Scientist Michio Kaku said that the explosion was "par for the course" in that "about 1 in 75 space launches explodes"...His next point was that this is a reason to think that the nuclear powered rockets that some (who?) are considering are a bad idea.
Poulation size, 102. Crashes 2. These are not useful statistics for projection, and all else is speculation.
Not using nukes because chemical rockets are dangerous is like not using cars because horses throw people. Nukes are the ONLY way to exploit the solar system. We use them, come up with something beter, or play the zero sum game on Earth till extinction.
I just happened to be visiting my in-laws, who have cable TV. I'm amazed that a single piece of wreckage was shown on CNN for most of the day in order to make people look at soap comercials and what not. More money was made there than any silly ebay aution. I imagine the descending chaos of reporters will hamper the investigation more than it usefully reports it.
That's because it has been about 8 months since I learned how to wade through the forrest of tabs required to turn those "features" off, and four months since I've been forced to use Office
Well, if it took you 8 months to figure out some trivial settings then you shouldn't be aloud near a computer...well I guess you can use a Mac then.
Hmmm, you are confused. Eight months ago, I took the time to figure out how to turn all that XP crap off. It took me a week or two because the damn "features" kept turning themselves on until you figured out the double secret key punch to kill them. About four months ago, I quit using office all together thanks to a job change. I would have been happy to be using anything else.
you may not further copy, prepare, and/or distribute copies of this Documen,t or derivative works based on this Document, in any form, without prior written permission from the IEEE.
Does the IEEE really mean that I can't hold onto a copy of their PDF and give it to my friends? While it's great to be able to refrence the site and the latest revisions, it sucks to be at the mercy of the organization and the goodwill of the sponsors to keep the site running. What am I supposed to do, delete my copy until my friend brings his copy back?
Kudos to the members for hashing out the standard. I'm looking forward to more like it.
Apple is comercial, and they still have a unilateral license denial don't they? Well, just treat it that way and know who to develop for.
In the mean time, why not use the machine? It's got X11, right? Can't you just ssh into the beast and export all the apps you want? DVD burning and all that singing and dancing, why not have it? Apple is getting better, who knows, one day they may be free.
Say what you will about Windows, but I have never had a problem working with their Office products.
Yeah, it's been a long time since the horrid M$ office interface has bothered me. Auto-indent, auto -listing, auto-spelling, and all those other nasty auto-make your work take forever and look horrible stuff are fading from memory. That's because it has been about 8 months since I learned how to wade through the forrest of tabs required to turn those "features" off, and four months since I've been forced to use Office. I don't even want to think about what a terrible bug ridden easy to crash, no transaction "database" access was. Excell was OK, but the data format, like all M$ junk, kept changing and it's very dificult to get your work back out. It's good to be free of that.
Please, please, please keep that junk away from me and do not design interfaces like that. Ah the beauty of not seeing red and green squigly underlines beneath the repeated please above. When I need to spell check, I will. When I need a typesetter, I'll get one. When I want to hurt someone, I'll give them Word. There are so many superior free alternative, you have to wonder why people use Office.
What do the Apple people use these days, I wonder. I remember filemaker Pro was a very nice database. I can only imagine they had reasonable word processors and what not. M$ did not poison them too much when they bought so much of them in the deapest darkest days of Pepsi style Apple ruid, did they?
This is very bad news for owners of computers Hehe...but not if you own some Rambus stock:)
You might be able to trade a dozen shares for X megs of RAM soon. Good for you! The rest of us will have to pay a $100 or so. The situation will only change for the rest of us if they really get their way. Then we will have to pay $1000 or so, buy you will still have to trade in that stock. Hold it dear!
The judges sent the patent infringement case back to a lower court for reconsideration, saying it had failed to properly define five key technical terms.
That looks crazy to me. Unless these are legal terms, the patent is silly.
I'd also like to know what you mean by this: The court also overturned the fraud charges because they felt that the JEDEC did not uniformly enforce their patent policy. This decision shows why it is important that these standards groups be very strict in composing and enforcing their patent policies so crap like this doesn't happen.
