Ummmmmmmm, yeah. I think of Holland and the first I think of is rampant poverty.
This particular Tatra is an ex-factory show car, super luxury executive model intended for someone with a professional driver that came "standard" wired for ethernet in the back seat.
The Miata is such a cheap little bugger you don't even get a back seat or a roof, let alone ethernet and WiFi.
. . . and the 5-digit player list isn't copyrightable, as it could be easily randomly generated.
Which would still result in a circumvention device. Successfully generating an account password by random generation and then using that password is still an illegal computer entry.
It has nothing to do with whether the password is under copyright protection or not.
Copyright protection only means you couldn't publish that password.
Well to be fair it is called science fiction for a reason. Science is the intended focus. If you don't like that, well don't read it. You'll get no guff from me.
Your friends who condemn Bradbury are twits though. "The Veldt," for instance, is pure science fiction. It is also a masterpiece as a short story.
I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for in a story though. You want it to be about people, not gadgets, but don't want romance, fantasy, politics or religion. I'm not really sure what's left and certainly Bradbury violates all of the above.
I would have thought Ender's Game would be a perfect story for you.
Thus I'm a bit reluctant to make any suggestions. Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossed is a wonderful story, well told, devoid of gadgets. ..but full of humanist philosophy.
Well, so is Shakespeare and Melville. Swift's Gulliver's Travels would be right out.
How about Ellison's early New Wave stuff, like The Deathbird Stories?
Or maybe just pick up some John Irving.
Really, I'm clueless as to what you're looking for.
Does the spyware associated with Morpheus, when installed in Windows, use these programs I have not intentionallly installed myself to go looking for a Linux partition?
They're getting to be clever bastards then, but even in that case it leaves them with trying to figure out what's important personal information and what isn't, since Linux systems aren't quite as standardized as a Windows box. For instance, my address book file is named Thomas.Selfridge. It would be a clever bit of software that figured that out, let alone that and the format I keep the file in as well.
I really don't see a future when spyware assumes a Linux partition must be around somewhere when it's installed in Windows.
Let me know when I can write and play decent games, use cubase and make a living from writing code under Linux and I'll take another look at tedious hard disk issues.
Especially since the current administration is setting precedents that American citizens can be prosecuted under American law when they return to an American jurisdiction for legal acts performed while in another country.
Yes, I know, they're doing it "for the children," but it's still a disquiting state of affairs. There's nothing to prevent them, once the principle is accepted, from extending this to press drug charges against some guy who smoked a joint while he was in Holland.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Following this sentence is the definition of what "the people" considered to be a more perfect union in order to secure the blessings of liberty.
Innate in that definition is that "the people" found pure democracy to be an abhorent tyrany to be avoided.
So I'm afraid I cannot refrain from bothering you with the weight of the states and representative republicanism.
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Ummmmmmmm, yeah. I think of Holland and the first I think of is rampant poverty.
This particular Tatra is an ex-factory show car, super luxury executive model intended for someone with a professional driver that came "standard" wired for ethernet in the back seat.
The Miata is such a cheap little bugger you don't even get a back seat or a roof, let alone ethernet and WiFi.
KFG
You do know that T613 has engine in the back, right?
If he's American it seems likely he's never even heard of Tatra before, let alone know where the engine is.
Having heard of Ledwinka is right out, even though he's without question one of the most brilliant automotive designers in history.
The article mentions the influence of Tatra on the VW, but rip all the plastic off the latest Corvette and what do you find?
Yep, that's right. Ledwinka's backbone chassis.
KFG
It is just like Bob putting a big block in his pinto.
Oh, yeah, sure. When you put it in that light it all makes perfect sense.
KFG
No, not actually, but it's a popular urban myth.
Just like Coke the actual flavorings are a trade secret.
KFG
. . .Dr. Pepper was not prescribed and tastes nothing like pepper!
Yeah, well, would you buy "Dr. Prune"?
KFG
. . .Lycoris would look like cheap Windows knockoffs to the uninitiated.
Yes, that's true of course, but it's a cheap Windows knockoff you can buy at Wal-Mart, so it picks up that imprimatur to make up for it.
KFG
But it is a toy OS. All I use it for is to run some toys. :)
KFG
So I suppose my Chunk-O-Chevy Leaf Spring that I took a grinder to would be right for you, eh?
KFG
It reminds me of the old Saturday Night Live fake ad:
"A watch so sophisticated it takes three hands to use it."
