> Microsoft absolutely has to make sure that retail Windows and any WinPC programs do NOT run on XBox. Not (only) because they are losing money on the XBox, but more importantly, they would piss off PC-makers if they would start to become a competitor.
And just what would those pissed off PC makers do about it? Stop selling Windoze machines? They would be out of business before Microsoft noticed that they were mad.
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This just in:
"Bill Gates holds press release on Al Qaeda hacks in Windows XP."
Redmond- Bill Gates today held a press release to confirm the presence of "hacked" code in the Windows XP product, and admitted for the first time that all previous versions of Windows also had "hacked" code inserted maliciously by covert Al Qaeda operatives within the Microsoft Corporation. "We have confirmed the presence of this code in all versions of Microsoft Windows from 3.0 to XP. The code we have found was planted by covert Al Qaeda operatives who were employed by Microsoft for years. This was a long-term terrorist operation planned years in advance and executed with frightening efficiency. We have investigated the code and found it to be the cause of instability in Windows products. As a matter of fact, the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" was in fact an Al Qaeda trojan. We will be release a full list in the coming week of all the Windows problems that the Al Qaeda terrorists are responsible for after a full investigation of all the things that make Windows suck."
>would a human clone be a real person?
No. A human clone would be no different from any human, but that doesn't make them real people.
>or would i be considered to be a creation owned by said lab?
Yes, just as you are the property of the lab that helped your parents with that little fertility problem, a clone would be the property of the lab that did the procedure and would definitely NOT be the child of the people who's DNA was used.
> does that mean we have slavery of sorts again?
Absolutely! Clones are being mass produced right now in order to work the mines and fields of industrial conglomerates. In this one case, the world will overlook it's laws against human slavery.
> are the clones going to end up being exact copies of the donor?
They will be born as exact copies, and through careful control of every single experience they ever have growing up, including every bit of food they eat, every person they ever come into contact with, and every thing they see and think... they will be exact copies of the donor. Didn't you see 'The Boys From Brazil'?
> how does one account ofr personality?
The clones, much like yourself, will have no personalities.
> how will we tell clones apart from people born?
From their awful fashion sense.
> should we do so?
Yes, of course we should! How else will we know who is to be a slave working in the mines?
> how will the world put up with two of me?
It will be difficult, but the profit from your slave-labor should make it easier to deal with.
> all important questions that should be asked and answered first before the problem arises...
I think I have answered all your questions satisfactorily.
Since I don't have any mod points, I'll just copy it here. Some Anonymous Coward answered my point with some real FACTS:
> Nazg is the black speech word for "ring", and gûl is generally translated as "wraith" to make sense in the term Nazgûl, "ring-wraith"... although A Tolkien Compass" translates gûl as: "any one of the major invisible servants of Sauron dominated entirely by his will"
> Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
> Shut up and die
You are a ridiculous twit, Anonymous Coward.
> they will quickly dispell your notions about "nazism" and LOTR
Why don't YOU dispell my notions by directly addressing what I said? Nazghul = Nazi Ghoul. Please state YOUR better interpretation of the origin of the word 'Nazghul'.
> Nazi Germany [...] was decidedly "green" and prosperous
Ah... I am beginning to understand. You take personal offense at me bashing your Fuhrer...
> good nazi-bashing
Just what part of my simple statement 'bashes nazis'? Not that I don't think they DESERVE bashing, but that is not in any what what I was doing. I simple said one word from LOTR strongly resembles the word Nazi. How is that bashing your buddies?
> many people over the years have suggested the same thing. They also suggested that "The Shire" is actually supposed to be England, and that Sauron is Adolf Hitler, and the big war in LOTR is World War II.
Tolkien's denials aside, I always thought it painfully obvious that the dark riders were called "Nazghuls"... "Nazi Ghouls?"
Even the Earth's atmosphere won't "sap a significant amount" of microwave radiation.
The moon's thin vapor of sodium and potassium ions won't do a thing.
If you have the abillity to put your own replacement libraries on the system, I think you can stop trying to hack into it with buffer overflows. You already 0wn the system.
> the lunar atmosphere, which while rarer than Earth's is much thicker...
>... better to build solar power satellites and launch them from Earth
Yeah, but the atmosphere in space, where the satellites would go, while much rarer than Earth's is made of cottage cheese which would interfere with the power being transmitted.
