So, what I need to know is -- how do I safely and prudently deploy Vista, with the assumption that it is a hostile component?
That's an easy one! Safely and prudently gather up your Vista DVD and all packing materials, and safely and prudently drop it into the trash can.;-)
Actually, what you might be able to do - and I think it takes the "pro" version or whatever their most expensive crap version is - and virtualize it under Linux using VMWare or some such. If it is running in what is essentially a chroot jail, you can allow it to touch the net (or allow the net to touch it) or not at your call.
I immediately thought the same thing. There is an article in the New Scientific American about how cancer cells modify their environment so that the processes that kill off cells are inhibited. This new treatment could lead to similar. On the other hand, would you rather be dead or brain dead or increase the chance you get cancer?
This could also be a clue in how to treat and kill off cancer cells.
This concept was published in Make in one of their first year issues. It might have been the same guy and Microsoft just bought it out -- but it sure looks to be in the public domain. Here is a link to the Make article: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/soap_ mouse.html
There is also a video on YouTube (search for soap mouse" on how to make and use one. It's basically just a mouse in a sock.
And PC Magazine... what can I say? I haven't been there in a while and was amazed at all the crap on their web pages. One little block of text and the rest of the page is nothing but ad links. Very sad.
I mean, in their entire history, when has Microsoft ever done ANYTHING untrustworthy?
Like literally copying/stealing other people's code line for line and putting it in their OS? (Stacker)
Like putting in software hooks to see if competing office products were running and then crash them or make them run slow? (WordPerfect)
Like swapping code in an OS and a browser to make it appear that the browser was integral to the OS to weasel out of antitrust issues? (Win98 / Explorer)
Naw... I just can't believe that MicroSoft would stoop so low as to try to promote its "ground-up" new OS (that amazingly has many of the exact same vulnerabilities as XP) as being hardened and more secure than Linux and OSX>
That quite a few senators and representatives, in this time of tighter money, see the Los Alamos budget as a juicy target. The more they can keep Los Alamos in the news and hold it up as "incompetent" to handle security, the better chance they have of yanking funding and redirecting it to whatever their pet projects are in their own states. Not that it matters what Los Alamos does to enhance the Nation's security - little things like the chem/bio sensors used at the Salt Lake City Olympics, inventing a lot of the new DNA techniques, work on alternative energy, fighting terror in many ways, and yes, even making sure that the USA has reliable nuclear weapons. Check their web page. They do a lot for the country.
But by yanking funding and threatening to "close the place down", those senators and representatives are risking a valuable National resource. It's their choice I suppose. But I don't think this continued beating down is very productive.
Los Alamos has name recognition. It makes great headlines every time anyone even takes a dump out there.
Agreed. So-called friendly nations, and especially the unfriendly variety (i.e. China who still openly considers the USA to be an adversary) do everything they can to gather everything they can.
It's no oddity or accident that there have been numerous cases where Chinese have been found to be shipping data, designs, and information back to the homeland. I personally have had Chinese nationals (educated and employed in cutting-edge US industries) say they were planning on returning home to exploit what they learned here -- at their employer's expense.
It's just my personal opinion, but I think far too many foreign nations in this country who are exposed and privvy to too much of this Nation's technological information. Call it racist if you want to but I have had the Chinese I worked with openly call Americans stupid and lazy and say they consider us to be just fodder for their mill.
For American companies to lay off American workers and just hand hard-won and expensive American technology to them so they can capitalize on cheap Chinese labor is handing them the keys to everything. They routinely run their production lines longer and sell the excess on the black market. Don't believe me? Read the electronics trade journals abut the disadvantages of having manufacturing outsourced to China. It is a known fact that they do this and yet companies continue to hand them technology and engineering advantage because they can make an extra buck in the short term.
In the long run, however, we are selling our souls, our technology, and our futures to a country -- a Communist country -- that openly considers the USA an enemy and is actively looking for ways to bury us. I think they found it and our weakness - it's greed.
Actually, there were recent news bites that Fermilab had actually seen the Higgs. I don't have the citations, but supposedly they have possibly seen it now at least a few times and are re-examining the data to make sure.
It was just reported within the last month if I recall correctly. I apologize, but I just don't find the citation. I Know I read the article though.
