Those fools. If they let their own people run their country, how the hell are the plutocrats going to make any money from them?
The people of Poland need to take a long, hard look at themselves, and realize it's not just rich Americans they're hurting, and it's not just the rich in other EU counties, it's their own rich too. Is causing this senseless and irrepairable harm to their betters going to help anything?
This sort of backwards thinking has no place in a modern nation. Frankly, I think it's time the EU invaded Poland. I'm sure someone there still has those plans laying around.
Alternately, you can just tell us Americans that Poland has chemical weapons and is planning to invade Kansas
Tell them the Poles are going to land on the Kansas coast while others invade Kansas through Canada. That sounds improbable geographically, as Kansas has no coast and does not border Canada, but apparently us Americans are complete fucking morons who will believe anything the government tells us, especially people in Kansas. (Kansasians?) (Some people will suspect I am being sarcastic here, but I am not.)
Although you'll want to give us a map first and put up some big signs pointing at Poland, or we might accidently invade Greece or Spain. (All you little countries look alike to us.)
Mitnick is not famous because he's a hacker, or because he's a criminal.
He's famous because journalists overblew his threat, right at the time 'computer crimes' first came into public awareness, and the government fell for it and locked him up for years without a trial. They painted a very minor criminal as someone more dangerous than a suicide bomber with a nuclear weapon. They wouldn't let him use a phone because they thought he might whistle into it and launch missiles. And the press bought it.
He's not famous because of what he did at all, good or bad. He's famous because of what people did to him. He didn't ask to become synonymous with computer crime.
And since he was barred from using a computer until 2003, what, exactly, was he supposed to do with himself besides write a book and give speeches?
He's not profiting from his crimes at all. He's profiting from the knowledge he had that allowed him to commit the crimes, and the publicity the government gave him.
So you're saying that any attempt at security is pointless.
Well, that's certainly an interesting, if not stupid, viewpoint. Yes, from a individual customer POV, social engineering security systems isn't important, but as they rarely run security systems in the first place, that seems rather moot in a discussion about security systems. (And, BTW, it is important for them to care about security, witness phishing. They just don't need systems.)
Everyone else here works in the business world, where even the smallest business can be ripped off for hundreds of dollars, well worth forty-five minutes of social engineering. And any business with R&D can spend a lot of money and have nothing to show for it because their competitor waltzed in while someone held the door for them and took pictures.
I get calls from people offering me mortgages, because I respond to mortgage spam with fake names but my real phone. (So I can see who's buying leads from spammers. Almost all mortgage spam is illegal in Georgia, you can't advertise mortgages like that here.)
I do not own any land. The address I tell them about does not exist. I do not already have a mortgage. My name does not exist.
Remember when people did work before getting back to a customer?
Cyan and orange, the classic color scheme of spazzes.
Me. I demand some hazard yellow added to the interface immediately! Perhaps in some sort of warning box. A big caution sign, that's the ticket.
And then, on to the neon! Wheeeeee! Neon green, neon blue (Do they make neon cyan?), maybe we can even get some neon yellow and use that instead of hazard yellow.
And, dare we dream it? Yes, we dare.
Pink. I said it. PINK. BRIGHT PINK ALL OVER!
But don't worry, all these bright colors will be balanced out by the cyan. And the black. (Maybe some purple?)
For Netscape 10, we can just have someone vomit on the screen.
It doesn't look as bad as some of the previous betas, but it still doesn't look good.
Sure, it's cold standing here naked on the surface of pluto, but it still not as cold as absolute zero.
But now I'm curious now. How does it look better? Did the old one reset the refresh rate to 45 Hz so you got a headache while looking at it? Did it occasionally get very dim and then flash bright yellow repeatedly so you'd have seizures? Was the homepage a picture of tubgirl?
How, exactly, did the old interface manage to be worse?
Not the audio and video tools I ues. I use foobar2000 for audio. Standard interface. Media Player Classic for video. Standard interface.
'No goofy interface' is actually one of the standards by which I judge an application. The 'goofiest' one I use is Dreamweaver, but it's disregarded some standards to make itself more usable, not less.
but in any metropolitan area you're quickly going to fill up those thousands of users
I was exaggerating the limits there. In reality, you could possible do hundreds of thousands across a single television channel. Television channels are huge. They were designed to be decoded by crappy analog things, so audio, stero audio, and picture are all carried by different frequencies. And the FCC left incredibly large buffers because the first TV stations had crap broadcasting that drifted.
