A bad round of computer problems got me thinking. Who will be the nano technicians when a batch of self replicating little robots go amok?
It would be great if we had nano robots to help us in our world, such as microsurgery or building houses. However, am I the only one who imagines self sustaining intelligent robots that are short a few lines of code or under the control of someone with less than pure intensions? A bad breed of nasty robots could run unchecked if only a priviliged few had nanotechnology. If technology like this were freely distributed, we would have the means to keep it under control. If it were a trade secret, watch out for nanoviruses!
Re:Circuit City still advertising Div-X
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Last night on CNN Headline news, I saw another one of those DIVX commercials. Has anyone told them to stop? Its the commercial with this guy who has so many facial expressions why you should buy divx and only divx can play divx movies. When are they going to give it up?
The USA is blocking itself from the high technology market. The market may become a playground for companies that will not have to compete with the US. This means the US will lose. This happens to countries that do not play fair.
US encryption products are a joke. Pretty soon the same could be said about US semiconductors.
This could be included as some chapters of the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO, written by Paul L. Rogers, Paul.L.Rogers@li.org.
I was looking at the v0.5, 7 May 1998 version: "This document provides suggestions for how the Linux community can effectively advocate the use of Linux." It has many sound ideas and appears to be a starting point for advocacy and could at least have pointers for studies for justifying Linux.
If someone wanted to write up a lengthy howto as you suggest, that would me most excellent!
How does one get NT not to crash? I tried NT4.0 many moons back and it was a crashing and reinstalling nightmare. I still use it at work and it has a MTBC of 24 hours.
It must take a support team with top talent to get NT stable. I sure am not that good. I'm only smart enough to keep Linux running.
From those two facts, guess which one I have found more reliable, more useful, and enjoy the most?
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There's nothing wrong with nudes. Its a fine artform that is appreciated by many. Nude photography, if you have ever tried it, may be more involved^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcomplicated than you think. Since we are dealing with images of the human body, expressions and a slight change of posture can really change the whole meaning. Contrast and color have a dominant impact on what you are attempting to convey. Backgrounds and lighting are very important.
Nude photography is not limited to pornography. Many private couples have done such in the privacy of their own homes. I would say there are magnitudes more private collections of this art than the commercial smut that is spammed in your mailbox.
Its fun and rewarding for those involved. Its a shame that people associate this art into porn.
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Ah, carberation is a science, and art, and it is quite the style even in these days of fuel injection. I once had a shelf with carbs liberated from the local yard: a two barrel, a few quadrajets, and a Holley. Since intakes were bolt on projects done in less than an hour, I had a shelf for them too.
For the single plane intake, I had a nitrous plate for times when enough was just not enough. I could experiment with different valving, air flow designs, and timing. Each new configuration and adjustment gave a different feel in the seat of your pants. Passengers really felt the difference too. A few white faces in the passenger side would indicate to me this is not a boring sport!
Carberators can be tuned and optimized for different conditions, such as fuel economy, different climates, seasons, autocross racing, drag racing, streetability, and for pulling torque. Its an art that can be useful and earn you some cash and respect in those teen years.
Well, once development of the 5.x tree forked into 6.0, it was only in alpha/beta/whatever form on the FTP servers for about a month. Compare that to the 3 or more months most new-version distro's spend getting kicked around before full release.
Release early, release often. One month? It just means they are getting up to speed!
My problem with Redhat, is that they don't release often enough. So, I often check out the development. In my experience, the release versions are solid, except for my experience with Netscape last year...
What sort of stuff did you have to HUP? I only had to HUP configuration changes.
I too am interested on why he feels 6.0 is immature. His opinion counts and he could share. How can it be improved? Does he want it to look like something else? Was the default settings in Apache not fast enough? What exactly was it?
6.0 has met my needs very well, has solid uptime since my memory upgrade over a month ago, and Netscape has not crashed or leaked memory. I may have a different configuration of my 6.0 than he has, such as using MWM for my window manager. I am a minimalist. I use 6.0 on a 486, Pentium,and a Celery. Works great for me. Immature? Not in my case.
