The KS girls wear a leotard embedded with electical sensor mesh to facilitate transmission of movment data between their bodies and the hardsuit.
Knight Sabers, Sanjo!
Why m-o-o-t won't work:
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New Crypto-OS
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· Score: 2
As much as the need for complete security and privacy demands it, This moot-thingy just ain't gonna happen. First of all, it relies on external data-havens to store information. While there are many technically feasible ways to make this happen, it's not going to unless someone in a neutral country or Sealand just *gives* you a hell of a lot of diskspace and bandwidth.
Even if such data-havens exist, their service by definition will only be poor, sporadic, and prone to failure.
"Where's that subversive novel/treatise/pr0n I was writing on my m-o-o-t acount?" Oh, I'm sorry. One of the datahavens that was storing a chunk of your novel was raided by the FBI. Your data was not recovered but it *was* destroyed.
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them.
Without copies of Mein Campf which is banned in German and arguably in France under this ruling, we cannot peak inside the mouth of madness that spawned the Jewish Holocaust and understand why it happened, and how it could happen again.
Without knowledge of the symbols, how will we know when this horrible racist movement is trying to rear it's ugly head again? To those who don't think the neo-Nazi movement isn't well and alive in America and Europe, I can tell you that you are sadly mistaken.
Yes, it may be PC and emotionally sensitive to ban what causes people distress, but once it's gone, it's too late to learn from the lessons the past has beat into us with a barbed-wire whip.
The real problem in describing the 'entirety' of a gravitationally bound universe is the fact that all galaxy-sized celestial structures are accellerating away from us. The limit here is good ol' 'c'. Everything that is moving away from us faster than the speed of light is by definition unobservable. This number increases with time, and at a point in the future, only the matter which is gravitationally bound to us, ie: our local cluster of galaxies, will be part of the observable universe
exists in an improbably universe on the shores of the bell curve of reality.
It it a largish disc, with a central mountain range, with the impossibly large 'Cori Celesti' mountain in the center. It rotates on this axis as it sits on the head of four elephants. (The fifth elephant is thought to have impacted the disc in a Yucatan-style asteroid impact, leaving massive seams of fat and ivory deep beneath the Uberwald Mountains)
The elephants in turn sit on the back of the Great A'tuin, the 'world turtle', as often mentioned in asian mytholgy.
There is obviously no such thing as cardinal directions on the disc. Instead, they have radial directions, Hubwards, Rimwards, Spinwise, and Widdershins.
The disc has a high magical field due to the existence of vast amounts of 'octiron', a magical element, in the crust of disc. The counterwieght continent (inhabited by Asian peoples) is thought to consist largely of gold and octiron.
Due to the high density of the magical field, the speed of light is much slower in the atmosphere of the disc. One can watch light fill a valley as if it was water.
Pratchet's stories about the Discworld cross back and forth between fantasy and satire. 'The Colour of Magic' and 'Equal Rites' are both mostly fantasy adventure books while 'Small Gods', for example, is a look at religous persecution as carried out during the Spanish inquisition. 'Masquerade' was a parody/satire on modern opera.
They're worth reading, but have gotten repetitive in the last five books or so.
In my tech company, the question everyone in the networking and development department has to answer on a daily basis is "Why can't we do that? We have computers, don't we?"
The people who don't understand what computers can and can't do fall into two categories. The first are techies who beleive that anything is possible, given enough development time. The second is any given company's sales force, who see computers as magical creatures similar to unicorns that shit money.
Example: I used to work at an ISP that fancied itself a web design firm. We actually had some capital and a good community reputation to work with, so when we started offering IBM Net.Commerce based e-sales solutions, we got some good bites. After the first few bites, however, our sales force started selling the Net.Commerce package as an end-all-be-all solution.
"You want to catalog and sell each of the 100,000 bolts and nuts your company manufactures? No Problem! You want to do it for under $5000 dollars with two Photoshop hackers and a single developer? No Problem! We have computers to do all this stuff for us, right?"
