>Everyone wears A&F so I must wear A&F to be more >like everyone. Again this is because A&F makes it >extremely convenient to say "I like A&F" while >there is no easy way to say "I don't give a poop >about A&F" or "I abhor A&F". Au contraire my friend! I picked up a shirt a while that says "Abercommie" and has a hammer and sickle on it. I always get mad props when I wear it. I'm not exactly a communist, but that shirt was just damn funny.
It seems fairly obvious that the kid wasn't actually planning to shoot his classmates at random. (well duh, but...) If he were actually going to harm anybody, why would he announce it and lose the look of suprise on his classmates' faces?
Is Michaelangelo's "David" pornography? For that matter, are the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders pornography? They both exhibit the human body as something pleasing to the eye (though I must admit, the cheerleaders are much more pleasing to me personally). I'm not going even attempt to correct you. Because your statement that "Porn is a slow, insidious killer of all that is good in man," has no evidence backing it up, there is nothing to correct. The burden of proof is on the positive claimant, friend. Back up what you said, and then I might have something to say.
Perhaps Cyberpatrol and their ilk could comprimise with ISP's like yours by requesting something akin to the robots.txt file that resides (or is supposed to reside) on servers at the url http://www.hosthere.com/robots.txt. See slashdot's for an example. It contains paths that robots aren't supposed to traverse (i.e., dynamically generated pages, sensitive material, infinite black hole url-spaces, etc.).
Perhaps, if an ISP had mixed content on their server and did not want their host to be entirely blocked they could create a pr0n.txt (or something) file containing paths with objectionable materials that Cyberpatrol would want to block. Hell, this would also eliminate the need to store a lot of hosts locally...instead, they could just store all-porn sites locally and disallow those entirely, while keeping sites with mixed content subject to the pr0n.txt file.
Not that they'd take the trouble to do that. Considering their current course of action, they're pretty frickin lazy.
There's a really interesting article on New Scientist, Creatures from Primordial Silicon, on the application of genetic algorithms to FPGA chips. In this case, the researcher was able to let natural selection design a chip that was capable of producing a 5v output when he said "Start" and stop producing the output when he said "Stop".
The cooler part is that no one can figure out how the chip works; he didn't implement a clock -- one evolved using fewer components than the simplest example given in any engineering text. There are a few components in there that don't seem logically neccessary, but their removal results in a non-functional chip. Theoretically, using the evolutionary procedure allowed the chip to utilize subtle properties of the materials used in its composition, like the small resistance changes caused by heat or electromagnetic induction.
(snip)Has anyone any idea just how well the public understands the Hacker/Cracker difference? How much work do we have in this field? Perhaps we can harness the Net itself to find out. Maybe a poll in the right place, or a letter to everyone you know asking them to ask their family and neighbors to see if they understand the difference...We ought to get started.(/snip)
Naw, just send 3 of your friends an e-mail to the tune of:
"The cDc and 2600 have decided that the portion of the public that knows the correct definitions of the words 'hacker' and 'cracker' should be rewarded. They are also testing out a new e-mail tracking program, and have decided to use this to reward the people whom they feel deserve it. Define the words 'hacker' and 'cracker', and then forward this message along with your definition to all of your friends. If you're right, 2600 and the cDc will mail you $5000 plus $5 for every person you sent the letter to."
Then read all the definitions in the letter when you eventually get it back.
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>Everyone wears A&F so I must wear A&F to be more >like everyone. Again this is because A&F makes it >extremely convenient to say "I like A&F" while >there is no easy way to say "I don't give a poop >about A&F" or "I abhor A&F". Au contraire my friend! I picked up a shirt a while that says "Abercommie" and has a hammer and sickle on it. I always get mad props when I wear it. I'm not exactly a communist, but that shirt was just damn funny.
Silly goose, all those nouns are second declension. As if the Romans had a term for what we now know as viruses today. Sheesh.
what happens at 11:59 tonight?
I might have to smoke a cigarette or something to celebrate.
It seems fairly obvious that the kid wasn't actually planning to shoot his classmates at random. (well duh, but...) If he were actually going to harm anybody, why would he announce it and lose the look of suprise on his classmates' faces?
Is Michaelangelo's "David" pornography? For that matter, are the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders pornography? They both exhibit the human body as something pleasing to the eye (though I must admit, the cheerleaders are much more pleasing to me personally). I'm not going even attempt to correct you. Because your statement that "Porn is a slow, insidious killer of all that is good in man," has no evidence backing it up, there is nothing to correct. The burden of proof is on the positive claimant, friend. Back up what you said, and then I might have something to say.
An adult search engine that used pr0n.txt? Heck, I'd use it!
Perhaps Cyberpatrol and their ilk could comprimise with ISP's like yours by requesting something akin to the robots.txt file that resides (or is supposed to reside) on servers at the url http://www.hosthere.com/robots.txt. See slashdot's for an example. It contains paths that robots aren't supposed to traverse (i.e., dynamically generated pages, sensitive material, infinite black hole url-spaces, etc.).
Perhaps, if an ISP had mixed content on their server and did not want their host to be entirely blocked they could create a pr0n.txt (or something) file containing paths with objectionable materials that Cyberpatrol would want to block. Hell, this would also eliminate the need to store a lot of hosts locally...instead, they could just store all-porn sites locally and disallow those entirely, while keeping sites with mixed content subject to the pr0n.txt file.
Not that they'd take the trouble to do that. Considering their current course of action, they're pretty frickin lazy.
There's a really interesting article on New Scientist, Creatures from Primordial Silicon, on the application of genetic algorithms to FPGA chips. In this case, the researcher was able to let natural selection design a chip that was capable of producing a 5v output when he said "Start" and stop producing the output when he said "Stop".
The cooler part is that no one can figure out how the chip works; he didn't implement a clock -- one evolved using fewer components than the simplest example given in any engineering text. There are a few components in there that don't seem logically neccessary, but their removal results in a non-functional chip. Theoretically, using the evolutionary procedure allowed the chip to utilize subtle properties of the materials used in its composition, like the small resistance changes caused by heat or electromagnetic induction.
It's a good read if you're interested.
(snip)Has anyone any idea just how well the public understands the Hacker/Cracker difference? How much work do we have in this field? Perhaps we can harness the Net itself to find out. Maybe a poll in the right place, or a letter to everyone you know asking them to ask their family and neighbors to see if they understand the difference...We ought to get started.(/snip)
Naw, just send 3 of your friends an e-mail to the tune of:
"The cDc and 2600 have decided that the portion of the public that knows the correct definitions of the words 'hacker' and 'cracker' should be rewarded. They are also testing out a new e-mail tracking program, and have decided to use this to reward the people whom they feel deserve it. Define the words 'hacker' and 'cracker', and then forward this message along with your definition to all of your friends. If you're right, 2600 and the cDc will mail you $5000 plus $5 for every person you sent the letter to."
Then read all the definitions in the letter when you eventually get it back.