That it is a good idea to stop using email clients that automatically execute live code or allow disguised programs to have the appearance of some other class file luring unsuspecting neos into double clicking into virus heavan. Or email clients that allow access through scripts to the address book with no warnings? For example that odd Outlook product.
"satire for the humor impaired warning, well actually so I won't be sued satire warning"
The player and jukebox software combo should support music formats of AAC with Freeplay DRM. After all the iTMS gets exclusive deals for those hard to find songs you might be wanting occasionally.
Real BAsic by Real Software is a good choice. They offer a thriving developers community. The toolset is extensible, and coolest of all they support Windows, Macintosh and Linux executable creation from a common source.
Backbone providers will then have to filter the net. Otherwise my feed from Sprint is not filtered. This essentially attempts to regulate something at the state level that the FCC has treated as a common carrier. Next comes filtering phone calls for content by the telephone CLECs and LECs, since that technology does exist, potentially.
I am sorry this guy just does not realize what a common carrier is. If an ISP is forced to censor _anything_ then the ISP can be deemed responsible for all the content that passes through them. Since Sprint, Quest, and the backbone operators, et al. have the deepest pockets they'll be the ones folks go after.
It is a service, not a right to be on the Net. Don't like what is there, turn it off. I hope the big backbone providers take a look at this because they are the ISPs to the ISPs. Heck I'd be rsponsible for filtering for all my clients, some of whom would then be responsible for filtering for their clients, etc.
Just remember that old 80 - 20 rule. 80% of the work is done in 20% of the code. 80% of the code is simple to write 20% requires some thought. And when humans do the optimizing 80 percent of the time the 20% of the code they optimize isn't the critical code to optimize. People make really poor choices most of the time for hand optimizations. And compilers are much better at consistently optimizing code these days. If you must, work on optimizing the algorithms used and let the compiler optimize the code. Clear concise code is more valuable and processors will get faster. If you must optimize the code, and we all feel that pull to do so from time to time, make sure you use appropriate tools to profile the execution of the code with realistic inputs/loads to choose where to spend your time optimizing. And check your before and after with the same load and profiling tools to make sure you spent your time well.
I always wanted to start a reply that way. Well, we called them X terminals. Things like VT1000 and VT1200 X terminals could also bring up a native serial terminal emulator window that connected to the device serial ports (or telnet) as well as ethernet for the X sessions. I still want one after the last one I saw I turned down as the EPROMs had gon fuzzy and lost some critical bits.
I can write a support plug-in for iTunes for different portable players.
I can write an iTunes plug-in for different codecs.
I can write a plug-in that trans-codes (though I think technically that violates an Apple license) from protected AAC to whatever other codec.
If M$ had the guts to make the move they could write a plug-in for iTunes tyhat supported WMA DRM. And further if they bothered to do it right, could then allow iTunes to transcode to AAC or WMA without DRM or MP3 or whatever at the user level.
Why can't I write a protected AAC codec for Windows Media Player.
The Knightrider transam had multiple layers of some plastic on the body panels. This was one of the best known "secrets" of their special effects folks. It allowed the layer to be peeled off like an onion skin if it was damaged in shooting. It was big noise when it was leaked the first time.
Everything new is history that has been forgotten.
At least this process might become available widely. Maybe.
Did you forget about Skylab. Mir was a cramped hamster tube in comparision. Skylab was roomy enough for astronauts to run laps in zero g. And we deorbited it because we wouldn't pay for a lowcost launch of an Agena booster to keep it in an appropriate orbit. Skylab would have made a wonderful base for an international space station. Skylab had invaluable information on aging spacestations that because of Shuttle program delays (the primary re-boost support plan) and failure to spend minor amounts of money (the Agena booster plan) to save Skylab, we allowed it to deorbit and become a total loss after only three missions in 1973 to 1974. Oh, and STS-114 is already scheduled so why do folks think the Shuttle will be permanently grounded. Those how forget history are doomed to repeat it. At deorbit there was water for 180 plus days and oxygen for 420 days on board. NASA had plans for the required technology overhaul needed to bring Skylab back to operational condition. Scientists were eager to see what the result of multiple years of orbit and space exposure would have had. If you'd like a piece of Skylab travel to western Australia and onward out to sea. Big. Roomy. A complete waste to deorbit without seeing what was up or garnering the practice of working in space on a space station to repair and renovate it in the early shuttle flights. Sad.
Then again ... Not a fair comparision
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Britons have been hoarding digital data, with many carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks of paper
Just think what it would be if it were done in clay tablet equivalents. Darn paper using data hoarders.
