Bayesian filters for email really only work because spammers can't see which messages you classify as spam. If you implemented a bayesian filter for trolls on slashdot, the trolls would see what words constitute a troll and stop using those words. They would stuff their messages with non-troll words avoiding the bayesian filter.
The same thing would happen to your mail if the words that your bayesian filter were the same as the words in everybody else's. Spammers would be able to see what make an email seem spamming and they wouldn't do that. Bayesian filtering works for email right now because everybody's filters are a bit different. There is currently no magic bullet to get through everybody's spam filters. Also spammers cannot see your filter so they don't know if their message was filtered. If you opened your archive to me, I could quite easily craft a spam that would land square in your inbox.
Americans have too been scammed by voting machines owned by corporations. Go figure.
Secret Group Manipulates Vote Machines - The widespread use of electronic voting machines has severely undermined the integrity of elections in the United States. Behind the companies that make the voting machines is a small and secretive group of men, including a well-known U.S. senator.
Senator Hagel campaign treasurer owns voting machine co. - Election Systems & Software, the firm whose machines were involved in the 2002 flubbed Florida primary election(4)-- and the recent huge flub in Dallas, where early voting had to be shut down when machines kept registering Democratic votes as Republican (See the 31 mistakes link, top of page) and the company that now makes the voting machines for most of America--is a private company that does not like to tell the public who owns it.
Live Webcam of the flower. As I post there are a bunch of people standing around looking at the flower and the flower dwarfs all of them. Quite impressive.
Uninitialized read of labels in constructor:
if (labels == null){ // setlocale inits labels
setLocale(Locale.getDefault());
}
Its complaining because I'm comparing it to null? I think its a bug in the analysis.
Of course, it would be nice if there were a document that would tell you how to manipulate your code to hide things that you have determined not to be errors from the analyzer. Maybe a list of errors that you have already looked at. Possibly comments you can put in your code.
I just downloaded this and started playing around with it on my Java utilities.
At first I was frustrated that it needs a jar file. On my hard drive my code is just sitting in directories. So I made a jar file out of my code just for this program.
Then I was frustrated that the GUI wouldn't show me the source, but then I realized that I had compiled without debugging information in my classes (no line numbers and such). I recompiled and remade the jar file and it started showing me the source.
Most of the errors that it finds in my stuff aren't really errors. I get a lot of complaint about "should be declared package" when package is the default and I don't specify a modifier. I also get errors about ignored exceptions for things like this: } catch (IOException x){ // This can't happen. // The input and output streams were constructed // on memory structures that don't actually use IO.
}
I think it may have found a few bugs though. Its complaining about at least one thing not being threadsafe. Also complaining about an inner class being static when it probably shouldn't be.
Now I want an Ant task for this so that I can make sure it runs on my code every time I compile. It is sort of like extended compiler warnings. Pretty helpful.
The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down". If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it. Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache.
The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down". If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it. Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache.
There are good reasons to limit the width of text. If text is too wide, it is hard to read because it is not easy to see which line comes next when your eyes have to track back a foot and a half. Newspapers and magazines all publish in columns. They do this because text that narrower text is easier to read.
Yes, there are limits, a vertical line of single words is also hard to read. Text is easiest to read when the column is 2.5 to 6 inches wide. Limiting the width is a good idea because of this.
It would be nice if there were a column style that you could apply to an html div so that it would automatically be laid out in a dynamic number of easy to read columns.
Actually, come to think of it, I usually played Diablo II as the chick with the bow. The long range weapon really suit my style of play.
If you dropped the bow so you weren't carrying a weapon, the default attack for this character is the high kick. I ran into some bug where the rendering engine woudn't know you were carrying a weapon but you still could shoot arrows. You'd do a high kick and a arrow would shoot out your crotch.
A "significant minority" (15%) adopt a character gender opposite to their own.
Could it be that the 15% of female players take on guys names?
My college roommate played one of these games as a female for a while. He got hit on so much that he said he didn't see how anybody could play as a female.
Yahoo's great new feature is that you can search for Yankee's Scores and it will give you the scores right on the search page. It doesn't even seem to work for me.
I would feel that way if Yahoo's directory was actually inclusive. It's not. Especially since they now charge for inclusion in large sections. They also are not very choosy. They don't have just the best sites in each category. They have a lot of crap.
