Either my words are accidentally cryptic (if so, I apologize) or you are woefully misconstruing (if so, you apologize).
you are taxed at the mall because
You are taxed at the mall because the shop keeps careful records and provides those records to the state with its tax forms. Shops report tax because they risk fines and loss of license if they don't. There is no magical tax fairy watching over your visit to the mall.
The only way they know you bought something on the Internet is that some place registered that you sent such and such amount for such and such item
Well, la dee fuckin' DUH. It works the exact same way for purchase-by-fax, purchase-by-mail, or even ordinary point of sale. I must repeat: THERE IS NO MAGICAL TAX FAIRY.
how do they know you are doing VoIP? Especially since money is not necessarily changing hands.
Is someone giving away VOIP phones for free? If so, sign me up.
VOIP companies collect money the same way POTS companies do: a scheduled billing cycle. If the VOIP uses regular phone numbers and connects interchangeably with POTS (*), then it should be treated exactly the same as any other phone company. Even if a company hires magical phone fairies who grab your words out of the air and carry them to the other phone. If you sell phone service, you're a phone company. Why is this less than blindingly obvious?
(*) = the inverse should also apply. If your VOIP doesn't use standard phone numbers and/or doesn't connect with POTS, then it's not a phone company.
how do WE know what commerce you are performing "on the Internet".
In case you hadn't noticed, the tax man doesn't have little spy monitors in phone, fax, mail, shopping malls, ice cream trucks, etc, either. We know about the commerce when the money changes hands and the business reports it. It's all the same thing.
Only the conspiracy folks are suggesting that Diebold is actively working to rig elections.
As one of the aforementioned conspiracy folks, just because crackpots and lunatics say it too doesn't mean it can't be true. A few years ago I never would have imagined that an atrocity committed by Saudis and Afghans would be used to justify seizing Iraq's oil, yet here we are.
The Lie Big Enough principle is eminently plausible. Diebold could be relying that the vast majority of reasonable people (like you) are unable to believe anyone would be audacious enough to sell shoddily rigged voting machines.
I was at my local library [...] and saw his books over in the SF section.
I was at my local library the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that they had completely eliminated the artificial category segregation. Adult Fiction was one long zigzag, alphabetical by author. Hyperion, Ileum, Joe Kurtz, etc were sandwiched between novels from two other Simmonses. Definitely the way a library should operate -- better for the readers, easier for the staff. You might want to suggest this to your librarians.
I seriously doubt any politician would have said that.
I sure as hell wouldn't have voted for anyone that makes a statement about "too much freedom is bad...
Xserve went G5 not long ago, eMacs got bumped last week, today all the laptops speed up. So now it's time to speculate about desktop updates...
Obviously iMac needs more MHz than last september's models, but I don't see G5s there until fall. Also, the GPUs definitely need bumping (currently 4MX low or 5200 high).
But more important is the PowerMac G5, also stagnant for the past 6 months. Everyone is looking for exactly one number: 2.5 GHz. Bumping the low-end mobo to PCI-X and ditching the FX5200 would also be nice.
Jack Valenti is indeed an Ass Head, and the MPAA sucks
movie bootleggers are criminal asshats who also suck
copyright infringement is not theft
Theft means directly taking something that isn't yours and depriving the owner of it. Camcorder guys do not prevent the theater from showing the movie, nor do they prevent fellow moviegoers from seeing it.
To anyone who says "illegal copying == theft", I say "you are murdering both language and law.":p
Even if you don't RTFA, you could at least look at the pretty pictures. They submerged a laptop and a plasma TV in the stuff while running, so that covers electrical. And since its intended use is fire suppression, its thermal specs must be fairly good.
For the benefit of/.ers who (as usual) didn't RTFA:
There was a substance that had similar properties produced in the past, but that fire suppression liquid was damaging the ozone layer. The new substance by Tyco is supposed to be environmentally safe.
Obvious question: anyone know if Tyco is telling true, or is this just a stunt to distract us from the Kozlowski trial?
