The Japanese researcher hopes that the resurrected mammoths will live in a sanctuary in an uninhabited area north of the remote, frozen Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, where present conditions resemble their original habitat.
I'll bet Russia could really use the eco-tourism money that this would generate. I wouldn't mind a vacation package to see these things up close.
It was already slashdotted so I haven't seen it. But it uses flash? Why did they say it was 'DHTML javascript'? I thought it was going to be more like this startrek game.
Consider the kind of information can they obtain using the paper they want you to sign. Does it allow them permission to see such detail that they can find out what you bought at the grocery last month? And how long are these disclosure agreements good for? If you sign now, can they still check your credit a year from now? Could someone there legally spy on you after you leave their employ just because he/she has the disclosure in hand? I think you are right to be very concerned. I hope you are in a financial position that you can make a stand for all of us.
Who has the money to contest these patents? They are like unconstitutional laws. They stay on the books and are enforced until someone with a lot of money spends years fighting all the way up to the Supreme Court.
That's pretty cool. I know it says the plant is indigenous to tropical Africa but I wonder if it could be raised under grow-lamps? Do you know whether it can be ordered from a nursery in the U.S.?
IIRC there was a Slashdot article (or a quickie) not long ago related to this. I think the password was actually a sequence of symbols which appeared on the screen and they had to be clicked on in the proper order and the order that they appeared in a grid with other abstract symbols would change at each login. Hope I explained that right.
I have also heard about a bio auth method that takes into account your typing rythym. As a simple example, if you type your password in to the beat of 'Shave and a haircut... two bits' it would only accept that valid password if it were typed with this rythym.
But since the timer resolution on a computer is so small it can detect minute differences between you and an imposter. A neural network can be trained to learn your pattern of typing. Each successful login becomes a sample in its training set. That way it learns your natural variations and you don't have to perform perfectly each time or risk being rejected. Again no expensive biometric hardware required.
This site provides a database of music and other audio works published under the terms of the Open Audio License. Artists may register their works for free, and music fans may browse the database for free.
Redistribution seems to be OK just by including the 'Open Audio statement'. About like including the GPL when you restribute source code.
Won't you please make an exception Adolph? I need to put together a presentation before Monday for some investors in Tokyo. I'll be in the air all day tomorrow and I don't think they have an internet connection even for us first class passengers. And if I don't have the answers before Monday then the IPO for shinymetalobjects.com might not happen. Plus the champagne mimosas they serve always make me so sleepy and there is the jetlag working against me too. So I need it done tonight. Why don't you want me to make any money, are you communist or something? I bet you just don't know the answers. You are probably sitting there in your grease-spotted underpants with your un-American finger up your nose plotting to overthrow our great democracy so you can take my hard earned wealth away and give it to a bunch of undeserving derelicts. You are no friend of mine, Sir, and if you ever have the audacity to show up at my gate I will have security meet you and escort you away before you even get halfway to the main house!
I just looked at IceCast homepage. It sounds like I will have to download and install a bunch of different libraries. Has anyone does this on Redhat 7.1? Does Redhat have precompiled packages available through up2date? How much hassle will this be? Would it be easier to use Redhat 8?
And what software would I need to record live audio and video so that customers could listen pre-recorded marketing pitches or employees at remote sites could watch company meetings at remote sites either live or pre-recorded. Do I need to use something else for this like Real's Helix project?
"While I accept that technically what is being scrutinized is heat from the surface of a home, it is impossible to ignore the fact that those surface emanations have a direct relationship to what is taking place inside the home," it said.
Finally a sensible opinion. But except for this last paragraph which seems to be from the opinion itself, the journalist writes as though the ruling only applies to IR radiation. If that is the case then I suspect that in the coming years the police and other agencies will pick this fight again and again at every other frequency band in the spectrum.
As the power and reach of the internet continue to grow, the illicit trading of perfect copies may well devastate the music, movie and publishing industries.
