Having worked for a Sony company as a sub-contractor's employee for some time, I know quite a lot of people who really don't want to work for Sony anymore: management is a total mess, it's a paradise if you want to play bullshit bingo, and it's just a lot of stress since every single project plan is totally unrealistic construction. Never again.
It shows that this is also true for heavy masses, probably? Quite obvious, but you won't believe how much scientific work with obvious results is done (yes, bash me for that, Karl-Popper-fanboys).
They needed some blabla so that it's not entirely obvious that the whole thing is actually an ad for Multiverse Network, Inc., and that was the best to author could produce.
"Snakes in space" will be the sequel to "Snakes on a plane" (btw, probably the most stupid movie title ever, reminds me of "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down" aka Homer Simpson's title of "Speed").
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Seriously: if the current contamination really were a problem, we would all be dead. But we aren't, and why? Because the human body has a immune system. So I bet, such a self-cleaning mouse, or even completely sterile desks deployed everywhere wouldn't have any impact on the infection rates.
Actually, desinfecting too much actually leads to other problems. Current studies suggest that too much hygiene may be a big factor in the recent increases of allergies. Also, fighting too aggressively against any kind of etiologic agents only produces more resistant etiologic agents. A prominent example is the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a Staph.A. strain that developed antibiotic resistance and is responsible for a good share of all nosocomial infections (i.e. infections you get that you get in hospital but are otherwise unrelated to your actual treatment there).
IANAMD (I am not an MD), but I have an education as combat medic in the Austrian Army where infectiology is a huge subject during education.
I friend of mine, who himself does quite a lot of research in the field of AI, recently told me after attending a conference that most of the researchers in this field approach most problems with the attitude and the naivity of the 1970s. He also told me that the current lack of willingness to approach problems with new tactics and to combine existing AI concepts with other IT topics makes it a lot easier for him to develop kinds of AI systems (he's active in the area of computer linguistics) that haven't been developed before and to produce real innovation.
Where did I write "arbitrary level of distortion"?
To lay this out clearly: human capability of recognition is still much better than those of computer programs, and that's what CAPTCHAs are exploiting: generally, every AI-hard problem can be used for distinguishing between humans and computers, which also means that everytime a CAPTCHA building upon an AI-hard problem has been broken, an AI-hard problem has been solved (provided no implementation errors have been used to bypass the need of solving the actual AI-hard problem).
As I wrote, the first CAPTCHA implementation (which you linked to) was indeed broken, but not the concept per se. Please read my posting before answering.
The very first CAPTCHA implementation was broken, but the funny thing about CAPTCHAs is that it's absolutely no effort to make an image completely unreadable for current OCR software. And even if one certain implementation is broken, just add another layer of distortion. Human brain is capable of coping with it, OCR software usually is not.
And after all, it's not about authentication, it's about making a service accessible only for humans.
BTW, it's funny that you praise your own cryptography solution in your blog, but it's obvious that you have the problem of replay attacks, you even mention it in the "caveat" section below the text box.
"(just look at the situation of religious freedom before and after the Reconquista was finished)."
There was none before and after the hated invaders were tossed out.
Do you even know what the Reconquista was? The Spanish regained the Iberian peninsula, to drive away the Moorish emperors. Under the Moorish, everybody was free to exercise his religious beliefs. Then the Spanish came, and either killed the Muslism or forced to convert them to Christianity, and drove away the Sephardim (i.e. the local Jews). That's what I'd call less religious freedom, and at that time (in these days, not quite anymore) Islam was definitely more tolerant towards other Abrahamitic religions.
The British didn't claim _exclusive_ ownership. They added it as "yet another colony" to their Empire, but they didn't drive away the people who lived there. Nor did the Ottomans. In fact, the Ottomans empire's success was that they respected local cultures and integrated local structures into their governance system. And they gave Christians and Jews their "free space" where they could practice their religions. Same with the Arabs (just look at the situation of religious freedom before and after the Reconquista was finished).
The Palestinian government, as such, was closely allied to actual Nazi Germany during the 1940s. And do you know why? Because the Germans, unlike the British, didn't treat the Arabs like shit. Antisemitism wasn't a problem at that time in Palestine, simply because there was no single ethnic group that claimed _exclusive_ ownership of the area that is now Israel. I think Theodor Herzl wouldn't be too happy with the way Israel has been implemented and Israel's policy of the last decades. In his book "Der Judenstaat" he even wrote that goodwill between Jews and Arabs is a precondition to a successful Jewish state.
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A "war" on [...] drugs is a "war" that you cannot win with firepower.
You can. You just need to take the right ones. Speed has been quite successful in the past, and Modafinil seems to be the latest fad.
You aren't talking about HiFinder, are you? Because that's one company I know which was bought by Sony during a project.
Having worked for a Sony company as a sub-contractor's employee for some time, I know quite a lot of people who really don't want to work for Sony anymore: management is a total mess, it's a paradise if you want to play bullshit bingo, and it's just a lot of stress since every single project plan is totally unrealistic construction. Never again.
It shows that this is also true for heavy masses, probably? Quite obvious, but you won't believe how much scientific work with obvious results is done (yes, bash me for that, Karl-Popper-fanboys).
