Don't you mean it's sad that MS bought Bungie? I know I do. I really hope MS gets broken up before Halo comes out. If it does then MS-App will have no reason to not release a Linux port, because they won't have any great interest in Window's survival.
I live in North Dakota, which is a pretty big farming state, so these "Terminator" crops are a pretty big deal. The trouble with them is that most farmers don't like the idea of having their crops producing sterile seeds. They made this known to Monsanto, and Monsanto had to back off from pushing this into farmers' faces because they simply wouldn't have been able to sell any seed.
Those lights bug me too, but I did something about it. I had a pack of black post-its which I cut up in to little sqare and stuck over all the LEDs on my computer, modem, etc. Problem solved.
I don't know of anyone who copies tapes anymore. About 25% of the people that I know have CD burners (including myself) and we just use CDRs when we copy music (with no degradation)
One of the things that I don't see mentioned alot is the fact that people don't like having all of their music on CDRs or in MP3s. They like to have the actual CD. When some new CD comes out we don't have one guy go to the store and get the CD and a box of CDRs, usually we just each get a legitimate copy.
If they actually start advertising to GPS equipped cell phone users why don't we
a) put something around the GPS antenna that would block the GPS signal, but not the telephone signal.
b) get some sort of device that transmits random noise on the frequencies that GPS uses, but only with enough power for it to effect our phone.
c) something else that could disable the GPS
This would have the effect of denying the advertisers knowlege of where you are so that the best the could do it feed you generic ads.
I can also see businesses jamming the GPS signal around their establishments to prevent customers from reciving ads from competitors.
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Don't forget the power that a GPS reciever will use from you cell phone's batteries. I can see haveing a GPS reciever in your cell phone cutting battery life by 25%.
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All the copies that are being published now have an essay written by Bradbury that refrences this. It's nice to hear what he has to say about the hipocracy of that misguided edition of his book.
The ads are part of Sherlock. Apple added them to appease the search engines after they raised a fuss about users using their service, but not seeing their ads.
The add is only present in the web search component. All of the others are addless.
Awhile back I was at a science museum (in Seattle I think) where they had a Sun workstaion that had a 3-d mouse and this pair of 3d glasses (I think they used polarized light or a LCD flashing on and off very quickly for each eye) It worked pretty well, except that it gave me a headache after awile.
Geez, Microsoft doesn't have the time or the will to keep their products backwards compatable with CP/M 86, errr DOS 1.0. They're keeping with the times, they only carry the burden of backwards compatability to DOS 3.3. I mean MS has got better things to do with it's time than make sure DOS 1.0 stuff works, they're busy adding the much needed Auto-remove-all-vowels-from-words-directally-follo wing-a-spelling-error feature in Word 201.
Natural selection as it has worked for the past 4 billion or so years has relied on closed isolated populations. As it stands now there will be no more species evolving out of Homo Sapiens because the population is way too large for any new species to get established.
A smart police state wouldn't make intelligent people disappear, it would just make them part of the ruling class. This would give them a smarter ruling class and a dumber (and more easily controlled) ruled class.
I noticed that the article also said that the UK is also going to implement some sort of key-escrow system so that you won't be able to just use PGP to get around it. Will it be illegal for any British Citizen to encrypt their email, even if the key originates outside of the UK? Will they be prohibited from using encryption if they can't deliver the secret keys of the other party?
The article said that the British would be required to register their keys with the British government. So if they come across a message they can't decrypt a message, they can probably be arrested on grounds that they are withholding their keys.
This is very disturbing, under no circumstances should political websites be blocked from anyone. Congress, however unlikely, should pass a law barring filters of any kind from blocking websites of a political nature. Compleate with big hefty fines for companies that produce such filters.
I see the need for blocking access to certian types of websites for very young children, but by the time they reach junior high (around 12-13 or so) they should be given access to compleatly unfiltered internet connections. Appropriate use polices and the like are fine, because unlike filters, they give the child some measure of freedom and give him/her responisibility to stay out of trouble themselves rather than throwing a big steel door in front of their faces.
What is considered entertainment depends on the person. There are many people who don't like movies that aren't dumbed down and lack happy endings, and the sad fact is that there are more people who like those kinds of movies than those who like more complex movies and will like an unhappy ending just as much as a happy one.
