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Stanislav Lem
It's amazing. In the same slahdot main page, we can see a review of Stanislav Lem's Solaris (well, the film). Ok, the Wired article explains why so few Americans do not know this author (he writes in Polish, and most novels are not translated or only poorly). However, also non-Amreicans read Slashdot, and being German, I can only say: After reading Lem, you stop reading Asimov, and others (just the Hitchhiker will still be considered good SciFi). And, Lem's books are translated into German where he sells millions. The only hope for the Americans is that the film Solaris will be a blockbuster -- and trigger the editors to newly traslate all other Lem books as well.
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oh yeah and read...
...this followup article...
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This reminds me a great deal of dish hacking...
i dunno if any of you old skool wired readers remember this article about paradise island home of some of the world's most famous satellite and cable hackers. a constant cat and mouse game between the hackers and satellite and cable box developers/content distributors. and the interesting thing is that both sides seem to enjoy the battle of wits.
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Re:Why the RIAA's P2P vendetta is crazy
Cringley killed his kid!
He admitted it died right in his arms. He is also an obsessive-compulsive egomaniac who lives under a false identity. Not to mention, his failed-techie-cum-author stylings remind me a lot of Philip Greenspun! -
one can't trademark generic names
but that doesn't stop the bug guns with the $$$ from screwing you. Why is this any different from Visa blocking the use of eVisa.com who offered internet help on travel visas?
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Re:Browser Anywhere!
I'm a major webaholic. Recipes, chip pinouts, code snippets, news, weather, TV listings, Slashdot, Drudge Report, etc... I want one with the Transmeta Astro chip powered by new fuel cells so I can extend the battery life to a full 8 hours. Now if somebody can just get it to run seventeen hours and charge in seven! Sitting chained to my desk really puts a cramp on my lifestyle. Can't cook, can't go to the bathroom, never see much of outside except out my window, let alone gardening, house cleaning, or any other non-computer activities. Hmmm, maybe this is exactly what I DON'T NEED!
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Re:Will it hold together?
The idea behind mesh networks is that after the mesh density reaches a critical level, they can start "floating" and stop relying on wire networks for medium and long distance connections. Wired (sic!) has an article about the "wireless pond" analogy. I'm thinking about a function of average link length, peak user count, average connection distance, desired bandwidth per user and link bandwidth -- and I have my doubts that a free floating wireless lan can really challenge wired networks for long distance communication, even under the assumption of near perfect routing and non-malicious users. But still, that is the idea.
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The Problem with the Space Station
As many people have commented the space station has been a huge black hole of money.
For each win we've had there we've suffered many setbacks.
85% of their time is required for maintenance.
Very little hard science has been done due to construction delays and retrofitting many of the parts.
Even the science they have done hasn't been much.
Russia may be a joke about contributing, but they have the right idea on raising money. Send people who can afford to millions up there to fund further development. -
Re:This is dangerous
Well, items like ReplayTV and Tivo aside (which obviously monitor viewing habits and report them back to the parent company for various reasons), for at least a few years set-top digital cable boxes collect viewing patterns, channels watched, time spent, etc. and are capable of transmitting this information back to the cable provider. I don't know how wide-spread it is in practice among providers, however, the tech is there.
I grant you though, for your low-end TV with a cable connection straight from the cable box on the outside of the house, it's not likely a cable company will put something in place to monitor viewing habits. -
Re:How could they know if you share the music?
See here for an interesting discussion of the SDMI challenge, for example.
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Is Wired doing something like this?
I know Wired isn't running this little Anti-Reality script/proggie/whatever the hell it's supposed to be, but I think they might be doing something similar since they redesigned the layout of their site. I have Tweak-XP, which makes use of an ad blocker. I keep updating my list of blocked sites regularly (pretty much anytime I notice an ad getting through). Some sites (like MSNBC and, to some extent, Wired) have taken to hosting some of their regular graphics on ad servers. The result is that you won't get access to their pictures unless you don't block their ads. Of course, this makes for a rather unusual view for MSNBC, as nearly the entire page has little "Blocked By Tweak-XP" graphics.
