Who is the reviewer and what is his math background? what made it possible for him to draw these conclusions for each book? Just curious. The conclusions I can draw from his reviews would vary depending on if I were receiving the insight of a university math professor, a grad student, a practicing engineer, a regular student, and so on...
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3)... Though if you require all incoming E-mail to be encrypted to your key, that'd solve that problem.
however, in public key encryption, the public key is thoeretically available to spammers. so wouldn't the only difficulty be matching valid addresses with their valid key? It makes it harder to send spam that will get seen, but not impossible.
who controls what is calculated?
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Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle
What if I am morally against what the math problem is trying to solve? Or what if the problem behind it is illegal in my city/state/country or breaks international treaties? Then I can't send email? Will I be told what the math problem is, or do I just blindly crunch numbers?
Time is money, and spammers would presumably have to buy many more machines to solve enough puzzles.
Would they really? Or would they just have to continue illegally taking over other peoples computers to use as spam zombies, and in taking over the computers, use those compromised systems to compute some part of this math puzzle? So who is getting screwed here? The spammers, or the people whose computers are no longer just sending out hundreds of spam emails, but are now tied up spinning on bits of math problems?
So this guy volunteered to build and host this website. After 3 years he can no longer afford to do so, so he stops. Then, the police say that since he ceased volunteering his service and required compensation for his services that he is guilty of extortion? One thing i didn't get in reading the article the first time (and i seems slashdotted now) was, is his fee he asked for a charge for services in the past, or for future/continuing service? If it's for past fees, then i would say that is questionable behavior. if it is for future service, what is wrong with that? He had volunteered, but can no longer afford to volunteer, so he's asking for money. If they can't pay him, he takes away the service he provided.
anyway, this guy should have had a contract in place even if it's to say who owns what once it's created. the police seem to be forcing the issue by using their position of power.
They might not be allowed to drive, because they couldn't pass the driving test given their instable mental or physical behavior. They could own a car if they wanted though, they just coulnd't operate it on public roadways. If everyone else can buy a car, why can't they?
Now are you saying you want to institute a "network liscense" or some other similarly named liscense to operate a computer on a public network? That would open up a whole nother "can of worms" so to speak.
Why should people be treated as criminals or lesser citizens for buying a product that isn't illegal? And as for "some people are just too stupid to own computers," why should intelligence be a factor in what you can and cannot own? I think this is very narrow sighted.
what about Fidonet, or whatever that mail system was that linked BBS's back in the day? I bet spam was sent through that, if nothing more that innapropriate advertisements for other BBS's. disclaimer: i never used fidonet, so this is all just speculation.
Probably Bank of America! First they have all of Bank of America's equipment impounded. Then SCO claims they can't pay their lawyers, or any settlement because Bank of America's equipment is still tied up as evidence, which holds the records of SCO financials. insert infinite loop and call me in a few billion millenia when the world ends and SCO is forced to pay up.
But they think that if you can't record your show, you'll go rent or buy a DVD of it. Take "Sex and the City" for example, you can record it, and yet they have DVD's available for renting, and knowing quite a few girls in their 20's, it does get rented by them. Now take away their right to record it (some do record it, in case they miss it) and you'll have a few more girls renting it. They're trying to create a market where there isn't a need to. It's all in the name of greed, and not neccesarily about piracy.
Longhorn has been released? What, did I miss the years 2004 and 2005? I thought Longhorn was slated for 2006 release? Or are you talking about some beta or developers version?
That's a great idea, but where is this server space going to come from for little jimmie or his parents sending grandma a picture? On his computer? But if he has cable modem service, chances are it is against the Terms of Use to set up a server on his computer. Maybe that cable service has some small amount of web hosting space that comes along with it, in which case OK. But who is going to train all the computer illiterates how to use FTP or something similar? Then what happens in the future is to make it all simpler, someone goes ahead and just embeds this file attachment transfer system into an email client, making it seamless and feel just like before when we had email attachments. Aren't we basically back to square one? Who is going to stop the people from mindlessly saving and running the file this time?
And who let users run arbitrary code through email, by simply "clicking" on it? And who lets users think they are opening mundane jpg's, doc's or other file types when in fact they are not?