Of course I also remember their ad for the triple bladed razor:
"The first blade pulls it out, the second blade pulls it out further, the third blade rips it right out of your face.
Three blades. Why? Because you'll believe anything!"
It seems they were right.
KFG
I don't see my old Radio Shak Color Computer II
.
Well of course not. That's just obsolete mainstream kit.
On the other hand I've got a Color Micro sitting right here. .
I fire up Breakout now and again just for old time's sake.
KFG
Comment is funny, but insightful. Spend your money wisely people.
Amongst those devices that I hope will be on the list of forgotten electronics of the 20's is the internet aware toaster.
If we're really lucky people will forget about that one before it happens, but I'm not holding my breath.
KFG
. . . and the 5-digit player list isn't copyrightable, as it could be easily randomly generated.
Which would still result in a circumvention device. Successfully generating an account password by random generation and then using that password is still an illegal computer entry.
It has nothing to do with whether the password is under copyright protection or not.
Copyright protection only means you couldn't publish that password.
KFG
That's actually not a simple question which reading the article would fully resolve.
What it means is that the DVD CCA acknowledges that the keys and algorithm of CSS are no longer secret and thus have no protection under law as such.
In effect it means that said keys and algorithm can be published under certain circumstances without risk of action.
But that isn't exactly the same thing as saying that DeCSS is legal in the US.
KFG
Well to be fair it is called science fiction for a reason. Science is the intended focus. If you don't like that, well don't read it. You'll get no guff from me.
.but full of humanist philosophy.
Your friends who condemn Bradbury are twits though. "The Veldt," for instance, is pure science fiction. It is also a masterpiece as a short story.
I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for in a story though. You want it to be about people, not gadgets, but don't want romance, fantasy, politics or religion. I'm not really sure what's left and certainly Bradbury violates all of the above.
I would have thought Ender's Game would be a perfect story for you.
Thus I'm a bit reluctant to make any suggestions. Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossed is a wonderful story, well told, devoid of gadgets. .
Well, so is Shakespeare and Melville. Swift's Gulliver's Travels would be right out.
How about Ellison's early New Wave stuff, like The Deathbird Stories?
Or maybe just pick up some John Irving.
Really, I'm clueless as to what you're looking for.
KFG
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Oh great. So now dyslexia is an illegal circumvention tool.
I suppose the feds are going to show up at any minute to impound my central nervous system.
KFG
...and therefore beyond critisism.
:)
I never so much as implied any such thing. Any criticism in my post was directed at you.
And a few points are downrigth undemocratic.
And God bless the authors for at least some of those points.
KFG
. . . based on a conventional Ryan M-2.
Which was designed by Mr. Ryan himself. I know.
My statement stands.
KFG
Does the spyware associated with Morpheus, when installed in Windows, use these programs I have not intentionallly installed myself to go looking for a Linux partition?
They're getting to be clever bastards then, but even in that case it leaves them with trying to figure out what's important personal information and what isn't, since Linux systems aren't quite as standardized as a Windows box. For instance, my address book file is named Thomas.Selfridge. It would be a clever bit of software that figured that out, let alone that and the format I keep the file in as well.
I really don't see a future when spyware assumes a Linux partition must be around somewhere when it's installed in Windows.
KFG
Why the hell would I want to do all of that when my original post advocated using Windows?
KFG
Let me know when I can write and play decent games, use cubase and make a living from writing code under Linux and I'll take another look at tedious hard disk issues.
Whoooooooooooooosh!
KFG
Especially since the current administration is setting precedents that American citizens can be prosecuted under American law when they return to an American jurisdiction for legal acts performed while in another country.
Yes, I know, they're doing it "for the children," but it's still a disquiting state of affairs. There's nothing to prevent them, once the principle is accepted, from extending this to press drug charges against some guy who smoked a joint while he was in Holland.
KFG
Have ya ever noticed that Windows can't see your Linux partitions?
KFG
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Following this sentence is the definition of what "the people" considered to be a more perfect union in order to secure the blessings of liberty.
Innate in that definition is that "the people" found pure democracy to be an abhorent tyrany to be avoided.
So I'm afraid I cannot refrain from bothering you with the weight of the states and representative republicanism.
It's Constitutional.
KFG
Society at large is not defined by public school attendence.
Nor does eschewing the public school system in any way dictate anything to society.
KFG
What an incredibly peculiar notion.
KFG