I see the word "battlespace." The problem is that all technologies, without exception, get their "usage ranges" expanded. Who would have envisioned, for example, an online forum where computer and other techs can swap news and opinions, when the internet was first being developed?
Sooner or later, there will at least be a proposal for a "copspace."
Since he's clearly bent on saving taxpayer dollars by not climbing on the MSFT "rising license costs" escalator, the words he's going to be hearing soon are:
"Have you ever thought about what you'll do after government service?"
The music executives demanded that every bit of music that comes out be "protected" with ConsumerRightsArentPermitted, and got, at least with Apple iTunes, exactly what they asked for.
So now they are reaping the consequences of their own shortsighted greed and contempt for their customers and they blame the messenger?
And OUR noble selves will never misuse or abuse this power.
Of course, sooner or later, the power, once created, falls into less-than-noble hands...
"You would rip up every law to get at the devil. And when you have cornered the devil, and he turns on you, where will you hide, all the laws being flat?"
There are two major trends in CGI and computers: 1. Realism of CGI is steadily going up, including physics models and photo-realism, to the point where eventually, as in s1m0ne, there will be digitally-created "actors" indistinguishable from Jar-Jar Binks with realistic appearances, movements and behavior. 2. Cost of hardware keeps going down even as speed keeps going up. What right now takes a renderfarm the size of a small building to generate the CGI will eventually come down to a small box the size of an NAS device.
Take these two together, and you're going to see the ability to make a full-length feature film, including sound and music, be producible by individuals or, at most, small 5-10 person teams.
The result will be that lots of good movies will be made that aren't coming out of Hollywood's zombie marketdroids and costing, at most, a few tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars to make. Bye bye big studios.
Of course, that would have meant Bell's patent on the telephone would have been denied.
Quote:
Bell filed his application just hours before his competitor, Elisha Gray, filed notice to soon patent a telephone himself. What's more, though neither man had actually built a working telephone, Bell made his telephone operate three weeks later using ideas outlined in Gray's Notice of Invention, methods Bell did not propose in his own patent.
History of the Telephone
It doesn't take a lot of them, just the needs of the few, or the one. As with, say, Poincare's Conjecture, where genius can go, lesser minds can follow. Admittedly TMB are a small, secretive bunch (for very good reason), but there are large incentives to being able to tap into other people's computers and networks, and while it's not like anybody's going to be publishing papers on the topic in "Journal of the ACM," word will get around.
The only thing one can say about ANYTHING in this world is "for a time."
OK. This will work for a while. However, sooner or later, two things will happen:
1. The Malware Boys(TMB) will change the software to spit out connection attempts more slowly so that it falls below the threshold
and
2. Since TMB seem to be increasingly financed by organized crime, they'll duplicate the technique in their own labs and build worms that work around it, just the way they've gotten a lot of crud by Bayesian Filters and anti-virus software.
After having to deal with multi-minute "monther may I?" links to Steam weeks after everything was supposed to be stable, I gave up even trying to play. Oddly enough, it finally broke my "gotta get another game" meme and I haven't bought ANY games since.
I have prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for guidance about these graphs, and yea, verily did He appear before me and said "What? No sauce?"
Then he Frowned his Terrible Frown, and did drown my monitor in Parmesan, bellowing "Away, demons!" and vanished.
The star chamber. This institution has the advantage that, if you're dealing with it and the Powers That Be approve of you, you're pretty much bullet proof. Of course if they don't...
Under the leadership of Cardinal Wolsey (the Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor) and Thomas Cranmer (the Archbishop of Canterbury) (1515-1529), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of King Henry VIII, his Ministers and his Parliament.
In the galaxy, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a star, and it gave off light and a stellar wind. It fused hydrogen to helium, and developed turblence and spots, and slowly grew old, turning to burning helium, then heavier and really truly heavier elements, until it grew a Great Iron Core....
There's an absolutely splendid movie, Creation of the Humanoids which has robot rights as the basic plot driver. Robots were rated from R-1 (basic function) all the way to R-100 (fully human abilities including reproduction). Much of the story revolved around resistance to and efforts to control the "Clickers" as the "Order of Flesh and Blood" called them. Just what do you do when somebody finally (and illegally) builds an R-96 (fully human abilities *except* reproduction)?
In many respects the problem isn't that different from the one we've faced since the day gorillas proved to be self-aware, as Koko demonstrated by her sign-language answer to the question of whether she was an animal or a person: "fine animal gorilla".
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Minimum sanity standards for officers? Good Lord, man, why not minimum sanity standards for the Commander in Chief?
Oh, wait...
I see the word "battlespace." The problem is that all technologies, without exception, get their "usage ranges" expanded. Who would have envisioned, for example, an online forum where computer and other techs can swap news and opinions, when the internet was first being developed?
Sooner or later, there will at least be a proposal for a "copspace."
