Re:Easy prediction: It'll Never Happen.
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Well, you see my point though, I think there is less chance of a minor runway type incident with a heli. If something does go wrong, it's more likely to be a major incident. (e.g. wire stikes, very common)
Funny quote: "We want our books to be used," he said. "That's our philosophy."
Gives a whole new meaning to pulp fiction.
Re:Easy prediction: It'll Never Happen.
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According to the NTSB database, there have been about 5100 heli incidents/accidents since 1/1/1980. 879 had at least one fatality.
So, it's not too bad, but compared to the number of general aircraft fatal/nonfatal incident ratio, it's higher.
Of course, that could be due to the higher incident of runway incursions and planes taxiing into other planes causing minor damage, which is included in these numbers. Those kinds of things don't often happen to helicopters, since, well, they don't taxi.:)
Granted, there's still people running Win95 and even MS/DOS with Win 3.1 but most people consider Win98 to be obsolete. Why should a patent outlive the usefulness of that which it protects?
Those works would still be protected by copyright, which last a very long time.
Whole works of software are not patented.
How long as GIF been around? MP3? NTFS? 4 years would have been a reasonable length of time for those patents, even I could live with that.
Increasing the usability for one user demographic does not decrease the useability of another in this case.
I think people assume that is has to, because almost all of us were burned by MS in this way. As Windows got easier to use for the non-techies, it got harder for the techies to use, causing us to have to dig through layers of GUI to get the most basic tasks done, forcing us to edit the cryptic registry to do anything advanced, etc.
Key server/key management is a big pain in the ass right now. It'd be nice to have some infrastructure in place where I could go to a brick and mortar, establish my identity (Here's my passport, driver's license yadda yadda) and load MY PGP public key onto their server with their signature attached. Might even be worth a few bucks for me.
Yeah! Someone should start a company... They could call it VeriSignature or VeriSign or something like that.
But, no one can quite be sure that the binary is built from the official, non-trojaned source, even if they give the offical checksum for the distro.
Red Hat solves this problem by signing all their packages. It's up to Red Hat to assure that the sources aren't trojaned, but they have a big monetary motivation to do so.
American requires over 45,000 pounds of newly-mined minerals every year.
I'd like to see a citation on that one. Being in the industry, I'm sure you could point me in the right direction. Unless you are counting oil as a mineral...
There are 0.6 mg/g hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in dried apple seeds. Cite
Natural cyanide is called Amygdalin, chemically it is bonded to a glucose and readily converts to hydrogen cyanide in the body. Herbal places sell it as a miracle cure for cancer. "Amygdalin Tablets & Ampoules www.cytopharma.com" This was an ad that came up during a google search related to cyanide.
Related: Smoking of cigarettes commonly releases cyanide. Tobacco smokers have a mean blood cyanide level of 0.4 mcg/cc, which is 2.5 times greater than the level in nonsmokers. Cite
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Well, you see my point though, I think there is less chance of a minor runway type incident with a heli. If something does go wrong, it's more likely to be a major incident. (e.g. wire stikes, very common)
Palladium, trusted computing, other DRM...
It all has a common element, it cannot be accomplished with general purpose computer hardware and open source software.
It is provable that at some point it must rely on security through obscurity, and/or though a hardware crippling of the general purpose computer.
I defy you to describe a system of DRM that can work with 100% open software, and a general purpose computer.
It's not like someone is trying to outlaw the writing of Free software
I'll just assume you havn't been paying attention, or are very naive.
Som writers don't seem to mind their name all over toilet paper poems and novels.
Funny quote:
"We want our books to be used," he said. "That's our philosophy."
Gives a whole new meaning to pulp fiction.
According to the NTSB database, there have been about 5100 heli incidents/accidents since 1/1/1980. 879 had at least one fatality.
:)
So, it's not too bad, but compared to the number of general aircraft fatal/nonfatal incident ratio, it's higher.
Of course, that could be due to the higher incident of runway incursions and planes taxiing into other planes causing minor damage, which is included in these numbers. Those kinds of things don't often happen to helicopters, since, well, they don't taxi.
Funny, the fortune at the bottom of the Slashdot page your post was on:
Contemptuous lights flashed flashed across the computer's console. -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Granted, there's still people running Win95 and even MS/DOS with Win 3.1 but most people consider Win98 to be obsolete. Why should a patent outlive the usefulness of that which it protects?
Those works would still be protected by copyright, which last a very long time.
Whole works of software are not patented.
How long as GIF been around? MP3? NTFS? 4 years would have been a reasonable length of time for those patents, even I could live with that.
It's not so much that they are useful, it's just that it may be easier to hit a compromise than to get them thrown out completely.
might be to shorten patent life.
Or create a special patent for software, that only last 4 years or so. And have a special technical committee for that type of patent.
It not unprecedented, there are lots of special types of patents already, such as biological ones, with different rules from normal patents.
On DRM and Fritz...
Confusing post, I thought you were talking about the senator from Disney until your second paragraph.
Other have called this "Slashdot Naysayer Syndome"... or SNS for short.
Increasing the usability for one user demographic does not decrease the useability of another in this case.
I think people assume that is has to, because almost all of us were burned by MS in this way. As Windows got easier to use for the non-techies, it got harder for the techies to use, causing us to have to dig through layers of GUI to get the most basic tasks done, forcing us to edit the cryptic registry to do anything advanced, etc.
Or like Slashdot running anti-MS stories when their parent company is(was) a Linux reseller?
Bias is to be expected, and I'd say MSN is a lot less biased than Slashdot.
Someone already looted his corpse, sorry.
Slate is part of MSN... what was your point again?
Now, why would congress help pass a constitutional amendment that would likely cost all of them their jobs?
IIRC there are several channels within the 49Mhz band. Otherwise it would be impossible to have RC airplane rallys.
Have you put in an RFE/bug report with red hat bugzilla?
Heh. :)
I thought after I deleted SULFNBK.EXE I would be safe from all these viruses!
I found the Bear on my system and deleted it, does that mean I was infected? How can I tell if it had activated yet or not?
Nice troll! You even had me going until the last paragraph. :)
Key server/key management is a big pain in the ass right now. It'd be nice to have some infrastructure in place where I could go to a brick and mortar, establish my identity (Here's my passport, driver's license yadda yadda) and load MY PGP public key onto their server with their signature attached. Might even be worth a few bucks for me.
Yeah! Someone should start a company... They could call it VeriSignature or VeriSign or something like that.
But, no one can quite be sure that the binary is built from the official, non-trojaned source, even if they give the offical checksum for the distro.
Red Hat solves this problem by signing all their packages. It's up to Red Hat to assure that the sources aren't trojaned, but they have a big monetary motivation to do so.
American requires over 45,000 pounds of newly-mined minerals every year.
I'd like to see a citation on that one. Being in the industry, I'm sure you could point me in the right direction. Unless you are counting oil as a mineral...
Cyanide facts:
There are 0.6 mg/g hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in dried apple seeds. Cite
Natural cyanide is called Amygdalin, chemically it is bonded to a glucose and readily converts to hydrogen cyanide in the body. Herbal places sell it as a miracle cure for cancer. "Amygdalin Tablets & Ampoules www.cytopharma.com" This was an ad that came up during a google search related to cyanide.
50 to 100 mg of cyanide is a lethal dose. Cite
This is about a half-cup to a full cup (80-160grams) of dried apple seeds.
An interesting site on cyanide.
Related:
Smoking of cigarettes commonly releases cyanide. Tobacco smokers have a mean blood cyanide level of 0.4 mcg/cc, which is 2.5 times greater than the level in nonsmokers. Cite