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3 years before Intel. Cyrix at Comdex 98' with their WebPad. x86 CPU, Harris wireless, Resistive touch screen.

https://archive.org/details/CC...

Just 4 months later this issue came out. Smalltalk, originally created at Xerox' PARC facility, made its way into Objective-C and NextStep and now Objective-C is used in mac and iOS apps. Seems they were pretty much spot on with this one.

3) More like a helicopter than an aeroplane? Nope. Airplanes are MUCH easier to fly than a helicopter; the average person cannot do this.

Perhaps they're thinking of a Gyrocopter (or Autogyro). That has the advantage of small size (No need for large fixed wings) without the complication of dealing with a collective stick system.

Personally, I was always interested in the "Land Shark" project (Archive.org link, as the original has since disappeared). The idea was to have a tadpole-style trike that, when on water, would use it's turbine-shaped rear wheel hub to propel it as it hydroplaned on the front wheel's lowered mudguards. Simple, and effective, but unfortunately it never got off the ground. A shame, really.

The Gnome developers actually tried to do something new in desktop UIs, they actually tried to innovate. And as with any innovation, some of the things they did worked, and some didn't.

No problem with that.

My problem is that they took the choice from us. I, me, myself, is the only one that should judge what works for me - but some Bastard Operatorw Decision Maker from Hell decided to use the same library names on Gnome 3, making impossible to me to install Gnome 2 to keep working the way I'm used to, and Gnome 3 to start probing the new paradigm.

Guess what? When my distro switched to Gnome 3, I made the happy decision to backup my whole machine. Thanks God I did that, I couldn't stand using that piece of crap for more than 2 days.

Do you want to take a peek about what was happening at that time?

Here (I'm L.T. on this thread) and here (go to the bottom of the page).

The Gnome developers actually tried to do something new in desktop UIs, they actually tried to innovate. And as with any innovation, some of the things they did worked, and some didn't.

No problem with that.

My problem is that they took the choice from us. I, me, myself, is the only one that should judge what works for me - but some Bastard Operatorw Decision Maker from Hell decided to use the same library names on Gnome 3, making impossible to me to install Gnome 2 to keep working the way I'm used to, and Gnome 3 to start probing the new paradigm.

Guess what? When my distro switched to Gnome 3, I made the happy decision to backup my whole machine. Thanks God I did that, I couldn't stand using that piece of crap for more than 2 days.

Do you want to take a peek about what was happening at that time?

Here (I'm L.T. on this thread) and here (go to the bottom of the page).

The insecure media are still out there. No redacting that (unless it's on the web, of course; that's even worse.

Mahendra Rao, M.D., Ph.D.

"Dr. Mahendra Rao is internationally renowned for his research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and other somatic stem cells. He has worked in the stem cell field for more than 20 years, with stints in academia, government and regulatory affairs and industry. He received his M.D. from Bombay University in India and his Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology.

Following postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University, he established his research laboratory in neural development at the University of Utah. He next joined the National Institute on Aging as chief of the Neurosciences Section, where he studied neural progenitor cells and continued to explore his longstanding interest in their clinical potential.

Most recently, he spent six years as the vice president of Regenerative Medicine at Life Technologies in Carlsbad, California. He co-founded Q Therapeutics, a neural stem cell company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also served internationally on advisory boards for companies involved in stem cell processing and therapy; on committees, including as the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationâ(TM)s Cellular Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee chair; and as the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and International Society for Stem Cell Research liaison to the International Society for Cellular Therapy." ref

That is not the pain of XP EoL, it is the self inflicted torture by those who refuse to use free and open source software.

It is a shame, but I have no sympathy for those who embrace planned obsolescence.

Alright wiseguy, then tell me what the "open source" solution is to my companies key fob system that periodically runs a hash against itself to protect against code injections, checks against VM's by dialing out of the system to an external client and only runs on XP? Is someone handing these systems out? Are we going to organize a flash-mob to come in and rip apart our walls and rerun the cabling to and from the locks on all of the doors on two separate floors and through concrete flooring while replacing the proprietary locking mechanisms? Who is it that is going to be so generous with their time and reprogram this thing for our 200+ employees? There are in fact some things that your precious open source community does not provide and that are necessary for businesses to meet certain industry standards

Everyone running old specfialized hardware which is not compatible with windows 7 or later feel the pain of the XP end of life.

That is not the pain of XP EoL, it is the self inflicted torture by those who refuse to use free and open source software.

