Grub appears to have more cross-browser and cross platform (Google Toolbar only runs on Internet Explorer 5 for now.) Grub runs on Linux and windows, and since it isn't a browser plugin, doesn't require you to have a certain browser.
Would it increase your changes of getting cancer?
Shields that reduce gamma ray intensity by 50% include 1cm (0.4 inches) of lead, 6cm (2.4 inches) of concrete or 9cm (3.6 inches) of packed dirt.
On the good side, gamma radiation is only as harmful as x-ray or beta particles.
This NASA site however says that most gamma radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, which is why you need balloons or sattelites to really see gamma rays.
I have a erotic picture of myself when I was 15. I took this picture with a webcam for a girl I liked, it involves only me. That picture is technically child porn (though I'm unclear if it was illegal for me to view it then, and it is illegal for me to possess it now. That blows my mind.
My parents have a picture of me naked that clearly shows my genitals. Technically that could be child porn. I'm embarrased by the picture yes, but it should not be child porn.
even if you are totally against the possession (as opposed to creation) of child porn, shouldn't those pictured have a right to I don't know, sanction their own pictures?
Statutory rape bugs me for similar reasons. I'm sorry, but if they were abused, then prosecute them. But why is it illegal to have sex with a willing partner? Coercion is handled by sexual abuse and rape laws, so why criminalize a victimless crime?
It's then hypocrisy to say that two minors having sex aren't commiting a crime? Is one of the hidden powers of being an adult, along with voting and such, the ability to turn normal sex (between minors) to rape?
Basically I'm against victimless crimes. If something wrong happened, like coercion or abuse, then it's a crime already. Maybe I'll join that Free State Project>. I'm sick and tired of being told things that don't harm anybody should be criminal.
People forget that if the government got all the data they wanted, it would be way to massive to really analyze. The best they could do would be to, given a particular name, dig up information about that person. Most data about what people do would never ever ever be seen. Indeed even now there are backlogs in stuff like wire tap transcriptions. If every piece of data is being watched, humans can't possibly watch it all.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing. Certainly the governments ability to look intimate details up from my life scares me. I'm just saying that we need to worry less about people using general data to find criminals, and more about digging up info about us after some suspicion.
Still automated data miners, checking against a profile, will eventually be something to worry about. I'd watch for profiles for terrorists, then kiddie porn, then, once that is established, move on to other crimes.
Gryftir Logic tells us about a logical fallacy known as a false dichotomy, an either or that fails to take into account other options. "Your either with us, or against us."
On the other hand, console games are not intended to be installed like PC games are. I can understand if you could play console games using this feature, but most games intended for computers are not going to be made this way. How many people are going to join a coalition to build games that work with this if their anti-piracy methods have no effect?
the man from Microsoft suggests that longhorn will give users the ability to play games directly from the cd, without installation. Which is great in theory, but what does that mean? Either your loading the whole game into RAM, *shudder* or it will include a program to automatically install when you run the game, and uninstall the program when you finish. At least that's what I think, if somebody can think up other possibilities, I'm all ears.
First off, the segway was a typo. Actually I'm not sure you can call it a typo as I was actually unaware of how to spell the word.
About the cause of the boom, I'd have to say while it may have ended with such a rush, I think it began with people suddenly fired up with the idea computing and networking technology could be used by businesses in ways significantly different from traditional money making methods. I'd add that I make no comment on the truth of the idea. I'd also point out, that by my reckoning, most of those who made it through the boom never bought into the idea itself, but simply provided ways and means to those that did. Cisco routers could be seen as the miner's picks of the Internet Goldrush.
Cool quick fact. what do you define tech spending as? spent by who?
What will bring the next windfall will be a synergetic grouping of cost effective methods or products, with multiple applications, each resulting from a different source (corporation, university dept, etc.) It most likely won't be nanotech or biotech, considering the cost of development. I do know that it will seem obvious in hindsight.
You have to realize that the PC boom didn't segway immediately into the Internet boom. Nor was the period between the two a time of consolidation before change in focus. Indeed there was no directed change in focus at all, it was an organic market driven shifting toward e-tech.
The difference between the period of time between the PC boom and the Internet boom, was that the hardware of the PC boom was a springboard for the Internet boom.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with more then a handful of examples where new types of hardware was needed to drive the boom. Of course the increase in processor speeds, and other changes in the tech can't be dismissed out of hand, but these were incremental increases in technology, not true advances.