The main spam run was April 12
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Their March 5 spam was just a preliminary test. The big infamy that put the Green Card Lawyers on the map was April 12, 1994. That was the first truly modern spam:
commercial advert
fully automated spam engine
forged headers (in this case, moderation approval)
Yes, there were previous incidents. The Arpanet DEC spam was much earlier, but it was manually typed by a secretary. Zumabot was an earlier robospammer, but he was noncommercial. April 12 1994 is the true Pearl Harbor (or 9-11, for the historically challenged) of spam. The day that convinced us it was time to fight back hard.
Show of hands: who else here remembers exactly where you were (and what you felt) when you saw Green Card Lottery in every newsgroup? I spent a good long time mailbombing dumps from/dev/random to indirect.com that day.
3DES was known breakable. As for the ancients, they couldn't prove in either direction, they didn't know enough. What they believed doesn't matter. I have faith in proof. Given a set of axioms and discoveries that match up to the real universe for many decimal places, QC is proven unbreakable.
It's possible that some future discovery will change an axiom. As you say, that's Nobel-worthy. Beating Heisenberg could lead to teleportation, which I'd gladly take in trade for QC. Or, beating the logical system of proof itself would lead to... I dunno... magic, which would be even cooler. But it's also possible that no such thing will ever happen. Your statement of certainty is completely unfounded.
That said, I agree with others here that QC solves the wrong problem, especially since it's only used for key exchange in this case. We already have access to sufficiently-strong digital crypto keys, and a perfectly secure transmission is irrelevant if someone snags the message off your insecure desk after you decrypt it.
Every cipher scheme, from the Greeks' steganography to the Romans' alphabet substitution to today's 3DES and other schemes, has eventually been broken
Except... with the previous ciphers you mention, it was mathematically provable that the scheme could be broken. All you needed was sufficient computing power to sift for the key. For QC the situation is reversed -- it has been proven that QC cannot be broken (*) under the laws of physics as we know them. And I hope you'll agree that changing the laws of physics is a TINY bit harder than building an NSA-ish computing cluster.
Also, you conveniently omitted one crucial class of ciphers -- the One Time Pad. If the OTP uses truly random input, it is also guaranteed to be uncrackable, other than physically capturing the pad itself. QC is a form of OTP, and its input is indeed random (again, as far as the laws of physics can tell). The remainder is left as an exercise for the reader.
(*) physically compromising one of the real-world endpoints does NOT count as breaking the QC transmission itself. That would be like claiming you can survive being shot in the head because you switched the bullets with Folger's crystals.
So no, that did not make Bush Jr a trator. It just made him a morron
So... you're saying that if you make deals with evil people because you don't realize they're evil at the time, then it's not so bad? Wow, that's some mighty fine word-weaseling. Always impresses me how Bush apologists often torture the meaning of words in ways that would make Clinton blush. And speaking of Clinton, how exactly is he a traitor but not Bush? At the time in 1994, North Korea seemed at least as non-evil as Afghanistan did in 2000ish.
Meanwhile, you're ignoring the other evil people Bush deals with even now: Musharraf, Karimov, Akayev, etc. Every evil done by Clinton has been matched or topped by Bush.
It's cute that they wrapped this app with a valid mp3 file, but also demonstrates the classic weakness of internet trojans for Mac. The mp3 is in the data fork, the trojan is in the resource fork, and that's a big hurdle for propagation.
If you throw virus.mp3 into your favorite p2p sharing system (or a web site, or most sharing methods other than AFP) the downloader will only get the data fork. That's why they had to put it in a.SIT archive first. Now you have to include code to rearchive the trojan before passing it on.
To do self-propagation right, go for pure data fork. Maybe AppleScript. A simple version would just read from AddressBook.app and spew to Mail.app. Bonus points if you detect/use other email clients too, including OS 8/9.
Question for WBUR: I'm glad you have a QuickTime stream rather than just WM & Real. But... why didn't you take that 0.1 extra step and stream m4a instead?
