I don't know about the rest of you, but IIRC the fucker _stole_ the election from the people. His major opponent had a greater percentage of the popular vote (yah, yah, I know...), but there were other forces conspiring to prevent other votes from being registered into electoral votes. I think it was Time (or US News/World Report, one of the weekly periodicals or something) had a nifty report on exactly how the Bush family (including brother Jeb) conspired to rob the citizenry of their votes. Unfortuantely, it happened to be the Sept. 10, 2001 issue, and got lost in the attack that followed.
and there's nothing we can do. I don't have any power. Do you have any power? If you think you do, the three orders of magnitude greater #s of people out there who _are_ susceptible to sneaky advertising/subliminal messages/political announcements are going to vote you down so fast it'll make your head swim. I dare any of you out there to prove me wrong, or suggest how to avoid this.
We're going to lose all rights to any and all IP we may or may not own (or think we own), we can kiss the public domain goodbye, and unless you've got a well-paid lawyer in your pocket (or up your sleeve for those w/ long sleeves!) get ready to be sued.
Now, my friend thinks that there's no way any of this is really enforceable, but seriously, they could imprison all the people who commit IP crimes (or a significant fraction) and as long as they can prove that they've got Your Number, it'll keep the rest of the sheep in line (I admit, I'm a sheep. Baa.) "what? we can't keep crime down as it is. They're not going to spend milloins chasing down warez/script kiddiez. and besides, these people support the National Infrastructure! They won't lock them all up!" The hell they won't. In case no one's noticed, there's a shortage of jobs, they can pull our livelihood and someone willing to keep their mouth shut and tow the line will be perfectly willing to fill our "criminal" asses' place in the job market.
Like I said, we're all fscked, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Even the folks who say that they only use warez copies for "evaluation," and that they buy the software they like - no excuse. There's nothing requiring a software publisher to offer try before you buy.
While it's true there's nothing that says the publisher has to let you try before you buy, there's often no recourse if you don't like it. In fact, there's nothing saying that they have to be telling the truth about the product when you buy it. To be more precise, the software industry as a whole has gone out of their way to ensure that they don't actually promise you anything. I call the UCITA as proof of this; if it goes into law, they could market you a word processor, and sell you a copy of "Hello, World" for $500, and there's nothing you could do about it. As it stands, most license agreements say that the software doesn't even have to line up w/ the manual in any way, shape, or form. It leaves us, Joe Consumer, twisting in the wind. How would you feel if you bought a box that had an electric mixer on the outside, described this really great electric mixer on the box, how it had fifteen speeds, and multiple attachements for mixing sourdough, cake batter, etc., and came w/ a mixing bowl, only to take it home, open it up, and find a legal document inside that said, more or less, "thanks for opening the box. Now that you have, we reserve the right to change our product in any way, so that it may not even be a mixer, and in opening the box to read this, you've promised not to return it or sell it to someone else." You also find that they've "changed" the mixer into a bunch of rusty mousetraps, and when you take it back to the store, mad as hell, the retailer refers you to the legal contract that came in the box, and tells you your only recourse is to exchange the mixer box full of rusty mousetraps for another mixer box full of rusty mousetraps. Now, you're out $500, and you still don't have the mixer. Of course, by your argument, that's just too bad, all you can do is never buy from that company again. You make as much noise as possible, but you don't have the time and resources to match a $10mil marketing campaign and a retailer contract w/ Wal-Mart, virtually guaranteeing that ScrewCo can shaft nearly every citizen in the country, and they've got FORCE OF LAW backing up their behavior.
Just how do we respond to that?
I admit that the above is extreme, and somewhat disjointed, but definitely within the realm of the possible, at least in the software market. It gets even worse, but it's beyond the scope of this thread.
In today's business environment, speed is essential to success. That's why a growing number of today's most innovative and competitive organizations are turning to SignalMarcom for complete marketing and communications solutions. From marketing strategy to advertising, Web design, and print collateral, SignalMarcom delivers end-to-end brand development at Internet speed.
Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, SignalMarcom's staff of fourteen communications professionals maintains collaborative client relationships that are the cornerstone of its success. Since 1990, SignalMarcom team members have been working together to help clients establish identities and reach the markets vital to business success. They have earned more than 200 awards for creative excellence in local and national competitions.