But with the five items mentioned in the article, with the exception of datamining, require great strides in research before they become truely feasible as the focus of a new boom. Nanotech is still five to ten years away before it's first truely practical uses, as even the most ardent proponent will admit when pressed.
These are hardware advances, and thus we face a slow march toward the next boom, waiting for advances in research and technology.
What's really juicy to me is the applications for nanotech, as mentioned in the article. I wonder if this kind of technology could be used to tranfer data to nanites. Now that *would* be a small hard drive.
In other news today, Microsoft has already announced an ultra realistic sim version of building your own submarine, which allows you to actually take your craft into the water and suffocate OR drown to death.
I don't need it, not even for games. Sure it will run faster, but do you seriously need that speed? I know I can find a better use for money. Or I could if I actually had some money.
Gryftir
About your OTOH... I hope we still have text records of the conversation. I find that it's a lot easier to remember what you typed then what you said. Perhaps convert it to text, and have each statement hyperlink to a copy of the sound? It's sad, but you can't really talk about keyboard layout on it's own.
And your right, a split space bar is better. You could even split and combine with a bar below to have four buttons.
I'd be interested in your ideas about gestural coding.
I'd point out that IRC program scripts can play shared music, providing the user sets permissions and has a copy of the music on their hard drive. Also, I'm pretty sure some IRC clients have visual components similar to winks. They also have no limit on number of rooms, and no DRM. In fact, with proper scripting (and scripts are downloadable) you can copy all of the functionality mentioned in the article. And they are truly cross platform.
On the other hand they have a server client setup, and this is P2P. I guess that makes it special.
While I think that three degrees seems in theory like a community building tool, what worries me is the limit to 10 participants in a "posse" will create in groups.
Unless you can join multiple "posses," and what I read doesn't seem to suggest it, your going to have groups of ten or less which get to decide who can join.
In MSNM there is not set limit to the number of people you can chat with, and you could make one on one connections. Before you could ignore a person, now you can exclude them. And if it's intended to be for 13 to 14 year olds, I think social cliques are inevitable. This fails to mention those who can't participate fully in the program, which seems to require broadband for what I personally view as the most interesting aspect, the ability to listen to shared music.
I'm not bashing on Redmond on this. I honestly think that the basic idea of the program is meritorious, but by limiting users to ten per group, and (and I could be wrong) users to one group, the collaborative aspects are blunted.
The league of Extraordinary Gentleman was a Comic written by Alan Moore (at least for some time, I haven't read it myself though I've heard about it). Basically it consists of pulp heros and villains, like alan quartermain (as in Alan quartermain and the lost city of gold, which i have seen, No imdb but plot synopsis here.
)
Basically Moore rewrites the characters of british pulp mythology in ways reminiscent of The Watchmen.
The Invisible man has sex with girls at a boarding school. It's that kind of comic I guess.
First off, I only have a laptop, and my last four computers have been laptops (3 toshibas then a dell) . Leaving aside the bad mouse inputs for laptops (and unlike some people, I like relaxing with my feet up in a Lazy boy and typing, so normal mice don't work.)
Laptops have several basic problems with the key lay out. One, the power key, which is in many cases places on the keyboard area. It should have option type keys associated for various tasks, IE, shutdown restart, and hibernate. I'd also stick in a nice hardware device to have it do a hardware shut down if it is pressed and the system is locked.
Second, Laptops tend to double up on keys... Number pads made from parts of the keyboard, pgup and home on the same key, etc. In a good keyboard layout, you'd simply place them on one more row, below all the others.
The same row brings me to thumbs... I'm not sure about you, but personally, when I type I dont use both thumbs to press the space bar, and in classic typing pose, that's where they are... we could have a whole other key, same width as the space bar (to be ambidexerous) under the space bar. It's a waste of a digit any other way.
Finally, I hope something in this century we will do away keyboards and move to a gestural and vocal based replacement. Text would be done with the voice, and commands would be with the gestures. I'm learning American Sign Language, and frankly with good enough recognition by the computer, you would have millions of gesture based commands. Think how easy coding would be if you could assign gestures to common commands or variables. And copying text, as well as cutting and pasting would not only be simple, it would be intuitive.
This is already available in the various IRC book warez channels (I know I know, but book warez sounds better then book trading channels). I expect people are converting the lit books right now.
a quote about the difficulty of lipreading
on
Cell Phones for the Deaf
·
· Score: 2, Informative
From
For Hearing People Only
"Lipreading involves a high proportion of guesswork and "instant mental replay." Only some 30% of all spoke sounds are visible on the lips. Many sounds like "b," "p," and "m," are virtually impossible to distinguish by watching the mouth. [...] Anyway, 'lip-reading' is a misnomer. A more accurate term is
speechreading. Speechereaders don't just look at the mouth;they read the entire face. [...] They note changes in expression, shoulder shrugs, posture, gestures. [...] Picking up these associational cues is an art in itself."
