I wish people would stop blaming the American public, and instead put the blame where it truly belongs. On the K5 Cabal! The K5abal, acting in concert with the Illuminati, have been working to undermine popular scientific advancement for several years now. The K5abal even has a front, the Collaborative Media Foundation, which is but a $30,000 pipedream to cover their tracks. Their true aim is a technocratic world, in which a sparse and well distributed elite band of misanthropic overlord regiments living on capes and near Kennebunkport (MORLOCKS) controls access to all innovation and technology. Their prevention of the exploration of space is only a means of appeasing the Deep Ones, the ancient gods that live on the dark side of the Moon, and want to keep mankind on Earth until they wake up in a few thousand years, because when they do, they'll be hungry.
Firstly, I would certainly hope that no one but the technologically advanced nations ever get their hands on this technology.
Secondly, against anyone but the technologically advanced nations, this technology isn't all that useful.
Consider that "bombing them back to the stone age" wasn't a great fall for the Afghani and Iraqi armies. They're much more used to living in caves, firing AK-47's, and getting from place to place by foot or mule than the US, UK and everyone else.
We're the ones with the stratofortresses, the smart bombs, and laptop and night-vision equipped infantry. Developing an eBomb is like H.G. Wells' Martians developing the Common Cold before invading Earth.
I'll believe it when I see it. And I'll really believe it, when I see that the EULA on the MS schemas remains open and unrestricted over the next few years.
You'd almost have a good argument, if you didn't have to punctuate your point with insult.
Thing is, there is quite a bit of difference between charging for support, and deliberately making the previous product obsolete to force a paid-for upgrade.
Red Hat, IBM and the rest, when selling commodity software, sell their "value added" product, not the essential base product. MS sells the base, and forces the upgrade path.
Linux can be run with a bit of blood, sweat and tears, without Red Hat's "value". Apache is free, while WebSphere is Apache + bugs. Eclipse is free, while WSAD is Eclipse + plug-ins + config effort. There's nothing that can be done, legally, to get in on the ground floor of Windows - 90% of desktops, as I'm sure you know, is why there's no "hook" or "value added" to entice the user.
All the distro companies, that add valuable "value" have every right to charge for it. Win, Office, and to a large degree IE, have the average customer by the short-hairs, and so MS exploits this situation to squeeze every dime of profit out of the ignorant. It may make perfect sense in Adam Smith's world, and works in the "real" one as well, but the ability to pro9fit certainly doesn't make it "right" or "fair".
But you go right ahead and insult me if it makes you feel good about yourself, troll.
The point is very much the denial of service. MS does deny service to force you to upgrade to their newest version. They've done it with Office all along. They do it with Windows, since patching and repatching makes the previous version so unstable that you have to upgrade to get any real work done. Most recently, they did it with Messenger.
It doesn't matter what the topic is, some loser asswipe AC always has to post some abuse drivel without actually considering the validity of the point being made. Grow up.
Yep! I reckon if I were Rumsfeld^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSmokey, I could stall Bandit's car on some train tracks, and be rid of him once and for all...
This is such a brilliant tool! Imagine, a One Party State, where "by the Will of God" all political and ideological opponents keep dying in unfortunate traffic accidents. Stalling in 80 MPH traffic in front of semis carrying highly flammable materials, for example.
"Hello! OnStar!... Yes Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Nader is approaching the intersection now, and so is the speeding armored car. Yes Mr. Ashcroft, I can do that. God bless America, Sir!"
In an age where all the best scenes of action movies are shown in the trailer, this is truly sad. Granted, they're still a year out, so they may not have cast the second rate actors that will have to provide the dialog that goes between the dark and barely visible effects, but still. Sad. It reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica ads that Sci-Fi Channel has been running for months now.
Yes, that form of the letter "H", crapily formatted to not look like one, due to the assumption that HTML "knows what you mean", is the perfect logo for incompetent and ignorant hacker wannabes!
I'm putting it im my sig lines and sig files right now, since, well, I'm not just the incompetent hacker club president, I'm also a client.
