I am a bit of a germ freak (after reading a few books regarding the subj) and I sure wouldn't be up for placing my hand on that thing. I had the same problem at the DMV's license thumb print scanner after a guy in front of me had his hands down his pants while in line (no joke).
My friend brought up the point, while at a texas airport that she was NOT removing her shoes to walk thru the scanner because some guy in front of her had very visible foot fungus, and she could only imagine what was on the carpet between her and the other end of the scanner. Airport security was obviously called, because she was with her "brown" boyfriend.
impossible. (in my uneducated view). Ok, so thats the 1st phrase, the 3 word, the 5th word, the 12th word, the 3rd letter of the 19th word...
"The U.S. Air Force has posted a Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) solicitation in which they seek proposals for the automated detection of steganographic content. They seek an application that should run both unobtrusively in the background and in a manual mode, and provide the user the capability to scan all email attachments, downloaded materials and accessed files with an appropriate steganalysis algorithm, reporting any abnormal results (i.e. the presence of steganography). I personally don't think that is feasible, but maybe a good programmer can prove me wrong. A link to the solicitation AF04-T008 can be found here. For those who are not familiar with the SBIR/STTR program, it provides up to $850k for 3 years of research." This sounds very similar to what Niels Provos did over a several-year period at University of Michigan's CITI and released under a free license. I hope the USAF doesn't spend too much of my money without considering extending that research." If an algorithm can detect that, and only that what was meant to be said, i'll eat my own shit.
when are broadband providers going to put in the contracts, "you cannot share your connection with a wireless network", ya, I know, hardly enforceable, but if its illegal, no business model with function under that.
Refer to this article in askslashdot that shows providers care how much bandwidth you use
About a month ago I was in the theater (Kill Bill v1) and before the previews was a picture of a guy in handcuffs in jail with the words akin to "Pirate movies, go to jail" with some deep voice offering to send you to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison for "pirating" movies. I thought they went a little further than the RIAA did, after all, getting sued for a few thousand beats prison.
perhaps those examples aren't failures though. The idea behind most of that was market share, which down the road, could lead to some nice profits, case in point, netzero.
I think the cost of the bandwidth is the issue tho. Everyone could have a T1, or fiber(...damn i am gonna be jealous of Utah) but yes, its the price/bandwidth question, not how you can get the most. Pigeons are pretty cheap I would assume.
So, you know, all these stupid lawsuits/patents like amazons shopping cart, one click(fine) or that stupid on about the X10 pop-unders. Why dont holders of language licenses, (which i believe are mostly universities? that developed languages based with government funding) take away the rights of some certain people, like Jeff Bezos' amazon.com to use their language. Same goes for Sun and their Java lang.
I wish I could underself my stand -Me (is this prior art?)
wait, so a guy at nikkon (camera company - wanting to push digital cameras) is puting words in the mouth of a dead photographer in order to sell cameras? Is it just me, or does this sound fishy
I wish I could underself my stand.
What happens when providers blame lack of signal availability on "someone must be using a jammer". I mean, there are times I would love to shut my neighbor or roommate's phone off, but is it right?
Enforcement the law is next to impossible, especially if its only localized jamming.
For those of you who didnt read the whole thing, I recommend you do. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on Gerrymandering, but this article brought up some ver good points and issues. Very well done.
Hey, sparked my thoughts into what are banks/large corps and even me going to do about non-magnetic data backups seeing as how this weapon seems to be somewhere close to production. What non-magnetic (besides Compact Discs) media provide large storage capabilities?
I have often thought about writing some scripts to reply to spammer's Unsubscribe links, and send them a@a.com through zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz@zzzzzzzzzzz.com to their unsubscribe scripts.
I have noticed there are certain ones that have unsubscribe links, I followed out of curiousity (knowing its just a way for them to verify my email address) and the spam stopped for a month or two and started again.
I know this would only hurt non-robust spammers (judging from the spam I recieve, this means a lot), but its worth a try. I would imagine most of these systems are quite simple. As such, would not respond well to floods of unsubscribe requests, whether they actually delete addresses from their databases, or add (verify) them to their databases, it would be a huge database of quite useless data.
I do realize the implications of sending these may add all addresses to their lists, but hey, they could do that themselves if they wanted.
As for the ones with no/broken unsubscribe, oh well.
Sun recently said they were just going to solve the whole problem with certificates. While I think this idea needs a little refining (someone would sell a cert to a spammer) but I implore the Computer community to come up with some solution before congress gets involved and try's to pass legislation that hurts us all.
A Do-Not-Spam list is absurd, yet 75%? of american's support it?! Ahh. Lets come up with our own solution, fast!