Were the other parties really lax, or was this the fraud that everyone says it was? You are not saying that Rambus should have uniformly enforced it's bogus patent claims are you? It almost sounds like you are blaming the victims for Rambus's foul behavior. Is there a good reason to think that Rambus acted in good faith?
I see this as a perfect example of our screwy, chaotic, and counterproductive attitude toward drugs. Cigarettes give you cancer and heart disease, so instead of finding a healthier delivery system for addicts, we tell them they either have to smoke cigarettes or go without their drug.
I quit smoking, so can anybody. From a pack a day to zero. No big deal, you just stay away for smokes.
What bothers me is the whole set up. If the federal government really wanted to kill tobaco, they could just STOP PAYING PEOPLE TO GROW IT. Of course, the states would lose their lucrative tax base and the economy would lose the export money. Does it bother anyone else that the federal government tells you tobaco will kill you, that you should not use it, but then encourages it's production?
You have to wonder if this will get the same kind of subsidies. If not, we will know that the federal government considers tobaco a nicotine delivery system and encourges it.
After the master copies are made, it may make sense for the populace to act as a type of backup system. My biggest concern however is that a Master version is unweildy (how many 96kHz x 24 bit audio files do you have?) and therefore people will prefer compressed and lossy versions for day to day use. That could change of course.
Thanks for the reply.
I don't have any such files right now, but I'm interested. I also imagine the local library would be interested too. How many people have the patience to wait for such a file to download over anything slower than 100 mbs? Every school in the country and every library in the country will want a copy as well as many private libraries and individuals. It's such obscure collectors at the ends of the earth that assure survival of culture. As luck and statistics would have it, the most likely to survive recordings now are the lossy compressed nine inch nails on the hardrive at the bottom of the landfill along with assorted scratched CDs. The peices will be put together again, but it would be much nicer to have better files out there.
It is interesting that when the Library of Congress uses the word 'protected' in regards to a sound recording they mean exactly the opposite of what the RIAA means when they use the same word. I like the LOC's meaning better.
If you don't have the ability to archive and share the works with your friends, the two meanings are identical and the works will perish.
The facility is a former military building which is built into the side of a small mountain (more of a hill if you ask me). The first layer of protection is pretty good.
So, would it be a former military building because the military realized it could be dug up by a real attack? How many backups is enough against such an attack? How is this better than just making the information free to copy? If it's worth preserving, it should be free.
The copyright office in the Library of Congress acts to respect the law, of course, but if the master copies of films acidify, there is nothing left to protect.
The law is wrong and must be changed. It is because the law is twisted that this costly project is needed, and it is not enough. While this huge project tries to protect the "big works", countless others, not meeting the government's criteria of "important" will perish. If copyright law was reasonable, there would be countless perfect coppies of all of these works available to all. What we will be left with 100 years from now will be a tiny, sterile government approved, corporate controled waste available, pay per play.
The project istself is likely to fail. The only way to preserve works is to copy them widely. There is no better protection against time and vandalism. If you put all this stuff in one place, you set up a single point of failure for total loss. This is something that can not happen if thousands of perfect coppies are widely distributed. This cache of nationally important works will be targeted by several hostile powers. In the event of war, or even simple terrorism, this little cave's loss would be a great demoralizer. We can count on it sharing the same fate as all the other great libraies the world has ever known, some vandal's torch.
Copyright law is destroying our cultural heritige. Works only survive when they are loved and coppied. Works that are hidden can neither be coppied or loved. You are in a better position than I am to know what is being lost.
(disclaimer: I like my information free and think it's an outrage that public speaches by public figures might not be free. Give me the chance to make my own library at my own expense that I can share.)
All our efforts to get "palladium = bad" into the heads of non-techies are wasted
No, it worked. People understand that M$ is neither "trusted" or "secure". They can change the name of their system all they want, people understand the concepts ammount to Digital Rights Denial. They know what to look for, regardless of name.
When you have a file on your computer that you can't copy or delete, but someone else can, someone else owns and controls your computer. Call it what you want, people know that not controling their work is bad.
