Yup, I'm with you on this one. The mere existance of a key, the sharing of the key and then the subsequent movement or reproduction of the encrypted knowledge is all exploitable. Just watch any popular spy thriller where the leading security/scientist steals the data to save his hostaged wife/kids. The fact is, quantum encryption removes much of the key's weakness. Blame other security systems if physical security is weak.
Yeah, but little girls from Whoville keep getting stuck in them when the Grinch breaks into their secure boxing section - I've seen it on TV so it must be true!
DOOM shipped on diskette (~2.8Mb) but DOOM needed about 4.8mb of hard drive space, which is a fraction of the number of pixels on the cameras in the article. In fact the image size per frame will be bigger than the entire game. See this site for all your DOOM info needs.
http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/sect1.html
I know the rest of you will post the childish big put downs, like the fact you have to carry a laboratory everywhere with you, or wait for the first legal case over accidental removal of testes at the toilet or the wife jokes of "at last he can help with the washing up" so I will post the sobering comments that we all have to start somewhere.. and get 3 good punches in at the same time:-)
What's wrong with physical storage for say 200 years? Most data we save these days will be fine stored this way. The issue is what we choose to store just because we can which caused problems. The net is overflowing with the minutia of boring existances. What we really need is a data scythe to cut the rubbish out and then store it. The Victorian era handed down lots of books, magazines and pamphlets. Some of these are preserved and read by historians. In 150 years will we really care about the financial statements for Goldman-Sachs or want the blog of Paris Hilton? (No lewd comments, it was rhetoical).
Does it have Digital or DG written on it too? Happy days. From the time when a cluster was better than a cloud? When computers were "managed" by people who knew how they worked and who knew Netbios was for something only a friend would share (with another friend). If you wanted a file over a network you sent a request to the Operator for a kind lady to haul your disc pack to the big washing machine thingy and mount it for you. Promotion meant getting system privileges like clearing your own printer queue.
Goodbye PDP-11. Mourn not for AOS-VS II. Farewell DG/UX. No more CLI.
Welcome to the nouveau "geek" who needs to know why it's bad to have port 139 open but kicks ass in Gears 2.
To quote Ripley from "Aliens", "Did IQs suddenly drop while I was gone?"
"Piracy" essentially means armed robbery and murder on the high seas. The recent abuse of the term to refer to unauthorized duplication is idiotic.
Actually, this modern usage of the term "piracy" in relation to media probably stems from the 1970s pirate radio stations which broadcast alternative songs by radio from ships offshore in international waters just outside the legal limits of the country concerned. This allowed them to (a) broadcast what they liked and not what the media machines wanted and (b) to avoid certain "costs"...
Needless to say, the media machines got their way. Here is one of several sites that describe those halcyon days.
http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/
Email is a one way tranference of information. Communication is two way, needing a confirmatory "message heard and understood". We have become casual in assuming that text messaging, social application posting and email are part of global communication. It is not. It is like shouting from your front porch; you have to hope someone is listening and understands the message. Email has a role to play, just don't think it's communication.
This is why chat, IRC and Skpye all offer the immdediacy of knowing you're message is on target, even it is just a subtle joke. How often do those blow up in your face using email?
Cheers
Aparently 50 other countries wanted to supply crew for the re-enactment but the British and Dutch won out highlighting Darwin's law of national selection.
There is talk Beagle II may stop off in California to replace the first crew to prove the theory of survival of the hippest.
I can't keep this up - mod me to death, I deserve it.
I agree. Check out this background website which helps to show how the cycles are developing.
http://www.predictweather.co.nz/assets/articles/article_resources.php?id=89
I am sure counting sunspots was not as sophisticated in the 1700s but it was still straightforward so the science should be solid.
The risk is in drawing cause and effect conclusions. Our atmosphere gets a real bashing from the distortion to the Van Allen belt caused by solar emissions. Sound principals to show how this affects climate are more difficult to demonstrate.
Many of today's top models look like zombies.:-p
I have had many zombies on my unix systems and Wikipedia here shows how to kill them..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
Not as satisfying as Left 4 Dead, but it does the job.
And how many software writers for MP3 players, video players and graphic editors do the same thing when it comes to the long tick box of file extensions with most of them pre-ticked for you? At least with IE8 it's just one tick. I can think of a few software downloads that end up changing those familiar icons in Explorer to new programme icons.
It's no big deal - other than the Windows Updater always wanting to download the product which I haven't got on my system. Heck, what's the point of a monopoly if you don't use it?:-)
You just have to see how hopeless the great movie houses are when it comes to replicating the moon environment to know it was no hoax. With all the millions at their disposal just watch as TV churns through Moonshot and Apollo hysteria this week and get not even close to it. Plus the eyewitness testimony of thirty people, scientists among them not to mention the unique moonrock samples with mineral forms you don't get on earth, which I have personally seen under microscope.
It seems to be a condition of elements of the American public to disbelieve their own government, even when they acheive one of the greatest accomplishments of our or possibly any generation. The vision, tenacity and bravery of those people in your nation is something best not forgotten or questioned.
