No, you don't have to stop. Just don't delete your old mail, and drop all your spare papers in a separate box instead of a waste basket. You're not requested to produce any kind of evidence, just not to dispose of any you have already.
adblock by itself is nearly useless. You need to block all the banner websites yourself, and I mean ALL of them (ze whole internets). More work than closing popups. But if you share the effort with other people by using and extending Filterset.G for adblock, that's a completely different matter. You get most of banners filtered off.
Well, there are quite a few spyware versions of eMule, DC++, Azureus, gaim, and few others. Sure it's easy to detect they contain spyware. But if you manage to get your fake webpage above the genuine sourceforge link in Google (happened to eMule several times, DC++ too), lots of morons will grab your version. And open-source programs are very easy to include such stuff, and make it legal too (just release sources to your spyware:)
A perfect valid answer is "use a more powerful existing computing device". It doesn't scale well, but it may well solve the problem at hand. For engineering problems, that's a valid line of thought.
No, that's a perfectly wrong answer. A budget USB controller chip based on '51 is something like $0.80 in bulk. The next "more powerful device" is like $5. Multiply by 10 mln devices sold. Saving one passive, like a resistor or a capacitor is several hundreds of dollars in savings. Stuffing complete driver into 2K of EEPROM of a TUSB* instead of including a dedicated DSP on the same board will decrease the final price by about 40%, cost by about 60%, power consumption by 70% (allowing the device to be running from USB cable power instead of requiring a separate power supply, another $5 in bulk) and making it the size of a USB plug, instead of a box of cigarettes (plus another similar box - power supply.) Embedded devices is still a market where a good smart algorithm and ability to implement it is way better than "taking a bigger chip", assembly is still more valuable than high level languages and knowing how to implement various algorithms better than knowing theory behind them without knowledge how to apply them in real life.
Yes. I see just one SERIOUS problem with this solution:
Patent pending. Exclusive rights to commercialize this technology have been acquired by Geometrix, Inc. For academic use of this technology, please contact Dr. Pietro Perona or Rich Wolf. For commercial inquiries, please visit www.geometrix.com, or email to info@geometrix.com
What good is an algorithm for, if you're not allowed to use it?
Well, more like finally "Stand against the wall opposite to the doorknob. Cautiously grab the door knob. Turn it and slowly open the door, still staying by the wall. Peek through the gap between the door and the wall inside." instead of entering a room first, and looking what's inside (and stabbing your leg) later. (Remember Silent Hill? I hated it.) Somehow I doubt the new game would understand that.
Nothing new. There are hundreds of such games. Everywhere it looks the same. Player: Hello. AI: Hi. What brings you here, traveller? Player: I'm just sightseeing. AI: Could you rephrase that? Player: I'm passing by. AI: Sorry, I don't understand. Player: Nothing. AI: uhhh. Sorry? Player: Please, forget it. AI: I can't do it. Player: Where is the weapons shop? [it's across the street] AI: I don't know where it is. Player: Who are you? AI: I'm Thargos, your friendly wizard, thank you. Player: I'm looking for a quest. AI: Sorry, I don't know where is quest. Player: Give me a job. AI: I'm giving you nothing, you must earn everything by yourself. Player Goodbye. AI: Goodbye. By the way, wouldn't you happen to have some spare time to deliver this package to my friend across the city?
Well, I way too often see questions on 8051 MPU (8-bit microcontroller) forum: "How to multiply two 16-bit numbers?" "How to get a fixed-point instead of integer from division?" "How to add two numbers bigger than 256?" These all just boil down to writing the basic stuff you learned in school, taking bytes as digits of the numbers and adding, multiplying or dividing just like you would do on paper. But well, they didn't learn how to solve 10:3=? without a calculator, so they don't know that plain MOV A,B, incrementing pointers and repeating the basic division with modulo will solve their problems. Maybe these things should be learned later, not in 3rd or 4th year of school. But they are needed, and calculators and other solving devices take them away from kids.
Internet was designed to be a network without a "central place", owner, any critical points that would take it down. Now what would the Internet be without DNS? Taking out one company's equipment would take about 95% of the services down. I find decentralizing DNS services essential. They are the weak spot of the Internet, the only thing that once destroyed bring almost whole net down.
Most likely it detects features - intersections, splits, thickness etc, then compares against database to achieve "satisfactory" match, say, 50%, with "match" counting with positive score, "mismatch" counting negative and "no match" counting as 0. This way even if a large part of the surface is damaged or obscured, the rest is taken into account, the match may be worse but most likely satisfactory - surface of the bandaid is counted as "no match". But if someone else tries to identify, even small number of visible features different than yours will drop the score to negative range.
