...that this will work out to anything useful alone, let alone boost spaceships. It *still* pushes material the other way, namely the metal in the magnetic field. The only thing it could be useful is when the bit of metal is on earth and the magnets 'jolt' themselves into space. But currently the jolt is only about a centimeter, and adding more magnets means you get more weight. A spaceship would need so indcredibly much more power that I can't believe someone even thought of calling NASA about this...
I can understand this; the TV stations have long term contracts with the IOC for a lot of money, and the web is not going to be that profitable for now. The IOC wants to protect the companies that are their main revenue stream.
However, 10 years is too long. Noone can tell what the media world will look like by then. Traditional TV may already have been replaced by webcasts by then, who knows. If I were them I'd prohibit Olympics video for the next Olympics, and look again after that.
Note they're only prohibiting video, not other news - they can't do that, of course.
Can anyone come up with a system that will "eliminate the middle man" whilst allowing an artist to have a decent living?
The main problem with a band promoting itself on the web and handing out mp3s and stuff is that they need money to start out with. For good studio recordings, and if they want to make it big, a lot of promotion. Yes, there are bands that make a decent living only based on live performances, but they're really rare. You need radio play, and a lot of exposure. That costs a lot of money, but there are thousands of bands like you, you have no choice.
Currently, record companies supply that money, a lot of bands still fail, but record companies cash in big time on the ones that win.
"Bands" like Five et cetera are not even bands, in my opinion, they are business models. These bands shouldn't be saved, but then, they'll just go on selling their stuff to their 13-year old market. Teenage girls don't buy for the music they could download, they buy for the cool CD by their heroes. These are unaffected.
The real good bands? What should they do? There are thousands and only some can make a living out of it. Well, they just got to work real hard, do a lot of gigs, and hope for the best. That's what they do now, anyway...
Once an artists makes it to loads and loads of Napster downloads, he's already famous. He'll not have a problem. But the record company won't be able to cash in all that big anymore, so they'll focus on the pure fantasy business model "bands" we see all the time.
Actually, the more I think about it, most artists don't make a decent living now. The ones that make it to a record deal *and* have success are a minority. All the other thousands of bands do lots of gigs, work hard, and have a job for a few days. That doesn't seem to stop them though.
Too bad for that small minority of real bands who do make it to wealth nowadays, but for the rest of the industry it's business as usual...
(Just brainstorming along, this is hardly an answer to the question nor a cohesive story...)
You say that the Turing test is a good test for intelligence. The Turing test is a test where some interviewer talks to a human and the test subject, and the subject passes the test if the interviewer can't find out who the human is.
So you *are* equating being human and being intelligent, as far as I can see.
The Turing Test is an extremely simple and revolutionary way of describing what it means to be intelligent.
So "being intelligent" equals "being able to sound like a human"? I think not. There may be lots of higher intelligences out there, and none of them will be able to fake being a human, because they aren't, and they can't answer all kinds of questions about our emotions, the way a hangover feels, etc. It's a test of faking humanity, not of intelligence.
Maybe we could use this technique to become Tetrachromats??
Sure, just sit down here... you did read the small print about the necessary sex change?
I don't get the patenting with GM crops
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I don't understand exactly what patenting type of gene gives you. Specifically, if I have some of this golden rice, do I need to pay licensing fees if I want to use it to grow more rice?
I'm probably not allowed to make the same modification myself because of the patient, but making seeds and making more copies of itself is what the plant *does*. Once I *own* some of this rice, I don't see why I wouldn't be allowed to grow more rice.
Also, does that mean that once some company has patented human genes, those specific humans need to pay licensing fees before they have kids?!
Gene patenting seems to be even sillier than software patenting...
The fact that we don't even begin to have such machines here on Earth doesn't seem to bother them.
But then I don't think anyone has spent billions of dollars on that either. And we just spent 60 on another space station. I believe that this is relatively minor stuff that will be solved once some stupendous sum is thrown at it, and give some years.
