I could easily see this being a failure through which a spammer could still send spam, although much smaller.
Suppose that a spammer just sends out e-mails as normal, challenges would be issued to both the spammer and the reciever. Should the challenge contain some heading information (namely the Subject field, which is logical you'd want to know why someone is e-mailing) then a spammer can send out very very small ads.
The easy soulution for this is to not issue challenges to incomming challenges.
As I recall from my 2nd year astronomy class there is a third possibility. It's neither closed or open per say, it goes like this the Universe continues to expand up to a point and then stops expanding. What differs from the big crunch however is that the Universe doesn't collapse back on itself, it just stays the way it is until all the stars burn out.
I feel your pain and share the damn tuition as well. The self plagarism policy is a bitch for Computer Science students at Dalhousie. I know of a few people who were almost sent to Discipline hearings because they reused work from a previous assignment that was relevant to the current one.
Hell in my C programming class my Professor threatened to dock points the next time we forgot to cite where we got an algorithm from.
Ever since that I've been anal retentive about citing sources used in my source code, such as what assignment a certain part of code is similar to, just because I don't feel like comming up with a new way to do a mergeSort.
What's even more ironic is that in first year they teach us Java and how it allows code reuse which is a good thing, and then make it near impossible to do code reuse.
Or perhaps just a cd with nothing but generated invalid e-mails. Sure the ISPs would lose some bandwidth but the spammers would lose profit. Too bad something like this is illegal under false advertising, but if spamming were illegal how many would come forward...
Okay I see I ANAL there at the start but I'm gonna need AFTP (a f*ing translation please).
Oh and before I forget ADCA (another damn computer acronym) should be on everyones mind.
Actually if they use the property of atoms and photons where if they are placed next to each other for long enough and then seperated they continue to act exactly the same. (I'd post a link if I could remember where)
Should one photon be "destroyed" the other instantly destroys itself allowing near instantaneous data transfer. I'd like to know how the hell they'd tap into that without using their own photons on every data device made with this tech.
I've done this plenty of times over the last two or three years. I've had Win98 run as long as 3 weeks doing nothing more than acting as an answering machine for my phone. Every now and then it'd crash after 3 or more weeks. However I admit I tried to do some screwy stuff while doing Computer Science assignments.
I know what you mean. Every time I see one of those stupid ads about stealing satellite signals I have to wonder when recieving radio signals became illegal. What's next having to pay for poverty vision because some corporate bigwig wants even more money.
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I could easily see this being a failure through which a spammer could still send spam, although much smaller. Suppose that a spammer just sends out e-mails as normal, challenges would be issued to both the spammer and the reciever. Should the challenge contain some heading information (namely the Subject field, which is logical you'd want to know why someone is e-mailing) then a spammer can send out very very small ads. The easy soulution for this is to not issue challenges to incomming challenges.
As I recall from my 2nd year astronomy class there is a third possibility. It's neither closed or open per say, it goes like this the Universe continues to expand up to a point and then stops expanding. What differs from the big crunch however is that the Universe doesn't collapse back on itself, it just stays the way it is until all the stars burn out.
Well I'd suggest going into BioInformatics instead. Since it will apply what you already know with the new field.
I feel your pain and share the damn tuition as well. The self plagarism policy is a bitch for Computer Science students at Dalhousie. I know of a few people who were almost sent to Discipline hearings because they reused work from a previous assignment that was relevant to the current one. Hell in my C programming class my Professor threatened to dock points the next time we forgot to cite where we got an algorithm from. Ever since that I've been anal retentive about citing sources used in my source code, such as what assignment a certain part of code is similar to, just because I don't feel like comming up with a new way to do a mergeSort. What's even more ironic is that in first year they teach us Java and how it allows code reuse which is a good thing, and then make it near impossible to do code reuse.
It's only there if I support it. Now way will I take private firms that will (possibly literally) charge me an arm and a leg.
Or perhaps just a cd with nothing but generated invalid e-mails. Sure the ISPs would lose some bandwidth but the spammers would lose profit. Too bad something like this is illegal under false advertising, but if spamming were illegal how many would come forward...
Okay I see I ANAL there at the start but I'm gonna need AFTP (a f*ing translation please). Oh and before I forget ADCA (another damn computer acronym) should be on everyones mind.
Actually if they use the property of atoms and photons where if they are placed next to each other for long enough and then seperated they continue to act exactly the same. (I'd post a link if I could remember where)
Should one photon be "destroyed" the other instantly destroys itself allowing near instantaneous data transfer. I'd like to know how the hell they'd tap into that without using their own photons on every data device made with this tech.
I've done this plenty of times over the last two or three years. I've had Win98 run as long as 3 weeks doing nothing more than acting as an answering machine for my phone. Every now and then it'd crash after 3 or more weeks. However I admit I tried to do some screwy stuff while doing Computer Science assignments.
I know what you mean. Every time I see one of those stupid ads about stealing satellite signals I have to wonder when recieving radio signals became illegal. What's next having to pay for poverty vision because some corporate bigwig wants even more money.