"KOffice is confusingly similar to Microsoft Office".
Cmon, guys. I mean, we may agree amongst ourselves that such things are BS, but why keep setting yourselves up for them? Call it KFooBar if you have to, but at least TRY to protect yourselves from lawsuits... sheesh...
It may make no sense that people can "take" a name and not let anyone else use it, but in this case MS has the muscle to enforce ownership of "Office".
...is not how IPv6 will deal with the increased addressing range, but how it will handle issues of security, and more importantly, WHO will control that security and will the specifications be OPEN?
The internet as it stands suffers because it is trust-based and there are all too many willing to abuse that trust. Many untrusting-internet ideas have been flown, and most of them involve more identity checking and awareness of the originators of packets. Would this "new" internet (I hate to use such an overused term but it seems appropriate) - would this "new" internet retain any opportunities for anonymity (and thus more secure freedom of speech), or will it be a case of "let's crack down on anonymity online because anyone who doesn't want the totally benign government to know who he is must be a terrorist or a child molestor! Why do you want to be anonymous, do you have something to HIDE?"
A lot can be done towards preventing the latter if the specs for any new internet communications protocols being open or hopefully even GPL'd. Is this likely?
This is their opportunity. Japan is an aggressive and critical market for console gaming. While the X-Box is delayed, if Nintendo got something to market they could do really well. Pity it seems everyone in the console industry has gone belly-up and decided to just LET Microsoft win without a fight. =(
'Dirk steps away from SuSE to pursue his personal and professional interests.' It goes on to say that 'His departure from SuSE comes at a time when SuSE gathers its forces and resources to strengthen SuSE as a business positioning itself to lead the world towards what is the most powerful and acknowledged alternative to the dominance of one proprietary operating system.'"
(sigh) When an Open Source company starts speaking in corporatese, it's time to say goodbye. Was nice knowing ya SuSe, I guess the ride's over.
This one reminded me of a Dilbert strip:
"I'd like to dialogue with you about utilizing resources..."
365.24 days per year (from Space.com. I don't know of any more accurate (more decimal places) numbers than this. Even if you were to add 5 whole days to the year though, it won't even add one one-hundredth of a second to the final result, so I think we can go with this).
99.9999999% of 365.24 = 365.23999963476
365.24 - 365.23999963476 = 0.00000036524 days
This is the maximum allowed downtime.
Assuming a day is exactly 24 hours long (I'm fairly sure it is),
0.00000036524 days = 0.00000876576 hours
0.00000876576 hours = 0.0005259456 minutes
0.0005259456 minutes = 0.031556736 seconds.
Thus, 99.9999999% percent uptime requires NO MORE than ~0.0315, that's three hundredTHs of one second, downtime, per year.
Nope, don't think we're there yet, but you keep pushing that 99.9999999 number if it makes you look good. After all, the general public can't do math either... =)
-Kasreyn
Here's the line that scared me:
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"...In June Felten sued the recording industry, asking for immunity from prosecution, and in turn representatives of the industry said they never intended to sue Felten."
Reread this. He asked a group of corporations for "immunity from prosecution". Basically, they are treated like a government now. Think on this awhile: We seem to have two governments at the moment, one which is by the people and for the people, and one which is by the CEO's and for the CEO's. The latter seems to be devouring the former.
...because along with the hundreds of peaceful protestors waving anti-DMCA signs and singing anti-DMCA filk, there will be 12 cretins throwing rocks at the police. The media will arrive, get the rock throwers and their gassing/arrest on tape, and then call it a day. Joe Schmoe in Albequerque will turn on the TV that day and "learn" that the protests in San Jose were another bunch of hundreds of brutal anarchists throwing stones at the police. What a shame, he'll think, and change the channel.
I thought everyone was making such a fuss because one could sniff the timing on the SSH session password. Any other passwords you send while connected would seem likely to be more secure to me, since an interceptor would have to first figure out which part was a password, and which part was just text and command line entries entered during the session. ("Hey, I've got it!! His password's 'pine-iqylogout'!!") =P
"Their second weakness is that in an interactive mode, each keystroke that a user types is sent to a remote machine in separate IP packets immediately after the key is pressed. According to the researchers, this leaks the inter-keystroke timing information of the users' typing."
