Corporations want to take before they give. That's the sad truth. If there's no extra profit in it for them, they're less likely to do it.
Articles like this one are going to have to be published in places like the Wall Street Journal or other papers that corporate paperpushers look at. Then perhaps they'll catch on. Hopefully.
Good karma is sometimes worth a lot more than immediate profit -- if a company pitches in to help, and gets their name in the changelog or thankyou files, who knows? They might get a few customers that way.
This happened. Seriously, if you haven't seen this film, you should -- the acting is not superb (though there's one Rant scene that's hilarious), and it addresses exactly the problem you're thinking of. And it was written and made 8-10 years ago before this issue became as much of a hot topic as it is now.
A company wants to keep a medical treatment (a cure for cancer, or similar) secret from the public so it can charge a lot of money for it. The company has to send the cure to a subsidiary/affiliate, so it decides to do so by having a courier take it, so hackers can't get at it by intercepting the data. The courier realizes what the secret is when he gets a look at the "diplomatic pouch", as it were, has to decide what to do with it.
If you were in this situation (forgetting for the moment the fact that it's illegal to crack the encryption on the data, DMCA, blah blah) would you release it because the Almighty God of Profit should not stand in the way of the public's needs? Would you hand it over as you were contractually obligated to do, stay silent, and condemn the unprivileged to death? Does the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
Before you click the link... can you identify the movie?
It wasn't remotely guided. It was sent in the direction it needed to go, and it had controls that automatically counteracted wind. When it had travelled for about the required distance, it simply ran out of fuel and crashed.
I just bought a TiVo (take that, SCO!) or I'd be tempted. But as I've said elsewhere in this thread, I'm waiting for the next one -- if I don't like it or the only change is bigger drives I'll get a refurbed of the current model. It took me forever to fill 5 gigs. It'll take me forever to fill another 5.
But at least with the New Beetle, you don't have to worry too much about a redesigned model coming out right after you buy one! (The New Beetle is likely to stay on the Golf IV platform for quite some time and I doubt it will see more than minor makeoveres -- yep, I'm a dubber!)
I too want a new iPod -- my original 5-gig is out of room -- but I'm waiting for the new model, whatever it is, to show up. I hope it still has the red buttons -- the red does match VW dash lighting perfectly. It's one of my favorite features of my Golf.
This is all "after rebate", almost (and the items that aren't are too expensive for me right now, so I'll pass.)
Rebates are a sham. I never factor in post-rebate prices -- I once got a check back from a rebate and my bank refused it, claiming it wasn't a real check. What a joke.
The last time I checked, being a user of an ISP or the company that carries the packets means you're a customer of that ISP/provider... your money is used to pay for their services.
That glitch isn't present in all the routers, and I think a firmware patch got rid of it. I checked to make sure my MR314 didn't need an update. It doesn't, but I think it's successor (the MR814) does.
Aside from a glitch in which all connections die if you try to DCC someone a file over an IRC link to port 6667, I'm happy with it. I only use one IRC server, however, with maybe two dozen regulars, and upon confirming the glitch (another user, an Australian with a Netgear wired-only router, was able to confirm my findings) I asked the server admin to add support for port 7000. One server recompile later, I was back in business after setting my client to use that port.
(I still don't know why he had to recompile the server just to add listening to an additional port...)
I use Mozilla. Which can have an adblocker built into it turned on, or off. Or an add-on could be installed that does it for me. There's no way for the site to tell if I'm doing this. I may be using a browser that can support adblocking out of the box, but I may not be using it. Or I may be using a browser that doesn't support it, yet I've got a thirdparty adblocker running.
All the site can really see is the user-agent string.
You might want to take a look at astronautix.com's Apollo pages -- they've got some info on some weird variants! Like an anti-satellite (and legless) interceptor version of the lunar module. I don't think any of these ever went past the design idea stage, but it's interesting to read anyway.
The "Soviet weapons platform" in Space Cowboys looks like it's about the right size for a Saturn V third stage, actually, now that you mention it.
I've seen that link before -- the only version intended for personal computers that I can see costs about $33, which isn't free -- where's the freeware version? I'm not saying that charging for it is necessarily bad, but I must be missing something; please point to the free version...
My comment was based on accounts of some parts of the plans showing up in garages, etc., of family relations of former von Braun team members...
