Does anyone remember early PC systems that had memory cards with a read-only operating system? A friend of mine had one that had dos 5 (or the likes) and a sort of literal folder appearance gui with it.
Rant begins. If we had ultra fast, high density ROM chips like this it might be nice to put the core of an OS onto the chip and only use the harddrive (or large RAM) for updated components. A new 'Windows' or 'Linux' system would be inserted into a little cube-tray on your computer . All your 3rd party applications would be left on the hard disk. Hrmm, or, the software could also be purchased on cubes like this. Maybe we end up with a daisy chain of USB2 attached cubes, or a cube-tray, each representing a DVD sized 3rd party application. This sounds more attuned to commercial software. Rant over.
Parents lie. Children lie. When you have your word against a child's word, you will soon find yourself against a family's word (Or a parent could originate the idea, an attention craving child loves a suddenly caring parent), even with a complete lack of physical evidence from your accuser, it is nearly inevitable that a jury of disgusted parents will state 'Guilty' before your head stops spinning. And then you can rot in prison for the next several years.
On top of that, there is no accountability (in practice) for the parents or children that concoct false claims.
It is a sure fire way to get vengeance on someone, or simply get them out of your life. The defense of such an accusation is so insurmountable that simply threatening to 'tell' will do the trick.
In short, don't piss off a troubled 11 year old girl if you've ever spent more than a minute alone with her. Once she starts having 'nightmares' and tells her parents and shrink, (did you know she had a shrink?)... The first year of legal defense is going to run at least $50,000, good luck.
Moderate incarceration, treatment, parole, and continued vigilance with treatment should be enough. That's the best we can do for any convicted criminal. We live in a society that strives to be compassionate through rehabilitation and reintegration. If we don't want all the hassle we can simply holdup all sorts of offenders on a fortress island for life.
God destoryed the Tower of Babel, which was the epitomy of learning and technology at the time. I think they also claim that the 'Babylonians' were doing human+animal hybrids, or having sex with animals, or something else that pissed God off. Not far off from our advanced civilization and unscrupulous morals. I expect the fury of God to come striking down any one of these days.
How do monkeys and apes figure into that? I don't think most folks 'fear' them - and currently, they are about as close as you can get (robots included).
The people that take care of this sort of thing are no more computer savvy than the rest of our peers. I wouldn't be suprised if either a) a military IT person said this would do the trick, censoring the data, or b) the typist was left to censor the digital document as seen fit based on the software at hand and a black-marker censored document.
I have two past experiences that I believe backup my claim.
In Dec. 2001, while at the Jacksonville Airforce Base, I took pictures of some of the jets and some of the scenery. I didn't think this was a big deal as the jets fly in public all the time. I was approached by someone that saw me with my digital camera. I was escorted to the security office where they had me delete some of the pictures. Had I not later filled that memory card with more pictures I could have easily restored the deleted ones. They said they would normally just take the film, I suppose I'm lucky they didn't take the camera.
My second experience led to the prosecution of a close friend. During the 'witness interview' a statement was drawn up in Word, with my friend watched. A computer failure admittedly occured later in the process while my friend waited elsewhere. The document then retyped by the investigator was missing many key elements of the original interview. My friend signed the document without reviewing it (big mistake), which was then interpretted as a confession.
When it came up in court that this was not the same document that was originally drafted, the NIS Technicians claimed that they found the original on the hard drive and it was only slightly different from the final draft. This was just one aspect of the case, and so no other defense was made against this.
They failed to mention that an unsaved document can really be permanently lost. Word could have autosaved the 2nd version, or a manual save made by the more cautious interviewer could have created the document they recovered.
With ADODB for PHP (and perl http://adodb.sf.net/, you can call CacheGetAll, CacheExecute, etc... The query resultset is saved to a temporary file. This avoids having to create the cache within the same function you would normally call without having to write extra code.