(from the Securityfocus article)
I see how packet capturing could lead to a vulnerability in this. What I *don't* see, is why in the HELL anyone would want to send each letter of the password in a single packet!! I don't see any security benefit to it, and it would seem to make cracking the password slightly easier. It would seem that sending your entire password in one chunk would be more secure.
(which I think is forgery, and should be treated as such)
Strange. When slashdotters insert "NOSPAM" in their email addresses, making them incorrect and misleading, it's fine. And when the government proposes systems to track everyone online, the/. crowd erupts in a furor of activity, denouncing it as tyrannical. Yet, when spammers spoof their email addresses to avoid backlash of outraged netters too dumb to view the real headers and do a whois, (ab)using the very same online anonymity, it's suddenly "forgery".
Pfft, yeah, whatever. Let's start making some sense now Rob, hmmm?
"Your honor, the state would like to submit the following item, exhibit a. It is a recording of the defendant's session with the police officers wherein he confessed to the crime he is now pleading guilty to...
As you can all hear, this is clearly the voice of the man sitting in this courtroom today, ladies and gentlemen..."
Or, put less narratively, what would such "voice-duplicating" technology do in the area of criminal (judicial) evidence? Will there be new tests required, to find anomalies in recording to make sure they weren't faked? Or will there just be a new way of breaking the system, used like any other card, just like buying an "expert" is used today? Would this technology offer greater fidelity and accuracy of reproduction over, say, voice impersonators (people), or programs that might patch together fragments of speech?
The only real danger is that the courts not realize this in time, and take sufficient precautions to prevent audio evidence from becoming completely subvertible.
-Kasreyn
Conquer Britain first and then use THEIR cows. They all have either Mad Cow disease or Hoof & Mouth, so either way it works out. The ones without one of those can be infected with anthrax. THEN drop the cows - you can knock out 10 city blocks AND have a nice, wide dispersion of plague-spewing cattleflesh while you're at it.;-)
Cause, my friend? Here's cause for you: Blizzard are the biggest jackasses in gaming history. There's cause for you.
Their goal is to have new people buy the game, and keep *juuust* on this side of pissing the rest off enough to quit. That is to say, to do as little work as they can get away with. Dedicated and industrious, they are not.
Oh and btw, I've had a great chuckle from the D2SF forums, laughing at all the whiners. I shall now take a refreshing and utterly selfish moment for a little I-told-you-so: I predicted in detail that this sort of thing would happen, well over a month before D2 was even released. This is not news. If you don't want to lose your stupid little items, DON'T PLAY FUCKING REALMS. It's as simple as that.
"Regardless, despite all the depression and pessimism by the small companies looking to make a buck off the music revolution, the end user hasn't had it better, and there's still places to innovate independently as long as you're not trying to get rich quick."
The COMMERCIAL Music revolution, IS over. Some companies rebelled, and decided to try new business models with music distribution. The RIAA, head firmly buried in the sand, crushed them and won that war, deciding that music *companies* would remain in the past. All this means is that companies will stop trying to turn a profit off the "magic" of mp3's. All this means is that the myth that Napster was something amazing, and Fanning had some secret business savvy, has been exploded for the bullshit it was. Music listeners remain determined to move into the future.
The only way to stop the eventual changeover to free replication of audio files (and e-texts, and we can already see the publishers tooling up for THAT war...), the only way to stop this replication technology is to utterly destroy it or utterly control it. Destroying it is out of the question at this late stage (if it was ever possible), and completely controlling it? That's the music industry's new goal. They've realized finally that they can't destroy it. From now on, or at least until we nuke ourselves into the Stone Age, there will always be the potential for free replication technology, making scarcity an obsolete business model for all things replicatible! So, with content protection schemes and watermarks, they will try to control it. They will enforce scarcity. Then I'm sure they have some half-assed scheme of embracing and extending, MS-style, to stamp out the "promiscuous" audio formats that let anyone copy them. I'm sure they intend to do this by convincing the unwashed masses that their formats have better sound, or are smaller, or whatnot.
