I can remember a pron theater many years ago in the city of Boston that tried to argue that they were a church, and that their films were part of the sacraments for their worshippers.
Didn't go very far, but you had to admire their gusto.
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the Moon's dichotomies That I am interested in are along the line of the farside of the moon has far more craters than the near side. which makes sense.
the dichtomies on mars are not purely North South, but are substantially angled to the equator. This includes the craters distribution, which are of external origin.
If mars lost all of its water a long time ago (billions of years) then there is an issue. Random distribution is not maintained. Plus some of the crater basins are truly huge (thousands of miles)
If it lost the water more recently, then this non random distribution is easier to explain. Other anomalies can be explained by internal mechanics, but the crater distribution cannot.
The rate increase in bug reporting is possibly due to wider use; as each build got better and better, more and more people tried it and
found more and more things (little things) wrong.
Well, it is also natural to not right up to cosmetic bugs when you are more concerned with truly broken features.
This probably means that the "Look and Polish" bugs are starting to get attention, as well as performance bugs (ie, it works, but it is slow)
While there will be many protesters, and this is very helpful, what is also needed is effective legal counsel.
I am sure that they will appreciate all of the legal help and donations that you can scrounge up.
On the other hand, if all of the attendents at the Expo were able to block the San Jose traffic for a few hours with their march, it might help with the publicity on a national scale.
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Obviously, you could need alot of power in the hardware when the operating system does not have enough power to do the job correctly.
This could be for a lot of reasons: mis-configuration, mis-design, software load on the system, bloat, whatever. There are users who are proad of the number of open windows they can have on a desktop, like this makes them a power user or something.
of course, there is the old "it's not a bug, it's a feature" factor as well"
Comparisons to known operating systems are obvious
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Which side of mars is that? are you suggesting the whole exploding 5th planet thing? having craters on half the planet would mean that
asteroids chose to strike mars between certain hours every day.. and not during other hours.. I'm not sure why but this doesn't quite make sense to me...
Not a problem. You can search on the string:
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and get all kinds of links at google.
The boundary of the crater disparity is at about 35 - 40 degres angle to the equator. There are these links that are interesting:
* http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/cha p12.htm - Part of a book online - describe the conventional view of the dichotomy
This paper says that the impacts did not take place on a on a repeating basis, but was part of a one time event. Probably 65 million years ago.
There are other pieces of the puzzle that tie into this, available from good scientists, on the web.
* http://www.enterprisemission.com/tides.htm which is from the other side of the fence, but is not badly written.
There are a lot of PDFs for download as well from many research papers.
Remarkably, at a June, 2001 Earth Systems Processes Global Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, astrobiologist Bruce Runnegar of the University of California in Los Angeles presented some striking independent evidence that "something" major happened in the solar system ~65 million years ago. Runnegar and his colleagues had previously identified evidence of a 400,000-year cycle in ancient ocean sediments, indicating changes in Earth's climate corresponding to natural
fluctuations in its orbit. To probe this cycle's influence on Earth's climate over the past 100 million years, Runnegar's team constructed computer models based on known variations in planetary orbits, their proximity to the Sun and their interactive perturbations. In running the models, they found that the known fluctuations of the solar system's dynamics remained constant going back to 65 million years ago. Then, to their surprise, the frequency of perturbations to the orbits of the inner planets suddenly changed
This was on CNN, etc at the beginning of the summer. Simple searches for "Runnegar" yeild good results on CNN, and in general. for example: http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/05/dinosaur.wobb le/index.html
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The history of the solar system seems like it was a lot more complex than people have been thinking.
Pluto is seen as a escaped moon of Neptune.
Evidence suggests that the Solar systyem underwent major changes about 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs seem to have been minor collateral damage.
Mars, for example, has a whole bunch of craters that cover just one side of the planet. The other half is pretty clean. Sounds like something went BOOM.
So oddities like asteroids orbiting pluto etc are par for the course.
What I find interesting is that The observations were carried out at the European Southern Observatory with the world's first operational "virtual telescope", Astrovirtel.
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"We have this secret evidence against, and you must trust us to tell you that you are guilty of crimes that violate these secret laws. If you knew what these laws were, we would have to shoot you.
