Not entirely appropriate in this case, though I would agree with you in the general case. The VP said that to one the Senators from my state, Patrick "??AA" Leahy, D, Vt. Given that he was one of the instigators behind the DMCA, it's not even worth my effort to put in an email, though I might try.
I was under the impression that under string theory, gravity didn't deviate significantly from classical until you got down near the Planck scale. So if I interpret the article right, they have ruled out some TOEs. But if I've interpreted what I've read about strings correctly, this experiment probably can't rule them out.
That's not what I said, at all. If the Bomb had to be used in war, and I tend to believe it's a historical/human necessity that it had to be, then it's best used when there can't be a 2-way escalating shooting match.
History, partly because of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, has established a sort of "band gap" between conventional and nuclear weapons. Fortunately we've gone back to the bottom side of the gap. One can certainly make the point that some conventional weapons, like the daisy-cutter or fuel bombs are on par with a small nuke, blurring what I call the "band gap." But those weapons are at the top end of conventional, and can't escalate significantly higher.
The most dangerous thing about small nukes is that someone might be able to convince themselves that, "It's less powerful than some conventional weapons," and then actually use them. THEN things can escalate.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did one simple service for the entire world, and all of humanity: they gave us all fear.
Imagine that you're a military type, and you've got this brand new, super-powerful toy, the Biggest Bomb in the World. It tooks millions to build, and the biggest aspect of all that work was that nobody really knew if it even could be built. But once it is known that one can be built, it's only a matter of time until others do it.
Further imagine that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had never happened, so the Bomb wouldn't be anything real in the public's mind, just another weapon, just another bomb. Military types are prone to exaggerate their own capability, so without having seen the Bomb used against a real city, it would have remained a bomb, not The Bomb. Seeing pictures of a devastated atoll just isn't the same as hearing reports of death from a devastated city.
Finally, imagine the Cold War, where both sides have the Bomb, but the world lacked the fear generated by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Imagine both sides with thousands of Bombs, each. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened during that brief interval in history, when only one side had the Bomb, when there was no issue of retaliation, when Mutual Assured Destruction, wasn't even a possiblity, much less a deterrent policy.
What do you think our chances of surviving the last 60 years would have been, without the Fear from Hiroshima and Nagasaki permeating our culture. Sometimes I fear that that Fear is fading, but I hope that enough is left to keep us alive until we hopefully mature as a species.
I would have sworn that somewhere in Episode IV, ObiWan calls Darth Vader, "Darth," as if it's a first name and "Vader" is a last name. Elsewhere he was referred to as "Lord Vader," which could be consistent with "Darth" as a first name. It was never made clear, and AFAIR, the Emperor was always "the Emperor," and we never heard Darth Sidius until Episode I.
Personally, I think ObiWan would have called him, "Anakin" or maybe "Vader," but never "Darth," in Episodes IV-VI, based on Episode I-III.
If your frontal lobes (sarcasm center) are functioning correctly, The Daily Show is not at all inconsistent with reality. To get the humor, you need to know something about what's real, already. Even if you're not up on the news at the moment, you can tell from the dance what's in the middle, where the facts are.
When I read the article, I think more about the security where I work, and I'm just trying to figure out who I can send it to so that constructive things can happen.
The wireless issues are just the tip of the iceberg. That's in the realm of "exploiting the API," in other words, the exploit potential is in the specification. Most of the Windows exploits so far have been of this sort. The next layer under have been buffer overflows. Both Windows and Linux have seen these. Beyond that, Linux has had format string issues, and I don't even know if people have started looking at Windows for them, yet.
But there's another layer yet, binary on the wire. In the past, and I'm going particularly to the OS/2 years here, Windows used the API as a marketing weapon. That included announcing APIs as preemptive strikes against competitors' products and shoving binary protocols over wires and in files to stymie interoperation or reverse engineering. Clear text protocols tend to be syntax/semantic-checked, since it's assumed that someone may have been in there.
With binary wire/file protocols, want to bet for or against the assumption that it's already been parsed, not viewed by human, and therefore can be used as-is?
As you accuse, I say nothing about the specific Windows problems at Blue Hat. But then the only people who could are Microsoft employees or the invited hackers, and I'll bet all of the above are under some form of non-disclosure.
Given the bowl of spaghetti called nearly 2 decades of Windows, how much freedom of action do they really have to clean things up? Tug at a strand here to fix it, and who knows where the other end is? How many side effects will there be from that one fix? Yet at the same time, their market power is based on Windows and their code base. Force too big a migration, too much retraining, and it might well turn into a different kind of migration - to someone else's platform.