It is a shame, but I have no sympathy for those who embrace planned obsolescence.

There's a difference between:

"People who rent out space on Airbnb, VRBO and other markets for temporary housing are facing fines by the City Planning Department and eviction on the grounds of illegally operating hotels."

and

"People who rent out space on Airbnb, VRBO and other markets for temporary housing are facing fines and eviction by the City Planning Department on the grounds of illegally operating hotels."

Can you spot it?

You should also read this article analyzing the issue from an owner's perspective. You'll note that it doesn't suggest that the San Francisco has the ability to evict the tenant... merely to fine the landlord.

Finally, the actual code (warning: very large text document) lists several penalties, none of which include eviction. You're looking for Section 41A.5, "Unlawful Conversion," page 3902.

It's a little hard to call it 'valuable intellectual property' with a strait face when they refuse to derive any value from it.

It's like when they killed the Halo2 servers. You could only play single player, no online games over XBL, even though Bungie had the PC version still playable online, and even though while directly connected to a party of peers and chatting them up you could view the Halo2 logo next to their names on your friend's list which proved that all the XBox360's knew the others' IP addresses and that the game was loaded in their trays; Even though the only thing the game actually needed to play online was the IPs of the other players who wanted to play, you couldn't do it over the XBL service you paid for. So, fire up a VPN or Hamachi or XBox Connect, etc. and you could do a system link match over the Internet, hell, without even using XBL.

So, why disable the Halo2 online gameplay? Ah, a newer product (Halo3) had came out and everyone was supposed to move over to it, just like with XP. You see?

Planned obsolescence IS USED to derive value from old products, explicitly by limiting their lifespan artificially so you have to purchase a new product. That's why pantyhose still get runs so easily: The first nylons were given to the engineer's wives and they loved them, they didn't get runs! So the manufacturer made the engineers go back and figure out how to make them get tears. Planned obsolescence is why your stuff breaks right after the warranty runs out -- It's engineered to do just that. Planned obsolescence is why light bulbs all last the same length of time. There's an old bulb at a fire station that the town throws a birthday party for every year, because it's been burning for over a hundred years. Bulbs burn out so quickly for the same reason that hardware should come with open source drivers, but doesn't. So you have to buy new hardware to go with new OS's instead of recompiling the driver. It's the same reason you shouldn't use closed source operating systems that you can't pay a coder to maintain for you.

Would you like to know more? Educate yourself with a documentary about planned obsolescence.

It is on archive.org: https://archive.org/search.php...

Putting it on YouTube is a natural for publicity, not at all a poor decision. It certainly does NOT 'serve them right'. Blame the victim much? Sony bears 100% responsibility for this IP 'theft'.

classic

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

You are on record as being rather firmly against private ownership of firearms. Frankly, I thought this extremity of anti-gun zealotry was a Republican myth, a straw man used to rile the rabble. I understand that people in less civilized territories will on rare occasion use guns for murder and atrocity, I am not aware of this impulse being a general hazard of gun ownership.

I'm from Alaska. All the people that I know who have guns have only ever used them for hunting. I'm less sympathetic to those who can acquire an alternate hobby besides shooting, but there are yet many places where hunting is a means of subsistence. I've known many people to bow-hunt, but I suspect if your dinner depended on your marksmanship you might prefer the more effective instrument. Does your plan involve screwing hunters as well as the millions of other lawful citizens?

Originally we are a revolutionary state, and I believe the People yet preserve the right to revolution. Furthermore, Mao was right about the origins of political power: violence is the defining characteristic of government. Do you believe that the 'tree of liberty' is no longer hematophagic? Else, by what means are we intended to obtain and keep self-governance?

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

I'd like to know how they came up with MPG with hydrogen. Did they just use an equivalent volume of Hydrogen?

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

"Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests", by MouseTheLuckyDog

"The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz’s attorney confirmed Friday." ref

"A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. ref

1. Sarcasm.
2. Whoosh.
3. MS-DOS, aka, 86-DOS, shares some of the same design of 8-bit CP/M.

"MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS. ... Development of 86-DOS took only six weeks, as it was basically a clone of Digital Research's CP/M (for 8080/Z80 processors)"

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Do you understand what a File Control Block is??

The FCB originates from CP/M and is also present in most variants of DOS, ... The following fields have consistent meanings:
0x00 Drive number
0x01 File name & type
0x0C implementation dependent
0x20 record numer sequential access
0x21 record number random access

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

4. a) Incorrect.