In order for a CCD camera to detect *heat* infared, you'd have to heat the thing up to the point where the metal would be pretty damn close to glowing
This isn't (entirely) true, but I agree with the point you're making. At least with my Kodak digicam, I can see the coil on my range turn red much sooner by eye than with the camera.
The IR transmitter on my PDA and TV remote, however, are a bright strobe to the camera.
Wait, so is Gator trying to claim damages resulting from the connotation of a word used to describe their product?
I'm not sure if this is political correctness gone too far, or brilliant marketting. Can a company actually sue for "emotional damages" due to being insulted?
It's a secret Visitor communication. Those dots look very like the alien language in "V", if you're quick enough to notice.
Which leads me to believe that they're not just a random blotch. Rather, I suppose it's easy enough to encode some sort of lot or batch number in those dots, to trace what version/release/theater is being leaked.
A couple of weeks ago, I had this unexpected knock on the door. Some chick was going door to door, selling magazine subscriptions.
My GF is a pushover for these people, for IRL and on the phone, and let her in. *duh* So I figured I'd take the opportunity to have some fun.
This girl was telling my GF about all the different magazines and whatever, and how if she sells the most she'll go to Hawaii on vacation as a prize, and send us a thank you postcard (I fail to understand this sales tactic - WTF is in it for ME?).
I offered her a drink, which she accepted. Lucky for her I'm not a Roofie fan. Anyway... I walked over to the front door, and making sure it was noticed, I locked the front door.
Then as she's going through her spiel, I sat across the livingroom from her and my GF, reached behind the couch, took out my katana, and proceeded to sharpen it. Long, steady, methodical strokes, all the while staring at this girl with absolutely no expression on my face.
She tried to ignore me, but after a while it was obvoius that she no longer cared if she went to Hawaii as much as if she would ever leave with all limbs still attached.
My GF managed to keep a straight face, and felt sorry enough for the girl that she actuallt bought a few magazines. Partly out of pity, and partly to keep her there longer, to see how much more of a blabbering idiot she would become.
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I don't have any pants with a plastic zipper. But, I suppose that if I became a medical tech or got into medical imaging technology and worked near MRI machines, I might have to.
I don't think getting the chip wet would pose a problem. Since it's ass based on induction, it could be sealed in a thin layer of plastic, even inside a $20 bill.
But, if on your way to work, you have to ford the Amazon, and got zapped by an electric eel, that might fry the RFID tags in your currency, and make you a counterfeiting suspect.
Man, if I had a $1 bill for each time THAT'S happened...
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The potential for this exists, certainly, but there is some positive precedent to the contrary.
When driving on a toll road that requires you to take a printed ticked when you enter the roadway, the time of your entry is stamped on the ticket.
Given the knowledge of the distance between when you entered and exited the toll road, and the time you entered and exited, it is a matter of simple artihmetic to figure out your average speed while on the road.
If this average speed is in excess of the posted limit(s), you were, obviously, speeding. Yet, when is the last time you got a ticket for this?
Certainly, the converse is also true, due to the cameras at intersections, that nail you if you enter the intersection on a red light, but still.
Speed enforcement on toll roads would be a trivial matter, and using the above technique would "strongly encourage" people to obey the speed limits, or at least frequent the rest areas on those toll roads, to waste some time. But, this isn't done.
If anything, RFID's, if they begin to be abused to a point of *inconveniencing the public* ( because, really, that's what makes people get off their ass to vote - inconvenience ) will quickly cause the laws to change.
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I wish people would stop blaming the American public, and instead put the blame where it truly belongs. On the K5 Cabal! The K5abal, acting in concert with the Illuminati, have been working to undermine popular scientific advancement for several years now. The K5abal even has a front, the Collaborative Media Foundation, which is but a $30,000 pipedream to cover their tracks. Their true aim is a technocratic world, in which a sparse and well distributed elite band of misanthropic overlord regiments living on capes and near Kennebunkport (MORLOCKS) controls access to all innovation and technology. Their prevention of the exploration of space is only a means of appeasing the Deep Ones, the ancient gods that live on the dark side of the Moon, and want to keep mankind on Earth until they wake up in a few thousand years, because when they do, they'll be hungry.
