Well, I know diddly about this stuff, but intuitively your proposal looks like this to me:
Bob shimmies out on the limb to get an apple way out there. Right as he's reaching for it, fingers poised, in full concentration, all. most. there.... CRACK!! the end of branch falls 7 feet from a severe break right at the trunk. Paniced, Bob clings for dear life to the branch, as he sees the apple fall in slomo straight down to the ground below. The unbroken bottom of the crack acts like a spring, preventing the branch from completely breaking off. But the angle of the branch is too steep to back off it, and it's too far down to jump. Plus every time he tries to move, the horizontal split through the branch move closer and closer to him from behind. He's stuck. Some people started running with a ladder, but they got into an agument, because some were pissed that Bob was stealing their apples when it all happened anyway. Let him fall they yelled, and kept the other neighbors from saving Bob with the ladder. Night comes. Bob's shitting cookies. The neighbors go on vacation. More cookies. Then comes Tom. He's got a string. He throws the string up to Bob. Bob ties the string to the cracked branch, then throws the string over the other, skinnier branch above him. Pulling down on the string from over the skinny branch, Bob pulls himself back up, trying to level the branch enough so he can safely back off. But we all know Bob. He gets the cracked branch pulled up just about level, and he's just about to tie off the string, when suddenly there it is, gleaming red in the sunlight. Another apple. and he lets go of the string to reach for the apple...
The real problem, of course, is the relationship map they've built. The one where they can drill down into any individual and see all of their communications - and geospacial positions with time - with lines that spiderweb out to other individuals. Querying to modify the map by position/time/degrees of separation/posts/political leanings/etc. Combined with financial records and literally all government owned databases from library records to parking tickets to every bit security cam footage they can gather. They are protecting themselves and their criminally terrorist bretheren from you - not protecting you. Let's not forget Loose Change.
What's happened, and the reason this is continuing unabated, without any real judicial and congressional outrage is because of the data that has been gathered on those who should be fighting to stop it. They have been quietly apprised of that data, and to fight these thugs would be suicide.
Absolutely!! I have looked high and low for anything approaching the beauty of the VMS filesystem for Linux. I'm currently using glastree and some custom code to create a backup versioned filesystem with Samba/MSDFS, but it is only an approximation of what VMS had.
Connectivity - right? That's what I'm hearing. Forget the form factor. A4, ShmayFour. Think immersion. Your in the tablet. You are the tablet. No stylus. No contact. Break away from the paradigm. The above are merely a list of technologies held together with bubblegum. Yes, there is utility in assemblage, but real advances create the technologies. Don't look at a pile of parts and say, hmm, what can I make outta these? Start with the passion, the needs and wants and work backwards to imagine the technologies to make them so. I want everything to be a pair of useful glasses, maybe wirelessly connected to a primary unit the size of a pack of cigarettes - only half as thick. All input is either occular pointing or voice macros. It's my web, my phone, my reasearch library, my entertainment center. I don't want to hold anything. I can wirelessly connect to my PC when I'm around it to exchange data/programs. Everything in the smooth, rounded corner cig-pak is solid state, and it has no connectors or wires. It uses a holographic storage crystal for all information. And it will only respond to my voice/retinas.
When a door closes - a window opens. This is nothing more than a challenge to the free software community. A serious opportunity arises to manufacture non-compliant drives, and no doubt someone will design software to emulate the response to the calls that PPR software will make during installation (and promptly trash the results!). For every measure, there is a counter-measure (as dsniff shows us). The whole deal stinks, and frankly, it just will not work.
I'll agree. I was an Art Major, got into programming as a natural progression from Sculpture. You know, Lego's in Space, and all that. Most (all, actually) on the trail of M(can't)CSE's through our biz, were what we referred to as 'Skippy's. Well meaning drones retrained from a non-creative existence into Part Replacers.
I was thinking the other day about the whole privacy issue while I was flashing some bios's up to Y2K compliance. It dawned on me that locating compromising code here would be pretty much impossible for Joe User to ever notice. Connected to the web, it could broadcast every key you type to a remote DB, catagorized and stored. Yikes...
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I>He's long talked of "GNOME OS",
that would be fantastic - I wish he would go do that. Then maybe shit can get back to a normal working state...
I would advise my client the Pacemaker manufacturer to recall her device immediately to insure it was programmed properly.
apt-get install mc is the FIRST thing I do after debootstrap.
Well, I know diddly about this stuff, but intuitively your proposal looks like this to me:
Bob shimmies out on the limb to get an apple way out there. ... CRACK!! the end of branch falls 7 feet from a severe break right at the trunk.