The only revolution that has ended, was a small revolt by some companies who had other plans. They've been duly squashed, and now the RIAA et al are moving ahead with their plans with new determination. Fortunately, we still have the nice folks working on Ogg Vorbis. =)
...is why, if they supposedly soft-landed (the article states this guy's idea that they managed a soft landing and then the tide swept the ship out), then why did they die?
They vanished in '37. Brits discovered bones and no live humans in '40. Is the island nothing but rock and sand, with no food? But the space.com article babbles on about GPS helping so they won't have to hack through teeming jungles with machetes, apparently. Was there no food to be found in all that jungle?
Either they were mortally injured in the crash, or injured such that they could not gather food, or they died by some other accident ("I ated the purple berries!"), or the island had no food on it, or (as is more likely) they died because there was no fresh water (but how could there be jungle without some fresh water?), or it's a sunken Zero from WW2, or (as is most likely), some nut is reading a bit too much into two off-color pixels in a satellite image.
No reviews means
Customers are not informed means
Customers do not know how bad it blows means
Customers see it in store and it looks cool means
Customers buy it!
...and then find out LATER. My best friend wasted $35 on this thing cause of all the hype and MAN is he pissed. I wonder if there's any possibility that FunCom has violated truth in advertising, if only the spirit and not the letter...?
I'm an old school trekkie, but I'm a bit illogical about what I consider canon. Basically, if it's one of the official ST novels, it's canon. But if it's stupid, silly, or runs counter to Gene's vision of ST ("Spock's Brain", some TNG episodes, pretty much all of Voyager starting at Season 2), then it's explained away with "alternate universe" and is not canon.
Either way, Ford had a far more interesting take on the ST world. I much prefer his Klingons to the ones we finally wound up with. After all, they ARE a SPACEFARING RACE. The folks who developed them for TNG and onwards seem to not realize this fact. Yes, it's "cool" to make Klingons stupid and gutteral and disgusting. But they figured out space travel on their own! I think they are worthy of the respect Ford treats them with. =) To my imagination at least, his take is the correct one. That is to say, I think if Gene had an equal sample of Berman and Ford in the same medium, and had to choose, I think Gene would pick Ford for creative talent. =)
Thanks for reminding me of the Constitution/stellation (I can NEVER remember which is the class and which is the ship!) and the Republic. I guess I'll need to reconsider my theory!
Is that a Hanes cotton T-shirt our Enterprise Captain is wearing? =P
Bah, this is ridiculous. Even though the older Enterprise is properly designed (it looks like a design ancestor of the Reliant, which was an older ship than the Original-Series Enterprise). I don't like the "NX-01" designation. Enterprise's 1701 has always made me curious. I believe the numbering system must be as follows, first two digits indicate class of ship it is a part of (all the Enterprises have been in the heavy cruiser class) - that is, heavy cruisers (in TOS, the "Constellation Class") must start with 17. Then it is number 01 of that series (which may start with 00 for all we know, maybe the Lexington). Of course, this is ALL out of my ass and I don't know the truth of it. I would, however, suggest that the NX designator is generally used for experimental or prototype ships (Excelsior: NX-2000), not for standard ships of the line. Of course, at this early date, the Enterprise may well be experimental!
All I can say is, it will take a LOT of cunning and creativity to do this right. Think about it - they have to bring it into date with modern special effects, BUT they also have to make it look more primitive than the Original Series, shot in 1966-68!! I personally don't think "Enterprise" will have enough design talent on board to accomplish this feat. For instance, I expect to see transporters, even though it is established ST universe canon that they were not around at Kirk's time! Read John M. Ford's excellent novel, "The Final Reflection", which was set "a couple years before he (Kirk) was born" (quote). It was at this time the transporters were declared safe to use for the first time in the Federation, though the Klingons had them first. However, we're probably going to see the Enterprise crew beaming everywhere, probably with a transporter that works as nicely as ST:TNG's one. Oh well.
