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