Yeah, a classmate had his phone go off the other day. He had an `old skool' rining bell... it was really surprising. I guess we've gotten used to the silly bleeps of phones. But the new polyphonic stuff is pretty cool.
This is what I've never understood. Is it some inherent thing in the US mobile phone system that the quality is so bad? Or do people have bad hearing? Here in the Netherlands you never hear anyone say 'can you hear me now' or somesuch which seems to be such an irritant to a lot of people in the US.
As far as I know you can install a filter on SSH traffic with iptraf. So it won't show up any more in any rates or tallies. The filter setup is a little obscure, but it seems to work.
Try intalling the alsa-tools package. It contains some init.d scripts which will save and restore alsa mixer settings for you.
That said, I still haven't been able to switch on the back speakers under Linux with ALSA and my stock SB Live 5.1 sound card. Emu-tools doesn't work... can't compile it... get errors... and the binaries segfault...
Its also a lack of willingness to use condoms. Even in areas where people have been educated, condoms are cheaply available, they still refuse to use them for various reasons, from religion to saying they reduce feeling.
Another is the adherence to old customs. For instance where if a man dies, his brother will "inherit" his wife and children. So if the man dies of AIDS, his brother will have it pretty soon too.
Of course this is not the way it is everywhere in Africa. But in the regions where AIDS is most prevalent, lack of education and cheap condoms really isn't always the cause.
Yeah, I was reading a Dutch news article and there too they mention that Microsoft's appeal will mean that they won't have to pay right away, only when they lose the appeal. Seeing as the appeal can take several years (I'm translating from the article), it seems likely that MS won't have to adjust its business practices in the meantime and can further leverage its monopoly position to shove out competitors, which, as others have said, is tantamount to no punishment at all.
The courts really need a new way for technology lawsuits; so much can happen in a year's time, by the time the lawsuits are finally over, it doesn't matter any more....
Yeah, what is the deal with rebates anyway? WTF are rebates? I tried to look for it on teh Intarweb, but with such a prevalent term I only got commercial sites selling crap... anyone care to enlighten me?
Thank you for this bright note in this Haskell fanatic infested thread. I'm surprised that this book review actually made it to the front page of Slashdot. Haskell is so obscure outside the academic, it surprises me that there are so many replies to this story.
Yes, I too have had Haskell forcibly thrust upon me as a requirement to graduate from my university. And not just 1 course, no, 3 are required! An introduction to functional programming would be okay. To give you an idea of their existence and how they work.
No, I don't like Haskell. And yet at the university seem to catch a few souls every year who for some incomprehensible reason take to liking it and keeping the Haskell infestation alive.
You do realize that the first time that you get an infection from anything, say a sore throat and your doc prescribes you antibiotics, that the carefully cultivated fauna in your gut will be turned into dead fauna, right? And that it will no longer be there?
An iron gut is nice, but it can be destroyed so easily, unfortunately.
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I too use CRM114. Its pretty good at identifying spam, but not so good at identifying nonspam. In other words, its generating, IMHO, too many false positives.
I'm using the supplied spam and nonspam databases. You can train it by forwarding the email it got wrong and telling it what its supposed to be. This is all fine and dandy but gets annoying after a while. Unfortunately there are no plugins for mail frontends like Thunderbird.
I've been adding domains to my whitelist in the meantime.
That said, I agree that it was pretty easy to install. I've now got mail pipelined from Postfix, through CRM114 into Cyrus which uses the CMU sieve to sort mail classified by CRM. My ISP already filters spam which is from hosts on several blacklists. It also filters viruses, so any mail coming through has been thoroughly washed.:-)
I've been watching the CMU webcast. This is apparently too difficult a challenge. Nearly all bots have started now, and several of them never went more than a mile. The sturdy humvee is even out of the race. Some vehicles apparently took their GPS waypoint corridor a little too wide and ended up in the fence or against the concrete blocks on the left side of the starting area.
It was pretty funny, those vehicles driving with full determination towards the fence... people backing off and the vehicle being killed at the last moment.:-)
Oh yeah, that totally pisses me off.. most of the mailing lists can be found back on usenet anyway... or many articles on them, anyway. I mean, if I search for a technical computing term, I don't endless lists of crap, all with the same fucking message. I want a simple page where someone has documented how to do something. If I can't find that, next stop is google groups. If not there, then I might resort sifting through mailing lists, which have a nasty interface and are a pain in the ass to browse. Anyone know why these are always at the top of the list?
Yeah, but banknotes have counterfeiting stuff builtin, which the vending machine can check for. See this How Stuff Works article on the subject of currency detection. Its very informative.
The specific attributes of banknotes are only a few... while if you have some random bits of fish in the part of the grid you are analysing, there are only vague outlines to work with.
Granted, the camera will know how far away it is from the fish, so it can determine size and so on, but other features will be less easy to determine.
