I should have worded that better. Gardasil is approved for males (here in the UK, too) but public vaccination programs do not target them as far as I am aware. It's a rather expensive vaccine, and the usual government policy is to focus on girls.
It'd be almost a perfect consumer-friendly DRM scheme, affecting only pirates with no obnoxious lockout technologies or compatibility breaking and no manditory internet connection. It is, though, marred by a flaw: Valid CD keys became so sought-after that some actually wrote key-stealing trogens into fake patches or mods in order to steal and impersonate the keys of legitimate users. So... close, very close, but still evil if only for creating an unintended incentive for malware.
I recall UT2K4 does the same, but authenticates serials by proxy: The clients send their (hashed) keys to the server, the server contacts Epic, checks the key-hash is valid, kicks if not. It is nice enough though that if it can't get a response (quite common at quick lan setups, there may be no internet connection) it'll just let the game continue. You can also quite easily disable it's ability to contact the auth server (It's an INI file edit), but this does also mean you can't advertise on the public metaserver.
HPV runs into the little angel effect because it's transmitted sexually. Not through any unusual practice, just plain old-fashioned heterosexual sex. Or oral, that works too. The problem is that a lot of parents are quite insistant that their daughter* is going to be a perfect Christian and would never have sex with anyone except for her lifelong husband, who will also practice a similar abstinance until the wedding night. Many parents have this expectation, but very few of those children will meet it.
*The vaccine isn't approved for males. Not yet, anyway.
You'd just run into the Little Angel effect, same as with the HPV vaccine. Parents will refuse to have their kids vaccinated, because they are confident their little angel of a child would never be lured into drug abuse - and any attempt to say other wise will be taken as a personal attack on their parenting abilities.
I've not seen DwW, but I have seen FG, and they do have huge simularities:
- Western Guy goes to some wilderness to do environmentally destructive stuff.
- Circumstance and luck lead to western guy meeting the natives.
- The natives are shown to be some perfect culture, in-tune with nature, loving of all living things, peaceful and generally all-round nice.
- Western guy falls in love with native culture (And native hot chick).
- EVIL CORPORATION wants to destroy the wilderness!
- Western guy switches sites, and together with the natives fights off EVIL CORPORATION.
- Wilderness saved.
Only the endings really differ. In Avatar he goes native fully to spend the rest of his life with them, while in FG he realises that for all he has achieved he really only managed to break a single logging machine and so the best way he can protect the natives is by leaving them to return to his own people and become an environmental activist.
Note that all of those tend towards the soft end of the scale, ranging from 'marshmellow' for Minority Report to 'thick fog' for Dr Who. Hard sci-fi tends to have less mass-appeal and so be less likely to get the big-budget movie or TV treatment.
The tendency to obcess does have it's advantages in some fields, explaining why those with aspergers or aspergers-like symptoms tend to be overrepresented at the very top. They don't make great mathematitions because they are smarter - it's because they can display such intense focus. While the other students are partying, the aspergers studies. While the others are drinking, he studies. While they are watching movies with friends, visiting families, taking vacations... he studies. When they are dating, married, raising children, he studies. Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep... the type of personality that will focus tightly on one narrow field at the expense of everything else.
What is email? It isn't a protocol - you can send it over many, many protocols. It is a concept: The very idea of sending a text message by electronic means to be stored somewhere the recipient may access it for a non-realtime conversation. What is that, really? It's the telegraph. Computers made it much faster, cheaper and more accessible, but the real core of the idea is as old as the telegraph.
Apparently so. Both the US and UK governments have spent a lot of money making sure that people can still watch TV, both through advertising and by directly distributing converter boxes or subsidising new TVs. Perhaps they have realised how truely essential television is to modern society: Not only does it keep the people pacified, but it also delivers the advertising that feeds the spending that sustains the economy. If TV were to disappear, we might very well see a second great depression follow.
Radio isn't quite as clean as it looks on the diagrams. There are no sharp transitions where one band ends and another begins. Electronics like to broadcast or receive at harmonics of the intended frequency, filters are not perfectly clean, and signals can mix in strange ways. The dirty reality of real-world engineering sometimes gets in the way of the nice clean chunks in which spectrum is allocated. Analog solved the problem by just putting in unused guard bands between channels. I'm not sure how digital fixes it.
There's an old story, almost certainly a complete fabrication.
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A teacher is lecturing students thus: "In English, by convention a double negative is itsself a negative. For example, 'You're not going nowhere' would mean 'you're going somewhere.' In Russian, by contrast, a double negative makes a positive. That is, the expression 'you're not going nowhere' would mean 'you're not leaving.' It should be noted that in no language can two positives be taken to mean a negative."
A student then calls sarcastically from the back, "Yeah, right."
Seriously though, it isn't good for one service to weild as much power as youtube over which videos will be promoted to fame and which are left lingering in obscurity.
