Freedom, and Independence PERIOD something that was given up in England and most of Europe LONG ago.
This isnt a bash, You opr Europeans do and have done all this unto themselves, for the most part it is acceped and they are content with it. Not here, I dont want to be told I cant go to the supermarket I want to one day because the rail is down and only one goes there, I can get damm near ANYWHERE with my car, I once drove somewhere so steep and treacherour, guys at the top, a construction crew ad a $100 pool going to see if I COULD make it to the top, I didnt know there was a paved access road on the backside but that wasnt the point, I made it up. MYSELF, with no dependence from some goddam transportation conglomerate.
THATS why simple,
Europeans and Americans have VERY different Ideas on FREEDOM, Thats OK, You do what works for you, we do what works for US, I grew up in a Euro/American family, Ive been to Euorpe MANY times and lived there a short stint, I know. Most Europeans are content to have their Govt run their live, AND most importantly, THEY TRUST them to do it. Ok, Hey once again it works for them, America is a country that Inherently distrusts its OWN govt, as it should..
Some things arent whats the better solution as they are a political manifest of independence.
I have always been the person that if someone says it cant be done I try it. Just to prove them wrong.
I think a fair amount of us Uber-Geek types are just like this, we strive for that code which is impossible only a short while ago.
Their scheme makes every bone in my body whine to go out buy one , hack it, rip it and distribute it and THEN return it, even though I dont do and havent done it ever before.
I have an extensive MP3 Collection, I bought EVERY damm CD though, loooon before MP3 were practical with the exception of the gig of non-copyrighted classical music I have, some of that stuff is hard to find.
Nonetheless, I think that companies are going to learn hopefully sooner than later, this DRM crap is DOOMED from the start, the harder they make it the more attractive to break it is, the laws wont hold up, and they know it, thats one of the reasons Syralov, or whatever was let loose, BUT they try to maintain the pretense it will even after by lying he agreed to help them.
Bring on the encrypted music, after racing motorcycles for 20 years I cant hear crap anyway.
Audio CD out, Digital in.....DOH, I just broke their 10 million $ Piracy scheme, I wonder if thats a violation of the DCMA !
Why are the brits, or most OTHER non American so hung up on friggn trains ? This isnt a flame(usually a sure note it probably is) But WHAT about train or derivation of it makes it SO appealing to people ? Japan , Ok I can actually see a use there, its like a goddam ant farm. In the US we have the space. Contract roads and transportation to a PRIVATE company, tell em they get paid (for improvements etc) on a per car on time basis. You'd see a hell of an increase in the efficeny of traffic.
At the point they start talking about "driving" the things home , why not just use a car ?
This concept reminds me of those Antique Cars on a rail at Disney World. you can drive a little, but have nor real control.
The infrastructure needed for this would be overwhelming.
Why when everyone talks about "Future" or "Ultra-Modern" does it reming me of a 1950's popular science article like the one on JET POWERED SUPERSONIC ZEPPLINS ??? Yeah they hit that one right on the nose.....
How about this ??? We widen roads, use quality materials, stop contracting to the lowest bidder so they fall apart in 5 years, and quiet and clean up emissions some more, NAW thats too sensible....
PS, I love picture #5 on the Paper , reminds me of the tube in "Logans Run" that musta taken creativity....
If a safe maufacturer makes a safe advertised as the "Fort-Knox" of safes, but there is a glitch that allows anyone to toggle the handle 3 times and Voila it opens, guess what its defective and depending on the result of that safe being opened they can be held liable, IF they were aware a problem exists.
Software vendors selling CRAP any 12 year old script kiddie can comprimise NEED to be held accountable. XP Flaws, hell almost ALL windows security flaws are nothing more than a piss poor product. Needless to say you dont ever see life support equiptment running off windows, unix , yes. windows, no....
But aside from my MS bash, this could have negative reppurcussions as well, Open Source software is EXPLICITLY offered with no suitablity clauses, no warranty clauses etc, commercial products cannot do this, under the laws that govern this in the US at least, there is an apperance of support for commercial software, that is ENOUGH , even if they throw no warranty clauses in it. For example even under Lemon Laws for used cars , a dealer says AS IS NO WARRANTY, but on the window advertises ONE OWNER, that ONE OWNER statement im most states costitutes an implied warranty (Ive pulled this card and won so dont tell me it dosent). It may see a serious quash in innovation for commercial products.
There is more software than the OS itself, look at checkpoints flaw, they tout their software as secure , secure , secure, but then it turns out it has holess, just like any other. Guess what its a product defect, and hence they could be sued for damages, lets make those penalties MUCH STIFFER !
