I had a server went down after a power outage - I was no longer responsable for the machine, but the new sysadmin was not available, so I went in. It was in a shop that mostly had Mac computers, so I grabbed a USB keyboard from one of them and tried to restart the computer. The server wouldn't get past the BIOS, which was absolutely horrifying - we had websites and email down for weeks, we tried to upgrade the BIOS and killed the board, we ordered a new motherboard and the problem still happened.
Then we unplugged the keyboard. Everything booted perfectly. Somehow I was the first person in three years to try and attach a USB keyboard, and the BIOS froze unless there was no keyboard, or a PS/2 keyboard. Lost two weeks of my life from that.
Hmm... Sounds like ilovebees.com's hostile AI wasn't kidding when it said it had metastasized. Now it's gone from Spying on Dana to spying on everybody...
What if the "white knights" only launched from the "immune system" - this would only work for universities/corporate networks, but that's where a lot of the problem is anyway. Instead of a distributed knight, have a central server that scans every computer in the [university/corporation]'s subnet, and if it finds the exploit, patches it.
I think any implementation of this idea would have to be managed centrally, not released into the distributed wild - both for bandwith and legal reasons (though IANAL). The scary thing to me is random hackers releasing white knight viruses that actually mess up systems further - many worms have unintended negative side effects - and the plea, "but it was a white knight!" just isn't gonna mean anything to anybody.
This is the model that the college website thefacebook.com has used - each college is set up as a separate entity (I connect to princeton.thefacebook.com, Emory students to emory.thefacebook.com) and while it is easy to search and form friendships linking colleges, the design assumption is that most of your links are going to be within your own college.
I don't know how Orkut works, so I hope this comment doesn't sound horribly stupid, but it seems like it might be a reasonable assumption to assume that people mostly desire interaction within their country - or at least within their language... That's clearly not xenophobic - if I speak only/primarily Russian then I am going to be vastly more likely to have friends and social interactions with... you know... Russian speakers. The same goes for English.
Oh wait I take it back, I understand what you were saying - although it's an obvious comment, clearly it's inaccurate that Google is showing 25 results for a quoted search and 25 results for an unquoted search, yes.
However, this IS an additional wackiness that the "display omitted results" search has inconsistent numbers of matches depending on whether you're here (first page - 62 results), here (second page - 28 results), or here (third page - 25 results).
I'm not sure what you mean - on the bottom of the second page it gave the message
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 13 already displayed."
There are, in fact, "about 25 entries", but the search engine decided that 13 of them were very very similar to the 13 that they showed you, and decided to not show them, though they gave the option to see them here
Clicking THAT link does lead to something very interesting. You would expect for there to be about 25, or in reality exactly 13 (displayed) + 13 (omitted) = 26. However, the FIRST page reports 62 hits, the second page reports 28, and the THIRD page shows 5 for a total of 25. Why can't google count within a single search???
No, it seems like most of those servers would be new servers, the page states that the total number of active sites grew 109%. It is significant that 5%, then, actually switched from linux.
It makes sense that it would be someone from that school, if it in fact was, as they already had a good example of this floating around:
A Sergeant of the Lawe, war and wys,
That often hadde been at the Parvys,
Ther was also, ful riche of excellence.
Discreet he was and of greet reverence-
He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
Justice he was ful often in assise,
By patente and by pleny comissioun.
For his science and for his heigh renoun,
Of fees and robes hadde he many oon.
Any of the normal American or English college students who have read The Canterbury Tales in Middle English (there are most likely high school students too) problably didn't find this study too shocking.
And while "patente" refers to a letter of appointment from the king, this does sound like the type of guy that would be patenting moving a mouse to the left these days...
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the deal here is that, as card says, you are keeping your *own copy* when you fileshare. They would probably still try to nail you for it, but if you actually sent someone an MP3 rip of your CD and then destroyed your CD, it wouldn't break copyright (the reason that doesn't apply to software is because the liscence you "sign" tries to take away exactly that right)
you can join BitPass using PayPal - so it's hardly difficult
Even though a BitPass keeps you from having to give your credit card information, you still have to pay with a credit card OR with PayPal, and you still have to give information you may not want to give to PayPal. Bottom line - at some point you have to give someone information you don't want to give them.
I think the only way this will ever work is if you can actually BUY a BitPass at (insert omnipresent retail outlet here). If a BitPass were like a disposable calling card, I would think it would actually bring the mental cost down, the registration wouldn't be a hassle, and there would be no sneaking suspicion that this was all being tracked by some marketing company.
