Filtering to allow only those e-mails which come from desired senders eliminates all spam. I would rather have that than legislation which requires my tax dollars to enforce. Let those who are ignorant pay for their ignorance in the form of spam deletion. The end-user solution is the best response to spammers.
At the very least not for relatively minor offenses like this. <br> from the article:<i>$71.6 million</i> not a minor offence.<br><br>I doubt his parents will be willing to foot that bill, however im sure that he will have a job once he gets out of jail; any company in its right mind would want to make their software crack proof.
ok, lets think about this for a second. The gaim logs of all my conversations for the past 3 months comes to... about 4kb. Assuming I am the average user (not an aim chatter), also assuming 6.1 million users that puts the database load every 3 months at 244GB; any user with a high end computer could store and datamine such data. These figures indicate a severe danger of a compromise of personal privacy.
now for my analysis of what it can be used for (read: ignore unless you want bias).
There are 3 major areas which could be compromised by this addition. (1)code sharing between scripters; use ftp to share your scripts, if you dont have an ftp server, you are probably going to get caught anyway, so have fun. (2)code sharing between application developers; unless this development is going to be used for illegal activities, the legality of anyone stealing said code would be called into question. Lawyers live for lawsuits against bigtime companies like AOL and would do such work pro-bono, however INAL (3)code sharing between students: I doubt the university will ask for aim logs when prosecuting a student. They have no need for burden of proof anyway, they have complete power over the student as is. (4)(yes i said 3, what) pedophiles: good riddance to dirty old men talking to other dirty old men.
This technology will never be applicable for identification from a database because of the base rate fallacy: i.e.
assuming that if a person is corretly identified 99.999% of the time. if there are 500M (roughly all of europe) people in the database, then the mistake rate would be approximately 500 ppl. So for every individual going through, there are 500 possible individuals which he could be. This is not even the full application of the base rate fallacy, there is not enough research published on iris recognition for it to be fully analized (this is a *very* rough estimate).
*this does make alot of sense for a passport comparator, b/c no one could then steal a passport and use it, unless they want to take the risk of prison on a single hand of poker: with only a royal flush being the way to win (roughly equivalent odds as getting through with some else's passport).
Which means that you can only be tracked IF: The passport has a chip in it with your personal information upon it, and that information (after a verification of your iris) is sent to a data mining facility. No other means of tracking is possible.
-big brother is not watching you, he keeping your attention every moment of every day; making sure that you never think about anything except what he tells you to think. Making sure that you never feel anything that he doesnt tell you to feel.
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Windows has its place. It is for people who do not WANT to learn how to use a computer. It is for my grandma, so she can play freecell and online bingo. It is for businessmen who are being payed to conduct business, not learn a computer.
It is NOT something which should be emulated by a real operating system. It is NOT something linux should be competing against for marketshare.
WHY?
-FreeBSD, (one of?) the finest OS on the market has no emulation of windows; its users understand their role in the computing industry: the role of the elite. Those who have learned all they could from linux and continued to grow in the technical field.
-Linux will always have a marketshare: those who understand and want to understand computers. Those who are tired of being limited by windows (and its damn in-kernel processing of display... worst idea EVER!).
MOST IMPORTANTLY: -Everything in linux is designed as it is FOR A REASON... comments like "linux needs a unified folder system, because linux is too hard to figure out" are responded to with Nietzschen rage and whifflebats. --corrolary: it is 1000X easier to find [system components, program files, server configuration files, you NAME it] in Linux than it is in windows... go to its particular root directory subfolder... if you dont know which one that is, check online. not that hard: IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN. --corrolary: i have a whiffleball bat. not afraid to use it. --corrolary: Linux is well designed. Windows is not. for this reason alone, windows will fall in the OS war... to my whiffleball bat...