If Hollywood could choose between superior quality and superior profits, they'll take the profits.
a) There were no businesses other than those owned by the government. They didn't even need to try to convince you to buy stuff from them. You had to.
b) If they ever managed to have a telemarketing problem, they could have delt with it a bit more harshly than the US. For example if you made another unsolicited to some guy who told you he wanted to be put on your do not call list, they could have just sent you the the Gulag for a decade, problem solved.
I wouldn't want my TV to do anything like this automatically. I'd rather have say a small box with a modem that is compleatly independant of the TV set for when I don't want to be watched. I'd be more comfortable knowing that I can kill the power to the monitor without having to unplug my whole TV/ trust a message from Nielsen saying that it's off.
Also, why have a telephone modem? Why not just have a cable modem-like device, at least for cable users? It probably would be a whole lot simpiler that a full blown cable modem and would save you the hassel of having a phone jack next to your voting box.
There was something about using negtive energy to build wormholes/travel superluminally in Scientific American awile back. The thing was to get most of the stuff they were talking about to work, something on the order of 10,000 times the mass of the known universe would have to be converted into negitve energy.
The DMCA has already been adopted, we can't change that without getting Congress to repeal it, or getting the Supreme Court to declair it unconstitutional.
The best outcome that can come from these comments, I think, is that we can influence them into enforcing the law in a way that is more favorable to us.
I think that it would be nice if we could get all of the Libertarian organizations to lobby Congress to pass laws protecting people's rights, in the same way that the corperations do to protect their's (at our loss)
It would seem that you are reading in between the lines a little too much. Katz didn't say anything to the effect of "Only athiests that agree with me should be able to post on Slashdot"
Christans (especially the conservative variety) seem to be more apt to persicute and censor than other groups. How many times have you actually seen someone be discriminated against because they were a christian? I haven't, and there are many, many occurances of the opposite.
If it happens that Katz happens not to agree with the "Christian" view of things, what happens then? Everyone is entitled to their opinions, even you.
I think animal testing should be restricted only to things that are of an important life-saving nature or required for scientific progress.
Testing eyeliner on live rabbit eyes is of trivial benifit and should be stopped. If people want to have eyeliner that doesn't irritate their eyes, they can test it on themselves.
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Don't you mean it's sad that MS bought Bungie? I know I do. I really hope MS gets broken up before Halo comes out. If it does then MS-App will have no reason to not release a Linux port, because they won't have any great interest in Window's survival.
Don't about mutations in the data-storing chromosomes. If just a couple genes are changed, whoever recovers the data might not notice.
I live in North Dakota, which is a pretty big farming state, so these "Terminator" crops are a pretty big deal. The trouble with them is that most farmers don't like the idea of having their crops producing sterile seeds. They made this known to Monsanto, and Monsanto had to back off from pushing this into farmers' faces because they simply wouldn't have been able to sell any seed.
Those lights bug me too, but I did something about it. I had a pack of black post-its which I cut up in to little sqare and stuck over all the LEDs on my computer, modem, etc. Problem solved.
I don't know of anyone who copies tapes anymore. About 25% of the people that I know have CD burners (including myself) and we just use CDRs when we copy music (with no degradation)
One of the things that I don't see mentioned alot is the fact that people don't like having all of their music on CDRs or in MP3s. They like to have the actual CD. When some new CD comes out we don't have one guy go to the store and get the CD and a box of CDRs, usually we just each get a legitimate copy.
If they actually start advertising to GPS equipped cell phone users why don't we
a) put something around the GPS antenna that would block the GPS signal, but not the telephone signal.
b) get some sort of device that transmits random noise on the frequencies that GPS uses, but only with enough power for it to effect our phone.
c) something else that could disable the GPS
This would have the effect of denying the advertisers knowlege of where you are so that the best the could do it feed you generic ads.
I can also see businesses jamming the GPS signal around their establishments to prevent customers from reciving ads from competitors.
Don't forget the power that a GPS reciever will use from you cell phone's batteries. I can see haveing a GPS reciever in your cell phone cutting battery life by 25%.
All the copies that are being published now have an essay written by Bradbury that refrences this. It's nice to hear what he has to say about the hipocracy of that misguided edition of his book.
Yes I can imagine a a beowulf cluster of 6Mhz Z80 networked together through their 9600 bps serial ports. Two words comes to mind, *insanly fast*
The ads are part of Sherlock. Apple added them to appease the search engines after they raised a fuss about users using their service, but not seeing their ads.
The add is only present in the web search component. All of the others are addless.
