This reminds me of Boris Vian's song, La java des bombes atomiques, which described some amateur tinkerer making atomic bombs in his garage...
(Quick English translation below for the french-impaired)...
La java des bombes atomiques
My uncle, a famous tinkerer used to make, as an amateur some atomic bombs
Without ever learning anything he was a real genius when it came to practical works
He locked himself all day long in his workshop to make his experiments
And in the evening, he came back home, and explained it all to us.
To make an A-bombs, children, believe me, it's really a piece of cake.
The detonator question is solved is a quarter hour it's the one we put aside.
And for the H-bomb, it's not much harder, but one thing bothers me, is that the bombs I make only have a action radius of only three meters fifty.
There's something wrong there, I'm going back right now.
He worked at it for days trying, with love, to improve the yield.
When he ate with us, he wolfed down his soup We saw to his appearance that he fell upon a hard part but we dared not say anyhing.
Then one evening, during the meal, here he sighs, and starts shouting:
As I'm getting older, I see better that my brain is failing it ain't a brain anymore it's like béchamel sauce It's been months and years I've tried to increase my bomb's yield, and I never noticed that the only thing that matters it's the place where it falls down.
There's something wrong there, I'm going back right now.
Knowing that success will be close, all the great heads of state came to visit him.
He received them and excused him that his shop was so small.
But as soon as they were all in, he locked-them up, telling them be nice!
And when the bomb went off, of those people nothing remained.
My uncle, in front of the result, didn't chicken-out He played the dummy In front of the court Before the jury, he mumbled
Gentlemen, it's a horrible bad luck But I swear in front of God That in my soul and conscience That by destroying those crooks, I am convinced of having Served my countryu.
They were embarrased, So they sentenced him, then they pardoned him.
And in reward, the country elected him head of the government.
That's assuming you get a trial. They could just invoke the name of Mitnick and deny you bail, and lock you up in solitary until you agree to waive your right even to have a bail hearing. Then they won't let you examine any of the "evidence" in your case and will generate a few gigabytes of crap. When you finally get the right to examine it, they'll print out tens of thousands of pages of binaries on a dot-matrix printer and let you look at it with a flashlight for five minutes a day in a dark room.
You should have said "a dot matrix printer with a faded ribbon with holes and creases"...
At that point the secret police storm in, having been eavesdropping on the entire conversation. They throw Alice, Bob and Charlie in jail. They go to the website, pull the information, get the pads and read the Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe for themselves. Guess what? This protocol has completely, totally and utterly failed.
Not at all. The protocol did what it wanted to do: it told whoever wanted the cookie recipe where to find it, and they found it.
[1] "Free speech" is only meaningful when it can be widely heard. Perfect encryption without public decryption is like locking yourself in a trunk and throwing away the key. If every Joe Sixpack and Dexter Tapedglasses can read your message without prior arrangement, so can Joe Gannon and Janet Reno. if JS and DT can't read it, it ain't 'free speech', its 'private communications'.
(For convenience, let's call the act of getting the pads and XORing them together "schkroping").
Not at all. If you describe such a text as being available by schkroping together, say, 95FE35321DA3, 95843938475894, 3948382830405, 409530404950 and 28305049394, (presumably each pad being locatable by it's "name"), you'd get a schkroping browser with will get the information you want just as (insert your favourite HTML browser name do), except that the URL would be the name of the various pads constituting the information.
Hey! Let's invent a new URL type: shkrp://(pad 1),(pad 2),(pad 3),...(pad n)
[3] While independently assigned padnames of 8 bytes may offer 2^64 names, there is a 50% chance of collision after relatively few pads are generated (i.e. millions). The birthday problem the article mentions doesn't suggest high freedom from collisions (as he implies), it means collisons are much likelier than we expect: if there are 24 people in a room, it's *probable* (>50%) that there'll be a birthday collision (shared birthday) even though there are 366 possible days in the dataspace. He cites this as proof that collisions will *not* be a problem
However, here, you're right. There WILL be name collisions when you just take the first n bytes of the pad to identify it. But what can we do? If we take the last n bytes of the pad, we'll have the same problem. Even if we XOR them together, or if we XOR the CRC of the pad over that.
