I would have thought it should be text'ing since it the combination text and messaging just like do and not create don't. The characters omitted are replaced with an apostrophe.
Then again, writting and grammer is the last thing I should be writting about.
I don't know the answers to your questions but hopefully you are correct about this being "multiple copies from the few actual abuses." This is exactly how the database is supposed to work. First a picture is identified as child porn, and then its hash is added to the database. From here, the plan is that every time AOL detects the transmission of an image (email, regular isp traffic, and aol instant messenger are eventually all planned to be handled in real time eventually) they will perform the same hash on the image and check if it is already in the database. If it is in the database, then the case is given to the proper authorities for investigation. I would imagine that AOL would send the intercepted image (not its hash) to the authorities so that there is solid information that can be used in court, not just "6a204bd89f3c8348afd5c77c717a097a". The reason I began this post stating that I hope you are correct about this being "multiple copies from the few actual abuses" is that this system would not work very well if we find out that most child porn transmissions are new content. If a high portion of child porn is only transmit once or is all transmit in such a short period of time that it hasn't been added to the database yet, then these will not be detected.
And to tie up some loose ends before people jump on me:
The database is not going to hold the actual pictures and thus be breaking any laws -- it will be holding some sort of hash of these pictures.
Hopefully, this hash will be independent of the way in which the data is encoded. Converting a known child porn.jpg to.png should not trick the system.
Many others will argue that we underestimate criminals and they will just start putting the images in.zip and.rar. This is true, although as long as the.zip or.rar isn't encrypted with an unknown key it is pretty easy for software to go inside the archive and check to see if anything inside is an image -- even if the criminal tried renaming image1.jpg to chapter1.doc it will still be easily detected as an image. Gmail already is able to unzip and allow the person receiving an email to choose to download any file from within the zip without the entire archive -- pretty neat!
And lastly, many people argue that the criminals will simply change one pixel or otherwise modify the image so that its hash value is different. This could very well be the case, I would hope that this hashing algorithm is more advanced than just an md5 or such. It should be a hash the describes the image and not the file contents. Much like how the government has algorithms that can, given a satellite image, identify accurately what kind of car that is on the street or if the thing in that guy's arms is a rocket launcher. These algorithms work by searching a database containing known unique identifiers of items and if multiple of these identifiers are found, it is flagged.
I stated that the process begins with an image being identified as being child porn. I shrugged this off as if it is a simple step, however, it is probably the most important and difficult one. Computer algorithms aren't to this point yet. We would need to get these images from ruled court cases or someone that is highly qualified to identify these -- we don't want false positives/negatives in this database.
Another base to cover is the step where the crime-fighting ISP is contacting the authorities due to a hit. I proposed that they should send the agency the image so that there is some real evidence against the criminal. If the image data is not kept, there is no way to prove that the image he sent/received wasn't just a collision in the hashing algorithm. There are two problems with this transmission. 1) It could be intercepted by yet another child porn distributor. He/she may setup a server between aol and the fbi (or whoever) and have a hayday with all the images intercepted. 2) Reproducing this image is strictly against the law. Now way to get around this other than changing the law to state that ISPs are allowed to send child pornography to authorities A, B, C...etc.
It seems one the the largest struggles with css and web page layout desinging in general is getting it to work as you would expect in all browsers. Currently, if you want to add or change an existing standard, the only way is to hope that all the browsers correctly integrate the changes in a reasonable time frame. Have you ever looked into alternatives such that all the changes could be made in one place and from there all the browsers could 'sync' to the new standards. Maybe the standards could be coded as some sort of plugin that all browsers would be built around and that could be automatically updated easily?
Is this feasable? Is this more feasable than expecting every browser (including Internet Explorer) to get things right?
I like your reasoning about low costs to shove out more content using the same engine, hell, thats all everquest has been doing with expansions for the last what (5-6 years?)
