Who cares. There is absolutely no news or anything of interest in this article.
Darl ALWAYS has something to say. Fact is the last few storys where Darl spoke weren't news becouse it's what he always dose.
News is when something NEW happends. Not something that intrests you personally. Every time this topic comes up SCO puts some spin on it. They can't. Thats news.
SCO isn't press driven it's FUD driven. It's a means of getting Darl McBride to put out more FUD and frighten people away from Linux. Darl Dosen't have anything to say this time so what is the point?
Anyway this is just a modern day "Ignorence is bliss" a notion that has been blast away as one of the worst ideas to be produced.
Ignorence is not bliss. Ignorence is crossing the freeway in heavy traffic.
If we ignore what happends around us we'll just get more of the same.
When I tried this experement I ended up with a 3D holographic image of the words "There is no alternet universe" and a few moments later someone whispered "If you try that again we'll eat your soul"
So there is no alternet universe... Ok mister spooky voice you can stop making my walls bleed. And could you remove the chains from the door? I will NOT be entering that hole in the wall ok?
Actually I can explain this one logicly. And then disprove myself becouse I'm insain.
Dumb luck/Nobodys perfict: There will always be at least some trace of a crime the trick is to prevent being identified not prevent the crime from being known.
If your stuff is missing you will know that much. If someone dies you'll know it. The crime is recorded.
On that token New York has some very smart murders.
The real trick however is to insure it is never recognised as a crime. Don't steal or murder. Logicly speaking there is just to much eye on that. Don't con your trying to outsmart people eventually someone will outsmart you and you'll be in jail.
Do something nobody thought of before. Do it well. Do it and make sure nobody sees it for what it really is.
Here is an idea. Let's say you dislike cell phones. Start rummors about how cell phones cause cancer. Get some studys done. Typical school yard gosup done in the press. Now you have whole communitys not letting anyone set up cell phone towers.
How about you dislike a company. You need a group so convence a group of people this company is evil and then get them to work with you. Now rotating members of this close knit group (not a bunck of dorks on the Internet but a few jerks in your local community) go interacting with the employees and try to convence then to do things the wrong way or to quit. Don't EVER come out and say anything just drop hints. (If this dose not work inside 6 months STOP. One of the people your dealing with is probably both brillent and insain. You'll be cought eventually)
So long as there is no law covering what your doing your pritty much in the clear even if your cought. IANAL the preveous statement is not legal adavice don't do it.
The judge should have rejected this on the face of it. Might as well issue a restraining order against a victom carrying mace to protect herself from a stalker. Yes stalking is orders of magantude worse but restraining orders like this should not be permitted.
I have no doupt the judge didn't even understand the complaint. This has become the issue lately. Judges who "don't get it" IE don't actually understand what is happening. Impartal but not to the point of pure ignorence.
Search warents and restraining orders have been issued by judges who don't know what they are doing.
IANAL. I think you should be able to challange the lagitemacy of warents and orders (can you?) and if a judge has issued 3 such items that have proven fraudulent or inappropreate he shouldn't be permitted to issue anymore.
A search warent is bad enough. Remember Steve Jackson Games? Got a search warent over a card game and had everything taken. Never charged and got everything back after it long became obsolete. In effect someone tried to shut down a game company becouse they didn't approve of a card game. Now say if this were to happen to a small indupendent newspaper? Just cease the printing press (maybe just the computers printer) and the computers (maybe just 1 iMac).
Restraining orders are worse. Let's say Nintendo got a restraining order against Microsoft over the release of the X Box. Then Nintendo could force Microsoft to miss the critical Christmas shopping season.
Just use it to stall something when timming is critical. Can't carry mace, Can't block spam, Can't defend yourself, Can't avoid harrasment. Just get a restraining order from a judge who dosen't know better.
With computers being more and more part of socity maybe we should require judges take some sort of technology test just to see if they are at least know what is being requested when a spammer asks for a restraining order.
I believe the defence has access to the evedence so they should be able to examine it and find the cuplrit.