For example, it is possible to prevent loading the graphical user interface and boot the system into a real-mode MS-DOS environment. This sparked debate amongst users and professionals over the question of to what extent Windows 95 is an operating system or merely a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Also,
  * http://web.archive.org/web/201...
  b) Win95 contained 16-bit code
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

5. I am quite familiar with the history of Dave Cutler's WinNT 3.1, WinNT 4.0, Win 2000 (aka NT 5.0), WinXP (NT 5.1), Vista (NT 6.0), WIn7 (NT 6.1), and Win8 (NT 6.3) having run/used all of them.

Regardless you completely missed the joke.

Humor. You should try it sometime, instead of being so uptight. You'll live longer, healthier, and happier.

--
First (Public) Contact is coming 2024. Are you prepared for a new larger perspective in the Universe?

Very cool! I wrote a script a long while ago which you might like (or find a use for).

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

It's a next-gen script but could be adapted. It's got good pacing and it's an easy read. :)

Cool - please contact me via the Facebook link in my sig or via our startreknewvoyages.com website's contact page.

1993: Carl Malamud launched Internet Talk Radio the "first computer-radio talk show, each week interviewing a computer expert" distributed "as audio files that computer users fetch one by one." I suspect he was using PCM or delta PCM codec, the files were huge, and probably could only be played back on Sun workstations.

1995: Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner started Audionet. Here are downloadable files from Dec. 1996 and I suspect there were earlier ones.

April 1995: RealAudio released by RealNetworks. This was a watershed in audio codec efficiency, and started the launch of a lot of downloadable audio programs.

1996: Microsoft releases NetShow 1.0, a competing streaming player to RealAudio.

I also believe that William Mutual's itv.net was delivering audio files of programs in 1996.

I had a RealAudio server in 1996 and probably was serving up audio files, but frankly I can't remember. I definitely was doing so by 1997.

How about uninstall-resistant adware written in Scheme?

"cutting the number of needed interlinking systems and technology down to a bare minimum"

Yeah that's the beauty of Java. In our company they use a lot of .NET and many of the teams gave up on moving things to 64 bit. For us with Java we were done in a week.

"One of the producers and the lighting guy (Gaffer). One new episode out this past Dec 31st, and another coming soon (once we manage the daunting task of color correcting from the original raw footage)."

Very cool! I wrote a script a long while ago which you might like (or find a use for).

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

It's a next-gen script but could be adapted. It's got good pacing and it's an easy read. :)

Third PDF in the recap section https://archive.org/details/go...

They already have equal time - and place - it's called "church".

How about we amend the history curriculum to explain the well understood history of when, where, how and why the Abrahamic religions were made up?

https://archive.org/details/Wh...

http://www.amazon.com/Who-Wrot...

The "academic" branch of feminism - like all academia - is safely removed from the real world and traffics mainly in the Andrea Dworkin "all heterosexual intercourse is rape" and Starhawk-style schools of radical feminism. This is a holdout from pre-'80s feminism and remains the intellectual vanguard of feminism but is a small niche among women.

As a former faculty of American Literature at at a research university, I can assure you that you have no idea what academic feminism is.

Critical theory, race studies, religious studies, psychoanalysis, film theory, subject spectator theory, semiotics, linguistics, cultural anthropology, and more are all well-understood by and -represented among the scholars and intellectuals who are recognized as feminists. Academic feminists analyze and consider the signs, systems of meaning, legal histories, social histories, cultural artifacts, popular culture, etc. etc, etc. insofar as they affect women and the people to whom women are connected, which would be every human being who has ever lived.

Feminism is multiple, not singular, and the best way to describe what drives feminists is the desire to see women—and the people and collectives to which those women are connected and by which they are constituted—to be empowered and autonomous rather than (as has historically been and, in many contexts, currently is the case) disenfranchised and subjugated.

Seriously, do yourself a favor and understand that movements that promote human welfare are good for everyone. People threatened by feminism don't understand feminism. Feminism is about making things better, flawed as some of its approaches may be.

Here's something old-school style that demonstrates some "academic" feminism from 1991: Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manfiesto". That's some old-school cultural anthropological feminism for you that is super awesome, fun, literate, and though-provoking.

Try it and see. Some of these people are smart and amazing. You might be surprised.

