Uh, you're kidding? I take it you're not familiar with these things. Kids develop a design and then refine it based on observations on how the design behaves in the real world. Be it a biological model, an aircraft, a piece of scientific or medical equipment, or whatever. Pretty much parallels the scientific method even if they're just building pinewood derby cars.
In which Bianca150 last year posted that they had discovered Stealth KeyLogger 5.0 on a brand new Samsung laptop but assumed it was legit because you could download it from CNET!
Teach the kids about 3D printing (see http://reprap.org/ maybe even get one of the cheap printer kits or an UP! Printer if you have budget.
These things let kids unleash a form of creativity and spatial learning that is hard to find anywhere else. No need to actually teach them how to design 3D objects - they'll be scrambling to figure it out for themselves! Keen students will print their own 3D printers. Less enthusiastic ones will download from http://thingiverse.com/ and create "Mash up" objects.
Inevitably one of them will print a penis for shock value, but kids are like that.
I'm a happy N900 owner. I can install real Linux apps on my phone and I don't have to root it or wait until the app store is supported in my country. I can run OpenOffice on my phone, and have no problems getting hold of codecs, VPN, VoIP clients, X apps etc. while I see Android owners waiting and waiting, or having to hack and root their machines to get unofficial versions of nagware installed etc.
Won't pretend it's the best choice for everybody, but Nokia has it right. Real Linux on a real smartphone.
You think you'll get apathetic sheeple and consumers off their arses with anything less than unrealisitic claims of Armageddon and catastrophe these days? They're so stunned by reports like "Oh, we wiped out another wedding party? Well, that's because we're just doing our job" that they no longer give a damn about real news. More interested in who Lindsay Lohan is shacking up with.
We are dealing with an opposition that is creating things like ACTA and trying to impose them on the world in secret - just to bypass those who are not completely apathetic. Then the same governments try to increase surveillance powers by saying "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear." So show us the ACTA draft then!
You're right. The author's angle is viewing things from a biased perspective. This is fortunate because the buggers pushing the rules are doing so too.
So in 2012 someone might think about taxing CO2 emissions. Not cutting them, taxing them. Too late.
What we need is action now. Action like massive taxes on the construction of fossil fuel-powered power plants, so that the CO2 absorbtion systems (i.e. trees) can be ready at approximately the same time as new emissions start, and alternatives can be financed before new power plant starts emitting.
Sorry. Quite right. They're different. Iran hasn't invaded anyone recently, and eschews nuclear weapons. I was going to add "has been known to beat people up at the border" but the US just levelled with them there.
"They" are supposed to be the good guys, remember? Cops are not supposed to be bad asses with guns. They are supposed to be professional upholders of the law. The fact that innocent people feel cowed by them in the way you suggest indicates that policing has clearly gone off the rails (at least in the US) regardless of what happened to Mr Watts in this particular case.
Gosh, the Iranian government is snooping around the internet, collating data and trying to identify potential terrorists. Now where have I heard that before? Hmmm...
From what I read in the article, quantities of animal by-product are needed to grow the meat. Obviously that's going to have to change before it's considered vegetarian.
The US produces 80% of its power from fossil fuels, and the cars are twice as bad as burning fossil fuel direct. BUT in more enlightened places 70% of the power is from renewables, so only 30% can be from fossil fuels max. So the production of compressed air is over twice as efficient, and these vehicles start to make sense. Said country (take New Zealand as an example) doesn't need to import massive quantities of expensive batteries to power the cars. Beware US-centric energy statistics; they only apply to a tiny fraction of the world's population.
"Them" being the hard-working authors who are having their works ripped off, along with authors all over the world? Or "them" who only write bureaucratic documents? Those Chinese in Taiwan or the mainland? What about the ones who have emigrated? I believe they're generally different groups, and trying to collate the groups in that manner is not helpful.
