If you're wondering what Silver Tail does: TFA provides the following
“Silver Tail Systems solution monitors website traffic and identifies anomalies in real-time. Their unique system creates models of what is normal traffic for a website’s population and uses that to identify threats,” said William Strecker, Executive Vice President of Architecture & Engineering and CTO at IQT. “Our strategic investment in Silver Tail Systems enables us to offer this powerful technology to our customers in the U.S. intelligence Community and further protect our Nation’s assets.”
New ways of combating fraud: The global threat landscape is rapidly changing and evolving. Sophisticated criminals always find ways around traditional fraud protection solutions. Silver Tail Systems has technology which monitors all web traffic and detects what is normal website behavior and what behavior is looking anomalous according to user statistics constantly updated by the hour. This real-time monitoring helps combating fraud as it emerges. Receiving alerts about suspicious web traffic lets the website administrator quickly identify the type of threat occurring and investigate the attempted attack. Once an attack is identified easy rules will divert the bad actors in real-time, protecting the website from being compromised.
Any of the techy people feel like explaining this to the rest of us? Am I exposing my ignorance by assuming it's basically a giant spreadsheet comparing whats happening now with what happened then?
Sure, what they are saying is, they monitor all the web traffic a site does, then analyse that data to make a "standard" web pattern for that website. Then they compare their "standard" to what's coming in, and if something doesn't match normal traffic patterns, they will check it out.
They will alert whomever the attack is upon.
So basicly, lets say your a banking web site, and during normal off hours, there is suddenly a lot of traffic hitting their servers. They would know from their "standard" that something is different, and they would do whatever from there. Which would probably be getting a hold of the IT of that website and letting them know somethings going on.
But ya, your right about the big spreadsheet, because that's basicly what they are doing.
Now, of course, let me list the problems here.
CIA is funding a "security" website that does it's security by monitoring all your traffic, keeping data about it, and comparing that with traffic coming in and out.
Yes, i only listed 1 problem, and I clearly said problems. It wasn't a mistake. That one problem is plural.
I think I've seen this kind of thing before... squares and octagons instead of circles and elipses. That's right, it was in Superman comics I read as a kid. We live in the Bizarro Galaxy.
That would explain the slashdot story about Apple's text filtering patent and all anyone was commenting on was parenting skills...
Before we get a million "Adobe does this!" comments RTFA: "Microsoft applied for the patent titled “Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit” in October 2004"
Far as I know no one was doing this in 2004
That's because you either spend the 2000's stoned, or in jail.
Okay, so texture compression and video compression aren't quite the same thing. One deals with a single image, one deals with compressing a series of images.... Yeah, that's not obvious to anyone who has never seen someone make a flipbook during class in elementary school.
I don't know, textures aren't just used on a single image, they are used on a series of images, which is what video is.
According to the wikipedia article, if you cook the pie for only 15 minutes 40% of the alcohol remains which means 4 mL per pie slice. I suppose that could still be dangerous to some, but it's nothing like serving 1/4 cup straight to a person.
I should point out most pies cook from 30 to 45 mins. I've never had to cook a pie shorter, but while I've done a lot of baking and cooking, I don't like pie so I don't cook them as much.
I also agree with you about MADD. They've gone completely around the bend, off the deep end, into a bizarre, and completely untenable Prohibitionist position.
The only people who think like this seem to be without any sort of corporeal responsibility. Their only perceived responsibilities are to themselves - their self-satisfaction.
They don't drive, because a car is a liability and a cost. Easier to mooch off of others.
They don't have families, because they're too immature and/or irresponsible to realize the benefit such things provide to society.
They don't own homes, because a mortgage (and the associated payments) demand stability and willpower to resist compulsive urges.
They're able to pay for small, single-person (or shared) apartments near their place of work because of the aforementioned lack of constraints. It's pretty easy to pay 1800/month for a loft apartment when it's just you living there and you haven't much more than a bottle of Jack Daniels and a pile of $300 shirts.
I don't talk crap about the way you choose to live.
Do word processors not make it too easy for writers to write bloated books?
I take the position that word processors have had a detriment on clarity of writing. It's too easy to not have to keep everything in you head when writing with a word processor.
I used to enjoy Asimov, but it seems his later books (after 1980) just got fat and I stopped reading.
And look at college textbooks. Who reads all those pages?
I feel the same way about Clive Barker. His short stories were excellent in my opinion, but his later novel size books? Wasn't the same. And it's not like I don't appreciate good thick books, i prefer them actually. Not into short stories really. So go figure.
