They have the technology to follow me around from a satellite if they want, but why would they? They've got bigger fish to fry.
That's the point, with new technology they can fry all the fish. Traffic analysis, vacuum cleaner information gathering. Collect them all, and let the database sort them out.
Here's the kind of thing that could happen: Intellegence could find out that I've gotten copies made at BestCopy in Toronto (credit card) which was connected with Bin Laden, Bonk! My security risk karma gets a +1. So more automatic tests get run. Maybe I made a phone call to the next-door neighbour of a gun-runner, Bonk! I've mentioned gun-powder on Usenet, Bonk! I associate with the notorious Keith Henson, charged with threatening $cientology with weapons of mass-distruction, Bonk! And so it goes... Wider and wider searches that find possible and maybe connections.
The trouble with systems that collect everything is that there will be a temptation to automatically create profiles, and if it's not done right, some innocent person's security risk karma could max out -- and we're weakening the rules on innocent until proven guilty.
Sounds it sounds paranoid, but security agencies are paranoid by nature, and have to look at possibles and maybes.
If you want an excellent look at what a paranoid "knows everything" system would be like, the best I've read is Sam Hall by Poul Anderson. Hard to find short story, but well worth the search!
Luckly I paid cash at BestCopy so they'll never know... DOH!
And there's an empty socket beside the 2K RAM chip. Hmm. The board understands a bit of punctuation, takes power from an ISA slot, and converts from a RS-232 input. Speaks Computer Swedish.
Okay, it doesn't do great speech, but it made a dandy talking clock when hooked up to cron. "BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! The time is six o'clock!"
I'd use it for something, but ISA card slots are rare these days. I'd power up one of my horde of 486/66's to fit it, but that's too silly even for me.
Is it just me, or is this a solution still looking for a problem to solve?
More significantly, it has shown up as an application workspace paradigm that improved previously crappy MDI implementations in programs like Visual Studio and KDevelop.
The author has obviously not used Visual Studio in the last few years. Tiles, stacks, whatever you want. Microsoft changed direction on MDI back in 1996 or so.
Regelous explained that each creature is actually an artificial intelligence. Each one can see and hear what is around him and will respond to his environment, and other creatures in the area. Each creature is programmed with a range of behaviors which draw from a huge database of motion capture data. Atlanta-based Giant Studios' proprietary motion capture system was used for the huge database of motions that were needed to drive Massive. A motion blending engine within Massive is used to merge motions together.
The arches are built in glued pine, a process used in many of the stunning venues at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. The railing is in stainless steel and teak.
What I want to know is did they use those hex keys to assemble it, and can I get one in Ikea?
$cientology loves digital photos, and loves to edit them too! A couple of years ago they doctored photos of one of their events to fill in empty seats. Too bad the duplicated people were easy to spot, as was The Man With No Head.
Photo Lies
The Man With No Head was recently spotted in a photo of Co$'s Volunteer Ministers "helping out" at the WTC.
No head Take a good look at the shadows. What a bunch of ghouls!
That's one problem with digital photos, they're too easy to manipulate.
It's not all bad. Sure, the guy got screwed. The company got screwed and now they're threatening Mandrakesoft.
How did the company get screwed? It can hardly be "work for hire" if they never paid him. And since it's open source, they can still use the code.
It's been my experience that as soon as a company gets shifty with paycheques: bouncing, not paying on time with no notification or explaination, "the cheque is in the mail" and it isn't, etc, then it's time to prep-to-bail ASAP.(One trick for cheque-bouncers: Take it to their bank and try to get it certified. If it fails, wait until payday for the remaining employees and try again.)
LEGO really didn't care about other people making software for their product -- In fact, they seemed quite happy. Their only problem was over trademark because if they don't defend it, they lose it.
I'm surprised Sony didn't complain about the use of Aibo in some of the software. They've got him dead to copyrights of "backup" copies of Sony software. (If I was Sony, I'd review the business plan: Are they selling hardware, software, both?)
Slashdot Mirror
what "HAXOR Bin Ladin" could do with a few 'sploits of the control network and the entire morning rush-hour of flying cars?
Anti-matter! The Honda Zappelin.
It'd sure make car-crashes interesting!
I direct you to my message of Security Risk Karma Points about vacuum-cleaner sweeps.
[Lilly Tomlin]
"But Sir, we're the NSI. We just don't care!"
[/Lilly Tomlin]
Great, now they can install it on all computers, and when they find something, they can get an after-the-fact judicial oversight...
They have the technology to follow me around from a satellite if they want, but why would they? They've got bigger fish to fry.
... DOH!
That's the point, with new technology they can fry all the fish. Traffic analysis, vacuum cleaner information gathering. Collect them all, and let the database sort them out.
Here's the kind of thing that could happen: Intellegence could find out that I've gotten copies made at BestCopy in Toronto (credit card) which was connected with Bin Laden, Bonk! My security risk karma gets a +1. So more automatic tests get run. Maybe I made a phone call to the next-door neighbour of a gun-runner, Bonk! I've mentioned gun-powder on Usenet, Bonk! I associate with the notorious Keith Henson, charged with threatening $cientology with weapons of mass-distruction, Bonk! And so it goes... Wider and wider searches that find possible and maybe connections.
