At least they can be accounted for, rather than blown into the air. There's no excuse for the mishandling that does happen, but any contamination is extremely localized compared to all other options, other than solar or geothermal. Heck, if we set aside a 20 square km area in the desert to be the waste repository, it would be far more efficient in tems of power generation per square kilometer of unusable land. Not that I'm against this project - it's coolness factor makes up for its inefficiency, and the inefficiency doesn't matter much given Australia's available land.
Put in ducts and modular faceplates, so you can replace the cables when something better comes along. Have all the ducts go straight down to the basement, and a duct around the ceiling of the basement with access at each joint with a vertical duct, then put your router in some inobtrusve corner of the basement.
I fail to see how this is a problem (and I'm not trying to troll). If someone is capable of claiming "rights" on some physical artifact that they created then why shouldn't someone be able to claim rights on some non-physical artifact that they created as well?
If I buy a physical artifact, I can make a copy of my own, or take some good ideas from it and make a derivitive object. I can even do this if I only see it through the window of a store, and don't buy it. Now, this doesn't apply to all objects (ie carrots), and trademark and patent laws may prevent me from selling my object, but in its creation I haven't infringed anyone's rights.
I would also point out to the/. Linux users that without intellectual property protecion the GPL would not be enforcable.
With reasonable IP protection, the first things put under the GPL would soon be public domain, but newer additions to the original version would still have several years of protection left.
Oh, yeah: they're also good reading, with an interesting set of characters.
I can't decide whether I agree with this... I've been reading this trilogy since August, but I can seldom read more than a chapter or two before falling asleep. (I do my reading in bed.) But it's interesting enough to keep me coming back.
While the average Joe on the street may not know who they are, I can assure you that every corporate executive worth anything knows who they are (as a matter of fact, many high-ranking corporate executives worked for one of these firms at one time or another). KPMG is a powerhouse consulting firm, up there with McKinsey, Cap Gemini, Accenture, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Arthur Andersen, etc.
I visited their website when I saw this story on Wired News, and until I read this post I still didn't know what they did. Hmm. Consultants, eh? I guess I still don't...
Yes, though foxnews says there's an experimental solid-state laser that looks promising. With that, it would cost 25 cents per shot, and fit on a Humvee.
High-tech warfare is a game of rock-paper-scisors, but the enemy will win if you are missing one of the above, and he knows it. The Maginot line was unsuccessful because they were complacent once they had it. I don't think that will be the case in the US for a while, now that we've had both the 9-11 and the anthrax attacks.
Two arguments I've heard against missile defense are that it doesn't work, and that it wouldn't stop other attacks. For the former, the fact that it doesn't work hardly seems like an argument against research. As for the latter, if we put all our money into aircraft security and mail sanitization, we'd be unprepared for missile attacks.
Not a sermon, just a thought. (OK, maybe that phrase implies that it is a sermon. Oh, well.)
great... in a orwellian twist, a quantum device is created that invalidates the principles of quantum physics upon which it is based - to be followed shortly thereafter by its use in airport security.
That's what is interesting about this question. Most games have some sort of "payoff" device that is implicit when you play it. When you get that payoff, whether it is the final goal or some sort of intermediary plateau, you take a breather and appreciate your accomplishment.
Many of the more addictive games have several simultaneous and independent payoff devices, so when you complete one goal, you are that close to completing the goal on a different axis. Party based RPGs have this, with each member having a different experience amount. The MOO/Civ type games have events happening all over the map, so you are likely to have several strategies being played out at once.
For example, Goner is compressed--the antivirus EXE names aren't visible. There are a million and one ways of hiding a string in the trojan.
Of course. There are also a million and one ways to undo that obfuscation. And that's what antivirus companies do - they look at the latest viruses, and reverse engineer them.
And if the antivirus software simply scanned for its own EXE name, you couldn't have text file, Word document, or whatever that had that EXE name.
Well, I did say "when the executable is copied to the computer". There aren't many valid reasons to have another program's filename in an executable. Some, but not many.
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Yes, to keep the money away from making movies out of bad books.
To me, at least, the OpenSource seems to be the magic solution to the getting all three of: Better, Faster, Cheaper.
For the first two, I'd add "if you're lucky enough to attract interest from competent people." Not that this isn't true for proprietary software.
At least they can be accounted for, rather than blown into the air. There's no excuse for the mishandling that does happen, but any contamination is extremely localized compared to all other options, other than solar or geothermal. Heck, if we set aside a 20 square km area in the desert to be the waste repository, it would be far more efficient in tems of power generation per square kilometer of unusable land. Not that I'm against this project - it's coolness factor makes up for its inefficiency, and the inefficiency doesn't matter much given Australia's available land.
