We all know that ultra low frequencies can cause your bowels to, well, kick in and empty out, right? I wonder if you can buy a package deal - combo 'fridge/toilet. Kick in a TV, padded/heated seat on the toilet, and you've pretty much just created the ultimate guy Christmas present.
Why? A great deal of what you eat already has been GM'd. 85% of any soy products grown in the US are roundup ready. Brazil says they're not planting GM soy, but you'd be a fool if you belief that. Tomatoes and carrots have been GM'd, as has beet sugar. What about the alfalfa you're using as feed for cows? Yup. Or the source of the BSE used in dairy stock? Or insulin for you diabetic? Or corn-bore resistent maize? Most of you have no idea the extent to which this has already been implimented, and you use it's products every day. I'll be none of you has two heads as a result of it.
This knee-jerk reaction that if it's GM, the world's gonna end is nothing more than uneducated witch burning. Of course, as with any emerging technology, you must be cognizant of the potential dangers. Getting Greenpeace to fabricate scary stories based on half truths isn't doing anyone any good.
that constituents don't want corrupted congressmen.
let's see, who do you think will have more influence - a poll that shows roughly 80% of constituents don't want a certain 'feature' (half of those constituents will likely be democrat, half republican. halve that again for the actual numbers that will vote..)
OR
the HUGE amounts of contribution money donated by industry to congressional representatives to ensure their voice is heard fairly.
In order to clear up consumer rights issues, you must first clear up congressional responsibility issues. Stop allowing corporations to be treated as more important citizens than the actual voting citizens first.
My wife is a producer for the largest NBC affiliate in the nation (and has worked for a variety of other affiliate outlets). Advertising is THE reason networks exist, and your local media outlet will NEVER run a story that may adversely affect the possibility of them generating advertising revenue. If they run a story that says company X is bad, company X will never advertise with them - hence negative story on company X will never run.
Now, your national outlets are a different story - Dateline or national news types will respond differently.
a murderer saying 'hey, those murder laws don't apply to me'.
i wouldn't think it would be up to the offender to determine if a given law applies to him, but rather to the system which enacted the law, and it's checks and balances. I wonder if the UN would disagree with them on this point?
All it really says is that they plan to go into production of the 64 bit chips toward the second half of next year. "Industry" experts say that it would be used in the Mac. This is certainly a far cry from Jobs saying it - if anything, I think it makes the race between the two competing chip manufacturers all the more interesting. Apple, I should think, will select the company which will allow it to compete most effectively in the marketplace - not the first one who says in a press release that they plan to release bigger, faster, more powerful chips sometime next year..
To begin with, you have absolutely no idea why Apple chooses to do this, or anything else. Or any other company, for that matter. There most certainly are corporations which have business practices which are derived from personal morals. But that's neither here nor there. Most of us don't give a rat's ass why company A is doing this, and why company B isn't. We, for the most part, simply care *that* they're doing this, or that they're *not* doing that.
In this instance, most users care *that* apple hardware/software allows them to use their digitial media in any way they choose. We also care very strongly that DRM enabled devices severly restrict what we can do with our digital information. We don't care about the philosophies behind that - we care about the physical reality in front of us.
erm, not exactly free of charge. that's what that little thing called 'taxes' that you and i and everyone besides the amish and large portions of montana pay helps to fund. therefore, *we* are providing *ourselves* with this service. lest we forget, the government was founded on a premise of the people, by the people, and for the people.
A spokesman from the chalk industry today bristled at allegations that his products were enabling - indeed promiting - circumvention of 'industry standard' security measures as they pertain to wireless networking.
In other news, manufacturers of the ever popular 'on button' found on many of todays wireless networking peripherials (such as laptops), are finding themselves in a similar awkward position. Their "on" button, it's argued, allows a thief to turn on their equipment,which is clearly an enabling them to circumvent 'industry standard' practices of securing wireless networks.
It's no surprise that consumers aren't moving quickly to buy all those HDTV's - companies are doing their best to kill the market, what with 18 different digital signal formats, every company requiring their own proprietary tuner (rendering HDTV ready sets over priced, as the built in tuner doesn't work with their setup), existing recording devices unable to record digital signals, and the threat of even if you do buy that new, shiney $1000 digital recording device, there's a good chance it'll be more useful to you as a paperweight than an actual recording device.
