This problem of long-term digital storage seemed a crucial hurdle for any civilization trying to act generationaly. How could a society think in terms of centuries unless there was a reliable way to transmit and store its knowledge over centuries? This puzzle was the focus of a conference hosted by Long Now in 1998, dedicated to technical solutions for Managing Digital Continuity. At this meeting Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive suggested a new technology developed by Los Alamos labs, and commercialized by the Norsam company, as a solution for long term digital storage. Norsam promised to micro-etch 350,000 pages of information onto a 3-inch nickel disk with an estimated lifespan of 2,000 -10,000 years.
Having been asked to recover data from old 5.25 disks, I must point out that some of the problem is the actual durability of the magnetic information, because it is likely to NOT be permanent. I've seen data develop some very odd typos over the course of just a few years, and disks go blank and read non-formatted after a decade.
The precious information might not be there at all.
If you didn't migrate it to a more recent format, you might be Sadly Out of Luck
This only highlights the problem durability of information in a digital age, especially if the power goes down due to another technological dark age. (insert scenario here)
Venus is about 70% the distance of Earth to the Sun. This means that Venus is receiving proportionally more energy, as based on the inverse square law. This works out to be about twice as much energy as that of Earth. Then you account for things like albedo, etc.
This doubled energy input probably is a really huge factor to the whole problem.
But mathematicians John Pfaltzgraff of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Thomas DeLillo and Alan Elcrat, both of Wichita State University in Kansas, say they had the basic strategy--and a formula--first.
Crowdy heard Elcrat talk about that work in 2003, but he says the American trio didn't realize the relevance of the Schottky groups.
The Americans' formula, published in 2004, involves the multiplication of an infinite number of terms, which goes haywire if the holes are too close together. Crowdy's formula replaces that product with an obscure beast known as Schottky-Klein prime function. Crowdy says his formula will never fail. "I'm very skeptical" of that claim, says Pfaltzgraff.
Basicaslly, the American Team was clueless until someone pointed out the obvious to them, now they want the credit. Fail.
What are the odds are that one of the guys at the repair shop saw the signatures and art work, realized what they were, swapped the case out for his own pleasure, and sent back a new cover manually dirtied etc to make the kid feel that it had been cleaned
this would be fraud and theft of course, but no way to prove it.
So the cost of replacement would be to the few thousands of dollars it would take to fly the kid around to get replacement signatures, not that this would happen.
unfortunately I can't mod up your reply to my comment.
But the idea of Windows for Airplanes is something that would strike fear into many a person's heart. Would you trust your aircraft to Windows for Airplanes?
Actually, Murphy's law says that not only will the asteroid miss Mars, it says that the asteroid miss will be precisely enough to whip the rock around to a new orbit.
One precisely timed and angled to aim it towards Earth where it will impact on some particularly inconvenient location.
Like the 2008 Olympics, the city of Jerusalem, or something else of political import.
Alot depends on Room Size and actual room placement. So why not go for something large, but located conveniently for discrete exits. Even with racks, there should be adequate spacing, not just for air circulation, but for working room, a place to put down your tool bag, chair, sixpack, or even if just to crawl up into a ball, etc.
Also, it is nice to have something like LED Xmas trees in the your main office to act as remote sensors to system status.There was a cute story on someone doing something like this a year or three ago. Use calming green for good status, and white (not red) for needs problem status. You don't use red because it advertises itself - some idiot will call you on a red light.
There was an old article in Byte magazine that described a setup where memory addresses where mapped to an O-Scope for trouble shooting purposes. (Now you could use LEDs). Even if you didn't know what to expect, you eventually learned what normal patterns were in routine operation. A similar hack could be used for other datasets, such as IP addresses, etc.
The phantom menace was plotted poorly, being simply a mechanism to get the young anakin from a backwater world to jedi training.
The better plot line would have been to surprise everyone by making anakin identical or fraternal twins. Then the plot twist is in which one becomes darth vader, or even if both receive training, or just one. And was the 'right' one selected for training? etc.
Okay, what about the guy who wants another person's level 60 to be impotent when imported into their own world. Do magical elves loose their powers when imported into a Halo Clone, or do they become god-like?
It is well worth it to propose a week long series of special classes about the man, the organization, and the controversies. This allows plenty of time for a balanced presentation from all of the viewpoints. And of course, you can encourage students to put on their on presentations and reports, etc. This should be done in advance of the visit, so that when there is a question and answer period with the celebrity, you can rest well assured that students will ask well informed questions.
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
and this provides for other angles and viewpoints that the MPAA might not be actually friendly to, even if they claim to be artist friendly. (Remember Hollywood accounting!) There is also the argument that the corporations are not acting in the best interest of the Artists, but their own personal profit.
finally, the European view on copyright and an artist's rights are significantly different compared to typical american viewpoints.