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I had a server went down after a power outage - I was no longer responsable for the machine, but the new sysadmin was not available, so I went in. It was in a shop that mostly had Mac computers, so I grabbed a USB keyboard from one of them and tried to restart the computer. The server wouldn't get past the BIOS, which was absolutely horrifying - we had websites and email down for weeks, we tried to upgrade the BIOS and killed the board, we ordered a new motherboard and the problem still happened.
Then we unplugged the keyboard. Everything booted perfectly. Somehow I was the first person in three years to try and attach a USB keyboard, and the BIOS froze unless there was no keyboard, or a PS/2 keyboard. Lost two weeks of my life from that.
Hmm... Sounds like ilovebees.com's hostile AI wasn't kidding when it said it had metastasized. Now it's gone from Spying on Dana to spying on everybody...
What if the "white knights" only launched from the "immune system" - this would only work for universities/corporate networks, but that's where a lot of the problem is anyway. Instead of a distributed knight, have a central server that scans every computer in the [university/corporation]'s subnet, and if it finds the exploit, patches it. I think any implementation of this idea would have to be managed centrally, not released into the distributed wild - both for bandwith and legal reasons (though IANAL). The scary thing to me is random hackers releasing white knight viruses that actually mess up systems further - many worms have unintended negative side effects - and the plea, "but it was a white knight!" just isn't gonna mean anything to anybody.
This is the model that the college website thefacebook.com has used - each college is set up as a separate entity (I connect to princeton.thefacebook.com, Emory students to emory.thefacebook.com) and while it is easy to search and form friendships linking colleges, the design assumption is that most of your links are going to be within your own college. I don't know how Orkut works, so I hope this comment doesn't sound horribly stupid, but it seems like it might be a reasonable assumption to assume that people mostly desire interaction within their country - or at least within their language... That's clearly not xenophobic - if I speak only/primarily Russian then I am going to be vastly more likely to have friends and social interactions with... you know... Russian speakers. The same goes for English.
'To provide the most accurate results, Google does not use "stemming" or support "wildcard" searches.'
mean exactly that they DON'T do what you're describing?
However, this IS an additional wackiness that the "display omitted results" search has inconsistent numbers of matches depending on whether you're here (first page - 62 results), here (second page - 28 results), or here (third page - 25 results).
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 13 already displayed."
There are, in fact, "about 25 entries", but the search engine decided that 13 of them were very very similar to the 13 that they showed you, and decided to not show them, though they gave the option to see them here
Clicking THAT link does lead to something very interesting. You would expect for there to be about 25, or in reality exactly 13 (displayed) + 13 (omitted) = 26. However, the FIRST page reports 62 hits, the second page reports 28, and the THIRD page shows 5 for a total of 25. Why can't google count within a single search???
No, it seems like most of those servers would be new servers, the page states that the total number of active sites grew 109%. It is significant that 5%, then, actually switched from linux.
It makes sense that it would be someone from that school, if it in fact was, as they already had a good example of this floating around:
A Sergeant of the Lawe, war and wys,
That often hadde been at the Parvys,
Ther was also, ful riche of excellence.
Discreet he was and of greet reverence-
He semed swich, his wordes weren so wise.
Justice he was ful often in assise,
By patente and by pleny comissioun.
For his science and for his heigh renoun,
Of fees and robes hadde he many oon.
Any of the normal American or English college students who have read The Canterbury Tales in Middle English (there are most likely high school students too) problably didn't find this study too shocking.
And while "patente" refers to a letter of appointment from the king, this does sound like the type of guy that would be patenting moving a mouse to the left these days...
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that the deal here is that, as card says, you are keeping your *own copy* when you fileshare. They would probably still try to nail you for it, but if you actually sent someone an MP3 rip of your CD and then destroyed your CD, it wouldn't break copyright (the reason that doesn't apply to software is because the liscence you "sign" tries to take away exactly that right)
Even though a BitPass keeps you from having to give your credit card information, you still have to pay with a credit card OR with PayPal, and you still have to give information you may not want to give to PayPal. Bottom line - at some point you have to give someone information you don't want to give them.
I think the only way this will ever work is if you can actually BUY a BitPass at (insert omnipresent retail outlet here). If a BitPass were like a disposable calling card, I would think it would actually bring the mental cost down, the registration wouldn't be a hassle, and there would be no sneaking suspicion that this was all being tracked by some marketing company.