You forgot the step where you set up an 800 number with a voice messaging system that endlessly plays, "Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and you call will be answered in the order it was received." Then hangs up after a random (long) amount of time.
Heck! Have the 800 number page you whenever someone calls it. Try to figure out who in the company is calling the support number(they'll be the one with the phone stuck to their head and the glazed look on their face). Wait till the get frustrated then offer to call support for them. Once they are gone, fix the problem and tell everyone how great the phone support guy was.
Don't underestimate the terror potential of a small amount of explosives and shrappnel. Terror isn't necessarily about destruction. It's about sending a message.
One or two DIY cruise missiles carrying anti-personnel warheads detonated over the French Quarter during Marti Gra, over Times Square on New Years Eve, or over Washington DC on Innaugration Day would carry a powerful message.
I'm pretty sure that you can get around the fuzzy GPS part by using differential mode GPS. I've heard that you can get down to millimeter resolution with a properly callibrated differential unit.
not by very much. The thing is made mostly of foam and fiberglass. The only metal bits are the insturments and the pulse jet engine. That doesn't amount ot much of a radar signature.
When you take into account the altitude that this thing will be flying, it might not even have a radar signature.
The only way the a Borg prequel episode would work would be if they were antiques Borg based on vacuume tube/hydraulic technology. Hell! even I would tune in for that!
[ excerpt from script ] Evil Pre-Borg carrying a bicycle pump and a light bulb approaches a crewman.
Crewman: Dude! what the hell are you doing?
Pre-Borg: I'm assimilating you. Please do not resist (attempts to jam lightbulb into crewmans neck)
Crewman: OW! goddammit! enough with that lightbulb already!
Pre-Borg: It's not a lightbulb, It's a vacuum tube.
Crewman: Whatever Poindexter. (Punches pre-borg. The sound of glass shattering is heard)
Thanks for posting this comment early. I was so afraid that the first comment I read on this subject would be a "imagine a beowolf clust.." comment that had been mod'd up as 'funny'.
I had a conversation about the McCarthy era with a film theory major. According to them, damn near all of the writers that were blacklisted were writing again within six months under pseudonyms.
High end mag tape cartridges store 50GB. One hard drive can replace three tape cartriges. When sending the drive off site for storage, just use the same box you used for the tapes and fill the extra space with shock absorbant padding.
But wait there's more. Those mag tape cartriges have a transfer rate of about 10 MB/sec. With hard drives, your backups will take a fraction of the time they took under the old system. That leaves plenty of extra time to pack the drives up extra securely. You may even be tempted to do extra backups to send copies to multipls off-site locations!
Its already been done. AIMster tried your DMCA idea in their litigation. It didn't work. It was rejected based on a provision against using laws like the DMCA it hide illegal acts.
You'd be suprised how many candidates professed knowledge of an alphabet soup of industry technologies and languages, but had a difficult time correctly forming a "for" statement in C.
TESTIFY Brothter!
One of my old supervisors told me this story. He had one guy's resume that claimed he was a expert CTT programmer. CTT? what the hell was that? He showed the resume to some other people and they eventually figured out the guy meant C++. He said that had hoped that it was a typo that his spell checker had created, but in the interview the guy actually called it CTT out loud. When he asked the guy to describe how CTT was different than C he was given the book jacket description of C++. The interview ended at that point.
I don't like spammers either, but spam is par for the course.
The simple act of having a connection and an email address gives people the right to send you messages. It's part of the package. I don't see any way of changing things without changing the open and free nature of the internet.
I wouldn't worry too much about it. the pharmaceutical industry can't really afford to let you die. After all, how will you continue to buy life extending drugs if you are dead?
Also, the "focus" on cigars and stained dresses should be traced back to a witch-hunt launched by Clinton's political adversaries.
A witch hunt? You must be joking. You could only call it a witch hunt if Clinton hadn't done the things for which he was being investigated. Similarly, you can't say that they were slanderous or libelous attacks on Clinton, beacuse he really did do what they said he did. You may be able to claim that Clinton's political adversaries conducted a campiagn of character assassination against him, but even that is a stretch, since he really was the man that they were claiming him to be.
...I'd be tempted to find a country without extradition treaties
Last time I checked, there were no such countries on the planet Earth. Even Cuba and North Korea have extradition treaties with the USA.
If in serious trouble, your best bet would be to hide in a place so rife with corruption that you can bribe you way out of trouble you may find yourself in (Washington DC would be a good choice if you can stomache all the lawyers).
Colaborative programming requires much more than just a text connection. There is a great deal of information conveyed in pacing and tone of voice that just can't be easily communicated through typing.
I'm thinking that without simultanious audio, such collaboration would be more of a hinderance than a benefit.
I'm not too sure about that. One of the links above mentioned that you need a high temperature gradient for this process to be effective. I don't think that gradient exists in either the Persian gulf or in the Medeteranian.
OK, so MS and the MPAA are complaining that the lax foreign legal systems are causing large scale piracy, and that the money from these enterprises is going to fund terrorism.
Simple Solution: we need to relax out copyright laws to the point that piracy is no longer a viable source or income.
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You forgot the step where you set up an 800 number with a voice messaging system that endlessly plays, "Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and you call will be answered in the order it was received." Then hangs up after a random (long) amount of time.
Heck! Have the 800 number page you whenever someone calls it. Try to figure out who in the company is calling the support number(they'll be the one with the phone stuck to their head and the glazed look on their face). Wait till the get frustrated then offer to call support for them. Once they are gone, fix the problem and tell everyone how great the phone support guy was.