It may hurt todays music Publishers but not Music. In fact I think the quality and diversity of Music will explode once the chains that these middlemen have on it are broken. Excellent Music can be produced in a basement using equipment costing only a few thousand dollars by a hobbyist. Once again songs will be popular when they reflect the attitudes of the listeners rather than because they have been associated with crotch shots of a sexy blonde teenager in a multi-million dollar marketing and payola campaign.
However, to provide any incentive at all, more limited copyrights would have to be enforceable, and in the digital age this would mean giving content industries much of the legal backing which they are seeking for copy-protection technologies. Many cyber activists would loathe this idea. But if copyright is to continue to work at all, it is necessary. And in exchange for a vast expansion of the public domain, such a concession would clearly be in the interests of consumers.
If this were true then it wouldn't matter what the length of copyright terms are. The author implies that without Digital Restrictions Management everywhere the 'content industries' will not survive. I would ask him to explain who he groups into the 'content industries' because the artists will certainly not have a problem. Artists have been taken advantage of by the Music publishers for a long time. I would also ask him how long of a copyright term Shakespeare's works were published under or Mozart's. And since I already know the answer I would then ask why those men devoted their lives to their art. What incentive did they have?
At one time the Music publishers had a valuable role to play. They got rich and powerful. But like the buggy whip makers they need to diversify their revenue stream because what they used to do isn't in as much of a demand. Instead, like the Tobacco industry they want to continue to prosper with their old business model and they don't give a damn that it is to the Public's detriment.
to write a variant of this virus to propagate itself to all these servers, delete the bad virus, then after a few hours, download and install the security fix patch and delete itself?
Yes but if the "good" worm were traced back to you, you would still be prosecuted and portrayed in the press as an "evil hacker" who caused (insert any ludicrous monetary amount here) dollars of damage with your 'malicious denial of service attack'. But if you love Bill Gates so much that you would spend time in prison to cover his failures then give it a shot. Hint: a plastic comb can be melted into a very nice shiv, and if you get a job in the Laundry try to stay within screaming distance of a guard at all times.
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A company called Halcyon Software used to be developing a VB to java byte code compiler called VBix. I had a beta of it at one time and it worked under Linux with a few quirks in the GUI but only with a certain version of jdk, Blackdown 1.1.6 if I remember correctly.
Halcyon changed it evidently to a middleware which converts ASP to Java. I don't know why they dropped the VB compatible source compiler. I think it would have been a terrific product had they released it since all the VB coders would have been able to code on multiple platforms with no learning curve. It would have been a huge market for them too, so I would love to hear the real story behind their dropping it.
They have since merged with a company called Stryon if anyone wants to check it out.
Now let's say you are talking to someone for the very first time. Do you instantly recognize their voice? Of course not, you've never heard it before. Do you recognize it as a human voice? Yes you do, unless they've had a trachiotomy or something. The brain of course makes this determination and tells you that it's a person not a dog or a cat, etc..
That's not always true. For example, you can be out in the woods and hear a sound but can't tell if it's a Cougar or a human baby crying. Or when you hear the neighbor's dog and can't tell if it's barking or telling you to quit touching yourself and go punish someone.
There was very little useful information in the article you cited. Much was hidden by using phrases like 'had incomes above' and 'earned, on average, less than'. It was obviously from a very conservative paper and designed to prevent anyone from reverse calculating the important ratios.
What would be important would be the ratio of total compensation for the 45% of middle class working stiffs who pay almost as large an amount of total federal taxes compared to the total compensation of the 5% highest compensated.
In other words, if the 6.3 million people together collected 5.4 Trillion in total compensation and paid 54% of the taxes, but the 58 million people in the middle class who paid 42% of the taxes only earned 1.8 Trillion dollars collectively, then it would be obvious that those "middles" who earn more than $26,415 but less than $120,846 a year pay a much higher share.
Don't you believe that those who benefit most from this great society we live in should cover their share of its upkeep?