Put in ducts and modular faceplates, so you can replace the cables when something better comes along. Have all the ducts go straight down to the basement, and a duct around the ceiling of the basement with access at each joint with a vertical duct, then put your router in some inobtrusve corner of the basement.
Have fun.
No they wouldn't.
The worst an Outlook virus could do on Linux is take out the account of the user who clicked on the attachment.
Oh, and clog the email servers.
I fail to see how this is a problem (and I'm not trying to troll). If someone is capable of claiming "rights" on some physical artifact that they created then why shouldn't someone be able to claim rights on some non-physical artifact that they created as well?
If I buy a physical artifact, I can make a copy of my own, or take some good ideas from it and make a derivitive object. I can even do this if I only see it through the window of a store, and don't buy it. Now, this doesn't apply to all objects (ie carrots), and trademark and patent laws may prevent me from selling my object, but in its creation I haven't infringed anyone's rights.
Just throwing a wrench in the analogy.
I would also point out to the /. Linux users that without intellectual property protecion the GPL would not be enforcable.
With reasonable IP protection, the first things put under the GPL would soon be public domain, but newer additions to the original version would still have several years of protection left.
That would be a fair price to pay.
Microsoft isn't particularily pro-DMCA. It's a whole different group of evil corporations.
Don't worry - he's in a galaxy far far away. This stuff is just from long ago.
Oh, yeah: they're also good reading, with an interesting set of characters.
I can't decide whether I agree with this... I've been reading this trilogy since August, but I can seldom read more than a chapter or two before falling asleep. (I do my reading in bed.) But it's interesting enough to keep me coming back.
As with all staunch partisans, he'll defend to the death the ammendments he agrees with, and fight tooth and nail against the ones he doesn't.
Maybe your good eye's experience would "teach" the other one how to see quicker than a totally blind person could learn it.
3) The eating hamburgers on Thursdays.
How about hot dogs on Fridays?
While the average Joe on the street may not know who they are, I can assure you that every corporate executive worth anything knows who they are (as a matter of fact, many high-ranking corporate executives worked for one of these firms at one time or another). KPMG is a powerhouse consulting firm, up there with McKinsey, Cap Gemini, Accenture, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Arthur Andersen, etc.
I visited their website when I saw this story on Wired News, and until I read this post I still didn't know what they did. Hmm. Consultants, eh? I guess I still don't...
Turning around makes you feel like you live in the land of smooth scroll.
If you actually turn around, without using your computer's I/O peripherals, you'll get an even smoother scroll...
I'm guessing they'd rather not have the 'P' in performance be bolded.
Yes, though foxnews says there's an experimental solid-state laser that looks promising. With that, it would cost 25 cents per shot, and fit on a Humvee.
High-tech warfare is a game of rock-paper-scisors, but the enemy will win if you are missing one of the above, and he knows it. The Maginot line was unsuccessful because they were complacent once they had it. I don't think that will be the case in the US for a while, now that we've had both the 9-11 and the anthrax attacks.
Two arguments I've heard against missile defense are that it doesn't work, and that it wouldn't stop other attacks. For the former, the fact that it doesn't work hardly seems like an argument against research. As for the latter, if we put all our money into aircraft security and mail sanitization, we'd be unprepared for missile attacks.
Not a sermon, just a thought. (OK, maybe that phrase implies that it is a sermon. Oh, well.)
Indeed. These won't be useful until they can be shark-mounted.
great ... in a orwellian twist, a quantum device is created that invalidates the principles of quantum physics upon which it is based - to be followed shortly thereafter by its use in airport security.
That's what is interesting about this question. Most games have some sort of "payoff" device that is implicit when you play it. When you get that payoff, whether it is the final goal or some sort of intermediary plateau, you take a breather and appreciate your accomplishment.
Many of the more addictive games have several simultaneous and independent payoff devices, so when you complete one goal, you are that close to completing the goal on a different axis. Party based RPGs have this, with each member having a different experience amount. The MOO/Civ type games have events happening all over the map, so you are likely to have several strategies being played out at once.
Anyone can talk about what they do for a living, even a streetsweeper.
I can't. I just say "same old stuff."
Madame Cleo is probably happy. Didn't she win her lawsuit?
For example, Goner is compressed--the antivirus EXE names aren't visible. There are a million and one ways of hiding a string in the trojan.
Of course. There are also a million and one ways to undo that obfuscation. And that's what antivirus companies do - they look at the latest viruses, and reverse engineer them.
And if the antivirus software simply scanned for its own EXE name, you couldn't have text file, Word document, or whatever that had that EXE name.
Well, I did say "when the executable is copied to the computer". There aren't many valid reasons to have another program's filename in an executable. Some, but not many.