Semi-officially the explanation is "better makeup effects". I think we should just leave it at that instead of trying to speculate on ridiculous plot threads. The DS9 episode should really be considered nothing more than a joke (the whole episode was really just a fun little inside joke on the inconsistencies between the new shows and TOS).
Actually, it is green, with the explanation being that vulcan blood is copper based, instead of iron based. At least that was what I had heard some years ago, that factoid may have been revised like just about every other little detail that gets mangled whenever its convenient or impractical to look up the original explanation.
It was in zero gravity, not a vacuum. The ship didn't depressurize, and also at the conference at the end the klingon scotty shot didn't bleed pink, prompting a "this isn't klingon blood" from Worf's grandfather. In TNG it had been established to be red, somehow the movie writers hadn't checked with them, and came up with pink for some reason, but it's been ignored in the later shows.
Assuming he's not kicked out on the street and promptly hit by a truck, he's still infinitely better off than any victim of a real world terrorist attack. If you honestly think that losing your immediate source of income is worse than death, then I suggest you jump out the highest window you can find next time you lose your job. Assuming your life insurance policy pays well, problem solved.
and because of that, the sappy music gets to swell with emotion every time something that's done routinely in TOS onward gets done for the first time. Seeing it a thousand times before doesn't make it any more fun and exciting the "first" time.
As I said in an earlier post, compared to what happened in New York and Washington, "cyber-terrorism" is a trivial and pointless video game. The "damage" caused by stupid DoS attacks is a mere annoyance compared to being ripped apart by randomly placed explosives or kamikaze airliners.
Nice troll, you almost had me until you called IIS "elegant", but just in case you actually convinced someone I figured I should feed you anyway.
Of course not. Compared to what happened in New York and Washington, "cyberterrorism" is a trivial and pointless video game. They are putting far too much weight on their stupid little toys and are ignoring real world threats against actual lives and property.
So they can get your DNA off of that public anonymous terminal keyboard you used to used, duh. Be sure to use rubber gloves and scrape dead skin off like in Gattica from now on.
Yeah, all I've gotten from this interview is an impression that all these guys are interested in is some weird API fetish where they make APIs to wrap around other APIs to put on top of other APIs, and never get around to actually consistently using what they make. The result is a mish-mash of legacy and bleeding edge APIs that are used exactly once per application before moving on to the next wacky Microsoft-wannabe API, completely negating the usefulnness of making all these "reusable" components.
Although I have some odd attachment to Gtk flavored apps over Qt/KDE stuff, UI-wise the GNOME stuff seems downright inferior.
It's not what they do with it now, when the only thing they care about is terrorism, but what they do 20 years from now or however long it is when all this terrorism stuff evaporates and the infrastructure is still in place that worries me. Then a bored intelligence infrastructure trying to justify its own existence will start abusing their resources and go after the trivial stuff that isn't worthy of such invasiveness. Many of the defenders of such a scheme that I've heard suggest that it'd have as stringent safeguards as wiretapping, and of course we all know how rluctant the courts are to give those sorts of warrants out.
So how are they supposed to evaluate that skill? Give them a quiz? There are a lot of unskilled people desperate to help trying to get in there and they'll say whatever it will take to get in there. Union membership is probably the only measurement they can make to KNOW if someone has the skill. Even then that's a questionable evaluation, but its better than nothing.
Yep, they cancelled it, and we now get "Toonheads". The first cartoon in the show just happened to be some musical thing where a skyscraper gets built, and at the end a door gets closed too hard and the whole thing comes crashing down. Yeah, real good move on their part.
It's that last part about "protected computers" that really bothers me. Right now the antics of the likes of Mafiaboy and other script kiddies seem orders of magnitude smaller than the sort of thing this bill is intended against.
If you think that the inevitable result of any sort of belief in a religion and practice of it is vengance and violence, you are sadly and pathetically mistaken. Did it ever occur to you that those muslims calling for peace and throwing bombs were entirely seperate groups of people? That there are those who say their beliefs fobid them from taking a life actually mean it and put it in practice? It isn't the talkng out of your ass hypocrisy that people on/. wallow in and condemn on a regular basis that you seem to confuse heartfelt religious sentiment with. I can only hope that any people who are as misguided and confused as you suggest will look back on tuesday and realize just how wrong and contrary justifying murder with their faith is.