I have no idea if he changed what he used to write with, but his short stories were during the younger part of his life, so ya, I could see him doing them more old school then the novels he did later after he gained some fame from Hellraiser.
Personally, I think you just sound like a romantic, not someone who has stumbled upon a magic productivity method. What gets your rocks off is thinking that you are doing something old sk00l. It is pretty dead easy to make MS Word 2040 or whatever version they are on a blank white screen where words appear when you type. Your other old sk00l romanticism is just that, romanticism. A fixie really isn't better than a bike with gears unless you like having your legs sheared off when you go too fast. Gears are actually awesome when you need to go up a steep hill or want to haul ass down a steep hill. Power steering, computer control traction, and all of that goodness is likewise is awesome when something dives in front of your car and you need to make a sharp dodge. Touchy feel decelerations that you can feel the road better and that somehow improves your not hitting shit skills don't stand up the statistical reality that power steering, traction control, and fun stuff like that reduces accidents.
There is nothing wrong with being a romantic who idealizes simplicity, and there certainly is something to be said for keeping thing simple, but your methods are almost certainly useless to someone who doesn't see the romanticism in using old obscure text editors. For those people, if the editor is really distracting, they should just take a few seconds to pair down the interface to MS Word or Open Office (or whatever), rather than run an archaic text editor. If you are a romantic and need to be in a mood to write, find what gets your rocks off and go for it. Neal Stephenson wrote the 4000 or so page series with a freaking fountain pen. Inefficient? Sure, but if acting a little archaic gets your creative juices flowing, go for it.
So your saying, using my TRS-80 4p, and Scripsit (first word processor I ever learned) to bust out a wonderful novel today would be wrong?
How about a different ring tone depending on how your walking/strutting? If you like barely moving, or standing still, it goes quiet for stalking mode. Big ass strut will play whatever the popular tone is for picking up the ladies.
lets see, the "on the bed stand and it's shaking" mode so it will go silent and not interupt your session with a crack ho.
Here's a hint: Weed is way easier for kids to buy than alcohol.
I call bullshit.
Any kid can get an adult to buy them alcohol. Thats how we got it before we were 21. Someone's older sibling, cool relative, don't matter. Go hang down by a 7-11 and wait till some who looks cool walks by and ask them. Pay the homeless dude a few bucks to buy you some booze.
Weed dealers? Sure, if you know some, and they are close by. But if your talking going down and buying some off some dude trying sell it on the street? never, your going to get ripped off.
Actually finding a good weed dealer can be pretty hard. We are talking good weed, that weighs up. There might be a ton of people selling small sacks in your town/city, but only chumps buy it.
And your arguement that legalizing pot would make it harder for children to get it, once again you missed the point. And this point you made earlier in your post.
Why would a pot dealer, who doesn't care who he sells it to when it's illegal, going to care if he's selling it to minors when it is legal? He's probably still going to be making money of the minors if they are wanting to buy weed.
As long as there is a demand for something, there will be someone supplying.
Things like this need to be weighed. Sure, if marijuana was legal it would lead to some problems. People would get stoned and operate a car (that would need to be covered under DUI laws). People would abuse it and spend their life doing little else other than getting stoned.
Which happens either way.
Why do people think if they legalize drugs, everyone is going to become drug addicts?
Legal or not, your going to have drug addicts anyways, that won't change.
Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name? That way I'll know if I should be up in arms at this vile abuse of the DMCA or giddy with excitement that it was wielded this way.;-)
If you can't remember the prices, maybe you should look them up (list from 1990, price in DM) instead of basing your argument on a pair of rose tinted glasses. Plenty of games in that list in the $30-$50 range, but also a few games for $70, which is kind of pretty much exactly what we have today.
So what your saying is, since I said I never paid more the $50 for a game, and most being $30-$50, that I should look it up because of my rose colored glasses?
Seems to me even though I didn't think I remembered, i did remember just fine. Not sure what you are going on about though.
Because in the meantime if you haven't mastered Facebook's privacy settings a stranger might think you actually belong to those groups. Which isn't a problem until said stranger is in the position of offering or not offering you a job. Or deciding whether to do a more thorough investigation prior to a lawsuit or charges being filed.
Guess next time you shouldn't sign up on facebook.
If you look further in the article, you can reconstruct a hypothetical scenario which, from the FBI's point of view, looks completely normal:...
