What about the medical monitoring equipment McCoy had in his sick
bay?
It could track heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, etc. I
don't think those devices existed before Star Trek hit the air.
Granted we don't have the "no-contact" versions yet (and I stress
"yet") but we still have a few hundred years to perfect it.
For example, the parties to the letter warned that the bill
could interfere with computer security by preventing information
technology and security companies from collecting data to analyze and
prevent virus attacks, and would also impair the delivery of local,
targeted ads.
If they are that concerned about security
they could have AV companies include a [X] "Report viruses to
Foo.com AV Central" option to eliminate that minor complaint and
be compliant with the new law. As for targetted ads.. well, that's
what they're really concerned about. It's a multi-million
(billion?) dollar industry. Screaming about how bad the bill is for
security is just a smoke and mirrors game.
I only hope that
the spyware people don't go after the
AdAware or
Spybot Search & Destroy
folks under the guise of the DMCA.
Please don't tell anyone about my dual boot XP/RH9 laptop, or I'll be stoned (biblically) by both camps.
Haha! Well, my Win2k box is used for gaming and that's it. You have to use the right tool for the job, or to rehash the old line "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail"
one of the biggest challenges is to get peoples legacy Windows games to work
Sure, but getting Mom & Pop to learn a new OS, no matter how nice a GUI it has, is painful and slow.
I have a bunch of *nixish machines in my house (4x MKLinux, 2x FreeBSD, 2x OpenBSD) and 1x Windows machine. Frankly I don't care if I can play games on my *nix machines, that's what my PC is for: gaming.
I don't buy the mantra that using a Windows machine for anything soils a person.
The Mac suffers from a shortage of games, albeit not as great as Linux, and those games sell for $$$. It's a nice thought but the reality is that you need the developers too. A whiz-bang platform without games leaves you... well... with a neat looking Linux box with a game controller.
emailing answering machine
recordings.. I don't think so. Emailing the entire answering
machine recording could backfire. That could easily be used as a DoS
against someone's email box ("Let's all leave a message for that ass
Professor Doofus tonight!")
Not that I get a lot of faxes these days (read: "the 21st
century") but it would be nice to have software that would OCR a fax
then email the text to me (this one is simple enough that it probably
already exists) == Less paper.
If a company were large enough to have a mail room, then
scanning in snail mail and emailing images would be neat. One could
always fetch the hard copy if needed. I'm far more efficient with electronic files than I am with paper. (My desk is a pigsty)
Once this MATRIX is proven to be useless, either by failing to
catch terrorists or not predicting the next attack, will the
government kill the program? Of course not.
Fear has
always been a great method to let government erode privacy and
rights.
In this new "Global Economy" it only makes sense that people
would be willing to move to where the work is. I was ready to move to
the US for a geek-gig a few years ago. It's only "news" because the tide of immigration is shifting.
Last Monday I caught a sweater on something at work. I remember
plain as day muttering "Damn wool and its inherent weaknesses! My
fashion woes would be eliminated if someone would come up with a way
to feed a mixture of ethanol and catalytic ferrocene with a splash of
thiopene into a hydrogen gas furnace..." What's David Boies' phone
number?
The Federal Liberals are actually right-of-centre now
"right" of what "centre"? Are you using the American yardstick to measure centre? A Canadian one? British? French? The whole concept of "left and right" is political meta-data. It floats around on the whims of the day.
Mr. Goldfarb is trying to look like an honest man while
distancing himself and Baystar from MS and SCO. He readily admits
that "senior executives" from MS phoned him but won't name names.
He's scared. Leaked documents and an unmanagable conspiracy
of silence are forcing him to admit to snippets of truth which paint
him and the firm in the best possible light.
Wait for the first "Want your willie to be THIS BIG??"
spam stretching for hundreds of kilometers across the horizon.
Jokes aside, why do people put up with intrusive advertising
as a given? How much of your money spent on a 1 litre soft drink goes
directly towards advertising the product back to you? I read some
time ago that "big 3" North American automakers spend approximately
US$1500 (averaged) on advertising for each vehicle sold.
Ultimately
you foot the bill & suffer with the barrage of adverts, they
reap the sales & expense write offs.
Apple doesn't sue PC shops for not selling Macs and they have a smaller piece of the pie than Real in the respective markets. Sheesh, if you're a teen reading this and thinking about your future, don't get a CS degree unless you're a smart cookie. Consider law.
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What about the medical monitoring equipment McCoy had in his sick bay?
It could track heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, etc. I don't think those devices existed before Star Trek hit the air. Granted we don't have the "no-contact" versions yet (and I stress "yet") but we still have a few hundred years to perfect it.
No, that doesn't involve any reverse engineering or decompilation of software.
For example, the parties to the letter warned that the bill could interfere with computer security by preventing information technology and security companies from collecting data to analyze and prevent virus attacks, and would also impair the delivery of local, targeted ads.