</rant>
My Battle with Infinite Information
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The Regulon
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· Score: 5
The 'regulon' you're looking for here, the limiting factor, is humanity's limits to absorb this information. If there is not a demand for it, the information won't be replicated, and therefore won't exist in any substantial sense.
When I go home at night, I have to perform a careful balancing act, like most technically minded people with real lives I would guess, to do a little surfing, read a little news. Watch a little anime that I've downloaded from Alt.binaries.multimedia.anime. Then I do something that does *not* involve the rest of the world or the internet. I spend time with my wife. I play a game. I read a real, print book. I write or draw. I spend time working on my 3d artwork.
I discard over 99% of the information available to me, and refuse to let it take away the kind of life I want to live. The information that I'm not interested in simply dies with me. It doesn't get passed on to anyone I know or reproduced on my website for general consumption. It has 6 billion other ways to procreate, but will not do so through me.
An interesting example of this is the discovery of 'caucasoid' cromagnon fossils in Canada and the U.S.
In the 1700's and 1800's, racist scientists tried to prove that since the different human races had different body and skull shapes then the caucasian races were 'more developed' and 'more highly evolved'. This false science was used as everything as a justification for slavery to evidence in criminal trials.
In the late 80's and 90's, scientists started finding *very* early human fossils in Canada and the U.S. that seem to indicate that the first Asians who cross the Bering Strait were caucasoid rather than mongoloid. At first there was an outcry by the human rights activists who feared a new round of 'evolution scaling'. Then there was an outcry and a demand for posession of the fossils by certain Native American tribes. The tribes claim that it is their legal right to bury the fossils respectfully since they were the 'first'.
Indeed, they may have legal precident. It also seems, however, that they are trying to effectively destroy any evidence that the current race of Native Americans weren't necessarily the first race to inhabit North America.
There are countless others that suffered the same fate throughout history.
Galileo was 'shown the instruments' in the late 1400's when the Catholic Church in Rome realized just how revolutionary and disturbing his pronouncements and discoveries really were.
Call me a whiny, but without a strong necessity to mother them, these grandiose inventions will never come to pass.
Case in point: When the Europeans overflowed into the Americas, it wasn't because the land had been 'just discovered' or 'it was ripe for opportunity'. The first commercial ventures for American exploration were complete and utter financial and physical disasters. Hundreds died in the early periods of starvation and disease. Worse, they brought their disease with them to infect Native Americans. Their backers realized that American exploration was costly and unprofitable despite the fact that there was a wealth of untapped resources.
The people who took the risks and learned a new way of living and made American exploration really work were those who just didn't have any hope of living the life they wanted to in Europe: The poor, the tired, the huddled masses, etc...
This carries over into today. Americans don't *need* space exploration in the same way the rich, elite Europeans didn't *need* American exploration. The people who could really benifit from space exploration are the relatively poor from 3rd world Asian and South American countries. Unfortuneately, it's not so easy to build a dome on Mars as it was for early settlers to build log cabins and sod houses. Right *now*, we're in the same period of exploration where the ultra-rich (like the King of Spain and his funding of Columbus's ventures) are throwing money into exploration, hoping to find profit where there is none yet. It will only be when there is a driving, urgent *need* for the middle-class and poor to get the hell off Earth that space habitats and Mars domes will become viable and profitable.
Outguess looks pretty nice, but unless I misunderstood the information on your page, there are no binaries available.
A quick view of the download page reveals only tarballs, so while I guess this is good thing, it would be a hell of a lot better if you actually had a few binaries (for consumer-level platforms) so that Joe Windoze can decide he wants to encrypt his manifesto/novel/pr0n, he can do so without installing a *nix and learning how to MAKE a binary from source.
Remember that the 'envelope' anology works only if *most* people use envelopes (encryption/steganography) around their letters rather than sending (unencrypted) postcards.
Come on, guy. It's not that hard to compile a console-style win32 binary.
Slashdot Mirror
The KS girls wear a leotard embedded with electical sensor mesh to facilitate transmission of movment data between their bodies and the hardsuit.