Though your comment brings up an interesting fact -- there was one episode of Star Trek which actually uses the Saturn V as an intercontinental ballistic missile. The episode, Assignment: Earth, contains spliced-in footage from the launch of the very first Saturn V, the Apollo 4 systems verificaation test. (The episode was aired in early 1968, before Apollo 8's launch in December of that year which was the first manned use of the Saturn V rocket.) Views on film in this episode include the dramatic launch from several different engineering cameras (take a good look at the markings on the rocket -- they're not the same as the ones on the manned launches), along with the separation of the interstage ring from the second stage (with the S-1C stage visible way off in the distance.)
The irony of this situation is that the Saturn V was part of the first family of manned space launchers that was not developed from military rockets -- the Space Shuttle being only a partial exception as its design was heavily influenced by Air Force requirements -- and it may very well be that the public's first widespread view of it, on national television some nine months before Apollo 8's Christmastime flight, was as a supposed launcher for orbital hydrogen bombs! And they would have been gigantic bombs -- the Saturn 5's two-stage LEO-only variant, which didn't actually fly until 1973, placed the Skylab station into orbit. I can't imagine the V would have been required -- something little like an Atlas could have done the trick. But it wasn't as dramatic for TV purposes as Apollo 4 was...
I want one, but I still need to clean out my workspace I'm planning to set up in the basement and clear out my kit backlog a bit. I'll probably try to pick up one of the Revell 1/96 Saturn 5 kits, though, and some accurization parts for it.
The tooling has been destroyed, the blueprints are long since lost, and most of the original designers are long since retired or dead. The best we can do is to design a new rocket in the same class. It's a real shame -- I've seen all three of the surviving Saturn Vs, and the fiberglass replica in Huntsville (the only vertical Saturn 5 display anywhere) and I'd love to see one flying... but I was born a couple decades too late.
The launch pads themselves survive... they're still in use today as the Space Shuttle launch pads. But the gigantic red towers that rode on the crawler beside the Saturn are long since cut to scrap, although a few remnants can be seen near the Kennedy Space Center.
I did exactly that, and I have used it for that function a fair bit, although in the end with the boss I've got it's just as easy to wait for files to ooze over the 10mbps half-duplex network we've got. *sigh* He won't even upgrade to OS X because it's "too different"... I installed Panther for him and the getting-started guide scared him off. Hrmph.
Oh well. He's already getting left behind by new software (he can't use Acrobat 6, and he won't be able to use the new Photoshop software that's on the way) so eventually he'll have to upgrade if he wants new stuff.
I did not deauthorize -- it isn't necessary. ITMS authorizes off the logic board (which knows the system's serial number) so once ITMS finds out whether the number is on the authorization list, it automagically changes the menu item to say "Deauthorize Computer" where I didn't do a thing to authorize in the first place, post-clean-install, because it isn't necessary.
Dell's system is a joke. Why does everyone have to reinvent the wheel when it's already turning nicely? Crossplatform, no less.
... it would have provided a constant view of Earth from space. While it was poohed by many as a propaganda excercise, it could have served to raise awareness of environmental and science issues in a way that weather satellite images don't.
I'd love to have a device like this on the plasma TV I want to get some years from now, constantly showing an out-the-window video feed of the Earth from the ISS. I'll never go to space in my lifetime, but I can at least have an imaginary window on the heavens.
It would not be that hard to set up a server that would update the image every so often, and then set up a cronjob or equivalent software to retrieve the new image every X seconds, and put it up on the screen.
The dog tags are cool. I was hoping they'd sell t-shirts like they did at the iPod II release party (I got the last one in my size, hah). Hmm, bet I could get one on ebay... but it's getting cold, and I just bought longsleeve shirts on ThinkGeek instead.
No drugs, but I got a pair of dogtags. And a gash in my finger when the staple holding the bag shut dug into it when I opened the bag. Ow.
I'd received Panther by mail earlier in the day and went to the party anyway. The store staff clapped as everyone walked in -- just like they did for the grand opening. They're starting to remember me there.;)
And it's ridiculous to expect me to change my working-well setup just for one head-up-ass ISP. So I'm not gonna do it just because one person can't be bothered to use a better service. At least the person seems to be intelligent enough thus far to realize this.
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Corporations want to take before they give. That's the sad truth. If there's no extra profit in it for them, they're less likely to do it.
Articles like this one are going to have to be published in places like the Wall Street Journal or other papers that corporate paperpushers look at. Then perhaps they'll catch on. Hopefully.