Dude, you can make any situation "seem normal". Proves nothing.
The issue is, is it really okay morally for our government to be doing this? Remember, today it's "terrorist" who happened to be Arab, tomorrow it can be terrorist who like math, or drink chocolate milk.
This is the start, we let them get away with stuff like this, then next time they are going to try to get away with something even bigger. Soon they'll decide they don't need warrents to plant bugs, search your home, etc.
As far as I'm concerned, if you attach something to my car without my permission, it's mine.
Interesting theory. So if A has something B doesn't want him to have, then B just has to attach it to your car without your permission, and then it's yours and therefore no longer A's...
You almost understand logic.
If A has something and B takes it, yes, A no longer has the object.
Now, just because B hid it on your car, it's not yours until you find it. Once you find it, then yes, it's yours.
Both MS & Sony want to extend console lifetimes past the 5 years they have been since the 80's, to a 10 year cycle. The problem is, the hardware can't keep up with that cycle.
Both Sony & MS are finally either breaking even on the consoles, or making a little profit now from the hardware (not counting research costs, errors, etc) so they want to stretch out the life of these products as much as they can.
And they will, of course, fail. Move, Kinetic can NOT keep their sales going for 5 years. No add on to a console has ever extended it's life, in fact, if you look at sega, you might say add on's can actually kill your business if done wrong. And MS isn't afraid of dumping crap that fails really quick (kin anyone?) even before they give it a chance.
This is my prediction. Move & Kindle will have an okay xmas, and might even do just okay till next season. Of course, Nintendo will be making it's Wii2/WiiHD or whatever it's next gen will be, and that will probably be out within 2 years. Which will leave MS & Sony scrambling again to get new consoles out.
Meanwhile, PC gaming will surge up again, as people will want to the better gaming experience.
And i'm basing this all on history. On the video game market, on the various companies histories, and of course, on my own intuition.
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Not everyone wants to break the law.
Which is good for those of use who don't care. You keep paying the people who make the stuff, and we will just watch it.
I must point out, laws are made to be broken. And it's our duty to break stupid laws. Anyways, any laws made for corporations & religions, I tend to ignore because they aren't made for the good of all people, just made for a select few.
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If you're wondering what Silver Tail does: TFA provides the following
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Any of the techy people feel like explaining this to the rest of us? Am I exposing my ignorance by assuming it's basically a giant spreadsheet comparing whats happening now with what happened then?
Sure, what they are saying is, they monitor all the web traffic a site does, then analyse that data to make a "standard" web pattern for that website. Then they compare their "standard" to what's coming in, and if something doesn't match normal traffic patterns, they will check it out.
They will alert whomever the attack is upon.
So basicly, lets say your a banking web site, and during normal off hours, there is suddenly a lot of traffic hitting their servers. They would know from their "standard" that something is different, and they would do whatever from there. Which would probably be getting a hold of the IT of that website and letting them know somethings going on.
But ya, your right about the big spreadsheet, because that's basicly what they are doing.
Now, of course, let me list the problems here.
CIA is funding a "security" website that does it's security by monitoring all your traffic, keeping data about it, and comparing that with traffic coming in and out.
Yes, i only listed 1 problem, and I clearly said problems. It wasn't a mistake. That one problem is plural.
"A 20-year-old may go to the locker rooms and look through the walls," Rosenberg said. "I don't know that a 50-year-old would."
I think I've seen this kind of thing before... squares and octagons instead of circles and elipses. That's right, it was in Superman comics I read as a kid. We live in the Bizarro Galaxy.
That would explain the slashdot story about Apple's text filtering patent and all anyone was commenting on was parenting skills...
Apple gets awarded a patent for filtering text, and all people are talking about is parenting?
Before we get a million "Adobe does this!" comments RTFA: "Microsoft applied for the patent titled “Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit” in October 2004"
Far as I know no one was doing this in 2004
That's because you either spend the 2000's stoned, or in jail.
Okay, so texture compression and video compression aren't quite the same thing. One deals with a single image, one deals with compressing a series of images.... Yeah, that's not obvious to anyone who has never seen someone make a flipbook during class in elementary school.
I don't know, textures aren't just used on a single image, they are used on a series of images, which is what video is.
Seems the same to me.
According to the wikipedia article, if you cook the pie for only 15 minutes 40% of the alcohol remains which means 4 mL per pie slice. I suppose that could still be dangerous to some, but it's nothing like serving 1/4 cup straight to a person.
