Spammers have used social engineering to fool people into solving CAPTCHA for them via websites that promise free pornography. The handful of valid email addresses that spammers would generate with such a technique would be beyond trivial relative to the multiple of billions of spam that are currently sent every day.
I'm sure there are many other specialty apps that could be useful, but searching SourceForge for something in the appropriate category seems like a better approach than trying to audit a bunch of closed source stuff for malware.
I know my first temptation was to just paste one of those text links into my browser's location bar, so here's a good variety of clickies so that www.electoral-vote8.com and www.electoral-vote3.com don't get too badly hit:
From the Wikipedia entries on Novel, Novella, and Novelette.
The contents of those articles state that they are the guidelines adopted for the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards. While obviously there is some wiggle room, it would appear that 50,000 words is well into the territory of the average novel.
Why am I paying a fifth of my paycheck for a retirement plan that will be broke before I'm halfway to even thinking about retirement? What will you do to make sure I'm not turned into an indentured servant for retiring boomers?
Perhaps they no longer include the option, but I recall that YIM used to allow you the ability to send a message to an entire group of contacts. While it isn't quite the same as sending a message to your entire contact list, it's close enough as to be unimportant. I'm also not too sure how significant the potential for abuse is. Presumably the people on your contact list are minimally courteous and are trying to communicate. If they're not, it's fairly obvious that the problem is with your chosen associates, not the technical framework.
More than just indicating that a song is bad, I would imagine that blaring a horrible song thirty times a day would just shorten the lifespan of the song that much more. It may get the song to the top of the charts for a few weeks, but I would imagine that hanging onto a lower position for several months would generate more sales. I'm sure we can all think of more than a few songs utterly destroyed by being played too much.
It's obviously not exhaustive, and probably could check a few more things, but seems like a decent shorthand. On the other hand, my method might tend to produce consecutive strings of numbers a lot more often, depending on the picture chosen. It should be OK for a while, since I don't believe that it would be a standard part of most PW crackers. YMMV.
Why not just use some primitive "keyboard art"? The main alphanumeric area can be considered a 4 by 10 area of pixels, with a possible 3 colors(normal, not typed, and with Shift key). This would offer the possibility of easy visual recognition/reconstruction with ~10^19 possible combinations. For example, we could use a drawing of a TIE Bomber as a password.
Quick, let's start a pissing contest about our respective share ratings! I've uploaded about 6 and half copies so far. Anything less than unlimited speed/connections is unacceptable. 20 uploads or bust!
Landmines? I don't think that's quite necessary...
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When Robots Play Games
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Robots are cool and all, but why bother building and programming robots to find mines when we already have biological robots that can do the same thing while running off of water and a little bit of food. It seems a bit like a wonderful solution to a problem that doesn't exist - evolution has been doing pretty darn well at doing this sort of thing so far, so I'm not really sure why would need robots after all this time.
What proof is there that he is a spammer? All of his/. stories are opt-in, since the editors chose to accept them. According to Wikipedia and all the other definitions of blog spam that I've seen, he would only be a blog spammer if he persistently posted links to his site to increase his Google ranking... and you have not demonstrated this. He may an unoriginal hack who desperately tries to boost his blog's popularity by linking to interesting stories. He may be looking for advertisers to target visitors to his site. How does that make him a spammer?
Even if it is granted that he is a no-talent spammer trying to make money from Slashdot and blogs, where is your proof that he is a scammer? I don't see anyone accusing him of extorting bank account info or any of the other things normally required to be considered a scammer.
Jerry Pournelle developed the concept of a space-launched kinetic energy weapon in 1964. It's been used a decent amount in his science fiction since then, but we do have to wonder why it's taken the military so long to consider implementing it. The high cost to orbit such weapons could be part of it, but we could definitely bring costs down a lot if we ended NASA's excessive bureaucracy and came up with a launch system that didn't cost half a billion per launch.
C.S. Lewiscovered
this a while ago. He addressed most of the relevant religious questions pertaining to the existence of extraterrestrial life in a far more rigorous and interesting manner than this article could dream of. I highly recommend reading Out of the Silent Planet, if only for his excellent writing.
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Did anyone else read the headline as "The Prosthetic Arm of Google" at first?
Now - Popcorn-Popper -> Coffee Roaster Mod
Yow! - Popcorn-Roasted -> Coffee Popper Mod
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- Outpost Firewall
- Cygwin
- The GIMP
- Spybot
- adAware
- Trillian
- Google Desktop Search
- SETI@home
- iTunes
I'm sure there are many other specialty apps that could be useful, but searching SourceForge for something in the appropriate category seems like a better approach than trying to audit a bunch of closed source stuff for malware.Just think what would would happen if an ICBM went towards a couple of public school systems.
