"Both parties write their part of the password down, put it in a sealed envelope and the two envelopes go into escrow in case of fatalities (the CEO's safe will do)"
What happens when they fire the CEO? Some are pretty tech-savvy.
I just got mail from a friend in Taiwan who says: "you know, everyone has a cell phone here, it is so nice to use those GSM phone compare to US, you can always switch to a different phone company by plug in a different smart card on the phone"
Maybe the US doesn't need a single giant wireless monopoly?
From : smallpond@juno.com To : customercare@joann.com, sales@joann.com Subject : DMCA abuse Date : Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:04:47 GMT
This is to inform you that I will no longer be shopping at Jo-Ann Stores due to your decision to apply the DMCA to prevent the internet site FatWallet.com from posting your sale prices.
Abuse of the DMCA law by large corporations to stifle competition is a good example of what is wrong with laws enacted to protect special interests. It was a concern cited by opponents of the law when it was proposed, whose worst fears you have now realized.
I think the quality of code has always been poor, but it seems as though most products now ship with bad code and expect the user to have to download the "latest" version (ie code that actually makes the product do what you paid for).
In comparison, people yelled and screamed when it was revealed that certain obscure floating point instructions on the Pentium chip were off a few decimal places. The worst it did was cause some of those clipping errors in Quake.
The FSF's point here is that W3C RF policy will not just make OSS implementations difficult, it will make it, in some cases, impossible. Copyright code offered "royalty-free but with constraints" is sort of a poisoned apple. You can use it in the intended application, but the code using it can never be GPL.
Its mostly true. I remember spending a day trying to write a tape on a DEC-10 (36-bit word) and read it on the IBM 360 (32-bit word) and get the 6 characters/word to convert to 4/word. It eventually worked, thanks to creative use of the dd command.
This article on canine genetics points out that aggression is the most frequent problem for which dog owners seek help. It also points out that biologists classify dogs as "social parasites". One view I've heard is that dogs have adapted to mimic the mannerisms of small children in order to get humans to care for them.
Perhaps we should cross that poodle with a rabbit?
The danger of creating a self-replicating organism is commonly called the "gray goo problem". The organism reproduces exponentially, has no natural enemies and consumes all available resources. This problem is taken seriously, as shown by this paper, although the scare-mongering is usually applied to
self-reproducing nano-technology.
Resistance is caused by exposure. More exposure= more resistance. I agree with you that pesticides are mostly noxious chemicals with bad effects on human beings.
You left out the part about what his being in the "Working Group on Food Security". Nice to know that we have independent oversight for the food supply. I guess there just weren't any other qualified applicants.
Um... because they ARE modifying the palnts to produce poison. A lot of the corn that you are eating right now produces BT, a pesticide. Maybe the amount you eat is safe, but what is it doing to the pesticide resistance of the bugs? see:
gene stories by that noted fear-mongering organization, the BBC. Note: don't be surprised if you find less coverage of these issues in the advertising-controlled US media.
Re:Hack a computer, spend life in prison.
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HomeSec In the News
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Had you actually read the article, you would have noticed that the life sentence is only for
'computer intrusions that "recklessly" put others' lives at risk'
in other words, terrorists about to blow up a building, say, not the kid who cracks his school computer and changes his grades.
That said, aren't there already laws against putting people's lives at risk? Why do we need a special one when a computer is involved?
"Nobody wants to force you to give away some original work..."
Not true, that is the entire purpose of the GPL. If you profit from the use of GPL code, you are forced to donate your source code. This is being [en]forced every day by FSF legal counsel. See
These electrolytic caps are basically a roll of aluminum foil. The two electrodes are separated only by a thin layer of aluminum oxide. We're talking umeters/volt.
The failure mechanism is due to the series resistance of the cap. High current through R generates heat = breakdown. Cheaper caps have higher series resistance.
By the way, the switch to Al. from Tantalum due to shortage? Hunh? This is like the Engineer shortage. Tantalum is widely available, just more expensive. Tantalum caps explode quite nicely, too.
Well, it adds a lot to the cost of a color CRT to get good color convergence (avoiding color fringes in area that are supposed to be white, for example). I think that the same variations in output occur in making LEDs, so the panel makers will have the same color convergence issues. Only, on the LED display, there won't be that neat "degauss" button to make the picture go wonky.
The problem with LED displays is the reverse of the problem for printing. In printing its tough to get true black by combining cyan, magenta and yellow, so they do 4-color printing, CMYK (K for black).
With LEDs, they want to do RGBW (W for white) to get true whites, but the article doesn't say whether they're doing three or four colors. Here's an article on organic white LED:
"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well that would be enough immortality for me"
-- EW Dijkstra
What's the difference between this law and a law
prohibiting possession of burglary tools? Here's
a link to the
Alaska statute.
Its actually quite a similar law. The Biden
amendment is closing a loophole which allows
people to distribute tools to steal music, videos,
or computer programs as long as they don't
distribute the copyrighted material with it.
Yeah. What was that Moore guy thinking in 1965 when he forecasted chip density doubling every 18 months. That obviously couldn't last more than a couple of years, could it?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah. Not to mention that clicking on
"My Computer" gets you to your network drives.
Real intuitive!
"Both parties write their part of the password down, put it in a sealed envelope and the two envelopes go into escrow in case of fatalities (the CEO's safe will do)"
What happens when they fire the CEO? Some are pretty tech-savvy.
I just got mail from a friend in Taiwan who says:
"you know, everyone has a cell phone here, it is so nice to use those GSM phone compare to US, you can always switch to a different phone company by plug in a different smart card on the phone"
Maybe the US doesn't need a single giant wireless monopoly?