Knight Sabers, Sanjo!
As much as the need for complete security and privacy demands it, This moot-thingy just ain't gonna happen. First of all, it relies on external data-havens to store information. While there are many technically feasible ways to make this happen, it's not going to unless someone in a neutral country or Sealand just *gives* you a hell of a lot of diskspace and bandwidth.
Even if such data-havens exist, their service by definition will only be poor, sporadic, and prone to failure.
"Where's that subversive novel/treatise/pr0n I was writing on my m-o-o-t acount?" Oh, I'm sorry. One of the datahavens that was storing a chunk of your novel was raided by the FBI. Your data was not recovered but it *was* destroyed.
There is one phrase that sums this up:
Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them.
Without copies of Mein Campf which is banned in German and arguably in France under this ruling, we cannot peak inside the mouth of madness that spawned the Jewish Holocaust and understand why it happened, and how it could happen again.
Without knowledge of the symbols, how will we know when this horrible racist movement is trying to rear it's ugly head again? To those who don't think the neo-Nazi movement isn't well and alive in America and Europe, I can tell you that you are sadly mistaken.
Yes, it may be PC and emotionally sensitive to ban what causes people distress, but once it's gone, it's too late to learn from the lessons the past has beat into us with a barbed-wire whip.
The real problem in describing the 'entirety' of a gravitationally bound universe is the fact that all galaxy-sized celestial structures are accellerating away from us. The limit here is good ol' 'c'. Everything that is moving away from us faster than the speed of light is by definition unobservable. This number increases with time, and at a point in the future, only the matter which is gravitationally bound to us, ie: our local cluster of galaxies, will be part of the observable universe
exists in an improbably universe on the shores of the bell curve of reality. It it a largish disc, with a central mountain range, with the impossibly large 'Cori Celesti' mountain in the center. It rotates on this axis as it sits on the head of four elephants. (The fifth elephant is thought to have impacted the disc in a Yucatan-style asteroid impact, leaving massive seams of fat and ivory deep beneath the Uberwald Mountains) The elephants in turn sit on the back of the Great A'tuin, the 'world turtle', as often mentioned in asian mytholgy. There is obviously no such thing as cardinal directions on the disc. Instead, they have radial directions, Hubwards, Rimwards, Spinwise, and Widdershins. The disc has a high magical field due to the existence of vast amounts of 'octiron', a magical element, in the crust of disc. The counterwieght continent (inhabited by Asian peoples) is thought to consist largely of gold and octiron. Due to the high density of the magical field, the speed of light is much slower in the atmosphere of the disc. One can watch light fill a valley as if it was water. Pratchet's stories about the Discworld cross back and forth between fantasy and satire. 'The Colour of Magic' and 'Equal Rites' are both mostly fantasy adventure books while 'Small Gods', for example, is a look at religous persecution as carried out during the Spanish inquisition. 'Masquerade' was a parody/satire on modern opera. They're worth reading, but have gotten repetitive in the last five books or so.
A great deal of this book is a parody of Quentin Tarantino.
While this is funny for the first few chapers, it gets pretty old, pretty quick.
"Why is your partner always saying 'Ing'?"
You're hanging around the right people then...
In my tech company, the question everyone in the networking and development department has to answer on a daily basis is "Why can't we do that? We have computers, don't we?"
The people who don't understand what computers can and can't do fall into two categories. The first are techies who beleive that anything is possible, given enough development time. The second is any given company's sales force, who see computers as magical creatures similar to unicorns that shit money.
Example: I used to work at an ISP that fancied itself a web design firm. We actually had some capital and a good community reputation to work with, so when we started offering IBM Net.Commerce based e-sales solutions, we got some good bites. After the first few bites, however, our sales force started selling the Net.Commerce package as an end-all-be-all solution.
"You want to catalog and sell each of the 100,000 bolts and nuts your company manufactures? No Problem! You want to do it for under $5000 dollars with two Photoshop hackers and a single developer? No Problem! We have computers to do all this stuff for us, right?"