If they are that concerned about security they could have AV companies include a [X] "Report viruses to Foo.com AV Central" option to eliminate that minor complaint and be compliant with the new law. As for targetted ads.. well, that's what they're really concerned about. It's a multi-million (billion?) dollar industry. Screaming about how bad the bill is for security is just a smoke and mirrors game.
I only hope that the spyware people don't go after the AdAware or Spybot Search & Destroy folks under the guise of the DMCA.
The way things today are going though..
Hopefully our descendents won't look back and say "Bizarre peaks around the 1940's and early 2000's..."
Please don't tell anyone about my dual boot XP/RH9 laptop, or I'll be stoned (biblically) by both camps.
Haha! Well, my Win2k box is used for gaming and that's it. You have to use the right tool for the job, or to rehash the old line "When your only tool is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail"
one of the biggest challenges is to get peoples legacy Windows games to work
Sure, but getting Mom & Pop to learn a new OS, no matter how nice a GUI it has, is painful and slow.
I have a bunch of *nixish machines in my house (4x MKLinux, 2x FreeBSD, 2x OpenBSD) and 1x Windows machine. Frankly I don't care if I can play games on my *nix machines, that's what my PC is for: gaming.
I don't buy the mantra that using a Windows machine for anything soils a person.
The Mac suffers from a shortage of games, albeit not as great as Linux, and those games sell for $$$. It's a nice thought but the reality is that you need the developers too. A whiz-bang platform without games leaves you... well... with a neat looking Linux box with a game controller.
That's pretty cool, thanks!
What would be useful?
emailing answering machine recordings.. I don't think so. Emailing the entire answering machine recording could backfire. That could easily be used as a DoS against someone's email box ("Let's all leave a message for that ass Professor Doofus tonight!")
Not that I get a lot of faxes these days (read: "the 21st century") but it would be nice to have software that would OCR a fax then email the text to me (this one is simple enough that it probably already exists) == Less paper.
If a company were large enough to have a mail room, then scanning in snail mail and emailing images would be neat. One could always fetch the hard copy if needed. I'm far more efficient with electronic files than I am with paper. (My desk is a pigsty)
Let me at it after a night of Fort Garry Dark Ale and I'll power a city of 50,000 for 2 full days.
Once this MATRIX is proven to be useless, either by failing to catch terrorists or not predicting the next attack, will the government kill the program? Of course not.
Fear has always been a great method to let government erode privacy and rights.
just generally more "**AA friendly".
Why would the GNAA care about this?
In this new "Global Economy" it only makes sense that people would be willing to move to where the work is. I was ready to move to the US for a geek-gig a few years ago. It's only "news" because the tide of immigration is shifting.
Last Monday I caught a sweater on something at work. I remember plain as day muttering "Damn wool and its inherent weaknesses! My fashion woes would be eliminated if someone would come up with a way to feed a mixture of ethanol and catalytic ferrocene with a splash of thiopene into a hydrogen gas furnace..."
What's David Boies' phone number?
Moving from one inch away to only one foot away from the Wi-Fi antenna weakens the signal by a factor of 100.
There goes my idea of a covert 802.11 butt plug antenna.
The Federal Liberals are actually right-of-centre now
"right" of what "centre"? Are you using the American yardstick to measure centre? A Canadian one? British? French? The whole concept of "left and right" is political meta-data. It floats around on the whims of the day.
Bahahahahahahahahaha! hilarious!
Mr. Goldfarb is trying to look like an honest man while distancing himself and Baystar from MS and SCO. He readily admits that "senior executives" from MS phoned him but won't name names. He's scared. Leaked documents and an unmanagable conspiracy of silence are forcing him to admit to snippets of truth which paint him and the firm in the best possible light.
Hmm.. I don't see it on ftp.sco.com yet. What lousy service for $699.
Wait for the first "Want your willie to be THIS BIG??" spam stretching for hundreds of kilometers across the horizon.
Jokes aside, why do people put up with intrusive advertising as a given? How much of your money spent on a 1 litre soft drink goes directly towards advertising the product back to you? I read some time ago that "big 3" North American automakers spend approximately US$1500 (averaged) on advertising for each vehicle sold.
Ultimately you foot the bill & suffer with the barrage of adverts, they reap the sales & expense write offs.
Apple doesn't sue PC shops for not selling Macs and they have a smaller piece of the pie than Real in the respective markets. Sheesh, if you're a teen reading this and thinking about your future, don't get a CS degree unless you're a smart cookie. Consider law.
Right where it belongs, along with
I'm totally prepared for when I get rich.
pssstt.. buy all the SCOX stock you can, I hear it's going to skyrocket..
..but to use this "free download" one must have first paid the MS tax for the operating system to run it on.
SolidData sells solid state drives. Mountable by SCSI or FiberChannel (think SANs).
Anyhow, their website has info on how the data is backed up.