Ultimately, it would seem that the only real unique key would have to be the pad itself!!!! Which hardly solves the problem at hand...
The method could sure be greatly improved by the million eyeballs now looking at it; how about incorporating it in freenet, as the author suggests????
The CPU fan makes modestly more noise (with the case closed) then the real fan. Of corse disk chatter is louder then both those...so I have to make sure the MP3 player never stops:-)
So, what you need is a noise-cancelling MP-3 player which, in a preliminary setup steo, records the fan noise your computer makes, then subtracts that noise from whatever music it plays, thus cancelling the noise of your machine. In addition, it could also check disk activity and subtract the disk chatter...
For that matter, why don't MP-3 players come with an automatic heuristic equalizer, in which the MP-3 player sends a variable-frequency signal through the speakers, and with a microphone, measures the speaker's frequency response, then adjust the equalizer controls accordingly? I recall, some 20 years ago seeing an ANALOG graphic equalizer that did just that...
This is true in a comparable sense (say compared to getting venture capital to open a storefront, etc...) However there is still many barriers. Not to be an elitist, but let's face it, not everyone can code, not everyone can run a business, and there aren't that many jobs out there for Joe-SixPack that are net-related.
Not true. A friend of mine (about whom I talked above) would never had prospered if he did not had an online catalog. And yet, he was the unlikeliest guy to get connected; a retired railroader who also owns a tavern, he instantly saw the Internet potential and he was quick to harness it to his advantage.
Just like any small-business owner who asks a plumber to do some plumbing work, he hired some coding kids to do his website and everyone was happy.
Companies can also use their own website to promote offline sales. A website can be a lot more interactive than a brochure. You can provide extra services to entice people back, and at the same time give them information about your products.
On-line catalogs are quite effective, especially when your inventory changes rapidly. A friend of mine has had a business selling surplus sleeping-car parts (yes, there is quite a market for that), parts that he acquired while scrapping some 60 surplus sleeping cars over several months.
Well, he had an almost "real-time" catalog, showing the parts he had available, complete with pictures, he would get different kind of parts as he would work with different kind of cars, and that online catalog accounted for well over 90% of the sales he did.
There was no way a paper-based catalog could have coped-up with the various changes that happenned. In fact, whenever somebody asked him for a paper catalog, he would simply print the website and charge $20 to mail it to the prospect (subject to discount on the first purchase).
In fact, he got several of his customers getting wired (people who would not have thought about even touching a computer), as they found out that it was far more effective and hassle-free to go online...
You know, what joe average is buying when he gets a dvd is a 'movie'. If you say in a court 'they can always make analog snippets of it in a classroom or whatever'.. they are right. If the 'product' that falls under copyright, as the people percieve it, is simply 'the movie'. To us geeks, though.. the 'product' under copyright is a collection of bits, that when decrypted a certain way and run through the appropriate codec produces a movie. See the difference? They are buying a movie.. we are buying bits.
No matter what the media is, analog videotape, digital videotape, celluloid film, zootrope, flipbook, or DVD, the thing can ultimately broken into bits (magnetic domains, dyed silver grains, ink droplets) anyways.
So, no matter what, you end up buying bits anyway.
These advancements are truly an amazing thing and I applaud the science behind it. With all technology, however, it has the potential to be abused.
