I'd suggesting hitting up Big Lumber. You can search for local keysigning parties or start your own. I live in the middle of nowhere (Syracuse, NY) and there are even a few people registered around here. Pretty much any college town is going to have some biglumber people in or near it.
Whenever you travel to a big city, it can be useful to check the site, too. There's nothing like getting a cup of coffee with a crypto nerd to keep you from meeting women in a new city.
This is what projects like SwitchMe are for. You have to pay a little extra so your phone automatically turns off, but the invasion of your freedom of preference is left intact.
Me, I'll just remember to switch my phone to vibrate whenever I go out.
Hear, Hear.
Along the same lines, it's pretty important that they sign with a key in the strongly connected set. I've seen a lot of projects that actually provide PGP sigs, but the keys used to generate the sigs don't have any signatures, or are part of closed (2-3 key) set! This is about as useless as MD5 checksums, imho.
It's very easy to generate a key with Linus Torvalds as the name, but very difficult to get people in the strongly connected set to actually sign it...
I made my script touch a file in a counter directory every day that I don't log in. 30 files need to accumulate before the action is commited. When I log in, my login script erases the counter files. A problem could occur if the sysadmin makes cron run its jobs 30 times in a very short period, but this isn't very likely to happen...and if it does, well, I guess I'm screwed:).
Call me crazy, but I've had this for years. I set up a cron job on my university account that checks for the last time I logged in. If that was over 30 days ago, I am most definitely dead, so it emails out my last message. Since most universities let you keep your account forever after you graduate, this is a pretty good option for a lot of people (well, assuming you have access to crontab on your system). University Unix systems rarely disappear...
I know that there are existing regulations against telemarketers calling cell phones...shouldn't there also be regulations about IM'ing mobile device users? After all, I have to pay for each text message I receive after I use my free allotment each month...It would be annoying to start getting spammed on my cell phone.
Germany has some huge problems that it's dealing with, though. Unemployment is high, and their current social welfare system gives little incentive for people to go to work. Plus, with over 10% of the workforce unemployed, I would hardly the economy "strong"...
As my old advisor (in Germany) told me, he could not find anyone to work on his horse farm because almost all unemployed people he could find were paid more to sit at home on the couch than he could afford to pay at his part-time positions. The tax codes didn't provide enough incentive for him to hire. I think the Germans would be in much better shape if they cut that social service, but it is something that the citizenry finds very hard to give up (and how can you blame them?).
Still, once they get the social welfare system straightened out, they will be poised to dominate the business world...
How do you keep people honest? Choose one: Honesty or Free Speech. Honest!
Free Speech includes the ability to retract what you've said before, in whatever way you choose to retract it (so long as this method does not infringe upon the rights of others). This means the ability to destroy some of the things you have created. IE if I own Times Magazine, and I print a million issues of my magazine, but it turns out I don't like the main story, I have the right to burn (well maybe not literally burn as there might be an air quality problem there) all copies of the magazine, without ever letting you read it.
As for honesty? Well, the memory hole does a decent job of that already, if people pay attention.
Think about. Voyager just leaves solar system. The Federation takes notice. My god, another intelligent species. My GOD, and their sun is about to explode...we have to relocate them to another system!
If the AI were truly crafty, as its definition implies, it would have done the case differently, and tried to defend itself in the trial.
To defend itself, it would need to prove, in a court case I'd assume, that it was capable of understanding the law, etc etc (since self representation requires that you're sentient).
If it passed that first court case, the second one would be an easy win. If it failed the first court case, well, at least it has bought itself some time to deal with the real issue, and possibly work out any zingers that caught it the first time.
I dunno. Biological evolution is definitely being phased out in favor of technological evolution. No doubt about it. A big part of me sees this as being really, really bad. After all, Darwin has taken us a long way; watching us allow genetic predispositions for things like cancer, diabetes, etc to be passed on by providing technological treatment certainly hurts the gene pool. I have no doubts that if we keep doing this, many generations from now our babies will be born needing to be put inside little life-support suits or something (or they will die almost immediately).
Still, on the plus side maybe those little technological modifications to our bodies will, in the long run, make us better suited to survival in the universe? Who knows...it's the future, anything can happen.
To quote from the Simpson's:
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you." from the Secret War of Lisa Simpson
"[Apple's music store]... is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device."
Translation: when someone introduces a new product or service, it actually takes away from the number of products and services you get to choose from.
Also, I should mention: Today is not opposite day.
I think Ninjas need to unionize to keep robots out of the stealth assassin business.