They've got a ticklish and tough job ahead. But then again, they did it to themselves.
Another post mentions that there's no interest in the US in a supersonic jet, because of restrictions over land. This says nothing of Reagan's old Orient Express hypersonic proposal, or the basic desire to furnish jets for overseas flight.
Look at it from another perspective... What does the US bring to the table, any more. G.E.'s new jet engine research facility is in India. US software jobs are migrating to India, and the semiconducter industry has been migrating to the Far East for over a decade. We're even starting to oursource our weapon systems. "If present trends continue," (and I'm hopefully quoting Lester Thoreau of MIT on this) by the time the keel is laid on any supersonic jet, the only thing the US will have to offer is overpaid executives.
I also doubt Gentoo will have corporate penetration, but in IMHO because of perception rather than any real considerations. It would be simply a matter of policy implementation.
For instance, your concern: New systems get installed from a CD set. (pretty much what happens today with any OS, Windows or Linux.) I.T. group sets update policy, pushing out cron jobs, etc to implement. For Gentoo, the most likely case would be to push out a/etc/portage/package.keywords file that completely describes the "standard" system. Let the systems do some sort of emerge on a daily (nightly) basis, but package.keywords constrains what gets pulled in. As security fixes come out or functional enhancements are needed, the package.keywords file gets tweaked and pushed out. Systems update themselves the next night. Config files would be a combination of pull from a master, and tweak for system-specifics with what's already there.
It could be done, though I don't deny that setting it up would be a fair amount of work. But IMHO the presence of the primitive capabilities is a big plus, and once done the maintenance effort would compare favorably with others.
By the way, in this scenario, the "release" becomes a package.keywords file tweaked to requirements.
IMHO this is a symptom of Microsoft taking something that ought to be plumbing or commodity, and turning it into a high-value, highly-visible product. The O.S. ought to be like plumbing and electrical wiring in your house, it just works. It's even more basic than the appliances, because you just assume that there's line current there when you plug in the toaster, or what have you. You just assume there are pipes behind that faucet and toilet. Furthermore, in the electrical case, you just assume there's a circuit breaker, GFI in the case of kitchen, bathroom, or outdoor.
Following the house analogy a little further, Microsoft has turned the house into, "Here's the house + basic plumbing fixtures + basic appliances." Actually, that's not too far from the way a house is bought, EXCEPT... 1: They've defined the whole package. When you buy a new house, you usually get to spec out fixtures and basic appliances. 2: They want you to re-purchase the whole thing every 3 years. Usually I only re-purchase as things wear out, and repair as needed. 3: They tend to bundle more appliances in with new releases. I'd never expect the toaster, food processor, and TV to be part of my "house" purchase.
Now compare the house model to Gentoo Linux. Gentoo has releases, but for the most part you can ignore them. At the lowest maintenance level, you just run "glsa-check" and keep up with security fixes. Higher maintenance levels are available if you want to stay closer to the bleeding edge, but at no point are you forced or expected to chuck it all and reinstall the OS. Some updates can be painful, like the new baselayout last week on my server. (The desktops took it just fine.) But it was still better than a reinstall.
OTOH, to be able to turn PVC piping and Romex into something people will line up for at midnight to buy is an interesting marketing feat, in itself.
Dropping out worked for him, it sounds like because he felt it was more important to get moving on what he really wanted to do. That doesn't say that dropping out was what was important, rather moving on was. I wouldn't drop out, just like Steve Jobs, unless you have that same burning drive. Simply dropping out does nothing but indicate that you lack drive and ability to stick to it. For most of us, staying in college proves an outlet for drive.
Jobs and a few like him are exceptional, but not suitable as "the general model."
Aren't labels wonderful things, they make it SO easy to bash groups of people, wholesale.
I'll agree that these protestors look like a bunch of kooks. But just because they're probably kooks doesn't mean that they can't possibly have a point. Given the hazards of airborne asbestos fibers and carbon nanotubes, I'd argue that it's a good idea to study possible health effects of nanoscale teflon fibers. That's not kneejerk NEW+TECH=>BAD, that's called reasonable prudence. From RTFA, it appears that studies are at least beginning, and perhaps Wireless is remiss in not doing more than just furnishing a few links. But perhaps those studies aren't far enough along, and it's not the right time YET to allow this class of nano-stuff into general distribution.