Man... I hope you were joking about the Moon's "atmosphere"...
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> Of course we have a little thing in the way called an atmosphere.
Yeah, everyone knows SUNLIGHT can't make it through our atmosphere.
The article states that the maser beam's power would be roughly 20% of sunlight. Therefore a solar array sitting on the ground working at 20% efficiency would be able to collect the same amount. A series of them at various equatorial points around the Earth would be able to collect at all times.
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> Oh, and that whole night thing. There is no night on the light side of the moon.
Except that there is no such thing as the "light side of the moon." Where do you get your information from, Pink Floyd album names?
The "dark side of the moon" is the face that is always turned away FROM THE EARTH. The "light side" can be surmised to mean the face that is always facing the Earth. That has nothing to do with which part of the moon is currently facing the Sun.
Unless by "light side of the Moon" you are referring to the side that happens to be facing the Sun at any given time. In that case there is no night on the light side of the Earth either.
> I don't know, also, whether you can claim prior art after a patent is already granted
Of course you can. When do you think you can claim prior art? While the patent application is winding it's way through the patent office, unexposed to public scrutiny?
Patents are given out like candy on Halloween. It's unfortunately up to the courts and companies attacking/defending patents to determine if they are valid or not. Yes, I know this is supposed to be the patent office's job... but that's the way it is.
I read your like about the MP3 Anywhere... but there's something I don't understand...
It says you can use the remote to control the computer's mouse and play MP3s... but if you can't see the computer's monitor, what good does it do to control the mouse?!
Finally! Now I can write a "smart DJ"
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This is great (although the price sucks).
Here's the first feature I am going to implement:
I want a huge playlist (perhaps encompassing EVERY song in my collection) with a 0%-100% rating on each song. The "smart DJ" will be able to play a "shuffle/random" selection with the probability of any given song being played proportional to the song's % rating.
In other words, it will play my favorite songs more often than my less favorite songs, but it will play them randomly so I won't hear the same 10 songs over and over. And occasionally I will hear the nearly-forgotten songs in my collection (after all if they are in my collection I must like them).
It will also track a short history to make sure I never hear the same song twice within a short time span (say 30 minutes).
The next feature will be to ability to give ratings to SUB playlists so I can for instance have the "smart DJ" choose to play a 3 song "Pink Floyd" medley or to play a song immediately followed by an interesting cover version of the same song by a different artist.
HAHAHAHA! OMG! ROTFL!
Faber, you slay me with your subtle wit. The subtlest wit I have ever seen. So subtle in fact, that I am having a hard time finding it...
The conversation thus far:
> [uncl_bob] Everyone closer than 2 kilometers from the display will get cancer right away. Cheezes.
> [faber] No Cancer! They have regular light bulbs switching on and off in each window of the empty building. So all the windows are the matrix
> [me,hoggoth] Gee, you think so? ("Captain, my readings indicate this form of life does not understand sarcasm or humor")
> [faber] Yes, I'm positive. It's on my way to work.
I am predicting that Faber will reply to this with a devastatingly clever retort such as, "No really I am serious. It's just normal light bulbs, not a 14 story CRT."
> This thing will not work very well in an environment that we don't know that much about
How do you draw that conclusion? We know plenty about the environment on Mars. We know the gravity, the temperature, the air pressure, the air composition, the weather patterns, the sunlight, etc. These robots are being designed just for this environment.
> That robot will be treated just as well as the insects are. Once they start to annoy anything or anyone, they're going to be attacked.
WTF? Attacked by WHO? Nobody lives on Mars! There are no poorly treated insects on Mars. If there is life it is microbes, not angry aliens. Turn off the TV and go outside for a while.
> However, they will be good as "scouts" and watch out bugs
Watching out for WHAT?! Subversive rocks? Seditious sand?
> Let's say, a terraforming project finally has gone underway on Mars. These bugs will be great to have around to fly around the station and outside nearby the station.
Again, turn off the TV, go outside for a while. These bugs are being designed to be the first robotic explorers of an untouched planet, not "scouts" and "guards" for a fictional terraforming station! By the time we have a terraforming station on Mars these robots will be long gone.
> Let them go far away, they'll never make it back.
