However, lots of people use services like gMail and Hotmail, which come with increasingly more accurate spam filters.
Perhaps they should get together to build an antispam service. Think about it, they can analyse every incoming mail. If more than X% of the message text matches Y% of total messages recieved over a time period (i.e. most spam is sending chunks of identical text to lots of people in very little time) then it's automatically flagged as spam, the SMTP server is blocked, and a bayesian pattern is updated. Congratulations, you've just booted an entire spammer's distribution network from two of the biggest email providers.
Include other mail providers, get talking to honeypot projects, and make an application for 3rd party servers. Yes the central network required to support the system would be a bit on the chunky side, but the benefits of having a central "This message is spam, don't even consider it" would outweigh the cost in transit fees.
So by your argument, why should Apple give up their limited hardware set and almost guaranteed stability just to match Microsoft?
I like Apple kit because I know the bloody things are going to work with each other as expected, removing the guaranteed hardware for OS X means that there's a chance my stuff won't talk nicely to OS X on non-Apple hardware. This is bad.
At the risk of violating groupthink, it depends on the customer. For the home user, it shouldn't actually make much difference. For the multi-billion dollar company who don't want that internal memo to be leaked, it's invaluable.
Some of those on Tier 1 aren't ISPs, they are soely content providers. The BBC is peered at Tier 1 iirc. Big companies can get in at Tier 2, so it's a simple matter of finding someone with enough traffic to negotiate decent peering deals.
Alternatively, just use WiFi in an ad-hoc configuration.
Some bits make sense, such as cameras in malls and apartment building corridors. They are reasonably public spaces, and having CCTV footage of them would be handy. Private homes, no.
CCTV in public isn't a major problem, just come live in the UK. If you walk through a major city centre there are cameras on street corners, inside buildings, in bus stops, and so far nobody seems to have been given the 1984 treatment.
I now need to maintain not only my exchange address book, but also my communicator address book, which will doubtlessly use different lists, and not talk to MSN at all?
What's wrong with MSN? The Sharing Folders in MSN 8 are quite slick and ideal for corporate users.
Wikipedia is a peer-reviewed encyclopedia based on independantly verifiable sources. If it's in Wikipedia, it will usually have its source cited elsewhere.
Cockroaches are immune to the effects of radiation, unlike most microprocessors. Using a cockroach to control a robot means you can use much chunkier (physically), and therefore more radiation-resistant electronics because they don't have to do any 'thinking'.
Can't think of a use right now, but a trained cockroach perhaps?
Why can't banks use a similar system to the "mother's maiden name" to prove who they are? You tell them three pieces of information, and then when they call you can ask for any one of them (They may need to prompt you first).
Can you imagine gaming with this thing? Strategy where you can *really* manipulate units quickly. Solitare would become an elegant affair. Move those keys *exactly* where you want them, and use gestures for rapid weapon switches.
The keyboard concept will stay the same, but it will likely become integrated into a screen like this. I don't mind having one normal monitor in front of me to view work on, and one of these touch video screen things on my desk (Or even in my desk) to interface with. If I could drag work from one to the other, so much the better. Move my keyboard out of the way, get to a graphics tablet, then a piano keyboard etc. all on one screen?
I want the Minority Report style wall. I did a user interface experiment using the virtual whiteboards at my college: Which was more intuitive for arranging data. Up/Down buttons in a list, drag and drop with mouse, or drag and drop on a 'real' surface. Guess which won?
Nokia phones for the past several years have supported user-groups with varying rings depending on your mode. I do have some contacts where I *must* be available, and their contact group will ring full volume regardless of any other settings short of turning it off. Another group will ring in 'normal', vibrate in 'college' mode and vibrate in 'vibrate' mode; whereas yet another will ring at anything other than 'vibrate'.
I like your IPoV idea. Perhaps we could get devices to 'dial' each other? Some kind of Mega Over-Driven Electric Messenger - M.O.D.E.M.
That's the way it will go again if traffic becomes controlled by type. The only things that should have special attention paid to them are priority headers.
One thing I've seen used is RFID ID cards, for the purpose of clocking in/out and buying lunch (Credit system). Ro get into the datacentre you had to touch-in with your ID card, retina scan, walk past a receptionist, retina scan again, and then to get into the server room itself you touched in, retina scanned, and then handprint verified before you got into the 'airlock'. Inside the airlock, same again.
Nothing injected, no real privacy concerns. The tag on the card only transmits an ID, the security database is needed for actual identification.
Offtopic, flamebait, and totally unrelated to the original topic. Yes, you get the "I bash Christians so I look good on/. LOLOLOLOL" award!
You know these protests about cartoons of Muhammad? They are caused by people like you who are unable to see another point of view of the world, regardless of what that view may be.
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I've seen worse in formal essays and letters. What happened to punctuation, capitalisation, spelling and understanding of homophones?
Apostrophe Abolished! "Were delighted" says groups spokesman.
However, lots of people use services like gMail and Hotmail, which come with increasingly more accurate spam filters.