Is licensing a significant factor? Isn't MP4 audio supposed to be royalty-free for non-commercial streaming? What are the licensing issues for Real vs QT vs mp3 vs mp4?
Things required by this proposal:
(1) A person who wishes to greatly reduce spam must install software on each computer with an e-mail client application
Well, at least he's up front with his drawbacks. If you're going to require worldwide upgrade of client software, you may as well require the UN to provide gigadollar funding for the Lumber Cartel Black Helicopter Force (tinlcbhf).
Seriously though, I understand that any semi-effective spam solution will require a worldwide upgrade of [SOMETHING]. But thorough end-user LARTing is the most difficult method. Isn't server-side at least 100x more sensible, since the number of humans and machines involved is that much smaller?
Open protocols like SPF & blocklists are the right way to go. Over time, they should lead to a de-facto fork in the email network -- the systems that allow spam vs disallow will cease talking to each other, and users will logically flock towards the disallow side.
they'd detect the broadcast storms that AppleTalk creates
This is often stated as Known Fact, but is it verifiably true? I was under the impression that each AppleTalk device sends a few small broadcast packets every N seconds, which might eat up a 230kbps Localtalk network pretty quickly, but should be negligible on 100Mbps ethernet. Especially since they generally don't cross routers, as you mention.
Huh? You seem to be saying: if they're Bush's allies then they're good guys, but when Bush declares them to be enemies then they're evil.
We knew that Osama was with them the whole time. We knew they were oppressive islamists the whole time. Either the Taliban was evil or it wasn't. You can't have it both ways. If Clinton was a traitor by your book, Bush Jr is the same.
Nah. Monsanto is no SCO... they're worse. SCO has no viable product and no valid case. They'll be gone soon.
OTOH Monsanto has many profitable products, well protected by world-class ninja IP lawyers who can chop your head off with a flurry of 8x14 paper. And unlike the GPL, Monsanto's license is literally viral -- their patented genes travel in the wind, pollinate your crops, and they 0WN J00! Your choices are: destroy your harvest, pay fat fees, or go bankrupt fighting them in court.
While the Cray was slow, comparatively, at the time it could process and move data sets like no palmtop today can even approach
Yes, a true supercomputer is defined not only by its FLOPs but also by its memory throughput. The Cray-1 in 1976 had 8MB RAM on a 64bit bus at 12.5ns (80MHz). Ignoring its 4 cycle latency, that works out to 640MBps for $88 million (until your dataset exceeds 8MB in a few milliseconds and you have to go to disk).
For comparison, several current palmtops have 64MB of PC100 SDRAM. On a 32bit bus, that's 400MBps for $400ish. And if we're willing to look at G5 or A64 desktops, you can get 6.4GBps for $2000ish. I stand by my assertion: supercomputing for the masses is here.
Gordon Bell is a smart guy, but I'd rather get my info directly from Cray:
The first Cray-1(R) system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976 for $8.8 million. It boasted a world-record speed of 160 million floating-point operations per second (160 megaflops) and an 8 megabyte (1 million word) main memory.
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Either my words are accidentally cryptic (if so, I apologize) or you are woefully misconstruing (if so, you apologize).
you are taxed at the mall becauseYou are taxed at the mall because the shop keeps careful records and provides those records to the state with its tax forms. Shops report tax because they risk fines and loss of license if they don't. There is no magical tax fairy watching over your visit to the mall.
The only way they know you bought something on the Internet is that some place registered that you sent such and such amount for such and such itemWell, la dee fuckin' DUH. It works the exact same way for purchase-by-fax, purchase-by-mail, or even ordinary point of sale. I must repeat: THERE IS NO MAGICAL TAX FAIRY.
how do they know you are doing VoIP? Especially since money is not necessarily changing hands.Is someone giving away VOIP phones for free? If so, sign me up.
