The only way I coudl think of off hand (and believe me, I'm no quantum mechanic) would be to do the intercepting on either end, either before the photon is sent, or after it is received. Presumably there would be circuitry somewhere that would be working with this. Unles everything transmitted in photons. (press a key, fires off a photon to keyboard, keyboard fires photons into computer, motherboard fires photons...etc, etc.)
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as I understand it, a new moon is when the moon is behind the earth (relative to the sun). The same side of the moon is always facing the earth. It would just mean that the moon isn't getting any energy from the sun, but what would be stored in batteries could still be sent to the earth (if they could find a station to send it to since the earth is also rotating.)
Acutally it's been known for a long time that telnet and rlogin are insecure. The effort has been to shift people to secure methods such as OpenSSH for those things. For the most part any sysadmin that has been using telnet and rlogin is probably too lazy to switch. I worked under a sysadmin for a while and it took months of pushing to get him to start implemting SSH across the board.
It seems that we as a society are rapidly moving towards one tool to do everything. In my mind, this adds unnecessary complexity and is more prone to problems. Using your computer as your home theatre, letter writing, web working, etc, etc machine puts a lot of eggs into one basket, and then the computer dies a horrible crash.
A new user might be trying to recover the computer for a week, and that's a week without being able to do any of those things they normally did on the computer, this could be as simple as watching DVDs or listening to music.
I believe in one tool for one task (within reason of course). Link things together, but try to keep them seperate. Have your home theatre system seperate from the computer, but having a link so the MP3 player could scan your computers hard drive for MP3's would be cool, but if your computer dies, the player could still play off of your mp3 cds. And so on.
Just my point of view on it, I don't know if anyone agrees with me or what:)
Why the hell is Microsoft so dependant on file extensions anyways? How about looking at that nice glob of header at the begging of most file formats to determine what it is. Or, my favourite way is to let the user figure out what their files are. File extensions is an archaic way of determining what the file is. I should be able to have an avi file with a txt extension and still be able to play it in Windows Media Player (shiver, painful program, painful interface, oh woah is me).
Oh well, everyone needs to gripe about something. At least all of the unix systems don't rely on file extensions, I can have solace there.
Of course they haven't gotten a hold of you. In an effort to cut costs they laid off their employees. As a result they make no money and have to shut down. So no one is there to return your call.
BTW, this is a scarasm laden joke I personally don't know how many layoffs they did.
It kind of bothers me how Data is still showing up. I think it's getting very obvious that the actor playing the android is aging, and well androids don't age. Or is this dealing with his quest for humanity?
You know it's funny, everyone complains about lack of free speech, corporatism, equating it to nazism and then nothing really gets done. Oh there are a few rallies (sometimes ending in riots). You would think that the bulk of the freedom loving people would stand up to the corporations, I mean without us they're just a name written on paper.
At the same time whenever I hear this stuff I'm reminded of the lyric from a song... "Paranoia paranoia everybody's coming to get me...".
Unfortunately I sort of see it as, what's coming through my lines I can do with what I want. (this is equating a country to a house, not the greatest of analogies) If I want to block all porn then I block it. The question more lies, is the government representing the people in doing this? Perhaps things would be different if more countries had religion seperated from the state (being religious myself, I'll be one of the first to admit that religions should not be governing anything other than their own religious organizations).
Kinda gives you that warm fuzzy helpless feel eh? Remember all those books about the future with the militaristic state, yah looks a little bit closer everyday.
Anyhow, enough ranting and raving, back to the real world where I can sit here in ignorance as to all the crimes in the world and atrocities, back into my happy world of computers, video games, work and music.
If it gets open sourced can we expect to find a book on our bookshelves titled "Genetic Engineering for Dummies..." and "Learn Genetic Engineering in 21 days"?
I don't know whether or not it was linked to terrorists.
But assuming the US government is right, since this was the only ISP in Somalia, wouldn't the political thing to do be replacing the ISP with one that perhaps has more controls? An ISP that perhaps when they feel things are safe again, then could hand over to Somalia?