It's a good thing bow and arrows weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed. It's a good thing stirrups weren't perfected, otherwise archers would be terribly more deadly whilst on horseback. It's a good thing gunpowder wasn't perfected, otherwise extra thousands of people would have been killed in wars. It's a good thing steam power wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have lead a dreary existence in factories. It's a good thing railroads weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of indians would have had their livelyhood destroyed and land stolen. It's a good thing ships weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have drowned at sea. It's a good thing aircraft wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed in aircrashes. It's a good thing airships weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been burned in hydrogen fires. It's a good thing automobiles weren't invented, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed and maimed in traffic. It's a good thing computers weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have suffered carpal tunnel syndrome. It's a good thing space shuttles weren't perfected, otherwise slightly more than half a dozen would have been killed by O-ring failures. It's a good thing slashdot wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been died of boredom reading really stupid posts...
Basically, is having a plasma rocket inherently more dangerous to be launching through the atmoshpere than the normal chemical rockets currenntly employed?
There is no reason for it to be. In order to lift X tons to orbit, the exhaust would expend a total of Y energy; the total amount of energy would be the same no matter what the propellant is and how it got raised to that speed/temperature.
Of course, I'm not taking account whether the exhaust is radioactive or not, or is water vapour or some super-yucky fluorine-based concoction...
It's not only cutting the travel time in half that is interesting, but putting some low gravity aboard the spaceship. While it may not eliminate the medical effects, it will solve a lot of engineering problems as mundane as making fluids flow in pipes...
Doesn't anybody else recall a story published some 15-20 years ago, probably in OMNI, where some kid sold trade secrets to a japanese competitor, only to be busted by a honeypot trap?
The story emphasized the geek's contempt of older users and human-engineering issues; the kid was caught by an older engineer who identified his fake logins by his typing pattern.
As soon as he was identified, he was switched to a honeypot where the trade secrets were replaced by porn files. His "customers" were pissed enough to leave the kid have a very intimate explanation with a sumo wrestler...
Been to the movies lately? Have you ever noticed that when a movie is set on Earth, in the U.S., in the present day, whenever a character uses a computer, it's always an iMac, or some kind of Mac?
Not hard to explain: movie types are mostly mac-users in the first place, so it's only natural that they's put macs in the movies.
So Schumann, the guy that is supposed to testify the DeCSS can be used to decrypt DVDs never played back the movie he copied! And, deleted the copy of the movie from his HD afterwards This has to hurt the MPAA case.
No wonde the MPAA wants to make those depositions sealed!!!!
There was another story, either by Asimov or Fredric Brown, of some guys who invent a machine that, when fed a complex document, summarized it and output a simple-to-understand result.
But they made their fortune when they discovered that their machine also worked in reverse...
All is fine, until one day, somebody will, from one of the servers hosted in your bunker, post something that will run afoul of the notoriously harsh british official secret act.
Then, buoyed by the apparent immunity, somebody else will do it. Then another bloke will do the same.
This will go on until her majesty's government is sufficiently annoyed and the Royal Navy is dispatched to forcibly reclaim british sovereignty over your bunker.
Unless the person who wrote this expects us to mass migrate into well structured centralized planned urban districts in order to make better use of mass transit. (I'm trying to imagine being forced by a "green" government edict out of my house and into an apartment block so that I'm closer to the subway system.)
No need for central planning to do that. The good old market forces and capitalist greet will gladly force you into a cheaper appartment when the energetic waste caused by suburban sprawl will finally fully be billed to those who adopt that lifestyle...
A few years ago, the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) implemented something called "pollution credits." ... "How can you sell the right to pollute the air?!? How can you auction off our lungs like so many acres of toxic waste dumps? What kind of stupid assanine idiotic people are you, rather than telling people to stop polluting, you sell them the right to pollute?"
Same thing happens in Canada, who has to face the Kyoto greenhouse-gas reduction accords. Canada, in fact, pollutes far more than the US per capita (it's normal: the population in Canada is much less dense than in the US, and the public transportation system has been gutted far more than in the US, thanks to stupid federal policies that favour air transportation). So, the federal government is looking at ways to reduce air pollution.