The trouble with systems that collect everything is that there will be a temptation to automatically create profiles, and if it's not done right, some innocent person's security risk karma could max out -- and we're weakening the rules on innocent until proven guilty.
Sounds it sounds paranoid, but security agencies are paranoid by nature, and have to look at possibles and maybes.
If you want an excellent look at what a paranoid "knows everything" system would be like, the best I've read is Sam Hall by Poul Anderson. Hard to find short story, but well worth the search!
Luckly I paid cash at BestCopy so they'll never know
Just imagine the rush-hour carnage!
Hell, just imagine the Friday night when the bars close carnage!
Even The Big Guy and Rusty snuck some stuff in, like the time Rusty was fighting the Legion Ex Machina and said "Looks like #2 just hit the fan".
:^)
I love things like that because both the adults and the kids can pretend that they didn't notice it.
So we've had a few heroes renamed. Are we going to lose any villans?
:^)
I have "I'm the evil midnight bomber what bombs at midnight! HAHAHA!" as my "You've got mail" sound. This causes talk.
Let's see. (I've got a board in front of me.)
CTS256AL2/P (40 pin CPU?)
SP0256A-AL2 (GI 28 pin thingy)
And there's an empty socket beside the 2K RAM chip. Hmm. The board understands a bit of punctuation, takes power from an ISA slot, and converts from a RS-232 input. Speaks Computer Swedish.
I've had a PC card (based on late '70's technology) for ages that does RS-232 to speech. (© 1986 B.G. Micro)
Okay, it doesn't do great speech, but it made a dandy talking clock when hooked up to cron. "BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! BONG! The time is six o'clock!"
I'd use it for something, but ISA card slots are rare these days. I'd power up one of my horde of 486/66's to fit it, but that's too silly even for me.
Is it just me, or is this a solution still looking for a problem to solve?
"slashdot archeologists" "civilizations vanished .. without a trace"
:^)
Um, are you talking about The Source, Compuserve, BIX and GEnie?
Is there corroboration of this event in any historical documents?
Yes, but the documents were written in Word 2000(BC) format and the Clay Millenium Copyright Act forbids decoding them.
Computer students get course to stop them acting like geeks
The horror! The horror!
...someone hasn't come out with "Venture Capitalism for Dummies" yet...
They can't deside to release that or "Aztec Human Sacrifice for Dummies" first, as they both cover much of the same ground.
Contracts themselves have no inate power
Maybe the contracts you sign! Mine generally involve blood and elder signs...
Meanwhile, back in Dunwich
You people who code in C don't realize that reading your code is almost like reading tape from a tape reader.
:^)
Actually, we read tape from the tape punch, but other than that, what's your point??
More significantly, it has shown up as an application workspace paradigm that improved previously crappy MDI implementations in programs like Visual Studio and KDevelop.
The author has obviously not used Visual Studio in the last few years. Tiles, stacks, whatever you want. Microsoft changed direction on MDI back in 1996 or so.
Regelous explained that each creature is actually an artificial intelligence. Each one can see and hear what is around him and will respond to his environment, and other creatures in the area. Each creature is programmed with a range of behaviors which draw from a huge database of motion capture data. Atlanta-based Giant Studios' proprietary motion capture system was used for the huge database of motions that were needed to drive Massive. A motion blending engine within Massive is used to merge motions together.
Imagine using that to run The Sims: Middle Earth.
Rene, you know that the SWTPc didn't have any switches. I don't think that love of your life, the Alpha Micro had them either.
Ron.
The arches are built in glued pine, a process used in many of the stunning venues at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. The railing is in stainless steel and teak.
What I want to know is did they use those hex keys to assemble it, and can I get one in Ikea?
$cientology loves digital photos, and loves to edit them too! A couple of years ago they doctored photos of one of their events to fill in empty seats. Too bad the duplicated people were easy to spot, as was The Man With No Head. Photo Lies
The Man With No Head was recently spotted in a photo of Co$'s Volunteer Ministers "helping out" at the WTC. No head Take a good look at the shadows. What a bunch of ghouls!
That's one problem with digital photos, they're too easy to manipulate.
Besides, these movies should be Open Source so that anyone can go in and fix the plot holes.
It's not all bad. Sure, the guy got screwed. The company got screwed and now they're threatening Mandrakesoft.
How did the company get screwed? It can hardly be "work for hire" if they never paid him. And since it's open source, they can still use the code.
It's been my experience that as soon as a company gets shifty with paycheques: bouncing, not paying on time with no notification or explaination, "the cheque is in the mail" and it isn't, etc, then it's time to prep-to-bail ASAP.(One trick for cheque-bouncers: Take it to their bank and try to get it certified. If it fails, wait until payday for the remaining employees and try again.)
LEGO really didn't care about other people making software for their product -- In fact, they seemed quite happy. Their only problem was over trademark because if they don't defend it, they lose it.
I'm surprised Sony didn't complain about the use of Aibo in some of the software. They've got him dead to copyrights of "backup" copies of Sony software. (If I was Sony, I'd review the business plan: Are they selling hardware, software, both?)
Too tired to of other points, shutting down...