Great. I bought an entitlement for my RH8 back in april 2003
and that support(new errata) is going to end Dec 31st. That leaves me out 4 months of updates I paid for. What is RH going to give me? from https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/
"3) What happens to my paid RHN subscription if it expires after April 30, 2004, (the end-of-life date for Red Hat Linux 9)?
*Dec 31st end-of-life for RH8*
Customers whose paid RHN subscription expires after April 30 will receive a complimentary evaluation ISO and channel access for Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS for the remainder of their subscription. These customers also have the opportunity to take advantage of the 50% discount currently available on migrations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or WS."
Oh, yeah, great. That helps me. Especially because
"4) When will the complimentary evaluation copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS be available?
The channel will be opened March 1, 2004. Users whose account expires after April 30, 2004 will be able to access the complimentary evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS from March 1, 2004 until the end of their subscription."
So, lets see, even if I DID buy their Enterprise, I would have to wait 3 months (past eol of rh8) to receive OS updates. and not to mention the problem of me NOT HAVING PHYSICAL ACCESS to my machine seems to be complicated by:
"8) If I choose to migrate to the complimentary evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, can I simply upgrade my OS?
Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires a full reinstall from Red Hat Linux. There are a full set of migration whitepapers and best practices available for download at the Red Hat Linux Migration Resource Center."
Now sure, I want to download my 40 gigs of data I have on my server, and upgrade the OS and UPLOAD it all again (over DSL that would take a *couple* hours. Yeah, my server, like everyone else's HAS A BUSINESS relying on it.
I dont have time to spend following 100+ packages looking for changes and upgrades and then installing them, and I value Redhat's service but leave me with some options here...
I am not looking forward to this Dec. 31st deadline. Its coming fast already. Just in time for the holidays! Anyone have this same problem?
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thats ok, I'll just go back to Lynx, or Links
I am a bit of a germ freak (after reading a few books regarding the subj) and I sure wouldn't be up for placing my hand on that thing.
I had the same problem at the DMV's license thumb print scanner after a guy in front of me had his hands down his pants while in line (no joke).
My friend brought up the point, while at a texas airport that she was NOT removing her shoes to walk thru the scanner because some guy in front of her had very visible foot fungus, and she could only imagine what was on the carpet between her and the other end of the scanner. Airport security was obviously called, because she was with her "brown" boyfriend.
impossible. (in my uneducated view). Ok, so thats the 1st phrase, the 3 word, the 5th word, the 12th word, the 3rd letter of the 19th word...
"The U.S. Air Force has posted a Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) solicitation in which they seek proposals for the automated detection of steganographic content. They seek an application that should run both unobtrusively in the background and in a manual mode, and provide the user the capability to scan all email attachments, downloaded materials and accessed files with an appropriate steganalysis algorithm, reporting any abnormal results (i.e. the presence of steganography). I personally don't think that is feasible, but maybe a good programmer can prove me wrong. A link to the solicitation AF04-T008 can be found here. For those who are not familiar with the SBIR/STTR program, it provides up to $850k for 3 years of research." This sounds very similar to what Niels Provos did over a several-year period at University of Michigan's CITI and released under a free license. I hope the USAF doesn't spend too much of my money without considering extending that research." If an algorithm can detect that, and only that what was meant to be said, i'll eat my own shit.
This is always an interesting read when dealing with gravitational waves. Build your own gravitational wave generator! maybe...
http://www.amasci.com/caps/capwarp.html
when are broadband providers going to put in the contracts, "you cannot share your connection with a wireless network", ya, I know, hardly enforceable, but if its illegal, no business model with function under that.
Refer to this article in askslashdot that shows providers care how much bandwidth you use
route the traffic to some "SiteFinder service"?
i'll just put the notebook in the back, and point my rearview mirror at it.
any other thoughts?
stop the police car chasing me of course
I wish I could underself my stand.
Its only a matter of time before SCO gets DDoS'd by 100,000 dishwashers
About a month ago I was in the theater (Kill Bill v1) and before the previews was a picture of a guy in handcuffs in jail with the words akin to "Pirate movies, go to jail" with some deep voice offering to send you to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison for "pirating" movies. I thought they went a little further than the RIAA did, after all, getting sued for a few thousand beats prison.
perhaps those examples aren't failures though. The idea behind most of that was market share, which down the road, could lead to some nice profits, case in point, netzero.
I think the cost of the bandwidth is the issue tho. Everyone could have a T1, or fiber(...damn i am gonna be jealous of Utah) but yes, its the price/bandwidth question, not how you can get the most. Pigeons are pretty cheap I would assume.