That champion shall have the honor-- no, no-- the privilege... to go forth and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona... from the fiery keep of the dragon. If for any reason the winner is unsuccessful, the first runner-up will take his place and so on and so forth. Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. Let the tournament begin!
FTFA: The Spam Act carries penalties of up to AU$220,000 per day for first-time corporate offenders and up to AU$1.1 million per day for repeat offenders.
So he'd have to make AU$1.1mln per day to break even. I don't think even the most successful spammer could earn that much.
Yes, it does, because it is. Thing is, it still applies.
Ex.12:14, 17, 24
"And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.... And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.... And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever."
Lev.23:14,21,31
"It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations."
Ps.119:151-2
"Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth. Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever."
Ps.119:160
"Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever."
Mal.4:4
"Remember ye the law of Moses."
Mt.5:18-19
"Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall nowise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven."
Lk.16:17
"It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."
Of course there is the opposite side of this equation, but it happens so that people tend to choose one they prefer. Whenever somebody points out the cruelty and wrongs encouraged by Old Testament, "faithful christians" claim it's not valid anymore. But then you commit something that is forbidden in the Bible several lines away from what they just claimed is invalid, and they are ready to burn you alive for the deadly sin you've commited. Not only the Bible is full of self-contradictions, they are actively exploited to promote agendas of people who recall Bible to support their claims and justify their wrongdoings.
Hmm, I got it differently. Slaughtering whole nation just because someone from it did something bad to someone from your nation? (and then promised to repair the harm)? There's way too much bloodshed, too little of love.
Well, snapping graphite in freefall will be about 1mm pieces that can definitely do damage. I suggested using lead (the metal, Pb) instead of graphite, like before graphite-based pencils replaced lead-based ones. Lead simply doesn't snap. It bends.
That says just one thing. The truth is in the middle. When side A says there's no flaws and side B says there's a lot of flaws, it means there are several flaws. If you had to go as far as to number 143-144 to find something easy to undermine, most likely at least few issues are rock-solid. "It's quite obvious what the writer's agenda" - the same can be said about you.
When Osama Bin Laden will apply for US govt to remove and stop funding the US Army, because private parties (him) own private military groups? Corporate-owned Police, IRS replaced by Mafia, and of course schools under management of MTV. Go Private Property!
Yeah, "will be called Immanuel" and quite a few more. You need really serious "stretching of the facts" to make them agree 100%. Please debunk allthis. 100% of these please.
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No, you don't have to stop. Just don't delete your old mail, and drop all your spare papers in a separate box instead of a waste basket. You're not requested to produce any kind of evidence, just not to dispose of any you have already.
adblock by itself is nearly useless. You need to block all the banner websites yourself, and I mean ALL of them (ze whole internets). More work than closing popups. But if you share the effort with other people by using and extending Filterset.G for adblock, that's a completely different matter. You get most of banners filtered off.
Well, there are quite a few spyware versions of eMule, DC++, Azureus, gaim, and few others. Sure it's easy to detect they contain spyware. But if you manage to get your fake webpage above the genuine sourceforge link in Google (happened to eMule several times, DC++ too), lots of morons will grab your version. And open-source programs are very easy to include such stuff, and make it legal too (just release sources to your spyware :)
I suggest one of these. You can be sure your co-workers won't read books you put in these.
Yes, I always use style="text-decoration: blink;" instead!
A perfect valid answer is "use a more powerful existing computing device". It doesn't scale well, but it may well solve the problem at hand. For engineering problems, that's a valid line of thought.
No, that's a perfectly wrong answer.
A budget USB controller chip based on '51 is something like $0.80 in bulk. The next "more powerful device" is like $5. Multiply by 10 mln devices sold. Saving one passive, like a resistor or a capacitor is several hundreds of dollars in savings. Stuffing complete driver into 2K of EEPROM of a TUSB* instead of including a dedicated DSP on the same board will decrease the final price by about 40%, cost by about 60%, power consumption by 70% (allowing the device to be running from USB cable power instead of requiring a separate power supply, another $5 in bulk) and making it the size of a USB plug, instead of a box of cigarettes (plus another similar box - power supply.) Embedded devices is still a market where a good smart algorithm and ability to implement it is way better than "taking a bigger chip", assembly is still more valuable than high level languages and knowing how to implement various algorithms better than knowing theory behind them without knowledge how to apply them in real life.
Yes. I see just one SERIOUS problem with this solution:
Patent pending. Exclusive rights to commercialize this technology have been acquired by Geometrix, Inc.
For academic use of this technology, please contact Dr. Pietro Perona or Rich Wolf.
For commercial inquiries, please visit www.geometrix.com, or email to info@geometrix.com
What good is an algorithm for, if you're not allowed to use it?