The interesting thing that I noticed is that since the layout change, if I surfed to Wired with the server for their ads blocked it would redirect me to their "Less Cool-Looking" page. Same news, just all the swank graphics gone with a message about how my browser doesn't support basic web standards. I'm wondering if Wired isn't running some sort of similar deal to what this story is talking about. You know, if you're blocking their ads then they send you to their much more lame page instead of getting the good one. You still get the news, it just doesn't look as pretty. I realize this could just be a side effect of something else they were doing with the layout change, but it still seems curious.
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Is Wired doing something like this?
I know Wired isn't running this little Anti-Reality script/proggie/whatever the hell it's supposed to be, but I think they might be doing something similar since they redesigned the layout of their site. I have Tweak-XP, which makes use of an ad blocker. I keep updating my list of blocked sites regularly (pretty much anytime I notice an ad getting through). Some sites (like MSNBC and, to some extent, Wired) have taken to hosting some of their regular graphics on ad servers. The result is that you won't get access to their pictures unless you don't block their ads. Of course, this makes for a rather unusual view for MSNBC, as nearly the entire page has little "Blocked By Tweak-XP" graphics.
The interesting thing that I noticed is that since the layout change, if I surfed to Wired with the server for their ads blocked it would redirect me to their "Less Cool-Looking" page. Same news, just all the swank graphics gone with a message about how my browser doesn't support basic web standards. I'm wondering if Wired isn't running some sort of similar deal to what this story is talking about. You know, if you're blocking their ads then they send you to their much more lame page instead of getting the good one. You still get the news, it just doesn't look as pretty. I realize this could just be a side effect of something else they were doing with the layout change, but it still seems curious.
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REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route. I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion. I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here. If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that others are more likely to read it. Thank you. This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border. Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route. I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion. I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here. If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that others are more likely to read it. Thank you. This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border. Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route. I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion. I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here. If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that others are more likely to read it. Thank you. This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border. Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route. I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion. I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here. If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that others are more likely to read it. Thank you. This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States. Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border. Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route.
I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted earlier to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected yesterday, due to what I can only assume is slavish adherence by the
/. editors to the same politically correct guidelines that are crippling public debate in every corner of the major news media. Now it appears as if the weblogs are headed down the same ruinous route.
I believe that this story is very much in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country and indeed this very weblog, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America--and with the future of Slashdot--then I ask you to MOD UP THIS POST so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
This Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
Anyone remember...
Divx encoded DVD's? (Not DivX the compression scheme, but the ill-fated Circuit City scheme) You had to pay to view and such. That business model failed miserably, and so will this one.
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REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
REJECTED SUBMISSION--PLEASE READ!
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more... -
Yeah it's Depo Provera!
Now I remember, it's Depo Provera, a.k.a. Medroxyprogesterone Acetate.Now here's the [possible?] added benefits: Loss of bone density, and Loss of hair, I'm sure there's plenty of others not listen on the manufacturer's leaflet. Here's some Q+A thingy, a petition, and a Wired article.
Thankfully, my girl seems fine so far.
:)Happy bonking people!
Ali
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If you're wondering why....
If you're wondering why the Brown Daily Herald (student paper of Brown Univ.) got the scoop on the first Feiss interview, the reason is that someone on its staff was apparently an ex-classmate of hers. She has avoided the media, by her own choice and at Apple's request (they are trying to downplay the pot thing) but she figured that a college newspaper would be sufficiently "under the radar."
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Why the future doesn't need usThis is the refered article by Bill Joy from Wired.
Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.By Bill Joy
From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century. I can date...
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Why the future doesn't need usThis is the refered article by Bill Joy from Wired.
Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.
Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species.By Bill Joy
From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century. I can date...
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let's explain that, shall we?The prosecutors of this case had this to say about the folks who modified their cable modem in a maner which may have violated their contract with their ISPs:
John Weglian, chief of the special units division of the prosecutor's office, offers no apologies for Buckeye's unusually harsh treatment of the uncappers. "Cyber crime is potentially very damaging to society. We are taking a firm position on that type of criminal activity. We hope these cases will have a deterrent value, given the cost factors for the defendants in successful prosecutions."
The cable operators claim a loss of $11,000 for each of the 23 offenders and absurdity at best as the operators had the power to kill service at anytime, if indeed such losses were occuring. The uncpping was detected and the ISP could have terminated the contract with the individuals in question and fined them the cost of the modified equipment.