Distributed works great when you have a large number of chunks which must be independantly processed. Samples of telescope data in SETI@home, potential proteins to test against a receptor, that sort of thing. If all those chunks are interdependant, then distributed computing on the internet isn't going to work. You need a super.
Mining bots aren't advanced enough to be autonomous, and you couldn't operate them from earth with light-lag. Thus my Mars idea. Send operators, but you only need to put them in mars orbit (Maybe give them a couple of mini-relay sats to drop, so they don't have to shut down when on the wrong side of the planet). Close enough that light-lag isn't a problem, but a lot easier than getting humans landed and up again.
Content tampering isn't a problem. A hash wouldn't cut down on that: It would completly eliminate it, baring the possibility of the hash being broken (Which is highly unlikely, and even then it'd be possible to switch to a new hash). Content would be self-authenticating: If it didn't match the expected hash, it'd just be discarded. The only problem then is making sure someone doesn't tamper with the hash on it's way to you - but that's no worse a problem than stopping someone replacing a webpage through traffic interception or false DNS responses. Existing problems, for which there are existing solutions.
The battery life would be an issue, yes. You could cut a bit off by not using the full 802.11a/b/g/n stack (You don't need to transmit a 'I don't have it' response) do you can keep the transmitter off as much as possible, but for really power-sensitive applications like mobiles you might just have to set it to selfishly not share data when on battery.
It would also be possible to do a priority system - each potential source responds with a measure of how willing it would be to transmit (A single short frame isn't going to take any significent power), and the requesting device then gets the device with the most willingness to send. That way the person with their laptop plugged into the train power ends up the preferential source. I can easily imagine the train operator sticking a little accelerator-node box (Based on NAS hardware) in every other carriage loaded at convenient chances with the most recent iPlayer releases, image files/videos from news sites and other things that are expected to be in demand.
The key is that, unlike the speaker in that video, I do not believe that a CAN would be a viable replacement for a packet-switched internet. I believe it would be a very beneficial suppliment, with each doing what it's best at.
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I should have worded that better. Gardasil is approved for males (here in the UK, too) but public vaccination programs do not target them as far as I am aware. It's a rather expensive vaccine, and the usual government policy is to focus on girls.
Is it even a sale, though? I imagine that for legal purposes it'd be considered a licence.
It'd be almost a perfect consumer-friendly DRM scheme, affecting only pirates with no obnoxious lockout technologies or compatibility breaking and no manditory internet connection. It is, though, marred by a flaw: Valid CD keys became so sought-after that some actually wrote key-stealing trogens into fake patches or mods in order to steal and impersonate the keys of legitimate users. So... close, very close, but still evil if only for creating an unintended incentive for malware.
I recall UT2K4 does the same, but authenticates serials by proxy: The clients send their (hashed) keys to the server, the server contacts Epic, checks the key-hash is valid, kicks if not. It is nice enough though that if it can't get a response (quite common at quick lan setups, there may be no internet connection) it'll just let the game continue. You can also quite easily disable it's ability to contact the auth server (It's an INI file edit), but this does also mean you can't advertise on the public metaserver.
HPV runs into the little angel effect because it's transmitted sexually. Not through any unusual practice, just plain old-fashioned heterosexual sex. Or oral, that works too. The problem is that a lot of parents are quite insistant that their daughter* is going to be a perfect Christian and would never have sex with anyone except for her lifelong husband, who will also practice a similar abstinance until the wedding night. Many parents have this expectation, but very few of those children will meet it.
*The vaccine isn't approved for males. Not yet, anyway.
Smoking it will ruin your lungs faster than tobacco though. Hence why many users prefer other means.
You'd just run into the Little Angel effect, same as with the HPV vaccine. Parents will refuse to have their kids vaccinated, because they are confident their little angel of a child would never be lured into drug abuse - and any attempt to say other wise will be taken as a personal attack on their parenting abilities.
I've not seen DwW, but I have seen FG, and they do have huge simularities:
- Western Guy goes to some wilderness to do environmentally destructive stuff.
- Circumstance and luck lead to western guy meeting the natives.
- The natives are shown to be some perfect culture, in-tune with nature, loving of all living things, peaceful and generally all-round nice.
- Western guy falls in love with native culture (And native hot chick).
- EVIL CORPORATION wants to destroy the wilderness!
- Western guy switches sites, and together with the natives fights off EVIL CORPORATION.
- Wilderness saved.
Only the endings really differ. In Avatar he goes native fully to spend the rest of his life with them, while in FG he realises that for all he has achieved he really only managed to break a single logging machine and so the best way he can protect the natives is by leaving them to return to his own people and become an environmental activist.
Fern Gully.... in SPAAAACE!
Note that all of those tend towards the soft end of the scale, ranging from 'marshmellow' for Minority Report to 'thick fog' for Dr Who. Hard sci-fi tends to have less mass-appeal and so be less likely to get the big-budget movie or TV treatment.