By combining winning marketing strategies with compelling writing and design, SignalMarcom anticipates clients' continuously evolving communications needs, helping them achieve rapid deployment, cost-effective implementation, and powerful brand-building results.
Their creativity, problem-solving ability and organizational depth have never ceased to amaze me. My peers are often surprised to learn that a single firm has produced such a rich and diverse body of work for us over the years. Ned Leonard, Manager of Communications and Government Affairs Western Fuels Association, Inc.
However, it seems that co2science.org is legit... Or rather, a quick search doesn't reveal any possible hidden agenda...
Re:Unfortunately, an end to wars
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The Drone War
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· Score: 2, Interesting
wow, that's amazing... you've got a bunch of nations that really got their independance because the UK didn't want to go thru the expense of sending the Navy over to enforce their rule. that's not going to work when the oppressive government is at home.
Copyright is going to have to be overhauled. I suggest a twist on Jessica Litman's idea:
1. Copying for personal use is protected. In ALL FORMS.
2. Copying for commercial purposes is prohibited unless expressly permitted by the copyright holder.
3. If an individual's "personal" copying results in a 1% loss of revenue for the publisher (whoever that may be), then the copier has violated rule #2, and is subject to penalty. The burden of proof is on the publisher, and they HAVE to show that their overall revenues have dropped as a result. Given the way media corporation profits tend to increase, this should be relatively difficult, excepting in cases where someone's REALLY breaking the law (like these overseas firms that'll press a zillion DVD's outside of the right to do so)
Note that this is just a framework, and should be subject to serious tweaking (i.e., the percentage, whether it should be gross revenue or net profit, etc...)
Yah, what he said is pretty much par for the course from Big Media. Guys like this piss me off. From the article:
"Ours is the only copy-protection scheme that doesn't violate fair-use rights...We allow (people) to make copies for their own personal use: for their computer, for their compilation disc and for their MP3 player, so they can have portable use of their music. The only fair use that's left--and it's not fair use at all--is the "fair use" of sending thousands of copies to file-sharing services to be copied hundreds of thousands or millions of times. That's the only use we've limited and so that's not fair use; it's certainly not fair to the artist"
waitaminit... This is a bit contradictory. You haven't stopped the distribution of copies, you've prevented copying outright. I can't copy this to my MP3 player, or in my Philips CD recorder, or for my computer. Furthermore, did anyone actually ask the artist? I don't think anyone told Charley Pride that he was in mortal danger of being ripped off, and asked him if he wanted copy protection. Or, if someone did, I'm willing to bet my left testicle that the someone spun it in such a way that "evil hackers will pirate your music, thus ripping you off."
And of course, if artists don't get paid, they won't produce. Yah, I'm sure that Van Gogh knew his paintings would be worth millions, so he just cranked them out. Or that da Vinci really wanted fame and fortune, which is why most of his works went unsold and were done for personal benefit, oh wait, that doesn't make sense. I know! It's why we have all these little garage bands in my area that perform nightly all over the Dallas metroplex and have day jobs and aren't really interested in making it big, because they like to play music, oh crap, I'm undermining my own argument.
RRRRRR!!!!! THIS SHIT PISSES ME OFF!!!
have I mentioned I hate these evil corporate bastards?
I remember when the EULA included transfer-of-license clauses, such that As long as you deleted all your installed copies and transferred the legal license document along with the software, it was fine and good to sell your license to someone else. In fact, this used to be a big part of the MS license. I think at the time, they were attempting to play nice with the First Sale doctrine, although that seems to have been thrown out the window along w/ everything else.
i have, in turn, purchased a RT311 and a Linksys 1-port router (okay, so it's two ports, whatever). It turns out that they're pretty much the same hardware, and completely different ROMs.
Ups: The Linksys product was by far the simplest to configure. easy, embedded HTTP server makes config chores simple and fast. It's easy to screw up the password, tho, however recovery is easy. I thought that even though the Netgear was significantly more difficult to use (relying on CLI-based menus and a powerful yet byzantine trigger-based rule system), it had the most configurability.
