IANAEE [electrical engineer], but it's my understanding that all electrical circuits generate electromagnetic fields and/or radiation to some degree. So unless you plan living on a small island in the middle of the Pacific, up a tree, you can pretty much assume there is a chance of cancer.
Of course, you're much more likely to get cancer from the toxins in the air or the toxins in your food or radiation from your glow-in-the-dark alarm clock that some low-energy RF emissions.
It won't be really wireless until the power supply is also wireless;-)
Maybe someone can beam the power into the machine with lasers or something, but I wouldn't want to have to reboot every time a cat runs under the desk!
jug*ger*naut (jgr-nôt) n. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
Oh, you mean like Microsoft, right? Won't somebody think of the (sacrificed) CPU availability!!!
So, what about tipping off the Business Software Alliance about all those unlicenced copies of Word and Photoshop et al, ad nauseum...
that the RIAA, MPAA and their members surely must
have lurking around...
Nothing like a taste of yer own medicine;-) Perhaps with enough audits going on, they won't notice this small fleet of rebel X-Wings...
What I personally like to do is create a good set of rules for detecting this kind of garbage requests and storing them in log files which are separate to my normal access_log and error_log... that way I don't have to wade through acres of crap while looking at my real visitors.
Yes, I know I could grep 'em out while viewing, but I think garbage should be kept in a separate place to the real visitors' log entries.
As many previous posters have noted, the Civ and FreeCiv games make for excellent teamplay.
I reckon it's because you can run more or less separate countries, if you like, form alliances, or just get nasty and pound the crap out of each other with catapaults... (hee hee)
And with the Hot Seat option, you can do this with one computer.
Oh man, I can't wait for Civ III. Yes, I am a Civ addict. And so is my wife (yay!)
He's not that far off track. Think of a corporation as a communist state where all property and ideas are owned by an elite with all the decision-making powers. Dissidents can be forcibly removed, and conformity is essential to survival.
For the US to respond in force in less than 12 hours would practically imply that someone giving orders knew about the trade center attacks before they happened.
Funny you should mention this. When I was driving to work this morning, I was listening to the radio here in LA (KYSR, Jamie and Danny) and someone had called in saying that they were in the Army Reserve, and was told LAST NIGHT to go on standby!
Somebody knew some shit was going to hit the fan, but didn't want to cause an outbreak of panic and hysteria, I guess.
I love debugging kernel modules as much as the next slashdot reading Linux nut, but seriously, when it comes to debugging applications, a nice GUI-based step/trace utility in the language of my choice is a bloody nice thing to have. Why?
Because it means I can spend less time debugging, and more time actually coding. And this makes me happy.
Well, this'll have interesting ramifications for the computer industry. As pointed out in previous slashdot articles, one of the biggest things selling computers right now is the ability for home users to mess around with MP3s and all that kind of thing.
Corporate IT shops won't care about this digital rights stuff. They don't stand to lose anything from it. But home users (hopefully) will not go for it.
This makes no sense. Even with the dot-com bust and everything, the PC industry turns over a lot of dollars. Implementing this law looks a lot like shooting yourself in the foot, America.
Then again, the whole thing could be a false alarm designed to boost sagging sales of current PCs.
After reading both those articles, I must say that the guy "defending" himself against defamation seems like a slimy bugger indeed.
Here's why. He's suing a US-based publication. His lawyer(s) must know that Australian defamation laws are a bit tougher than US laws, so they concoct this idea that since someone in Australia has in fact read it, that the article containing the defaming remarks is published in Australia! Why? So they have more of a chance of a successful defamation case! That's pretty bloody slimy.
What hogwash. I can get on a plane and go to china, buy a chinese magazine, and come home and read it. Doesn't mean that the magazine was published in my home. I maintain that the publishing takes place where the physical web server resides.
I gave up on these bastards over a year ago, after waiting forever for them to do anything!