The wavelength of the light spectrum used and thickness of the fiber are restrictions. Shorter wavelengths help, but distance suffers. Infrared is a longer, but efficient wavelenth. Ultraviolet does not have a chance. Skinnier fibers help due to the wavelength being refracted to the center.
To get an idea where the limit would be challenging for fiber, take the wavelength and invert it to get the frequency. That is the point where working with single pulses of light gets interesting. From there, you could share the same fiber with many different wavelengths and even use analog components of the waveforms like a modem. It just depends on how much money you want to throw at the hardware.
You might be new around here. Its a fine tradition to recommend good reading material in these parts. Some people prefer information on dead trees. Someone once said it best, "Ah, the joys of reading at the throne." Also, its not rude to take a book to bed, but bring the laptop and you could be in the doghouse for the evening!
Dead trees require no expensive batteries, work well outside in the shade, pass easily through airport security, and are always in style. They are status symbols. Do you have a well stocked bookshelf? When the ladies visit your house, a good book may set the mood. One good book is never enough. Don't get caught without diversity in reading material. Get a book today!
No joking about this being accessable to common people or even something at least a few orders of magnitude slower. It would be nice to download the latest distribution cd in a minute or enjoy instant gratification on freshmeat. Point, click, make install! I tried 128K ISDN for a year and did not notice much improvement over 56K when surfing. The world would be a nice place with a big pipe to each computer.
Yes, I have heard great things about the Clock Wizard, that helps you install a licenced copy of Time 12.00. Of course, it is leased, and will require you to install an upgrade of Time at a later date.
The VCR-X feature you can get at Shortcircuit City. Only VCRs with MS-VCR-X can play MS-VCR-X movies. No rental fees or late charges! Just hook up your VCR-X up to the phone line right to Mr. Gatus home network of intrigue. Plug into MS-VCR-X today!
The slashdot way of finding an electrical problem in house wiring might involve a voltmeter. In a grounded electrical plug, there are three terminals: hot, neutral, and ground. The hot is what you think it is, neutral is the middle phase of the 220 volts at the breaker box, and ground is the official safe, grounded into the earth, return for leakage from appliances, etc. The neutral is hooked to the ground at one point and nowhere else, usually at the breaker box. If neutral is tied to ground anywhere else, interesting things may happen, like getting shocked by touching the stove, AC hum in stereo, fire, etc.
Another thing to check for is loose wiring. Loose connections happen over the years and tend to get warm and melt things. Not too cool if you don't like fire. Realize that if you check and fix things yourself that electricity is energy. Energy has lots of potential, like inducing seizure like dances, fire, death, etc. If you don't know what you are doing, you might learn the hard way and your family will have always known that it would do you in. They warned you.
Isolation transformers work wonders. They exist for cable in many forms. You can go from the coax to 300 ohm through those little impedance transformers flat and back again. No more direct connection or ground loop! They also add just another barrier from lightning hits.
I'm sure my post will be moderated down for the use of such language..
Most of the people here are intelligent and have a meaningful job and are not spineless polititions trying to cover up their own lack of morals under the heat of religious nuts.
Sometimes colorful language is a form of expression and conveys meaning that would otherwise be difficult. From the engineers I have known, the words "fuck" and "shit" and anything else you can imagine usually describes something out of the ordinary. As George Carlin would say about several bad words, "they must be outrageous to be seperated from a group that large"
I might say that censorship is fucked. I'm expressing a strong viewpoint, not an act or depicting procreation in any evil or good form.
I agree with this being private information; however, somehow, this is information that is going to be sold one way or another. If you never have ever checked your personal information on one of the databases like TRW or its distributers, I strongly recommend that you try. Four years ago, I found one had a trial account designed for employers to screen employees. It was a dialup and menu based on VT100. There were about 24 categories of information to select from about an applicant. I decided to see what information I could dig about myself and pulled up my credit history. It claimed it was just a demo and the information was not real. What surprised me was it was those numbers and companies matched my history. My driving record turned out correct too! All that was required at that time was a tax identification number and the name of the business.
