On his page he claims that his page is Open Source. If that's true, then I should be able to take his entire page, modify it slightly so that it says "Al Gore Sucks" and put it on my own web site.
http://www.algore2000.com/getinvolved/index.html says "In the spirit of the Open Source movement, we have established the Gore 2000 Volunteer Source Code Project. www.algore2000.com is an "open site". "
Then he goes on to say on http://www.algore2000.com/getinvolved/legal_notice .html that "Only individuals acting as volunteers may participate in source code volunteer efforts. No individual may be paid for their efforts. When submitting your source code, please provide your name, address (mailing address and e-mail address), occupation and the name of your employer.
By submitting this source code you warrant that the code is your original product and you have not reproduced, counterfeited, copied or colorably imitated any, copyright trademark, or service mark or violated any federal or state law.
Further, this source code is not being submitted by a company, business, labor union or other organization, or any federal, state or municipal agency and has not been produced using the facilities of any such groups."
Al Gore is mocking the Open Source concept by calling his page Open Source. It clearly is not. He should fear the power of the Penguin!
Al Gore offends Open Source fans by mocking the concept on his campaign web page. He offends internet users by claiming that he invented the internet.
On the other hand, G.W. Bush offends free thinkers by announcing that he wants religous organizations to take a larger part in government programs, and might directly tax dollars to those programs.
What is the best way to let these candidates know that their current positions are counter-productive? I want someone to say clearly that they will increase NASA's budget over the next 4 years.
The simple answer is NO it is NOT possible to build a virus defense program that is capable of recognizing all viral programs.
This would be the same as solving Turing's Halting problem.
That said, it is possible to build a program that would detect SOME viral programs. In the end, that might be all that we need.
Also of some interest is the fact that biological immune systems also don't recognize unknown agents at first either, for the same reason. If a new infection comes into the body, some damage needs to be done first before the immune system is alerted. Once that happens, anti-bodies that can recognize future infections are built.
are so two dimensional. Why have land when you can have space? The interior of the earth is underpopulated in my opinion. Rather than asking for a 20 square meter plot of land, they should ask for a 20x20x20 meter cube of space inside the planet. That would hold more servers because it would be 8000 cubic meters.
Hey! We want to help! The man said that he's drinking from a firehose of data.
We have a little idea about how we can help you analyze the information. See if you can get distributed.net to take your project. Some of us wanted to be scientists when we grew up, but we became computer programmers instead. That doesn't mean that we ever gave up the dream. I'd love to contribute cycles to this project.
The telescope itself is working perfectly, but it isn't cold enough.
There's two things that I can think of, and I'm not sure which applies here. Maybe both of these reasons apply.
The first is keeping the photon detectors cold enough so that electronic noise doesn't wipe out the image. If you've read about sidewinder missles that track heat from airplanes, then you would have read that they carry a store of a cryogenic fluid (liquid nitrogen??) to cool the detector. That's because at room temperatures there's enough energy to cause atoms in the detector to jump back and forth between high and low energy states. Looking at that on a display would be like looking at a snowy picture. Cooling the detector down stops that random jumping around, and atoms only move to the higher energy state when a photon hits them. The picture would be cleared up.
The second reason is that the telescope itself emits infrared radiation, and that emission from the telescope itself would cause the image to be washed out completely. If you can cool the telescope down with liquid hydrogen then the very very faint infrared sources won't be washed out by the heat from the telescope. As an analogy, imagine how bad the image would be if you mounted flashlights inside an optical telescope and tried to look at stars. You wouldn't see anything.
This will keep people from modifying their system.
As a joke I occasionally threaten to make a system called "Gnulix" which in my mind should be implemented with a Linux kernel, the TCL libraries, and a TCL intepreter.
All of the system utilities will be written in pure TCL, and the shell will be tclsh.
If I have such a perverted system I don't want some application installer bitching about it.
I doubt that this is true. I was looking at Slashdot at the time things started screwing up and I didn't see any hacked page. I think it was just one of those programming errors that happen every once in a while.