Good karma is sometimes worth a lot more than immediate profit -- if a company pitches in to help, and gets their name in the changelog or thankyou files, who knows? They might get a few customers that way.
This happened. Seriously, if you haven't seen this film, you should -- the acting is not superb (though there's one Rant scene that's hilarious), and it addresses exactly the problem you're thinking of. And it was written and made 8-10 years ago before this issue became as much of a hot topic as it is now.
... can you identify the movie?
A company wants to keep a medical treatment (a cure for cancer, or similar) secret from the public so it can charge a lot of money for it. The company has to send the cure to a subsidiary/affiliate, so it decides to do so by having a courier take it, so hackers can't get at it by intercepting the data. The courier realizes what the secret is when he gets a look at the "diplomatic pouch", as it were, has to decide what to do with it.
If you were in this situation (forgetting for the moment the fact that it's illegal to crack the encryption on the data, DMCA, blah blah) would you release it because the Almighty God of Profit should not stand in the way of the public's needs? Would you hand it over as you were contractually obligated to do, stay silent, and condemn the unprivileged to death? Does the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
Before you click the link
It wasn't remotely guided. It was sent in the direction it needed to go, and it had controls that automatically counteracted wind. When it had travelled for about the required distance, it simply ran out of fuel and crashed.
I just bought a TiVo (take that, SCO!) or I'd be tempted. But as I've said elsewhere in this thread, I'm waiting for the next one -- if I don't like it or the only change is bigger drives I'll get a refurbed of the current model. It took me forever to fill 5 gigs. It'll take me forever to fill another 5.
But at least with the New Beetle, you don't have to worry too much about a redesigned model coming out right after you buy one! (The New Beetle is likely to stay on the Golf IV platform for quite some time and I doubt it will see more than minor makeoveres -- yep, I'm a dubber!)
I too want a new iPod -- my original 5-gig is out of room -- but I'm waiting for the new model, whatever it is, to show up. I hope it still has the red buttons -- the red does match VW dash lighting perfectly. It's one of my favorite features of my Golf.
Hey, I liked that! Creative. And it was Tennyson. I love Tennyson! This post is pointless except to say "That was cool!". :)
This is all "after rebate", almost (and the items that aren't are too expensive for me right now, so I'll pass.)
Rebates are a sham. I never factor in post-rebate prices -- I once got a check back from a rebate and my bank refused it, claiming it wasn't a real check. What a joke.
This isn't anything to write home about.
The last time I checked, being a user of an ISP or the company that carries the packets means you're a customer of that ISP/provider ... your money is used to pay for their services.
That glitch isn't present in all the routers, and I think a firmware patch got rid of it. I checked to make sure my MR314 didn't need an update. It doesn't, but I think it's successor (the MR814) does.
Aside from a glitch in which all connections die if you try to DCC someone a file over an IRC link to port 6667, I'm happy with it. I only use one IRC server, however, with maybe two dozen regulars, and upon confirming the glitch (another user, an Australian with a Netgear wired-only router, was able to confirm my findings) I asked the server admin to add support for port 7000. One server recompile later, I was back in business after setting my client to use that port.
(I still don't know why he had to recompile the server just to add listening to an additional port...)
I use Mozilla. Which can have an adblocker built into it turned on, or off. Or an add-on could be installed that does it for me. There's no way for the site to tell if I'm doing this. I may be using a browser that can support adblocking out of the box, but I may not be using it. Or I may be using a browser that doesn't support it, yet I've got a thirdparty adblocker running.
All the site can really see is the user-agent string.
Blocking this way isn't viable.
You might want to take a look at astronautix.com's Apollo pages -- they've got some info on some weird variants! Like an anti-satellite (and legless) interceptor version of the lunar module. I don't think any of these ever went past the design idea stage, but it's interesting to read anyway.
The "Soviet weapons platform" in Space Cowboys looks like it's about the right size for a Saturn V third stage, actually, now that you mention it.
*holds up OS X*
Runs Photoshop nicely, too.
I've seen that link before -- the only version intended for personal computers that I can see costs about $33, which isn't free -- where's the freeware version? I'm not saying that charging for it is necessarily bad, but I must be missing something; please point to the free version...
My comment was based on accounts of some parts of the plans showing up in garages, etc., of family relations of former von Braun team members...