On Earth, we use water to cool fission reactors (right?). So in space, would they use diffusion of heat into the void to cool systems?
I hope they've played with this stuff in gravity free environments. What would happen if you had the reactor on before breaking free of gravity? Would the change be disruptive to the plasma?
Isn't gamma radiation the stuff that made Bruce Banner become the Hulk? Perhaps 450 million years ago this gamme burst made tiny pink lizards into giant green dinosaurs?! (unless there were already giant green dinosaurs back then, in which case i withdraw my dull speculation)
I was sort of thinking the same thing. Once they have replication down they sound alot like the Replicators from Stargate SG-1. The bit that really links the two is that they can be their own solar sail / space ship and then reform for every other task. Let's hope they don't find any advanced Martian technology left behind by the Ancients!
If an advanced species exists (perhaps one example in our own solar system), then it is likely given the size of the universe that another does, and another, and so on. At some point, it seems to me, some of these advanced critters may have met and decided on a method of communication across the stars.
And so, I would expect communications of the "sub-space" sort must be all around us. We just need to find the right medium to tune in to. My internal conclusion was that this medium is probably very saturated with information, and we are probably bombarded with it daily, completely taken for granted as natural phenomena.
I don't think our space neighbors will be chatting to their gallatic buddies at 100 million years per line.
Why doesn't IBM just buy out Zend? Actually, perhaps Novell should?
I suppose there is the question of how much money Zend actually makes, but I would think that the steering power and recognition might be well worth it.
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Does anyone remember early PC systems that had memory cards with a read-only operating system? A friend of mine had one that had dos 5 (or the likes) and a sort of literal folder appearance gui with it.
Rant begins. If we had ultra fast, high density ROM chips like this it might be nice to put the core of an OS onto the chip and only use the harddrive (or large RAM) for updated components. A new 'Windows' or 'Linux' system would be inserted into a little cube-tray on your computer . All your 3rd party applications would be left on the hard disk. Hrmm, or, the software could also be purchased on cubes like this. Maybe we end up with a daisy chain of USB2 attached cubes, or a cube-tray, each representing a DVD sized 3rd party application. This sounds more attuned to commercial software. Rant over.
That's all I had to say, really. Do you take debit?
You forgot "c)".
Parents lie. Children lie. When you have your word against a child's word, you will soon find yourself against a family's word (Or a parent could originate the idea, an attention craving child loves a suddenly caring parent), even with a complete lack of physical evidence from your accuser, it is nearly inevitable that a jury of disgusted parents will state 'Guilty' before your head stops spinning. And then you can rot in prison for the next several years.
On top of that, there is no accountability (in practice) for the parents or children that concoct false claims.
It is a sure fire way to get vengeance on someone, or simply get them out of your life. The defense of such an accusation is so insurmountable that simply threatening to 'tell' will do the trick.
In short, don't piss off a troubled 11 year old girl if you've ever spent more than a minute alone with her. Once she starts having 'nightmares' and tells her parents and shrink, (did you know she had a shrink?)... The first year of legal defense is going to run at least $50,000, good luck.
Moderate incarceration, treatment, parole, and continued vigilance with treatment should be enough. That's the best we can do for any convicted criminal. We live in a society that strives to be compassionate through rehabilitation and reintegration. If we don't want all the hassle we can simply holdup all sorts of offenders on a fortress island for life.
God destoryed the Tower of Babel, which was the epitomy of learning and technology at the time. I think they also claim that the 'Babylonians' were doing human+animal hybrids, or having sex with animals, or something else that pissed God off. Not far off from our advanced civilization and unscrupulous morals. I expect the fury of God to come striking down any one of these days.
How do monkeys and apes figure into that? I don't think most folks 'fear' them - and currently, they are about as close as you can get (robots included).
The people that take care of this sort of thing are no more computer savvy than the rest of our peers. I wouldn't be suprised if either a) a military IT person said this would do the trick, censoring the data, or b) the typist was left to censor the digital document as seen fit based on the software at hand and a black-marker censored document.
