What about companies that paid for their product to be placed in the show in the first place? If Budweiser paid good $$$ to have the main character hold a Bud Light, won't they sue when the re-run shows a Coors?
but when I have kids, I dont want my 5 year old starting up some video game whose objective is to blow people apart
If you don't want that, there is no need for a censorchip. Simply encrypt one filt essential to the game (like the app itself), for example with pgp, and write two little scripts:
Prompts you for the password when you start the game
Deletes the decrypted file when you're done playing
How hard is that? I can't believe you would call yourself a geek and condone that form of censorship.
I also believe in something called "setting an example", which is why I don't have any games on my computer which I wouldn't want my children to play (I have 3). But when that's not practical, password-protection it is.
I'm using iCab with the iCab identity script (not masquerading as IE or NS) and I'm not getting rejected! Hey, I use a Mac and a little known browser. Why won't they reject me? I feel so included and dirty...
At the prices they mention, they still need a remote control or some kind of touchpad/touchscreen to control the system (I only read Larry Ellison and Scott Jones, though). Isn't it much better to have in-wall microphones and voice recognition software? I can do this with my old PowerMac already: "Computer, lights!" (with X10 interface of course). The latest MacTech even has an article for the do-it-yourself voice-command home automation.
BBB: Better Business Bureau. I think it's some kind of non-profit org for consumer protection.
Openbox: a computer that has been sold, then returned and simply re-packaged for a new sale, without being verified. If it was verified, it is usually called "refurbished" and often carries a shorter warranty (like 90 days instead of 1 year).
An open box computer can also be a demo model (hence the term, the box was opened before it was sold).
What if you had a simple word processor, with the "basic" 10% of features, that worked well, never crashed and cost 10% of MS Word?
Imagine, now, that you could seamlessly add the features you wanted, and only those? Like an equation editor, a sophisticated charter, etc... And that the word processor vendor (or a third party) could sell that to you for a low price?
Apple has done it in the past. It was called OpenDoc. It was a great idea, but was too early for its time. Isn't that the story of Apple?
Capers Jones [...] writes, for software engineers, "only about 47 working days in a full calendar year are available for actually developing or enhancing software applications." The rest of their time, about 150 days, is spent on testing, fixing bugs and working on projects that are later canceled [...]
So, where are my "about 168 days off"? With 52 weekends a year, that's only 104 days. Winter solstice/New year and a couple of civic holidays later should add up to about 20 days. Should I take another 46 days off? Wohoo!
Then, it becomes more a matter of which team has the best programmers, as well as the best pit crew, etc.
Have you watched any F1 race in the last few years? It's already like that! Whether the drivers are human or not is up for debate, but ever since the cars were allowed to change their tires and/or refuel more than once, the cars are basically in the same configuration as in qualifying laps.
If either Bush, Cheney, Gore or Lieberman cared a whit about children, they would shriek instead about the paucity of decent Internet access -- and even decent computers -- in America's public elementary and middle schools.
More computers and internet access in public schools is not what is needed. More teachers and more resources devoted to education are what is needed. Give teachers (and not administrators) a big raise; recognize that their work is the most important one and you will attract better teachers.
Remember the DDoS attacks of February? They arrested some kid in Montreal. Now everyone feels all safe because the 'bad guy' is in jail. Same thing.
I feel a lot safer knowing that they arrested some l33t teenager in relation to this case. I mean, all the real hackers and crackers use their skills to do Good Things (tm), right?
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go:
/ re adme.zip
ftp://biol10.biol.umontreal.ca/public_ftp/hacks
Mirrored at http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/biol/legendre/wtc/
(Stupid lameness filter!)
Here is a mirror of early BBC pictures.
What about companies that paid for their product to be placed in the show in the first place? If Budweiser paid good $$$ to have the main character hold a Bud Light, won't they sue when the re-run shows a Coors?
If you don't want that, there is no need for a censorchip. Simply encrypt one filt essential to the game (like the app itself), for example with pgp, and write two little scripts:
How hard is that? I can't believe you would call yourself a geek and condone that form of censorship.
I also believe in something called "setting an example", which is why I don't have any games on my computer which I wouldn't want my children to play (I have 3). But when that's not practical, password-protection it is.
I just thought it was slashdotted!
I'm using iCab with the iCab identity script (not masquerading as IE or NS) and I'm not getting rejected! Hey, I use a Mac and a little known browser. Why won't they reject me? I feel so included and dirty...
At the prices they mention, they still need a remote control or some kind of touchpad/touchscreen to control the system (I only read Larry Ellison and Scott Jones, though). Isn't it much better to have in-wall microphones and voice recognition software? I can do this with my old PowerMac already: "Computer, lights!" (with X10 interface of course). The latest MacTech even has an article for the do-it-yourself voice-command home automation.
BBB: Better Business Bureau. I think it's some kind of non-profit org for consumer protection.
Openbox: a computer that has been sold, then returned and simply re-packaged for a new sale, without being verified. If it was verified, it is usually called "refurbished" and often carries a shorter warranty (like 90 days instead of 1 year).
An open box computer can also be a demo model (hence the term, the box was opened before it was sold).
Imagine, now, that you could seamlessly add the features you wanted, and only those? Like an equation editor, a sophisticated charter, etc... And that the word processor vendor (or a third party) could sell that to you for a low price?
Apple has done it in the past. It was called OpenDoc. It was a great idea, but was too early for its time. Isn't that the story of Apple?
Am I the only one that sees this as a piece of SkyNet, of the Terminator movies?
Does it have anything to do with "Tea, Earl Grey, hot"?
:-)
Try http://www.salshdot.org/
More computers and internet access in public schools is not what is needed. More teachers and more resources devoted to education are what is needed. Give teachers (and not administrators) a big raise; recognize that their work is the most important one and you will attract better teachers.
The guy that does the pirate broadcasts obviously uses Macs, he has a 22" LCD cinema display on his desk...
It's a spacer gif. Big deal. Web designers use them all the time. Plus, it's not a web bug since it originates on the same server.
Which is why text in ALL CAPS is much harder to read quickly since all the words have the same blocky shape (no ascenders/descenders, for instance).
...unfortunately, the margins of this slashdot comment box are too narrow for it to fit completely in it.
If you want the whole 2.1 MB html file, I posted it on my server