the traditional solution is for buisnesses that make use of the space elevator to relocate to it's vicinity. Does that mean undersea cities? Industrialized pacific islands? What if the center of the economy shifted out into the middle of the ocean? Bizarre to think about.
As an aside, the cable itself will weigh in at a stunning 750 tonnes.
Are you stunned it weighs so much or stunned it weighs so little? Newer SUVs almost weigh a ton, and if you stack 750 of them on top of each other you don't get anywhere near orbit.
The article notes that the consumer electronics market profit margin is around 1% and the online game profit margin is around 40%. That means to match the profit from 5 million in profit from online games, you have to sell 200 million in personal electronics, a month. 200 million in electronics sales in a month is a lot.
I was going to refute in detail, but it's not worth it. No judge would tolerate that. Our legal system is messed up but not *that* messed up.
Even assuming you are right, here's a short way out for Project G: change all texts slightly. Copyright changed texts as improvements. (There's prescedent for this - companies have changed and copyrighted logarithm tables with numerical inaccuracies in them.) When Mr. Ebook brings forward his case, say, "Woah, wait a minute. What are you doing with *our* copyrighted texts? You have no right to rebroadcast those, encrypted or no!"
Invented? I wanted an implementation, and I want it to fork if there are two different come-froms for the same label. I want to try it out, just for the hell of it. Doesn't even have to be a real language.
No, no. I've been moderated back down to 2. Obviously I'm wrong, or a troll, or overrated, or something like that. Obviously a spam law will cure a vast number of social ills. I am beginning to see, now, that making things that I dislike illegal is the solution to all of my... no, make that all of society's problems.
I hate shower-baths. I'd rather have a shower. Many people die in bathtubs. I'll call my congressman about making these menace-to-society shower-baths illegal.
I feel so much better now that I've seen the light.
1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is... *picks up phone, dials KGB* "Hello? Yes, I need you to go out and burn all of the addresses down that have a 9 in them. Yes. Thanks.", 11 is prime, 13 is prime...
5 years later...
Teacher: "And thus, clearly, all odd numbers are prime."
Student: "What about 9?"
Teacher: "Have you seen a 9 anywhere?"
Student: "Er, no."
Teacher: "Then all odd numbers are prime. Let's continue..."
When I was young, I always wondered if the "constants" of the universe might vary across space and time. Turns out I was right, at least in some limited way.
Let me dig into my past a little more and see if I came up with any other brilliant publishable ideas. Let's see. Monsters under bed. Think Nature would take that one? Mom and Dad are Gods. That's some hardcore theology there. I was a walking intellectual rebellion.
Learn what the words "Odds are" when used together preceeding a fact. And stop throwing off shitty weak one line arguments just because I trampled your sacred cow.
So you think that if someone accidently sends a hundred emails with an ad attached that they should be labeled a criminal. That they are a threat to our society. That they deserve to go to jail.
Name-calling aside, there are "technical" solutions to rape, assault, theft, but all these are illegal, too.
Welcome to non-sequitor land. What are your technical solutions?
If I throw a brick for fun, and it hits someone in the head, I'm liable. Why wouldn't an accidental spammer be, too?
You hit someone in the head with a brick, that's thousands of dollars of doctor bills. You send 100 emails with commerical stuff attached, and you cost your ISP about a quarter. (note that the 100 emails would be completely legal minus the commercial stuff.) Prosecuting me for this is like being sued for breaking a diner coffee cup. We don't need a new law for this when existing contract law and mail filtration systems do just fine.
you are promoting lawlessness and vigilantism. Are you a libertarian?
Nope. I find labels an excuse to stop thinking, and I disagree with Libertarians on many issues.
I hate new laws. All of them. Look at the anti-racketeering laws passed to fight the mob. Next thing you know these Asset Forfiture laws are used to seize all of the possessions of people (any people, not mobsters!) who are merely just accused of a crime. Disgusting.
Pass an anti-spam law, and next thing you know the bizarrest things will be prosecuted with it. Imagine this scenario. Small protest group uses an ad-based email list-server. Somebody writes a manifesto for the group, and since it was sent out on the list-server it gets an ad attached. Someone else, we'll call him John, likes the manifesto and remails it to his large email list of people, accidently leaving the ad attached. Bam. John is a criminal. He has mass distributed a commercial advertisement without meeting the requirements of the spam law, and now is eligible for $100 per mail or 2 years in jail.
They might not be able to bust the protesters for being unamerican but they can bust them for stuff like this!
You people are hypocrites of the highest order. You bitch about the laws that the music industry seeks out to protect thier industry, and think absolutely nothing about demanding lots of laws from congress to protect the purity of your communication medium. Technical solutions! Come up with technical solutions if you're so proud of your fucking Open Source Movement! We don't need to give the governments of the world another method to stick people in jail or levy massive fines at them!