Now why is this a bother to Orwell and the authors of the US Constitution? Because it is a great step towards the end of free publishing in the US and towards the thought control of 1984. Violating a "service contract" with a monopoly ISP has been equated with serious law breaking. The same service contract includes prohibitions on running "servers" or electronic publications. Prohibiting electronic publications on a monopoly service ammounts to denial of first amendment rights to free speach. The internet is a public place, built largely from public networks on public land and supported by monopoly structures. The implication is that US citizens in the future will be felons if they attempt to express themselves in the electronic commons by runing their own news servers, email, or web servers.
Some people can't stand any competition, but the Founding Fathers knew that that's what a free press is all about. These services are against the wishes of their monopoly ISP wich also happens to be the monopoly telco or carrier of CableTV and all other significant electronic publications in the area. From the publisher's perspective, this is a nice step towards criminalizing competing with them. Not being able to run a free press is something the Founding Fathers would not find funny at all. The first amendment to the constitution puts free speach and press in the same class as religion and free assembly - inviolate. They also debated extensivly on the evils of exclusive franchise that copyright grants and how to balance that with the good that it can do to promote the useful arts - 14 years only, thank you. They could never have imagined a world of only one large press organization, AP, five music publishers, three broadcast networks and the technological steps those entrenched intersts would take to preserve and extend their power.
Orwell precicted such control through technology and it's ultimate results. These "untaper" federal cases combined with Paladium, are a great step towards 1984. Paladium, with its concept of "trusted computing" will assure that personal computers will spy on their owners, who can only use them to recieve official propaganda. Orwell saw it comming.
The stage has been well set by the large publishers and you are discredited. They have issued a long string of kiddie porn arrests and news storries about the demise of music publishers. These storries have convinced the public that the free internet is responsible for the demise of popular music and an increase in child molestation. "Hackers" have been equated with child molesters, warez losers and other "pirates" and parisites. this wired story does a good job of demolishing the connection between child molestation and the internet, but the readership of Wired is nothing compared to MSNBC/Time-Warner/AOL/McDonalds/AP/Conglomoram/GE
. Your neighbors may not pitty you when the FBI coyly knocks on your door. "Why esle would anyone want to have all that bandwith or run a server?" a clueless populance will ask. You have been painted as some kind of pervert that treatens the great public circus, home, harth and the whole "entertainment ifrastruture" without which the US economy would obviously colapse.
I invite one and all to see exactly what I want to do with my internet connection. It's simple, I want to share my life with relatives that live in different states and my interests with anyone who cares. There's nothing Earth shattering here, not even bad music.
On December 1st, my modest site will go black when my contract with Cox Cable expires. The nose has tightened slowly, every six months brought some new loss of service and increase in costs, and it is now intollerable. I'm not willing to pay $75/month to simply surf the great corporate billboard nor am I willing to give money to a company with the same contract terms and philosophy as Buckeye.
Don't worry, I'll keep posting here on Slashdot. Now you know who twitter is.
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You only have to sequence it......I've often wondered what it would take to condense the essence of my life and put it in a searchable format...
You only have to pay $500,000 to sequence it...
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Previously experimented with...
The FCC did something similar in 1997 to see "whether this is pie in the sky or part of the 21st-century reality."
I haven't read yet about any conclusions drawn from that experiment though.
From the sound of this article, the FCC chair back then was hesitant to give something away for free that would raise billions for him in sales, but did so to see if it would have a positive impact on the eceonomy. If their weren't great results (documentable), these senators have their work cut out for them.
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Re:Senators with ideas is bad news
Wired just had an issue out whose cover involved wireless networking.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/
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Re:Wow, you guys have no shameI read "The Register" like I read "The Weekly World News." It's a tabloid in every sense.
Taco, I can't believe you had the balls to post this nonsense (which, if they're any truth to it, was written by a UNIX admin. WTF?)
Hmm - now that we know this came from a leaky microsoft ftp server (or maybe you think wired is also a tabloid?) maybe we'll see you post a retraction? Or does your (indignant) integrity not stretch that far?
If you honestly think that The Reg is WWN, please post copious examples of their made-up stories. Just post them here:
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Re:I hope they get sued for posting stolen documen
Wrong link in my parent post, here's the correct link to the Wired article: Microsoft Spills Customer Data.
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It's real
The parent post is a Troll. The background of this story can be found all over the place:
A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company has disabled downloads from the PSS Support server "to improve the privacy protections on the site."
http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,564 81,00.html
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Re:Pardon my scepticism
Security Office is admitting to criminal activity?
