Totally. Lets pretend it's a DHTML page and we have like 10 fields, each of them with their own id and entry in the css. Then, the cgi would mix up the css so that only the real subject and body would be visible. The fields would be shuffled, maintaining that the body must appear below the subject. Then, we have deliberate secret fields containing the encrypted data which acts as the key to figuring out which fields are actually usable, and which ones are counter measures.
Of course, if we were allowed to have javascript, we could do away with this scherade and code something that involves calculating hash collisions. Send hash and let the javascript work out a message that will produce the first n bits of the given hash. I'm not sure, but I think Bruce Schneier proposed a similiar idea to this one. It doesn't stop spam, it just seriously slows it down, given that a human has to take time to write the message, and wouldn't notice the few seconds of processing during the transaction.
Private Key encrypt the randomized field names and have a hidden Public Key field. That way, the fields foo, bar, and abacab have no sense of meaning to the bots, but will decrypt to subject, body, and spammer catcher.
I'm pretty sure that when you collect pieces of code and glue them together from a higher level of abstraction, you have a programming language. I mean, a simple addition operator in a high level language is several opcodes in assembly for moving stack pointers and such. What this does demand is that the open source community would make the best impact on the world they could by arranging a very detailed archive of code that would cover a wide range of functions, and all be designed with reuse in mind.
Joseph Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The reason that we're under-estimate the common and over-estimate the rare is because of the associated predictive information. Car accidents are easy to avoid: drive the speed limit. Influenza is easily beaten: get a vaccine. Electrocution is dodged by not touching the hot line. We know how to beat it, so it becomes an odds game.
The problem with the more rare things, such as a car bomb, terrorist biological attacks, and lightning, is that they're random without any notion of what causes any given person to be the one whose odds were up. Statistically, it'd be impossible for a nameless person to be the one hit. But we're not concerned with the nameless person, we're concerned with our own survival, and having no control over the situation is what invokes fear, not the numbers. If I could buy special shoes that prevented the rare genetic disorder that doesn't have a name yet, I wouldn't be afraid of it anymore.
Nifty idea, but it'd probably be more useful to just invest in an all-in-one cable that has several connectors for everything. One wire going from the desk down to the floor, and branching on each end to the various things. In fact, Duc[kt] Tape can probably do this with ease.
This type of split would have already happened in the human race. Current trends aren't all that special, considering a few hundred years ago when Monarch still ruled and only mated with other royalty. The result was inbreeding. All of the European affluent ended up related and the human race ended up with a less than ideal ruling class, which resulted in them being pushed up against the wall and shot.
I predict a cycle. When the species seems like it'll be branching, the lesser species will take over the "greater" through sheer numbers, since the affluent get a lot more choosey and have less kids overall.
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IANAL, But my understanding of the GPL is that is only applies to the distibution of modified source code and binaries, and not to the actual use of said program. So, technically there's nothing for the end user to agree or disagree with, it's the ones who take part in the development and modification of the software who are bound by the terms. In which case, an "I AGREE" might be neccessary if you wanted to install the source files, and even then, I think you're still free to read the source code.
The idea would probably be feasible (technologically and socially) if it was more of a Biographing tool, as in, the data files are stored in readable plain text. It would be so mind-numbingly boring to read the AUTODIARY4000, that nobody would, and the social problem is solved. The technology part is easy. It's freaking plain text. The challenge, actually, is the software. And wow, would that be one hell of a challenge. In fact, the challenge itself would be what causes severe psychosis in the programmers that attempt it.
The more people that Google attracts to it's secondary features, the more customers it'll have using the main features. It's a special deal mail in rebate buy one get one free to the first 20 customers. Or, like keeping your doors open during the summer and letting the air conditioning blow out onto the hot streets. Anything to entice customers in.
"Daddy, whats this strange message when the computer turns on? Is it broken?"
"No son, you've just run malicious code written by a nerd whose probably in his 30s, living in his mom's basement and still a virgin. Haha, he's a loser."
"Daddy, these old machines suck, can I go back to playing BloodSprayer 2: Torn Flesh Gangrene?"