It seems to me you're saying there are plenty of frequencies, because we're wasting the ones we have by not letting anyone use them. But it seems that is a silly argument.
Well, no, that's exactly what's happening. We have all sorts of rules and regulations about TV, including things like large fines for being 'indecent'. It's not the fees that are keeping people out of the market, it's the rest of the crap.
Howeer, I have just discovered what happened to UHF channels over 69...the FCC stole them. For emergency services use. And it appears they want to do the same thing down to 51! (And they haven't assigned HDTV frequencies to those channels. In fact, those channels will be used to broadcast HDTV, which is probably what you were talking about earlier.)
So it doesn't really matter what you or I think. The number of TV channels in the future will be just 51 digital, taking up a small amount of space. (Hopefully, a small amount of space consecutively, because the 2-5,6-13,14-69 breakup we've got right now is just silly.)
Well, first of all, the idea that television frequencies are ideal for cell phones are kinda silly. You could go back to 'radio telephone' days, where there's one transmitter per city, but the simple fact is that it doesn't matter if the tower can broadcast two hundred miles, because you can't and have any useful battery life.
In fact, you can't reasonable broadcast on VHF frequenencies at all...you need an antenna the size of rabbit ears. Even a UHF antenna is a bit large for a cell phone. Without the right sized antenna you're talking major power suckage to get anyone to hear it. Even if you were as close as a cell tower.
As for wireless internet...a great idea, assuming you don't try to use it as a return. Of course, you only need one frequency for that, analog television channels are so wide they could comfortable hold thousands of users. (I think a better idea would be operating a 'spewing' server...send out newsfeeds, ISOs, whatever, and just let people collect them.)
And, with HDTV, every single VHF and UHF channel (And cable, which overlaps but is not identical to UHF) channel has two frequencies assigned to it...the orginal analog, and the HDTV one. So there's no reason at all to start reducing the number of channels, because we're about to get half of them back.
And we're clearly not short on frequencies around there, either, if we can solve a problem by doubling the frequencies. Even if you do come up with an ideal thing to do with a television-like frequencies, we apparently have those laying around. So using television ones is an extremely silly idea.
WRT non-profit uses...we don't need rules like that, because we're not short at all. We need less rules. If the channels fill up, then we can institute rules to remove useless ones.
I think the patent is wrong, and I want MS to lose.
Why? So they see that patents have as much potential to harm them as other people, and start fighting against them.
This patent is just as valid as, for example, the patent MS is holding over the WMV file format, that disallows anyone from making a tool from reading it. I'm not even talking about a patented codec, I'm talking about a patented file format.
It would be idiotic for me to hope MS isn't hit by patents as much as they are hoping to hit other people with patents. Microsoft think they can cross-license and keep free software out, but that fails to work when patents are owned by companies that don't do anything and thus can't be infrigning on your patents.
Anyway, here's hoping MS gets hit with a whooping fine and huge royalties, and solves the problem not by buying Eolas, but by buying Congress and getting rid of software patents.
This is fairly neat, because it's very easy to understand proof that things 'don't happen' until observed. In theory, the two slit experiment in space proves that, but people get confused and think the particle is just 'blurry' or something.
Whereas this clearly can't work that. One event maybe happens, and then later another event also maybe happens, and the second event doesn't 'know' if the first even happened. (Remember, the second one can't happen if the first did.)
It's like you might go out and get in the car and drive to the store, and two minutes later I, not knowing if you left, go get in the same car and drive to the store. And we're allowed to take the car pool because, after all, there are two of us.;)
Actually, not anymore. Now that they've stopped the damn Xindi arc and the 'Temporal Cold War', it's gotten a lot better.
Now, they've started having two or three episode arcs that are laden with continuity.
For example, we just found out what actually happened to the Klingon's faces. (And it's partially our fault, aka, 'disasterous first contact', and something they'd be seriously embarrassed about.) We've had at least two Romulan plots foiled, and still no one has seen what they look like. We've had a proto-Federation, with the Vulcans, Andorians, and humans working together.
Basically, it's what I was assuming Enterprise to be when it started out.