Microsoft might be one name that comes to mind, if not the largest, most widespread software developer in the known universe.
to add to the details, it seems they were initially monitoring someone's phone which led them to the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A search of Mohammed's place yeilded "hundereds" of numbers. Tracing those hundreds of numbers "led investigators to as many as 6,000 phone numbers, which amounted to a virtual road map of Al Qaeda's operations"
alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages
So now that technology has been shown succesfull in stopping "terrorists", and those "terrorists" have moved to email/VoIP, get ready for another push in legislature to regulate those mediums more tightly. It doesn't matter that the corporation put those chips in their products by their own will. Traditional phone companies will see a spot to shove their foot in the door and lobby their representatives to regulate the up and comming internet telephony industry in order to stiffle the competition. So there is "antiterrorism" working and corporate money working in the minds of the government. What else is new...
not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC
Instead, we plan on releasing a text adventure game for the XBox to really confuse some folks. We're sure you'll love the instuction manual on how to type text using your game pad.
A voter complained that she was a Democrat but had been given the Republican ballot
I havn't voted except in the 1996 presidential election, and that was an absentee ballot which i remember nothing of. Could someone explain to me why there are difference ballots for democrats and republicans, and why you register as an affiliate of one party or another? Why not just have the candidates party associated with their name? Why the different ballots? I can understand that a democrat might only want to vote for democrats, and vice versa, but i just don't understand this.
I think it should be named the "KDE KoalaTeam". Say it and it sort of blurs together into Quality. This way they can have a nice little Koala mascot. Though, if there isn't already an existing Koala software product, i'll be damned.
Kuality just looks cheap and wrong, like "Kwik-Stop" convenient stores.
[rant] I hate modified spelling. A sign in the subway in NYC says something like "For late nite trains use such and such". They couldn't have just spelled "night" properly? i can tolerate it in informal writting like email, and my spelling isn't always th ebest, but something intentionally (or not! who knows?) spelled wrong that they had manufactured for public display? bah! [/rant]
its way over rated and over quoted. i was extremely disapointed after seeing it. having heard so much about it. it has it's moments, but it's just average. Repeating Office Space jokes ranks right up there with hot grits.
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Who is the reviewer and what is his math background? what made it possible for him to draw these conclusions for each book? Just curious. The conclusions I can draw from his reviews would vary depending on if I were receiving the insight of a university math professor, a grad student, a practicing engineer, a regular student, and so on...
3) ... Though if you require all incoming E-mail to be encrypted to your key, that'd solve that problem.
however, in public key encryption, the public key is thoeretically available to spammers. so wouldn't the only difficulty be matching valid addresses with their valid key? It makes it harder to send spam that will get seen, but not impossible.
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle
What if I am morally against what the math problem is trying to solve? Or what if the problem behind it is illegal in my city/state/country or breaks international treaties? Then I can't send email? Will I be told what the math problem is, or do I just blindly crunch numbers?
Time is money, and spammers would presumably have to buy many more machines to solve enough puzzles.
Would they really? Or would they just have to continue illegally taking over other peoples computers to use as spam zombies, and in taking over the computers, use those compromised systems to compute some part of this math puzzle? So who is getting screwed here? The spammers, or the people whose computers are no longer just sending out hundreds of spam emails, but are now tied up spinning on bits of math problems?
So this guy volunteered to build and host this website. After 3 years he can no longer afford to do so, so he stops. Then, the police say that since he ceased volunteering his service and required compensation for his services that he is guilty of extortion? One thing i didn't get in reading the article the first time (and i seems slashdotted now) was, is his fee he asked for a charge for services in the past, or for future/continuing service? If it's for past fees, then i would say that is questionable behavior. if it is for future service, what is wrong with that? He had volunteered, but can no longer afford to volunteer, so he's asking for money. If they can't pay him, he takes away the service he provided.
anyway, this guy should have had a contract in place even if it's to say who owns what once it's created. the police seem to be forcing the issue by using their position of power.
bahahah, I hope their using a 64 bit unsigned int for that one! Hmm, to post anonymously or not? Naaa!
They might not be allowed to drive, because they couldn't pass the driving test given their instable mental or physical behavior. They could own a car if they wanted though, they just coulnd't operate it on public roadways. If everyone else can buy a car, why can't they?
Now are you saying you want to institute a "network liscense" or some other similarly named liscense to operate a computer on a public network? That would open up a whole nother "can of worms" so to speak.
Why should people be treated as criminals or lesser citizens for buying a product that isn't illegal? And as for "some people are just too stupid to own computers," why should intelligence be a factor in what you can and cannot own? I think this is very narrow sighted.
what about Fidonet, or whatever that mail system was that linked BBS's back in the day? I bet spam was sent through that, if nothing more that innapropriate advertisements for other BBS's. disclaimer: i never used fidonet, so this is all just speculation.
blog is the lamest word, ever. articles about blogs? slow day today, eh?