I should point out most pies cook from 30 to 45 mins. I've never had to cook a pie shorter, but while I've done a lot of baking and cooking, I don't like pie so I don't cook them as much.
lol, the guy mentioned obama in the list (and krugman), and you're all 'you forgot obama, you partisan hack'.
someone's a partisan hack here, and it aint the guy you were replying to.
Give him/her a break, probably public school, and you know how bad the public education system is.
I also agree with you about MADD. They've gone completely around the bend, off the deep end, into a bizarre, and completely untenable Prohibitionist position.
So you are saying they have gone mad?
The only people who think like this seem to be without any sort of corporeal responsibility. Their only perceived responsibilities are to themselves - their self-satisfaction.
They don't drive, because a car is a liability and a cost. Easier to mooch off of others.
They don't have families, because they're too immature and/or irresponsible to realize the benefit such things provide to society.
They don't own homes, because a mortgage (and the associated payments) demand stability and willpower to resist compulsive urges.
They're able to pay for small, single-person (or shared) apartments near their place of work because of the aforementioned lack of constraints. It's pretty easy to pay 1800/month for a loft apartment when it's just you living there and you haven't much more than a bottle of Jack Daniels and a pile of $300 shirts.
I don't talk crap about the way you choose to live.
Do word processors not make it too easy for writers to write bloated books?
I take the position that word processors have had a detriment on clarity of writing. It's too easy to not have to keep everything in you head when writing with a word processor.
I used to enjoy Asimov, but it seems his later books (after 1980) just got fat and I stopped reading.
And look at college textbooks. Who reads all those pages?
I feel the same way about Clive Barker. His short stories were excellent in my opinion, but his later novel size books? Wasn't the same. And it's not like I don't appreciate good thick books, i prefer them actually. Not into short stories really. So go figure.
I have no idea if he changed what he used to write with, but his short stories were during the younger part of his life, so ya, I could see him doing them more old school then the novels he did later after he gained some fame from Hellraiser.
Personally, I think you just sound like a romantic, not someone who has stumbled upon a magic productivity method. What gets your rocks off is thinking that you are doing something old sk00l. It is pretty dead easy to make MS Word 2040 or whatever version they are on a blank white screen where words appear when you type. Your other old sk00l romanticism is just that, romanticism. A fixie really isn't better than a bike with gears unless you like having your legs sheared off when you go too fast. Gears are actually awesome when you need to go up a steep hill or want to haul ass down a steep hill. Power steering, computer control traction, and all of that goodness is likewise is awesome when something dives in front of your car and you need to make a sharp dodge. Touchy feel decelerations that you can feel the road better and that somehow improves your not hitting shit skills don't stand up the statistical reality that power steering, traction control, and fun stuff like that reduces accidents.
There is nothing wrong with being a romantic who idealizes simplicity, and there certainly is something to be said for keeping thing simple, but your methods are almost certainly useless to someone who doesn't see the romanticism in using old obscure text editors. For those people, if the editor is really distracting, they should just take a few seconds to pair down the interface to MS Word or Open Office (or whatever), rather than run an archaic text editor. If you are a romantic and need to be in a mood to write, find what gets your rocks off and go for it. Neal Stephenson wrote the 4000 or so page series with a freaking fountain pen. Inefficient? Sure, but if acting a little archaic gets your creative juices flowing, go for it.
So your saying, using my TRS-80 4p, and Scripsit (first word processor I ever learned) to bust out a wonderful novel today would be wrong?
Calling the Model 4p portable was wrong. =)
real men use
I always like copy con whatever.txt
But ya, i sucked, I used dos.
How about a different ring tone depending on how your walking/strutting? If you like barely moving, or standing still, it goes quiet for stalking mode. Big ass strut will play whatever the popular tone is for picking up the ladies.
lets see, the "on the bed stand and it's shaking" mode so it will go silent and not interupt your session with a crack ho.
Here's a hint: Weed is way easier for kids to buy than alcohol.
I call bullshit.
Any kid can get an adult to buy them alcohol. Thats how we got it before we were 21. Someone's older sibling, cool relative, don't matter. Go hang down by a 7-11 and wait till some who looks cool walks by and ask them. Pay the homeless dude a few bucks to buy you some booze.
Weed dealers? Sure, if you know some, and they are close by. But if your talking going down and buying some off some dude trying sell it on the street? never, your going to get ripped off.