Thanks for the flame, dick-head, I'm going to write. My individual well considered letter is not "flooding the Copyright Office with the same request" and I refuse to be give up because some companies might "fake millions of letters." I don't consider myself part of a "flock of nerds". My letter is good practice for talking to my peers and others about the issue. My letter, and many other well considered individual opinions will give the Copyright Office much food for thought, and the statistical backing for their plans. They asked for it, they want it, they will be able to filter out the crap and they will do good things with it.
It beats reading posts by someone who's head is filled with Acidic_Diarrhea .
Unless we advance some form of public ownership, and tear down the structure of corporate business, we will always have corporations.
Corporations are a form of public ownership.
As long as we have corporate record companies, they will seek an organization where they can band together for self-protection.
Not all corporations are unethical and you don't have to let the rest get away with practices that are against the law. I fully expect honest publishers to continue to do what they have always done, cull material and present the best of it. There is value in that trust. The unethical publishers are responsible for DMCA, 100 year copyrights and all that bad jazz that prevents the spread of knowledge. They must be defeated.
Don't knife the baby. Incorporation is a way to sheild yourself against personal ruin for a business that fails. It enables risk taking. It is a govenment intervention in the marketplace that has some use and only goes wrong laws are twisted too far. There's no reason to erase eveything, just the things that are wrong.
Sets of fonts that are the exact same size as the standard Microsoft fonts (e.g. Arial). This is one of the key problems when trying to export files from Open Office to an MS Word user - the fonts end up not matching correctly and things look funny.
You will never see the end of that chase because MicroSoft is not consistent. M$ does not display consitently from one version of windoze to the next and the way things print on M$ will vary with identical setups using different printers. The whole set up is a cluster bang of propriatory font nightmare. Don't count on M$ to do anything co-operative for you. Just look at their refusal to work with portable net graphics as an example of where Microsoft would rather stick to stuff they can break than adopt useful patent and royalty free standards.
If you need to share with a doze user, just print out to post script or pdf. Adobe made those specifications to avoid the nighmare you are in. If you are trying to build content together, just do it in text and then typeset the thing when you are finished. Good luck.
You say, Being able to identify our neighbors is a fundamental element of every society--and the internet just makes us a more closely-knit society,...
It's not so much you and I having a right to be anonymous as it is others NOT having a right to force us to identify ourselves. You lose your rights when you abuse others, but until then you can tell others to fuck off and no one should be able to do anything about it. It's the fourth amendment, real evidence of wrong doing, sworn in a court of law, definate and prescribed search. Everything else is so much bullshit. As the internet is built on networks that run on public land, I'd say it's a public place and you don't have to cary ID in any public place.
This general principle applies to much more than fair use of music. It applies to your personal papers and effects, electronic or otherwise, and all that is your person and property.
And what if some cracker has rooted your machine with some trojan and is doing the downloading of kiddy porn. But the FBI only sees your IP address and when they ask the owner of that IP address (the ISP) to identify the user using that IP at that specific time, they come to you... Suddly there's a database that notes who you are, your typical online hours, and what FILES (not songs, remember p2p is more than just mp3s) you may have on your computer.
Are you suggesting that the next RIAA attempt to poison the p2p networks will be to put kiddie porn onto them? The folks who gave us Britany Spears is above that, right? Hmmm, the sky really is falling now.
We know, shut up! Everyone walks around with their ipods and equivalent. You can't fit shit on a 650M CD-R, duh! 10 gigs? That's a start. Don't let those numb-nuts at the RIAA know, or they will want to tax hard drives.
I've never "pirated" a piece of comercial music ever. I have made personal copies and I have shared music with friends, but I've never published someone else's work and I'm not part of any music sharing network. I don't have a problem with other people's music sharing networks, and I refuse to pay becuse some shit head in Holywood thinks they are not making enough money.
Just use an icepick to perforate the chip.:)...To protect privacy, campaigning has to focus on the weak leak: The government.
That's too rich, suggesting people put an ice pick into their tire then mispelling link as leak. What a clever devil you must think you are.