Strangelove: I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy...heh, heh...(He rolls his wheelchair forward into the light) at the bottom of ah...some of our deeper mineshafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in drilling space could easily be provided.
President: How long would you have to stay down there?
Strangelove:...I would think that uh, possibly uh...one hundred years...It would not be difficult Mein Fuehrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh...I'm sorry, Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country, but I would guess that dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.
President: Well, I, I would hate to have to decide...who stays up and...who goes down.
Strangelove: Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha. But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.
Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Russian Ambassador: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
I won't name where I work, but it is pretty big - over 12,000 employees - and they are seriously considering dropping Windows to switch to Linux. Vista is not considered suitable, the cost is huge per seat, and they figure that as long as they are retraining the workforce to use something, it might as well be something that is cheaper, more secure, and more reliable.
I know people will say that the TCO might be higher but in the long run, is it really? Once you get people moved over and used to it, and after a few new versions of OS where MS keeps gouging but Linux stays free, there is a point where the cost drops drastically comparitively. We don't have so many trained to support Linux yet, but that's coming.
There must not have been a contractor willing to line pockets thick enough to get this job done.
Seriously, this administration is letting everything essential rot on the vine while they push war, war, war.
BushCo just does not understand that when the decision is made to "go", it will be years before another satellite can be put in place. They are compromising safety, lives, and disaster response.
No battery-powered consumer electronics will electrocute you. The threshold voltage to stop the heart is a lot higher with DC and takes a lot longer exposure than with 50/60 Hz AC because you have to actually fatigue and stress the heart to make it stop. Plus you need to get conduction through the body across the heart to do it. Dropping cell phones, laptops, pagers or anything else of the sort into water is perfectly safe -- for the user. Not so safe for the electronics.
One other thing a lot of people here have missed about washing electronics is that some parts and pieces (microphones, piezo buzzers, switches, etc) are either not mounted and soldered until after the circuit board washing, or have a protective plastic cover that gets removed after the wash step. One particularly useful accessory when cleaning circuit boards is a can of spray air. The industry uses and air knife. But the idea is to blow off the solvent instead of letting it evaporate. Evaporation just re-deposits whatever gunk was dissolved. Blowing it off removes it completely.
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is called that for a reason. This truth is very inconvenient.
A whole lot of people will need to experience famine for themselves before they finally believe that not only is it possible, but that maybe we might be causing it.
The scientific facts are that CO has a very strong infrared spectrum. It is a scientific fact that it will act like a greenhouse around the earth. The only question is the extent. Everything else is simple scientific fact that anyone could verify for themselves in a college chemistry spectroscopy class. Maybe even high school.
So, with that established and the only issue being the extent, that, is also pretty easily calculated based on concentration and pathlength, sun radiance, the earth's reflectivity, etc. It's also backed up, amazingly, byt the grounding of all aircraft over the USA for the days following the 9/11 attacks.
Convincing the skeptics who refuse to try to understand and only regurgitate and babble the talking points their vocal minority misleaders hand them is a waste of time. They refuse to listen. they refuse to learn. And in fact, most of them are too stupid to even understand. It's not just a rufusal to understand. They just don't have the scientific background to understand.
And starts a war 100% favored by the military-industrial complex and big oil, in an area that is maybe 40% pro-US (if we're lucky), and expends ~120% of the lives taken on 9/11, and spends another 100% of the previous National debt to do it, it seems like the odds of success are somewhere down in the 10% range to me.
But then what do I know? I never went AWOL from the Alabama National Guard...
Which Stacker claimed Microsoft just stole their code and built it into Windows. If I remember correctly, Stacker showed where code was copied directly, won the case, collected damages from Microsoft, and sold their technology to Microsoft.
Microsoft always has been evil and now Google has turned evil as well. I'm switching away from using Google as a search engine. The are doing too much data mining, profiling, etc. I switched to Linux a long time ago.
As necessary as it seems, with all the snooping, the phishing, the scams, the logging, the data mining, the patent fights, and all the other crap that's going on these days, it is getting where the Internet is more necessary evil - with emphasis on the evil.