But I can look if I see anything weird. I'm not beholden to any one supplier, or a monopolist organisation that can blithely say "oh it'll be fixed in the next release" with no conviction whatsoever. I can't be kept out. If I'm not happy with the answer I can check for myself. If I find anything I file a public bug report. The whole world knows, and if it is a security issue the whole fix is posted promptly by trusted people who really care about their work.
As an EMT volunteer we're told that a person isn't dead until they're warm and dead. Many people have been declared cold and dead, stored in the morgue, then scared the living crap out of the attendant complaining that it's bloody cold in there!
The endgame here is that matter will be software, and software can be physically represented in matter.
With technology advanced to that stage, the only way you are going to be able to enforce patent/copyright is at gunpoint. Why?
Imagine there is an immortality drug or some other life-saving invention patented/copyrighted. You can make it yourself for free but cannot afford the licence. What will you do? Save your life, of course.
Note that in the free world you can make patented things for personal use and research purposes without a licence.
It's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but what about an Open Source 3D fabricator? Google for RepRap. They get to put it together themselves (non-profit kits from rrrf.org), learn about electronics and programming, and then get to make cool stuff with it for pennies.
What's more, they can use it to print the parts for later models, and to give sets of parts to their friends who can then join in the fun by building their own RepRaps.
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Oh yes there are, dating back to June last year at least. Look harder.
Uh, you're kidding? I take it you're not familiar with these things. Kids develop a design and then refine it based on observations on how the design behaves in the real world. Be it a biological model, an aircraft, a piece of scientific or medical equipment, or whatever. Pretty much parallels the scientific method even if they're just building pinewood derby cars.
I browsed around a bit and found this thread in a forum: http://www.pctools.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-66173.html
In which Bianca150 last year posted that they had discovered Stealth KeyLogger 5.0 on a brand new Samsung laptop but assumed it was legit because you could download it from CNET!
Coincidence or corroboration?
Vik :v)
Teach the kids about 3D printing (see http://reprap.org/ maybe even get one of the cheap printer kits or an UP! Printer if you have budget.
These things let kids unleash a form of creativity and spatial learning that is hard to find anywhere else. No need to actually teach them how to design 3D objects - they'll be scrambling to figure it out for themselves! Keen students will print their own 3D printers. Less enthusiastic ones will download from http://thingiverse.com/ and create "Mash up" objects.
Inevitably one of them will print a penis for shock value, but kids are like that.
Seriously. There are a lot of deaf people and they won't take kindly to pre-paying for something they can't possibly use.
Vik :v)
I'm a happy N900 owner. I can install real Linux apps on my phone and I don't have to root it or wait until the app store is supported in my country. I can run OpenOffice on my phone, and have no problems getting hold of codecs, VPN, VoIP clients, X apps etc. while I see Android owners waiting and waiting, or having to hack and root their machines to get unofficial versions of nagware installed etc.
Won't pretend it's the best choice for everybody, but Nokia has it right. Real Linux on a real smartphone.
Vik :v)
Would be nice to see how it lands and is recovered. Parachute?
The short launch rail makes the drone look an awful lot like it was designed to be launched off a ship.
Vik :v)
You know, it's funny but I'm doing the self-same thing.
Vik :v)
- the printed disclaimers, safety warnings and licence documentation.
Vik :v)
You think you'll get apathetic sheeple and consumers off their arses with anything less than unrealisitic claims of Armageddon and catastrophe these days? They're so stunned by reports like "Oh, we wiped out another wedding party? Well, that's because we're just doing our job" that they no longer give a damn about real news. More interested in who Lindsay Lohan is shacking up with.
We are dealing with an opposition that is creating things like ACTA and trying to impose them on the world in secret - just to bypass those who are not completely apathetic. Then the same governments try to increase surveillance powers by saying "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear." So show us the ACTA draft then!
You're right. The author's angle is viewing things from a biased perspective. This is fortunate because the buggers pushing the rules are doing so too.