I don't think we're so short of frequencies we need to start letting random things be broadcast on television ones. And certainly nothing that requires a hardware investment, because the minute the FCC decides that broadcasting the History Channel is more useful than broadcasting cell phone signals, eight thousand people will scream bloody murder that their cell phones do not work. (That wouldn't work anyway, because you couldn't get the same UHF channel all over the nation.)
Anyway, there are plenty of unused frequencies out there that are not in VHF and UHF range, and I think it makes sense to use those before using channels that televisions can tune in. We can always use UHF and VHF once we run out of others, where we cannot easily decide to 'unuse' channels if the base using them is large. (And we can't change TVs to use another frequency.) Remember, we've got a two sets right now that TV is broadcast over...the HDTV one and the analog one. Which means in a decade or two (And let's face it, there's no way the rules can change in a shorter span of time.), we'll have all the old TV frequencies to do whatever we want with.
As for auctioning...we already do that with most of them. I think it's good to have a set of frequencies that are explicitly designated as 'for useful use'.
It's a fact that CFC can lower ozone levels by turning ozone back into O2 and interfering with the creation in the first place.
It is not a fact they are in the earth's ozone layer in an amount that has anything to do with the possible variation in the ozone layer. It's entirely possible that's due to varying sun activity or some other process we don't know about.
And I don't know about volcanos putting CO2 into the atmosphere. I do know that volcanos put amazing amount of HCl into the air, but normally have 99% of it is flushed down with water ejected at the same time. (Which, of course, causes rather a lot of problems to those the acid rain hits.)
However, we have no assurances that will always happen, or has always happened. We know very little about how that works.
All we know is that, after volcanoes, even those that reach the stratosphere, erupt, spewing HCl into the air, the stratosphere does not have more HCl in it, because the HCl, the two times we've managed to watch a volcano that large, was brought back by water. Nothing at all says a volcano can't turn all the water into HCl before going off.
Yeah, that's the gag. The ozone layer is not something that just exists and you can remove. As long as the sun exists, UV will break up O2 and make two Os, which are likely to each grab an O2 and make ozone.
CFCs work by turning O and O3 into O2s. Like all chlorine. You know, that stuff that gets released in massive amounts every time a volcano goes off.
You ever notice that they'll claim 'CFCs have been detected in the ozone layer', but never tell you how much, or what percentage they are versa other chlorine?
Dumbass, how could we see at night time? It's not like we can run an extension cord to the sun, and considering it'd take months to get there, we can't rely on batteries.
We must, instead, invade at dawn, and finish before the sun gets hot, which I believe is around two in the afternoon.
I once watched the first fifteen minutes of 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' on ABC Family or whatever it's called.
They took out all the sex jokes. Yes, all the sex jokes. It was the most surreal thing I'd ever seen.
For those of you who haven't seen it, this is the movie where Robin has a key to 'The greatest treasure in all the land', aka, Maid Marion's chastity belt. This is the movie with a great love song sung by Robin to Marion behind a backlight curtain...with a rising sword making a rather interesting shadow.
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The people of Poland need to take a long, hard look at themselves, and realize it's not just rich Americans they're hurting, and it's not just the rich in other EU counties, it's their own rich too. Is causing this senseless and irrepairable harm to their betters going to help anything?
This sort of backwards thinking has no place in a modern nation. Frankly, I think it's time the EU invaded Poland. I'm sure someone there still has those plans laying around.
Alternately, you can just tell us Americans that Poland has chemical weapons and is planning to invade Kansas
Tell them the Poles are going to land on the Kansas coast while others invade Kansas through Canada. That sounds improbable geographically, as Kansas has no coast and does not border Canada, but apparently us Americans are complete fucking morons who will believe anything the government tells us, especially people in Kansas. (Kansasians?) (Some people will suspect I am being sarcastic here, but I am not.)
Although you'll want to give us a map first and put up some big signs pointing at Poland, or we might accidently invade Greece or Spain. (All you little countries look alike to us.)
Mitnick is not famous because he's a hacker, or because he's a criminal.
He's famous because journalists overblew his threat, right at the time 'computer crimes' first came into public awareness, and the government fell for it and locked him up for years without a trial. They painted a very minor criminal as someone more dangerous than a suicide bomber with a nuclear weapon. They wouldn't let him use a phone because they thought he might whistle into it and launch missiles. And the press bought it.
