What you would really want is IPsec encryption and heavy PGP encryption on all documents going over the wire especially for common services like email, ftp transfers, etc.
Okay so you've cracked my email server now you have access to a bunch of headers and a lot of encrypted garbage. You crack my ftp server and you've got nothing but encrypted files.
As for those who would claim invasion or violation of Constitutional rights, uh, driving is a privledge, not a right.
So? We have rights that transcend the whims of the DMV, decisions of state government, and federal government. Actively installing these things and making them mandatory, e.g. illegal to bypass, presumes the person is guilty which can easily be argued is unconstitutional when people are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
We dont limit cars to 65mph at the factory for that same reason, even though there's a lot more speeders than drunk drivers. We also don't install remote shutdown devices so police can pull us over against our wills.
About the conviced DUI driver, a judge can pretty much sentance whatever she likes in a lot of cases. I could really see this as being installed into the offender's car, though I'm pretty sure devices like this already exist.
"I think as adults, we have to step up and see to it that (children) are safely using the computer and that they're not going to see the filth out there," Provence said.
So why are you enlightened adults passing this duty off to some lame filter? Kids will find their way through it in about, oh, 8 nanoseconds.
If you want effectiveness, post rules and take an occasional glance at what people are doing. Ban the rule breakers for x amount of time and let the fear and chilling effect do the rest.
Filters don't work and these "responsible" adults aren't being very responsible at all.
"People who cry that it's limiting their freedoms... I don't think they have a leg to stand on. Children under 18 aren't allowed to go to R-rated movies, so why would we allow them to go into a school or a library and see X-rated material?"
This suggests that 18 and overs should be able to disable filters which is and never will be the case. Most people I see in the library are over 18 anyways.
Might as well toss this tidbit in, check your cartoon network listings. 9 and 9:30 CST.
Also check out this petition to get Disney to release some of Japan's greatest anime.
Progress? Or reinventing the wheel?
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It takes a computer days to produce what a polaroid can do in minutes.
Seriously, the more I see about photo realism the more I wonder how much more effective it would be to just edit real photographs taken by a decent photographer.
I'm all for photo realism in animation, but for stills it seems like a waste of perfectly good film. I'm not a neo-luddite, but most of this eye candy could have been done with photoshop and a real photo in a fraction of the time.
Enslavement came from the initial post. Hawkins himself calls the possibility of taking over the world a "danger." In that context I don't think we should be breaking out the catnip yet.
"So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world."
What a crock. The slave system is purely a human one. How or why a machine would pick up one of the worst human behavoirs is simple called watching too much sci-fi and being paranoid. Ambition is also a human drive, if the promise of a Lt. Com. Data type AI comes around it will have very different drives than your typical 17th century empire.
A better method would be to have spammers pay for their bandwidth and adopt an advertising convetion like putting ADV in the subject line.
This would kill the problem in two easy steps:
1. ISPs won't have pass the cost of mega-bandwidth waste to their customers because they'll be billing the spammers directly.
2. Users can make rules to put spam in either the proper folder or just delete it. Spam without an ADV gets reported to the authorities. With all these newly trained cyber-cops they'll appreciate the work of tracking down spammers.
As spam prices increase because of real cost billing "scam spam" will disappear because only legitimite businesses will be able to afford mass mailings. Instead of getting credit fixing ads you'll get coupons from Target. They're going to have to make you want to open those emails, especially for those who have them going into a bulk mail folder.
Sign the petition to get Disney to release Hayao Miyazaki's anime in the US.
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First off, spam usually equals scam. Think those penis pump devices work or that credit fixer is going to do anything than offer you a high interest load?
Second, unlike traditional junk mail spammers do not pay the real cost for their mailings. Bandwidth is usually stolen. Guess who eats up the cost? The customers of the ISP. We're paying for the penis pumps HTML ads.
What? @home is $6 more this month! Wonder why.
Third, its inconsiderate to put someone on a mailing list and have them manually unsub themselves 10 times a day to avoid more spam.
Fourth, spammers won't agree to any convention for easy filtering, like Subj: ADV blahblah. Instead they send use fake names with misleading subjects to fool people into reading their aluminum siding ad. With an ADV tag we could put it straight into our spam folders or auto-delete it.
