When oh When are you idiots going to check your sources! Gore never said that he invented the internet. He said that he took the lead (along with many others) in making it possible. Ever wonder where DARPA gets its' funding? Think a Senator might have something to do with that?
Manyt of the posters here talk about throwaway passwords for here (like mine). So it would be interesting to see a report, next week sometime, on how many of us actually followed Taco's advice.
I wonder if Stephen King's publishers are similarly upset that people get his books out of libraries rather than buying their own copies
They are, there have been several statements from publishers lately that they are displeased with people reading (dead tree) books without paying for them i.e. by getting them from libraries or from a friend after the friend has read them. That is why publishers like the idea of e-books.
To all those who are saying variants of the above: Ben Franklin said something along the lines of "Those who would sacrifice neccessary liberty to secure temporary safety deserve neither"
Excellent book. One of the heroes is a biologist/hacker and one of the villians is an ecologist/hacker. The biologist/hacker runs a filter that explicitly lets through some data she wouldn't be interested in/agree with.
Also, in the future posited by Brin, there is no privacy. Possibly the most worrying aspect of the future shown book, because the most likely.
My father worked for a branch of DOD in the mid-eighties and one of the contractors flat out refused to use Ada. Given the choice of doing without a product that only they made, or using C, the DOD went with C.
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When oh When are you idiots going to check your sources! Gore never said that he invented the internet. He said that he took the lead (along with many others) in making it possible. Ever wonder where DARPA gets its' funding? Think a Senator might have something to do with that?
Nuff Said
It's here.
Yeah, but unrealistic is not impossible
'Forget the Matrix. It's time for the Grid'
Those of us who've taken math know that a grid is a matrix.
Manyt of the posters here talk about throwaway passwords for here (like mine). So it would be interesting to see a report, next week sometime, on how many of us actually followed Taco's advice.
Who's Robin Heinlein? Is he related to Robert?
I wonder if Stephen King's publishers are similarly upset that people get his books out of libraries rather than buying their own copies
They are, there have been several statements from publishers lately that they are displeased with people reading (dead tree) books without paying for them i.e. by getting them from libraries or from a friend after the friend has read them. That is why publishers like the idea of e-books.
Alexandria where? Egypt?, Louisiana?, Virginia?
You didn't hear about the billionaire in Redmond who's secretly supporting Debian? Apparently he wants more "innovative" features in it.
You're just jealous because They are successful, aren't you?
And you're jealous because the voices in my head only speak to me!!!
To all those who are saying variants of the above: Ben Franklin said something along the lines of "Those who would sacrifice neccessary liberty to secure temporary safety deserve neither"
Just install an overclocked server farm on the far side of the moon, and watch how fast they go in the insane temperatures.
Especially during the day when it hits 200+ in the full sunlight!
Taco takes job at MicroSoft!
Wish I could up this one!
Excellent book. One of the heroes is a biologist/hacker and one of the villians is an ecologist/hacker. The biologist/hacker runs a filter that explicitly lets through some data she wouldn't be interested in/agree with.
Also, in the future posited by Brin, there is no privacy. Possibly the most worrying aspect of the future shown book, because the most likely.
Read "The Fountains of Paradise" by Clarke. He covers that, and many other potential problems.
Is the title of an op-ed at Dr. Dobb's.
There's a point - I wonder if a patent could be contested on the basis that it is anti-competitive
No, patents are intended to be anti-competetive. That's why they expire.
Actually, it's Latin. I took two years in School.
Remember, there are only 17,576 TLAs (46656 if you include numbers).
Sorry, here's the url for the credits section.
He says "Many thanks to linux.com's cool layout!" in the "contributions" section.
My father worked for a branch of DOD in the mid-eighties and one of the contractors flat out refused to use Ada. Given the choice of doing without a product that only they made, or using C, the DOD went with C.
Actually, it was an aircraft carrier. The Yorktown IIRC.