Well, actually, yes - I would like to think that the "new and improved" Star Wars would live up to the generationally agnostic originals, that I've come to enjoy and appreciate on levels now that I certainly wouldn't have gotten before 16 years of age.
I can only speculate why there has been a sacrifice of the genuine quality and depth of the sextet; there is a prolific desire for these to be the universal fantasy of princesses and demons, and yet I personally find the new version of Star Wars providing answers where it is better to leave mystery, showing special effects where there should be simplicity, and employing the enactment of great plot to show power where there should be implication of power through character.
I personally had hoped for the artistic appreciation I now have of the original trilogy, but was disappointed. True power is restraint, something that lacks in the making of Episode I of the Star Wars series, contrasting its predecessors.
Of course, it is not my call to make, but I do wish George Lucas had shown the discretion to appeal to many levels of appreciation.
The fascinating thing is that pedophilia is really the last information "taboo", without which I (personally) can think of no information on the internet which would be so illegal as to require regulating the internet in the long term. Of course, bomb recipes and operative lists are certainly dangerous and deadly, but their disclosure is limited by those who really have knowledge, whereas pedophilia is in the area where anyone can create and use it.
Personally, I have a taboo with respect to pedophilia, but I believe it is also culturally based, and this is not something that should necessarily be imposed on other cultures. Much like Afghanistan imposing their beliefs on women in our country, we are equally well armed to justify the ethical position we harbour against pedophilia to those African tribes that firmly believe in female genital mutilations and who would, more often than not, violently oppose the destruction of their beliefs. We will equally oppose the destruction of the belief that children have the inherent right not to be voyeured or put into a sexual context, and many will probably violently oppose any change to that belief. (Ironically, on several levels, children are the ones who would be most open to the idea.)
For my whole life, I will probably fear and revile pedophilia. But that does not mean it is wrong, nor does it say anything about the actual ethics of pedophilia. But perhaps society will evolve through this, as you said - progress is made by confronting such issues (something society is notoriously bad at, I believe), and my children will be more open minded about it.
From at least the perspective of providing cheap (one-box, tv-enabled) computer equipment to the third world, it is a worthy venture. As well, it has some ubergeek factor as a learning experience.
From the really big perspective, it makes existing human resources broader in scope by providing functionality where before there was none. Whether or not it will be used is another question, as is whether or not it'll be justified.
Actually, if you're talking about what I think you're talking about, the phrase is used to generate entropy by using the millisecond (ignoring the significant part of the timing) and more precise parts of the timing between keystrokes, possibly and probably ignoring the actual keystrokes themselves (since if the keystroke is a factor the entropy is limited by the probability of the keystrokes times the timing factor, but the probability of random keystrokes isn't really random... any key usually means space, for example.)
But yes, if the keystrokes were the (only) relevent part of the generation of the key, it would be a non-random key that could be actively predicted by repeating the phrase. This can be modified by a proper random seed to mangle the phrase appropriately, but then everything depends on the randomness of that random seed.:)
Yes, they left out the wonderful world of ssh-agent, whereby one-time logons permit a memory resident ssh key to decrypt any further ssh challenges. If you have to type in your ssh private key password every time, then what's the real point? It doesn't speed things up or make the more usable. If your private key is not encyrpted with a private key password it can be used by anyone in the world to spoof your identity once compromised. Ssh-agent is a nice compromise; a "hot" terminal where ssh-agent has an activated key can be compromised, and at worst memory can be compromised to root out the decrypted private key (perhaps). But "hot" terminals are far less likely to be compromised. (Note that page files might be an issue here, I guess)
Something else omitted was the wonderful world of Putty, a MIT-licensed (~BSD) Windows set of SSH utilities, including scp and sftp. Without these tools (and cygwin/XFree86), management of our very heterogenous environment would be untenable!
Brian
1st Generation AI: 'cat/dev/random >/dev/kmem'
If I agreed with what you are saying (and I don't really disagree), I believe BeOS (a demanded and technically superior OS, IMHO) wouldn't have been disbarred by every OEM such as Compaq & Dell, by threats from Microsoft of increasing licensing costs for the MS OS. If the market were to take care of itself, Wordperfect 5.1 would still be here, because for all intents and purposes, it did just about everything a word processor needs to do. A market that looks after itself would have had Borland a success story for its innovation, instead of a decapitated runner up to a monopoly that bought its best employees for million dollar signing bonus's and provides them with hooks into the OS that Borland didn't have available. A market that looks after itself would not be in the state that it is in now, I don't think. I could be wrong, but I've seen little evidence to see industry in general (monopolies in particular) take care of the markets, the environment, the constituents of free and democratic countries, or employees. If anything, the goal of a corporation is to dissolve a market status, exploit the environment, tax the free and undermine democratic choices, and employ slave labour. The goals of the constituents of the market (and thus the market itself) are then not the same as the goals of a free people.