Open source also has the MAJOR advantage of extenive peer review, but that dosent always work either, sendmail, dns, apache, all have been comprimised at some time or another over the last few years, BUT they are opensource, and the USER HAS the ability to correct the problem themselves, not rely on a hodge podge commercial patch roll.
The COMMERCIAL software vendors need to be held accountable for product defects JUST as manufacturers of hard goods are.
Bullhi** thye never backed down because....
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This is so much crap its unbelievable,
Borland NEVER had any of those right they so claimed in their liscence, Removing something COMPLETLEY unenforcable Dosent mean backing down !
They said they made a mistake, OK, but EVEN in a "Enterprise Enviroment" this wouldnt fly either.
If I put a sign in my driveway that says, "All trespassers will become property of Wertman Enterprises, by coming on this land you acknowledge forfiture of your soul, independence and freedom. You will becom personal property with no recourse and by agreeing to come on this property you forefit your right to a Jury trial"
Horseshit....
Does that mean if a person stray I can keep em ?
NO , It is UNENFORCABLE, because it blatantly violates consitutional right, basic constitutional freedoms cannot be simply waved willy nilly, If you want to refuse your right to a jury trial you need to SIGH in accordance. not just say "Nah I dont think so" it would be a mess of crooked judges and prosectors in a he said she said .
Borland cant back off excersising rights they NEVER had, a click through cant waive 2 or 3 consitutional right, either for a person or a corporation.
How much control over direction does the sponsor have ? Linux is graced or stymied by (depending on opion) A benevolent dictator Linus Himself, where does BSD gain its driection from and does the sponsor have any input ?
If they dont have any input and just throw cash and bandwith at it who cares who sponsors it ?
I hope FreeBSD can get all the kinks in what sounds like a nagging problem hammered out, I have heard many good things and If I wasnt a Linux geek might actually try it now that Solaris 9 wont be released for X86....
Owner , no other than Linux himself
This was after someonw tried to pull a
fast one and copyright it after the fact,
Then the dumbass tried to enforce it an make the
linux companies pay up....
This is cool, Im all for minature robotics, like the
one the Brit came up with that feeds and then powers itself on their bodies. They could gather invaluable
information on the oceans, BUT are hey going to put a JONAH circut in these things ?
I mean what happens when a plankton feeder sucks up a hundred thousand or so of these, it will (may) register a higher temp, movement pattern etc.
I love the idea of a self sufficient ocengoing robot, I always have, I saw a solar robot creature
demo a few years ago, neuralnet stuff, that the jellyfish would react to the crab etc, Why no use a larger scale verson, build em in Taiwan at 2 bucks a pop and set em loose, A larger unit could accomplish this, perhaps much more efficently, Miniturization for Minituriztions sake has always eluded me.
This is mostly a moot point, until a TV can be so integrted as not to need an external source in this is all moot. The industry will not for 100 years agree on a standard for that. The signal leaves whatever device you are playing from AND MUST be understood by your common average dumb TV set, NTSC, PAL what have you.
NOW that said that is the weak link and an Ideal place to transmit from or encode to an alternative Digital Medium, I just got Mplayer encoding right, and guess what was horking all kinds of signals off line, my 300 gig box is just about ready to start filling up with TV shows, movies, races,etc. I want, as soon as I can get the damm remote working with this box.
Because of the above set up I dug out an OLD (15 year plus TV transmitter, I had , you hook it up and Channel 3 gets vid audio. Im too lazy to wire the upstairs and may be moving soon, so my 32" tv in the bedroom gets REBROADCASTED signaal. They sell these things on ebay for 30 bucks, they work like a charm, you could make your own with 1/3 of that in parts, no IC , all coils trimmers and pots.
My computer has a tuner card as well, and antenna and I can catch anything I want off my "TIVO KILLER" EITHER via the network, or antenna, I would LOVE to put a box in my trunk and pump over 802.1b so my kids can watch flciks on drives, upload a playlist the night before from my computer in the house to my car in the drive. (I do plan on doing this with my MP3's)
Sooooooo.....
As long as a TV can understand the signal there is NO possible way (at present) to keep that signal from being rebroadcasted. With TONS of MONEY being pouredinto this sort of DRM research its amazing our TV sets dont cost $3000 !
As posted above even if you dont like his stuff, its different, there are some things I do and dont like, But he seems to be one of the few designers that takes any amount of function into account.
Personally I dont like the new Imac, BUT that really dosent mean SQUAT since Im not a prospective customer. Ill stick with the UltraSparcs.
What matters is Mac people do, and they liked the original, and the I book, I have used both and I can say I came closer than EVER to buying a Apple for the Wife, Part of that was the integrated packaging, part of it "ease of use" etc.
