From another version of Bradbury's Farenheit 451, "It's not wrong to have books, it's just wrong to read them." So libraries should also not allow anyone to come in and read anything random off the shelves, since they might stumble across the knowledge necessary to perpetrate a crime.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Especially if they get an injunction served to keep them from linking to Disney... Then all hell breaks loose. Remeber, we haven't even touched the legal ramifications of link-chains and how long a chain has to be before you are no longer legally liable. That would make it pretty much illegal to link to anything... Is it just me, or are the powers that be simply too stupid to be an effective governing body?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Well, due to the pressure they've been under, we may just be getting glimpses of things further up the development pipeline than we used to. After all, didn't they have working copies of the Pentium Pro while they were still marketing P100's as hot shit?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Oh, and don't open the box outdoors, as the alpha particles are lighter than air and the special latex interior seal will float off into the wild blue yonder. Warning: do not breathe the contents of the interior seal device, or your voice will sound like Donald Duck on crystal meth.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
What I want to know is, what are those vertical dust streaks I'm seeing in some of those pictures? For instance here, here, here, and here? Were they rockets for visualizing airflow patterns or something?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
WHAT? maybe in the early 80s, but today there is no difference in platters for ide or scsi or sca or whatever, the sole difference is in the electronics board screwed to the back of the case, and actually only about half of that board is different, the part for motor control and power management is the same.
That being the case, there probably is no internal difference between (for example) a $200 40gig IDE drive and a $200 15gig SCSI drive, as the things that the electronics do with the media will be different. The platters/heads/etc. would be the same in either case, causing a 15gig SCSI drive to look more expensive than an 15gig IDE drive because you're judging on capacity alone. The area density problem he pointed out sounds valid to me. Doesn't mean that's a good thing though, but on the other hand, lower data density on a media that can do better is good from a reliability standpoint.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
I've got a question that's probably going to sound kinda stupid, but since I don't know the issues at present...
Can SCSI's full bandwidth capacity be dumped on a PC's internal bus without a bottleneck? My admittedly addled brain tells me that there's no point in hooking up a SCSI controller to the PCI bus as the PCI bus would be limiting the performance. And from what I've heard, even on-board controllers are simply hardwired to the PCI bus, so there's no advantage there. Can anyone inform me differently on this?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Hell, maybe they did. In case you weren't aware, CSS is pretty fscking weak. 40 bit keys (and it's not for export reasons; after all, how can someone use it to send a message?), and the algorithm isn't that great either. Xing's fuckup is what gave us the first key, but it was the small keyspace and weaknesses in the algorithm that let people grab the decoder keys for every vendor within a few months.
Hey, maybe even Xing's engineers were thinking ahead... If you can argue that the inadequate keyspace on CSS could have been intentional, you can argue that not adequately protecting the key at the player could have been an insightful engineering decision instead of a "fuckup"...
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
I'd like to take the text of EG's article and send it to all my relatives as an email to help spread the word. I can't depend on them to click on a link, and it's more compelling if the text is right there in front of them. I figure 2600 would probably not mind, but since it's a copyrighted work...
Of course, I guess I'll just email and ask for permission. But that thought did give me pause.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Aw c'mon... You know better than that... You don't buy beer, you rent it.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
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Yeah, that was my Dad's idea... Except why not draft the entire government?
"Greetings Citizen:
For the next two years you will serve as your district's Federal Representative. You have until November 8 to report to the Capitol, Washington D.C. Failure to report will result in your being found AWOL and in deriliction of duty..."
And as for the other bits keeping people from declaring themselves as dictator, just put the appropriate controls in the Constitution. Heck, we'd have to get a few amendments made just to put the system in operation anyway...
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Oh, now you've gone and said it. I submit for your approval Murphy's Law (Fesh's Corrolary):
If a person wonders if we'll ever end up needing higher-performing computer hardware that isn't currently unavailable, he/she will invariably be proved wrong.
Take Bill Gates, for god's sake... *grin*
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
You're absolutely right. *smacks forehead* Of course, if you burn out every piece of electronics on the planet, there won't be anything to type it in on, much less compile it... --Fesh
Yow. Now I understand why the DVD Consortium is making such a big fuss. If they can use the DMCA to argue that reverse-engineering is illegal, then they get these protections under law, even though it'd take EMP-bombing the entire planet to get rid of every instance of the DeCSS code. Scary, huh? --Fesh
A certain group of men have foisted this rubbish upon women so that they can use them sexually and erase any evidence of what they've done. "You're empowered because you can kill your baby." is just a mask for "I don't want to pay child support, you were just a casual fuck.".
I wanted to take this discussion offline, but you don't have any contact info. Do you have any evidence to support this assertion? If so, it's likely to change my entire view on the abortion issue. If you would, please take the time to respond via email...
So my question is this... How would the lawywers find potential claimants? Can I expect to find this email in my inbox?
"ATTENTION ISP CUSTOMER:
Have you recently been inundated with internet junk mail? Don't you wish it would go away? Well now thanks to a new class-action lawsuit being brought by Dewey, Cheadem & Howe Law Associates, you can get back at those pesky spammers! Just call our toll free number to add your name to our growing list of claimants!"