Since he's clearly bent on saving taxpayer dollars by not climbing on the MSFT "rising license costs" escalator, the words he's going to be hearing soon are:
"Have you ever thought about what you'll do after government service?"
The music executives demanded that every bit of music that comes out be "protected" with ConsumerRightsArentPermitted, and got, at least with Apple iTunes, exactly what they asked for.
So now they are reaping the consequences of their own shortsighted greed and contempt for their customers and they blame the messenger?
firing automatically when they recognize Sarah Connor?
Q:"We have a launch-in-progress indication on missile tube 7. How do we shut it down?"
A:"Have you tried closing all your running applications and rebooting?"
The call will go probably go downhill from there...
And OUR noble selves will never misuse or abuse this power.
Of course, sooner or later, the power, once created, falls into less-than-noble hands...
"You would rip up every law to get at the devil. And when you have cornered the devil, and he turns on you, where will you hide, all the laws being flat?"
There are two major trends in CGI and computers: 1. Realism of CGI is steadily going up, including physics models and photo-realism, to the point where eventually, as in s1m0ne, there will be digitally-created "actors" indistinguishable from Jar-Jar Binks with realistic appearances, movements and behavior. 2. Cost of hardware keeps going down even as speed keeps going up. What right now takes a renderfarm the size of a small building to generate the CGI will eventually come down to a small box the size of an NAS device.
Take these two together, and you're going to see the ability to make a full-length feature film, including sound and music, be producible by individuals or, at most, small 5-10 person teams.
The result will be that lots of good movies will be made that aren't coming out of Hollywood's zombie marketdroids and costing, at most, a few tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars to make. Bye bye big studios.
Of course, that would have meant Bell's patent on the telephone would have been denied. Quote: Bell filed his application just hours before his competitor, Elisha Gray, filed notice to soon patent a telephone himself. What's more, though neither man had actually built a working telephone, Bell made his telephone operate three weeks later using ideas outlined in Gray's Notice of Invention, methods Bell did not propose in his own patent. History of the Telephone
Says it all.
I've said before, "safemaker, safebreaker."
Hollywood gets ONE move in the game: "Protecting" the content.
The rest of the world gets as many moves as it wants to get around the ConsumerRightsArentPermitted.
So Hollywood does everything it can to make itself hated by its customers and still expects to WIN this game?
It doesn't take a lot of them, just the needs of the few, or the one. As with, say, Poincare's Conjecture, where genius can go, lesser minds can follow. Admittedly TMB are a small, secretive bunch (for very good reason), but there are large incentives to being able to tap into other people's computers and networks, and while it's not like anybody's going to be publishing papers on the topic in "Journal of the ACM," word will get around.
The only thing one can say about ANYTHING in this world is "for a time."
OK. This will work for a while. However, sooner or later, two things will happen:
1. The Malware Boys(TMB) will change the software to spit out connection attempts more slowly so that
it falls below the threshold
and
2. Since TMB seem to be increasingly financed by organized crime, they'll duplicate the technique
in their own labs and build worms that work around it, just the way they've gotten a lot of crud
by Bayesian Filters and anti-virus software.
Summary: no magic bullet
After having to deal with multi-minute "monther may I?" links to Steam weeks after everything was supposed to be stable, I gave up even trying to play. Oddly enough, it finally broke my "gotta get another game" meme and I haven't bought ANY games since.
Thanks, Valve. I needed the time.
The answer is yes.
In the grave.
I have prayed to the Flying Spaghetti Monster for guidance about these graphs, and yea, verily did He appear before me and said "What? No sauce?" Then he Frowned his Terrible Frown, and did drown my monitor in Parmesan, bellowing "Away, demons!" and vanished.
was anybody in his right mind when he put that irresponsible child in charge of customer service?
I'd be a lot happier if the Empire's own minions had noticed the problem
and withdrawn the patent BEFORE the outcry arose. As it is:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)
Modern addendum: "And the price of open software."
and not prime mates?
"the HP way." (Revised)?
"How the Pulsar Got Its Spin"
...
In the galaxy, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a
star, and it gave off light and a stellar wind. It fused hydrogen
to helium, and developed turblence and spots, and slowly grew old,
turning to burning helium, then heavier and really truly heavier
elements, until it grew a Great Iron Core.
welcome our new Taiwanese overlords.
There's an absolutely splendid movie, Creation of the Humanoids which has robot rights as the basic plot driver. Robots were rated from R-1 (basic function) all the way to R-100 (fully human abilities including reproduction). Much of the story revolved around resistance to and efforts to control the "Clickers" as the "Order of Flesh and Blood" called them. Just what do you do when somebody finally (and illegally) builds an R-96 (fully human abilities *except* reproduction)?
In many respects the problem isn't that different from the one we've faced since the day gorillas proved to be self-aware, as Koko demonstrated by her sign-language answer to the question of whether she was an animal or a person: "fine animal gorilla".
Or just post the thing here since it can stand the load.