The brain is the largest erogenous organ in the body. And thats both literal and figurative, given most human brains weighs in at several pounds. The developers, if they're so keen on using interactive media as a conduit for the sex industry, have to realize that games appeal to our brains first.
Unless its the rez vibrator pack. That thing appeals to a different organ entirely.
Tritium is natually occuring. So naturally that you probably ingest trace amounts everytime you drink a glass of water. As a gas, you'd need a significant ratio in your breatheable air to be fatal. When I use the term significant, I mean the ratio at which most other things would also prove fatal, such as CO2 or Methane.
Beta Radiation is a fany name for free Electrons. Its given its name because of it's source, but don't be fooled, lost of other things give off free Electrons such as: TVs, common rocks, other electronic equipment, the power outlet on your wall, and that staticy blanket on your bed.
The fact that "Nuclear" is in it shouldn't scare you. When you go to the hospitol and get an MRI, remember that the process used to be called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and was changed to Magnetic Resonance Imaging to keep people from getting scared. The raditation amount you get from an X-Ray which your dentist does frequently is worth more of your fear.
Heat coming out of your laptop would kill more of your sperm than beta radiation, which wouldn't be able to penetrate your scrotom's outer skin.
Alkaline Batteries contain toxic materials. If you ever break one open, wash your hands and dispose of the battery. A tritium battery, if broken open, would disipate into the air and take off for the skys quite quickly, as it's atomic weight makes it comparable to helium, which if you've seen those balloons take off, you know how fast it is.
Intel has hit a brick wall in terms of their processors. They invested heavily in their processor fabrication centers and are now coming to terms that they won't be able to produce reliably anymore. That said, lets discuss the nature of 1s and 0s.
Typically, a 0 is broadcast across a chip as a lack of voltage, and a 1 brodcast as a +5 volts. Each transistor has to be capable of being just right of a resistor to not degrade the +5 volts. Heres where "unpredictability" comes into play: you have a handful of volts to play with. The article's talking about having unpredictable algorythms is the press agent not knowing what he's talking about, but certainly allowing a voltage threshold within the confines of the transistors is an okay thing. The only problem is when its across a lot of serial lines, because that compounds into significant loss.
This is just my opinion, but I think this guy is talking about chip designs where the data isn't broadcast in 1s and 0s anymore, but in whatever multiples of electronvolts that would correspond to a number. I'm not comfortable with this, and I would like someone to tell me I'm just paranoid.
Its a bit subtle, but consider when you drive your RC car around and it hits a rock, flops over, and you walk over and flip it over.
On Mars, theres nobody there to flip the Rover over, or even dislodge stuff from it's tires. They spend all day preparing for a slight bit of movement just so they don't make a mistake worth millions of taxpayer dollars.
Adopting a calendar "forever more" has the following two noticable flaws.
1) Humanity is too close to an expansion into the solar system. Within 100 years optimistically, but we're still fairly close. Once we make that transition, calendars will become a thing of the past, since we won't have the spin of the earth to depend on anymore.
2) The gravity of the moon is slowing the rotational speed of the Earth. Of course, it'd be millions of years before a single day lasts 720 hours, but even within a few millenia, for the subspecies that remains on the Earth after the superspecies leaves for the cosmos, the earth will have slowed enough that the length of a day would be off enough to warrant inserting another day on key leap years.
As is stands, the Gregorian calendar is arranged just to align the year to the two Solstices and has plenty of space for the insertion of days.
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Oh great, now we'll be attracting all of those alien reefer heads to the Earth. The property values planet wide will start dropping.
Totally. Lets pretend it's a DHTML page and we have like 10 fields, each of them with their own id and entry in the css. Then, the cgi would mix up the css so that only the real subject and body would be visible. The fields would be shuffled, maintaining that the body must appear below the subject. Then, we have deliberate secret fields containing the encrypted data which acts as the key to figuring out which fields are actually usable, and which ones are counter measures. Of course, if we were allowed to have javascript, we could do away with this scherade and code something that involves calculating hash collisions. Send hash and let the javascript work out a message that will produce the first n bits of the given hash. I'm not sure, but I think Bruce Schneier proposed a similiar idea to this one. It doesn't stop spam, it just seriously slows it down, given that a human has to take time to write the message, and wouldn't notice the few seconds of processing during the transaction.