Don't underestimate the terror potential of a small amount of explosives and shrappnel. Terror isn't necessarily about destruction. It's about sending a message.
One or two DIY cruise missiles carrying anti-personnel warheads detonated over the French Quarter during Marti Gra, over Times Square on New Years Eve, or over Washington DC on Innaugration Day would carry a powerful message.
with the right maps, following terrain really shouldn't be that hard. Just plot your way points in such a manner as to avoid major terrain features.
I'm pretty sure that you can get around the fuzzy GPS part by using differential mode GPS. I've heard that you can get down to millimeter resolution with a properly callibrated differential unit.
not by very much. The thing is made mostly of foam and fiberglass. The only metal bits are the insturments and the pulse jet engine. That doesn't amount ot much of a radar signature.
When you take into account the altitude that this thing will be flying, it might not even have a radar signature.
I take issue with your statement "we seize works after a certain period of time."
I think it would be more clear to state that we cease to protect works after a certain period of time.
The word 'seize' give the idea that the state would have the sole authority to distribute a work.
The only way the a Borg prequel episode would work would be if they were antiques Borg based on vacuume tube/hydraulic technology. Hell! even I would tune in for that!
[ excerpt from script ]
Evil Pre-Borg carrying a bicycle pump and a light bulb approaches a crewman.
Crewman: Dude! what the hell are you doing?
Pre-Borg: I'm assimilating you. Please do not resist (attempts to jam lightbulb into crewmans neck)
Crewman: OW! goddammit! enough with that lightbulb already!
Pre-Borg: It's not a lightbulb, It's a vacuum tube.
Crewman: Whatever Poindexter. (Punches pre-borg. The sound of glass shattering is heard)
Pre-Borg: Fuck! (slumps to the ground)
Be brave. Do what you want. If you want to start a club, then start a club.
Don't be a coward.
Thanks for posting this comment early. I was so afraid that the first comment I read on this subject would be a "imagine a beowolf clust.." comment that had been mod'd up as 'funny'.
I had a conversation about the McCarthy era with a film theory major. According to them, damn near all of the writers that were blacklisted were writing again within six months under pseudonyms.
Could be BS.
High end mag tape cartridges store 50GB. One hard drive can replace three tape cartriges. When sending the drive off site for storage, just use the same box you used for the tapes and fill the extra space with shock absorbant padding.
But wait there's more. Those mag tape cartriges have a transfer rate of about 10 MB/sec. With hard drives, your backups will take a fraction of the time they took under the old system. That leaves plenty of extra time to pack the drives up extra securely. You may even be tempted to do extra backups to send copies to multipls off-site locations!
Double plus good!
Here's two words back at ya:
Spock's Brain.
Its already been done. AIMster tried your DMCA idea in their litigation. It didn't work. It was rejected based on a provision against using laws like the DMCA it hide illegal acts.
TESTIFY Brothter!
One of my old supervisors told me this story. He had one guy's resume that claimed he was a expert CTT programmer. CTT? what the hell was that? He showed the resume to some other people and they eventually figured out the guy meant C++. He said that had hoped that it was a typo that his spell checker had created, but in the interview the guy actually called it CTT out loud. When he asked the guy to describe how CTT was different than C he was given the book jacket description of C++. The interview ended at that point.
I don't like spammers either, but spam is par for the course.
The simple act of having a connection and an email address gives people the right to send you messages. It's part of the package. I don't see any way of changing things without changing the open and free nature of the internet.
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. the pharmaceutical industry can't really afford to let you die. After all, how will you continue to buy life extending drugs if you are dead?
A witch hunt? You must be joking. You could only call it a witch hunt if Clinton hadn't done the things for which he was being investigated. Similarly, you can't say that they were slanderous or libelous attacks on Clinton, beacuse he really did do what they said he did. You may be able to claim that Clinton's political adversaries conducted a campiagn of character assassination against him, but even that is a stretch, since he really was the man that they were claiming him to be.
Listening to the radio is not stealing because the radio station has paid for the right to play that song over the airwaves.
Personally, I Blame Canada.
Last time I checked, there were no such countries on the planet Earth. Even Cuba and North Korea have extradition treaties with the USA.
If in serious trouble, your best bet would be to hide in a place so rife with corruption that you can bribe you way out of trouble you may find yourself in (Washington DC would be a good choice if you can stomache all the lawyers).
Colaborative programming requires much more than just a text connection. There is a great deal of information conveyed in pacing and tone of voice that just can't be easily communicated through typing.
I'm thinking that without simultanious audio, such collaboration would be more of a hinderance than a benefit.
I have to think that the amount of energy required to heat all that organic matter up to 500 degrees is not going to be insubstancial.
So just how energy efficient is this process?
I'm not too sure about that. One of the links above mentioned that you need a high temperature gradient for this process to be effective. I don't think that gradient exists in either the Persian gulf or in the Medeteranian.
...further
Since foreign piracy funds terrorism, it follows that domestic piracy must thwart terrorism (by denying them funding).
Ergo: Every CD you rip at home saves the life of a child!
OK, so MS and the MPAA are complaining that the lax foreign legal systems are causing large scale piracy, and that the money from these enterprises is going to fund terrorism.
Simple Solution: we need to relax out copyright laws to the point that piracy is no longer a viable source or income.
Problem solved.