According to several sources, the UK government is already actively employing this sort of technology. They certainly had reason to develop it, with all their counter-terrorism worries.
In the book The Irish War, Tony Geraghty says, "Surveillance cameras around sensitive areas such as the City of London, linked to computers which will automatically identify suspect vehicles within four seconds, evolved into computerized, digital maps of human faces." He claims they used this to identify and capture an IRA bomber. Of course, some of these claims about British Intelligence are rather fanciful, but these seem to have the ring of truth to them.
I can imagine people yelling at their pizza delivery guy because they saw their call was #3 in the queue, but after tracking the guy's route, they found he delivered the food out of order.
Off topic? Have you nothing better to do with your moderator points? The story was on Suck, so a point about the layout of the story is at least 'meta-on topic' if nothing else. Speaking of meta, let's hope you get blasted in meta-moderation.
Have you seen a doctor about it? It may be something like tinnitus : "a sensation of noise (as a ringing or roaring) that is caused by a bodily condition (as a disturbance of the auditory nerve or wax in the ear) and can usually be heard only by the one affected "
It's about a committee of Amiga users who intend to come together and decide on future hardware and OS requirements. Normally, I'd take this with the pinch of salt these sorts of grass-roots movements deserve, but it has some very interesting signatories, such as people who made the original Amiga HW and SW (like Dave Haynie and Carl Sassenrath), people from QNX and various other luminaries. Basically, it's like a who's who for the current Amiga world.
dfx: for the floppy cdx: for CDs zipx: for Zip drives
etc. x stands for a number, 0 to whatever. Now when you accessed a file like more df0:readme.txt
if a floppy was in drive 0, it would look for it there. If not, it would put up a requester saying there was no disk in df0: But - there's more. Devices also have logical names. So the disk in df0: could also be known as MyStuff:, so the above command could also be more MyStuff:readme.txt and if it wasn't there, you would get the reqeuster, Please insert volume MyStuff
Now, the clever thing is that MyStuff could be a zip disk, CD, or floppy (in ANY mounted drive) an logical assignment to a directory on your hard drive or whatever. (It could also automagically tell the difference between two removable media with the same logical name!)
An illustration of the power of this system is the fact that people have written handlers for ftp, so you could more FTP:ftp.mysite.com/readme.txt
As far the window manager is concerned (Workbench), an icon to browse the media appears when you insert it, and goes away when you take it out. Cool, eh?
Pardon my ignorance, but how can buttons be analogue? Can you press them in at different strengths or something? If so, is it not going to be a little difficult to gauge different strengths?
Yes, but the fact that it will play DVDs, and be backwards compatible will all your old games (and by the looks of it, peripherals too) is going to take a lot of the hurt out of the high price.
Plus, like all consoles, you can expect a constant drop in price over time.
I heard that it was because audiences of UK skinheads liked the film too much, and started going for a bit of the old ultraviolence themselves in direct copycat fashion. Maybe Kubrick felt guilty or something...
Acually, I believe stories like this, while they may be 'stupid', are worthwhile having on slashdot because of the thoughts and discussions they provoke.
For example, this one brought up: the increasing non-viability of patenting whether humans can be replicated with AI what human life really is the potential misuse of technology for 'charlatanism'
And last and not least, your post because of the tattoo remark. I near bust a gut at that...
In fact, a variant of LinuxPPC called APUS is already up on running on Amigas with PPC cards. Linux can read the Amiga FS, and you can get a driver to let the Amiga read the Linux FS... all very cosy.
When they announced this a week or two ago, the whole Amiga scene went crazy. We're split between the believers, the wait and see-ers, and the no-wayers. Alas some of the more vocal of the latter have been ringing up company employees and abusing them:(
It's been ascertained that they are a real company alright, but that's about all. They have promised demos of the machines soon.
As for getting the Amiga OS to run on it - it's no big deal. If you already have an Amiga, you have an OS to transfer, if not there are quite a few dealers for the new OS3.5.
Of course, even if it is true, it may be too little too late for the Classic Amiga. Most of us are waiting for the Linux based MCC now.
The data given on this 'service' just looks totally bogus to me. I mean, if we look at my geographical region, Ireland, then #1 book is The Committee : Political Assassination in Northern Ireland which is what I thought it would be, but #2 is a book about Larry Ellison!! And this is throughout the whole of Ireland? I think not. I could stop about a hundred people on the street before I found someone who even knew who he was. They must be using a ridiculously small sample to calculate these.
Or what about that Star Trek where Kirk met his anti-matter self? Can't really remember what happened, but I think it ended along the lines of the anti-matter Kirk sacrificing himself to save our universe. (This was not the same episode as the 'evil kirk' who you knew was evil because he wore mascara.)
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Surely you mean 'interred' - if the guy really is still interned, isn't time they let him out now? ;)
According to several sources, the UK government is already actively employing this sort of technology. They certainly had reason to develop it, with all their counter-terrorism worries.
In the book The Irish War, Tony Geraghty says, "Surveillance cameras around sensitive areas such as the City of London, linked to computers which will automatically identify suspect vehicles within four seconds,
evolved into computerized, digital maps of human faces." He claims they used this to identify and capture an IRA bomber.
Of course, some of these claims about British Intelligence are rather fanciful, but these seem to have the ring of truth to them.