Awhile back I was at a science museum (in Seattle I think) where they had a Sun workstaion that had a 3-d mouse and this pair of 3d glasses (I think they used polarized light or a LCD flashing on and off very quickly for each eye) It worked pretty well, except that it gave me a headache after awile.
Geez, Microsoft doesn't have the time or the will to keep their products backwards compatable with CP/M 86, errr DOS 1.0. They're keeping with the times, they only carry the burden of backwards compatability to DOS 3.3. I mean MS has got better things to do with it's time than make sure DOS 1.0 stuff works, they're busy adding the much needed Auto-remove-all-vowels-from-words-directally-follo wing-a-spelling-error feature in Word 201.
Natural selection as it has worked for the past 4 billion or so years has relied on closed isolated populations. As it stands now there will be no more species evolving out of Homo Sapiens because the population is way too large for any new species to get established.
A smart police state wouldn't make intelligent people disappear, it would just make them part of the ruling class. This would give them a smarter ruling class and a dumber (and more easily controlled) ruled class.
I noticed that the article also said that the UK is also going to implement some sort of key-escrow system so that you won't be able to just use PGP to get around it. Will it be illegal for any British Citizen to encrypt their email, even if the key originates outside of the UK? Will they be prohibited from using encryption if they can't deliver the secret keys of the other party?
The article said that the British would be required to register their keys with the British government. So if they come across a message they can't decrypt a message, they can probably be arrested on grounds that they are withholding their keys.
I see the need for blocking access to certian types of websites for very young children, but by the time they reach junior high (around 12-13 or so) they should be given access to compleatly unfiltered internet connections. Appropriate use polices and the like are fine, because unlike filters, they give the child some measure of freedom and give him/her responisibility to stay out of trouble themselves rather than throwing a big steel door in front of their faces.
That thing with the homing beacons/eavesdropping devices/heat seaking anti-Iraqi missles being hidden in thier printers is an urban legend.
What is considered entertainment depends on the person. There are many people who don't like movies that aren't dumbed down and lack happy endings, and the sad fact is that there are more people who like those kinds of movies than those who like more complex movies and will like an unhappy ending just as much as a happy one.
If Hollywood could choose between superior quality and superior profits, they'll take the profits.
a) There were no businesses other than those owned by the government. They didn't even need to try to convince you to buy stuff from them. You had to.
b) If they ever managed to have a telemarketing problem, they could have delt with it a bit more harshly than the US. For example if you made another unsolicited to some guy who told you he wanted to be put on your do not call list, they could have just sent you the the Gulag for a decade, problem solved.
I wouldn't want my TV to do anything like this automatically. I'd rather have say a small box with a modem that is compleatly independant of the TV set for when I don't want to be watched. I'd be more comfortable knowing that I can kill the power to the monitor without having to unplug my whole TV/ trust a message from Nielsen saying that it's off.
Also, why have a telephone modem? Why not just have a cable modem-like device, at least for cable users? It probably would be a whole lot simpiler that a full blown cable modem and would save you the hassel of having a phone jack next to your voting box.
There was something about using negtive energy to build wormholes/travel superluminally in Scientific American awile back. The thing was to get most of the stuff they were talking about to work, something on the order of 10,000 times the mass of the known universe would have to be converted into negitve energy.
The DMCA has already been adopted, we can't change that without getting Congress to repeal it, or getting the Supreme Court to declair it unconstitutional.
The best outcome that can come from these comments, I think, is that we can influence them into enforcing the law in a way that is more favorable to us.
I think that it would be nice if we could get all of the Libertarian organizations to lobby Congress to pass laws protecting people's rights, in the same way that the corperations do to protect their's (at our loss)
It would seem that you are reading in between the lines a little too much. Katz didn't say anything to the effect of "Only athiests that agree with me should be able to post on Slashdot"
Christans (especially the conservative variety) seem to be more apt to persicute and censor than other groups. How many times have you actually seen someone be discriminated against because they were a christian? I haven't, and there are many, many occurances of the opposite.
If it happens that Katz happens not to agree with the "Christian" view of things, what happens then? Everyone is entitled to their opinions, even you.
I think animal testing should be restricted only to things that are of an important life-saving nature or required for scientific progress.
Testing eyeliner on live rabbit eyes is of trivial benifit and should be stopped. If people want to have eyeliner that doesn't irritate their eyes, they can test it on themselves.