I'm sure someone is going to find a way to get it and sell it if its not sold already. I could have just as easily found the goods on anyone else. Its there. Someone has it. After what I saw, I'm sure of it.
My step-dad is a chemistry professor. I remember when some cold fusion experiments hit the news and asked him about it. He said they got together in the lab in an attempt to recreate it. He would only say they had some "unexplained" energy and a meltdown of the platinum plates. Never heard anything more on that.
Interesting that a meltdown created by blowing bubbles on platinum plates would not create more attention than Beavis and Butthead would have toward "fire! fire! fire!"
Trash on the moon may be a valuable resource for recycling. Nuclear waste is still energy that can be used until it is completely depleted for many years to come. Trash from a ship may be a valuable resource, much like the junk in a salvage yard. You may have many uses for moon rock, but a spent pipe may be readily used as a tool or put back in commision. Waste can also be used as construction material for building shields from the high speed projectiles in space.
Don't be wasteful. Learn from nature and reuse everything. When we create our own environment on the moon, we will be forced to learn this lesson.
The only problem with taking out the garbage, is that nuclear waste is very heavy. The energy required to lift nuclear waste only into orbit may negate the economics and any environmental possiblity of nuclear power. Not only that, there are different classes of nuclear waste: high level, medium, and low level that is the bulk such as things exposed to radiation such as gloves, spent containers, updated plumbing, etc... All this stuff does fit nicely in mine shafts waiting for the next time the crust recycles into the earth's core.
If we develop a more efficient method of propultion to lift craft out of our atmosphere, this idea may become viable. Rocket technology is very effective, but requires an amazing amount of resources. The cost of the fuel may not justify powering a "garbage truck."
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A bad round of computer problems got me thinking. Who will be the nano technicians when a batch of self replicating little robots go amok?
It would be great if we had nano robots to help us in our world, such as microsurgery or building houses. However, am I the only one who imagines self sustaining intelligent robots that are short a few lines of code or under the control of someone with less than pure intensions? A bad breed of nasty robots could run unchecked if only a priviliged few had nanotechnology. If technology like this were freely distributed, we would have the means to keep it under control. If it were a trade secret, watch out for nanoviruses!
Last night on CNN Headline news, I saw another one of those DIVX commercials. Has anyone told them to stop? Its the commercial with this guy who has so many facial expressions why you should buy divx and only divx can play divx movies. When are they going to give it up?
Yes, Microsoft has a history of steamrolling IP and trademark owners.
When you have money, you have power, and you are the law. Bow before Mr. Gates and repent.
What is the government's email address?
I may be biased, but if there was some cash involved, say some donations, would I be wrong to consider this as corruption?
Add a few lines to your junkbuster's cookie file:
/etc/junkbuster/cookiefile
nytimes.com and
www.nytimes.com
that should do it!
The USA is blocking itself from the high technology market. The market may become a playground for companies that will not have to compete with the US. This means the US will lose. This happens to countries that do not play fair.
US encryption products are a joke. Pretty soon the same could be said about US semiconductors.
This could be included as some chapters of the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO, written by Paul L. Rogers, Paul.L.Rogers@li.org.
I was looking at the v0.5, 7 May 1998 version: "This document provides suggestions for how the Linux community can effectively advocate the use of Linux." It has many sound ideas and appears to be a starting point for advocacy and could at least have pointers for studies for justifying Linux.
If someone wanted to write up a lengthy howto as you suggest, that would me most excellent!
How does one get NT not to crash? I tried NT4.0 many moons back and it was a crashing and reinstalling nightmare. I still use it at work and it has a MTBC of 24 hours.
It must take a support team with top talent to get NT stable. I sure am not that good. I'm only smart enough to keep Linux running.
I use Linux at home.
I use NT at work.
From those two facts, guess which one I have found more reliable, more useful, and enjoy the most?
