There's already been some really useful comments here. I'll in checking out the Bit-Tech articles section at http://www.bit-tech.net/article/
"linear" has two articles there so far. "Planning Your Acrylic Case" is seven webpages with details on various aspects of acrylic case design. "The Invisible Case" is sixteen webpages on how the author went about making a (rather ambitious) clear plastic case for their computer (amongst other clear modding), complete with plenty of pictures.
The reason September 11th worked out the way it did was that people have been taught to give the nice terrorists what they want when they take over the plane...
Instead now we're being taught to give the nice security guards what they want when they take over the airport...:)
I know what they say about lies, damned lies and statistics. Check this out anyway, draw your own whatevers.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm
Excerpt:
"That's why I was so startled to discover that there is absolutely no pattern to the chart. If I had simply picked 25 countries out of a hat, I could not have gotten a more diverse spread than we've got here. We've got rich countries and poor countries; industrial and agrarian; big and small. We've got people of all colors -- white, black, yellow and brown -- widely represented among both the slaughterers and the slaughterees. We've got Christians, Moslems, Buddhists and Atheists all butchering one another in the name of their various gods or lack thereof. Among the perpetrators, we've got political leanings of the left, right and middle; some are monarchies; some are dictatorships and some are even democracies. We've got innocent victims invaded by big, bad neighbors, and we've got plenty of countries who brought it on themselves, sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. Go on -- take a third look. Find any type of country that is not represented among the agents of a major blooding, and probably the only reason for that is that there aren't that many countries in that category to begin with (There are no Hindu or Jewish countries on the chart, but then, there's only one of each on the whole planet, and they're both waiting in the wings among the next 25.).
In a way, it's rather disheartening to realize that we can't smugly blame the brutality of the century on the Communists, or the imperialists, or the Moslem fundamentalists, or the godless. Every major category of human has done it's share to boost the body count, so replacing, say, Moslem rulers with Christian rulers, or white rulers with black rulers, is not going to change it at all."
Specious argument. {they never conquered X} because {they never colonised X} does not automatically equal {they would not have conquered X if they'd colonised it}.
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The look-left/look-right thing, however, -is- true (unless someone is deliberately screwing with you). I've seen it dozens of times. It's hardly admissible in court, but it does give them a clue as to what's going on.
I'm presuming if this is the case then it's based on the bilateral nature of the brain or somesuch; if so, maybe you better also check whether the suspect is left or right handed...
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And the store is setup with a *kill* zone to stop any potential shoplifiting or buglary.
Er, could you explain that a little more for us foreigners? I'm imagining a long stretch of carpet between the doors and the checkout, and a mchinegun nest or two...:)
The interesting thing here is not the censorship but the fact that all the students in the entire state will have email addresses. This could significantly change the way a lot of services in a school operate. Just like in a university or corporation, messages, overdue notices, feedback on assessment and reminders could all be easily send electronically. Students will have the opportunity to communicate with their teachers, ask questions, etc without having to get the teacher's attention when it may not be convenient.
Whether that's actually a good thing or not, it presumes the kids have access to computers on a 1:1 ratio. In the meantime, so long as the funding only allows schools to have a couple of computers per class of thirty people, I don't see it happening.
And the most important piece of information in the article is: "If you're watching DVDs you don't want your wife to know about, you might not want to give her your password," said David Caulton, Microsoft's lead program manager for Windows Media."
"your" password? Bzzzt. Windows Media stores its database in the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index" folder. Pay attention to that ALL USERS bit. Even if you're logged in as administrator, WM puts its database of your viewing habits in the All Users folder! Sheesh.
Norton Corporate also works well in the stand alone mode as well. I send a copy home with all my Physicians at home.
My school has NAV Corporate 7. The standalone version has no email support for anything that isn't Outlook (or Lotus, I think). "Hi, an email with a virus has arrived, I'll just lock your inbox file while the client is still trying to save other incoming emails to it". ARGH!
NAV Personal 2002 however parses emails before they reach the client program; very nicely done. I wish Norton had included their Personal edition instead of the sucky standalone version of their Corporate edition.
Question is, do the spreadsheets he sells to the bingo people contain any of those fancy scripting formulas and VB macros, or is it just a lump of numbers or somewhere inbetween?