The computer industry NEEDS WinXP to be launched in October to help fuel consumer and business buying, thus giving the tech companies a much-needed boost.
Begging your pardon, but wouldn't the same dollars that go to Windows XP be better put into available competitive products in the tech industry? I believe that money would do good to go into the tech industry, but as many wall streeter's have noticed, Microsoft isn't suffering like the rest of the tech industry, and I'm hardly inclined to believe that the money to go into the floundering tech industry is related to money going into a Win XP tax destined for a stable monopolistic party. (Am I missing something here?:) )
Now, if I were paying a set fee per email, could I sue spammers, or my ISP (or whoever is providing the email service) sue the spammers, since they are effectively costing me money. Anyone have any idea how well this would hold up???
Is the general sentiment of those working in IBM on things regarding Linux that they love linux because it has so many great merits and is free in so many ways that software development hasn't been in so long, do they love linux as an alternative to a megalomaniac Microsoft's offerings, do they love linux because it provides interesting work, or is it merely another job at IBM?
I guess what I want to know is how you see Linux being appreciated on an employee level at IBM.
It is ironic that the tools of marginalization, suppression, and prohibition are all utilized by an elitist class. The will of the powerful is to suppress power, and power is knowledge (Foucault) - without the famed and widespread ignorance of the lackeys of the Nazi's (see Judgement at Nuremberg), who were in many cases moral people being repressed of their viewpoints, the prolific nature of antisemitism would have been much less in World War II. I do see a keen analogy between Nazi's repression and RIAA repression, but it is not just of speech - it is of actions, thoughts, beliefs, and even truths. The repression of speech merely accompanies the repression of ideas and freedoms and wills.
I believe there is a usenet law that states that all arguments degenerate to Nazi analogies. Anyone remember the name of that law?
Is it possible to make Python as fast as C/C++? In particular, is there a way to compile Python into system code (as opposed to byte code)? If there isn't, will there ever be?
Are you interested in what influences the internet, or how national governments influence the internet? Corporations are likely to have far more influence than national governments, since it not kosher for a national agency to make recommendations to policies of foreign nationals, but corporations have precise influences on all governments (hence lobbying). If you want to know how national governments will influence the internet, I think it will be a struggle between what the government thinks is best for its society and what corporations convince national governing bodies is necessary.
Unfortunately, it is unlikely that any change in your eyes would significantly improve your vision. (but there would be definite improvement, possibly up to and including driving) The problem is not in the eyes themselves, but in the visual cortex, which would be underdeveloped and would be essentially unable to handle a huge increase in sensor activity. You could suffer problems like severe headaches and dizziness, particularly when changing focus. After a certain age the visual cortex becomes much less adaptive and essentially unresponsive to larger numbers of signals. But the good news about that is there is a huge amount of work going into nerve growth that could help compensate for that. But it's best to be aware that it isn't completely a good thing without consequence and certainly not a miracle, but definitely a hopeful prospect.
Ok, so terrorists don't have to pay for encryption. They could pay for it if they wanted to, but do you really think that a ban on freely accessible encryption will limit their access to it? (Open question. I don't know, honestly.)
I would have thought that the obscurity provided by the massive amounts of information passing over the net would have been enough to communicate anything of necessity. And besides, if they can communicate in a different language (ie. one they made up), without a primer there's no way to tell what they're talking about anyway.
I emailed Alan about Non-System Planetoids - a story from sometime on Slashdot - that exist outside solar systems. I think he thought it was (a.) interesting and (b.) a piss off because it wasn't in the MOO3 design diagram!
Interesting to see if they're going to end up taking this into account - wonder if it meshed well with their plans.
Actually, nuclear weapons is a misnomer - they're really less weapons and better called deterrents. I believe the actual use of a nuclear weapon defeats the purpose - the threat of a thermonuclear device is far, far more influencial than the use of one.
The Ring Trilogy had it's own economy of magic and facism (Goblin'ism, IIRC) - physical ownership was kinda relegated because most characters of interest were independent or aristocracy or magical (or some combination thereof). It did not reflect the case of the general population. The economy of the Ring Trilogy did play a big part of the storyline, however - in particular many of the impoverished cities were sieged because of that state.
