I'm going to make a reasonable guess that you took >= 5 years for the PhD. (If you finished in less, please don't be insulted.) This puts you graduating at Spring 2004 or Winter 2003 at the latest.
When I was an undergraduate, I [...] didn't use any of the social networks that were popular back then.
What popular social networks are you talking about? It certainly wasn't facebook.
I'd have lost this bet too. I live in NYC and I would have bet it wouldn't have lasted a day without receiving a shift kick to its ever smiling cardboard face by a crowd rushing to their respective destinations.
The pictures seems to be taken near NYU ( Broadway and Waverly and WSP ). Maybe people who hang around universities are particularly helpful?
From experience, these are relatively calm areas (for NY).
And I don't see evidence of it crossing streets. Is there any evidence of the author trying tougher challenges like union square or handling traffic lights?
And yes, there has been construction off and on 4th and Broadway (2 blocks south of the sidewalk picture) recently.
If there were a lot of suspected offenders of this policy, the good ole head on the pole could solve the problem and be cheaper (and safer) than firing all of them.
While I agree that Apple is arguing that jailbreaking the phone should not be granted exemption, their lawyers do however frequently claim that jailbreaking a phone results in illegal actions. From Apple's reply:
Jailbreaking therefore involves infringing uses of the bootloader and OS, the copyrighted works that are protected by the TPMs being circumvented.
In sum, the jailbreaking of the iPhone that would be permitted by the proposed Class #1 exemption in 5A and 11A would result in infringing uses of copyrighted works.
It would involve the creation, distribution, and copying of unauthorized modified versions of the
bootloader and OS, and it would facilitate and encourage the making, distribution, and use of
infringing copies of copyrighted material such as games and applications, owned by both Apple
and third parties, that run only on jailbroken phones.
Not exactly a long leap to accusation of illegal activity.
When the two overlap (which they mostly do), I prefer "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation" by Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman*
over Sipser's "Intro to Theory of Computation".
http://books.google.com/books?id=pvPeAwAACAAJ
But, say, if it now takes 10 seconds to crack a captcha, it would need to take more than an hour to cost $1 per captcha:-).
Kinda makes one wonder if in the future establishing an online identity will have to be done through some meatspace interactions.
If one had to travel and wait in a line somewhere, it would massively reduce the number of accounts someone could make per day. Say that an attacker has n people willing to help them, what would the effect be of capping people to 30*n accounts per day? Less spam no?
This would also jack the value of the accounts up making attacks to steal or disable large numbers of accounts much more valuable. Compromising computers would also increase in value. There also probably a ton of other concerns (privacy etc.).
Can the thousands of people who are reading Slashdot sign the petition? Sure you're not Aussies, but Australia is not the first country to try something like and it won't be the last.
This seems kinda disingenuous to me.
This petition doesn't seem to require that the person is australian, but it is kinda implied all over the place.
Here is the petition: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
"Senator Conroy,
I don't want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the digital economy and miss the vast majority of unwanted content."
There is more to petitions than bumping the number of "signatures" up.
I'm sure many of us here could code up a script to sign up around 100 email addresses per minute for this website (and contribute ~144,000 thousand signatures per day).* This is not really the point of petitions like these, and could ultimately hurt them if word gets out that a lot of "signatures" are "fake."
So I guess my point is, why not start a petition where it is clear that the people signing it are internationals? Sure each signature doesn't carry the same weight as a local's does, but it isn't a local's signature and it really shouldn't carry the same weight.
Oh and if somebody sets this up/already has set this up, link please.
*If you take a look at the source, for the website it looks quite doable. and lol at the commented out javascript.
It might currently come across as a solution looking for a problem - and as one smart-ass with admin rights to the Google Code project reminds you on the source tab, "more alpha than the greek letter". The initial motivation was performance of downloads and in particular reducing load on kernel.org.
Not convinced this is a good idea yet? Oh don't worry it goes on:
That's one reason d'etre, but to those who argue that is insufficient justification for its existence, that Git is already fast enough - it is a first step towards applying decentralizing Peer to Peer concepts to Git.
BTW, an excellent way to convince someone a project really doesn't have a "reason d'etre" is insisting it has multiple "reason d'etre"s.
If you decentralize the download layer, it's just another small step before you decentralize the push rights and tie it to a web of trust such as PGP, and then you don't actually need discrete mirror sites. Every mirror can track the git repositories the owners want it to carry, and those authorized to sign updates can make signed updates to push the cloud forward.
You had me at performance and distributing bandwidth costs, and probably should have stopped there. Changing ownership of a project from those who control "The Web Site" to those "authorized to sign updates" doesn't do much for me.
And srly, "central choke-point of control"? As the parent suggested, can't just fork and start a project on source forge or google code?