But Québec (24% of canadian population) wants the right to pollute more, because 99% of it's electricity comes from non-polluting (well... on the short-term, it is not polluting, but on the long term, there are non negligible effects. And it's hard to beat a power dam when it comes to greenhouse gas, air pollution and thermal pollution) hydroelectric power, unlike other areas in Canada that are heavily dependent on oil, coal and gas for their electric power.
So there are some people who ALREADY pollute less than the rest, but they want to pollute MORE!!!
Reminds me of a job I had, where we were writing a contact manager program (in Forth). On lunch hours, we'd pocket a disquette with the program, and go around hunting for a computer store, then subrepitously stick the disquette in a computer and run the program.
After fiddling a bit, we'd grab a marketroïd and ask him about the program, if it did this or that, and about what price it was.
The bullshit reactions we often got were priceless!!!
Didn't a bunch of Canadian Indians (Iraquois? Mohawk?) stage a revolt with semi-automatic weapons a few years ago?
That was the Oka crisis in the early 1990's. The Quebec government allowed a golf course to be built on some land near Oka, Que. A group of Mohawk claimed the land was sacred ground (may have been a burial ground, it was a long time ago). Mohawk Warriors showed up in support, set up
BZAPP!!! Wrong answer. The city of OKA allowed the construction of the golf course over the ancient burial ground; a blockade ensued for a few weeks, when the Sûreté du Québec (police) was called to dismantle it. In the ensuing mêlée, an officer was killed.
(By the way, Oka is the algonquin name; mohawks call it Kahnesatake. Once mohawks settled there, they gradually drove out the algonquins and hurons who lived there elsewhere).
The land in dispute around Oka is not, and never has been an indian reserve, as it is commonly assumed, and this explains the involvement of the Sûreté du Québec rather than the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (federal) normally used in case of indian revolts (such as the Kahnawake revolt in 1956 against the construction of the Saint-Lawrence Seaway - Oddly enough, the picture on the website is taken at Kahnawake; the bridge is the Mercier bridge, which was blockaded in 1990). As a matter of fact, the federal government department of indian affairs has been purposely been dragging it's feet in this matter, the more so because it helps tarnishing the image of Québec towards the world.
In Canada, indian affairs are a federal jurisdiction, so to better control them and use it against the french who want more control over their lifes. But in the OKA case, the land where mohawks have been living never had the status of reserve. In fact, that land was donated by a french religious (whose name escapes me) order to american mohawks that were fleeing the genocide perpetrated against the mohawk nation in upstate new-york, in the early 1800's, even though the mohawks/iroquois were the ennemies of the french (well, that was when they were useful to the english at war against the french - but when they were no longer useful, after the american Revolution, they were simply exterminated and driven out).
Other mohawks settled in Kahnawake, immediately south of Montréal (the site is worth visiting, being written in mohawk - see below).
barricades, and held a standoff. A second standoff took place on the Mercier Bridge. I believe those standoffs ended peacefully. Another standoff took place at the Ipperwash military base in Ontario; a group of natives claimed the land had been unlawfully taken from them. One native was shot and killed; there have been calls for an inquest into who gave the shooting order.
It is interesting to note that while in Québec, the weeks-long blockade had almost totally cut the road to some important suburbs of Montréal and thus inconvenienced untold thousands of commuters (to the point that an emergency commuter train service had to be implemented), not a single mohawk has been killed by police nor army, whilst a little band of indians in Ontario blocking a little backroad saw one of theirs shot dead by police after only a few days of obstruction. This clearly shows the inherent racism of the english and the high tolerance of the french. In fact, in Québec, 20% of the carceral population is indian, whilst in the rest of Canada, it is 80%.
As for Quebec, even the Quebecois have become sick of the separation mess. The government there has been trying to incite separtist feeling time and time again, but I don't think they're
There is no rush, it is inevitable; history clearly shows that a people's desire for sovereignty (it is not separation nor separatism, we've always been a separate nation) cannot be suppressed indefinitely.
going to pull it off anytime soon. Still, the Parti Quebecois (the ruling party) is pretty paranoid about English - ask a Canadian about the "tongue troopers" and Bill 101 sometime.