After all, they've effectively cut a nation off of the Internet.
Sorry, they won't fly. As I see it, the only desktop that will replace the current desktop is one where I can verbally say: "Get me the file on the Smith account" or "Get me that document about all the fish" and have the computer either return the file or all the potential files. But this would take a whole lot of file parsing and "understanding".
The room desktop was the same as our current desktop, just 3d! Where's the innovation?
Also, a desktop that doesn't work on a heirarchy of files is going to do an awful lot of file hiding. Where the hell would you find that file for some video game that you want to modify.
No, 2d desktop is here to stay, at least until the computer is smart enough to find my documents and games for me.
My only question is right before all the hearts explode, how does the machine react. Does it think "Oh, they must be really happy with this music, I'll crank it up" when their hears at at 300 bpm?
'cause it's more work. I'm starting to suspect that the bulk of the musicians covered by the RIAA (especially in pop) are lazy and want instant success. If you get in with a record company under the RIAA you are all but guaranteed of that, whereas making it big on your own music is a lot more work (as opposed to having a large corporation throw money at it until it's a hit).
I'm going to get flamed big time for this but hell...
Okay, I don't have a problem with swear words in general, just the over use of them.
I feel that swear words limit our ability to adequately describe situations and circumstances. I think try opening up a dictionary and expanding your vocabulary as opposed to just resorting to "fuck" "shit" and the like.
Don't get me wrong, when I'm pissed off I resort to them, but I do try to use other ways of describing my frustrations and the such.
Actually, I've found that there have been lots of movies with some gratuitous sex scene that could have been done without, or in another way. I have to say that with films I'm getting pretty tired of being submitted to racey stuff that doesn't seem at all important about the plot or anything.
A good director could write a film that is not dependant on the sex (well, other than porn and movies about sex), sometimes the violence (Depends on the film), and sometimes the language.
I think that's a great idea. It allows you to watch the movie at whichever rating makes you comfortable, but doesn't remove the other stuff for people that want more.
It gives the best of both worlds. Now here's a question, what happens to a porn if your crank it down to PG? Does the acting suddenly become better and a plot suddenly developes?
Everything is bound by the laws of the location of its servers. Also, if they have the domain.fr or.ca (etc) they are bound by the country they wish to represent.
If you wanted to make things really nice and confusing, you could require that any URLS that do not specify a country (.us,.ca,.fr, etc) must copmly with a set standard if Internet laws created by a governing body with representatives from the bulk of the countries. This would be general laws that hopefully would not infringe on any one nation's laws.
I think this would encourage companies to place their servers inside the nation they wish it to server (.fr sites placed physically in france) in order to reduce the number of laws they have to comply with.
So to cap. All sites comply with their locations laws, and the laws of the country they wish to serve (as determined by domain name extensions).
Any sites without an extension for the country must comply with a standard set of laws (which hopefully would represent most nations equally).
I know it would be hell to implement and change, but what do you think?
Okay, so most logos out here are transparent, so it's not really a problem yet.
But I think the problem could easily be solved by migrating to wide screen and using that blank space at the bottom of the screen for logo and captions.
But I know a few people that hate wide screen (small tv's). Or maybe they could start making TV's with a seperate little screen (inch by an inch) for just the logo of the station.
Ah-HAHAHAHAH!!! News web site, man, I'm not sure who's been fooled more. The one that called this site news, or the people that might now thing it is news.
Alright, it's sorta news, it's more of a gripe site though I think. You go there to complain about the world and why they us a living.
I've heard the same rumour about the phone tapping. Assuming it were true (I haven't heard any concrete evidence) one reason nothing is done with it could be because it wouldn't hold up in any court. It would be an illegal phone tap and so everything collected on it wouldn't be submittable to the courts.
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sorry, he meant to say "interface"
Dammit I blinked. Hey Bill reset the machine, let's try again, I'm sure I'll see it this time. Dammit, I keep blinking and missing the photon.