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Sounds like we made it.
We won the war against fascism, and communism, (WWII, Cold War, etc) only to be left with a communistic fascism called a corporate democracy. It is a communism of fascistic corporate interests.
Time to blow the planet while there is still a chance.
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So, even if the punishment was realistic, it wouldn't happen because it is a consquence for something that MS did "not" do. Or so they say.
We'll have to look at the findings of fact. But just because MS protests its innocence does not mean that they go un_punished.
I just proposed this as an alternate, since part of what they did was with an eye to gaining control of the internet. A couple of years ago this would have seemed laughable. Now it is possible.
Thus a penalty to put a stop on it.
but a 3 or 4 way breakup might work.
I just like the idea of Microsoft being forced out of a market they so desperately want to be in for an extended period of time that allows the other players a chance to recover from the damege they have suffered. Otherwise it is like someone being found guilty of a bank robbery not having to turn in the money.
The point of the penalty is that they should not have the benefit of the illegal acts they have committed. The question is: what is the best way to accomplish this?
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Since they can't do the breakup, then I propose the corporate equivalent of a Jail Sentence.
I would like to see them prohibited from publishing or releasing free or not free, any new software that is internet enabled such as a browser, etc for up 8 to 10 years. New versions of the OS could be released with only the current level of internet capability, say as of April 2001, or whatever
Time off for good behavior so if they play really nice the judge can knock it down to 5.
That, and a really good fine, like about 10 or 20 billion dollars, the possible profits from their illegal acts, should be a good enough slam to get their attention.
Let them sell Office if they want, without any new internet capability. No more new issues of IE, in or Out of Windows, freezing them at the current level. No more MSN special clients. No special.NET clients
Freeze the intenet capability right where it is right now.
This would certainly work as a jail term. They couldn't do anything with there ill gotten gains for many years. But it won't kill them.
And of course, to get anyplace, they might have to sell of part of their operation anyhow.
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So there is reason to have hope for the future of education if you think that its fundamental problem is the lack of a scientific foundation.
For the want of a legitimate science of the mind that can effectively teach etc, we may wind up flushing ourselves down the toilet. Primarily because the first use it will be put to is marketing and enslavement (they pay the bills) instead of solving the problems of man.
Slavemasters funding the research would hardly want to be cured of slavery. They would want more slaves. There is the rub. Imagine education as the MS revised view of the world.
True freedomn in this line of work is a dangerous thing. But it may be the only road worth traveling.
Just looking at the cost of the infrastructure for a typical wireless setup, vs an overhead bird, plus the power of the xmitters, I would say that the low end wireless setups are always going to be less expensive, and that birds in the sky are always going to be relatively pricey. Which will be fine for corporate perks, etc, Bill Gates on Vacation, etc., but not for you average joe.
but the idea of Bill Gates on vacation in the Sahara is amusing.
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but the parents complained about low scores because of colleges, and the administration just panders them, going over the teacher's head to change grades.
The problem is that Education is a soft science, and actually does not have a practical scientific base. Which education systems produce the best results and why? Ask that question, and you get a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
You could ask the question of Linux distributions, and eventually you would get answers depending on the user experience and the intended application, and the operational enviroment. You could determine what the best practices are. You could get expert answers that work every time.
You cannot do that in education. For example you could try to teach writing. But even today, the writers on the best seller lists do not study writing for four years of college, etc. They just sit down and write, and they figure out on their own how other writers did what they did. The teach themselves. The best way to ruin a writing career is to have a college education in it.
There are many other fields which are similar to this. Even in the Tech Review article, it sounds like what happens is that the teachers spark the kids interest, and then the kids really teach themselves at a rate that far outstrips the books.
Part of this problem is the very education system that produced these teachers. How many people here said "To heck with that subject! I will never use that!"? Plenty.
The problem is that if you have a data vacuum in something, it is very easy to fill it in with junk. Does anyone here know what happens when you process with junk data? Garbage in = garbage out. (and then you get folks like GWB)
Also, if you have a data vacuum, it is very easy to try to excuse this away, to try to justify this ignorance. "It was just a stupid subject anyhow. It was not cool." and then you have greased skids to a hostile attitude.