Not necesarily. They never said they "hacked" it. Read this article at Wired yesterday. Apparently there was a public FTP server at MS that MS employees were using to store sensitive files, because they weren't aware that it was public.
The funny thing is that MS was notified, took the server down, cleaned it, put it back up, and the same employees started doing it again.
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Sounds like Cold Fusion to me.
Everyone remember that hoax? Wired: What If Cold Fusion Is Real?
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Re:Aaargh
How about Bill Joy?
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Re:Yet another reason...
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Re:Yet another reason...
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Re:the real reason
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started out good...maybe i got the wrong idea, but i thought the link was going to be about astronomy. it was... but then seemed to turn into a discussion on the issues with future amateur biology... this reminds me of the article Bill Joy had published in Wired magazine a few years ago called The future doesn't need us, which starts out as a very interesting discussion about the emerging state of widespread advances in genetic engineering, robotics and especially nanotechnology. Joy warns that these toys can/will have a hugely more deep-felt (even humankind-destroying capabilities) impact than any technology since the nuclear bomb. i found that part fascinating -- but then the thing turns into a huge drawn out discussion about the men whol pioneenered nuclear weapons, blah blah blah. i think joy sees himself as having something in common with the nuclear scientist weapons developers, because he sees that while he has helped bring computers to more and more people (a good thing), there are also bad sides to it as well. Face it bill, you're just a software guy.
Anyhow, i like the rarticle until it got into the genetic stuff. Ah well.
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value vs some other stuffI wonder how something like this compares to the "MoneyMaker", a middling low tech human-powered irrigation device that they're selling to farmers in Kenya...from the article from
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the MoneyMaker Plus is small enough to be carried on a bicycle, simple enough that it can be installed by the farmer and repaired without any tools, and powerful enough that it can irrigate 1½ acres a day.
Seems like this answers a real direct need...except for the markets contact, I'm not sure what the simputer offers. -
3 AAA
The thing will run on 3 triple A batteries.
So in 5 years we will see that (if) the Simputer is a success in getting these people online (which is so much more inmportant than making sure they can eat) - it wont really matter all that much because they will all be sick by the billions of AAA betteries that litter their water supplies, farming fields, streams etc...
I just dont think that getting poor people online is really that important. I mean the article says that a farmer can use the device to check the latest prices on cotton, allowing him to strike a better deal on selling his crops. I just dont really see this happening. I really see his cotton fields being worthless after some time due to all the battery acid leaked into the ground.
Did any of you read about the pollution that computer parts are causing in poor chinese villages? You think third world villages a really aware or concerned with the dangers high tech litter has? -
$290M, actually...According to articles at Wired and Forbes, the contract is for $290M.
From Wired:
The U.S Department of Energy announced Tuesday that IBM has won a $290 million contract to build two of the first computers capable of equaling the theoretical processing power of the human brain. The combined processing power of the two computers will be half a quadrillion (500 trillion) calculations per second, more than 1.5 times the combined processing power of all 500 machines on the recently released Top 500 list of supercomputers. (emphasis added)
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Time to upgrade the wetware.....
UltraVision
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Re:Proof positive
Straight men don't use Macs.
Umm... The link you posted seems to suggest otherwise. Just look at the pictures. The fact that you appeared to have missed this seems to suggest that YOU are not a straight man. -
Your Daily Insight
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For about a year, Mark Allen, a gay man living in New York, conducted an online relationship with a man living in Austin, Texas. But as the relationship matured, Allen realized it wasn't his cyberboyfriend he was falling in love with, it was his PowerMac G3.
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Re:Government spectrum scam
Do you really believe that the free market would have done better than the FCC has? If there were no FCC, there would be no radio astronomy. Your TV signal would get interference from the cell-phone bearing people walking down the sidewalk.
The Iridium satellites' frequency band was closely examined and approved by the FCC. When they launched however, it was found that they were broadcasting in a sideband well outside of that permitted band, rendering radio telescopes useless (like shining a flashlight down an optical telescope) so the FCC decreed that the Iridium transmitters had to be turned off as they passed over certain geographical regions.
Tell me how the free market would have solved that one. Ruled in favor of science or dollars? Free market favors the majority when a conflict arises. The government also keeps the needs of the minority in mind.
Further reading: Wired article