The purpose of bill 101 is to protect the existence of the french language in Québec against the onslaught of neighbouring english. The most visible effects have been the prohibition of english commercial signs, and the impossibility for immigrants to go to english schools.
The main idea there is to drive home the point that one cannot expect to live in Québec without knowing french.
Even though more than 80% of the population of Québec is french, immigrants have systematically assimilated themselves into the english community, since the immigration is a federal jurisdiction (the federal govenrment still does not inform immigrants that Québec is primarly french, and encourages them to speak english), and for the last quarter millenium (th e french first came to settle in 1604, thus beating the Mayf lower), the english have been labouring hard to make the french disappear from Canada (in 1760, at the time of the conquest, the french were 90% of the population; in 1867, at the time of the confederation, the french were 50% of the population; nowadays, the french are only 24% of the population). Ethnic cleansing in Canada has been quite successful: large segments of french population outside of Québec have been almost totally eliminated. In the 1880's, a whole french province, Manitoba, was forcibly repressed and turned into an english province. Ontario outlawed the teaching of french language in schools back in 1912. And, as recently as 1977, airlines pilots were susceptible to jail terms if they spoke french during the performance of their duties.
The expression "tongue troopers" is a bogeyman of the english media. The office de la langue française do not hire inspectors to report violations, but rather relies on the public to file complaints, which are then investigated by inspectors.
Another less known (and much less publicized, it would definitely shatter the negative image of Québec the federal government has consistently been trying to portray) effect of bill 101 is the protection it extends to native languages. This is why the Kahnawake website is in mohawk language: Québec has the highest proportion of native speaking their native language (over 80%) whereas in Canada, only the older generations speak the native languages, as the young have been mercilessly taught in schools that viciously suppressed any use of the native language.
Bill 101 is a very mild instrument whose purpose is to undo centuries of extremely harsh treatment.
There's some East-West tension; Alberta, Saskatchewan and parts of Manitoba and B.C. tend to be more conservative than the rest of the country. Nothing vicious; the last really ugly conflict was during the last Quebec referendum (of course).
Of course. This is the typical cluelessness that can be expected out of the english in Canada towards the french. And they wonder why the french want to go out...
A guy walks in in Chase Manhattan bank and asks for a $5000 loan, and he offers his Lamborghini as collateral.
The bank guy is thilled, he takes the car for a spin around the block before heading in the underground parking garage, and then hands the guy a wad of cash.
A month later, the guy shows up, and pays the $5000 principal along with some $30 of interest.
The bank guy asked him: "While you were away, we ran a credit check on you, and we found that you're worth $50 million. Why the hell did you need to borrow $5000 for anyway???"
- That's the only way I could park my car during a month in Manhattan for thirty bucks!!!!
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This reminds me of Boris Vian's song, La java des bombes atomiques , which described some amateur tinkerer making atomic bombs in his garage...
(Quick English translation below for the french-impaired)...
La java des bombes atomiques
My uncle, a famous tinkerer
used to make, as an amateur
some atomic bombs
Without ever learning anything
he was a real genius
when it came to practical works
He locked himself all day long
in his workshop
to make his experiments
And in the evening,
he came back home,
and explained it all to us.
To make an A-bombs,
children, believe me,
it's really a piece of cake.
The detonator question
is solved is a quarter hour
it's the one we put aside.
And for the H-bomb,
it's not much harder,
but one thing bothers me,
is that the bombs I make
only have a action radius
of only three meters fifty.
There's something wrong there,
I'm going back right now.
He worked at it for days
trying, with love,
to improve the yield.
When he ate with us,
he wolfed down his soup
We saw to his appearance
that he fell upon a hard part
but we dared not say anyhing.
Then one evening, during the meal,
here he sighs, and starts shouting:
As I'm getting older,
I see better
that my brain is failing
it ain't a brain anymore
it's like béchamel sauce
It's been months and years
I've tried to increase my bomb's
yield, and I never noticed
that the only thing that matters
it's the place where it falls down.
