Few people realize that "ride through church bell-towers" were the forerunners of drive up banking and drive through McDonalds. Revere was well ahead of his time and deserves the credit Palin has at last accorded to him for these conveniences.
the original publication of these scary ideas this sure does make a nice "management summary" for them along with links !
On a more positive note, at least it advocates persuading people to do the right thing. It's not unreasonable for the government to issue a statement along the lines of "if you can think of an attack vector, call us first on 1-800-RUA-CRANK". At least then they could publish any funny ones
I just saw the spinal tap movie with the guy going through security with a zuccini wrapped in foil down his pants. Presumably on backscatter he would just look luckier than most.
The original Amiga had a keyboard garage: the machine itself was raise a little off the desk, just enough for the keyboard to slide underneath it.
I loved every single thing about that computer. The Amiga 1200 was fine too. The Amiga 500 was great, but Commodore made their first big design snafu there - they put the Zorro expansion slot on the wrong side of the computer and upside down, so you couldn't use Amiga 1000 peripherals without also flipping them upside down.
(Still not as bad as the "PCMCIA" slot on the A600.)
Other things I miss: TUIs like Project Oberon and Symbolics Lisp. Hell, Lisp in general is now such a niche it's sad. "Real" Unix - lots of little programs that do one thing and do them well. cat -n considered harmful and all that.
What worries me more is the clause about paying his legal fees if he successfully sues me. As one with the most money always seems to win these things it seems to me that the only way to take him on is to gamble on raising millions to fight him off. Most likely he is more able to raise millions than I am. It's just about raising the ante for suing him.
About all you can do is briefly connect the Ethernet to a power outlet and hope that the tubes carry the high voltage across the interweb and fry their equipment. Of course, timing is everything.
Henceforth the total resale value of any single or partial frame of any broadcast for web use will be set at $2501 or more by the industry, and licensing fees to anyone other than their friends will be set at $5001 or more. Each pixel of each frame will count as a separate public performance (they are after all separated in time). So from this day forth the publication of anything on the web that resembles any 10 pixels in any copyright work will be considered a felony.
I've worked with password-hiding sanctimonious bastards before and I have little sympathy for Childs. But if the penalties for this kind of misbehavior climb too high then it will become cheaper to express dis-satisfaction by simply torching the building as you walk out the door. It serves no-one for the the system to create a "may as well be hung for a sheep" mentality.
Not only that, but it's damned hard to tell the difference between something actually from McAfee and some (other) crap from the internet. For example, most of the services running on my computer with names starting with McAfee are listed as "Unknown" manufacturer. When popups appear they always look fake, the window decorations (like the close icon in the top right corner) are always non-standard and the warnings are overly dire and hyped-looking. They just look unprofessional. Finally, it's so damn hard to get rid of McAfee, it comes pre-installed when you buy the PC (another bad sign IMHO) and just won't go away without extra-ordinary efforts to dispose of it.
Presumably there is some middle ground to be found. For example, pose a question that involves a series of intermediate steps and make each step multi-choice, or write a value in a box. The only thing that sucks is that the student is forced to do the calculation in one specific way, so it hardly allows expression of understanding of anything other than the algorithm they have learned rote, but it seems to me that there is a place for rote learning among other styles.
How much investment does it take to start a company ? Answer, close to zero. The easy circumvention is to start a company with, say, $500 capital and then sell the company for the value of the patent (to a troll) + $500. It's one thing to make it mandatory to start a company, quite another to sue someone for being unrealistically under-capitalized to actually bring a patented invention into production.
If your information truly were encrypted then having them sell it when they go bankrupt to a company that would continue to store it for you may not be such a bad idea. After all, at least you could then continue to purchase the storage. I know a lot can go wrong (and from the looks of it already has), but there is at least one benign potential interpretation of this clause.
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Few people realize that "ride through church bell-towers" were the forerunners of drive up banking and drive through McDonalds. Revere was well ahead of his time and deserves the credit Palin has at last accorded to him for these conveniences.
what they were doing that was so illicit, perhaps borntrade was selling babies.
...crispy ant jerky
With apologies to Scott Adams, whomever he is signed in as today
That swallowed a fly...
the original publication of these scary ideas this sure does make a nice "management summary" for them along with links !