However, I think one problem they would need to figure out is how to prevent competing with themselves. One of the largest addictions to these mmorpgs is that so many people play the game with you and when new games come out that draw some of the community (including your online friends) away it starts to make you get bored and sick of the game even if there is plenty of content and the graphics are still good enough.
To prevent this from happening they would either need to offer online subscriptions that are affordable (much more than eq1 + eq2 subscription) or even just make all of those games use the same subscription, however, you may only log on to one game at a time per account.
Two years ago was the first I had heard of wide use of these kinds of drugs by students. My professor (who was a very down to earth and trustworthy guy) asked his entire class of 500 if anyone there was using adderall that wasn't perscribed to him/her. About 3 or 4 students in the first 5 rows raised thier hands. He talked with a few of them and the general consensus was that it helped them focus and concentrate without notable side effects. He then asked the entire class again who knew someone that was using unperscribed adderall and ten times as many hands went up -- maybe users who were too embarassed to raise the first time he asked or maybe it really was just someone they knew.
As for me, would I use drugs to get an edge and be able to study more in less time? Yeah, and I do. Not perscription drugs but I have a hopeless addiction to caffine (Pepsi/Mtn Dew only... no pills) and I don't really see adderall as much different (except its probably more expensive and has health consiquences.) If I didn't have any caffine all day I would likely be ready for a nap by 6pm or need to go to sleep at 10. I myself don't plan on ever using adderall or other perscriptions -- mainly because I don't want to build a dependance on this (not physical but emmotional.)
Do I care if my fellow classmates are using them? Do I personally feel threatened by adderall using students? Not at all. I have a drive to learn everything that I'm in college for and adderall isn't going to help anyone compete with me in that way unless they already could without it. I'm spending my summer away from home and friends just to keep my tech job on campus and when I get home from work at 5:30 I sit down at my computer and start working on the coding project i'm doing in my free time. I really love doing this stuff. The adderall may give my competition 25% more per mindless studying session but it isn't going to make them want to study computer science in thier free time and spend nights considering the advantages of data structure A over B.
I'll continue abusing caffine, Microsoft will continue to give out free drinks in every building, and a minority of my classmates will continue abusing adderall regardless of what gets posted here.
Re:1. When you subscribe to a newspaper you understand that the articles are just reports prepaired by possibly biased people. In many cities the newspaper staff do their best to be non-biased and as such, they have a good reputation. Also, as far as I know, if you were to ask any of the forementioned newspapers about their policy of blocked content, they would share it with you (and if not then you have a red flag to not subscribe.) Thier only motive to be non-biased is to help their reputation and therefore increase sales. However, when people subscribed to the internet they expected to be able to have access to any website that is available (lets ignore government imposed censorship (ie china) for now.)
So what you are saying is that next time the KKK (or the mothers against child abuse organization for that matter) wants to have a rally/deminstration the government gives them the right to do so however, the government could also force them to do it inside of a black soundproof structure with the audience on the outside?
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There is a good full write-up of the WWDC here: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/live-from-wwdc- 2006-steve-jobs-keynote/
I would have thought it should be text'ing since it the combination text and messaging just like do and not create don't. The characters omitted are replaced with an apostrophe. Then again, writting and grammer is the last thing I should be writting about.
I don't know the answers to your questions but hopefully you are correct about this being "multiple copies from the few actual abuses." This is exactly how the database is supposed to work. First a picture is identified as child porn, and then its hash is added to the database. From here, the plan is that every time AOL detects the transmission of an image (email, regular isp traffic, and aol instant messenger are eventually all planned to be handled in real time eventually) they will perform the same hash on the image and check if it is already in the database. If it is in the database, then the case is given to the proper authorities for investigation. I would imagine that AOL would send the intercepted image (not its hash) to the authorities so that there is solid information that can be used in court, not just "6a204bd89f3c8348afd5c77c717a097a". The reason I began this post stating that I hope you are correct about this being "multiple copies from the few actual abuses" is that this system would not work very well if we find out that most child porn transmissions are new content. If a high portion of child porn is only transmit once or is all transmit in such a short period of time that it hasn't been added to the database yet, then these will not be detected.