A range of words is used to represent shades of intention in the various criminal laws around the world. The most serious crime of murder, for example, traditionally expressed the mens rea element as malice aforethought, and the interpretations of malice, "maliciously" and "wilfully" vary between pure intention and recklessness depending on the state and the seriousness of the offence.
A person intends a consequence when he or she foresees that it will happen if the given series of acts or omissions continue and desires it to happen. The most serious level of culpability, justifying the most serious levels of punishment, will be achieved when both these components are actually present in the accused's mind (a "subjective" test). A person who plans and executes a crime is considered, rightly or wrongly, a more serious danger to the public than one who acts spontaneously, whether out of the sudden opportunity to steal, or out of anger to injure another. (via wikipedia)
Thus the question, did he INTEND to cheat? or were his actions accidental and random manipulations? The precision manipulations of files and configuration data argues intent of some kind. I can just hear the peels of laughter if such an argument (in defense of self) was made by a kid caught cheating on EverQuest or WOW.
Feel free to edit the wikipedia entry if it is in error
That said, the mere erasure of files, etc is likely not illegal by itself.
However . ..
The manipulation of computer info to cheat the system is also mere manipulation of numbers, etc. This is not banning or regulating the use of arithmetic or mathematics. These are merely means to an end. It is a strawman argument.
Which brings us to a much more valuable question
Was the cheating of the system an honest and ethical act? or was the original coupon a crime of such a nature that stealing from criminals can be justified as honest and ethical act?
He got caught trying to cheat the system, and is trying to come up with an excuse that the mere manipulations of information were entirely innocent.
I doubt they were entirely random alterations. They were performed with a certain intent. Possibly a criminal intent.
Effective arguments have been made against the DCMA. They should no be contaminated with strawmen invented for less then honest ends.
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The major technical difference between the earlier models and later models is the introduction of the transistor vs the use of vacuum tubes.
Patents by Mathison
Patent number: 2684670
Filing date: Aug 1, 1951
http://www.google.com/patents?id=L7tDAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 2810383
Filing date: Sep 1, 1954
http://www.google.com/patents?id=mXVLAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 2799269
Filing date: Feb 7, 1956
http://www.google.com/patents?id=wxNbAAAAEBAJ
Patents by Hubbard
Patent number: 3290589
Filing date: Jun 7, 1965
http://www.google.com/patents?id=OVpxAAAAEBAJ&
Patent number: D264877
Filing date: Mar 8, 1979
http://www.google.com/patents?id=pAMqAAAAEBAJ
Patent number: 4459995
Filing date: Sep 22, 1981
http://www.google.com/patents?id=YYsxAAAAEBAJ
See also the link to the Norsam Company Note that metal CD's and DVD's are also available.
The only concern is the cost of this 25 year archive
Laser building to building network links 100Mb to 1Gb - 10m to 5000m. www.laserbandwidth.com YMMV
The precious information might not be there at all.
If you didn't migrate it to a more recent format, you might be Sadly Out of Luck
This only highlights the problem durability of information in a digital age, especially if the power goes down due to another technological dark age. (insert scenario here)
2) Sell them at a flea market for 5 bucks a pop
3) Profit!
This doubled energy input probably is a really huge factor to the whole problem.
Considering that calls for moderation in dealing with individual scientologists are often met with pythonesque taunting.
With friends like these, Who needs enemies?
7chan, etc being as dumb as theyt are, they are probably glad to get somebody else to blame it on
Crowdy heard Elcrat talk about that work in 2003, but he says the American trio didn't realize the relevance of the Schottky groups.
The Americans' formula, published in 2004, involves the multiplication of an infinite number of terms, which goes haywire if the holes are too close together. Crowdy's formula replaces that product with an obscure beast known as Schottky-Klein prime function. Crowdy says his formula will never fail. "I'm very skeptical" of that claim, says Pfaltzgraff.
Basicaslly, the American Team was clueless until someone pointed out the obvious to them, now they want the credit. Fail.
this would be fraud and theft of course, but no way to prove it.
So the cost of replacement would be to the few thousands of dollars it would take to fly the kid around to get replacement signatures, not that this would happen.
And the cost of a domain is what? 100 200 300 standard monetary units?
[or these days 1 2 or 3 standard monetary units]
where this comes in is spam websites, where someone is looking for concept x, and they find a junk site.
Cleverly done, you might accidentally click on a link, only to realize that it's a bogus cookie cutter bit of web spam.
oh my aching eyes.
You have obviously never had to reboot an aircraft carrier during flight ops at night
2nd thought:
The Knowledge Base reports on Flight Simulator are scary enough as it is.....
the rest of the scenario writes itself
unfortunately I can't mod up your reply to my comment.