The human being has a built in risk management system. I wouldn't like the 5% failure to happen say at the train platform or near a road crossing. We take special care and do a lot of subconscious checking in more dangerous situations. True we are not foolproof, but we have a lifetime of reasoning to fall back on. The wheelchair system is a bit like a child. Kids need extra help in similar conditions becasue their peripheral vision is not great, their sense of risk and reasoning is still developing. I'm sure these wheelchair owners would be making the same calls about some overide intervention at high risk times.
Good idea though. I'd sure hate it if I were stuck in a wheelchair.
Spot on. Tuly remarkable. Just as impressive is tracking Pioneer 10; a 2.7m wide hunk of shiny metal over 100 AU from the sun. I want to be at the finish line at Aldebaran in 2 million years. At least the champers will be cold:-)
Of course, Voyager 1 is now all the go, because it is moving much faster than Pioneer 10, it is now the futherest man-made object at 108 AU. See here;
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Voyager_1
I wonder if people will remember Pioneer 10?
There is plenty software makers can do to make games more playable and enjoyable - start looking at the scripts, story play and character acting. The console gaming segment has made for fairly linear stories to get to check-points. Look, I'm not saying that the 80s games were terrific either with the "get object A and take to room B" gameplay, but there was only so much to stuff into 64Kb of memory. Some RPG open stories and environments, like Oblivion and Sacred show how characeters that want to explore and advance their character the way they want can do it. Far Cry 2 is a rare modern shooter that has the same concept.
I'm sure it is cheaper to explore this avenue and probably more succesful than to invest in working out how to get quad cores cranking. I'm still using DX9 and happy with it.
Now lets go get that Kilrathi scum, Paladin!
Regardless of Iran's internal political system and electoral fixing and judging it unworthy, we must look in our own back yard before hefting those bricks of implaccable disbelief. I recall an hung election not long back in the good old US of A. where thousands of poor and downtrodden were scrubbed off the electoral rolls with the click of a contractors keyboard. Then there were all those discrepencies in Florida, Fox declaring victory for Gore, only to be told "recant, recant". Just happened to be in a state run by the soon-to-be-president's brother. Perhaps these things are OK for mature countries in the land of the free.
Hmm.. I had better check my English Dictionary and see if there was another entry under "democracy" that I may have missed.
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Yup, I'm with you on this one. The mere existance of a key, the sharing of the key and then the subsequent movement or reproduction of the encrypted knowledge is all exploitable. Just watch any popular spy thriller where the leading security/scientist steals the data to save his hostaged wife/kids. The fact is, quantum encryption removes much of the key's weakness. Blame other security systems if physical security is weak.
Yeah, but little girls from Whoville keep getting stuck in them when the Grinch breaks into their secure boxing section - I've seen it on TV so it must be true!
DOOM shipped on diskette (~2.8Mb) but DOOM needed about 4.8mb of hard drive space, which is a fraction of the number of pixels on the cameras in the article. In fact the image size per frame will be bigger than the entire game. See this site for all your DOOM info needs. http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/doomfaq/sect1.html
I know the rest of you will post the childish big put downs, like the fact you have to carry a laboratory everywhere with you, or wait for the first legal case over accidental removal of testes at the toilet or the wife jokes of "at last he can help with the washing up" so I will post the sobering comments that we all have to start somewhere .. and get 3 good punches in at the same time :-)
What's wrong with physical storage for say 200 years? Most data we save these days will be fine stored this way. The issue is what we choose to store just because we can which caused problems. The net is overflowing with the minutia of boring existances. What we really need is a data scythe to cut the rubbish out and then store it. The Victorian era handed down lots of books, magazines and pamphlets. Some of these are preserved and read by historians. In 150 years will we really care about the financial statements for Goldman-Sachs or want the blog of Paris Hilton? (No lewd comments, it was rhetoical).
Does it have Digital or DG written on it too? Happy days. From the time when a cluster was better than a cloud? When computers were "managed" by people who knew how they worked and who knew Netbios was for something only a friend would share (with another friend). If you wanted a file over a network you sent a request to the Operator for a kind lady to haul your disc pack to the big washing machine thingy and mount it for you. Promotion meant getting system privileges like clearing your own printer queue. Goodbye PDP-11. Mourn not for AOS-VS II. Farewell DG/UX. No more CLI. Welcome to the nouveau "geek" who needs to know why it's bad to have port 139 open but kicks ass in Gears 2. To quote Ripley from "Aliens", "Did IQs suddenly drop while I was gone?"
"Piracy" essentially means armed robbery and murder on the high seas. The recent abuse of the term to refer to unauthorized duplication is idiotic.
