Hey, if they can make a $20 dollar laptop, think of the size of the beowulf cluster you could make for $100,000!
hooray for the long boom!
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let's pretend that IT is some sort of personal hovercraft/helicopter/magnetic/spaceship that is super fuel efficient.
Destroying the existing car/gas empires (while initially disruptive) can only be good for us (economically and otherwise) in the long run. Whole new industries, whole new infrastructure.
Lets crank up a whole 'nother round of start-up businesses!
The biggest, loudest, most agressive monkey gets the bananna.
Which is why selfless monkeys are hard to elect.
Anybody wanna start a space colony? Once upon a time, revolutionary groups could "go west" and start their own little slice of heaven, unfotunately, we've run out of unclaimed space on this rock.
True, it's not graphical, but muds are flat-out, hands-down the most addictive form of game play I've ever come acrost. I've never played ultima online or everquest, so I don't know how those stack up.
I used to help run a mud, and the average on-line times of some of our players were incredible- people averaging 6-8 on the mud every day. Looking back at the amount of time I spent doing it is not frankly embarassing, but it was great fun and also the very thing that prompted me to learn programming.
Not much to stop someone from using their legitimate key to de-crypt the song, and then re-save it as.mp3 or whatever, and post it annonymously to the net. While it's in that de-crypted form, it is vounerable to copying. (Even if something as low-quality as holding a microphone up to me speakers...)
The whole problem with any encryption/decryption scheme is eventually the content has to be de-crypted so the end user can see/hear/read it.
This is the same reason DVD encryption is essentially flawed and whole De-css issue is the mess that it is.
Isn't there some Larry Niven book about a future earth where network cable is all super-conducting and there is so much of it, all the heat is diffused from the equator to the poles and the ice caps melt?
(conspiracy mode on)
"In 1997, an international ad-hoc committee recommended creating seven suffixes, but they were never adopted. A year later, the Commerce Department designated the newly formed ICANN to take over the discussions and debates over addressing. "
Interesting that the u.s. once again in/directly has its thumb on the "world" wide web....
"The group had considered.web from Afilias LLC but substituted.info from the same applicant at the last minute because of concerns that Image Online Design Inc. has been unofficially registering.web for about five years. IOD also sought a sanctioned.web."
Voted for Nader. Not because I agree with all his positions, but because I feel
he is the least likely to to screw me, and then lie about it.
In my more cynical moments I tend to look at the current state of politics
in America as close to the end of the cycle- namely the fall. Read your history,
boys and girls, particularly the the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Read
the following and see if *you* can draw some interesting parallels. (the following
taken from this site.
The British historian, Gibbons, identified the primary reasons for the collapse
in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire".
IV. Social Causes.
1. Slavery had weakened the moral fiber of the citizens and a large discontented
mass of people had become disenfranchised. how many of you own property?
2. There had been a decline in the traditional Roman citizenry. any of you readers come from a broken home?
3. Moral decay was evident as depicted in its literature, amusements, and
lifestyles that often portrayed gratuitous sex and violence. Yow! Spice channel!
4. Patriotism declined as people lost their allegiance to the state. how's the voter turn-out this year?
5. Christianity challenged the traditional Roman character traits and caused
people to neglect the state when they concentrated on personal salvation. I would suggest consumer culture has replaced christianity as the dominant
ethos
V. Economic Causes.
1. As productivity declined, the Roman empire became more dependent on foreign
products. nafta baby
2. A break-down in the labor force occurred as the traditional work ethic
declined. our service-economy doesn't instill a lot of pride in workers, corporate
or retail. where did all the craftsmen go? (we;;, we still have programmers)
3. The infrastructure of the cities declined and began a steady decay. no kiddin'
4. A balance of trade deficit began to occur. what is it now? 3 trillion?
4?