If I want to look through sites that have been picked by humans, I know where the Open Directory Project is. I know where Yahoo's directory is. I know that google can show open directory content sorted by page rank. Its not so hard to go there on my own. Most of the time I search for things that are far more obscure than what will be listed in the descriptions of sites in a directory.
She's installed half a dozen distributions. That's five more than I've ever installed. Such bravery.
I have had similar frustrations trying to get my printer at home to work. I've never been able to do it properly. Its an HP USB inkjet and it works just find from Windows 98. I really wish I had a postscript laser printer, since those are so easy to set up from Linux. (Never mind that Windows makes it harder than it should be to install one.)
As far as the CD burner goes, she had problems getting it to work on Redhat. I've found that whatever version comes with RedHat is pretty bad. Upgrading to the newest version of XCDRoast solved all my problems. They even have RPMs that are a breeze to install in RedHat. Yes you have to run it as root, but only once. You can give anybody permission to run it from its graphical interface.
Anybody have a working binary?
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Duke3d in Linux
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To compile it you must have:
CVS to check out the code.
SDL Libraries for graphics and sound.
An original Duke Nukem CD to get the configuration files and game data
A DOS box or DOS emulator to install said CD
Make and other compile tools to put it all together
I'm missing items 3 and 4. Anybody have a working binary they can put up for download?
Swing excels at having lots of tabs, checkboxes, scroll panels and such. It is very snappy and responsive for that type of app. If you have ever run limewire, you will know how nice a Swing GUI can be.
Swing is not so great in a few other areas. Its canvas drawing abilities can be quite slow. Its document model doesn't handle large documents well. Its table model doesn't handle tables with rows that are various heights.
I noticed this was going to be posted in the mysterious future and sent an email to daddypants@slashdot.org (cmdrtaco says this goes to the admin on duty) a full 10 minutes before it went live.
I guess sometimes daddypants just isn't responsive (darn michael).
Number of times per release you expect companies to purposfully break standards to hurt competitors: Microsoft 2, Sun 0
What good are open standards if your implementation is the only one? In addition to Sun, IBM has a Java implementation and there is an open source implementation and library set that is getting pretty good.
Actually, I wouldn't put it past Sun to break their standards either, but what good is Slashdot if you can't bash Microsoft.
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Does anybody know how to get all those extra keys (volume, forward, back, search, my computer, calculator, etc) to do something useful under linux?
The same thing would happen to your mail if the words that your bayesian filter were the same as the words in everybody else's. Spammers would be able to see what make an email seem spamming and they wouldn't do that. Bayesian filtering works for email right now because everybody's filters are a bit different. There is currently no magic bullet to get through everybody's spam filters. Also spammers cannot see your filter so they don't know if their message was filtered. If you opened your archive to me, I could quite easily craft a spam that would land square in your inbox.
Secret Group Manipulates Vote Machines - The widespread use of electronic voting machines has severely undermined the integrity of elections in the United States. Behind the companies that make the voting machines is a small and secretive group of men, including a well-known U.S. senator.
Voting machine companies: Ownership disclosure, "private" vote-counting codes, potential for manipulation - This is an article about just three things: disclosure, conflict of interest and potential for manipulation. It is not a conspiracy theory or a political point of view. I think you'll agree with me: We don't care who wins the election, as long as it's who was VOTED FOR.
Senator Hagel campaign treasurer owns voting machine co. - Election Systems & Software, the firm whose machines were involved in the 2002 flubbed Florida primary election(4)-- and the recent huge flub in Dallas, where early voting had to be shut down when machines kept registering Democratic votes as Republican (See the 31 mistakes link, top of page) and the company that now makes the voting machines for most of America--is a private company that does not like to tell the public who owns it.
Its pretty easy to send a file to a unix print queue from Windows: http://gccprinters.com/support/doc/lprutil.html
Live Webcam of the flower. As I post there are a bunch of people standing around looking at the flower and the flower dwarfs all of them. Quite impressive.
I'll bet the patent office wouldn't allow you to patent just plain pleading innocent or guilty.
However I'll bet that they would allow "method for pleading innocent to an internet lawsuit"
Its a static variable. It may have been initialized by a previous instance, it may not have been.
Uninitialized read of labels in constructor:
// setlocale inits labels
if (labels == null){
setLocale(Locale.getDefault());
}
Its complaining because I'm comparing it to null? I think its a bug in the analysis.
