Hung around a lot in the little kids park? you likely have small children, so we can market kids stuff to you. Sit in the bar all day while the rest of the party wandered round in bliss? well, there's stuff we can market there too.... that's my only worry.
I don't think the data is quite that useful, as tickets tend to be bought en masse, so they don't know *who* was in the bar, and they can see how many young kids you have at the gate anyhow!
A numberic solution is a solution that is "close enough", but not exact. Sort of like saying 2.0000000000000001 = 2. They aren't equal, but for many purposes, they are equivalent.
What you say about books/e-books could easily be said about letters/e-mails. Now obviously letters still have their place, but that place is shrinking - and rightly so.
The e-book generation will never miss that romantic note on the inside cover, but they will think it sad that their grandparents now have to rely on a couple of dusty letters and photos of the girl they dated in college, whereas they have video clips to do their sighing over.
None of those points, save possibly 6, are relevant to an outgoing SMTP server. Use your own POP3/IMAP server for incoming mail, and send out via your ISP's SMTP server.
Another nifty graphic novel well worth checking out is Spooked by Antony Johnston. He's not so well known (yet), but does some really cool and atmospheric stuff.
That is a TLD, and I don't think the current root name servers would cope well with handling hundreds of thousands of them; nor would the current system for managing TLDs and root servers.
The scene where Gandalf turns up at Isengard and basically breaks Saruman is perhaps my favourite from the books, and I had really looked forward to seeing it in film. I hope it's in the extended version.
The web will become largely text only for people without a new machine and windows.
I think you're forgetting that Big Business is a relative newcomer to the 'Net. I'm sure those of us who won't accept DRM will not find our internet experience greatly degraded by the lack of their adver^Wcontent.
The DVD specs were made up with content producers in mind - fair enough.
The DVD *player*, however, is hardware that should reflect the wishes of the consumer, not the content producers.
While I'm bitching - why the hell don't they read ahead for a second or so, so that I don't have to watch my screen freeze up at the side break? Morons.
I seems to me that Vint is pointing out that the decision was made by a subset of the Board of Directors, the "Audit Committee". It also points out that there is recourse available to Auerbach that he has not exercised, prior to filing the lawsuit
That may stop a judge saying "those crooks are hiding the records - throw them in jail", but I don't see how it would stop one saying "show him the damn records".
The ISP could, however, transparently proxy DNS requests. Unlikely, admittedly - why bother propping up a measure that's as weak as DNS-fudging in the first place?
Anyone finding themselves redirected can use any number of simple DNS tools to find out the real IP (by querying a root server, then the authorative server), then simply access the site by IP rather than FQDN. This may sound a little technical for Johann average, but not when simple instructions are made available to them.
(This would not work with sites that rely on HTTP1.1 to tell them the name of the site, so that many sites can be hosted on a single IP, but that is less widely used than it might be.)
So far, Carbon is good for hardness (diamond), tensile strength (aramid fiber, buckytubes), lubrication (graphite), electrical conductivity (buckytubes), and now it can even be used for magnetic memory, and presumably for transformer cores, and antennae.
When NanoTech hits in a big way, I suspect that we'll have a major issue with depletion of atmospheric CO2.
BTW, anyone know of a form of Carbon for that's good for optical fiber, or do we just continue to rely on Silicon for that?
If I want to set up a private (as in, not world-readable) mailing list for 5 people, how does it make sense to propogate both the messages and other group information around the world and fit it into an organised heirarchy?
For less than global distribution, mailing lists are a much better solution. The only downside is shitty mail clients that don't thread mail messages properly (or include the relevant information so that others can do so easily).
But all of those comparisons to 1984 and Enemy of the State are just so over the top. Big Brother definitely isn't watching you, and Jon Voight isn't either.
CCTVs in public places aren't placed there to infringe on the constitutional rights of you or anyone else. They can't do that because the Constitution doesn't protect your right to be invisible in a public place.
My favourite quote by Bruce Schneier in Secrets and Lies: "It is poor socvial hygeine to put in place systems that could facilitate a police state".
Call me naive, but I really find it hard to believe that MS smart-tags are going to override existing links with their own; so if you *really* don't like what they're doing to a word, you could just run your web pages through sed to turn all instances of that word into a link of your own choosing.
I understand that this doesn't make what they're doing *right*, but it's not as dangerous a tool as it might be.
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No kidding. Can we say "The holodeck is malfunctioning!"?
Given that the webcast is fscking useless, the best coverage I've dug up so far is that by "Spaceflight Now": http://spaceflightnow.com/ss1/status.html
the regulator is also compiling a "white list" of legitimate numbers that consumers have requested to call.
"Hello, is that Paddy? I'll give you 20 euros to try and call this number so that it gets added to the whitelist."
You know it supports MP3 (and I think WAV) as well, right? What format do you consider to be missing?
Surely it's the players that don't support free formats that are cutting corners!