I also agree with net neutrality. That's the problem. I just hate it that anyone thinks they have to resort what is tantamount to extortion. Or that anyone has to resort to extortion.
People predicted long ago that once money got involved with the net, it would radically change. They were right. All of computing has.
Sigh. While it is entertaining to watch Vista get hammered over and over for security and bugs, it is kind of sad to know that so many are blindly buying it since they feel saddled to the Microsoft rut.
I wonder if all the issues and bad press with Vista is at least partly behind their flurry of licensing activity with various Linux distributions.
At any rate, licensing or no, I love Linux. The more I use it and learn about it, the more I am so glad I made the jump a few years ago. It's logical, open, and really a lot easier to understand than Windows ever was.
I agree - this is old technology. Let us know when there is a real breakthrough.
The efficiency was reported to be only 40% -- higher than I would have expected but still pretty damn lousy when you consider a lowly wire would be damn near 100%.
If people are looking for cool ways to "wirelessly" charge a laptop, I think a better technology would be the placemat-like mats with the patterned conductors.
But wasting 60% of the electricity required to light a lightbulb, or to do anything, is a huge step backwards.
Not to mention that lots and lots of strong magnetic fields all over the place would probably wreak havoc with animal life that uses the earth's (very weak) magnetic field to navigate.
The old silver-based processes last a pretty long time. Same for the copper-based before that. There is a shop nearby that resurrected some very old metal plates used by a photographer in the early 1800s I think to document Indian life - and they are beautiful. But what lasts is that the images are either etched metal or metal deposited on glass or imbedded in the gelatin coating on paper.
But even conventional color film and photographs are just dyes and are subject to eventual fading. With black and white, you actually reduce silver halide to silver metal. It won't fade. But dyes are organic and will lose color as the dye molecules decompose.
One way to make inkjet images last longer is to protect them from UV light. A guy I know printed two identical images and hung them in his office. One had no protective cover and the other had a glass cover. The glass protected the dyes from UV degredation and that print still looks great. The one with no cover glass has very much faded.
People strive for some kind of lasting mark on society or evidence they existed and their lives mattered. The fact is that most evidence of any of us will eventually fade just the way it has for generations before us. Old fil got brittle, cracked, or was water damaged and stuck together. Old prints suffer similar fates. It's just by luck a that a lot of the old images have lasted.
Digital images have an advantage in that they are lossless and the data can be copied from media to media to keep them current and readable. But it is a maintenance that if you don't do, you will eventually lose the image. You can use a film printer to output images to actual film just like you had taken the image with a regular camera but are limited by the film printer's resolution and now you are back to having a format that can't be copied losslessly.
For lots of people, the only record they ever existed is either a headstone, or more commonly, just their skeletons. Might as well get used to the idea.
Oh yeah - those are the companies that handed over all the information concerning their subscriber's phone calls to the Bush administration without so much as a warrant to legitimize the request.
Free speech:
a) "free speech zones" so that he needn't be bothered with people confronting his policies. Anyone wanting to protest (a freedom of speech issue) can only do so some blocks away in a cordoned off area.
b) muzzling the heads of NASA, EPA, etc and telling them all publications have to be proofed by the White House so they can limit any voices that present information counter to the Bush mandates.
c) monitoring phone calls and internet traffic which puts the brakes on many people expressing their views.
Monitoring:
a) illegal wiretaps with no court oversight. (the wiretapping has not been found to be legal - in fact, the FBI was crawled on the carpet for not following even the laws that do still exist)
b) wholesale monitoring of internet traffic.
c) requiring ISPs to keep records on what websites their customers visit, what they post, etc.
Hiring:
a) litmus tests for all key positions
Imprisonment:
a) Gitmo
b) Gitmo
c) Gitmo
It's obvious you would kiss Bush's butt were he to bare it for you...
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They will be grabbing copies of Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSe, or any of a myriad of operating systems superior to (and far cheaper than) Vista -or- XP.
So, what I need to know is -- how do I safely and prudently deploy Vista, with the assumption that it is a hostile component?
;-)
That's an easy one! Safely and prudently gather up your Vista DVD and all packing materials, and safely and prudently drop it into the trash can.