Of course, it would be nice if there were a document that would tell you how to manipulate your code to hide things that you have determined not to be errors from the analyzer. Maybe a list of errors that you have already looked at. Possibly comments you can put in your code.
Anybody who claims that you can't write a bug in Java has no experience and isn't very creative.
At first I was frustrated that it needs a jar file. On my hard drive my code is just sitting in directories. So I made a jar file out of my code just for this program.
Then I was frustrated that the GUI wouldn't show me the source, but then I realized that I had compiled without debugging information in my classes (no line numbers and such). I recompiled and remade the jar file and it started showing me the source.
Most of the errors that it finds in my stuff aren't really errors. I get a lot of complaint about "should be declared package" when package is the default and I don't specify a modifier. I also get errors about ignored exceptions for things like this:
// This can't happen.
// The input and output streams were constructed
// on memory structures that don't actually use IO.
} catch (IOException x){
}
I think it may have found a few bugs though. Its complaining about at least one thing not being threadsafe. Also complaining about an inner class being static when it probably shouldn't be.
Now I want an Ant task for this so that I can make sure it runs on my code every time I compile. It is sort of like extended compiler warnings. Pretty helpful.
The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down". If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it. Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache.
The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down". If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it. Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache.
I'll give you a fake password.
Is there any reason to believe that people didn't just give a fake password to get a free pen? Were the passwords actually verified?
"Yeah, my password is 'password', now give me that pen."
The moderators who marked this "informative" didn't actually try it. It doesn't work (even after you remove the space). Here is the link to prove it.
Yes, there are limits, a vertical line of single words is also hard to read. Text is easiest to read when the column is 2.5 to 6 inches wide. Limiting the width is a good idea because of this.
It would be nice if there were a column style that you could apply to an html div so that it would automatically be laid out in a dynamic number of easy to read columns.
If you dropped the bow so you weren't carrying a weapon, the default attack for this character is the high kick. I ran into some bug where the rendering engine woudn't know you were carrying a weapon but you still could shoot arrows. You'd do a high kick and a arrow would shoot out your crotch.
- About 85% of players were male.
- A "significant minority" (15%) adopt a character gender opposite to their own.
Could it be that the 15% of female players take on guys names?My college roommate played one of these games as a female for a while. He got hit on so much that he said he didn't see how anybody could play as a female.
Yahoo's great new feature is that you can search for Yankee's Scores and it will give you the scores right on the search page. It doesn't even seem to work for me.
If I want to look through sites that have been picked by humans, I know where the Open Directory Project is. I know where Yahoo's directory is. I know that google can show open directory content sorted by page rank. Its not so hard to go there on my own. Most of the time I search for things that are far more obscure than what will be listed in the descriptions of sites in a directory.
If you search for an address in Yahoo, it doesn't give a link to a map of that address. Google does.
If you search for a phone number, Yahoo doesn't tell you who it belongs to. Google does.
Personally, I could care less about sports scores popping up on the search page. Google returns relevent pages for sports teams.
Yahoo's results do seem to be improved since last time I used it. They don't give you only results from their directory first anymore.
I have had similar frustrations trying to get my printer at home to work. I've never been able to do it properly. Its an HP USB inkjet and it works just find from Windows 98. I really wish I had a postscript laser printer, since those are so easy to set up from Linux. (Never mind that Windows makes it harder than it should be to install one.)
As far as the CD burner goes, she had problems getting it to work on Redhat. I've found that whatever version comes with RedHat is pretty bad. Upgrading to the newest version of XCDRoast solved all my problems. They even have RPMs that are a breeze to install in RedHat. Yes you have to run it as root, but only once. You can give anybody permission to run it from its graphical interface.
- CVS to check out the code.
- SDL Libraries for graphics and sound.
- An original Duke Nukem CD to get the configuration files and game data
- A DOS box or DOS emulator to install said CD
- Make and other compile tools to put it all together
I'm missing items 3 and 4. Anybody have a working binary they can put up for download?Swing is not so great in a few other areas. Its canvas drawing abilities can be quite slow. Its document model doesn't handle large documents well. Its table model doesn't handle tables with rows that are various heights.
I guess sometimes daddypants just isn't responsive (darn michael).
What good are open standards if your implementation is the only one? In addition to Sun, IBM has a Java implementation and there is an open source implementation and library set that is getting pretty good.
Actually, I wouldn't put it past Sun to break their standards either, but what good is Slashdot if you can't bash Microsoft.