Now if we could just get an open-source Delphi-compliant compiler on Linux, I'd be happy.
Have you not heard of Kylix Open Edition? You can't be refusing to use it just because the compiler itself is not open source since you just said you use Delphi. Download it and give it a whirl. The new version lets you program in Object Pascal or C++.
Kylix 3 Open Edition free download
This brings to mind the experiments at slowing down light in a special supercooled gel
Don't be fooled by attention grabbing headlines. They didn't actually slow light down. You have to read the articles thoroughly to understand what they actually did because I don't remember it well enough to explain.
Does anyone remember the 'gravity shielding' story a while back, where a spinning superconductor was supposedly responsible for changes in weight?
The wealthy who currently pay a tiny percentage in taxes (or nothing, remember Leona Helmsley's quote 'Only little people pay taxes') would never let this happen. If it did miraculously happen there would be loopholes somewhere and us little people would only find out about them years later by which time even more loopholes would be snuck through Congress.
Bush says he wants to do away with Capital gains tax so there could be a flat income tax but someone with a million dollars invested could make plenty from growth stocks and pay zero. And then there are literally thousands of tax breaks to businesses to "encourage investment". The special interests that benefit from them would never ever let them be taken away. The tax preparation industry would be killed off by a flat tax, so it would also fight tooth and nail against a flat tax.
Getting to a truly fair flat-tax would be a chicken or egg problem. It could only be done if the whole system evolves toward it over a period of decades. I'm not against it. I'm just looking at it from a practical standpoint.
Yes. Tinfoil is made out of tin not aluminum. I guess you are hearing people call it that as a holdover from the old days.
But since aluminum can't be picked up by a magnet it can't be used to shield electomagnetic radiation. So tinfoil is the best, easily obtainable material that can be shaped into a mind control ray deflector hat.;^)
P.S. I seem to remember a tinfoil hat being used for this by some loon on an episode of Dragnet from the late 60's. Can anyone verify this?
A few months later, in a PHB-meeting: "Apparently there's an innovative language called 'Cowboyneal' that's been very popular.."
Yeh and 'Cowboyneal' would turn up on Monster next week since all the recruiters would start asking for it just to have resumes on hand. It would probably rank right between Dog# and C#.
It does seem that the main thrust of this presentation is to discourage the government from releasing software under the GPL where Microsoft may not simply cut and paste it. They aren't even advocating having the government contractors place the code they write in the public domain, so the alternative seems to be, as you say, that they will use their influence to have enhancements written for their products and contributed to them under a "shared-source" agreement. I think you hit the nail on the head here.
While releasing the code to the Public Domain or under BSD style license seems fair at first, I can forsee commercial vendors then using their influence to have government contractors write specific pieces of code, then create products or do MS style innovating based largely off of that code, and colluding with each other and government to make it difficult for others to obtain the source or even to find out about the existence of the source. Even now, who can point me to a web-site filled with government written Public domain code without first doing a search on google? The taxpayers who funded the creation of the code logically should own it and not be forced to pay for it yet again by a corrupt system. For that reason it seems to me that the GPL is the fairest choice for the government to release code under. Any commercial vendor with the desire would be able to study the GPL'd code and write their own copyrightable program using the taxpayers property as a model.
A virtual drill instructor embedded in your kevlar helmet:
Sgt. Bot: Private! My sensors tell me you just crapped all inside your BDU trousers! Your CO just ordered you to move forward and take that machine gun emplacement! So get moving you worthless pile of camel spit!! What kind of tea party playing, prissyboy, pantywaste are you anyway?! You want to stay here in this foxhole and play grabass with Private Wexler, don't ya?! I'll bet you didn't think I could tell every time your tiny little pencil dick gets hard! Did ya?! Now pick up that weapon and get your goat smellin' ass a' low crawling across that field, you low life maggot!!!
The police cannot reasonably be expected to avert their eyes from evidence of criminal activity that could have been observed by any member of the public.