I have been going to lan arcades since '98. I think they are healthy and totally necessary during the high school years as a place to get out of the house and not be doing illegal (well... not TOO illegal) activities. During college, its a place to meet up with old friends and begin giving back to the owner for all the time and fun he has given you, by hacking his machines. After college, its a place to remember with nostalgia, and hack your own boxes from.
in my area, a new lan arcade opened up looking for those kids who like gaming and like learning. They are trying to get the pro-gamers on the weekends and nights while offering computer networking classes and hackathons during the daylight hours (4-7). The real appeal to this new arcade is its seperation of smoking and non-smoking sections. This is a very big draw, considering the social aspect of the gaming scene. Going through 2 packs of cigs in a night with your friends is not a cost effective or healthy activity.
However, this new arcade is faltering for 2 reasons.
1) too close to another arcade: kids are very loyal to their gaming arcades. At every arcade i have frequented; everyone knew the owners and everyone knew each other. The facilities of other arcades might be better, but the purpose of gaming at those locations is friends; the friends arent there. Find a spot without an arcade near and you will be money.
2)draconian installation procedures. Counterproductive. They are trying to entice hackers without giving them access to anything beyond their java overlay. This also keeps users from damaging the machines with poor installation choices. In the end it is better to simply wipe the machines weekly and reinstall images on all machines than limit your users... because keeping them from installing programs will drive them away in droves.
wow. that was alot longer than i thought it would be. hope it helped!
If operators and businesses are discouraged from exploring the bounds of the Internet, it will mean less research and development and less investment into the network infrastructure. In short, a weaker Internet.
you are correct: historically exploration has created more development, at the cost of that which is explored. Lewis and Clark explored a free land immersed in beauty; their exploration helped to eliminate the landscapes that caused them to explore.
oil surveyors explore some of the most beautiful landscapes left on earth... to destroy them with development.
I hope that the internet is kept as pure and free as it can be in such an age of pollution and greed.
I noticed a distinct absence of C# in the article describing X-Code. Hmm... I wonder if its close ties with the M$-.NET(C# overview) has irritated Steve.
Obviously there is a reasonable explination for this, C# is just too new for it to have been included... sure. I mean, it has ONLY been out for a year and a half. jeeze
"The Red Hat Bible just didn't have the same smart feel to it."
Being a RHL Bible user (3 months), I stake my life on that book. Smart feel? It gives the user every file location, server information, and allows the user to understand by explaining the settings; allowing the user chance to play with them. It has assisted me through FTP, NFS, and Apache server setup and tweaking without a problem. Its security information for all things linux are excellent. I have not read or even looked through the books mentioned in this review, yet I did not find a book which was comprable when I was looking.
I guess if you want to have a smart feel, you should buy a book which is not intuitive. The bible is. It allows the user to figure out how the OS works by assisting the problem-solving process.
Dont buy a book because it explains all the information, buy a book because it gives you the tools to learn through action. the bible does.
hm, I dont have the attention span or caring to devote time to a phone call, locking my door and spending quality time with loved ones. I guess I will buy a sensory deprivation phone so that my ADD (read American upbringing) wont interfere with the quality time I am not willing to put effort into.
After all, a phone is not enough to converse, but with a helmet, all things things are possible. I mean... its a helmet.
in other news, the little known Al-Bolt-Yeeda struck again today, setting back the production of the multi-billion dollar satellite untold weeks. This terrorist organization is better known for their previous activities with the Chicago Balcony Board (or CBB) as well as their activities in the Chicago Night Club Doors Committe (or CNCDC). Their activities are far ranging indeed if they can strike at the most technically sophisticated bolts we have today. I believe that they must be supported and protected by other countries to be able to strike so effectively; and that we should have a crusade against those countries in attempts to root them out. I would recomend invading those countries who have intimate bolt knowledge, and have been developing 'rival' bolts. These countries must be training Al-Bolt-Yeeda insurgents in an attempt to undermine the american bolt industry. These countries include: Syria.
yes, but you also know how to install a plugin. My grandfather does not, nor should he. He wants to use the internet for simple things: like consuming goods.