But the idea of Windows for Airplanes is something that would strike fear into many a person's heart. Would you trust your aircraft to Windows for Airplanes?
Or your helicopter to Windows for Helicopters?
"It might be premature to say that a software problem is the likely cause of failure..."
Unless it was running on an OS like Windows for Aircraft, "now with fewer crashes".
Yes, I know it's all custom designed. But thinking about the infamous Windows for Warships I couldn't resist
Microsoft's new motto is, "Finding new ways to alienate paying customers, one day at a time".
I somehow thought it was something like
"Finding new ways to force customers to pay, again, and again, and again"
Drill through the drill with a large drills 1cm or 1/2 inch or better
At least one hole through the disks, and one hole through the circuit board.
Then put it inside a bucket filled with salt water for a month or so
That should freeze the bearings and corrode the plates enough to make recovery a royal pain.
of course, if you want disassemble and retrieve the magnets first, that's cool. You can then pull the plates, and then bend/twist them into ashtrays.
Actually, Murphy's law says that not only will the asteroid miss Mars, it says that the asteroid miss will be precisely enough to whip the rock around to a new orbit. One precisely timed and angled to aim it towards Earth where it will impact on some particularly inconvenient location. Like the 2008 Olympics, the city of Jerusalem, or something else of political import.
Also, it is nice to have something like LED Xmas trees in the your main office to act as remote sensors to system status.There was a cute story on someone doing something like this a year or three ago. Use calming green for good status, and white (not red) for needs problem status. You don't use red because it advertises itself - some idiot will call you on a red light.
There was an old article in Byte magazine that described a setup where memory addresses where mapped to an O-Scope for trouble shooting purposes. (Now you could use LEDs). Even if you didn't know what to expect, you eventually learned what normal patterns were in routine operation. A similar hack could be used for other datasets, such as IP addresses, etc.
The phantom menace was plotted poorly, being simply a mechanism to get the young anakin from a backwater world to jedi training.
The better plot line would have been to surprise everyone by making anakin identical or fraternal twins. Then the plot twist is in which one becomes darth vader, or even if both receive training, or just one. And was the 'right' one selected for training? etc.
a missed opportunity.
They will use the stress level to monitor if you are providing enough output. Obviously, Maximum Stress(tm) = Maximum Output(tm).
This feeds directly into the whip cracking algorithm.
Okay, what about the guy who wants another person's level 60 to be impotent when imported into their own world. Do magical elves loose their powers when imported into a Halo Clone, or do they become god-like?
It is well worth it to propose a week long series of special classes about the man, the organization, and the controversies. This allows plenty of time for a balanced presentation from all of the viewpoints. And of course, you can encourage students to put on their on presentations and reports, etc. This should be done in advance of the visit, so that when there is a question and answer period with the celebrity, you can rest well assured that students will ask well informed questions.
Remember that Copyright is included (under Article 27) in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (some clever human rights PSAs here)
and this provides for other angles and viewpoints that the MPAA might not be actually friendly to, even if they claim to be artist friendly. (Remember Hollywood accounting!) There is also the argument that the corporations are not acting in the best interest of the Artists, but their own personal profit.finally, the European view on copyright and an artist's rights are significantly different compared to typical american viewpoints.
A person intends a consequence when he or she foresees that it will happen if the given series of acts or omissions continue and desires it to happen. The most serious level of culpability, justifying the most serious levels of punishment, will be achieved when both these components are actually present in the accused's mind (a "subjective" test). A person who plans and executes a crime is considered, rightly or wrongly, a more serious danger to the public than one who acts spontaneously, whether out of the sudden opportunity to steal, or out of anger to injure another. (via wikipedia)
Thus the question, did he INTEND to cheat? or were his actions accidental and random manipulations? The precision manipulations of files and configuration data argues intent of some kind. I can just hear the peels of laughter if such an argument (in defense of self) was made by a kid caught cheating on EverQuest or WOW.
Feel free to edit the wikipedia entry if it is in error
That said, the mere erasure of files, etc is likely not illegal by itself.
However . . .
The manipulation of computer info to cheat the system is also mere manipulation of numbers, etc. This is not banning or regulating the use of arithmetic or mathematics. These are merely means to an end. It is a strawman argument.
Which brings us to a much more valuable question
Was the cheating of the system an honest and ethical act? or was the original coupon a crime of such a nature that stealing from criminals can be justified as honest and ethical act?
He got caught trying to cheat the system, and is trying to come up with an excuse that the mere manipulations of information were entirely innocent.
I doubt they were entirely random alterations. They were performed with a certain intent. Possibly a criminal intent.
Effective arguments have been made against the DCMA. They should no be contaminated with strawmen invented for less then honest ends.