Without Turing's genius, you may not be reading this caption
Isn't this overestimating his contributions a bit? I acknowledge that he DID further computer science a significant bit, but would computers not exist if he did not contribute? Deducting from parallel evolution, doubtful.
This might be a practical use of one, determine which emails are valid, and which aren't, like a spam filter. Allow users to flag 25% or so emails as important, and archive those.
Yeah, it got cracked by using Illustrator to scan it in, or open an image, and import it into Photoshop. Quite ridiculous to spend time putting protection into one product, and not putting into its blood-brother.
They (the counterfeiters) will just switch to another product, such as Macromedia Fireworks, GIMP, or Inkscape. This will only hurt the companies creating the products. Also, on another point, will there be GIMP EU edition, and GIMP Everyone Else Edition? How will this work?
Yes, I am aware of that, but what if the spoofer tries to send MSBlaster or another virus? That would trigger the blocking (if it watched for that) wouldn't it?
If you IP spoof and send a virus to one of the servers using this technology, you could pretty much get every IP in the world blocked. That is a very Bad Thing (TM)
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This might be a practical use of one, determine which emails are valid, and which aren't, like a spam filter. Allow users to flag 25% or so emails as important, and archive those.
a Beowulf clusters of those things! :D
Yeah, it got cracked by using Illustrator to scan it in, or open an image, and import it into Photoshop. Quite ridiculous to spend time putting protection into one product, and not putting into its blood-brother.
They (the counterfeiters) will just switch to another product, such as Macromedia Fireworks, GIMP, or Inkscape. This will only hurt the companies creating the products. Also, on another point, will there be GIMP EU edition, and GIMP Everyone Else Edition? How will this work?
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Yes, I am aware of that, but what if the spoofer tries to send MSBlaster or another virus? That would trigger the blocking (if it watched for that) wouldn't it?
If you IP spoof and send a virus to one of the servers using this technology, you could pretty much get every IP in the world blocked. That is a very Bad Thing (TM)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/21NAMES .html
Yes, for the ignorant, it was a joke, and I know that bacillus anthracis is not a virus :P
Now we'll really need that virus scan ;)
Their server must run on one ;)
Heh, it probably got 10,000 visits by now
Does pretty much running all of the computers in the US count as being critical infrastructure? ;)
"The laptop is connected wirelessly to the radio tower via a serial connection
A wireless serial cable, eh?
I'd bet the plane turns out the same way: extra crispy :)
Satellites are already a weak "center of gravity" in American militarty planning Eh? militarty?
In other news, Intel has bought all rights to the Nintendo 64 ;)
Cha ching!
I want to one, mommy!
You're kidding, right? Suggesting the Fischer-Price interface? Should I buy a Fischer-Price case, too, to replace my Xaser III?
Whenever you look at a Linux ad, you get a blue-screen :)
More like 69% of internet users looking at males 69ing
The US has completed the Great Wall of Space, which completely surrounds the Earth, making it the ONLY visible object in space visible from Earth.
What happened to the death penalty? Have we become a nation of cynics?