The whole thing disgusts me. Ken Lay's family is drinking champagne and eating caviar, probably with Ken himself (anyone who believes he's really dead is an idiot),...
I want you to read the sentance you just wrote again, then think again about Mr Lay's unfortunate death.
You're not responsible for corporate policy. Yet you're in as much, or more danger from an attack like this than those who do make the decisions.
By working for a company, you express your approval of its policies and actions. It's that simple. See here for a good example of why your excuse just doesn't cut it.
Well, I would suggest that we stick to the Bayesian approach but instead of tokenizing via Paul Graham's proposed algorithm, we could investigate tokenizing the text based on letter groups (divide 'words' into 2-3 letter groups and test for those frequencies) or even natural language parsing.
No. Bayesian filtering has failed, just like every other filtering method before it. Modifying it will not work. Adding OCR for image text will not work. Creating a new filtering mechanism will not work. The spamming will continue, more and more of it will get in.
Frankly, given that both processing power, disc space, bandwidth etc, are all increasing, I for one foresee the current spam/ant-spam arms race continuing indefinitely, with the amount of spam sent slowly increasing, and the amount caught by the filters being just enough to keep the amount of spam you get into your inbox at in and around a constant level. It's an endless cycle.
I say, turn it all off. All of it. The filters, the blacklists, the whitelists, Spamhaus, the lot. Let every single spam sent reach its destination, if just for one day. Let Joe Sick Pack finally realise the scale of the problem and just how much strain is being placed on mail servers. It will be both terrible and beautilful at the same time.
Then take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The only thing surprising is that so many Americans are still looking up with worshipful puppy eyes -- at the leaders who pretend to protect them while stealing their wealth, liberty, and lives.
Here's something everyone seems to forget when authoritarianism comes up in discussion.
Most people did quite well out of facism.
OK, if you were jewish, communist, an academic, homesexual or some otehr minority, you probably got a raw deal out of a facist state. But for most people, life in a facist state was actually quite pleasant. All those parades and rallies were certainly entertaining, and the money being made from quasi-to-full slave labour kept most people in relative luxury. 1930's germany was way ahead of most other countries economically. They had TV on par with 1950s america!
The sad fact is, most people can put a price on their freedom; $0.00. As such , they are more than happy to trade it off for material or secuity benefits. Facism doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people vote for it to happen.
The moral of this story is; Don't try to cut corners on production costs. It ends up costing you more in what Advanced Business schools like to call, "The Long Term".
A judge saying that RIAA can't have the defendants hard drive does not mean that RIAA's crap is coming to a crashing halt.
It pretty much does consider the RIAA will now have to prosecute the case on the facts. A remotely full hardrive with a defrag scheduled every week is all the plausable deniability you need.
Psych training is pretty damned poor in Australia.
It's bad everywere. Psychologists are not real mediacal doctors. They are philosophy/humanities students posing as doctors and you're falling for it.
Modern psychology more closely resembles adherance to Galen's anatomy or the teachings of Aristotle. Theories are basically made up out of thin air by lordly academics, then applied to misforunate real people. Experimental confirmation of these often dubious theories is often nonexistant, and even when performed, like this study, is seriously lacking in scientific rigor. It's cargo cult science most of the time; calling the gods, but no science happens.
So the next time you think of going to a psychologist, don't. Go to a real doctor and have them examine you, and get your health advice from a professional scientist.
I think I see. If I copy music from a struggling local musician, it's good. But if I create derivative works from software copyrighted by a $4 Billion publicly traded corporation such as Red Hat and I don't release the source, it's bad. Uh, what's your point again?
Most struggling musicians actually prefer people to download their songs. And as to Redhat, ask yourself this. What percentage of code in any given RHEL distro was actually written in house at RedHat? Answer; not too much. Most of it was written by pasty faced programmers in dark and odorous rooms.
The Bolshevization of North America consists above all in:
1. the centralization of media, agitation and propaganda;
2. ubiquitous surveillance;
3. the nanny state.
Nice troll, but you've forgotten that;
1.... is due to increased monopolosation by private companies. This is classical "Kapitalism" in action. 2.... is a phenomenon in no way unique to, or in itself indicative of, Bolshevism. Plenty of tyrannanies of all parts of the spectrum have empolyed such methods. 3.... is laughable. The USA doesn't even have a modern public health service, and your education system is in disarray. Security is being increasingly privatised and even essential public services like water and electricity have been sold off to private monopolies.
Blaming your countries problems on the long since dead communist bogeyman is less than derisable. No sir, your problems are entirely as a result of unrestricted market forces acting upon your society. Enjoy!
On the surface it looks like a good idea, but it's absolutely ridiculous that a human shouldn't be able to freely roam the public spaces of their own planet!
Absolutely. The passport is nothing more than the evolution of the Lord's Chit, from back when most people were serfs/slaves/property and needed their lord/master's permission to leave his demesne.
Every international criminal on earth has a valid passport. Their only purpose is make governments feel like they are still our lords and benefactors.
Basically this is the solution, but most people are still too afraid to accept it.
What's needed here? Realistically? Web access, Openoffice. That's it, unless you have school email, which you don't. I'll say it again. Web access, Openoffice. They don't need media players in the main, but if they do, `apt-get install mplayer`. (I know!)