Right as he's reaching for it, fingers poised, in full concentration, all. most. there.
Paniced, Bob clings for dear life to the branch, as he sees the apple fall in slomo straight down to the ground below.
The unbroken bottom of the crack acts like a spring, preventing the branch from completely breaking off.
But the angle of the branch is too steep to back off it, and it's too far down to jump.
Plus every time he tries to move, the horizontal split through the branch move closer and closer to him from behind.
He's stuck.
Some people started running with a ladder, but they got into an agument, because some were pissed that Bob was stealing their apples when it all happened anyway. Let him fall they yelled, and kept the other neighbors from saving Bob with the ladder.
Night comes.
Bob's shitting cookies.
The neighbors go on vacation.
More cookies.
Then comes Tom.
He's got a string.
He throws the string up to Bob.
Bob ties the string to the cracked branch, then throws the string over the other, skinnier branch above him.
Pulling down on the string from over the skinny branch, Bob pulls himself back up, trying to level the branch enough so he can safely back off.
But we all know Bob.
He gets the cracked branch pulled up just about level, and he's just about to tie off the string, when suddenly there it is, gleaming red in the sunlight. Another apple.
and he lets go of the string to reach for the apple...
It'll never end.
Violent Jihadist materials don't kill people; Violent Jihadist kill people.
But what makes vilolent Jihadists? Injustice. Hmm... Full circle.
The real problem, of course, is the relationship map they've built. The one where they can drill down into any individual and see all of their communications - and geospacial positions with time - with lines that spiderweb out to other individuals. Querying to modify the map by position/time/degrees of separation/posts/political leanings/etc. Combined with financial records and literally all government owned databases from library records to parking tickets to every bit security cam footage they can gather. They are protecting themselves and their criminally terrorist bretheren from you - not protecting you. Let's not forget Loose Change.
What's happened, and the reason this is continuing unabated, without any real judicial and congressional outrage is because of the data that has been gathered on those who should be fighting to stop it. They have been quietly apprised of that data, and to fight these thugs would be suicide.
Essentially, we're fucked. My America is dead.
T
"...As telecoms are launching the new service, they are facing the problem of lack of content..."
Yeah, but this has never been a show-stopper for normal TV.
;^)
OUCH! I'm the fourth user, and you forgot me!
Absolutely!! I have looked high and low for anything approaching the beauty of the VMS filesystem for Linux. I'm currently using glastree and some custom code to create a backup versioned filesystem with Samba/MSDFS, but it is only an approximation of what VMS had.
Will this be possible with plugins?
Ummm, how much time did you spend responding in such a negative way, you obviously completely non-creative fuck? Try getting some passion you loser.
-C
Connectivity - right? That's what I'm hearing. Forget the form factor. A4, ShmayFour. Think immersion. Your in the tablet. You are the tablet. No stylus. No contact. Break away from the paradigm. The above are merely a list of technologies held together with bubblegum. Yes, there is utility in assemblage, but real advances create the technologies. Don't look at a pile of parts and say, hmm, what can I make outta these? Start with the passion, the needs and wants and work backwards to imagine the technologies to make them so. I want everything to be a pair of useful glasses, maybe wirelessly connected to a primary unit the size of a pack of cigarettes - only half as thick. All input is either occular pointing or voice macros. It's my web, my phone, my reasearch library, my entertainment center. I don't want to hold anything. I can wirelessly connect to my PC when I'm around it to exchange data/programs. Everything in the smooth, rounded corner cig-pak is solid state, and it has no connectors or wires. It uses a holographic storage crystal for all information. And it will only respond to my voice/retinas.
When a door closes - a window opens. This is nothing more than a challenge to the free software community. A serious opportunity arises to manufacture non-compliant drives, and no doubt someone will design software to emulate the response to the calls that PPR software will make during installation (and promptly trash the results!). For every measure, there is a counter-measure (as dsniff shows us). The whole deal stinks, and frankly, it just will not work.
Are you slamming Open Source, or just quoting Hank Reardon?
Seems like what DEC's FX32 is doing for native Win32 execs, only it's storing the instructions in a permanent way, like flash memory? just a guess.
Just a thought
I was thinking the other day about the whole privacy issue while I was flashing some bios's up to Y2K compliance. It dawned on me that locating compromising code here would be pretty much impossible for Joe User to ever notice. Connected to the web, it could broadcast every key you type to a remote DB, catagorized and stored.
Yikes...