Infra Red is a lower (longer) wavelength than visible light. It makes sense to get it to work at the lower (probally easier) wavelegnth and then 'take it up a notch' into the visible spectrem. This is exciting for it's energy efficiency and the fact the light remains a point source (good for fixture design).
I wonder how the matrix holds up as the tungsten evaporates from the filiment?
File for an injunction based on the Cable Act of '84. IANAL but could you not get someone that is to draft a 'form' injunction request(Call in the EFF?)? Send a few thousand of these to the magistrate to bolster SB case. Call it a legal DDoS. At worst you should be able to win the ability to opt-out and at best you will stop the whole deal.
MiniDisc is an excellent format for Amatuer-Semi Pro Use in this capicity. Some of Sony's new portables have usb built in and transfer at least 4x. Most recorders have optical ins, which when combined with the appropriate out allow you to fill a disc at 1x without interaction. I have used MD for years as a theatrical sound designer and I can not say enough good things about it. I build my shows on the pc and burn them to minidisc so that I can edit on the spot.
1. We have the right to use your computer, drink your beer and sleep with your sister. 2. You agree to binding arbitration, which means our representitve "Bubba" will tie you up and have his way with you until you stop whining. 3. You agree to purchase additional hardware as we deem necessary to run our software. 4. Your rights: NONE
Jerry: Hello. Bill: Hey Jerry, could you set the DoJ right about the goodness of Windows. Jerry: Sure! Anything to support your Monoply. Bill: Great, see you next week. Bye.
Or
Jerry: Hello. Bill: Hey, Jerry wouldn't it be funny if Windows XP V2 read the CPU ID and just mysteroiusly crashed if it saw AMD in it? Jerry: Good one Bill. What can I do for you? Bill: Some losers are suing me because I have the power to destroy a company with a simple code change. I need you to testify on my behalf. Jerry: Um, Sure Bill, Anything to keep you happy. Bill: Don't forget to wax my car this week. Jerry: Sure anything you say. Bill: One OS to bind them. HA HA HA HA.
You decide which is true.
SD
I like the remote control board!
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It like the remote control board the best. I assume it can be easily programed to flash 12:00am all the time.
You can remove the BD app from your system, it just take some patience and a little brute force. After the giant evil cameron diaz attacked, I wacked the BD app with a combination of file deletions and reg edit. Interestingly enough, Kazaa still works.
Just make a purchase at your local big box retailer with a check. Set your license on the security device (the one with the big 'no card' logo). By the time the clerk is ready to punch your numbers it should be good and blank.
Or just sand off the stripe. If anyone asks, you are an avid skateboarder and you had a little accident with your DL in your back pocket. If they press you, offer to show them the scars.
Border Guard: Welcome to Canada, do you have anything to declare? Me: No sir. Border Guard: Are you sure? Me: Um no. Border Guard: Time for a cavity search. Me: An Ipod, 160 gig hard drive, 20 128 meg smartmedia cards, and a sleeve of minidiscs in my shorts. Now who do I make the check out to again?
Congress is considering a law to mandate that all digital content be rendered on puch cards with "Do Not Copy" printed on them.
The MPAA applauded them move. "Now that digital movies weigh 300lbs casual piracy will be elimiated and we can safely distribute films without concern of terrorists." Blockbuster announed that all new members will receive a free pallet jack.
Chinese peasents who have been hoarding illegal CDR technology in their villages were gleefull. "Perhaps Lik-Sang will buy this @#$%% for paper to cdr converters for hackers". The I-Pod Mafia could not be reach for comment.
1. Drive to a large city. 2. Find a local fried pastry establishment. 3. Make derogatory remarks about the waist (or wife, or daughter) of local law enforcment seat with. 4. Become handcuffed. 5. Look over the seat at the cool display mounted to the dash (SCMODS for you Blues Brothers Fans)
What is to keep a MegaCorp from stockpiling authors to keep their copyrights intact. I envision an X-Files room under corpHQ with rows of authors, poets and musicians in cryotubes with hearts beating once a minute. "See, they are still alive!"
The reality of the world today is that each one of us leave a trail of bits as we pass through our days. The purpose of "privacy" is not to stop those bits, but to keep them from being aggregated and used against me.
If my kroger buyer card shows that I do not buy pork and I charge fuel and fertilizer on my lawn care company visa, I do not want to be questioned by the FBI as a terrorist. The oversite needs to be on the use of the data, not it's existance.