The simplest system out there (though we hate it) is IE. Why? because on win 2k moz will still not copy and paste; because on winXP certain plugins must be installed by hand; because on linux it runs like a dream, but linux requires some computer knowledge (albeit not a whole lot). This was a foolish ruling that will hurt the ignorant users who are making the internet a viable consumer space (read: need money to advance internet technology).
I love moz, but it isnt something the ignorant should attempt.
How many times has Gator and their ilk created tertiary annoyance? (tertiary annoyance being a friend asking you, mr computer person, to take it off because it is blatantly annoying them)
These users never requested such software to be placed on their machines, they simply downloaded other software with which it is bundled.
This ruling was based on the idea that the user chose to have such a program on their machine. Obviously the judge was not one who has used the internet very heavily.
also: I remember a worm (maybe a year and a half ago) which ran directly through outlook (by simply activating an email-without opening the file). Does anyone remember this? if so, please refresh my memory. Thanks.
Why limit it to the war with iraq? I mean, dont we have some footage of school slayings/office slayings/ghetto shootings? The object of the game is to survive long enough, and keep enough bullets to kill yourself at the end. I think this would go over really well in IS depts (not to mention mailmen). Even Better: you can personalize the levels! man, gotta give it to the media, they hit on a golden idea here.
Precedence is going to be made. Just because SCO(X) is full of shit, does not mean that lawyers will simply drop the case. We will have to deal with the yack-dung that this conflict is bringing about for years afterwards.
Do you think that those who are making decisions over this issue have the ideals of open source in mind? IBM and RH? They only want it for corporate profits. SCO(X)... yeah... big negative. The Courts?! They might be the only one we can get through to. We have to get involved. I recomend starting an e-mail list to protest the abuse of free rights that are being presented in this lawsuit.
or maybee I am just an idiot for thinking that a bunch of/. sheep can do anything.
Good artists are not motivated by album sales but by some internalization of the music they are creating. Great artists will never stop making the music they desire to have heard (and hear themselves). The real question is whether they will ever be heard (or worse; have the motivation to share the music with others).
The major problem posed to the artist in this situation is his/her inability to be included on whatever listings that are distributed (which is similar to any major recording industry). The major difference between the RI and this situation is the lack of competition (why get new music?).
Come on, Microft is such a music supporter... with its media player's poor support and poor code and... yeah... way to be microsoft, you will create a poor product and a poorer support heirarchy.
in other news: macs are easier for microsoft to manipulate than windows: "It is currently only available to Mac users"
If only bill gates' dna was crossed with a monkey's, then we might just get some ingenuity.
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Filtering to allow only those e-mails which come from desired senders eliminates all spam. I would rather have that than legislation which requires my tax dollars to enforce. Let those who are ignorant pay for their ignorance in the form of spam deletion. The end-user solution is the best response to spammers.
At the very least not for relatively minor offenses like this.
<br>
from the article:<i>$71.6 million</i> not a minor offence.<br><br>I doubt his parents will be willing to foot that bill, however im sure that he will have a job once he gets out of jail; any company in its right mind would want to make their software crack proof.
ok, lets think about this for a second. The gaim logs of all my conversations for the past 3 months comes to... about 4kb. Assuming I am the average user (not an aim chatter), also assuming 6.1 million users that puts the database load every 3 months at 244GB; any user with a high end computer could store and datamine such data. These figures indicate a severe danger of a compromise of personal privacy.
now for my analysis of what it can be used for (read: ignore unless you want bias).
There are 3 major areas which could be compromised by this addition.
(1)code sharing between scripters; use ftp to share your scripts, if you dont have an ftp server, you are probably going to get caught anyway, so have fun.
(2)code sharing between application developers; unless this development is going to be used for illegal activities, the legality of anyone stealing said code would be called into question. Lawyers live for lawsuits against bigtime companies like AOL and would do such work pro-bono, however INAL
(3)code sharing between students: I doubt the university will ask for aim logs when prosecuting a student. They have no need for burden of proof anyway, they have complete power over the student as is.
