Dear Recording Artist,
Please cease and desist from attempting to make money using illegal P2P networks for distributing your work, and also for trying to make money without signing to an RIAA Approved Record Label (TM). Any further mention of p2p will force us to crush you with immense legislative force.
Love,
The RIAA
It's a lot more complicated than "10 lines of perl" to interpret instructions written in English, especially if the verbage varies, along with the sentence structure. If it were so easy to interpret instructions in standard human languages, no one would need to program in programming languages. Someone would have already wrote a program that works extremely well at understanding things like:
"Put all of these numbers in order: Instead we have to write computer code to do it. Why? Because it is extremely hard for a computer to interpret instructions written in English.
Someone could probably see all the sentences, the hook is that the sentence/instructions will be part of the captcha image. Not only does the program have to deal with all of the many different situations, but it will have to be able to positivley identify the instructions in the captcha to begin with.
Why don't they make a captcha that has not only a code, but garbled instructions as well.
For example, A captcha images contains the following text:
"Please enter the first three and last four letters of the following sentence: There is man with a small plan"
The application would expect "Theplan"
Have the instructions be variable, along with the modded text. Ask for the third word or the last two words, or the last 5 letters in reverse order.
Instructions written for humans along with the ability to read the garbled image/instructions would make it many times more difficult for a machine to figure out what to enter.
I work for a web design firm who does not do any sort of hosting. We regularly refer our customers to and set up sites with a web hosting company called ISOC (http://www.isoc.net/).
We have had no problems with them thus far, and any changes we needed to accomidate the special needs of certain sites were made in a very timely fashion, not to mention the support representatives spoke English! (I think they are based in KY)
BPL is already available in my area from a company called Current Communications (current.net)
They offer a line for 40 dollars a month that is 3mb down / 3mb up independant.
For 3mb up, I say fark the ham radio operators. =)
The 6x comes from random seek access. A raptor's 72MB/sec falls down to ~3MB/sec or less when it has to start seeking, like when the data is separated into different physical locations on the hard drive instead of one continuous chunk o' data. The i-RAM is not affected by seeking (or is affected negligibly) because it doesn't have moving parts.
-Mr. X
... in a recent article that there was a lot of trouble implementing broadband over power lines. I guess if Google is going to invest in it, the technical problems must have been exaggerated. After all, Google can do no wrong. =)
Begging the question doesn't mean "requires the question to be asked." It is a logical fallacy in which an argument is proven by assuming the argument is true.
e.g. "Downloading music online is taking something that doesn't belong to you without paying for it, which is stealing. Stealing is illegal. Therefore, downloading music online is illegal."
This statement begs the question because the conclusion assumes that the first statement is true.
I am currently working on a hash function that returns the exact value of the hashed value. The algorithm works a little something like this:
MyHash(ValueToBeHashed) = ValueToBeHashed
I have done extensive testing on this algorithm and have not been able to produce any collisions yet... I'll keep you guys updated. (I also used this new function to hash this message for verification!)
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MobileMrX Hash:
I am currently working on a hash function that returns the exact value of the hashed value. The algorithm works a little something like this:
MyHash(ValueToBeHashed) = ValueToBeHashed
I have done extensive testing on this algorithm and have not been able to produce any collisions yet... I'll keep you guys updated. (I also used this new function to hash this message for verification!)
This is off topic, but i noticed the vineyard eastgate link in your post...
I used to go to the vineyard (main in springdale) but now I go to the vineyard westside, which is just starting up (http://www.vineyardwestside.com./
It's cool to see someone else from a vineyard church on here! =)
I think people would prefer Cincinnati over a New-Jersey-Sized shithole, yes. As far as people being likely to carry guns - I never said that. All I said is that you retain the right to carry one, which is a good thing. There is no city in the US, based on overall population, where someone is 'likely' carrying a gun.
I just hope no one moves to Korea when they can move to Cincinnati instead! I mean it's not that great of a city, but at least most people (arguably) speak english and you maintain the right to bear arms. Oh yeah, and the broadband connections, of course.