Quibble - a spreadsheet that has no algorithms is merely a table of data. If you can make a list of bingo numbers into a turing machine, I'll be impressed.:)
Software patents in the end will protect small companies that come up with "killer apps" rather than allowing large companies to perpetuate monopolies that are founded on their dominating share of the market. The patent system has done this again and again in other fields, and software will be no different.
Ah, but it IS different. Software fundamentally consists of executable ideas, operable via any general purpose computational device - including the human brain. Any algorithm that we can comprehend is an algorithm we can perform ourselves, no external technology required, no matter that we may be slow or make mistakes.
Essentially, the ability to patent software is the ability to patent thought. Combined with the ability to patent genes... either is more than a dangerous path to take; both is sheer folly born of total greed. Don't think nobody in power would ever exploit their position to abuse it - Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Josef Mengele. Have I named enough people, or should I continue?
Well, let's say you have a train ticket, good for unlimited travel for a day on the London Underground. You finish with it, but it is still valid for several hours, is it stealing or sharing if you give it away to someone?
Yes, because you are preventing the London Underground from selling a ticket.
Ah, so when I buy a loaf of bread, decide I don't want to eat all of it, and give the rest to some other hungry person, I've just stolen bread from the baker? The answer is no, if anyone's actually wondering...
A ride on the underground cannot be copied without loss, and so two people sharing the same ticket is "stealing". This is true if the ticked is unexpired or not. A ticket that is sold to you is for you alone; one ass on one seat.
Hmm. Now I'm wondering if you read the original poster's question properly. There's still only one ass on the seat, it's just no longer yours (or his, or whoever's). And if you claim that the ticket was bought only for your ass, well I'd like you to prove to me that you're exactly the same person you were 24 hours ago...:)
The "right of resale" - even for zero return - is very important. It should never be weakened for profit's sake alone.
If you enter it into a turnstile and you and a friend squeeze through?
Stealing obviously.
Now on this we are in agreement. The ticket is for conveying one ass, not two.:)
Cool, so if you go on a 3 week vacation, I can use your house for my own puposes, as long as I move out before you get back? You didn't lose anything (you were gone), but I gained something, because I was homeless, in need of a place to party, or whatever. No need for to ask permission, right?
False analogy. SHARING implicitly includes permission being granted. If I want to let you live in my house for three weeks, or take photographs so you can make a house just like it, should whoever originally sold the house to me be able to say I can't? THAT is the heart of the issue. Once I give something away, whether I gain anything in return or not, how much control over it do I keep? Should I keep any control at all?
The whole concept of "intellectual property" in general is an arbitrary construct, originally implemented to maintain royal monopolies and keep the peasants in their place at the bottom of the pecking order. Through good fortune and great courage the version enshrined in the US Constitution (article 1, section 8, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts") helped create much of our modern way of life, but if anyone thinks the tyranny of the old guard is dead and defeated they're sadly mistaken.
If the pendulum swings back to medieval greed, you may well find yourself kowtowing to a new and vastly more dangerous royalty - the corporate elite, kings in all but the name.
Step 1. Create remote account to host some data. Use local account via the "transparent" proxy to download the hosted data. Check remote account logs to observe download.
Step 2. Repeat download requests. If remote account does not have to download the data again, but the data is still received by local account, "transparent" proxy has served the data from its local cache.
Caveat: make sure data isn't being cached by someone else's proxy inbetween the two accounts.
When its time to make the monies, leave the morals at home.
Connect the dots between making money by abandoning morals and getting someone's wallet by beating them up. A crook in a suit and tie is merely better dressed.
So in other words you want ethical people working for you who will cause the company to go out of business?
No, I want ethical people working for me who will cause the company to prosper, not least by preventing short-sighted greed from undermining the company's long-term survival. Too many damned humans try to jump up and grab the dangling carrot without concern for how thin the ice is underneath them...
When its time to make the monies, leave the morals at home.
Yeah, I was wondering who else had caught that little difference. From the newsbytes article:
"People can rant and rave on the Internet all they want, but when they cross the line of calling people to action to violently overthrow the Constitution of the United States, they have a problem," said McLaughlin.
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The defacements contain white and red text on a black background, with the title "Hacked by the UCA - Underground Confidential Association" and a verbose screed about overthrowing the government and building a "New World Order."