So if you've decided all environmentalists are kooks, are you also in the global warming isn't real camp? How about reducing pollutants from cars and trucks or power plants?
For that matter, I happen to approve of the idea of nuclear powerplants - if properly designed and with a waste management plan. So far we've done a pretty bad job of doing it properly, though. Hint - Is it REALLY smart to take a basic design type optimized for compact power in a military application, and scale it up for civillian power? Wouldn't it be better to start with a design optimized for safety instead of density?
If our society had a better history of putting the horse in front of the carriage, I suspect we'd have less immediate distrust of technology. I fear that entirely too often, it's Money First, consider the side-effects and deny the consequences later.
As others have said, nanotechnology/=nanomachines.
Very small fibers of asbestos have proven to be a Really Bad Thing for the lungs. (Though really good for Halliburton, especially if you get special legislation absolving you of liability.)
Airborne carbon nanotubes have also proven to be a Really Bad Thing, as well. (Forget which part of the body it was Really Bad for, whether the lungs or further in.)
So what might (key word there - *might*) this say about very small fibers of teflon? Let's not talk immediate knee-jerk reactions here. Ooh, *tech, must be Bad! Let's simply say that it deserves at least some study.
Does ANYONE have ANY idea of what kind and how much, if any study was made of these teflon fibers.
For that matter, I've heard of another nano-material being used in a new sunscreen. I would initially have a little more faith in that, because I'd expect that toxicity studies are more common for sunscreens than for fabrics.
I'll have to show this to my wife, and let her know she's a terrorist. By inclination I'm a contrarian moderate, and in these times it makes me look like a liberal, so maybe that puts the "T" label on me, too.
The "Chuck and Di TV" has got yours beat. My wife and I got it shortly after we got married, and one of the first things we watched on it was Chuck and Di's wedding.
More recently, the keypad didn't work, so we tuned it through the VCR. Besides, it didn't do too well with cable channels. The volume contro was a bit fritzed, as were the color controls. But it still worked. We'd been looking on and off for a while, kind of hoping to get a flat panel of one sort or another. But priorties being what they are, we decided to set our sights lower, and got a 24" flatscreen CRT. We're quite happy with it.
One of the last things we watched on the old TV was Chuck and Camilla's wedding. We figured it was a good bookend to the old workhorse. Nearly 23 years, and it still (mostly) worked.
You're timing calculations may be good. But IMHO, evolution put all-nighter capability into us so we could be up all night with sick kids, not so we could code all night. Back when I was 45 I took sleep deprivation much less in stride than 10-15 years earlier, when I WAS getting sleep deprived by young children. Using that all-nighter capability for coding and partying instead of child rearing is a new development.
As for the annoyance of children, there is far more enjoyment. (Some of it takes a few years to appreciate, perhaps.) Think of the reward and enjoyment of seeing any project come together. Multiply that by a big number.
Youth is largely beyond your control. Life cannot continue the way it is for you, indefinitely. The real hitch is that by the time you are ready to be mature, stable, and committed, you may be past the fork in the road, and the opportunity is gone. Obviously it's not binary, but past a point the probabilities dimish to the point where it's almost binary.
Women tend to be more sensitive about their "biological time bombs" ticking, but some of the same is true about men, as well. Kids deserve vitality from a parent, and IMHO they also deserve parents that are able to watch the grandkids so they can go off alone for a few days with the spouse and recapture a little youth.
Plus there are a lot of positives to being married, some that you can't appreciate without being there and evolving through it.
I'm not a lawyer, or the one you're asking for, but I have looked this up in the Constitution. Try searching for "artist" or "inventor" instead of "patent". Or check in Article I, Section 8, about halfway down.
Good point, now that you mention it. Actually, security by obscurity isn't bad, as long as that isn't your only layer, and as long as the obscurity can't mask another problem. I mentioned encrypting the tapes, but I don't remember it being mentioned on the radio. I wonder if Schneier did in the interview, but it got cut off in the sound-bite process.
You assume that more legislation isn't forthcoming that will make sure "self-publication and internet distribution by artists themselves" can't happen, or at least can't happen at some sustainable level.I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised to see some sort of legislation that has the "side effect" of freezing the current RIAA business model in place.
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Not entirely appropriate in this case, though I would agree with you in the general case. The VP said that to one the Senators from my state, Patrick "??AA" Leahy, D, Vt. Given that he was one of the instigators behind the DMCA, it's not even worth my effort to put in an email, though I might try.
