My team competed (and won first place in) several high school computer programming contests at the colleges in New England back in my day (Plymouth State, St. Anselm, etc). I'm not sure what today's competitions look like, but the team concept made things work here. I was the code monkey of the group, and the rest had their own strengths. Prior to my coming onboard, the team continually lost - not because they weren't smart, but they weren't complete. They were very strong in figuring out solutions to problems, while I was very strong at taking those solutions and laying them out in code. That's one of the reasons I'm suspicious of the 'one-man' competitions, as real-life work challenges are often team-oriented. As adults, most of us have learned to wear many of the different hats (problem solving, mathematics, coding, etc), but building a strong team based on members' strengths still usually makes the difference between mediocre products and works of art. That's just my 2c.
Most of the agencies assisting these past five days have been the private organizations - churches, relief organizations, etc. Many organizations (such as Feed the Hungry) forewent administrative fees as well and are directing 100% of all donations directly to the effort. Any government can only throw money and manpower at a situation like this - it's the private organizations that get down and help on a personal level.
I guess the RIAA never saw the study that says that file sharers spent more money buying music online than those who don't share music at all.
Since when did the RIAA care about the facts? They're not a morality organization, their only purpose is to generate revenue. Just like the SPA, MPAA, etc., these things start up as corporations run by high-powered attorneys. It's a great way to justify the existence of such an organization to the labels. As most people are already aware, the music industry wouldn't be what it is today without online file sharers who spend wads of cash buying legal music they ended up liking. Not trying to flame in the least bit - but why is everyone so surprised that an organization like this is defying all reason to pursue a bottom line?
Yes, but much of the industry is "standardized" on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some companies even sanction their employees browsers by allowing only specific software to run on employee systems. This is a nice workaround without having to offend your company's T&C by running something "open source" *gasp*.
Well now, that's tunable - but more importantly, how much of that occured during training and how much after training. Most people can live with that for the first few weeks to a month or so while they're getting things up and running. I'll be interested in seeing the graphs illustrate each milestone when they're ready. If you don't need a 99.5% catch rate during your training, you can always turn sedation on. Your FP rate will be very low, but your spam rate will increase. It all depends on the user's preference, which is why there's a knob for it in the user preferences section of the UI. Some of the other tests we've seen show exceptionally good behavior with false positives - I believe one test showed that out of all the messages, dspam only got 1 false positive. This is an example of the different ways you can turn that knob.
Thanks Gordon. While our opinions may differ on the original test bed, and since I'm not privy to the original testing framework, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that. I think some of what went wrong was beyond your control as well - such as the use of the Berkeley DB drivers in 2.8, which were severely caveated and are now deprecated. (Now that SQLite is available, this provided a much more stable backend for testing, especially considering MySQL - the stable backend at the time - would have been too heavy to fit into a compact, multiplatform jig). I am sure some of the improvement has obviously been to improvements in the filtering software since 2003, when 2.8 was around, but I do believe some of the changes we made to how the tests were run made a change as well. Turning off statistical sedation was probably the biggest change, and as of 3.x much of the 'default' configuration has been tuned for performance based on what we know today about "what works". In 2.8, much of these decisions were left "unset" and up to the implementor.
But anywho, thanks for the effort, and I am glad we could at least perform what I think is a reasonable test.
A few things I don't like about greylisting though:
1. There are a lot of mail servers (or server software packages) that are broken, and may delay mail up to 12 hours.
2. Once spammers catch onto this (some have already), they will end up using more of your resources to spam you, and if you rely solely on greylisting that means they can use it against you.
3. Being that it's likely you'll get traffic from many new hosts over time, even one-time challenge greylisting can clog up mail servers.
"This book discusses gravity. Which is also just a theory."
Gravity is a law, not a theory. It's a law because, among other reasons, it can be reproduced in a controlled environment (e.g. artificial gravity). Evolve me a human being, or even Paris Hilton's poodle, from a single-celled organism, then you can call it the law of evolution.
FYI - I've got no particular ID agenda, and I'm not a part of the ID crowd...I have no real opinion about it at all yet other than to observe it...but in observing it, I think I have discovered that their purpose is not to try and introduce new science, but to rather separate the science in creationism from the God in creationism. If that's the case, then I would suppose that their reasoning would be that they believe much of the science involved is commonly dismissed because of its strong affiliation to a diety. I can agree with that... but like I said, I'm pretty neutral in terms of the ID movement. I really just have had better things to do than study up on them too much.
Slashdot Mirror
Just because a top-level domain isn't nearly as important as things such as clean water
I was thinking more along the lines that you need to have pr0n available online before you can have your own TLD.
Gnome is getting better and better but KDE is still eye-candier
Only for the uninformed.
well, not every situation in life is a team effort though
True, Karma whoring is a one-man show.
Really, the best way to encourage current high schoolers and college students is support at the school level.
Hot college chicks running the contests always helped encourage me.
My team competed (and won first place in) several high school computer programming contests at the colleges in New England back in my day (Plymouth State, St. Anselm, etc). I'm not sure what today's competitions look like, but the team concept made things work here. I was the code monkey of the group, and the rest had their own strengths. Prior to my coming onboard, the team continually lost - not because they weren't smart, but they weren't complete. They were very strong in figuring out solutions to problems, while I was very strong at taking those solutions and laying them out in code. That's one of the reasons I'm suspicious of the 'one-man' competitions, as real-life work challenges are often team-oriented. As adults, most of us have learned to wear many of the different hats (problem solving, mathematics, coding, etc), but building a strong team based on members' strengths still usually makes the difference between mediocre products and works of art. That's just my 2c.
iPod nano, which is an iPod photo-esque replacement for the iPod mini
I can see strongbad promoting these now. "It's not just photo-esque. It's danger-esque."