This, no doubt, is from your extensive experience working with them in your capacity as "security guard" at the Mars terraforming station?
Slashdot Mirror
Look it up.
I suppose you'd be terrified of riding a bicyle with training wheels too?
And just what would those pissed off PC makers do about it? Stop selling Windoze machines? They would be out of business before Microsoft noticed that they were mad.
"Bill Gates holds press release on Al Qaeda hacks in Windows XP."
Redmond- Bill Gates today held a press release to confirm the presence of "hacked" code in the Windows XP product, and admitted for the first time that all previous versions of Windows also had "hacked" code inserted maliciously by covert Al Qaeda operatives within the Microsoft Corporation. "We have confirmed the presence of this code in all versions of Microsoft Windows from 3.0 to XP. The code we have found was planted by covert Al Qaeda operatives who were employed by Microsoft for years. This was a long-term terrorist operation planned years in advance and executed with frightening efficiency. We have investigated the code and found it to be the cause of instability in Windows products. As a matter of fact, the infamous "Blue Screen of Death" was in fact an Al Qaeda trojan. We will be release a full list in the coming week of all the Windows problems that the Al Qaeda terrorists are responsible for after a full investigation of all the things that make Windows suck."
No. A human clone would be no different from any human, but that doesn't make them real people.
>or would i be considered to be a creation owned by said lab?
Yes, just as you are the property of the lab that helped your parents with that little fertility problem, a clone would be the property of the lab that did the procedure and would definitely NOT be the child of the people who's DNA was used.
> does that mean we have slavery of sorts again?
Absolutely! Clones are being mass produced right now in order to work the mines and fields of industrial conglomerates. In this one case, the world will overlook it's laws against human slavery.
> are the clones going to end up being exact copies of the donor?
They will be born as exact copies, and through careful control of every single experience they ever have growing up, including every bit of food they eat, every person they ever come into contact with, and every thing they see and think... they will be exact copies of the donor. Didn't you see 'The Boys From Brazil'?
> how does one account ofr personality?
The clones, much like yourself, will have no personalities.
> how will we tell clones apart from people born?
From their awful fashion sense.
> should we do so?
Yes, of course we should! How else will we know who is to be a slave working in the mines?
> how will the world put up with two of me?
It will be difficult, but the profit from your slave-labor should make it easier to deal with.
> all important questions that should be asked and answered first before the problem arises...
I think I have answered all your questions satisfactorily.
> Nazg is the black speech word for "ring", and gûl is generally translated as "wraith" to make sense in the term Nazgûl, "ring-wraith"... although A Tolkien Compass" translates gûl as: "any one of the major invisible servants of Sauron dominated entirely by his will"
> Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.
Thank you A.C.
You are a ridiculous twit, Anonymous Coward.
> they will quickly dispell your notions about "nazism" and LOTR
Why don't YOU dispell my notions by directly addressing what I said? Nazghul = Nazi Ghoul. Please state YOUR better interpretation of the origin of the word 'Nazghul'.
> Nazi Germany [...] was decidedly "green" and prosperous
Ah... I am beginning to understand. You take personal offense at me bashing your Fuhrer...
> good nazi-bashing
Just what part of my simple statement 'bashes nazis'? Not that I don't think they DESERVE bashing, but that is not in any what what I was doing. I simple said one word from LOTR strongly resembles the word Nazi. How is that bashing your buddies?
Tolkien's denials aside, I always thought it painfully obvious that the dark riders were called "Nazghuls"... "Nazi Ghouls?"
Even the Earth's atmosphere won't "sap a significant amount" of microwave radiation.
The moon's thin vapor of sodium and potassium ions won't do a thing.
If you have the abillity to put your own replacement libraries on the system, I think you can stop trying to hack into it with buffer overflows. You already 0wn the system.
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Yeah, but the atmosphere in space, where the satellites would go, while much rarer than Earth's is made of cottage cheese which would interfere with the power being transmitted.
Man... I hope you were joking about the Moon's "atmosphere"...
Yeah, everyone knows SUNLIGHT can't make it through our atmosphere.
The article states that the maser beam's power would be roughly 20% of sunlight. Therefore a solar array sitting on the ground working at 20% efficiency would be able to collect the same amount. A series of them at various equatorial points around the Earth would be able to collect at all times.
