At least the people in Dover Pa have the right idea. They cleaned house and got all eight republicans who voted in ID off the school board. (One member was not up for re-election.) Plus, the ousted school board members may have to pay all the legal fees for the trial that was held there over the matter.
The sooner that school boards realise that religion bears the same relationship to science that bullshit does to horsepower, the students will be better off.
What they are probably doing is using the transmitted carrier as a clock for a synchronous detector. The actual information is spread out over a very wide band with very little energy at any particular frequency. If the data rate is somehow related to the carrier frequency in a way that is controlled by the carrier frequency, then you can suck a signal out of a lot of noise.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the military or some TLA hasn't already had this for a while.
I'm sure this has been said before, but I'll say it again anyway. If the labels (not just Sony) are that much against piracy, there are two things they could do that would go a long way towards reducing it.
[1] Drop the price of CDs to $10. This alone would boost sales since people would also be inclined to buy more CDs at one time than they normally do.
[2] Drop the DRM altogether. I think this does more to encourage copyright violation than anything else for the simple reason that if you tell people that they cannot do something, someone out there is going to do it anyway, either to spite you or to show that it _can_ be done.
[3] Sony specific: Drop the rootkits entirely lest someone file a class action lawsuit against you for computer tresspass and destruction. Personally, I hope someone does; if they win, it could set a useful legal precedent.
mc900ftjesus (671151) wrote: "DRM." A bad publicity spin is a better way to combat DRM than actaully explaing it to Joe Sixpack. The word infected implies that it's bad, christ I've met people who think viruses are like human viruses (no one makes them they just happen). Leave the tech speak at home, just dumb it down to three words: infected with DRM."
I would tell Joe Sixpack something like this: "Joe, if you try to play one of these CD's that's got that copy-protection or something else called 'Dee-Are-Emm' on it, it will put viruses into your machine that will not only fuck it up completely, but cannot be gotton rid of. That is because the record companies are in cahoots with the hackers and spammers to rip you off. Do you want to take that chance?" You might also want to add a little punch to this by telling somebody's sad tale of woe.
I think he would get that, and I don't think it is misleading.
You have to understand the first three rules of business:
[1] Make money. [2] Make more money. [3] Fuck everything and everyone that gets in the way of making money.
let's do an abstraction of this to a individual level:
[1] Get what "I" want. [2] Get *more* of what "I" want. [3] Fuck everything and everyone who gets in the way of "me" getting what "I" want.
You know what the last set of rules sounds like? The mental attitude of a psychopath[1] - a person with no conscience and no restrictions on thier behaviour. A person who does things "because he can". And that is very descriptive of corporate behaviour since the beginning of corporations.
[1] aka "sociopath", "antisocial personality", etc. I.e., basic motherfucking sonofabitch.
Visit some of the Asian manufacturer's websites. These things are so riddled with Flashturbation that they are almost unusable. On a 28.8K dialup connexion (yes, there's still some of us out there), it can take several minutes to download the presentation.
Personally, I am a fan of Wirth-style languages, so I would recommend Modula-2 (successor to Pascal with a cleaner syntax), or Oberon (successor to Modula that adds objects and garbage collection). Although I'd stay away from the native Oberon programming environment since it is quite unlike the environment most of us are familiar with (Windows and its look-alikes). Both of these languages, like Pascal were designed for instruction, but are powerful enough to be used in production environments.
Too much religion, I think. Every fucking one of these so-called "moral crusaders" is either a jesus freak or some other kind of psychopath. The idea of anybody having a good time drives these people to distraction.
If you base your nuclear power on burning thorium (3 times more common than uranium), you gain certain advantages such as no plutonium production, less radioactive garbage to contend with, and greater safety.
The thorium fuel cycle has been known since the 1950s but was discarded due to cold-war politics in favour of uranium burning reactors that bred plutonium. Additionally, thorium reactors can be used to get rid of existing plutonium in a safe manner.
So if the Indian and Russian experiments pan out (and it looks like they will), expect nuclear power to become a more attractive option. Perhaps the Iranians could jump on the thorium bandwagon as well; it would go some way towards keeping that madman in Washingtom at bay.
sgant(178166) wrote: "What an idiotic system. You would have thought by now they would have built better humans to where males produce sperm INSIDE the body at the normal temperature."
See, you've just pointed out one of the fallacies of "intelligent design". Any genuinely "intelligent designer" would have done a better job. Period. But I'm sure that the stupids who buy into this bullshit won't hear of it.
"Unix Airlines: You walk out to the runway and they give you a box of tools and some airplane parts. The passengers form into groups and start building twelve different planes."
Now, the neat trick is/proving/ that Microsoft actually is muscling the graphics/interface card people into withholding thier specs.
Someone else mentioned that a clever chip designer could reverse engineer the chips from the specifications. To this I say, that might be possible, but by that time, the original chip-maker will have already progressed to the next model, thereby rendering the clever reverse-engineer's efforts moot.
