I did start writing a long and involved reply to this. But, I have had so many discussions about the authenticity of scriptures with christians (I am assuming you are a christian) that I know exactly the path of this discussion.
We will either end up agreeing to diagree (You are a believer and I am not) or we will end up going on an on arguiing finer and finer points and it will inevitably end up in both of us becoming abusive.
Sorry, if you were rooting for a good argument, but at the moment I am not. Perhaps at a later date.
One type of captcha that could work is asirra where they use images from petfinder.com, display 12 of them and ask them to click on all of the cats. A computer finds this extra-ordinarilly difficult as the fur is very simmilar and the cats and dogs are all in different poses and all the lighting conditions are different, but a human can distinguish them very clearly.
OK, so I know it's microsoft and why aren't they using it on hotmail already, but I think it's the right direction for Captchas.
... I am unaware of any major religious group which considers the New Testament to consist of a different set of books...
The Catholic Church uses the Jerusalem Bible, there is the Apochryphal New Testament and there are also various versions of the New Testament used in protestant Churches (Anything from the King James Version, to the Good News Version and various others in between)
... All of the documents used in the New Testament were written by the end of the 1st Century AD...
Great, can you tell me where I can view these documents? Presumably if they were used to write the New Testament, they must be somewhere. Also, which version of the New Testemant are you talking about?
Just had a thought. Either the documents still exist, in which case there is no need for the New Testament. Or they don't, in which case the New Testament is un-verifiable.
The quickest way (that would work, anyway) is actuall the old slow method. When you have an idea. jot it on a piece of paper and snail mail it to yourself, making sure you don't open it when you recieve it back. The post mark will confirm the date. (If you do this lots put some code on the back of the envelope that tells you which idea is inside).
... Google is not a "no bit shall fail" environment....
Technically correct, but it is designed on a network (exactly the same type of network as the internet but smaller). The internet was designed to overcome failures by finding other routes etc...
If your mainframe does ever fail (and surely more will as they get older), then you are truly screwed. By fail, I don't mean bits dropping here and there, I mean the mainframe falling over.
Presumably if some ducks got caught in the ice which then melted, some are still in the ice and, maybe, in 1000 years or so, someone may find a rubber duck from a newly melted iceberg.
Also, quantum computers basically give you every possible answer which you would still have to search through to find the right answer.
It's like me having a password that is an 8 digit hexadecimal number, then me giving you a DVD with 4.3 billion possible combinations of 8 hex numbers and saying my password is in there, hack my system.
I thought even encrypting messages was illegal in the US. Wasn't there a whole thing with the guy that wrote the original PGP source code and he was arrested for entering the US with a T-shirt that had a barcode on it that when read into the scanner gave you the source code for PGP software?
Technically, Kryptonite should be an oxide of Krypton (given the -ite extension). However, Kryptonite is one of then most unreactive elements in the periodic table and it is very unlikely that it exists in nature at all.
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That only works with a relatively small number of images. However, the pet site has millions of images with a turnover of 100s or 1000s per day.
Except when using Prolog
. That was always the complete head mincer at Uni.I did start writing a long and involved reply to this. But, I have had so many discussions about the authenticity of scriptures with christians (I am assuming you are a christian) that I know exactly the path of this discussion.
We will either end up agreeing to diagree (You are a believer and I am not) or we will end up going on an on arguiing finer and finer points and it will inevitably end up in both of us becoming abusive.
Sorry, if you were rooting for a good argument, but at the moment I am not. Perhaps at a later date.
Wasn't there some guy that got revenge by finding a spammer's home address and subscribing him to every snail mailing list he could think of?
One type of captcha that could work is asirra where they use images from petfinder.com, display 12 of them and ask them to click on all of the cats. A computer finds this extra-ordinarilly difficult as the fur is very simmilar and the cats and dogs are all in different poses and all the lighting conditions are different, but a human can distinguish them very clearly.
OK, so I know it's microsoft and why aren't they using it on hotmail already, but I think it's the right direction for Captchas.
The Catholic Church uses the Jerusalem Bible, there is the Apochryphal New Testament and there are also various versions of the New Testament used in protestant Churches (Anything from the King James Version, to the Good News Version and various others in between)
Great, can you tell me where I can view these documents? Presumably if they were used to write the New Testament, they must be somewhere. Also, which version of the New Testemant are you talking about?
Just had a thought. Either the documents still exist, in which case there is no need for the New Testament. Or they don't, in which case the New Testament is un-verifiable.
The quickest way (that would work, anyway) is actuall the old slow method. When you have an idea. jot it on a piece of paper and snail mail it to yourself, making sure you don't open it when you recieve it back. The post mark will confirm the date. (If you do this lots put some code on the back of the envelope that tells you which idea is inside).
Technically correct, but it is designed on a network (exactly the same type of network as the internet but smaller). The internet was designed to overcome failures by finding other routes etc...
If your mainframe does ever fail (and surely more will as they get older), then you are truly screwed. By fail, I don't mean bits dropping here and there, I mean the mainframe falling over.
A Country and Western number called "The Long Lonely Road".
First Line:
It's a long lonely road
In the lifetime of a trucker
By dismissing anything "bad" done by other people that call themselves christian, that leaves you looking squeaky clean. That's convenient!
Presumably if some ducks got caught in the ice which then melted, some are still in the ice and, maybe, in 1000 years or so, someone may find a rubber duck from a newly melted iceberg.
10-4 rubber ducky
RTFA. The Judge was called Jacqueline
Don't you have "chip and pin" in the US?
Really, you own a gang that are hyper? I think the word you were looking for is livelihood. :-)
Also, quantum computers basically give you every possible answer which you would still have to search through to find the right answer.
It's like me having a password that is an 8 digit hexadecimal number, then me giving you a DVD with 4.3 billion possible combinations of 8 hex numbers and saying my password is in there, hack my system.
I thought even encrypting messages was illegal in the US. Wasn't there a whole thing with the guy that wrote the original PGP source code and he was arrested for entering the US with a T-shirt that had a barcode on it that when read into the scanner gave you the source code for PGP software?
ahem, there is a reason they are called public keys.
Move on, nothing to see here.
IMAX cinemas have been using this technology for 3D movies for a number of years now.
Technically, Kryptonite should be an oxide of Krypton (given the -ite extension). However, Kryptonite is one of then most unreactive elements in the periodic table and it is very unlikely that it exists in nature at all.
Hardly a spoiler!
Shouldn't that be:
1: You are to intelligent to buy a Mac
or
2: You are to stupid to use Linux.
Ermm, no-one I've seen post here is actually in favour of terrorism, and I am definitely not in favour of terrorism.
However, I am in favour of accepting that "Western" governments are just as capable of attrocities as any other group of people.
Matrix?
Cuba elected their leader.