What about someone who is carrying a weapon without their knowledge?
I don't really think someone accidentally taking a knife/gun onto a plane is ever going to do much except freak people out. People "accidentally" taking a knife/gun are a something to worry about. If by weapon you mean bomb, then yah that might be a problem.
But back to the main point, LETS START ON FALSE POSITIVES! I would certainly be willing to bet that the number of them are going to be through the roof. This will drive the day in day out screeners to not care or handle positive cases seriously. The highly motivated attackers will almost certainly be able to take advantage of this, and the makers of the system will probably just lower some digital thresholds to reduce false positives. Between this and just a naturally imperfect system, I'd be willing to bet that the false negative rate is at least 50%, which is basically worthless. (Remember that this is speculation.)
This is just more stopping only the dumb terrorists, more security theater, and a waste of my time at the airport. Yay, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
They even have a slideshow of "OSS alternatives" like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox,Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk.
More people are arrested for marijuana possession in this country than EVERY OTHER VIOLENT CRIME COMBINED!
Minor point, but possession of marijuana isn't a
violent crime.
That said, I am still fairly confident that you are wrong.
Some quotes from the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/):
Nationwide, an estimated 1,408,337 violent crimes occurred in 2007.
Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.8 million arrests**, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2007.
According to this http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/arrests/index.html:
#42.1% percent of drug related arrests are for marijuana possession and
#5.3% marijauna sale/manufacture.
Some simple math from these numbers (by me) puts the # of total marijuana related arrests at ~853,200. This is substantially less than the number of arrests for violent crimes.
Those pesky facts out of the way, 800K marijuana related arrests is a ridiculous waste of resources.
* All of these facts are about arrests, not convictions, not number of crimes, and not the number of people in prison for the offense.
**This does not include alcohol related offenses. There were 1,427,494 drunk driving arrests alone.
Well just because TFA is just that short, here it is in new bold action:
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) â" Facebook has won a $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded users with millions of unsolicited messages about drugs and sex.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel signed the default judgment Friday, resolving a lawsuit that Facebook filed in August against Adam Guerbuez of Montreal and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital.
Facebook alleged that Guerbuez had fooled users into revealing their passwords so he could send out more than 4 million messages that included promotions for marijuana. Guerbuez could not be located for comment.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company predicted the judgment will be difficult to collect, but is hoping that its size discourages future abuses at its site.
So the standard cost of a foreigner sending me spam is ~$200 per message if they don't show up to court?
Also Facebook, please don't file lawsuits that you don't expect to have any direct impact. The courts are busy enough without you.
McAdam said the device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services, so none of Obama's e-mail could have been accessed.
There should be a space between pog and ramming. Back in my day, we used pog "slammers," not "rammers," but you can call 'em whatever you want samzenpus.
Also, I am still confused as to what this has to do with Card Space. Is there a new crossover between pogs and yuugio/magic/pokemon? I hope so. I believe children nationwide will benefit from throwing large chunks of brass at the ground during school.
The problem with a white list is that in order for it be effective it can't have too many false negatives. Having the white list validation program go ape shit over every file that isn't on it isn't all that helpful. I don't really want to have to hit ignore for every file in/home and most of my configuration files.
(To get around this you could just update the white list, but this would have to be done every time a file is edited, but this is too frequent, so what is the right frequency, etc.)
Also white lists will identify when things don't match and allows for quarantine, but it won't help if something needs to be replaced.
Something like deep freeze might be a reasonable alternative (i don't really know) or just archiving backup disk-images.
Beatles songs available on a Rock Band game are likely to be popular, but analysts point out that the challenge will be in reaching out to Beatles fans, many of whom are in their 50s and 60s, and marketing the game in a way that will persuade them to buy a videogame console and try the game.
From the parent:
So I have a thought that this will be a gargantuan marketing flop. I don't see much out there in the way of parents my age that would buy this sort of thing. I could be wrong but even my band mates have indicated that they wouldn't spend money on that.
Everyone I know that has Rock Band is a twenty-something (like myself unsurprisingly), and all of them are going to buy and download a Beatles song for Rock Band. It is always an easy choice to get a song that everyone knows and no one dislikes. Beatles fit this criteria quite nicely.
I'd be surprised if they don't have a fine ROI from just people like myself. No extra marketing or target markets required.
Slashdot Mirror
I have a PhD in Computer Science
I'm going to make a reasonable guess that you took >= 5 years for the PhD. (If you finished in less, please don't be insulted.) This puts you graduating at Spring 2004 or Winter 2003 at the latest.
When I was an undergraduate, I [...] didn't use any of the social networks that were popular back then.
What popular social networks are you talking about? It certainly wasn't facebook.