The tendency to obcess does have it's advantages in some fields, explaining why those with aspergers or aspergers-like symptoms tend to be overrepresented at the very top. They don't make great mathematitions because they are smarter - it's because they can display such intense focus. While the other students are partying, the aspergers studies. While the others are drinking, he studies. While they are watching movies with friends, visiting families, taking vacations... he studies. When they are dating, married, raising children, he studies. Work, sleep, work, sleep, work, sleep... the type of personality that will focus tightly on one narrow field at the expense of everything else.
What is email? It isn't a protocol - you can send it over many, many protocols. It is a concept: The very idea of sending a text message by electronic means to be stored somewhere the recipient may access it for a non-realtime conversation. What is that, really? It's the telegraph. Computers made it much faster, cheaper and more accessible, but the real core of the idea is as old as the telegraph.
Apparently so. Both the US and UK governments have spent a lot of money making sure that people can still watch TV, both through advertising and by directly distributing converter boxes or subsidising new TVs. Perhaps they have realised how truely essential television is to modern society: Not only does it keep the people pacified, but it also delivers the advertising that feeds the spending that sustains the economy. If TV were to disappear, we might very well see a second great depression follow.
Radio isn't quite as clean as it looks on the diagrams. There are no sharp transitions where one band ends and another begins. Electronics like to broadcast or receive at harmonics of the intended frequency, filters are not perfectly clean, and signals can mix in strange ways. The dirty reality of real-world engineering sometimes gets in the way of the nice clean chunks in which spectrum is allocated. Analog solved the problem by just putting in unused guard bands between channels. I'm not sure how digital fixes it.
There's an old story, almost certainly a complete fabrication.
---
A teacher is lecturing students thus: "In English, by convention a double negative is itsself a negative. For example, 'You're not going nowhere' would mean 'you're going somewhere.' In Russian, by contrast, a double negative makes a positive. That is, the expression 'you're not going nowhere' would mean 'you're not leaving.' It should be noted that in no language can two positives be taken to mean a negative."
A student then calls sarcastically from the back, "Yeah, right."
... has a video service?
Seriously though, it isn't good for one service to weild as much power as youtube over which videos will be promoted to fame and which are left lingering in obscurity.
It's basically the same stuff. Roll up graphene and you get nanotubes. Unroll nanotubes and you get graphene.
Except for those you deny access to, who suddenly have reason for a little sabotage in order to once more level the playing field.
I don't speak japanese, but I think it would divide as shi-tsu-mi.
Time, but not incentive. Linux's share of the desktop market is still rather tiny, and no-one really cares about graphics acceleration on servers.
Distributed works great when you have a large number of chunks which must be independantly processed. Samples of telescope data in SETI@home, potential proteins to test against a receptor, that sort of thing. If all those chunks are interdependant, then distributed computing on the internet isn't going to work. You need a super.
I can chat to friends on IRC and watch TV while at work!
In-the-link-must-control-thoughts-must-not-think-about-hot-porn-with-that-oh-shit-did-he-hear-that-act-cool-focus-on-the-work...
Mining bots aren't advanced enough to be autonomous, and you couldn't operate them from earth with light-lag. Thus my Mars idea. Send operators, but you only need to put them in mars orbit (Maybe give them a couple of mini-relay sats to drop, so they don't have to shut down when on the wrong side of the planet). Close enough that light-lag isn't a problem, but a lot easier than getting humans landed and up again.
Content tampering isn't a problem. A hash wouldn't cut down on that: It would completly eliminate it, baring the possibility of the hash being broken (Which is highly unlikely, and even then it'd be possible to switch to a new hash). Content would be self-authenticating: If it didn't match the expected hash, it'd just be discarded. The only problem then is making sure someone doesn't tamper with the hash on it's way to you - but that's no worse a problem than stopping someone replacing a webpage through traffic interception or false DNS responses. Existing problems, for which there are existing solutions.
The battery life would be an issue, yes. You could cut a bit off by not using the full 802.11a/b/g/n stack (You don't need to transmit a 'I don't have it' response) do you can keep the transmitter off as much as possible, but for really power-sensitive applications like mobiles you might just have to set it to selfishly not share data when on battery.
It would also be possible to do a priority system - each potential source responds with a measure of how willing it would be to transmit (A single short frame isn't going to take any significent power), and the requesting device then gets the device with the most willingness to send. That way the person with their laptop plugged into the train power ends up the preferential source. I can easily imagine the train operator sticking a little accelerator-node box (Based on NAS hardware) in every other carriage loaded at convenient chances with the most recent iPlayer releases, image files/videos from news sites and other things that are expected to be in demand.
The key is that, unlike the speaker in that video, I do not believe that a CAN would be a viable replacement for a packet-switched internet. I believe it would be a very beneficial suppliment, with each doing what it's best at.