Honestly, I don't see how they could make it more difficult for people to adapt this new technology. FCC wants 85% of househoulds to be digital ready by '06 so they can sell the analog bandwidth to cellular companies, yet consider legislation that actually turns people away from doing this. It's like going to buy a new car, and having the salesman tell me that the onstar feature is directly linked to the engine, and if the satellite thinks I'm going to an Art museum instead of the higher margin generating Braves game, it'll shut the car down until the museum closes. Remind me again, why would I buy this car?
The story mentions the ability to upload portions of a personality to a computer network. It mentions the social benefits. Remember, what ever goes up, must come down. Data streams are a two way street - if you can upload, then it's not a stretch to say you can download. Once humans are collectively linked together for the benefit of society, the real power rests with those who control the computers that allow the linking. Of course the public news release will be heavy on the uploading aspect, but can you imagine the power that would come with the ability to download information, memories, cognitive function, persuasion, etc into a group of people as a whole?
It doesn't appear that anyone's brought up the inevitable privacy issues. Unsolicited intrusions into your person most certainly constitute an invasion of privacy at the least, physical assault at the worst. with a tv, you pay for the service and have the option of turning it off. with this, it's forced upon you and it doesn't really appear to have a turn off option.
i'd really like to be the first person this is used on commercially. i'd retire a very rich man.
battelle has been working on this for some time. the problem lies with durability. battle conditions aren't exactly a sterile, soft environment. what happens when you get rained on or scratch the suit on the underbrush you're crawling through, or if a bullet hits you and breaks the circuit?
adaptive camo is only useful if you can actually use it. current tech restricts usage of it to unrealistic lab conditions. of course it will certainly improve with time, but it's not ready for primetime quite yet.
It's a frightening prospect. Telco's are only allowed to 'share' (sell) that info with affiliates. I don't know that those affiliates have any restrictions on how they treat that info..
use a version of toast below 5.1.4. 5.1.4 doesn't really add anything earthshattering and necessary, and it forces you to agree to unsolicited, unnotified, unreviewed software installation on your machine.
bottom line, don't use the software that offends you. if people stop buying the software, they'll stop doing this sort of thing. use 5.1.2 or whatever version you currently have.
I'm curious as to how they'll identify whom to attack (ie, who has coprighted material on a server), and how'll they'll ascertain when they no longer need to maintain their DoS attacks.
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because they're not open sourceing the code, and charging 50 bucks a pop. i suggest open sourcing the code, charging 5 bucks a pop.
'course i also said it was tongue in cheek. it's an interesting idea, but i can't imagine the administrative duties involved with maintaining a co-op of that size...
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of course, advances in magnetics and flight will eventually make tires on land vehicles obsolete too. unfortunately, neither of them has advanced to the point of feasibility yet, nor has quantum computing. until such time as that happens, there's a need for good ol' fashioned tires. or encryption.
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/. get's about what, a million unique hits? NAI put 36 million into PGP, and since they're not finding a buyer, we can assume they'd be willing to take somewhat less for it.. let's say 25 million. If/. changes it's subscribtion pay pal account instead to be a funding house to purchase PGP, each user could donate 25 dollars,and we'd have a co-op that now owns PGP. This co-op could then market it as an inexpensive payware product, available for download complete with source code for a $5 license fee. This rids the need for/. subscriptions by generating income, opens the most current version of source code up for review, and allows independant programmers to modify this source code to continually improve the product.
A win win situation! 8-)
IANAL. This is tongue in cheek. I hate having to explain myself...
I've long been an advocate of something very similiar to what he's proposing. However, the single most limiting factor in todays intelligence community is one of employees. Satellites aren't able to record conversations in swahili in a back room of shanty town a. You need to have someone physically there (and capable of speaking the language/culture, plus be able to blend in as one of the locals). In order to make use of most of these 'open source' intelligence avenues, you're going to have to have manpower at their locations to 1) identify them 2) collect them.
today's intel community suffers from a lack of qualified individuals who are able to successfully staff locations around the world. Identifying openly available sources of information is a great idea, but we've got to get the people in there to do it.
simply come to the (insert local large public gathering place here) to pick up your prize!
a trick routinely employed by authorities to catch wanted criminals. they send out a mass mailing to wanted individuals stating they've won something fantastic, and all they have to do is show up to claim it. they show up, and their prize is an all expense stay in levenworth 8-)
of course, i'm sure our government wouldn't do something like this to hackers.
for the motivated, self starter, http://www.shamalbank.com/ is a bank with known bin laden accounts 8-)
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We all know that ultra low frequencies can cause your bowels to, well, kick in and empty out, right? I wonder if you can buy a package deal - combo 'fridge/toilet. Kick in a TV, padded/heated seat on the toilet, and you've pretty much just created the ultimate guy Christmas present.