Actually, what you might be able to do - and I think it takes the "pro" version or whatever their most expensive crap version is - and virtualize it under Linux using VMWare or some such. If it is running in what is essentially a chroot jail, you can allow it to touch the net (or allow the net to touch it) or not at your call.
I immediately thought the same thing. There is an article in the New Scientific American about how cancer cells modify their environment so that the processes that kill off cells are inhibited. This new treatment could lead to similar. On the other hand, would you rather be dead or brain dead or increase the chance you get cancer?
This could also be a clue in how to treat and kill off cancer cells.
Interesting stuff.
This concept was published in Make in one of their first year issues. It might have been the same guy and Microsoft just bought it out -- but it sure looks to be in the public domain. Here is a link to the Make article: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/soap_ mouse.html
There is also a video on YouTube (search for soap mouse" on how to make and use one. It's basically just a mouse in a sock.
And PC Magazine... what can I say? I haven't been there in a while and was amazed at all the crap on their web pages. One little block of text and the rest of the page is nothing but ad links. Very sad.
But I doubt that's worth $500...
I mean, in their entire history, when has Microsoft ever done ANYTHING untrustworthy?
Like literally copying/stealing other people's code line for line and putting it in their OS? (Stacker)
Like putting in software hooks to see if competing office products were running and then crash them or make them run slow? (WordPerfect)
Like swapping code in an OS and a browser to make it appear that the browser was integral to the OS to weasel out of antitrust issues? (Win98 / Explorer)
Naw... I just can't believe that MicroSoft would stoop so low as to try to promote its "ground-up" new OS (that amazingly has many of the exact same vulnerabilities as XP) as being hardened and more secure than Linux and OSX>
They wouldn't do anything like that, would they?
That quite a few senators and representatives, in this time of tighter money, see the Los Alamos budget as a juicy target. The more they can keep Los Alamos in the news and hold it up as "incompetent" to handle security, the better chance they have of yanking funding and redirecting it to whatever their pet projects are in their own states. Not that it matters what Los Alamos does to enhance the Nation's security - little things like the chem/bio sensors used at the Salt Lake City Olympics, inventing a lot of the new DNA techniques, work on alternative energy, fighting terror in many ways, and yes, even making sure that the USA has reliable nuclear weapons. Check their web page. They do a lot for the country.
But by yanking funding and threatening to "close the place down", those senators and representatives are risking a valuable National resource. It's their choice I suppose. But I don't think this continued beating down is very productive.
Los Alamos has name recognition. It makes great headlines every time anyone even takes a dump out there.
Agreed. So-called friendly nations, and especially the unfriendly variety (i.e. China who still openly considers the USA to be an adversary) do everything they can to gather everything they can.
It's no oddity or accident that there have been numerous cases where Chinese have been found to be shipping data, designs, and information back to the homeland. I personally have had Chinese nationals (educated and employed in cutting-edge US industries) say they were planning on returning home to exploit what they learned here -- at their employer's expense.
It's just my personal opinion, but I think far too many foreign nations in this country who are exposed and privvy to too much of this Nation's technological information. Call it racist if you want to but I have had the Chinese I worked with openly call Americans stupid and lazy and say they consider us to be just fodder for their mill.
For American companies to lay off American workers and just hand hard-won and expensive American technology to them so they can capitalize on cheap Chinese labor is handing them the keys to everything. They routinely run their production lines longer and sell the excess on the black market. Don't believe me? Read the electronics trade journals abut the disadvantages of having manufacturing outsourced to China. It is a known fact that they do this and yet companies continue to hand them technology and engineering advantage because they can make an extra buck in the short term.
In the long run, however, we are selling our souls, our technology, and our futures to a country -- a Communist country -- that openly considers the USA an enemy and is actively looking for ways to bury us. I think they found it and our weakness - it's greed.
Actually, there were recent news bites that Fermilab had actually seen the Higgs. I don't have the citations, but supposedly they have possibly seen it now at least a few times and are re-examining the data to make sure.
It was just reported within the last month if I recall correctly. I apologize, but I just don't find the citation. I Know I read the article though.
Maybe it was in Scientific American?