A good friend of mine from the Netherlands told me his mother was worried about him coming to the States. She thought it would be similar to "Mad Max" or something.
My mother is from Jamaica. When she came to the U.S. in the 1960's to go to college she was amazed that there was actually wide open spaces with farms and cows. She was expecting to see something like Manhattan. Hehhehehehe.
The moral of the story is that the U.S. is pretty much like everywhere else. I wonder if you've lived anywhere else? I have - The Netherlands, Sweden, as well as good ol' U-S-of-A. There are nice places everywhere you go.
Nonsense. Planets out in the solar system are moving very slowly compared to the earth.
All you'd need to do is alter the orbit enough so the peregee is 93,000,000 miles or so and you could reach earth.
Just figure out when the distance from the sun is 93,000,000 miles, and time it just right so that the Earth is in that same spot at the same time.
To accomplish this feat, you'd actually have to slow down which would lower your solar orbit. Speeding up would raise your solar orbit or even send you out of the solar system.
I like to think of distributed net in the same context as the NASA Deep Space 1 mission that just flew by comet Braille.
-DN (distributed.net) has had it's share of glitches and trouble, but now it represents a technology that we can apply to other problems. -DS1 has had a few glitches of its own. The ION engine wouldn't start properly, and then it mysteriously started working after a while. Of course, we figured out what was wrong, and that seems to be a normal characteristic of brand new ION engines. Overall, the DS1 ION engine has operated for 1800 hours, vindicating the original concept.
-DN tackles a current political issue, but the problem is technically boring. Cryptology is hot in the news today, but we all know the outcome of the DN problem. We'll find the key. But along the way we will learn a great deal about how to build vastly distributed programs running with donated computer time. -DS1 also tackeled a current political issue, but it was essentially boring. DS1 flew by astroid Braille. Asteroids are in the news, but DS1 was so far away from it that the asteroid occupied only 4 pixels in the CCD. It also appears that there was a problem with the tracking system, so there might not be any better photos. Boring! But we're learning a tremendous amount about how to build spacecraft that can automatically perform their own navigation.
SETI at Home's biggest mistake is that they re-invented the wheel and made all the mistakes they would have avoided if they'd had some help. They have the right problem. We're all interested in finding alien life. But they could learned something from the distributed net people.
What the guy means is that in our parent's generation the important guy in town was the doctor, and everyone respected him because he had a lot of earning power.
Now that geeks make a lot of money too suddenly we will all find ourself awash in babes.
I want to see "Snow Crash" as a movie please. It's the only cyberpunk that I've ever read that doesn't feel like a kiddie book. I'm not interested in cyber-sex, or teenage fantasies. I'm not interested in suspending my disbelief too much.
Can someone recommend other cyberpunk books that are written for people who know something about computers and appreciate plausible technical details?
If mods always win they why the hell was one getting chased around by a gang of leather clad rockers?
This is sweet news. I discovered the Who when I was in 10th grade (I know, a late bloomer) and instantly they were my favorite band. Even now when I put in Tommy or Quadrophrenia I cannot do anything else but sing along with Daltry at the top of my lungs. I don't care if I can't sing because I just like doing it. My favorite song of all time is "Cut My Hair."
"And in what the false prophets called the last days, nether peoples reviled the primary key as a mark of the normalization. But as it was in the beginning, before the first form, Dodd looked out across creation and announced the database to be good, because it was pleasing to him.
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On his page he claims that his page is Open Source. If that's true, then I should be able to take his entire page, modify it slightly so that it says "Al Gore Sucks" and put it on my own web site.
l says "In the spirit of the Open Source movement, we have established the Gore 2000 Volunteer Source Code Project. www.algore2000.com is an "open site". "
e .html that "Only individuals acting as volunteers may participate in source code volunteer efforts. No individual may be paid for their efforts. When submitting your source code, please provide your name, address (mailing address and e-mail address), occupation and the name of your employer.
http://www.algore2000.com/getinvolved/index.htm
Then he goes on to say on http://www.algore2000.com/getinvolved/legal_notic
By submitting this source code you warrant that the code is your original product and you have not reproduced, counterfeited, copied or colorably imitated any, copyright trademark, or service mark or violated any federal or state law.