If you're talking about the novel Q Squared, which is the only place you might get such a fallacy. Trelane could hardly be the first Q, since his two parents were also Q's!
The Q's have been around before man, this was I think explicitly stated in a ST:TNG episode but I can't remember which. Either way, John De Lancie rules.
Why do schoolyard bullies put a nerd's head in the toilet? They don't get anything for it. It doesn't make them any money, it can't improve their lot in life, it teaches them nothing so it's not even a learning experience.
Frankly, they do it because they ENJOY DOING IT. They get a cruel (I would say sick but sick is a hard word to apply to something practised by the vast majority of the human race), a cruel thrill off of beating up someone weaker than they. And then the tortured nerd goes home. And then he either torments pets, or he goes on the net and DDoS's some perfectly cool site. Because he has learned to be a bully, by example and by reaction to his own treatment.
Why not DDoS Microshaft or whatever, while he's at it? Because he does not have any sort of economic or political goal for this attack. He's not doing it for that reason. He's doing it to piss off as MANY people as possible. DDoS'ing Microsoft pleases too many people, so he could care less about doing it. What better way to piss off a whole bunch of netters than attacking their community where it hurts?
...this would be a great reason to sue the company to fucking smithereens, but unfortunately it has probably already folded so one couldn't collect anything.
Oh well... one can always visit the homes of its boardmembers with a cigar-cutter, mafia-style, and make yourself a nice necklace of fingers... just a thought, don't blame me if someone really DOES it... =P
Slashdot Mirror
"KOffice is confusingly similar to Microsoft Office".
Cmon, guys. I mean, we may agree amongst ourselves that such things are BS, but why keep setting yourselves up for them? Call it KFooBar if you have to, but at least TRY to protect yourselves from lawsuits... sheesh...
It may make no sense that people can "take" a name and not let anyone else use it, but in this case MS has the muscle to enforce ownership of "Office".
-Kasreyn
...is not how IPv6 will deal with the increased addressing range, but how it will handle issues of security, and more importantly, WHO will control that security and will the specifications be OPEN?
The internet as it stands suffers because it is trust-based and there are all too many willing to abuse that trust. Many untrusting-internet ideas have been flown, and most of them involve more identity checking and awareness of the originators of packets. Would this "new" internet (I hate to use such an overused term but it seems appropriate) - would this "new" internet retain any opportunities for anonymity (and thus more secure freedom of speech), or will it be a case of "let's crack down on anonymity online because anyone who doesn't want the totally benign government to know who he is must be a terrorist or a child molestor! Why do you want to be anonymous, do you have something to HIDE?"
A lot can be done towards preventing the latter if the specs for any new internet communications protocols being open or hopefully even GPL'd. Is this likely?
-Kasreyn
...and smell the maple nut crunch.
This is their opportunity. Japan is an aggressive and critical market for console gaming. While the X-Box is delayed, if Nintendo got something to market they could do really well. Pity it seems everyone in the console industry has gone belly-up and decided to just LET Microsoft win without a fight. =(
-Kasreyn
'Dirk steps away from SuSE to pursue his personal and professional interests.' It goes on to say that 'His departure from SuSE comes at a time when SuSE gathers its forces and resources to strengthen SuSE as a business positioning itself to lead the world towards what is the most powerful and acknowledged alternative to the dominance of one proprietary operating system.'"
(sigh) When an Open Source company starts speaking in corporatese, it's time to say goodbye. Was nice knowing ya SuSe, I guess the ride's over.
This one reminded me of a Dilbert strip:
"I'd like to dialogue with you about utilizing resources..."
Disgusting.
-Kasreyn
I thought they meant 7 nines after the decimal place. =P
Hehe.
-Kasreyn
Let's get out our calculators, class...
365.24 days per year (from Space.com. I don't know of any more accurate (more decimal places) numbers than this. Even if you were to add 5 whole days to the year though, it won't even add one one-hundredth of a second to the final result, so I think we can go with this).
99.9999999% of 365.24 = 365.23999963476
365.24 - 365.23999963476 = 0.00000036524 days
This is the maximum allowed downtime.