A better memory serving me correctly, I could cite some names, but the gist is that the money of the individual did not need to play a big part of the Ring Trilogy, whereas the money of the state did. In the case of Everquest, it seems to be a reversed role, where there is no state to speak of!
I believe this law hinges upon the EULA - oh the horror of that thing. Sony isn't sueing the users, it isn't taking anything from them that they didn't have before, it's simply saying that if you want to use it's service, you have to abide by the rules of that service.
I'm not exactly siding with Sony here - although my opinion leans toward them because these people are putting good economic resources into virtual values like games and that strikes me as inefficient and unethical and part of a bubble world - ha! - on the other hand it's just free commerce of something of value.
The point that makes the biggest difference is whether or not these people agree to, by paying for Sony's service, abide by a certain set of rules. I have to abide by an AUP: Acceptable Use Policy, by my ISP - it says I cannot portscan (and they even accused me of committing a crime when I *did* portscan), but my arguments, even with citation of the harmlessness of portscanning made precedent in the Georgia case, the point of interest is not whether it is legal, ethical, or moot to let me portscan - I am violating an implicit agreement between myself and the person I am receiving that service from.
So I think it is within the right of the users of Sony's Everquest service to demand changes in Sony's policy, but I do believe that it is outside their rights to break their implicit agreement with Sony and solicit items from the Everquest games. The ethical consequences of this may be deep and far reaching - but that's beyond this conversation!
One might cry "fundamental rights", or say that it's none of Sony's business. I think there's merit to this, and problems with implicit agreements, but I think Sony's in the right, and the users might have valid arguments in what they want but Sony has not done anything offensive to them (that I know of!) or essentially wrong within the constraints of the situation.
First, the radioactivity from coal mines is in the form of radioactive rocks and gasses, radon or radium, or any variation of heavy metals that inhabit the earth. The fact coal plants do release these is rarely known, but worse is the fact that they are completely unregulated!
With Nuclear, at least the radioactivity levels are monitored at all times by an independent body.
I think this is a brilliant idea. It opens up the database to a whole slew of standard commands, but in particular it makes sure the database has a sensible way of being accessed.
As well, this would be fantastic for configurations (in particular the complex ones of Gnome and KDE) since large amounts of data could be elegantly compartmentalized in a standard way. I find this nifty with the growing complexity of filestructures in these config sets, they would be open to editing and updating through the standard filesystem method, or through a standard SQL query system.
FOIA concerns "friends and family first" notification in case of death or injury. Although I doubt dead astronaughts will be sending logs, I believe NASA is liable for grief (not sure what it's called in US law) if a family hears about death or injury on CNN or the web or however publicly. That's one rationalization, at least, although there certainly is a bit of glint taken from the ISS when they do this. The more info I have in the ISS, the more interested I become in it.
Agreed. Paradigms really have bang for the buck and I've seen people consistently impressed with them. If you want to move up a notch, consider getting demo speakers or systems when they are about to be turnt over in stock - you'll save significantly on the system cost.
For example, I purchassed demo $900 Dahlquist Loudspeakers for $350 + $75 for a 10 year warrantee just when FutureShop was turning over their stock. They are superior to anything I've seen in the $350 class by far. I also purchassed a $500 Sony Receiver used - I haven't heard of any degredation in receivers, unless they're abused (and I made sure this one wasn't).
I also moved in with a roommate with 9 other speakers, so we have 11 speakers altogether, so we have 3 centre (daisy chained) and two subs (only using one), and four rear satellites, and the sound is really immersive. Since none of the speakers are working particularly hard, there is very little distortion (that's my reasoning, anyway), so the clarity is superb.
Hope this provided you with a few tips. In point: demo + old model speakers, and used amps will significantly decrease your cost without significantly increasing the potential "lemon" purchase - depending on how much you investigate.
Just an aside:
ipf and iptables are both branches from Darren Reed's ipfilter. One could get ipfilter up and running on a Linux box before, but now it's in the kernel and rightly so, in my humble opinion.
The big difference in iptables and prior linux firewalls is that ipfilter is a keep state firewall meaning that one doesn't need to keep track of TCP/syn, TCP/syn+ack, TCP/ack flags to "guess" a genuine connection's status.
