I'm amazed your KDS hasn't died yet...I've had two Avitrons (first one the 7TF's predecessor, second a 7TF) die on me. Might as well buy a new monitor now and use the soon-to-die KDS for a second head.
Not necessarily *all* FM radio sucks. Let's not forget college radio! If you think it sucks, then at least it's something *different* that sucks, and you had the chance to hear something new.
And now, a shameless plug for the station I am involved with, where you don't often hear something that ClearChannel would play: KWUR 90.3FM. Since you probably aren't within our rather small broadcast radius (10 watt transmitter) you can listen to our MP3 streams.
> Would they go so far as to disable anything they don't find "trustworthy" in the Palladium model? Knocking out XMMS, MPTV, and locating and disabling the open OGG format's plugins?
Given MS's past history, there is no way in hell I'd be running WMP for Linux as root.
> Would you want some 18-year-old high school dropout voting about whether or not to increase taxes to curb inflation in a rapidly expanding national economy?
Are you willing to give him a gun and send him off to war so he can get shot defending your society? I think that is damn well worth the right to vote.
> In the presence of cosmic rays and background > radiation, to say nothing of the computer > monitors, cellular phones, and irradicated beef > that we surround ourselves with every day, these > genetic superdrugs could easily mutate. In their > new forms, they'd be essentially unstoppable. > One stray gramma ray could spell the end of > humanity.
<SARCASM>So, good thing you actually read the article, and have a solid grasp of the relevant biology.</SARCASM>
Mutations in the prodrug and catalyst would most likely decrease their binding affinity for their target sequence, and likely mRNA sequence in general. Thus, the drug would be *less* likely to be activated.
The idea that the "genetic superdrugs" would easily mutate and "spell the end of humanity" is ludicrous. For this to happen, they would need some way to reproduce themselves, which they don't. If they did, they would be analogous to virii. While virii are often pathogenic, they haven't destroyed humanity as of yet.
(By the way, I'm amused by people who talk about "what Nature intended". Did you have a nice long chat with Nature about this stuff? Did Nature give you an itemized list of things Nature intended? If so, the next time you and Nature do lunch, I'd like to tag along.)
Dan's Data did an interesting review of fingerprint scanners. Apparently they (well, that particular one anyway) are remarkably easy to fool - using jelly.
Personally, I'm happy with passwords - you can change those...
$187000 is all it took to get this bill introduced? Why haven't geek-friendly organizations been able to buy their own congresspeople - or have they, and in that case, which ones?
Let's say I record my own song using no RIAA-owned content whatsoever. Now I want to make sure nobody copies it, using this CBDPTA-mandated protection technology that is built into every computer. If it isn't available to me, but only to RIAA/MPAA, then it is even more ridiculous than I thought, but let's pretend it actually protects the rights of all artists, including me...(struggling to stifle laughter)
My song happens to have a waveform that is similar to (but not exactly the same as, just enough so that I am not violating their rights) that of the Windows XP kernel interpreted as raw PCM. Windows XP wasn't music before, so AFAIK it wasn't covered. But, since I have copyrighted something similar to it as music, is Windows now illegal since it could be considered circumvention to have it stored in memory, and it sounds nearly the same as my song?
It seems like this would allow the RIAA/MPAA to arbitrarily lock parts of other people's computers off from them, and even if only on these grounds this bill should face the firing squad. Hey, company X, do you want your database backends, your payroll machines, your top secret R&D machines, to all be open to the record companies because of this ridiculous bill?
Are you sure that you just don't play the mainstream artists because the station and school doesn't want to pay ASCAP/BMI?
Nope. We play what we please. It's our decision entirely, as students, and we consciously chose to try and support the underground music scene, because our mission is to educate our listeners. If you're interested, we're KWUR 90.3FM in Clayton, MO (a few hundred feet from the St. Louis city limits). Website: http://kwur.wustl.edu
I'm a DJ at my university's radio station. It is de facto station policy to not play anything by really well-known artists - i.e. Britney Spears will never come out of our transmitter. And there is no lack of "underground" music for us to play - music published by labels that aren't part of the RIAA juggernaut and aren't implementing these ridiculous copy controls. And a decent amount of it is of higher quality than anything I've heard from the major labels. Point is, there is plenty of good music out there if you don't want to be screwed over every time you buy a CD.
