Friend, for half a second there I thought you were going to be one of those 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' jackasses, but then I read on and discovered that you actually understand: What one man can create, another man can hack in a fraction of the time, and some bored teenager somewhere in the world will crack it in about three days and spread the hack all over the Internet by the end of the week.
Also, SCREW YOU Obama Administation, for your big fat 'Fuck You' to the American public and their civil rights and constitutional rights.
There would have to be massive infrastructure, of course, to support a colony that size, and as someone else pointed out, we're not going to up-and-move 1,000,000 people to Mars, even if the infrastructure magically appeared out of thin air.
Honestly, I'm a big fan of the idea of starting with the Moon. Build a colony there. Most of the bugs can be worked out that way, relatively close to Earth, where people can be reasonably rescued if things go horribly wrong. Once we have a million people in permanent settlement on the Moon, then we could realistically think about having a million people living on Mars.
Listen, asshole: If we find ourselves living in a world where bullshit like that can happen, then we ALL have worse problems than insurance companies wanting to put tracking devices on our cars, we'll be living in a world that would make George Orwell get shocked into catatonia. There are plenty of intelligent, responsible people like myself that will prevent such a world from becoming a reality.. and it starts with saying HELL, NO! to shit like this.
..and for the record: I haven't had a moving violation or an accident of any sort in more than 10 years, so all you haters can suck it.
"Show us your papers, citizen!" That's what that 'police chief' sounds like.
What is 'freedom of speech', Alex?
..yes, I know, Britain is not the U.S., but here we have yet again some yahoo public official that thinks they should be able to dictate to the rest of the world how the Internet is operated.
It wasn't an all-in-one-minus-monitor design like a C64 or C128, it was an S100/IEEE696-bus system, but Morrow Designs produced a Z80 processor board that had memory management hardware on it for more than 64K of system memory. Of course there was no operating system that supported it, so it wasn't very useful. Personally, I wrote a RAMdisk driver around it that worked in CP/M 2.2, and had a 128kB RAMdrive.
Sounds to me more like your 'things' own you, instead of you owning them -- or should I look at it as corporations owning us?
To be blunt about it: Fuck that shit. It's already bad enough that for too many people, their 'phone' is more like a 'lifestyle' instead of just being a communications tool; is it serving them, or are they serving it? Will so-called self-driving cars (something else I have less than zero interest in having anything to do with) be a tool for us to use? Or will it be just another way to control us? When every goddamned thing in your house, right down to your lightbulbs and your toilet, are connected to the Internet, is it really your home anymore, or is it a prison, and all these things are just there to facilitate the monitoring of you by corporations and governments? For fuck's sake, you can't even ride your bike somewhere anymore without some corporation trying to convince you that you should take a GPS tracker with you, and voluntarily upload the tracking data to them (Strava).
No thanks. I don't live to serve things, it's the other way around.
You sound like a flaming asshole, and finance companies that pull shit like this are likewise flaming assholes and should be prosecuted for any harm that comes to any person because of this practice. Do you work for these finance companies? You sure sound like it to me. Oh and by the way I'm not one of those people who run out on their debts, I pay all mine, so don't you even dare come at me with that. Get correct, mister.
What Bizzarro version of Earth are you living in that Monsanto is not a bunch of evil assholes destroying the biosphere of the planet in the name of profit? Do you work for them or something?
Five bucks says that before the end of the month, Monsantos' legal department sends them a cease-and-desist order and claims prior art on their accomplishment.
Regardless of what anyone 'agreed' to 50-odd years ago, that's what's going to happen in the next 50-odd years, and it looks like China and Russia are going to be competing to see which one breaks the seal first. If the U.S. wants in on the party, we'd better get off our increasingly large asses and get moving.
We're all different. For people like me (who are fortunate enough to have sufficient cash to pay for the privilege), design is as important as function. Good design sells stuff.
For 'some people' there's a phrase to describe what you're talking about, by the way: 'Conspicuous consumption', or more rudely put, 'F.U. money'.:-)
I can think of two 'applications' that will appeal to the Internets, at least: 1. Longcat is LONG! (scanner data follows) 2. I am not a manlet, and I can prove it! (scanner data follows)
I've never seen a camera of any sort (2D or 3D) that didn't have it's style completely and utterly cramped by a small piece of humble black electrical tape, judiciously applied.
