What real effect will it have on us? Can other companies still sell our data? Shouldn't it be illegal to buy this data as well as sell it? (after all, it's just as illegal to buy coke as to sell it) How do we know who bought or sold our credit info when we get a credit card application in the mail? (I get about 10-20 a week) Shouldn't there be a way to trace that? Who gets the $2500 fine? Does the court collect & keep it? Does the consumer get it? Who polices the reporting agencies to make sure they're not selling improperly? *sigh* True privacy is still a long way off, and I'm not sure this one judgement can stem the evil tide that is mass marketing.
Wow, we simultaneously had the same thought & the same urge to post it. Shame I got my ass kicked by the/./. effect. What is going on with the site today??? I just wish I'd gotten in first. (I need the karma)
Whether it's running out of fuel is not a question of if, but when. It takes numerous bursts of propellant to keep a craft in any kind of decent orbit when dealing with not just the gravity of Europa, but also Jupiter, Io, Callisto, Ganymede, and the other 10 or more smaller satellites of Jupiter. These tend to pull it in so many different directions that it WILL fall out of orbit if not maintained, (though there is a tiny chance it could actually be propelled away by sheer luck). In addition, this project has been extended beyond its original life, and it costs money to maintain a group to monitor & control the satellite. Once it can no longer take pictures, something must quickly be done to avoid wasting money maintaining what has become a piece of space-junk some 45 light-minutes from Earth.
March 1, 2001 - AP Wire Microsoft announced today that its new operating system product, HAL01, will have full support of the recently adopted IPv6 protocol. "Six teams of R&D programmers contributed to this innovation, after over four years of work," said a MS spokesman. "We are ready to take the internet by storm. IPv6 is an extension of the TCP/IP protocol which computers on the internet currently use to communicate. It will allow the internet the freedom to grow exponentially as time goes on."
The HAL01 operating system is the successor to Microsoft's highly-touted Windows2000 product. After years of manipulating hardware vendors in order to ensure the pc platform was optimized to work with Microsoft's code, they decided to name the new product in honor of the now defunct 'Hardware Abstraction Layer' component of the Windows NT product, which was no longer needed. (After their purchase of Transmeta, Microsoft designed their OS to be embedded directly in the chip, thus negating the need for an HAL).
Unfortunately, the new support of IPv6 is not without a dark side. Said an anonymous source, "What MS isn't telling you is that they've mucked heavily with the protocol. In fact, no computer running HAL01 can communicate over IP(v6) now except with another computer also running HAL01. This means that if you want to use their new features like the DirectThought(tm) interface (an extension of DirectDraw which allows display directly to the visual centers of your brain) you'll only be able to play QuakeV6 against other HAL01 computers." When asked to comment, the Microsoft spokesman would only say "Hey, it's a Win-Win scenario!"
Could someone with more knowledge clear up how you are supposed to delete a file with this system? I think with multiple links to the same file, you could easily delete the links. What happens when the last link is deleted? Does it remove the original from the database? Does it stay there, in what amounts to another recycle bin?
This is winning ? 5 times as much goes to lawyers as to the injured parties. Something in the US legal system needs to be changed to enable real people to combat big brother, be they the goverment or big company X.
All that aside, as I understand it, the feds have never stopped harrassing SJ Games, or at least have never stopped (in)conspicuous surveillance of them and Illuminati Online.
A personal note from Steve Jackson can also be found here.
As a current roadrunner user, I wonder how this will affect my bandwidth as more ISPs start popping onto this system. I suspect it will be a similar case to AOL's busy-signal problems a few years ago. Performance will degrade as more people jump on the bandwagon, user complaints will eventually convince them to upgrade the infrastructure to improve performance to a reasonable level of quality. Look for many vociferous complaints as time goes on.
Someone had suggested Slashdot might have their registration pulled as a result of court action. I think the geeks among us with control over their own name servers could easily remedy that. How? Point your DNS servers to ns1.andover.net, ns2.andover.net, and ns3.andover.net. Make your server a secondary for slashdot.org, pulling updates from those servers. No court or corporation could then prevent you from having access to Slashdot!