My point was meant to be more to the effect of that this would be unattainable to law enforcement for all but the described circumstances. Last week I would be right along with you laughing at such an idea, but today I don't think we have much chance of stopping an expansion of such invasiveness. The best we can do is demand that at least some line is drawn. Lets hope that the inevitable publicity surrounding the issue will make it a lot easier to argue for some accountiblity.
I think the point that some on TV have made that there is a significant lack of "human' intelligence (i.e. spies) is a lot more important than the lack of electronic surveillance and crackable crypto. I believe our intelligence agencies have become too preoccupied with their toys, and have forgotten that the most relevant communications occur in person.
On top of that, they already have the tools, and putting mandatory backdoors on future products is not going to affect existing software. What would they do to them for using unauthorized software? arrest them?
If this even gets close to being implemented, we need some sort of pledge from the intelligence community, backed by strict legislation, that any such system can ONLY be used or the purpose of national security and anti-terrorism, and any use beyond that would be strictly prohibited, and any other information obtained shouldn't leave the place it was intercepted from.
Just my 2 cents, right now I do not feel any of us really is in any position to make a real judgement about this. Keep that in mind when forming some opinion that you would be unwilling to comprimise, as a few of us here often do.
Ok, maybe it wasn't very precise analogy. My point is that while I might not have a God-given right to Internet access, pretty soon if not already it really should be treated as something that shouldn't be denied so lightly. We're not too far off from the point where going without net access would be as limiting as not having a phone or a mailing address. Cutting someone off from something so vital for something that's no worse than shoplifting (of course "they" would like others to believe it to be as bad as murdering and pillaging, hence the label "pirate") with nothing resembling due process is... um, bad. In any case even Ted Kazinski still has the right to send and receive snail mail.
right now i believe there are exactly 3 laptops that have NVidia's chipset. The toshiba ones have those eraser head pointers which I detest, and the Dell is a monster (weightwise). I almost went insane trying to find just the right notebook with the right combination of least crummy/most useful components, and i eventually learned to settle on one which was at least functional in linux. being picky about video chipsets on laptops just isn't possible.
I remember when I got my free computer when I started as a freshman at NJIT, we got a contract for it calling it a P6 150, which was widely interperated to mean a pentium pro. To our disappointment it was only a "6x86" Cyrix running at 120 MHz, and was clearly inferior to a 120 MHz pentium, let alone a 150 MHz. From that day forward "Zing", the bizzare brand name they were labeled with, was synonymous with "shit".
Unfortunately the stupid traits are also the ones that do the most to encourage reproduction. Or, perhaps they are better referred to as "distracting" traits. "stupid" people are probably just too preoccupied with doing stuff that leads to children instead of irrelevant smartypants stuff that improves the human condition. As a lame example look at that show Earth:final Conflict. Basically the aliens became so preoccupied by the smartypants stuff that they lost all their will to procreate, and eventually atrophied into sterility.
People like Einstein, as desireable as they are in the gene pool, are an abberation where too much of their intelligence is diverted away from the social interaction neccesary to hook up and breed. It's ultimately not selfishness but a lack of traits that allow reproduction to take place. I can only imagine how sperm donorship, contraceptives and infertility treatments are going to distort our gene pool where the most active fuckers aren't having children and the least capable are.
And don't forget that some of the worst stuff in history was perpetrated because those descended from those with super genes were given the respect and authority of their fathers, when only the defective genes were carried over.
Back in the days when Intel was the only relevant x86 maker around MHz was relevant simply because any MHz improvements were essentially the same chip only faster. Of course in those days the slightest jump in MHz was easily percieved, and MHz incremented by the double and quadruple. I remember having a 40 MHz Cyrix 386, which was a speed Intel never bothered with, since they had moved on to the 486. It was pretty fast for a 386, but even a lower clocked 486 still annihilated it.