That's how I'd rate the difficulty level of breaking any DRM or 'copy protection' (if there can be such a thing anymore) on something as simple as an audio file. Is Bono thinking of running for public office? Based on his apparent complete lack of understanding of technology I'd say he sounds just like your average politician. Any 'copy protection' scheme or DRM that a company spends millions developing will be broken by some anonymous bored teenage kid in Asia somewhere in a week or less, no problem, and in general distribution around the world a day after that. Even closing the 'analog hole' isn't going to help: It takes a minimal amount of electronics knowledge and skill to work around that as well, even if it were necessary. People like Bono and companies like Apple and Sony and the record labels need to just accept that they're wasting their time and money on things like this (which consequently ends up with higher prices for their 'products', in my opinion just encourages more piracy anyway) and accept that there is going to be a certain amount of digital piracy, just like there used to be people sharing 'mix tapes' and later 'mix CDs'.
The sad fact is they'll do anything to protect their bottom line, so they'll just pass the extra cost on to their customers, who in many cases will not have any choice but to pay more for whatever they're getting. Then the corps will blame the government for it's 'corruption' as the reason their prices are so much higher now, and lobby for 'reform'. Or somesuch scenario.
Wasn't there a news story some time ago that said research was done that shows that children a certain age or younger should not play 3D games because it screws up the development of their brain? Also mod Oculus Rift CEO down for being as biased as they come.
That is not how this would fail. How it will fail is a very simple principle:
Anything that one man can make, another can hack
Granted, it'll be like having an alarm on your home or car: It'll cause the casual criminal to move on to an easier target, but the skilled and/or determined criminal will not be deterred by it at all.
If you combine the populations of India and China, isn't it something like seven times the population of the United States? Yet, we're having more of an effect on their culture than they are having on us. What does that tell you, friend?
I'm no astrophysicist or aeronautical engineer, but it seems to me that at least 99.9% of any space vehicle's journey to any other planet in our star system is going to be uneventful and easy to manage; it's the end of the journey that's going to pose possible difficulties. The paper ball you toss at the trash can flies through the air uneventfully -- but whether or not you get it in the can, have it bounce off the rim, or miss the can entirely at the end of it's flight is something else entirely.
Not that I'm trash-talking Indian engineering or scientific ability. I work with enough Indian engineers to know better than that. Now if they could just learn to solder worth a damn. XD
How the hell should I know? There's a reason it's called science fantasy after all. How do you generate a coherent graviton beam? What's the operating principles of a Heisenberg Compensator?
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Friend, for half a second there I thought you were going to be one of those 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' jackasses, but then I read on and discovered that you actually understand: What one man can create, another man can hack in a fraction of the time, and some bored teenager somewhere in the world will crack it in about three days and spread the hack all over the Internet by the end of the week.
Also, SCREW YOU Obama Administation, for your big fat 'Fuck You' to the American public and their civil rights and constitutional rights.
Party on, AvitarX.
There would have to be massive infrastructure, of course, to support a colony that size, and as someone else pointed out, we're not going to up-and-move 1,000,000 people to Mars, even if the infrastructure magically appeared out of thin air.
Honestly, I'm a big fan of the idea of starting with the Moon. Build a colony there. Most of the bugs can be worked out that way, relatively close to Earth, where people can be reasonably rescued if things go horribly wrong. Once we have a million people in permanent settlement on the Moon, then we could realistically think about having a million people living on Mars.
Listen, asshole: If we find ourselves living in a world where bullshit like that can happen, then we ALL have worse problems than insurance companies wanting to put tracking devices on our cars, we'll be living in a world that would make George Orwell get shocked into catatonia. There are plenty of intelligent, responsible people like myself that will prevent such a world from becoming a reality.. and it starts with saying HELL, NO! to shit like this.
..and for the record: I haven't had a moving violation or an accident of any sort in more than 10 years, so all you haters can suck it.
That's what that 'police chief' sounds like.
What is 'freedom of speech', Alex?
..yes, I know, Britain is not the U.S., but here we have yet again some yahoo public official that thinks they should be able to dictate to the rest of the world how the Internet is operated.
What about him? Do they find him to be too cold and unlikable as well?
..in-car devices that insurance companies use to monitor policyholders' driving
Over my dead body.
*find tiny cellphone antenna*
*SNIP*
It wasn't an all-in-one-minus-monitor design like a C64 or C128, it was an S100/IEEE696-bus system, but Morrow Designs produced a Z80 processor board that had memory management hardware on it for more than 64K of system memory. Of course there was no operating system that supported it, so it wasn't very useful. Personally, I wrote a RAMdisk driver around it that worked in CP/M 2.2, and had a 128kB RAMdrive.
Sounds to me more like your 'things' own you, instead of you owning them -- or should I look at it as corporations owning us?