(4)(yes i said 3, what) pedophiles: good riddance to dirty old men talking to other dirty old men.
my two cents are spent.
!elbirroh
now I can pay rent, go to work, and work for the city all for the low low cost of $10 a month.
This technology will never be applicable for identification from a database because of the base rate fallacy: i.e.
assuming that if a person is corretly identified 99.999% of the time. if there are 500M (roughly all of europe) people in the database, then the mistake rate would be approximately 500 ppl. So for every individual going through, there are 500 possible individuals which he could be. This is not even the full application of the base rate fallacy, there is not enough research published on iris recognition for it to be fully analized (this is a *very* rough estimate).
*this does make alot of sense for a passport comparator, b/c no one could then steal a passport and use it, unless they want to take the risk of prison on a single hand of poker: with only a royal flush being the way to win (roughly equivalent odds as getting through with some else's passport).
Which means that you can only be tracked IF:
The passport has a chip in it with your personal information upon it, and that information (after a verification of your iris) is sent to a data mining facility. No other means of tracking is possible.
-big brother is not watching you, he keeping your attention every moment of every day; making sure that you never think about anything except what he tells you to think. Making sure that you never feel anything that he doesnt tell you to feel.
ESRB ratings> are intended to get parents to pay attention to their kids lives. They are placed to get parents to notice that videogames are a part of childrens lives, the same as television.
""The absence of a content descriptor did not mean the absence of content that might concern parents," she[study author Kimberly Thompson] said."
If parents talked to their children about the things that they are doing, viz. active members in their lives, they will know that the child is playing videosgames with such content in it. Think. (are you ready) Think some more. When as a child, you played duke nukem, did the you discuss your gaming with your parents? I did. I told them all about how hillarious the game was. The hillarity is one that can be experienced only through the game, but in my explination of it, they understood that the beercans strewn around stripclubs where one is killing stripping aliens was funny. They were not offended in any way with the content of the game, only with my choice to play it instead of doing homework late at night.
The warnings on videogames are not meant for parents to keep children confined by having them not purchase such games, but to brace parents for the content of the game when the child discusses it with them.
I think Ms. Thompson understands this aspect of the gaming experience, perhaps in a familial if not personal way.
"She[study author Kimberly Thompson] added that she hopes these study results serve as a "wake up call" for parents, telling them they need to be aware of what their kids are being exposed to, both in video games and elsewhere."
This study is meant to shine light on parent's lack of involvement in children's lives, not asking for more strict ratings. Lets face it, if anyone makes blanket judgements on ratings, they are being ignorant of the product's value.
-i wish i were a teapot. That way if when im boiling you could pour me out.-
In response to commentary about 'how to make linux better'
Windows has its place. It is for people who do not WANT to learn how to use a computer. It is for my grandma, so she can play freecell and online bingo. It is for businessmen who are being payed to conduct business, not learn a computer.
It is NOT something which should be emulated by a real operating system. It is NOT something linux should be competing against for marketshare.
WHY?
-FreeBSD, (one of?) the finest OS on the market has no emulation of windows; its users understand their role in the computing industry: the role of the elite. Those who have learned all they could from linux and continued to grow in the technical field.
-Linux will always have a marketshare: those who understand and want to understand computers. Those who are tired of being limited by windows (and its damn in-kernel processing of display... worst idea EVER!).
MOST IMPORTANTLY:
-Everything in linux is designed as it is FOR A REASON... comments like "linux needs a unified folder system, because linux is too hard to figure out" are responded to with Nietzschen rage and whifflebats.
--corrolary: it is 1000X easier to find [system components, program files, server configuration files, you NAME it] in Linux than it is in windows... go to its particular root directory subfolder... if you dont know which one that is, check online. not that hard: IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN.
