These guys have been around for a while. There was a Popular Mechanics article on this system about five years ago - not exactly new. Just now, they've got enough cash to build a prototype. However, no one/article has addressed the merging problem - how do you go from ground road to raised/ground rail fast and easily?
Catchty idea...but why bother with the whole big header? Keep the name in the filename, but make a header that's got a value of, say, "cow" in the file, and when decrypted, has the value of "chicken." Same deal as above, but much smaller header.
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Now, I've never seen CSI (hell, before now I had never even heard of it), it seems reminiscent of the Discovery Channel show "Forensic Detectives," but with a cheezy plot added on. FD is a simple format: at the begining of the show they recereate a real murder / death / kidnapping / BadThing, and then spend the rest of the show explaing how the cops got the guy that did it. It's nice because it's based on real cases, and they have all the guys that actually solved them in for the show. It gets Science across just as well as CSI does (from the desc), but without the need for a Mulder, since there are no consistent characters from one episode to the next; each one is a seperate, quantized case.
I (formerly) attended a posh Canadian private school. If you know the Canadian educational system, you'll know where I mean. We were told when we started applying to colleges that it wasn't so much of a question of if we'd get accpeted, it was more a question of how soon. We were told (quite accuratly) that any grade we received would be taken into account by the admissions people in light of the school we came from. It's not fair - I agree with the guy who pointed out the issues with a multiplier - but it happens everywhere. Face it. Saying it dosen't and it shouldn't is like beleiving that merit is the only way to get promoted at a company, or that life s fair.
To bring religion into a discussion where it has no place: what if we were meant to be in this orbit, and therefore meant to die in a few billion years. Would be we morally in the right to try and change this and play god?
Gee...what a surprise that "Blue" has a national missle defense program. What a coincidence that one of those is exactly what that fool Rumsfeld and his master want to install. The one bit that gives me hope is that "Red" found a fairly easy way to eliminate its usefullness. Maybe this will cause B&R to think again about the usefulness of such a system.
Also, in time of war, would the commercial satellite operators really say no to "Red" using their systems, if the contract said so? I just get a feeling that the "Blue" government would provide some sort of incentive/threat to get their domestic commercial sats not to carry "Red" traffic.
And come on, we're not in the Cold War anymore. The commies arn't going to come and invade, and the Brits won't need any saving. Get some new bloody colors...
I was three years old when Challenger blew. I don't remember any of it, and if I had seen it on TV with my parents, I likely woudn't have known what was going on. You've mentioned events like the Kennedy assination and Challenger as being definite moments for early generations, but how about mine?
The only defining moments I can think of for my gen-z (is that what we're called?) generation are either the fall of the Berlin Wall or the invasion of Iraq/start of thr Gulf War. When the wall fell and they opened the gates, I was coming home from school and watched it all night, and when the first missles came into Iraq, I was doing math and my parents called me in to watch CNN, Chritianne Annanpour, and the Scud Stud from NBC cover the whole thing...luckily the war happened during Rodgers Cable's free CNN week, and they gave it to us free for the whole war.
Or, if you're cynical, it could have been the run-OJ-run marathon car chase - I was writing an english paper and my parents called me in to see it. But what does that say for My Generation if our big event is a washed-out footballer on a car chase?
Speaking of Scandanavian monarchy what about a Bluetooth'ed plane? Get a setup so you can you the on-board phone as an internet connection through your Bluetooth card, talk on it through your Bluetooth headpiece (now out and damn cool), or get constant voyage info jacked into your Plam-ish device.
I can see getting an SAS module for my Visor that's got a Bluetooth connection to the plane's galley, and having buttons that say things like "attention," "peanuts," "headphones," and "free beer so I can get some air rage on."
Correction - a "who's who" of liberal-minded CS/IS people. Can't you see some attorney saying "look at these people and they websites they inhabit [points to RMS's following on/.] - they're commies who want to end corporate innovation!" You gotta remember that while we see that these guys (and what they have done/say) are good thigns, some right-wing attorney will say the opposite and call the breif "misleading."