To be blunt about it: Fuck that shit. It's already bad enough that for too many people, their 'phone' is more like a 'lifestyle' instead of just being a communications tool; is it serving them, or are they serving it? Will so-called self-driving cars (something else I have less than zero interest in having anything to do with) be a tool for us to use? Or will it be just another way to control us? When every goddamned thing in your house, right down to your lightbulbs and your toilet, are connected to the Internet, is it really your home anymore, or is it a prison, and all these things are just there to facilitate the monitoring of you by corporations and governments? For fuck's sake, you can't even ride your bike somewhere anymore without some corporation trying to convince you that you should take a GPS tracker with you, and voluntarily upload the tracking data to them (Strava).
No thanks. I don't live to serve things, it's the other way around.
You sound like a flaming asshole, and finance companies that pull shit like this are likewise flaming assholes and should be prosecuted for any harm that comes to any person because of this practice. Do you work for these finance companies? You sure sound like it to me. Oh and by the way I'm not one of those people who run out on their debts, I pay all mine, so don't you even dare come at me with that. Get correct, mister.
What Bizzarro version of Earth are you living in that Monsanto is not a bunch of evil assholes destroying the biosphere of the planet in the name of profit? Do you work for them or something?
Five bucks says that before the end of the month, Monsantos' legal department sends them a cease-and-desist order and claims prior art on their accomplishment.
Regardless of what anyone 'agreed' to 50-odd years ago, that's what's going to happen in the next 50-odd years, and it looks like China and Russia are going to be competing to see which one breaks the seal first. If the U.S. wants in on the party, we'd better get off our increasingly large asses and get moving.
We're all different. For people like me (who are fortunate enough to have sufficient cash to pay for the privilege), design is as important as function. Good design sells stuff.
For 'some people' there's a phrase to describe what you're talking about, by the way: 'Conspicuous consumption', or more rudely put, 'F.U. money'. :-)
No, it's just an idle thought I had, as I sat here drinking my coffee and waking up.
I can think of two 'applications' that will appeal to the Internets, at least:
1. Longcat is LONG! (scanner data follows)
2. I am not a manlet, and I can prove it! (scanner data follows)
I've never seen a camera of any sort (2D or 3D) that didn't have it's style completely and utterly cramped by a small piece of humble black electrical tape, judiciously applied.
Is it possible that Apple does things like this not so much to be unique and high-end, but to drive would-be competitors into bankruptcy?
That's how I'd rate the difficulty level of breaking any DRM or 'copy protection' (if there can be such a thing anymore) on something as simple as an audio file. Is Bono thinking of running for public office? Based on his apparent complete lack of understanding of technology I'd say he sounds just like your average politician. Any 'copy protection' scheme or DRM that a company spends millions developing will be broken by some anonymous bored teenage kid in Asia somewhere in a week or less, no problem, and in general distribution around the world a day after that. Even closing the 'analog hole' isn't going to help: It takes a minimal amount of electronics knowledge and skill to work around that as well, even if it were necessary. People like Bono and companies like Apple and Sony and the record labels need to just accept that they're wasting their time and money on things like this (which consequently ends up with higher prices for their 'products', in my opinion just encourages more piracy anyway) and accept that there is going to be a certain amount of digital piracy, just like there used to be people sharing 'mix tapes' and later 'mix CDs'.
I just have to say: I hope that every last single one of these motherfucking bastards is KILLED as soon as possible.
Explain, then. Why would any typical company or corporation lower it's prices and therefore it's profit margin if it isn't forced to?
The sad fact is they'll do anything to protect their bottom line, so they'll just pass the extra cost on to their customers, who in many cases will not have any choice but to pay more for whatever they're getting. Then the corps will blame the government for it's 'corruption' as the reason their prices are so much higher now, and lobby for 'reform'. Or somesuch scenario.
Wasn't there a news story some time ago that said research was done that shows that children a certain age or younger should not play 3D games because it screws up the development of their brain? Also mod Oculus Rift CEO down for being as biased as they come.
Anything that one man can make, another can hack
Granted, it'll be like having an alarm on your home or car: It'll cause the casual criminal to move on to an easier target, but the skilled and/or determined criminal will not be deterred by it at all.
If you combine the populations of India and China, isn't it something like seven times the population of the United States? Yet, we're having more of an effect on their culture than they are having on us. What does that tell you, friend?
I'm no astrophysicist or aeronautical engineer, but it seems to me that at least 99.9% of any space vehicle's journey to any other planet in our star system is going to be uneventful and easy to manage; it's the end of the journey that's going to pose possible difficulties. The paper ball you toss at the trash can flies through the air uneventfully -- but whether or not you get it in the can, have it bounce off the rim, or miss the can entirely at the end of it's flight is something else entirely.
Not that I'm trash-talking Indian engineering or scientific ability. I work with enough Indian engineers to know better than that. Now if they could just learn to solder worth a damn. XD
How the hell should I know? There's a reason it's called science fantasy after all. How do you generate a coherent graviton beam? What's the operating principles of a Heisenberg Compensator?