Strangelove: I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy...heh, heh...(He rolls his wheelchair forward into the light) at the bottom of ah...some of our deeper mineshafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in drilling space could easily be provided. ...I would think that uh, possibly uh...one hundred years...It would not be difficult Mein Fuehrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh...I'm sorry, Mr. President. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey would have to be made of all the available mine sites in the country, but I would guess that dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided.
President: How long would you have to stay down there?
Strangelove:
President: Well, I, I would hate to have to decide...who stays up and...who goes down.
Strangelove: Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha. But ah, with the proper breeding techniques and a ratio of say, ten females to each male, I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present Gross National Product within say, twenty years.
Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious...service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Russian Ambassador: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
I won't name where I work, but it is pretty big - over 12,000 employees - and they are seriously considering dropping Windows to switch to Linux. Vista is not considered suitable, the cost is huge per seat, and they figure that as long as they are retraining the workforce to use something, it might as well be something that is cheaper, more secure, and more reliable.
I know people will say that the TCO might be higher but in the long run, is it really? Once you get people moved over and used to it, and after a few new versions of OS where MS keeps gouging but Linux stays free, there is a point where the cost drops drastically comparitively. We don't have so many trained to support Linux yet, but that's coming.
Bye MS.
There must not have been a contractor willing to line pockets thick enough to get this job done.
Seriously, this administration is letting everything essential rot on the vine while they push war, war, war.
BushCo just does not understand that when the decision is made to "go", it will be years before another satellite can be put in place. They are compromising safety, lives, and disaster response.
It's sad. Very sad.
No battery-powered consumer electronics will electrocute you. The threshold voltage to stop the heart is a lot higher with DC and takes a lot longer exposure than with 50/60 Hz AC because you have to actually fatigue and stress the heart to make it stop. Plus you need to get conduction through the body across the heart to do it. Dropping cell phones, laptops, pagers or anything else of the sort into water is perfectly safe -- for the user. Not so safe for the electronics.
One other thing a lot of people here have missed about washing electronics is that some parts and pieces (microphones, piezo buzzers, switches, etc) are either not mounted and soldered until after the circuit board washing, or have a protective plastic cover that gets removed after the wash step. One particularly useful accessory when cleaning circuit boards is a can of spray air. The industry uses and air knife. But the idea is to blow off the solvent instead of letting it evaporate. Evaporation just re-deposits whatever gunk was dissolved. Blowing it off removes it completely.
I bet he considers that questionalble too.
Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is called that for a reason. This truth is very inconvenient.
A whole lot of people will need to experience famine for themselves before they finally believe that not only is it possible, but that maybe we might be causing it.
The scientific facts are that CO has a very strong infrared spectrum. It is a scientific fact that it will act like a greenhouse around the earth. The only question is the extent. Everything else is simple scientific fact that anyone could verify for themselves in a college chemistry spectroscopy class. Maybe even high school.
So, with that established and the only issue being the extent, that, is also pretty easily calculated based on concentration and pathlength, sun radiance, the earth's reflectivity, etc. It's also backed up, amazingly, byt the grounding of all aircraft over the USA for the days following the 9/11 attacks.
Convincing the skeptics who refuse to try to understand and only regurgitate and babble the talking points their vocal minority misleaders hand them is a waste of time. They refuse to listen. they refuse to learn. And in fact, most of them are too stupid to even understand. It's not just a rufusal to understand. They just don't have the scientific background to understand.
Sigh.
I've not regretted it -- ever.
They hand over subscriber and call information without a warrant and now they do this.
I don't pirate movies either.
And starts a war 100% favored by the military-industrial complex and big oil, in an area that is maybe 40% pro-US (if we're lucky), and expends ~120% of the lives taken on 9/11, and spends another 100% of the previous National debt to do it, it seems like the odds of success are somewhere down in the 10% range to me.
But then what do I know? I never went AWOL from the Alabama National Guard...
Thank you very much. I used to watch your show religiously as a kid.
Which Stacker claimed Microsoft just stole their code and built it into Windows. If I remember correctly, Stacker showed where code was copied directly, won the case, collected damages from Microsoft, and sold their technology to Microsoft.
Microsoft always has been evil and now Google has turned evil as well. I'm switching away from using Google as a search engine. The are doing too much data mining, profiling, etc. I switched to Linux a long time ago.