My doctor needs the ability to genetically screen for disease, but my insurance company, even if it knows my flaws, should not be allowed to charge more. In the past I had the security through obscurity that my privacy provides, but this is no longer the case.
The transparent society is an open source society. The 'source code' of an individual are their life experiences. The exploits are already in the wild. (People generally by milk and produce in a grocery so why are those sections the furthest apart?).
The success of the transparent society will depend on the protections we provide for our most valuable intellectual property we own, ourselves.
Lawrence Lessig has an article that descibes a new system for protecting IP. Add ability to copyright your personal data and we have a start on the Transparent Society.
Bag Checker: What is in the bag?
Laptop modder: My custom laptop.
Bag Checker: (gets hammer and screwdiver) We need to open it up!
Laptop modder: Please don't I spent a fortune on that.
Bag Checker: (to coworker "Bubba") It's cavity search time.
Keep it generic, nobody wants to see "custom electronics" at the airport these days.
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Infra Red is a lower (longer) wavelength than visible light. It makes sense to get it to work at the lower (probally easier) wavelegnth and then 'take it up a notch' into the visible spectrem. This is exciting for it's energy efficiency and the fact the light remains a point source (good for fixture design).
I wonder how the matrix holds up as the tungsten evaporates from the filiment?
SD
Owners of Replay need their own lawyer!
File for an injunction based on the Cable Act of '84. IANAL but could you not get someone that is to draft a 'form' injunction request(Call in the EFF?)? Send a few thousand of these to the magistrate to bolster SB case. Call it a legal DDoS. At worst you should be able to win the ability to opt-out and at best you will stop the whole deal.
SD
Don't wait to get screwed, fight back!
All of these Bradbury allusions got me thinking.
Combine the suit(or the bodypaint version), a very fast wireless connection, solar power, a P2P app and no off switch and you get the Illustrated man.
Hook him into a survilence network and watch the fun.
SD
MiniDisc is an excellent format for Amatuer-Semi Pro Use in this capicity. Some of Sony's new portables have usb built in and transfer at least 4x. Most recorders have optical ins, which when combined with the appropriate out allow you to fill a disc at 1x without interaction. I have used MD for years as a theatrical sound designer and I can not say enough good things about it. I build my shows on the pc and burn them to minidisc so that I can edit on the spot.
SD
1. We have the right to use your computer, drink your beer and sleep with your sister.
2. You agree to binding arbitration, which means our representitve "Bubba" will tie you up and have his way with you until you stop whining.
3. You agree to purchase additional hardware as we deem necessary to run our software.
4. Your rights: NONE
Accept Yes/NO
SD
There are two possible conversations:
Jerry: Hello.
Bill: Hey Jerry, could you set the DoJ right about the goodness of Windows.
Jerry: Sure! Anything to support your Monoply.
Bill: Great, see you next week. Bye.
Or
Jerry: Hello.
Bill: Hey, Jerry wouldn't it be funny if Windows XP V2 read the CPU ID and just mysteroiusly crashed if it saw AMD in it?
Jerry: Good one Bill. What can I do for you?
Bill: Some losers are suing me because I have the power to destroy a company with a simple code change. I need you to testify on my behalf.
Jerry: Um, Sure Bill, Anything to keep you happy.
Bill: Don't forget to wax my car this week.
Jerry: Sure anything you say.
Bill: One OS to bind them. HA HA HA HA.
You decide which is true.
SD
It like the remote control board the best. I assume it can be easily programed to flash 12:00am all the time.
SD
Laurence Livermore Labs just signed a contract with Brilliant Digital for the extra 18 TeraFlops.
A BD spokesman says "Why have the power of a 1000 desktops when you can have Millions (evil cackle)"
Kazaa users around the globe were saddened to learn that they do not have enough 'left over' CPU cycles to acually decode and listen to their MP3s.
"All your cycles are belonging to us!"
SD
For some reason, my cat really dislikes organ music. Who knew.
SD
You can remove the BD app from your system, it just take some patience and a little brute force. After the giant evil cameron diaz attacked, I wacked the BD app with a combination of file deletions and reg edit. Interestingly enough, Kazaa still works.
SD
dim accounttotal 'Total number of accounts
n t)-100*int(ac count(count)))/100u nt)*100)/100
dim myaccount 'my account
for count=1 to accountotal
myaccount=myaccount+(100*account(cou
account(count)=int(account(co
next
Run once a week for a healthy balance
SD
Just make a purchase at your local big box retailer with a check. Set your license on the security device (the one with the big 'no card' logo). By the time the clerk is ready to punch your numbers it should be good and blank.