Though your comment brings up an interesting fact -- there was one episode of Star Trek which actually uses the Saturn V as an intercontinental ballistic missile. The episode, Assignment: Earth, contains spliced-in footage from the launch of the very first Saturn V, the Apollo 4 systems verificaation test. (The episode was aired in early 1968, before Apollo 8's launch in December of that year which was the first manned use of the Saturn V rocket.) Views on film in this episode include the dramatic launch from several different engineering cameras (take a good look at the markings on the rocket -- they're not the same as the ones on the manned launches), along with the separation of the interstage ring from the second stage (with the S-1C stage visible way off in the distance.)
The irony of this situation is that the Saturn V was part of the first family of manned space launchers that was not developed from military rockets -- the Space Shuttle being only a partial exception as its design was heavily influenced by Air Force requirements -- and it may very well be that the public's first widespread view of it, on national television some nine months before Apollo 8's Christmastime flight, was as a supposed launcher for orbital hydrogen bombs! And they would have been gigantic bombs -- the Saturn 5's two-stage LEO-only variant, which didn't actually fly until 1973, placed the Skylab station into orbit. I can't imagine the V would have been required -- something little like an Atlas could have done the trick. But it wasn't as dramatic for TV purposes as Apollo 4 was...
I want one, but I still need to clean out my workspace I'm planning to set up in the basement and clear out my kit backlog a bit. I'll probably try to pick up one of the Revell 1/96 Saturn 5 kits, though, and some accurization parts for it.
But on the Rutherford hand ... the atom model on the Greek 10-drachma piece was rather spiffy lookin'.
The tooling has been destroyed, the blueprints are long since lost, and most of the original designers are long since retired or dead. The best we can do is to design a new rocket in the same class. It's a real shame -- I've seen all three of the surviving Saturn Vs, and the fiberglass replica in Huntsville (the only vertical Saturn 5 display anywhere) and I'd love to see one flying ... but I was born a couple decades too late.
... they're still in use today as the Space Shuttle launch pads. But the gigantic red towers that rode on the crawler beside the Saturn are long since cut to scrap, although a few remnants can be seen near the Kennedy Space Center.
The launch pads themselves survive
That rocket was just made for me ... ;)
The funny thing is, he actually DOES drive like a maniac. Whodathunkit?
:p
Then again, he's a professor. I think that's all the explanation there is.
I did exactly that, and I have used it for that function a fair bit, although in the end with the boss I've got it's just as easy to wait for files to ooze over the 10mbps half-duplex network we've got. *sigh* He won't even upgrade to OS X because it's "too different"... I installed Panther for him and the getting-started guide scared him off. Hrmph.
Oh well. He's already getting left behind by new software (he can't use Acrobat 6, and he won't be able to use the new Photoshop software that's on the way) so eventually he'll have to upgrade if he wants new stuff.
I did not deauthorize -- it isn't necessary. ITMS authorizes off the logic board (which knows the system's serial number) so once ITMS finds out whether the number is on the authorization list, it automagically changes the menu item to say "Deauthorize Computer" where I didn't do a thing to authorize in the first place, post-clean-install, because it isn't necessary.
Dell's system is a joke. Why does everyone have to reinvent the wheel when it's already turning nicely? Crossplatform, no less.
... it would have provided a constant view of Earth from space. While it was poohed by many as a propaganda excercise, it could have served to raise awareness of environmental and science issues in a way that weather satellite images don't.
I'd love to have a device like this on the plasma TV I want to get some years from now, constantly showing an out-the-window video feed of the Earth from the ISS. I'll never go to space in my lifetime, but I can at least have an imaginary window on the heavens.
It would not be that hard to set up a server that would update the image every so often, and then set up a cronjob or equivalent software to retrieve the new image every X seconds, and put it up on the screen.
The dog tags are cool. I was hoping they'd sell t-shirts like they did at the iPod II release party (I got the last one in my size, hah). Hmm, bet I could get one on ebay... but it's getting cold, and I just bought longsleeve shirts on ThinkGeek instead.
No drugs, but I got a pair of dogtags. And a gash in my finger when the staple holding the bag shut dug into it when I opened the bag. Ow.
;)
I'd received Panther by mail earlier in the day and went to the party anyway. The store staff clapped as everyone walked in -- just like they did for the grand opening. They're starting to remember me there.
And it's ridiculous to expect me to change my working-well setup just for one head-up-ass ISP. So I'm not gonna do it just because one person can't be bothered to use a better service. At least the person seems to be intelligent enough thus far to realize this.