From : smallpond@juno.com
To : customercare@joann.com, sales@joann.com
Subject : DMCA abuse
Date : Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:04:47 GMT
This is to inform you that I will no longer be shopping at Jo-Ann
Stores due to your decision to apply the DMCA to prevent the
internet site FatWallet.com from posting your sale prices.
Abuse of the DMCA law by large corporations to stifle competition
is a good example of what is wrong with laws enacted to protect
special interests. It was a concern cited by opponents of the
law when it was proposed, whose worst fears you have now realized.
but first we have to agree on how to count knuckles.
Yeah, lets have another Taco Bell target in the Pacific. Then we can get
on with the unmanned stuff and do some real science.
I think the quality of code has always been poor, but it seems
as though most products now ship with bad code and expect the user to
have to download the "latest" version (ie code that actually makes the
product do what you paid for).
In comparison, people yelled and screamed when it was revealed that
certain obscure floating point instructions on the Pentium chip were
off a few decimal places. The worst it did was cause some of those
clipping errors in Quake.
The FSF's point here is that W3C RF policy will not just make OSS implementations difficult, it
will make it, in some cases, impossible. Copyright code offered "royalty-free but with constraints"
is sort of a poisoned apple. You can use it in the intended application, but the code
using it can never be GPL.
Its mostly true. I remember spending a day trying to
write a tape on a DEC-10 (36-bit word) and read it on the
IBM 360 (32-bit word) and get the 6 characters/word
to convert to 4/word. It eventually worked, thanks to
creative use of the dd command.
Here is a link on 36-bit computing.
PS - I have gray hair, but no beard.
This article on canine genetics points out that
aggression is the most frequent problem for which dog
owners seek help. It also points out that biologists
classify dogs as "social parasites". One view I've
heard is that dogs have adapted to mimic the mannerisms
of small children in order to get humans to care for
them.
Perhaps we should cross that poodle with a rabbit?
The danger of creating a self-replicating organism is commonly called
the "gray goo problem". The organism reproduces exponentially,
has no natural enemies and consumes all available resources.
This problem is taken seriously, as shown by this paper,
although the scare-mongering is usually applied to
self-reproducing nano-technology.
Gallium is currently around $640/Kg
Indium is about $147/Kg
Nitrogen, as far as I know, can be obtained quite cheaply.
For comparison, silicon is about $1/Kg
commodity info
I'm not classifying it as a poison. The company that
registered it with the EPA is. See their registration:
BT corn
Resistance is caused by exposure. More exposure= more
resistance. I agree with you that pesticides are
mostly noxious chemicals with bad effects on
human beings.
You left out the part about what his being in
the "Working Group on Food Security". Nice
to know that we have independent oversight for
the food supply. I guess there just weren't any
other qualified applicants.
Um... because they ARE modifying the palnts to
produce poison. A lot of the corn that you are
eating right now produces BT, a pesticide. Maybe
the amount you eat is safe, but what is it doing to
the pesticide resistance of the bugs? see:
gene stories by that noted fear-mongering organization, the BBC.
Note: don't be surprised if you find less coverage of these issues in
the advertising-controlled US media.
Had you actually read the article, you would have noticed that the life
sentence is only for
'computer intrusions that "recklessly" put others' lives at risk'
in other words, terrorists about to blow up a building, say, not the kid who
cracks his school computer and changes his grades.
That said, aren't there already laws against putting people's lives
at risk? Why do we need a special one when a computer is involved?
What's wrong with the potato powered laptop?
Spam predates the web. It was described as a problem
in rfc 706 On The Junk Mail Problem by Jon Postel
in 1975. A telling quote is:
"The services denied are the processor time consumed
in examining the undesired messages and rejecting
them"
which remains the chief argument against the
legality of spam.
"Nobody wants to force you to give away some original work..."
Not true, that is the entire purpose of the GPL.
If you profit from the use of GPL code, you are
forced to donate your source code. This is being
[en]forced every day by FSF legal counsel. See
Enforcing the GNU GPL
The recent battle between Progress Software and
MySQL is a case in point.
These electrolytic caps are basically a roll of
aluminum foil. The two electrodes are separated
only by a thin layer of aluminum oxide. We're
talking umeters/volt.
The failure mechanism is due to the series
resistance of the cap. High current through
R generates heat = breakdown.
Cheaper caps have higher series resistance.
For info from a high quality supplier see:
Nichicon
By the way, the switch to Al. from Tantalum due to
shortage? Hunh? This is like the Engineer shortage.
Tantalum is widely available, just more expensive.
Tantalum caps explode quite nicely, too.
Well, it adds a lot to the cost of a color CRT to
get good color convergence (avoiding color fringes
in area that are supposed to be white, for example).
I think that the same variations in output occur in
making LEDs, so the panel makers will have the
same color convergence issues. Only, on the LED
display, there won't be that neat "degauss" button
to make the picture go wonky.
The problem with LED displays is the reverse of the
problem for printing. In printing its tough to get
true black by combining cyan, magenta and yellow, so
they do 4-color printing, CMYK (K for black).
With LEDs, they want to do RGBW (W for white) to
get true whites, but the article doesn't say whether
they're doing three or four colors. Here's an
article on organic white LED:
Nature
"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing
something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize
that I am looking over your shoulders and say to
yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this",
well that would be enough immortality for me"
-- EW Dijkstra
What's the difference between this law and a law prohibiting possession of burglary tools? Here's a link to the Alaska statute. Its actually quite a similar law. The Biden amendment is closing a loophole which allows people to distribute tools to steal music, videos, or computer programs as long as they don't distribute the copyrighted material with it.
Yeah. What was that Moore guy thinking in 1965
when he forecasted chip density doubling every
18 months. That obviously couldn't last more
than a couple of years, could it?
Some predictions seem to work better than others.