I hate forcing javascript down the user's throat, but there might be an answer in either javascript, or compiled java.
It's probably possible to code javascript that's complex (obfuscated) enough to be very difficult to decode. Have your javascript update itself periodically, so that any old copies of the site will expire and cease to function, possible even giving a message to mail you if it stops.
If you discover a site pirate, code your new javascript so that it won't work on the new site so that subsequent theft won't help without significant programming expertise.
Although it won't stop the/. crowd, it would make other targets much more viable. (this door is locked, try the next house.)
One program ripping a song from one CD may produce a different image than that program ripping the same song from a different CD, depending on the pressing.
But you were right about one thing. It is BS if that's true.
Problem is that you'd be just as frustrated fielding all the phone calls from an angry mom.
I installed Linux and configured mozilla, then gave it to my mom. Rarely do I have to deal with a phonecall anymore (except for an annoying linux bug that would require an annoying download on a 26kbps modem).
Great Googlymoogly! I can start using a two-handed keyboard again!
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Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle.
How many years is that on my cellphone (which sends email) or my apple//e?
Spammers can get around this in any number of ways. Let's say I run a boobie site and want to spam you... I have visitors browsing it running a client which does all the calculations I need to send millions of spam a day. After all, I have a captive army of geeks (boobies!) that'd be happy to run calculations in my stead in exchange for free boobies.
Compute cycles just aren't the answer since they're easy to obtain, and easy to fake, and who the hell gets to decide what problem gets worked on with MY cycles?
Cold, hard cash is the way to discourage millions of spams sent daily. And the payment should be "opt-in" by the recipient, so that you don't need to worry about your grandma charging you a nickle to send her an email.
The main reason is to record you clicking the "I AGREE" button on all those damn EULAs!
Seriously, though, if you could digitally sign and timestamp these things, they could be pretty good defense. Who cares about DNA, when you can prove you were elsewhere? If only OJ had one of these:P
Actually, that's 3.5 million users per month... 42 million per year 115.5 million for the lifetime of the site
That's 116,666-2/3 users per day!
And I was one of those 116,666-2/3 users waiting, finger poised over mouse, for that exhilarating first day when the sheriff's site first opened!
Of course, as one of those single users, I was only allowed to send a single "GET" http command. I had to get all my friends to send their single GET command, so that we could see the pictures of all our favorite celebs at the site, too.
One friend misspelled it as "GTE" and was shamed forever. Maybe after another 119 years when all 5 billion humans on earth have had their chance to be a "user", they'll allow him to try again.
It by no means was the first. Plenty of spams went out, but were on a small scale (like no more than 20 newsgroups).
Nor was it the first extreme newsgroup spamming. It missed that by a few weeks.
The very first, excruciatingly-painful, extreme Usenet spamming was the "The End of the World is Coming!" by some Jesus-freak. Someone generated cancels for it, and then sent out a message "The End of the World has been Cancelled."
C&S, however, were the first couple of dedicated spammers that proclaimed "we will spam, and be happy to sue anyone that disagrees!"
Most game publishers don't put out games because they want to release games.
They do it to make money, to drive their customers before them, and hear the lamentations of their wallets.
If Lucasarts or any large publisher could put out a game, virtually guaranteed to be a hit but wouldn't make any money, they probably wouldn't do it. The only reason to do that would be to gain the name recognition.
A laptop alarm that notifies the owner should have a locked wrist bracelet... if the alarm is about to go off, the user has 15 seconds to disable it before it blares the alarm and simultaneously shocks the hell out of the owner for being lazy.
I saw something around 60% efficiency ethanol-> hydrogen. I don't know the efficiency of fuel cells, but the efficiency of converting electricity to heat is over 90%, and I believe so is converting electricity to motion depending on the motor. You'd also have to figure the fuel cost of making the ethanol, at least compared to the fuel of making an energy-equivalent amount of petroleum products.
Burning, as in internal combustion engines, is known to have horrid efficiency due to the heat of combustion and friction of all the moving parts. I don't have the numbers, but my guess is 20% of the fuel potential is converted to motion. If my guess of 20% is true, then a fuel cell would have to have only 37% efficiency to match that. (60% * 90% * X%)
Perhaps the industrial agriculture would definitely need an overhaul in methods.
In this house, I obey the laws of thermodynamics. If the energy used to do farming exceeded the energy output of the corn, doesn't that imply that we've all starved to death? That doesn't even count the energy to ship the product.
Or, perhaps the claim is that we've been pumping out more calories of dino-fuel to actually feed us, and have been doing that since humans evolved. I know I've heard claims to that effect, but that simply cannot answer how humans could've ever survived without pumping oil out of the ground.
