Yeah, but he gets top billing types of pictures and his affiliation with Co$ gets kicked around enough that people using their own tiny little brains figure along these lines: "Well if Tom Cruise is rich, famous and good looking and a $ientologist then I wanna be one too!" Sadly that's how hearts are lost to the most preposterous of beliefs.
Now excuse me, I'm late for services at the Temple of Elvis.
Imitation or limitation of imagination? There's an old Star Trek episode where all the people are controlled by some computer and one in a while go berserk. I only remember the people looked like early american pilgrims and some guy shouting "Festival! Festival!" before it all went nuts before the programming reoriented itself and continued. Anyway, it struck me as similar to the cycle described by the architect (whom reminded me of Colonel Sanders and I expected him to produce a bucket of fried chicken parts at any moment), how many times this has happened before, etc.
This reference to a Star Trek episode is by no means any claim that Star Trek writers were the first to experiment with such an idea, simply the idea has already been kicked around. I see Mr. Smith as more of a virus and wonder how he'll be sorted out.
Maybe it's time to rent Tron and watch that again, too.:-)
This puts me in mind of the computer in Pterry Pratchett's books, Hex. It's effectively a colony of ants which move things about, thus performing operations, calculations, etc. often of a thaumatical nature. There's a sign mentioned in one of the books, "Ant Hill Inside"
There was something in the news about scammers being rounded up. I see the spam load is back, as of this hour. Perhaps those not busted returned home after finding they weren't on today's list of criminals to be incarcerated.
I think this letter is a good way to let ISPs know that big-bro is watching. The letter did not threaten, it only offered advice. But the casual use of "law enforcement" does give the letter just enough bite to be worry some.
Good job (i don't say that too often about my gov...:)
I imagine Manuel Noriega could tell you a little bit about US Law Enforcement.
With US sabre-rattling these days, what'll happen to those rogue countries which thumb their noses at, not just such a threat, but allow rogue traffic to pass through their servers. Invade? Bomb? CIA tactics?
Economic sanctions?
It does remind me a little of a previous post, regarding Lawrence Lessig's view on the death of the internet. Government intervention is usually the first step. The government turning control of resources over to their special friends in private industry is usually the second step. i.e. all internet traffic will now be monitored and administered by a joint Homeland Security Agency/Corporation-X venture, oh, and mysteriously packets from sites which are contrary to the whims of Corporation-X seem to have a lot of trouble getting through the net.
Ah, well, there's still two cans and a piece of string. I just have to remember to upgrade to String.Net 2003 sometime this week...
The threat of being blacklisted has not worked yet, so will this finally convince mail server admins to shut down those open relays?"
Imagine my utter surprise when I returned from running to the PO and Baja Fresh, during lunch, hit [Get Msgs] and Nothing was there to download!!!
I've been getting from 120-180 Ralsky-grams a day and nothing in the space of 45 minutes is downright unbelievable. I zipped over to the news to see if his house had been raided or he'd been kill by an irate sysadmin. Nothing on the news about it, maybe something is happening? If so, he and his animal food trough wiper friends will probably take a little while to shift over to some other sites and get caught up.
There'll be a black market for geeks to hack these things so the cops can switch them off and not be caught hitting on hookers for "favours".
Yeah, well, if the system is built in such a way as there's a checksum value for the recording sent and stored at a separate location, this could be impossible to do. Modifying a tape signature is one thing, making it match an unknown quantity at a verification/validation site, which logs hits, could make such a thing beyond possibility. More like, "Clancy, now did ye fergit to take the lens cap off again?"
I can easily think of pros and cons for this, keep cops honest, but also reveal behaviour before of jury of how a person behaved during the arrest "I wuz a model poison durn my arrest, yerronner. The video o' me cuss'n an swingin' a bat wuz me evil twin Skippy!" Cons of course, some video may not be useable until after a person has been read their amended rights, "You have the right to stand still, behave and remain silent..."
The major downside is probably more video of people at their utter worst prior to and during arrest, a la Cops, "We've got another messy one here, Sarge, seems the guy tried to cut in line for the Matrix:Reloaded"
I wonder if Episode VII-IX would be a good choice as first projects?"
Aside from, "No", IIRC George Lucas has dismissed doing the later episodes, as they have already been extensively explored in books. If you haven't noticed, the books on the Star Wars movie episodes follow the film to market, not precede it.