Downs: This is why I'm using an OpenBSD box to do my NAT. Both routers rely on similar hardware, which, unfortunately, isn't up to the task of a 10Mbit cable modem or a 6Mbit DSL link. The peak rates I got out of each box was south of 490KBps, or right about 5 megabit. On my cable modem, it seriously throttled my downstream bandwidth, and I found it simpler to just take the time to really lock down my workstation and plug it straight into the cable modem.
It is not the job of the courts to make the laws (as any first year poli-sci major, or, for that matter, almost anyone who's taken US History will tell you). The job of the courts is to enforce the laws, and under the DMCA, the actions of Mr. Pavlovich were unquestionably illegal.
No, the job of the courts is to interpret the law, and to determine if the laws made are valid. The Executive branch is the section of the US government that enforces the law. The cops (FBI, ATF, Secret Service, whoever), did their job by enforcing the law, and forcing this case to go to trial. The court's job now is to determine whether or not the law was broken, and, should the defense mount an "unconstitutional" argument, determine whether the law is valid in the first place.
I'm glad that in your little hypothetical situation, you're making me out to be a thief by not compensating the authors of a song, because after all, we're all evil people deep down, and don't give a rat's ass about anyone else on this godforsaken mudball.
I can't believe that noone's caught this. When the 386 was first introduced, one of the big things was that it supported 32-bit memory addressing. Or so Intel claimed. It seems that on some chips, the A27 line was not correctly terminated, so the chip could only address 2^26 addresses, or 64MB. In fact, the stock FreeBSD kernel from 1.0 (it was hardcoded) to 2.something (it was a kernel variable) only supported 64MB. You could hack it to get it to work w/ more, but in the earliest versions, it required a recompile. Kinda annoying on slow 486's. (side note: the original product literature for the 486 included a 16MHz version, but since the 386/33 part could take it easy, it was never released. the 486/20 was dropped after AMD released the 386/40 for the same reason)
Intel later corrected this bug, but kept the original dies in production to bring you (surprise!) the 386SuX!
Ahh, the fun you can have when trying to amortize several hundred million in dev costs!
hmm.. seems that Nintendo not only doesn't want to pay the license fee to the DVD CCA, but they think the CSS-Auth algorithm is too weak for their software. Someone should mention this to 2600's legal team, that other major corporations won't use the product as it's seriously flawed, and doesn't actually prevent piracy.
I'm not a programmer, so I don't tend to peruse source, and I don't know if the following example is consistent across platforms, but here goes:
A friend of mine was compiling nntpd for DEC Alpha (we'd just had to up the index limit), and he was trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the system. As a result, his "make" command was three lines long (80 column lines). The box churned for a bit, and responded with the following:
"Really perverted make detected. Aborting."
IIRC, this was on DEC UNIX 3.2g...
Re:All-Purpose Cultural Cat-Girl Nuku Nuku
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Essential Anime
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· Score: 1
This is a great anime. I just hate the fact that now that the series has taken off in Japan, it's gonna take _years_ before any of it shows up in the US.
Man these designs are nothing. You guys should see what the Air Force was working on in the 60's with Adolph Coors.
Coors originally had a ceramics manufacturing plant out in Colorado (someone feel free to correct me at any time if my dates and places slip) that the government used to send contracts to. He later opened a brewery up the road and became famous, but before that, his ceramics plant was manufacturing nuclear ramjet engine cores for a little Air Force black ops deal called Project Pluto.
Here's how it worked: You take a standard nuclear core, but honeycomb it so it's air-cooled. Set the thing inside a large ramjet-type design inside something the size of an ICBM, get the thing up to about Mach 2 with solid rocket boosters, and start up the engine. It'll last about six months of continuous operation, during which time you have the thing run laps over the Pacific. Give it cruise-missle-like guidance, load it up with strategic H-bombs, and when a war breaks out, simply cruise the things over to their intended targets at around Mach 6.
Nothing can catch them, or shoot them down, or even see them coming. It would have been the perfect first-strike weapon, or the perfect retalitory weapon, as there's no pilots to scramble out of bed, and all you have to do is push the button!
For several reasons, however, the program was cancelled, as they couldn't get around problems like, the exhaust is highly radioactive, consisting of particles of the ceramic core, and dust from the fuel rods themselves. Plus, nap-of-the-earth flight at supersonic speeds tends to annoy whoever's directly underneath, and our allies might get pissed at being horribly irradiated and defeaned as the thing screamed overhead.