I was under the impression that under string theory, gravity didn't deviate significantly from classical until you got down near the Planck scale. So if I interpret the article right, they have ruled out some TOEs. But if I've interpreted what I've read about strings correctly, this experiment probably can't rule them out.
Or am I all wet?
That's not what I said, at all. If the Bomb had to be used in war, and I tend to believe it's a historical/human necessity that it had to be, then it's best used when there can't be a 2-way escalating shooting match.
History, partly because of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, has established a sort of "band gap" between conventional and nuclear weapons. Fortunately we've gone back to the bottom side of the gap. One can certainly make the point that some conventional weapons, like the daisy-cutter or fuel bombs are on par with a small nuke, blurring what I call the "band gap." But those weapons are at the top end of conventional, and can't escalate significantly higher.
The most dangerous thing about small nukes is that someone might be able to convince themselves that, "It's less powerful than some conventional weapons," and then actually use them. THEN things can escalate.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs did one simple service for the entire world, and all of humanity: they gave us all fear.
Imagine that you're a military type, and you've got this brand new, super-powerful toy, the Biggest Bomb in the World. It tooks millions to build, and the biggest aspect of all that work was that nobody really knew if it even could be built. But once it is known that one can be built, it's only a matter of time until others do it.
Further imagine that Hiroshima and Nagasaki had never happened, so the Bomb wouldn't be anything real in the public's mind, just another weapon, just another bomb. Military types are prone to exaggerate their own capability, so without having seen the Bomb used against a real city, it would have remained a bomb, not The Bomb. Seeing pictures of a devastated atoll just isn't the same as hearing reports of death from a devastated city.
Finally, imagine the Cold War, where both sides have the Bomb, but the world lacked the fear generated by Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Imagine both sides with thousands of Bombs, each. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened during that brief interval in history, when only one side had the Bomb, when there was no issue of retaliation, when Mutual Assured Destruction, wasn't even a possiblity, much less a deterrent policy.
What do you think our chances of surviving the last 60 years would have been, without the Fear from Hiroshima and Nagasaki permeating our culture. Sometimes I fear that that Fear is fading, but I hope that enough is left to keep us alive until we hopefully mature as a species.
As long as we're counting discontinuities...
I would have sworn that somewhere in Episode IV, ObiWan calls Darth Vader, "Darth," as if it's a first name and "Vader" is a last name. Elsewhere he was referred to as "Lord Vader," which could be consistent with "Darth" as a first name. It was never made clear, and AFAIR, the Emperor was always "the Emperor," and we never heard Darth Sidius until Episode I.
Personally, I think ObiWan would have called him, "Anakin" or maybe "Vader," but never "Darth," in Episodes IV-VI, based on Episode I-III.
But then again,
It was just a TV show.
But they handled the Paul McGann regeneration so well, especially bringing in Sylvester McCoy, and the Frankenstein footage...
If your frontal lobes (sarcasm center) are functioning correctly, The Daily Show is not at all inconsistent with reality. To get the humor, you need to know something about what's real, already. Even if you're not up on the news at the moment, you can tell from the dance what's in the middle, where the facts are.
When I read the article, I think more about the security where I work, and I'm just trying to figure out who I can send it to so that constructive things can happen.
The wireless issues are just the tip of the iceberg. That's in the realm of "exploiting the API," in other words, the exploit potential is in the specification. Most of the Windows exploits so far have been of this sort. The next layer under have been buffer overflows. Both Windows and Linux have seen these. Beyond that, Linux has had format string issues, and I don't even know if people have started looking at Windows for them, yet.
But there's another layer yet, binary on the wire. In the past, and I'm going particularly to the OS/2 years here, Windows used the API as a marketing weapon. That included announcing APIs as preemptive strikes against competitors' products and shoving binary protocols over wires and in files to stymie interoperation or reverse engineering. Clear text protocols tend to be syntax/semantic-checked, since it's assumed that someone may have been in there.
With binary wire/file protocols, want to bet for or against the assumption that it's already been parsed, not viewed by human, and therefore can be used as-is?
As you accuse, I say nothing about the specific Windows problems at Blue Hat. But then the only people who could are Microsoft employees or the invited hackers, and I'll bet all of the above are under some form of non-disclosure.
> But will MS actually do anything?
But *can* MS actually do anything?
Given the bowl of spaghetti called nearly 2 decades of Windows, how much freedom of action do they really have to clean things up? Tug at a strand here to fix it, and who knows where the other end is? How many side effects will there be from that one fix? Yet at the same time, their market power is based on Windows and their code base. Force too big a migration, too much retraining, and it might well turn into a different kind of migration - to someone else's platform.