Looking at the description of the VM, I see only 4 general-purpose 32-bit integer registers - which seems like a rather shortsighted limitation to me. Seems like this VM is designed to be easily dynamically-translatable to x86 code - but there are plenty of other (better designed) architectures with more registers that IVM could target...seems like a waste to me.
This is a neat idea - but isn't this essentially a clone of what Amiga's been doing with their universal VM?
I have already developed a piece of software called "Non-infringing Product(R)". If you do not discontinue development of your software and destroy all copies immediately, I'll see you in court.
No modern OS on x86 uses BIOS calls to access the hardware anymore, so the only other reason to have your computer in protected mode 100% of the time is to impress the ladies.
Not now they don't need to. Ten years from now will you be saying this same thing? Advancement must start somewhere. If the next Palm can stay the same price, run the same temperature and with the same battery life, but do much more - what's wrong with that?
I had one of these strap-on pseudosubwoofers for a little while years ago (on clearance from a toy store). It was wholly unimpressive. Instead of increasing the suspension of disbelief it actually shortens it because now you've got an annoying vibrating box strapped to your torso which distracts you from the game. Its speaker is underpowered and the casing is cheap plastic. There are much better things to do with $20...
A version of (the GPLed) Linux released on the PS2 means that Sony has to give us the source too, which means everyone immediately gets detailed specs on the PS2 hardware. Video game manufacturers don't want this. As a (former) employee of Sega put it, releasing this sort of thing entails support calls, which is an expense Sony probably doesn't want to deal with. And there is the bigger issue of unlicensed game makers, which Sony *definitely* doesn't want. So the PS2 as a Linux PC for the home, supported by Sony, if for that reason only, doesn't sound too plausible to me.
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Curiously - why haven't I seen any commercial hardwood cases? Does wood have evil electrical properties or something? Why not have my computer look like furniture? (Rather why not somebody else have their computer look like furniture, because let's face it that thing is ugly as sin.)
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I'm amazed your KDS hasn't died yet...I've had two Avitrons (first one the 7TF's predecessor, second a 7TF) die on me. Might as well buy a new monitor now and use the soon-to-die KDS for a second head.
Not necessarily *all* FM radio sucks. Let's not forget college radio! If you think it sucks, then at least it's something *different* that sucks, and you had the chance to hear something new.
And now, a shameless plug for the station I am involved with, where you don't often hear something that ClearChannel would play: KWUR 90.3FM. Since you probably aren't within our rather small broadcast radius (10 watt transmitter) you can listen to our MP3 streams.
Given MS's past history, there is no way in hell I'd be running WMP for Linux as root.
Ctrl-[ is equivalent to Esc, and even saves a little bit of time compared to having to move your left hand all the way up to Esc.
> Would you want some 18-year-old high school dropout voting about whether or not to increase taxes to curb inflation in a rapidly expanding national economy?
Are you willing to give him a gun and send him off to war so he can get shot defending your society? I think that is damn well worth the right to vote.
> In the presence of cosmic rays and background
> radiation, to say nothing of the computer
> monitors, cellular phones, and irradicated beef
> that we surround ourselves with every day, these
> genetic superdrugs could easily mutate. In their
> new forms, they'd be essentially unstoppable.
> One stray gramma ray could spell the end of
> humanity.
<SARCASM>So, good thing you actually read the article, and have a solid grasp of the relevant biology.</SARCASM>
Mutations in the prodrug and catalyst would most likely decrease their binding affinity for their target sequence, and likely mRNA sequence in general. Thus, the drug would be *less* likely to be activated.
The idea that the "genetic superdrugs" would easily mutate and "spell the end of humanity" is ludicrous. For this to happen, they would need some way to reproduce themselves, which they don't. If they did, they would be analogous to virii. While virii are often pathogenic, they haven't destroyed humanity as of yet.
(By the way, I'm amused by people who talk about "what Nature intended". Did you have a nice long chat with Nature about this stuff? Did Nature give you an itemized list of things Nature intended? If so, the next time you and Nature do lunch, I'd like to tag along.)
Not quite. The estimate is 30000 *genes*, at an average size of 3 kbp apiece. That means ~90 Mbp of coding sequence.
You couldn't even make a bacterium with 30 kbp of coding sequence.
Dan's Data did an interesting review of fingerprint scanners. Apparently they (well, that particular one anyway) are remarkably easy to fool - using jelly.
Personally, I'm happy with passwords - you can change those...
