One property of this system is really attractive: Spamvertizing a webpage damages the IP number of this webpage, so that the owner of that IP number will probably seek damages against the spammer.
Yes, using email signatures in traditional spam filters would be better. There would be different spam thresholds based on the reliability of the signature. Then people (or machines) can sign their mails in order to be sure to pass the filter, and people who don't want to sign, must try to write mails that do not look like spam. If the pgp web of trust is used insted of or additionally to certificates issued by a central authority, we don't need to fear that such an authority is going to revoke people's right to send mail. And, while were at it people can encrypt their mails, thus looking out the spies of this world.
Not operator incompetence, because the operators had a book of rules to be followed, and this book contained the error. So they did what they were told and it was wrong.
Still wrong. When we have local elections in Munich,
Germany, we can choose between approximately 300
Candidates. Everyone gets 80 votes and can distribute them between the candidates.
That's a bloody mess to count manually and still we manage that without any problems. Per 1000 voters a team of 6 trustworthy people with the ability to count and add integer numbers is set up. They need 4-5 hours to do the count. Everyone
can go in and watch them counting. Simple and
effective, indeed.
It's dead. The pellets broke and the whole thing
was too expensive.
There is only one "new" reactor design, the EPR by KWU (german power plant shop) and french partners. It's quite conventional. EPR stands for "European pressured reactor"
There are some esoteric conncepts on inherent reactor safety. I do not believe in this stuff: They are too expensive and there is not sufficient
demand to justify research on a totally new reactor. And even worse, probably they will not even be safer: Lots of of knowledgr has been lost since the brighter days of nuclear fission, you don't get the best people because they go work for intel and friends, and you have to face some completely new problems which only show up with the new design.
Face it, nuclear fission is hopeless. Maybe there will be fusion somedays.
1) Dont whine about people laughing at the USA,
instead fix the electoral system.
2) Here in Europe, we typically need two hours
to count the votes manually. You can't convince me
that an old broken mechanical counting
machine can produce better results.
3) Since you were defending GWB's death row record:
What about his brother Jeb? Lately I read a very
interesting story about a coloured man, sentenced
to death in FL and found innocent some twenty years
later. What did the state attourney do? He offered
a deal: plead guilty in a minor case of manslaughter, thus
accounting for the twenty years
in prison, and we let you go. He offered that to an innocent man
sitting in the death row. So
much about justice in Florida.
-- gorgonite
It's the way votes are counted that is wrong
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The cause of the problem are the electoral
delegates. If you count the total votes
you get 48,889,821 for Bush and 49,108,420 for Gore. Hence, Gore should be the winner.
Now there are some 10'000 votes in question in
Florida. This is much less than the difference
in total votes. So given a sane counting
system, people could dismiss that problem and
declare Gore the winner of the election.
I don't care about this particular caveat. You give Bill cash for Windows and whine about paying the trolls? You support Windows by porting programs to windows and whine about things
being nonfree?
Come on.
Yes, but only i386, as far as I can tell.
I tried to compile kde2 on am alpha and
failed because of the idl compiler segfault
problem, which is a closed bug, but it looks
like its only closed on i386. Therefore I would
love to see kde2 in Debian.
Well, ignoring the moderation of this post as funny, I try to take it seriously.
Ill give you an counterexample: In statistical physics there is a fundamentally broken concept called "white noise". White noise causes all kinds of problems, but is still sometimes easier to handle than realistic noise.
An imploding star that fails to become a black hole might become a white dwarf.
Even worse, Quantum Chromodynamics assign the property "blue" to particles without considering the consequences that this might have on people with a blue skin.
> All Eve has to do is read the polarity of the > photons (i.e. pretend to be Bob), and then send > photons of the same polarity on to Bob
Here's where quantum mechanics enters the game. There are two different kinds of polarization:
right or left circular
horizontal or vertical linear
Now eve doesn't know whether the photon has been prepared the first or the second way. She has to measure one of both and then she replays what she got - fivty percent chance is that she measured linear polarization while she should have measured circular polarization or the other way round.
After Alice and Bob have been quantum chatting for some time, Alice will reveal for some arbitrary photons the type of polarization she used and using this information Bob can detect Eve.
So much about the good news, here's the bad news;
If Eve intercepts and manipulates said polarization type information, the scheme is broken: Eve will simply retransmit the polarization types she has transmitted instead of Alice's type of polarization.
if the photon source emits two instead of one photon, Eve could steal the second one, let the first pass and noone would realize.
An optical fiber like those in use today will carry the photons for approximately 10km and has amplifieres built in in order to carry the signals for longer distances. You need some kind of quantum repeater which will reshape your quantum signal. This is a current research topic. I'm not sure about security concerns regarding these quantum repeaters.
People have to distinguish between errors that Eve introduced and errors due to noise that happen even in the absence of Eve.
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That's because the other one's got nothing to brag about.