Actually finding a good weed dealer can be pretty hard. We are talking good weed, that weighs up. There might be a ton of people selling small sacks in your town/city, but only chumps buy it.
And your arguement that legalizing pot would make it harder for children to get it, once again you missed the point. And this point you made earlier in your post.
Why would a pot dealer, who doesn't care who he sells it to when it's illegal, going to care if he's selling it to minors when it is legal? He's probably still going to be making money of the minors if they are wanting to buy weed.
As long as there is a demand for something, there will be someone supplying.
...
Things like this need to be weighed. Sure, if marijuana was legal it would lead to some problems. People would get stoned and operate a car (that would need to be covered under DUI laws). People would abuse it and spend their life doing little else other than getting stoned.
Which happens either way.
Why do people think if they legalize drugs, everyone is going to become drug addicts?
Legal or not, your going to have drug addicts anyways, that won't change.
Abuse of apostrophe's make's Baby Jesu's Cry.
All babies cry, it's how they communicate.
Can we get an "R" and "D" next to each candidates name? That way I'll know if I should be up in arms at this vile abuse of the DMCA or giddy with excitement that it was wielded this way. ;-)
R=Retard and D=Dumbass?
I'm guessing you've not visited France much.
Farmers and fishermen use loopholes in the law to block entire interstates or major ferry ports for weeks on end.
There is a deep and wide cultural history of using legal loopholes to embellish protest.
Hmm, in America loopholes are used to get out of jail, get out of paying fines, and whatever else the rich and powerful can use them for.
If you can't remember the prices, maybe you should look them up (list from 1990, price in DM) instead of basing your argument on a pair of rose tinted glasses. Plenty of games in that list in the $30-$50 range, but also a few games for $70, which is kind of pretty much exactly what we have today.
So what your saying is, since I said I never paid more the $50 for a game, and most being $30-$50, that I should look it up because of my rose colored glasses?
Seems to me even though I didn't think I remembered, i did remember just fine. Not sure what you are going on about though.
Because in the meantime if you haven't mastered Facebook's privacy settings a stranger might think you actually belong to those groups. Which isn't a problem until said stranger is in the position of offering or not offering you a job. Or deciding whether to do a more thorough investigation prior to a lawsuit or charges being filed.
Guess next time you shouldn't sign up on facebook.
If you look further in the article, you can reconstruct a hypothetical scenario which, from the FBI's point of view, looks completely normal:...
Dude, you can make any situation "seem normal". Proves nothing.
The issue is, is it really okay morally for our government to be doing this? Remember, today it's "terrorist" who happened to be Arab, tomorrow it can be terrorist who like math, or drink chocolate milk.
This is the start, we let them get away with stuff like this, then next time they are going to try to get away with something even bigger. Soon they'll decide they don't need warrents to plant bugs, search your home, etc.
Interesting theory. So if A has something B doesn't want him to have, then B just has to attach it to your car without your permission, and then it's yours and therefore no longer A's ...
You almost understand logic.
If A has something and B takes it, yes, A no longer has the object.
Now, just because B hid it on your car, it's not yours until you find it. Once you find it, then yes, it's yours.
Both MS & Sony want to extend console lifetimes past the 5 years they have been since the 80's, to a 10 year cycle. The problem is, the hardware can't keep up with that cycle.
Both Sony & MS are finally either breaking even on the consoles, or making a little profit now from the hardware (not counting research costs, errors, etc) so they want to stretch out the life of these products as much as they can.
And they will, of course, fail. Move, Kinetic can NOT keep their sales going for 5 years. No add on to a console has ever extended it's life, in fact, if you look at sega, you might say add on's can actually kill your business if done wrong. And MS isn't afraid of dumping crap that fails really quick (kin anyone?) even before they give it a chance.
This is my prediction. Move & Kindle will have an okay xmas, and might even do just okay till next season. Of course, Nintendo will be making it's Wii2/WiiHD or whatever it's next gen will be, and that will probably be out within 2 years. Which will leave MS & Sony scrambling again to get new consoles out.
Meanwhile, PC gaming will surge up again, as people will want to the better gaming experience.
And i'm basing this all on history. On the video game market, on the various companies histories, and of course, on my own intuition.
Not everyone wants to break the law.
Which is good for those of use who don't care. You keep paying the people who make the stuff, and we will just watch it.
I must point out, laws are made to be broken. And it's our duty to break stupid laws.
Anyways, any laws made for corporations & religions, I tend to ignore because they aren't made for the good of all people, just made for a select few.