Also, it is easy enough to buy tires anonymously by using the green stuff.
They plan to collect VID numbers, which are attached to you by legally requried (in most states) insurance, and perhaps you automobile loan. Some people who have enough of the green stuff to buy whole automobiles can also just put it in a company name and spare themselves the imediate identification on toll roads and anywhere else the govenment cares to track your whereabouts.
So now it will be that anonymous travel is dead. It was already dead in the air. Now your comming and going from towns can be tracked. This is evil indeed as it is expensive and not needed. Total Information Awareness for Homeland Security will make you free, no? Knowledge is Power? You bet it is, power over you.
As you think privacy is so dead and the fourth amendment is so useless, do you mind if we cand I search your house a few times to harass you? After we confirm a patern of suspicious travel and cash usage, that is. Let's see, you must be a terrorist to:
"No, it's not true!," cries MacAndrew, as he's hauled away for his beating. "I've been a good citezen, I swear, NOOOoooooo, I did not ask anyone to thwart the will of congress by sticking ice picks into tires!"
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Poulation size, 102. Crashes 2. These are not useful statistics for projection, and all else is speculation.
Not using nukes because chemical rockets are dangerous is like not using cars because horses throw people. Nukes are the ONLY way to exploit the solar system. We use them, come up with something beter, or play the zero sum game on Earth till extinction.
I just happened to be visiting my in-laws, who have cable TV. I'm amazed that a single piece of wreckage was shown on CNN for most of the day in order to make people look at soap comercials and what not. More money was made there than any silly ebay aution. I imagine the descending chaos of reporters will hamper the investigation more than it usefully reports it.
Well, if it took you 8 months to figure out some trivial settings then you shouldn't be aloud near a computer...well I guess you can use a Mac then.
Hmmm, you are confused. Eight months ago, I took the time to figure out how to turn all that XP crap off. It took me a week or two because the damn "features" kept turning themselves on until you figured out the double secret key punch to kill them. About four months ago, I quit using office all together thanks to a job change. I would have been happy to be using anything else.
you may not further copy, prepare, and/or distribute copies of this Documen,t or derivative works based on this Document, in any form, without prior written permission from the IEEE.
Does the IEEE really mean that I can't hold onto a copy of their PDF and give it to my friends? While it's great to be able to refrence the site and the latest revisions, it sucks to be at the mercy of the organization and the goodwill of the sponsors to keep the site running. What am I supposed to do, delete my copy until my friend brings his copy back?
Kudos to the members for hashing out the standard. I'm looking forward to more like it.
In the mean time, why not use the machine? It's got X11, right? Can't you just ssh into the beast and export all the apps you want? DVD burning and all that singing and dancing, why not have it? Apple is getting better, who knows, one day they may be free.
Everything looks nice in window maker.
Yeah, it's been a long time since the horrid M$ office interface has bothered me. Auto-indent, auto -listing, auto-spelling, and all those other nasty auto-make your work take forever and look horrible stuff are fading from memory. That's because it has been about 8 months since I learned how to wade through the forrest of tabs required to turn those "features" off, and four months since I've been forced to use Office. I don't even want to think about what a terrible bug ridden easy to crash, no transaction "database" access was. Excell was OK, but the data format, like all M$ junk, kept changing and it's very dificult to get your work back out. It's good to be free of that.
Please, please, please keep that junk away from me and do not design interfaces like that. Ah the beauty of not seeing red and green squigly underlines beneath the repeated please above. When I need to spell check, I will. When I need a typesetter, I'll get one. When I want to hurt someone, I'll give them Word. There are so many superior free alternative, you have to wonder why people use Office.
What do the Apple people use these days, I wonder. I remember filemaker Pro was a very nice database. I can only imagine they had reasonable word processors and what not. M$ did not poison them too much when they bought so much of them in the deapest darkest days of Pepsi style Apple ruid, did they?
Hehe...but not if you own some Rambus stock
You might be able to trade a dozen shares for X megs of RAM soon. Good for you! The rest of us will have to pay a $100 or so. The situation will only change for the rest of us if they really get their way. Then we will have to pay $1000 or so, buy you will still have to trade in that stock. Hold it dear!
