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Robert Bruce Thompson
Robert Bruce Thompson, former writer of computer manuals, has spent the last five years or so broadening his horizons. He has a Home Astronomy book which is quite good (I have a copy) and has written a series of Home Lab books for Biology, Chemistry, and he has one coming out soon on Forensic Chemistry.
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Home Chemistry Lab BookHow is it that SlashDot readers aren't aware of Robert Bruce Thompson's home chemistry lab book, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments? It's designed for high-schoolers or early college students who need some REAL chem lab, not the bowdlerized version that they're getting at school.
Here's a page from the author's "Journal" (he doesn't all it a "blog")
He's also working on a "Home Forensics Lab" book.
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Re:Blurring lines between crime and terrorismParticularly when the exercise spokesman goes on the news and says, "Any criminal activity can be used to support terrorism." Not correct.
"Any activity can be used to support terrorism." There, corrected you.
For instance: http://www.ttgnet.com/daynotes/2008/2008-15.html#Sat/ would have made you love chemistry and had hours of fun in 1960s.
Now if you attempt to buy the same, you would be visited by Trenchcoated guys from DHS, FBI and the CIA to "politely" enquire your interest in the same.
For a government that prides itself on inducing fear in its citizens to make them compliant, this is a perfectly valid tactic to use.
And as docile citizens who are more interested in watching Desperate Housewives, read about beyonce marriage and Britney's car accident, we deserve more.
In 1850s and early 1930s, there was no TV and very less radio. As a result the citizens were more interested in what the bigwigs were doing in washington and hence every bill was fought, and every policy debated a lot.
People came from far to watch heated debates in Congress.
Now, we don't.
Unless we fight for reciprocal rights, like cameras in police stations, municipal offices, and whereever our money is spent, we can't stop this spying. Congress should pass an amendment which will force the government to reciprocate with openness whenever it pierces our veil. For instance, if DHS can spy on me from robot airplanes, i must have access to its realtime feed plus be able to install cameras at my local DHS office to see what they do with my money.
Such reciprocal law will quickly halt all spying activities ASAP.
Sadly, we would sell out our privacy and install a camera in our bedroom if the government or comcast gave us $5,500 tax rebate or lifelong free comcast maxi subscription to HD... -
Re:Tomorrow's headline...
Sony to show all new "Leisure Sheep Larry" game for the PSP on next EA onference. The obvious objective of the game is to perform unnatural acts of bestialism with as many lambs as possible in a given time. It is marked as kid safe down under, but will not be sold to anyone under the age of 21 in the UK. The game is permanently banned from the US market because it allegedly supports terrorism.
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EXCLUSIVE - HiDDEN iNFORNATION ON BIN LADEN
Ossama bin Laden is not dead as many people may think. He recently bought a new discreet airplane, launched a new restaurant chain in Nadjaf, and got married with a Pashtoun. The honey moon was in the moslim tradition, and with respect toward the shariah. Latest release was a photo of his hidden past of rocker in Yemen. Find out why Bush has so much hate toward Ossama
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Re:fucking bloggers
I beg to differ! My weblog ROCKS!
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proper definition of "DRM"
Can we please stop defining it DRM as digital rights management, and start referring to it under the more proper name of digital restriction(s) management?
I got this new definition from Robert Thompson.
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HeimatsicherheitshauptamtSo much for the efficiency of the Heimatsicherheitshauptamt, roughly, the "Homeland Security Main Office"
I recommend German for all government titles of such offices.
;-)
It has a certain satiric edge
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Will it be mandatory later?I think the last word on this is what Robert Bruce Thompson said on his web site: this cannot possibly succeed, not for a moment, unless it is mandatory. Literally no rational person would buy one of the copy-control drives if a non-copy-control drive is available.
I suppose it is possible that the people behind this are confident they will get the law changed, but I think it is more likely that they are sitting in an ivory tower somewhere and talking only to each other, not letting the real world intrude on their thoughts.
Think about it: since non-copy-controlled drives are not supposed to work at all with copy-controlled drives, each Zip disk, floppy, or backup tape will also need to be copy-controlled, or else not work. You will need new drives for all of the above, too. In other words, for this proposal to go forwards, everyone will have to scrap all their storage devices and buy complete new ones.
And why would people do it? Suppose the copy-prevention goes wrong; you just lost all the data on that drive. It's a catastrophic failure mode. And you cannot swap out the drive without getting authorization from an external authority? You would also need to get authorization before using each and every Zip disk, backup tape, etc. I hope the copy-prevention guys are buying lots of net bandwidth and lots of fast servers; they will need them. And they will pay for all this how? By passing costs on to anyone who buys in to the scheme?
IBM couldn't even sell MicroChannel and that isn't a tenth as odious as this; it's dead before arrival. Unless it's mandatory.
steveha