As far as I know UK search-and-seizure laws (that all searches require a warrant and/or probable cause), couldn't any prosecution based on DNA evidence be shot down with a lawsuit? If I'm found innocent of murder in Manchester on the grounds that I was in Belize at the time (but the cops take a DNA sample anyways), where's the probable cause that I'm responsible for a rape in Cornwall? Not only that, but where's the warrant authorizing the collection of my DNA without my consent? I'm seeing lawsuits-a-plenty here.
On the CCTV thing, I have no problems with it here in the UK. I feel much safer walking around places like Charing Cross or Lecister Sq. if I see one of those yellow Westminster survailence vans. And (for all who follow UK news), look at the Damiola Taylor case. The only suspects they've found have been as a result of the CCTV footage.
I'm confused. When SDMI came out and said to us all "crack our shitty standard for us," the community cried foul and denounced the competiton as doing the dirty-work of the evil SDMI people. Yet when the Honeynet and OpenHack people come out and say the same thing (except that this time we're doing RH's work), it's praised as a cool way to show off your l33t hax0ring skillz. What's the deal? Do we like the latter because it contains those five magic letters: L-I-N-U-X, but denounce the former because it would take away our "right" to tradeable and copyable MP3s (which is a whole seperate issue)? The purpose shouldn't matter; this issue is that of doing the security-checking of another company.
I'm confused, people. Which one is it? Yes or No for hack contests?
...thousands of corporate lobbyists encamped in Washington...
Right there. That's your problem. Not just for this, but for most of my big issues with the US. Lobbying (in my opion) totally perverts the normal course of government. How can government govern for the people where there are a whole army of people, paid for by a distinct minority, who have the power to influence the opinions of many senior senator and representatives.
Granted, some good bills have been passed due to lobbyists, but they were bills that, in a lobby-free environment, would have come around anyways (assuming a semi-sentient government). Put all groups equal before the house. End lobby groups.
No more lobby groups, and you get bills like one for privacy and one to stop Alaska being turned into a large oil refinerny to happen naturally.
There's a whole system of tunnel's under Vienna, where some movie was done. There are tours daily through them; you enter through a manhole in the central city square. Damn cool tour.
If I recall correctly, France is a member of the EU. Which means no internal borders or intra-european taxes. Which means that I (assuming I was French) would be perfectly within my rights to drive to Spain (where CD-Rs might be cheaper), buy four spindles of 50 CDs each, and come to Paris without paying a cent of taxes. Or I could do the same thing with an internet-based store in Greece.
Bottom line? No internal customs duties in the EU, therefor any unilateral tax won't work. And if the try to put a customs tax on importing them from within the EU? Prodi and his boys will kick their ass faster then you can say "vive la revolution."
What exactly is wrong with Nationalism? I've got my piece of ground (just so happens to be the second biggest in the world), and I should have the right to do whatever I feel there.
And because I know it's coming, I voted Liberal (which is roughly equivilent to Democrat).
As I see it, there is only one solution to this problem that can be thought of without the word "Imperialism" coming to mind - the right to pick the court of the courtry you're a citizen of. While this would disadvantage several nations, in the long run I feel that it would prolly be the best solution - much like the Hague Convention is now. In short, don't change a thing
The idea of a UN (or anyone) backed "Global Internet Court" will never work. For one, it's total Imperialism. A nation would be giving up its right to control the judicial system that deals with Commerce in its country. And some other issues arise. How do you enforce things? The Yahoo! case does perfectly; they could say that the French have no juristiction to touch them, and who's gonna stop them? ICANN? The WIPO, who are entertaining the Nissan domain-squatting case (possibly the most ridiculous Internet case yet)?
Granted, local juristiction would not be the be-all-end-all solution, as many US courts are prone to favor business over people, but this solution would provide the best hope for equality.
So my name is Mr. eBay. Today, I lost the custom of four guys who read Slashdot and are outraged that their email settings got deleted. Remind me again why I care? I have a huge number of customers who love me - why will the departure of a bunch of self-confessed 'nerds' hurt me?