Except that there is no such thing as the "light side of the moon." Where do you get your information from, Pink Floyd album names?
The "dark side of the moon" is the face that is always turned away FROM THE EARTH. The "light side" can be surmised to mean the face that is always facing the Earth. That has nothing to do with which part of the moon is currently facing the Sun.
Unless by "light side of the Moon" you are referring to the side that happens to be facing the Sun at any given time. In that case there is no night on the light side of the Earth either.
How many times will we find new buffer overflow security holes before developers STOP WRITING STUPID CODE?!
Use strncpy instead of strcpy.
Problem solved.
Idiots.
Of course you can. When do you think you can claim prior art? While the patent application is winding it's way through the patent office, unexposed to public scrutiny?
Patents are given out like candy on Halloween. It's unfortunately up to the courts and companies attacking/defending patents to determine if they are valid or not. Yes, I know this is supposed to be the patent office's job... but that's the way it is.
I read your like about the MP3 Anywhere... but there's something I don't understand...
It says you can use the remote to control the computer's mouse and play MP3s... but if you can't see the computer's monitor, what good does it do to control the mouse?!
This is great (although the price sucks).
Here's the first feature I am going to implement:
I want a huge playlist (perhaps encompassing EVERY song in my collection) with a 0%-100% rating on each song. The "smart DJ" will be able to play a "shuffle/random" selection with the probability of any given song being played proportional to the song's % rating.
In other words, it will play my favorite songs more often than my less favorite songs, but it will play them randomly so I won't hear the same 10 songs over and over. And occasionally I will hear the nearly-forgotten songs in my collection (after all if they are in my collection I must like them).
It will also track a short history to make sure I never hear the same song twice within a short time span (say 30 minutes).
The next feature will be to ability to give ratings to SUB playlists so I can for instance have the "smart DJ" choose to play a 3 song "Pink Floyd" medley or to play a song immediately followed by an interesting cover version of the same song by a different artist.
Faber, you slay me with your subtle wit. The subtlest wit I have ever seen. So subtle in fact, that I am having a hard time finding it...
The conversation thus far:
> [uncl_bob] Everyone closer than 2 kilometers from the display will get cancer right away. Cheezes.
> [faber] No Cancer! They have regular light bulbs switching on and off in each window of the empty building. So all the windows are the matrix
> [me,hoggoth] Gee, you think so? ("Captain, my readings indicate this form of life does not understand sarcasm or humor")
> [faber] Yes, I'm positive. It's on my way to work.
I am predicting that Faber will reply to this with a devastatingly clever retort such as, "No really I am serious. It's just normal light bulbs, not a 14 story CRT."
Gee, you think so?
("Captain, my readings indicate this form of life does not understand sarcasm or humor")
What is at N 45 2.001 W 122 40.911?
> Honestly.
How about 'realistically'?
> This thing will not work very well in an environment that we don't know that much about
How do you draw that conclusion? We know plenty about the environment on Mars. We know the gravity, the temperature, the air pressure, the air composition, the weather patterns, the sunlight, etc. These robots are being designed just for this environment.
> That robot will be treated just as well as the insects are. Once they start to annoy anything or anyone, they're going to be attacked.
WTF? Attacked by WHO? Nobody lives on Mars! There are no poorly treated insects on Mars. If there is life it is microbes, not angry aliens. Turn off the TV and go outside for a while.
> However, they will be good as "scouts" and watch out bugs
Watching out for WHAT?! Subversive rocks? Seditious sand?
> Let's say, a terraforming project finally has gone underway on Mars. These bugs will be great to have around to fly around the station and outside nearby the station.
Again, turn off the TV, go outside for a while. These bugs are being designed to be the first robotic explorers of an untouched planet, not "scouts" and "guards" for a fictional terraforming station! By the time we have a terraforming station on Mars these robots will be long gone.
> Let them go far away, they'll never make it back.
This, no doubt, is from your extensive experience working with them in your capacity as "security guard" at the Mars terraforming station?
> Hmm.. Seems www.whitehouse.gov is also running SSH-1.5-1.2.27 Go figure
Not anymore it isn't. I just 0wn3d it and upgraded to the latest OpenSSH for them.
Oh, look, here's the FBI at my door. Here to thank me, no doubt!