Further, this source code is not being submitted by a company, business, labor union or other organization, or any federal, state or municipal agency and has not been produced using the facilities of any such groups."
Al Gore is mocking the Open Source concept by calling his page Open Source. It clearly is not.
He should fear the power of the Penguin!
Al Gore offends Open Source fans by mocking the concept on his campaign web page. He offends internet users by claiming that he invented the internet.
On the other hand, G.W. Bush offends free thinkers by announcing that he wants religous organizations to take a larger part in government programs, and might directly tax dollars to those programs.
What is the best way to let these candidates know that their current positions are counter-productive? I want someone to say clearly that they will increase NASA's budget over the next 4 years.
Heh heh!
By your comments I guess that you are not married, right?
Science magazine is a pay subscription site. Boo! I guess probably no cypherpunks/cypherpunks for us.
You can peruse the table of contents for free though, and the article is currently on the site.
Yes, but C programs under Windows cannot be ANSI standard programs.
ANSI says you gotta have an int main in the front, not some stupid winmain thing.
I know, I know, there's a real main somewhere in the libraries, but I want to see it myself.
You are presuming that people can detect patterns!
Humans cannot detect all patterns. Humans can detect SOME patterns and that's all that machines can do too.
The simple answer is NO it is NOT possible to build a virus defense program that is capable of recognizing all viral programs.
This would be the same as solving Turing's Halting problem.
That said, it is possible to build a program that would detect SOME viral programs. In the end, that might be all that we need.
Also of some interest is the fact that biological immune systems also don't recognize unknown agents at first either, for the same reason. If a new infection comes into the body, some damage needs to be done first before the immune system is alerted. Once that happens, anti-bodies that can recognize future infections are built.
How much does one cost? Roughly.
are so two dimensional. Why have land when you can have space? The interior of the earth is underpopulated in my opinion. Rather than asking for a 20 square meter plot of land, they should ask for a 20x20x20 meter cube of space inside the planet. That would hold more servers because it would be 8000 cubic meters.
Hey! We want to help! The man said that he's drinking from a firehose of data.
We have a little idea about how we can help you analyze the information. See if you can get distributed.net to take your project. Some of us wanted to be scientists when we grew up, but we became computer programmers instead. That doesn't mean that we ever gave up the dream. I'd love to contribute cycles to this project.
The telescope itself is working perfectly, but it isn't cold enough.
There's two things that I can think of, and I'm not sure which applies here. Maybe both of these reasons apply.
The first is keeping the photon detectors cold enough so that electronic noise doesn't wipe out the image. If you've read about sidewinder missles that track heat from airplanes, then you would have read that they carry a store of a cryogenic fluid (liquid nitrogen??) to cool the detector. That's because at room temperatures there's enough energy to cause atoms in the detector to jump back and forth between high and low energy states. Looking at that on a display would be like looking at a snowy picture. Cooling the detector down stops that random jumping around, and atoms only move to the higher energy state when a photon hits them. The picture would be cleared up.
The second reason is that the telescope itself emits infrared radiation, and that emission from the telescope itself would cause the image to be washed out completely. If you can cool the telescope down with liquid hydrogen then the very very faint infrared sources won't be washed out by the heat from the telescope. As an analogy, imagine how bad the image would be if you mounted flashlights inside an optical telescope and tried to look at stars. You wouldn't see anything.
But, isn't Webster an American dictionary?
The plot grows thicker and thicker...
This will keep people from modifying their system.
As a joke I occasionally threaten to make a system called "Gnulix" which in my mind should be implemented with a Linux kernel, the TCL libraries, and a TCL intepreter.
All of the system utilities will be written in pure TCL, and the shell will be tclsh.
If I have such a perverted system I don't want some application installer bitching about it.
I doubt that this is true. I was looking at Slashdot at the time things started screwing up and I didn't see any hacked page. I think it was just one of those programming errors that happen every once in a while.
Are you sure it wasn't a FOAF?