There's something wrong there,
I'm going back right now.
Knowing that success will be close,
all the great heads of state
came to visit him.
He received them and excused him
that his shop was so small.
But as soon as they were all in,
he locked-them up,
telling them be nice!
And when the bomb went off,
of those people nothing remained.
My uncle, in front of the result,
didn't chicken-out
He played the dummy
In front of the court
Before the jury,
he mumbled
Gentlemen, it's a horrible bad luck
But I swear in front of God
That in my soul and conscience
That by destroying those crooks,
I am convinced of having
Served my countryu.
They were embarrased,
So they sentenced him,
then they pardoned him.
And in reward, the country
elected him head of the government.
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You should have said "a dot matrix printer with a faded ribbon with holes and creases"...
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Not at all. The protocol did what it wanted to do: it told whoever wanted the cookie recipe where to find it, and they found it.
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(For convenience, let's call the act of getting the pads and XORing them together " schkroping ").
Not at all. If you describe such a text as being available by schkroping together, say, 95FE35321DA3, 95843938475894, 3948382830405, 409530404950 and 28305049394, (presumably each pad being locatable by it's "name"), you'd get a schkroping browser with will get the information you want just as (insert your favourite HTML browser name do), except that the URL would be the name of the various pads constituting the information.
Hey! Let's invent a new URL type: shkrp://(pad 1),(pad 2),(pad 3),...(pad n )
However, here, you're right. There WILL be name collisions when you just take the first n bytes of the pad to identify it. But what can we do? If we take the last n bytes of the pad, we'll have the same problem. Even if we XOR them together, or if we XOR the CRC of the pad over that.
Ultimately, it would seem that the only real unique key would have to be the pad itself!!!! Which hardly solves the problem at hand...
The method could sure be greatly improved by the million eyeballs now looking at it; how about incorporating it in freenet, as the author suggests????
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So, what you need is a noise-cancelling MP-3 player which, in a preliminary setup steo, records the fan noise your computer makes, then subtracts that noise from whatever music it plays, thus cancelling the noise of your machine. In addition, it could also check disk activity and subtract the disk chatter...
For that matter, why don't MP-3 players come with an automatic heuristic equalizer, in which the MP-3 player sends a variable-frequency signal through the speakers, and with a microphone, measures the speaker's frequency response, then adjust the equalizer controls accordingly? I recall, some 20 years ago seeing an ANALOG graphic equalizer that did just that...
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Not true. A friend of mine (about whom I talked above) would never had prospered if he did not had an online catalog. And yet, he was the unlikeliest guy to get connected; a retired railroader who also owns a tavern, he instantly saw the Internet potential and he was quick to harness it to his advantage.
Just like any small-business owner who asks a plumber to do some plumbing work, he hired some coding kids to do his website and everyone was happy.
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On-line catalogs are quite effective, especially when your inventory changes rapidly. A friend of mine has had a business selling surplus sleeping-car parts (yes, there is quite a market for that), parts that he acquired while scrapping some 60 surplus sleeping cars over several months.
Well, he had an almost "real-time" catalog, showing the parts he had available, complete with pictures, he would get different kind of parts as he would work with different kind of cars, and that online catalog accounted for well over 90% of the sales he did.
There was no way a paper-based catalog could have coped-up with the various changes that happenned. In fact, whenever somebody asked him for a paper catalog, he would simply print the website and charge $20 to mail it to the prospect (subject to discount on the first purchase).
In fact, he got several of his customers getting wired (people who would not have thought about even touching a computer), as they found out that it was far more effective and hassle-free to go online...
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No sweat. Moving elsewhere (that's everywhere) where software & business plans aren't patentable will just do the trick.
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So, no matter what, you end up buying bits anyway.
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These advancements are truly an amazing thing and I applaud the science behind it. With all technology, however, it has the potential to be abused.