He's not famous because of what he did at all, good or bad. He's famous because of what people did to him. He didn't ask to become synonymous with computer crime.
And since he was barred from using a computer until 2003, what, exactly, was he supposed to do with himself besides write a book and give speeches?
He's not profiting from his crimes at all. He's profiting from the knowledge he had that allowed him to commit the crimes, and the publicity the government gave him.
Well, that's certainly an interesting, if not stupid, viewpoint. Yes, from a individual customer POV, social engineering security systems isn't important, but as they rarely run security systems in the first place, that seems rather moot in a discussion about security systems. (And, BTW, it is important for them to care about security, witness phishing. They just don't need systems.)
Everyone else here works in the business world, where even the smallest business can be ripped off for hundreds of dollars, well worth forty-five minutes of social engineering. And any business with R&D can spend a lot of money and have nothing to show for it because their competitor waltzed in while someone held the door for them and took pictures.
I do not own any land. The address I tell them about does not exist. I do not already have a mortgage. My name does not exist.
Remember when people did work before getting back to a customer?
Me. I demand some hazard yellow added to the interface immediately! Perhaps in some sort of warning box. A big caution sign, that's the ticket.
And then, on to the neon! Wheeeeee! Neon green, neon blue (Do they make neon cyan?), maybe we can even get some neon yellow and use that instead of hazard yellow.
And, dare we dream it? Yes, we dare.
Pink. I said it. PINK. BRIGHT PINK ALL OVER!
But don't worry, all these bright colors will be balanced out by the cyan. And the black. (Maybe some purple?)
For Netscape 10, we can just have someone vomit on the screen.
Sure, it's cold standing here naked on the surface of pluto, but it still not as cold as absolute zero.
But now I'm curious now. How does it look better? Did the old one reset the refresh rate to 45 Hz so you got a headache while looking at it? Did it occasionally get very dim and then flash bright yellow repeatedly so you'd have seizures? Was the homepage a picture of tubgirl?
How, exactly, did the old interface manage to be worse?
And none of that 'extension' crap from Firefox!
'No goofy interface' is actually one of the standards by which I judge an application. The 'goofiest' one I use is Dreamweaver, but it's disregarded some standards to make itself more usable, not less.
Then make an extension that calls it 'Netscape'. Duh. In fact, an extension already exists that can do that.
I was exaggerating the limits there. In reality, you could possible do hundreds of thousands across a single television channel. Television channels are huge. They were designed to be decoded by crappy analog things, so audio, stero audio, and picture are all carried by different frequencies. And the FCC left incredibly large buffers because the first TV stations had crap broadcasting that drifted.
It seems to me you're saying there are plenty of frequencies, because we're wasting the ones we have by not letting anyone use them. But it seems that is a silly argument.
Well, no, that's exactly what's happening. We have all sorts of rules and regulations about TV, including things like large fines for being 'indecent'. It's not the fees that are keeping people out of the market, it's the rest of the crap.
Howeer, I have just discovered what happened to UHF channels over 69...the FCC stole them. For emergency services use. And it appears they want to do the same thing down to 51! (And they haven't assigned HDTV frequencies to those channels. In fact, those channels will be used to broadcast HDTV, which is probably what you were talking about earlier.)
So it doesn't really matter what you or I think. The number of TV channels in the future will be just 51 digital, taking up a small amount of space. (Hopefully, a small amount of space consecutively, because the 2-5,6-13,14-69 breakup we've got right now is just silly.)
In fact, you can't reasonable broadcast on VHF frequenencies at all...you need an antenna the size of rabbit ears. Even a UHF antenna is a bit large for a cell phone. Without the right sized antenna you're talking major power suckage to get anyone to hear it. Even if you were as close as a cell tower.
As for wireless internet...a great idea, assuming you don't try to use it as a return. Of course, you only need one frequency for that, analog television channels are so wide they could comfortable hold thousands of users. (I think a better idea would be operating a 'spewing' server...send out newsfeeds, ISOs, whatever, and just let people collect them.)
And, with HDTV, every single VHF and UHF channel (And cable, which overlaps but is not identical to UHF) channel has two frequencies assigned to it...the orginal analog, and the HDTV one. So there's no reason at all to start reducing the number of channels, because we're about to get half of them back.
