For such was his real name: how did it feel to play a character who was essentially an avatar of what Roddenberry would have liked to have been, and did you notice any chances in how that character was written for after Roddenberry died?
"The WB has some superb programming, and there's no reason why that shouldn't be reflected somewhere. It's tough to break through the consciousness of a significant body of professionals.", wittered an Emmy spokesthing.
More like, "There's a bunch of old fossils on the board who think Frasier is "kewl""
So stick the cells somewhere else. We're told repeatedly that there are several large areas of desert which we've made uninhabitable through nuclear testing - sounds like a good place to me.
Robert Maxwell, a wannabe Rupert Murdoch, crook and generally all-round thug (now dead, that's why I can describe him as such) went to extraordinary lengths to sue publications for libel.
In the case of an American magazine published solely in the US, he got one of his UK employees to take out a subscription and then claimed the publishers had "published in the UK".
His final flurry of writs were designed to stop the press inferring that he had systematically raided his companies' pension funds to prop up his failing businesses. Shortly thereafter, he dropped off his provate yacht and drowned; after that it was revealed that most of his companies' pension funds had disappeared.
There's a moral in there somewhere, bit I'll leave that for others to find.
What's also known as the Black and Decker Decryption method: "Right, that was your left knee-cap: your pass-phrase or the right knee-cap: your choice".
As has been previously posted, the first level of security is nothing to do with technology. It's about people. Who has access to the building? What is their security clearance? Are there checks on who can take stuff in and out? (No tech gets out of where I work without a signed chit from our Security team, and yes, someone tried to pass off a company laptop as hers by stuffing it into her own laptop carrier a couple of years ago).
Who has access to where? What types of locks are on the doors? Who has the keys, or knows the combination?
Train your staff. No-one gets a laptop without signing a paper confirming that they have attended a security course and agree to abide by the company rules. Penalties can vary from a slap on the wrist through paying for lost or stolen property to dismissal and going before the judge.
Carry a laptop regularly? Throw away the black plastic bag that says mug me I'm carrying something valuable. Get a lockable case or airline trolley if you insist on carrying everything with it. If you drive, consider a case which locks into a frame fixed to the car and out of sight.
Train your staff to be aware. A while back, some PHBs were having a meeting in a hotel. One hour in, guy in coveralls pokes his head around the door. So sorry, mandatory electrical check, please step outside and help your self to coffee. 10 minutes later, three laptops had gone from the room.
What is your comapny's policy to data storage depending on data classification? Is it one size fits all, or do you differentiate. NB: there are some things which should never be stored on any computer system. Think typewriter, fireproof safe, and a shredder for the carbon paper.
Train your staff. No exceptions. Get your CEO to agree that this applies even to her. Point out that she and the PHBs work on the really interesting stuff and that there are evil asocial scum out there who would love to get their hands on it. Get her to give you the teeth to carry out your policy. In writing.
What data can you afford to lose?
Now for the tech. Up-to date AVS on the desktop and the company firewall. Preferably a different AVS on the firewall: what one misses, the other may catch. No networked PC to have a modem connected to it. All email, web-browsing, etc. through one point. Install evil censorware to stop untrustworthy active code and cow-orkers downloading Back Orifice. Install really evil checkers to stop them installing it on their PCs. Put in writing what users can't do on-line and enforce it. Training comes in handy here.
If you have to store data on a laptop or desktop, what level of encryption do you use on the hard drive? One cow-orker thought he was being smart by boot-protecting his desktop. Took me 20 minutes with a screwdriver, a second PC, and Drive Image Pro to change his mind.
Companies like http://www.intercede.co.uk/ provide what I personally consider to be an adequate level hard drive protection (No, I don't work for them, nor do I have shares: consider them a benchmark.)
YMMV, obviously. What everyone has to do on a regular basis is:
- check what you currently do
- review what you currently do
- do it
Having encountered USians in their native habitat, as well as outside it, I can state categorically that the latter are, by and large, far more acceptable. At least they know there is a world outside of the US...
After all, Dave Prowse was kept in line by continual threats of "anyone can wear the costume". Lucas will have enough samples of Anthony's voice to do without that as well.
I just hope Kenny doesn't become as bitter and twisted about this as Dave did.
I'm sure if they dug deep enough they'd find some shop, somewhere, selling bootleg recordings. If the shop was in the Yellow Pages, that would be a link. Therefore, Yellow Pages is promoting piracy.
I was a Spectrum user back in 1983, and was an "early adopter" of microdrives.
Each cartridge could store 85k of data using the official formatter. Using a third-party formatter (which also checked for bad sectors) you could fit 100k, which was more than twice the Spectrum's 48k of RAM, onto a cartridge.
Loading time of a full 48k was under 5 seconds, compared to over 3 minutes using the standard cassette drive.
I used microdrives for four years, and lost 2 cartridges out of around 100. One died of old age (it was one of the first I got), the other broke when I first tried to format it. When I gave my Spectrum away in 1990, I tested ten of the cartridges at random; they all loaded.
