I can very well imagine that the attack today was carried out in retaliation for the US bombing someones home, killing their families, starving their children through sanctions, etc...
And with those criteria, the list of suspects is not short.
We've been bombing Iraq on a monthly basis since the last Bush was president - so often, in fact, that it no longer makes the news over here. But, on the receiving end, I'm sure that it does. Can we really imagine what it would be like to feel the way we do right now EVERY SINGLE DAY?
And no, I'm not condoning this attack - I'm merely pointing out that it's no more or less wrong than our attacks on the populations of other countries.
But we only attack military targets!
Not the case - we attack targets of strategic value, including factories, ports, etc... Where people work. And when we miss, we hit houses, schools, churches, etc.
1. A method for automatically performing one or more maintenance tasks on a
remotely located computer connected to a server computer via a data
network, said method comprising the steps of:
directing an Internet browser on the remotely located computer to form a
logical connection with the server computer;
delivering a software package to the remotely located computer across said
logical connection, said software package being encapsulated within a
markup language communication unit deliverable across said logical
connection, said software package comprising scripts for performing said
one or more maintenance tasks on the remotely located computer; and
automatically executing the scripts for performing said one or more
maintenance tasks on the remotely located computer.
I read a story in the SJ Mercury News today (no link, I get it delivered) which said, on the front page, that DeCSS had been developed by the "worldwide hacker community". It also referred to DeCSS as a tool to copy DVDs.
Maybe it's just me, but that makes us out to be pretty shady folks. Buried later in the article was a quote pointing out that it was developed to allow fair use on Linux, but most folks probably don't read that far, so the damage was done, at least as far as the court of public opinion goes.
That was one of their points, though. This use of a trademark as a generic term (eg kleenex), is copyright dilution, which they feel compelled to fight.
Sure, it's a losing battle, but corporate lawyers get paid by the hour, win or lose.
I agree that the profiling model they're using is way off base, because they have no idea which, if any, of the traits they're looking for actually contribute to violent behaviour.
I think it would be much more interesting to run a nationwide profile looking for "normal" students, and see what incredibly small percentage make the cut. I suspect that the results of such a survey would quickly discredit the whole "profiling industrial complex".
One other thing to remember: high school is not life, though it certainly seemed it at the time, and the "permanent record" that all of these test results go into is just so much paper. There are very few things you can do in HS that will follow you around for the rest of your life.
A partial list: violent felonies, pregnancy (yours or hers), suicide, drug addiction, and abysmal grades. The opinion of your guidance counseler doesn't mean a thing, unless you listen to it.
Hmm. One of the things to remember, though, is that nanotechnology is going to snowball pretty quickly. Simple nanites will be used to create ever more complex nanites, much the way simple computers were used to design today's machines. As for your cellular analogy, that wasn't part of the Diamond Age model, rather the nanites stored energy in batteries... With the whole metabolism question sidestepped, nanites become much easier to design... And they didn't reproduce themselves, at least not on a 1-1 basis...
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I can very well imagine that the attack today was carried out in retaliation for the US bombing someones home, killing their families, starving their children through sanctions, etc...
And with those criteria, the list of suspects is not short.
We've been bombing Iraq on a monthly basis since the last Bush was president - so often, in fact, that it no longer makes the news over here. But, on the receiving end, I'm sure that it does. Can we really imagine what it would be like to feel the way we do right now EVERY SINGLE DAY?
And no, I'm not condoning this attack - I'm merely pointing out that it's no more or less wrong than our attacks on the populations of other countries.
But we only attack military targets!
Not the case - we attack targets of strategic value, including factories, ports, etc... Where people work. And when we miss, we hit houses, schools, churches, etc.
As we reap, so shall we sow.
Sigh.
TPJ had an IP phone in ~70 lines of perl - this should be adaptable to your purposes, I'd think...
Maybe it's just me, but that makes us out to be pretty shady folks. Buried later in the article was a quote pointing out that it was developed to allow fair use on Linux, but most folks probably don't read that far, so the damage was done, at least as far as the court of public opinion goes.
Sure, it's a losing battle, but corporate lawyers get paid by the hour, win or lose.
What about the Amiga OS? It'd be nice to see that resurrected.
I think it would be much more interesting to run a nationwide profile looking for "normal" students, and see what incredibly small percentage make the cut. I suspect that the results of such a survey would quickly discredit the whole "profiling industrial complex".
One other thing to remember: high school is not life, though it certainly seemed it at the time, and the "permanent record" that all of these test results go into is just so much paper. There are very few things you can do in HS that will follow you around for the rest of your life.
A partial list: violent felonies, pregnancy (yours or hers), suicide, drug addiction, and abysmal grades. The opinion of your guidance counseler doesn't mean a thing, unless you listen to it.
Hmm. One of the things to remember, though, is that nanotechnology is going to snowball pretty quickly. Simple nanites will be used to create ever more complex nanites, much the way simple computers were used to design today's machines. As for your cellular analogy, that wasn't part of the Diamond Age model, rather the nanites stored energy in batteries... With the whole metabolism question sidestepped, nanites become much easier to design... And they didn't reproduce themselves, at least not on a 1-1 basis...
Naw, 'tribbles' will be around a lot longer than 'nanites'...