Hung around a lot in the little kids park? you likely have small children, so we can market kids stuff to you. Sit in the bar all day while the rest of the party wandered round in bliss? well, there's stuff we can market there too.... that's my only worry.
I don't think the data is quite that useful, as tickets tend to be bought en masse, so they don't know *who* was in the bar, and they can see how many young kids you have at the gate anyhow!
A numberic solution is a solution that is "close enough", but not exact. Sort of like saying 2.0000000000000001 = 2. They aren't equal, but for many purposes, they are equivalent.
Absolutely - just ask Intel.
Set it on silent/divert.
You're old-fashioned.
What you say about books/e-books could easily be said about letters/e-mails. Now obviously letters still have their place, but that place is shrinking - and rightly so.
The e-book generation will never miss that romantic note on the inside cover, but they will think it sad that their grandparents now have to rely on a couple of dusty letters and photos of the girl they dated in college, whereas they have video clips to do their sighing over.
Mod parent down!
None of those points, save possibly 6, are relevant to an outgoing SMTP server. Use your own POP3/IMAP server for incoming mail, and send out via your ISP's SMTP server.
Another nifty graphic novel well worth checking out is Spooked by Antony Johnston. He's not so well known (yet), but does some really cool and atmospheric stuff.
That is a TLD, and I don't think the current root name servers would cope well with handling hundreds of thousands of them; nor would the current system for managing TLDs and root servers.
As well as RFID jamming technology being in development, the makers of the tags themselves want to find a decent compromise, such as a kill command.
The scene where Gandalf turns up at Isengard and basically breaks Saruman is perhaps my favourite from the books, and I had really looked forward to seeing it in film. I hope it's in the extended version.
Same coating, same sunlight, wet cloth?
Even if not, it's the outside that is the priority - you don't normally need a ladder to clean the insides.
The web will become largely text only for people without a new machine and windows.
I think you're forgetting that Big Business is a relative newcomer to the 'Net. I'm sure those of us who won't accept DRM will not find our internet experience greatly degraded by the lack of their adver^Wcontent.
The DVD specs were made up with content producers in mind - fair enough.
The DVD *player*, however, is hardware that should reflect the wishes of the consumer, not the content producers.
While I'm bitching - why the hell don't they read ahead for a second or so, so that I don't have to watch my screen freeze up at the side break? Morons.
And I'd better tell our NOC they can put away the aftershave - that gang-bang they were hoping for isn't going to materialise.
I seems to me that Vint is pointing out that the decision was made by a subset of the Board of Directors, the "Audit Committee". It also points out that there is recourse available to Auerbach that he has not exercised, prior to filing the lawsuit
That may stop a judge saying "those crooks are hiding the records - throw them in jail", but I don't see how it would stop one saying "show him the damn records".
... could I use this same trick to put someone else's fingerprints on a gun?
I guess the fingerprints wouldn't be made out of the right stuff, but would it be likely to fool the police?
Just use a different name server then.
The ISP could, however, transparently proxy DNS requests. Unlikely, admittedly - why bother propping up a measure that's as weak as DNS-fudging in the first place?
Anyone finding themselves redirected can use any number of simple DNS tools to find out the real IP (by querying a root server, then the authorative server), then simply access the site by IP rather than FQDN. This may sound a little technical for Johann average, but not when simple instructions are made available to them.
(This would not work with sites that rely on HTTP1.1 to tell them the name of the site, so that many sites can be hosted on a single IP, but that is less widely used than it might be.)
Hooray! One more thing you don't need metals for!
So far, Carbon is good for hardness (diamond), tensile strength (aramid fiber, buckytubes), lubrication (graphite), electrical conductivity (buckytubes), and now it can even be used for magnetic memory, and presumably for transformer cores, and antennae.
When NanoTech hits in a big way, I suspect that we'll have a major issue with depletion of atmospheric CO2.
BTW, anyone know of a form of Carbon for that's good for optical fiber, or do we just continue to rely on Silicon for that?
You are a carbon-biased life form, AICM5P.
If I want to set up a private (as in, not world-readable) mailing list for 5 people, how does it make sense to propogate both the messages and other group information around the world and fit it into an organised heirarchy?
For less than global distribution, mailing lists are a much better solution. The only downside is shitty mail clients that don't thread mail messages properly (or include the relevant information so that others can do so easily).
CCTVs in public places aren't placed there to infringe on the constitutional rights of you or anyone else. They can't do that because the Constitution doesn't protect your right to be invisible in a public place.
My favourite quote by Bruce Schneier in Secrets and Lies: "It is poor socvial hygeine to put in place systems that could facilitate a police state".
Call me naive, but I really find it hard to believe that MS smart-tags are going to override existing links with their own; so if you *really* don't like what they're doing to a word, you could just run your web pages through sed to turn all instances of that word into a link of your own choosing.
I understand that this doesn't make what they're doing *right*, but it's not as dangerous a tool as it might be.