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Dear Recording Artist, Please cease and desist from attempting to make money using illegal P2P networks for distributing your work, and also for trying to make money without signing to an RIAA Approved Record Label (TM). Any further mention of p2p will force us to crush you with immense legislative force. Love, The RIAA
"Put all of these numbers in order: Instead we have to write computer code to do it. Why? Because it is extremely hard for a computer to interpret instructions written in English.
Someone could probably see all the sentences, the hook is that the sentence/instructions will be part of the captcha image. Not only does the program have to deal with all of the many different situations, but it will have to be able to positivley identify the instructions in the captcha to begin with.
For example, A captcha images contains the following text:
"Please enter the first three and last four letters of the following sentence: There is man with a small plan"
The application would expect "Theplan"
Have the instructions be variable, along with the modded text. Ask for the third word or the last two words, or the last 5 letters in reverse order.
Instructions written for humans along with the ability to read the garbled image/instructions would make it many times more difficult for a machine to figure out what to enter.
We have had no problems with them thus far, and any changes we needed to accomidate the special needs of certain sites were made in a very timely fashion, not to mention the support representatives spoke English! (I think they are based in KY)
BPL is already available in my area from a company called Current Communications (current.net) They offer a line for 40 dollars a month that is 3mb down / 3mb up independant. For 3mb up, I say fark the ham radio operators. =)
The 6x comes from random seek access. A raptor's 72MB/sec falls down to ~3MB/sec or less when it has to start seeking, like when the data is separated into different physical locations on the hard drive instead of one continuous chunk o' data. The i-RAM is not affected by seeking (or is affected negligibly) because it doesn't have moving parts. -Mr. X
... in a recent article that there was a lot of trouble implementing broadband over power lines. I guess if Google is going to invest in it, the technical problems must have been exaggerated. After all, Google can do no wrong. =)
But the bible says the world is only 6000 years old. This article is full of LIES AND DECEIT.
the star wars props buy YOU!
Begging the question doesn't mean "requires the question to be asked." It is a logical fallacy in which an argument is proven by assuming the argument is true. e.g. "Downloading music online is taking something that doesn't belong to you without paying for it, which is stealing. Stealing is illegal. Therefore, downloading music online is illegal." This statement begs the question because the conclusion assumes that the first statement is true.
Oh class balance oh class balance, wherefore art thou class balance?
"Wherefore" != "Where" - it means "Why".
Romeo, Romeo WHY art thou Romeo (Why is the person I love a member of a rival family?)
MyHash(ValueToBeHashed) = ValueToBeHashed
I have done extensive testing on this algorithm and have not been able to produce any collisions yet... I'll keep you guys updated. (I also used this new function to hash this message for verification!)
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MobileMrX Hash:
I am currently working on a hash function that returns the exact value of the hashed value. The algorithm works a little something like this:
MyHash(ValueToBeHashed) = ValueToBeHashed
I have done extensive testing on this algorithm and have not been able to produce any collisions yet... I'll keep you guys updated. (I also used this new function to hash this message for verification!)
This is off topic, but i noticed the vineyard eastgate link in your post... I used to go to the vineyard (main in springdale) but now I go to the vineyard westside, which is just starting up (http://www.vineyardwestside.com./ It's cool to see someone else from a vineyard church on here! =)
...although if you are afriad of guns, I'm sure adventuring into a land that neighbors its nuclear-armed enemy is well beyond your threshold of fear.
I think people would prefer Cincinnati over a New-Jersey-Sized shithole, yes. As far as people being likely to carry guns - I never said that. All I said is that you retain the right to carry one, which is a good thing. There is no city in the US, based on overall population, where someone is 'likely' carrying a gun.
I just hope no one moves to Korea when they can move to Cincinnati instead! I mean it's not that great of a city, but at least most people (arguably) speak english and you maintain the right to bear arms. Oh yeah, and the broadband connections, of course.
...isn't that great. I get 3mb down, 1.5 up for 40 in Cincy, OH.