Also, there were some difficulties with explaining away such an obvious terror weapon as a "defensive solution."
Gee, let's find yet _another_ way to increase hardware requirements! I personally enjoy watching my screen redraw one line at a time. And seeing all those icons getting swapped back into the display page? Woo, gives be a shiver.
Someone else here mentioned the RIAA and the MPAA. I bet they're gonna _love_ this tech. I say fuck'em.
There is a specific type of neuron in humans that is primarily responsible for mood and serotonin control. MDMA alters this by forcing said neurons to release all stored serotonin at once. Given high enough doses of MDMA, these neurons will suffer metabolic collapse (due to some unknown process, we don't today know exactly what's going on in the cell) and die. The toxic dosage in primates is generally accepted to be around 2.5-3mg/Kg. Effects from this damage include mood swings, depression, etc. However, This damage is not permanent, and the affected neurons regenerate after 6-12 months. However, for this to happen, you have to stop taking MDMA for the entire period.
Additionally, doses under the toxic level have no lasting permanent effects.
you can get mor info and specifics at www.lycaeum.org
I posit that since, due to their overwhelming number, it is physically impossible to hold in one average human brain all the laws that apply to you at all levels of government (municipal, county, state, and federal), that ignorance of the law _is_ a valid excuse. Hell, even lawyers have to specialize, they themselves can't know all the laws.
I say that we petition to block all new laws until all current laws have been checked for validity, conciseness, and ease of comprehension. We should also take the time to correct any legal conflicts with current laws.
Start from the Constitution, and work your way down.
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We are all dumber for having read that.
:)
Can I get my 15 seconds back?
heh. actually, I did find it amusing
???
I don't know about the rest of you, but IIRC the fucker _stole_ the election from the people. His major opponent had a greater percentage of the popular vote (yah, yah, I know...), but there were other forces conspiring to prevent other votes from being registered into electoral votes. I think it was Time (or US News/World Report, one of the weekly periodicals or something) had a nifty report on exactly how the Bush family (including brother Jeb) conspired to rob the citizenry of their votes. Unfortuantely, it happened to be the Sept. 10, 2001 issue, and got lost in the attack that followed.
Oh well...
and there's nothing we can do. I don't have any power. Do you have any power? If you think you do, the three orders of magnitude greater #s of people out there who _are_ susceptible to sneaky advertising/subliminal messages/political announcements are going to vote you down so fast it'll make your head swim. I dare any of you out there to prove me wrong, or suggest how to avoid this.
We're going to lose all rights to any and all IP we may or may not own (or think we own), we can kiss the public domain goodbye, and unless you've got a well-paid lawyer in your pocket (or up your sleeve for those w/ long sleeves!) get ready to be sued.
Now, my friend thinks that there's no way any of this is really enforceable, but seriously, they could imprison all the people who commit IP crimes (or a significant fraction) and as long as they can prove that they've got Your Number, it'll keep the rest of the sheep in line (I admit, I'm a sheep. Baa.) "what? we can't keep crime down as it is. They're not going to spend milloins chasing down warez/script kiddiez. and besides, these people support the National Infrastructure! They won't lock them all up!" The hell they won't. In case no one's noticed, there's a shortage of jobs, they can pull our livelihood and someone willing to keep their mouth shut and tow the line will be perfectly willing to fill our "criminal" asses' place in the job market.
Like I said, we're all fscked, and there's nothing we can do about it.
Even the folks who say that they only use warez copies for "evaluation," and that they buy the software they like - no excuse. There's nothing requiring a software publisher to offer try before you buy.