--corrolary: i have a whiffleball bat. not afraid to use it.
--corrolary: Linux is well designed. Windows is not. for this reason alone, windows will fall in the OS war... to my whiffleball bat...
whoa, its my old friend the flamebait bot. w00t!
hey.
I have been going to lan arcades since '98. I think they are healthy and totally necessary during the high school years as a place to get out of the house and not be doing illegal (well... not TOO illegal) activities. During college, its a place to meet up with old friends and begin giving back to the owner for all the time and fun he has given you, by hacking his machines. After college, its a place to remember with nostalgia, and hack your own boxes from.
in my area, a new lan arcade opened up looking for those kids who like gaming and like learning. They are trying to get the pro-gamers on the weekends and nights while offering computer networking classes and hackathons during the daylight hours (4-7). The real appeal to this new arcade is its seperation of smoking and non-smoking sections. This is a very big draw, considering the social aspect of the gaming scene. Going through 2 packs of cigs in a night with your friends is not a cost effective or healthy activity.
However, this new arcade is faltering for 2 reasons.
1) too close to another arcade: kids are very loyal to their gaming arcades. At every arcade i have frequented; everyone knew the owners and everyone knew each other. The facilities of other arcades might be better, but the purpose of gaming at those locations is friends; the friends arent there. Find a spot without an arcade near and you will be money.
2)draconian installation procedures. Counterproductive. They are trying to entice hackers without giving them access to anything beyond their java overlay. This also keeps users from damaging the machines with poor installation choices. In the end it is better to simply wipe the machines weekly and reinstall images on all machines than limit your users... because keeping them from installing programs will drive them away in droves.
wow. that was alot longer than i thought it would be. hope it helped!
If operators and businesses are discouraged from exploring the bounds of the Internet, it will mean less research and development and less investment into the network infrastructure. In short, a weaker Internet.
you are correct: historically exploration has created more development, at the cost of that which is explored. Lewis and Clark explored a free land immersed in beauty; their exploration helped to eliminate the landscapes that caused them to explore.
oil surveyors explore some of the most beautiful landscapes left on earth... to destroy them with development.
I hope that the internet is kept as pure and free as it can be in such an age of pollution and greed.
"I think that somewhere, at some time, a type of stat-less main player character development will make it into an RPG."
Its called Kings Quest.
why fight a company which is in the same perdicament as we are; losing income to an opponent we cannot win
They have the only tool available to defeat them. It is an alliance of ideologies really
They are both supporters of proprietary software.
...I could be mistaken...
...but I dont think so.
New defenition for combining intuitively obvious, annoying, and foolish.
Intuitively obvious: lower bumpers on SUVs, I didnt need to have my car totaled to learn that one.
annoying: set-belt indicators that beep, its annoying enough when the indicator flashes at you.
foolish: describing this SUV as more fuel efficient than the explorer (21.2 mpg for explorer, 27.8 for guardian).
you are now free to mod me as flamebait.
I noticed a distinct absence of C# in the article describing X-Code. Hmm... I wonder if its close ties with the M$-.NET(C# overview) has irritated Steve.
Obviously there is a reasonable explination for this, C# is just too new for it to have been included... sure. I mean, it has ONLY been out for a year and a half. jeeze
"The Red Hat Bible just didn't have the same smart feel to it."
Being a RHL Bible user (3 months), I stake my life on that book. Smart feel? It gives the user every file location, server information, and allows the user to understand by explaining the settings; allowing the user chance to play with them. It has assisted me through FTP, NFS, and Apache server setup and tweaking without a problem. Its security information for all things linux are excellent. I have not read or even looked through the books mentioned in this review, yet I did not find a book which was comprable when I was looking.
I guess if you want to have a smart feel, you should buy a book which is not intuitive. The bible is. It allows the user to figure out how the OS works by assisting the problem-solving process.