(As a straight male professor, it agonized me when young intelligent women would come to my survey on critical theory and proudly announce during our feminist section that "I am not a feminist." I am grateful to have had the opportunity to change some of these young persons' minds.)

You wouldn't happen to be T.J. Kincaid, would you? A.k.a TheAmazingAtheist?

He has "extreme pedophilic fantasies", and you sound an awful lot like him.

He also admits to have "dated" a 14-year-old when he was 23 and believes that "the age of sexual consent should be lowered to 12 or 13". I'm left wondering if he'd classify any sexual act with said girl as molestation, given those beliefs.

I would have thought that computers would make it impossible to "lose" such funds - even with the most simplistic of accounting programs.

OK, look - for their infrastructure, they re-implemented ssh in php.

If somebody wants to argue "plausible deniability", then fine, but it would require an assertion of supergenius levels of foresight, planning, and cunning.

I lean more towards "you've got to be kidding me".

I do realize that a work entering the public domain does not automatically mean that it has to, or even should, be made available. But with technology being what it is today, if we can develop a wayback machine, then why can't we do something to preserve cultural works? I guess I just feel that if everyone in society is giving up the freedom to copy certain works (as odd of a freedom as that may seem in the modern Western world), then we should get back as much as we can once that copyright expires. But that is clearly my opinion and obviously not a reflection of the current laws in place. In any event, I appreciate the info you have provided. Given my stance on intellectual property, I don't have too many civilized conversations with IP lawyers, so this was a nice change of pace and I was able to learn more details about the law, even if I don't necessarily agree with them.

"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful

PS: Get off my lawn.

PlayOnLinux can already access your GOG account and install many Windows games automatically and run them using WINE.

Here's a good tip for older games that use DOS4GW.EXE: download the GPL'ed binary from http://dos32a.narechk.net/inde... and re-name it DOS4GW.EXE, then substutite it for the original. You'll find a noticable improvement in game performance, even using WINE o DOSBOX.

If your game uses CWSDPMI.EXE , download the latest version of it from http://web.archive.org/web/201...

I think the problem here is that we have a decent and loud percentage of people who don't just want equal treatment but think the law and government are there to create equal outcomes. Meaning we have to suppress the gifted or just lucky while wasting resources hoping one in ten down's syndrome kids learn to tie their shoes on their own. Anyway time to refer to one of my favorite short stories.

I bought an XO-1 from the first "Give One Get One" promotion many years ago. I was a bit disappointed with it, but I learned to write Activities for Sugar and eventually wrote a book on the subject which you may check out here:

https://archive.org/details/Ma...

I used my XO-1 as an e-book reader and was so pleased with it and all the thousands of free e-books available from archive.org and Project Gutenberg that I learned to create and donate books to these sites and wrote a book on that subject:

https://archive.org/details/EB...

I also wrote a few Activities for the platform. So did many others, including some children. You can check them all out here:

http://activities.sugarlabs.or...

You can also check out Sugar itself, easily. Your Linux distribution probably includes it. You can run it in a window in your current desktop or log into it as an alternate desktop.

You can say that the laptop was never as good or as cheap as we hoped it would be. You could say that it never got into the hands of as many children as we had hoped it would. That would be true. But you can't say it didn't work. The Constructionist method works. If I had a kid I'd want him to be educated that way.

Consider this: In 1969 intelligent people thought we might have a sizable moon base and a donut shaped space station with a Hilton and a Howard Johnson's by 2001. That year came and went and we still have neither of those things. We barely have Howard Johnson's restaurants on Earth these days. But no reasonable person would say that the Apollo program was a failure. A disappointment maybe, but not a failure. And manned space exploration on the scale shown in 2001 will happen. Not as soon as we would like, but it will happen.

You can say the same thing about using computers to educate our children. It's going to happen. There are bad ways to do this. OLPC showed us a good way to do it. It is still showing us that.

I bought an XO-1 from the first "Give One Get One" promotion many years ago. I was a bit disappointed with it, but I learned to write Activities for Sugar and eventually wrote a book on the subject which you may check out here:

https://archive.org/details/Ma...

I used my XO-1 as an e-book reader and was so pleased with it and all the thousands of free e-books available from archive.org and Project Gutenberg that I learned to create and donate books to these sites and wrote a book on that subject:

https://archive.org/details/EB...

I also wrote a few Activities for the platform. So did many others, including some children. You can check them all out here:

http://activities.sugarlabs.or...