Shhhhh, are you trying to get us all killed, man? If Ninjas unionized, do you realize what would happen? The union would make demands and we would have no choice to give in to those demands or die in our sleep. They wouldn't just strike, they'd palm-heel strike. That would break your neck, or at least crack your rib cage, sending splinters of bone into your heart. Don't give them ideas.
And if Ninja Robots come, just don't let them settle in the Tigris Euphrates valley. So long as we hold true to that, we'll all be fine.
Give counterfeiters a few months headstart on making our latest bill, check.
Didn't the Treasury say it would take 5 years for people to make accurate counterfeits of current 20 dollars bills, and it ended up taking only 3-4 months? Hm, 2004 is still 2 months away...can we expect countefeit 2004s by February?
But then, I can never keep a pen for more than a week. I'll invariably put it someplace and leave it there, never to be found again. So cheap disposable pens are just great.
Didn't Lucky Green patent using a bios to only boot a trusted operating system? The uspto.gov site seems to be down, but I thought this was what he did after meeting with Microsoft (to stop the Trusted Platform Crap from happening).
In another part of the galaxy, on the capital world of
Jhantor, Palpatine enters his senate chambers - followed closely
by a brash, young courtier named Prince Valarium
I think they meant Prince Valium. Either that, or Mel Brooks is psychic in his parodies...
There's a reason the h-t-t-p thing is important. Time travellers. It has to do with the Time Cube. Just hear me out.
We know that people have travelled forward in time through a clock discrepancy in the time cube. See, they *make* the time disappear, thus travelling forward. If they remember all that lost time, they'll travel back. It's not impossible, really.
These people first figured it all out in the 1980s. We know they are here, and we want to make sure that they are not confused. If we leave out h-t-t-p, they might assume we are still using gopher or something. So we have to say it every single time.
Let's not even talk about the people from the future...
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I'm an engineer and that's gives me two things:
The grammatical errors you mentioned...
Honestly, my code is less buggy than my writing.
That's good. To your defense, I did just compile a program that just did "int x = x;". It even ran. So I guess you can't be all bad.
I'd suggesting hitting up Big Lumber. You can search for local keysigning parties or start your own. I live in the middle of nowhere (Syracuse, NY) and there are even a few people registered around here. Pretty much any college town is going to have some biglumber people in or near it.
Whenever you travel to a big city, it can be useful to check the site, too. There's nothing like getting a cup of coffee with a crypto nerd to keep you from meeting women in a new city.
This is what projects like SwitchMe are for. You have to pay a little extra so your phone automatically turns off, but the invasion of your freedom of preference is left intact.
Me, I'll just remember to switch my phone to vibrate whenever I go out.
Hear, Hear. Along the same lines, it's pretty important that they sign with a key in the strongly connected set. I've seen a lot of projects that actually provide PGP sigs, but the keys used to generate the sigs don't have any signatures, or are part of closed (2-3 key) set! This is about as useless as MD5 checksums, imho. It's very easy to generate a key with Linus Torvalds as the name, but very difficult to get people in the strongly connected set to actually sign it...
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So who wants to start a pool on when the first sex offender will be lynched?
Heh.
:).
Fortunately I planned on that.
I made my script touch a file in a counter directory every day that I don't log in. 30 files need to accumulate before the action is commited. When I log in, my login script erases the counter files. A problem could occur if the sysadmin makes cron run its jobs 30 times in a very short period, but this isn't very likely to happen...and if it does, well, I guess I'm screwed
Right on. Internal speedhubs are really only used on downhill bikes, due to their inefficiency and weight.
I doubt we'll ever see anything like this in the Tour de France...so road bikes will be safe from this rather bizarre looking maintenance nightmare.
Call me crazy, but I've had this for years. I set up a cron job on my university account that checks for the last time I logged in. If that was over 30 days ago, I am most definitely dead, so it emails out my last message. Since most universities let you keep your account forever after you graduate, this is a pretty good option for a lot of people (well, assuming you have access to crontab on your system). University Unix systems rarely disappear...
I know that there are existing regulations against telemarketers calling cell phones...shouldn't there also be regulations about IM'ing mobile device users? After all, I have to pay for each text message I receive after I use my free allotment each month...It would be annoying to start getting spammed on my cell phone.
Germany has some huge problems that it's dealing with, though. Unemployment is high, and their current social welfare system gives little incentive for people to go to work. Plus, with over 10% of the workforce unemployed, I would hardly the economy "strong"...