As for disks, between 1985 and 1990 there was a format war between Sony's 3.5" and Amstrad's 3" format. Amstrad eventually lost, but in the early days it wasn't clear-cut. The first 3.5" disks were single-sided, single density, and could store 180k of data. They cost more than two microdrive cartridges, and the Shugart disk drives for the Spectrum cost far more than a microdrive.
Sinclair may have trademarked the word "Microdrive" in a computer storage context, but from what I gather he's been happy to let it lapse. IMHO, IBM's Microdrive gives me an instant nostalgia buzz, and I'm looking forward to running a Spectrum emulator and all the programs on a single Microdrive in my Psion NetBook.
Love and kisses,
Simon --
There'd better not be any Intel machines aboard...
on
Macs In Space!
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... or else Intel will insist on covering up the shuttle with a large bag, and the extra heat generated will cook everyone and everything on re-entry.
So: not content with being one of the biggest suppliers of CPUs to your average user, Intel don't even want to acknowledge that other suppliers exist.
Pathetic. If you feel like it, why not point as many hacks as you can back to the original story? That should generate a fair amount of low-grade embarrasment for Intel for the next few weeks.
Those with a little more spare time on their hands should check out Fred Hoyle's "A for Andromeda". As Lovecraft remarked, "The old ones are... the old ones".
From this week's Byte, an article by Jason and Ted Coombs:
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000301S0001
A relevant excerpt from the article:
"The {statutory patent} does not afford any legal protection to the patentee, but does convey legal protection to the general public by registering the invention and thereby formally declaring it to be prior art for the purpose of future patent filings. This class of patent is most commonly used to register inventions made by the U.S. Government and it is known as Statutory Invention Registration, or SIR.
"Anyone can apply to receive SIR patent status for a novel invention, and there is only a small one-time fee for this type of patent compared to the larger and periodic fees required to receive and maintain a regular patent. However, statutory patents are only used when the patentee wants to guarantee that no third party will ever be able to claim patent protection for an invention. This makes SIR a very interesting, if currently overlooked, option for protecting open source inventions. (See The Business Of Open Source [Jan 17th, 2000] {http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000111S0001}) When searching at the U.S. Patent Office website, you can find SIR patents designated with the prefix of "H". Section 157 of USC Title 35 defines SIR."
I don't know what they mean by a "reasonable one-time fee", but if anyone's serious about getting the patent system to work for the small types, this should probably be looked at. Check out these guys' full articles and take this on board perhaps?
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For such was his real name: how did it feel to play a character who was essentially an avatar of what Roddenberry would have liked to have been, and did you notice any chances in how that character was written for after Roddenberry died?
Where's "Buffy"?
"The WB has some superb programming, and there's no reason why that shouldn't be reflected somewhere. It's tough to break through the consciousness of a significant body of professionals.", wittered an Emmy spokesthing.
More like, "There's a bunch of old fossils on the board who think Frasier is "kewl""
So stick the cells somewhere else. We're told repeatedly that there are several large areas of desert which we've made uninhabitable through nuclear testing - sounds like a good place to me.
Robert Maxwell, a wannabe Rupert Murdoch, crook and generally all-round thug (now dead, that's why I can describe him as such) went to extraordinary lengths to sue publications for libel.
In the case of an American magazine published solely in the US, he got one of his UK employees to take out a subscription and then claimed the publishers had "published in the UK".
His final flurry of writs were designed to stop the press inferring that he had systematically raided his companies' pension funds to prop up his failing businesses. Shortly thereafter, he dropped off his provate yacht and drowned; after that it was revealed that most of his companies' pension funds had disappeared.
There's a moral in there somewhere, bit I'll leave that for others to find.
What's also known as the Black and Decker Decryption method: "Right, that was your left knee-cap: your pass-phrase or the right knee-cap: your choice".
As has been previously posted, the first level of security is nothing to do with technology. It's about people. Who has access to the building? What is their security clearance? Are there checks on who can take stuff in and out? (No tech gets out of where I work without a signed chit from our Security team, and yes, someone tried to pass off a company laptop as hers by stuffing it into her own laptop carrier a couple of years ago).
Who has access to where? What types of locks are on the doors? Who has the keys, or knows the combination?
Train your staff. No-one gets a laptop without signing a paper confirming that they have attended a security course and agree to abide by the company rules. Penalties can vary from a slap on the wrist through paying for lost or stolen property to dismissal and going before the judge.
Carry a laptop regularly? Throw away the black plastic bag that says mug me I'm carrying something valuable. Get a lockable case or airline trolley if you insist on carrying everything with it. If you drive, consider a case which locks into a frame fixed to the car and out of sight.
Train your staff to be aware. A while back, some PHBs were having a meeting in a hotel. One hour in, guy in coveralls pokes his head around the door. So sorry, mandatory electrical check, please step outside and help your self to coffee. 10 minutes later, three laptops had gone from the room.
What is your comapny's policy to data storage depending on data classification? Is it one size fits all, or do you differentiate. NB: there are some things which should never be stored on any computer system. Think typewriter, fireproof safe, and a shredder for the carbon paper.
