It would be funny to duplicate the content and massively interlink sites to drop the business page ranking even worse. Does anyone know if this approach has been successfully attempted in the past?
To me, his vision is too much of a good thing. When I saw his interview on "Revolution OS", I was shocked by his analogy about software sharing and freedom compared with what children are taught in elementary school regarding bringing snacks into the classroom. We are not ten anymore! Almost everything taught at that age is meant to build conformity, complacency, and fear of authority. While I agree that sharing ideas is a good thing, he slams everyone that doesn't feel as he does. At the same time, he wants to be sure that GNU is recognized for being responsible for Linux and free software in general, much like Al Gore wants to claim resposibility for building the Internet.
In a nutshell: RMS is a sharp guy, but probably not someone you would want to be around for long. He has no delivery tact for his opinions, and is as close-minded to outside influence as any religious zealot.
We used to hear the same with mainframe computing, that smaller PCs outperform, are cheaper, etc. The problem is levels of redundancy, sourcing of compatible components, etc. Along those lines, I loved the comment made (I can't remember by whom) with regard to that: "You cannot replace a bull with 10,000 chickens."
Data Centers offer: conditioned power, redundant power, (almost) instantaneous access to increased bandwidth needs, connectivity redundancy, less dusty air, cooling, physical security, network operation centers, remote hands, etc. (the list goes on).
I spotted one in the movie, The Sentinel, crusing along a busy sidewalk in Washington DC. Product placement? I can't imaging them being legal for that purpose because of the danger to pendestrians, and they aren't street legal due to speed, no mirror, etc.
I understand his point: because of the blind spots you need to keep guards on board, which kind of defeats the purpose of the cameras. But is it actually realistic to *not* have guards on board? I would hope not!
The original design called for no blind spots because of the number of cameras. Engineers must build to the design. Some drug smuggler or pirate enters a Coast Guard boat via a blind spot and kills a crew member: the next six months of Fox News will be about corporate greed and neglect and not following engineering specifics.
Equipment not working at -40. Considering that these ships are intended to be used by the coast guard in the gulf of Mexico, I don't see the problem.
Fine, until someone needs some boats off Greenland or Antartica. They will punch up operating temperatures in a computer and say, here are some boats that will do just fine. One hundred of them ship and all Hell breaks loose because the implementation doesn't match engineering plans.
WTF is he talking about? The only way to sniff data from an unshielded cable is if you are right next to it. It is not going to help you when the cable is on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Further, the moment data is transmitted off the ship via radar, all bets are off. Unless you encrypt it *anyone* can listen to it.
The original design called for TEMPEST compliance. The end product was not TEMPEST, and that is a problem. Whether or not you believe in the TEMPEST specifics is not up to engineering to arbitrarily ignore. Engineers must build to specs.
3. Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
This one is a bit ridiculous, and shows his paranoia.
I agree that TEMPEST is a bit out there, but we are talking about building according to specifics. Engineers don't get to decide arbitrarily to vary from design specifics because they don't feel them necessary. Differences from design to implementation cannot be allowed to happen. The design must match the finished development. If a change away from TEMPEST specs was in order, the design should have been changed.
Otherwise, we would have buildings in California not designed to hold up during a big earthquake because some engineer from the mid-west decided to build it how he always had "back home". Car tires could shred at eighty miles per hour because some engineer only tested at 55 because that is how fast he drives. You see where I am going with this?
Or, maybe, instead of posting a video of him reading from a script, he could have just posted the script. Saves a lot of time and bandwidth for everyone involved.
I don't know. I listened to his ten minute video while tidying email. A web page I probably would not have read and may have been looked at more as a conspiracy nut's rantings. The same could be said for anything televised: why not just have a text transcript?
Millions of grade schoolers across the nation scramble to redo their third-grade Astronomy projects
Twenty years will go by before schools teach this. Schools have to wait for some teachers to die off, posters to get reprinted, new books ordered, etc.
I remember failing a second grade test because I missed pluto! Time I march down to the nursing home and give Mrs Johnson a piece of my mind!
I got in similar trouble to telling my teacher that her solar system model was wrong because all of her planets were on the same plane. And, got in more trouble when I mentioned that Pluto is not the furthist planet from the sun, but rather Neptune was (at least, at that time). Of course, the worst was when I corrected a teacher whom said Saturn was the only planet with rings.
...this movie could have quite possibly ended dead last without the Internet hype. I think the only reason they made anything at all was because of the hype.
You know that most people whom would not see it in the theater will not only buy the DVD, but will watch it every time it is played ad nauseum on HBO, Showtime, Skinemax, Stars, TNT, TBS, et cetera. The movie will do just fine as far as money is concerned.
I think that all they need to do is blow up a plane at the terminal, or even set off an explosive in the security line to cause a big enough terrorist event with economic upset.
somewhere out there, democrat/republican thinktanks are thinking of ways to tweak this to say it proves/debunks that global warming exists.
This will be the catalyst for them to start worrying about 'solar warming'. "Cycles? My fellow Americans, do not believe that for a second. The sun is a violent, chaotic planet and it must be cooled or removed from our universe. The more that yellow thing in our atmosphere is allowed to shine, the worse our global warming will be."