Real expertise in education would have a fix for this type of thing. A teacher would know how to get themselves effectively educated in science, or any other subject of choice. And could do this for the students as well. The you wouldn't have parents and administrators trying to fix and cheat the scores
Don't hold you breath waiting.
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They provide a free service writing protest letters for you, although I imagine they need to be in agreement with your politics. [I found the link over on protest.net]
Some how I think that this is not what microsoft did, considering that the politics are a bit different.
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"If we aren't losing our shirts, and if the response is good, we will go on ad infinitum," he said. "I think just knowing that we're planning this and knowing that we have signed up what I would consider some very eminent people really means that we will have an immediate impact on the
science-fiction community and I hope on the Internet community."
hopefully they learned something from the dot-com boom and bust.
All hype and bad product makes for very unhappy investors. Unless this is being done all on a shoe string type budget, so that the investment is small, and the potential return is large.
Personally, I can remember a number of artsy science fiction sites that were cool that have since bit the bullet. I had a link I was going to share, but it is lost someplace in my bookmarks collection
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Law Enforcement officials are NOT in the business of justice. They are in the business of law enforcement. The stupidity or inapplicability
of the law doesn't enter the picture.
This is MOST informative.
Unfortunately this probably IS the reason why it is all messed up.
Law Enforcement without justice is arbitrary, and is a greased skid to dictatorship (pick you favorite)
It is a blind spot that is likely the achilles heal of our world. This is _exactly_ what is going on with the DCMA, the MPAA, the RIAA, etc.
It seems like an awful lot of Law Enforcement officials have no interest in seeing justice done. This would seem a radical thing to say because of the business they are in.Many cases have been brought forward where a person might be able to prove themselves innocent based on DNA tests. The friends on family of the jailed person are willing to pay for the test.
and what is the response?
"We know that they are guilty because they were convicted of the crime, and we have no interest in helping a guilty man go free"
I have seen this on the news several times over the past few months. You can see the logic of it all. It is blind and arbitrary conviction to "principles" unencumbered by the thought process.
Now we transfer this to other areas of Law enforcement, and we can see how the lack of education and sheer strupidity can lead to the legal situations we face in the technology arena.
Yes, some of these people are in fact stupid, and to fix the problem would take several years of experience and education that you happen to have, but they don't.
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Sony now officially has no control over what games get published on the PS2 and which ones do not. This is the worst possible situation for Sony; they make their profits based on royalty sales of third-party games. Now a third-party developer can develop PS2 games without getting any proprietary technology directly from Sony and without paying Sony a cent.
Actually, the worst situation would be if MS got control of their technology.
But not everyone is sympathetic to Sony. There was this comment earlier on slash, where the author lamented: Why, does everyone here want to spend their money on PS2s? When you buy a PS2, you give money to Sony, who is both a member of the MPAA and the RIAA.
This is one of the essential contradictions that geeks have to deal with. Games vs Politics. It can get confusing after awhile
It is like the old time monkey trap from India. You place a fruit into a jar where the hole in the top is just large enough for the fruit. When the monkey reaches in, the monkey's hand is then too big to take out while the monkey holds the fruit. To escape the Monkey has to let go of the fruit. The monkey, of course is too greedy, and the reactively holds on to the fruit while the hunter makes his approach. Bye, bye,
monkey.
Now the right way for the Monkey to handle this would be to hack the jar by turning it over, spilling the fruit out. But there are no Monkey
ackers that are smart enough to figure this out.
Fortunately, they do not have to deal with the monkey equivalent of the MPAA and RIAA. I think.
For Geeks, the choice is to either outsmart or avoid the trap.
It is a bloody mess when you start to mix your politics with your entertainments.
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Why, does everyone here want to spend their money on PS2s? When you buy a PS2, you give money to Sony, who is both a member of the MPAA and the RIAA.
You have hit on the essential contradiction that geeks have to deal with. Games vs Politics
It is like the old time monkey trap from India. You place a fruit into a jar where the hole in the top is just large enough for the fruit. When the monkey reaches in, the monkey's hand is then too big to take out while the monkey holds the fruit. To escape the Monkey has to let go of the fruit. The monkey, of course is too greedy, and the reactively holds on to the fruit while the hunter makes his approach. Bye, bye, monkey.