Actually, this modern usage of the term "piracy" in relation to media probably stems from the 1970s pirate radio stations which broadcast alternative songs by radio from ships offshore in international waters just outside the legal limits of the country concerned. This allowed them to (a) broadcast what they liked and not what the media machines wanted and (b) to avoid certain "costs"... Needless to say, the media machines got their way. Here is one of several sites that describe those halcyon days. http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/
Email is a one way tranference of information. Communication is two way, needing a confirmatory "message heard and understood". We have become casual in assuming that text messaging, social application posting and email are part of global communication. It is not. It is like shouting from your front porch; you have to hope someone is listening and understands the message. Email has a role to play, just don't think it's communication. This is why chat, IRC and Skpye all offer the immdediacy of knowing you're message is on target, even it is just a subtle joke. How often do those blow up in your face using email? Cheers
Aparently 50 other countries wanted to supply crew for the re-enactment but the British and Dutch won out highlighting Darwin's law of national selection. There is talk Beagle II may stop off in California to replace the first crew to prove the theory of survival of the hippest. I can't keep this up - mod me to death, I deserve it.
Is there anybody else up there we could talk to?
Thanks. I haven't laughed so hard on /. for a good while.
Though with TCP/IP over power sockets now this solution could get even more suboptimal :-)
I agree. Check out this background website which helps to show how the cycles are developing. http://www.predictweather.co.nz/assets/articles/article_resources.php?id=89 I am sure counting sunspots was not as sophisticated in the 1700s but it was still straightforward so the science should be solid. The risk is in drawing cause and effect conclusions. Our atmosphere gets a real bashing from the distortion to the Van Allen belt caused by solar emissions. Sound principals to show how this affects climate are more difficult to demonstrate.
Many of today's top models look like zombies. :-p
I have had many zombies on my unix systems and Wikipedia here shows how to kill them..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_process
Not as satisfying as Left 4 Dead, but it does the job.
It missed Jupiter after all. :-)
Sex, sex, sex. That's all they think about! M.P.
And how many software writers for MP3 players, video players and graphic editors do the same thing when it comes to the long tick box of file extensions with most of them pre-ticked for you? At least with IE8 it's just one tick. I can think of a few software downloads that end up changing those familiar icons in Explorer to new programme icons. It's no big deal - other than the Windows Updater always wanting to download the product which I haven't got on my system. Heck, what's the point of a monopoly if you don't use it? :-)
Those muscle-bound flyboys are looking into though.. what a waste.
You just have to see how hopeless the great movie houses are when it comes to replicating the moon environment to know it was no hoax. With all the millions at their disposal just watch as TV churns through Moonshot and Apollo hysteria this week and get not even close to it. Plus the eyewitness testimony of thirty people, scientists among them not to mention the unique moonrock samples with mineral forms you don't get on earth, which I have personally seen under microscope. It seems to be a condition of elements of the American public to disbelieve their own government, even when they acheive one of the greatest accomplishments of our or possibly any generation. The vision, tenacity and bravery of those people in your nation is something best not forgotten or questioned.
The human being has a built in risk management system. I wouldn't like the 5% failure to happen say at the train platform or near a road crossing. We take special care and do a lot of subconscious checking in more dangerous situations. True we are not foolproof, but we have a lifetime of reasoning to fall back on. The wheelchair system is a bit like a child. Kids need extra help in similar conditions becasue their peripheral vision is not great, their sense of risk and reasoning is still developing. I'm sure these wheelchair owners would be making the same calls about some overide intervention at high risk times. Good idea though. I'd sure hate it if I were stuck in a wheelchair.
Spot on. Tuly remarkable. Just as impressive is tracking Pioneer 10; a 2.7m wide hunk of shiny metal over 100 AU from the sun. I want to be at the finish line at Aldebaran in 2 million years. At least the champers will be cold :-)
Of course, Voyager 1 is now all the go, because it is moving much faster than Pioneer 10, it is now the futherest man-made object at 108 AU. See here;
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Voyager_1
I wonder if people will remember Pioneer 10?
Because girls aren't easily turned on by nerdy scientists!
See Greg Laden's notes here. http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/06/lost_moon_tapes_found_in_perth.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink Because I'm from Perth this is old news. As Greg points out, the Daily Express may have some retracting to do.
There is plenty software makers can do to make games more playable and enjoyable - start looking at the scripts, story play and character acting. The console gaming segment has made for fairly linear stories to get to check-points. Look, I'm not saying that the 80s games were terrific either with the "get object A and take to room B" gameplay, but there was only so much to stuff into 64Kb of memory. Some RPG open stories and environments, like Oblivion and Sacred show how characeters that want to explore and advance their character the way they want can do it. Far Cry 2 is a rare modern shooter that has the same concept. I'm sure it is cheaper to explore this avenue and probably more succesful than to invest in working out how to get quad cores cranking. I'm still using DX9 and happy with it. Now lets go get that Kilrathi scum, Paladin!
Oh, grow up!
Regardless of Iran's internal political system and electoral fixing and judging it unworthy, we must look in our own back yard before hefting those bricks of implaccable disbelief. I recall an hung election not long back in the good old US of A. where thousands of poor and downtrodden were scrubbed off the electoral rolls with the click of a contractors keyboard. Then there were all those discrepencies in Florida, Fox declaring victory for Gore, only to be told "recant, recant". Just happened to be in a state run by the soon-to-be-president's brother. Perhaps these things are OK for mature countries in the land of the free. Hmm.. I had better check my English Dictionary and see if there was another entry under "democracy" that I may have missed.