It appears that this bill exempts the investigators/crackers from any claims for damages if lessthan $250.
I therefore is important that somebody who works from home picks up a attempt to crack into their system and then goes after them for consequential damages. If I have to do a complete rebuild of an office system to resecure it, that is a good day or two's time and that is more than $250.
Good point. This comes down to the AI therist's counter jibe:
I think, but you only simulate the process of thinking.
It is still, despite the fascinating open brain experiments and the PET monitoring, very difficult to evaluate what is happening to the mind inside the brain, other than through the conventional I/O paths.
I have always wondered what would happened if you sufficiently extended Alice with world knowledge such as that from the OpenCyc Project, how hard it would become to prove that Alice doesn't think and that humans do (well, some of them at least).
Rgrettably bags can be accessed by persons before they go on the plane and after they are taken off when they are outside your control.
There are airports in the world where I wouldn't want to check my Swiss Army Knife because I know it would go missing before I got my hands on it again. Hell, I have even had a Gillette Mach 3 razor stolen from checked luggage (TAS airport). I now find myself stuck in the compromise of trying to check things to reduce the possibility of long and intrusive searches or wanting to take them with me in hand-luggage to avoid being stolen from my bags.
Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) does not and is featuring an airport-style security queue and grope^h^h^h^h^h search in their advertisements as to why go by train.
For us, at least, the train is a reasonable alternative for journeys of up to 1000Km or so with speeds of 250Km/h and a boarding time down to minutes. It also departs and arrives from the middle of towns and cities.
Weather or not he should behind bars is arguable, but to anyone investing in Transmeta, buying into a company which has a boat load of debt and some queries over the financials (IIRC, the former financial director quit shortly before the IPO) is not good.
Transmeta went public far too early (could be pressure from the VC funders). The technology was untried then and certainly there were a number of issues to be solved.
As regards your quote about bears making no money, haven't you heard about selling short?
There are some files that are 100% legal to share, for example Linux rpms and isos. Also, armyopsrecon was a computer game where normal distribution channels could not cope with people d/ling a free but 208MB game. For many, P2P was the answer.
These programs {KaZaA, etc.) are blocked because the owners feel that they promote activities which are immoral and wrong
If that is the excuse (apart from moneygrubbing), why not block Porn, Hate Sites, Online Gambling etc as well?
I have used X-ceed as well as X-cursion. I preferred the latter. Then for some time an idiot decided to force us to run software on Citrix (reduce the number of licenses). Like any client server on top of client server it perfomred like a dog, a dead one.
I tried Cygwin/Cfree and it worked quite well, but it was a little slow. The price was right though. The killer for me was the kb mapping.
Eventually they saw the light and I got back onto X-cursion. I still use Cygwin but haven't fired up Xfree for a while.
That is why columns 72 through 80 were reserved for sequence numbers for several languages. A quick wizz of the deck through a card sorter and it was all back in business.
In Germany, all tape that can be used for domestic recording (video + audio) has carried a "home recording tax". I guess CD-R blanks probably carry it too. Ok that is unfair if all I do is either backup my own material, but it makes home copying legit.
I guess France has the same thing so the video tape is already taxed.
AFAIK, the 11GB of data is before compression. Not all data from a computer is compressible (try compressing that DiVX).
Note though that the cosmonauts are permitted to express a sense of humour. If a US male astronaut had said the same thing, he would be carpeted on his return.
If you are built like a supermodel, no-problem. I can envisage that a more normally shaped woman may suffer from problems due differential changes in direction. Some ladies (insert your favourite XXX link) may even knock themselves out when unrestrained.
I have read the replies to your post which seemed needlessly provocative.
You don't seem to understand that there is nothing to say that providing a service that is morally repugnant to someone who is obliged to seek it isn't helping them or the cause. Sure all carriers in the US must provide an interception facility, but does it have to be easy?
The issue that most people have with the surveillance powers that the government has obtained under the unPATRIOTic act permits a widespread trawl for information that not only infringes upon people's rights, but is counterproductive because the government can not handle the information that it already has.
I am sorry that I am not rich enough to buy a senator, congressman or whatever. I can choose who I do business with and, sorry, Verisign have screwed up big.
Just because something is legal has never meant that it is correct. If a company chooses to do something that we find morally repugnant, then do we really want to stand and watch? One of the ways in which we express our disgust with laws is to refuse to assist until we are forced by legal action.
Question to those with more expertise on moderating, is the above post a subtle troll or flamebait? Making a buck by filling a need is about what one could say about the sale of drugs.
It is probably a lot more relevent than a Jon Katz movie review. However, they could at least make it tuneable so you could decide whether or not you want it on the front page.
Personally, the 2.5.x kernels are of academic interest onlz. 2.4.y remains the bread and butter of what I run and I guess most other people.