Actually, confronting two chatterbots (and getting them unstuck from the initial "Hi-Hello" loop) can produce some fun and interesting results :)
S-P-E-DOUBLE L-I-N-G N-A-Z-I.
Don't worry, the game will be a worse one on you.
Well, more like finally "Stand against the wall opposite to the doorknob. Cautiously grab the door knob. Turn it and slowly open the door, still staying by the wall. Peek through the gap between the door and the wall inside." instead of entering a room first, and looking what's inside (and stabbing your leg) later. (Remember Silent Hill? I hated it.)
Somehow I doubt the new game would understand that.
Nothing new. There are hundreds of such games. Everywhere it looks the same.
Player: Hello.
AI: Hi. What brings you here, traveller?
Player: I'm just sightseeing.
AI: Could you rephrase that?
Player: I'm passing by.
AI: Sorry, I don't understand.
Player: Nothing.
AI: uhhh. Sorry?
Player: Please, forget it.
AI: I can't do it.
Player: Where is the weapons shop? [it's across the street]
AI: I don't know where it is.
Player: Who are you?
AI: I'm Thargos, your friendly wizard, thank you.
Player: I'm looking for a quest.
AI: Sorry, I don't know where is quest.
Player: Give me a job.
AI: I'm giving you nothing, you must earn everything by yourself.
Player Goodbye.
AI: Goodbye. By the way, wouldn't you happen to have some spare time to deliver this package to my friend across the city?
One problem:
One person at a time. They would have to wait in queue for the connection, and your own line would be busy 99% of the time.
Well, I way too often see questions on 8051 MPU (8-bit microcontroller) forum: "How to multiply two 16-bit numbers?" "How to get a fixed-point instead of integer from division?" "How to add two numbers bigger than 256?"
These all just boil down to writing the basic stuff you learned in school, taking bytes as digits of the numbers and adding, multiplying or dividing just like you would do on paper. But well, they didn't learn how to solve 10:3=? without a calculator, so they don't know that plain MOV A,B, incrementing pointers and repeating the basic division with modulo will solve their problems. Maybe these things should be learned later, not in 3rd or 4th year of school. But they are needed, and calculators and other solving devices take them away from kids.
Internet was designed to be a network without a "central place", owner, any critical points that would take it down. Now what would the Internet be without DNS? Taking out one company's equipment would take about 95% of the services down. I find decentralizing DNS services essential. They are the weak spot of the Internet, the only thing that once destroyed bring almost whole net down.
Most likely it detects features - intersections, splits, thickness etc, then compares against database to achieve "satisfactory" match, say, 50%, with "match" counting with positive score, "mismatch" counting negative and "no match" counting as 0. This way even if a large part of the surface is damaged or obscured, the rest is taken into account, the match may be worse but most likely satisfactory - surface of the bandaid is counted as "no match". But if someone else tries to identify, even small number of visible features different than yours will drop the score to negative range.
That champion shall have the honor-- no, no-- the privilege... to go forth and rescue the lovely Princess Fiona... from the fiery keep of the dragon. If for any reason the winner is unsuccessful, the first runner-up will take his place and so on and so forth. Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make. Let the tournament begin!
-- Lord Farquaad.
FTFA:
The Spam Act carries penalties of up to AU$220,000 per day for first-time corporate offenders and up to AU$1.1 million per day for repeat offenders.
So he'd have to make AU$1.1mln per day to break even. I don't think even the most successful spammer could earn that much.
Hmm, I got it differently. Slaughtering whole nation just because someone from it did something bad to someone from your nation? (and then promised to repair the harm)? There's way too much bloodshed, too little of love.
Well, snapping graphite in freefall will be about 1mm pieces that can definitely do damage. I suggested using lead (the metal, Pb) instead of graphite, like before graphite-based pencils replaced lead-based ones. Lead simply doesn't snap. It bends.
That says just one thing. The truth is in the middle. When side A says there's no flaws and side B says there's a lot of flaws, it means there are several flaws. If you had to go as far as to number 143-144 to find something easy to undermine, most likely at least few issues are rock-solid.
"It's quite obvious what the writer's agenda" - the same can be said about you.
Pencil LEAD doesn't create dust. Just get an old-fashioned 19-centuresque lead-based pencil.
When Osama Bin Laden will apply for US govt to remove and stop funding the US Army, because private parties (him) own private military groups?
Corporate-owned Police, IRS replaced by Mafia, and of course schools under management of MTV. Go Private Property!
Yeah, I bet they will keep projecting rockets with 100kg of sand payload instead of getting an asteroid of a billion tons into high orbit.
Yeah, "will be called Immanuel" and quite a few more. You need really serious "stretching of the facts" to make them agree 100%.
Please debunk all this. 100% of these please.