Are you kidding? You don't need a Playstation2 or any other kind of supercomputer to plot missile trajectories. Terrorists had no trouble doing that with archaic 6502 processors back in the early 1980s.
Think about forensics: Someone gets arrested, computer confiscated. The first thing that happens is a hash checksum is ran of the disk, then a disk image is made, then the image checksum is verified to make sure that it is the same as the original disk. If the checksum of the original disk ever changes, the evidence is useless. When there are collisions in the algorithm, the checksum cannot prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the data has not been tampered with.
Well, the operative word there would be reasonable doubt, wouldn't it? The courts aren't a binary computing system. Just because it's theoretically possible for an algorithm to fail doesn't automatically invalidate its use. Blood typing, for example, can't prove that the blood found in the back seat of a car belonged to any one person. But if a certain person shows up dead, and that person knew the owner of the car, and the blood type matches... well, that's not proof, but it's evidence. All evidence works toward eliminating that reasonable doubt. Likewise, you would have the option of trying to reinforce doubt as to the accuracy of the data on your hard drive by suggesting that the data had in fact been tampered with and then covered up by "forging" the MD5 hash using a known collision attack. I guess they might believe you...
Bad example. Shaolin Soccer actually did make it here. That is, it made it to theaters here, courtesy of Miramax. As far as "making it"... if people had flocked to see it in the numbers that you seem to imply, I'm sure it would have gotten a wider release.
AFAIK now, been awhile since I read about it, GM offered him a paltry 250 grand for his patents, he laughed at them and went back to professional racing, because he knew it was worth a lot more.
I don't get it. Why not sell? Then we'd have the evil auto manufacturers to blame for never creating cars based on this engine. Now the only one we can blame is "Smokey."
Because they're biotech -- the product of genetic engineering, not mechanical engineering.
What's the difference? Mechanical or otherwise, why in hell would we ever bother to make such a thing? Seems like a lot of effort for something that's just going to get shot.
Because the WHOLE POINT of the movie is to make you question what it means to be human.
Hmm -- I'll bite. The non-humans are the manufactured ones?
Seriously, yeah yeah, I get it. My point is that this isn't a "brilliant" idea, it's just kind of cute, in the way a lot of old pulp sci-fi conecpts are cute.
Banks wrote about 9/11? I read that one... Dead Air, I think it was called... where the back cover made a big statement about it being a "post-9/11 novel." But it had precious little to do with 9/11 really, or terrorists -- or anything else, for that matter. I'd heard that Banks said he wrote that one at breakneck speed, and I have to say it shows.
I said virtually the same thing when I read this story -- only about a different movie. Blade Runner? The best SF movie? Gimme a break! I mean, set aside the fact that it's just a 40's style private eye flick dressed up with kitschy neon and gadgets, and assume for a moment that Edward James Olmos really can pass for Japanese. The whole premise of the movie doesn't make sense! Robots designed to do menial labor and fight in wars that are made to look and act exactly like people? Why, for God's sake? Why wouldn't you just make them... well... robots?
Blade Runner was visually imaginative at the time of its release, but I find it's worn pretty badly with age. That sleazy Vangelis score doesn't help.
You should be able to Edit|Paste Special, and then select "Unformatted Text". This USUALLY pastes in the current style.
One of the first things I do with any new Word install is assign "Paste Special" to Ctrl-Shift-V, because I never user whatever is normally assigned that key combination.
The French consider that such lies about history should not be allowed. These laws are here to protect history, and to ensure that nobody forgets or remembers a "fainted" version of what really happened.
Understood, but it just strikes me as typical French politicking, instead of coming up with intelligent policy to fix the problem.
Another example: There's too much unemployment in France. The Fix: Outlaw overtime. Expected result: Employers will have to hire the unemployed to make up the extra hours that used to be worked by those greedy over-timers. Actual result: something else.
In the case of the anti-Nazi laws, the danger of this idea should be obvious to anyone with a brain. Once the current Bush administration fades into history, could not the same government pass a law that makes "Fahrenheit 9/11" illegal, because it spreads "lies"?
And all that aside, just the idea of calculating the amount of resources needed to successfully prosecute every anti-Semite in France should be enought to make even the most staunch French socialist cringe.
