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  1. Wake the Fu& up... on Real ID Act Poses Technical Challenges · · Score: 1

    its not about protecting anything more than national security of those in power.
    its not about protecting american citizens and their freedom at all.

    With as much digital leakage as has been happening, this only makes leakage easier and abuse of your identity easier too.

    Simply put you oppose some politician or other giovernment official and the next thing you know yoyu are dealing with Identity theift and a destruction of whatever financial resources and other accests you have/.

    The 9/11 insident was an act of retailation against the American draining of south east asia via world stock market wrongful manipulation. Do a search for "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript. And if you really follow the money here, you'll also know what the "easy come easy go" money came from that created teh dotcom boom and bust and what failed companies like worldcom and enron were investing in.

    Now think about it... The truth has not been told the public but everyone know by now that Sadam had nothing to do with 9/11, there weren't even any weapons of mass destruction ...

    IF american government is going to go to such extreams as to threaten teh American Media industry with anthrax, so to get them to help the government bang war drums against a country that had nothing to fo with 9/11, while hiding from teh American people the connection between the "trillionj dollar bet" and the fall of the World Trade Center (it wasn't the first attempt to take it down).... ...What do you really think this national ID thing is going to be used for?

  2. AI honestly defined... on "St Lawrence of Google" · · Score: 1

    Artificial Intelligence is a by-product illusion created by the sum of automating enough to present the user of the system, an illusion that leads them to believe a person is on the other end.

    Artificial Intelligence - nothing is naturally that stupid....

    Googles scope of products are not enough to of the right automations to ever achieve turing test success.

    its like saying windows is teh last word in OSs. From a company that is first and formost really only interested in marketing whatever... but not really innovating anything.

  3. An Analogy on Computers Top BBC List of Stress Producers · · Score: 1

    High Frutose Corn Syrup is very bad for you as it adds as much as 1/3 to your triglicerides --- causing you to gain alot of weight. Its in alot of junk food, soft drinks, etc...

    Remove it from your diet and you will be healthier.

    This computer stress thing... its alot teh same....

    Simply remove Microsoft from your computer diet and your stress level will decrease.

    Its the MS user frustration function. Its pervasive...junk food...

  4. Re:Software is more than just algorithms. on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.ffii.org/IstTamaiEn

    Physics of Abstraction (abstraction physics)

    Abstraction enters the picture of computing with the representation of physical transistor switch positions of ON '1' and OFF '0' or what we call "Binary" notation. However, computers have far more transistor switches in them than we can keep up with in such a low level or first order abstract manner, so we create higher level abstractions in order to increase our productivity in programming computers. From Machine language to application interfaces that allow users to define some sequence of action into a word or button press (ie. record and playback macro) so to automate a task, we are working with abstractions that ultimately accesses the hardware transistor switches which in turn output to, or control some physical world hardware.

    Programming is the act of automating some level of complexity, usually made up of simpler complexities, but done so in order to allow the user to use and reuse the complexity through a simplified interface. And this is a recursive act, building upon abstractions others have created that even our own created abstractions/automations might be used by another to further create more complex automations. In general, if we didn't build upon what those before us have done, we then would not advance at all, but rather be like any other mammal incapable of anything more than, at best, first level abstraction. But we are more, and as such have the natural human right and duty to advance in such a manner.

    There is an identifiable and definable "physics of abstraction" (abstraction physics), an identification of what is required in order to make and use abstractions. Abstraction Physics is not exclusive to computing but constantly in use by ... well... us humans. Elements or facets of abstraction physics include the actions of abstraction creation and use, such as defining a word to mean a more complex definition (word = definition, function-name = actions to take, etc.), Starting and Stopping (interfacing with) of an abstraction definition sequence, keeping track of where you are in the progress of abstraction sequence usage (moving from one abstraction to another), defining and changing "input from" direction, defining and changing "output to" direction, getting input to process (using variables or place holders to carry values), sequencially stepping thru abstraction/automation details (inherently includes optionally sending output), looking up the meaning of a word or symbol (abstraction) so to act upon or with it, identifing an abstraction or real item value so to act upon it, and putting constraints upon your abstraction lookups and identifications (when you look up a word in a dictionary you don't start at the beginning of the dictionary, but begin with the section that starts with the first letter then followed by the second, etc., and when you open a box with many items to stock, you identify each so as to know where to put it in stock.)