While it's true there's nothing that says the publisher has to let you try before you buy, there's often no recourse if you don't like it. In fact, there's nothing saying that they have to be telling the truth about the product when you buy it. To be more precise, the software industry as a whole has gone out of their way to ensure that they don't actually promise you anything. I call the UCITA as proof of this; if it goes into law, they could market you a word processor, and sell you a copy of "Hello, World" for $500, and there's nothing you could do about it. As it stands, most license agreements say that the software doesn't even have to line up w/ the manual in any way, shape, or form. It leaves us, Joe Consumer, twisting in the wind. How would you feel if you bought a box that had an electric mixer on the outside, described this really great electric mixer on the box, how it had fifteen speeds, and multiple attachements for mixing sourdough, cake batter, etc., and came w/ a mixing bowl, only to take it home, open it up, and find a legal document inside that said, more or less, "thanks for opening the box. Now that you have, we reserve the right to change our product in any way, so that it may not even be a mixer, and in opening the box to read this, you've promised not to return it or sell it to someone else." You also find that they've "changed" the mixer into a bunch of rusty mousetraps, and when you take it back to the store, mad as hell, the retailer refers you to the legal contract that came in the box, and tells you your only recourse is to exchange the mixer box full of rusty mousetraps for another mixer box full of rusty mousetraps. Now, you're out $500, and you still don't have the mixer. Of course, by your argument, that's just too bad, all you can do is never buy from that company again. You make as much noise as possible, but you don't have the time and resources to match a $10mil marketing campaign and a retailer contract w/ Wal-Mart, virtually guaranteeing that ScrewCo can shaft nearly every citizen in the country, and they've got FORCE OF LAW backing up their behavior.
Just how do we respond to that?
I admit that the above is extreme, and somewhat disjointed, but definitely within the realm of the possible, at least in the software market. It gets even worse, but it's beyond the scope of this thread.
at NiftyGiantISP where I work, it doubled the traffic inbound and outbound during peak. it's pretti nasti...
filtering all mail traffic thru a set of IDSes seems to be saving the server farms, tho.
I like Dell... Or rather, I used to.
hmm...
whois co2andclimate.org
Administrative Contact:
signal communications, inc.
eric klinefelter
1100 blair mill rd.
silver spring, MD 20910
US
Phone: 301-587-5114
Fax..: 301-587-3449
Email: eklinefelter@signal-com.com
hmm.. from www.signal-com.com:
In today's business environment, speed is essential to success. That's why a growing number of today's most innovative and competitive organizations are turning to SignalMarcom for complete marketing and communications solutions. From marketing strategy to advertising, Web design, and print collateral, SignalMarcom delivers end-to-end brand development at Internet speed.
Based in Silver Spring, Maryland, SignalMarcom's staff of fourteen communications professionals maintains collaborative client relationships that are the cornerstone of its success. Since 1990, SignalMarcom team members have been working together to help clients establish identities and reach the markets vital to business success. They have earned more than 200 awards for creative excellence in local and national competitions.
By combining winning marketing strategies with compelling writing and design, SignalMarcom anticipates clients' continuously evolving communications needs, helping them achieve rapid deployment, cost-effective implementation, and powerful brand-building results.
And here's a fun quote from one of their clients:
Their creativity, problem-solving ability and organizational depth have never ceased to amaze me. My peers are often surprised to learn that a single firm has produced such a rich and diverse body of work for us over the years.
Ned Leonard, Manager of Communications and Government Affairs
Western Fuels Association, Inc.
However, it seems that co2science.org is legit... Or rather, a quick search doesn't reveal any possible hidden agenda...
wow, that's amazing... you've got a bunch of nations that really got their independance because the UK didn't want to go thru the expense of sending the Navy over to enforce their rule. that's not going to work when the oppressive government is at home.
or, as it was put in the fortune file:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tape backups"
Copyright is going to have to be overhauled. I suggest a twist on Jessica Litman's idea:
1. Copying for personal use is protected. In ALL FORMS.
2. Copying for commercial purposes is prohibited unless expressly permitted by the copyright holder.
3. If an individual's "personal" copying results in a 1% loss of revenue for the publisher (whoever that may be), then the copier has violated rule #2, and is subject to penalty. The burden of proof is on the publisher, and they HAVE to show that their overall revenues have dropped as a result. Given the way media corporation profits tend to increase, this should be relatively difficult, excepting in cases where someone's REALLY breaking the law (like these overseas firms that'll press a zillion DVD's outside of the right to do so)
Note that this is just a framework, and should be subject to serious tweaking (i.e., the percentage, whether it should be gross revenue or net profit, etc...)