Now I have all my domains registered with Dotster, who are a joy to deal with. Everything is quick and web based, the site is decidedly non-Byzantine and has loads of nifty features, and they're pretty damn cheap too.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Dotster. I just like 'em a lot.
See, Microsoft really is an incredibly innovative company, just not where they claim to be. Their quest for innovation in legal and marketing brutality is nothing short of astonishing. These guys can pump out propaganda for persuasion of decisionmakers and lawsuits for dissenters like you wouldn't beleive.
Simple. Just as with every other situation, you have to play Follow The Money.
The concept of "Fine Art" is created to ensure an artificial scarcity and inflatable pricing, just as with domain names. The Art Establishment are the sole arbiters of what's Art and what's Not Art, and therefore can define the parameters of the scarcity as they see fit.
And of course, to maximize their profits, they make those parameters narrow, arbitrary, and more or less completely unpredictable to your average innovative artist.
Digital art, being infinitely reproducible, destroys this artificial scarcity, and basically makes these greedy assholes shit bricks in fear. Of course, a pissed off reptile is going to be very nasty, and under all that mammalian cortex, there's a nasty, vicious reptile lurking in every one of us. Of course these guys are going to get defensive and slander the hell out of anything that gets in their way of making a buck.
It's enough to make me think this lot are all in bed with their mutual fund managers to artificially inflate stock prices by bulk buying and then selling off.
Don't you mean "Maxwell's Demon"? But you have a very very interesting point.
This gets around the whole problem of Maxwell's (Theoretical) Demon trying to throw away information about which particles are hot and which particles are cold, by just bouncing the one particle around randomly. Lovely!
Heh. Imagine a few trillion of these things lined up in parallel, ratcheting a big wheel, makin' kinetic energy from diffused heat!
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IANAEE [electrical engineer], but it's my understanding that all electrical circuits generate electromagnetic fields and/or radiation to some degree. So unless you plan living on a small island in the middle of the Pacific, up a tree, you can pretty much assume there is a chance of cancer.
Of course, you're much more likely to get cancer from the toxins in the air or the toxins in your food or radiation from your glow-in-the-dark alarm clock that some low-energy RF emissions.
It won't be really wireless until the power supply is also wireless ;-)
Maybe someone can beam the power into the machine with lasers or something, but I wouldn't want to have to reboot every time a cat runs under the desk!
Oh, you mean like Microsoft, right? Won't somebody think of the (sacrificed) CPU availability!!!
Nothing like a taste of yer own medicine ;-) Perhaps with enough audits going on, they won't notice this small fleet of rebel X-Wings...
Yes, I know I could grep 'em out while viewing, but I think garbage should be kept in a separate place to the real visitors' log entries.
As many previous posters have noted, the Civ and FreeCiv games make for excellent teamplay.
I reckon it's because you can run more or less separate countries, if you like, form alliances, or just get nasty and pound the crap out of each other with catapaults... (hee hee)
And with the Hot Seat option, you can do this with one computer.
Oh man, I can't wait for Civ III. Yes, I am a Civ addict. And so is my wife (yay!)
He's not that far off track. Think of a corporation as a communist state where all property and ideas are owned by an elite with all the decision-making powers. Dissidents can be forcibly removed, and conformity is essential to survival.
Corporatism IS communism!
Obviously all tall buildings need to have military personal standing on the roof with stinger missiles to stop incoming planes..
That works quite well in Korea, actually.
For the US to respond in force in less than 12 hours would practically imply that someone giving orders knew about the trade center attacks before they happened.
Funny you should mention this. When I was driving to work this morning, I was listening to the radio here in LA (KYSR, Jamie and Danny) and someone had called in saying that they were in the Army Reserve, and was told LAST NIGHT to go on standby!
Somebody knew some shit was going to hit the fan, but didn't want to cause an outbreak of panic and hysteria, I guess.