On the bonus disc of the DVD of the film "Romper Stomper," which is about skinheads in Australia, the director makes a pretty good point: Take any given number of skinheads, and you will probably find one or two who read Mein Kampf, or who really care about Nazism per se. The rest are just along for the ride -- to smash things, to get in fights, to vandalize. These types of people appear not because they are evil monsters in the mold of Hitler, but primarily because they are bored. They're bored because they don't have jobs, or the only jobs they can get are dead-end ones with no opportunity. They're stuck in a system where they can't go anywhere, and they're pissed off about it and feel compelled to take action in the most petulant way possible, because they feel it's the only option the have.
I'd say France has bigger fish to fry than people's Web sites.
The old default themes (which made the distribution almost 18M in size!) have been replaced with "Winter" by rephorm.
One of the things that always bugged me about E was that when you installed a new version, everything would look different. I would mostly pick one theme from the defaults that came with it, but when I'd go to update to the latest version, that choice would be gone. Yes, there's no denying that some really slick graphic design went into some of those interfaces... but when the initial "ooh, ahh" of E was over with, I wanted to get some work done. Consistently inconsistent UI isn't really conducive to that.
It's not actually an oil platform as described. It's an abandoned offshore military base dating back to WWII. And yes, HavenCo's computers really are kept there, though they call it a "showcase datacenter" these days.
Personally, I wish more cheapie access points you buy at CompUSA would include some kind of DNS rerouting feature like you see at coffee shops and so on. To get access to the AP, you need to try to pull up something in your Web browser. When you do, you first get redirected to a page that says, "Hi, welcome to our network!" or something similar.
For free/open access points, this would be handy for two things:
1. Saying who you were and letting people know that, yes, you do know your access point is open and, no, it's not really cool to just leech off my DSL line all day if you're my next-door neighbor and you're just too cheap to pay for your own broadband. 2. Putting up some kind of "EULA" that says something to the effect that this AP is provided free of charge, with no warranty whatsoever, and that you assume full responsibility and liability for any content received over the network link, including but not limited to viruses, spyware, and illegal content.
I doubt it would truly "indemnify" you, but I think any reasonably sane court would take such a page into evidence as supporting the idea that you really did have no idea/control of the kiddie porn that guy was downloading.
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I'd say the PowerPC is a pretty mainstream architecture, considering how it shows up in everything from workstations to Power Macs to Cisco routers. Also -- sad, maybe, but scary? PC computers are kind of a niche market compared to all of the embedded applications out there. So what if it's all based on old Intel ideas, so long as you've got folks like AMD and Transmeta to keep pushing the envelope?
I'm sorry, but I just have to take issue with this statement. "By definition"? Whose definition, exactly?
If I'm an auto manufacturer and I put a HEMI engine into my cars and I don't let anybody else put one in their cars, does that destroy the competitive market for automobiles? If Colonel Saunders has his own secret recipe of herbs and spices, does that destroy the competitive market for fried chicken? Ridiculous.
My personal favorite was one time, while working at a computer magazine, a sentence in an article contained the phrase, "convicted computer criminal Kevin Mitnick." And the copy desk uppercased it!
For those unaware of Craigslist, it was launched by Craig Newmark in 1995 in San Francisco, and is an online network of classified ads and forums aimed at people looking to find an apartment rental, meet friends or trade goods.
i don't think an eBook will ever succeed. unlike music or movies, it would be incredibly difficult to prevent and SPOT forgery in books. and we all know how much the meaning of texts can be altered by simple but targetted forgery.
Sounds like a great incentive for people to buy their e-books direct from the publisher -- who presumably can provide digital signatures, MD5 checksums and the like -- rather than downloading pirated versions.
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No, but someone can certainly be educated in a bad manner, as is the case with many schools in the United States.
Are you kidding? You don't need a Playstation2 or any other kind of supercomputer to plot missile trajectories. Terrorists had no trouble doing that with archaic 6502 processors back in the early 1980s.
Bad example. Shaolin Soccer actually did make it here. That is, it made it to theaters here, courtesy of Miramax. As far as "making it"... if people had flocked to see it in the numbers that you seem to imply, I'm sure it would have gotten a wider release.
The original, classic broken computer mod is probably still the best place to keep your purple octopus. Various references are available.
Well, OK, it was a good movie. But "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is woefully underrated. And yes I am totally serious.
Seriously, yeah yeah, I get it. My point is that this isn't a "brilliant" idea, it's just kind of cute, in the way a lot of old pulp sci-fi conecpts are cute.