We'll get it to work. It will be useful, regardless of its money value now we might need those asteroids for our energy supply, we need lots of rare materials for solar power, etc. Maybe it's impossible in the long run to do without them.
The big problem is getting it here, I think. It would be ironic if they decided to push one of those pebbles this way to orbit it, and some conversion error wiped out the earth....
The main problem with adding Stackless patches to the main trunk is that it's hard to implement in Java, so this would probably bring about incompatibilites between CPython and JPython (currently called Jython because of more unholy trademark shite).
But since the Stackless stuff brings real performance improvements, microthreads, and nifty new libraries, it is likely to go into the main trunk at maybe 2.1 or probably 2.2.
If you following this reasoning and want to make your work available to the public that paid for your program, *you make it public domain*. That's what public domain means.
Making it GPL is of limited use since people can only use the code in GPL projects. That may well be a good thing in your opinion, but it's not the same as making your code available so that everybody can use it at will.
The problem they report is that Linux installs, but then panics at boot since it tries to disable the Pentium serial number.
I had the same thing with my Duron and RH-6.2, it's just an option they have turned on in their kernel (not the install kernel, apparently). Just recompile the kernel with the option turned off and it worked. I don't see why that fix wouldn't work with this new chipset.
This means that you have to install from CD, then boot 'linux rescue' from CD, mount your newly installed system, chroot, and compile/install a new kernel, but it works. Maybe RH should provide kernels specially compiled for AMDs.
Just publish it on Mojo Nation. Then you have that, plus the server owners have no way of knowing what is in those packets, since they're encrypted. They're just blocks of data on some servers, no one is actually serving DeCSS.
So he says all those people coding as a hobby don't always produce useful, new stuff. And? It's a hobby, right? He's basically attacking people who are doing something for fun at home, for their bad production figures...
Man, be happy you can now run a complete great system with free open source software, but don't go thinking that everyone must contribute or that you have some right to have your diff accepted. If he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. OSS is not some sort of collectice where everyone must obey the rules.
If you want someone to code things that you think are useful, you *pay* them.
I can't remember all the details from when they came out, but at least some of the other board members are geeks too. There were five elected positions, the German candidate is from Chaos Computer Club who I think will agree completely with Auerbach, and the other elected people looked good too. Who knows.
This is a *German person* (politician, but doesn't matter) suing *people* from the UK, US and Germany itself, namely the people who operate and tolerate Echelon, breaching a bunch of German laws. If the German government knows about Echelon in Germany and is not acting against it, they could go to jail personally.
Of course, a lawsuit against "Unknowns" is going to have problems...
But no, he's not suing states. He's not asking for money either, he wants them to stop and go to jail.
Recommend me a crypto book?
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I've been planning to buy a good book on crypto once. I want a book with a lot of info, if it's fun to read, that is a plus, but a pure textbook is ok too. I won't check all the math by hand because I'm too lazy, but I want to be able to implement it by hand in a program, for instance, with the book at my side.
The other book that keeps getting mentioned is "Applied Cryptography" by Schneier. Can anyone tell me which one is better (and why) or if there's another candidate?
I can't look at the site because it's flash, but I think your numbers are wrong. 1000 liters a day is on the order of two truck engines. It's hard to believe that Schiphol doesn't use more than that (and it would make it irrelevant - a 747 does a gallon per second, so a single 747 would burn more in five minutes than Schiphol in a day?!).
People try to pick mates that will pass on the best traits to their children. Most things that make people attractive (tall, young, clear skin, good physique, whatever) are really related to overall health and size.
That's right. People fall in love with young people because they want their babies to be young.
Yes, of course there are ethical questions surrounding this. But as far as I can see the parents are absolutely aware of that, and they've made a very sensible choice.
Consider: they already wanted more children, but never could, because they might be born with the same disease. For the last three years they have been looking for a solution. There is a new technique to select embryos that don't have the disease. This has ethical problems in its own right, but I think it is sensible to allow it in the case of a lethal disease, and that is pretty normal nowadays. Next, as a *side effect* of that, the life of their daughter can be saved with tissue that would normally be *discarded*.
