it's pretty much impossible. While it's great that reporters want to protect their sources, ultimately, those sources are almost never revealed by means of technological know-how. They're either revealed because someone decides to talk, or they never come to light and the reporter ends up going to jail for contempt of court.
For example, a local reporter in our area refused to give up the name of his source for confidential videotapes leaked from FBI files (in regard to the trial of then-mayor of Providence, "Buddy" Cianci). The source was ultimately revealed because people started blabbing, not because "Big Brother" ransacked the reporter's hard drive.
While in principle, I think encrypting such data may be a good idea, to keep it away from casual hackers and leaks of that nature, I doubt that cryptography or such things will keep the info out of the hand of law enforcement or other government agencies. They'll fall back on their usual technique of applying pressure to the person, not the technology, and that person either will or will not cave in.
On a bit of a tangent, I don't think there's any real way to keep someone involved in a report from being in the know as to who the source is - anonymous submission sources and the such are not very useful, because then the reporter has no way to judge the credibility of the information.
we keep the level of particulate matter in the the atmosphere up, we don't have to worry about the greenhouse effect![/sarcasm]
Really, this article jumps to far too many conclusions with far too little data.
"...a global temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards."
And with exactly the same certainty as this statement expresses, if I dance around in a circle every Thursday night, an average rainfall increase of 17 inches could be in the cards!
at least where I am, legally, they cannot deny discounts to non-card carrying members. All you have to do is ask and they have to scan in the "store" card, and you get the same discounts.
Is it the conversion process of plant matter to fossil fuels that is inefficient?
I'm not saying that cars are the most efficient things on the face of the earth, but these numbers don't necessarily imply that cars are uniquely inefficent among all our technology. It just implies that most of our technology relies on an inefficient process (the conversion of normal organic matter to fossil fuels) to power it.
I'd like to see how much prehistoric plant matter it would take to cook my Thanksgiving dinner on my stove, or heat up the water for my 10-15 minute shower in the morning.
I consider myself a conservationist, but I don't see too many issues with moon mining. I mean, come on, there is no ecosystem to distrupt, no species to make extinct, etc, etc. I really doubt that anything we do (or even COULD do, at least accidentally) is going to blow up the moon or knock it out of orbit. Am I off base on this?
You'd think that after they found what appears to be microscopic life (fossilized, rather) on Mars, it wouldn't be that big of a stretch.
However, it is fairly interesting that that many amino acids are left-handed. Organic molecules tend to form in pretty much the same way in any given environment, so I'd think that if those aminos ARE from Earth, they'd be from someplace strange, like a hydrothermal vent. How they would've gotten onto a meteor from there, who knows.
Yes, I know Metallica. I grew up in their heyday. I was born in the seventies. I just wasn't sure if he was being serious or not, referring to a metallica song.
I've had my preorder at EB since October. I really hope they get it out soon, it looks like it's going to be great. Maybe they'll actually make a Master of Magic 2 as well...oooh...*drool.* For those of you who haven't played the old Simtex games, see if you can find them, they're worth playing even now.
I'm currently working on a project where we are connecting K-12 kids via videoconferencing to different events. For example, we just bridged a live stream of an open heart surgery to the web and had a few local high schools and junior high schools actively participating and asking the surgeon questions realtime, as the surgery was happening. (we used polycom units, by the way. www.polycom.com ). This January, I'm setting up the bridge so that the kids can participated in discussions of the JASON project ( www.jason.org ). Hopefully, we're going to have Dr. Robert Ballard, the guy who found the titanic, join us, since he teaches at the University of Rhode Island. These are the kind of things that can really enhance education, as opposed to just throwing together a few educational games and having the kids play them.
Next lets raid Bic because they made the lighter that arsonists use, plus the pens that Check Fraud people use. Oh, and winchester and ginzu because they make the bullets and knives murderers use. Oh, and don't forget sharpie, because graffiti "artists" use sharpies all the time.
I'd probably agree and get a gamecube myself, if 90% of their lineup wasn't geared toward age 13 and under. They need to expand and get more complex adult-oriented games (no not porno, you dirty minded...)
I so wish I had gotten to be one of the Beta testers, but I didn't win the random drawing part of the contest.:( Ah well, it looks VERY good to me so far, from the screenies and other released material.