The Segway was going to do away with walking. The sales projections purposed showed them being used by just about everyone living in a city. I think the example is fitting.
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I believe it is time to expose this threat! Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
It would be funny to duplicate the content and massively interlink sites to drop the business page ranking even worse. Does anyone know if this approach has been successfully attempted in the past?
Sell them to Playgirl for their next "men in politics" issue...
So, if your woman is frigid, will she live longer?
To me, his vision is too much of a good thing. When I saw his interview on "Revolution OS", I was shocked by his analogy about software sharing and freedom compared with what children are taught in elementary school regarding bringing snacks into the classroom. We are not ten anymore! Almost everything taught at that age is meant to build conformity, complacency, and fear of authority. While I agree that sharing ideas is a good thing, he slams everyone that doesn't feel as he does. At the same time, he wants to be sure that GNU is recognized for being responsible for Linux and free software in general, much like Al Gore wants to claim resposibility for building the Internet.
In a nutshell: RMS is a sharp guy, but probably not someone you would want to be around for long. He has no delivery tact for his opinions, and is as close-minded to outside influence as any religious zealot.
We used to hear the same with mainframe computing, that smaller PCs outperform, are cheaper, etc. The problem is levels of redundancy, sourcing of compatible components, etc. Along those lines, I loved the comment made (I can't remember by whom) with regard to that: "You cannot replace a bull with 10,000 chickens."
Data Centers offer: conditioned power, redundant power, (almost) instantaneous access to increased bandwidth needs, connectivity redundancy, less dusty air, cooling, physical security, network operation centers, remote hands, etc. (the list goes on).
You must know my wife...
I spotted one in the movie, The Sentinel, crusing along a busy sidewalk in Washington DC. Product placement? I can't imaging them being legal for that purpose because of the danger to pendestrians, and they aren't street legal due to speed, no mirror, etc.
Adrian Monk wants there to be ten planets.
The original design called for no blind spots because of the number of cameras. Engineers must build to the design. Some drug smuggler or pirate enters a Coast Guard boat via a blind spot and kills a crew member: the next six months of Fox News will be about corporate greed and neglect and not following engineering specifics.
Fine, until someone needs some boats off Greenland or Antartica. They will punch up operating temperatures in a computer and say, here are some boats that will do just fine. One hundred of them ship and all Hell breaks loose because the implementation doesn't match engineering plans.
The original design called for TEMPEST compliance. The end product was not TEMPEST, and that is a problem. Whether or not you believe in the TEMPEST specifics is not up to engineering to arbitrarily ignore. Engineers must build to specs.
I agree that TEMPEST is a bit out there, but we are talking about building according to specifics. Engineers don't get to decide arbitrarily to vary from design specifics because they don't feel them necessary. Differences from design to implementation cannot be allowed to happen. The design must match the finished development. If a change away from TEMPEST specs was in order, the design should have been changed.
Otherwise, we would have buildings in California not designed to hold up during a big earthquake because some engineer from the mid-west decided to build it how he always had "back home". Car tires could shred at eighty miles per hour because some engineer only tested at 55 because that is how fast he drives. You see where I am going with this?
I don't know. I listened to his ten minute video while tidying email. A web page I probably would not have read and may have been looked at more as a conspiracy nut's rantings. The same could be said for anything televised: why not just have a text transcript?
It's like giving nine women the task of gestating a baby in one month.
Twenty years will go by before schools teach this. Schools have to wait for some teachers to die off, posters to get reprinted, new books ordered, etc.
To this day, I have Interplanet Janet playing in my head when I think of the solar system.
I got in similar trouble to telling my teacher that her solar system model was wrong because all of her planets were on the same plane. And, got in more trouble when I mentioned that Pluto is not the furthist planet from the sun, but rather Neptune was (at least, at that time). Of course, the worst was when I corrected a teacher whom said Saturn was the only planet with rings.
Okay, we are talking about Windows users: they will simply click 'Yes' to anything that pops up on the screen.
You know that most people whom would not see it in the theater will not only buy the DVD, but will watch it every time it is played ad nauseum on HBO, Showtime, Skinemax, Stars, TNT, TBS, et cetera. The movie will do just fine as far as money is concerned.
I think that all they need to do is blow up a plane at the terminal, or even set off an explosive in the security line to cause a big enough terrorist event with economic upset.
This will be the catalyst for them to start worrying about 'solar warming'. "Cycles? My fellow Americans, do not believe that for a second. The sun is a violent, chaotic planet and it must be cooled or removed from our universe. The more that yellow thing in our atmosphere is allowed to shine, the worse our global warming will be."
If I saw one, I would exclaim, "Wow, that computer is stacked!"
Hell, I can show you museums that show kind, gentle dinosaurs living in harmony with man. So what?
The Segway was going to do away with walking. The sales projections purposed showed them being used by just about everyone living in a city. I think the example is fitting.
At ask.com: "Where the fuck is Cameroon, Jeeves?"