted to put a hologram on it, but none of thier hologram designs passed durability tests.
As a compromise, they made the number 20 on the front bottm right corner change from black to blue depending on the angle. This is intended to make the bills harder to photocopy
While it seems obvious that something needs to be done to slow down the spammers, I dont think this would be the best way.
One of the great things about email is that it is fast, I send a message and it arrives almost instantly. However, this system would remove alot of this advantage.
Now i might be wrong here, but as far as I can see, this attempts to solve the problem by requiring users to send two messages instead of one. Not only will this greatly slow down the speed with which one can send a message, which is probably part of the point, but it will also increase bandwidth traffic. Also, you can bet that the spammers will find some way to get around these turing tests.
This is a good start but I am concerned that it will only increase bandwidth unecessarily.
I don't understand why IPv6 would ever catch on as anything but a backbone protocol
I'm afraid I have to disagree. Maybe we don't need IPv6 *right now*, but networks are growing at an alarming rate. it would not be hard to see a future in which almost EVERYTHING is attached to a network, your PDA, desktop, laptop, car, appliances, watch, etc.
while you could just stick everything behind a NAT, why do it when you can give everyone (and everything) an IP, why add that extra level of complexity.
Whenever a new development comes out, people always claim that it will never catch on, because the current system works fine. However, they are usually wrong. "this will never catch on" is broad statement to make. "never" is a big time range.
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sorry, forgot to log in yikes, your right. thats such a horrifically blatant error that it almost makes me wonder if these pics are genuine. after all, given that the contested versions of both system V and linux will compile, and this little snippit would certainly cause a compile error, it follows that this code cannot be from a working build of either linux or system V.
i dunno if you have a need for a multi-gigabyte audioplayer, but if you get yourself a palmpilot, such as the palm Tungsten|T you can get a program called aeroplayer for that which plays mp3 and ogg. the ogg part is free, but the mp3 ability expires after 14 days and costs ~US$20
compared to a standalone audioplayer, the Tungsten is rather pricy, but keep in mind its really designed as a PDA. besides, your average audioplayer doesn't have a 320x320 color screen.
that odd data appears to be from a trojan called the 55808 trojan. there was a story (and a dupe) about it on slashdot last week:
click here
just gonna be a devils advocate here.
how does a spammer know that the person behind foo@hotmail.com is a 7 year old. Furthermore, how can you possibly control this. As far as I can tell, most spams arn't specifically targetted, but are just sent out to as many adresses as possible.
furthermore, how can one implement a system for determining who is what age.
children these days are taught never to give out thier age online for thier own saftey. As I see it, the issue is that because the internet is anonymous, there isn't a reliable way for anyone, spammers included, to determine the age of someone on line.
That said, spam of all kinds irritates the hell out of me, but i just don't see how the spammers can control what agegroup they send thier spam to except by not sending any spam at all (this might not be such a bad thing, but thats a topic for antohter post).
ah yes, it probably would be possible, but then, you would be "circumventing a security device" and would surly get sued under the DMCA.
That said, palladium will probably be cracked/reverse engineered withing months or weeks of its release. at which point, microsoft will blow a head gasket and demand the immediate execution of whoever is responsible.
We need to fight this technology. I know it will be possible to turn it off at first, but this will surely cease to be possible. what palladium and other DRM technologies do is restrict the ability to freely use your own property.
Imagine owning a grill that only allowed you to grill meat produced by Boars Head. Now imagine that it is also possible to insert a small piece of paper in a slit near the handle that just happened to turn off this restriction. now, imagine that doing this, or telling others that it can be done is a crime. This is what the DMCA and DRM technologies do.
If people do not object to these technologies, they will surely be implemented, this implementation would be absolutly devistating to the free/open source community and must be stopped.
they arn't?
I might be wrong, but I thought that a court had ordered that you could order just one cable channell. Thus, if you just want HBO, you can get it, just be prepared to argue.
I have used this ruling to get the food network without its package of other garbage i dont need.