5. The cost of government, including the military and welfare, become burdensome. my income tax is 40%. how 'bout yours?
6. Class economic warfare broke out between the rich and poor. nah, we just ignore the poor
7. Parts of the empire were not taxed while others were overtaxed. *cough* middle class *cough*
8. The small farm almost disappeared. we still have private farms?
VI. Political Causes.
1. The Romans never solved the problem of succession except during a brief
period of time.
2. The government of the empire was not designed to rule a large, polyglot
empire and reform came to late.
3. The government became increasingly run by the rich and the military.
4. Citizens lost interest in government as it became distant from them.
5. The military became aloyal to the country--it became a job not a mission.
Voted for Nader. Not because I agree with all his positions, but because I feel he is the least likely to to screw me, and then lie about it.
In my more cynical moments I tend to look at the current state of politics in America as close to the end of the cycle- namely the fall.
Read your history, boys and girls, particularly the the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Read the following and see if *you* can draw some interesting parallels. (the following taken from this site.
III. The British historian, Gibbons, identified the primary reasons for the collapse in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire".
IV. Social Causes.
1. Slavery had weakened the moral fiber of the citizens and a large discontented mass of people had become disenfranchised.
(how many of you own property? consumer culture)
2. There had been a decline in the traditional Roman citizenry. any of you readers come from a broken home?
3. Moral decay was evident as depicted in its literature, amusements, and lifestyles that often portrayed gratuitous sex and violence.
Yow! Spice channel!
4. Patriotism declined as people lost their allegiance to the state.
how's the voter turn-out this year?
5. Christianity challenged the traditional Roman character traits and caused people to neglect the state when they concentrated on personal salvation.
I wouldsuggest consumer culture has replaced christianity as the dominant ethos
V. Economic Causes.
1. As productivity declined, the Roman empire became more dependent on foreign products.
nafta baby
2. A break-down in the labor force occurred as the traditional work ethic declined.
our service-economy doesn't instill a lot of pride in workers, corporate or retail. where did all the craftsmen go? (we;;, we still have programmers)
3. The infrastructure of the cities declined and began a steady decay.
no kiddin'
4. A balance of trade deficit began to occur.
what is it now? 3 trillion? 4?
5. The cost of government, including the military and welfare, become burdensome.
my income tax is 40%. how 'bout yours?
6. Class economic warfare broke out between the rich and poor.
nah, we just ignore the poor
7. Parts of the empire were not taxed while others were overtaxed.
*cough* middle class *cough*
8. The small farm almost disappeared.
we still have private farms?
VI. Political Causes.
1. The Romans never solved the problem of succession except during a brief period of time.
2. The government of the empire was not designed to rule a large, polyglot empire and reform came to late.
3. The government became increasingly run by the rich and the military.
4. Citizens lost interest in government as it became distant from them.
5. The military became aloyal to the country--it became a job not a mission.
toughest job you'll ever love
Oh well. Everything ends sometime.
...but what is the probability of a group of russian-teen-uber-hackers breaking into Microsoft's inner scantum, vs. the probability of the DOJ enlisting the aid of Microsoft to stage an "event" that will influence public opinion and help law inforcement authorities "crack down" on these vicious computer crimes?
If you think the gov't doesn't create news events for the sake of swaying public opinion, you haven't been paying attention.
Bah. Since when can the U.S. gov't mandate legal policy in foreign countries? Even if (and its a HUGE if- it were *possible* to enforce this technically, (which it isn't), do you really think all those fortune 500 companies that make up all the special interests groups would be delighted to spend $$$$$$$ to refurbish all their web properties?
Never happen.
Why not strap one of these suckers to Venus, and boost it into a higher (earth-like) orbit?
Power considerations would be incredible, but it would be so *cool*.
I want my own planet mover.
And in response 300,000 script kiddies from Slashdot program their replicators to produce FFFFF products; and as a further fuck-you gesture, they hack into any poorly secured replicator attached to the network to also produce FFFFF, raising massive legal questions about whether a person is responsible for illegal replications that they did not initiate, but still are responsible for.