Imagine George changing the ending, in typical shitty Hollywood-fashion, of one book to make it into a movie and *fanfare* leave the ending in suspense! *raspberry* (For my money, Hollywood should STOP doing that and focus on films true to the original story.)
If To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed today, Atticus Finch would probably look like Rambo and be mowing the jury down with an AK47, a la Kill Mo' Mockingbird*, just because everyone (all those trapped in American Lit. classes or the three or four of us who liked the book and read it anway) already knows how it ended in the book.
Imitation is the scincerest form of flattery. Where will flattery take you today?
I recall, years back, an avi making the rounds
with Bill Gates speaking (at a MacWorld?) and sheepishly admitting
that the Mac was the best or had the best desktop or something along those
lines. As if Win95 didn't cement clearly the view that Microsoft indeed was impressed
with, at least the look and feel, we get more of this, "Gee, Apple is visionary, so we'll just
copy what they do", from the big innovator. Well, no surprise, but I do wonder whether there's an
agreement where Microsoft pays Apple for some of this, or is it just payment 'in-kind' (meaning Microsoft products which
run on Macs)?
"As a matter of fact we do have a Research and Development department, we call it, 'Apple Computer, Inc.'"
For example, an SAT combined score of 1250 (1974-1994 SAT editions) correlates with a Stanford-Binet IQ of 132, the top 2% of humanity, and thus qualifies a person for Mensa.
I find having a snailmail address qualifies a person for Mensa.
Dunno where you expect them go go, but there are, depending on features you want, 17" LCD's in the low $300's I can't quite find it in me to complain bitterly about that being high. Heck, I probably paid that for a 15" CRT once.
On dupes and cool... the stages:
1st time: "Yow! Cool! Rolling around in nekkid cool!"
A piece of Columbia for a scav hunt is not Nerdy its a desecration.
Perhaps only if the scavenger picked it up and hauled it in for a prize. If the scavenger simply points it out to the proper authorities and got a receipt, it could be a good thing, sorta.
I'll stick with GeoCaching:o) (see journal entries)
I worked in Java a few years ago and haven't kept up much with development kits, etc. The language I could pop right back into, but could use some advice on good/affordable IDE.
Subtle philosophy? More like blatantly obvious and hackneyed oversimplification of philosophy.
Agreed, but why the A.C. posting? Didn't pack the flameproof underoos?
Watching all the fawning over The Matrix makes me wonder how people might react if Bladerunner hadn't been screened until a year ago. People still wouldn't be able to get enough of it and foam at the mouth for a sequel (which, thank God, there hasn't been one.)
And all this must be making the MPAA do a respectable Montgomery Burns impersonation, "Excellent."
Its supposed to make money, not innovate all over again.
Ah, a realist! *swat* *swat* *stomp* *stomp*
Yeah, this is why every Star Wars film since Episode IV: ANH has been, for me, an unfulfilled wish to achieve the same jawdropping awe. Sequels can be good, but there's the rate of declining return, as it's all become familiar and harder to impress with.
I'll hold judgement until the closing credits myself.
I've pretty much made up my mind from the trailers, it's not at the top of my list, and I may skip it in favor of something which isn't a sequel. If it featured Jay and Silent Bob, however...
This was a game (demo of sorts) I played on an Amiga years ago, is it coming out for Longhorn?
Longhorn.. this always puts me in mind of cheese, Longhorn Colby Cheddar, packaged in plastic and wax cylinders, I wonder what packaging Microsoft has in mind... What name will they actually go with, XP+ ?
ZP? XP 2: Reloaded?
I suggested a co-worker do up a Barbie like the Gundam jobbie, holding up a 15" LCD monitor for his daughter. He probably won't, but seems like this is would be a great Parent-child activity.
I believe the message is to fear man's use, or misuse, of technology.
Afterall, one doesn't need to worry about machines being a disaster when they become "self-aware" (in Terminator's case) if they weren't built for DESTRUCTION in the first place.
Yeah, but think about that kind of up-time! *sigh* Probably never see it in my lifetime...