Yes, I'm doing the same with very good success.
One property of this system is really attractive: Spamvertizing a webpage damages the IP number of this webpage, so that the owner of that IP number will probably seek damages against the spammer.
Yes, using email signatures in traditional spam filters would be better. There would be different spam thresholds based on the reliability of the signature.
Then people (or machines) can sign their mails in order to be sure to pass the filter, and people who don't want to sign, must try to write mails that do not look like spam.
If the pgp web of trust is used insted of
or additionally to certificates issued by a central authority, we don't need to fear that such an authority is going to revoke people's right to send mail.
And, while were at it people can encrypt their mails, thus looking out the spies of this world.
Not operator incompetence, because the operators had a book of rules to be followed, and this book contained the error. So they did what they were told and it was wrong.
Actually, where I work, this would not help.
I have to use Lotus Notes. That's where IBM
could show us that they mean what they say.
Karl Marx wrote that, inspired by Ludwig Feuerbach.
Still wrong. When we have local elections in Munich, Germany, we can choose between approximately 300 Candidates. Everyone gets 80 votes and can distribute them between the candidates. That's a bloody mess to count manually and still we manage that without any problems. Per 1000 voters a team of 6 trustworthy people with the ability to count and add integer numbers is set up. They need 4-5 hours to do the count. Everyone can go in and watch them counting. Simple and effective, indeed.
It's dead. The pellets broke and the whole thing was too expensive. There is only one "new" reactor design, the EPR by KWU (german power plant shop) and french partners. It's quite conventional. EPR stands for "European pressured reactor" There are some esoteric conncepts on inherent reactor safety. I do not believe in this stuff: They are too expensive and there is not sufficient demand to justify research on a totally new reactor. And even worse, probably they will not even be safer: Lots of of knowledgr has been lost since the brighter days of nuclear fission, you don't get the best people because they go work for intel and friends, and you have to face some completely new problems which only show up with the new design. Face it, nuclear fission is hopeless. Maybe there will be fusion somedays.
Some little redundant comments from remote europe
1) Dont whine about people laughing at the USA,
instead fix the electoral system.
2) Here in Europe, we typically need two hours
to count the votes manually. You can't convince me
that an old broken mechanical counting
machine can produce better results.
3) Since you were defending GWB's death row record:
What about his brother Jeb? Lately I read a very
interesting story about a coloured man, sentenced
to death in FL and found innocent some twenty years
later. What did the state attourney do? He offered
a deal: plead guilty in a minor case of manslaughter, thus
accounting for the twenty years
in prison, and we let you go. He offered that to an innocent man
sitting in the death row. So
much about justice in Florida.
-- gorgonite
The cause of the problem are the electoral delegates. If you count the total votes you get 48,889,821 for Bush and 49,108,420 for Gore. Hence, Gore should be the winner. Now there are some 10'000 votes in question in Florida. This is much less than the difference in total votes. So given a sane counting system, people could dismiss that problem and declare Gore the winner of the election.
I don't care about this particular caveat. You give Bill cash for Windows and whine about paying the trolls? You support Windows by porting programs to windows and whine about things being nonfree? Come on.
Yes, but only i386, as far as I can tell. I tried to compile kde2 on am alpha and failed because of the idl compiler segfault problem, which is a closed bug, but it looks like its only closed on i386. Therefore I would love to see kde2 in Debian.
You can deform spacetime, at least in principle, but not using toys like antennae and such. see This little nasa page
Ill give you an counterexample: In statistical physics there is a fundamentally broken concept called "white noise". White noise causes all kinds of problems, but is still sometimes easier to handle than realistic noise.
An imploding star that fails to become a black hole might become a white dwarf.
Even worse, Quantum Chromodynamics assign the property "blue" to particles without considering the consequences that this might have on people with a blue skin.
> photons (i.e. pretend to be Bob), and then send > photons of the same polarity on to Bob
Here's where quantum mechanics enters the game.
There are two different kinds of polarization:
Now eve doesn't know whether the photon has
been prepared the first or the second way. She
has to measure one of both and then she replays what she got - fivty percent chance is that she
measured linear polarization while she should
have measured circular polarization or the other
way round.
After Alice and Bob have been quantum chatting
for some time, Alice will reveal for some arbitrary photons the type of polarization she used and using this information Bob can detect Eve.
So much about the good news, here's the bad news;
scheme is broken: Eve will simply retransmit the
polarization types she has transmitted instead of Alice's type of polarization.
one photon, Eve could steal the second one,
let the first pass and noone would realize.
in use today will carry the photons for
approximately 10km and has amplifieres built
in in order to carry the signals for longer distances. You need some kind of quantum
repeater which will reshape your quantum signal.
This is a current research topic. I'm not sure
about security concerns regarding these quantum repeaters.
that Eve introduced and errors due to noise that happen even in the absence of Eve.