As my old advisor (in Germany) told me, he could not find anyone to work on his horse farm because almost all unemployed people he could find were paid more to sit at home on the couch than he could afford to pay at his part-time positions. The tax codes didn't provide enough incentive for him to hire. I think the Germans would be in much better shape if they cut that social service, but it is something that the citizenry finds very hard to give up (and how can you blame them?).
Still, once they get the social welfare system straightened out, they will be poised to dominate the business world...
How do you keep people honest? Choose one: Honesty or Free Speech. Honest!
Free Speech includes the ability to retract what you've said before, in whatever way you choose to retract it (so long as this method does not infringe upon the rights of others). This means the ability to destroy some of the things you have created. IE if I own Times Magazine, and I print a million issues of my magazine, but it turns out I don't like the main story, I have the right to burn (well maybe not literally burn as there might be an air quality problem there) all copies of the magazine, without ever letting you read it.
As for honesty? Well, the memory hole does a decent job of that already, if people pay attention.
Think about. Voyager just leaves solar system. The Federation takes notice. My god, another intelligent species. My GOD, and their sun is about to explode...we have to relocate them to another system!
Slashdot really needs the "reason" for moderation separate from the "score."
I, for one, would moderate this comment "+1, Redundant".
If the AI were truly crafty, as its definition implies, it would have done the case differently, and tried to defend itself in the trial.
To defend itself, it would need to prove, in a court case I'd assume, that it was capable of understanding the law, etc etc (since self representation requires that you're sentient).
If it passed that first court case, the second one would be an easy win. If it failed the first court case, well, at least it has bought itself some time to deal with the real issue, and possibly work out any zingers that caught it the first time.
I dunno. Biological evolution is definitely being phased out in favor of technological evolution. No doubt about it. A big part of me sees this as being really, really bad. After all, Darwin has taken us a long way; watching us allow genetic predispositions for things like cancer, diabetes, etc to be passed on by providing technological treatment certainly hurts the gene pool. I have no doubts that if we keep doing this, many generations from now our babies will be born needing to be put inside little life-support suits or something (or they will die almost immediately).
Still, on the plus side maybe those little technological modifications to our bodies will, in the long run, make us better suited to survival in the universe? Who knows...it's the future, anything can happen.
To quote from the Simpson's:
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you." from the Secret War of Lisa Simpson
Great, another impediment to natural selection.
Natural selection has died out, and has been replaced with something better.
It was bound to happen.
"[Apple's music store] ... is a drawback for Windows users, who expect choice in music services, choice in devices, and choice in music from a wide-variety of music services to burn to a CD or put on a portable device."
Translation: when someone introduces a new product or service, it actually takes away from the number of products and services you get to choose from.
Also, I should mention: Today is not opposite day.
I think Ninjas need to unionize to keep robots out of the stealth assassin business.
Shhhhh, are you trying to get us all killed, man? If Ninjas unionized, do you realize what would happen? The union would make demands and we would have no choice to give in to those demands or die in our sleep. They wouldn't just strike, they'd palm-heel strike. That would break your neck, or at least crack your rib cage, sending splinters of bone into your heart. Don't give them ideas.
And if Ninja Robots come, just don't let them settle in the Tigris Euphrates valley. So long as we hold true to that, we'll all be fine.
Give counterfeiters a few months headstart on making our latest bill, check.
Didn't the Treasury say it would take 5 years for people to make accurate counterfeits of current 20 dollars bills, and it ended up taking only 3-4 months? Hm, 2004 is still 2 months away...can we expect countefeit 2004s by February?
But then, I can never keep a pen for more than a week. I'll invariably put it someplace and leave it there, never to be found again. So cheap disposable pens are just great.
Didn't Lucky Green patent using a bios to only boot a trusted operating system? The uspto.gov site seems to be down, but I thought this was what he did after meeting with Microsoft (to stop the Trusted Platform Crap from happening).
In another part of the galaxy, on the capital world of Jhantor, Palpatine enters his senate chambers - followed closely by a brash, young courtier named Prince Valarium
I think they meant Prince Valium. Either that, or Mel Brooks is psychic in his parodies...
That only covers him if microsoft patents the idea. What he needs to do is patent it first, and, er, cockblock microsoft.
There's a reason the h-t-t-p thing is important. Time travellers. It has to do with the Time Cube. Just hear me out.
We know that people have travelled forward in time through a clock discrepancy in the time cube. See, they *make* the time disappear, thus travelling forward. If they remember all that lost time, they'll travel back. It's not impossible, really.
These people first figured it all out in the 1980s. We know they are here, and we want to make sure that they are not confused. If we leave out h-t-t-p, they might assume we are still using gopher or something. So we have to say it every single time.
Let's not even talk about the people from the future...