The only way I coudl think of off hand (and believe me, I'm no quantum mechanic) would be to do the intercepting on either end, either before the photon is sent, or after it is received. Presumably there would be circuitry somewhere that would be working with this. Unles everything transmitted in photons. (press a key, fires off a photon to keyboard, keyboard fires photons into computer, motherboard fires photons.. .etc, etc.)
as I understand it, a new moon is when the moon is behind the earth (relative to the sun). The same side of the moon is always facing the earth. It would just mean that the moon isn't getting any energy from the sun, but what would be stored in batteries could still be sent to the earth (if they could find a station to send it to since the earth is also rotating.)
Acutally it's been known for a long time that telnet and rlogin are insecure. The effort has been to shift people to secure methods such as OpenSSH for those things. For the most part any sysadmin that has been using telnet and rlogin is probably too lazy to switch. I worked under a sysadmin for a while and it took months of pushing to get him to start implemting SSH across the board.
It seems that we as a society are rapidly moving towards one tool to do everything. In my mind, this adds unnecessary complexity and is more prone to problems. Using your computer as your home theatre, letter writing, web working, etc, etc machine puts a lot of eggs into one basket, and then the computer dies a horrible crash.
:)
A new user might be trying to recover the computer for a week, and that's a week without being able to do any of those things they normally did on the computer, this could be as simple as watching DVDs or listening to music.
I believe in one tool for one task (within reason of course). Link things together, but try to keep them seperate. Have your home theatre system seperate from the computer, but having a link so the MP3 player could scan your computers hard drive for MP3's would be cool, but if your computer dies, the player could still play off of your mp3 cds. And so on.
Just my point of view on it, I don't know if anyone agrees with me or what
Why the hell is Microsoft so dependant on file extensions anyways? How about looking at that nice glob of header at the begging of most file formats to determine what it is. Or, my favourite way is to let the user figure out what their files are. File extensions is an archaic way of determining what the file is. I should be able to have an avi file with a txt extension and still be able to play it in Windows Media Player (shiver, painful program, painful interface, oh woah is me).
Oh well, everyone needs to gripe about something. At least all of the unix systems don't rely on file extensions, I can have solace there.
Of course they haven't gotten a hold of you. In an effort to cut costs they laid off their employees. As a result they make no money and have to shut down. So no one is there to return your call.
BTW, this is a scarasm laden joke I personally don't know how many layoffs they did.
As I understood it 6 was "Aw shit, Shatner really screwed up the last movie, now we have to make another on!"
It kind of bothers me how Data is still showing up. I think it's getting very obvious that the actor playing the android is aging, and well androids don't age. Or is this dealing with his quest for humanity?
You know it's funny, everyone complains about lack of free speech, corporatism, equating it to nazism and then nothing really gets done. Oh there are a few rallies (sometimes ending in riots). You would think that the bulk of the freedom loving people would stand up to the corporations, I mean without us they're just a name written on paper.
At the same time whenever I hear this stuff I'm reminded of the lyric from a song... "Paranoia paranoia everybody's coming to get me...".
Unfortunately I sort of see it as, what's coming through my lines I can do with what I want. (this is equating a country to a house, not the greatest of analogies) If I want to block all porn then I block it. The question more lies, is the government representing the people in doing this? Perhaps things would be different if more countries had religion seperated from the state (being religious myself, I'll be one of the first to admit that religions should not be governing anything other than their own religious organizations).
Kinda gives you that warm fuzzy helpless feel eh? Remember all those books about the future with the militaristic state, yah looks a little bit closer everyday.
Anyhow, enough ranting and raving, back to the real world where I can sit here in ignorance as to all the crimes in the world and atrocities, back into my happy world of computers, video games, work and music.
That's it, back to work mindless drone.
Bah, just get a CD jukebox. Yah yah, wonderful machines for archiving CDs :)
If it gets open sourced can we expect to find a book on our bookshelves titled "Genetic Engineering for Dummies..." and "Learn Genetic Engineering in 21 days"?
I don't know whether or not it was linked to terrorists.
But assuming the US government is right, since this was the only ISP in Somalia, wouldn't the political thing to do be replacing the ISP with one that perhaps has more controls? An ISP that perhaps when they feel things are safe again, then could hand over to Somalia?