They've got a ticklish and tough job ahead. But then again, they did it to themselves.
Another post mentions that there's no interest in the US in a supersonic jet, because of restrictions over land. This says nothing of Reagan's old Orient Express hypersonic proposal, or the basic desire to furnish jets for overseas flight.
Look at it from another perspective... What does the US bring to the table, any more. G.E.'s new jet engine research facility is in India. US software jobs are migrating to India, and the semiconducter industry has been migrating to the Far East for over a decade. We're even starting to oursource our weapon systems. "If present trends continue," (and I'm hopefully quoting Lester Thoreau of MIT on this) by the time the keel is laid on any supersonic jet, the only thing the US will have to offer is overpaid executives.
I also doubt Gentoo will have corporate penetration, but in IMHO because of perception rather than any real considerations. It would be simply a matter of policy implementation.
/etc/portage/package.keywords file that completely describes the "standard" system. Let the systems do some sort of emerge on a daily (nightly) basis, but package.keywords constrains what gets pulled in. As security fixes come out or functional enhancements are needed, the package.keywords file gets tweaked and pushed out. Systems update themselves the next night. Config files would be a combination of pull from a master, and tweak for system-specifics with what's already there.
For instance, your concern:
New systems get installed from a CD set. (pretty much what happens today with any OS, Windows or Linux.)
I.T. group sets update policy, pushing out cron jobs, etc to implement. For Gentoo, the most likely case would be to push out a
It could be done, though I don't deny that setting it up would be a fair amount of work. But IMHO the presence of the primitive capabilities is a big plus, and once done the maintenance effort would compare favorably with others.
By the way, in this scenario, the "release" becomes a package.keywords file tweaked to requirements.
IMHO this is a symptom of Microsoft taking something that ought to be plumbing or commodity, and turning it into a high-value, highly-visible product. The O.S. ought to be like plumbing and electrical wiring in your house, it just works. It's even more basic than the appliances, because you just assume that there's line current there when you plug in the toaster, or what have you. You just assume there are pipes behind that faucet and toilet. Furthermore, in the electrical case, you just assume there's a circuit breaker, GFI in the case of kitchen, bathroom, or outdoor.
Following the house analogy a little further, Microsoft has turned the house into, "Here's the house + basic plumbing fixtures + basic appliances." Actually, that's not too far from the way a house is bought, EXCEPT...
1: They've defined the whole package. When you buy a new house, you usually get to spec out fixtures and basic appliances.
2: They want you to re-purchase the whole thing every 3 years. Usually I only re-purchase as things wear out, and repair as needed.
3: They tend to bundle more appliances in with new releases. I'd never expect the toaster, food processor, and TV to be part of my "house" purchase.
Now compare the house model to Gentoo Linux. Gentoo has releases, but for the most part you can ignore them. At the lowest maintenance level, you just run "glsa-check" and keep up with security fixes. Higher maintenance levels are available if you want to stay closer to the bleeding edge, but at no point are you forced or expected to chuck it all and reinstall the OS. Some updates can be painful, like the new baselayout last week on my server. (The desktops took it just fine.) But it was still better than a reinstall.
OTOH, to be able to turn PVC piping and Romex into something people will line up for at midnight to buy is an interesting marketing feat, in itself.
Dropping out worked for him, it sounds like because he felt it was more important to get moving on what he really wanted to do. That doesn't say that dropping out was what was important, rather moving on was. I wouldn't drop out, just like Steve Jobs, unless you have that same burning drive. Simply dropping out does nothing but indicate that you lack drive and ability to stick to it. For most of us, staying in college proves an outlet for drive.
Jobs and a few like him are exceptional, but not suitable as "the general model."
I'm trying to fit something with "Major Tom" in here, but the possibilities are just too wide to focus it down. Maybe I need to take a protein pill.
Aren't labels wonderful things, they make it SO easy to bash groups of people, wholesale.
I'll agree that these protestors look like a bunch of kooks. But just because they're probably kooks doesn't mean that they can't possibly have a point. Given the hazards of airborne asbestos fibers and carbon nanotubes, I'd argue that it's a good idea to study possible health effects of nanoscale teflon fibers. That's not kneejerk NEW+TECH=>BAD, that's called reasonable prudence. From RTFA, it appears that studies are at least beginning, and perhaps Wireless is remiss in not doing more than just furnishing a few links. But perhaps those studies aren't far enough along, and it's not the right time YET to allow this class of nano-stuff into general distribution.