VOIP companies collect money the same way POTS companies do: a scheduled billing cycle. If the VOIP uses regular phone numbers and connects interchangeably with POTS (*), then it should be treated exactly the same as any other phone company. Even if a company hires magical phone fairies who grab your words out of the air and carry them to the other phone. If you sell phone service, you're a phone company. Why is this less than blindingly obvious?
(*) = the inverse should also apply. If your VOIP doesn't use standard phone numbers and/or doesn't connect with POTS, then it's not a phone company.In case you hadn't noticed, the tax man doesn't have little spy monitors in phone, fax, mail, shopping malls, ice cream trucks, etc, either. We know about the commerce when the money changes hands and the business reports it. It's all the same thing.
As one of the aforementioned conspiracy folks, just because crackpots and lunatics say it too doesn't mean it can't be true. A few years ago I never would have imagined that an atrocity committed by Saudis and Afghans would be used to justify seizing Iraq's oil, yet here we are.
The Lie Big Enough principle is eminently plausible. Diebold could be relying that the vast majority of reasonable people (like you) are unable to believe anyone would be audacious enough to sell shoddily rigged voting machines.
I was at my local library the other day, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that they had completely eliminated the artificial category segregation. Adult Fiction was one long zigzag, alphabetical by author. Hyperion, Ileum, Joe Kurtz, etc were sandwiched between novels from two other Simmonses. Definitely the way a library should operate -- better for the readers, easier for the staff. You might want to suggest this to your librarians.
I sure as hell wouldn't have voted for anyone that makes a statement about "too much freedom is bad...
Did you vote for Bush in 2000?
Obviously iMac needs more MHz than last september's models, but I don't see G5s there until fall. Also, the GPUs definitely need bumping (currently 4MX low or 5200 high).
But more important is the PowerMac G5, also stagnant for the past 6 months. Everyone is looking for exactly one number: 2.5 GHz. Bumping the low-end mobo to PCI-X and ditching the FX5200 would also be nice.
- Jack Valenti is indeed an Ass Head, and the MPAA sucks
- movie bootleggers are criminal asshats who also suck
- copyright infringement is not theft
Theft means directly taking something that isn't yours and depriving the owner of it. Camcorder guys do not prevent the theater from showing the movie, nor do they prevent fellow moviegoers from seeing it.To anyone who says "illegal copying == theft", I say "you are murdering both language and law." :p
Even if you don't RTFA, you could at least look at the pretty pictures. They submerged a laptop and a plasma TV in the stuff while running, so that covers electrical. And since its intended use is fire suppression, its thermal specs must be fairly good.
Yes, there were previous incidents. The Arpanet DEC spam was much earlier, but it was manually typed by a secretary. Zumabot was an earlier robospammer, but he was noncommercial. April 12 1994 is the true Pearl Harbor (or 9-11, for the historically challenged) of spam. The day that convinced us it was time to fight back hard.
Show of hands: who else here remembers exactly where you were (and what you felt) when you saw Green Card Lottery in every newsgroup? I spent a good long time mailbombing dumps fromIt's possible that some future discovery will change an axiom. As you say, that's Nobel-worthy. Beating Heisenberg could lead to teleportation, which I'd gladly take in trade for QC. Or, beating the logical system of proof itself would lead to ... I dunno ... magic, which would be even cooler. But it's also possible that no such thing will ever happen. Your statement of certainty is completely unfounded.
That said, I agree with others here that QC solves the wrong problem, especially since it's only used for key exchange in this case. We already have access to sufficiently-strong digital crypto keys, and a perfectly secure transmission is irrelevant if someone snags the message off your insecure desk after you decrypt it.
Except ... with the previous ciphers you mention, it was mathematically provable that the scheme could be broken. All you needed was sufficient computing power to sift for the key. For QC the situation is reversed -- it has been proven that QC cannot be broken (*) under the laws of physics as we know them. And I hope you'll agree that changing the laws of physics is a TINY bit harder than building an NSA-ish computing cluster.
Also, you conveniently omitted one crucial class of ciphers -- the One Time Pad. If the OTP uses truly random input, it is also guaranteed to be uncrackable, other than physically capturing the pad itself. QC is a form of OTP, and its input is indeed random (again, as far as the laws of physics can tell). The remainder is left as an exercise for the reader.