It's a good thing bow and arrows weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed.
It's a good thing stirrups weren't perfected, otherwise archers would be terribly more deadly whilst on horseback.
It's a good thing gunpowder wasn't perfected, otherwise extra thousands of people would have been killed in wars.
It's a good thing steam power wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have lead a dreary existence in factories.
It's a good thing railroads weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of indians would have had their livelyhood destroyed and land stolen.
It's a good thing ships weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have drowned at sea.
It's a good thing aircraft wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed in aircrashes.
It's a good thing airships weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been burned in hydrogen fires.
It's a good thing automobiles weren't invented, otherwise thousands of people would have been killed and maimed in traffic.
It's a good thing computers weren't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have suffered carpal tunnel syndrome.
It's a good thing space shuttles weren't perfected, otherwise slightly more than half a dozen would have been killed by O-ring failures.
It's a good thing slashdot wasn't perfected, otherwise thousands of people would have been died of boredom reading really stupid posts...
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Of course, I'm not taking account whether the exhaust is radioactive or not, or is water vapour or some super-yucky fluorine-based concoction...
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The story emphasized the geek's contempt of older users and human-engineering issues; the kid was caught by an older engineer who identified his fake logins by his typing pattern.
As soon as he was identified, he was switched to a honeypot where the trade secrets were replaced by porn files. His "customers" were pissed enough to leave the kid have a very intimate explanation with a sumo wrestler...
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Not hard to explain: movie types are mostly mac-users in the first place, so it's only natural that they's put macs in the movies.
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But they made their fortune when they discovered that their machine also worked in reverse...
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Then, buoyed by the apparent immunity, somebody else will do it. Then another bloke will do the same.
This will go on until her majesty's government is sufficiently annoyed and the Royal Navy is dispatched to forcibly reclaim british sovereignty over your bunker.
What will you do?
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No need for central planning to do that. The good old market forces and capitalist greet will gladly force you into a cheaper appartment when the energetic waste caused by suburban sprawl will finally fully be billed to those who adopt that lifestyle...
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Same thing happens in Canada, who has to face the Kyoto greenhouse-gas reduction accords. Canada, in fact, pollutes far more than the US per capita (it's normal: the population in Canada is much less dense than in the US, and the public transportation system has been gutted far more than in the US, thanks to stupid federal policies that favour air transportation). So, the federal government is looking at ways to reduce air pollution.
But Québec (24% of canadian population) wants the right to pollute more, because 99% of it's electricity comes from non-polluting (well... on the short-term, it is not polluting, but on the long term, there are non negligible effects. And it's hard to beat a power dam when it comes to greenhouse gas, air pollution and thermal pollution) hydroelectric power, unlike other areas in Canada that are heavily dependent on oil, coal and gas for their electric power.
So there are some people who ALREADY pollute less than the rest, but they want to pollute MORE!!!
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After fiddling a bit, we'd grab a marketroïd and ask him about the program, if it did this or that, and about what price it was.
The bullshit reactions we often got were priceless!!!
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BZAPP!!! Wrong answer.
The city of OKA allowed the construction of the golf course over the ancient burial ground; a blockade ensued for a few weeks, when the Sûreté du Québec (police) was called to dismantle it. In the ensuing mêlée, an officer was killed.
(By the way, Oka is the algonquin name; mohawks call it Kahnesatake. Once mohawks settled there, they gradually drove out the algonquins and hurons who lived there elsewhere).
The land in dispute around Oka is not, and never has been an indian reserve, as it is commonly assumed, and this explains the involvement of the Sûreté du Québec rather than the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (federal) normally used in case of indian revolts (such as the Kahnawake revolt in 1956 against the construction of the Saint-Lawrence Seaway - Oddly enough, the picture on the website is taken at Kahnawake; the bridge is the Mercier bridge, which was blockaded in 1990). As a matter of fact, the federal government department of indian affairs has been purposely been dragging it's feet in this matter, the more so because it helps tarnishing the image of Québec towards the world.
