And isn't an allegedly democractic nation complaining about what another nation's population has democratically elected, kinda.... hypocritical?
What you're missing is, they're stupid and we're much smarter. In fact, everyone abroad is, I noticed, pathetically stupid. After scientific and military analysis, we found out this is due to lack of "smartness" in other countries, which results in truly utter stupidity.
However we're not egotistical and we've devised a plan to bring our smartness in other countries against their will (since they are too stupid to request it themselves, it's a side effect). As you can assess, it's not about hypocricy at all. It's all about generosity and caring.
Yes, people should have the right to make wrong choices.
What if they are lured and enticed to make those wrong choices?
It's one thing for coke to be sold and it has in big letters "don't drink a bottle of this every day or kiss your health goodbye" like is done (more or less) with cigarrettes.
It's another if you're constantly flooded with ads that represent pepsi as the equivalent "of being cool".
Plus I somehow doubt your own country allows you to make the wrong choice of snorting heroin.
Is modern digital cryptography so easily broken anyway? No.
I don't mind research on quantum tunnels and so on regarding cryptography, but I really wonder: who ever needed it.
BTW, anyone need a noisy stupid mechanical donkey? Oh yea the military do. I swear this is where this is going as well. No general wants someone to sniff his porn traffic.
I have found though, that for newer users especially seniors citizens find alot of what AOL has to offer less intimidating than being let loose on the wilds of the internet
It's so much cosier to sleep in the sh*t we're in right now than try something new, isn't it. Here's another cruel and unpopular view: if AOL is for senior citizens, does it mean AOL will die along with them?
AOL Music Now Launches Music Service!: noone cares
AOL Music Now Relaunches Music Service!: noone cares still
BTW I really enjoy their pink "only works in US" creeping bar.
It's about time music is sold from a single retailer worldwide, online. It's not that we have a local Britney Spears to translate and resing the songs, so what's with that non-sense? Only shows how desperately out of tune with the world the recording/movie industry is.
Your view on genetic algorithms is just plain wrong.
You know I could never figure out why you said my view is "plain wrong", and then went on talking about something that has nothing to do with what I said, or my view on genetic algorithms anyway.
Also genetic algorithms and genetic programming are two different techniques and not the same thing.
First... "preliminary injunction blocking a ban"... We're definitely getting the law system out of hand, people. Let's hope someone doesn't decide to submit a preliminary injunction blocking the preliminary injunction blocking the ban.
Second, paranoia is not exclusive to our 21-st century society.
You probably remember River Raid, a very kewl Atari 2600 game: images So anyway, this game was at the time banned because it makes the player "act in a coldblooded fashion and destroy their enemy without mercy, for scores and not for survival".
That's weird, how humanity didn't cease to exist when those pixel murdering savages grew up to rule the modern world.
Another banned game was Atari Party Pack. I'm not sure. Maybe someone was worried that their kid might receive fun overdose.
Seriously tho' - roblimo's correct. It's an utterly absurd situation. A linux user should not have to change their UA string (illegal in some jurisdictions) just to watch videos. Why the hell isn't the NYT checking flash versions rather than OS anyway?
I thought if something ever runs on Linux without additional configuration, compilation and hacketry, the universe would implode from the created paradox.
I can just imagine life with statistics a million years ago: "Gee, did you notice how most animals have claws they use in their attacks? According to statistics, we can make some of our own with wood..."
Statistics and data mining are both as you call it "buzz words". Let's not spin the discussion into an argument about terms though, right...
But I'm not sure what's more annoying. How NYT cut out Linux users, or that video Linux.com shot which basically went as:
we can see videos on the front page blah blah blah blah blah now we go in the video section *rants* now we go to the front page: we can watch videos blah blah blah now we go in the video section *rants* but we go on the front page: we can watch videos blah blah blah now we go in the columnist's video section *rants*......
repeat for more fun.
or you could've just took that smug toned video of linux.com and just asked NYT nicely to please fix their lame code.
There are two surprisingly simple and "dumb" principles that exist in our world.
The first is called evolution (random mutation, breeding of the fittest) the result of which is basically everything around us, and it has resurfaced in computer programming as genetic programming, which essentially uses random processes and selection to create new inventions, mechanisms and even intelligent virtual creatures.
The second I'll call "intelligent observation". It's basically how animals and people learn everything they know, by observing and applying "what seems to make sense" in other areas of our lives, even without understanding the underlying mechanisms (and how we discovered fire, or tools by observing similar nature mechanisms/animals). This has resurfaced in computer programming as data mining.