Odds are, anybody who says, "There should be a law... " is a closet facist.
If it was old enough to use tape as primary storage, then yes, the old UNIX boxes could be that slow. I'd like to see some specs on the old boxes too, but if the old machine was "PDP-11 old" or close to it, consider this:
Imagine doing table joins swapping large tables in and out of 4 megabytes of memory - or less - and imagine grinding away on the 60 hz processor. The machines they are replacing are probably not that old, but could be close. Two orders of magnitude improvement isn't that hard to believe when you think about Moore's law.
Standard Browser Behavior is both braindead and oversimplified, and there's no way out without some level above pure HTML. Tab to switch between fields, and enter to submit? Braindead - some idiot making a graphical interface act like an ascii terminal they once used. Reorder a list online? Not without Javascript. Javascript may be evil, but pure HTML is useless. HTML form default behavior is somewhere between pitiful and stupid.
There's more to this web than the static content sources and slashdot. Some people try to do work out here - database front ends, project management tools, work tracking, and more. It's a lot easier to write real web tools when you can reprogram the occasional broken browser default behavior with some javascript.
Is Javascript the wrong tool for the job? Well, it's the only tool for the job if you want to stay with a out-of-the-box web browser.
IBM had lots of money before Linux entered the picture, and they could drop it now without seeing a blip on thier revenue stream. Get some hard numbers on how many Open Source programmers IBM has put to work or come up with a different company.
Re:Cool project resulting from a big problem?
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Sound good?
No. You're an idiot. Say the word "modular". Repeat it a couple times. Contemplate it. Then go beat your head against a wall.
Here's your chance to legally hack Microsoft and see if they're using your GPLed code.
Here's what I want to see happen:
Hackers hack Microsoft.
Hackers find GPL code in most versions of Windows.
In a death-defying hacker assault, hackers wipe every single line of code covered by the GPL license off the face of the planet.
Microsoft sues hackers.
Hackers argue that since the code has GPLed code, it's licensed under the GPL. Since there have been binaries distributed, Microsoft is legally obligated to distribute the source. Thus, since the source is legally required to be freely available, it has no resale value, is thus worth zero, and thus the hackers are protected because the amount of damage is less than 250$ dollars.
15MB of email storage, forwarding and POP/IMAP access: $40+
Home page creation and hosting: $60
Right. I get pretty much all this from Illuminati Online Here's the current deal:
Our SSH Internet Unix Shell Access package with one e-mail address, 50 MB of storage, anonymous FTP access, your own majordomo e-mail list server messaging group, and 24/7 support.
Having your own web page is a part of shell access, it seems (I have one). All this: 14 bucks a month. 14 bucks. What magic lets them offer most of what.mac will offer for a mere 14 bucks? Simple. They're not ripping you off.
Disclosure: I have no association with io.com except having been a customer for years.
Why should it take a hacker conference to get AT&T to put out such a warning?
There have been warnings about more general con-men around for years - even some of thier tricks are well known. There's always the classic movie, "The Sting". Many social engineering tricks rely on pressure and tricking the target when they're not really paying attention (conning register boys out of a five by doing an 'i need change' shell game) or using pressure tactics into forcing a bad decision.
Sometimes these warnings play right into the con men's hands! Pickpockets *love* signs that say "beware of the pickpocket", because everybody pats thier wallet to make sure it's still there. "Thanks for letting me know exactly where your wallet is, target.", thinks the pickpocket. A block away the target isn't thinking about pickpockets anymore - two blocks away and his wallet's gone.
Like, without this memo, maybe even with it, if you hacked the switchboard to the phone center and made it so 10 hackers could all call the same desk clerk at the same time, it would be easy to pull something on him. (If you know when the phones are undermanned or can dial directly to an extension, you don't even need to hack the switch.)
Have the other 9 callers put pressure on him with mundane but slightly time consuming requests. Almost everybody who works a phone these days has a lot of pressure on them to resolve each call quickly. When he's got half of the 9 on hold and is trying to get what they want, have the 10th call and play "I'm a manager and I need to know (trivial piece of information that's actually valuable to a hacker) now!" Time's ticking on the held calls. If he leaves them on hold it will show up on a report to his manager. If he doesn't help this guy he'll have another manager angry at him for different reasons.
And the 10th calling 'manager' isn't going to refuse any requests for information. No, of course not. He's just going to say, "I've got that info in my wallet - no not there, maybe in my briefcase, I'm looking.", thus stalling untill target phone rep folds like cardboard box. He breaks policy in an attempt to make everybody happy. But, hey, at least the hackers are happy. *grin*
Thinking about what's going on "Why are there 10 calls to my desk???" is near-proof against con men. They have a thousand tricks to keep you from having time to think.
