They've tried to get out of that rut several times
in the past. Chips since the Pentium essential
emulate x86 on a RISCish substrate. Emulation
will continue as long as the software is around.
They've run a anti-UCITA editorial in almost every
issue the past two years. (To the point where my
eyes glaze over when I see the word.) If I believe
half the stuff they claim, it sounds like the
end of the software industry.
If the data is usable- not a given in crude federal computer systems- someone will figure out a justification for using it.
Some states are pretty bad- for example CA. The most reliable and comprehensive database is the drivers registration database. That should be used for tracking driver licenses, car registrations, vehicle taxes, and driving violations. But CA attaches all kinds of non-driving stuff to it- because the database is relatively decent. The DMV is used for tracking rogue child support, jury duty, identification cards, immigration eligibilty, parts sold to credit agencies, marketers, plus other things. All this non-driving stuff slows down the over all computer & human system.
Its only a matter of time before the feds get their act together and do similar data mining abuses.
Both run ancient COBOL systems for the most part.
I find that if I make typo in a tax return- mainly forgeting a 1099- the state system catches them faster than federal, if the federal catches them at all.
They always have been.
Send some plain test mail with certain kinds of threats in them and you'll be hearing from somebody. This trivial to do in the current internet.
Some of the spy programs operate at tail end of transmission- that is, dump your screen perdiodically, say every 30 seconds. Private accounts and encryption would fail here. This spying is popular inside the home, but may be unwieldy in a company.
Non-voting could really be gaged by adding an explicit "NO OPTION SELECTED" to everything on the ballot. I believe this has been occasionally tried in a few countries. Otherwise we cant really know if "non-voting" is really an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness. I highly suspect laziness is the real reason for young people not voting.
I remember some in the late 1980s,
but don't know if they are still around.
The Xserver is pretty portable. You have supply
about 30-50 kernal graphics routines in their
driver.
<I believe e-mail and internet usage can be monitored by US employers, but only if they notify the employees that montoring is taking place.>
No. Numerous court cases have said the employer has a defacto right to intercept all communications- letters, email, telephone- that use company resources- address, time, facilities.
However, in this tight labor market it is stupid for an employer not ot be upfront about it,
because people do quit when they find out.
It hasn't been ruled out, but the price figure is now 2.5 times the previously "agreed" figure. This may be an atempt to get things closer to true costs or bribery. In the FSU you never know.
The candidates do have distinctive programs, despite the eternal whining that modern presidental campaigns pander to the older voters.
Unfortunately, these issues don't seem to line up for one candidate or another.
With regards to tax cuts for tech types- Bush is a clear leader. Most technical workers will exceed Gore's "middle class" limits, while Bush will give them a 10% tax cut (i.e. raise).
On the other hand Gore and Nader oppose giganticism in the tech industry. They'll keep the anti-trust pressure on the MicroSofts, Intels, and Ciscos that threaten the smaller startups. Also limit immigration of cheap tech workers.
A third issue is retirement savings. Bush suggests privatizing in too ways: first let workers invest the SS surplus in the market instead of federal bonds, with the possibility of bigger payouts. Second Bush?replications would give larger tax breaks to 410K & IRAs.
So there are clear distinctions. But they don't all fall into clear party boundaries.
The causal chain of being is
Nothing begets energy,
Energy begets matter,
Matter begets life,
Life begets biological intelligence,
Biological intelligence begets machine intelligence,
Machine intelligence becomes omnipotent,
Machine intelligence begets the universe!
We are but the link in "Biological intelligence begets machine intelligence".
A logical positivist (including Zen types) would claim that these questions are more a defect of language/thought than of philosophy or science. That is, asking something property of a domain that doesn't apply. Example, "beginning of universe"- nothing in the physical world (except for hypotheised creation) has a true beginning. Like asking what is the sound of green? It doesn't apply (unless you are stoned).
Despite a dozen years of nifty discoveries and Nobel prizes, there hasn't been significant commercial profit from these discoveries (same as UNIX/Linux! and high temp superconductors).
The crust of the earth, at least the sedimentary formations, appear to have life as deep as the sedimentents go (to ten miles and not above 120C). The volume of this biomass rivals that above the soil. Also life may play a large role in geological processes- peripitating iron, uranium, gold carbonates; changing the physical parameters of rocks to facilatate plate tectonics- and so on. A fringe hypothesis by a Cornell astronomer has life manufacturing nearly unlimited oil from deep gas. Earth as a the living Gaia may be more realistic than previously supposed.
The authors said extraordinary efforts were made against contaimination. However, that contamination is very easy. After the fourth or fifth such find, maybe I'll believe it.
Via microwaves.
People have proposed oribiting solar collectors and microwaving it back to Earth or Luna.
Some problems:
-Any moisture in the atmosphere screws the method,
but that still leaves several deserts with 99% downlink.
-Beams spread out. Masers, solitons, etc. may get around this problem.
-Anything near the beam may get fried.
For example the reformulated gasoline patent stands to give Unocal over a BILLION in royalties
and interest if it passed the supreme court.
$10,000 for a bounty- hogwash.
The term "wearable computer" means the user interface is so poorly engineered that the consumer still sees the raw computer. When perfected, these devices will be named by their uses instead, e.g. com-rings, video glasses, environmental-jackets, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
When Mir was launched, the Russians said space
would be permenantly inhabited. Was for many
years.
They've tried to get out of that rut several times
in the past. Chips since the Pentium essential
emulate x86 on a RISCish substrate. Emulation
will continue as long as the software is around.