I know my first temptation was to just paste one of those text links into my browser's location bar, so here's a good variety of clickies so that www.electoral-vote8.com and www.electoral-vote3.com don't get too badly hit:
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/
http://www.electoral-vote4.com/
http://www.electoral-vote5.com/
http://www.electoral-vote6.com/
http://www.electoral-vote7.com/
http://www.electoral-vote8.com/
The Last Measure link contains stuff you really don't want to be seeing. Don't click on it if you're just looking for a demo of the popup style.
Memetics is the only real meme.
You obviously haven't been playing enough Risk.
From the Wikipedia entries on Novel, Novella, and Novelette. The contents of those articles state that they are the guidelines adopted for the Hugo and Nebula science fiction awards. While obviously there is some wiggle room, it would appear that 50,000 words is well into the territory of the average novel.
I don't think that running a script to swap in a few strings really counts as writing a novel.
Why am I paying a fifth of my paycheck for a retirement plan that will be broke before I'm halfway to even thinking about retirement? What will you do to make sure I'm not turned into an indentured servant for retiring boomers?
Perhaps they no longer include the option, but I recall that YIM used to allow you the ability to send a message to an entire group of contacts. While it isn't quite the same as sending a message to your entire contact list, it's close enough as to be unimportant. I'm also not too sure how significant the potential for abuse is. Presumably the people on your contact list are minimally courteous and are trying to communicate. If they're not, it's fairly obvious that the problem is with your chosen associates, not the technical framework.
It reminds me of my pa's old saying.... "Never underestimate the power of a cardboard tube wrapped with green camouflage tape."
Exactly! I can't believe they're asking for $30,000 just for a chloroform dispenser.
More than just indicating that a song is bad, I would imagine that blaring a horrible song thirty times a day would just shorten the lifespan of the song that much more. It may get the song to the top of the charts for a few weeks, but I would imagine that hanging onto a lower position for several months would generate more sales. I'm sure we can all think of more than a few songs utterly destroyed by being played too much.
It's obviously not exhaustive, and probably could check a few more things, but seems like a decent shorthand. On the other hand, my method might tend to produce consecutive strings of numbers a lot more often, depending on the picture chosen. It should be OK for a while, since I don't believe that it would be a standard part of most PW crackers. YMMV.
Why not just use some primitive "keyboard art"? The main alphanumeric area can be considered a 4 by 10 area of pixels, with a possible 3 colors(normal, not typed, and with Shift key). This would offer the possibility of easy visual recognition/reconstruction with ~10^19 possible combinations. For example, we could use a drawing of a TIE Bomber as a password.
......0...0......
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......0...0......
.....0__0__0.....
would become ridFGhIJkcm, which is judged to be a rather strong password by http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php
Begun the witch trials have.
Quick, let's start a pissing contest about our respective share ratings! I've uploaded about 6 and half copies so far. Anything less than unlimited speed/connections is unacceptable. 20 uploads or bust!
Robots are cool and all, but why bother building and programming robots to find mines when we already have biological robots that can do the same thing while running off of water and a little bit of food. It seems a bit like a wonderful solution to a problem that doesn't exist - evolution has been doing pretty darn well at doing this sort of thing so far, so I'm not really sure why would need robots after all this time.
What proof is there that he is a spammer? All of his /. stories are opt-in, since the editors chose to accept them. According to Wikipedia and all the other definitions of blog spam that I've seen, he would only be a blog spammer if he persistently posted links to his site to increase his Google ranking... and you have not demonstrated this. He may an unoriginal hack who desperately tries to boost his blog's popularity by linking to interesting stories. He may be looking for advertisers to target visitors to his site. How does that make him a spammer?
Even if it is granted that he is a no-talent spammer trying to make money from Slashdot and blogs, where is your proof that he is a scammer? I don't see anyone accusing him of extorting bank account info or any of the other things normally required to be considered a scammer.
Jerry Pournelle developed the concept of a space-launched kinetic energy weapon in 1964. It's been used a decent amount in his science fiction since then, but we do have to wonder why it's taken the military so long to consider implementing it. The high cost to orbit such weapons could be part of it, but we could definitely bring costs down a lot if we ended NASA's excessive bureaucracy and came up with a launch system that didn't cost half a billion per launch.
C.S. Lewis covered this a while ago. He addressed most of the relevant religious questions pertaining to the existence of extraterrestrial life in a far more rigorous and interesting manner than this article could dream of. I highly recommend reading Out of the Silent Planet, if only for his excellent writing.