</rant>
The 'regulon' you're looking for here, the limiting factor, is humanity's limits to absorb this information. If there is not a demand for it, the information won't be replicated, and therefore won't exist in any substantial sense.
When I go home at night, I have to perform a careful balancing act, like most technically minded people with real lives I would guess, to do a little surfing, read a little news. Watch a little anime that I've downloaded from Alt.binaries.multimedia.anime. Then I do something that does *not* involve the rest of the world or the internet. I spend time with my wife. I play a game. I read a real, print book. I write or draw. I spend time working on my 3d artwork.
I discard over 99% of the information available to me, and refuse to let it take away the kind of life I want to live. The information that I'm not interested in simply dies with me. It doesn't get passed on to anyone I know or reproduced on my website for general consumption. It has 6 billion other ways to procreate, but will not do so through me.
This is exactly the same behavior that has created the current population of the fine land of Australia.
An interesting example of this is the discovery of 'caucasoid' cromagnon fossils in Canada and the U.S.
In the 1700's and 1800's, racist scientists tried to prove that since the different human races had different body and skull shapes then the caucasian races were 'more developed' and 'more highly evolved'. This false science was used as everything as a justification for slavery to evidence in criminal trials.
In the late 80's and 90's, scientists started finding *very* early human fossils in Canada and the U.S. that seem to indicate that the first Asians who cross the Bering Strait were caucasoid rather than mongoloid. At first there was an outcry by the human rights activists who feared a new round of 'evolution scaling'. Then there was an outcry and a demand for posession of the fossils by certain Native American tribes. The tribes claim that it is their legal right to bury the fossils respectfully since they were the 'first'.
Indeed, they may have legal precident. It also seems, however, that they are trying to effectively destroy any evidence that the current race of Native Americans weren't necessarily the first race to inhabit North America.
There are countless others that suffered the same fate throughout history.
Galileo was 'shown the instruments' in the late 1400's when the Catholic Church in Rome realized just how revolutionary and disturbing his pronouncements and discoveries really were.
Call me a whiny, but without a strong necessity to mother them, these grandiose inventions will never come to pass.
Case in point: When the Europeans overflowed into the Americas, it wasn't because the land had been 'just discovered' or 'it was ripe for opportunity'. The first commercial ventures for American exploration were complete and utter financial and physical disasters. Hundreds died in the early periods of starvation and disease. Worse, they brought their disease with them to infect Native Americans. Their backers realized that American exploration was costly and unprofitable despite the fact that there was a wealth of untapped resources.
The people who took the risks and learned a new way of living and made American exploration really work were those who just didn't have any hope of living the life they wanted to in Europe: The poor, the tired, the huddled masses, etc...
This carries over into today. Americans don't *need* space exploration in the same way the rich, elite Europeans didn't *need* American exploration. The people who could really benifit from space exploration are the relatively poor from 3rd world Asian and South American countries. Unfortuneately, it's not so easy to build a dome on Mars as it was for early settlers to build log cabins and sod houses. Right *now*, we're in the same period of exploration where the ultra-rich (like the King of Spain and his funding of Columbus's ventures) are throwing money into exploration, hoping to find profit where there is none yet. It will only be when there is a driving, urgent *need* for the middle-class and poor to get the hell off Earth that space habitats and Mars domes will become viable and profitable.
Outguess looks pretty nice, but unless I misunderstood the information on your page, there are no binaries available.
A quick view of the download page reveals only tarballs, so while I guess this is good thing, it would be a hell of a lot better if you actually had a few binaries (for consumer-level platforms) so that Joe Windoze can decide he wants to encrypt his manifesto/novel/pr0n, he can do so without installing a *nix and learning how to MAKE a binary from source.
Remember that the 'envelope' anology works only if *most* people use envelopes (encryption/steganography) around their letters rather than sending (unencrypted) postcards.
Come on, guy. It's not that hard to compile a console-style win32 binary.