Whenever I suggest a article with a bad Linux or Transmeta benchmark, Slashdot doesn't post it.
They've run a anti-UCITA editorial in almost every
issue the past two years. (To the point where my
eyes glaze over when I see the word.) If I believe
half the stuff they claim, it sounds like the
end of the software industry.
If the data is usable- not a given in crude federal computer systems- someone will figure out a justification for using it.
Some states are pretty bad- for example CA. The most reliable and comprehensive database is the drivers registration database. That should be used for tracking driver licenses, car registrations, vehicle taxes, and driving violations. But CA attaches all kinds of non-driving stuff to it- because the database is relatively decent. The DMV is used for tracking rogue child support, jury duty, identification cards, immigration eligibilty, parts sold to credit agencies, marketers, plus other things. All this non-driving stuff slows down the over all computer & human system.
Its only a matter of time before the feds get their act together and do similar data mining abuses.
Both run ancient COBOL systems for the most part.
I find that if I make typo in a tax return- mainly forgeting a 1099- the state system catches them faster than federal, if the federal catches them at all.
They always have been.
Send some plain test mail with certain kinds of threats in them and you'll be hearing from somebody. This trivial to do in the current internet.
Some of the spy programs operate at tail end of transmission- that is, dump your screen perdiodically, say every 30 seconds. Private accounts and encryption would fail here. This spying is popular inside the home, but may be unwieldy in a company.
Non-voting could really be gaged by adding an explicit "NO OPTION SELECTED" to everything on the ballot. I believe this has been occasionally tried in a few countries. Otherwise we cant really know if "non-voting" is really an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness. I highly suspect laziness is the real reason for young people not voting.
I remember some in the late 1980s,
but don't know if they are still around.
The Xserver is pretty portable. You have supply
about 30-50 kernal graphics routines in their
driver.
<I believe e-mail and internet usage can be monitored by US employers, but only if they notify the employees that montoring is taking place.>
No. Numerous court cases have said the employer has a defacto right to intercept all communications- letters, email, telephone- that use company resources- address, time, facilities.
However, in this tight labor market it is stupid for an employer not ot be upfront about it,
because people do quit when they find out.
One for business- open to your bosses;
One for personal.
What then if you read your personal account
on a work computer?
It hasn't been ruled out, but the price figure is now 2.5 times the previously "agreed" figure. This may be an atempt to get things closer to true costs or bribery. In the FSU you never know.
The candidates do have distinctive programs, despite the eternal whining that modern presidental campaigns pander to the older voters.
Unfortunately, these issues don't seem to line up for one candidate or another.
With regards to tax cuts for tech types- Bush is a clear leader. Most technical workers will exceed Gore's "middle class" limits, while Bush will give them a 10% tax cut (i.e. raise).
On the other hand Gore and Nader oppose giganticism in the tech industry. They'll keep the anti-trust pressure on the MicroSofts, Intels, and Ciscos that threaten the smaller startups. Also limit immigration of cheap tech workers.
A third issue is retirement savings. Bush suggests privatizing in too ways: first let workers invest the SS surplus in the market instead of federal bonds, with the possibility of bigger payouts. Second Bush?replications would give larger tax breaks to 410K & IRAs.
So there are clear distinctions. But they don't all fall into clear party boundaries.
The young, indpenedent party, voting block (read "techie") in California could be influence in denying that state to Gore.
Note the Green Party is rather anti-corporation and some the biggest corporations are techs like MS, CSICO and GE.
I know its hard, but it is sure taking a long time.
The small blue flower
Grows on the roadside and is
Crushed by a truck.
The causal chain of being is
Nothing begets energy,
Energy begets matter,
Matter begets life,
Life begets biological intelligence,
Biological intelligence begets machine intelligence,
Machine intelligence becomes omnipotent,
Machine intelligence begets the universe!
We are but the link in "Biological intelligence begets machine intelligence".
A logical positivist (including Zen types) would claim that these questions are more a defect of language/thought than of philosophy or science. That is, asking something property of a domain that doesn't apply. Example, "beginning of universe"- nothing in the physical world (except for hypotheised creation) has a true beginning. Like asking what is the sound of green? It doesn't apply (unless you are stoned).
Despite a dozen years of nifty discoveries and Nobel prizes, there hasn't been significant commercial profit from these discoveries (same as UNIX/Linux! and high temp superconductors).
The crust of the earth, at least the sedimentary formations, appear to have life as deep as the sedimentents go (to ten miles and not above 120C). The volume of this biomass rivals that above the soil. Also life may play a large role in geological processes- peripitating iron, uranium, gold carbonates; changing the physical parameters of rocks to facilatate plate tectonics- and so on. A fringe hypothesis by a Cornell astronomer has life manufacturing nearly unlimited oil from deep gas. Earth as a the living Gaia may be more realistic than previously supposed.
The authors said extraordinary efforts were made against contaimination. However, that contamination is very easy. After the fourth or fifth such find, maybe I'll believe it.
Via microwaves.
People have proposed oribiting solar collectors and microwaving it back to Earth or Luna.
Some problems:
-Any moisture in the atmosphere screws the method,
but that still leaves several deserts with 99% downlink.
-Beams spread out. Masers, solitons, etc. may get around this problem.
-Anything near the beam may get fried.
For example the reformulated gasoline patent stands to give Unocal over a BILLION in royalties
and interest if it passed the supreme court.
$10,000 for a bounty- hogwash.
The term "wearable computer" means the user interface is so poorly engineered that the consumer still sees the raw computer. When perfected, these devices will be named by their uses instead, e.g. com-rings, video glasses, environmental-jackets, etc.