After all, they've effectively cut a nation off of the Internet.
Sorry, they won't fly. As I see it, the only desktop that will replace the current desktop is one where I can verbally say: "Get me the file on the Smith account" or "Get me that document about all the fish" and have the computer either return the file or all the potential files. But this would take a whole lot of file parsing and "understanding".
The room desktop was the same as our current desktop, just 3d! Where's the innovation?
Also, a desktop that doesn't work on a heirarchy of files is going to do an awful lot of file hiding. Where the hell would you find that file for some video game that you want to modify.
No, 2d desktop is here to stay, at least until the computer is smart enough to find my documents and games for me.
My only question is right before all the hearts explode, how does the machine react. Does it think "Oh, they must be really happy with this music, I'll crank it up" when their hears at at 300 bpm?
'cause it's more work. I'm starting to suspect that the bulk of the musicians covered by the RIAA (especially in pop) are lazy and want instant success. If you get in with a record company under the RIAA you are all but guaranteed of that, whereas making it big on your own music is a lot more work (as opposed to having a large corporation throw money at it until it's a hit).
Just a thought.
I'm going to get flamed big time for this but hell...
Okay, I don't have a problem with swear words in general, just the over use of them.
I feel that swear words limit our ability to adequately describe situations and circumstances. I think try opening up a dictionary and expanding your vocabulary as opposed to just resorting to "fuck" "shit" and the like.
Don't get me wrong, when I'm pissed off I resort to them, but I do try to use other ways of describing my frustrations and the such.
Actually, I've found that there have been lots of movies with some gratuitous sex scene that could have been done without, or in another way. I have to say that with films I'm getting pretty tired of being submitted to racey stuff that doesn't seem at all important about the plot or anything.
A good director could write a film that is not dependant on the sex (well, other than porn and movies about sex), sometimes the violence (Depends on the film), and sometimes the language.
But that's just my opinion.
I think that's a great idea. It allows you to watch the movie at whichever rating makes you comfortable, but doesn't remove the other stuff for people that want more.
It gives the best of both worlds. Now here's a question, what happens to a porn if your crank it down to PG? Does the acting suddenly become better and a plot suddenly developes?
Ain't hindsight a wonderful thing? (I'm not saying that a lot of people didn't for see the dot-bombing, but most were blindsided)
Here's an idea.
.fr or .ca (etc) they are bound by the country they wish to represent.
.ca, .fr, etc) must copmly with a set standard if Internet laws created by a governing body with representatives from the bulk of the countries. This would be general laws that hopefully would not infringe on any one nation's laws.
Everything is bound by the laws of the location of its servers. Also, if they have the domain
If you wanted to make things really nice and confusing, you could require that any URLS that do not specify a country (.us,
I think this would encourage companies to place their servers inside the nation they wish it to server (.fr sites placed physically in france) in order to reduce the number of laws they have to comply with.
So to cap. All sites comply with their locations laws, and the laws of the country they wish to serve (as determined by domain name extensions).
Any sites without an extension for the country must comply with a standard set of laws (which hopefully would represent most nations equally).
I know it would be hell to implement and change, but what do you think?
Okay, so most logos out here are transparent, so it's not really a problem yet.
But I think the problem could easily be solved by migrating to wide screen and using that blank space at the bottom of the screen for logo and captions.
But I know a few people that hate wide screen (small tv's). Or maybe they could start making TV's with a seperate little screen (inch by an inch) for just the logo of the station.
Ah-HAHAHAHAH!!! News web site, man, I'm not sure who's been fooled more. The one that called this site news, or the people that might now thing it is news.
Alright, it's sorta news, it's more of a gripe site though I think. You go there to complain about the world and why they us a living.
I've heard the same rumour about the phone tapping. Assuming it were true (I haven't heard any concrete evidence) one reason nothing is done with it could be because it wouldn't hold up in any court. It would be an illegal phone tap and so everything collected on it wouldn't be submittable to the courts.
Just a thought.