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Yeah, but he gets top billing types of pictures and his affiliation with Co$ gets kicked around enough that people using their own tiny little brains figure along these lines: "Well if Tom Cruise is rich, famous and good looking and a $ientologist then I wanna be one too!" Sadly that's how hearts are lost to the most preposterous of beliefs.
Now excuse me, I'm late for services at the Temple of Elvis.
What? You mean there's no room for any new religions beyond $ientologists and Jedi?
I guess I'd better stop worshipping Terry Pratchett (who has a new book out and is totally God-like in my must humbl
[NO CARRIER]
Imitation or limitation of imagination? There's an old Star Trek episode where all the people are controlled by some computer and one in a while go berserk. I only remember the people looked like early american pilgrims and some guy shouting "Festival! Festival!" before it all went nuts before the programming reoriented itself and continued. Anyway, it struck me as similar to the cycle described by the architect (whom reminded me of Colonel Sanders and I expected him to produce a bucket of fried chicken parts at any moment), how many times this has happened before, etc.
This reference to a Star Trek episode is by no means any claim that Star Trek writers were the first to experiment with such an idea, simply the idea has already been kicked around. I see Mr. Smith as more of a virus and wonder how he'll be sorted out.
Maybe it's time to rent Tron and watch that again, too. :-)
This puts me in mind of the computer in Pterry Pratchett's books, Hex. It's effectively a colony of ants which move things about, thus performing operations, calculations, etc. often of a thaumatical nature. There's a sign mentioned in one of the books, "Ant Hill Inside"
There was something in the news about scammers being rounded up. I see the spam load is back, as of this hour. Perhaps those not busted returned home after finding they weren't on today's list of criminals to be incarcerated.
Good job (i don't say that too often about my gov... :)
I imagine Manuel Noriega could tell you a little bit about US Law Enforcement.
With US sabre-rattling these days, what'll happen to those rogue countries which thumb their noses at, not just such a threat, but allow rogue traffic to pass through their servers. Invade? Bomb? CIA tactics? Economic sanctions?
It does remind me a little of a previous post, regarding Lawrence Lessig's view on the death of the internet. Government intervention is usually the first step. The government turning control of resources over to their special friends in private industry is usually the second step. i.e. all internet traffic will now be monitored and administered by a joint Homeland Security Agency/Corporation-X venture, oh, and mysteriously packets from sites which are contrary to the whims of Corporation-X seem to have a lot of trouble getting through the net.
Ah, well, there's still two cans and a piece of string. I just have to remember to upgrade to String .Net 2003 sometime this week...
Imagine my utter surprise when I returned from running to the PO and Baja Fresh, during lunch, hit [Get Msgs] and Nothing was there to download!!!
I've been getting from 120-180 Ralsky-grams a day and nothing in the space of 45 minutes is downright unbelievable. I zipped over to the news to see if his house had been raided or he'd been kill by an irate sysadmin. Nothing on the news about it, maybe something is happening? If so, he and his animal food trough wiper friends will probably take a little while to shift over to some other sites and get caught up.
Yeah, well, if the system is built in such a way as there's a checksum value for the recording sent and stored at a separate location, this could be impossible to do. Modifying a tape signature is one thing, making it match an unknown quantity at a verification/validation site, which logs hits, could make such a thing beyond possibility. More like, "Clancy, now did ye fergit to take the lens cap off again?"
I can easily think of pros and cons for this, keep cops honest, but also reveal behaviour before of jury of how a person behaved during the arrest "I wuz a model poison durn my arrest, yerronner. The video o' me cuss'n an swingin' a bat wuz me evil twin Skippy!" Cons of course, some video may not be useable until after a person has been read their amended rights, "You have the right to stand still, behave and remain silent..."
The major downside is probably more video of people at their utter worst prior to and during arrest, a la Cops, "We've got another messy one here, Sarge, seems the guy tried to cut in line for the Matrix:Reloaded"
Aside from, "No", IIRC George Lucas has dismissed doing the later episodes, as they have already been extensively explored in books. If you haven't noticed, the books on the Star Wars movie episodes follow the film to market, not precede it.
Imagine George changing the ending, in typical shitty Hollywood-fashion, of one book to make it into a movie and *fanfare* leave the ending in suspense! *raspberry* (For my money, Hollywood should STOP doing that and focus on films true to the original story.)