Dont buy a book because it explains all the information, buy a book because it gives you the tools to learn through action. the bible does.
hm, I dont have the attention span or caring to devote time to a phone call, locking my door and spending quality time with loved ones. I guess I will buy a sensory deprivation phone so that my ADD (read American upbringing) wont interfere with the quality time I am not willing to put effort into.
After all, a phone is not enough to converse, but with a helmet, all things things are possible. I mean... its a helmet.
in other news, the little known Al-Bolt-Yeeda struck again today, setting back the production of the multi-billion dollar satellite untold weeks. This terrorist organization is better known for their previous activities with the Chicago Balcony Board (or CBB) as well as their activities in the Chicago Night Club Doors Committe (or CNCDC). Their activities are far ranging indeed if they can strike at the most technically sophisticated bolts we have today. I believe that they must be supported and protected by other countries to be able to strike so effectively; and that we should have a crusade against those countries in attempts to root them out. I would recomend invading those countries who have intimate bolt knowledge, and have been developing 'rival' bolts. These countries must be training Al-Bolt-Yeeda insurgents in an attempt to undermine the american bolt industry. These countries include: Syria.
>:-)
yes, but you also know how to install a plugin.
My grandfather does not, nor should he. He wants to use the internet for simple things: like consuming goods.
The simplest system out there (though we hate it) is IE. Why? because on win 2k moz will still not copy and paste; because on winXP certain plugins must be installed by hand; because on linux it runs like a dream, but linux requires some computer knowledge (albeit not a whole lot). This was a foolish ruling that will hurt the ignorant users who are making the internet a viable consumer space (read: need money to advance internet technology).
I love moz, but it isnt something the ignorant should attempt.
How many times has Gator and their ilk created tertiary annoyance? (tertiary annoyance being a friend asking you, mr computer person, to take it off because it is blatantly annoying them)
These users never requested such software to be placed on their machines, they simply downloaded other software with which it is bundled.
This ruling was based on the idea that the user chose to have such a program on their machine. Obviously the judge was not one who has used the internet very heavily.
into the worm see the network associates
also: I remember a worm (maybe a year and a half ago) which ran directly through outlook (by simply activating an email-without opening the file). Does anyone remember this? if so, please refresh my memory. Thanks.
sit at work and post to this... I bet you your boss does the same thing: its how he got there.
Why limit it to the war with iraq? I mean, dont we have some footage of school slayings/office slayings/ghetto shootings? The object of the game is to survive long enough, and keep enough bullets to kill yourself at the end. I think this would go over really well in IS depts (not to mention mailmen). Even Better: you can personalize the levels! man, gotta give it to the media, they hit on a golden idea here.
hate me.
Precedence is going to be made. Just because SCO(X) is full of shit, does not mean that lawyers will simply drop the case. We will have to deal with the yack-dung that this conflict is bringing about for years afterwards.
/. sheep can do anything.
Do you think that those who are making decisions over this issue have the ideals of open source in mind? IBM and RH? They only want it for corporate profits. SCO(X)... yeah... big negative. The Courts?! They might be the only one we can get through to. We have to get involved. I recomend starting an e-mail list to protest the abuse of free rights that are being presented in this lawsuit.
or maybee I am just an idiot for thinking that a bunch of
hate me.
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Good artists are not motivated by album sales but by some internalization of the music they are creating. Great artists will never stop making the music they desire to have heard (and hear themselves). The real question is whether they will ever be heard (or worse; have the motivation to share the music with others).
...And it is being headed by M$. :->
The major problem posed to the artist in this situation is his/her inability to be included on whatever listings that are distributed (which is similar to any major recording industry). The major difference between the RI and this situation is the lack of competition (why get new music?).
Come on, Microft is such a music supporter... with its media player's poor support and poor code and... yeah... way to be microsoft, you will create a poor product and a poorer support heirarchy.
in other news: macs are easier for microsoft to manipulate than windows: "It is currently only available to Mac users"
If only bill gates' dna was crossed with a monkey's, then we might just get some ingenuity.