The police are not averting their eyes here. They are going on missions to collect and search in minute detail specific persons refuse. 'Animals, children, scavengers, snoops and other members of the public' would not drive halfway across town to a specific residence. Nor would they send a bloody tampon to a laboratory for DNA and drug testing. Therefore the "evidence" could never have been observed by any member of the public under any real or imagined circumstances. Any reasonable judge would know that the ruling you cite has no bearing on an unwarranted search such as in the Hoesly case.
I see what you mean. And I know that can be done now because I have seen Javascript apps that copy files to a local drive to use as a permanent cache. The app must ask permission to write to the local filesystem first. There are also "evil skins" for Mozilla that can do things like that but I am not sure exactly what they are capable of. But making xpi files is easy from what I hear. Just write some javascript, zip it up, and set the extesion to.xpi.
There are certain things that you must be root to do and there just is no getting around it for security reasons, but if your app does not require the use of well known ports or write access to sensitive files or direct access to the kernel then there is nothing to stop you from installing under a user account.
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I'll bet Russia could really use the eco-tourism money that this would generate. I wouldn't mind a vacation package to see these things up close.
It was already slashdotted so I haven't seen it. But it uses flash? Why did they say it was 'DHTML javascript'? I thought it was going to be more like this startrek game.
Consider the kind of information can they obtain using the paper they want you to sign. Does it allow them permission to see such detail that they can find out what you bought at the grocery last month? And how long are these disclosure agreements good for? If you sign now, can they still check your credit a year from now? Could someone there legally spy on you after you leave their employ just because he/she has the disclosure in hand? I think you are right to be very concerned. I hope you are in a financial position that you can make a stand for all of us.
Who has the money to contest these patents? They are like unconstitutional laws. They stay on the books and are enforced until someone with a lot of money spends years fighting all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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Everything else seems right on except the used CD thing. The publishers want to shut those down too.
That's pretty cool. I know it says the plant is indigenous to tropical Africa but I wonder if it could be raised under grow-lamps? Do you know whether it can be ordered from a nursery in the U.S.?
IIRC there was a Slashdot article (or a quickie) not long ago related to this. I think the password was actually a sequence of symbols which appeared on the screen and they had to be clicked on in the proper order and the order that they appeared in a grid with other abstract symbols would change at each login. Hope I explained that right.
I have also heard about a bio auth method that takes into account your typing rythym. As a simple example, if you type your password in to the beat of 'Shave and a haircut... two bits' it would only accept that valid password if it were typed with this rythym.
But since the timer resolution on a computer is so small it can detect minute differences between you and an imposter. A neural network can be trained to learn your pattern of typing. Each successful login becomes a sample in its training set. That way it learns your natural variations and you don't have to perform perfectly each time or risk being rejected. Again no expensive biometric hardware required.
Redistribution seems to be OK just by including the 'Open Audio statement'. About like including the GPL when you restribute source code.
Respectfully,
Andrew Kaufman
I just looked at IceCast homepage. It sounds like I will have to download and install a bunch of different libraries. Has anyone does this on Redhat 7.1? Does Redhat have precompiled packages available through up2date? How much hassle will this be? Would it be easier to use Redhat 8?
And what software would I need to record live audio and video so that customers could listen pre-recorded marketing pitches or employees at remote sites could watch company meetings at remote sites either live or pre-recorded. Do I need to use something else for this like Real's Helix project?
Finally a sensible opinion. But except for this last paragraph which seems to be from the opinion itself, the journalist writes as though the ruling only applies to IR radiation. If that is the case then I suspect that in the coming years the police and other agencies will pick this fight again and again at every other frequency band in the spectrum.
As the power and reach of the internet continue to grow, the illicit trading of perfect copies may well devastate the music, movie and publishing industries.
