So, how long before Microsoft denounces WineX as communist or somesuch ("red WineX"), shortly before releasing its binary-only ActiveX-on-Linux emulator ("white WineX")?
Why not whip up a cheap, mostly hollow plastic enclosure, and ship all your demo units in it? Unless the store employees remove the unit from the enclosure, any packing of the unit will make sure it gets enough heat dissapation. The enclosure can even be clear plastic, so the customer doesn't get confused when their purchased unit is much smaller.
I can see 1 and 3, but you've got a slight flaw in 2. Say you had a enemy unit directly to your right, with the hex grid oriented so there's two hexes above you, two below, one to your left, and one to your right. You couldn't move up-right, but you could move up-left then right to wind up at that spot. Same essential situation.
Kinda like what I think happened with that Bert cartoon and Oslama. Anonymous fingers thrust at the system one finds oneself trapped in...this could become a good trend. Or a Katz article. Both, even.
Just because it's technically legal doesn't mean it isn't inviting a lawsuit over "libel" or somesuch. Remember: merely getting sued and fighting the suit, regardless of the suit's merit, is a fantastically unprofitable activity in the eyes of most business manages...and unfortunately, they're almost always correct in that belief.
Problem: the remaining 10% of the work that the geniuses don't do is those nagging little bits that they can't, at least not better than anyone else. So, you hire someone else to do that 10%, and leave the geniuses to concentrate on the 90% they excel at.
...and thus is the myth of the quirky guru born, no?
After most instances of references claiming "this guy's got f'ing insane mad skills" but they turn out to be eccentric to the point of unemployability, might not some people start thinking that high skill level necessarily means "quirky"?
The point of my post was that "hacking" can be a little more malicious than defacing a web site, and can involve real terrorist activity. Just shutting down desktops is dammaging.
True...but my point was, judging by the chemical plants I've helped design, truly life threatening damage would be beyond the capabilities of someone not physically present. Not just to own the desktop, but to get into the more critical machines in the first place. True, one could quite possibly download schematics et al to make the physical visit a cakewalk, and maybe all you'd have to do would be to install a wireless modem into a certain computer originally built without any network connections, but physical access would eventually be required.
Heck, all it'll take is a few black hats roaming around, planting zombie hosts within reception range of various NAN APs, then rigging these zombies to do DDOS or to route various access attempts through random NANs. Who needs to root boxen to get an untraceable network?
Uh, yeah, and exactly how are you going to do steps 2, 3, and especially 4 without physical access to the company's offices? Especially to those control computers that don't have network connections precisely because they'd be a security risk?
Yeah, but: by their logic, we should have secret courts for all investigations. "We suspect this dotcom must be laundering money or something, because they refused our buddy's offer to buy out their business for $1000 (even though the office hardware alone is worth more than that). But of course we can't run an effective investigation if anyone knows we're investigating them. Oh, yeah, and we're outsourcing this particular investigation to our buddy's firm. No, we're not particularly concerned that they'll use the investigation to find out the dotcom's customers and harass them into switching to our buddy or at least stop buying from the dotcom. But how could we run this investigation if that became public knowledge?"
Tax incentives would be nice, but the first, simplest thing they could do: dump in the remaining $5 mil to fund the X Prize. It wouldn't cost that much, but it would make a definite and powerful statement of intent.
0) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
0.1) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
0.2) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
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You do stuff with money. Almost anything NASA does involves launch to Earth orbit (sometimes with further destinations beyond, sometimes not). Therefore, reduce this one single cost and you immediately increase your ability to do stuff. Granted, this cost can be broken down into parts: more automated preflight/launch/operation/landing/postflight procedures (especially the first and last of those), redesigning equipment so it can be maintained easier, speeding up said maintenance (for instance, doing some minor fixes on the pad if it's already there instead of requiring the shuttle to be hauled back to the hangar just to see if a wire's loose), and so forth - but those all boil down to a number of ways you can reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
A not-much-heard-of option but still prior art: the PowerCommerce system, used by now-dead dot-bomb ReleaseNow. I think development on it started before this patent was filed.
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.
Abused it until even Congress (at the pleas of their big donors, having come under fire from Co$ for doing any kind of business with those on Co$'s blacklist) could no longer ignore reality? One can hope, anyway...
It's been tried in America. The problem is that those who pass the laws have already been bought out to the point where they never let such bills become laws. It's a catch 21: can't pass campaign finance reform when most lawmakers are corrupt; can't get many non-corrupt lawmakers elected without campaign finance reform. (This last might not seem to be, until one realizes that the "sheeple" which constitute the majority of the American populace have been brought up conditioned to respond to advertising and media, which money buys. Deprogramming these sheeple would eliminate this problem, but I haven't seen any workable proposals to do that.)
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Possible...but moment-by-moment inaccuracy might make your cat seem far more active than he is. The distance from your front door to your back door might not seem like that much, but what if your cat were at the edge of the lawn and inaccuracies showed him darting all over the street? (More precisely, somewhere within a circle whose center darts all over the street, but which happens to contain that point on your lawn where he's napping or stalking a bird.) You couldn't be sure that was not what he was, in fact, doing...
No, no, it's not beer that sells everything, but pr0n. If they really want those grants for better peep^H^H^H^Hobservatories and, maybe eventually, FTL travel, they should detect clouds of naked babes! (And some buff but sensitive and romantic guys, too - why leave anyone's desires out?);)
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So, how long before Microsoft denounces WineX as communist or somesuch ("red WineX"), shortly before releasing its binary-only ActiveX-on-Linux emulator ("white WineX")?
Ok, so include a cheap fan or other cooling system in the enclosures.