Now the right way for the Monkey to handle this would be to hack the jar by turning it over, spilling the fruit out. But there are no Monkey hackers that are smart enough to figure this out.
Fortunately, they do not have to deal with the monkey equivalent of the MPAA and RIAA. I think.
For Geeks, the choice is to either outsmart or avoid the trap.
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In all honestly, I do hope the HP does well selling these $3,000 linux boxes. Not because of that its in there, but service/skill it took to
actually took to configure the box right.
This should not be a problem.
After all Microsft has sold a version of NT that was claimed as being completely secure in compliance with some high level government standard. That particular configuration was one that had no network attached.
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In our first launch from a bomb bay, the target got jammed against the tow plane's fuselage in such a way as to prevent the bomb-bay doors from
closing. So we couldn't land. At the pilot's insistence (I will not repeat his heated words), I dislodged the target by jumping on it while hanging from a bomb-bay rack and wearing a
parachute, just in case. After that experience, we mounted the target externally and soon had a usable offset tow-target system.
Let's face it, probably the most fun most scientists have is in the middle of a war. If nothing else, it makes for great drinking stories, and it is often easier to get things done.
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AMD is currently shipping the processors, and expects widespread availability in systems in conjunction with the launch of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, which is set for Oct. 25, AMD says.
This stuff drives me Schizo. I like the idea of better processors for games etc.
But I am getting tired of propping up the bloated performance and software design practices of certain very big software software companies.
Makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
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Didn't go very far, but you had to admire their gusto.
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the dichtomies on mars are not purely North South, but are substantially angled to the equator. This includes the craters distribution, which are of external origin.
If mars lost all of its water a long time ago (billions of years) then there is an issue. Random distribution is not maintained. Plus some of the crater basins are truly huge (thousands of miles)
If it lost the water more recently, then this non random distribution is easier to explain. Other anomalies can be explained by internal mechanics, but the crater distribution cannot.
Well, it is also natural to not right up to cosmetic bugs when you are more concerned with truly broken features.
This probably means that the "Look and Polish" bugs are starting to get attention, as well as performance bugs (ie, it works, but it is slow)
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I am sure that they will appreciate all of the legal help and donations that you can scrounge up.
On the other hand, if all of the attendents at the Expo were able to block the San Jose traffic for a few hours with their march, it might help with the publicity on a national scale.
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This could be for a lot of reasons: mis-configuration, mis-design, software load on the system, bloat, whatever. There are users who are proad of the number of open windows they can have on a desktop, like this makes them a power user or something.
of course, there is the old "it's not a bug, it's a feature" factor as well"
Comparisons to known operating systems are obvious
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Not a problem. You can search on the string:
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and get all kinds of links at google. The boundary of the crater disparity is at about 35 - 40 degres angle to the equator. There are these links that are interesting:
* http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/online.bks/mars/cha p12.htm - Part of a book online - describe the conventional view of the dichotomy
This paper says that the impacts did not take place on a on a repeating basis, but was part of a one time event. Probably 65 million years ago. There are other pieces of the puzzle that tie into this, available from good scientists, on the web.
* http://www.enterprisemission.com/tides.htm which is from the other side of the fence, but is not badly written.
There are a lot of PDFs for download as well from many research papers.
Remarkably, at a June, 2001 Earth Systems Processes Global Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, astrobiologist Bruce Runnegar of the University of California in Los Angeles presented some striking independent evidence that "something" major happened in the solar system ~65 million years ago. Runnegar and his colleagues had previously identified evidence of a 400,000-year cycle in ancient ocean sediments, indicating changes in Earth's climate corresponding to natural fluctuations in its orbit. To probe this cycle's influence on Earth's climate over the past 100 million years, Runnegar's team constructed computer models based on known variations in planetary orbits, their proximity to the Sun and their interactive perturbations. In running the models, they found that the known fluctuations of the solar system's dynamics remained constant going back to 65 million years ago. Then, to their surprise, the frequency of perturbations to the orbits of the inner planets suddenly changed
This was on CNN, etc at the beginning of the summer. Simple searches for "Runnegar" yeild good results on CNN, and in general. for example:b le/index.html
http://cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/07/05/dinosaur.wob
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It has a certain dissonace to it, sort of like the blues.