Yah, what he said is pretty much par for the course from Big Media. Guys like this piss me off. From the article:
"Ours is the only copy-protection scheme that doesn't violate fair-use rights...We allow (people) to make copies for their own personal use: for their computer, for their compilation disc and for their MP3 player, so they can have portable use of their music. The only fair use that's left--and it's not fair use at all--is the "fair use" of sending thousands of copies to file-sharing services to be copied hundreds of thousands or millions of times. That's the only use we've limited and so that's not fair use; it's certainly not fair to the artist"
waitaminit... This is a bit contradictory. You haven't stopped the distribution of copies, you've prevented copying outright. I can't copy this to my MP3 player, or in my Philips CD recorder, or for my computer. Furthermore, did anyone actually ask the artist? I don't think anyone told Charley Pride that he was in mortal danger of being ripped off, and asked him if he wanted copy protection. Or, if someone did, I'm willing to bet my left testicle that the someone spun it in such a way that "evil hackers will pirate your music, thus ripping you off."
And of course, if artists don't get paid, they won't produce. Yah, I'm sure that Van Gogh knew his paintings would be worth millions, so he just cranked them out. Or that da Vinci really wanted fame and fortune, which is why most of his works went unsold and were done for personal benefit, oh wait, that doesn't make sense. I know! It's why we have all these little garage bands in my area that perform nightly all over the Dallas metroplex and have day jobs and aren't really interested in making it big, because they like to play music, oh crap, I'm undermining my own argument.
RRRRRR!!!!! THIS SHIT PISSES ME OFF!!!
have I mentioned I hate these evil corporate bastards?
I remember when the EULA included transfer-of-license clauses, such that As long as you deleted all your installed copies and transferred the legal license document along with the software, it was fine and good to sell your license to someone else. In fact, this used to be a big part of the MS license. I think at the time, they were attempting to play nice with the First Sale doctrine, although that seems to have been thrown out the window along w/ everything else.
i have, in turn, purchased a RT311 and a Linksys 1-port router (okay, so it's two ports, whatever). It turns out that they're pretty much the same hardware, and completely different ROMs.
Ups: The Linksys product was by far the simplest to configure. easy, embedded HTTP server makes config chores simple and fast. It's easy to screw up the password, tho, however recovery is easy. I thought that even though the Netgear was significantly more difficult to use (relying on CLI-based menus and a powerful yet byzantine trigger-based rule system), it had the most configurability.
Downs: This is why I'm using an OpenBSD box to do my NAT. Both routers rely on similar hardware, which, unfortunately, isn't up to the task of a 10Mbit cable modem or a 6Mbit DSL link. The peak rates I got out of each box was south of 490KBps, or right about 5 megabit. On my cable modem, it seriously throttled my downstream bandwidth, and I found it simpler to just take the time to really lock down my workstation and plug it straight into the cable modem.
My $.02
It is not the job of the courts to make the laws (as any first year poli-sci major, or, for that matter, almost anyone who's taken US History will tell you). The job of the courts is to enforce the laws, and under the DMCA, the actions of Mr. Pavlovich were unquestionably illegal.
No, the job of the courts is to interpret the law, and to determine if the laws made are valid. The Executive branch is the section of the US government that enforces the law. The cops (FBI, ATF, Secret Service, whoever), did their job by enforcing the law, and forcing this case to go to trial. The court's job now is to determine whether or not the law was broken, and, should the defense mount an "unconstitutional" argument, determine whether the law is valid in the first place.
I'm glad that in your little hypothetical situation, you're making me out to be a thief by not compensating the authors of a song, because after all, we're all evil people deep down, and don't give a rat's ass about anyone else on this godforsaken mudball.
based on water, our most abundant surface molecule.
1 milliliter = 1 cubic centimeter = 1 gram
Sorry, I think it's rather orthagonal and nifty.
BTW, measurements must be taken at 4 degrees Celcius (oh! and water freezes at 0 degrees C and boils at 100 degrees C)
yah, yah, yah, bust me for being OT.
I can't believe that noone's caught this. When the 386 was first introduced, one of the big things was that it supported 32-bit memory addressing. Or so Intel claimed. It seems that on some chips, the A27 line was not correctly terminated, so the chip could only address 2^26 addresses, or 64MB. In fact, the stock FreeBSD kernel from 1.0 (it was hardcoded) to 2.something (it was a kernel variable) only supported 64MB. You could hack it to get it to work w/ more, but in the earliest versions, it required a recompile. Kinda annoying on slow 486's. (side note: the original product literature for the 486 included a 16MHz version, but since the 386/33 part could take it easy, it was never released. the 486/20 was dropped after AMD released the 386/40 for the same reason)
Intel later corrected this bug, but kept the original dies in production to bring you (surprise!) the 386SuX!