The pay for a good interpreter in peaceful times is very good locally, up to $50/day. The US military has been trying to find interpreters for many times this who are prepared to go into risky areas, sorry. many wouldn't do this for $500/day. It doesn't matter whether or not you are in a real combat area, because being with the US military makes you a target.
My guess is that the Military/CIA etc would be better advised to simply get people to learn the languages and to train others in using day to day expressions.
You were brought up in a country with four national languages, three of which you need to learn. I have Dutch friends who were also brought up in a multilingual environment. This does tend to produce a lot of natural linguists. Most USMC people lack the multilingual background that makes language so easy. Howevcer, I agree they should be able to learn the basics.
Btw, they are missing Tajik, another important regional language spoken in Afghanistan and Dari is just the Afhan dialect of Farsi (Persian).
You keep the unit inside your duvet jacket until you need it. It takes a few minutes to cool down. The only problem is the LCD freezing. The Li-Ion battery won't hold charge for long at that temperature, but again, if the unit stays warm, no problem.
It's a shame this appeared in the Guardian rather than in the LA Times or some other place where it will do some good.
The Guardian is probably one of the better UK papers for the media, at least judging from the amount of coverage. What would be for the best iis if somone like this stood up at a major indie festival (like Sundance) and made the point there.
Even with celluloid, Tarantino still did Resevoir Dogs for a song and the media is expensive. DV is much cheaper, and easier to work with. You don't even have to source your own material, you can take somebody else's turkey and turn it into a good film (The Phantom Edit)!!!!
No, Telematics was used earlier for the control gear for ship-board motors. This comes from much longer ago. You may also see references to telematic cables for the cables used on aircraft to connect control surfaces to the sterring column, etc.
Remote control surveilance aircraft have been around for ages, but they used to be quite bigg and not particularly transportable unless you have a truck.
Remote control vehicles have been in use for a very long time in the UK and Northern Ireland. The standard issue even includes a remote control shotgun (actually for blowing the locks off a car boot or destroying a timing device). It is not small and again needs a vehicle to transport it.
The Germans have something that is being worked on that is a little like an airborn X-10. This is extremely portable, but don't ask about power. In the demo I saw on TV it was free flying with four fans. The device including the control laptop went into something the size of an attache case and that included padding.
Actually, it is simply long-range control rather than communication. It comes from tele (at a distance) and matic (to control). The related term is measurement at a distance.
I can only comment in detail on the first part of your response.
Russia is the only country in the world with a Manned Commercial Space Program. They have launch costs of around 5% of the Shuttle. Their own currency has been slowly devaluing against the dollar, bvut just a few percent per year. The new leadership at the central bank is unlikely to either borrow profligately or to print money. There inflation rate is comparatively high (that is in relation to Western countries) but that is down to expectations of the new middle classes who want to be able to spend the money that they earned.
Russia is unlikely to go to Mars by themselves, but as the only country with much relevant BFB experience (I understand that much of the Saturn 5 blueprints have been lost). The Russians would be a key partner though for anyone else.
In particular they still have the most expertise for long-term missions, in particular of building stuff that is maintainable.
I agree about terrorism but I have problems with the rest of your comments, but please remember what Kennedy did, he gave voice to a vision. Without a vision, blessed by the top, it will never happen. It is important to get off this planet because with recent research on extinction events, whether asteroids or a nearby cosmic-ray burster, humans have a limited time on earth and the clock is already ticking. Mars is only a start.
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I therefore is important that somebody who works from home picks up a attempt to crack into their system and then goes after them for consequential damages. If I have to do a complete rebuild of an office system to resecure it, that is a good day or two's time and that is more than $250.
Actually, they are. Faster access, but only if the same controller is seeing both heads.
It is still, despite the fascinating open brain experiments and the PET monitoring, very difficult to evaluate what is happening to the mind inside the brain, other than through the conventional I/O paths.
I have always wondered what would happened if you sufficiently extended Alice with world knowledge such as that from the OpenCyc Project, how hard it would become to prove that Alice doesn't think and that humans do (well, some of them at least).
There are airports in the world where I wouldn't want to check my Swiss Army Knife because I know it would go missing before I got my hands on it again. Hell, I have even had a Gillette Mach 3 razor stolen from checked luggage (TAS airport). I now find myself stuck in the compromise of trying to check things to reduce the possibility of long and intrusive searches or wanting to take them with me in hand-luggage to avoid being stolen from my bags.
For us, at least, the train is a reasonable alternative for journeys of up to 1000Km or so with speeds of 250Km/h and a boarding time down to minutes. It also departs and arrives from the middle of towns and cities.
Transmeta went public far too early (could be pressure from the VC funders). The technology was untried then and certainly there were a number of issues to be solved.
As regards your quote about bears making no money, haven't you heard about selling short?
If that is the excuse (apart from moneygrubbing), why not block Porn, Hate Sites, Online Gambling etc as well?
I tried Cygwin/Cfree and it worked quite well, but it was a little slow. The price was right though. The killer for me was the kb mapping.
