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Anti-Heisenberg Drivers (Memory Compression)

The development team at Hamilton have recently developed a set of drivers which counteract the strange effect named after the German physicist who first wrestled with the problem. The Heisenberg principle was once a major restriction which prevented people from calculating both the position and velocity of electrons. Now that this obstruction is out of the way, you too can use the individual electrons circling the silicon on your RAM. Current estimates show four 30-pin SIMMS or two 72-pin SIMMS may hold up to 1.5 * 10^23 bytes. ((6.022 * 10^23) * 2) / 8 Avagadro's # * 2 cubic centimeters / bits per byte This technology is currently only a special-case equation for silicon atoms, but has the potential of offering 14x the current memory if enhanced to a per electron, as opposed to a per atom, basis. Research is also currently underway to develop equations to control atoms found in common magnetic media, such a hard drives and floppies, but one researcher interviewed said:

Actually, I am the lead developer of the original Anti-heisenberg drivers. Those were child's play compared with magnetic media! The strong magnetic fields just throw out previous work into chaos, not to mention the complexity of the molecules we are working with. Currently, our best efforts require so much redundancy that the gain can be achieved through other methods. The silicon-based drivers are much better, requiring only 14x redundancy. But we have researchers working on that, too. Hopefully, everything will move to RAM, which is faster and less complex for us to deal with.

I believe that was included in Hamilton 95.

I am tired of trying to propose solutions to the problems brought about with the large numbers of ignorant users using MS software. I'm also tired of trying to fix problems that these users repeatedly cause. Government and law enforcement doesn't seem to care, so I'll propose this solution:

In nature, when a population gets too large there's a die-off. Usually this die-off is caused by disease or starvation. The better adapted creatures survive and live on.

We can use the fox and rabbit scenario here.

The malware writers are the foxes and the ignorant users are the rabbits. In our case the foxes don't eat the rabbits, but instead hijack the rabbits' computers for fraud, spam, pop-ups, etc. Foxes die by giving up and moving on to more lucrative off-line crimes.

The rabbits don't eat anything but are increasing in numbers by simply hooking up machines to the Internet. Rabbits die by cancelling their AOL accounts and stop using the Internet.

Right now there are a ton of rabbits (and more every day) and the fox population is exploding.

If we just sit back and let natural selection take its course, the ignorant rabbits will become sufficiently frustrated with their Internet experience and give up. The foxes will concentrate even harder on the remaining rabbits (who will be better adapted to counter the foxes' attacks) or start writing malware for the rest of the rabbits or face a massive die-off as well.

Those that are able to adapt do so by either keeping their machines properly patched or learn to use alternative browsers (or operating systems). These rabbits will then have a better Internet in the end because we will have a better class of users and software.

There's plenty of educational material out there for ignorant users to read. Practically every day there's something in the newspaper about how to protect oneself from these attacks.

The Zombies and SpamBots will make life a hell for the rest of us, but that's a short-term problem in this model. That should fix itself after the die-off itself.

As for custom ordering, that was how they were doing it -- You would order the car with the options you wanted off of their website. You then goto your local dealer and finalize the order by giving them a deposit. 3-4 months later (they can't build them fast enough to keep up with demand), your car would come off a boat from Japan.

They've changed their policy in the last few months, you can now just go to a dealership and they'll have a number of cars on the lot that you can look at. For instance, here's a very Prius-friendly dealership in CA that currently has 23 Prius available on the lot:

http://carsontoyota.com/priusorders.html

At last check, if you want to buy one of their cars, and you're not in CA, they'll ship it anywhere in the US -- you pay them the price of the car and shipping, then pay sales tax to the state you live in.

As for a tax break, yes, there is the $2000 deduction. It would be nice if the $2000 credit would be available too (it's not clear from the IRS whether or not the credit is allowed since the vehicle power must be provided by non-gas for more than 50% of the time...)

There are many good sites with information on the Prius, here are a couple of good ones:

The Toyota Prius Yahoo Group
The Prius homepage at Toyota
Statistical Information about my Prius, if you're interested

Someone on these groups made a posting about a "new" OS that blew Win95 out of the water - it was called Hamilton 95 (Ham95). The feature list was very interesting. The best part is that we told people they could ftp the whole thing from warez.dsnet.com, which was mapped to 127.0.0.1 back then. :)

i mentioned this to a friend of mine, and he had this to say: "it's harder to use windows for the DDoS stuff because you can't do as much with windows. ok, so the yugo must be better than my saturn because it can't drive as fast, therefore, less accidents."

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Why does the film have to be broken down? I've helped move a full platter of film before. You clamp down the film so it doesn't sprawl all over the place while you're moving it, and then you pick up the film. Simple, easy.

It is a multi-person job, but it's not very hard to do. Then you just walk the film out of the building. (It would get a little hairy through the doorways, but ...)

Why does the film have to be broken down? I've helped move a full platter of film before. You clamp down the film so it doesn't sprawl all over the place while you're moving it, and then you pick up the film. Simple, easy.

It is a multi-person job, but it's not very hard to do. Then you just walk the film out of the building. (It would get a little hairy through the doorways, but ...)