Of course back then architecture improvements meant more stuff per cycle. Ever since the pentium 2, there's been a backward slide in performance per cycle, with the real gains coming from higher clocked chips, made possible by the slower-per-cycle architecture changes which are higher-clock friendly. Rather than focusing on improving the more basic instructions (which probably can't be changed much without a serious architecture change like the itanium or whatever they were calling it before that stupid name), Intel got caught up with exotic extensions that are only useful for specifically targeted software, leaving the more mundane stuff to rot. Ironically, one of the major losers was floating point performance, which was where Intel dominated until the athlon came out. Floating point performance was probably the single limiting factor holding back x86 clones, and once AMD crossed and even significantly surpassed Intel they became a real competitor. Now the role is reversed, with Intel lagging in a critical function. At least almost, since Intel is still the market leader and the more "trusted" brand.
This is like mall security confiscating your car for shoplifting so you can't get to their mall anymore. When people are more and more expected to have internet access for various stuff that's possibly work related or of real-life importance, getting your Internet access cut off is a death sentence.
This system needs some accountability for wrongful service termination fast.
Yeah, I've come to feel the same way when i look at appliances and devices like tivo that use the linux kernel, yet don't expose all the things that one usually thinks of as "linux". That chunk of stuff, while not enirely GNU-owned, is worthy of being credited somewhat more prominently. Their case would be helped a lot more if RMS just wasn't so pedantic about all of it though.
There's also a clause in there about allowing for research, but that didn't help Felton much, did it? The clause about non-infringing uses certainly isn't helping DeCSS.
The only way that the licensors have to make sure that an implementation conforms to their restrictions is to license it. In fact, they probably have it arranged so the only way to know what all of the restrictions actually are is to get a license. Anything else would be branded a circumvention device, since non-exact compliance to a set of restrictions an unlicensed manufacturer wouldn't even know would be considered circumvention.
I don't agree with any of that but that's certainly the pattern of logic-twisting that they've demonstrated in other areas.
I think its a safe bet that a research paper in plain english would be considered "technology", and here we get to the point where the DMCA and the First Amendment do not coexist. Remember, publishing and presenting was all that Dr. Feldon was about to do, and got threatened for. Don't think that because the law doesn't explicitly say it doesn't apply that it wouldn't, it will take a long and costly court battle to determine that.
Slashdot Mirror
Semi-officially the explanation is "better makeup effects". I think we should just leave it at that instead of trying to speculate on ridiculous plot threads. The DS9 episode should really be considered nothing more than a joke (the whole episode was really just a fun little inside joke on the inconsistencies between the new shows and TOS).
Actually, it is green, with the explanation being that vulcan blood is copper based, instead of iron based. At least that was what I had heard some years ago, that factoid may have been revised like just about every other little detail that gets mangled whenever its convenient or impractical to look up the original explanation.
It was in zero gravity, not a vacuum. The ship didn't depressurize, and also at the conference at the end the klingon scotty shot didn't bleed pink, prompting a "this isn't klingon blood" from Worf's grandfather. In TNG it had been established to be red, somehow the movie writers hadn't checked with them, and came up with pink for some reason, but it's been ignored in the later shows.
Assuming he's not kicked out on the street and promptly hit by a truck, he's still infinitely better off than any victim of a real world terrorist attack. If you honestly think that losing your immediate source of income is worse than death, then I suggest you jump out the highest window you can find next time you lose your job. Assuming your life insurance policy pays well, problem solved.
and because of that, the sappy music gets to swell with emotion every time something that's done routinely in TOS onward gets done for the first time. Seeing it a thousand times before doesn't make it any more fun and exciting the "first" time.
As I said in an earlier post, compared to what happened in New York and Washington, "cyber-terrorism" is a trivial and pointless video game. The "damage" caused by stupid DoS attacks is a mere annoyance compared to being ripped apart by randomly placed explosives or kamikaze airliners.
Nice troll, you almost had me until you called IIS "elegant", but just in case you actually convinced someone I figured I should feed you anyway.
Of course not. Compared to what happened in New York and Washington, "cyberterrorism" is a trivial and pointless video game. They are putting far too much weight on their stupid little toys and are ignoring real world threats against actual lives and property.
So they can get your DNA off of that public anonymous terminal keyboard you used to used, duh. Be sure to use rubber gloves and scrape dead skin off like in Gattica from now on.