You can also check out Sugar itself, easily. Your Linux distribution probably includes it. You can run it in a window in your current desktop or log into it as an alternate desktop.

You can say that the laptop was never as good or as cheap as we hoped it would be. You could say that it never got into the hands of as many children as we had hoped it would. That would be true. But you can't say it didn't work. The Constructionist method works. If I had a kid I'd want him to be educated that way.

Consider this: In 1969 intelligent people thought we might have a sizable moon base and a donut shaped space station with a Hilton and a Howard Johnson's by 2001. That year came and went and we still have neither of those things. We barely have Howard Johnson's restaurants on Earth these days. But no reasonable person would say that the Apollo program was a failure. A disappointment maybe, but not a failure. And manned space exploration on the scale shown in 2001 will happen. Not as soon as we would like, but it will happen.

You can say the same thing about using computers to educate our children. It's going to happen. There are bad ways to do this. OLPC showed us a good way to do it. It is still showing us that.

Shit, there's been an intro to Linux course out for free for, like, 14 years now: it was written to be self-guided. I know this because, well, I wrote it.

As this linked to a .doc , I thought you were trying to be funny. Then I saw that it was not your doing, somehow.

But it sounds great. Could you not upload it to a web site somewhere in a non-MS format, to put it back to use again?

Shit, there's been an intro to Linux course out for free for, like, 14 years now: it was written to be self-guided. I know this because, well, I wrote it.

(original announcement )

(...I'm kind of amazed it's still available online, though seeing it in .doc format is kinda funny. Tried to find the original Slashdot announcement, but the search engine on the site sucks.)

Link? Marcus Ranum seemed to like OpenBSD. A quick search gave me the following:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

TOP OF THE NEWS
--OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks
(11 April 2003)
(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
to make progress in security: fundamental protections.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

“One of the BSD variants — OpenBSD (www.openBSD.org) — was constituted with security as its premise,” says Marcus Ranum. “They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible, gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring. They subsequently got fixed, but it was a huge reality check for the community.

Link? Marcus Ranum seemed to like OpenBSD. A quick search gave me the following:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

TOP OF THE NEWS
--OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks
(11 April 2003)
(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
to make progress in security: fundamental protections.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

“One of the BSD variants — OpenBSD (www.openBSD.org) — was constituted with security as its premise,” says Marcus Ranum. “They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible, gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring. They subsequently got fixed, but it was a huge reality check for the community.

Suppose you had an unlimited energy source with negligible weight.

Pratt and Whitney's impressive trimodal nuclear rocket seems relevant (sorry about the weird links, this engine has largely disappeared from the internet). Some of the ideas and materials in this design would not doubt be applicable to a rocket belt regardless of the nuclear capability.

At least one known arrest and conviction, and conviction confirmed on appeal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Of course, that was cartoon based on the Simpsons characters, maybe that's a lot more realistic than your naked children in manga etc....

The 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people - if you're an ethnic Russian in Crimea you live in Ukraine but probably have much more allegiance to mother Russia than the government in Kiev. If you're a kid in Kiev born post-Soviet era to ethnic Ukrainian parents, different deal. Ethnic Tatar, different again.

I don't want to start a heated debate, so I'll answer only this point: saying that "the 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people" is the exact mistake that brought them at this point. The Ukrainian people is all the people that dwells Ukraine: Ukrainians, Russians, Hebrews, Romanians, Poles and Tatars. The opposition parties should have been more levelheaded: if they really wanted to keep Ukraine united, they should have tried to keep the people (all of them) united. Instead they let the nationalists take a big part in the whole process, including rejecting a reasonable deal mediated by the EU with a president that was actually democratically elected and had a lot of support in vast areas of the country, taking three seats in the government including ministry of defence, and removing the Russian language from the list of the official languages of the country.

I'm not saying that Russia is right, but that the revolutionaries acted quite stupidly: they should have tried to wheedle ethnic minorities, not stir them up.

The Last Question by Isaac Asimov.

All the carriers have to do is to ban the IMEI number of the phone when it is reported stolen and the phone can't be activated on the network.

I realize people can't be bothered to do a Google search, but the USA has had a national IMEI blacklist since October 31st, 2012. See this CTIA press release. It's also not difficult to check if a phone is blacklisted, this site is one place that does ESN/IMEI checks for free.

