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August 13th, 2004

greylisting: new antispam antics [Aug. 13th, 2004|05:04 pm]

From the Geylisting.org site:

Greylisting is a new weapon to use against spam in this great war being waged upon it. With this new shielding method, by which you may block out huge amounts of spam, you are sure to please your email clients!

In name as well as working, greylisting is related to whitelisting and blacklisting. What happen is that each time a given mailbox receives an email from an unknown contact (ip), that mail is rejected with a "try again later"-message. This, in the short run, means that all mail gets delayed atleast until the sender tries again - but this is where spam looses out! Most spam is not sent out using RFC compliant MTAs; the spamming software will not try again later.

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labanotation, anyone? [Aug. 13th, 2004|05:16 pm]

From an Introduction to Labanotation:

Labanotation is a standartizied system for analysing and recording any human motion. Mainly it is used at theatres to archive ballets. This text aims to give the reader a impression how the notation looks like and how the notation analyses movement.

Labanotation is a system of analysing and recording of human Movement. The original inventor is the (Austrian-) Hungarian Rudolf von Laban (1879-1958) an important figure in European modern dance. He published this notation first 1928 as "Kinetographie" in the first issue of "Schrifttanz". Several people continued the development of the notation. In the U.S.A. among others by Ann Hutchinson Guest to the notation known as "Labanotation". In Germany among others by Albrecht Knust to the notation known as "Kinetographie Laban". This two systems differ a little in the writing and analysis (approximately. 5%) ...

In Labanotation, it is possible to record every kind of human motion. Labanotation is not connected to a singular, specific style of dance (unlike other dance notations e.g.: Benesh Notation is based on English classical ballet). The basis is natural human motion, and every change from this natural human motion (e.g. turned-out legs) has to be specifically written down in the notation ...

And of course the mandatory quote, bashing computer scientists:

The language of the human body is complex and it will not be possible to do a satisfying simulation of it using computers before computer scientists give up their rough simplifications in simulation and notation of movement and use the experiences collected in the last seventy years (and the centurys before) in dance notation and make them their own.

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there's no such thing as "the death of an idea" [Aug. 13th, 2004|05:45 pm]

One could think that the famous lambda papers, and especially the one about the (theoretical?) possibility of constructing a Lisp-CPU, would have been forgoten. Or at most, treated as historical curiosities. What else could one expect for acid-fumed texts with psychedelic titles like:

Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode

Fortunatelly, it seems that hope springs eternal in the hearts of young hackers, and that even present-day hardcore VHDLers are not ipervious to the muses of the old:

This is the architecture for a Lisp CPU, which should fit in a small FPGA, like the one used in the Spartan-3 Starter Kit. With "Lisp CPU" I mean that the core evaluates a binary form of s-expressions without compiling it to a lower machine code level, like described in Design of LISP-Based Processors [...] My goal is not a full featured Common Lisp implementation, but a Lisp dialect which is good enough for writing applications like games, without the need to do all the low-level handlings like in C. While the application logic will be written in Lisp, special hardware functions and performance critical tasks, like sound generation, will be implemented in hardware and available with primitive Lisp functions.

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