In which countries and which cases do you think "no laws were broken" and people were arrested with "little or no evidence"?
Quick note: I live in Finland. If you accuse the police of misdoings here, you hopefully have some real evidence. Corruption within the police is not a joking matter here, nor in many other European countries. Random fictional bullshit accusations of that aren't cool either.
Sentences are in correct proportion to the crime when the punishment significantly lowers crime rate.
Does the 9-year sentence reduce spam? Keep doubling the sentence until spam stops.
Spam isn't victimless, and it isn't done accidentally. It is professional crime, done on purpose and with pre-meditation.
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(Yes, Slashbots, those are affiliate links... that doesn't make them any less useful though, does it?)
Yes, it does make them less useful. Because now it is impossible to tell whether you are saying things like "a more in-depth look" because you really mean it, or because you stand to make a quick buck by making bogus claims about the book.
Nothing personal, of course; you can probably see yourself why the rest of us simply can't know if you are being honest or running an astroturf con.
The esteemed professor is setting himself up as a guru.
"... unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
Right now, all the time, new spam combatting methods are being thought up.
In two years, Herr Doctor will point at the spam filters created in the last two years
and announce to the world how good it is that the computer industry listened to his warning
and created the "internet improvements". And all us maggots must now bow down before him.
Two years is conveniently long to guarantee that some improvements will happen, but short enough so he doesn't have to wait too long until Step Three: PROFIT!!!
The only problem I have is that the runtime takes so long to heave its vast bulk into memory and fiddle with stuff before the app. gets control.
I measure 105 milliseconds before main() gets called (1.7 GHz Pentium crippled by Windoze). Actually less, as that figure includes both application startup and shutdown. What do your measurements show? You have measured it before having a problem with it, right?
Is that a showstopper for many of the applications you write?
The guy dials AOL. Opens Mozilla. Mozilla sends cookie PREVIOUS_LOGIN_NAME=WellsFargoLaptop. AOL admin greps log. Calls police. Police does phone caller id trace.
No sinister government MAC tracing conspiracy required.
Automatic dictionary generation for MT seems of limited value to me. You can purchase dictionaries easily enough, or get trained monkeys^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H linguistics students cheaply enough to do the work.
Raw dictionary work is pretty much the least interesting, most mechanical part of an MT system.
Grammar (source parsing, transformation and target generation) takes a lot more work and careful thinking.
The more accurate you want your MT system to be, the more extra information you want to attach to your dictionary entries (the more the system knows about all the words, the more disambiguation using real-world knowledge it can do.) "I have a ball" vs "I have an idea" translate to some languages quite differently; you need to know that you don't (usually) physically hold "an idea" in your hand. The most common words ("is", "have") are often the worst in this respect.
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Quick note: I live in Finland. If you accuse the police of misdoings here, you hopefully have some real evidence. Corruption within the police is not a joking matter here, nor in many other European countries. Random fictional bullshit accusations of that aren't cool either.
Does the 9-year sentence reduce spam? Keep doubling the sentence until spam stops.
Spam isn't victimless, and it isn't done accidentally. It is professional crime, done on purpose and with pre-meditation.
Yes, it does make them less useful. Because now it is impossible to tell whether you are saying things like "a more in-depth look" because you really mean it, or because you stand to make a quick buck by making bogus claims about the book.
Nothing personal, of course; you can probably see yourself why the rest of us simply can't know if you are being honest or running an astroturf con.
"... unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
Right now, all the time, new spam combatting methods are being thought up.
In two years, Herr Doctor will point at the spam filters created in the last two years and announce to the world how good it is that the computer industry listened to his warning and created the "internet improvements". And all us maggots must now bow down before him.
Two years is conveniently long to guarantee that some improvements will happen, but short enough so he doesn't have to wait too long until Step Three: PROFIT!!!
I measure 105 milliseconds before main() gets called (1.7 GHz Pentium crippled by Windoze). Actually less, as that figure includes both application startup and shutdown. What do your measurements show? You have measured it before having a problem with it, right?
Is that a showstopper for many of the applications you write?
If you don't like what they say, go elsewhere, but trying to force upon them what they may say is decidedly uncool.
You start thinking MAC address tracing and stuff.
The guy dials AOL. Opens Mozilla. Mozilla sends cookie PREVIOUS_LOGIN_NAME=WellsFargoLaptop. AOL admin greps log. Calls police. Police does phone caller id trace.
No sinister government MAC tracing conspiracy required.
Raw dictionary work is pretty much the least interesting, most mechanical part of an MT system.
Grammar (source parsing, transformation and target generation) takes a lot more work and careful thinking.
The more accurate you want your MT system to be, the more extra information you want to attach to your dictionary entries (the more the system knows about all the words, the more disambiguation using real-world knowledge it can do.) "I have a ball" vs "I have an idea" translate to some languages quite differently; you need to know that you don't (usually) physically hold "an idea" in your hand. The most common words ("is", "have") are often the worst in this respect.
(I have worked coding an MT system.)