We've lived with this situation long enough to know what the outcome has been. People still steal phones because they have value as parts. Also, they're bought up by scammers that re-sell them to people on Craigslist who don't know any better. It's also worth mentioning not all of these phones are stolen, it's generally a mix of phones that were lost, traded in without disabling the phone's lock, insurance fraud and some that are blocked by the carrier for a defaulted payment plan or wireless contract.

There's absolutely nothing stopping a criminal from forcing the person they're mugging to sign out/disable a phone's locking feature. Apple even has a helpful guide (ostensibly for people looking to give away, trade-in or resell their old iDevice) explaining the process. Are you really going to tell a criminal "no" when they've got a gun pointed at you? If your city has a mugging problem, then something needs to be done about the crime. If it's not cell phones, it will be good, old fashioned wallets, purses and jewelry.

No, on the Spectrum each keyword had its own key. Keywords, even operators like <= were stored as single bytes with codepoints above 0xA0. This made for more efficient storage of programs. In comparison, on the VIC-20 keywords were stored literally, but you could abbreviate them, e.g. ? for PRINT or pO for POKE. Of course this wasn't how it appeared on the screen. On the screen an abbreviated GOSUB would be GO[heart], and you had to RTFM to find out that GO-heart means GOSUB. I found the Spectrum's solution much more elegant. But of course I had to because I had a Spectrum and there was a religious war going on.

Last month, at ShmooCon a talk was given about spatial analysis of malware samples. The technique is borrowed directly from bioinformatics. This is a great example of techniques from Biology being used effectively in the IT security realm.

I hope that the researcher involved in naming organisms based on hash algorithms chooses context triggered piecewise hashes (CTPH) AKA fuzzy hashing or a similarity hash algorithm rather than an algorithm like SHA512. Google's simhash or at least the ideas of this type of algorithm would lend itself much better to the naming of organisms.

FYI: a FOSS implementation of fussy hashing is called ssdeep. The project site is here. This is an implementation that is widely used in open source malware analysis tools like Cuckoo Sandbox.

You can test this by trying to delete firefox.exe on Windows and see the process that has a lock on it via Unlocker

Rename firefox.exe to FuckYouFatassNewell.exe . Enjoy.

You can test this by trying to delete firefox.exe on Windows and see the process that has a lock on it via Unlocker

This book reminds me of a favorite sci fi story from the 1950's by Clifford B. Simak that was dramatized by NBC Radio in the old X Minus One radio series titled "Courtesy". I've never read the story but have listened to the dramatization many times.

The premise of the story is a human expedition arrives on an alien planet that is inhabited but shows ample evidence of an older civilization that was destroyed by a plague. The humans, arrogant to a man save one, know about the plague and have a vaccine for the plague, except that the ship's doctor's bad eyes misread the expiration date and the vaccine is no good. The crew is doomed to die, yet the natives seem to have an antidote, and the humans are determined to beat it out of them if necessary.

The ship's doctor goes out to meet with the natives to see if he can learn about their immunity. However, he falls off a cliff and dies on his way back. After the crew recovers the body, they find a piece of paper with a single word written on it: Courtesy. In the mean time the crew starts to die of the plague... except for one man, the man who has some humility and stepped out of the way of a native they'd captured as a matter of courtesy.

Too late, the captain of the expedition realizes that the natives survived the plague by abandoning their cities and started to live simply and with humility. He and his men, save the one, are going to die because they were not willing to display courtesy.

In some ways, the way we live now is a kind of a plague that is slowly killing us. Wouldn't life be a lot easier if we simply were respectful to each other without exception?

and when Windows tells you the process is in use Unlocker can tell you which processes those are.
Guess what you'll find?

One of them will be the STEAM SERVICE!

captcha: HIJACKED

Very insightful! The Culture series is great for exploring these ides and clashes.

And on your water example, there was an episode in Star Trek: Voyager where Neelix is first introduced and he considers water a rare luxury. There is a a funny scene onboard Voyager where he surrounds himself with glasses of water the way we today might surround ourselves with gold and diamonds and i7 cores. But as you said, Neelix did not then drink himself to death, and he went on to find other useful and interesting things to do with his time.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

See also James P. Hogan's "Voyage From Yesteryear" (VFY) sci-fi novel which has a gift economy in it where people acquire status by being good at something and using it for the public benefit. There is a clash of cultures there (one from old Earth similar to ours today) which includes a scene where some aristrocratic person in the old culture is going on about how fine some new silverware or something is (the old status system in play) when the two people she is trying to impress know such things could be had just for the asking in the new culture (which is powered by fusion energy and automated production lines). I think VFY really addresses the culture shock of the transition, something so brilliant I did not recognize how insightful it was when I first read the novel, thinking instead how silly that the old Earthlings could not get that things have changed and abundance is there for the asking. Sadly, I know see how prescient James P. Hogan was.
http://p2pfoundation.net/Voyag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
http://www.baenebooks.com/chap...

