Hiding information (that you apparently don't want others to see) is the lowest (and most outdated) form of security known. A few wars - including WW2 - show that the most reliable way to protect your information is a strong encryption. So while it is fun that you can use wasted space (duh) - it does appear to have only academic interest.
The SSSCA says that it is illegal to create, sell or distribute "any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies" that are approved by the U.S. Commerce Department. An interactive digital device is defined as any hardware or software capable of "storing, retrieving, processing, performing, transmitting, receiving or copying information in digital form."
Since the human brain stores information digitally by using protein chains, then everybody will have to have a brain implant. Resistance is futile
Interesting that the government will do so much for companies and copyright holders and so little for "we the people" who contributes to the GPL.
Could we please ask for protection under the Digital Millenium GPL Act? Why isn't it worth unprotecting?
Great story. It shows that when you invest in R&D then by applying the right level of protection and not just mindlessly subscribe to subintelligent statements like "Why should companies invest in R&D, if the secrets they spend years and millions of dollars to develop are shared freely over the Net?" (which I find just as antiquated as dino's and the USSR), then you will be a success
LEGO made the right choice here in protecting only to the extend of the reasonable, by refusing to make unresonable decisions. Maybe new companies like MS should learn a bit from some of the old companies?
This computer is obviously aimed at industrial computing because it has an overall capability of expansion and is not limited like the iBook.
I notice that it has a dual PCI bus. Something only found on a few machine types and always associated with high reliable speed.
I also see that the missing keyboard and monitor can be fitted on the secondary board inside the casing. This is clearly a feature that hints that this unit will do well in massive parallel setups - no excess luggage. The possibilty of having more network adapters and the fact that you can fit a secondary network adapter on that second board means that you here have a product being totally free to engage in any custom provided network interface. I would like to see firewire on that board as inter processor connect.
Maybe I am to simple, but I don't see how I can shell an iBook to get at that. And even if I did so, then I still would have to come up with a well designed enclosure that makes sense.
I think it is a pretty nifty little buggar.
I read his reply this way:
"Since I have a legal shield that allows me not to make any comments then you can't prove that I can't prove that this parent is lying.
And because of that there is no way you can prove I made a mistake and that our lawyer told me that there was no way to prove legal responsibility for my part.
I realize that the parents was led to belive that this decision is final or if they appeal that they will loose anyway by way of irrelevance because their kid will then be lost for the school system anyway.
And there is a difference and even if they hear correctly I will raise the suspicion again that they quite possible are lying since nobody can prove differently."
I do believe that he is sincere, but if also do belive that his sense of reality was changed by exposure to the Microsoft environment. (Resistance is futile). I thought I was clear enough on that. Sorry if I wasn't.
Write three scary encrypted bomb letters and receive a coupon for a free stay at a correctional facility near you. Write one to the president and receive a coupon for a cellmate of your choise.
Photocopies accepted.
Just like eschelon, this project is now more than ever likely to spur public research in unbreakable codes or ciphers.
Earlier you could almost assume that coded messages were suspect, but the eccessive use of computerpower by the authorities in this particular field gives an almost Colossual effect. If we are getting to the point where all communication is coded what kind of world will it be? Will it be the tower of babel all over again?
Maybe we all will end up with a text analyzer on our computer deciding wether or not what you just wrote falls into the categories:
- Small talk
- We will store this for commercial purposes
- This is criminal - please stand by for fine calculation.
- Stand against the wall - police will arrive shortly
- Please shoot yourself
Retrospective statistics are statistics based on an already known base of input. Mathematicians know that this kind of statistics is highly problematic and that the results usualy are less than useless.
An example:
One third of all auto accidents are caused partly or in full by alcohol.
Following that: Two (2) thirds or 66% are caused by people not being drunk.
Conclusion: Those bastard non drunk drivers should be punished. No less than 0.8 if you are driving. :-)
There is a lot of people out there who gets enraged for the cause - whatever that cause then might be.
And it is unfortunately easier to destroy than to contribute constructively.
So despite that most just wanted some changes then apparently there was enough bozo's out there to make life unbearable for TUCOWS. Well that is a pity.
I have two kids. 13 and 15 both with computers and net access from their bedroom 24/7.
In my mind the article comes up with lot of numbers but some pretty lame conclusions - if any. This is not to say that it is a bad article.