Spam sucks.
Sign the petition to convince Disney to bring Hayao Miyazaki's anime to the US.
Its nice to see that US corporate officers and employees can cower behind the corporate shield for liability but the DMCA can put blame on one man and violate his first amendment right to speech at the same time?
Second, Adobe chose to invoke the DMCA demon, tipped law enforment to the speech, and is part of this big propaganda/scare tactic. They chose NOT to go the way of a civil lawsuit. They wanted this gestapo crap and since they've gotten what they wanted they just bowed out and left everyone bitching about the evil DMCA and not the coporations that bought it and use it.
Where's the big adobe boycott? The DMCA can be overturned at any moment, but business tactics like these will stick around if they think they can get away with it and right now they are getting away with it.
I don't have anything against network computing but I wouldnt buy 20 junkers for business use.
Lets look at your typical 486 beater you can pick up at a garage sale:
1. Nearing the end of its life cycle - that means better buy some power supplies that fit that 486 chassis.
2. You might not need much drive space but that 250 meg drive will be as sloooooooow. This may not be an issue depending on how much local drive use you expect.
3. Video cards. Your users are going to want to run at 800x600 or higher and those cheesy cards you find on a 10 year old machines won't cut it. Better buy some cheapo modern cards.
4. NIC, no biggie if you don't mind running at 10 mbit or using thinnet.
5. No USB, may or may not be a problem.
6. Floppy drives need cleaning/replacement if you want a dependable read/write. Floppies suck on new machines with new media let alone 10 year old boxes.
7. Keyboard and mice may not be to the liking of your users. I'm using a keyboard from a 486 right now on my Duron box and love it. Clean/replace mice is required in most cases.
That being said, in a corporate environment just buy the cheapest celeron or whatever to get some new equipment. For non-profits, hobbyists, communes, post-apocalyptic societies etc its a good idea but go for a Pentium level machine with some decent video.
researching techniques that would make the standard stronger, along with hopes of lessening this vulnerability."
Whe you see that lock thingy on your browser just switch your hands on the keyboard. That's right, put your right hand on the left side of the keyboard and vice versa. We were going to write a technical paper on this put I just drew a picture on a napkin this morning.
With this recent salon piece on how starfish parts could be used in computing and the neural net made out of neurons I think this could be a very interesting trend.
The site is already slashdotted, man its 4am here, but if nature has already done a good job in design why not borrow it for other purposes. Its like Junkyard Wars but on a very small and living scale.
A nice bonus with using cellurar material is there probably wont be ethical complaints i.e. who identifies with neurons?
With this recent salon piece on how starfish parts could be used in computing and the neural net made out of neurons I think this could be a very interesting trend.
The site is already slashdotted, man its 4am here, but if nature has already done a good job in design why not borrow it for other purposes. Its like Junkyard Wars but on a very small and living scale.
A nice bonus with using cellurar material is there probably wont be ethical complaints i.e. who identifies with neurons?
Don't go with Disney. Hayao Miyazaki's 1996 contract only seems to cover Mononoke and not Spirited Away. Also I hate to break it to some of the fanboys but anime is largely a fring/aquired taste here. Expecting mass american acceptance usually means accepting american style marketing, edits, etc.
Considering where the anime DVD market is right now this thing is going to sell like hotcakes when released. I'd much rather have it on DVD, say in a few months, than wait for 4 theaters to play it nationwide pushing back the DVD release a year.
The best part of going straight to DVD is you can still have your local arthouse theater showings at midnight and the fanboys and fangirls will come just to see it on the big screen.
Slashdot Mirror
How long could a jump earthquake last? Once it go really going it would be centered on the jumpers themselves.
Careful what you wish for pudgy english children.
Fear is for lesser scientists. Next week we're bussing the kids to a local bridge and having them jump in synch.
Everyone now, ready, set, go!
What you would really want is IPsec encryption and heavy PGP encryption on all documents going over the wire especially for common services like email, ftp transfers, etc.
Okay so you've cracked my email server now you have access to a bunch of headers and a lot of encrypted garbage. You crack my ftp server and you've got nothing but encrypted files.