There's nothing wrong with nudes. Its a fine artform that is appreciated by many. Nude photography, if you have ever tried it, may be more involved^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcomplicated than you think. Since we are dealing with images of the human body, expressions and a slight change of posture can really change the whole meaning. Contrast and color have a dominant impact on what you are attempting to convey. Backgrounds and lighting are very important.
Nude photography is not limited to pornography. Many private couples have done such in the privacy of their own homes. I would say there are magnitudes more private collections of this art than the commercial smut that is spammed in your mailbox.
Its fun and rewarding for those involved. Its a shame that people associate this art into porn.
Ah, carberation is a science, and art, and it is quite the style even in these days of fuel injection. I once had a shelf with carbs liberated from the local yard: a two barrel, a few quadrajets, and a Holley. Since intakes were bolt on projects done in less than an hour, I had a shelf for them too.
For the single plane intake, I had a nitrous plate for times when enough was just not enough. I could experiment with different valving, air flow designs, and timing. Each new configuration and adjustment gave a different feel in the seat of your pants. Passengers really felt the difference too. A few white faces in the passenger side would indicate to me this is not a boring sport!
Carberators can be tuned and optimized for different conditions, such as fuel economy, different climates, seasons, autocross racing, drag racing, streetability, and for pulling torque. Its an art that can be useful and earn you some cash and respect in those teen years.
Well, once development of the 5.x tree forked into 6.0, it was only in alpha/beta/whatever form on the FTP servers for about a month. Compare that to the 3 or more months most new-version distro's spend getting kicked around before full release.
Release early, release often. One month? It just means they are getting up to speed!
My problem with Redhat, is that they don't release often enough. So, I often check out the development. In my experience, the release versions are solid, except for my experience with Netscape last year...
What sort of stuff did you have to HUP? I only had to HUP configuration changes.
I too am interested on why he feels 6.0 is immature. His opinion counts and he could share. How can it be improved? Does he want it to look like something else? Was the default settings in Apache not fast enough? What exactly was it?
6.0 has met my needs very well, has solid uptime since my memory upgrade over a month ago, and Netscape has not crashed or leaked memory. I may have a different configuration of my 6.0 than he has, such as using MWM for my window manager. I am a minimalist. I use 6.0 on a 486, Pentium,and a Celery. Works great for me. Immature? Not in my case.
The wavelength of the light spectrum used and thickness of the fiber are restrictions. Shorter wavelengths help, but distance suffers. Infrared is a longer, but efficient wavelenth. Ultraviolet does not have a chance. Skinnier fibers help due to the wavelength being refracted to the center.
To get an idea where the limit would be challenging for fiber, take the wavelength and invert it to get the frequency. That is the point where working with single pulses of light gets interesting. From there, you could share the same fiber with many different wavelengths and even use analog components of the waveforms like a modem. It just depends on how much money you want to throw at the hardware.
You might be new around here. Its a fine tradition to recommend good reading material in these parts. Some people prefer information on dead trees. Someone once said it best, "Ah, the joys of reading at the throne." Also, its not rude to take a book to bed, but bring the laptop and you could be in the doghouse for the evening!
Dead trees require no expensive batteries, work well outside in the shade, pass easily through airport security, and are always in style. They are status symbols. Do you have a well stocked bookshelf? When the ladies visit your house, a good book may set the mood. One good book is never enough. Don't get caught without diversity in reading material. Get a book today!
No joking about this being accessable to common people or even something at least a few orders of magnitude slower. It would be nice to download the latest distribution cd in a minute or enjoy instant gratification on freshmeat. Point, click, make install! I tried 128K ISDN for a year and did not notice much improvement over 56K when surfing. The world would be a nice place with a big pipe to each computer.
Yes, I have heard great things about the Clock Wizard, that helps you install a licenced copy of Time 12.00. Of course, it is leased, and will require you to install an upgrade of Time at a later date.
The VCR-X feature you can get at Shortcircuit City. Only VCRs with MS-VCR-X can play MS-VCR-X movies. No rental fees or late charges! Just hook up your VCR-X up to the phone line right to Mr. Gatus home network of intrigue. Plug into MS-VCR-X today!