Windows malware issues, zero. Virus issues, minimal. l33t kids hacking danger, actually very minimal indeed. Central file server with home folders takes care of disc space and easy backups. If the machines ever even smell funky, you can just reimage them.
But you won't, you're too afraid. Afraid of change. Afraid of new things. So just shut the hell up and accept malware, because deep down in places you don't like to think about, you need that malware on Windows, to reassure you of the fallability of computers rather than the reality of your own fear!.
The LCARS interface is nothing more than the old style text mode menu navigational system with flashier graphics.
Did anyone ever stop to think that the old text menu navigation systems were in fact very usable indeed. Ncurses interfaces are typically extremely straightforward to use and uncluttered. You get what you want without all that mucking about with the mouse, and buttons, and menus, and submenus, and bips and bops and etc, etc.
ALL currently known materials would break under their own weight.
Which is why one length of cable simply will not do. Instead the cable must get thicker as you move upwards, so that each strand only carries a small enough amount of weight. Honestly, a 1000km cable of this kind is more than within ourability to construct, but getting all 1000km of its ever increasing frame into space will be the trickiest part. Keeping it up there will be the next.
Space elevators are a "look good on paper" plan, as long as its a green paper. Hypersonic is the way to go into space.
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Qui Bono?
The actual achilles' heel was that the books were so flamable.
I don't know how to define pornography, but I know how to tag an image with it when I see it.
No. Bayesian filtering has failed, just like every other filtering method before it. Modifying it will not work. Adding OCR for image text will not work. Creating a new filtering mechanism will not work. The spamming will continue, more and more of it will get in.
Frankly, given that both processing power, disc space, bandwidth etc, are all increasing, I for one foresee the current spam/ant-spam arms race continuing indefinitely, with the amount of spam sent slowly increasing, and the amount caught by the filters being just enough to keep the amount of spam you get into your inbox at in and around a constant level. It's an endless cycle.
I say, turn it all off. All of it. The filters, the blacklists, the whitelists, Spamhaus, the lot. Let every single spam sent reach its destination, if just for one day. Let Joe Sick Pack finally realise the scale of the problem and just how much strain is being placed on mail servers. It will be both terrible and beautilful at the same time.
Then take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Most people did quite well out of facism.
OK, if you were jewish, communist, an academic, homesexual or some otehr minority, you probably got a raw deal out of a facist state. But for most people, life in a facist state was actually quite pleasant. All those parades and rallies were certainly entertaining, and the money being made from quasi-to-full slave labour kept most people in relative luxury. 1930's germany was way ahead of most other countries economically. They had TV on par with 1950s america!
The sad fact is, most people can put a price on their freedom; $0.00. As such , they are more than happy to trade it off for material or secuity benefits. Facism doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people vote for it to happen.
The moral of this story is; Don't try to cut corners on production costs. It ends up costing you more in what Advanced Business schools like to call, "The Long Term".
I once came across a page composed entirely of blink tags. The doctors say its getting better, but I still get headaches sometimes.
Or Coca-Cola?
Modern psychology more closely resembles adherance to Galen's anatomy or the teachings of Aristotle. Theories are basically made up out of thin air by lordly academics, then applied to misforunate real people. Experimental confirmation of these often dubious theories is often nonexistant, and even when performed, like this study, is seriously lacking in scientific rigor. It's cargo cult science most of the time; calling the gods, but no science happens.
So the next time you think of going to a psychologist, don't. Go to a real doctor and have them examine you, and get your health advice from a professional scientist.
Nice troll, but you've forgotten that;
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Blaming your countries problems on the long since dead communist bogeyman is less than derisable. No sir, your problems are entirely as a result of unrestricted market forces acting upon your society. Enjoy!
Every international criminal on earth has a valid passport. Their only purpose is make governments feel like they are still our lords and benefactors.
Discussion on Google Groups? It looks like it was on USENET to me. alt.computer.consultants to be specific.
Has it come to this?
Basically this is the solution, but most people are still too afraid to accept it.
What's needed here? Realistically? Web access, Openoffice. That's it, unless you have school email, which you don't. I'll say it again. Web access, Openoffice. They don't need media players in the main, but if they do, `apt-get install mplayer`. (I know!)
Windows malware issues, zero. Virus issues, minimal. l33t kids hacking danger, actually very minimal indeed. Central file server with home folders takes care of disc space and easy backups. If the machines ever even smell funky, you can just reimage them.
But you won't, you're too afraid. Afraid of change. Afraid of new things. So just shut the hell up and accept malware, because deep down in places you don't like to think about, you need that malware on Windows, to reassure you of the fallability of computers rather than the reality of your own fear!.
Let me guess. It was the dissappeared address bar in nautilus wasn't it?
Text, is the new GUI.
Which is why one length of cable simply will not do. Instead the cable must get thicker as you move upwards, so that each strand only carries a small enough amount of weight. Honestly, a 1000km cable of this kind is more than within ourability to construct, but getting all 1000km of its ever increasing frame into space will be the trickiest part. Keeping it up there will be the next.
Space elevators are a "look good on paper" plan, as long as its a green paper. Hypersonic is the way to go into space.