So in 2012 someone might think about taxing CO2 emissions. Not cutting them, taxing them. Too late.
What we need is action now. Action like massive taxes on the construction of fossil fuel-powered power plants, so that the CO2 absorbtion systems (i.e. trees) can be ready at approximately the same time as new emissions start, and alternatives can be financed before new power plant starts emitting.
Vik :v)
Sorry. Quite right. They're different. Iran hasn't invaded anyone recently, and eschews nuclear weapons. I was going to add "has been known to beat people up at the border" but the US just levelled with them there.
"They" are supposed to be the good guys, remember? Cops are not supposed to be bad asses with guns. They are supposed to be professional upholders of the law. The fact that innocent people feel cowed by them in the way you suggest indicates that policing has clearly gone off the rails (at least in the US) regardless of what happened to Mr Watts in this particular case.
Gosh, the Iranian government is snooping around the internet, collating data and trying to identify potential terrorists. Now where have I heard that before? Hmmm...
Vik :v)
From what I read in the article, quantities of animal by-product are needed to grow the meat. Obviously that's going to have to change before it's considered vegetarian.
Vik :v)
The US produces 80% of its power from fossil fuels, and the cars are twice as bad as burning fossil fuel direct. BUT in more enlightened places 70% of the power is from renewables, so only 30% can be from fossil fuels max. So the production of compressed air is over twice as efficient, and these vehicles start to make sense. Said country (take New Zealand as an example) doesn't need to import massive quantities of expensive batteries to power the cars. Beware US-centric energy statistics; they only apply to a tiny fraction of the world's population.
"Them" being the hard-working authors who are having their works ripped off, along with authors all over the world? Or "them" who only write bureaucratic documents? Those Chinese in Taiwan or the mainland? What about the ones who have emigrated? I believe they're generally different groups, and trying to collate the groups in that manner is not helpful.
But I can look if I see anything weird. I'm not beholden to any one supplier, or a monopolist organisation that can blithely say "oh it'll be fixed in the next release" with no conviction whatsoever. I can't be kept out. If I'm not happy with the answer I can check for myself. If I find anything I file a public bug report. The whole world knows, and if it is a security issue the whole fix is posted promptly by trusted people who really care about their work.
So, which is more use to North Korea:
a) A nuclear launch capability they can't use, or
b) An orbital launch capability for their own satellites and maybe some foreign cash spinoffs?
Remember, the easy way to smuggle a nuke into the US is to stick it in a sack of cocaine.
Vik :v)
As an EMT volunteer we're told that a person isn't dead until they're warm and dead. Many people have been declared cold and dead, stored in the morgue, then scared the living crap out of the attendant complaining that it's bloody cold in there!
Vik :v)
The EU is not alone. Here in New Zealand we're trying to find out what is in the ACTA and the word is we'll be told when they're ready to vote on it.
Meanwhile you have to wonder who this information is being kept secret from, since all the governments it'll affect already have a copy.
Vik :v)
Won't it be embarrassing when people start routing their traffic through China to get around American and Australian internet legislation?
Vik :v)
So why not use the PGP web of trust? Validation by real people rather than the lowest bidder?
Vik :v)
The endgame here is that matter will be software, and software can be physically represented in matter.
With technology advanced to that stage, the only way you are going to be able to enforce patent/copyright is at gunpoint. Why?
Imagine there is an immortality drug or some other life-saving invention patented/copyrighted. You can make it yourself for free but cannot afford the licence. What will you do? Save your life, of course.
Note that in the free world you can make patented things for personal use and research purposes without a licence.
Vik :v)
It's a bit of shameless self-promotion, but what about an Open Source 3D fabricator? Google for RepRap. They get to put it together themselves (non-profit kits from rrrf.org), learn about electronics and programming, and then get to make cool stuff with it for pennies.
:v)
What's more, they can use it to print the parts for later models, and to give sets of parts to their friends who can then join in the fun by building their own RepRaps.
Vik