If two groups are independently getting similar results in terms of potential lifetime (>10y; 600,000 cycles) and speed of charge, then we can be more hopeful IMHO.
Why throw in some Xenophobia? US-domiciled scum remains the ultimate source of most SPAM. Something about the American dream makes it ethically acceptable to these idiots to steal and lie and deceive in email ahead of any other nation per capita and in absolute terms. Note that a lot of SPAM is routed through non-US compromised machines by said scumbags, but a lot of it is routed through the irresponsibly-managed machines and connections of US citizens who don't understand and/or don't care about ANOTHER sort of global pollution they contribute to disproportionately.
This is not an anti-US rant, but before side-swiping an important chunk of the planet, there is a bigger problem, and its ccTLD is.us rather than.tw or.cn methinks.
Maybe G just doesn't want to give the story any more credibility, but in any case, not exposing its anti-fraud methods in court would be a good enough reason. Why give the bad guys more info than you have to?
Yes, how big were the UFOs relative to the bolts? That was my first thought.
When I heard the theory that at least one of the UFOsmay have been a plastic bag my instant thought was "I know that carrier bags can blow high in the air, but *that* high?" B^>
As a 3G user that rarely achieves 200kbps out of the originally-hyped 2Mbps, even in the the best-served parts of London, I think at least a 10-fold scaling of expectation-to-promise is in order here.
As pointed out, data prices will have to scale too!
Hi,
What about automatic day-trading in FX derivatives or equities with the collected monies of (say) each 100 players? In the short term this really would be pretty random, with the broker acting as "house" and guaranteed an income...
Rgds
Damon
And I thought I had it bad, with my email address(es) on USENET and then the Web for maybe 12 years on many thousands of pages/postings! (I spent weeks writing an SMTP reverse proxy to filter the sh*t, but it is about 99.99% accurate.)
Mind you, Bill did once reply personally (and *fast*) to a communication I sent him, but so long ago that there was no email as we know it: I sent him a telex!
I ran one of the first ISPs in the UK with live IP and since we went live about 10 years ago we have endured on average maybe one attack per minute or higher all that time.
So 10 years ago I wrote my own firewall with some traffic shaping and logging; it died recently I replaced it with a Cisco or two with more or less the same rules.
Now, even when no longer an ISP I still have to turn away 35,000+ SPAMs per day from my network which now hosts just two people, so I wrote my own reverse SMTP proxy to deal with the problem. (The source is available in SourceForge BTW.)
People continually attempt to steal the entire content of one of my free Web sites, and used to bring it and my connection to the Net to their knees, so I wrote a simple transparent servlet filter to detect and lock out f**kits who exhibited pathological behaviour.
All of these tools are mainly automatic with a few general rules and a very few specific data entries to keep out especially egregious people.
Don't play "whack-a-mole", and don't waste too much time trying to contact the idiot's ISP; even if they care, which sometimes they do, it'll end up being expensive and slow to stop.
Many years ago I did some work in a genetics lab and made some recombinants (variations on the E.coli pCNB plasmid FWIW), and accidentally swallowed a billion or so of one of them (but that's a different story B^>).
The point was that it was slow, laborious work with lots of hardware support (agar, incubators, restriction enzymes, etc) needed and a danger of getting various sorts of stuff on yourself. And we're still (sadly) profoundly ignorant of what really makes bugs tick...
So the first DNA-script-kiddie is still as far off as the nanotech grey-goo horror IMHO.
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If two groups are independently getting similar results in terms of potential lifetime (>10y; 600,000 cycles) and speed of charge, then we can be more hopeful IMHO.
Hmm, no, I'm sure they'll have been towed or clamped by now...
Why throw in some Xenophobia? US-domiciled scum remains the ultimate source of most SPAM. Something about the American dream makes it ethically acceptable to these idiots to steal and lie and deceive in email ahead of any other nation per capita and in absolute terms. Note that a lot of SPAM is routed through non-US compromised machines by said scumbags, but a lot of it is routed through the irresponsibly-managed machines and connections of US citizens who don't understand and/or don't care about ANOTHER sort of global pollution they contribute to disproportionately.
.us rather than .tw or .cn methinks.
This is not an anti-US rant, but before side-swiping an important chunk of the planet, there is a bigger problem, and its ccTLD is
Rgds
Damon
Hi,
1) You can have 32--64 "cores" (depending on how you define it) on a Si ship from Sun now. I'm using a 24-thread T1000 now and it's great.
2) I assume this was a troll post, since there are many many many "embarrassingly parallel" scientific/financial/Web problems...
Rgds
Damon
Maybe G just doesn't want to give the story any more credibility, but in any case, not exposing its anti-fraud methods in court would be a good enough reason. Why give the bad guys more info than you have to?
Rgds
Damon
When I heard the theory that at least one of the UFOsmay have been a plastic bag my instant thought was "I know that carrier bags can blow high in the air, but *that* high?" B^>
Rgds
Damon
As a 3G user that rarely achieves 200kbps out of the originally-hyped 2Mbps, even in the the best-served parts of London, I think at least a 10-fold scaling of expectation-to-promise is in order here.
As pointed out, data prices will have to scale too!
Rgds
Damon
Hi, What about automatic day-trading in FX derivatives or equities with the collected monies of (say) each 100 players? In the short term this really would be pretty random, with the broker acting as "house" and guaranteed an income... Rgds Damon
Mr Feynman used to be well known for this sort of things, repeatedly cracking the Los Alamos safes to try to demonstrate how lax security was...
Rgds
Damon
Mind you, Bill did once reply personally (and *fast*) to a communication I sent him, but so long ago that there was no email as we know it: I sent him a telex!
Rgds
Damon
Rgds
DHD
Hi,
I ran one of the first ISPs in the UK with live IP and since we went live about 10 years ago we have endured on average maybe one attack per minute or higher all that time.
So 10 years ago I wrote my own firewall with some traffic shaping and logging; it died recently I replaced it with a Cisco or two with more or less the same rules.
Now, even when no longer an ISP I still have to turn away 35,000+ SPAMs per day from my network which now hosts just two people, so I wrote my own reverse SMTP proxy to deal with the problem. (The source is available in SourceForge BTW.)
People continually attempt to steal the entire content of one of my free Web sites, and used to bring it and my connection to the Net to their knees, so I wrote a simple transparent servlet filter to detect and lock out f**kits who exhibited pathological behaviour.
All of these tools are mainly automatic with a few general rules and a very few specific data entries to keep out especially egregious people.
Don't play "whack-a-mole", and don't waste too much time trying to contact the idiot's ISP; even if they care, which sometimes they do, it'll end up being expensive and slow to stop.
Rgds
Damon
Many years ago I did some work in a genetics lab and made some recombinants (variations on the E.coli pCNB plasmid FWIW), and accidentally swallowed a billion or so of one of them (but that's a different story B^>).
The point was that it was slow, laborious work with lots of hardware support (agar, incubators, restriction enzymes, etc) needed and a danger of getting various sorts of stuff on yourself. And we're still (sadly) profoundly ignorant of what really makes bugs tick...
So the first DNA-script-kiddie is still as far off as the nanotech grey-goo horror IMHO.
Damon