The judges sent the patent infringement case back to a lower court for reconsideration, saying it had failed to properly define five key technical terms.
That looks crazy to me. Unless these are legal terms, the patent is silly.
I'd also like to know what you mean by this:
The court also overturned the fraud charges because they felt that the JEDEC did not uniformly enforce their patent policy. This decision shows why it is important that these standards groups be very strict in composing and enforcing their patent policies so crap like this doesn't happen.
Were the other parties really lax, or was this the fraud that everyone says it was? You are not saying that Rambus should have uniformly enforced it's bogus patent claims are you? It almost sounds like you are blaming the victims for Rambus's foul behavior. Is there a good reason to think that Rambus acted in good faith?
So, you do? Sure, I'm going to trust some AC over the Debian legal team.
I quit smoking, so can anybody. From a pack a day to zero. No big deal, you just stay away for smokes.
What bothers me is the whole set up. If the federal government really wanted to kill tobaco, they could just STOP PAYING PEOPLE TO GROW IT. Of course, the states would lose their lucrative tax base and the economy would lose the export money. Does it bother anyone else that the federal government tells you tobaco will kill you, that you should not use it, but then encourages it's production?
You have to wonder if this will get the same kind of subsidies. If not, we will know that the federal government considers tobaco a nicotine delivery system and encourges it.
Thanks for the reply.
I don't have any such files right now, but I'm interested. I also imagine the local library would be interested too. How many people have the patience to wait for such a file to download over anything slower than 100 mbs? Every school in the country and every library in the country will want a copy as well as many private libraries and individuals. It's such obscure collectors at the ends of the earth that assure survival of culture. As luck and statistics would have it, the most likely to survive recordings now are the lossy compressed nine inch nails on the hardrive at the bottom of the landfill along with assorted scratched CDs. The peices will be put together again, but it would be much nicer to have better files out there.
I like the LOC's meaning better.
If you don't have the ability to archive and share the works with your friends, the two meanings are identical and the works will perish.
So, would it be a former military building because the military realized it could be dug up by a real attack? How many backups is enough against such an attack? How is this better than just making the information free to copy? If it's worth preserving, it should be free.
The copyright office in the Library of Congress acts to respect the law, of course, but if the master copies of films acidify, there is nothing left to protect.
The law is wrong and must be changed. It is because the law is twisted that this costly project is needed, and it is not enough. While this huge project tries to protect the "big works", countless others, not meeting the government's criteria of "important" will perish. If copyright law was reasonable, there would be countless perfect coppies of all of these works available to all. What we will be left with 100 years from now will be a tiny, sterile government approved, corporate controled waste available, pay per play.
The project istself is likely to fail. The only way to preserve works is to copy them widely. There is no better protection against time and vandalism. If you put all this stuff in one place, you set up a single point of failure for total loss. This is something that can not happen if thousands of perfect coppies are widely distributed. This cache of nationally important works will be targeted by several hostile powers. In the event of war, or even simple terrorism, this little cave's loss would be a great demoralizer. We can count on it sharing the same fate as all the other great libraies the world has ever known, some vandal's torch.
Copyright law is destroying our cultural heritige. Works only survive when they are loved and coppied. Works that are hidden can neither be coppied or loved. You are in a better position than I am to know what is being lost.
(disclaimer: I like my information free and think it's an outrage that public speaches by public figures might not be free. Give me the chance to make my own library at my own expense that I can share.)
To boldly split infinitives, the trade marked Star Trek error.
No, it worked. People understand that M$ is neither "trusted" or "secure". They can change the name of their system all they want, people understand the concepts ammount to Digital Rights Denial. They know what to look for, regardless of name.
When you have a file on your computer that you can't copy or delete, but someone else can, someone else owns and controls your computer. Call it what you want, people know that not controling their work is bad.
It beats reading posts by someone who's head is filled with Acidic_Diarrhea .
Corporations are a form of public ownership.
As long as we have corporate record companies, they will seek an organization where they can band together for self-protection.