Just like silicon replaced by diamond - it's probably going to have a significantly (but not radically) different manufacturing process. I think that each process, such as diamond boards, or atomic transistors, will require a revolution in a particular technology, but since these benefits in process will all happen at different times I strongly believe the technology as a whole evolves. Thus, each little revolution in a particular piece of production results in the evolution of the technology as a whole.
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I can only speculate why there has been a sacrifice of the genuine quality and depth of the sextet; there is a prolific desire for these to be the universal fantasy of princesses and demons, and yet I personally find the new version of Star Wars providing answers where it is better to leave mystery, showing special effects where there should be simplicity, and employing the enactment of great plot to show power where there should be implication of power through character.
I personally had hoped for the artistic appreciation I now have of the original trilogy, but was disappointed. True power is restraint, something that lacks in the making of Episode I of the Star Wars series, contrasting its predecessors.
Of course, it is not my call to make, but I do wish George Lucas had shown the discretion to appeal to many levels of appreciation.
Personally, I have a taboo with respect to pedophilia, but I believe it is also culturally based, and this is not something that should necessarily be imposed on other cultures. Much like Afghanistan imposing their beliefs on women in our country, we are equally well armed to justify the ethical position we harbour against pedophilia to those African tribes that firmly believe in female genital mutilations and who would, more often than not, violently oppose the destruction of their beliefs. We will equally oppose the destruction of the belief that children have the inherent right not to be voyeured or put into a sexual context, and many will probably violently oppose any change to that belief. (Ironically, on several levels, children are the ones who would be most open to the idea.)
For my whole life, I will probably fear and revile pedophilia. But that does not mean it is wrong, nor does it say anything about the actual ethics of pedophilia. But perhaps society will evolve through this, as you said - progress is made by confronting such issues (something society is notoriously bad at, I believe), and my children will be more open minded about it.
From the really big perspective, it makes existing human resources broader in scope by providing functionality where before there was none. Whether or not it will be used is another question, as is whether or not it'll be justified.
But yes, if the keystrokes were the (only) relevent part of the generation of the key, it would be a non-random key that could be actively predicted by repeating the phrase. This can be modified by a proper random seed to mangle the phrase appropriately, but then everything depends on the randomness of that random seed. :)
Something else omitted was the wonderful world of Putty, a MIT-licensed (~BSD) Windows set of SSH utilities, including scp and sftp. Without these tools (and cygwin/XFree86), management of our very heterogenous environment would be untenable!
Brian /dev/random > /dev/kmem'
1st Generation AI: 'cat
If I agreed with what you are saying (and I don't really disagree), I believe BeOS (a demanded and technically superior OS, IMHO) wouldn't have been disbarred by every OEM such as Compaq & Dell, by threats from Microsoft of increasing licensing costs for the MS OS. If the market were to take care of itself, Wordperfect 5.1 would still be here, because for all intents and purposes, it did just about everything a word processor needs to do. A market that looks after itself would have had Borland a success story for its innovation, instead of a decapitated runner up to a monopoly that bought its best employees for million dollar signing bonus's and provides them with hooks into the OS that Borland didn't have available. A market that looks after itself would not be in the state that it is in now, I don't think. I could be wrong, but I've seen little evidence to see industry in general (monopolies in particular) take care of the markets, the environment, the constituents of free and democratic countries, or employees. If anything, the goal of a corporation is to dissolve a market status, exploit the environment, tax the free and undermine democratic choices, and employ slave labour. The goals of the constituents of the market (and thus the market itself) are then not the same as the goals of a free people.
Now, if I were paying a set fee per email, could I sue spammers, or my ISP (or whoever is providing the email service) sue the spammers, since they are effectively costing me money. Anyone have any idea how well this would hold up???
I guess what I want to know is how you see Linux being appreciated on an employee level at IBM.
I believe there is a usenet law that states that all arguments degenerate to Nazi analogies. Anyone remember the name of that law?
Is it possible to make Python as fast as C/C++? In particular, is there a way to compile Python into system code (as opposed to byte code)? If there isn't, will there ever be?
Are you interested in what influences the internet, or how national governments influence the internet? Corporations are likely to have far more influence than national governments, since it not kosher for a national agency to make recommendations to policies of foreign nationals, but corporations have precise influences on all governments (hence lobbying). If you want to know how national governments will influence the internet, I think it will be a struggle between what the government thinks is best for its society and what corporations convince national governing bodies is necessary.