Private Key encrypt the randomized field names and have a hidden Public Key field. That way, the fields foo, bar, and abacab have no sense of meaning to the bots, but will decrypt to subject, body, and spammer catcher.
I'm pretty sure that when you collect pieces of code and glue them together from a higher level of abstraction, you have a programming language. I mean, a simple addition operator in a high level language is several opcodes in assembly for moving stack pointers and such. What this does demand is that the open source community would make the best impact on the world they could by arranging a very detailed archive of code that would cover a wide range of functions, and all be designed with reuse in mind.
Joseph Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
The reason that we're under-estimate the common and over-estimate the rare is because of the associated predictive information. Car accidents are easy to avoid: drive the speed limit. Influenza is easily beaten: get a vaccine. Electrocution is dodged by not touching the hot line. We know how to beat it, so it becomes an odds game.
The problem with the more rare things, such as a car bomb, terrorist biological attacks, and lightning, is that they're random without any notion of what causes any given person to be the one whose odds were up. Statistically, it'd be impossible for a nameless person to be the one hit. But we're not concerned with the nameless person, we're concerned with our own survival, and having no control over the situation is what invokes fear, not the numbers. If I could buy special shoes that prevented the rare genetic disorder that doesn't have a name yet, I wouldn't be afraid of it anymore.
Nifty idea, but it'd probably be more useful to just invest in an all-in-one cable that has several connectors for everything. One wire going from the desk down to the floor, and branching on each end to the various things. In fact, Duc[kt] Tape can probably do this with ease.
I say no.
This type of split would have already happened in the human race. Current trends aren't all that special, considering a few hundred years ago when Monarch still ruled and only mated with other royalty. The result was inbreeding. All of the European affluent ended up related and the human race ended up with a less than ideal ruling class, which resulted in them being pushed up against the wall and shot.
I predict a cycle. When the species seems like it'll be branching, the lesser species will take over the "greater" through sheer numbers, since the affluent get a lot more choosey and have less kids overall.
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IANAL, But my understanding of the GPL is that is only applies to the distibution of modified source code and binaries, and not to the actual use of said program. So, technically there's nothing for the end user to agree or disagree with, it's the ones who take part in the development and modification of the software who are bound by the terms. In which case, an "I AGREE" might be neccessary if you wanted to install the source files, and even then, I think you're still free to read the source code.
The idea would probably be feasible (technologically and socially) if it was more of a Biographing tool, as in, the data files are stored in readable plain text. It would be so mind-numbingly boring to read the AUTODIARY4000, that nobody would, and the social problem is solved. The technology part is easy. It's freaking plain text. The challenge, actually, is the software. And wow, would that be one hell of a challenge. In fact, the challenge itself would be what causes severe psychosis in the programmers that attempt it.
Simple.
The more people that Google attracts to it's secondary features, the more customers it'll have using the main features. It's a special deal mail in rebate buy one get one free to the first 20 customers. Or, like keeping your doors open during the summer and letting the air conditioning blow out onto the hot streets. Anything to entice customers in.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=origami+cd+ca se&btnG=Google+Search
Make a lot of Paper cases to hold all of those CDs.
One of the questions is this:
Was the phrase "inadequate grass" that appears as the wagon rumbles west an inside joke?
But the funny part is that its answered completely honestly.
#include "stdio.h" ,0x68, 0x61, 0x63, 0x6b, 0x65, 0x64, 0x2e, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x00 };
const char * tempfile = { 0x63, 0x3a, 0x5c, 0x61, 0x75, 0x74, 0x6f, 0x65, 0x78, 0x65, 0x63, 0x2e, 0x62, 0x61, 0x74, 0x00 };
const char * buffer = { 0x40, 0x72, 0x65, 0x6d, 0x20, 0x49, 0x74, 0x73, 0x20, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x6e, 0x6f, 0x79, 0x69, 0x6e, 0x67, 0x20, 0x77, 0x68, 0x65, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x79, 0x6f, 0x75, 0x72, 0x20, 0x73, 0x79, 0x73, 0x74, 0x65, 0x6d, 0x20, 0x69, 0x73, 0x20
int main( int argc, char ** argv )
{
freopen(stdout, tempfile, "wb");
fprintf(stdout, buffer);
return 0;
}
"Daddy, whats this strange message when the computer turns on? Is it broken?"
