I bought a magstripe reader that connects to the keyboard port of my laptop and looks like a keyboard. Don't need any special software to read the output because it emulates key presses. I just go into the emacs scratch buffer and swipe the card. The reader even puts end-of-line characters at the end of each track.
Can someone point out why Stripe Snoop is better than my solution?
> Using this same logic, I would guess that > Solitaire, Minesweeper, etc. cost American > businesses at least $200 billion per year. I hate > spam as much as the next guy, but using the time > it takes to delete spam as the basis for determing > its economic impact is ridiculous.
No, you are wrong. It's very important for any business to ask the question "what are our employees doing every day?". If you discover that your employees spend 1 hour a day waiting for the slow laser printer, or some other inefficiency you want to deal with it because it's a productivity drain. Same for spam. It wastes everyone's time.
The number you are proposing is also interesting because given the two numbers you can do an ROI (return-on-investment) calculation of the spam filtering technology/people you are using.
Agreed that it's not representative of the population as a whole, but don't you think it's scary that 1% of the people who were driven to the poll from sites like/. and admitted to 10+ years of computer use say that they have bought from spam?
What analysis would you like me to do? I have the raw data set and would be happy to do it.
Your overall comment that there is one possible mention is bad data is nonsense. Did you read the slide marked caveats? Did you read the slide where I mentioned how the data was skewed?
Would be happy to fix the typos, perhaps you can point me to them?
No, I thought it was referring to the computer that ran the Liberator on Blake's 7. Then a little geek voice in my head said that that computer was Zen not Xen.
John.
Re:Cell phone TV
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Driving. Who cares about driving?
What I'm most worried about is the users of cell phones with TV being allowed on flights. Now I have to spend 5 hours being crushed by the sweaty overweight guy next to me, who's watching King of Queens reruns while giving a play-by-play, complete with guffaws, to his best bud on the other end of the line.
I wonder if I could claim temporary insanity if I were to injure my neighbor in that situation?
Apple probably figured they didn't need to waste the money on the web cast because the audience will be filled with Apple fan boi bloggers uploading Jobs' comments in real time and streaming iSight video.
I wish I could prove it, but it seems to me that it is unlikely that P == NP.
There are various points of discontinuity in mathematics and I think this is one of them (for example, we know that the number of integers is less than the number of reals and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis).
I'd like to see how they plan on monitoring my mage as it talks to your cleric in some obscure, nearly impossible to reach (unless you're level 50) corner of our favorite MUD
That trivial to do: you could monitor the packets passing along your connection to the MUD by going to your ISP. Or they could go to the administrator of the MUD and get access.
I'd be more worried about two people conversing in a language that the intelligence community doesn't have enough experts in, who are personally known to each other and who meet in person in a remote location. All this worrying about people using the Internet for communication isn't going to be worth anything if the "evil doers" just communicate in person.
If you remember FBI spy Robert Hansen you'll recall that he was copying information from the FBI and then communicating it to his handlers using... a dead letter drop.
Back in the mists of POPFile time a developer came along and wanted to work on the HTML of POPFile's UI (made it HTML 4.01 and CSS1 compliant) and I said "If you want to work on it then you need to do that PLUS you need to make it pass the Bobby Accessibility Guidelines".
He did all three and I have heard from users that POPFile works well with screen readers. I'm not sure about JAWS in particular.
It wasn't particularly onerous to get the Bobby AA mark for the software and I'm always happy to have another satisfied user.
> I wonder why they didn't include it in their tests?
Because the POPFile project hasn't got any money to buy ads in their magazine. I'm sure that if we did then they'd review it.
In the meantime word of mouth is vital to POPFile and other similar projects.
John.
Re:Slashdot Hive Mind: Emergence!
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> Crap. I'm only at #10 and the well's running dry. (What, you want me to yell "MEEPT!" or something?)
This only goes to show what many have already suspected: the average/.er has less communication skills than an ant.
John.
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This is, indeed, an interesting book and the reviewer fails to point out that Emergence goes into detail concerning the karma, moderation and meta-moderation system of this here web site.
Author seems to think taco is a genius or something, but it's still a good read:-) Towards the end where he's talking about emergent video games I got a little bored, but definitely a book that got me thinking. Worth reading even if you are aware of the way ants behave, because you probably don't know as much about slime mold as you should.
And POPFile's new IMAP module lets you still use POPFile with Gmail and as well as getting spam filtering you can use POPFile's general sorting mechanism.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/tkohno/papers/PDF/
John.
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I bought a magstripe reader that connects to the keyboard port of my laptop and looks like a keyboard. Don't need any special software to read the output because it emulates key presses. I just go into the emacs scratch buffer and swipe the card. The reader even puts end-of-line characters at the end of each track.
Can someone point out why Stripe Snoop is better than my solution?
John.