You still have the right to bear arms. Or were yours forcefully amputated already?
My Goatee was just under 10" last time.
Your Goatse? Just under 10"? Wow, what a coefficient of extension.
They needed some blabla so that it's not entirely obvious that the whole thing is actually an ad for Multiverse Network, Inc., and that was the best to author could produce.
That "pill" is called alcohol, and makes _any_ woman more attractive.
On a more serious sidenote, it is indeed interesting to know that the "Arabic numerals" are actually called "Indian numerals" in Arab countries.
I gues you wanted to use one of the actually allowed signatures of the main function:
int main(void) { }
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { }
Ever heard about tamper-resistant hardware? Probably not...
I wrote about that, please read my comment. Whether the mouse or the desk gets desinfected, it makes no difference because the germs are everywhere.
I also mentioned the part that lack of contact with etiologic agents leads to a higher risks of suffering from allergies later on.
"Snakes in space" will be the sequel to "Snakes on a plane" (btw, probably the most stupid movie title ever, reminds me of "The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down" aka Homer Simpson's title of "Speed").
Seriously: if the current contamination really were a problem, we would all be dead. But we aren't, and why? Because the human body has a immune system. So I bet, such a self-cleaning mouse, or even completely sterile desks deployed everywhere wouldn't have any impact on the infection rates.
Actually, desinfecting too much actually leads to other problems. Current studies suggest that too much hygiene may be a big factor in the recent increases of allergies. Also, fighting too aggressively against any kind of etiologic agents only produces more resistant etiologic agents. A prominent example is the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a Staph.A. strain that developed antibiotic resistance and is responsible for a good share of all nosocomial infections (i.e. infections you get that you get in hospital but are otherwise unrelated to your actual treatment there).
IANAMD (I am not an MD), but I have an education as combat medic in the Austrian Army where infectiology is a huge subject during education.
Uhm, if it really is the present, as you claim, could you please show me any Communist Nazi country?
I friend of mine, who himself does quite a lot of research in the field of AI, recently told me after attending a conference that most of the researchers in this field approach most problems with the attitude and the naivity of the 1970s. He also told me that the current lack of willingness to approach problems with new tactics and to combine existing AI concepts with other IT topics makes it a lot easier for him to develop kinds of AI systems (he's active in the area of computer linguistics) that haven't been developed before and to produce real innovation.
She experimentally proved that the iPod works in zero gravity. Now that's an achievement.
Where did I write "arbitrary level of distortion"?
To lay this out clearly: human capability of recognition is still much better than those of computer programs, and that's what CAPTCHAs are exploiting: generally, every AI-hard problem can be used for distinguishing between humans and computers, which also means that everytime a CAPTCHA building upon an AI-hard problem has been broken, an AI-hard problem has been solved (provided no implementation errors have been used to bypass the need of solving the actual AI-hard problem).
As I wrote, the first CAPTCHA implementation (which you linked to) was indeed broken, but not the concept per se. Please read my posting before answering.
The very first CAPTCHA implementation was broken, but the funny thing about CAPTCHAs is that it's absolutely no effort to make an image completely unreadable for current OCR software. And even if one certain implementation is broken, just add another layer of distortion. Human brain is capable of coping with it, OCR software usually is not.
And after all, it's not about authentication, it's about making a service accessible only for humans.
BTW, it's funny that you praise your own cryptography solution in your blog, but it's obvious that you have the problem of replay attacks, you even mention it in the "caveat" section below the text box.
"(just look at the situation of religious freedom before and after the Reconquista was finished)."
There was none before and after the hated invaders were tossed out.
Do you even know what the Reconquista was? The Spanish regained the Iberian peninsula, to drive away the Moorish emperors. Under the Moorish, everybody was free to exercise his religious beliefs. Then the Spanish came, and either killed the Muslism or forced to convert them to Christianity, and drove away the Sephardim (i.e. the local Jews). That's what I'd call less religious freedom, and at that time (in these days, not quite anymore) Islam was definitely more tolerant towards other Abrahamitic religions.
Whenever I ask for coke, all I get is this expensive white powder...
The British didn't claim _exclusive_ ownership. They added it as "yet another colony" to their Empire, but they didn't drive away the people who lived there. Nor did the Ottomans. In fact, the Ottomans empire's success was that they respected local cultures and integrated local structures into their governance system. And they gave Christians and Jews their "free space" where they could practice their religions. Same with the Arabs (just look at the situation of religious freedom before and after the Reconquista was finished).
The Palestinian government, as such, was closely allied to actual Nazi Germany during the 1940s.
And do you know why? Because the Germans, unlike the British, didn't treat the Arabs like shit. Antisemitism wasn't a problem at that time in Palestine, simply because there was no single ethnic group that claimed _exclusive_ ownership of the area that is now Israel. I think Theodor Herzl wouldn't be too happy with the way Israel has been implemented and Israel's policy of the last decades. In his book "Der Judenstaat" he even wrote that goodwill between Jews and Arabs is a precondition to a successful Jewish state.
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OMG, Al Gore is God!