Pluto is seen as a escaped moon of Neptune.
Evidence suggests that the Solar systyem underwent major changes about 65 million years ago. The dinosaurs seem to have been minor collateral damage.
Mars, for example, has a whole bunch of craters that cover just one side of the planet. The other half is pretty clean. Sounds like something went BOOM.
So oddities like asteroids orbiting pluto etc are par for the course.
What I find interesting is that The observations were carried out at the European Southern Observatory with the world's first operational "virtual telescope", Astrovirtel.
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[snort]
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Sounds like we made it.
We won the war against fascism, and communism, (WWII, Cold War, etc) only to be left with a communistic fascism called a corporate democracy. It is a communism of fascistic corporate interests.
Time to blow the planet while there is still a chance.
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We'll have to look at the findings of fact. But just because MS protests its innocence does not mean that they go un_punished.
I just proposed this as an alternate, since part of what they did was with an eye to gaining control of the internet. A couple of years ago this would have seemed laughable. Now it is possible.
Thus a penalty to put a stop on it.
but a 3 or 4 way breakup might work.
I just like the idea of Microsoft being forced out of a market they so desperately want to be in for an extended period of time that allows the other players a chance to recover from the damege they have suffered. Otherwise it is like someone being found guilty of a bank robbery not having to turn in the money.
The point of the penalty is that they should not have the benefit of the illegal acts they have committed. The question is: what is the best way to accomplish this?
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I would like to see them prohibited from publishing or releasing free or not free, any new software that is internet enabled such as a browser, etc for up 8 to 10 years. New versions of the OS could be released with only the current level of internet capability, say as of April 2001, or whatever
Time off for good behavior so if they play really nice the judge can knock it down to 5.
That, and a really good fine, like about 10 or 20 billion dollars, the possible profits from their illegal acts, should be a good enough slam to get their attention.
Let them sell Office if they want, without any new internet capability. No more new issues of IE, in or Out of Windows, freezing them at the current level. No more MSN special clients. No special .NET clients
Freeze the intenet capability right where it is right now.
This would certainly work as a jail term. They couldn't do anything with there ill gotten gains for many years. But it won't kill them.
And of course, to get anyplace, they might have to sell of part of their operation anyhow.
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For the want of a legitimate science of the mind that can effectively teach etc, we may wind up flushing ourselves down the toilet. Primarily because the first use it will be put to is marketing and enslavement (they pay the bills) instead of solving the problems of man. Slavemasters funding the research would hardly want to be cured of slavery. They would want more slaves. There is the rub. Imagine education as the MS revised view of the world.
True freedomn in this line of work is a dangerous thing. But it may be the only road worth traveling.
but the idea of Bill Gates on vacation in the Sahara is amusing.
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The problem is that Education is a soft science, and actually does not have a practical scientific base. Which education systems produce the best results and why? Ask that question, and you get a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
You could ask the question of Linux distributions, and eventually you would get answers depending on the user experience and the intended application, and the operational enviroment. You could determine what the best practices are. You could get expert answers that work every time.
You cannot do that in education. For example you could try to teach writing. But even today, the writers on the best seller lists do not study writing for four years of college, etc. They just sit down and write, and they figure out on their own how other writers did what they did. The teach themselves. The best way to ruin a writing career is to have a college education in it.
There are many other fields which are similar to this. Even in the Tech Review article, it sounds like what happens is that the teachers spark the kids interest, and then the kids really teach themselves at a rate that far outstrips the books.
Part of this problem is the very education system that produced these teachers. How many people here said "To heck with that subject! I will never use that!"? Plenty.
The problem is that if you have a data vacuum in something, it is very easy to fill it in with junk. Does anyone here know what happens when you process with junk data? Garbage in = garbage out. (and then you get folks like GWB)
Also, if you have a data vacuum, it is very easy to try to excuse this away, to try to justify this ignorance. "It was just a stupid subject anyhow. It was not cool." and then you have greased skids to a hostile attitude.
Real expertise in education would have a fix for this type of thing. A teacher would know how to get themselves effectively educated in science, or any other subject of choice. And could do this for the students as well. The you wouldn't have parents and administrators trying to fix and cheat the scores
Don't hold you breath waiting.