So what if this doesn't produce any useful power? The article states that it is also a source of neutrons and x-rays and this is where the research really needs to go. If they can get this to turn on and off like a light (and control the output), they will really have something going here.
This is something which might not only affect medicine, but all of industry.
NanoGator: "And with the clone tool I made... a monkey with four asses. Huh."
Hate to break it to you but someone already beat you to it doing it the old fashioned way. Just check out the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Some parents simply never know when to let go. And I'm not sure which is sadder -- the effect on the children or the state of the parents that compels them to be an ongoing intrusive presence in thier children's life well after the time that the children are on thier own.
In my own case, it was around age 28 I had to get a court order to keep them out of my life so I could get on with living.
Regarding sports games, recordings of these would be of interest of those who did not get the chance to see the game "live". And I know sports fans who spend a lot of time (usually in a group), who like to pick apart every detail of some particularly interesting game (like the Superbrawl) and this is facilitated by recording it.
Even if the MPAA/RIAA buys a law mandating the broadcast flag, I'm sure that some clever and enterprising individual will come up with a way to defeat it. Like for example, designing and building thier own HDTV demodulator that does not incorporate the broadcast flag and sharing the design.
But given the overall squirreliness of the current administration, which is so busy sucking the dick of big business, almost anything is possible. I can think of/have heard of several suckish things they might do.
[1] Regarding the aforementioned scenario, outlaw the private possession of high-performance silicon that is not part of some "approved" consumer applicance. (i.e. ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, etc.) [2] An "internet licence" that one would have to apply for before going online. You would have to meet certain requirements, like, for example, being over 18, an USA citizen, not have a criminal record, etc. It might mandate that some kind of unique identity information be embedded in anything you sent. [3] Limits on how fast and how much you can send or recieve in any given time frame, or perhaps metered access based on amount of data transferred with the rate going up sharply once you pass some threshold. [4] New and secret internet protocols for "protecting content". [5] Mandating "trusted computing". [6] Whatever else you care to think of.
Aw jesus fucking christ on a bicycle, It does not matter what it is, somebody is going to figure out how to apply it to killing or enslaving his fellows. It's not a problem of technology, it's a problem of humans.
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At least the people in Dover Pa have the right idea. They cleaned house and got all eight republicans who voted in ID off the school board. (One member was not up for re-election.) Plus, the ousted school board members may have to pay all the legal fees for the trial that was held there over the matter.
The sooner that school boards realise that religion bears the same relationship to science that bullshit does to horsepower, the students will be better off.
What they are probably doing is using the transmitted carrier as a clock for a synchronous detector. The actual information is spread out over a very wide band with very little energy at any particular frequency. If the data rate is somehow related to the carrier frequency in a way that is controlled by the carrier frequency, then you can suck a signal out of a lot of noise.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if the military or some TLA hasn't already had this for a while.
thej1nx (763573) wrote:
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"We are one nation under God, and only God can help us now. Amen."
Didn't you get the memo? The one about god going out of business 2000 years ago?
I'm sure this has been said before, but I'll say it again anyway. If the labels (not just Sony) are that much against piracy, there are two things they could do that would go a long way towards reducing it.
[1] Drop the price of CDs to $10. This alone would boost sales since people would also be inclined to buy more CDs at one time than they normally do.
[2] Drop the DRM altogether. I think this does more to encourage copyright violation than anything else for the simple reason that if you tell people that they cannot do something, someone out there is going to do it anyway, either to spite you or to show that it _can_ be done.
[3] Sony specific: Drop the rootkits entirely lest someone file a class action lawsuit against you for computer tresspass and destruction. Personally, I hope someone does; if they win, it could set a useful legal precedent.
mc900ftjesus (671151) wrote: "DRM." A bad publicity spin is a better way to combat DRM than actaully explaing it to Joe Sixpack. The word infected implies that it's bad, christ I've met people who think viruses are like human viruses (no one makes them they just happen). Leave the tech speak at home, just dumb it down to three words: infected with DRM."
I would tell Joe Sixpack something like this: "Joe, if you try to play one of these CD's that's got that copy-protection or something else called 'Dee-Are-Emm' on it, it will put viruses into your machine that will not only fuck it up completely, but cannot be gotton rid of. That is because the record companies are in cahoots with the hackers and spammers to rip you off. Do you want to take that chance?" You might also want to add a little punch to this by telling somebody's sad tale of woe.
I think he would get that, and I don't think it is misleading.
You have to understand the first three rules of business:
[1] Make money.
[2] Make more money.
[3] Fuck everything and everyone that gets in the way of making money.
let's do an abstraction of this to a individual level:
[1] Get what "I" want.
[2] Get *more* of what "I" want.
[3] Fuck everything and everyone who gets in the way of "me" getting what "I" want.
You know what the last set of rules sounds like? The mental attitude of a psychopath[1] - a person with no conscience and no restrictions on thier behaviour. A person who does things "because he can". And that is very descriptive of corporate behaviour since the beginning of corporations.