Yeah, well, you try it. It's not all hanging about on the Algarve and drinking 25 year old Port, you know?
John.
Funny how the poster incorrectly spells the word "superseded" which comes from the Old French "superceder".
John.
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Start a fake company, register with ChoicePoint and look yourself up!
John.
You mean they can't just fork POPFile::MQ and use it :-)
John.
> Using this same logic, I would guess that
> Solitaire, Minesweeper, etc. cost American
> businesses at least $200 billion per year. I hate
> spam as much as the next guy, but using the time
> it takes to delete spam as the basis for determing
> its economic impact is ridiculous.
No, you are wrong. It's very important for any business to ask the question "what are our employees doing every day?". If you discover that your employees spend 1 hour a day waiting for the slow laser printer, or some other inefficiency you want to deal with it because it's a productivity drain. Same for spam. It wastes everyone's time.
The number you are proposing is also interesting because given the two numbers you can do an ROI (return-on-investment) calculation of the spam filtering technology/people you are using.
John.
Agreed that it's not representative of the population as a whole, but don't you think it's scary that 1% of the people who were driven to the poll from sites like /. and admitted to 10+ years of computer use say that they have bought from spam?
John.
Given that I'm here to answer this, let me tell you something: don't mess with someone who made it through high school with a name like that :-)
John.
Hi.
What analysis would you like me to do? I have the raw data set and would be happy to do it.
Your overall comment that there is one possible mention is bad data is nonsense. Did you read the slide marked caveats? Did you read the slide where I mentioned how the data was skewed?
Would be happy to fix the typos, perhaps you can point me to them?
John.
No, I thought it was referring to the computer that ran the Liberator on Blake's 7. Then a little geek voice in my head said that that computer was Zen not Xen.
John.
Driving. Who cares about driving?
What I'm most worried about is the users of cell phones with TV being allowed on flights. Now I have to spend 5 hours being crushed by the sweaty overweight guy next to me, who's watching King of Queens reruns while giving a play-by-play, complete with guffaws, to his best bud on the other end of the line.
I wonder if I could claim temporary insanity if I were to injure my neighbor in that situation?
John.
Apple probably figured they didn't need to waste the money on the web cast because the audience will be filled with Apple fan boi bloggers uploading Jobs' comments in real time and streaming iSight video.
John.
I wish I could prove it, but it seems to me that it is unlikely that P == NP.
) .
There are various points of discontinuity in mathematics and I think this is one of them (for example, we know that the number of integers is less than the number of reals and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
John.
Yes, April 13, 2029 is a Friday.
John.
I mean just ask Patrick Volkerding.
Luckily, it seems that the Mayo Clinic can get your symptoms under control.
John.
I'd like to see how they plan on monitoring my mage as it talks to your cleric in some obscure, nearly impossible to reach (unless you're level 50) corner of our favorite MUD
That trivial to do: you could monitor the packets passing along your connection to the MUD by going to your ISP. Or they could go to the administrator of the MUD and get access.
I'd be more worried about two people conversing in a language that the intelligence community doesn't have enough experts in, who are personally known to each other and who meet in person in a remote location. All this worrying about people using the Internet for communication isn't going to be worth anything if the "evil doers" just communicate in person.
If you remember FBI spy Robert Hansen you'll recall that he was copying information from the FBI and then communicating it to his handlers using... a dead letter drop.
John.
Back in the mists of POPFile time a developer came along and wanted to work on the HTML of POPFile's UI (made it HTML 4.01 and CSS1 compliant) and I said "If you want to work on it then you need to do that PLUS you need to make it pass the Bobby Accessibility Guidelines".
He did all three and I have heard from users that POPFile works well with screen readers. I'm not sure about JAWS in particular.
It wasn't particularly onerous to get the Bobby AA mark for the software and I'm always happy to have another satisfied user.
John.
> I wonder why they didn't include it in their tests?
Because the POPFile project hasn't got any money to buy ads in their magazine. I'm sure that if we did then they'd review it.
In the meantime word of mouth is vital to POPFile and other similar projects.
John.
> Crap. I'm only at #10 and the well's running dry. (What, you want me to yell "MEEPT!" or something?)
/.er has less communication skills than an ant.
This only goes to show what many have already suspected: the average
John.
This is, indeed, an interesting book and the reviewer fails to point out that Emergence goes into detail concerning the karma, moderation and meta-moderation system of this here web site.
:-) Towards the end where he's talking about emergent video games I got a little bored, but definitely a book that got me thinking. Worth reading even if you are aware of the way ants behave, because you probably don't know as much about slime mold as you should.
Author seems to think taco is a genius or something, but it's still a good read
John.
And if you like what you read you can come and hear the author speak at the MIT Spam Conference on January 21.
John.
And POPFile's new IMAP module lets you still use POPFile with Gmail and as well as getting spam filtering you can use POPFile's general sorting mechanism.
John.