Back when I was in college, a friend of mine had roommate problems. So the usual things were done against the offending person: clothes out the window, salt water in the monitor, calls at all hours of the morning. You know, kid stuff.
But installing P2P on his computer would be even better. He would lose his Internet connection, and if he was really lucky, get sued by the RIAA!
This is precisely why I don't bother with any encryption that isn't built in. Browser encryption - fine. Using PGP or RMSPG on my email -- as Dogbert asked, "Who would want to read your mail?" There is too much hassle involved, just on my end, never mind getting my sister or mother in law to read encrypted email. Unless you make a fetish of it for your own sake or you're sending something genuinely worth protecting, who cares?
Well, the idea is if you only send important email in encrypted form, then the important email is easy to spot and brute force. But if you encrypt everything, then brute force is not such a viable option.
That's the idea anyway, but I'm with you. I tried to use PGP for a while, but none of the people I emailed had any idea what it was, and didn't have the inclination to learn.
We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations.
I think you need to see if people prefer beautiful chickens before you can jump to that conclusion.
It's obvious what to do about the #1 problem: people who run web pages should stop listing e-mail addresses in readily spammable form.
On my London Blog I don't use any form of obfuscation. The reason for this is I want people to contact me about my writing. I want to know what people think, and any barrier I put in the way will reduce the number of legitimate emails I get. I'm not confident that most of the Internet population would understand that they need to remove the REVOVE.THIS.TO.EMAIL.ME part of my address.
Sure, I drastically increase the number of spams I get, but popfile takes care of them all. The author of this article is still correct in his economic analysis. There is little burden for me using this method, but a much larger burden for my ISP.
On my London Blog I don't use any form of obfuscation. The reason for this is I want people to contact me about my writing. I want to know what people think, and barrier I put in the way will reduce the number of legitimate emails I get. I'm not confident that most of the Internet population would understand that they need to remove the REVOVE.THIS.TO.EMAIL.ME part of my address.
Sure, I drastically increase the number of spams I get, but popfile takes care of them all.
The actual [SCO] lawsuit is very narrow in its claims; we're not nervous about it at all. It's prompted lots of discussion, which has been very interesting to watch.
Take a student who has had no experience with the subject matter. You think this approach would still work well?
Hell, try doing this with any technology/science oriented class. I'm sure we could all do some English or Philosophy class in fast-forward, but not a class on Operating system design or quantum mechanics.
the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer is producing results showing that it is possible to model climate down to the level of severe weather events
Sure, you can model it, but how accurate is the model? I can model a cow as a sphere, but I haven't told you if that is appropriate for what I need.
Targeted at the worldwide traveler, it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft
Are you mad? You mean having someone else read your mail and then send it in a searchable format over the Internet is a good way to prevent identity theft? Is today opposite day?
"When it's raining, big drops will appear on the screen and when it's breezy, the Coke sign can ripple as if it's being blown by the wind," a spokeswoman for the company said.
Well, it sure is good to see technology used for the benefit of humanity, and not just a stupid gimmick.
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Back when I was in college, a friend of mine had roommate problems. So the usual things were done against the offending person: clothes out the window, salt water in the monitor, calls at all hours of the morning. You know, kid stuff.
But installing P2P on his computer would be even better. He would lose his Internet connection, and if he was really lucky, get sued by the RIAA!
I figured that since it was Friday, it may be a good day to see what the /. crew has up their sleeves.
Are you implying I don't have anything better to do on a Friday night?!
Well Sir, you are correct.
This is precisely why I don't bother with any encryption that isn't built in. Browser encryption - fine. Using PGP or RMSPG on my email -- as Dogbert asked, "Who would want to read your mail?" There is too much hassle involved, just on my end, never mind getting my sister or mother in law to read encrypted email. Unless you make a fetish of it for your own sake or you're sending something genuinely worth protecting, who cares?
Well, the idea is if you only send important email in encrypted form, then the important email is easy to spot and brute force. But if you encrypt everything, then brute force is not such a viable option.