The scientist making these claims is demonstratably incorrect. Allow me to explain:
n ucleotide&cmd=search&term=sars
were the SARS virus from space, it would be expected that it would have little relationship genetically to other viri on earth. In other words, there would be no genes in sars that are genetically similar to those found in other species. However, at the beginning of the SARS virus there is a replicase gene that is identical to one found in other viruses. If you would like to confirm this for yourself, here are some instructions:
1. go to the National center for bioinformatics webpage: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
2. in the search box on top, search for "sars" under nucleotide, or go here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=
3. select one of the complete genome sequences, for the sake of this discussion, lets pick the one with the accession number AY274119.
4. go back to the NCBI homepage, and click the "hotspot" link on the left called ORF finder:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gorf/gorf.html
5. ORF finder searches for areas of a genome where a protein can be coded and thus a gene might exist. What an Open Reading Frame (ORF) is is a subject for another lengthy post, so I suggest you google for it. in any case, enter the acession number collected in step 3, enter it in the box, and click ORFfind.
6. you will now see six lines with a bunch of teal areas in them. there is a table at left showing the length of the Open Reading Frame, which frame it is in, and how long it is. This chart is organized by size, click the little blue square in the first line of this table.
7. The page will reload and the area you selected turns pink. you now will see a form at the top of the page that we will use later, and the DNA and protein sequence of the area you selected at the bottom of the page.
8. in the form at the top of the page, select "blastp" under program and "nr" for database, then click BLAST. This will begin running a program called BLAST on the section of the sequence you selected. BLAST takes a dna, or in this case, a protien sequence and compares it to every other sequence in the NCBI database.
9. a page will load telling you that blast has added your query to they queue. click the big blue format button.
10. at this point you can go and due get a cup of coffee, eat lunch, or something else, as BLAST runs, if there are a lot of people running queries, it might take quite a while.
11. when the query is done the page automatically reloads with a large table of the similar sequences found. The part we are particulary interested is the column titled "E value" this is the similarity between the query sequence and the found sequence. A value of 0.0 is an identical match. As you can see, there are many identical matches. Most of them are from various other strains of SARS, however, there are a few lines which are especially intersting:
gb|AAL57315.1| replicase [bovine coronavirus] 1896 0.0
this is from a coronavirus in cows.
ref|NP_068668.2| ORF1ab polyprotein [Murine hepatitis virus] 1863 0.0
and this one is from a hepatitis virus in mice.
both of these sequences are identical to a gene found in SARS. It strikes me that a virus originating in space would have evolved a replicase virus identical to one found on earth.
if anyone has anything to add or correct me on, I am more than happy to listen.
I belive there have been attempts to do this.
However, they have met with failure as the holograms degrade easily. It is extremely important that a security feature on the bill be durable, so that the bill can still be circulated if crumpled, dropped in the mud, put through a washing machine, etc.
When the $20 was last redesigned they attempted to put a hologram on it, but none of thier hologram designs passed durability tests.
As a compromise, they made the number 20 on the front bottm right corner change from black to blue depending on the angle. This is intended to make the bills harder to photocopy
While it seems obvious that something needs to be done to slow down the spammers, I dont think this would be the best way.
One of the great things about email is that it is fast, I send a message and it arrives almost instantly. However, this system would remove alot of this advantage.
Now i might be wrong here, but as far as I can see, this attempts to solve the problem by requiring users to send two messages instead of one. Not only will this greatly slow down the speed with which one can send a message, which is probably part of the point, but it will also increase bandwidth traffic. Also, you can bet that the spammers will find some way to get around these turing tests.
This is a good start but I am concerned that it will only increase bandwidth unecessarily.
I don't understand why IPv6 would ever catch on as anything but a backbone protocol
I'm afraid I have to disagree. Maybe we don't need IPv6 *right now*, but networks are growing at an alarming rate. it would not be hard to see a future in which almost EVERYTHING is attached to a network, your PDA, desktop, laptop, car, appliances, watch, etc.
while you could just stick everything behind a NAT, why do it when you can give everyone (and everything) an IP, why add that extra level of complexity.
Whenever a new development comes out, people always claim that it will never catch on, because the current system works fine. However, they are usually wrong. "this will never catch on" is broad statement to make. "never" is a big time range.