Assuming a day is exactly 24 hours long (I'm fairly sure it is),
0.00000036524 days = 0.00000876576 hours
0.00000876576 hours = 0.0005259456 minutes
0.0005259456 minutes = 0.031556736 seconds.
Thus, 99.9999999% percent uptime requires NO MORE than ~0.0315, that's three hundredTHs of one second, downtime, per year.
Nope, don't think we're there yet, but you keep pushing that 99.9999999 number if it makes you look good. After all, the general public can't do math either... =)
-Kasreyn
"...In June Felten sued the recording industry, asking for immunity from prosecution, and in turn representatives of the industry said they never intended to sue Felten."
Reread this. He asked a group of corporations for "immunity from prosecution". Basically, they are treated like a government now. Think on this awhile: We seem to have two governments at the moment, one which is by the people and for the people, and one which is by the CEO's and for the CEO's. The latter seems to be devouring the former.
But what happens if we have a civil war...?
-Kasryn
...because along with the hundreds of peaceful protestors waving anti-DMCA signs and singing anti-DMCA filk, there will be 12 cretins throwing rocks at the police. The media will arrive, get the rock throwers and their gassing/arrest on tape, and then call it a day. Joe Schmoe in Albequerque will turn on the TV that day and "learn" that the protests in San Jose were another bunch of hundreds of brutal anarchists throwing stones at the police. What a shame, he'll think, and change the channel.
Publicity? Bah. Good luck.
-Kasreyn
I thought everyone was making such a fuss because one could sniff the timing on the SSH session password. Any other passwords you send while connected would seem likely to be more secure to me, since an interceptor would have to first figure out which part was a password, and which part was just text and command line entries entered during the session. ("Hey, I've got it!! His password's 'pine-iqylogout'!!") =P
-Kasreyn
(from the Securityfocus article)
I see how packet capturing could lead to a vulnerability in this. What I *don't* see, is why in the HELL anyone would want to send each letter of the password in a single packet!! I don't see any security benefit to it, and it would seem to make cracking the password slightly easier. It would seem that sending your entire password in one chunk would be more secure.
Can anyone explain to me WHY ssh would do this?
-Kasreyn
What possible connection could there be between the Mahatma and a bunch of kids downloading free music?
One was willing to fight, suffer, starve, and die for his beliefs. The others are just opportunists.
Find a better metaphor, eh?
-Kasreyn
(which I think is forgery, and should be treated as such)
/. crowd erupts in a furor of activity, denouncing it as tyrannical. Yet, when spammers spoof their email addresses to avoid backlash of outraged netters too dumb to view the real headers and do a whois, (ab)using the very same online anonymity, it's suddenly "forgery".
Strange. When slashdotters insert "NOSPAM" in their email addresses, making them incorrect and misleading, it's fine. And when the government proposes systems to track everyone online, the
Pfft, yeah, whatever. Let's start making some sense now Rob, hmmm?
-Kasreyn
"Your honor, the state would like to submit the following item, exhibit a. It is a recording of the defendant's session with the police officers wherein he confessed to the crime he is now pleading guilty to... As you can all hear, this is clearly the voice of the man sitting in this courtroom today, ladies and gentlemen..." Or, put less narratively, what would such "voice-duplicating" technology do in the area of criminal (judicial) evidence? Will there be new tests required, to find anomalies in recording to make sure they weren't faked? Or will there just be a new way of breaking the system, used like any other card, just like buying an "expert" is used today? Would this technology offer greater fidelity and accuracy of reproduction over, say, voice impersonators (people), or programs that might patch together fragments of speech? The only real danger is that the courts not realize this in time, and take sufficient precautions to prevent audio evidence from becoming completely subvertible. -Kasreyn
Conquer Britain first and then use THEIR cows. They all have either Mad Cow disease or Hoof & Mouth, so either way it works out. The ones without one of those can be infected with anthrax. THEN drop the cows - you can knock out 10 city blocks AND have a nice, wide dispersion of plague-spewing cattleflesh while you're at it. ;-)
-Kasreyn
Cause, my friend? Here's cause for you: Blizzard are the biggest jackasses in gaming history. There's cause for you.