Dear God, I can just imagine my wife going back four months to pick out the exact wording of something I misspoke, and then playing it back. Men of the world unite, we must stop this now! *g*
Just kidding. This looks like some really interesting technology, but I can't help think that the investment of time you'd have to make outweighs the benefit.
Well, right now, I'm personally using this for my fan, and it works really well.
I've also been looking for a good liquid-cooling system, but has anyone solved the problem of getting rid of condensation yet? I don't want to have to mae a runoff tube leading out of my case to a bucket. *g*
How long do you think this case will last? Honestly, I think that the longer it takes the more solid a position Microsoft is going to wedge itself into, until it's all but impossible to dig them out.
In a world where technology advances at the rate that it does today, drawn out court cases make decisions far after the point at which the subject of the decision is obsolete.
Nothing drives me up the wall faster than someone I'm trying to converse with online or in email using an abbreviation for a three or four letter word. I don't mind people abbreviating longer words - Dr. for Doctor, Prof. for Professor, anti-d. for antidisestablishmentarianism, etc, etc. But it strikes me as sheer laziness and in some ways, disrespect, to not be willing to type "you are" instead of "u r." It makes the conversation harder to read, for the most part.
It's not like the people who use IMs and ICQs and IRCs all the time don't get enough practice to have a reasonable typing speed. Spell it out, people!
Nah, that's not a problem. The Fire Science lab is right next door. They light couches and stuff on fire all the time in there, they're used to it. (Yes, I graduated from WPI)
Sword of the Samurai as many others here seem to have.
Master of Magic and Master of Orion. Love those games.
X-Com.
The Dark Heart of Uukrul. Lemme tell you, that is probably the best $30 I've ever paid for a game, and that was back in 1988. It's from Broderbund, RPG game.
All the Bard's Tale games.
Most of the Wizardry. Especially Crusaders of the Dark Savant.
And I still have Sierra's first Quest for Glory in the box that is entitled "Hero's Quest."
A bunch of others that I can't recall offhand, but those rule. Man, those were the good old days.
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it's pretty much impossible. While it's great that reporters want to protect their sources, ultimately, those sources are almost never revealed by means of technological know-how. They're either revealed because someone decides to talk, or they never come to light and the reporter ends up going to jail for contempt of court.
For example, a local reporter in our area refused to give up the name of his source for confidential videotapes leaked from FBI files (in regard to the trial of then-mayor of Providence, "Buddy" Cianci). The source was ultimately revealed because people started blabbing, not because "Big Brother" ransacked the reporter's hard drive.
While in principle, I think encrypting such data may be a good idea, to keep it away from casual hackers and leaks of that nature, I doubt that cryptography or such things will keep the info out of the hand of law enforcement or other government agencies. They'll fall back on their usual technique of applying pressure to the person, not the technology, and that person either will or will not cave in.
On a bit of a tangent, I don't think there's any real way to keep someone involved in a report from being in the know as to who the source is - anonymous submission sources and the such are not very useful, because then the reporter has no way to judge the credibility of the information.
Really, this article jumps to far too many conclusions with far too little data.
And with exactly the same certainty as this statement expresses, if I dance around in a circle every Thursday night, an average rainfall increase of 17 inches could be in the cards!
at least where I am, legally, they cannot deny discounts to non-card carrying members. All you have to do is ask and they have to scan in the "store" card, and you get the same discounts.
Is it the conversion process of plant matter to fossil fuels that is inefficient?
I'm not saying that cars are the most efficient things on the face of the earth, but these numbers don't necessarily imply that cars are uniquely inefficent among all our technology. It just implies that most of our technology relies on an inefficient process (the conversion of normal organic matter to fossil fuels) to power it.
I'd like to see how much prehistoric plant matter it would take to cook my Thanksgiving dinner on my stove, or heat up the water for my 10-15 minute shower in the morning.
has a good little product with the ViaVideo line. As a bonus, it'll interact with other video conferencing units running H.323
I consider myself a conservationist, but I don't see too many issues with moon mining. I mean, come on, there is no ecosystem to distrupt, no species to make extinct, etc, etc. I really doubt that anything we do (or even COULD do, at least accidentally) is going to blow up the moon or knock it out of orbit. Am I off base on this?
You'd think that after they found what appears to be microscopic life (fossilized, rather) on Mars, it wouldn't be that big of a stretch.
However, it is fairly interesting that that many amino acids are left-handed. Organic molecules tend to form in pretty much the same way in any given environment, so I'd think that if those aminos ARE from Earth, they'd be from someplace strange, like a hydrothermal vent. How they would've gotten onto a meteor from there, who knows.