All the best
Brian
I would have thought that the obscurity provided by the massive amounts of information passing over the net would have been enough to communicate anything of necessity. And besides, if they can communicate in a different language (ie. one they made up), without a primer there's no way to tell what they're talking about anyway.
Off go the Telephone sanitation people again ...
Interesting to see if they're going to end up taking this into account - wonder if it meshed well with their plans.
Actually, nuclear weapons is a misnomer - they're really less weapons and better called deterrents. I believe the actual use of a nuclear weapon defeats the purpose - the threat of a thermonuclear device is far, far more influencial than the use of one.
A better memory serving me correctly, I could cite some names, but the gist is that the money of the individual did not need to play a big part of the Ring Trilogy, whereas the money of the state did. In the case of Everquest, it seems to be a reversed role, where there is no state to speak of!
I'm not exactly siding with Sony here - although my opinion leans toward them because these people are putting good economic resources into virtual values like games and that strikes me as inefficient and unethical and part of a bubble world - ha! - on the other hand it's just free commerce of something of value.
The point that makes the biggest difference is whether or not these people agree to, by paying for Sony's service, abide by a certain set of rules. I have to abide by an AUP: Acceptable Use Policy, by my ISP - it says I cannot portscan (and they even accused me of committing a crime when I *did* portscan), but my arguments, even with citation of the harmlessness of portscanning made precedent in the Georgia case, the point of interest is not whether it is legal, ethical, or moot to let me portscan - I am violating an implicit agreement between myself and the person I am receiving that service from.
So I think it is within the right of the users of Sony's Everquest service to demand changes in Sony's policy, but I do believe that it is outside their rights to break their implicit agreement with Sony and solicit items from the Everquest games. The ethical consequences of this may be deep and far reaching - but that's beyond this conversation!
One might cry "fundamental rights", or say that it's none of Sony's business. I think there's merit to this, and problems with implicit agreements, but I think Sony's in the right, and the users might have valid arguments in what they want but Sony has not done anything offensive to them (that I know of!) or essentially wrong within the constraints of the situation.
First, the radioactivity from coal mines is in the form of radioactive rocks and gasses, radon or radium, or any variation of heavy metals that inhabit the earth. The fact coal plants do release these is rarely known, but worse is the fact that they are completely unregulated!
With Nuclear, at least the radioactivity levels are monitored at all times by an independent body.
As well, this would be fantastic for configurations (in particular the complex ones of Gnome and KDE) since large amounts of data could be elegantly compartmentalized in a standard way. I find this nifty with the growing complexity of filestructures in these config sets, they would be open to editing and updating through the standard filesystem method, or through a standard SQL query system.
FOIA concerns "friends and family first" notification in case of death or injury. Although I doubt dead astronaughts will be sending logs, I believe NASA is liable for grief (not sure what it's called in US law) if a family hears about death or injury on CNN or the web or however publicly. That's one rationalization, at least, although there certainly is a bit of glint taken from the ISS when they do this. The more info I have in the ISS, the more interested I become in it.
For example, I purchassed demo $900 Dahlquist Loudspeakers for $350 + $75 for a 10 year warrantee just when FutureShop was turning over their stock. They are superior to anything I've seen in the $350 class by far. I also purchassed a $500 Sony Receiver used - I haven't heard of any degredation in receivers, unless they're abused (and I made sure this one wasn't).
I also moved in with a roommate with 9 other speakers, so we have 11 speakers altogether, so we have 3 centre (daisy chained) and two subs (only using one), and four rear satellites, and the sound is really immersive. Since none of the speakers are working particularly hard, there is very little distortion (that's my reasoning, anyway), so the clarity is superb.
Hope this provided you with a few tips. In point: demo + old model speakers, and used amps will significantly decrease your cost without significantly increasing the potential "lemon" purchase - depending on how much you investigate.
ipf and iptables are both branches from Darren Reed's ipfilter. One could get ipfilter up and running on a Linux box before, but now it's in the kernel and rightly so, in my humble opinion.
The big difference in iptables and prior linux firewalls is that ipfilter is a keep state firewall meaning that one doesn't need to keep track of TCP/syn, TCP/syn+ack, TCP/ack flags to "guess" a genuine connection's status.
Just like silicon replaced by diamond - it's probably going to have a significantly (but not radically) different manufacturing process. I think that each process, such as diamond boards, or atomic transistors, will require a revolution in a particular technology, but since these benefits in process will all happen at different times I strongly believe the technology as a whole evolves. Thus, each little revolution in a particular piece of production results in the evolution of the technology as a whole.