BTW I believe <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63280,00.html">this</a> is the culprit. The $9,000,000 question is why haven't thies guys gone to jail yet?
A few days ago my sister was trying to give me some pepsi bottle caps good for free iStore music. I had to refuse.
She couldn't becouse her computer is dead.
I can't becouse I don't run Windows.
PlayFair is so that we of the Linux croud can actually use iStore. I don't know if I could make any use of an ipod from Linux and frankly why should I do any research on Apples behalf? Compaq and Dell aren't in the os wars. They don't care if Microsoft has total domination of the market so long as they stay in business.
Apple however. I understand the need to support Windows and the need to support some sort of content control. However why is Apple leaving Linux at a disadvantage? Playfair is trying to bring to Linux what Apple did not. They throw in a few advantages above and byond just to make it worth the effort.
And that is how things work in open source. Exclude Linux and someone will fix it and make it better. Want your restrictions? Then give us iTunes. Give us support. Open source? Let's draw the line at a Linux binary. Works for Real Media so I don't see why not.
Continue to ignore Linux and you'll continue to see software like Playfair stripped of content controls.
As for me... No playfair, No itunes, no istore. The pepsi bottle caps go in the trash.
It's the first time most anyone saw it. Mebibytes was created in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission. In otherwords burrocrats invented this term and it's only just now being used. And Meg? Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera etc were just jargon for the sake of jargon when the computer industry actually needed the binary counterpart to hundred, thousand, million, billion. So the worthless redundency got reused to prevent confusion.
It's an approprate time for addoption. The computer industry over the years has toyed with swapping the binary and decmal count for a long time. The Commodore 64 with 64k of ram. It didn't have 65536 bytes of ram but 65025 bytes of ram. ALMOST 64ki.
And then there is the hard disk industry using Million count instead of Mebi count.
Far too often today when people say Mega they actually mean base million.
However please: It's all new terminology created a handful of years ago by burrocrats who (IMAO) had tree trunks stuck up certen places becouse some industry terminology was using terms still used in the electronics industry (but not in the real world) and if it continued long enough they might actually have to use ENGLISH and risk being understandable by normal people.
One easy way to grab attention is to intentionally inject commen spelling errors into your webpage. I don't recomend this. As easy and as tempting as it is Google feeds the correct spelling.
On that note I do get the highest ranking for "Linux Destro" A mispelling of Linux Distro (Not for long.. Noticed the error and plan to fix it.)
Now for a funny.. Take a look at the winner for the correct spelling. It's not RedHat.
This is why the GPL is important. A very old (and often employed) business plan
1. Steal existing work (Say public domain code) clame as own. 2. Market.... 3. If original hasn't been devistated by the hype. Sue. 3a. They can't sue back if it's public domain. No proffit motive to defend. Chances are they'll give it up. 3b. If they don't give up use the fact that your the only one with a clame of ownership. After all the original author gave up all rights you have every right to clame it. (Finders keepers)
4. Proffit. 5. Let it go stagnent and die. It's not like you put any work into it.
I don't know. I think being human is just something you get at birth and have to live with all your life. However I am supprised. Firstly becouse he is human and secondly that he admits it in public.
But being a beatbox is certenly a move in the right direction.
The eye witness accounts didn't have an effect Permit me to conferm this.
Ohh the accounts did get a reaction from me. And I quote "Bull Shit" And that is exactly what I said. And I must say for the record I still don't believe the storys. For what ever reason there is far to much temptation to lie or hype the facts even when the facts are on your side. If your not careful you make your storys unreasonable or impossable.
I believe the clames that reached my ear were impossable. The conditions discribed that is clamed old frail men were enduring for months would have killed a stronge healthy adult male in weeks if not days. However it is quite possable the reason the storys were misinterpretations of real abuse or real abuse blown out of preportion. Say for example every day a guard trips a certen prisonner by using a tazer on his leg. If you tell me an obveously healthy man is being beaten daily I'll call you a lier. Show me a picture of him being zapped and I'll believe you.