Why? A great deal of what you eat already has been GM'd. 85% of any soy products grown in the US are roundup ready. Brazil says they're not planting GM soy, but you'd be a fool if you belief that. Tomatoes and carrots have been GM'd, as has beet sugar. What about the alfalfa you're using as feed for cows? Yup. Or the source of the BSE used in dairy stock? Or insulin for you diabetic? Or corn-bore resistent maize? Most of you have no idea the extent to which this has already been implimented, and you use it's products every day. I'll be none of you has two heads as a result of it.
This knee-jerk reaction that if it's GM, the world's gonna end is nothing more than uneducated witch burning. Of course, as with any emerging technology, you must be cognizant of the potential dangers. Getting Greenpeace to fabricate scary stories based on half truths isn't doing anyone any good.
that constituents don't want corrupted congressmen.
let's see, who do you think will have more influence - a poll that shows roughly 80% of constituents don't want a certain 'feature' (half of those constituents will likely be democrat, half republican. halve that again for the actual numbers that will vote..)
OR
the HUGE amounts of contribution money donated by industry to congressional representatives to ensure their voice is heard fairly.
In order to clear up consumer rights issues, you must first clear up congressional responsibility issues. Stop allowing corporations to be treated as more important citizens than the actual voting citizens first.
My wife is a producer for the largest NBC affiliate in the nation (and has worked for a variety of other affiliate outlets). Advertising is THE reason networks exist, and your local media outlet will NEVER run a story that may adversely affect the possibility of them generating advertising revenue. If they run a story that says company X is bad, company X will never advertise with them - hence negative story on company X will never run.
Now, your national outlets are a different story - Dateline or national news types will respond differently.
a murderer saying 'hey, those murder laws don't apply to me'.
i wouldn't think it would be up to the offender to determine if a given law applies to him, but rather to the system which enacted the law, and it's checks and balances. I wonder if the UN would disagree with them on this point?
See picture on the first page of the story.
Is that a mouse in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Man, if I had benefits like that at work, I'd work harder too!
All it really says is that they plan to go into production of the 64 bit chips toward the second half of next year. "Industry" experts say that it would be used in the Mac. This is certainly a far cry from Jobs saying it - if anything, I think it makes the race between the two competing chip manufacturers all the more interesting. Apple, I should think, will select the company which will allow it to compete most effectively in the marketplace - not the first one who says in a press release that they plan to release bigger, faster, more powerful chips sometime next year..
To begin with, you have absolutely no idea why Apple chooses to do this, or anything else. Or any other company, for that matter. There most certainly are corporations which have business practices which are derived from personal morals. But that's neither here nor there. Most of us don't give a rat's ass why company A is doing this, and why company B isn't. We, for the most part, simply care *that* they're doing this, or that they're *not* doing that.
In this instance, most users care *that* apple hardware/software allows them to use their digitial media in any way they choose. We also care very strongly that DRM enabled devices severly restrict what we can do with our digital information. We don't care about the philosophies behind that - we care about the physical reality in front of us.
erm, not exactly free of charge. that's what that little thing called 'taxes' that you and i and everyone besides the amish and large portions of montana pay helps to fund. therefore, *we* are providing *ourselves* with this service. lest we forget, the government was founded on a premise of the people, by the people, and for the people.
A spokesman from the chalk industry today bristled at allegations that his products were enabling - indeed promiting - circumvention of 'industry standard' security measures as they pertain to wireless networking.
In other news, manufacturers of the ever popular 'on button' found on many of todays wireless networking peripherials (such as laptops), are finding themselves in a similar awkward position. Their "on" button, it's argued, allows a thief to turn on their equipment,which is clearly an enabling them to circumvent 'industry standard' practices of securing wireless networks.
[austin powers] It's not the size, man, it's how you use it! [/austin powers]
It's no surprise that consumers aren't moving quickly to buy all those HDTV's - companies are doing their best to kill the market, what with 18 different digital signal formats, every company requiring their own proprietary tuner (rendering HDTV ready sets over priced, as the built in tuner doesn't work with their setup), existing recording devices unable to record digital signals, and the threat of even if you do buy that new, shiney $1000 digital recording device, there's a good chance it'll be more useful to you as a paperweight than an actual recording device.