The Department of justice takes a look at the estimated 2.5 billion defendents in the Monsanto vs. Earth dispute, and fines them for price-fixing. (Just like 28 states have filed suit against members of the RIAA)
Bwhahahahahaha. Just remember friends, paradigme shifts have a way of coming back to bite you in the ass. New Economy my rosey red behind, we're talking cultural revolution.
Slashdot Mirror
How about bolting one of these suckers onto a "normal" mainframe, and use it to store the ram as a pattern of gates? Reboot in .01 seconds!
Persistant Ram!
Bwhahahahahah.....
...of course writing a RAM-to-Logic-Gate interpreter might be tricky....
Anyone care to add to the list of *other* ways to share music files?
;)
I can think of:
Gnutella
Freenet
Hotline
Carracho
Geocities
(And the napster-clones that will appear in russia in about 2 days.
Hey, if they can make a $20 dollar laptop, think of the size of the beowulf cluster you could make for $100,000!
let's pretend that IT is some sort of personal hovercraft/helicopter/magnetic/spaceship that is super fuel efficient.
Destroying the existing car/gas empires (while initially disruptive) can only be good for us (economically and otherwise) in the long run. Whole new industries, whole new infrastructure.
Lets crank up a whole 'nother round of start-up businesses!
-C
If you overflow the buffer while running a flash movie THE MACHINE RUNNING IT CRASHES. Hence making it tough to 'sploit.
Eternal Vigilance is the price of Freedom
But better remembered as:
"You gotta fight, for your right, to party"
but this all boils down to:
The biggest, loudest, most agressive monkey gets the bananna.
Which is why selfless monkeys are hard to elect.
Anybody wanna start a space colony? Once upon a time, revolutionary groups could "go west" and start their own little slice of heaven, unfotunately, we've run out of unclaimed space on this rock.
I used to help run a mud, and the average on-line times of some of our players were incredible- people averaging 6-8 on the mud every day. Looking back at the amount of time I spent doing it is not frankly embarassing, but it was great fun and also the very thing that prompted me to learn programming.
... and soon he shall release his quake mod upon the western world, destroying the infidels...
The only possible reason for this is Microsoft prefers spin control to efficient distribution in distributing bug reports.
What, they were planning on releasing a "best of MS bugs" album? Copyright? Give me a break.
The whole problem with any encryption/decryption scheme is eventually the content has to be de-crypted so the end user can see/hear/read it.
This is the same reason DVD encryption is essentially flawed and whole De-css issue is the mess that it is.
If this guy knew what he was doing, he would have put the lot into the Neiman Marcus catalogue for a quarter-mil.
[toggle IPO Millionaire]
"Honey, what video game should we buy Junior for Christmas?"
"All of them, dear."
[/toggle IPO Millionaire]
What about the moon? Anything worth getting there?
Also, just hypothetically, what would happen if a private group or company landed on the moon and set up a perminent base. Would they own it?
That would be cool.
Interesting that the u.s. once again in/directly has its thumb on the "world" wide web....
(conspirace mode)
by the way, how do you "unofficially register" a web domain????
something is rotten in demark.
p.p.s use freenet, subvert the domain name hierarchy! woo hoo
(a quote)
"The group had considered
Tyranny of the minority, anyone?
Oh well.
So how often will (or can) ICANN meet and add new TLD's?
Once a week? Once a year? Never again?
Other people have already asked, but I'm also curious, is there a technical reason to limit TLD's or is it just plain' ol' politics?
In my more cynical moments I tend to look at the current state of politics in America as close to the end of the cycle- namely the fall. Read your history, boys and girls, particularly the the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Read the following and see if *you* can draw some interesting parallels. (the following taken from this site.
The British historian, Gibbons, identified the primary reasons for the collapse in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire".
IV. Social Causes.
V. Economic Causes.
VI. Political Causes.
Oh well. Everything ends sometime.