It may hurt todays music Publishers but not Music. In fact I think the quality and diversity of Music will explode once the chains that these middlemen have on it are broken. Excellent Music can be produced in a basement using equipment costing only a few thousand dollars by a hobbyist. Once again songs will be popular when they reflect the attitudes of the listeners rather than because they have been associated with crotch shots of a sexy blonde teenager in a multi-million dollar marketing and payola campaign.
However, to provide any incentive at all, more limited copyrights would have to be enforceable, and in the digital age this would mean giving content industries much of the legal backing which they are seeking for copy-protection technologies. Many cyber activists would loathe this idea. But if copyright is to continue to work at all, it is necessary. And in exchange for a vast expansion of the public domain, such a concession would clearly be in the interests of consumers.
If this were true then it wouldn't matter what the length of copyright terms are. The author implies that without Digital Restrictions Management everywhere the 'content industries' will not survive. I would ask him to explain who he groups into the 'content industries' because the artists will certainly not have a problem. Artists have been taken advantage of by the Music publishers for a long time. I would also ask him how long of a copyright term Shakespeare's works were published under or Mozart's. And since I already know the answer I would then ask why those men devoted their lives to their art. What incentive did they have?
At one time the Music publishers had a valuable role to play. They got rich and powerful. But like the buggy whip makers they need to diversify their revenue stream because what they used to do isn't in as much of a demand. Instead, like the Tobacco industry they want to continue to prosper with their old business model and they don't give a damn that it is to the Public's detriment.
Yes but if the "good" worm were traced back to you, you would still be prosecuted and portrayed in the press as an "evil hacker" who caused (insert any ludicrous monetary amount here) dollars of damage with your 'malicious denial of service attack'. But if you love Bill Gates so much that you would spend time in prison to cover his failures then give it a shot. Hint: a plastic comb can be melted into a very nice shiv, and if you get a job in the Laundry try to stay within screaming distance of a guard at all times.
Halcyon changed it evidently to a middleware which converts ASP to Java. I don't know why they dropped the VB compatible source compiler. I think it would have been a terrific product had they released it since all the VB coders would have been able to code on multiple platforms with no learning curve. It would have been a huge market for them too, so I would love to hear the real story behind their dropping it.
They have since merged with a company called Stryon if anyone wants to check it out.
That's not always true. For example, you can be out in the woods and hear a sound but can't tell if it's a Cougar or a human baby crying. Or when you hear the neighbor's dog and can't tell if it's barking or telling you to quit touching yourself and go punish someone.
;^)
There was very little useful information in the article you cited. Much was hidden by using phrases like 'had incomes above' and 'earned, on average, less than'. It was obviously from a very conservative paper and designed to prevent anyone from reverse calculating the important ratios.
What would be important would be the ratio of total compensation for the 45% of middle class working stiffs who pay almost as large an amount of total federal taxes compared to the total compensation of the 5% highest compensated.
In other words, if the 6.3 million people together collected 5.4 Trillion in total compensation and paid 54% of the taxes, but the 58 million people in the middle class who paid 42% of the taxes only earned 1.8 Trillion dollars collectively, then it would be obvious that those "middles" who earn more than $26,415 but less than $120,846 a year pay a much higher share.
Don't you believe that those who benefit most from this great society we live in should cover their share of its upkeep?
Have you not heard of Kylix Open Edition? You can't be refusing to use it just because the compiler itself is not open source since you just said you use Delphi. Download it and give it a whirl. The new version lets you program in Object Pascal or C++.
Kylix 3 Open Edition free download
Don't be fooled by attention grabbing headlines. They didn't actually slow light down. You have to read the articles thoroughly to understand what they actually did because I don't remember it well enough to explain.
Does anyone remember the 'gravity shielding' story a while back, where a spinning superconductor was supposedly responsible for changes in weight?
Read this: Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity' As the artice says it is very contraversial.
Also, what about magnetic forces? How do those work, and at what speed do they 'travel' ?
Magnetism is coupled to the electrostatic force and electromagnetic waves including visible light travel at the speed of light.