(*) physically compromising one of the real-world endpoints does NOT count as breaking the QC transmission itself. That would be like claiming you can survive being shot in the head because you switched the bullets with Folger's crystals.So... you're saying that if you make deals with evil people because you don't realize they're evil at the time, then it's not so bad? Wow, that's some mighty fine word-weaseling. Always impresses me how Bush apologists often torture the meaning of words in ways that would make Clinton blush. And speaking of Clinton, how exactly is he a traitor but not Bush? At the time in 1994, North Korea seemed at least as non-evil as Afghanistan did in 2000ish.
Meanwhile, you're ignoring the other evil people Bush deals with even now: Musharraf, Karimov, Akayev, etc. Every evil done by Clinton has been matched or topped by Bush.
Got more weasel words? Bring 'em on!If you throw virus.mp3 into your favorite p2p sharing system (or a web site, or most sharing methods other than AFP) the downloader will only get the data fork. That's why they had to put it in a .SIT archive first. Now you have to include code to rearchive the trojan before passing it on.
To do self-propagation right, go for pure data fork. Maybe AppleScript. A simple version would just read from AddressBook.app and spew to Mail.app. Bonus points if you detect/use other email clients too, including OS 8/9.
Is licensing a significant factor? Isn't MP4 audio supposed to be royalty-free for non-commercial streaming? What are the licensing issues for Real vs QT vs mp3 vs mp4?
(1) A person who wishes to greatly reduce spam must install software on each computer with an e-mail client application
Well, at least he's up front with his drawbacks. If you're going to require worldwide upgrade of client software, you may as well require the UN to provide gigadollar funding for the Lumber Cartel Black Helicopter Force (tinlcbhf).
Seriously though, I understand that any semi-effective spam solution will require a worldwide upgrade of [SOMETHING]. But thorough end-user LARTing is the most difficult method. Isn't server-side at least 100x more sensible, since the number of humans and machines involved is that much smaller?Open protocols like SPF & blocklists are the right way to go. Over time, they should lead to a de-facto fork in the email network -- the systems that allow spam vs disallow will cease talking to each other, and users will logically flock towards the disallow side.
This is often stated as Known Fact, but is it verifiably true? I was under the impression that each AppleTalk device sends a few small broadcast packets every N seconds, which might eat up a 230kbps Localtalk network pretty quickly, but should be negligible on 100Mbps ethernet. Especially since they generally don't cross routers, as you mention.
We knew that Osama was with them the whole time. We knew they were oppressive islamists the whole time. Either the Taliban was evil or it wasn't. You can't have it both ways. If Clinton was a traitor by your book, Bush Jr is the same.
Nah. Monsanto is no SCO ... they're worse. SCO has no viable product and no valid case. They'll be gone soon.
OTOH Monsanto has many profitable products, well protected by world-class ninja IP lawyers who can chop your head off with a flurry of 8x14 paper. And unlike the GPL, Monsanto's license is literally viral -- their patented genes travel in the wind, pollinate your crops, and they 0WN J00! Your choices are: destroy your harvest, pay fat fees, or go bankrupt fighting them in court.Yes, a true supercomputer is defined not only by its FLOPs but also by its memory throughput. The Cray-1 in 1976 had 8MB RAM on a 64bit bus at 12.5ns (80MHz). Ignoring its 4 cycle latency, that works out to 640MBps for $88 million (until your dataset exceeds 8MB in a few milliseconds and you have to go to disk).
For comparison, several current palmtops have 64MB of PC100 SDRAM. On a 32bit bus, that's 400MBps for $400ish. And if we're willing to look at G5 or A64 desktops, you can get 6.4GBps for $2000ish. I stand by my assertion: supercomputing for the masses is here.
Fair enough. I was merely responding to your previous assertion:
According your marking, every US president for the past 30+ years (including the current one) is a traitor.