    Abstraction Physics has yet to be established/recognized in a broad "common acceptance" manner, similiar to the difficulty in the acceptance of the hindu-arabic decimal system (which included the concept that nothing can have value - re: the Zero place holder). It took three hundred years (from inception) for the innovation of the now common decimal system to overcome the far more limited Roman Numeral system. (NOTE: mathmatics and the symbol sets used are also abstractions and therefor a subset of abstraction possibilities and certainly an application of abstraction physics.) Though the act of programming is still younger than many who apply it, we are technologically moving at a much faster rate of incorporating innovations and better understandings of reality. There is a physics to abstraction creation and use which can be used to model and create a non-patentable user friendly general use, and dynamic, automation (abstraction creation and usage) tool, that also allows for organized p

  5. Software is not patentable.... on Open-source Overhauls Patent System · · Score: 3, Insightful

    By its very nature software falls into the scope of what is not patentable.

    Physical Phenomenon
    Natural Law
    Abstract Ideas.

    Mathmatical algorythims are a subtopic of the above three primary facets of what is not patentable.

    Haven't the time at the moment to read the article but I don't need to. I know software is provably not patentable.

    How software got patent status in teh US is not by approval of the people, but by the abstract rethoric of abstract arguement.

    Software creation is all about abstraction creation and manipulation.

    This alone make its a a human right and duty to apply. For we as creatures able to go beyond other creatures have only this as our advantage enabling us to go beyond the limits other creatures have.

    Software is not patentable and there are more details as to why this is and provable, then I have time to go into ATM.

    We only advance by building upon the works of those before us. Why falsely limit that process and increasing rate of? Ity is not consistant with what we are.

    Reform???? What we need is correction in accord with what is not patentable.

  6. locks are for honest people on A Look at Google DRM · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and honest people really don't need the overhead complexities of DRM.

    It seems to me that pay for view TV is already in place and just like telephones and VOIP and how many LD companies are using it, internet TV programming is probably already in wide use.

    The DRM spin only does what? What is the point, really?

    As it is now, living in Atlanta with at least 9 over the air local stations, all of which the reception is getting worse over the years....

    So I buy used videos real cheap at the local movie traders. And I can then watch them as much as I want.

    Music... Internet radio showed me enough free or advertiser supported music choices, besides teh local over the air stations.

    Copyrights weren't supposed to last so long, and back then it took longer to make a product. So now that its easier to produce, copyrights are extended????

    That is a contridiction.

    As the world economy improves for more and more of the world, what are we heading towards? It doesn't sound anything like the vision of star trek earth economy. but more like "total recall" dictatorship.

    What will the war and power mongers do, when they burn out the phantom terrorist scam? It's not always going to be so easy to fool the population of the planet, as not many today would see teh people of russia as some evil empire, for many of us have friends their.

    What next? Gotta criminals out of somebody, do them wrong enough to provoke them to retailiate and then claim they are criminals of the worse kind.

    Do a search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript if you really want to know what provoked 9/11

    Laying criminal charges on the consumer, is the last ditch effort to maintain some evil in teh world.

    What is DRM really all about?

  7. how about a python version... on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 1

    ... and a hack that adds in teh pass thru inside the mouse?

  8. extra security measure.... on Turn an Optical Mouse into a Scanner · · Score: 1

    besides barcode scanning possibilities, how about an additional login security measure....scan your thumb print plus password.

  9. Obviously just more MS BS...think.... on Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims · · Score: 1

    ... linux is open source, allowing it to be modified to run on anything. If there is some computer system that linux will not run on then its either because nobody has the motivation to do, or it has far far less resources then what windows would need to run.

    Its amazing the faulty rational of this article...perhaps its so obvious that its hard for some to believe that MS would stoop so low.Certainly nobody would stoop so low as to sit in their own shit.???

  10. windows and intelligent design on Linux/Unix Tops Charts for Vulnerabilities in 2005 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only intelligence there is in regards to windows is that of marketing... market it no matter what condition it is in. If "Intelligent Design" was more popular you can be sure MS would market Windows in a manner to ride off that, as they do everything else they can. I mean Hey, they got the singularity OS....(rolls eyes)

    I think everyone knows how out of context the article is, which only shows the deceiptful intent of those responsible for it being written.

    Taking things out of context is a known action of those having intent to deceive.

    Now if there were laws against such that applied to marketing.... We'd all have better things in life, cept for the deceptive.

    But for those of us who do know to see past the BS... we are better off, depending on how deep the BS goes, and sometimes its gets rather deep.

  11. Digital leakage of citizen data.. on Marriott Discloses Missing Data Files · · Score: 1

    .. This is just another of many many cases of digital leakage of data on human beings. Data that may be used to thenm harm the party the information is about,

    What do you suppose the solution direction is going to be, considerning that even having some sort of unique ID won't stop worngful use of such information?