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What real effect will it have on us? Can other companies still sell our data? Shouldn't it be illegal to buy this data as well as sell it? (after all, it's just as illegal to buy coke as to sell it) How do we know who bought or sold our credit info when we get a credit card application in the mail? (I get about 10-20 a week) Shouldn't there be a way to trace that? Who gets the $2500 fine? Does the court collect & keep it? Does the consumer get it? Who polices the reporting agencies to make sure they're not selling improperly? *sigh* True privacy is still a long way off, and I'm not sure this one judgement can stem the evil tide that is mass marketing.
Wow, we simultaneously had the same thought & the same urge to post it. Shame I got my ass kicked by the /./. effect. What is going on with the site today??? I just wish I'd gotten in first. (I need the karma)
Whether it's running out of fuel is not a question of if, but when. It takes numerous bursts of propellant to keep a craft in any kind of decent orbit when dealing with not just the gravity of Europa, but also Jupiter, Io, Callisto, Ganymede, and the other 10 or more smaller satellites of Jupiter. These tend to pull it in so many different directions that it WILL fall out of orbit if not maintained, (though there is a tiny chance it could actually be propelled away by sheer luck). In addition, this project has been extended beyond its original life, and it costs money to maintain a group to monitor & control the satellite. Once it can no longer take pictures, something must quickly be done to avoid wasting money maintaining what has become a piece of space-junk some 45 light-minutes from Earth.
Let's see if I remember... Ah yes,
All these worlds are yours... Except Europa.
Attempt no landing there. Use them together.
Use them in peace.
March 1, 2001 - AP Wire
Microsoft announced today that its new operating system product, HAL01, will have full support of the recently adopted IPv6 protocol. "Six teams of R&D programmers contributed to this innovation, after over four years of work," said a MS spokesman. "We are ready to take the internet by storm. IPv6 is an extension of the TCP/IP protocol which computers on the internet currently use to communicate. It will allow the internet the freedom to grow exponentially as time goes on."
The HAL01 operating system is the successor to Microsoft's highly-touted Windows2000 product. After years of manipulating hardware vendors in order to ensure the pc platform was optimized to work with Microsoft's code, they decided to name the new product in honor of the now defunct 'Hardware Abstraction Layer' component of the Windows NT product, which was no longer needed. (After their purchase of Transmeta, Microsoft designed their OS to be embedded directly in the chip, thus negating the need for an HAL).
Unfortunately, the new support of IPv6 is not without a dark side. Said an anonymous source, "What MS isn't telling you is that they've mucked heavily with the protocol. In fact, no computer running HAL01 can communicate over IP(v6) now except with another computer also running HAL01. This means that if you want to use their new features like the DirectThought(tm) interface (an extension of DirectDraw which allows display directly to the visual centers of your brain) you'll only be able to play QuakeV6 against other HAL01 computers." When asked to comment, the Microsoft spokesman would only say "Hey, it's a Win-Win scenario!"
Could someone with more knowledge clear up how you
are supposed to delete a file with this system? I
think with multiple links to the same file, you
could easily delete the links. What happens when
the last link is deleted? Does it remove the
original from the database? Does it stay there,
in what amounts to another recycle bin?
This is winning ? 5 times as much goes to lawyers as to the injured parties. Something in the US legal system needs to be changed to enable real people to combat big brother, be they the goverment or big company X.
All that aside, as I understand it, the feds have never stopped harrassing SJ Games, or at least have never stopped (in)conspicuous surveillance of them and Illuminati Online.
A personal note from Steve Jackson can also be found here.
As a current roadrunner user, I wonder how this
will affect my bandwidth as more ISPs start
popping onto this system. I suspect it will be a
similar case to AOL's busy-signal problems a few
years ago. Performance will degrade as more
people jump on the bandwagon, user complaints
will eventually convince them to upgrade the
infrastructure to improve performance to a
reasonable level of quality. Look for many
vociferous complaints as time goes on.
Someone had suggested Slashdot might have their
registration pulled as a result of court action.
I think the geeks among us with control over
their own name servers could easily remedy that.
How? Point your DNS servers to ns1.andover.net,
ns2.andover.net, and ns3.andover.net. Make your
server a secondary for slashdot.org, pulling
updates from those servers. No court or corporation could then prevent you from having
access to Slashdot!