As for those who would claim invasion or violation of Constitutional rights, uh, driving is a privledge, not a right.
So? We have rights that transcend the whims of the DMV, decisions of state government, and federal government. Actively installing these things and making them mandatory, e.g. illegal to bypass, presumes the person is guilty which can easily be argued is unconstitutional when people are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
We dont limit cars to 65mph at the factory for that same reason, even though there's a lot more speeders than drunk drivers. We also don't install remote shutdown devices so police can pull us over against our wills.
About the conviced DUI driver, a judge can pretty much sentance whatever she likes in a lot of cases. I could really see this as being installed into the offender's car, though I'm pretty sure devices like this already exist.
"I think as adults, we have to step up and see to it that (children) are safely using the computer and that they're not going to see the filth out there," Provence said.
... I don't think they have a leg to stand on. Children under 18 aren't allowed to go to R-rated movies, so why would we allow them to go into a school or a library and see X-rated material?"
So why are you enlightened adults passing this duty off to some lame filter? Kids will find their way through it in about, oh, 8 nanoseconds.
If you want effectiveness, post rules and take an occasional glance at what people are doing. Ban the rule breakers for x amount of time and let the fear and chilling effect do the rest.
Filters don't work and these "responsible" adults aren't being very responsible at all.
"People who cry that it's limiting their freedoms
This suggests that 18 and overs should be able to disable filters which is and never will be the case. Most people I see in the library are over 18 anyways.
Might as well toss this tidbit in, check your cartoon network listings. 9 and 9:30 CST.
Also check out this petition to get Disney to release some of Japan's greatest anime.
It takes a computer days to produce what a polaroid can do in minutes.
Seriously, the more I see about photo realism the more I wonder how much more effective it would be to just edit real photographs taken by a decent photographer.
I'm all for photo realism in animation, but for stills it seems like a waste of perfectly good film. I'm not a neo-luddite, but most of this eye candy could have been done with photoshop and a real photo in a fraction of the time.
Windows users can run a fake java-based webserver called Code Red Vigilante that uses the exploit to inform infected users that they've got it.
There's a apache script that works a lot like this, someone care to post the link?
Enslavement came from the initial post. Hawkins himself calls the possibility of taking over the world a "danger." In that context I don't think we should be breaking out the catnip yet.
"So the danger is real that they could develop intelligence and take over the world."
What a crock. The slave system is purely a human one. How or why a machine would pick up one of the worst human behavoirs is simple called watching too much sci-fi and being paranoid. Ambition is also a human drive, if the promise of a Lt. Com. Data type AI comes around it will have very different drives than your typical 17th century empire.
Zubrin: Why is there blood running out of their ears?
Scientist: Because you're an idiot!
The 2nd generation of mice will never get to experience 1g until they land. I'm sure that'll make for a great mortality rate.
A better method would be to have spammers pay for their bandwidth and adopt an advertising convetion like putting ADV in the subject line.
This would kill the problem in two easy steps:
1. ISPs won't have pass the cost of mega-bandwidth waste to their customers because they'll be billing the spammers directly.
2. Users can make rules to put spam in either the proper folder or just delete it. Spam without an ADV gets reported to the authorities. With all these newly trained cyber-cops they'll appreciate the work of tracking down spammers.
As spam prices increase because of real cost billing "scam spam" will disappear because only legitimite businesses will be able to afford mass mailings. Instead of getting credit fixing ads you'll get coupons from Target. They're going to have to make you want to open those emails, especially for those who have them going into a bulk mail folder.
Sign the petition to get Disney to release Hayao Miyazaki's anime in the US.
First off, spam usually equals scam. Think those penis pump devices work or that credit fixer is going to do anything than offer you a high interest load?
Second, unlike traditional junk mail spammers do not pay the real cost for their mailings. Bandwidth is usually stolen. Guess who eats up the cost? The customers of the ISP. We're paying for the penis pumps HTML ads.
What? @home is $6 more this month! Wonder why.
Third, its inconsiderate to put someone on a mailing list and have them manually unsub themselves 10 times a day to avoid more spam.