(127-128)
I'd also like to add that For Hearing People Only, ISBN 0-934016-1-0 is a great source of information about the complex and interesting world of Deaf people, and the language of ASL.
Personally the way to do it is 1. Accelerate to at least 75 miles an hour 2. Go through Gilroy on 101 3. Wait till the speed limit drops to 55 4. Make sure the road is wet 5. Try desperately to make the turn after the ecalyptis 5. Lose control and hit concrete divider 6. crush lower vertebrae 7. Have car skid along divider for 15 feet 8. Have divider scrape open fuel line and create sparks 9. Stagger out of burning car, taking laptop from passenger seat, and walk 20 feet forward before collapsing in agony 10. Moan 11. Moan 12. then press 911 on your keypad
Gryftir
"I want to live forever, or die trying" Saint Yossarian
What I think would be most helpful for some is direct hands on training over a course of time. First off, hands on means directed training, I found most seminars were focused on the theory, I think theories are after market add-ons to practice. Only after going through enough processes, either on your own in a self directed fashion, or with the personal attention of a teacher, can you really grok a theory. Case in point, a long time ago I took a class on computer networking. This wasn't Cisco Routing 101 or anything that useful, but one of those classes where we learn facts about protocols, history, and that fucking layer system. Only after I got to play with routers did all that theory make sense. And in no way did that theory actually help me with the routers.
Second, IMHO the only way to learn discipline is through actually going through the processes. It's the difference between reading a book on HTML and actually building a webpage, only by producing something do you learn. That's the real reason you make webpages in those internet classes, not some sort of test of your ability, but the use of what you learn settles that knowledge in you.
If you want to teach people proper security auditing, or whatever term you use for network security procedures, you have to stop giving them lectures on attacks, and start giving them systems being attacked, or perhaps better, start them attacking systems.
Gryftir
Santa Carla by Night
Slashdot Mirror
Nomad,
If you could give some examples of OSes you want information on, you will be more likely to catch the eye of the community that supports them.
Gryftir
Spy Sites
As a side note, if you can't find a big enough list, you can always load the spyware on a test machine.
Gryftir
Death to all Fanatics!
Grub appears to have more cross-browser and cross platform (Google Toolbar only runs on Internet Explorer 5 for now.) Grub runs on Linux and windows, and since it isn't a browser plugin, doesn't require you to have a certain browser.
Would it increase your changes of getting cancer? Shields that reduce gamma ray intensity by 50% include 1cm (0.4 inches) of lead, 6cm (2.4 inches) of concrete or 9cm (3.6 inches) of packed dirt. On the good side, gamma radiation is only as harmful as x-ray or beta particles. This NASA site however says that most gamma radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, which is why you need balloons or sattelites to really see gamma rays.
I have a erotic picture of myself when I was 15. I took this picture with a webcam for a girl I liked, it involves only me. That picture is technically child porn (though I'm unclear if it was illegal for me to view it then, and it is illegal for me to possess it now. That blows my mind.
My parents have a picture of me naked that clearly shows my genitals. Technically that could be child porn. I'm embarrased by the picture yes, but it should not be child porn.
even if you are totally against the possession (as opposed to creation) of child porn, shouldn't those pictured have a right to I don't know, sanction their own pictures?
Statutory rape bugs me for similar reasons. I'm sorry, but if they were abused, then prosecute them. But why is it illegal to have sex with a willing partner? Coercion is handled by sexual abuse and rape laws, so why criminalize a victimless crime?
It's then hypocrisy to say that two minors having sex aren't commiting a crime? Is one of the hidden powers of being an adult, along with voting and such, the ability to turn normal sex (between minors) to rape? Basically I'm against victimless crimes. If something wrong happened, like coercion or abuse, then it's a crime already. Maybe I'll join that Free State Project>. I'm sick and tired of being told things that don't harm anybody should be criminal.
Gryftir
People forget that if the government got all the data they wanted, it would be way to massive to really analyze. The best they could do would be to, given a particular name, dig up information about that person. Most data about what people do would never ever ever be seen. Indeed even now there are backlogs in stuff like wire tap transcriptions. If every piece of data is being watched, humans can't possibly watch it all.
