What's the deal with linking to slashdot in the article blurb? Isn't someone who is reading the article automatically already on slashdot (and most likely on the homepage, at least for today)?
MG: "What about the role of the Internet in hoaxes?"
DM: "I think in general, nothing's changed but the technology. There's a lot on the Internet that you can't trust. But frankly, there's a lot on your bookshelf and the library shelves that you can't trust either. There are books on UFOs and alien encounters that require some examination. There's never been a medium that you could inherently trust. You still have to look at who's telling you this and why are they telling you this. Is there anything else they should be telling you? That concept hasn't changed. The Internet has made it easier to debunk hoaxes while at the same time making it easier to perpetrate them. Nothing's really changed but the technology."
The only other thing he could have mentioned is that people trust TV news and newspapers way too much also. 'nuff said.
We're talking about IT Consulting here, not consulting in general or management consulting. IT Consultants are generally just programmers for hire that represent a label (The consulting company) and who come as part of a package deal as opposed to contractor programmers out on their own.
yes, but how many more serious issues can arise before ISPs and Universities decide to drop the service, which they provide for free for a small minority of their users. That's what the note is about.
Yes, but I'd bet that the vast majority of radio listeners are people in their cars. Some people listen at home, but more turn on the TV there. Some people listen at work, but it's not something that all jobs can allow.
Also, the rewind/pause feature may actually reduce distractions because people won't be so focused on not missing part of a news show or talk radio show if they know they can always rewind to hear something again or pause during a hectic moment.
"This year's challenge was to build soccer-playing robots. An unfortunate choice perhaps, given the possibility of confusion between RoboCon and RoboCup. The latter is another Japanese-inspired initiative, whose goal is also to build soccer-playing robots (Australasian, 30 August 1997). But there are clear differences between the two. RoboCon is based on mechanics, whereas RoboCup is more electrical, being mainly to do with communications and software. Also RoboCup robots are completely autonomous. (RoboCon robots) are remote controlled."
I've had my replaytv for almost 3 years and I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to instant-replay rewind the radio to hear something again. I doubt this'll be useful for prerecording shows (due to car battery drain of running all the time) but the live radio pause/rewind/ff features are mandatory. Plus, with only those features, there won't need to be a monthly fee, like Tivo Basic.
Either way, I'll better off than that stupid NSync guy who thought Pepsi was going to sponsor his $20 million ride on a Soyuz. If he's really a space fanatic, as he claims, he should have put the money up himself. (I'm sure he's got enough, with all the teenage girls who listen to that crap.)
...is that the wireless companies have been fighting number portability for years (it's still not required: after being passed into law 1996, the FCC has postponed implementation every year) and yet they claim them as part of their fees: Nextel, AT&T, etc
Hard Drives will never replace tapes for a couple of simple reasons:
Hard drives crash and die. tapes do not (they die for other reasons, but not as readily.) regardless of raid or anything else, the fact that hard drives eventually fall off and die is problematic.
By the time hard drives are reliable enough, everything will be backed up in some new kind of storage anyway. magnetic media will be dead at that point.
Slashdot Mirror
What's the deal with linking to slashdot in the article blurb? Isn't someone who is reading the article automatically already on slashdot (and most likely on the homepage, at least for today)?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.... ...in other words you transfer hypertext files via this protocol...
from the interview:
MG: "What about the role of the Internet in hoaxes?"
DM: "I think in general, nothing's changed but the technology. There's a lot on the Internet that you can't trust. But frankly, there's a lot on your bookshelf and the library shelves that you can't trust either. There are books on UFOs and alien encounters that require some examination. There's never been a medium that you could inherently trust. You still have to look at who's telling you this and why are they telling you this. Is there anything else they should be telling you? That concept hasn't changed. The Internet has made it easier to debunk hoaxes while at the same time making it easier to perpetrate them. Nothing's really changed but the technology."
The only other thing he could have mentioned is that people trust TV news and newspapers way too much also. 'nuff said.
We're talking about IT Consulting here, not consulting in general or management consulting. IT Consultants are generally just programmers for hire that represent a label (The consulting company) and who come as part of a package deal as opposed to contractor programmers out on their own.
This is an interesting paper from Feb 2002 on which countries originate the most malicious attacks. (Russia doesn't even make the list)
Google cached HTML version of the paper.
the other archives
This article is about an older prototype that was flown 2 years ago.
In 2000, Arizona Democrats had the first online balloting in their primary. The link contains some analysis also.
yes, but how many more serious issues can arise before ISPs and Universities decide to drop the service, which they provide for free for a small minority of their users. That's what the note is about.
Yes, but I'd bet that the vast majority of radio listeners are people in their cars. Some people listen at home, but more turn on the TV there. Some people listen at work, but it's not something that all jobs can allow.
Also, the rewind/pause feature may actually reduce distractions because people won't be so focused on not missing part of a news show or talk radio show if they know they can always rewind to hear something again or pause during a hectic moment.
All of this is contributing, unfortunately, to the Death of IRC
From the official Undernet note in the link:
"At this point, the future of the Undernet and IRC remains uncertain."
from October 1996: Exobiology interview
On a related note: exobiology vs astrobiology? which do people prefer? (The definitions are in the links)
These guys are following a long tradition (in technology years) of soccer-playing robots.
From this article:
"This year's challenge was to build soccer-playing robots. An unfortunate choice perhaps, given the possibility of confusion between RoboCon and RoboCup. The latter is another Japanese-inspired initiative, whose goal is also to build soccer-playing robots (Australasian, 30 August 1997). But there are clear differences between the two. RoboCon is based on mechanics, whereas RoboCup is more electrical, being mainly to do with communications and software. Also RoboCup robots are completely autonomous. (RoboCon robots) are remote controlled."
It's about time they did this...
I've had my replaytv for almost 3 years and I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to instant-replay rewind the radio to hear something again. I doubt this'll be useful for prerecording shows (due to car battery drain of running all the time) but the live radio pause/rewind/ff features are mandatory. Plus, with only those features, there won't need to be a monthly fee, like Tivo Basic.
Futurama:
Professor: "I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all."
Fry: "Oh. What's it called now?"
Professor: "Urectum."
Warren Ellis Kicks Self out of WARREN ELLIS FORUM
Futurama
From this link:
"Barton's moment in the sun, up until late last year, was his advocacy of the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)."
So, apparently, this guy's not all bad...(although, apparently, that was politically motivated as well...)
Nanotechnology -- Good or Evil?
Here's a copy of the picture, since the site is slashdotted
It's about time they released these DVDS....
I'm surprised they took so long, considering DVDs are such a huge percent of the total revenue movies make for a studio.
The guy in the article should join the Space Entrepreneurship Network.
Maybe I should too...
Either way, I'll better off than that stupid NSync guy who thought Pepsi was going to sponsor his $20 million ride on a Soyuz. If he's really a space fanatic, as he claims, he should have put the money up himself. (I'm sure he's got enough, with all the teenage girls who listen to that crap.)
...is that the wireless companies have been fighting number portability for years (it's still not required: after being passed into law 1996, the FCC has postponed implementation every year) and yet they claim them as part of their fees: Nextel, AT&T, etc