I can imagine people yelling at their pizza delivery guy because they saw their call was #3 in the queue, but after tracking the guy's route, they found he delivered the food out of order.
Yeah, and just imagine what Uncle Enzo would say!
Off topic? Have you nothing better to do with your moderator points? The story was on Suck, so a point about the layout of the story is at least 'meta-on topic' if nothing else. Speaking of meta, let's hope you get blasted in meta-moderation.
Have you seen a doctor about it? It may be something like tinnitus : "a sensation of noise (as a ringing or roaring) that is caused by a bodily condition (as a disturbance of the auditory nerve or wax in the ear) and can usually be heard only by the one affected "
Yeah, like that old joke about videophones - burglars will no longer just ring to see if you're in, they'll ring to see what you've got!
and of course you promptly unused it by posting to the same discussion.
You may want to check out this link.
It's about a committee of Amiga users who intend to come together and decide on future hardware and OS requirements. Normally, I'd take this with the pinch of salt these sorts of grass-roots movements deserve, but it has some very interesting signatories, such as people who made the original Amiga HW and SW (like Dave Haynie and Carl Sassenrath), people from QNX and various other luminaries. Basically, it's like a who's who for the current Amiga world.
Well, everything had device names like
dfx: for the floppy
cdx: for CDs
zipx: for Zip drives
etc. x stands for a number, 0 to whatever. Now when you accessed a file like
more df0:readme.txt
if a floppy was in drive 0, it would look for it there. If not, it would put up a requester saying there was no disk in df0:
But - there's more. Devices also have logical names. So the disk in df0: could also be known as MyStuff:, so the above command could also be
more MyStuff:readme.txt
and if it wasn't there, you would get the reqeuster, Please insert volume MyStuff
Now, the clever thing is that MyStuff could be a zip disk, CD, or floppy (in ANY mounted drive) an logical assignment to a directory on your hard drive or whatever. (It could also automagically tell the difference between two removable media with the same logical name!)
An illustration of the power of this system is the fact that people have written handlers for ftp, so you could
more FTP:ftp.mysite.com/readme.txt
As far the window manager is concerned (Workbench), an icon to browse the media appears when you insert it, and goes away when you take it out.
Cool, eh?
The U first stood for Unusable (because it was so damn slow), but then hardware got good enough to invalidate this description ;)
Some people seem to think that the right to free speech also includes the right to force people to listen to what you have to say.
It doesn't matter that they can read at -1, if someone else can choose not to.
Pardon my ignorance, but how can buttons be analogue? Can you press them in at different strengths or something? If so, is it not going to be a little difficult to gauge different strengths?
Sounds like a good idea, in practice anyhow.
Yes, but the fact that it will play DVDs, and be backwards compatible will all your old games (and by the looks of it, peripherals too) is going to take a lot of the hurt out of the high price.
Plus, like all consoles, you can expect a constant drop in price over time.
Uh, I think humans can indeed create life, unless all that stuff about the storks is true.
I heard that it was because audiences of UK skinheads liked the film too much, and started going for a bit of the old ultraviolence themselves in direct copycat fashion. Maybe Kubrick felt guilty or something...
Acually, I believe stories like this, while they may be 'stupid', are worthwhile having on slashdot because of the thoughts and discussions they provoke.
For example, this one brought up:
the increasing non-viability of patenting
whether humans can be replicated with AI
what human life really is
the potential misuse of technology for 'charlatanism'
And last and not least, your post because of the tattoo remark. I near bust a gut at that...
Though it would seem, alas, that spelling is in the 1% you don't know.
Almost certainly.
In fact, a variant of LinuxPPC called APUS is already up on running on Amigas with PPC cards. Linux can read the Amiga FS, and you can get a driver to let the Amiga read the Linux FS... all very cosy.
When they announced this a week or two ago, the whole Amiga scene went crazy. We're split between the believers, the wait and see-ers, and the no-wayers. Alas some of the more vocal of the latter have been ringing up company employees and abusing them :(
It's been ascertained that they are a real company alright, but that's about all. They have promised demos of the machines soon.
As for getting the Amiga OS to run on it - it's no big deal. If you already have an Amiga, you have an OS to transfer, if not there are quite a few dealers for the new OS3.5.
Of course, even if it is true, it may be too little too late for the Classic Amiga. Most of us are waiting for the Linux based MCC now.
The data given on this 'service' just looks totally bogus to me. I mean, if we look at my geographical region, Ireland, then #1 book is
The Committee : Political Assassination in Northern Ireland
which is what I thought it would be, but #2 is a book about Larry Ellison!! And this is throughout the whole of Ireland? I think not. I could stop about a hundred people on the street before I found someone who even knew who he was. They must be using a ridiculously small sample to calculate these.
Where is Voyager now anyway?
And is it still sending data/pictures back to us? That'd be a cool webcam site!
(Please, no lame Trek jokes!)
But it's not operating in a vacuum...
Or what about that Star Trek where Kirk met his anti-matter self?
Can't really remember what happened, but I think it ended along the lines of the anti-matter Kirk sacrificing himself to save our universe. (This was not the same episode as the 'evil kirk' who you knew was evil because he wore mascara.)
"I think they've managed to get particles up pretty damn close to the speed of light in some of the high-energy accelerators"
;)
Yes, I've got a device that shoots out particles at damn near the speed of light - a torch
It was meant as a general comment on human nature - i.e. never do today what you can put off to tomorrow!