Data mining and genetic programming: these two beat any patent, any existing algorithm, because they are not crippled by our limited brain capacity to understand the world around us. Expect a lot more of both in computer science and our lives in the following years.
Someone could modify the original tarball, for example, introducing a trojan horse, and append some other not useful data to it so the sum matches.
That's the neture of hash keys anyway. The security weakness is not into collisions possibly existing, but how fast and feasible it is to find them.
It's a simple logical rule: if you have a 256-bit key, this is 2^256 possible hash combinations. If you put in a folder all possible 257 byte long text files, then each file will have a key that matches a the key of another file in that folder.
Make it a 258 byte file, and you have 4 possible 258-byte long files with the same hash. Now make it a 100kbyte file...
Again, it's not about the fact collisions exist, it's apparent they do, it's whether you can abuse this fact or not. MD5 has been compromised for certain applications, for example, but doesn't make it useless.
I can attest to this. I've spent last 10 years of my life creating the Klingonese version of wikipedia, but there's just no support for it.
Klingons won't even come to Earth and talk with us about it, so most of the content in there is created by Star Trek fans. The problem is even worse when no cross-planet ISP exist that can transmit the content to Klingon so Klingons can browse it.
What use is an encyclopedia when no one can read it or access it?
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And isn't an allegedly democractic nation complaining about what another nation's population has democratically elected, kinda .... hypocritical?
What you're missing is, they're stupid and we're much smarter. In fact, everyone abroad is, I noticed, pathetically stupid. After scientific and military analysis, we found out this is due to lack of "smartness" in other countries, which results in truly utter stupidity.
However we're not egotistical and we've devised a plan to bring our smartness in other countries against their will (since they are too stupid to request it themselves, it's a side effect). As you can assess, it's not about hypocricy at all. It's all about generosity and caring.
Private enterprise is alive and well in Kerala. Kerala also has the highest literacy rate in India (95%) and a lot of technically skilled people.
Oh, that's it buddy!
We'll be jumping in our Stealths and "freeing" every single citizen of Kerala starting tommorow!
And remembers kids: literacy is good, but in moderation.
Yes, people should have the right to make wrong choices.
What if they are lured and enticed to make those wrong choices?
It's one thing for coke to be sold and it has in big letters "don't drink a bottle of this every day or kiss your health goodbye" like is done (more or less) with cigarrettes.
It's another if you're constantly flooded with ads that represent pepsi as the equivalent "of being cool".
Plus I somehow doubt your own country allows you to make the wrong choice of snorting heroin.
like the recent ridiculous coke and pepsi ban
It's so much better when a nation has the right to be sick and obese.
Rights are important. But when you get a heart attack at 35, priorities quickly change.
Without a DRM in place, we are capable of making as many copies of a piece of content as we want and seeding it onto the net.
We'll make all movies with huge resolution, then make Internet tiered and filter video packets, so downloading a 30GB movie takes ages!
And we'll call it... HD DVD and Blue Ray...
Is modern digital cryptography so easily broken anyway? No.
I don't mind research on quantum tunnels and so on regarding cryptography, but I really wonder: who ever needed it.
BTW, anyone need a noisy stupid mechanical donkey? Oh yea the military do. I swear this is where this is going as well. No general wants someone to sniff his porn traffic.
...with all of the chairs being tossed around by Steve Ballmer (according to Slashdot), you'd think that Microsoft ran out of chairs by now.
I swear that tossing chair jokes ARE NOT FUNNY ANYMORE .
From the video:
"I will not share my name on this video to avoid harassment to my family".
From the article:
"Michael De Kort was frustrated."
I have found though, that for newer users especially seniors citizens find alot of what AOL has to offer less intimidating than being let loose on the wilds of the internet
It's so much cosier to sleep in the sh*t we're in right now than try something new, isn't it.
Here's another cruel and unpopular view: if AOL is for senior citizens, does it mean AOL will die along with them?
AOL Music Now Launches Music Service!: noone cares
AOL Music Now Relaunches Music Service!: noone cares still
BTW I really enjoy their pink "only works in US" creeping bar.
It's about time music is sold from a single retailer worldwide, online. It's not that we have a local Britney Spears to translate and resing the songs, so what's with that non-sense? Only shows how desperately out of tune with the world the recording/movie industry is.
So you want all patents gone?
The world is a much better place with patents.
Imagine what fish would do to dolphins in court of they could simply patent fins/tail/body shape.
Dinosaurs would be still around since we'd be paying license fees for walking on two feet.
Ah only if it could be...
Most likely :D Pardon.
Your view on genetic algorithms is just plain wrong.