Ahh, the fun you can have when trying to amortize several hundred million in dev costs!
takes advantage of the UCITA. I can't believe it. I guess the suits got to them, too...
hmm.. seems that Nintendo not only doesn't want to pay the license fee to the DVD CCA, but they think the CSS-Auth algorithm is too weak for their software. Someone should mention this to 2600's legal team, that other major corporations won't use the product as it's seriously flawed, and doesn't actually prevent piracy.
I'm not a programmer, so I don't tend to peruse source, and I don't know if the following example is consistent across platforms, but here goes:
A friend of mine was compiling nntpd for DEC Alpha (we'd just had to up the index limit), and he was trying to squeeze every bit of performance out of the system. As a result, his "make" command was three lines long (80 column lines). The box churned for a bit, and responded with the following:
"Really perverted make detected. Aborting."
IIRC, this was on DEC UNIX 3.2g...
This is a great anime. I just hate the fact that now that the series has taken off in Japan, it's gonna take _years_ before any of it shows up in the US.
the grabber on Volume 1 that got me:
"Nine lives. Nine hundred horsepower."
Man these designs are nothing. You guys should see what the Air Force was working on in the 60's with Adolph Coors.
Coors originally had a ceramics manufacturing plant out in Colorado (someone feel free to correct me at any time if my dates and places slip) that the government used to send contracts to. He later opened a brewery up the road and became famous, but before that, his ceramics plant was manufacturing nuclear ramjet engine cores for a little Air Force black ops deal called Project Pluto.
Here's how it worked: You take a standard nuclear core, but honeycomb it so it's air-cooled. Set the thing inside a large ramjet-type design inside something the size of an ICBM, get the thing up to about Mach 2 with solid rocket boosters, and start up the engine. It'll last about six months of continuous operation, during which time you have the thing run laps over the Pacific. Give it cruise-missle-like guidance, load it up with strategic H-bombs, and when a war breaks out, simply cruise the things over to their intended targets at around Mach 6.
Nothing can catch them, or shoot them down, or even see them coming. It would have been the perfect first-strike weapon, or the perfect retalitory weapon, as there's no pilots to scramble out of bed, and all you have to do is push the button!
For several reasons, however, the program was cancelled, as they couldn't get around problems like, the exhaust is highly radioactive, consisting of particles of the ceramic core, and dust from the fuel rods themselves. Plus, nap-of-the-earth flight at supersonic speeds tends to annoy whoever's directly underneath, and our allies might get pissed at being horribly irradiated and defeaned as the thing screamed overhead.
Also, there were some difficulties with explaining away such an obvious terror weapon as a "defensive solution."
Gee, let's find yet _another_ way to increase hardware requirements! I personally enjoy watching my screen redraw one line at a time. And seeing all those icons getting swapped back into the display page? Woo, gives be a shiver.
Someone else here mentioned the RIAA and the MPAA. I bet they're gonna _love_ this tech. I say fuck'em.
There is a specific type of neuron in humans that is primarily responsible for mood and serotonin control. MDMA alters this by forcing said neurons to release all stored serotonin at once. Given high enough doses of MDMA, these neurons will suffer metabolic collapse (due to some unknown process, we don't today know exactly what's going on in the cell) and die. The toxic dosage in primates is generally accepted to be around 2.5-3mg/Kg. Effects from this damage include mood swings, depression, etc. However, This damage is not permanent, and the affected neurons regenerate after 6-12 months. However, for this to happen, you have to stop taking MDMA for the entire period.
Additionally, doses under the toxic level have no lasting permanent effects.
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I posit that since, due to their overwhelming number, it is physically impossible to hold in one average human brain all the laws that apply to you at all levels of government (municipal, county, state, and federal), that ignorance of the law _is_ a valid excuse. Hell, even lawyers have to specialize, they themselves can't know all the laws.
I say that we petition to block all new laws until all current laws have been checked for validity, conciseness, and ease of comprehension. We should also take the time to correct any legal conflicts with current laws.
Start from the Constitution, and work your way down.