I'd have lost this bet too. I live in NYC and I would have bet it wouldn't have lasted a day without receiving a shift kick to its ever smiling cardboard face by a crowd rushing to their respective destinations.
The pictures seems to be taken near NYU ( Broadway and Waverly and WSP ). Maybe people who hang around universities are particularly helpful?
From experience, these are relatively calm areas (for NY). And I don't see evidence of it crossing streets. Is there any evidence of the author trying tougher challenges like union square or handling traffic lights?
And yes, there has been construction off and on 4th and Broadway (2 blocks south of the sidewalk picture) recently.
*blink* I dunno what exactly this says about why the car was built, but I think there is an employee at Tesla who needs a hug.
moist-making and grin-producing
experiencing these headphones is akin to having your head oiled and massaged by Mother Nature herself
we-would-genuinely-consider-intercourse-with-these-headphones
Also Nate Lanxon, I am keeping my sennheiser headphones away from you.
If there were a lot of suspected offenders of this policy, the good ole head on the pole could solve the problem and be cheaper (and safer) than firing all of them.
Not exactly a long leap to accusation of illegal activity.
When the two overlap (which they mostly do), I prefer "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, And Computation" by Hopcroft, Motwani, and Ullman* over Sipser's "Intro to Theory of Computation". http://books.google.com/books?id=pvPeAwAACAAJ
But, say, if it now takes 10 seconds to crack a captcha, it would need to take more than an hour to cost $1 per captcha :-).
Kinda makes one wonder if in the future establishing an online identity will have to be done through some meatspace interactions.
If one had to travel and wait in a line somewhere, it would massively reduce the number of accounts someone could make per day. Say that an attacker has n people willing to help them, what would the effect be of capping people to 30*n accounts per day? Less spam no?
This would also jack the value of the accounts up making attacks to steal or disable large numbers of accounts much more valuable. Compromising computers would also increase in value. There also probably a ton of other concerns (privacy etc.).
Can the thousands of people who are reading Slashdot sign the petition? Sure you're not Aussies, but Australia is not the first country to try something like and it won't be the last.
This seems kinda disingenuous to me. This petition doesn't seem to require that the person is australian, but it is kinda implied all over the place.
Here is the petition: http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet/442
"Senator Conroy, I don't want draconian government restrictions on the internet that will hold back the digital economy and miss the vast majority of unwanted content."
There is more to petitions than bumping the number of "signatures" up. I'm sure many of us here could code up a script to sign up around 100 email addresses per minute for this website (and contribute ~144,000 thousand signatures per day).* This is not really the point of petitions like these, and could ultimately hurt them if word gets out that a lot of "signatures" are "fake."
So I guess my point is, why not start a petition where it is clear that the people signing it are internationals? Sure each signature doesn't carry the same weight as a local's does, but it isn't a local's signature and it really shouldn't carry the same weight. Oh and if somebody sets this up/already has set this up, link please.
*If you take a look at the source, for the website it looks quite doable. and lol at the commented out javascript.
It might currently come across as a solution looking for a problem - and as one smart-ass with admin rights to the Google Code project reminds you on the source tab, "more alpha than the greek letter". The initial motivation was performance of downloads and in particular reducing load on kernel.org.
Not convinced this is a good idea yet? Oh don't worry it goes on:
That's one reason d'etre, but to those who argue that is insufficient justification for its existence, that Git is already fast enough - it is a first step towards applying decentralizing Peer to Peer concepts to Git.
BTW, an excellent way to convince someone a project really doesn't have a "reason d'etre" is insisting it has multiple "reason d'etre"s.
If you decentralize the download layer, it's just another small step before you decentralize the push rights and tie it to a web of trust such as PGP, and then you don't actually need discrete mirror sites. Every mirror can track the git repositories the owners want it to carry, and those authorized to sign updates can make signed updates to push the cloud forward.
You had me at performance and distributing bandwidth costs, and probably should have stopped there. Changing ownership of a project from those who control "The Web Site" to those "authorized to sign updates" doesn't do much for me.
And srly, "central choke-point of control"? As the parent suggested, can't just fork and start a project on source forge or google code?
Really, I do it all the time. I have frequently been known to ship a billion billonths at once even. Maybe I should patent this...
What about someone who is carrying a weapon without their knowledge?
I don't really think someone accidentally taking a knife/gun onto a plane is ever going to do much except freak people out. People "accidentally" taking a knife/gun are a something to worry about. If by weapon you mean bomb, then yah that might be a problem.
