Very dubious indeed. I find it very hard to believe that he did not notice several image files appearing on his drive. Also such paedophiles are monitored very carefully, and not without reason.
This may have been a case where the jury and judge knew very little about the natures of trojan and computer.
One reason could be shocking manufacturing yields. The IBM manufacturing plant in Ireland has had terrible yield problems (even after the Telesto upgrade (aluminium to glass platters)).
I suspect their problems could be due to badly designed and inefficient processes. The drives may work but if there is too many failures from the cleanroom no amount of sales is going to make a profit.
I know this because I know 3 techs who used to work there!
I use MacOS 9.1, it's ok, I prefer it to most other mainstream OS's.
But in my years of computer use, my favourite has got to be AmigaOS.
Why?
Because of it's astounding simplicity, (and the multitasking was damn good too!).
I could do whatever I wanted, quickly, easily, and without fuss. Batch jobs, or just copying a file was delightful.
I think that OS's are far too complicated these days, I would like to see a cut down minimalist OS that did the job without any frills. I know that computing is way different today than in the early 90's (I admin 30 NT machines as part of my job), but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
Surely the 70Mb MacOs in using in memory right now isn't absolutely necessary. AmigaOS used to fit in 512k, and when using 3rd party programs to expand the OS to a similar functionality as Windows 98, it still only took up only 2-3Mb.
In trying to simpify computing for the masses I think that the companies involved have made things too complicated under the bonnet, and that a paradigm shift in computer/human relations is needed, or perhaps we should return to an old one.
This does not make sense, putting stuff up in space is extremely expensive, therefore the lighter the better. It would actually be cheaper buying a smaller lighter PPC controller board and preloading it. DVD drives in space? I don't think so. And are those 7400's able to stand the radiation up in space?
I don't think so. Off the shelf components will not survive the temperature and radiation extremes. A solar storm would kill them all, and shielding them is not too easy.
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A system can only be cracked if it is economically feasible. A cracker is not going to spend money to crack a system, the more expensive things get, the smaller the chance of a crack occuring.
For example,
using a quantum computer, all encription (below a certain level) becomes obsolete. However the cost and knowledge of maintaining a quantum computer, is really very high. An NMR machine, several SUN computers, and three people (a full time technician, a full time PhD chemist and a full tiem PhD engineer/physicist). It's very pricey, I know there is an NMR where I work doing materials research and we are trying to get a quantum computer up and running by Summer 2001.
At the moment only 5 bits can be used, it's going to be quite a while before a 128 bit computer is produced. So, (for a decade anyway) we are not going to see home quantum computers.
In fact Quantum computers will be crap at everyday tasks and practically useless to most people, so it's unlikely we'll ever see them on the shelves at K-Mart.
I am an Agnostic, and to me, all "religions" are the same and have no apparant use. Scientology serves the same purpose as Catholicism by keeping its users happy.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
It doesn't matter which religion.
Hmm, I always wanted to modify my G4 case. After all it does use an ATX power supply. When my G4 loses it's edge I might try putting an ATX board in there. (Just to confuse my fellow Mac heads when it boots Windows)
Whilst my opinion of Scientology is that it is "Bunkum and Tosh", this kind of religious discrimination is groundless. Not every scientologist is a money grabbing megalomaniac. It would be very hard to do business if everybody suspected the software of having alterior motives.
Has any of Metallica heard what Chuck_D of Public enemy has to say about music distribution and rights? What do they think of his upstanding morals and good common sense?
Who owns the copyright to the words and music Metallica creates as a unit? Is it Metallica or is it the record company?
As far as I know, there is only one (small) record label where the copyright resides with the artist, contrary to common practice in the record industry. More details at, http://www.disciplineglobalmobile.com
I got Garage Days as a bootleg in High School. It was a prized possesion and especially rare where I come from. Still, a vast increase in income since has not stopped my bootlegging. I will buy an album if I think it is worth the price. (Software the same.) My question is this: If the price of CD's was dropped, so that the record company earned a realistic profit margin, do you think you would sell more copies, or do you think piracy would continue in the same vane as before?
LOCKSS, is a very good idea, but perhaps the Gutenberg Project or something similar would be a suitable receptacle for all the knowledge. The only obstacles would be copyright or lack of resources to transfer the data.
My Ethernet id ensures everybody knows who i am anyways. The hype is just like GM food, with the consumers not really knowing what is going on. Not that I care, I use Motorola exclusively (so many registers, sweet, sweet registers. MMMmmmmm!)
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Very dubious indeed. I find it very hard to believe that he did not notice several image files appearing on his drive. Also such paedophiles are monitored very carefully, and not without reason.