Perhaps they should get together to build an antispam service. Think about it, they can analyse every incoming mail. If more than X% of the message text matches Y% of total messages recieved over a time period (i.e. most spam is sending chunks of identical text to lots of people in very little time) then it's automatically flagged as spam, the SMTP server is blocked, and a bayesian pattern is updated. Congratulations, you've just booted an entire spammer's distribution network from two of the biggest email providers.
Include other mail providers, get talking to honeypot projects, and make an application for 3rd party servers. Yes the central network required to support the system would be a bit on the chunky side, but the benefits of having a central "This message is spam, don't even consider it" would outweigh the cost in transit fees.
Ya canna' change the laws of physics!
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It's BT's directory services, they used ET as part of their millennium advertising campaign.
So by your argument, why should Apple give up their limited hardware set and almost guaranteed stability just to match Microsoft?
I like Apple kit because I know the bloody things are going to work with each other as expected, removing the guaranteed hardware for OS X means that there's a chance my stuff won't talk nicely to OS X on non-Apple hardware. This is bad.
At the risk of violating groupthink, it depends on the customer. For the home user, it shouldn't actually make much difference. For the multi-billion dollar company who don't want that internal memo to be leaked, it's invaluable.
Some of those on Tier 1 aren't ISPs, they are soely content providers. The BBC is peered at Tier 1 iirc. Big companies can get in at Tier 2, so it's a simple matter of finding someone with enough traffic to negotiate decent peering deals.
Alternatively, just use WiFi in an ad-hoc configuration.
Some bits make sense, such as cameras in malls and apartment building corridors. They are reasonably public spaces, and having CCTV footage of them would be handy. Private homes, no.
CCTV in public isn't a major problem, just come live in the UK. If you walk through a major city centre there are cameras on street corners, inside buildings, in bus stops, and so far nobody seems to have been given the 1984 treatment.
I more often see people get caught up in the little things, whilst the big issues just keep rolling along.
"What colour should it be?"
"I don't bloody care, it's a bit of pipework to fix a major leak!"
Got any links to documentation for that? I'd like to give setting it up a shot in a test lab.
So hang on...
I now need to maintain not only my exchange address book, but also my communicator address book, which will doubtlessly use different lists, and not talk to MSN at all?
What's wrong with MSN? The Sharing Folders in MSN 8 are quite slick and ideal for corporate users.
Wikipedia is a peer-reviewed encyclopedia based on independantly verifiable sources. If it's in Wikipedia, it will usually have its source cited elsewhere.
Cockroaches are immune to the effects of radiation, unlike most microprocessors. Using a cockroach to control a robot means you can use much chunkier (physically), and therefore more radiation-resistant electronics because they don't have to do any 'thinking'.
Can't think of a use right now, but a trained cockroach perhaps?
Why can't banks use a similar system to the "mother's maiden name" to prove who they are? You tell them three pieces of information, and then when they call you can ask for any one of them (They may need to prompt you first).
Now just wait a second, I thought The Sims 2 was a sex training system and not a murder simulator!
Can you imagine gaming with this thing? Strategy where you can *really* manipulate units quickly. Solitare would become an elegant affair. Move those keys *exactly* where you want them, and use gestures for rapid weapon switches.
The keyboard concept will stay the same, but it will likely become integrated into a screen like this. I don't mind having one normal monitor in front of me to view work on, and one of these touch video screen things on my desk (Or even in my desk) to interface with. If I could drag work from one to the other, so much the better. Move my keyboard out of the way, get to a graphics tablet, then a piano keyboard etc. all on one screen?
I want the Minority Report style wall. I did a user interface experiment using the virtual whiteboards at my college: Which was more intuitive for arranging data. Up/Down buttons in a list, drag and drop with mouse, or drag and drop on a 'real' surface. Guess which won?
Nokia phones for the past several years have supported user-groups with varying rings depending on your mode. I do have some contacts where I *must* be available, and their contact group will ring full volume regardless of any other settings short of turning it off. Another group will ring in 'normal', vibrate in 'college' mode and vibrate in 'vibrate' mode; whereas yet another will ring at anything other than 'vibrate'.
Nah, TV licence is once per household. If you have a PC in addition to a TV, it will be covered under the same licence.
I like your IPoV idea. Perhaps we could get devices to 'dial' each other? Some kind of Mega Over-Driven Electric Messenger - M.O.D.E.M.
That's the way it will go again if traffic becomes controlled by type. The only things that should have special attention paid to them are priority headers.
Companies such as Google try to centralise data, and people go off on one about privacy issues. There's just no winning.
Up to 64 cores in Windows Datacentre Edition.
One thing I've seen used is RFID ID cards, for the purpose of clocking in/out and buying lunch (Credit system). Ro get into the datacentre you had to touch-in with your ID card, retina scan, walk past a receptionist, retina scan again, and then to get into the server room itself you touched in, retina scanned, and then handprint verified before you got into the 'airlock'. Inside the airlock, same again.
Nothing injected, no real privacy concerns. The tag on the card only transmits an ID, the security database is needed for actual identification.
Offtopic, flamebait, and totally unrelated to the original topic. Yes, you get the "I bash Christians so I look good on /. LOLOLOLOL" award!
You know these protests about cartoons of Muhammad? They are caused by people like you who are unable to see another point of view of the world, regardless of what that view may be.
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