You're not burning the ethanol, and you're not burning the hydrogen!
It's converted to electricity, where there is no loss from light (unlike burning).
It does require energy to extract the ethanol, but you are not doing most of the work. And as I stated above, you could easily have a solar distillery, so the bulk of the energy required would be gelatinizing the starch, and the farm equipment. That is a comparitively small amount, when the yeast and the sun are doing most of the work.
It's true that energy is required to make ethanol, but the most of that energy is bioenergy from the yeast, converting the starch to ethanol + C02. The starch must be heated before it can be converted (gelatinized), and there is some energy required for that but typically done simply from the heat of crushing the corn.
The bulk would be the distilling process, but you could EASILY create a solar distillery or gelatinizing process, too, which is where the bulk of any added energy comes from.
Point is, you can be as inefficient as you like and claim that it's some corn cartel. But I'm not pulling out my tinfoil hat just yet.
As an aside, it's fairly trivial to get a BATF license to distill for fuel.
Actually, no... IIRC, both the amperage and the voltage are surprisingly high. The reason you don't get fried by the piezo-electric lighters or by simple static shocks is because the duration is incredibly short.
We are always decrying the dearth of technology jobs, but then we laud things like this which make such jobs obsolete.
Look at the political pressure to keep the loggers in business. Their claim is "we've been doing this for years" and try to work around the laws that stop them from cutting down the depleted forests. They might as well get federal backing preventing pneumatic tires, because it cuts into their wagon-wheel business.
If something is deprecated, you're not a luddite to hang onto it... rather you are clinging to obsolete reasoning. Usually it's because of being comfortable in your way of life, even when the technology (voice-only phone lines, in this case), is deprecated by a better, faster medium.
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I couldn't read the site, but it sure sounds like a big 3D printer of some sort.
The beauty of arbitrary construction is now I can have my dream home!
I hate forcing javascript down the user's throat, but there might be an answer in either javascript, or compiled java.
/. crowd, it would make other targets much more viable. (this door is locked, try the next house.)
It's probably possible to code javascript that's complex (obfuscated) enough to be very difficult to decode. Have your javascript update itself periodically, so that any old copies of the site will expire and cease to function, possible even giving a message to mail you if it stops.
If you discover a site pirate, code your new javascript so that it won't work on the new site so that subsequent theft won't help without significant programming expertise.
Although it won't stop the
One program ripping a song from one CD may produce a different image than that program ripping the same song from a different CD, depending on the pressing.
But you were right about one thing. It is BS if that's true.
Problem is that you'd be just as frustrated fielding all the phone calls from an angry mom.
I installed Linux and configured mozilla, then gave it to my mom. Rarely do I have to deal with a phonecall anymore (except for an annoying linux bug that would require an annoying download on a 26kbps modem).
Great Googlymoogly! I can start using a two-handed keyboard again!
Instead of paying a penny, the sender would "buy" postage by devoting maybe 10 seconds of computing time to solving a math puzzle.
//e?
How many years is that on my cellphone (which sends email) or my apple
Spammers can get around this in any number of ways. Let's say I run a boobie site and want to spam you... I have visitors browsing it running a client which does all the calculations I need to send millions of spam a day. After all, I have a captive army of geeks (boobies!) that'd be happy to run calculations in my stead in exchange for free boobies.
Compute cycles just aren't the answer since they're easy to obtain, and easy to fake, and who the hell gets to decide what problem gets worked on with MY cycles?
Cold, hard cash is the way to discourage millions of spams sent daily. And the payment should be "opt-in" by the recipient, so that you don't need to worry about your grandma charging you a nickle to send her an email.
The main reason is to record you clicking the "I AGREE" button on all those damn EULAs!
:P
Seriously, though, if you could digitally sign and timestamp these things, they could be pretty good defense. Who cares about DNA, when you can prove you were elsewhere? If only OJ had one of these
Actually, that's 3.5 million users per month...
42 million per year
115.5 million for the lifetime of the site
That's 116,666-2/3 users per day!
And I was one of those 116,666-2/3 users waiting, finger poised over mouse, for that exhilarating first day when the sheriff's site first opened!
Of course, as one of those single users, I was only allowed to send a single "GET" http command. I had to get all my friends to send their single GET command, so that we could see the pictures of all our favorite celebs at the site, too.
One friend misspelled it as "GTE" and was shamed forever. Maybe after another 119 years when all 5 billion humans on earth have had their chance to be a "user", they'll allow him to try again.
That's it... I couldn't remember the name. This is the first non-crossposted mass-spamming I remember.