But back to the main point, LETS START ON FALSE POSITIVES! I would certainly be willing to bet that the number of them are going to be through the roof. This will drive the day in day out screeners to not care or handle positive cases seriously. The highly motivated attackers will almost certainly be able to take advantage of this, and the makers of the system will probably just lower some digital thresholds to reduce false positives. Between this and just a naturally imperfect system, I'd be willing to bet that the false negative rate is at least 50%, which is basically worthless. (Remember that this is speculation.)
This is just more stopping only the dumb terrorists, more security theater, and a waste of my time at the airport. Yay, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
*takes tinfoil hat off*
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/1627257
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/1457236
From http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/01/1555207
They even have a slideshow of "OSS alternatives" like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Firefox,Xen, Pentaho, OpenOffice.org, Drupal, Alfresco, SugarCRM, and Asterisk.
More people are arrested for marijuana possession in this country than EVERY OTHER VIOLENT CRIME COMBINED!
Minor point, but possession of marijuana isn't a violent crime. That said, I am still fairly confident that you are wrong.
Some quotes from the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/):
Nationwide, an estimated 1,408,337 violent crimes occurred in 2007.
Law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations (an estimated 1.8 million arrests**, or 13.0 percent of the total number of arrests) than for any other offense in 2007.
According to this http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2007/arrests/index.html:
#42.1% percent of drug related arrests are for marijuana possession and
#5.3% marijauna sale/manufacture.
Some simple math from these numbers (by me) puts the # of total marijuana related arrests at ~853,200. This is substantially less than the number of arrests for violent crimes.
Those pesky facts out of the way, 800K marijuana related arrests is a ridiculous waste of resources.
* All of these facts are about arrests, not convictions, not number of crimes, and not the number of people in prison for the offense.
**This does not include alcohol related offenses. There were 1,427,494 drunk driving arrests alone.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) â" Facebook has won a $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded users with millions of unsolicited messages about drugs and sex.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel signed the default judgment Friday, resolving a lawsuit that Facebook filed in August against Adam Guerbuez of Montreal and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital.
Facebook alleged that Guerbuez had fooled users into revealing their passwords so he could send out more than 4 million messages that included promotions for marijuana. Guerbuez could not be located for comment.
The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company predicted the judgment will be difficult to collect, but is hoping that its size discourages future abuses at its site.
So the standard cost of a foreigner sending me spam is ~$200 per message if they don't show up to court?
Also Facebook, please don't file lawsuits that you don't expect to have any direct impact. The courts are busy enough without you.
McAdam said the device on the account was a simple voice flip-phone, not a BlackBerry or other smartphone designed for e-mail or other data services, so none of Obama's e-mail could have been accessed.
There should be a space between pog and ramming. Back in my day, we used pog "slammers," not "rammers," but you can call 'em whatever you want samzenpus.
Also, I am still confused as to what this has to do with Card Space. Is there a new crossover between pogs and yuugio/magic/pokemon? I hope so. I believe children nationwide will benefit from throwing large chunks of brass at the ground during school.
It might hit with a thud
Or a squishy "smoosh"
It may make a hole
In President "Boosh"
Too topical?
validate every single file on a workstation.
The problem with a white list is that in order for it be effective it can't have too many false negatives. Having the white list validation program go ape shit over every file that isn't on it isn't all that helpful. I don't really want to have to hit ignore for every file in /home and most of my configuration files.
(To get around this you could just update the white list, but this would have to be done every time a file is edited, but this is too frequent, so what is the right frequency, etc.)
Also white lists will identify when things don't match and allows for quarantine, but it won't help if something needs to be replaced. Something like deep freeze might be a reasonable alternative (i don't really know) or just archiving backup disk-images.
This was a triumph.
Beatles songs available on a Rock Band game are likely to be popular, but analysts point out that the challenge will be in reaching out to Beatles fans, many of whom are in their 50s and 60s, and marketing the game in a way that will persuade them to buy a videogame console and try the game.
From the parent:
So I have a thought that this will be a gargantuan marketing flop. I don't see much out there in the way of parents my age that would buy this sort of thing. I could be wrong but even my band mates have indicated that they wouldn't spend money on that.
Everyone I know that has Rock Band is a twenty-something (like myself unsurprisingly), and all of them are going to buy and download a Beatles song for Rock Band. It is always an easy choice to get a song that everyone knows and no one dislikes. Beatles fit this criteria quite nicely.
I'd be surprised if they don't have a fine ROI from just people like myself. No extra marketing or target markets required.
Microsoft knows cloud computing will be a joke.
And on the off chance cloud computing just happens to be popular, Microsoft wants to make sure people keep sending me .doc/docx files.
And remember kids because of vidaa games
[c]omputer science can be fun.
I wake up and what do I see first thing? That there is a problem with Debian's OpenSSH package and the
Now I am thinking, "What exactly is going on here? Is choking on a bucket of cocks not a good source of randomness?"