Photos like words can lie. To verify the athenticity I like anyone else examine the details. Words are few and filtered by the bieses of the speaker plus the urge to hype creates flaws in the story that would lead people to believe it's not true.
But a photo is a machine recording. The flaws would be from camra defects or intentional fabrication (rather that accadental fabication)
Also pictures are worth 1,000 words. If a photo is faked there is a greater chance of a flaw in the photo to prove it. If a photo is real there is little chance of an accadental flaw slipping in.
Testimony is imperfict. We speak from bies. Flaws in our clames will ALWAYS slip in. Interigate someone long enough they will conferm what ever you wish to conferm even if by accadent.
When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws will have cameras And abuses of the system will become offical policy.
There is a saying "An armed socity is a polite socity" (Yeah I'm a gun rights nut)
Well it applys to camras as well as guns.
Picture this: A person walks into a bank and pulls out a gun. Everyone hits the floor. Now picture: A person walks into a bank and all the costummers are packing wepons. If he pulls out a gun odds are he'll have 20 wepons pointed at him.
With camras. If everyone is carrying recording equipment we are less likely to lie cheat steal.
I think socity has become more and more polite with the advent of camras and later of recording tape.
During the original gulf war some of our reporters went missing. Soon we'll see a day when a random person in some nation is kidnapped and with the push of a button or an utterence of a word the events are automaticly recorded on an internet jernal.
Or maybe a person is pulled over and suddenly the police shoot the person. The recorder detects the loss of life signs and transmits a video uplink to an internet server.
I know certen law enforcment groups, privacy advocates and political groups will want to make this stuff illegal.
But I think this kind of technology is helpful in protecting our rights, libertys and generally putting con artists and criminals in jail.
What I see is the potental to charge for unpopulare protocals. RIAA conspericys aside (RIAA dosen't care if the technology is already in place). If some group starts blaming online games then there gose your online game consoles. If People start blamming bandwith problems on the X Box then Comcast can hit up Microsoft for hard cold cash... And if Microsoft refuses to fork it over.
BBSes around here were having unusual service problems when the local monopoly started looking into the possability of running an ISP. (I guess they didn't want an online service of any kind to be available in the local area)
In short.... If something becomes too populare Comcast can restrict you ro Comcasts version.. and cut you off years before Comcast is ready. If something becomes too political Comcast can cut it off or require adult verification. If someone provides cable over Internet.... It's a good thing I have Astound.
On the other hand Comcast could probably do this with out any specal equipment on the consummer side.
The original series Enterprise did have a swish sound but ONLY in the intro. The Next Generation had a sound effect for going into warp.
In "Star Trek: Enterprise" the prequil that isn't Enterprise DX only makes noise when your INSIDE the ship... Everyone OUTSIDE the ship never hears anything. (That dosen't make up for the fact that Enterprise dosen't even TRY to folow the established timeline.)
It's already said the avrage person will not need a "top of the line" PC unless they play video games. Nothing used in the office or Internet today needs such power.
So why dose Longhorn need so much processing power? Obveously those requirements are not for the apps. Most of that is needed by the OS itself.
So what is planned for Longhorn that it needs such resources?
And more importantly.... Can we do it in Linux TODAY?
What I'm saying is that's a lot of features and I'm sure there are a lot of potental Linux projects in that. If Microsoft is going to tell us what Longhorn will be doing years from now maybe we could recreate those features in Linux TODAY as sepret projects. (Of course you couldn't install them ALL at once but if you had only what you wanted installed you wouldn't need anywhere near as much as Longhorn will)
With thies requirements I'm pritty sure the planned release day isn't anytime soon.
Wouldn't it be funny if Intel couldn't produce a chip powerful enough?
Or better yet... What if we end up with a RAM shortage (it's happend before) and nobody could actually get enough ram to actually do the job?
And remember kiddies Microsoft tends to lowball the specs a little so the industry experts end up inflating Microsofts recomendations by a factor of 2 to make them more realistic.
Now.. what if the only way to GET those resources was to emulate a PC on an iMac G25?