  12. And what we won't know until this time... on 100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year · · Score: 1

    ... next year.....

    Did they remove any of the gum in 2006 Or are they having a tour for who chew'ed what gum?

  13. Not quite knowledge overload, but something less on Knowledge Overload or Internet Lazy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...Mostly examples of bull shit, and thus the real problem is created.... not knowledge overload but the problem of separating the bull shit from valid knowledge and even further the separation of core knowledge from scope of valid knowledge.

    For example: the application/result of a mathmatical algorythim is valid only if it applies to a non-bull shit objective of the point of doing the calculation.

    You can memorize all the calculations results but if you know/understand the core knowledge of mathmatics and the mathmatical elements relative to the subject of the calculation, you can calculate it if and when you need to know it. That's alot less knowledge to need to know.

    Another example: Autocad (and this applies to other programs as well) provides many many user functions, but for a beginner to start being productive with it, there is the core set of functions (might be called short cuts or tips and tricks) the user can apply and get productive rather quickly.

    Example can be given for many other areas of knowledge, including politics, religion, (things though verifiably mostly bull shit), etc..

    Core knowledge, what it is, is the knowldge that allows calculating out valid information when you need to consider it. And it is always relative to life, specifically your life and the environment you live in.

    Core knowledge is much tighter, integrated and to some degree self verifiable. Not to be confused with fabricated knowledge requiring self supported dependancies --- the logic of an addict for example.

    The Bush administration lacks core knowledge and in all of its fabrication of justifying its faulty actions the complexity of knowledge has grown to be more than it or the NSA can keep straight.
    So if the NSA can process such massive amounts of information, for terrorist threats, from internet communications to phone taps, etc...Then the article is not real, but bull shit itself, but if the NSA is looking for "how to do it" then the article is an "RFC"

    And according to an ACLU mailout there is the "Faith in god" bush direction to try and get people to ignore the mess.

    So what light does all this put the article this thread is about, in?

    There is not a knowledge overload, there is a bullshit overload.

    When was the last time you did a search on something thru the internet and found mostly links to unrelated stuff?

    Core knowledge vs. bullshit overload.

    WHAT IF: all that you may believe about the war on terrorism, Bush, Bin Laden (who has forgoten about him?), dot com boom and bust, Enron, Worldcom, world economic problems,etc..... What if this knowledge overload has a much simpler core knowledge.

    A core knowledge that would have allowed you to accurately predict (no majic involved, just logic and simple mathmatics) all of it? Or even now enlighten you, reduce your knowledge overload on all of this?

    Well there is!

    Do a search on "Trillion Dollar bet" and read the transcript. Follow the money.

    When you understand why Ted Turner said the attack on the WTC, Pentagon, White House was an act of despration, then you will know there really is not a war on terrorism, least not how you probably think. But rather a resistant against those who do others wrong.

    When you understand this, then you too will see the solution and who is really guilty of terrorism (a fraction of a percent of the 6 billion population on this planet)...

    To remove terrorism, stop doing others wrong and start doing others right...

    http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02 /www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml

    CORE KNOWLEDGE --- its alot simpler and far from overload.

  14. What is really being said is just the opposite... on ISP Restrictions Based on Hardware/Software? · · Score: 1

    ... that the ISPs have been unable to secure their side.

    It can't p[ossibly have anything to do with the customers side seeing how the truth of the third user interface is being so well kept from the consumer.

    That user interface is the ports, the doorway to integrating software components.

    Its been called many things, but its essence is the same. That of being the access point of integration.

    Of course all the wrong intent users know about... the virus, worm, spyware, malware, etc...writter make use of ports to infect any system.

    I recall some politican wanting to fine users who's computer helps to spread such bad stuff, regardless of whether or not the users were aware of it..

    What really should be an eye opener here is the ability of ISPs to determine your systems configuration....

    Now isn't that in essence an invasion of your system?

    They obviously would have much better success in securing their system than imposing restriction on the consumer due to the ISPs failings...

    For who in invilved in any exchange thru the internet, but the ISPs.... making them responsible for firewalling the internet, not the consumer.

  15. whats the tax on outdated software? on Tennessee to Tax Software as Property? · · Score: 1

    Of course this is all nothing more than government trying to figure out where to get more money from.

    Paying property tax on what you rent.....

  16. Re:Get your GED, for God's sake !!! on Visto Founder Blogs about Microsoft Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You can get a GED in roman numeral mathmatics today?