A good friend of mine from the Netherlands told me his mother was worried about him coming to the States. She thought it would be similar to "Mad Max" or something.
My mother is from Jamaica. When she came to the U.S. in the 1960's to go to college she was amazed that there was actually wide open spaces with farms and cows. She was expecting to see something like Manhattan. Hehhehehehe.
The moral of the story is that the U.S. is pretty much like everywhere else. I wonder if you've lived anywhere else? I have - The Netherlands, Sweden, as well as good ol' U-S-of-A. There are nice places everywhere you go.
Shut up man! You're messing up the conspiracy!
We cannot take over the earth unless we make slaves of the intelligent people on Slashdot.
Oops, I meant to say that I agree with you!
He heh. Should have read what your wrote first.
Nonsense. Planets out in the solar system are moving very slowly compared to the earth.
All you'd need to do is alter the orbit enough so the peregee is 93,000,000 miles or so and you could reach earth.
Just figure out when the distance from the sun is 93,000,000 miles, and time it just right so that the Earth is in that same spot at the same time.
To accomplish this feat, you'd actually have to slow down which would lower your solar orbit. Speeding up would raise your solar orbit or even send you out of the solar system.
I like to think of distributed net in the same context as the NASA Deep Space 1 mission that just flew by comet Braille.
-DN (distributed.net) has had it's share of glitches and trouble, but now it represents a technology that we can apply to other problems.
-DS1 has had a few glitches of its own. The ION engine wouldn't start properly, and then it mysteriously started working after a while. Of course, we figured out what was wrong, and that seems to be a normal characteristic of brand new ION engines. Overall, the DS1 ION engine has operated for 1800 hours, vindicating the original concept.
-DN tackles a current political issue, but the problem is technically boring. Cryptology is hot in the news today, but we all know the outcome of the DN problem. We'll find the key. But along the way we will learn a great deal about how to build vastly distributed programs running with donated computer time.
-DS1 also tackeled a current political issue, but it was essentially boring. DS1 flew by astroid Braille. Asteroids are in the news, but DS1 was so far away from it that the asteroid occupied only 4 pixels in the CCD. It also appears that there was a problem with the tracking system, so there might not be any better photos. Boring! But we're learning a tremendous amount about how to build spacecraft that can automatically perform their own navigation.
SETI at Home's biggest mistake is that they re-invented the wheel and made all the mistakes they would have avoided if they'd had some help. They have the right problem. We're all interested in finding alien life. But they could learned something from the distributed net people.
As a side note on that, all the Borland manuals had a page in the front indicating that the manual was written using Scribe.
I never saw Scribe, but if it was good enough to write a book with more than 2 fonts, then you could probably use it for almost anything.
What the guy means is that in our parent's generation the important guy in town was the doctor, and everyone respected him because he had a lot of earning power.
Now that geeks make a lot of money too suddenly we will all find ourself awash in babes.
That's how I interpret the article.
I want to see "Snow Crash" as a movie please. It's the only cyberpunk that I've ever read that doesn't feel like a kiddie book. I'm not interested in cyber-sex, or teenage fantasies. I'm not interested in suspending my disbelief too much.
Can someone recommend other cyberpunk books that are written for people who know something about computers and appreciate plausible technical details?
If mods always win they why the hell was one getting chased around by a gang of leather clad rockers?
This is sweet news. I discovered the Who when I was in 10th grade (I know, a late bloomer) and instantly they were my favorite band. Even now when I put in Tommy or Quadrophrenia I cannot do anything else but sing along with Daltry at the top of my lungs. I don't care if I can't sing because I just like doing it. My favorite song of all time is "Cut My Hair."
If I was to go into battle, rather than carry some M&M's in case I get shot, I'd take a nice leggy blond instead.
That way SHE can carry enough M&M's for everyone.
Check out Dodd 69:13,
"And in what the false prophets called the last days, nether peoples reviled the primary key as a mark of the normalization. But as it was in the beginning, before the first form, Dodd looked out across creation and announced the database to be good, because it was pleasing to him.