Are computers and internet access a crucial component in growing up? Do "poor" kids have nothing else to do than "slinging burgers"?
In my heart I really don't believe so. The quality of growing up is primarily given by the parents of the child. Granted "rich" parents have a lot more time to offer their kids, but they may not necessarily choose to do so. In that case the computer offers a convenient way of escaping reality, but that doesn't make for a healthy substitution.
For the curious, there is no doubt in my mind that the computer coupled with the net is the best thing since sliced bread.
I think I made these conclusions reading the article:
- Retrospective statistics are still the best means to manipulate oppinions.
- The personaes of the government still thinks it is better to talk about education than to spend money on it.
- The educational content available on the net today don't target the "poor" students. There is lots of good higher education sites, but not many sites target basic skills like spelling, math and reading. Anyway the computer can't do anything here that most parents can't do themselves.
- I remember the same items discussed when the overhead projector was introduced. I think that the article is slightly overstating the importance of the computer in this context.
- Access to the internet is better than no access to anything. Yes I can agree to that, but access to qualified human beings would do the same.
Where I think the article fails to report is that we have successfully used computers to teach kids with learning disabilities. Adult education is another area, since most adults are afraid of making a fool of themselves in front of others. They don't exhibit the same attitude when a computer is used instead. All this have been documented since the 1980's and still it is not an available alternative. What I am getting at here is that some education of the teacher base is warranted and has to happen first. We need our teachers to be knowledgable about how to use these instruments and give them the necessary means to do so. Just claiming that having a computer means something to your educational, economic, cultural and social is like saying that more people would play baseball if we issued a baseball to everybody.
Whow - this thing must be fast. If I read their specs correctly they are using the IBM CPC710 100+ chip. This means that they have dual independant PCI busses. One 33MHz and one 66MHz. If they have hung all the slow stuff off the 33MHz and left the 66MHz on the connector then they got a quite some of a connectivity. Anyway - I am happy that it is not a Mac. Makes techsupport a lot easier.
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Hiding information (that you apparently don't want others to see) is the lowest (and most outdated) form of security known. A few wars - including WW2 - show that the most reliable way to protect your information is a strong encryption. So while it is fun that you can use wasted space (duh) - it does appear to have only academic interest.
The SSSCA says that it is illegal to create, sell or distribute "any interactive digital device that does not include and utilize certified security technologies" that are approved by the U.S. Commerce Department. An interactive digital device is defined as any hardware or software capable of "storing, retrieving, processing, performing, transmitting, receiving or copying information in digital form."
Since the human brain stores information digitally by using protein chains, then everybody will have to have a brain implant.
Resistance is futile
Interesting that the government will do so much for companies and copyright holders and so little for "we the people" who contributes to the GPL.
Could we please ask for protection under the Digital Millenium GPL Act?
Why isn't it worth unprotecting?
Great story.
It shows that when you invest in R&D then by applying the right level of protection and not just mindlessly subscribe to subintelligent statements like "Why should companies invest in R&D, if the secrets they spend years and millions of dollars to develop are shared freely over the Net?" (which I find just as antiquated as dino's and the USSR), then you will be a success
LEGO made the right choice here in protecting only to the extend of the reasonable, by refusing to make unresonable decisions. Maybe new companies like MS should learn a bit from some of the old companies?
This computer is obviously aimed at industrial computing because it has an overall capability of expansion and is not limited like the iBook.
I notice that it has a dual PCI bus. Something only found on a few machine types and always associated with high reliable speed.
I also see that the missing keyboard and monitor can be fitted on the secondary board inside the casing. This is clearly a feature that hints that this unit will do well in massive parallel setups - no excess luggage. The possibilty of having more network adapters and the fact that you can fit a secondary network adapter on that second board means that you here have a product being totally free to engage in any custom provided network interface. I would like to see firewire on that board as inter processor connect.
Maybe I am to simple, but I don't see how I can shell an iBook to get at that. And even if I did so, then I still would have to come up with a well designed enclosure that makes sense.
I think it is a pretty nifty little buggar.
You are a true vulgarian - aren't you?
I read his reply this way:
"Since I have a legal shield that allows me not to make any comments then you can't prove that I can't prove that this parent is lying.
And because of that there is no way you can prove I made a mistake and that our lawyer told me that there was no way to prove legal responsibility for my part.