    Hmmm, let me guess, its thru a catholic school....

    Seeing how they took long enough to exorniate Galileo.... in 1990...

    Then there is the developer arguement path against something simple...

    ie, what do you mean "advanced speech recognizion" explain it in less then ten words but be sure to give enough information to avoid misunderstanding....bla bla bla...

    How can nothing have value.... what a silly stupid thought, get a GED..... what roman numeral accountants with their high society status position.. generally used to argue against the zero place holder to suppress the adoption of the decimal system... and in accountability of their limited self interest... kept better from happening... for awhile...

    Interesting how I have become "slashdot geeks..."

    I thought I was just one person....

    speech recognize that! But don't use a mic.

  17. What is really needed is "off broadway" pedia... on Wikipedia Semi-Protection Begins · · Score: 1

    Just as you have a broadway show, and off broadway shows, there should be an off wikipedia level of entry and edit..

    There can be value found in such alternative entries and editing. Perhaps even the application of some sort of slashdot like moderation system.

    Maybe its not time for that yet but doesn't hurt to plan for the future.

  18. Software Patent Validity... on Visto Founder Blogs about Microsoft Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Software patents are as valid as the idea of the earth being flat.

    And it is provable.

    Problem is that neither side of the software development community (proprietary and open source) have either the incentive or clarity of mind to to support the proof.

    However, just as the roman numeral system finally gave way (after 300 years since the initial introduction of the hindu arabic decimal system) to the much simpler and more powerful decimal system and included zero place holder..... So will software patent break down.

    fraud simply cannot hold itself together for long...

    The weight of the wrongs of software patents will build until it topples over.

    These large corporate donations of software patents to the open source community are two fold in reason. One to slow the topple, the other to try and substain PR "for software patents"...

    software ware patents won't fall easily, but they will fall.

    The difference is whether or not you and I get a chance to experience the benefits of honesty about software and its common place (as the decimal system of math is today) usage..... and what all people will then come up with..

    NOTE: the computer as we know it today, could not have been built using the mathmatical limitations of the roman numeral system. The same leap in advancement can happen when software is inherently free because you make it up as you need it, like using a calculator to calculate something as you need it.

  19. don't need to RTFA.... simple logic... on Robot Demonstrates Self-awareness · · Score: 1

    a mirror reflects the light that hits it.

    logic.... does mirror image move in accordance with movement of machine? True or false?

    If true, must mean self awareness?

    hardly...

    a rock is not self aware, no matter how much you configure its atomic structure to pass electrons in a logical path.

    This is more a play on human fantasy than hard reality.

    Guided missles are not self aware but find their target via a feedback loop that constantly corrects minor deviations from the terget.

    Fine tune that feedback to be under human perception and the illusion/fantasy, of self awareness, is supported.

    Even a computer program that is created to self adapt and learn is still just a rock.

    Through human developed technology we have been able to extend our perceptions, ie. telescops, microscopes, and many many more...

    To move into the fantasy world of disconnection from what we create to extend ourselves into the non-real self aware rock illusion is dangerious. Its a dangerious dillusion, for if a robot killed someone even by accident, who would you hold responsible? The robot (a rock that doesn't really care if you destroy it) or the human manufacture?

  20. MS LED BY ????? on Microsoft Hires GUI 'Design Guru' · · Score: 1

    Engineering??? Design???

    Naw.... it has been from the beginning and always will be..... MS is led by Marketing!!!!

  21. Re:exposure on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 1

    If so many more are genuinely responsible for the war crimes of nazi germany, then how come there were't alot more war crime trials?

    There is something to be said for man made management structures, including military. Even in the US today, if a military persone doesn't follow the rules set down by those most probably not there, they risk punishment.

    It is thus recognized that some don't have as nuch of a choice as other would like to believe, but then there are those who did have choice and pursued the use of their authority to cause others harm. And it is these who are the war criminals, the far fewer than all involved, who are teh criminals.

    Of the 6+ billion people on this planet, it genuinely honestly is some fraction of a percent that is responsible for the rest of us having less than what we would other wise have. And if people in general couild know the difference (but it only at best speculation as to what could have been, but isn't and thus lacks proof)..... the few would be ostrisized by the rest of us.

    So the black use slavery they sold themselves into as an excuse to disrespect other not of black skin (withouit respect for onself, one cannot know respect for others) and this has contributed both to a growing population of blacks in teh US (unwanted pregancies and an even bigger decline in population in africa due the epidenic of aids...).