It's a funny mem BUT just a few factoids to crush this into past. 1. Unix programmers were already demanding a minumum of 4 megs for research. (They wouldn't get said machine but they would demand it) 2. The original PC was shipped with 64k expandable to 256k. To get 640k you needed to get a PC compatable and an aftermarket memory board. 3. Moterola had already released the 68000 with a max memory of 16megs.
I'm sure SOMEBODY said it but it wasn't anyone representing IBM or Microsoft. I think a lot of people FELT that Bill Gates was saying this by refusing to produce Dos 286 as planned. But the actual reason was becouse Microsofts programmers weren't able to make it work.
Classic Dos was trapped in 640k becouse of the fact that there was no way to access past 640k on the 286 chip when running software intended for the older 86 chip. Intels design screw up.
There was a myth that the 640k limit was introduced in MsDos 3.
Also I remember someone saying "64k is more than enough for anyone"... and it had nothing to do with Microsoft or Bill Gates.
Macintosh: Click and hold to drag and drop. Dubble click fast to activate. This was handled by timming.
Geoworks: Click fast to activate click and hold to drag and drop. Again timming used to determine the action.
Newton and Zoomer. A bunch of companys desided to create a new "pentop" computer and Apple was in the group untill Geoworks was picked instead of having Apple make the UI. So Apple split off to make there own Pentop.
And as a result the poorly marketed Zoomer and the well marketed (but a bit expensive) Newton. The Zoomer died quickly due primarly to poor planning. The Newton took a bit longer.
If Apple and geoworks preserved the basic interface.. There is your prior art for click and hold on a PDA. However being that click and hold has prior art on a desktop I don't see why it even NEEDS a PDA counterpart.
Then there is the backlight power button on the first PDA to be called a PDA.
And there are some alternet interfaces on the palm.
And Linux on IPAQ using X11.. Somewhere there has to be a Window manager using click and hold.
Ahh to hell with it... I'm patenting everything being done on desktops today only adding "on an imbeded applience" who tend to be about 10 years behind the curve... At the very least 10 years later (when my patent dies) when Uber Smuck trys to patent them he'll be denied becouse of my prior art..:)
Knowing how to track down someone who DOSE NOT spoof his caller ID.. Yeah peace of cake. Knowing how to track down someone who spoofs his caller ID.. Not so simple.
For over a decade now police could rely on caller ID to deliver accurate results and this kid knew how to change that. It's not remedial detective work 101 anymore...
I don't disbelieve you, but you do realize that is fucking insanity don't you? Not in the way you mean it.
Alcahol screws up a persons thought process so a person who is waisted can end up agreeing to vertually anything. In short it's kinda like having sex with an insain person.
This is the #2 reason why you should always have a sober friend with you when you get drunk.
1. Stick with what you know. A lot of people suggested stealing a phone but that would have gotten him cought FASTER. Instead he used the phone he already owned.
He knew how to spoof caller ID so he is better off doing that instead.
Yes he made phone calls IN CLASS. My guess on the matter is that this isn't an unusual activity amoung his peers and he had quite a bit of practace calling friends during class. So he probably mastered this little skill long before trying anything.
He probably tested the caller ID hack extensively and perfected that as well before making his first fake bomb threat.
2. People learn. DO NOT do it a second time. He got cought simply becouse he gave the police enough chances to catch up. The first time you'll catch em off guard. You might get a second swing if it's too complex for them to figure it out first time. Third time is dumb luck. Forth and your really out on a limb.
Typical teenager.. thinks he'll never get cought simply becouse he wasn't cought the first time.
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A few years back I suggested this to Nitrozak.
A baowolf cluster of Linux wearables = Linux of Borg.
She never used it.
Who cares. There is absolutely no news or anything of interest in this article.
Darl ALWAYS has something to say.
Fact is the last few storys where Darl spoke weren't news becouse it's what he always dose.
News is when something NEW happends. Not something that intrests you personally.
Every time this topic comes up SCO puts some spin on it. They can't. Thats news.