Probably Bank of America! First they have all of Bank of America's equipment impounded. Then SCO claims they can't pay their lawyers, or any settlement because Bank of America's equipment is still tied up as evidence, which holds the records of SCO financials. insert infinite loop and call me in a few billion millenia when the world ends and SCO is forced to pay up.
But they think that if you can't record your show, you'll go rent or buy a DVD of it. Take "Sex and the City" for example, you can record it, and yet they have DVD's available for renting, and knowing quite a few girls in their 20's, it does get rented by them. Now take away their right to record it (some do record it, in case they miss it) and you'll have a few more girls renting it. They're trying to create a market where there isn't a need to. It's all in the name of greed, and not neccesarily about piracy.
Longhorn has been released? What, did I miss the years 2004 and 2005? I thought Longhorn was slated for 2006 release? Or are you talking about some beta or developers version?
That's a great idea, but where is this server space going to come from for little jimmie or his parents sending grandma a picture? On his computer? But if he has cable modem service, chances are it is against the Terms of Use to set up a server on his computer. Maybe that cable service has some small amount of web hosting space that comes along with it, in which case OK. But who is going to train all the computer illiterates how to use FTP or something similar? Then what happens in the future is to make it all simpler, someone goes ahead and just embeds this file attachment transfer system into an email client, making it seamless and feel just like before when we had email attachments. Aren't we basically back to square one? Who is going to stop the people from mindlessly saving and running the file this time?
And who let users run arbitrary code through email, by simply "clicking" on it? And who lets users think they are opening mundane jpg's, doc's or other file types when in fact they are not?
Microsoft might be one name that comes to mind, if not the largest, most widespread software developer in the known universe.
Yes, it's amazing that one sentence taken alone without the real details can lead to overbroad inaccurate assumptions.
to add to the details, it seems they were initially monitoring someone's phone which led them to the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. A search of Mohammed's place yeilded "hundereds" of numbers. Tracing those hundreds of numbers "led investigators to as many as 6,000 phone numbers, which amounted to a virtual road map of Al Qaeda's operations"
alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages
So now that technology has been shown succesfull in stopping "terrorists", and those "terrorists" have moved to email/VoIP, get ready for another push in legislature to regulate those mediums more tightly. It doesn't matter that the corporation put those chips in their products by their own will. Traditional phone companies will see a spot to shove their foot in the door and lobby their representatives to regulate the up and comming internet telephony industry in order to stiffle the competition. So there is "antiterrorism" working and corporate money working in the minds of the government. What else is new...
not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC
Instead, we plan on releasing a text adventure game for the XBox to really confuse some folks. We're sure you'll love the instuction manual on how to type text using your game pad.
article... triggering... college... flashbacks.
..must.. resist...
..cannot.. fight.. functional
..language.. tempatation...
*head explodes*
nevermind, this is redundant and people already answered elsewhere.
buh bye.
A voter complained that she was a Democrat but had been given the Republican ballot
I havn't voted except in the 1996 presidential election, and that was an absentee ballot which i remember nothing of. Could someone explain to me why there are difference ballots for democrats and republicans, and why you register as an affiliate of one party or another? Why not just have the candidates party associated with their name? Why the different ballots? I can understand that a democrat might only want to vote for democrats, and vice versa, but i just don't understand this.
Throw away your surge protectors for more bandwidth! Install lightening rods to increase your chances of power surges! ;)
I think it should be named the "KDE KoalaTeam". Say it and it sort of blurs together into Quality. This way they can have a nice little Koala mascot. Though, if there isn't already an existing Koala software product, i'll be damned.
Kuality just looks cheap and wrong, like "Kwik-Stop" convenient stores.
[rant]
I hate modified spelling. A sign in the subway in NYC says something like "For late nite trains use such and such". They couldn't have just spelled "night" properly? i can tolerate it in informal writting like email, and my spelling isn't always th ebest, but something intentionally (or not! who knows?) spelled wrong that they had manufactured for public display? bah!
[/rant]
its way over rated and over quoted. i was extremely disapointed after seeing it. having heard so much about it. it has it's moments, but it's just average. Repeating Office Space jokes ranks right up there with hot grits.
so you're saying we should nuke the entire planet first, right?
(kidding!)