It would be different if they hadn't thought about this, if they might not have taken a second kid otherwise, if the only kid they could select with the right tissue would have to live with some other problem, if the disease wasn't lethal, or if the tissue could instead be used to cure a more critical case. But those are not the case.
I would say this ethical problem is easy. They made the right choice. People who shout "Ethics!" have just not read the article.
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Those should be online!! I don't know if they are, but that would be a really valuable resource for C programmers who want to improve.
Nice explanation! Just a nitpick: doing something every 64 msec means you do it about 15 times per second, not 15000. :)
...that this will work out to anything useful alone, let alone boost spaceships. It *still* pushes material the other way, namely the metal in the magnetic field. The only thing it could be useful is when the bit of metal is on earth and the magnets 'jolt' themselves into space. But currently the jolt is only about a centimeter, and adding more magnets means you get more weight. A spaceship would need so indcredibly much more power that I can't believe someone even thought of calling NASA about this...
However, 10 years is too long. Noone can tell what the media world will look like by then. Traditional TV may already have been replaced by webcasts by then, who knows. If I were them I'd prohibit Olympics video for the next Olympics, and look again after that.
Note they're only prohibiting video, not other news - they can't do that, of course.
The main problem with a band promoting itself on the web and handing out mp3s and stuff is that they need money to start out with. For good studio recordings, and if they want to make it big, a lot of promotion. Yes, there are bands that make a decent living only based on live performances, but they're really rare. You need radio play, and a lot of exposure. That costs a lot of money, but there are thousands of bands like you, you have no choice.
Currently, record companies supply that money, a lot of bands still fail, but record companies cash in big time on the ones that win.
"Bands" like Five et cetera are not even bands, in my opinion, they are business models. These bands shouldn't be saved, but then, they'll just go on selling their stuff to their 13-year old market. Teenage girls don't buy for the music they could download, they buy for the cool CD by their heroes. These are unaffected.
The real good bands? What should they do? There are thousands and only some can make a living out of it. Well, they just got to work real hard, do a lot of gigs, and hope for the best. That's what they do now, anyway...
Once an artists makes it to loads and loads of Napster downloads, he's already famous. He'll not have a problem. But the record company won't be able to cash in all that big anymore, so they'll focus on the pure fantasy business model "bands" we see all the time.
Actually, the more I think about it, most artists don't make a decent living now. The ones that make it to a record deal *and* have success are a minority. All the other thousands of bands do lots of gigs, work hard, and have a job for a few days. That doesn't seem to stop them though.
Too bad for that small minority of real bands who do make it to wealth nowadays, but for the rest of the industry it's business as usual...
(Just brainstorming along, this is hardly an answer to the question nor a cohesive story...)
Yes, but on the other hand - think of America before the revolution. Are you still better off than then? Isn't it time for another one?
So you *are* equating being human and being intelligent, as far as I can see.
So "being intelligent" equals "being able to sound like a human"? I think not. There may be lots of higher intelligences out there, and none of them will be able to fake being a human, because they aren't, and they can't answer all kinds of questions about our emotions, the way a hangover feels, etc. It's a test of faking humanity, not of intelligence.
Sure, just sit down here... you did read the small print about the necessary sex change?
I don't understand exactly what patenting type of gene gives you. Specifically, if I have some of this golden rice, do I need to pay licensing fees if I want to use it to grow more rice?
I'm probably not allowed to make the same modification myself because of the patient, but making seeds and making more copies of itself is what the plant *does*. Once I *own* some of this rice, I don't see why I wouldn't be allowed to grow more rice.
Also, does that mean that once some company has patented human genes, those specific humans need to pay licensing fees before they have kids?!
Gene patenting seems to be even sillier than software patenting...
But then I don't think anyone has spent billions of dollars on that either. And we just spent 60 on another space station. I believe that this is relatively minor stuff that will be solved once some stupendous sum is thrown at it, and give some years.