Hah! Who do you think I am? Paul Milne? Write yer own. ;)
Voted for Nader. Not because I agree with all his positions, but because I feel he is the least likely to to screw me, and then lie about it. In my more cynical moments I tend to look at the current state of politics in America as close to the end of the cycle- namely the fall. Read your history, boys and girls, particularly the the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. Read the following and see if *you* can draw some interesting parallels. (the following taken from this site. III. The British historian, Gibbons, identified the primary reasons for the collapse in his "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire". IV. Social Causes. 1. Slavery had weakened the moral fiber of the citizens and a large discontented mass of people had become disenfranchised. (how many of you own property? consumer culture) 2. There had been a decline in the traditional Roman citizenry. any of you readers come from a broken home? 3. Moral decay was evident as depicted in its literature, amusements, and lifestyles that often portrayed gratuitous sex and violence. Yow! Spice channel! 4. Patriotism declined as people lost their allegiance to the state. how's the voter turn-out this year? 5. Christianity challenged the traditional Roman character traits and caused people to neglect the state when they concentrated on personal salvation. I wouldsuggest consumer culture has replaced christianity as the dominant ethos V. Economic Causes. 1. As productivity declined, the Roman empire became more dependent on foreign products. nafta baby 2. A break-down in the labor force occurred as the traditional work ethic declined. our service-economy doesn't instill a lot of pride in workers, corporate or retail. where did all the craftsmen go? (we;;, we still have programmers) 3. The infrastructure of the cities declined and began a steady decay. no kiddin' 4. A balance of trade deficit began to occur. what is it now? 3 trillion? 4? 5. The cost of government, including the military and welfare, become burdensome. my income tax is 40%. how 'bout yours? 6. Class economic warfare broke out between the rich and poor. nah, we just ignore the poor 7. Parts of the empire were not taxed while others were overtaxed. *cough* middle class *cough* 8. The small farm almost disappeared. we still have private farms? VI. Political Causes. 1. The Romans never solved the problem of succession except during a brief period of time. 2. The government of the empire was not designed to rule a large, polyglot empire and reform came to late. 3. The government became increasingly run by the rich and the military. 4. Citizens lost interest in government as it became distant from them. 5. The military became aloyal to the country--it became a job not a mission. toughest job you'll ever love Oh well. Everything ends sometime.
...but what is the probability of a group of russian-teen-uber-hackers breaking into Microsoft's inner scantum, vs. the probability of the DOJ enlisting the aid of Microsoft to stage an "event" that will influence public opinion and help law inforcement authorities "crack down" on these vicious computer crimes?
If you think the gov't doesn't create news events for the sake of swaying public opinion, you haven't been paying attention.
Bah. Since when can the U.S. gov't mandate legal policy in foreign countries? Even if (and its a HUGE if- it were *possible* to enforce this technically, (which it isn't), do you really think all those fortune 500 companies that make up all the special interests groups would be delighted to spend $$$$$$$ to refurbish all their web properties? Never happen.
What is your opinion of the use and usefulness of the DMCA, and its application to the music, video and software industries? Would you favor a repeal?
Why not strap one of these suckers to Venus, and boost it into a higher (earth-like) orbit? Power considerations would be incredible, but it would be so *cool*. I want my own planet mover.
And in response 300,000 script kiddies from Slashdot program their replicators to produce FFFFF products; and as a further fuck-you gesture, they hack into any poorly secured replicator attached to the network to also produce FFFFF, raising massive legal questions about whether a person is responsible for illegal replications that they did not initiate, but still are responsible for.
The Department of justice takes a look at the estimated 2.5 billion defendents in the Monsanto vs. Earth dispute, and fines them for price-fixing. (Just like 28 states have filed suit against members of the RIAA)
Bwhahahahahaha. Just remember friends, paradigme shifts have a way of coming back to bite you in the ass. New Economy my rosey red behind, we're talking cultural revolution.