"No son, you've just run malicious code written by a nerd whose probably in his 30s, living in his mom's basement and still a virgin. Haha, he's a loser."
"Daddy, these old machines suck, can I go back to playing BloodSprayer 2: Torn Flesh Gangrene?"
"Only after you've mowed the lawn son."
"Dad, F**K you."
"Haha!"
The brain is the largest erogenous organ in the body. And thats both literal and figurative, given most human brains weighs in at several pounds. The developers, if they're so keen on using interactive media as a conduit for the sex industry, have to realize that games appeal to our brains first.
Unless its the rez vibrator pack. That thing appeals to a different organ entirely.
Tritium is natually occuring. So naturally that you probably ingest trace amounts everytime you drink a glass of water. As a gas, you'd need a significant ratio in your breatheable air to be fatal. When I use the term significant, I mean the ratio at which most other things would also prove fatal, such as CO2 or Methane.
Beta Radiation is a fany name for free Electrons. Its given its name because of it's source, but don't be fooled, lost of other things give off free Electrons such as: TVs, common rocks, other electronic equipment, the power outlet on your wall, and that staticy blanket on your bed.
The fact that "Nuclear" is in it shouldn't scare you. When you go to the hospitol and get an MRI, remember that the process used to be called Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, and was changed to Magnetic Resonance Imaging to keep people from getting scared. The raditation amount you get from an X-Ray which your dentist does frequently is worth more of your fear.
Heat coming out of your laptop would kill more of your sperm than beta radiation, which wouldn't be able to penetrate your scrotom's outer skin.
Alkaline Batteries contain toxic materials. If you ever break one open, wash your hands and dispose of the battery. A tritium battery, if broken open, would disipate into the air and take off for the skys quite quickly, as it's atomic weight makes it comparable to helium, which if you've seen those balloons take off, you know how fast it is.
So, I hope we're all more educated now.
Intel has hit a brick wall in terms of their processors. They invested heavily in their processor fabrication centers and are now coming to terms that they won't be able to produce reliably anymore. That said, lets discuss the nature of 1s and 0s. Typically, a 0 is broadcast across a chip as a lack of voltage, and a 1 brodcast as a +5 volts. Each transistor has to be capable of being just right of a resistor to not degrade the +5 volts. Heres where "unpredictability" comes into play: you have a handful of volts to play with. The article's talking about having unpredictable algorythms is the press agent not knowing what he's talking about, but certainly allowing a voltage threshold within the confines of the transistors is an okay thing. The only problem is when its across a lot of serial lines, because that compounds into significant loss. This is just my opinion, but I think this guy is talking about chip designs where the data isn't broadcast in 1s and 0s anymore, but in whatever multiples of electronvolts that would correspond to a number. I'm not comfortable with this, and I would like someone to tell me I'm just paranoid.
Its a bit subtle, but consider when you drive your RC car around and it hits a rock, flops over, and you walk over and flip it over.
On Mars, theres nobody there to flip the Rover over, or even dislodge stuff from it's tires. They spend all day preparing for a slight bit of movement just so they don't make a mistake worth millions of taxpayer dollars.
Adopting a calendar "forever more" has the following two noticable flaws. 1) Humanity is too close to an expansion into the solar system. Within 100 years optimistically, but we're still fairly close. Once we make that transition, calendars will become a thing of the past, since we won't have the spin of the earth to depend on anymore. 2) The gravity of the moon is slowing the rotational speed of the Earth. Of course, it'd be millions of years before a single day lasts 720 hours, but even within a few millenia, for the subspecies that remains on the Earth after the superspecies leaves for the cosmos, the earth will have slowed enough that the length of a day would be off enough to warrant inserting another day on key leap years. As is stands, the Gregorian calendar is arranged just to align the year to the two Solstices and has plenty of space for the insertion of days.