I love debugging kernel modules as much as the next slashdot reading Linux nut, but seriously, when it comes to debugging applications, a nice GUI-based step/trace utility in the language of my choice is a bloody nice thing to have. Why?
Because it means I can spend less time debugging, and more time actually coding. And this makes me happy.
1. Say "Information wants to be free."
2. Rinse.
3. Repeat.
Well, this'll have interesting ramifications for the computer industry. As pointed out in previous slashdot articles, one of the biggest things selling computers right now is the ability for home users to mess around with MP3s and all that kind of thing.
Corporate IT shops won't care about this digital rights stuff. They don't stand to lose anything from it. But home users (hopefully) will not go for it.
This makes no sense. Even with the dot-com bust and everything, the PC industry turns over a lot of dollars. Implementing this law looks a lot like shooting yourself in the foot, America.
Then again, the whole thing could be a false alarm designed to boost sagging sales of current PCs.
Thank you for putting principles before profit.
I salute you.
(on a side note, I wonder if this means I'm gonna have to start paying for my domain goth.org.au?)
Close. I'd say it's an evil plutocrats' law.
After reading both those articles, I must say that the guy "defending" himself against defamation seems like a slimy bugger indeed.
Here's why. He's suing a US-based publication. His lawyer(s) must know that Australian defamation laws are a bit tougher than US laws, so they concoct this idea that since someone in Australia has in fact read it, that the article containing the defaming remarks is published in Australia! Why? So they have more of a chance of a successful defamation case! That's pretty bloody slimy.
What hogwash. I can get on a plane and go to china, buy a chinese magazine, and come home and read it. Doesn't mean that the magazine was published in my home. I maintain that the publishing takes place where the physical web server resides.
God, what a can of worms this is gonna open up.
I can see it now. The Taliban will come out suing millions of AOL users for showing their faces in public.
You are now about to enter:
*bwahahahahaha*
If that kid's gonna pump and dump, well, more power to him. That'll learn ya'll for being gullible buffoons.
Now I have all my domains registered with Dotster, who are a joy to deal with. Everything is quick and web based, the site is decidedly non-Byzantine and has loads of nifty features, and they're pretty damn cheap too.
Disclaimer: I do not work for Dotster. I just like 'em a lot.
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oh man, somebody PLEASE mod this guy closer to 5. that's piss-funny.
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Two things:
See, Microsoft really is an incredibly innovative company, just not where they claim to be. Their quest for innovation in legal and marketing brutality is nothing short of astonishing. These guys can pump out propaganda for persuasion of decisionmakers and lawsuits for dissenters like you wouldn't beleive.
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Microsoft is already an open source company! Not, really!
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The concept of "Fine Art" is created to ensure an artificial scarcity and inflatable pricing, just as with domain names. The Art Establishment are the sole arbiters of what's Art and what's Not Art, and therefore can define the parameters of the scarcity as they see fit.
And of course, to maximize their profits, they make those parameters narrow, arbitrary, and more or less completely unpredictable to your average innovative artist.
Digital art, being infinitely reproducible, destroys this artificial scarcity, and basically makes these greedy assholes shit bricks in fear. Of course, a pissed off reptile is going to be very nasty, and under all that mammalian cortex, there's a nasty, vicious reptile lurking in every one of us. Of course these guys are going to get defensive and slander the hell out of anything that gets in their way of making a buck.
It's enough to make me think this lot are all in bed with their mutual fund managers to artificially inflate stock prices by bulk buying and then selling off.
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This looks suspiciously like an attempt to disprove the validity of the fields of archaeology with (guess what) more archaeology.
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This gets around the whole problem of Maxwell's (Theoretical) Demon trying to throw away information about which particles are hot and which particles are cold, by just bouncing the one particle around randomly. Lovely!
Heh. Imagine a few trillion of these things lined up in parallel, ratcheting a big wheel, makin' kinetic energy from diffused heat!
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That sounds remarkably like a certain cult that tried to hitch a ride on comet Hale-Bopp...
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