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  1. Re:define possible on Distributed Chess Computing Project · · Score: 1

    [...] The game of chess, for example, has aprroximately 10**120 different board states. This is a number larger than the number of molecules in the universe or the number of nanoseconds that have passed since the "big bang". Search of a space that large is well beyond the capabilities of any computing device, whose dimensions must be confined to the known universe and whose execution must be completed before that universe succumbs to the ravages of entropy.

    --- Luger & Stubblefield (1997)

  2. Re:this is crap on College Students Are Buying More, Warez-ing Less · · Score: 1

    Some of the other options include using some OS where warezing isn't all that common :p

  3. Re:Argument or counterargument? on Is The Net At Fault For Illegal Filesharing? · · Score: 1

    Church Police: Oh, Lord, we beseech thee, tell us who croaked the Bishop of Leicester.

    [A clap of thunder. Then a giant Gilliam-style hand appears from the sky, accompanied by angelic chanting, and points to the husband.]

    God: The one in the braces, he done it.

    [More angelic chanting as the hand returns whence it came.]

    Husband: It's a fair cop, but society is to blame.

    Detective-Parson: Right, we'll arrest them instead!

    Church Policeman: Come on, you! Are you in society? Are you in society?

    ***

    src: Church Police - Monty Python Live at Hollywood Bowl

  4. Re:you're fired on What Makes a Powerful Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    ... and the same in vim. (C-p og C-n)

  5. Re:BEAM on Insect Robots For Mars Exploration · · Score: 1

    More or less the same idea shows up in Rod Brooks' research.

    The pragmatic level at least - starting with simple autonomy in the real world, then building upon this foundation to create a robot (mobot?) with more complex properties.

    I see some difference in the non-pragmatic layer, though. Brooks tries to escape symbolic representation using his subsumption architeture, but still...

  6. Re:exactly... on Latest WinWorm Spreads Via ICQ And Outlook · · Score: 1

    Well, yes and no.

    You could always launch the interpreter for the file.
    Example:
    Upon recieving a .jpg, my magical email program would launch 'display $attachment'. (No +x needed)
    ...and further...
    Upon reciecing a .py|.pl|.sh my magical email program would launch 'python|perl|sh $attachment'.

    HTH

  7. Re:Lynch mob? on Bruce Sterling on Geeks and Spooks · · Score: 1

    > How does Bruce distinguish this from a lynch mob or posse of surveillance?

    Civilian surveillance is a Good Thing. It keeps the authorities more or less in line.

    Google around for police shooting WTO protersters and more...

  8. Re:I have to say... on Good Games For Christmas? · · Score: 1

    ...and we're all waiting for Sam & Max :)

  9. Re:Let's put the slashdot effect to use! on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 1

    ...but ofcourse I forgot that replying made the moderation go away... damnit.

  10. Re:Let's put the slashdot effect to use! on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 1

    > Someone please mod the parent up..

    Done.

  11. Re:Follow Real-World Examples on Cheaters Sometimes Prosper · · Score: 1

    > But if (CZ)Mulan gets ejected from a Tribes 2
    > server for using an aimbot, how do you know that
    > he won't just log back in as (GD)ChouYoun and
    > pick right back up where he left off?

    Nothing right now. Well - I suppose you could ban the IP, but that doesn't solve the problem.

    The cheater problem (and also the irc-moron problem) both come in effect because they are more or less anonymous services. For a mob rule to work, you have to be able to identify persons, which could easily be done with a login/RSA auth :)

  12. Re:Who else is tired of capitalism? on Linus Responds To Mundie · · Score: 1

    On the other hand - losing the IP laws we don't _need_ the GPL :)

  13. Re:Where is the violation? on The DMCA Vs. Small Developers · · Score: 1

    Somewhere down the line it boils down to trust, but it's much easier trusting something you at least have the possibility of verifying.

    Would you sign a contract in a language you don't understand, or prefer one writter in your native language?

  14. Re:Argh(tm) on SGI Versus "Open*" and All Things "GL"? · · Score: 1

    All(tm)(tm) your(tm)(tm) trademark(tm)(tm) are(tm)(tm)...

    Oh fuck it..