Eventually they saw the light and I got back onto X-cursion. I still use Cygwin but haven't fired up Xfree for a while.
That is why columns 72 through 80 were reserved for sequence numbers for several languages. A quick wizz of the deck through a card sorter and it was all back in business.
I guess France has the same thing so the video tape is already taxed.
AFAIK, the 11GB of data is before compression. Not all data from a computer is compressible (try compressing that DiVX).
Note though that the cosmonauts are permitted to express a sense of humour. If a US male astronaut had said the same thing, he would be carpeted on his return.
If you are built like a supermodel, no-problem. I can envisage that a more normally shaped woman may suffer from problems due differential changes in direction. Some ladies (insert your favourite XXX link) may even knock themselves out when unrestrained.
You don't seem to understand that there is nothing to say that providing a service that is morally repugnant to someone who is obliged to seek it isn't helping them or the cause. Sure all carriers in the US must provide an interception facility, but does it have to be easy?
The issue that most people have with the surveillance powers that the government has obtained under the unPATRIOTic act permits a widespread trawl for information that not only infringes upon people's rights, but is counterproductive because the government can not handle the information that it already has.
I am sorry that I am not rich enough to buy a senator, congressman or whatever. I can choose who I do business with and, sorry, Verisign have screwed up big.
Question to those with more expertise on moderating, is the above post a subtle troll or flamebait? Making a buck by filling a need is about what one could say about the sale of drugs.
Personally, the 2.5.x kernels are of academic interest onlz. 2.4.y remains the bread and butter of what I run and I guess most other people.
I thought that they had their own language (the Tajiks in Uzbekistan definitely speak some Tajik as well as Uzbek).
The pay for a good interpreter in peaceful times is very good locally, up to $50/day. The US military has been trying to find interpreters for many times this who are prepared to go into risky areas, sorry. many wouldn't do this for $500/day. It doesn't matter whether or not you are in a real combat area, because being with the US military makes you a target.
You were brought up in a country with four national languages, three of which you need to learn. I have Dutch friends who were also brought up in a multilingual environment. This does tend to produce a lot of natural linguists. Most USMC people lack the multilingual background that makes language so easy. Howevcer, I agree they should be able to learn the basics.
Btw, they are missing Tajik, another important regional language spoken in Afghanistan and Dari is just the Afhan dialect of Farsi (Persian).
You keep the unit inside your duvet jacket until you need it. It takes a few minutes to cool down. The only problem is the LCD freezing. The Li-Ion battery won't hold charge for long at that temperature, but again, if the unit stays warm, no problem.
Minus 10 is considered swimming weather there, I certainly didn't risk my IPAQ either in the water or in the Sauna though.
The Guardian is probably one of the better UK papers for the media, at least judging from the amount of coverage. What would be for the best iis if somone like this stood up at a major indie festival (like Sundance) and made the point there.
Even with celluloid, Tarantino still did Resevoir Dogs for a song and the media is expensive. DV is much cheaper, and easier to work with. You don't even have to source your own material, you can take somebody else's turkey and turn it into a good film (The Phantom Edit)!!!!
No, Telematics was used earlier for the control gear for ship-board motors. This comes from much longer ago. You may also see references to telematic cables for the cables used on aircraft to connect control surfaces to the sterring column, etc.
Remote control vehicles have been in use for a very long time in the UK and Northern Ireland. The standard issue even includes a remote control shotgun (actually for blowing the locks off a car boot or destroying a timing device). It is not small and again needs a vehicle to transport it.
The Germans have something that is being worked on that is a little like an airborn X-10. This is extremely portable, but don't ask about power. In the demo I saw on TV it was free flying with four fans. The device including the control laptop went into something the size of an attache case and that included padding.
Actually, it is simply long-range control rather than communication. It comes from tele (at a distance) and matic (to control). The related term is measurement at a distance.
Russia is the only country in the world with a Manned Commercial Space Program. They have launch costs of around 5% of the Shuttle. Their own currency has been slowly devaluing against the dollar, bvut just a few percent per year. The new leadership at the central bank is unlikely to either borrow profligately or to print money. There inflation rate is comparatively high (that is in relation to Western countries) but that is down to expectations of the new middle classes who want to be able to spend the money that they earned.
Russia is unlikely to go to Mars by themselves, but as the only country with much relevant BFB experience (I understand that much of the Saturn 5 blueprints have been lost). The Russians would be a key partner though for anyone else. In particular they still have the most expertise for long-term missions, in particular of building stuff that is maintainable.
I agree about terrorism but I have problems with the rest of your comments, but please remember what Kennedy did, he gave voice to a vision. Without a vision, blessed by the top, it will never happen. It is important to get off this planet because with recent research on extinction events, whether asteroids or a nearby cosmic-ray burster, humans have a limited time on earth and the clock is already ticking. Mars is only a start.