The slashdot way of finding an electrical problem in house wiring might involve a voltmeter. In a grounded electrical plug, there are three terminals: hot, neutral, and ground. The hot is what you think it is, neutral is the middle phase of the 220 volts at the breaker box, and ground is the official safe, grounded into the earth, return for leakage from appliances, etc. The neutral is hooked to the ground at one point and nowhere else, usually at the breaker box. If neutral is tied to ground anywhere else, interesting things may happen, like getting shocked by touching the stove, AC hum in stereo, fire, etc.
Another thing to check for is loose wiring. Loose connections happen over the years and tend to get warm and melt things. Not too cool if you don't like fire. Realize that if you check and fix things yourself that electricity is energy. Energy has lots of potential, like inducing seizure like dances, fire, death, etc. If you don't know what you are doing, you might learn the hard way and your family will have always known that it would do you in. They warned you.
Isolation transformers work wonders. They exist for cable in many forms. You can go from the coax to 300 ohm through those little impedance transformers flat and back again. No more direct connection or ground loop! They also add just another barrier from lightning hits.
I'm sure my post will be moderated down for the use of such language..
Most of the people here are intelligent and have a meaningful job and are not spineless polititions trying to cover up their own lack of morals under the heat of religious nuts.
Sometimes colorful language is a form of expression and conveys meaning that would otherwise be difficult. From the engineers I have known, the words "fuck" and "shit" and anything else you can imagine usually describes something out of the ordinary. As George Carlin would say about several bad words, "they must be outrageous to be seperated from a group that large"
I might say that censorship is fucked. I'm expressing a strong viewpoint, not an act or depicting procreation in any evil or good form.
I agree with this being private information; however, somehow, this is information that is going to be sold one way or another. If you never have ever checked your personal information on one of the databases like TRW or its distributers, I strongly recommend that you try. Four years ago, I found one had a trial account designed for employers to screen employees. It was a dialup and menu based on VT100. There were about 24 categories of information to select from about an applicant. I decided to see what information I could dig about myself and pulled up my credit history. It claimed it was just a demo and the information was not real. What surprised me was it was those numbers and companies matched my history. My driving record turned out correct too! All that was required at that time was a tax identification number and the name of the business.
I'm sure someone is going to find a way to get it and sell it if its not sold already. I could have just as easily found the goods on anyone else. Its there. Someone has it. After what I saw, I'm sure of it.
My step-dad is a chemistry professor. I remember when some cold fusion experiments hit the news and asked him about it. He said they got together in the lab in an attempt to recreate it. He would only say they had some "unexplained" energy and a meltdown of the platinum plates. Never heard anything more on that.
Interesting that a meltdown created by blowing bubbles on platinum plates would not create more attention than Beavis and Butthead would have toward "fire! fire! fire!"
Have source, will fix, no problem! Bug reports are a Good Thing! It ensures quality control.
Trash on the moon may be a valuable resource for recycling. Nuclear waste is still energy that can be used until it is completely depleted for many years to come. Trash from a ship may be a valuable resource, much like the junk in a salvage yard. You may have many uses for moon rock, but a spent pipe may be readily used as a tool or put back in commision. Waste can also be used as construction material for building shields from the high speed projectiles in space.
Don't be wasteful. Learn from nature and reuse everything. When we create our own environment on the moon, we will be forced to learn this lesson.
The only problem with taking out the garbage, is that nuclear waste is very heavy. The energy required to lift nuclear waste only into orbit may negate the economics and any environmental possiblity of nuclear power. Not only that, there are different classes of nuclear waste: high level, medium, and low level that is the bulk such as things exposed to radiation such as gloves, spent containers, updated plumbing, etc... All this stuff does fit nicely in mine shafts waiting for the next time the crust recycles into the earth's core.
If we develop a more efficient method of propultion to lift craft out of our atmosphere, this idea may become viable. Rocket technology is very effective, but requires an amazing amount of resources. The cost of the fuel may not justify powering a "garbage truck."