And to tie up some loose ends before people jump on me:
It seems one the the largest struggles with css and web page layout desinging in general is getting it to work as you would expect in all browsers. Currently, if you want to add or change an existing standard, the only way is to hope that all the browsers correctly integrate the changes in a reasonable time frame. Have you ever looked into alternatives such that all the changes could be made in one place and from there all the browsers could 'sync' to the new standards. Maybe the standards could be coded as some sort of plugin that all browsers would be built around and that could be automatically updated easily?
Is this feasable? Is this more feasable than expecting every browser (including Internet Explorer) to get things right?
I like your reasoning about low costs to shove out more content using the same engine, hell, thats all everquest has been doing with expansions for the last what (5-6 years?)
However, I think one problem they would need to figure out is how to prevent competing with themselves. One of the largest addictions to these mmorpgs is that so many people play the game with you and when new games come out that draw some of the community (including your online friends) away it starts to make you get bored and sick of the game even if there is plenty of content and the graphics are still good enough.
To prevent this from happening they would either need to offer online subscriptions that are affordable (much more than eq1 + eq2 subscription) or even just make all of those games use the same subscription, however, you may only log on to one game at a time per account.
Two years ago was the first I had heard of wide use of these kinds of drugs by students. My professor (who was a very down to earth and trustworthy guy) asked his entire class of 500 if anyone there was using adderall that wasn't perscribed to him/her. About 3 or 4 students in the first 5 rows raised thier hands. He talked with a few of them and the general consensus was that it helped them focus and concentrate without notable side effects. He then asked the entire class again who knew someone that was using unperscribed adderall and ten times as many hands went up -- maybe users who were too embarassed to raise the first time he asked or maybe it really was just someone they knew. As for me, would I use drugs to get an edge and be able to study more in less time? Yeah, and I do. Not perscription drugs but I have a hopeless addiction to caffine (Pepsi/Mtn Dew only ... no pills) and I don't really see adderall as much different (except its probably more expensive and has health consiquences.) If I didn't have any caffine all day I would likely be ready for a nap by 6pm or need to go to sleep at 10. I myself don't plan on ever using adderall or other perscriptions -- mainly because I don't want to build a dependance on this (not physical but emmotional.)
Do I care if my fellow classmates are using them? Do I personally feel threatened by adderall using students? Not at all. I have a drive to learn everything that I'm in college for and adderall isn't going to help anyone compete with me in that way unless they already could without it. I'm spending my summer away from home and friends just to keep my tech job on campus and when I get home from work at 5:30 I sit down at my computer and start working on the coding project i'm doing in my free time. I really love doing this stuff. The adderall may give my competition 25% more per mindless studying session but it isn't going to make them want to study computer science in thier free time and spend nights considering the advantages of data structure A over B.
I'll continue abusing caffine, Microsoft will continue to give out free drinks in every building, and a minority of my classmates will continue abusing adderall regardless of what gets posted here.
Re:1. When you subscribe to a newspaper you understand that the articles are just reports prepaired by possibly biased people. In many cities the newspaper staff do their best to be non-biased and as such, they have a good reputation. Also, as far as I know, if you were to ask any of the forementioned newspapers about their policy of blocked content, they would share it with you (and if not then you have a red flag to not subscribe.) Thier only motive to be non-biased is to help their reputation and therefore increase sales. However, when people subscribed to the internet they expected to be able to have access to any website that is available (lets ignore government imposed censorship (ie china) for now.)
So what you are saying is that next time the KKK (or the mothers against child abuse organization for that matter) wants to have a rally/deminstration the government gives them the right to do so however, the government could also force them to do it inside of a black soundproof structure with the audience on the outside?
Does this mean that I might be able to get wireless working without ndiswrapper in the near future?