The funniest MST3K fan-parody I ever saw was of that post. Here's the MST3k parody which also includes the end of the world article, too.
It by no means was the first. Plenty of spams went out, but were on a small scale (like no more than 20 newsgroups).
Nor was it the first extreme newsgroup spamming. It missed that by a few weeks.
The very first, excruciatingly-painful, extreme Usenet spamming was the "The End of the World is Coming!" by some Jesus-freak. Someone generated cancels for it, and then sent out a message "The End of the World has been Cancelled."
C&S, however, were the first couple of dedicated spammers that proclaimed "we will spam, and be happy to sue anyone that disagrees!"
Most game publishers don't put out games because they want to release games.
They do it to make money, to drive their customers before them, and hear the lamentations of their wallets.
If Lucasarts or any large publisher could put out a game, virtually guaranteed to be a hit but wouldn't make any money, they probably wouldn't do it. The only reason to do that would be to gain the name recognition.
A laptop alarm that notifies the owner should have a locked wrist bracelet... if the alarm is about to go off, the user has 15 seconds to disable it before it blares the alarm and simultaneously shocks the hell out of the owner for being lazy.
I thought that quote was hilarious, but how about the other side of the coin?
Making a typo in the Verisign process is like being beaten to death by spam.
lc didn't save a bit, you still transmitted the 0's. 8N1 sends 8 bits, on or off, followed by a stop bit.
You haven't lived until you played rogue on a 300 baud acoustic coupler. On a paper terminal.
I saw something around 60% efficiency ethanol-> hydrogen. I don't know the efficiency of fuel cells, but the efficiency of converting electricity to heat is over 90%, and I believe so is converting electricity to motion depending on the motor. You'd also have to figure the fuel cost of making the ethanol, at least compared to the fuel of making an energy-equivalent amount of petroleum products.
Burning, as in internal combustion engines, is known to have horrid efficiency due to the heat of combustion and friction of all the moving parts. I don't have the numbers, but my guess is 20% of the fuel potential is converted to motion. If my guess of 20% is true, then a fuel cell would have to have only 37% efficiency to match that. (60% * 90% * X%)
Perhaps the industrial agriculture would definitely need an overhaul in methods.
In this house, I obey the laws of thermodynamics. If the energy used to do farming exceeded the energy output of the corn, doesn't that imply that we've all starved to death? That doesn't even count the energy to ship the product.
Or, perhaps the claim is that we've been pumping out more calories of dino-fuel to actually feed us, and have been doing that since humans evolved. I know I've heard claims to that effect, but that simply cannot answer how humans could've ever survived without pumping oil out of the ground.
infrared light :p
But ya, it all turns into lost energy as heat at some point.
You can't drink it, of course.
You're not burning the ethanol, and you're not burning the hydrogen!
It's converted to electricity, where there is no loss from light (unlike burning).
It does require energy to extract the ethanol, but you are not doing most of the work. And as I stated above, you could easily have a solar distillery, so the bulk of the energy required would be gelatinizing the starch, and the farm equipment. That is a comparitively small amount, when the yeast and the sun are doing most of the work.
I call bullshit.
It's true that energy is required to make ethanol, but the most of that energy is bioenergy from the yeast, converting the starch to ethanol + C02. The starch must be heated before it can be converted (gelatinized), and there is some energy required for that but typically done simply from the heat of crushing the corn.
The bulk would be the distilling process, but you could EASILY create a solar distillery or gelatinizing process, too, which is where the bulk of any added energy comes from.
Point is, you can be as inefficient as you like and claim that it's some corn cartel. But I'm not pulling out my tinfoil hat just yet.
As an aside, it's fairly trivial to get a BATF license to distill for fuel.
Homer: "one for you" [fills tank]
Homer: "one for me" [fills mouth]
Actually, no... IIRC, both the amperage and the voltage are surprisingly high. The reason you don't get fried by the piezo-electric lighters or by simple static shocks is because the duration is incredibly short.
It's like hunting in real life. it's not about the meat, it's about the experiance.
funny, I thought it was about the beer.
We are always decrying the dearth of technology jobs, but then we laud things like this which make such jobs obsolete.
Look at the political pressure to keep the loggers in business. Their claim is "we've been doing this for years" and try to work around the laws that stop them from cutting down the depleted forests. They might as well get federal backing preventing pneumatic tires, because it cuts into their wagon-wheel business.
If something is deprecated, you're not a luddite to hang onto it... rather you are clinging to obsolete reasoning. Usually it's because of being comfortable in your way of life, even when the technology (voice-only phone lines, in this case), is deprecated by a better, faster medium.
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