In Canada, indian affairs are a federal jurisdiction, so to better control them and use it against the french who want more control over their lifes. But in the OKA case, the land where mohawks have been living never had the status of reserve. In fact, that land was donated by a french religious (whose name escapes me) order to american mohawks that were fleeing the genocide perpetrated against the mohawk nation in upstate new-york, in the early 1800's, even though the mohawks/iroquois were the ennemies of the french (well, that was when they were useful to the english at war against the french - but when they were no longer useful, after the american Revolution, they were simply exterminated and driven out).
Other mohawks settled in Kahnawake , immediately south of Montréal (the site is worth visiting, being written in mohawk - see below).
It is interesting to note that while in Québec, the weeks-long blockade had almost totally cut the road to some important suburbs of Montréal and thus inconvenienced untold thousands of commuters (to the point that an emergency commuter train service had to be implemented), not a single mohawk has been killed by police nor army, whilst a little band of indians in Ontario blocking a little backroad saw one of theirs shot dead by police after only a few days of obstruction. This clearly shows the inherent racism of the english and the high tolerance of the french. In fact, in Québec, 20% of the carceral population is indian, whilst in the rest of Canada, it is 80%.
There is no rush, it is inevitable; history clearly shows that a people's desire for sovereignty (it is not separation nor separatism, we've always been a separate nation) cannot be suppressed indefinitely.
The purpose of bill 101 is to protect the existence of the french language in Québec against the onslaught of neighbouring english. The most visible effects have been the prohibition of english commercial signs, and the impossibility for immigrants to go to english schools.
The main idea there is to drive home the point that one cannot expect to live in Québec without knowing french.
Even though more than 80% of the population of Québec is french, immigrants have systematically assimilated themselves into the english community, since the immigration is a federal jurisdiction (the federal govenrment still does not inform immigrants that Québec is primarly french, and encourages them to speak english), and for the last quarter millenium (th e french first came to settle in 1604, thus beating the Mayf lower), the english have been labouring hard to make the french disappear from Canada (in 1760, at the time of the conquest, the french were 90% of the population; in 1867, at the time of the confederation, the french were 50% of the population; nowadays, the french are only 24% of the population). Ethnic cleansing in Canada has been quite successful: large segments of french population outside of Québec have been almost totally eliminated. In the 1880's, a whole french province, Manitoba, was forcibly repressed and turned into an english province. Ontario outlawed the teaching of french language in schools back in 1912. And, as recently as 1977, airlines pilots were susceptible to jail terms if they spoke french during the performance of their duties.
The expression "tongue troopers" is a bogeyman of the english media. The office de la langue française do not hire inspectors to report violations, but rather relies on the public to file complaints, which are then investigated by inspectors.
Another less known (and much less publicized, it would definitely shatter the negative image of Québec the federal government has consistently been trying to portray) effect of bill 101 is the protection it extends to native languages. This is why the Kahnawake website is in mohawk language: Québec has the highest proportion of native speaking their native language (over 80%) whereas in Canada, only the older generations speak the native languages, as the young have been mercilessly taught in schools that viciously suppressed any use of the native language.
Bill 101 is a very mild instrument whose purpose is to undo centuries of extremely harsh treatment.
Of course. This is the typical cluelessness that can be expected out of the english in Canada towards the french. And they wonder why the french want to go out...
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A guy walks in in Chase Manhattan bank and asks for a $5000 loan, and he offers his Lamborghini as collateral.
The bank guy is thilled, he takes the car for a spin around the block before heading in the underground parking garage, and then hands the guy a wad of cash.
A month later, the guy shows up, and pays the $5000 principal along with some $30 of interest.
The bank guy asked him: "While you were away, we ran a credit check on you, and we found that you're worth $50 million. Why the hell did you need to borrow $5000 for anyway???"
- That's the only way I could park my car during a month in Manhattan for thirty bucks!!!!
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