I realize that the parents was led to belive that this decision is final or if they appeal that they will loose anyway by way of irrelevance because their kid will then be lost for the school system anyway.
And there is a difference and even if they hear correctly I will raise the suspicion again that they quite possible are lying since nobody can prove differently."
Am I understanding this wrongly?
I do believe that he is sincere, but if also do belive that his sense of reality was changed by exposure to the Microsoft environment. (Resistance is futile). I thought I was clear enough on that. Sorry if I wasn't.
Maybe FBI will start a coupon campaign.
Write three scary encrypted bomb letters and receive a coupon for a free stay at a correctional facility near you. Write one to the president and receive a coupon for a cellmate of your choise.
Photocopies accepted.
Just like eschelon, this project is now more than ever likely to spur public research in unbreakable codes or ciphers.
Earlier you could almost assume that coded messages were suspect, but the eccessive use of computerpower by the authorities in this particular field gives an almost Colossual effect. If we are getting to the point where all communication is coded what kind of world will it be? Will it be the tower of babel all over again?
Maybe we all will end up with a text analyzer on our computer deciding wether or not what you just wrote falls into the categories:
- Small talk
- We will store this for commercial purposes
- This is criminal - please stand by for fine calculation.
- Stand against the wall - police will arrive shortly
- Please shoot yourself
My machine concurs.
Retrospective statistics are statistics based on an already known base of input. Mathematicians know that this kind of statistics is highly problematic and that the results usualy are less than useless.
:-)
An example:
One third of all auto accidents are caused partly or in full by alcohol.
Following that: Two (2) thirds or 66% are caused by people not being drunk.
Conclusion: Those bastard non drunk drivers should be punished. No less than 0.8 if you are driving.
Free Tux [was: Free Willie]
Welcome to the club. LinuxPPC has some really good people and a nice product. I wish them well.
There is a lot of people out there who gets enraged for the cause - whatever that cause then might be. And it is unfortunately easier to destroy than to contribute constructively.
So despite that most just wanted some changes then apparently there was enough bozo's out there to make life unbearable for TUCOWS. Well that is a pity.
I have two kids. 13 and 15 both with computers and net access from their bedroom 24/7.
In my mind the article comes up with lot of numbers but some pretty lame conclusions - if any. This is not to say that it is a bad article.
Are computers and internet access a crucial component in growing up? Do "poor" kids have nothing else to do than "slinging burgers"? In my heart I really don't believe so. The quality of growing up is primarily given by the parents of the child. Granted "rich" parents have a lot more time to offer their kids, but they may not necessarily choose to do so. In that case the computer offers a convenient way of escaping reality, but that doesn't make for a healthy substitution.
For the curious, there is no doubt in my mind that the computer coupled with the net is the best thing since sliced bread.
I think I made these conclusions reading the article:
- Retrospective statistics are still the best means to manipulate oppinions.
- The personaes of the government still thinks it is better to talk about education than to spend money on it.
- The educational content available on the net today don't target the "poor" students. There is lots of good higher education sites, but not many sites target basic skills like spelling, math and reading. Anyway the computer can't do anything here that most parents can't do themselves.
- I remember the same items discussed when the overhead projector was introduced. I think that the article is slightly overstating the importance of the computer in this context.
- Access to the internet is better than no access to anything. Yes I can agree to that, but access to qualified human beings would do the same.
Where I think the article fails to report is that we have successfully used computers to teach kids with learning disabilities. Adult education is another area, since most adults are afraid of making a fool of themselves in front of others. They don't exhibit the same attitude when a computer is used instead. All this have been documented since the 1980's and still it is not an available alternative. What I am getting at here is that some education of the teacher base is warranted and has to happen first. We need our teachers to be knowledgable about how to use these instruments and give them the necessary means to do so. Just claiming that having a computer means something to your educational, economic, cultural and social is like saying that more people would play baseball if we issued a baseball to everybody.
Whow - this thing must be fast. If I read their specs correctly they are using the IBM CPC710 100+ chip. This means that they have dual independant PCI busses. One 33MHz and one 66MHz. If they have hung all the slow stuff off the 33MHz and left the 66MHz on the connector then they got a quite some of a connectivity. Anyway - I am happy that it is not a Mac. Makes techsupport a lot easier.