I have two past experiences that I believe backup my claim.
In Dec. 2001, while at the Jacksonville Airforce Base, I took pictures of some of the jets and some of the scenery. I didn't think this was a big deal as the jets fly in public all the time. I was approached by someone that saw me with my digital camera. I was escorted to the security office where they had me delete some of the pictures. Had I not later filled that memory card with more pictures I could have easily restored the deleted ones. They said they would normally just take the film, I suppose I'm lucky they didn't take the camera.
My second experience led to the prosecution of a close friend. During the 'witness interview' a statement was drawn up in Word, with my friend watched. A computer failure admittedly occured later in the process while my friend waited elsewhere. The document then retyped by the investigator was missing many key elements of the original interview. My friend signed the document without reviewing it (big mistake), which was then interpretted as a confession.
When it came up in court that this was not the same document that was originally drafted, the NIS Technicians claimed that they found the original on the hard drive and it was only slightly different from the final draft. This was just one aspect of the case, and so no other defense was made against this.
They failed to mention that an unsaved document can really be permanently lost. Word could have autosaved the 2nd version, or a manual save made by the more cautious interviewer could have created the document they recovered.
Correction: should read "and python" not "(and perl."
With ADODB for PHP (and perl http://adodb.sf.net/, you can call CacheGetAll, CacheExecute, etc... The query resultset is saved to a temporary file. This avoids having to create the cache within the same function you would normally call without having to write extra code.
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On Earth, we use water to cool fission reactors (right?). So in space, would they use diffusion of heat into the void to cool systems?
I hope they've played with this stuff in gravity free environments. What would happen if you had the reactor on before breaking free of gravity? Would the change be disruptive to the plasma?
( I'ld rather have the Prometheus from SG-1 )
In the US, the state and federal governments have an unfair monopoly on this right with regard to humans. It's unfair to the commercial sector.
Or was that Fresco?
Either way, the website hasn't been touched in two years...
There is no "Y" in "God's name"! (now, don't go getting Indiana Jones on me...)
Kabballah got you too?
With all these cities going wireless, I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing cases of the black shakes.
Isn't gamma radiation the stuff that made Bruce Banner become the Hulk? Perhaps 450 million years ago this gamme burst made tiny pink lizards into giant green dinosaurs?! (unless there were already giant green dinosaurs back then, in which case i withdraw my dull speculation)
How could you do all that without mentioning "hot magma" or "lava" ...
Doh!
This article reminded me of the Seattle Star Wars squater, Jeff Tweiten. Aparently, he was kicked off his couch by a city ordinance and an anonymous complaint back in January. He has managed to continue his wait for the movie opening without a permanent station.
640 bits of encryption ought to be enough for anybody.
I was sort of thinking the same thing. Once they have replication down they sound alot like the Replicators from Stargate SG-1. The bit that really links the two is that they can be their own solar sail / space ship and then reform for every other task. Let's hope they don't find any advanced Martian technology left behind by the Ancients!
If an advanced species exists (perhaps one example in our own solar system), then it is likely given the size of the universe that another does, and another, and so on. At some point, it seems to me, some of these advanced critters may have met and decided on a method of communication across the stars.
And so, I would expect communications of the "sub-space" sort must be all around us. We just need to find the right medium to tune in to. My internal conclusion was that this medium is probably very saturated with information, and we are probably bombarded with it daily, completely taken for granted as natural phenomena.
I don't think our space neighbors will be chatting to their gallatic buddies at 100 million years per line.
Do you have stairs in your house?
Why doesn't IBM just buy out Zend? Actually, perhaps Novell should?
I suppose there is the question of how much money Zend actually makes, but I would think that the steering power and recognition might be well worth it.
nothing for you to "sea" here?
harrrr, harrrr, harrrrr!