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Somehow I like the idea of Microsoft being associated with K-Mart.
Microsoft, the Trailer Park of Software.
just a personal thing.
This opinion is not necessarily based in reality. But it could be.
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They provide a free service writing protest letters for you, although I imagine they need to be in agreement with your politics. [I found the link over on protest.net]
Some how I think that this is not what microsoft did, considering that the politics are a bit different.
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hopefully they learned something from the dot-com boom and bust.
All hype and bad product makes for very unhappy investors. Unless this is being done all on a shoe string type budget, so that the investment is small, and the potential return is large.
Personally, I can remember a number of artsy science fiction sites that were cool that have since bit the bullet. I had a link I was going to share, but it is lost someplace in my bookmarks collection
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This is MOST informative.
Unfortunately this probably IS the reason why it is all messed up.
Law Enforcement without justice is arbitrary, and is a greased skid to dictatorship (pick you favorite)
It is a blind spot that is likely the achilles heal of our world. This is _exactly_ what is going on with the DCMA, the MPAA, the RIAA, etc.
Law Enforcement, not Justice.
Thank god you added this last bit.
Otherwise it would have sounded like you worked for a certain very big software company.
It actually sounds like something they would do, y'know.
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and what is the response?
"We know that they are guilty because they were convicted of the crime, and we have no interest in helping a guilty man go free"
I have seen this on the news several times over the past few months. You can see the logic of it all. It is blind and arbitrary conviction to "principles" unencumbered by the thought process.
Now we transfer this to other areas of Law enforcement, and we can see how the lack of education and sheer strupidity can lead to the legal situations we face in the technology arena.
Yes, some of these people are in fact stupid, and to fix the problem would take several years of experience and education that you happen to have, but they don't.
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Actually, the worst situation would be if MS got control of their technology.
But not everyone is sympathetic to Sony. There was this comment earlier on slash, where the author lamented: Why, does everyone here want to spend their money on PS2s? When you buy a PS2, you give money to Sony, who is both a member of the MPAA and the RIAA.
This is one of the essential contradictions that geeks have to deal with. Games vs Politics. It can get confusing after awhile
It is like the old time monkey trap from India. You place a fruit into a jar where the hole in the top is just large enough for the fruit. When the monkey reaches in, the monkey's hand is then too big to take out while the monkey holds the fruit. To escape the Monkey has to let go of the fruit. The monkey, of course is too greedy, and the reactively holds on to the fruit while the hunter makes his approach. Bye, bye, monkey.
Now the right way for the Monkey to handle this would be to hack the jar by turning it over, spilling the fruit out. But there are no Monkey ackers that are smart enough to figure this out.
Fortunately, they do not have to deal with the monkey equivalent of the MPAA and RIAA. I think.
For Geeks, the choice is to either outsmart or avoid the trap.
It is a bloody mess when you start to mix your politics with your entertainments.
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You have hit on the essential contradiction that geeks have to deal with. Games vs Politics
It is like the old time monkey trap from India. You place a fruit into a jar where the hole in the top is just large enough for the fruit. When the monkey reaches in, the monkey's hand is then too big to take out while the monkey holds the fruit. To escape the Monkey has to let go of the fruit. The monkey, of course is too greedy, and the reactively holds on to the fruit while the hunter makes his approach. Bye, bye, monkey.
Now the right way for the Monkey to handle this would be to hack the jar by turning it over, spilling the fruit out. But there are no Monkey hackers that are smart enough to figure this out.
Fortunately, they do not have to deal with the monkey equivalent of the MPAA and RIAA. I think.
For Geeks, the choice is to either outsmart or avoid the trap.
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This should not be a problem.
After all Microsft has sold a version of NT that was claimed as being completely secure in compliance with some high level government standard. That particular configuration was one that had no network attached.
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Let's face it, probably the most fun most scientists have is in the middle of a war. If nothing else, it makes for great drinking stories, and it is often easier to get things done.
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This stuff drives me Schizo. I like the idea of better processors for games etc.
But I am getting tired of propping up the bloated performance and software design practices of certain very big software software companies.
Makes me want to bang my head against a wall.
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