It dosen't actually work that way.
SCO isn't press driven it's FUD driven. It's a means of getting Darl McBride to put out more FUD and frighten people away from Linux.
Darl Dosen't have anything to say this time so what is the point?
Anyway this is just a modern day "Ignorence is bliss" a notion that has been blast away as one of the worst ideas to be produced.
Ignorence is not bliss. Ignorence is crossing the freeway in heavy traffic.
If we ignore what happends around us we'll just get more of the same.
When I tried this experement I ended up with a 3D holographic image of the words "There is no alternet universe"
and a few moments later someone whispered
"If you try that again we'll eat your soul"
So there is no alternet universe...
Ok mister spooky voice you can stop making my walls bleed. And could you remove the chains from the door? I will NOT be entering that hole in the wall ok?
> Equally how do we know that they don't exist
Actually I can explain this one logicly. And then disprove myself becouse I'm insain.
Dumb luck/Nobodys perfict:
There will always be at least some trace of a crime the trick is to prevent being identified not prevent the crime from being known.
If your stuff is missing you will know that much. If someone dies you'll know it.
The crime is recorded.
On that token New York has some very smart murders.
The real trick however is to insure it is never recognised as a crime.
Don't steal or murder. Logicly speaking there is just to much eye on that.
Don't con your trying to outsmart people eventually someone will outsmart you and you'll be in jail.
Do something nobody thought of before. Do it well. Do it and make sure nobody sees it for what it really is.
Here is an idea.
Let's say you dislike cell phones. Start rummors about how cell phones cause cancer. Get some studys done. Typical school yard gosup done in the press.
Now you have whole communitys not letting anyone set up cell phone towers.
How about you dislike a company.
You need a group so convence a group of people this company is evil and then get them to work with you.
Now rotating members of this close knit group (not a bunck of dorks on the Internet but a few jerks in your local community) go interacting with the employees and try to convence then to do things the wrong way or to quit.
Don't EVER come out and say anything just drop hints.
(If this dose not work inside 6 months STOP. One of the people your dealing with is probably both brillent and insain. You'll be cought eventually)
So long as there is no law covering what your doing your pritty much in the clear even if your cought.
IANAL the preveous statement is not legal adavice don't do it.
The judge should have rejected this on the face of it.
Might as well issue a restraining order against a victom carrying mace to protect herself from a stalker.
Yes stalking is orders of magantude worse but restraining orders like this should not be permitted.
I have no doupt the judge didn't even understand the complaint. This has become the issue lately.
Judges who "don't get it" IE don't actually understand what is happening.
Impartal but not to the point of pure ignorence.
Search warents and restraining orders have been issued by judges who don't know what they are doing.
IANAL. I think you should be able to challange the lagitemacy of warents and orders (can you?) and if a judge has issued 3 such items that have proven fraudulent or inappropreate he shouldn't be permitted to issue anymore.
A search warent is bad enough. Remember Steve Jackson Games? Got a search warent over a card game and had everything taken. Never charged and got everything back after it long became obsolete.
In effect someone tried to shut down a game company becouse they didn't approve of a card game.
Now say if this were to happen to a small indupendent newspaper? Just cease the printing press (maybe just the computers printer) and the computers (maybe just 1 iMac).
Restraining orders are worse. Let's say Nintendo got a restraining order against Microsoft over the release of the X Box. Then Nintendo could force Microsoft to miss the critical Christmas shopping season.
Just use it to stall something when timming is critical.
Can't carry mace, Can't block spam, Can't defend yourself, Can't avoid harrasment.
Just get a restraining order from a judge who dosen't know better.
With computers being more and more part of socity maybe we should require judges take some sort of technology test just to see if they are at least know what is being requested when a spammer asks for a restraining order.
I believe the defence has access to the evedence so they should be able to examine it and find the cuplrit.
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BTW I believe <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,6328
The $9,000,000 question is why haven't thies guys gone to jail yet?
A few days ago my sister was trying to give me some pepsi bottle caps good for free iStore music.
I had to refuse.