Their goal is to have new people buy the game, and keep *juuust* on this side of pissing the rest off enough to quit. That is to say, to do as little work as they can get away with. Dedicated and industrious, they are not.
Oh and btw, I've had a great chuckle from the D2SF forums, laughing at all the whiners. I shall now take a refreshing and utterly selfish moment for a little I-told-you-so: I predicted in detail that this sort of thing would happen, well over a month before D2 was even released. This is not news. If you don't want to lose your stupid little items, DON'T PLAY FUCKING REALMS. It's as simple as that.
-Kasreyn
"Regardless, despite all the depression and pessimism by the small companies looking to make a buck off the music revolution, the end user hasn't had it better, and there's still places to innovate independently as long as you're not trying to get rich quick."
The COMMERCIAL Music revolution, IS over. Some companies rebelled, and decided to try new business models with music distribution. The RIAA, head firmly buried in the sand, crushed them and won that war, deciding that music *companies* would remain in the past. All this means is that companies will stop trying to turn a profit off the "magic" of mp3's. All this means is that the myth that Napster was something amazing, and Fanning had some secret business savvy, has been exploded for the bullshit it was. Music listeners remain determined to move into the future.
The only way to stop the eventual changeover to free replication of audio files (and e-texts, and we can already see the publishers tooling up for THAT war...), the only way to stop this replication technology is to utterly destroy it or utterly control it. Destroying it is out of the question at this late stage (if it was ever possible), and completely controlling it? That's the music industry's new goal. They've realized finally that they can't destroy it. From now on, or at least until we nuke ourselves into the Stone Age, there will always be the potential for free replication technology, making scarcity an obsolete business model for all things replicatible! So, with content protection schemes and watermarks, they will try to control it. They will enforce scarcity. Then I'm sure they have some half-assed scheme of embracing and extending, MS-style, to stamp out the "promiscuous" audio formats that let anyone copy them. I'm sure they intend to do this by convincing the unwashed masses that their formats have better sound, or are smaller, or whatnot.
The only revolution that has ended, was a small revolt by some companies who had other plans. They've been duly squashed, and now the RIAA et al are moving ahead with their plans with new determination. Fortunately, we still have the nice folks working on Ogg Vorbis. =)
-Kasreyn
This is Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters.
Not RMSdot: Linux for Everyone, Microsoft Sucks.
...no matter how much it looks like it at times. =P
-Kasreyn
...is why, if they supposedly soft-landed (the article states this guy's idea that they managed a soft landing and then the tide swept the ship out), then why did they die?
They vanished in '37. Brits discovered bones and no live humans in '40. Is the island nothing but rock and sand, with no food? But the space.com article babbles on about GPS helping so they won't have to hack through teeming jungles with machetes, apparently. Was there no food to be found in all that jungle?
Either they were mortally injured in the crash, or injured such that they could not gather food, or they died by some other accident ("I ated the purple berries!"), or the island had no food on it, or (as is more likely) they died because there was no fresh water (but how could there be jungle without some fresh water?), or it's a sunken Zero from WW2, or (as is most likely), some nut is reading a bit too much into two off-color pixels in a satellite image.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
-Kasreyn
They're not exactly stupid.
No reviews means
Customers are not informed means
Customers do not know how bad it blows means
Customers see it in store and it looks cool means
Customers buy it!
...and then find out LATER. My best friend wasted $35 on this thing cause of all the hype and MAN is he pissed. I wonder if there's any possibility that FunCom has violated truth in advertising, if only the spirit and not the letter...?
-Kasreyn
I'm an old school trekkie, but I'm a bit illogical about what I consider canon. Basically, if it's one of the official ST novels, it's canon. But if it's stupid, silly, or runs counter to Gene's vision of ST ("Spock's Brain", some TNG episodes, pretty much all of Voyager starting at Season 2), then it's explained away with "alternate universe" and is not canon.