  15. Re:A lot more, actually :) on TCP/IP Over HTTP · · Score: 2

    Hmm.. Seems I forgot

    RFC748 - Telnet randomly-lose option.

    *sigh*

  16. A lot more, actually :) on TCP/IP Over HTTP · · Score: 5
    Just to sum up most of the April Fools RFCs over the years...
    • RFC3093 - Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP).
    • RFC3092 - Etymology of "Foo".
    • RFC3091 - Pi Digit Generation Protocol.
    • RFC2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
    • RFC2551 - The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III.
    • RFC2550 - Y10K and Beyond.
    • RFC2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service.
    • RFC2325 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2
    • RFC2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0).
    • RFC2323 - IETF Identification and Security Guidelines.
    • RFC2322 - Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp.
    • RFC2321 - RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent.
    • RFC2100 - The Naming of Hosts.
    • RFC1927 - Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents.
    • RFC1926 - An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM.
    • RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths.
    • RFC1924 - A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses.
    • RFC1776 - The Address is the Message. S. Crocker.
    • RFC1607 - A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY. V. Cerf.
    • RFC1606 - A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9.
    • RFC1605 - SONET to Sonnet Translation.
    • RFC1438 - Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs).
    • RFC1437 - The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium.
    • RFC1313 - Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio.
    • RFC1217 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR).
    • RFC1216 - Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts.
    • RFC1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.
    • RFC1097 - Telnet subliminal-message option.
    Did I miss any?
  17. Re:the Timecube guy on Quickies Knows Quickies. Quickies is Quickies. · · Score: 1

    Well then, the first theory must be incorrect :)

  18. Re:the Timecube guy on Quickies Knows Quickies. Quickies is Quickies. · · Score: 1

    Looks like you could, assuming that some n days in every "day" is correct, prove that n+1 days in every "day" also holds - which again will span an infinite number of days in every "day".

    Time is subjective, maybe?

  19. Re:I feel ill on Spidergoats · · Score: 1

    The stepping stone argument usually bases on the fact that it's illegal. Crossing the border from legal to illegal drugs is a big step, but seems less so when it's jumping to a non-heavy drug.

    Crossing the border from legal hemp/alcohol to a harder illegal drug would be harder to perform.

  20. Re:The zero-sum game... on Can You Suggest Any Non-Zero Sum Games? · · Score: 4

    When the participants grow up, they can participate in one of the greatest zero-sum games of them all.

    No winner, no loser. The games often ends, but can usually be startet again some minutes later.

    A lot of books have been written on the meta-game of finding other participants. Some people prefer to play with the same participant over many games. Other try out different participants all the time.

    Can be played in groups, pairs and sometimes just solitaire.

    One of the most played games of all time... Sex!

  21. Re:Neural Nets and Voice Recognition on Online 'Sand Mouse' Tests Neurobiologists · · Score: 1

    Sounds more probable :)

  22. Re:Neural Nets and Voice Recognition on Online 'Sand Mouse' Tests Neurobiologists · · Score: 1

    To use just TWO images for training your net is completely hopeless, and anyone who has any knowledge whatsovever in neural nets should realize this.

    You might train your net with a couple of hundred pictures - each classifying a tank or not. The use some additional hundred pictures (none of the same) to use for validation.

    Your point though, is valid. Neural nets have a tendency to overspecialize, adjusting the fitness landscape to close to the input-cases. So you have a separate validation set, to stop the training when the validation set matching drops...

  23. Re:Digital projection is HIGHER quality... on Star Wars Episode II Wraps · · Score: 1

    Just thought I might mention the difference between a digital recording camera, and a projector.

    You seem to have messed them up :)

  24. Re:Well... on Is There A Standard for Software Metadata? · · Score: 2

    Well, freshmeat has it's appindex as text here: freshmeat.net/backend/

    That should do the trick :)

  25. Re:Frame rates on 3dfx' Voodoo5 6000 Still Alive · · Score: 1

    ...and the fact that movies utilize motion-blur, which won't work for games. This because in a game you need to know the exact spot of an object at a specific time to be able to react efficiently. In a movie, you don't.

    This has been debated to death allready, I think :)