She couldn't becouse her computer is dead.
I can't becouse I don't run Windows.
PlayFair is so that we of the Linux croud can actually use iStore.
I don't know if I could make any use of an ipod from Linux and frankly why should I do any research on Apples behalf?
Compaq and Dell aren't in the os wars. They don't care if Microsoft has total domination of the market so long as they stay in business.
Apple however. I understand the need to support Windows and the need to support some sort of content control.
However why is Apple leaving Linux at a disadvantage?
Playfair is trying to bring to Linux what Apple did not. They throw in a few advantages above and byond just to make it worth the effort.
And that is how things work in open source. Exclude Linux and someone will fix it and make it better.
Want your restrictions? Then give us iTunes. Give us support. Open source? Let's draw the line at a Linux binary. Works for Real Media so I don't see why not.
Continue to ignore Linux and you'll continue to see software like Playfair stripped of content controls.
As for me...
No playfair, No itunes, no istore.
The pepsi bottle caps go in the trash.
I drink Jolt anyways.
It's the first time most anyone saw it.
Mebibytes was created in 1998 by the International Electrotechnical Commission.
In otherwords burrocrats invented this term and it's only just now being used.
And Meg?
Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera etc were just jargon for the sake of jargon when the computer industry actually needed the binary counterpart to hundred, thousand, million, billion. So the worthless redundency got reused to prevent confusion.
It's an approprate time for addoption.
The computer industry over the years has toyed with swapping the binary and decmal count for a long time.
The Commodore 64 with 64k of ram. It didn't have 65536 bytes of ram but 65025 bytes of ram. ALMOST 64ki.
And then there is the hard disk industry using Million count instead of Mebi count.
Far too often today when people say Mega they actually mean base million.
However please:
It's all new terminology created a handful of years ago by burrocrats who (IMAO) had tree trunks stuck up certen places becouse some industry terminology was using terms still used in the electronics industry (but not in the real world) and if it continued long enough they might actually have to use ENGLISH and risk being understandable by normal people.
One easy way to grab attention is to intentionally inject commen spelling errors into your webpage.
I don't recomend this. As easy and as tempting as it is Google feeds the correct spelling.
On that note I do get the highest ranking for "Linux Destro" A mispelling of Linux Distro (Not for long.. Noticed the error and plan to fix it.)
Now for a funny.. Take a look at the winner for the correct spelling.
It's not RedHat.
This is why the GPL is important.
A very old (and often employed) business plan
1. Steal existing work (Say public domain code) clame as own.
2. Market....
3. If original hasn't been devistated by the hype. Sue.
3a. They can't sue back if it's public domain. No proffit motive to defend. Chances are they'll give it up.
3b. If they don't give up use the fact that your the only one with a clame of ownership.
After all the original author gave up all rights you have every right to clame it.
(Finders keepers)
4. Proffit.
5. Let it go stagnent and die.
It's not like you put any work into it.
Hay if I ripped one I'd be an AC....
At least untill the air cleared.
Then I return as me and pretend nothing happend.
I don't know. I think being human is just something you get at birth and have to live with all your life.
However I am supprised. Firstly becouse he is human and secondly that he admits it in public.
But being a beatbox is certenly a move in the right direction.
The eye witness accounts didn't have an effect
Permit me to conferm this.
Ohh the accounts did get a reaction from me.
And I quote "Bull Shit" And that is exactly what I said.
And I must say for the record I still don't believe the storys.
For what ever reason there is far to much temptation to lie or hype the facts even when the facts are on your side.
If your not careful you make your storys unreasonable or impossable.
I believe the clames that reached my ear were impossable. The conditions discribed that is clamed old frail men were enduring for months would have killed a stronge healthy adult male in weeks if not days.
However it is quite possable the reason the storys were misinterpretations of real abuse or real abuse blown out of preportion.
Say for example every day a guard trips a certen prisonner by using a tazer on his leg.
If you tell me an obveously healthy man is being beaten daily I'll call you a lier.
Show me a picture of him being zapped and I'll believe you.