Either way, Ford had a far more interesting take on the ST world. I much prefer his Klingons to the ones we finally wound up with. After all, they ARE a SPACEFARING RACE. The folks who developed them for TNG and onwards seem to not realize this fact. Yes, it's "cool" to make Klingons stupid and gutteral and disgusting. But they figured out space travel on their own! I think they are worthy of the respect Ford treats them with. =) To my imagination at least, his take is the correct one. That is to say, I think if Gene had an equal sample of Berman and Ford in the same medium, and had to choose, I think Gene would pick Ford for creative talent. =)
Thanks for reminding me of the Constitution/stellation (I can NEVER remember which is the class and which is the ship!) and the Republic. I guess I'll need to reconsider my theory!
Cheers,
Kasreyn
http://www.section31.com/protected-images/et-tease -1.jpg
Is that a Hanes cotton T-shirt our Enterprise Captain is wearing? =P
Bah, this is ridiculous. Even though the older Enterprise is properly designed (it looks like a design ancestor of the Reliant, which was an older ship than the Original-Series Enterprise). I don't like the "NX-01" designation. Enterprise's 1701 has always made me curious. I believe the numbering system must be as follows, first two digits indicate class of ship it is a part of (all the Enterprises have been in the heavy cruiser class) - that is, heavy cruisers (in TOS, the "Constellation Class") must start with 17. Then it is number 01 of that series (which may start with 00 for all we know, maybe the Lexington). Of course, this is ALL out of my ass and I don't know the truth of it. I would, however, suggest that the NX designator is generally used for experimental or prototype ships (Excelsior: NX-2000), not for standard ships of the line. Of course, at this early date, the Enterprise may well be experimental!
All I can say is, it will take a LOT of cunning and creativity to do this right. Think about it - they have to bring it into date with modern special effects, BUT they also have to make it look more primitive than the Original Series, shot in 1966-68!! I personally don't think "Enterprise" will have enough design talent on board to accomplish this feat. For instance, I expect to see transporters, even though it is established ST universe canon that they were not around at Kirk's time! Read John M. Ford's excellent novel, "The Final Reflection", which was set "a couple years before he (Kirk) was born" (quote). It was at this time the transporters were declared safe to use for the first time in the Federation, though the Klingons had them first. However, we're probably going to see the Enterprise crew beaming everywhere, probably with a transporter that works as nicely as ST:TNG's one. Oh well.
-Kasreyn
If you're talking about the novel Q Squared, which is the only place you might get such a fallacy. Trelane could hardly be the first Q, since his two parents were also Q's!
The Q's have been around before man, this was I think explicitly stated in a ST:TNG episode but I can't remember which. Either way, John De Lancie rules.
-Kasreyn
Why do schoolyard bullies put a nerd's head in the toilet? They don't get anything for it. It doesn't make them any money, it can't improve their lot in life, it teaches them nothing so it's not even a learning experience.
Frankly, they do it because they ENJOY DOING IT. They get a cruel (I would say sick but sick is a hard word to apply to something practised by the vast majority of the human race), a cruel thrill off of beating up someone weaker than they. And then the tortured nerd goes home. And then he either torments pets, or he goes on the net and DDoS's some perfectly cool site. Because he has learned to be a bully, by example and by reaction to his own treatment.
Why not DDoS Microshaft or whatever, while he's at it? Because he does not have any sort of economic or political goal for this attack. He's not doing it for that reason. He's doing it to piss off as MANY people as possible. DDoS'ing Microsoft pleases too many people, so he could care less about doing it. What better way to piss off a whole bunch of netters than attacking their community where it hurts?
-Kasreyn
Now whatever gave me the notion it was a private company?
Thanks for reducing my ignorance, a favor I am always grateful for. =)
-Kasreyn
P.S. the mafia thing was totally in jest, for anyone who read it while under the influence of no sense of humor.
...this would be a great reason to sue the company to fucking smithereens, but unfortunately it has probably already folded so one couldn't collect anything.
Oh well... one can always visit the homes of its boardmembers with a cigar-cutter, mafia-style, and make yourself a nice necklace of fingers... just a thought, don't blame me if someone really DOES it... =P
-Kasreyn