Sounds like the Aurora Engine which they've been working on for, oh, 4 years, is going to see some good use. This sounds like Neverwinter Nights with many graphical upgrades and very few engine upgrades. (Seeing the word 'combat feat' is very much a tip off.)
Slashdot Mirror
any possibility of telnet or ssh (preferably the latter) on one of these things?
the traditional solution is for buisnesses that make use of the space elevator to relocate to it's vicinity. Does that mean undersea cities? Industrialized pacific islands? What if the center of the economy shifted out into the middle of the ocean? Bizarre to think about.
As an aside, the cable itself will weigh in at a stunning 750 tonnes.
Are you stunned it weighs so much or stunned it weighs so little? Newer SUVs almost weigh a ton, and if you stack 750 of them on top of each other you don't get anywhere near orbit.
The article notes that the consumer electronics market profit margin is around 1% and the online game profit margin is around 40%. That means to match the profit from 5 million in profit from online games, you have to sell 200 million in personal electronics, a month. 200 million in electronics sales in a month is a lot.
Even assuming you are right, here's a short way out for Project G: change all texts slightly. Copyright changed texts as improvements. (There's prescedent for this - companies have changed and copyrighted logarithm tables with numerical inaccuracies in them.) When Mr. Ebook brings forward his case, say, "Woah, wait a minute. What are you doing with *our* copyrighted texts? You have no right to rebroadcast those, encrypted or no!"
You are an idiot. Do you even have a pulse?
You can't take credit? Dammit. I want to mirror it for all time.
Invented? I wanted an implementation, and I want it to fork if there are two different come-froms for the same label. I want to try it out, just for the hell of it. Doesn't even have to be a real language.
No, no. I've been moderated back down to 2. Obviously I'm wrong, or a troll, or overrated, or something like that. Obviously a spam law will cure a vast number of social ills. I am beginning to see, now, that making things that I dislike illegal is the solution to all of my ... no, make that all of society's problems.
I hate shower-baths. I'd rather have a shower. Many people die in bathtubs. I'll call my congressman about making these menace-to-society shower-baths illegal.
I feel so much better now that I've seen the light.
1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is ... *picks up phone, dials KGB* "Hello? Yes, I need you to go out and burn all of the addresses down that have a 9 in them. Yes. Thanks.", 11 is prime, 13 is prime...
5 years later...
Teacher: "And thus, clearly, all odd numbers are prime."
Student: "What about 9?"
Teacher: "Have you seen a 9 anywhere?"
Student: "Er, no."
Teacher: "Then all odd numbers are prime. Let's continue..."
When I was young, I always wondered if the "constants" of the universe might vary across space and time. Turns out I was right, at least in some limited way.
Let me dig into my past a little more and see if I came up with any other brilliant publishable ideas. Let's see. Monsters under bed. Think Nature would take that one? Mom and Dad are Gods. That's some hardcore theology there. I was a walking intellectual rebellion.
Now email is on the verge of failure.
Welcome to the world of wild exaggeration! I'll be your host...
Learn what the words "Odds are" when used together preceeding a fact. And stop throwing off shitty weak one line arguments just because I trampled your sacred cow.
So you think that if someone accidently sends a hundred emails with an ad attached that they should be labeled a criminal. That they are a threat to our society. That they deserve to go to jail.
Name-calling aside, there are "technical" solutions to rape, assault, theft, but all these are illegal, too.
Welcome to non-sequitor land. What are your technical solutions?
If I throw a brick for fun, and it hits someone in the head, I'm liable. Why wouldn't an accidental spammer be, too?
You hit someone in the head with a brick, that's thousands of dollars of doctor bills. You send 100 emails with commerical stuff attached, and you cost your ISP about a quarter. (note that the 100 emails would be completely legal minus the commercial stuff.) Prosecuting me for this is like being sued for breaking a diner coffee cup. We don't need a new law for this when existing contract law and mail filtration systems do just fine.
you are promoting lawlessness and vigilantism. Are you a libertarian?
Nope. I find labels an excuse to stop thinking, and I disagree with Libertarians on many issues.
I hate new laws. All of them. Look at the anti-racketeering laws passed to fight the mob. Next thing you know these Asset Forfiture laws are used to seize all of the possessions of people (any people, not mobsters!) who are merely just accused of a crime. Disgusting.
Pass an anti-spam law, and next thing you know the bizarrest things will be prosecuted with it. Imagine this scenario. Small protest group uses an ad-based email list-server. Somebody writes a manifesto for the group, and since it was sent out on the list-server it gets an ad attached. Someone else, we'll call him John, likes the manifesto and remails it to his large email list of people, accidently leaving the ad attached. Bam. John is a criminal. He has mass distributed a commercial advertisement without meeting the requirements of the spam law, and now is eligible for $100 per mail or 2 years in jail. They might not be able to bust the protesters for being unamerican but they can bust them for stuff like this!