Yeah, all I've gotten from this interview is an impression that all these guys are interested in is some weird API fetish where they make APIs to wrap around other APIs to put on top of other APIs, and never get around to actually consistently using what they make. The result is a mish-mash of legacy and bleeding edge APIs that are used exactly once per application before moving on to the next wacky Microsoft-wannabe API, completely negating the usefulnness of making all these "reusable" components.
Although I have some odd attachment to Gtk flavored apps over Qt/KDE stuff, UI-wise the GNOME stuff seems downright inferior.
It's not what they do with it now, when the only thing they care about is terrorism, but what they do 20 years from now or however long it is when all this terrorism stuff evaporates and the infrastructure is still in place that worries me. Then a bored intelligence infrastructure trying to justify its own existence will start abusing their resources and go after the trivial stuff that isn't worthy of such invasiveness. Many of the defenders of such a scheme that I've heard suggest that it'd have as stringent safeguards as wiretapping, and of course we all know how rluctant the courts are to give those sorts of warrants out.
So how are they supposed to evaluate that skill? Give them a quiz? There are a lot of unskilled people desperate to help trying to get in there and they'll say whatever it will take to get in there. Union membership is probably the only measurement they can make to KNOW if someone has the skill. Even then that's a questionable evaluation, but its better than nothing.
Yep, they cancelled it, and we now get "Toonheads". The first cartoon in the show just happened to be some musical thing where a skyscraper gets built, and at the end a door gets closed too hard and the whole thing comes crashing down. Yeah, real good move on their part.
It's that last part about "protected computers" that really bothers me. Right now the antics of the likes of Mafiaboy and other script kiddies seem orders of magnitude smaller than the sort of thing this bill is intended against.
If you think that the inevitable result of any sort of belief in a religion and practice of it is vengance and violence, you are sadly and pathetically mistaken. Did it ever occur to you that those muslims calling for peace and throwing bombs were entirely seperate groups of people? That there are those who say their beliefs fobid them from taking a life actually mean it and put it in practice? It isn't the talkng out of your ass hypocrisy that people on /. wallow in and condemn on a regular basis that you seem to confuse heartfelt religious sentiment with. I can only hope that any people who are as misguided and confused as you suggest will look back on tuesday and realize just how wrong and contrary justifying murder with their faith is.
My point was meant to be more to the effect of that this would be unattainable to law enforcement for all but the described circumstances. Last week I would be right along with you laughing at such an idea, but today I don't think we have much chance of stopping an expansion of such invasiveness. The best we can do is demand that at least some line is drawn. Lets hope that the inevitable publicity surrounding the issue will make it a lot easier to argue for some accountiblity.
I think the point that some on TV have made that there is a significant lack of "human' intelligence (i.e. spies) is a lot more important than the lack of electronic surveillance and crackable crypto. I believe our intelligence agencies have become too preoccupied with their toys, and have forgotten that the most relevant communications occur in person.
On top of that, they already have the tools, and putting mandatory backdoors on future products is not going to affect existing software. What would they do to them for using unauthorized software? arrest them?
If this even gets close to being implemented, we need some sort of pledge from the intelligence community, backed by strict legislation, that any such system can ONLY be used or the purpose of national security and anti-terrorism, and any use beyond that would be strictly prohibited, and any other information obtained shouldn't leave the place it was intercepted from.
Just my 2 cents, right now I do not feel any of us really is in any position to make a real judgement about this. Keep that in mind when forming some opinion that you would be unwilling to comprimise, as a few of us here often do.
Ok, maybe it wasn't very precise analogy. My point is that while I might not have a God-given right to Internet access, pretty soon if not already it really should be treated as something that shouldn't be denied so lightly. We're not too far off from the point where going without net access would be as limiting as not having a phone or a mailing address. Cutting someone off from something so vital for something that's no worse than shoplifting (of course "they" would like others to believe it to be as bad as murdering and pillaging, hence the label "pirate") with nothing resembling due process is... um, bad. In any case even Ted Kazinski still has the right to send and receive snail mail.
right now i believe there are exactly 3 laptops that have NVidia's chipset. The toshiba ones have those eraser head pointers which I detest, and the Dell is a monster (weightwise). I almost went insane trying to find just the right notebook with the right combination of least crummy/most useful components, and i eventually learned to settle on one which was at least functional in linux. being picky about video chipsets on laptops just isn't possible.