That is all. As you were.
Firstly, I would certainly hope that no one but the technologically advanced nations ever get their hands on this technology.
Secondly, against anyone but the technologically advanced nations, this technology isn't all that useful.
Consider that "bombing them back to the stone age" wasn't a great fall for the Afghani and Iraqi armies. They're much more used to living in caves, firing AK-47's, and getting from place to place by foot or mule than the US, UK and everyone else.
We're the ones with the stratofortresses, the smart bombs, and laptop and night-vision equipped infantry. Developing an eBomb is like H.G. Wells' Martians developing the Common Cold before invading Earth.
What's next? School policies dictating that you have to be "friends" with everyone?
Also known as "Embrace, and extend".
I'll believe it when I see it. And I'll really believe it, when I see that the EULA on the MS schemas remains open and unrestricted over the next few years.
Guantanamo-Disney?
You'd almost have a good argument, if you didn't have to punctuate your point with insult.
Thing is, there is quite a bit of difference between charging for support, and deliberately making the previous product obsolete to force a paid-for upgrade.
Red Hat, IBM and the rest, when selling commodity software, sell their "value added" product, not the essential base product. MS sells the base, and forces the upgrade path.
Linux can be run with a bit of blood, sweat and tears, without Red Hat's "value". Apache is free, while WebSphere is Apache + bugs. Eclipse is free, while WSAD is Eclipse + plug-ins + config effort. There's nothing that can be done, legally, to get in on the ground floor of Windows - 90% of desktops, as I'm sure you know, is why there's no "hook" or "value added" to entice the user.
All the distro companies, that add valuable "value" have every right to charge for it. Win, Office, and to a large degree IE, have the average customer by the short-hairs, and so MS exploits this situation to squeeze every dime of profit out of the ignorant. It may make perfect sense in Adam Smith's world, and works in the "real" one as well, but the ability to pro9fit certainly doesn't make it "right" or "fair".
But you go right ahead and insult me if it makes you feel good about yourself, troll.
Coward!
The point is very much the denial of service. MS does deny service to force you to upgrade to their newest version. They've done it with Office all along. They do it with Windows, since patching and repatching makes the previous version so unstable that you have to upgrade to get any real work done. Most recently, they did it with Messenger.
It doesn't matter what the topic is, some loser asswipe AC always has to post some abuse drivel without actually considering the validity of the point being made. Grow up.
And this is different from Microsoft's "embrace, extend, and necessitate upgrade" policy how, exactly?
This message was encrypted with quantum cryptography... I saw the key here, someplace, a minute ago, but I have no clue where it's gone.
Yep! I reckon if I were Rumsfeld^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSmokey, I could stall Bandit's car on some train tracks, and be rid of him once and for all...
This is such a brilliant tool! Imagine, a One Party State, where "by the Will of God" all political and ideological opponents keep dying in unfortunate traffic accidents. Stalling in 80 MPH traffic in front of semis carrying highly flammable materials, for example.
"Hello! OnStar!... Yes Mr. Ashcroft, Mr. Nader is approaching the intersection now, and so is the speeding armored car. Yes Mr. Ashcroft, I can do that. God bless America, Sir!"
Absolutely nothing to that trailer.
In an age where all the best scenes of action movies are shown in the trailer, this is truly sad. Granted, they're still a year out, so they may not have cast the second rate actors that will have to provide the dialog that goes between the dark and barely visible effects, but still. Sad. It reminds me of the Battlestar Galactica ads that Sci-Fi Channel has been running for months now.
It looks fine in Lynx, logged in on my VT-220 on serial port A on my SparcStation 10....
Whoa!!! Who the hell are YOU to talk about "incompetence"? Huh? What would YOU know about it??
One can only truly judge "incompetence" from the latest AOL/Netscape dial-up on WindowsME.
Yes, that form of the letter "H", crapily formatted to not look like one, due to the assumption that HTML "knows what you mean", is the perfect logo for incompetent and ignorant hacker wannabes!
I'm putting it im my sig lines and sig files right now, since, well, I'm not just the incompetent hacker club president, I'm also a client.