Sadly, the late James P. Hogan's site seems to be down recently:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

So I'll quote this here at length:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
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An Earth set well into the next century is going through one of its periodical crises politically, and it looks as if this time they might really press the button for the Big One. If it happens, the only chance for our species to survive would be by preserving a sliver of itself elsewhere, which in practical terms means another star, since nothing closer is readily habitable. There isn't time to organize a manned expedition of such scope from scratch. However, a robot exploratory vessel is under construction to make the first crossing to the Centauri system, and it with a crash program it would be possible to modify the designs to carry sets of human genetic data coded electronically. Additionally, a complement of incubator/nanny/tutor robots can be included, able to convert the electronic data back into chemistry and raise/educate the ensuing offspring while others prepare surface habitats and supporting infrastructure, when a habitable world is discovered. By the time we meet the "Chironians," their culture is into its fifth generation.

In the meantime, Earth went through a dodgy period, but managed in the end to muddle through. The fun begins when a generation ship housing a population of thousands arrives to "reclaim" the colony on behalf of the repressive, authoritarian regime that emerged following the crisis period. The Mayflower II brings with it all the tried and tested apparatus for bringing a recalcitrant population to heel: authority, with its power structure and symbolism, to impress; commercial institutions with the promise of wealth and possessions, to tempt and ensnare; a religious presence, to awe and instill duty and obedience; and if all else fails, armed military force to compe

Very insightful! The Culture series is great for exploring these ides and clashes.

And on your water example, there was an episode in Star Trek: Voyager where Neelix is first introduced and he considers water a rare luxury. There is a a funny scene onboard Voyager where he surrounds himself with glasses of water the way we today might surround ourselves with gold and diamonds and i7 cores. But as you said, Neelix did not then drink himself to death, and he went on to find other useful and interesting things to do with his time.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wik...

See also James P. Hogan's "Voyage From Yesteryear" (VFY) sci-fi novel which has a gift economy in it where people acquire status by being good at something and using it for the public benefit. There is a clash of cultures there (one from old Earth similar to ours today) which includes a scene where some aristrocratic person in the old culture is going on about how fine some new silverware or something is (the old status system in play) when the two people she is trying to impress know such things could be had just for the asking in the new culture (which is powered by fusion energy and automated production lines). I think VFY really addresses the culture shock of the transition, something so brilliant I did not recognize how insightful it was when I first read the novel, thinking instead how silly that the old Earthlings could not get that things have changed and abundance is there for the asking. Sadly, I know see how prescient James P. Hogan was.
http://p2pfoundation.net/Voyag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
http://www.baenebooks.com/chap...

Sadly, the late James P. Hogan's site seems to be down recently:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...

So I'll quote this here at length:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
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An Earth set well into the next century is going through one of its periodical crises politically, and it looks as if this time they might really press the button for the Big One. If it happens, the only chance for our species to survive would be by preserving a sliver of itself elsewhere, which in practical terms means another star, since nothing closer is readily habitable. There isn't time to organize a manned expedition of such scope from scratch. However, a robot exploratory vessel is under construction to make the first crossing to the Centauri system, and it with a crash program it would be possible to modify the designs to carry sets of human genetic data coded electronically. Additionally, a complement of incubator/nanny/tutor robots can be included, able to convert the electronic data back into chemistry and raise/educate the ensuing offspring while others prepare surface habitats and supporting infrastructure, when a habitable world is discovered. By the time we meet the "Chironians," their culture is into its fifth generation.

In the meantime, Earth went through a dodgy period, but managed in the end to muddle through. The fun begins when a generation ship housing a population of thousands arrives to "reclaim" the colony on behalf of the repressive, authoritarian regime that emerged following the crisis period. The Mayflower II brings with it all the tried and tested apparatus for bringing a recalcitrant population to heel: authority, with its power structure and symbolism, to impress; commercial institutions with the promise of wealth and possessions, to tempt and ensnare; a religious presence, to awe and instill duty and obedience; and if all else fails, armed military force to compe