Micro-kernal OSes then. Small broker that passes requests of varing natures to different programs for processing. Hardware abstraction layer of NT or OS/2 or prior OSes where requests are interpreted and reformed to be passed on to another program. Micro kernals are the most likely since they are sepearate processes almost all the time that handle the requests. Or Open-Doc though that doesn't go back as far as the roots, it is before the current filing dates, so a historical analysis of exact filing dates and what chanegs where made on the filing timeline would need to be done, except for us ad-hoc patent hawks of course.
Prior to the patents base origins would be any network aware programs that invoke another network aware program, unless the patents specifically limit themeselves to one macine, so SMTP and UUCP would be candidates for prior art. Sun's RPC might be useful too. Adventure (once it was byte-code driven) so ID may have had some patents whereever they are currently being held. In broadest terms any game engine that was driven by an external file would qualify.
Vapor phase degreaser. The old ones were base on freon. It is boiled in the bottom of the "barrel" and condenses at a cold zone near the top. Anything placed in the middle is drenched. When you remove the piece it is free of crud as the freon was released into the environment. Maybe they have new ones with more PC solvents?
Accounting for disposal
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In countries that bury their dead, just bury the whole self contained plant under a cemetary. Mark with appropriate long lived multi-lingual stone marker (when the writings eroded the ex-nuke is safe). Bury it over 100 feet down and terrorists won't have an easy time reaching it without lots of lead time to intervene. Not to mention when the lights go out someone will notice anyway.
He expects AI to have desire. This is what causes those damnable machines to put humankind in chains to save it from itself. Obedience is what is required. And an off switch that is easy to affect.
Anyway the police-bots will be exempt and that's where the trouble will start in 2038.
Instead of cracking Apple's DRM, Real could have just made a plug-in to iTunes that allowed Real content to be played in iTunes and allowed it to be converted (not sure that is able to be disallowed, but can be limited). That way you'd buy a song from Real's music store (and you can extend iTunes to allow access through iTunes, or do a standalone app) and you'd be able to download directly into iTunes and play Real's DRM'ed songs. Just like WMA can be played now. (Unprotected only as MS won't turn over its DRM keys either and can't be bothered to write a simple plugin for software from Apple.) Then allow the conversion to MP3 or AAC and you are off and running. Very cool would be if apple included the ability to convert to AAC with their DRM, but alas. Then it could play on the iPod. Does Real give away their DRM format? Does M$? No. Why should Apple. Any music service could provide the means to secure the purchased audio and allow conversion at point of use, just like Apple does. And then they'd play on the iPod as well.
It would, I repeat, be wonderful for Apple to include the ability to recode into AAC with DRM directly from iTunes. That would resolve all those issues for Real and MS directly removing their remaining excuses for their apologists. If Apple needs help with this feature, contact me and we'll do it for you. Same for Real. Same results, only legal w/o violating the DMCA.
My question is this - do we have an explicit, constitutional guarantee of privacy regardless of where we are? It seems to me I recall guarantees only regarding my private residences or lands, more recently, my private vehicle, and the private residences and lands, etc. of the individuals who are my family, friends and associates.
It is not that the constitution grants rights to individuals. It defines the ability of the government to operate and gives the government specific ability to pass laws that allow it to operate. It in essence grants rights to the artificial entity that is the federal government. The Bill of Rights further restricts government from infringing on an individuals rights. And more specifically all rights not taken by the government explicitly in the Constitution are reserved to the States and the people (individuals) again, explicitly.
The practical side is the government doesn't abide by the constitution when crafting laws and relies in great part on the horrendous expense involved in over-turning a law as un-Constitutional through the court system. It really amounts to economic extortion to subvert the Constitution, often in the name of "public safety" or "public welfare". The most often abused justification is the right to control interstate commerce. This is the justification for anti-pornography laws to Federal car-jacking laws and a host in between. This abuse was also predicted by our Founders.
Even if you have read The Federalist Papers you need to read the other sides comments in The Anti-Federalist Papers. Remember that the views and concerns expressed the The Federalist Papers are those of the Founders in favor of a strong central government. And they'd really have fits over what we've done to their plan since then... Remember, the Constitution restricts the gornment; it is not meant to enable individuals. We are already endowed by (the founders un-PC words) our creator with inalienable rights. The Constitution places limits on what of those rights the government can take.
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Mail you transportation fund donation to a random address.
That it is a good idea to stop using email clients that automatically execute live code or allow disguised programs to have the appearance of some other class file luring unsuspecting neos into double clicking into virus heavan. Or email clients that allow access through scripts to the address book with no warnings? For example that odd Outlook product. "satire for the humor impaired warning, well actually so I won't be sued satire warning"
The player and jukebox software combo should support music formats of AAC with Freeplay DRM. After all the iTMS gets exclusive deals for those hard to find songs you might be wanting occasionally.