And how does it work with fish which have, for instance, their tail in one grid, and the rest of their body in another grid? Or are the fish physically divided into grids?
Gee, I wonder what kind of pattern matching/classification algorithm it is using. 98% is pretty damn high. Really high. That is a very robust algorithm indeed.
If it can be applied to fish, it can be applied to nearly any kind of object that needs to be identified. I would really like more technical details, as I am very sceptical of this 98% business.
Searching for 'automatic "fish classification"' doesn't turn up much...
I'm guessing it's a neural network or some other sort of classifier that has been trained with existing pictures of fish.
This already exists... there's a simple CGI script for poisoning spam lists. It just generates endless links with email addresses on them, which the email address spiders just all (assumingly) blindly copy:
Disclaimer: I did not write this code myself. A fellow slashdotter did, but I can't find the comment any more (its in an old Verisign Slashdot story, if I remember right):
while [ true ]; do
wget -r www.`dd if=/dev/random bs=8 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -e '"%1o"'`.com; done
Have fun, if Verisign switches on their "service" again.
Yeah, it was easy as hell... apt-get install kernel-bla bla, edit my grub menu, reboot... tada... it only complained about my ide-scsi module, which was deprecated. Then fiddled with ALSA until it was working (had some trouble the next book, when the asound.state file was corrupted and ALSA would halt on startup).
The NVIDIA install tool worked beautifully on the 2.6 kernel. X started up without any troubles.
I'm certainly glad I didn't have to recompile the kernel.:-) Too many bloody options... done it many times in the past, but it gets tiresome, cause you always forget something the first time round.
I know they have a lot of bandwidth, but why aren't they using BitTorrent? This is a perfect application for BitTorrent. It could save them quite a bit of money, I would imagine. Money that could be spent elsewhere? And there's no risk of trojaned source files if they host their own tracker and make their own.torrent files, right? What am I missing here?
Yep... a while back I contributed some $$s, and I got a nice thank you note from Pamela herself.
You don't have to feel guilty about Slashdotting... Groklaw is hosted by ibiblio.org, who have enough bandwidth. But its nice to contribute to their other costs.
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Yeah, a classmate had his phone go off the other day. He had an `old skool' rining bell... it was really surprising. I guess we've gotten used to the silly bleeps of phones. But the new polyphonic stuff is pretty cool.
This is what I've never understood. Is it some inherent thing in the US mobile phone system that the quality is so bad? Or do people have bad hearing? Here in the Netherlands you never hear anyone say 'can you hear me now' or somesuch which seems to be such an irritant to a lot of people in the US.
Not trolling, just curious...
Cheers
As far as I know you can install a filter on SSH traffic with iptraf. So it won't show up any more in any rates or tallies. The filter setup is a little obscure, but it seems to work.
Cheers.
Well, this article in Forbes seems to confirm that it isn't a joke, but then Forbes has been known to be untrustworthy...
Try intalling the alsa-tools package. It contains some init.d scripts which will save and restore alsa mixer settings for you.
That said, I still haven't been able to switch on the back speakers under Linux with ALSA and my stock SB Live 5.1 sound card. Emu-tools doesn't work... can't compile it... get errors... and the binaries segfault...
Its also a lack of willingness to use condoms. Even in areas where people have been educated, condoms are cheaply available, they still refuse to use them for various reasons, from religion to saying they reduce feeling.
Another is the adherence to old customs. For instance where if a man dies, his brother will "inherit" his wife and children. So if the man dies of AIDS, his brother will have it pretty soon too.
Of course this is not the way it is everywhere in Africa. But in the regions where AIDS is most prevalent, lack of education and cheap condoms really isn't always the cause.
Yeah, I was reading a Dutch news article and there too they mention that Microsoft's appeal will mean that they won't have to pay right away, only when they lose the appeal. Seeing as the appeal can take several years (I'm translating from the article), it seems likely that MS won't have to adjust its business practices in the meantime and can further leverage its monopoly position to shove out competitors, which, as others have said, is tantamount to no punishment at all.
The courts really need a new way for technology lawsuits; so much can happen in a year's time, by the time the lawsuits are finally over, it doesn't matter any more....
Yeah, what is the deal with rebates anyway? WTF are rebates? I tried to look for it on teh Intarweb, but with such a prevalent term I only got commercial sites selling crap... anyone care to enlighten me?
Cheers...
Thank you for this bright note in this Haskell fanatic infested thread. I'm surprised that this book review actually made it to the front page of Slashdot. Haskell is so obscure outside the academic, it surprises me that there are so many replies to this story.
/rant
Yes, I too have had Haskell forcibly thrust upon me as a requirement to graduate from my university. And not just 1 course, no, 3 are required! An introduction to functional programming would be okay. To give you an idea of their existence and how they work.