Here is a list of top contributors to Berman.
$187000 is all it took to get this bill introduced?
Why haven't geek-friendly organizations been able to buy their own congresspeople - or have they, and in that case, which ones?
It's slashdotted; I've at least got the text mirrored; images added as I get them.
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http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/users/tom/mirrors/cd
I've set up a mirror of the screenshots site:
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http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/users/tom/kde31alpha
Enjoy!
deliver a Slashdot can of whoop ass.
What would that be exactly? Sending too many visitors to their website?
Let's say I record my own song using no RIAA-owned content whatsoever. Now I want to make sure nobody copies it, using this CBDPTA-mandated protection technology that is built into every computer. If it isn't available to me, but only to RIAA/MPAA, then it is even more ridiculous than I thought, but let's pretend it actually protects the rights of all artists, including me...(struggling to stifle laughter)
My song happens to have a waveform that is similar to (but not exactly the same as, just enough so that I am not violating their rights) that of the Windows XP kernel interpreted as raw PCM. Windows XP wasn't music before, so AFAIK it wasn't covered. But, since I have copyrighted something similar to it as music, is Windows now illegal since it could be considered circumvention to have it stored in memory, and it sounds nearly the same as my song?
It seems like this would allow the RIAA/MPAA to arbitrarily lock parts of other people's computers off from them, and even if only on these grounds this bill should face the firing squad. Hey, company X, do you want your database backends, your payroll machines, your top secret R&D machines, to all be open to the record companies because of this ridiculous bill?
Imagine hacking these robots just by farting near a swarm of them ;)
Nope. We play what we please. It's our decision entirely, as students, and we consciously chose to try and support the underground music scene, because our mission is to educate our listeners. If you're interested, we're KWUR 90.3FM in Clayton, MO (a few hundred feet from the St. Louis city limits). Website: http://kwur.wustl.edu
I'm a DJ at my university's radio station. It is de facto station policy to not play anything by really well-known artists - i.e. Britney Spears will never come out of our transmitter. And there is no lack of "underground" music for us to play - music published by labels that aren't part of the RIAA juggernaut and aren't implementing these ridiculous copy controls. And a decent amount of it is of higher quality than anything I've heard from the major labels. Point is, there is plenty of good music out there if you don't want to be screwed over every time you buy a CD.
Looking at the description of the VM, I see only 4 general-purpose 32-bit integer registers - which seems like a rather shortsighted limitation to me. Seems like this VM is designed to be easily dynamically-translatable to x86 code - but there are plenty of other (better designed) architectures with more registers that IVM could target...seems like a waste to me.
This is a neat idea - but isn't this essentially a clone of what Amiga's been doing with their universal VM?
I have already developed a piece of software called "Non-infringing Product(R)". If you do not discontinue development of your software and destroy all copies immediately, I'll see you in court.
;)
No modern OS on x86 uses BIOS calls to access the hardware anymore, so the only other reason to have your computer in protected mode 100% of the time is to impress the ladies.
Not now they don't need to. Ten years from now will you be saying this same thing? Advancement must start somewhere. If the next Palm can stay the same price, run the same temperature and with the same battery life, but do much more - what's wrong with that?
I had one of these strap-on pseudosubwoofers for a little while years ago (on clearance from a toy store). It was wholly unimpressive. Instead of increasing the suspension of disbelief it actually shortens it because now you've got an annoying vibrating box strapped to your torso which distracts you from the game. Its speaker is underpowered and the casing is cheap plastic. There are much better things to do with $20...
So instead of "IANAL" we have "IANALBTGIAHS"...
A version of (the GPLed) Linux released on the PS2 means that Sony has to give us the source too, which means everyone immediately gets detailed specs on the PS2 hardware. Video game manufacturers don't want this. As a (former) employee of Sega put it, releasing this sort of thing entails support calls, which is an expense Sony probably doesn't want to deal with. And there is the bigger issue of unlicensed game makers, which Sony *definitely* doesn't want. So the PS2 as a Linux PC for the home, supported by Sony, if for that reason only, doesn't sound too plausible to me.
So put metal inside the wood. But why no wood exterior?
Curiously - why haven't I seen any commercial hardwood cases? Does wood have evil electrical properties or something? Why not have my computer look like furniture? (Rather why not somebody else have their computer look like furniture, because let's face it that thing is ugly as sin.)