Real BAsic by Real Software is a good choice. They offer a thriving developers community. The toolset is extensible, and coolest of all they support Windows, Macintosh and Linux executable creation from a common source.
and name it the Slashdot registered out of Tucows?
Backbone providers will then have to filter the net. Otherwise my feed from Sprint is not filtered. This essentially attempts to regulate something at the state level that the FCC has treated as a common carrier. Next comes filtering phone calls for content by the telephone CLECs and LECs, since that technology does exist, potentially.
I am sorry this guy just does not realize what a common carrier is. If an ISP is forced to censor _anything_ then the ISP can be deemed responsible for all the content that passes through them. Since Sprint, Quest, and the backbone operators, et al. have the deepest pockets they'll be the ones folks go after.
It is a service, not a right to be on the Net. Don't like what is there, turn it off. I hope the big backbone providers take a look at this because they are the ISPs to the ISPs. Heck I'd be rsponsible for filtering for all my clients, some of whom would then be responsible for filtering for their clients, etc.
Just remember that old 80 - 20 rule. 80% of the work is done in 20% of the code. 80% of the code is simple to write 20% requires some thought. And when humans do the optimizing 80 percent of the time the 20% of the code they optimize isn't the critical code to optimize. People make really poor choices most of the time for hand optimizations. And compilers are much better at consistently optimizing code these days. If you must, work on optimizing the algorithms used and let the compiler optimize the code. Clear concise code is more valuable and processors will get faster. If you must optimize the code, and we all feel that pull to do so from time to time, make sure you use appropriate tools to profile the execution of the code with realistic inputs/loads to choose where to spend your time optimizing. And check your before and after with the same load and profiling tools to make sure you spent your time well.
You've never watched movies have you? From orbiting Jupiter to stations on Mars or even the Moon, when tensions run hot on earth disasters happen. :)
I always wanted to start a reply that way. Well, we called them X terminals. Things like VT1000 and VT1200 X terminals could also bring up a native serial terminal emulator window that connected to the device serial ports (or telnet) as well as ethernet for the X sessions. I still want one after the last one I saw I turned down as the EPROMs had gon fuzzy and lost some critical bits.
I can write a support plug-in for iTunes for different portable players.
I can write an iTunes plug-in for different codecs.
I can write a plug-in that trans-codes (though I think technically that violates an Apple license) from protected AAC to whatever other codec.
If M$ had the guts to make the move they could write a plug-in for iTunes tyhat supported WMA DRM. And further if they bothered to do it right, could then allow iTunes to transcode to AAC or WMA without DRM or MP3 or whatever at the user level.
Why can't I write a protected AAC codec for Windows Media Player.
"Return of the Sith"?
The Knightrider transam had multiple layers of some plastic on the body panels. This was one of the best known "secrets" of their special effects folks. It allowed the layer to be peeled off like an onion skin if it was damaged in shooting. It was big noise when it was leaked the first time.
Everything new is history that has been forgotten.
At least this process might become available widely. Maybe.
Did you forget about Skylab. Mir was a cramped hamster tube in comparision. Skylab was roomy enough for astronauts to run laps in zero g. And we deorbited it because we wouldn't pay for a lowcost launch of an Agena booster to keep it in an appropriate orbit. Skylab would have made a wonderful base for an international space station. Skylab had invaluable information on aging spacestations that because of Shuttle program delays (the primary re-boost support plan) and failure to spend minor amounts of money (the Agena booster plan) to save Skylab, we allowed it to deorbit and become a total loss after only three missions in 1973 to 1974. Oh, and STS-114 is already scheduled so why do folks think the Shuttle will be permanently grounded. Those how forget history are doomed to repeat it. At deorbit there was water for 180 plus days and oxygen for 420 days on board. NASA had plans for the required technology overhaul needed to bring Skylab back to operational condition. Scientists were eager to see what the result of multiple years of orbit and space exposure would have had. If you'd like a piece of Skylab travel to western Australia and onward out to sea. Big. Roomy. A complete waste to deorbit without seeing what was up or garnering the practice of working in space on a space station to repair and renovate it in the early shuttle flights. Sad.
Britons have been hoarding digital data, with many carrying the equivalent of 10 trucks of paper
Just think what it would be if it were done in clay tablet equivalents. Darn paper using data hoarders.
'Since lawns (also known as grass) live usually less than 6" from the ground, how would flying help them do their job better?'