I thought that the theory that dinosaurs (and prehistoric life) were the source of oil had been debunked...
In order for a CCD camera to detect *heat* infared, you'd have to heat the thing up to the point where the metal would be pretty damn close to glowing
This isn't (entirely) true, but I agree with the point you're making. At least with my Kodak digicam, I can see the coil on my range turn red much sooner by eye than with the camera.
The IR transmitter on my PDA and TV remote, however, are a bright strobe to the camera.
So the RIAA has a precedent to lean on for snooping inside my computer?
Lovely.
Roughly the cost of a movie ticket. Coincidence?
Wait, so is Gator trying to claim damages resulting from the connotation of a word used to describe their product?
I'm not sure if this is political correctness gone too far, or brilliant marketting. Can a company actually sue for "emotional damages" due to being insulted?
Yo! Gator! Whaddap Nigga!?!?
Because there isn't a story there. This is a case of the system working as intended. No rights were violated here. There is no cause for outrage.
So, the PDA is dead, because Ericsson put one in a cell-phone? The reincarnation of the PDA should then be simple. Put a cell-phone in a PDA.
Oh wait... Treo's already done that.
It's a secret Visitor communication. Those dots look very like the alien language in "V", if you're quick enough to notice.
Which leads me to believe that they're not just a random blotch. Rather, I suppose it's easy enough to encode some sort of lot or batch number in those dots, to trace what version/release/theater is being leaked.
A couple of weeks ago, I had this unexpected knock on the door. Some chick was going door to door, selling magazine subscriptions.
My GF is a pushover for these people, for IRL and on the phone, and let her in. *duh* So I figured I'd take the opportunity to have some fun.
This girl was telling my GF about all the different magazines and whatever, and how if she sells the most she'll go to Hawaii on vacation as a prize, and send us a thank you postcard (I fail to understand this sales tactic - WTF is in it for ME?).
I offered her a drink, which she accepted. Lucky for her I'm not a Roofie fan. Anyway... I walked over to the front door, and making sure it was noticed, I locked the front door.
Then as she's going through her spiel, I sat across the livingroom from her and my GF, reached behind the couch, took out my katana, and proceeded to sharpen it. Long, steady, methodical strokes, all the while staring at this girl with absolutely no expression on my face.
She tried to ignore me, but after a while it was obvoius that she no longer cared if she went to Hawaii as much as if she would ever leave with all limbs still attached.
My GF managed to keep a straight face, and felt sorry enough for the girl that she actuallt bought a few magazines. Partly out of pity, and partly to keep her there longer, to see how much more of a blabbering idiot she would become.
I don't have any pants with a plastic zipper. But, I suppose that if I became a medical tech or got into medical imaging technology and worked near MRI machines, I might have to.
I don't think getting the chip wet would pose a problem. Since it's ass based on induction, it could be sealed in a thin layer of plastic, even inside a $20 bill.
But, if on your way to work, you have to ford the Amazon, and got zapped by an electric eel, that might fry the RFID tags in your currency, and make you a counterfeiting suspect.
Man, if I had a $1 bill for each time THAT'S happened...
The potential for this exists, certainly, but there is some positive precedent to the contrary.
When driving on a toll road that requires you to take a printed ticked when you enter the roadway, the time of your entry is stamped on the ticket.
Given the knowledge of the distance between when you entered and exited the toll road, and the time you entered and exited, it is a matter of simple artihmetic to figure out your average speed while on the road.
If this average speed is in excess of the posted limit(s), you were, obviously, speeding. Yet, when is the last time you got a ticket for this?
Certainly, the converse is also true, due to the cameras at intersections, that nail you if you enter the intersection on a red light, but still.
Speed enforcement on toll roads would be a trivial matter, and using the above technique would "strongly encourage" people to obey the speed limits, or at least frequent the rest areas on those toll roads, to waste some time. But, this isn't done.
If anything, RFID's, if they begin to be abused to a point of *inconveniencing the public* ( because, really, that's what makes people get off their ass to vote - inconvenience ) will quickly cause the laws to change.