All these various projects gearing up is excellent, hopefully with one successfully taking the prize. (I only hope the rest don't just pack it in when one team wins.) Woohoo!
s/explain/added/:^) It was never explained what kept the shadow square ring in place, but since they can open and close, possibly solar wind. (Firing the weapon against closed shadow squares would work, but seems.. overkill.)
Green was one of Sun's key witnesses, arguing that Microsoft tried to undermine Java by shipping an incompatible version of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
More like they were trying to undermine Windows with the exploit-magnet that is the MS JVM. Go to a web site, get owned, oh well. How lame is that?
Yes, I can't believe that CRIA walked into that court with NO proof that people were downloading the files, NO groundwork to show how they tracked it back to a given IP address/datetime, NO adjustment for the recent photocopier case, NO plan to cope with bad PR from mis-tracking grannies and kids in the states, NO understanding of Canada's different rules.
The judge should have asked if their mommies knew where they were.
I doubt that the CRIA (RIAA sock-puppets) will learn, and rather than trying better in the next round in court, they'll just try to buy/bully/beg for a law change.
People who run other Internet cafes would be able to tell you far better, but I believe there are packages that let you scub and reload a known Windows configuration after each user (or at least at the end of the day).
Certainly a configuration that doesn't allow users admin rights and locks everything down would be good, but I don't trust Windows to be secure in a rough environment like that. (Or any environment. I just installed Win XP Pro on a box, locked everything that I could remember. Forgot to ditch the idiot MS Java VM. D'OH!)
Are those USB drives solid state? (/me imagines little platters spinning at a jillion RPM coming apart in his stomach like the implanted nanobots in Diamond Age...)
That might not work with microbe DNA. With larger lifeforms, the mitochondrial DNA only gets passed down from the mother without sex to stir the mix, so it's possible to measure the copy-errors over time.
If it's a single-celled beastie, it might not have mitochondria, but on the other hand, might not have sex. (Poor thing.)
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It might be flawed, but as I said, it's been done before. An adult BBS was reemed by a bunch that set up a download in a place with neolithic local standards, got a kid to hit return to start the download, then charged the BBS (thousands of miles away) by their local laws. (It might have been Rusty'n'Eddy's BBS, it was a long time ago, and I'm too lazy, so I'll outsource the actual Googling.:^)
TANSTAAFL. I don't block ads unless they try stupid tricks, there's privacy tracking issues, or they're really annoying. If they pay some of the bills of the sites I visit (like Slashdot), fine. If they're actually of interest, bonus. My brain has years of training in tuning out advertising.
Your suggestion would only work with honest people. Easy enough to make a browser that claimed to want advertising, even fetching the ads, running scripts, but never actually displaying anything on the screen. Short of a full DRM lock-down, business models that depend on forcing ads are fscked from the start.
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All these various projects gearing up is excellent, hopefully with one successfully taking the prize. (I only hope the rest don't just pack it in when one team wins.) Woohoo!
Usually random salting is just a big "HEY LOOK, THIS IS SPAM!" sign. The rare email that I get with HTML can be white-listed.
If Louis and Teela do the arm-wavy thing at the front of the ship, I am so out of there!
Don't forget the sci-fi classic Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
That was an adaptation of Larry Niven's Known Space story Soft Weapon. Spock playing a Puppeteer, hmm.
s/explain/added/ :^) It was never explained what kept the shadow square ring in place, but since they can open and close, possibly solar wind. (Firing the weapon against closed shadow squares would work, but seems .. overkill.)
Cutting off Jar-Jar's head with shadow-square wire works for me.
Did they ever test it for the rumoured .. relaxing .. effect on certain rear muscles at 11 cycles or so?
For listening to Disaster Area, that's not a woofer, that's an ear-pod.
Plenty of goats too...
Typo, s/stream/steam/, but XYZZY works too. :^)
Guy: Hey, they goofed! This just shows a stream grate. Where's my apartment?
Newsie: That's next month's issue, just came in.
Guy: Uh-oh.
What, with a goat, a melon, and several virgins every week?!? Oh, wait. What's your religion?
B5 was arguably science-fiction rather than skiffy.
Why not just remake Blake's 7? (evil laugh]
The judge should have asked if their mommies knew where they were.
I doubt that the CRIA (RIAA sock-puppets) will learn, and rather than trying better in the next round in court, they'll just try to buy/bully/beg for a law change.
Certainly a configuration that doesn't allow users admin rights and locks everything down would be good, but I don't trust Windows to be secure in a rough environment like that. (Or any environment. I just installed Win XP Pro on a box, locked everything that I could remember. Forgot to ditch the idiot MS Java VM. D'OH!)
Are those USB drives solid state? (/me imagines little platters spinning at a jillion RPM coming apart in his stomach like the implanted nanobots in Diamond Age...)
A USB drive isn't very filling. He should have had the platter. A 14" drive platter that is...
If it's a single-celled beastie, it might not have mitochondria, but on the other hand, might not have sex. (Poor thing.)
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It might be flawed, but as I said, it's been done before. An adult BBS was reemed by a bunch that set up a download in a place with neolithic local standards, got a kid to hit return to start the download, then charged the BBS (thousands of miles away) by their local laws. (It might have been Rusty'n'Eddy's BBS, it was a long time ago, and I'm too lazy, so I'll outsource the actual Googling. :^)
Your suggestion would only work with honest people. Easy enough to make a browser that claimed to want advertising, even fetching the ads, running scripts, but never actually displaying anything on the screen. Short of a full DRM lock-down, business models that depend on forcing ads are fscked from the start.