Or just sand off the stripe. If anyone asks, you are an avid skateboarder and you had a little accident with your DL in your back pocket. If they press you, offer to show them the scars.
SD
Border Guard: Welcome to Canada, do you have anything to declare?
Me: No sir.
Border Guard: Are you sure?
Me: Um no.
Border Guard: Time for a cavity search.
Me: An Ipod, 160 gig hard drive, 20 128 meg smartmedia cards, and a sleeve of minidiscs in my shorts. Now who do I make the check out to again?
Don't laugh, it could happen to you!
SD
First install your mobo and proc inside this custom case. Then use the patented location cooling system to lower the temperature to 4Deg about absolute zero. Now you only need to find 7.5 billion miles of CAT 5 ( and some batteries that last longer than 2 hours). Sure you can play Qake at 900fpss, but the latency is a bitch.
SD
Congress is considering a law to mandate that all digital content be rendered on puch cards with "Do Not Copy" printed on them.
The MPAA applauded them move. "Now that digital movies weigh 300lbs casual piracy will be elimiated and we can safely distribute films without concern of terrorists." Blockbuster announed that all new members will receive a free pallet jack.
Chinese peasents who have been hoarding illegal CDR technology in their villages were gleefull. "Perhaps Lik-Sang will buy this @#$%% for paper to cdr converters for hackers". The I-Pod Mafia could not be reach for comment.
SD
1. Drive to a large city.
2. Find a local fried pastry establishment.
3. Make derogatory remarks about the waist (or wife, or daughter) of local law enforcment seat with.
4. Become handcuffed.
5. Look over the seat at the cool display mounted to the dash (SCMODS for you Blues Brothers Fans)
Here is a good choice for your project, but it will cost you.
SD
What kind of marketing data are they going to get from "user 3453845 watches the hell out of 'tina3.wmv'"?
You laugh now but soon, all your popups will be for Jergens, Vasoline and inflatable girlfriends.
SD
What is to keep a MegaCorp from stockpiling authors to keep their copyrights intact. I envision an X-Files room under corpHQ with rows of authors, poets and musicians in cryotubes with hearts beating once a minute. "See, they are still alive!"
SD
The reality of the world today is that each one of us leave a trail of bits as we pass through our days. The purpose of "privacy" is not to stop those bits, but to keep them from being aggregated and used against me.
If my kroger buyer card shows that I do not buy pork and I charge fuel and fertilizer on my lawn care company visa, I do not want to be questioned by the FBI as a terrorist. The oversite needs to be on the use of the data, not it's existance.
My doctor needs the ability to genetically screen for disease, but my insurance company, even if it knows my flaws, should not be allowed to charge more. In the past I had the security through obscurity that my privacy provides, but this is no longer the case.
The transparent society is an open source society. The 'source code' of an individual are their life experiences. The exploits are already in the wild. (People generally by milk and produce in a grocery so why are those sections the furthest apart?).
The success of the transparent society will depend on the protections we provide for our most valuable intellectual property we own, ourselves.
Lawrence Lessig has an article that descibes a new system for protecting IP. Add ability to copyright your personal data and we have a start on the Transparent Society.
SD
When you get a letter from the BSA, shred all your hard drives.
SD
If I leave my laptop on my lap for more than a few minutes, I develop a burning sensation.
Bender: (points scanner at Fry)
Fry: Ouch, My Sperm.
Bender: (Scans Fry again)
Fry: Funny, it didn't hurt that time.
SD
Sorry I am late for work, the traffic router was flapping and I ended up in Cleveland.
SD
$230-$80(Cable Basic&2 premium)-$50(DSL)-$30(local phone)=$70
What additional services will they provide for $70?
A pay-per-view p0rn0 and a hooker?
AOL is smoking crack. Provide reliable desirable services first, then decide what you are able to charge for each one.
Frank Herbert. The planet IX in Dune. The Technology planet.
Funny.
Bag Checker: What is in the bag?
Laptop modder: My custom laptop.
Bag Checker: (gets hammer and screwdiver) We need to open it up!
Laptop modder: Please don't I spent a fortune on that.
Bag Checker: (to coworker "Bubba") It's cavity search time.
Keep it generic, nobody wants to see "custom electronics" at the airport these days.