This may have been a case where the jury and judge knew very little about the natures of trojan and computer.
One reason could be shocking manufacturing yields. The IBM manufacturing plant in Ireland has had terrible yield problems (even after the Telesto upgrade (aluminium to glass platters)).
I suspect their problems could be due to badly designed and inefficient processes. The drives may work but if there is too many failures from the cleanroom no amount of sales is going to make a profit.
I know this because I know 3 techs who used to work there!
I use MacOS 9.1, it's ok, I prefer it to most other mainstream OS's.
But in my years of computer use, my favourite has got to be AmigaOS.
Why?
Because of it's astounding simplicity, (and the multitasking was damn good too!).
I could do whatever I wanted, quickly, easily, and without fuss. Batch jobs, or just copying a file was delightful.
I think that OS's are far too complicated these days, I would like to see a cut down minimalist OS that did the job without any frills. I know that computing is way different today than in the early 90's (I admin 30 NT machines as part of my job), but the line has to be drawn somewhere.
Surely the 70Mb MacOs in using in memory right now isn't absolutely necessary. AmigaOS used to fit in 512k, and when using 3rd party programs to expand the OS to a similar functionality as Windows 98, it still only took up only 2-3Mb.
In trying to simpify computing for the masses I think that the companies involved have made things too complicated under the bonnet, and that a paradigm shift in computer/human relations is needed, or perhaps we should return to an old one.
This does not make sense, putting stuff up in space is extremely expensive, therefore the lighter the better. It would actually be cheaper buying a smaller lighter PPC controller board and preloading it. DVD drives in space? I don't think so. And are those 7400's able to stand the radiation up in space?
I don't think so. Off the shelf components will not survive the temperature and radiation extremes. A solar storm would kill them all, and shielding them is not too easy.
A system can only be cracked if it is economically feasible. A cracker is not going to spend money to crack a system, the more expensive things get, the smaller the chance of a crack occuring.
For example,
using a quantum computer, all encription (below a certain level) becomes obsolete. However the cost and knowledge of maintaining a quantum computer, is really very high. An NMR machine, several SUN computers, and three people (a full time technician, a full time PhD chemist and a full tiem PhD engineer/physicist). It's very pricey, I know there is an NMR where I work doing materials research and we are trying to get a quantum computer up and running by Summer 2001.
At the moment only 5 bits can be used, it's going to be quite a while before a 128 bit computer is produced. So, (for a decade anyway) we are not going to see home quantum computers.
In fact Quantum computers will be crap at everyday tasks and practically useless to most people, so it's unlikely we'll ever see them on the shelves at K-Mart.
I am an Agnostic, and to me, all "religions" are the same and have no apparant use. Scientology serves the same purpose as Catholicism by keeping its users happy.
"Religion is the opiate of the masses"
It doesn't matter which religion.
Angleworm
(first running, then screaming)
Hmm, I always wanted to modify my G4 case. After all it does use an ATX power supply. When my G4 loses it's edge I might try putting an ATX board in there. (Just to confuse my fellow Mac heads when it boots Windows)
Angleworm
(first running, then screaming)
Whilst my opinion of Scientology is that it is "Bunkum and Tosh", this kind of religious discrimination is groundless. Not every scientologist is a money grabbing megalomaniac. It would be very hard to do business if everybody suspected the software of having alterior motives.
Angleworm
(a man, not a toy)
Has any of Metallica heard what Chuck_D of Public enemy has to say about music distribution and rights? What do they think of his upstanding morals and good common sense?
Who owns the copyright to the words and music Metallica creates as a unit? Is it Metallica or is it the record company?
As far as I know, there is only one (small) record label where the copyright resides with the artist, contrary to common practice in the record industry.
More details at,
http://www.disciplineglobalmobile.com
I got Garage Days as a bootleg in High School. It was a prized possesion and especially rare where I come from. Still, a vast increase in income since has not stopped my bootlegging. I will buy an album if I think it is worth the price. (Software the same.) My question is this: If the price of CD's was dropped, so that the record company earned a realistic profit margin, do you think you would sell more copies, or do you think piracy would continue in the same vane as before?
LOCKSS, is a very good idea, but perhaps the Gutenberg Project or something similar would be a suitable receptacle for all the knowledge. The only obstacles would be copyright or lack of resources to transfer the data.
My Ethernet id ensures everybody knows who i am anyways. The hype is just like GM food, with the consumers not really knowing what is going on. Not that I care, I use Motorola exclusively (so many registers, sweet, sweet registers. MMMmmmmm!)