I'm not saying that this is a good thing. Certainly the governments ability to look intimate details up from my life scares me. I'm just saying that we need to worry less about people using general data to find criminals, and more about digging up info about us after some suspicion.
Still automated data miners, checking against a profile, will eventually be something to worry about. I'd watch for profiles for terrorists, then kiddie porn, then, once that is established, move on to other crimes.
Gryftir
Logic tells us about a logical fallacy known as a false dichotomy, an either or that fails to take into account other options. "Your either with us, or against us."
On the other hand, console games are not intended to be installed like PC games are. I can understand if you could play console games using this feature, but most games intended for computers are not going to be made this way. How many people are going to join a coalition to build games that work with this if their anti-piracy methods have no effect?
the man from Microsoft suggests that longhorn will give users the ability to play games directly from the cd, without installation. Which is great in theory, but what does that mean? Either your loading the whole game into RAM, *shudder* or it will include a program to automatically install when you run the game, and uninstall the program when you finish. At least that's what I think, if somebody can think up other possibilities, I'm all ears.
Jacob
Robert A. Heinlein wrote a book called I Will Fear No Evil about a brain transplant. However this story when finished might be more accurate.
First off, the segway was a typo. Actually I'm not sure you can call it a typo as I was actually unaware of how to spell the word.
About the cause of the boom, I'd have to say while it may have ended with such a rush, I think it began with people suddenly fired up with the idea computing and networking technology could be used by businesses in ways significantly different from traditional money making methods. I'd add that I make no comment on the truth of the idea. I'd also point out, that by my reckoning, most of those who made it through the boom never bought into the idea itself, but simply provided ways and means to those that did. Cisco routers could be seen as the miner's picks of the Internet Goldrush.
Cool quick fact. what do you define tech spending as? spent by who?
What will bring the next windfall will be a synergetic grouping of cost effective methods or products, with multiple applications, each resulting from a different source (corporation, university dept, etc.) It most likely won't be nanotech or biotech, considering the cost of development. I do know that it will seem obvious in hindsight.
You have to realize that the PC boom didn't segway immediately into the Internet boom. Nor was the period between the two a time of consolidation before change in focus. Indeed there was no directed change in focus at all, it was an organic market driven shifting toward e-tech.
The difference between the period of time between the PC boom and the Internet boom, was that the hardware of the PC boom was a springboard for the Internet boom.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with more then a handful of examples where new types of hardware was needed to drive the boom. Of course the increase in processor speeds, and other changes in the tech can't be dismissed out of hand, but these were incremental increases in technology, not true advances.
But with the five items mentioned in the article, with the exception of datamining, require great strides in research before they become truely feasible as the focus of a new boom. Nanotech is still five to ten years away before it's first truely practical uses, as even the most ardent proponent will admit when pressed.
These are hardware advances, and thus we face a slow march toward the next boom, waiting for advances in research and technology.
So what does that increase in spindle speed actually translate into for Joe Computer?
What's really juicy to me is the applications for nanotech, as mentioned in the article. I wonder if this kind of technology could be used to tranfer data to nanites. Now that *would* be a small hard drive.
Gryftir
In other news today, Microsoft has already announced an ultra realistic sim version of building your own submarine, which allows you to actually take your craft into the water and suffocate OR drown to death.
Gryftir
I think I'm with google about this.
I don't need it, not even for games. Sure it will run faster, but do you seriously need that speed? I know I can find a better use for money. Or I could if I actually had some money. Gryftir
I only wish that we had something to drive processors the way good games drive cards. You know, besides SETI@Home and corporate greed.
Gryftir
About your OTOH... I hope we still have text records of the conversation. I find that it's a lot easier to remember what you typed then what you said. Perhaps convert it to text, and have each statement hyperlink to a copy of the sound? It's sad, but you can't really talk about keyboard layout on it's own.
And your right, a split space bar is better. You could even split and combine with a bar below to have four buttons.
I'd be interested in your ideas about gestural coding.
Gryftir
I'd point out that IRC program scripts can play shared music, providing the user sets permissions and has a copy of the music on their hard drive. Also, I'm pretty sure some IRC clients have visual components similar to winks. They also have no limit on number of rooms, and no DRM. In fact, with proper scripting (and scripts are downloadable) you can copy all of the functionality mentioned in the article. And they are truly cross platform.
On the other hand they have a server client setup, and this is P2P. I guess that makes it special.
Gryftir
While I think that three degrees seems in theory like a community building tool, what worries me is the limit to 10 participants in a "posse" will create in groups.