Honestly, I don't see how they could make it more difficult for people to adapt this new technology. FCC wants 85% of househoulds to be digital ready by '06 so they can sell the analog bandwidth to cellular companies, yet consider legislation that actually turns people away from doing this. It's like going to buy a new car, and having the salesman tell me that the onstar feature is directly linked to the engine, and if the satellite thinks I'm going to an Art museum instead of the higher margin generating Braves game, it'll shut the car down until the museum closes. Remind me again, why would I buy this car?
The story mentions the ability to upload portions of a personality to a computer network. It mentions the social benefits. Remember, what ever goes up, must come down. Data streams are a two way street - if you can upload, then it's not a stretch to say you can download. Once humans are collectively linked together for the benefit of society, the real power rests with those who control the computers that allow the linking. Of course the public news release will be heavy on the uploading aspect, but can you imagine the power that would come with the ability to download information, memories, cognitive function, persuasion, etc into a group of people as a whole?
That's a frightening premise.
The wonder bra!
Think about it...
It doesn't appear that anyone's brought up the inevitable privacy issues. Unsolicited intrusions into your person most certainly constitute an invasion of privacy at the least, physical assault at the worst. with a tv, you pay for the service and have the option of turning it off. with this, it's forced upon you and it doesn't really appear to have a turn off option.
i'd really like to be the first person this is used on commercially. i'd retire a very rich man.
battelle has been working on this for some time. the problem lies with durability. battle conditions aren't exactly a sterile, soft environment. what happens when you get rained on or scratch the suit on the underbrush you're crawling through, or if a bullet hits you and breaks the circuit?
adaptive camo is only useful if you can actually use it. current tech restricts usage of it to unrealistic lab conditions. of course it will certainly improve with time, but it's not ready for primetime quite yet.
It's a frightening prospect. Telco's are only allowed to 'share' (sell) that info with affiliates. I don't know that those affiliates have any restrictions on how they treat that info..
use a version of toast below 5.1.4. 5.1.4 doesn't really add anything earthshattering and necessary, and it forces you to agree to unsolicited, unnotified, unreviewed software installation on your machine.
bottom line, don't use the software that offends you. if people stop buying the software, they'll stop doing this sort of thing. use 5.1.2 or whatever version you currently have.
I'm curious as to how they'll identify whom to attack (ie, who has coprighted material on a server), and how'll they'll ascertain when they no longer need to maintain their DoS attacks.
because they're not open sourceing the code, and charging 50 bucks a pop. i suggest open sourcing the code, charging 5 bucks a pop.
'course i also said it was tongue in cheek. it's an interesting idea, but i can't imagine the administrative duties involved with maintaining a co-op of that size...
of course, advances in magnetics and flight will eventually make tires on land vehicles obsolete too. unfortunately, neither of them has advanced to the point of feasibility yet, nor has quantum computing. until such time as that happens, there's a need for good ol' fashioned tires. or encryption.
/. get's about what, a million unique hits? NAI put 36 million into PGP, and since they're not finding a buyer, we can assume they'd be willing to take somewhat less for it.. let's say 25 million. If /. changes it's subscribtion pay pal account instead to be a funding house to purchase PGP, each user could donate 25 dollars,and we'd have a co-op that now owns PGP. This co-op could then market it as an inexpensive payware product, available for download complete with source code for a $5 license fee. This rids the need for /. subscriptions by generating income, opens the most current version of source code up for review, and allows independant programmers to modify this source code to continually improve the product.
A win win situation! 8-)
IANAL. This is tongue in cheek. I hate having to explain myself...
I've long been an advocate of something very similiar to what he's proposing. However, the single most limiting factor in todays intelligence community is one of employees. Satellites aren't able to record conversations in swahili in a back room of shanty town a. You need to have someone physically there (and capable of speaking the language/culture, plus be able to blend in as one of the locals). In order to make use of most of these 'open source' intelligence avenues, you're going to have to have manpower at their locations to 1) identify them 2) collect them.
today's intel community suffers from a lack of qualified individuals who are able to successfully staff locations around the world. Identifying openly available sources of information is a great idea, but we've got to get the people in there to do it.
if they're so cheap and have such good quality, lets get rid of the most expensive part of the laptop and get those prices to come down..
simply come to the (insert local large public gathering place here) to pick up your prize!
a trick routinely employed by authorities to catch wanted criminals. they send out a mass mailing to wanted individuals stating they've won something fantastic, and all they have to do is show up to claim it. they show up, and their prize is an all expense stay in levenworth 8-)
of course, i'm sure our government wouldn't do something like this to hackers.
for the motivated, self starter, http://www.shamalbank.com/ is a bank with known bin laden accounts 8-)
not that i'm suggesting anything...