Train your staff. No exceptions. Get your CEO to agree that this applies even to her. Point out that she and the PHBs work on the really interesting stuff and that there are evil asocial scum out there who would love to get their hands on it. Get her to give you the teeth to carry out your policy. In writing.
What data can you afford to lose?
Now for the tech. Up-to date AVS on the desktop and the company firewall. Preferably a different AVS on the firewall: what one misses, the other may catch. No networked PC to have a modem connected to it. All email, web-browsing, etc. through one point. Install evil censorware to stop untrustworthy active code and cow-orkers downloading Back Orifice. Install really evil checkers to stop them installing it on their PCs. Put in writing what users can't do on-line and enforce it. Training comes in handy here.
If you have to store data on a laptop or desktop, what level of encryption do you use on the hard drive? One cow-orker thought he was being smart by boot-protecting his desktop. Took me 20 minutes with a screwdriver, a second PC, and Drive Image Pro to change his mind.
Companies like http://www.intercede.co.uk/ provide what I personally consider to be an adequate level hard drive protection (No, I don't work for them, nor do I have shares: consider them a benchmark.)
YMMV, obviously. What everyone has to do on a regular basis is:
- check what you currently do
- review what you currently do
- do it
Oh, did I mention train your staff?
Having encountered USians in their native habitat, as well as outside it, I can state categorically that the latter are, by and large, far more acceptable. At least they know there is a world outside of the US...
Smilin' Simon
Take a look at
http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm
After all, Dave Prowse was kept in line by continual threats of "anyone can wear the costume". Lucas will have enough samples of Anthony's voice to do without that as well.
I just hope Kenny doesn't become as bitter and twisted about this as Dave did.
I'm sure if they dug deep enough they'd find some shop, somewhere, selling bootleg recordings. If the shop was in the Yellow Pages, that would be a link. Therefore, Yellow Pages is promoting piracy.
I was a Spectrum user back in 1983, and was an "early adopter" of microdrives.
Each cartridge could store 85k of data using the official formatter. Using a third-party formatter (which also checked for bad sectors) you could fit 100k, which was more than twice the Spectrum's 48k of RAM, onto a cartridge.
Loading time of a full 48k was under 5 seconds, compared to over 3 minutes using the standard cassette drive.
I used microdrives for four years, and lost 2 cartridges out of around 100. One died of old age (it was one of the first I got), the other broke when I first tried to format it. When I gave my Spectrum away in 1990, I tested ten of the cartridges at random; they all loaded.
As for disks, between 1985 and 1990 there was a format war between Sony's 3.5" and Amstrad's 3" format. Amstrad eventually lost, but in the early days it wasn't clear-cut. The first 3.5" disks were single-sided, single density, and could store 180k of data. They cost more than two microdrive cartridges, and the Shugart disk drives for the Spectrum cost far more than a microdrive.
Sinclair may have trademarked the word "Microdrive" in a computer storage context, but from what I gather he's been happy to let it lapse. IMHO, IBM's Microdrive gives me an instant nostalgia buzz, and I'm looking forward to running a Spectrum emulator and all the programs on a single Microdrive in my Psion NetBook.
Love and kisses,
Simon
--
... or else Intel will insist on covering up the shuttle with a large bag, and the extra heat generated will cook everyone and everything on re-entry.
Stupid? Well, Intel got there first.
Love and kisses,
Simon
"Free Luna!"
So: not content with being one of the biggest suppliers of CPUs to your average user, Intel don't even want to acknowledge that other suppliers exist.
Pathetic. If you feel like it, why not point as many hacks as you can back to the original story? That should generate a fair amount of low-grade embarrasment for Intel for the next few weeks.
Those with a little more spare time on their hands should check out Fred Hoyle's "A for Andromeda". As Lovecraft remarked, "The old ones are... the old ones".
Love and kisses,
Simon
"Free Luna!"
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/03/13/23525 8&cid=85
Only probably not as clearly. Good it finally got some attention. Thanks, Timothy.
Simon Jester
From this week's Byte, an article by Jason and Ted Coombs:
http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000301S0001
A relevant excerpt from the article:
"The {statutory patent} does not afford any legal protection to the patentee, but does convey legal protection to the general public by registering the invention and thereby formally declaring it to be prior art for the purpose of future patent filings. This class of patent is most commonly used to register inventions made by the U.S. Government and it is known as Statutory Invention Registration, or SIR.
"Anyone can apply to receive SIR patent status for a novel invention, and there is only a small one-time fee for this type of patent compared
to the larger and periodic fees required to receive and maintain a regular patent. However, statutory patents are only used when the patentee wants to guarantee that no third party will ever be able to claim patent protection for an invention. This makes SIR a very interesting, if currently overlooked, option for protecting open source inventions. (See The Business Of Open Source [Jan 17th, 2000]
{http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000111S0001}) When searching at the U.S. Patent Office website, you can find SIR patents designated with the
prefix of "H". Section 157 of USC Title 35 defines SIR."
I don't know what they mean by a "reasonable one-time fee", but if anyone's serious about getting the patent system to work for the small types, this should probably be looked at. Check out these guys' full articles and take this on board perhaps?