And we're clearly not short on frequencies around there, either, if we can solve a problem by doubling the frequencies. Even if you do come up with an ideal thing to do with a television-like frequencies, we apparently have those laying around. So using television ones is an extremely silly idea.
WRT non-profit uses...we don't need rules like that, because we're not short at all. We need less rules. If the channels fill up, then we can institute rules to remove useless ones.
Why? So they see that patents have as much potential to harm them as other people, and start fighting against them.
This patent is just as valid as, for example, the patent MS is holding over the WMV file format, that disallows anyone from making a tool from reading it. I'm not even talking about a patented codec, I'm talking about a patented file format.
It would be idiotic for me to hope MS isn't hit by patents as much as they are hoping to hit other people with patents. Microsoft think they can cross-license and keep free software out, but that fails to work when patents are owned by companies that don't do anything and thus can't be infrigning on your patents.
Anyway, here's hoping MS gets hit with a whooping fine and huge royalties, and solves the problem not by buying Eolas, but by buying Congress and getting rid of software patents.
It would be rather surreal to accidently answer the phone. You'd have to time that pretty well.
You can get them off bittorrent at btefnet.net.
*gets hauled away by lawyers*
Whereas this clearly can't work that. One event maybe happens, and then later another event also maybe happens, and the second event doesn't 'know' if the first even happened. (Remember, the second one can't happen if the first did.)
It's like you might go out and get in the car and drive to the store, and two minutes later I, not knowing if you left, go get in the same car and drive to the store. And we're allowed to take the car pool because, after all, there are two of us. ;)
No fair, she has help!
Now, they've started having two or three episode arcs that are laden with continuity.
For example, we just found out what actually happened to the Klingon's faces. (And it's partially our fault, aka, 'disasterous first contact', and something they'd be seriously embarrassed about.) We've had at least two Romulan plots foiled, and still no one has seen what they look like. We've had a proto-Federation, with the Vulcans, Andorians, and humans working together.
Basically, it's what I was assuming Enterprise to be when it started out.
Anyway, there are plenty of unused frequencies out there that are not in VHF and UHF range, and I think it makes sense to use those before using channels that televisions can tune in. We can always use UHF and VHF once we run out of others, where we cannot easily decide to 'unuse' channels if the base using them is large. (And we can't change TVs to use another frequency.) Remember, we've got a two sets right now that TV is broadcast over...the HDTV one and the analog one. Which means in a decade or two (And let's face it, there's no way the rules can change in a shorter span of time.), we'll have all the old TV frequencies to do whatever we want with.
As for auctioning...we already do that with most of them. I think it's good to have a set of frequencies that are explicitly designated as 'for useful use'.
It is not a fact they are in the earth's ozone layer in an amount that has anything to do with the possible variation in the ozone layer. It's entirely possible that's due to varying sun activity or some other process we don't know about.
And I don't know about volcanos putting CO2 into the atmosphere. I do know that volcanos put amazing amount of HCl into the air, but normally have 99% of it is flushed down with water ejected at the same time. (Which, of course, causes rather a lot of problems to those the acid rain hits.)
However, we have no assurances that will always happen, or has always happened. We know very little about how that works.
All we know is that, after volcanoes, even those that reach the stratosphere, erupt, spewing HCl into the air, the stratosphere does not have more HCl in it, because the HCl, the two times we've managed to watch a volcano that large, was brought back by water. Nothing at all says a volcano can't turn all the water into HCl before going off.
CFCs work by turning O and O3 into O2s. Like all chlorine. You know, that stuff that gets released in massive amounts every time a volcano goes off.
You ever notice that they'll claim 'CFCs have been detected in the ozone layer', but never tell you how much, or what percentage they are versa other chlorine?
I love it when a plan comes together.
No! Instead of absorbing it, we can reflect it back at that bastard via a giant parabolic mirror. Maybe we can catch the sun on fire.
We must, instead, invade at dawn, and finish before the sun gets hot, which I believe is around two in the afternoon.
I'm almost certain that wouldn't cause any climate changes on earth.
They took out all the sex jokes. Yes, all the sex jokes. It was the most surreal thing I'd ever seen.
For those of you who haven't seen it, this is the movie where Robin has a key to 'The greatest treasure in all the land', aka, Maid Marion's chastity belt. This is the movie with a great love song sung by Robin to Marion behind a backlight curtain...with a rising sword making a rather interesting shadow.