Photos like words can lie. To verify the athenticity I like anyone else examine the details.
Words are few and filtered by the bieses of the speaker plus the urge to hype creates flaws in the story that would lead people to believe it's not true.
But a photo is a machine recording. The flaws would be from camra defects or intentional fabrication (rather that accadental fabication)
Also pictures are worth 1,000 words.
If a photo is faked there is a greater chance of a flaw in the photo to prove it.
If a photo is real there is little chance of an accadental flaw slipping in.
Testimony is imperfict. We speak from bies. Flaws in our clames will ALWAYS slip in. Interigate someone long enough they will conferm what ever you wish to conferm even if by accadent.
When cameras are outlawed, only outlaws will have cameras
And abuses of the system will become offical policy.
There is a saying
"An armed socity is a polite socity"
(Yeah I'm a gun rights nut)
Well it applys to camras as well as guns.
Picture this: A person walks into a bank and pulls out a gun. Everyone hits the floor.
Now picture: A person walks into a bank and all the costummers are packing wepons.
If he pulls out a gun odds are he'll have 20 wepons pointed at him.
With camras. If everyone is carrying recording equipment we are less likely to lie cheat steal.
I think socity has become more and more polite with the advent of camras and later of recording tape.
During the original gulf war some of our reporters went missing.
Soon we'll see a day when a random person in some nation is kidnapped and with the push of a button or an utterence of a word the events are automaticly recorded on an internet jernal.
Or maybe a person is pulled over and suddenly the police shoot the person. The recorder detects the loss of life signs and transmits a video uplink to an internet server.
I know certen law enforcment groups, privacy advocates and political groups will want to make this stuff illegal.
But I think this kind of technology is helpful in protecting our rights, libertys and generally putting con artists and criminals in jail.
What I see is the potental to charge for unpopulare protocals. ... And if Microsoft refuses to fork it over.
RIAA conspericys aside (RIAA dosen't care if the technology is already in place).
If some group starts blaming online games then there gose your online game consoles.
If People start blamming bandwith problems on the X Box then Comcast can hit up Microsoft for hard cold cash
BBSes around here were having unusual service problems when the local monopoly started looking into the possability of running an ISP.
(I guess they didn't want an online service of any kind to be available in the local area)
In short....
If something becomes too populare Comcast can restrict you ro Comcasts version.. and cut you off years before Comcast is ready.
If something becomes too political Comcast can cut it off or require adult verification.
If someone provides cable over Internet....
It's a good thing I have Astound.
On the other hand Comcast could probably do this with out any specal equipment on the consummer side.
The original series Enterprise did have a swish sound but ONLY in the intro.
The Next Generation had a sound effect for going into warp.
In "Star Trek: Enterprise" the prequil that isn't
Enterprise DX only makes noise when your INSIDE the ship... Everyone OUTSIDE the ship never hears anything.
(That dosen't make up for the fact that Enterprise dosen't even TRY to folow the established timeline.)
It's already said the avrage person will not need a "top of the line" PC unless they play video games.
Nothing used in the office or Internet today needs such power.
So why dose Longhorn need so much processing power? Obveously those requirements are not for the apps. Most of that is needed by the OS itself.
So what is planned for Longhorn that it needs such resources?
And more importantly....
Can we do it in Linux TODAY?
What I'm saying is that's a lot of features and I'm sure there are a lot of potental Linux projects in that. If Microsoft is going to tell us what Longhorn will be doing years from now maybe we could recreate those features in Linux TODAY as sepret projects.
(Of course you couldn't install them ALL at once but if you had only what you wanted installed you wouldn't need anywhere near as much as Longhorn will)
With thies requirements I'm pritty sure the planned release day isn't anytime soon.
Wouldn't it be funny if Intel couldn't produce a chip powerful enough?
Or better yet... What if we end up with a RAM shortage (it's happend before) and nobody could actually get enough ram to actually do the job?
And remember kiddies Microsoft tends to lowball the specs a little so the industry experts end up inflating Microsofts recomendations by a factor of 2 to make them more realistic.