[1] aka "sociopath", "antisocial personality", etc. I.e., basic motherfucking sonofabitch.
How about Elephants and JACKASSES.
Visit some of the Asian manufacturer's websites. These things are so riddled with Flashturbation that they are almost unusable. On a 28.8K dialup connexion (yes, there's still some of us out there), it can take several minutes to download the presentation.
Fuck the EULA. Load the programme on whatever will run it and have at it.
Personally, I am a fan of Wirth-style languages, so I would recommend Modula-2 (successor to Pascal with a cleaner syntax), or Oberon (successor to Modula that adds objects and garbage collection). Although I'd stay away from the native Oberon programming environment since it is quite unlike the environment most of us are familiar with (Windows and its look-alikes). Both of these languages, like Pascal were designed for instruction, but are powerful enough to be used in production environments.
Too much religion, I think. Every fucking one of these so-called "moral crusaders" is either a jesus freak or some other kind of psychopath. The idea of anybody having a good time drives these people to distraction.
If you base your nuclear power on burning thorium (3 times more common than uranium), you gain certain advantages such as no plutonium production, less radioactive garbage to contend with, and greater safety.
h tm
http://www.cavendishscience.org/bks/nuc/thrupdat.
The thorium fuel cycle has been known since the 1950s but was discarded due to cold-war politics in favour of uranium burning reactors that bred plutonium. Additionally, thorium reactors can be used to get rid of existing plutonium in a safe manner.
So if the Indian and Russian experiments pan out (and it looks like they will), expect nuclear power to become a more attractive option. Perhaps the Iranians could jump on the thorium bandwagon as well; it would go some way towards keeping that madman in Washingtom at bay.
sgant(178166) wrote: "What an idiotic system. You would have thought by now they would have built better humans to where males produce sperm INSIDE the body at the normal temperature."
See, you've just pointed out one of the fallacies of "intelligent design". Any genuinely "intelligent designer" would have done a better job. Period. But I'm sure that the stupids who buy into this bullshit won't hear of it.
"Unix Airlines: You walk out to the runway and they give you a box of tools and some airplane parts. The passengers form into groups and start building twelve different planes."
;-)
Actually, that should be FORTH Airlines.
Now, the neat trick is /proving/ that Microsoft actually is muscling the graphics/interface card people into withholding thier specs.
Someone else mentioned that a clever chip designer could reverse engineer the chips from the specifications. To this I say, that might be possible, but by that time, the original chip-maker will have already progressed to the next model, thereby rendering the clever reverse-engineer's efforts moot.
"My calculator can solve that equation. Would you say this a bad thing?"
But can you?
So what if this doesn't produce any useful power? The article states that it is also a source of neutrons and x-rays and this is where the research really needs to go. If they can get this to turn on and off like a light (and control the output), they will really have something going here.
This is something which might not only affect medicine, but all of industry.
"It's simple, if you want people to stop being violent, create a pill which lowers aggression and which prevents people from getting angry."
Even simpler: Legalise marijuana.
NanoGator: "And with the clone tool I made... a monkey with four asses. Huh."
Hate to break it to you but someone already beat you to it doing it the old fashioned way. Just check out the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Some parents simply never know when to let go. And I'm not sure which is sadder -- the effect on the children or the state of the parents that compels them to be an ongoing intrusive presence in thier children's life well after the time that the children are on thier own.
In my own case, it was around age 28 I had to get a court order to keep them out of my life so I could get on with living.
Regarding sports games, recordings of these would be of interest of those who did not get the chance to see the game "live". And I know sports fans who spend a lot of time (usually in a group), who like to pick apart every detail of some particularly interesting game (like the Superbrawl) and this is facilitated by recording it.
Even if the MPAA/RIAA buys a law mandating the broadcast flag, I'm sure that some clever and enterprising individual will come up with a way to defeat it. Like for example, designing and building thier own HDTV demodulator that does not incorporate the broadcast flag and sharing the design.
But given the overall squirreliness of the current administration, which is so busy sucking the dick of big business, almost anything is possible. I can think of/have heard of several suckish things they might do.
[1] Regarding the aforementioned scenario, outlaw the private possession of high-performance silicon that is not part of some "approved" consumer applicance. (i.e. ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, etc.)
[2] An "internet licence" that one would have to apply for before going online. You would have to meet certain requirements, like, for example, being over 18, an USA citizen, not have a criminal record, etc. It might mandate that some kind of unique identity information be embedded in anything you sent.
[3] Limits on how fast and how much you can send or recieve in any given time frame, or perhaps metered access based on amount of data transferred with the rate going up sharply once you pass some threshold.
[4] New and secret internet protocols for "protecting content".
[5] Mandating "trusted computing".
[6] Whatever else you care to think of.
An ideology that cannot exist with introspection? Sounds like religion and politics to me.
This is hilarious: http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/index2.html
Aw jesus fucking christ on a bicycle, It does not matter what it is, somebody is going to figure out how to apply it to killing or enslaving his fellows. It's not a problem of technology, it's a problem of humans.