We'll get it to work. It will be useful, regardless of its money value now we might need those asteroids for our energy supply, we need lots of rare materials for solar power, etc. Maybe it's impossible in the long run to do without them.
The big problem is getting it here, I think. It would be ironic if they decided to push one of those pebbles this way to orbit it, and some conversion error wiped out the earth....
Won't happen in 10 years though.
But since the Stackless stuff brings real performance improvements, microthreads, and nifty new libraries, it is likely to go into the main trunk at maybe 2.1 or probably 2.2.
Making it GPL is of limited use since people can only use the code in GPL projects. That may well be a good thing in your opinion, but it's not the same as making your code available so that everybody can use it at will.
I had the same thing with my Duron and RH-6.2, it's just an option they have turned on in their kernel (not the install kernel, apparently). Just recompile the kernel with the option turned off and it worked. I don't see why that fix wouldn't work with this new chipset.
This means that you have to install from CD, then boot 'linux rescue' from CD, mount your newly installed system, chroot, and compile/install a new kernel, but it works. Maybe RH should provide kernels specially compiled for AMDs.
They will unfreeze you for your body parts.
Data point: average life expectancy in the US is 76 years.
Maybe there are many people over 40 because there was a baby boom after WW2. But that's here in Europe, don't know if it's the same in the US.
They're releasing them because maybe there is someone out there who wants to see/use the code. If there isn't, no harm done.
Just publish it on Mojo Nation. Then you have that, plus the server owners have no way of knowing what is in those packets, since they're encrypted. They're just blocks of data on some servers, no one is actually serving DeCSS.
So he says all those people coding as a hobby don't always produce useful, new stuff. And? It's a hobby, right? He's basically attacking people who are doing something for fun at home, for their bad production figures...
Man, be happy you can now run a complete great system with free open source software, but don't go thinking that everyone must contribute or that you have some right to have your diff accepted. If he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. OSS is not some sort of collectice where everyone must obey the rules.
If you want someone to code things that you think are useful, you *pay* them.
I can't remember all the details from when they came out, but at least some of the other board members are geeks too. There were five elected positions, the German candidate is from Chaos Computer Club who I think will agree completely with Auerbach, and the other elected people looked good too. Who knows.
This is a *German person* (politician, but doesn't matter) suing *people* from the UK, US and Germany itself, namely the people who operate and tolerate Echelon, breaching a bunch of German laws. If the German government knows about Echelon in Germany and is not acting against it, they could go to jail personally.
Of course, a lawsuit against "Unknowns" is going to have problems...
But no, he's not suing states. He's not asking for money either, he wants them to stop and go to jail.
The other book that keeps getting mentioned is "Applied Cryptography" by Schneier. Can anyone tell me which one is better (and why) or if there's another candidate?
I can't look at the site because it's flash, but I think your numbers are wrong. 1000 liters a day is on the order of two truck engines. It's hard to believe that Schiphol doesn't use more than that (and it would make it irrelevant - a 747 does a gallon per second, so a single 747 would burn more in five minutes than Schiphol in a day?!).
That's right. People fall in love with young people because they want their babies to be young.
Yes, of course there are ethical questions surrounding this. But as far as I can see the parents are absolutely aware of that, and they've made a very sensible choice.
Consider: they already wanted more children, but never could, because they might be born with the same disease. For the last three years they have been looking for a solution. There is a new technique to select embryos that don't have the disease. This has ethical problems in its own right, but I think it is sensible to allow it in the case of a lethal disease, and that is pretty normal nowadays. Next, as a *side effect* of that, the life of their daughter can be saved with tissue that would normally be *discarded*.
It would be different if they hadn't thought about this, if they might not have taken a second kid otherwise, if the only kid they could select with the right tissue would have to live with some other problem, if the disease wasn't lethal, or if the tissue could instead be used to cure a more critical case. But those are not the case.
I would say this ethical problem is easy. They made the right choice. People who shout "Ethics!" have just not read the article.