The wealthy who currently pay a tiny percentage in taxes (or nothing, remember Leona Helmsley's quote 'Only little people pay taxes') would never let this happen. If it did miraculously happen there would be loopholes somewhere and us little people would only find out about them years later by which time even more loopholes would be snuck through Congress.
Bush says he wants to do away with Capital gains tax so there could be a flat income tax but someone with a million dollars invested could make plenty from growth stocks and pay zero. And then there are literally thousands of tax breaks to businesses to "encourage investment". The special interests that benefit from them would never ever let them be taken away. The tax preparation industry would be killed off by a flat tax, so it would also fight tooth and nail against a flat tax.
Getting to a truly fair flat-tax would be a chicken or egg problem. It could only be done if the whole system evolves toward it over a period of decades. I'm not against it. I'm just looking at it from a practical standpoint.
Yes. Tinfoil is made out of tin not aluminum. I guess you are hearing people call it that as a holdover from the old days.
;^)
But since aluminum can't be picked up by a magnet it can't be used to shield electomagnetic radiation. So tinfoil is the best, easily obtainable material that can be shaped into a mind control ray deflector hat.
P.S. I seem to remember a tinfoil hat being used for this by some loon on an episode of Dragnet from the late 60's. Can anyone verify this?
Yeh and 'Cowboyneal' would turn up on Monster next week since all the recruiters would start asking for it just to have resumes on hand. It would probably rank right between Dog# and C#.
It does seem that the main thrust of this presentation is to discourage the government from releasing software under the GPL where Microsoft may not simply cut and paste it. They aren't even advocating having the government contractors place the code they write in the public domain, so the alternative seems to be, as you say, that they will use their influence to have enhancements written for their products and contributed to them under a "shared-source" agreement. I think you hit the nail on the head here.
While releasing the code to the Public Domain or under BSD style license seems fair at first, I can forsee commercial vendors then using their influence to have government contractors write specific pieces of code, then create products or do MS style innovating based largely off of that code, and colluding with each other and government to make it difficult for others to obtain the source or even to find out about the existence of the source. Even now, who can point me to a web-site filled with government written Public domain code without first doing a search on google? The taxpayers who funded the creation of the code logically should own it and not be forced to pay for it yet again by a corrupt system. For that reason it seems to me that the GPL is the fairest choice for the government to release code under. Any commercial vendor with the desire would be able to study the GPL'd code and write their own copyrightable program using the taxpayers property as a model.
Sgt. Bot: Private! My sensors tell me you just crapped all inside your BDU trousers! Your CO just ordered you to move forward and take that machine gun emplacement! So get moving you worthless pile of camel spit!! What kind of tea party playing, prissyboy, pantywaste are you anyway?! You want to stay here in this foxhole and play grabass with Private Wexler, don't ya?! I'll bet you didn't think I could tell every time your tiny little pencil dick gets hard! Did ya?! Now pick up that weapon and get your goat smellin' ass a' low crawling across that field, you low life maggot!!!
The police are not averting their eyes here. They are going on missions to collect and search in minute detail specific persons refuse. 'Animals, children, scavengers, snoops and other members of the public' would not drive halfway across town to a specific residence. Nor would they send a bloody tampon to a laboratory for DNA and drug testing. Therefore the "evidence" could never have been observed by any member of the public under any real or imagined circumstances. Any reasonable judge would know that the ruling you cite has no bearing on an unwarranted search such as in the Hoesly case.
I see what you mean. And I know that can be done now because I have seen Javascript apps that copy files to a local drive to use as a permanent cache. The app must ask permission to write to the local filesystem first. There are also "evil skins" for Mozilla that can do things like that but I am not sure exactly what they are capable of. But making xpi files is easy from what I hear. Just write some javascript, zip it up, and set the extesion to .xpi.
There are certain things that you must be root to do and there just is no getting around it for security reasons, but if your app does not require the use of well known ports or write access to sensitive files or direct access to the kernel then there is nothing to stop you from installing under a user account.