Unless you can join multiple "posses," and what I read doesn't seem to suggest it, your going to have groups of ten or less which get to decide who can join.
In MSNM there is not set limit to the number of people you can chat with, and you could make one on one connections. Before you could ignore a person, now you can exclude them. And if it's intended to be for 13 to 14 year olds, I think social cliques are inevitable. This fails to mention those who can't participate fully in the program, which seems to require broadband for what I personally view as the most interesting aspect, the ability to listen to shared music.
I'm not bashing on Redmond on this. I honestly think that the basic idea of the program is meritorious, but by limiting users to ten per group, and (and I could be wrong) users to one group, the collaborative aspects are blunted.
Gryftir
The league of Extraordinary Gentleman was a Comic written by Alan Moore (at least for some time, I haven't read it myself though I've heard about it).
Basically it consists of pulp heros and villains, like alan quartermain (as in Alan quartermain and the lost city of gold, which i have seen, No imdb but plot synopsis here. )
Basically Moore rewrites the characters of british pulp mythology in ways reminiscent of The Watchmen.
The Invisible man has sex with girls at a boarding school. It's that kind of comic I guess.
I've got three comments I'd like to make.
First off, I only have a laptop, and my last four computers have been laptops (3 toshibas then a dell) . Leaving aside the bad mouse inputs for laptops (and unlike some people, I like relaxing with my feet up in a Lazy boy and typing, so normal mice don't work.)
Laptops have several basic problems with the key lay out. One, the power key, which is in many cases places on the keyboard area. It should have option type keys associated for various tasks, IE, shutdown restart, and hibernate. I'd also stick in a nice hardware device to have it do a hardware shut down if it is pressed and the system is locked.
Second, Laptops tend to double up on keys... Number pads made from parts of the keyboard, pgup and home on the same key, etc. In a good keyboard layout, you'd simply place them on one more row, below all the others.
The same row brings me to thumbs... I'm not sure about you, but personally, when I type I dont use both thumbs to press the space bar, and in classic typing pose, that's where they are... we could have a whole other key, same width as the space bar (to be ambidexerous) under the space bar. It's a waste of a digit any other way.
Finally, I hope something in this century we will do away keyboards and move to a gestural and vocal based replacement. Text would be done with the voice, and commands would be with the gestures. I'm learning American Sign Language, and frankly with good enough recognition by the computer, you would have millions of gesture based commands. Think how easy coding would be if you could assign gestures to common commands or variables. And copying text, as well as cutting and pasting would not only be simple, it would be intuitive.
Anyway just my thoughts.
Gryftir
This is already available in the various IRC book warez channels (I know I know, but book warez sounds better then book trading channels). I expect people are converting the lit books right now.
I'd also like to add that For Hearing People Only, ISBN 0-934016-1-0 is a great source of information about the complex and interesting world of Deaf people, and the language of ASL.
Personally the way to do it is
1. Accelerate to at least 75 miles an hour
2. Go through Gilroy on 101
3. Wait till the speed limit drops to 55
4. Make sure the road is wet
5. Try desperately to make the turn after the ecalyptis
5. Lose control and hit concrete divider
6. crush lower vertebrae
7. Have car skid along divider for 15 feet
8. Have divider scrape open fuel line and create sparks
9. Stagger out of burning car, taking laptop from passenger seat, and walk 20 feet forward before collapsing in agony
10. Moan
11. Moan
12. then press 911 on your keypad
Gryftir
"I want to live forever, or die trying" Saint Yossarian
What I think would be most helpful for some is direct hands on training over a course of time.
First off, hands on means directed training, I found most seminars were focused on the theory, I think theories are after market add-ons to practice. Only after going through enough processes, either on your own in a self directed fashion, or with the personal attention of a teacher, can you really grok a theory.
Case in point, a long time ago I took a class on computer networking. This wasn't Cisco Routing 101 or anything that useful, but one of those classes where we learn facts about protocols, history, and that fucking layer system. Only after I got to play with routers did all that theory make sense. And in no way did that theory actually help me with the routers.
Second, IMHO the only way to learn discipline is through actually going through the processes. It's the difference between reading a book on HTML and actually building a webpage, only by producing something do you learn. That's the real reason you make webpages in those internet classes, not some sort of test of your ability, but the use of what you learn settles that knowledge in you.
If you want to teach people proper security auditing, or whatever term you use for network security procedures, you have to stop giving them lectures on attacks, and start giving them systems being attacked, or perhaps better, start them attacking systems. Gryftir Santa Carla by Night