Re: [silk] You're probably right

2009-02-27 Thread jcox
Udhay, > Anybody got some insight into whether this is any different from the > "fuzzy logic" that was all the rage some 20 years ago? Fuzzy logic can be framed in terms of computing the degree of your belief in the correctness of an inference (and then perhaps applying a thresholding

Re: [silk] I am Israel: A point of view

2009-01-26 Thread jcox
Suresh, * Suresh Ramasubramanian (sur...@hserus.net) [090126 16:30]: > j...@experiments.com [26/01/09 14:39 -0800]: > > Zionists have made any criticism of their actions > > "politically incorrect". Most people in the USA > > feel they have to whisper, for fear of being confused > > with a

Re: [silk] I am Israel: A point of view

2009-01-26 Thread jcox
Tim, > > > Because the Arab countries rejected the propose division of the land and > > > went to war to wipe out Israel. As usual they lost, leaving "Palestine" > > as > > > the West Bank/Gaza rump, which at the time nobody believed was a viable > > > basis for a state (this may be correct).

Re: [silk] I am Israel: A point of view

2009-01-26 Thread jcox
Tim, > Because the Arab countries rejected the propose division of the land and > went to war to wipe out Israel. As usual they lost, leaving "Palestine" as > the West Bank/Gaza rump, which at the time nobody believed was a viable > basis for a state (this may be correct). This lasted 19 yea

Re: [silk] I am Israel: A point of view

2009-01-26 Thread jcox
Suresh, > >The broader "Arab world" hasn't conveniently forgotten that Egypt > >kept its border closed to the sick and dying in Palestine as Israel > >cluster bombed Gaza -- not for a moment. Memories are very long > > Hah, yes - but you also forget the factor of indoctrination on

Re: [silk] I am Israel: A point of view

2009-01-26 Thread jcox
Thaths, I think it's useful to distinguish between "Arab countries" and the "Arab world". They are very different. Governments exploit the sentiments of their people, but in the end don't necessarily do their bidding. Even in democracies, this is often the way things are.

Re: [silk] Bay area silkmeet?

2008-02-21 Thread jcox
I'm in SF for the next few days & would love to meet some of you. Cheers, -Jon cell: 617-320-0003 * Ramakrishna Reddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080221 05:34]: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If either

Re: [silk] pearls before swine

2007-04-13 Thread jcox
Rishab, > famous violinist joshua bell played for 45 minutes at a DC metro > station. he earned $32, and less than a dozen out of 1000+ people who > passed by even noticed (though all children who passed tried to stop and > were dragged away by their parents). all on video with a nice washington

Re: [silk] How much of this is fact, I wonder?

2007-04-09 Thread jcox
Venkat, The maps you pointed out (http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=1305) show one of the many brutal aspects of political Zionism. Obviously, there are several dimensions to this situation that maps alone cannot express: o The crushing poverty created by Israel's occupation

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-15 Thread jcox
Carey, > Not to be horribly snide Jon: Your question does not even sound slightly snide. > But have you noticed a decrease in the number of overall emails you > receive as well as the decrease in spam messages? No. I've been using TMDA for a few years now. So far, so good.

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-14 Thread jcox
Charles, > I am not running my own outgoing MTA, nor is the MTA I use under my > control. I believe this is the case for >99% of the internet. Your > "solution" while perhaps technically elegant is not useful in > practice. Oh, ok. As I said earlier, TMDA isn't for everybody. It looks

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-14 Thread jcox
Charles, > My problem is that a significant fraction of the spam I get are > challenges to some forged email purporting to be from a domain I > control. To the point where *all* challenges are immediately bit > bucketed. > > It's not that my email to you is "not that important" it's that I > c

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-13 Thread jcox
Udhay, > >> You're not creating extra traffic. You're sending unsolicited > >> bulk email. > > My on average, my confirm challenge is about 800 bytes. > > Your reply will cost a few bytes too. Let's be generous, > > and say the whole thing adds up to 1k bytes. Thus, I'm > > generating

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-13 Thread jcox
Eugen, > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:22:13AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If someone emails you out of the blue, they must reply to a > > trivial challenge to be placed in the "confirmed" list. > > I never answer to these on principle, and ban anyone who > uses that spam source

Re: [silk] SPF and spam

2007-03-13 Thread jcox
Ashok, For personal use, I've found TMDA to be a wonderful solution. See: http://tmda.net/ Without anything in place, I'd be getting: ~ 350/day; however, with TMDA I only see: ~ 12/year. TMDA is not for everybody. However, it might be for you! If someone email

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-26 Thread jcox
Cheeni, > I am looking therefore for a solution that will allow me to keep my > thoughts together, reducing the time needed to switch tasks while > retaining maximal task efficiency. It would be ideal if there was also > a way to get the fun back into the tasks without having to allocate > ti

Re: [silk] Linux questions

2006-10-18 Thread jcox
Do you prefer it over Debian? If so, why? -Jon * ashok _ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061017 08:25]: > I will also recommend ubuntu. > > i have completely switched to ubuntu as the de facto OS on all my personal > and official desktop computers (still trying it for laptops:) )...

Re: [silk] Deleting anti-aging gene actually increases lifespan

2005-11-24 Thread jcox
Interesting points. The realization that you can always find a way to make yourself miserable in the presence of abundance has always been a major theme in western philosophy. "The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth req

Re: [silk] register on wikipedia

2005-10-19 Thread jcox
Silkers, Andrew Orlowski ( http://www.theregister.com/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/ ) makes a valid point that there are many flawed entries; however, in fairness to Wikipedia, most new projects have quality problems here and there. The typical article on Wikipedia is remar