Sometimes I dont underself my stand. - me
Its not like voting matters much anyway. Didn't you read the astounding article on Gerrymandering
I wish I could underself my stand -me (prior art?)
So, you know, all these stupid lawsuits/patents like amazons shopping cart, one click(fine) or that stupid on about the X10 pop-unders. Why dont holders of language licenses, (which i believe are mostly universities? that developed languages based with government funding) take away the rights of some certain people, like Jeff Bezos' amazon.com to use their language. Same goes for Sun and their Java lang.
I wish I could underself my stand -Me (is this prior art?)
wait, so a guy at nikkon (camera company - wanting to push digital cameras) is puting words in the mouth of a dead photographer in order to sell cameras? Is it just me, or does this sound fishy I wish I could underself my stand.
Cool! Can it help me get rid of a hangover/drunkeness instantly?
What happens when providers blame lack of signal availability on "someone must be using a jammer". I mean, there are times I would love to shut my neighbor or roommate's phone off, but is it right? Enforcement the law is next to impossible, especially if its only localized jamming.
For those of you who didnt read the whole thing, I recommend you do. I thought I had a pretty good grasp on Gerrymandering, but this article brought up some ver good points and issues. Very well done.
soo what happens when a spark flys off a pump and lands in the Bacardi 151 ?
I will r00t your car. ;-) just make sure you always drive faster than me.
hell with that, put it in a hot chick costume and let the love flow
I'm not so sure you are holding your laptop the right way. 600x800?
Hey, sparked my thoughts into what are banks/large corps and even me going to do about non-magnetic data backups seeing as how this weapon seems to be somewhere close to production. What non-magnetic (besides Compact Discs) media provide large storage capabilities?
I have often thought about writing some scripts to reply to spammer's Unsubscribe links, and send them a@a.com through zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz@zzzzzzzzzzz.com to their unsubscribe scripts.
I have noticed there are certain ones that have unsubscribe links, I followed out of curiousity (knowing its just a way for them to verify my email address) and the spam stopped for a month or two and started again.
I know this would only hurt non-robust spammers (judging from the spam I recieve, this means a lot), but its worth a try. I would imagine most of these systems are quite simple. As such, would not respond well to floods of unsubscribe requests, whether they actually delete addresses from their databases, or add (verify) them to their databases, it would be a huge database of quite useless data.
I do realize the implications of sending these may add all addresses to their lists, but hey, they could do that themselves if they wanted.
As for the ones with no/broken unsubscribe, oh well.
Sun recently said they were just going to solve the whole problem with certificates. While I think this idea needs a little refining (someone would sell a cert to a spammer) but I implore the Computer community to come up with some solution before congress gets involved and try's to pass legislation that hurts us all.
A Do-Not-Spam list is absurd, yet 75%? of american's support it?! Ahh. Lets come up with our own solution, fast!
Great. I bought an entitlement for my RH8 back in april 2003 and that support(new errata) is going to end Dec 31st. That leaves me out 4 months of updates I paid for. What is RH going to give me? from https://rhn.redhat.com/help/rhlmigrationfaq/
"3) What happens to my paid RHN subscription if it expires after April 30, 2004, (the end-of-life date for Red Hat Linux 9)? *Dec 31st end-of-life for RH8*
Customers whose paid RHN subscription expires after April 30 will receive a complimentary evaluation ISO and channel access for Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS for the remainder of their subscription. These customers also have the opportunity to take advantage of the 50% discount currently available on migrations to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES or WS."
Oh, yeah, great. That helps me. Especially because
"4) When will the complimentary evaluation copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS be available?
The channel will be opened March 1, 2004. Users whose account expires after April 30, 2004 will be able to access the complimentary evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS from March 1, 2004 until the end of their subscription."
So, lets see, even if I DID buy their Enterprise, I would have to wait 3 months (past eol of rh8) to receive OS updates. and not to mention the problem of me NOT HAVING PHYSICAL ACCESS to my machine seems to be complicated by:
"8) If I choose to migrate to the complimentary evaluation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, can I simply upgrade my OS?
Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux requires a full reinstall from Red Hat Linux. There are a full set of migration whitepapers and best practices available for download at the Red Hat Linux Migration Resource Center."
Now sure, I want to download my 40 gigs of data I have on my server, and upgrade the OS and UPLOAD it all again (over DSL that would take a *couple* hours. Yeah, my server, like everyone else's HAS A BUSINESS relying on it.
I dont have time to spend following 100+ packages looking for changes and upgrades and then installing them, and I value Redhat's service but leave me with some options here...
I am not looking forward to this Dec. 31st deadline. Its coming fast already. Just in time for the holidays! Anyone have this same problem?