Yes, I know Metallica. I grew up in their heyday. I was born in the seventies. I just wasn't sure if he was being serious or not, referring to a metallica song.
Which is why I said "I hope you're kidding..."
I really hope you're joking, but if you're not, Master of Orion is a space strategy computer game series. Clicky
I've had my preorder at EB since October. I really hope they get it out soon, it looks like it's going to be great. Maybe they'll actually make a Master of Magic 2 as well...oooh...*drool.* For those of you who haven't played the old Simtex games, see if you can find them, they're worth playing even now.
I'm currently working on a project where we are connecting K-12 kids via videoconferencing to different events. For example, we just bridged a live stream of an open heart surgery to the web and had a few local high schools and junior high schools actively participating and asking the surgeon questions realtime, as the surgery was happening. (we used polycom units, by the way. www.polycom.com ). This January, I'm setting up the bridge so that the kids can participated in discussions of the JASON project ( www.jason.org ). Hopefully, we're going to have Dr. Robert Ballard, the guy who found the titanic, join us, since he teaches at the University of Rhode Island. These are the kind of things that can really enhance education, as opposed to just throwing together a few educational games and having the kids play them.
Next lets raid Bic because they made the lighter that arsonists use, plus the pens that Check Fraud people use. Oh, and winchester and ginzu because they make the bullets and knives murderers use. Oh, and don't forget sharpie, because graffiti "artists" use sharpies all the time.
Damn, where'd the economy go?
At least post biased, non-evidence backed stuff like this in the proper place.
I'd probably agree and get a gamecube myself, if 90% of their lineup wasn't geared toward age 13 and under. They need to expand and get more complex adult-oriented games (no not porno, you dirty minded...)
I so wish I had gotten to be one of the Beta testers, but I didn't win the random drawing part of the contest. :( Ah well, it looks VERY good to me so far, from the screenies and other released material.
Are we entering a new era?
"I'm sorry officer, I don't remember. My memory crashed."
Dear God, I can just imagine my wife going back four months to pick out the exact wording of something I misspoke, and then playing it back. Men of the world unite, we must stop this now! *g*
Just kidding. This looks like some really interesting technology, but I can't help think that the investment of time you'd have to make outweighs the benefit.
Well, right now, I'm personally using this for my fan, and it works really well.
I've also been looking for a good liquid-cooling system, but has anyone solved the problem of getting rid of condensation yet? I don't want to have to mae a runoff tube leading out of my case to a bucket. *g*
Whoo! Now I can sit here and lose my job, so I can't afford the subscription for my TiVO, so I can't record any more TV!
How long do you think this case will last? Honestly, I think that the longer it takes the more solid a position Microsoft is going to wedge itself into, until it's all but impossible to dig them out.
In a world where technology advances at the rate that it does today, drawn out court cases make decisions far after the point at which the subject of the decision is obsolete.
Nothing drives me up the wall faster than someone I'm trying to converse with online or in email using an abbreviation for a three or four letter word. I don't mind people abbreviating longer words - Dr. for Doctor, Prof. for Professor, anti-d. for antidisestablishmentarianism, etc, etc. But it strikes me as sheer laziness and in some ways, disrespect, to not be willing to type "you are" instead of "u r." It makes the conversation harder to read, for the most part.
It's not like the people who use IMs and ICQs and IRCs all the time don't get enough practice to have a reasonable typing speed. Spell it out, people!
Those proven techniques
to enlarge my genitals
no longer arrive.
(I hope)
Yay! Porn at work for everyone! Umm...I mean, yeah, I hate censorship. And stuff. *g*
Nah, that's not a problem. The Fire Science lab is right next door. They light couches and stuff on fire all the time in there, they're used to it. (Yes, I graduated from WPI)
Man I have a bunch.
Sword of the Samurai as many others here seem to have.
Master of Magic and Master of Orion. Love those games.
X-Com.
The Dark Heart of Uukrul. Lemme tell you, that is probably the best $30 I've ever paid for a game, and that was back in 1988. It's from Broderbund, RPG game.
All the Bard's Tale games.
Most of the Wizardry. Especially Crusaders of the Dark Savant.
And I still have Sierra's first Quest for Glory in the box that is entitled "Hero's Quest."
A bunch of others that I can't recall offhand, but those rule. Man, those were the good old days.