Damn. I am sick of people saying that there is no American president. IF you knew anything about politics, or had even a modicum of common sense, you would know that we do, in fact, have a president. His name is William Jefferson Clinton. He will be our president until the president elect is sworn in. This is not that difficult to understand. Anyone who would laugh at childish antics of the Dems and Reps is right to do so, but to believe that the US has no president is the height of stupidity.
Sir, your car can, and has, and will be used to kill someone. I believe you should be jailed to prevent my death as a pedestrian. After all, 99% of pedestrian deaths are the fault of the driver. It is right and good that I should be protected.
The only way such a law could even have been passed is by corporate lobbying. It is just fucking stupid that a corporate entity could get away with establishing a policy that assumes guilt before innocence. I guess our nations are nothing more than hundreds of plutocracies disguised in hundres of myriad ways.
Genetically manipulate a pumpkin such that it produces enough iron to be affected by an induction field. Such as the catapult in Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" we could send those Pumkpins flying with a Magnetic field.
Not at all. Regardless of the location of sale, Subject C would be forced to relinquish the car to the Victim. The only way they get any reimbursement is by going after the Thief in court.
And I had thought that the email problems were on my side. It gets pretty bad sometimes, though. I spend 25% of my time or more dealing with outages in either pop, news, or web with @home in Madison.
But don't you think they are more bold online? Whereas on the street, they need to worry about being stopped by police, parents, etc., while online there is generally very litle authority to intervene.
It would seem that the anonymity granted to users by the internet has harmful effects on people. "If you can't [be held liable] for your [words or actions] online, then [you] can do whatever [you] want" Seems to be the refrain of 12 year old net users around the world. That is not to say that anonymity is bad, but merely that 12 year olds who have no respect for that anonymity are.
I see. So, as it is, it interfaces directly with the optical nerve. That doesn't nessecarily mean you have to keep it that way. You could have an intermediate computer that received the charges from the photosensors and processed and passed the info to the optical nerve.
The beauty of this, is that as we improve our miniaturization technologies, we can pack more photosensors on the same bit of silicon. Eventually, if we can refine the techniques enough, it might get to the point where the resolution could be nearly as good as the human eye. Plus, since we are dealing with something digital, we could allow for the modification of the image based upon active filtering. Just think: you're playing a game of hide and go seek, and you order the controller to search the image for all pixels that match the color of your prey's shirt.
I had thought of this idea previously and was intrigued when I read Cryptonomicon. Basically, you have a gate consisting of a high strength magnetic field. Any magnetic medium would be nuked as soon as it broached the gateway. Apply this, along with other standard security measures, and I imagine things would be pretty secure.
Has anyone ever tried to rig one of these up, and see how much data corruption occurs when data is passed through it?
I like the idea, but I would feel nervous about it for the following reasons:
Say that I set up DNS servers that serve the TLD.infara to everyone downstream. A company sets up joetastic.infara for some god forsaken business idea. Then another ISP sets up servers that serve the TLD.infara. We now have two.infara TLDs with possible conflicts.
Even beyond that, the content delivered by that specialized TLD would be limited to those people who use that DNS. There would not be as much universality as there is with the current set up.
We need to go beyond the current TLD system, but what ICANN has done won't cut it. Introducing new TLDs as a short term solution won't work any better in the long run than just maintaining the.com,.org,.net,.** system. We need a dynamic system to introduce new TLDs as they are needed. If, 2 months from now, Stoughton, Wisconsin were to sucede from the US, we would need a system that can establish a new National TLD for this miserable little City-State. This would benefit the people if we introduced some security measures. For instance, a certain number of people must send in requests for the creation of a new TLD before it will be admitted. This would allow large organizations, or even large cities, to maintain their own TLD. I think this would be great.
When we ship products over-seas we have three viable options. First, we can send it by boat. Second, we could send it by plane. Finally, we could send it by land. Why can't we send it by blimp, though? With the advantages in materials science, it would be simple to produce a lightweight transit blimp.
And why aren't there personal blimps? A 25000 cubic foot gas bag would be more than enough to provide lift to a blimp.
Also, why don't we use a combination of the two techs? We have lighter than air and heavier than air. Why not use just enough lift to bring the ship to neutral bouyancy and use a fan to provide the rest of the thrust?
I used to smack the TV, rather than the console, whenever I got pissed. To this day, I have to stop myself from punching my monitor when I play a game on the PC. Nintendo warped me.
Philosophically, Open Source is a great idea. It is an attempt to solve the problems of greed and profiteering that have run rampant in the technological age. Yet, in a world that is driven by greed, some concessions may have to be made.
It seems like everything that has incredible implications in the world of technology is fashioned from carbon. Lightweight Carbon composite fabrics for use in a solar sail, Carbon nano-tubules for strands of semi-conducting material, etc. Is Carbon going to be the nano-medium of the nanoscopic age?
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Maybe, if the Game Cube is good enough, Squaresoft might produce new Final Fantasy games for it.
Damn. I am sick of people saying that there is no American president. IF you knew anything about politics, or had even a modicum of common sense, you would know that we do, in fact, have a president. His name is William Jefferson Clinton. He will be our president until the president elect is sworn in. This is not that difficult to understand. Anyone who would laugh at childish antics of the Dems and Reps is right to do so, but to believe that the US has no president is the height of stupidity.