No, I don't like Haskell. And yet at the university seem to catch a few souls every year who for some incomprehensible reason take to liking it and keeping the Haskell infestation alive.
Bah...
You do realize that the first time that you get an infection from anything, say a sore throat and your doc prescribes you antibiotics, that the carefully cultivated fauna in your gut will be turned into dead fauna, right? And that it will no longer be there?
An iron gut is nice, but it can be destroyed so easily, unfortunately.
I too use CRM114. Its pretty good at identifying spam, but not so good at identifying nonspam. In other words, its generating, IMHO, too many false positives.
:-)
I'm using the supplied spam and nonspam databases. You can train it by forwarding the email it got wrong and telling it what its supposed to be. This is all fine and dandy but gets annoying after a while. Unfortunately there are no plugins for mail frontends like Thunderbird.
I've been adding domains to my whitelist in the meantime.
That said, I agree that it was pretty easy to install. I've now got mail pipelined from Postfix, through CRM114 into Cyrus which uses the CMU sieve to sort mail classified by CRM. My ISP already filters spam which is from hosts on several blacklists. It also filters viruses, so any mail coming through has been thoroughly washed.
Total carnage.
:-)
I've been watching the CMU webcast. This is apparently too difficult a challenge. Nearly all bots have started now, and several of them never went more than a mile. The sturdy humvee is even out of the race. Some vehicles apparently took their GPS waypoint corridor a little too wide and ended up in the fence or against the concrete blocks on the left side of the starting area.
It was pretty funny, those vehicles driving with full determination towards the fence... people backing off and the vehicle being killed at the last moment.
Okay, so I lied. Its not a plugin. Its a huge list of perl scripts and other kludges. Not for the faint of heart. :-)
CRM114 has a Mozilla mail "plugin". See PURITY OF EMAIL (P.O.E.) website
So is this "The Largest Lens, Ever Discovered" or "The Largest Lens Ever, Discovered"?
Where can us non-UK Europeans find out who are MEPs are and where to write them?
Oh yeah, that totally pisses me off.. most of the mailing lists can be found back on usenet anyway... or many articles on them, anyway. I mean, if I search for a technical computing term, I don't endless lists of crap, all with the same fucking message. I want a simple page where someone has documented how to do something. If I can't find that, next stop is google groups. If not there, then I might resort sifting through mailing lists, which have a nasty interface and are a pain in the ass to browse. Anyone know why these are always at the top of the list?
So you mean 'high hilarity' digital? That would explains things...
Yeah, but banknotes have counterfeiting stuff builtin, which the vending machine can check for. See this How Stuff Works article on the subject of currency detection. Its very informative.
The specific attributes of banknotes are only a few... while if you have some random bits of fish in the part of the grid you are analysing, there are only vague outlines to work with.
Granted, the camera will know how far away it is from the fish, so it can determine size and so on, but other features will be less easy to determine.
And how does it work with fish which have, for instance, their tail in one grid, and the rest of their body in another grid? Or are the fish physically divided into grids?
Gee, I wonder what kind of pattern matching/classification algorithm it is using. 98% is pretty damn high. Really high. That is a very robust algorithm indeed.
If it can be applied to fish, it can be applied to nearly any kind of object that needs to be identified. I would really like more technical details, as I am very sceptical of this 98% business.
Searching for 'automatic "fish classification"' doesn't turn up much...
I'm guessing it's a neural network or some other sort of classifier that has been trained with existing pictures of fish.
This already exists... there's a simple CGI script for poisoning spam lists. It just generates endless links with email addresses on them, which the email address spiders just all (assumingly) blindly copy:
:-)
Sugarplum -- spam poison
sample...
If more people would use this, perhaps the spammers AND verisign will be discouraged. Two bastards with one stone.
Yeah, it was easy as hell... apt-get install kernel-bla bla, edit my grub menu, reboot... tada... it only complained about my ide-scsi module, which was deprecated. Then fiddled with ALSA until it was working (had some trouble the next book, when the asound.state file was corrupted and ALSA would halt on startup).
:-) Too many bloody options... done it many times in the past, but it gets tiresome, cause you always forget something the first time round.
The NVIDIA install tool worked beautifully on the 2.6 kernel. X started up without any troubles.
I'm certainly glad I didn't have to recompile the kernel.
Cheers
I know they have a lot of bandwidth, but why aren't they using BitTorrent? This is a perfect application for BitTorrent. It could save them quite a bit of money, I would imagine. Money that could be spent elsewhere? And there's no risk of trojaned source files if they host their own tracker and make their own .torrent files, right? What am I missing here?
Yep... a while back I contributed some $$s, and I got a nice thank you note from Pamela herself.
You don't have to feel guilty about Slashdotting... Groklaw is hosted by ibiblio.org, who have enough bandwidth. But its nice to contribute to their other costs.