On a more positive note, at least it advocates persuading people to do the right thing. It's not unreasonable for the government to issue a statement along the lines of "if you can think of an attack vector, call us first on 1-800-RUA-CRANK". At least then they could publish any funny ones
I just saw the spinal tap movie with the guy going through security with a zuccini wrapped in foil down his pants. Presumably on backscatter he would just look luckier than most.
Holy crap ! What next, Klingon ?
The original Amiga had a keyboard garage: the machine itself was raise a little off the desk, just enough for the keyboard to slide underneath it.
I loved every single thing about that computer. The Amiga 1200 was fine too. The Amiga 500 was great, but Commodore made their first big design snafu there - they put the Zorro expansion slot on the wrong side of the computer and upside down, so you couldn't use Amiga 1000 peripherals without also flipping them upside down.
(Still not as bad as the "PCMCIA" slot on the A600.)
Other things I miss: TUIs like Project Oberon and Symbolics Lisp. Hell, Lisp in general is now such a niche it's sad. "Real" Unix - lots of little programs that do one thing and do them well. cat -n considered harmful and all that.
Sorry Dimwit - please don't DCMA me bro...
CUDA to it yet ?
I don't know, but from now on Henry Zeringue will be known as Pinky.
What worries me more is the clause about paying his legal fees if he successfully sues me. As one with the most money always seems to win these things it seems to me that the only way to take him on is to gamble on raising millions to fight him off. Most likely he is more able to raise millions than I am. It's just about raising the ante for suing him.
Linux Vista
It's a 2D copy-making port, it's where you attach the camera.
About all you can do is briefly connect the Ethernet to a power outlet and hope that the tubes carry the high voltage across the interweb and fry their equipment. Of course, timing is everything.
They're eliminating make-up days. Trying to shave a few school days off of the calendar each year to save cost at the expense of the parents.
Henceforth the total resale value of any single or partial frame of any broadcast for web use will be set at $2501 or more by the industry, and licensing fees to anyone other than their friends will be set at $5001 or more. Each pixel of each frame will count as a separate public performance (they are after all separated in time). So from this day forth the publication of anything on the web that resembles any 10 pixels in any copyright work will be considered a felony.
I've worked with password-hiding sanctimonious bastards before and I have little sympathy for Childs. But if the penalties for this kind of misbehavior climb too high then it will become cheaper to express dis-satisfaction by simply torching the building as you walk out the door. It serves no-one for the the system to create a "may as well be hung for a sheep" mentality.
Not only that, but it's damned hard to tell the difference between something actually from McAfee and some (other) crap from the internet. For example, most of the services running on my computer with names starting with McAfee are listed as "Unknown" manufacturer. When popups appear they always look fake, the window decorations (like the close icon in the top right corner) are always non-standard and the warnings are overly dire and hyped-looking. They just look unprofessional. Finally, it's so damn hard to get rid of McAfee, it comes pre-installed when you buy the PC (another bad sign IMHO) and just won't go away without extra-ordinary efforts to dispose of it.
Presumably there is some middle ground to be found. For example, pose a question that involves a series of intermediate steps and make each step multi-choice, or write a value in a box. The only thing that sucks is that the student is forced to do the calculation in one specific way, so it hardly allows expression of understanding of anything other than the algorithm they have learned rote, but it seems to me that there is a place for rote learning among other styles.
How much investment does it take to start a company ? Answer, close to zero. The easy circumvention is to start a company with, say, $500 capital and then sell the company for the value of the patent (to a troll) + $500. It's one thing to make it mandatory to start a company, quite another to sue someone for being unrealistically under-capitalized to actually bring a patented invention into production.
If your information truly were encrypted then having them sell it when they go bankrupt to a company that would continue to store it for you may not be such a bad idea. After all, at least you could then continue to purchase the storage. I know a lot can go wrong (and from the looks of it already has), but there is at least one benign potential interpretation of this clause.
to "mule in the middle" attacks
Each coal plant spews measurable amounts...
A Nuclear plant somewhere spews... every 15 years or so.
Do they call that the Brazil Syndrome ?
and release the pictures just before the 2012 election.