Sir, your car can, and has, and will be used to kill someone. I believe you should be jailed to prevent my death as a pedestrian. After all, 99% of pedestrian deaths are the fault of the driver. It is right and good that I should be protected.
The only way such a law could even have been passed is by corporate lobbying. It is just fucking stupid that a corporate entity could get away with establishing a policy that assumes guilt before innocence. I guess our nations are nothing more than hundreds of plutocracies disguised in hundres of myriad ways.
Actually, Caveat is a subjunctive so the proper translation is "Let the buyer beware."
Genetically manipulate a pumpkin such that it produces enough iron to be affected by an induction field. Such as the catapult in Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" we could send those Pumkpins flying with a Magnetic field.
Not at all. Regardless of the location of sale, Subject C would be forced to relinquish the car to the Victim. The only way they get any reimbursement is by going after the Thief in court.
I think the FAA would have an even bigger problem with those pilots that are flying at only 200 feet, eh?
How can something that hasn't even been moderated yet be overrated? Come on! get your moderation straight. It's called 'troll' or 'flamebait.'
Thanks. I'll try harder next time.
Damn. What do you suggest for a true neutral?
I can not wait for December Eighth. This movie truly looks incredible!
And I had thought that the email problems were on my side. It gets pretty bad sometimes, though. I spend 25% of my time or more dealing with outages in either pop, news, or web with @home in Madison.
But don't you think they are more bold online? Whereas on the street, they need to worry about being stopped by police, parents, etc., while online there is generally very litle authority to intervene.
It would seem that the anonymity granted to users by the internet has harmful effects on people. "If you can't [be held liable] for your [words or actions] online, then [you] can do whatever [you] want" Seems to be the refrain of 12 year old net users around the world. That is not to say that anonymity is bad, but merely that 12 year olds who have no respect for that anonymity are.
I see. So, as it is, it interfaces directly with the optical nerve. That doesn't nessecarily mean you have to keep it that way. You could have an intermediate computer that received the charges from the photosensors and processed and passed the info to the optical nerve.
The beauty of this, is that as we improve our miniaturization technologies, we can pack more photosensors on the same bit of silicon. Eventually, if we can refine the techniques enough, it might get to the point where the resolution could be nearly as good as the human eye. Plus, since we are dealing with something digital, we could allow for the modification of the image based upon active filtering. Just think: you're playing a game of hide and go seek, and you order the controller to search the image for all pixels that match the color of your prey's shirt.
I had thought of this idea previously and was intrigued when I read Cryptonomicon. Basically, you have a gate consisting of a high strength magnetic field. Any magnetic medium would be nuked as soon as it broached the gateway. Apply this, along with other standard security measures, and I imagine things would be pretty secure.
Has anyone ever tried to rig one of these up, and see how much data corruption occurs when data is passed through it?
I like the idea, but I would feel nervous about it for the following reasons:
.infara to everyone downstream. A company sets up joetastic.infara for some god forsaken business idea. Then another ISP sets up servers that serve the TLD .infara. We now have two .infara TLDs with possible conflicts.
Say that I set up DNS servers that serve the TLD
Even beyond that, the content delivered by that specialized TLD would be limited to those people who use that DNS. There would not be as much universality as there is with the current set up.
We need to go beyond the current TLD system, but what ICANN has done won't cut it. Introducing new TLDs as a short term solution won't work any better in the long run than just maintaining the .com, .org, .net, .** system. We need a dynamic system to introduce new TLDs as they are needed. If, 2 months from now, Stoughton, Wisconsin were to sucede from the US, we would need a system that can establish a new National TLD for this miserable little City-State. This would benefit the people if we introduced some security measures. For instance, a certain number of people must send in requests for the creation of a new TLD before it will be admitted. This would allow large organizations, or even large cities, to maintain their own TLD. I think this would be great.
When we ship products over-seas we have three viable options. First, we can send it by boat. Second, we could send it by plane. Finally, we could send it by land. Why can't we send it by blimp, though? With the advantages in materials science, it would be simple to produce a lightweight transit blimp.
And why aren't there personal blimps? A 25000 cubic foot gas bag would be more than enough to provide lift to a blimp.
Also, why don't we use a combination of the two techs? We have lighter than air and heavier than air. Why not use just enough lift to bring the ship to neutral bouyancy and use a fan to provide the rest of the thrust?
I used to smack the TV, rather than the console, whenever I got pissed. To this day, I have to stop myself from punching my monitor when I play a game on the PC. Nintendo warped me.
Philosophically, Open Source is a great idea. It is an attempt to solve the problems of greed and profiteering that have run rampant in the technological age. Yet, in a world that is driven by greed, some concessions may have to be made.
It seems like everything that has incredible implications in the world of technology is fashioned from carbon. Lightweight Carbon composite fabrics for use in a solar sail, Carbon nano-tubules for strands of semi-conducting material, etc. Is Carbon going to be the nano-medium of the nanoscopic age?
There was something about those images that captured the events they protrayed better than a photo ever could.