Forgive an ignorant aussie, but I'm under the impression that "The Government" is NOT the same as "The Constitution". That whole bit about the sacred duty of the US citizenry to overthrow an unconstitutional govt and all, um, right?
One, it's probably SOP in a city like L.A. to go in with way more force than you need.
Apparently so: '"This is Los Angeles after all. We always go in to protect ourselves. We don't go in with slingshots," said McLaughlin.' And fair enough, says I. However:
From the response he gave, I think that's just what he needs -- to have the crap scared out of him and make him think.
I just wonder whether he'll be thinking "I was an idiot, the Government isn't so bad" OR "I was an idiot, they showed up armed to the teeth and ready to shoot me if I didn't surrender - they're worse than I thought!"
Hopefully the former, but I worry about the latter. Did the FBI ever consider inviting the kid to see firsthand all the good work they do and the truly sickening stuff they have to deal with as part of the job? To see that the government isn't just a bunch of talking heads on TV?
And if not, why not? If all you ever show someone is the muzzle of a gun, that's the only choice they're going to know.
I meant "far far away" in more than just a geographical sense. Australia, AFAIK, doesn't have a "Silicon Valley" of its own as far as consumer-level electronics and associated IP revenue goes. Name an electronics multinational on a par with an Intel (America) or a Sony (Asia) that calls the Australian continent home...
$2.75? I assume that's AUS$. I can walk down the street to Hollywood Video and pay US$5 for a DVD rental.
Yes, that's aussie dollars. That's also at the store within walking distance. If I go to the big stores in the city centre, there's a bigger range of titles but the rental prices are dearer (the VHS tape prices can be cheaper for the ancient stuff, but tapes that old are pretty much 'renter beware').
I guess pricing in Australia isn't like it is here. Lucky Australians......
Well, pricing here is... varied. A lot of locally-made stuff you can buy here for the same "numerical" value as it has in the US (as if our dollars were equal). A lot of bulk-import stuff has close to the same fiscal value (our dollars are half as good as US dollars). There's stuff that's more expensive or cheaper without any immediately obvious reason (until you do some research and find the monopolies or middlemen getting their cut, or lack thereof).
And of course, if it's small-lot stuff that has to be shipped from overseas, *dingdingding*. Watch the dollars rack up. Australia is still a long haul from America and Europe, even in this modern age of jet aircraft. I'd love to buy some books from the US that I can't get over here, but the price of shipping is higher than the price of the books! (and considering the high price of books in Aus... I really want print-on-demand). Same applies to a lot of computer hardware (monitors, drives, boards, cpus, etc - all made in places far far away from Down Under).
I'll have to visit someday..(not because of the DVD rentals:P)
Heh. Yeah, it's one of the nicer places in the world to live, in terms of both scenery and culture. Hey, just because nine of the ten most venomous critters on the planet call Australia home, doesn't mean you can't too.:)
(seriously, the chances of getting fatally bit/clawed/stung by one of those critters is amazingly remote unless you do something really stupid or careless - or if you are named Steve Irwin and play with 'em for a living)
(aussie here) Depending on which store I use, I pay the same price for my rentals, whether DVD or VHS, or very close to it. The nearest store (within walking distance) charges $2.75 for each.
So it's really consumers 1, video rental stores 1, giant corporation 0.
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"linear" has two articles there so far. "Planning Your Acrylic Case" is seven webpages with details on various aspects of acrylic case design. "The Invisible Case" is sixteen webpages on how the author went about making a (rather ambitious) clear plastic case for their computer (amongst other clear modding), complete with plenty of pictures.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/atrox.htm
Excerpt:
"That's why I was so startled to discover that there is absolutely no pattern to the chart. If I had simply picked 25 countries out of a hat, I could not have gotten a more diverse spread than we've got here. We've got rich countries and poor countries; industrial and agrarian; big and small. We've got people of all colors -- white, black, yellow and brown -- widely represented among both the slaughterers and the slaughterees. We've got Christians, Moslems, Buddhists and Atheists all butchering one another in the name of their various gods or lack thereof. Among the perpetrators, we've got political leanings of the left, right and middle; some are monarchies; some are dictatorships and some are even democracies. We've got innocent victims invaded by big, bad neighbors, and we've got plenty of countries who brought it on themselves, sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. Go on -- take a third look. Find any type of country that is not represented among the agents of a major blooding, and probably the only reason for that is that there aren't that many countries in that category to begin with (There are no Hindu or Jewish countries on the chart, but then, there's only one of each on the whole planet, and they're both waiting in the wings among the next 25.).