Now.. what if the only way to GET those resources was to emulate a PC on an iMac G25?
It's a funny mem BUT just a few factoids to crush this into past.
1. Unix programmers were already demanding a minumum of 4 megs for research. (They wouldn't get said machine but they would demand it)
2. The original PC was shipped with 64k expandable to 256k. To get 640k you needed to get a PC compatable and an aftermarket memory board.
3. Moterola had already released the 68000 with a max memory of 16megs.
I'm sure SOMEBODY said it but it wasn't anyone representing IBM or Microsoft.
I think a lot of people FELT that Bill Gates was saying this by refusing to produce Dos 286 as planned. But the actual reason was becouse Microsofts programmers weren't able to make it work.
Classic Dos was trapped in 640k becouse of the fact that there was no way to access past 640k on the 286 chip when running software intended for the older 86 chip. Intels design screw up.
There was a myth that the 640k limit was introduced in MsDos 3.
Also I remember someone saying "64k is more than enough for anyone"... and it had nothing to do with Microsoft or Bill Gates.
Macintosh: Click and hold to drag and drop. Dubble click fast to activate.
:)
This was handled by timming.
Geoworks: Click fast to activate click and hold to drag and drop.
Again timming used to determine the action.
Newton and Zoomer.
A bunch of companys desided to create a new "pentop" computer and Apple was in the group untill Geoworks was picked instead of having Apple make the UI.
So Apple split off to make there own Pentop.
And as a result the poorly marketed Zoomer and the well marketed (but a bit expensive) Newton.
The Zoomer died quickly due primarly to poor planning.
The Newton took a bit longer.
If Apple and geoworks preserved the basic interface.. There is your prior art for click and hold on a PDA. However being that click and hold has prior art on a desktop I don't see why it even NEEDS a PDA counterpart.
Then there is the backlight power button on the first PDA to be called a PDA.
And there are some alternet interfaces on the palm.
And Linux on IPAQ using X11.. Somewhere there has to be a Window manager using click and hold.
Ahh to hell with it...
I'm patenting everything being done on desktops today only adding "on an imbeded applience" who tend to be about 10 years behind the curve...
At the very least 10 years later (when my patent dies) when Uber Smuck trys to patent them he'll be denied becouse of my prior art..
And he didn't spoof his phone ID Baka
It's not every day I get to tell myself to RTFA.
The page says he used caller ID spoofing in fact he didn't.
SBC wasn't working with the police and that's pritty unexpected.
Knowing how to track down someone who DOSE NOT spoof his caller ID.. Yeah peace of cake.
Knowing how to track down someone who spoofs his caller ID.. Not so simple.
For over a decade now police could rely on caller ID to deliver accurate results and this kid knew how to change that. It's not remedial detective work 101 anymore...
I don't disbelieve you, but you do realize that is fucking insanity don't you?
Not in the way you mean it.
Alcahol screws up a persons thought process so a person who is waisted can end up agreeing to vertually anything.
In short it's kinda like having sex with an insain person.
This is the #2 reason why you should always have a sober friend with you when you get drunk.
Hinsight is 20/20.
Aspiring villens take note. He did pritty well.
1. Stick with what you know.
A lot of people suggested stealing a phone but that would have gotten him cought FASTER. Instead he used the phone he already owned.
He knew how to spoof caller ID so he is better off doing that instead.
Yes he made phone calls IN CLASS. My guess on the matter is that this isn't an unusual activity amoung his peers and he had quite a bit of practace calling friends during class. So he probably mastered this little skill long before trying anything.
He probably tested the caller ID hack extensively and perfected that as well before making his first fake bomb threat.
2. People learn. DO NOT do it a second time.
He got cought simply becouse he gave the police enough chances to catch up.
The first time you'll catch em off guard.
You might get a second swing if it's too complex for them to figure it out first time.
Third time is dumb luck.
Forth and your really out on a limb.
Typical teenager.. thinks he'll never get cought simply becouse he wasn't cought the first time.