If To Kill a Mockingbird was filmed today, Atticus Finch would probably look like Rambo and be mowing the jury down with an AK47, a la Kill Mo' Mockingbird*, just because everyone (all those trapped in American Lit. classes or the three or four of us who liked the book and read it anway) already knows how it ended in the book.
* Reference to Bloom County
I recall, years back, an avi making the rounds with Bill Gates speaking (at a MacWorld?) and sheepishly admitting that the Mac was the best or had the best desktop or something along those lines. As if Win95 didn't cement clearly the view that Microsoft indeed was impressed with, at least the look and feel, we get more of this, "Gee, Apple is visionary, so we'll just copy what they do", from the big innovator. Well, no surprise, but I do wonder whether there's an agreement where Microsoft pays Apple for some of this, or is it just payment 'in-kind' (meaning Microsoft products which run on Macs)?
"As a matter of fact we do have a Research and Development department, we call it, 'Apple Computer, Inc.'"
I find having a snailmail address qualifies a person for Mensa.
On dupes and cool... the stages:
1st time: "Yow! Cool! Rolling around in nekkid cool!"
Dupe 1ce: "It's still really cool!"
Dupe 2nd: "Kinda cool, but what else is new?"
Dupe 3rd: "Hey nice banner ad."
Dupe 4th: "Ok, 'Fonz', it's cool if your say so."
Dupe 5th+: [NO CARRIER]
Perhaps only if the scavenger picked it up and hauled it in for a prize. If the scavenger simply points it out to the proper authorities and got a receipt, it could be a good thing, sorta.
I'll stick with GeoCaching :o) (see journal entries)
Thanks for the tip. The last IDE I used was Kawa, it was OK, but have no idea where it's at (in terms of function and features) these days.
I worked in Java a few years ago and haven't kept up much with development kits, etc. The language I could pop right back into, but could use some advice on good/affordable IDE.
Oh, what's that? The probe sanitizer was on leave before packaging and launch? Ah, well, maybe it'll grow up to be like it's parents...
Agreed, but why the A.C. posting? Didn't pack the flameproof underoos?
Watching all the fawning over The Matrix makes me wonder how people might react if Bladerunner hadn't been screened until a year ago. People still wouldn't be able to get enough of it and foam at the mouth for a sequel (which, thank God, there hasn't been one.)
And all this must be making the MPAA do a respectable Montgomery Burns impersonation, "Excellent."
Ah, a realist! *swat* *swat* *stomp* *stomp*
Yeah, this is why every Star Wars film since Episode IV: ANH has been, for me, an unfulfilled wish to achieve the same jawdropping awe. Sequels can be good, but there's the rate of declining return, as it's all become familiar and harder to impress with.
I'll hold judgement until the closing credits myself.
I've pretty much made up my mind from the trailers, it's not at the top of my list, and I may skip it in favor of something which isn't a sequel. If it featured Jay and Silent Bob, however...
I've always believed that was "Andrew Stanton .... Zurg (voice)
This was a game (demo of sorts) I played on an Amiga years ago, is it coming out for Longhorn?
Longhorn .. this always puts me in mind of cheese, Longhorn Colby Cheddar, packaged in plastic and wax cylinders, I wonder what packaging Microsoft has in mind... What name will they actually go with, XP+ ?
ZP? XP 2: Reloaded?
I suggested a co-worker do up a Barbie like the Gundam jobbie, holding up a 15" LCD monitor for his daughter. He probably won't, but seems like this is would be a great Parent-child activity.
I find mother nature employs the latest technology. I don't fear nature, but I do respect it.
Afterall, one doesn't need to worry about machines being a disaster when they become "self-aware" (in Terminator's case) if they weren't built for DESTRUCTION in the first place.
Yeah, but think about that kind of up-time! *sigh* Probably never see it in my lifetime...
# Trinity dies at the end of Matrix: Reloaded
Probably ate something which spoiled in the back of the fridge...
I dunno, man, I feel like I'm being preached to, again. Like:
Clean out the fridge before you eat something moldy which will make you sick.
Driving an SUV supports terrorism
Ordering french fries supports evil regimes which have WMD
If you don't pick up your room it'll lead to communist world domination.
Technology advances faster than our ability to manage it, eventually it will manage you if you don't watch out.
Some year, first the Matrix 2, then T3... What's the message here? Fear technology? Screw that.