That's the idea anyway, but I'm with you. I tried to use PGP for a while, but none of the people I emailed had any idea what it was, and didn't have the inclination to learn.
Transmutation of atomic structure would be physics thank you very much. Chemists just aren't that cool. : )
Yeah, the SAS guys are scary. I had an unfortunate run in with of them and his threatening owl once.
We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather than from face-specific adaptations.
I think you need to see if people prefer beautiful chickens before you can jump to that conclusion.
That's so unfair. Beautiful people have an advantage in everything.
the scientists, who discovered that London taxi drivers are smarter than average London residents
Makes sense to me. They charge a small fortune to go a small distance, and we still pay it. : )
It's obvious what to do about the #1 problem: people who run web pages should stop listing e-mail addresses in readily spammable form.
On my London Blog I don't use any form of obfuscation. The reason for this is I want people to contact me about my writing. I want to know what people think, and any barrier I put in the way will reduce the number of legitimate emails I get. I'm not confident that most of the Internet population would understand that they need to remove the REVOVE.THIS.TO.EMAIL.ME part of my address.
Sure, I drastically increase the number of spams I get, but popfile takes care of them all. The author of this article is still correct in his economic analysis. There is little burden for me using this method, but a much larger burden for my ISP.
You look a lot less stupid for wearing a bat-belt if you have the whole batman costume to go with it.
Err...
Perhaps not.
On my London Blog I don't use any form of obfuscation. The reason for this is I want people to contact me about my writing. I want to know what people think, and barrier I put in the way will reduce the number of legitimate emails I get. I'm not confident that most of the Internet population would understand that they need to remove the REVOVE.THIS.TO.EMAIL.ME part of my address.
Sure, I drastically increase the number of spams I get, but popfile takes care of them all.
Two Words: Reverse Directory
The actual [SCO] lawsuit is very narrow in its claims; we're not nervous about it at all. It's prompted lots of discussion, which has been very interesting to watch.
:)
Somebody reads slashdot
Take a student who has had no experience with the subject matter. You think this approach would still work well?
Hell, try doing this with any technology/science oriented class. I'm sure we could all do some English or Philosophy class in fast-forward, but not a class on Operating system design or quantum mechanics.
Anyone else think of Lawnmower Man?
the Japanese Earth Simulator supercomputer is producing results showing that it is possible to model climate down to the level of severe weather events
Sure, you can model it, but how accurate is the model? I can model a cow as a sphere, but I haven't told you if that is appropriate for what I need.
Yes but can it protect me from a spear that would have skewered a wild boar?
They aren't the same thing? :)
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times
Screw studying for that test, I'm going to talk to my friends on my cell phone all night!
Distributed backups is another thing I'd like to have now, rather than tomorrow...
Three steps to a distributed backup:
Step one: Zip and encrypt your data into 650mb size chunks.
Step two: Name the chucks 'Matrix Reloaded' and 'Britney and Madonna Snog and Shag'
Step three: Share on Kazaa.
For instance, everyone in the world knows lots about NASA and yet very little about the achievements of the European Space Agency
:)
Europe has a space agency?
Targeted at the worldwide traveler, it also looks like a good way to help prevent identity theft
Are you mad? You mean having someone else read your mail and then send it in a searchable format over the Internet is a good way to prevent identity theft? Is today opposite day?
Reuters/Yahoo is reporting that Coca-Cola has unveiled an 'intelligent' billboard in London's Piccadilly Circus
When it rains, it simulates being wet. Yeah, that's just brilliant.
"When it's raining, big drops will appear on the screen and when it's breezy, the Coke sign can ripple as if it's being blown by the wind," a spokeswoman for the company said.
Well, it sure is good to see technology used for the benefit of humanity, and not just a stupid gimmick.
I wonder if RMS thought he'd see a US presidential candidate releasing stuff under the GPL when he founded GNU 20 years ago!
That's a gnu-candidate thank you.