I remember when I got my free computer when I started as a freshman at NJIT, we got a contract for it calling it a P6 150, which was widely interperated to mean a pentium pro. To our disappointment it was only a "6x86" Cyrix running at 120 MHz, and was clearly inferior to a 120 MHz pentium, let alone a 150 MHz. From that day forward "Zing", the bizzare brand name they were labeled with, was synonymous with "shit".
Unfortunately the stupid traits are also the ones that do the most to encourage reproduction. Or, perhaps they are better referred to as "distracting" traits. "stupid" people are probably just too preoccupied with doing stuff that leads to children instead of irrelevant smartypants stuff that improves the human condition. As a lame example look at that show Earth:final Conflict. Basically the aliens became so preoccupied by the smartypants stuff that they lost all their will to procreate, and eventually atrophied into sterility.
People like Einstein, as desireable as they are in the gene pool, are an abberation where too much of their intelligence is diverted away from the social interaction neccesary to hook up and breed. It's ultimately not selfishness but a lack of traits that allow reproduction to take place. I can only imagine how sperm donorship, contraceptives and infertility treatments are going to distort our gene pool where the most active fuckers aren't having children and the least capable are.
And don't forget that some of the worst stuff in history was perpetrated because those descended from those with super genes were given the respect and authority of their fathers, when only the defective genes were carried over.
Back in the days when Intel was the only relevant x86 maker around MHz was relevant simply because any MHz improvements were essentially the same chip only faster. Of course in those days the slightest jump in MHz was easily percieved, and MHz incremented by the double and quadruple. I remember having a 40 MHz Cyrix 386, which was a speed Intel never bothered with, since they had moved on to the 486. It was pretty fast for a 386, but even a lower clocked 486 still annihilated it.
Of course back then architecture improvements meant more stuff per cycle. Ever since the pentium 2, there's been a backward slide in performance per cycle, with the real gains coming from higher clocked chips, made possible by the slower-per-cycle architecture changes which are higher-clock friendly. Rather than focusing on improving the more basic instructions (which probably can't be changed much without a serious architecture change like the itanium or whatever they were calling it before that stupid name), Intel got caught up with exotic extensions that are only useful for specifically targeted software, leaving the more mundane stuff to rot. Ironically, one of the major losers was floating point performance, which was where Intel dominated until the athlon came out. Floating point performance was probably the single limiting factor holding back x86 clones, and once AMD crossed and even significantly surpassed Intel they became a real competitor. Now the role is reversed, with Intel lagging in a critical function. At least almost, since Intel is still the market leader and the more "trusted" brand.
This is like mall security confiscating your car for shoplifting so you can't get to their mall anymore. When people are more and more expected to have internet access for various stuff that's possibly work related or of real-life importance, getting your Internet access cut off is a death sentence. This system needs some accountability for wrongful service termination fast.
Yeah, I've come to feel the same way when i look at appliances and devices like tivo that use the linux kernel, yet don't expose all the things that one usually thinks of as "linux". That chunk of stuff, while not enirely GNU-owned, is worthy of being credited somewhat more prominently. Their case would be helped a lot more if RMS just wasn't so pedantic about all of it though.
There's also a clause in there about allowing for research, but that didn't help Felton much, did it? The clause about non-infringing uses certainly isn't helping DeCSS. The only way that the licensors have to make sure that an implementation conforms to their restrictions is to license it. In fact, they probably have it arranged so the only way to know what all of the restrictions actually are is to get a license. Anything else would be branded a circumvention device, since non-exact compliance to a set of restrictions an unlicensed manufacturer wouldn't even know would be considered circumvention. I don't agree with any of that but that's certainly the pattern of logic-twisting that they've demonstrated in other areas.
I think its a safe bet that a research paper in plain english would be considered "technology", and here we get to the point where the DMCA and the First Amendment do not coexist. Remember, publishing and presenting was all that Dr. Feldon was about to do, and got threatened for. Don't think that because the law doesn't explicitly say it doesn't apply that it wouldn't, it will take a long and costly court battle to determine that.