You people are hypocrites of the highest order. You bitch about the laws that the music industry seeks out to protect thier industry, and think absolutely nothing about demanding lots of laws from congress to protect the purity of your communication medium. Technical solutions! Come up with technical solutions if you're so proud of your fucking Open Source Movement! We don't need to give the governments of the world another method to stick people in jail or levy massive fines at them!
Odds are, anybody who says, "There should be a law ... " is a closet facist.
Dbit's PDP-11 simulator
Imagine doing table joins swapping large tables in and out of 4 megabytes of memory - or less - and imagine grinding away on the 60 hz processor. The machines they are replacing are probably not that old, but could be close. Two orders of magnitude improvement isn't that hard to believe when you think about Moore's law.
Standard Browser Behavior is both braindead and oversimplified, and there's no way out without some level above pure HTML. Tab to switch between fields, and enter to submit? Braindead - some idiot making a graphical interface act like an ascii terminal they once used. Reorder a list online? Not without Javascript. Javascript may be evil, but pure HTML is useless. HTML form default behavior is somewhere between pitiful and stupid.
There's more to this web than the static content sources and slashdot. Some people try to do work out here - database front ends, project management tools, work tracking, and more. It's a lot easier to write real web tools when you can reprogram the occasional broken browser default behavior with some javascript.
Is Javascript the wrong tool for the job? Well, it's the only tool for the job if you want to stay with a out-of-the-box web browser.
IBM had lots of money before Linux entered the picture, and they could drop it now without seeing a blip on thier revenue stream. Get some hard numbers on how many Open Source programmers IBM has put to work or come up with a different company.
Sound good?
No. You're an idiot. Say the word "modular". Repeat it a couple times. Contemplate it. Then go beat your head against a wall.
Educate him that there is a lot of money to be made from open source software.
Name the company that's making it.
Here's your chance to legally hack Microsoft and see if they're using your GPLed code.
Here's what I want to see happen:
Moo.
Right. I get pretty much all this from Illuminati Online Here's the current deal:
Our SSH Internet Unix Shell Access package with one e-mail address, 50 MB of storage, anonymous FTP access, your own majordomo e-mail list server messaging group, and 24/7 support.
Having your own web page is a part of shell access, it seems (I have one). All this: 14 bucks a month. 14 bucks. What magic lets them offer most of what .mac will offer for a mere 14 bucks? Simple. They're not ripping you off.
Disclosure: I have no association with io.com except having been a customer for years.
I don't know who neverwinternights.com is, but the offical page is actually:
nwn.bioware.com
Why should it take a hacker conference to get AT&T to put out such a warning?
There have been warnings about more general con-men around for years - even some of thier tricks are well known. There's always the classic movie, "The Sting". Many social engineering tricks rely on pressure and tricking the target when they're not really paying attention (conning register boys out of a five by doing an 'i need change' shell game) or using pressure tactics into forcing a bad decision.
Sometimes these warnings play right into the con men's hands! Pickpockets *love* signs that say "beware of the pickpocket", because everybody pats thier wallet to make sure it's still there. "Thanks for letting me know exactly where your wallet is, target.", thinks the pickpocket. A block away the target isn't thinking about pickpockets anymore - two blocks away and his wallet's gone.
Like, without this memo, maybe even with it, if you hacked the switchboard to the phone center and made it so 10 hackers could all call the same desk clerk at the same time, it would be easy to pull something on him. (If you know when the phones are undermanned or can dial directly to an extension, you don't even need to hack the switch.)
Have the other 9 callers put pressure on him with mundane but slightly time consuming requests. Almost everybody who works a phone these days has a lot of pressure on them to resolve each call quickly. When he's got half of the 9 on hold and is trying to get what they want, have the 10th call and play "I'm a manager and I need to know (trivial piece of information that's actually valuable to a hacker) now!" Time's ticking on the held calls. If he leaves them on hold it will show up on a report to his manager. If he doesn't help this guy he'll have another manager angry at him for different reasons.
And the 10th calling 'manager' isn't going to refuse any requests for information. No, of course not. He's just going to say, "I've got that info in my wallet - no not there, maybe in my briefcase, I'm looking.", thus stalling untill target phone rep folds like cardboard box. He breaks policy in an attempt to make everybody happy. But, hey, at least the hackers are happy. *grin*
Thinking about what's going on "Why are there 10 calls to my desk???" is near-proof against con men. They have a thousand tricks to keep you from having time to think.
Sounds like the Aurora Engine which they've been working on for, oh, 4 years, is going to see some good use. This sounds like Neverwinter Nights with many graphical upgrades and very few engine upgrades. (Seeing the word 'combat feat' is very much a tip off.)