In a way, it's rather disheartening to realize that we can't smugly blame the brutality of the century on the Communists, or the imperialists, or the Moslem fundamentalists, or the godless. Every major category of human has done it's share to boost the body count, so replacing, say, Moslem rulers with Christian rulers, or white rulers with black rulers, is not going to change it at all."
Read and weep.
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Some folks feel guilty for getting a speeding ticket, but you can't run someone over with a disc drive. Far as I know.
NAV Personal 2002 however parses emails before they reach the client program; very nicely done. I wish Norton had included their Personal edition instead of the sucky standalone version of their Corporate edition.
Question is, do the spreadsheets he sells to the bingo people contain any of those fancy scripting formulas and VB macros, or is it just a lump of numbers or somewhere inbetween?
Quibble - a spreadsheet that has no algorithms is merely a table of data. If you can make a list of bingo numbers into a turing machine, I'll be impressed. :)
Essentially, the ability to patent software is the ability to patent thought. Combined with the ability to patent genes... either is more than a dangerous path to take; both is sheer folly born of total greed. Don't think nobody in power would ever exploit their position to abuse it - Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Josef Mengele. Have I named enough people, or should I continue?
The "right of resale" - even for zero return - is very important. It should never be weakened for profit's sake alone.
Now on this we are in agreement. The ticket is for conveying one ass, not two.The whole concept of "intellectual property" in general is an arbitrary construct, originally implemented to maintain royal monopolies and keep the peasants in their place at the bottom of the pecking order. Through good fortune and great courage the version enshrined in the US Constitution (article 1, section 8, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts") helped create much of our modern way of life, but if anyone thinks the tyranny of the old guard is dead and defeated they're sadly mistaken.
If the pendulum swings back to medieval greed, you may well find yourself kowtowing to a new and vastly more dangerous royalty - the corporate elite, kings in all but the name.
Step 2. Repeat download requests. If remote account does not have to download the data again, but the data is still received by local account, "transparent" proxy has served the data from its local cache.
Caveat: make sure data isn't being cached by someone else's proxy inbetween the two accounts.
So yeah, transparent caching is good, except that's NOT what this Comcast server is doing according to the poster.
Bedtime for me, work tomorrow. G'night.
"Have a profitable day, Executive" -- Detroit AI.
The guy chose to be honest instead of greedy. That's the kind of person I'd want working for me.
Hopefully the former, but I worry about the latter. Did the FBI ever consider inviting the kid to see firsthand all the good work they do and the truly sickening stuff they have to deal with as part of the job? To see that the government isn't just a bunch of talking heads on TV?
And if not, why not? If all you ever show someone is the muzzle of a gun, that's the only choice they're going to know.
I meant "far far away" in more than just a geographical sense. Australia, AFAIK, doesn't have a "Silicon Valley" of its own as far as consumer-level electronics and associated IP revenue goes. Name an electronics multinational on a par with an Intel (America) or a Sony (Asia) that calls the Australian continent home...
And of course, if it's small-lot stuff that has to be shipped from overseas, *dingdingding*. Watch the dollars rack up. Australia is still a long haul from America and Europe, even in this modern age of jet aircraft. I'd love to buy some books from the US that I can't get over here, but the price of shipping is higher than the price of the books! (and considering the high price of books in Aus... I really want print-on-demand). Same applies to a lot of computer hardware (monitors, drives, boards, cpus, etc - all made in places far far away from Down Under).
Heh. Yeah, it's one of the nicer places in the world to live, in terms of both scenery and culture. Hey, just because nine of the ten most venomous critters on the planet call Australia home, doesn't mean you can't too.(seriously, the chances of getting fatally bit/clawed/stung by one of those critters is amazingly remote unless you do something really stupid or careless - or if you are named Steve Irwin and play with 'em for a living)
So it's really consumers 1, video rental stores 1, giant corporation 0.