Why not whip up a cheap, mostly hollow plastic enclosure, and ship all your demo units in it? Unless the store employees remove the unit from the enclosure, any packing of the unit will make sure it gets enough heat dissapation. The enclosure can even be clear plastic, so the customer doesn't get confused when their purchased unit is much smaller.
Lets assume you don't like Microsoft.
And let's assume you're a typical Slashdot reader. But I repeat myself.
I can see 1 and 3, but you've got a slight flaw in 2. Say you had a enemy unit directly to your right, with the hex grid oriented so there's two hexes above you, two below, one to your left, and one to your right. You couldn't move up-right, but you could move up-left then right to wind up at that spot. Same essential situation.
Kinda like what I think happened with that Bert cartoon and Oslama. Anonymous fingers thrust at the system one finds oneself trapped in...this could become a good trend. Or a Katz article. Both, even.
Just because it's technically legal doesn't mean it isn't inviting a lawsuit over "libel" or somesuch. Remember: merely getting sued and fighting the suit, regardless of the suit's merit, is a fantastically unprofitable activity in the eyes of most business manages...and unfortunately, they're almost always correct in that belief.
Problem: the remaining 10% of the work that the geniuses don't do is those nagging little bits that they can't, at least not better than anyone else. So, you hire someone else to do that 10%, and leave the geniuses to concentrate on the 90% they excel at.
...and thus is the myth of the quirky guru born, no?
After most instances of references claiming "this guy's got f'ing insane mad skills" but they turn out to be eccentric to the point of unemployability, might not some people start thinking that high skill level necessarily means "quirky"?
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The point of my post was that "hacking" can be a little more malicious than defacing a web site, and can involve real terrorist activity. Just shutting down desktops is dammaging.
True...but my point was, judging by the chemical plants I've helped design, truly life threatening damage would be beyond the capabilities of someone not physically present. Not just to own the desktop, but to get into the more critical machines in the first place. True, one could quite possibly download schematics et al to make the physical visit a cakewalk, and maybe all you'd have to do would be to install a wireless modem into a certain computer originally built without any network connections, but physical access would eventually be required.
Heck, all it'll take is a few black hats roaming around, planting zombie hosts within reception range of various NAN APs, then rigging these zombies to do DDOS or to route various access attempts through random NANs. Who needs to root boxen to get an untraceable network?
Next thing you know, I'll be needed to license my palm pilot.
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What, you mean like a pilot's license?
Uh, yeah, and exactly how are you going to do steps 2, 3, and especially 4 without physical access to the company's offices? Especially to those control computers that don't have network connections precisely because they'd be a security risk?
Yeah, but: by their logic, we should have secret courts for all investigations. "We suspect this dotcom must be laundering money or something, because they refused our buddy's offer to buy out their business for $1000 (even though the office hardware alone is worth more than that). But of course we can't run an effective investigation if anyone knows we're investigating them. Oh, yeah, and we're outsourcing this particular investigation to our buddy's firm. No, we're not particularly concerned that they'll use the investigation to find out the dotcom's customers and harass them into switching to our buddy or at least stop buying from the dotcom. But how could we run this investigation if that became public knowledge?"
Tax incentives would be nice, but the first, simplest thing they could do: dump in the remaining $5 mil to fund the X Prize. It wouldn't cost that much, but it would make a definite and powerful statement of intent.
0) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
0.1) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
0.2) Reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
...
You do stuff with money. Almost anything NASA does involves launch to Earth orbit (sometimes with further destinations beyond, sometimes not). Therefore, reduce this one single cost and you immediately increase your ability to do stuff. Granted, this cost can be broken down into parts: more automated preflight/launch/operation/landing/postflight procedures (especially the first and last of those), redesigning equipment so it can be maintained easier, speeding up said maintenance (for instance, doing some minor fixes on the pad if it's already there instead of requiring the shuttle to be hauled back to the hangar just to see if a wire's loose), and so forth - but those all boil down to a number of ways you can reduce cost of launch to Earth orbit.
Eyes on the prize...
A not-much-heard-of option but still prior art: the PowerCommerce system, used by now-dead dot-bomb ReleaseNow. I think development on it started before this patent was filed.
I shudder to think what Cof$ would have done with this piece of legal shite.
Abused it until even Congress (at the pleas of their big donors, having come under fire from Co$ for doing any kind of business with those on Co$'s blacklist) could no longer ignore reality? One can hope, anyway...
Is there not a political movement in the states to try to change this?
There was. They got bought out.
It's been tried in America. The problem is that those who pass the laws have already been bought out to the point where they never let such bills become laws. It's a catch 21: can't pass campaign finance reform when most lawmakers are corrupt; can't get many non-corrupt lawmakers elected without campaign finance reform. (This last might not seem to be, until one realizes that the "sheeple" which constitute the majority of the American populace have been brought up conditioned to respond to advertising and media, which money buys. Deprogramming these sheeple would eliminate this problem, but I haven't seen any workable proposals to do that.)
Possible...but moment-by-moment inaccuracy might make your cat seem far more active than he is. The distance from your front door to your back door might not seem like that much, but what if your cat were at the edge of the lawn and inaccuracies showed him darting all over the street? (More precisely, somewhere within a circle whose center darts all over the street, but which happens to contain that point on your lawn where he's napping or stalking a bird.) You couldn't be sure that was not what he was, in fact, doing...
No, no, it's not beer that sells everything, but pr0n. If they really want those grants for better peep^H^H^H^Hobservatories and, maybe eventually, FTL travel, they should detect clouds of naked babes! (And some buff but sensitive and romantic guys, too - why leave anyone's desires out?) ;)
And I don't just mean what you can do with it. ;)
As if the w3c could be more useless than it already is.
It's theoretically possible.