6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop
So that would be about the same time frame as 3.0Ghz PowerPC, right?
Well, actually, it wouldn't fit. The Internet is at least 10 terabytes
So 10 discs as opposed to how many if I used floppies?
Now I can download the entire Internet like I've always wanted to.
Most chips already in existence will automatically disable themselves if it senses the host is dead (I believe by way of body temperature).
I guess you didn't bother to check the about page [harvard.edu] on his site.
Yes, I did. He's had several jobs recently. Sounds like more of an internship than a career.
hard working blogger
a.k.a. don't have a real job?
Can we depend on the federal government?
No. Next Question?
Most of the agencies assisting these past five days have been the private organizations - churches, relief organizations, etc. Many organizations (such as Feed the Hungry) forewent administrative fees as well and are directing 100% of all donations directly to the effort. Any government can only throw money and manpower at a situation like this - it's the private organizations that get down and help on a personal level.
1700+ People are tracking his blog
And now many more, so when you get it all back up and running, prepare for a Slashdotting.
I guess the RIAA never saw the study that says that file sharers spent more money buying music online than those who don't share music at all.
Since when did the RIAA care about the facts? They're not a morality organization, their only purpose is to generate revenue. Just like the SPA, MPAA, etc., these things start up as corporations run by high-powered attorneys. It's a great way to justify the existence of such an organization to the labels. As most people are already aware, the music industry wouldn't be what it is today without online file sharers who spend wads of cash buying legal music they ended up liking. Not trying to flame in the least bit - but why is everyone so surprised that an organization like this is defying all reason to pursue a bottom line?
or they could just use firefox.
Yes, but much of the industry is "standardized" on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some companies even sanction their employees browsers by allowing only specific software to run on employee systems. This is a nice workaround without having to offend your company's T&C by running something "open source" *gasp*.
Microsoft, I'm sure, will just have to top this and offer free Windows site licenses for the emergency camps.
That is not evidence in support of your hypothesis that evolution is taught as a law.
No, for that go sit in on a science class in a public school today.
false positive rate
Well now, that's tunable - but more importantly, how much of that occured during training and how much after training. Most people can live with that for the first few weeks to a month or so while they're getting things up and running. I'll be interested in seeing the graphs illustrate each milestone when they're ready. If you don't need a 99.5% catch rate during your training, you can always turn sedation on. Your FP rate will be very low, but your spam rate will increase. It all depends on the user's preference, which is why there's a knob for it in the user preferences section of the UI. Some of the other tests we've seen show exceptionally good behavior with false positives - I believe one test showed that out of all the messages, dspam only got 1 false positive. This is an example of the different ways you can turn that knob.
Thanks Gordon. While our opinions may differ on the original test bed, and since I'm not privy to the original testing framework, we'll just have to agree to disagree on that. I think some of what went wrong was beyond your control as well - such as the use of the Berkeley DB drivers in 2.8, which were severely caveated and are now deprecated. (Now that SQLite is available, this provided a much more stable backend for testing, especially considering MySQL - the stable backend at the time - would have been too heavy to fit into a compact, multiplatform jig). I am sure some of the improvement has obviously been to improvements in the filtering software since 2003, when 2.8 was around, but I do believe some of the changes we made to how the tests were run made a change as well. Turning off statistical sedation was probably the biggest change, and as of 3.x much of the 'default' configuration has been tuned for performance based on what we know today about "what works". In 2.8, much of these decisions were left "unset" and up to the implementor.
But anywho, thanks for the effort, and I am glad we could at least perform what I think is a reasonable test.
A few things I don't like about greylisting though:
1. There are a lot of mail servers (or server software packages) that are broken, and may delay mail up to 12 hours.
2. Once spammers catch onto this (some have already), they will end up using more of your resources to spam you, and if you rely solely on greylisting that means they can use it against you.
3. Being that it's likely you'll get traffic from many new hosts over time, even one-time challenge greylisting can clog up mail servers.
First:
While their name does not appear in the credits.
Then:
>They argue that the open source community hasn't benefited from companies like Google and Amazon.
I never really understood this thinking.
Did you mean to post a +1, Funny?
"This book discusses gravity. Which is also just a theory."
Gravity is a law, not a theory. It's a law because, among other reasons, it can be reproduced in a controlled environment (e.g. artificial gravity). Evolve me a human being, or even Paris Hilton's poodle, from a single-celled organism, then you can call it the law of evolution.
FYI - I've got no particular ID agenda, and I'm not a part of the ID crowd...I have no real opinion about it at all yet other than to observe it...but in observing it, I think I have discovered that their purpose is not to try and introduce new science, but to rather separate the science in creationism from the God in creationism. If that's the case, then I would suppose that their reasoning would be that they believe much of the science involved is commonly dismissed because of its strong affiliation to a diety. I can agree with that... but like I said, I'm pretty neutral in terms of the ID movement. I really just have had better things to do than study up on them too much.
s/shown to be correct/shown to be only partially correct/