As necessary as it seems, with all the snooping, the phishing, the scams, the logging, the data mining, the patent fights, and all the other crap that's going on these days, it is getting where the Internet is more necessary evil - with emphasis on the evil.
I also agree with net neutrality. That's the problem. I just hate it that anyone thinks they have to resort what is tantamount to extortion. Or that anyone has to resort to extortion.
People predicted long ago that once money got involved with the net, it would radically change. They were right. All of computing has.
Removing it is even easier
;-)
Yeah. I find a reformat and a Linux install fixes all of Windows bad behaviors every time.
We run out of IPV4 addresses.
Sigh. While it is entertaining to watch Vista get hammered over and over for security and bugs, it is kind of sad to know that so many are blindly buying it since they feel saddled to the Microsoft rut.
I wonder if all the issues and bad press with Vista is at least partly behind their flurry of licensing activity with various Linux distributions.
At any rate, licensing or no, I love Linux. The more I use it and learn about it, the more I am so glad I made the jump a few years ago. It's logical, open, and really a lot easier to understand than Windows ever was.
I agree - this is old technology. Let us know when there is a real breakthrough.
The efficiency was reported to be only 40% -- higher than I would have expected but still pretty damn lousy when you consider a lowly wire would be damn near 100%.
If people are looking for cool ways to "wirelessly" charge a laptop, I think a better technology would be the placemat-like mats with the patterned conductors.
But wasting 60% of the electricity required to light a lightbulb, or to do anything, is a huge step backwards.
Not to mention that lots and lots of strong magnetic fields all over the place would probably wreak havoc with animal life that uses the earth's (very weak) magnetic field to navigate.
The old silver-based processes last a pretty long time. Same for the copper-based before that. There is a shop nearby that resurrected some very old metal plates used by a photographer in the early 1800s I think to document Indian life - and they are beautiful. But what lasts is that the images are either etched metal or metal deposited on glass or imbedded in the gelatin coating on paper.
But even conventional color film and photographs are just dyes and are subject to eventual fading. With black and white, you actually reduce silver halide to silver metal. It won't fade. But dyes are organic and will lose color as the dye molecules decompose.
One way to make inkjet images last longer is to protect them from UV light. A guy I know printed two identical images and hung them in his office. One had no protective cover and the other had a glass cover. The glass protected the dyes from UV degredation and that print still looks great. The one with no cover glass has very much faded.
People strive for some kind of lasting mark on society or evidence they existed and their lives mattered. The fact is that most evidence of any of us will eventually fade just the way it has for generations before us. Old fil got brittle, cracked, or was water damaged and stuck together. Old prints suffer similar fates. It's just by luck a that a lot of the old images have lasted.
Digital images have an advantage in that they are lossless and the data can be copied from media to media to keep them current and readable. But it is a maintenance that if you don't do, you will eventually lose the image. You can use a film printer to output images to actual film just like you had taken the image with a regular camera but are limited by the film printer's resolution and now you are back to having a format that can't be copied losslessly.
For lots of people, the only record they ever existed is either a headstone, or more commonly, just their skeletons. Might as well get used to the idea.
Oh yeah - those are the companies that handed over all the information concerning their subscriber's phone calls to the Bush administration without so much as a warrant to legitimize the request.
Free speech: a) "free speech zones" so that he needn't be bothered with people confronting his policies. Anyone wanting to protest (a freedom of speech issue) can only do so some blocks away in a cordoned off area. b) muzzling the heads of NASA, EPA, etc and telling them all publications have to be proofed by the White House so they can limit any voices that present information counter to the Bush mandates. c) monitoring phone calls and internet traffic which puts the brakes on many people expressing their views. Monitoring: a) illegal wiretaps with no court oversight. (the wiretapping has not been found to be legal - in fact, the FBI was crawled on the carpet for not following even the laws that do still exist) b) wholesale monitoring of internet traffic. c) requiring ISPs to keep records on what websites their customers visit, what they post, etc. Hiring: a) litmus tests for all key positions Imprisonment: a) Gitmo b) Gitmo c) Gitmo It's obvious you would kiss Bush's butt were he to bare it for you...