Face it - eBay dosne't need your custom. They need the custom of the masses, who love directed email and anything with the word "special" in it that makes them feel unique. Bottom line is that you may feel you're making a statement by quitting, but Mr. eBay don't care about you or your used computer parts, and more-than-likely won't miss you.
They justify their position to Joe User from Utah (sorry if anyone's from Utah) by saying that having a drive that supports this standard will allow them access to special pieces of software and special applications that those evil people who use Napster and DVDs won't be able to. They'll say that soon everybody's going to be using it (regardless of the truth), and that if (for some silly reason) they oppose it, they'll be left out.
You have to realize that we (Slashdot readers) are for the most part much more educated than the average computer buyer. They'll see "special access" and "enforcing laws to protect workers" and "defeat piracy" as what they are told, not what they are. They will not see what is going on.
95% of the computer dosen't know what a "napster" is, has never seen or heard an MP3, and thinks Open Source is some kind of cult. This is what we're up against; people who are of the beleif that if you've done nothing wrong, then why should you oppose somthing that prevents people from doing things the Industry tells them not to. We need to educate the average person before any fight against this type of thing will work.
Last time I wrote somthing about a topic like this, it was called 'Flamebait' - it's not. It's a cold, hard dosage of the Truth. Don't pretend you don't see it.
Dan.
PS - If you're looking for my answer in the form of a question, it would be "How can we eduacate Joe User to what all this really means without scaring and confusing him."
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These guys have been around for a while. There was a Popular Mechanics article on this system about five years ago - not exactly new. Just now, they've got enough cash to build a prototype. However, no one/article has addressed the merging problem - how do you go from ground road to raised/ground rail fast and easily?
Catchty idea...but why bother with the whole big header? Keep the name in the filename, but make a header that's got a value of, say, "cow" in the file, and when decrypted, has the value of "chicken." Same deal as above, but much smaller header.
Except to British wit and Scottish drive.
Now, I've never seen CSI (hell, before now I had never even heard of it), it seems reminiscent of the Discovery Channel show "Forensic Detectives," but with a cheezy plot added on. FD is a simple format: at the begining of the show they recereate a real murder / death / kidnapping / BadThing, and then spend the rest of the show explaing how the cops got the guy that did it. It's nice because it's based on real cases, and they have all the guys that actually solved them in for the show. It gets Science across just as well as CSI does (from the desc), but without the need for a Mulder, since there are no consistent characters from one episode to the next; each one is a seperate, quantized case.
I (formerly) attended a posh Canadian private school. If you know the Canadian educational system, you'll know where I mean. We were told when we started applying to colleges that it wasn't so much of a question of if we'd get accpeted, it was more a question of how soon. We were told (quite accuratly) that any grade we received would be taken into account by the admissions people in light of the school we came from. It's not fair - I agree with the guy who pointed out the issues with a multiplier - but it happens everywhere. Face it. Saying it dosen't and it shouldn't is like beleiving that merit is the only way to get promoted at a company, or that life s fair.
What was the topic again?
To bring religion into a discussion where it has no place: what if we were meant to be in this orbit, and therefore meant to die in a few billion years. Would be we morally in the right to try and change this and play god?
Myst...the journey is the reward.
Story about other USAF Sapce Battle Laboratories and fun things they're upto and thinking about.
Also, in time of war, would the commercial satellite operators really say no to "Red" using their systems, if the contract said so? I just get a feeling that the "Blue" government would provide some sort of incentive/threat to get their domestic commercial sats not to carry "Red" traffic.
And come on, we're not in the Cold War anymore. The commies arn't going to come and invade, and the Brits won't need any saving. Get some new bloody colors...
Dan.
The only defining moments I can think of for my gen-z (is that what we're called?) generation are either the fall of the Berlin Wall or the invasion of Iraq/start of thr Gulf War. When the wall fell and they opened the gates, I was coming home from school and watched it all night, and when the first missles came into Iraq, I was doing math and my parents called me in to watch CNN, Chritianne Annanpour, and the Scud Stud from NBC cover the whole thing...luckily the war happened during Rodgers Cable's free CNN week, and they gave it to us free for the whole war.