So if you've decided all environmentalists are kooks, are you also in the global warming isn't real camp? How about reducing pollutants from cars and trucks or power plants?
For that matter, I happen to approve of the idea of nuclear powerplants - if properly designed and with a waste management plan. So far we've done a pretty bad job of doing it properly, though. Hint - Is it REALLY smart to take a basic design type optimized for compact power in a military application, and scale it up for civillian power? Wouldn't it be better to start with a design optimized for safety instead of density?
If our society had a better history of putting the horse in front of the carriage, I suspect we'd have less immediate distrust of technology. I fear that entirely too often, it's Money First, consider the side-effects and deny the consequences later.
As others have said, nanotechnology/=nanomachines.
Very small fibers of asbestos have proven to be a Really Bad Thing for the lungs. (Though really good for Halliburton, especially if you get special legislation absolving you of liability.)
Airborne carbon nanotubes have also proven to be a Really Bad Thing, as well. (Forget which part of the body it was Really Bad for, whether the lungs or further in.)
So what might (key word there - *might*) this say about very small fibers of teflon? Let's not talk immediate knee-jerk reactions here. Ooh, *tech, must be Bad! Let's simply say that it deserves at least some study.
Does ANYONE have ANY idea of what kind and how much, if any study was made of these teflon fibers.
For that matter, I've heard of another nano-material being used in a new sunscreen. I would initially have a little more faith in that, because I'd expect that toxicity studies are more common for sunscreens than for fabrics.
I'll have to show this to my wife, and let her know she's a terrorist. By inclination I'm a contrarian moderate, and in these times it makes me look like a liberal, so maybe that puts the "T" label on me, too.
Better watch it, with a comment like that, you're starting to sound like a TERRORIST.
The "Chuck and Di TV" has got yours beat. My wife and I got it shortly after we got married, and one of the first things we watched on it was Chuck and Di's wedding.
More recently, the keypad didn't work, so we tuned it through the VCR. Besides, it didn't do too well with cable channels. The volume contro was a bit fritzed, as were the color controls. But it still worked. We'd been looking on and off for a while, kind of hoping to get a flat panel of one sort or another. But priorties being what they are, we decided to set our sights lower, and got a 24" flatscreen CRT. We're quite happy with it.
One of the last things we watched on the old TV was Chuck and Camilla's wedding. We figured it was a good bookend to the old workhorse. Nearly 23 years, and it still (mostly) worked.
You're timing calculations may be good. But IMHO, evolution put all-nighter capability into us so we could be up all night with sick kids, not so we could code all night. Back when I was 45 I took sleep deprivation much less in stride than 10-15 years earlier, when I WAS getting sleep deprived by young children. Using that all-nighter capability for coding and partying instead of child rearing is a new development.
As for the annoyance of children, there is far more enjoyment. (Some of it takes a few years to appreciate, perhaps.) Think of the reward and enjoyment of seeing any project come together. Multiply that by a big number.
Youth is largely beyond your control. Life cannot continue the way it is for you, indefinitely. The real hitch is that by the time you are ready to be mature, stable, and committed, you may be past the fork in the road, and the opportunity is gone. Obviously it's not binary, but past a point the probabilities dimish to the point where it's almost binary.
Women tend to be more sensitive about their "biological time bombs" ticking, but some of the same is true about men, as well. Kids deserve vitality from a parent, and IMHO they also deserve parents that are able to watch the grandkids so they can go off alone for a few days with the spouse and recapture a little youth.
Plus there are a lot of positives to being married, some that you can't appreciate without being there and evolving through it.
1: Go claim-mining in the Samba source tree.
2: File for patents
3: Get Cease & Desist warrants against Samba team.
4: Profit!!
See, now we can fill in the "???" step.
I'm not a lawyer, or the one you're asking for, but I have looked this up in the Constitution. Try searching for "artist" or "inventor" instead of "patent". Or check in Article I, Section 8, about halfway down.
Good point, now that you mention it. Actually, security by obscurity isn't bad, as long as that isn't your only layer, and as long as the obscurity can't mask another problem. I mentioned encrypting the tapes, but I don't remember it being mentioned on the radio. I wonder if Schneier did in the interview, but it got cut off in the sound-bite process.
You assume that more legislation isn't forthcoming that will make sure "self-publication and internet distribution by artists themselves" can't happen, or at least can't happen at some sustainable level.I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised to see some sort of legislation that has the "side effect" of freezing the current RIAA business model in place.