Fourth, spammers won't agree to any convention for easy filtering, like Subj: ADV blahblah. Instead they send use fake names with misleading subjects to fool people into reading their aluminum siding ad. With an ADV tag we could put it straight into our spam folders or auto-delete it.
Spam sucks.
Sign the petition to convince Disney to bring Hayao Miyazaki's anime to the US.
Its nice to see that US corporate officers and employees can cower behind the corporate shield for liability but the DMCA can put blame on one man and violate his first amendment right to speech at the same time?
Second, Adobe chose to invoke the DMCA demon, tipped law enforment to the speech, and is part of this big propaganda/scare tactic. They chose NOT to go the way of a civil lawsuit. They wanted this gestapo crap and since they've gotten what they wanted they just bowed out and left everyone bitching about the evil DMCA and not the coporations that bought it and use it.
Where's the big adobe boycott? The DMCA can be overturned at any moment, but business tactics like these will stick around if they think they can get away with it and right now they are getting away with it.
Whats with the guy in the photo? It looks like he's trying to escape the webpage through that circle.
New slogan?
Linux the new OS/2!
I don't have anything against network computing but I wouldnt buy 20 junkers for business use.
Lets look at your typical 486 beater you can pick up at a garage sale:
1. Nearing the end of its life cycle - that means better buy some power supplies that fit that 486 chassis.
2. You might not need much drive space but that 250 meg drive will be as sloooooooow. This may not be an issue depending on how much local drive use you expect.
3. Video cards. Your users are going to want to run at 800x600 or higher and those cheesy cards you find on a 10 year old machines won't cut it. Better buy some cheapo modern cards.
4. NIC, no biggie if you don't mind running at 10 mbit or using thinnet.
5. No USB, may or may not be a problem.
6. Floppy drives need cleaning/replacement if you want a dependable read/write. Floppies suck on new machines with new media let alone 10 year old boxes.
7. Keyboard and mice may not be to the liking of your users. I'm using a keyboard from a 486 right now on my Duron box and love it. Clean/replace mice is required in most cases.
That being said, in a corporate environment just buy the cheapest celeron or whatever to get some new equipment. For non-profits, hobbyists, communes, post-apocalyptic societies etc its a good idea but go for a Pentium level machine with some decent video.
researching techniques that would make the standard stronger, along with hopes of lessening this vulnerability."
Whe you see that lock thingy on your browser just switch your hands on the keyboard. That's right, put your right hand on the left side of the keyboard and vice versa. We were going to write a technical paper on this put I just drew a picture on a napkin this morning.
Sinceretly,
SSH Communications
With this recent salon piece on how starfish parts could be used in computing and the neural net made out of neurons I think this could be a very interesting trend.
The site is already slashdotted, man its 4am here, but if nature has already done a good job in design why not borrow it for other purposes. Its like Junkyard Wars but on a very small and living scale.
A nice bonus with using cellurar material is there probably wont be ethical complaints i.e. who identifies with neurons?
With this recent salon piece on how starfish parts could be used in computing and the neural net made out of neurons I think this could be a very interesting trend.
The site is already slashdotted, man its 4am here, but if nature has already done a good job in design why not borrow it for other purposes. Its like Junkyard Wars but on a very small and living scale.
A nice bonus with using cellurar material is there probably wont be ethical complaints i.e. who identifies with neurons?
Next year I hope it tries to break it own record. Good luck to you spacerock!
I'm sorry your Honor but I cannot testify on how our classisfied Shoulder Surfing technology works. I can only tell you it works.
Don't go with Disney. Hayao Miyazaki's 1996 contract only seems to cover Mononoke and not Spirited Away. Also I hate to break it to some of the fanboys but anime is largely a fring/aquired taste here. Expecting mass american acceptance usually means accepting american style marketing, edits, etc.
Considering where the anime DVD market is right now this thing is going to sell like hotcakes when released. I'd much rather have it on DVD, say in a few months, than wait for 4 theaters to play it nationwide pushing back the DVD release a year.
The best part of going straight to DVD is you can still have your local arthouse theater showings at midnight and the fanboys and fangirls will come just to see it on the big screen.
Nutty post office plan to put serial killers on stamps!
The page 5 girl I trust, no one else. Okay, and batboy's girlfriend. She's been through so much.