    The Jews hold the holocaust against some others and wanting sympathy or support and Egypt holds against the jews the deception and theif committed in the exidous by the jews........ Maybe it is just the laws of father physics and nature of mother (mother nature) that for ever action there is an equal and opposite reaction...

    Two wrongs don't make a right, but physics and nature are more fundamental and primary than to care whatever it is we consider or make out to be right and wrong.

    What of Hitler? He fell along with his followers. Islam also fell due to abuse of the application of war knowledge and tactics. But without such abuse, it was once a world class leader in production, and sciences.

    Invasion of privacy, by who? When we all know human governing or structureal authority powers ultimate or final application is being abusive.

    Read teh declairation of Independance for a refesher course.

    America might be the best country in teh world, but it wasn't in the past and there is nothing assuring it will maintain "best" in the future.

    Its a cheap arguement to use this "best country" to blindly support whatever its government or other machinery decides to do to others.

    The wrongful world stock market manipulation was a very big contributor to 9/11. There were winners, beneficiaries and losers, all of which made it into the news in one way or another over the given time period.

    How much will you let other screw you out of before you fight back?

    South east asia economy fell hard and the whole world was badly effected by this wrong, except for those who didn't play that stock market game (those who are the proof of the wrong).... like china...

    Invasion of priacy of a countries own citizens? What for, but to perpetuate the fraud of phantom of terrorism by those who by doing so (applying invasion of privacy in teh name of terrorism) really are the terrorist.

    In my whole life, I have never seen as much terrorism directed at so many people as the Bush administration did with its tactics of threatening the media via anthrax, into helping to promote the fraud of its war drums on iraq.

    Where would we have been today had not the wrongfull manipulation of the world stock market happened?

    There would have been a dot com boom or bust, the wtc would still be standing, thousands of iraqi innocent citizens would still be alive, enron and world coms wouldn't have happened, southeast asia would today be better off,... etc..

    A world you won't ever know, because avoidance is somehow "proof" against....

  22. back to the street with donations... on After Brief Respite Music Industry Slump Deepens · · Score: 1

    I heard there is this new street where musicians can go and play for donations from passerbys..

    But this new street doesn't have a crowd problem.

    Problem is that I don't know the name of the street, how to get there. But I know its on the internet somewhere.

    Anyone have direction to this street? I think its just off of shell beach, but nobody can remember how to get to shell beach. Something about some fantastical creation of the RIAA in the way...

    Point is: This is not a dictatorship, you do not have to go thru the RIAA to be a musician and make money playing.

    Perhaps record sales as noted by the RIAA are declining due to their outdated methodology and anti-PR efforts thru the courts, to sue the consumers...

    As a consumer muy records purchases have come to a stop these last few years, though I was never a heavy buyer, cept during the "Record Club of America" days, the attitude of the RIAA is not one I support and today find I have enough respect for artist I like, understanding they need income to continue on with their music... consider directly purchasing from them. Only most don't offer such.

    So who fault is it? The RIAA, mine, the artists?

    if sales really are declining? And who really know, honestly?

  23. exposure on It's "1984" in Europe, What About Your Country? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Though I'm hardly old enough to remember this but only thru my parents and some very early memories, the propoganda during world war II about how evil to population of hitlers rule was.

    Today, thanks to the internet, we all know it was bull shit... that people of one country are just like the people of another... all having their daily living concerns.

    This whole terrorism blow up was not without a cause. You screw someone enough and they will retaliate or someone else will use it as an excuse to.

    So it is with the WTC..... and the trillion dollar bet... a stock market gamble that drain south east asia of their economy. and then the totally disconnected but some how magically connected via bush adminastration and threated media helping to bang war drums.....

    The point is simple... of the over 6 billion people on this planet, it is a small fraction of a percent that is totally responsible for the excuse of terrorism.

    Search the web for trillion dollar bet and "what the world wants"....

    And see what the few are doing to keep a much better world from us all.

    They are the real terrorist and as the deceptive do, they clain its someone else.

  24. Re:how much per click does google charge? on Webhost Sues Google · · Score: 1

    teh has an association in teh dictionary under the word "the".... another way to spell it. Commonly found in electronic form, such as the internet. Something about electrons and bits getting transposed via the three finger typist, whos two finger hand types twice as fast as the one finger hand.

    and if we advertise it enough it will become a standard.

  25. Ok so this can only mean one thing.... on Aeon Flux, Talk Amongst Yourselves · · Score: 1

    ... it'll be in the #1.99 DVD rack at Movie Traders in a year. Then I can still frame it all I want and plaster my walls with CT....Who needs a plot for that?