Sod and other grass roofed houses. Now able to be trimmed neat for a better looking neighborhood?
C++ seems to fall under the abstracts description. That should be fun.
Micro-kernal OSes then. Small broker that passes requests of varing natures to different programs for processing. Hardware abstraction layer of NT or OS/2 or prior OSes where requests are interpreted and reformed to be passed on to another program. Micro kernals are the most likely since they are sepearate processes almost all the time that handle the requests. Or Open-Doc though that doesn't go back as far as the roots, it is before the current filing dates, so a historical analysis of exact filing dates and what chanegs where made on the filing timeline would need to be done, except for us ad-hoc patent hawks of course.
Prior to the patents base origins would be any network aware programs that invoke another network aware program, unless the patents specifically limit themeselves to one macine, so SMTP and UUCP would be candidates for prior art. Sun's RPC might be useful too. Adventure (once it was byte-code driven) so ID may have had some patents whereever they are currently being held. In broadest terms any game engine that was driven by an external file would qualify.
Happy searching
Vapor phase degreaser. The old ones were base on freon. It is boiled in the bottom of the "barrel" and condenses at a cold zone near the top. Anything placed in the middle is drenched. When you remove the piece it is free of crud as the freon was released into the environment. Maybe they have new ones with more PC solvents?
In countries that bury their dead, just bury the whole self contained plant under a cemetary. Mark with appropriate long lived multi-lingual stone marker (when the writings eroded the ex-nuke is safe). Bury it over 100 feet down and terrorists won't have an easy time reaching it without lots of lead time to intervene. Not to mention when the lights go out someone will notice anyway.
He expects AI to have desire. This is what causes those damnable machines to put humankind in chains to save it from itself. Obedience is what is required. And an off switch that is easy to affect.
Anyway the police-bots will be exempt and that's where the trouble will start in 2038.
The ATT SID patent which was donated to the world free of license by ATT Bell Labs in their Unix days.
Instead of cracking Apple's DRM, Real could have just made a plug-in to iTunes that allowed Real content to be played in iTunes and allowed it to be converted (not sure that is able to be disallowed, but can be limited). That way you'd buy a song from Real's music store (and you can extend iTunes to allow access through iTunes, or do a standalone app) and you'd be able to download directly into iTunes and play Real's DRM'ed songs. Just like WMA can be played now. (Unprotected only as MS won't turn over its DRM keys either and can't be bothered to write a simple plugin for software from Apple.) Then allow the conversion to MP3 or AAC and you are off and running. Very cool would be if apple included the ability to convert to AAC with their DRM, but alas. Then it could play on the iPod. Does Real give away their DRM format? Does M$? No. Why should Apple. Any music service could provide the means to secure the purchased audio and allow conversion at point of use, just like Apple does. And then they'd play on the iPod as well.
It would, I repeat, be wonderful for Apple to include the ability to recode into AAC with DRM directly from iTunes. That would resolve all those issues for Real and MS directly removing their remaining excuses for their apologists. If Apple needs help with this feature, contact me and we'll do it for you. Same for Real. Same results, only legal w/o violating the DMCA.
My question is this - do we have an explicit, constitutional guarantee of privacy regardless of where we are? It seems to me I recall guarantees only regarding my private residences or lands, more recently, my private vehicle, and the private residences and lands, etc. of the individuals who are my family, friends and associates.
... Remember, the Constitution restricts the gornment; it is not meant to enable individuals. We are already endowed by (the founders un-PC words) our creator with inalienable rights. The Constitution places limits on what of those rights the government can take.
It is not that the constitution grants rights to individuals. It defines the ability of the government to operate and gives the government specific ability to pass laws that allow it to operate. It in essence grants rights to the artificial entity that is the federal government. The Bill of Rights further restricts government from infringing on an individuals rights. And more specifically all rights not taken by the government explicitly in the Constitution are reserved to the States and the people (individuals) again, explicitly.
The practical side is the government doesn't abide by the constitution when crafting laws and relies in great part on the horrendous expense involved in over-turning a law as un-Constitutional through the court system. It really amounts to economic extortion to subvert the Constitution, often in the name of "public safety" or "public welfare". The most often abused justification is the right to control interstate commerce. This is the justification for anti-pornography laws to Federal car-jacking laws and a host in between. This abuse was also predicted by our Founders.
Even if you have read The Federalist Papers you need to read the other sides comments in The Anti-Federalist Papers. Remember that the views and concerns expressed the The Federalist Papers are those of the Founders in favor of a strong central government. And they'd really have fits over what we've done to their plan since then
Use a set of cameras so one always has an open aperature.