Or, if you're cynical, it could have been the run-OJ-run marathon car chase - I was writing an english paper and my parents called me in to see it. But what does that say for My Generation if our big event is a washed-out footballer on a car chase?
Dan.
I can see getting an SAS module for my Visor that's got a Bluetooth connection to the plane's galley, and having buttons that say things like "attention," "peanuts," "headphones," and "free beer so I can get some air rage on."
Dan.
Correction - a "who's who" of liberal-minded CS/IS people. Can't you see some attorney saying "look at these people and they websites they inhabit [points to RMS's following on /.] - they're commies who want to end corporate innovation!" You gotta remember that while we see that these guys (and what they have done/say) are good thigns, some right-wing attorney will say the opposite and call the breif "misleading."
On the CCTV thing, I have no problems with it here in the UK. I feel much safer walking around places like Charing Cross or Lecister Sq. if I see one of those yellow Westminster survailence vans. And (for all who follow UK news), look at the Damiola Taylor case. The only suspects they've found have been as a result of the CCTV footage.
Dan.
And I submitted this earlier.
I'm confused, people. Which one is it? Yes or No for hack contests?
Right there. That's your problem. Not just for this, but for most of my big issues with the US. Lobbying (in my opion) totally perverts the normal course of government. How can government govern for the people where there are a whole army of people, paid for by a distinct minority, who have the power to influence the opinions of many senior senator and representatives.
Granted, some good bills have been passed due to lobbyists, but they were bills that, in a lobby-free environment, would have come around anyways (assuming a semi-sentient government). Put all groups equal before the house. End lobby groups.
No more lobby groups, and you get bills like one for privacy and one to stop Alaska being turned into a large oil refinerny to happen naturally.
There's a whole system of tunnel's under Vienna, where some movie was done. There are tours daily through them; you enter through a manhole in the central city square. Damn cool tour.
...it's a republic.
Bottom line? No internal customs duties in the EU, therefor any unilateral tax won't work. And if the try to put a customs tax on importing them from within the EU? Prodi and his boys will kick their ass faster then you can say "vive la revolution."
And because I know it's coming, I voted Liberal (which is roughly equivilent to Democrat).
The idea of a UN (or anyone) backed "Global Internet Court" will never work. For one, it's total Imperialism. A nation would be giving up its right to control the judicial system that deals with Commerce in its country. And some other issues arise. How do you enforce things? The Yahoo! case does perfectly; they could say that the French have no juristiction to touch them, and who's gonna stop them? ICANN? The WIPO, who are entertaining the Nissan domain-squatting case (possibly the most ridiculous Internet case yet)?
Granted, local juristiction would not be the be-all-end-all solution, as many US courts are prone to favor business over people, but this solution would provide the best hope for equality.
Dan.
Face it - eBay dosne't need your custom. They need the custom of the masses, who love directed email and anything with the word "special" in it that makes them feel unique. Bottom line is that you may feel you're making a statement by quitting, but Mr. eBay don't care about you or your used computer parts, and more-than-likely won't miss you.
Dan.
This isn't flamebait - it's the truth.
You have to realize that we (Slashdot readers) are for the most part much more educated than the average computer buyer. They'll see "special access" and "enforcing laws to protect workers" and "defeat piracy" as what they are told, not what they are. They will not see what is going on.
95% of the computer dosen't know what a "napster" is, has never seen or heard an MP3, and thinks Open Source is some kind of cult. This is what we're up against; people who are of the beleif that if you've done nothing wrong, then why should you oppose somthing that prevents people from doing things the Industry tells them not to. We need to educate the average person before any fight against this type of thing will work.
Last time I wrote somthing about a topic like this, it was called 'Flamebait' - it's not. It's a cold, hard dosage of the Truth. Don't pretend you don't see it.
Dan.
PS - If you're looking for my answer in the form of a question, it would be "How can we eduacate Joe User to what all this really means without scaring and confusing him."