Banks wrote about 9/11? I read that one ... Dead Air, I think it was called ... where the back cover made a big statement about it being a "post-9/11 novel." But it had precious little to do with 9/11 really, or terrorists -- or anything else, for that matter. I'd heard that Banks said he wrote that one at breakneck speed, and I have to say it shows.
I said virtually the same thing when I read this story -- only about a different movie. Blade Runner? The best SF movie? Gimme a break! I mean, set aside the fact that it's just a 40's style private eye flick dressed up with kitschy neon and gadgets, and assume for a moment that Edward James Olmos really can pass for Japanese. The whole premise of the movie doesn't make sense! Robots designed to do menial labor and fight in wars that are made to look and act exactly like people? Why, for God's sake? Why wouldn't you just make them ... well ... robots?
Blade Runner was visually imaginative at the time of its release, but I find it's worn pretty badly with age. That sleazy Vangelis score doesn't help.
One of the first things I do with any new Word install is assign "Paste Special" to Ctrl-Shift-V, because I never user whatever is normally assigned that key combination.
Another example: There's too much unemployment in France. The Fix: Outlaw overtime. Expected result: Employers will have to hire the unemployed to make up the extra hours that used to be worked by those greedy over-timers. Actual result: something else.
In the case of the anti-Nazi laws, the danger of this idea should be obvious to anyone with a brain. Once the current Bush administration fades into history, could not the same government pass a law that makes "Fahrenheit 9/11" illegal, because it spreads "lies"?
And all that aside, just the idea of calculating the amount of resources needed to successfully prosecute every anti-Semite in France should be enought to make even the most staunch French socialist cringe.
On the bonus disc of the DVD of the film "Romper Stomper," which is about skinheads in Australia, the director makes a pretty good point: Take any given number of skinheads, and you will probably find one or two who read Mein Kampf, or who really care about Nazism per se. The rest are just along for the ride -- to smash things, to get in fights, to vandalize. These types of people appear not because they are evil monsters in the mold of Hitler, but primarily because they are bored. They're bored because they don't have jobs, or the only jobs they can get are dead-end ones with no opportunity. They're stuck in a system where they can't go anywhere, and they're pissed off about it and feel compelled to take action in the most petulant way possible, because they feel it's the only option the have.
I'd say France has bigger fish to fry than people's Web sites.
Yeah, those French anti-Nazi laws seem to be working real well.
It's not actually an oil platform as described. It's an abandoned offshore military base dating back to WWII. And yes, HavenCo's computers really are kept there, though they call it a "showcase datacenter" these days.
Personally, I wish more cheapie access points you buy at CompUSA would include some kind of DNS rerouting feature like you see at coffee shops and so on. To get access to the AP, you need to try to pull up something in your Web browser. When you do, you first get redirected to a page that says, "Hi, welcome to our network!" or something similar.
For free/open access points, this would be handy for two things:
1. Saying who you were and letting people know that, yes, you do know your access point is open and, no, it's not really cool to just leech off my DSL line all day if you're my next-door neighbor and you're just too cheap to pay for your own broadband.
2. Putting up some kind of "EULA" that says something to the effect that this AP is provided free of charge, with no warranty whatsoever, and that you assume full responsibility and liability for any content received over the network link, including but not limited to viruses, spyware, and illegal content.
I doubt it would truly "indemnify" you, but I think any reasonably sane court would take such a page into evidence as supporting the idea that you really did have no idea/control of the kiddie porn that guy was downloading.
So I'd say yes. Right?
I'd say the PowerPC is a pretty mainstream architecture, considering how it shows up in everything from workstations to Power Macs to Cisco routers. Also -- sad, maybe, but scary? PC computers are kind of a niche market compared to all of the embedded applications out there. So what if it's all based on old Intel ideas, so long as you've got folks like AMD and Transmeta to keep pushing the envelope?
If I'm an auto manufacturer and I put a HEMI engine into my cars and I don't let anybody else put one in their cars, does that destroy the competitive market for automobiles? If Colonel Saunders has his own secret recipe of herbs and spices, does that destroy the competitive market for fried chicken? Ridiculous.
My personal favorite was one time, while working at a computer magazine, a sentence in an article contained the phrase, "convicted computer criminal Kevin Mitnick." And the copy desk uppercased it!
Then why buy the drives now, when prices are surely going to come down?
...he's talking about Google Groups. I've seen Usenet before. It's full of binaries, not this stuff.