You know I could never figure out why you said my view is "plain wrong", and then went on talking about something that has nothing to do with what I said, or my view on genetic algorithms anyway.
Also genetic algorithms and genetic programming are two different techniques and not the same thing.
Jesus, check their logo.
intel(r)
core(tm)
inside(tm)
This requires talent. I just hope we don't run out of words we can use seeing how businesses trademark them one by one.
Nope, let me clear it up for you: Apple is not a software vendor, Apple is also not a hardware vendor. Apple is an experience vendor.
In other words, they are good at creating highly marketable, hypable products, but not that good at creating usable products with reasonable prices.
First... "preliminary injunction blocking a ban"... We're definitely getting the law system out of hand, people.
Let's hope someone doesn't decide to submit a preliminary injunction blocking the preliminary injunction blocking the ban.
Second, paranoia is not exclusive to our 21-st century society.
You probably remember River Raid, a very kewl Atari 2600 game: images
So anyway, this game was at the time banned because it makes the player "act in a coldblooded fashion and destroy their enemy without mercy, for scores and not for survival".
That's weird, how humanity didn't cease to exist when those pixel murdering savages grew up to rule the modern world.
Another banned game was Atari Party Pack. I'm not sure. Maybe someone was worried that their kid might receive fun overdose.
Update: 08/28 04:43 GMT by Z : Fixed confusing headline.
You... you did? O_o
I called the 800 number and they immediately said, "you used Firefox, didn't you?". Yes I did and they only support IE.
They only support secure browsers.
Seriously tho' - roblimo's correct. It's an utterly absurd situation. A linux user should not have to change their UA string (illegal in some jurisdictions) just to watch videos. Why the hell isn't the NYT checking flash versions rather than OS anyway?
I thought if something ever runs on Linux without additional configuration, compilation and hacketry, the universe would implode from the created paradox.
"The second I'll call "intelligent observation".
You know, most people would call it statistics
I can just imagine life with statistics a million years ago:
"Gee, did you notice how most animals have claws they use in their attacks? According to statistics, we can make some of our own with wood..."
Statistics and data mining are both as you call it "buzz words". Let's not spin the discussion into an argument about terms though, right...
But I'm not sure what's more annoying. How NYT cut out Linux users, or that video Linux.com shot which basically went as:
... ...
we can see videos on the front page blah blah blah blah blah
now we go in the video section *rants*
now we go to the front page: we can watch videos blah blah blah
now we go in the video section *rants*
but we go on the front page: we can watch videos blah blah blah
now we go in the columnist's video section *rants*
repeat for more fun.
or you could've just took that smug toned video of linux.com and just asked NYT nicely to please fix their lame code.
I would prefer to have the blank media tax, and to just be left alone in peace to do what I want with my media.
Right now they get both of those. Why step down?
There are two surprisingly simple and "dumb" principles that exist in our world.
The first is called evolution (random mutation, breeding of the fittest) the result of which is basically everything around us, and it has resurfaced in computer programming as genetic programming, which essentially uses random processes and selection to create new inventions, mechanisms and even intelligent virtual creatures.
The second I'll call "intelligent observation". It's basically how animals and people learn everything they know, by observing and applying "what seems to make sense" in other areas of our lives, even without understanding the underlying mechanisms (and how we discovered fire, or tools by observing similar nature mechanisms/animals). This has resurfaced in computer programming as data mining.
Data mining and genetic programming: these two beat any patent, any existing algorithm, because they are not crippled by our limited brain capacity to understand the world around us. Expect a lot more of both in computer science and our lives in the following years.
Someone could modify the original tarball, for example, introducing a trojan horse, and append some other not useful data to it so the sum matches.
That's the neture of hash keys anyway. The security weakness is not into collisions possibly existing, but how fast and feasible it is to find them.
It's a simple logical rule: if you have a 256-bit key, this is 2^256 possible hash combinations. If you put in a folder all possible 257 byte long text files, then each file will have a key that matches a the key of another file in that folder.
Make it a 258 byte file, and you have 4 possible 258-byte long files with the same hash. Now make it a 100kbyte file...
Again, it's not about the fact collisions exist, it's apparent they do, it's whether you can abuse this fact or not. MD5 has been compromised for certain applications, for example, but doesn't make it useless.
I can attest to this. I've spent last 10 years of my life creating the Klingonese version of wikipedia, but there's just no support for it.
Klingons won't even come to Earth and talk with us about it, so most of the content in there is created by Star Trek fans.
The problem is even worse when no cross-planet ISP exist that can transmit the content to Klingon so Klingons can browse it.
What use is an encyclopedia when no one can read it or access it?
Oh wait. Why is this a problem again?