Not all corporations are unethical and you don't have to let the rest get away with practices that are against the law. I fully expect honest publishers to continue to do what they have always done, cull material and present the best of it. There is value in that trust. The unethical publishers are responsible for DMCA, 100 year copyrights and all that bad jazz that prevents the spread of knowledge. They must be defeated.
Don't knife the baby. Incorporation is a way to sheild yourself against personal ruin for a business that fails. It enables risk taking. It is a govenment intervention in the marketplace that has some use and only goes wrong laws are twisted too far. There's no reason to erase eveything, just the things that are wrong.
standard Microsoft fonts (e.g. Arial). This is
one of the key problems when trying to export
files from Open Office to an MS Word user - the
fonts end up not matching correctly and things
look funny.
You will never see the end of that chase because MicroSoft is not consistent. M$ does not display consitently from one version of windoze to the next and the way things print on M$ will vary with identical setups using different printers. The whole set up is a cluster bang of propriatory font nightmare. Don't count on M$ to do anything co-operative for you. Just look at their refusal to work with portable net graphics as an example of where Microsoft would rather stick to stuff they can break than adopt useful patent and royalty free standards.
If you need to share with a doze user, just print out to post script or pdf. Adobe made those specifications to avoid the nighmare you are in. If you are trying to build content together, just do it in text and then typeset the thing when you are finished. Good luck.
It's not so much you and I having a right to be anonymous as it is others NOT having a right to force us to identify ourselves. You lose your rights when you abuse others, but until then you can tell others to fuck off and no one should be able to do anything about it. It's the fourth amendment, real evidence of wrong doing, sworn in a court of law, definate and prescribed search. Everything else is so much bullshit. As the internet is built on networks that run on public land, I'd say it's a public place and you don't have to cary ID in any public place.
This general principle applies to much more than fair use of music. It applies to your personal papers and effects, electronic or otherwise, and all that is your person and property.
Are you suggesting that the next RIAA attempt to poison the p2p networks will be to put kiddie porn onto them? The folks who gave us Britany Spears is above that, right? Hmmm, the sky really is falling now.
We know, shut up! Everyone walks around with their ipods and equivalent. You can't fit shit on a 650M CD-R, duh! 10 gigs? That's a start. Don't let those numb-nuts at the RIAA know, or they will want to tax hard drives.
Oh no, too late they already want a moderate ... rate ...of ... $2.50 per gigabyte. I suppose they just want to tax everything because they can.
I've never "pirated" a piece of comercial music ever. I have made personal copies and I have shared music with friends, but I've never published someone else's work and I'm not part of any music sharing network. I don't have a problem with other people's music sharing networks, and I refuse to pay becuse some shit head in Holywood thinks they are not making enough money.
Regarless of your taste in music! You know you thought it, however breifly. Now pay up. I wish I could sue them for everytime that happens.
put them in condoms, too.
You would think the used item would be more identifying than the one on the counter.
That's too rich, suggesting people put an ice pick into their tire then mispelling link as leak. What a clever devil you must think you are.
Also, it is easy enough to buy tires anonymously by using the green stuff.
They plan to collect VID numbers, which are attached to you by legally requried (in most states) insurance, and perhaps you automobile loan. Some people who have enough of the green stuff to buy whole automobiles can also just put it in a company name and spare themselves the imediate identification on toll roads and anywhere else the govenment cares to track your whereabouts.
So now it will be that anonymous travel is dead. It was already dead in the air. Now your comming and going from towns can be tracked. This is evil indeed as it is expensive and not needed. Total Information Awareness for Homeland Security will make you free, no? Knowledge is Power? You bet it is, power over you.
As you think privacy is so dead and the fourth amendment is so useless, do you mind if we cand I search your house a few times to harass you? After we confirm a patern of suspicious travel and cash usage, that is. Let's see, you must be a terrorist to:
"No, it's not true!," cries MacAndrew, as he's hauled away for his beating. "I've been a good citezen, I swear, NOOOoooooo, I did not ask anyone to thwart the will of congress by sticking ice picks into tires!"