Ok, this may be completely off the wall, but try this on for size.
If we assume that personality profiles are accurate (and they may well not be), then we can sort people's votes by personality profile. That way, we have a way to correlate a person's beliefs about what is or is not offensive with their vote. If you wanted to use the software, you'd take a quiz which would determine your profile and would use that to see what other people with a profile similar to yours found offensive.
Of course, that makes a detailed profile of your personality available to anyone who wants to sniff your packets... Hrm.
But if you erased all the laws, then the state wouldn't be corrupt, because you would not be benefitting from your leadership through the use of law. If you could get anyone to do what you say anyway, because everyone would have freedom to do whatever they wanted in the absence of laws. And even if your one law said "you will obey whatever 11223 says", that actually translates into more laws every time you tell someone to do something, although they're implicit instead of explicit.
Sorry for the offtopic post all... I just had to feed the troll...:)
Don't take the program to Vietnam, and whatever you do, don't use a Diamond graphics card. Otherwise a group of monks in Hanoi will be all over your butt for bringing about the end of the world...:)
(ObOffTopic: It was believed by a group of Buddhist (?) monks in Hanoi that solving the Towers of Hanoi with 64 rings made of diamond would cause the world to end. Probably because by the time you finished it, the sun would go nova...)
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"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
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"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
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"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
On an offtopic note, how much TNT would you need to make a shockwave that's rideable?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
That being the case, there probably is no internal difference between (for example) a $200 40gig IDE drive and a $200 15gig SCSI drive, as the things that the electronics do with the media will be different. The platters/heads/etc. would be the same in either case, causing a 15gig SCSI drive to look more expensive than an 15gig IDE drive because you're judging on capacity alone. The area density problem he pointed out sounds valid to me. Doesn't mean that's a good thing though, but on the other hand, lower data density on a media that can do better is good from a reliability standpoint.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Can SCSI's full bandwidth capacity be dumped on a PC's internal bus without a bottleneck? My admittedly addled brain tells me that there's no point in hooking up a SCSI controller to the PCI bus as the PCI bus would be limiting the performance. And from what I've heard, even on-board controllers are simply hardwired to the PCI bus, so there's no advantage there. Can anyone inform me differently on this?
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
Hey, maybe even Xing's engineers were thinking ahead... If you can argue that the inadequate keyspace on CSS could have been intentional, you can argue that not adequately protecting the key at the player could have been an insightful engineering decision instead of a "fuckup"...
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
I'd like to take the text of EG's article and send it to all my relatives as an email to help spread the word. I can't depend on them to click on a link, and it's more compelling if the text is right there in front of them. I figure 2600 would probably not mind, but since it's a copyrighted work...
Of course, I guess I'll just email and ask for permission. But that thought did give me pause.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
"Greetings Citizen:
For the next two years you will serve as your district's Federal Representative. You have until November 8 to report to the Capitol, Washington D.C. Failure to report will result in your being found AWOL and in deriliction of duty..."
And as for the other bits keeping people from declaring themselves as dictator, just put the appropriate controls in the Constitution. Heck, we'd have to get a few amendments made just to put the system in operation anyway...
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
'Course, it'll never happen because the politicos are too used to getting their way with pork-barrel projects.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
isn't currently unavailable = isn't currently available.
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
If a person wonders if we'll ever end up needing higher-performing computer hardware that isn't currently unavailable, he/she will invariably be proved wrong.
Take Bill Gates, for god's sake... *grin*
--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy
You're absolutely right. *smacks forehead* Of course, if you burn out every piece of electronics on the planet, there won't be anything to type it in on, much less compile it...
--Fesh
Yow. Now I understand why the DVD Consortium is making such a big fuss. If they can use the DMCA to argue that reverse-engineering is illegal, then they get these protections under law, even though it'd take EMP-bombing the entire planet to get rid of every instance of the DeCSS code. Scary, huh?
--Fesh
I wanted to take this discussion offline, but you don't have any contact info. Do you have any evidence to support this assertion? If so, it's likely to change my entire view on the abortion issue. If you would, please take the time to respond via email...
--Fesh
"ATTENTION ISP CUSTOMER:
Have you recently been inundated with internet junk mail? Don't you wish it would go away? Well now thanks to a new class-action lawsuit being brought by Dewey, Cheadem & Howe Law Associates, you can get back at those pesky spammers! Just call our toll free number to add your name to our growing list of claimants!"
--Fesh
If we assume that personality profiles are accurate (and they may well not be), then we can sort people's votes by personality profile. That way, we have a way to correlate a person's beliefs about what is or is not offensive with their vote. If you wanted to use the software, you'd take a quiz which would determine your profile and would use that to see what other people with a profile similar to yours found offensive.
Of course, that makes a detailed profile of your personality available to anyone who wants to sniff your packets... Hrm.
--Fesh
Sorry for the offtopic post all... I just had to feed the troll... :)
--Fesh
(ObOffTopic: It was believed by a group of Buddhist (?) monks in Hanoi that solving the Towers of Hanoi with 64 rings made of diamond would cause the world to end. Probably because by the time you finished it, the sun would go nova...)
--Fesh