If they almost had me hooked after my last Apple experience (I bought a Lisa when they were new:()
Im sure they wont have a problem hooking people in.
Does it remind anyone else of their home-ec project gone awary , a slunk of dough , then sticking a pencil in it with a sign, (insert team name here) RULE ! ??? No wonder I failed HomeEc....
I would love to see a cheap internet terminal @ under 300 , with specs like this one, I know however there is no way to make money At that point, I hate LCD's they drive my eyes bonkers and at lower res they box in, ever try and run doom on a laptop ?
On the other hand thats about all I use my laptop for, Laptops have an air about them, just ask all the posers at Starbucks, How about a LAPTOP sized appliance , No hard drive, network capablity, guts could be based on one of the small PDA units, for card compatibility etc, only with a full sized keyboard and screen, it's be LIGHT, CHEAP, and battery life could be pretty amazing. Do most anything you need whilst mobile. email, documents editing, etc. LINUX based of course:) Hell you could probably save almost all tooling costs and buy up another manufacturers mols of a dead line and make em fly as well as the low cost of a say 11.5 screen.
Offer that a $300-400 and they would get snapped up like nuts, if nothing else from all the posers that are too poor to buy a full unit but want to hang out with their buddies at Starbucks, and act all aloof like thier solving the probblems of the world on their laptop >:)
I cannot however see using Mozilla as the GUI at this point, I use and Like mozilla, but if the performance of their desktop compares to Nautilus , ayyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeekkkkk.
The market is there for these applicances, the right one just hasnt hit in my opinion...
When I was about 12(81 or so) my dad brought me slews of stuff from work to scrap parts off of, LONG story short he took all the lithium batteries on the boards I was given, several had them, their engineer had to pick shards of PCB ut of his arm after he shorted one, (This was beore they had an internal "breaker") ,
A couple of years ago I was short on cash so, I decided to sell my IMSAI , well I went to power it up to test it so I could say, "Working Condition"
Well shit started blowing everywhere, caps going off like firecrackers, kinda makes me wonder whats going to happen when I fire up my 386 in 20 years to show my son:)
In roughly 85% of all the countries Aucio CD's are being sold, there are Fi Use laws in place that do no allow for manufacturers to circumvent copy ability.
Im glad to see Phillips is at least protecting their
property and not allowing it to be emblazoned on a CD that does not conform to those standards, would MS allow their logo to be pasted on a S/390 and say built for windows 98 ?? No dont think so.....
I hope all this copy circumvention leads to more piracy than ever before. JUST piracy of the stuff that was to be protected, maybe then theyll think twice....
Ok Im a RedHat follower, I like their distro's everything and the kitchen sink and It may or may not work right, but thts OK because theyre soo much overload youll never be bored....
Saying that Come On DEBIAN people, get that kernel moving, dont you know its guys like you that give linux a good name, stable, secure and a little archane ????
MY GO there are like 10 security fixes in this release !!!! (Im used to 10 a week !)
Seriusly, is there a reason the Debian people have dragged their feet on this for soo long ? Of course you can roll your own butt...most dont...
2.5 is in the work FCOL, I mean at 2.4 release Ok I could see why not too, but all the dev is in the 2.4-2.5 does device support stink as bad as I think it should ?
I have been in this industry for what often times seems too long, My father was in from the beggining 1962, When I was younger and he asked me how long I thought it would take to write I blurted out my answer and he said no X , I said noooo thats way too long how did you arrive at that ?
Here was his answer I have ALWAYS found it accuraye to +/- 10% so far on hundreds on small to massive projects.
1. Once you know all , or most of the forseeable estimates take that number. say 10 hours.
This number is an instinctual reaction to a perfect enviroment , a little experience, some ego on your part of what might be accomplishable in a vacum.
2 Take that Number ad double it.
This takes into account all the real world distractions. Events, etc.
3.Take that number and double it again. This takes into account unssen variables and events beond mortal control.
40 Hours.........
I use this on EVERY single estimate I provide, WHY ?? It works, its not too high not too low, just right.
I tell people this and they laugh, then I tell them that there are MANY legacy applications SSI, IRS, FBI, you name it that were qutoed by my father in this EXACT manner.
There is NO practical limit to estimation, As long as you have the information neccesary to determine what the job youre actually doing is.
The CIA and FBI (and others) have masses of data so large that their entire staff reading for 100 years couldnt possibly sort it all.
It makes you wonder about the QUALITY of the data they are collecting,
Are they going o index their HOWTO's aka
HOW TO WIRE A CAT WITH A MIC (Seen previoulsy on slashdot)
As they teach you DAY ONE in Naval Intelligence
Everything is simply a piece of a puzzle, expect nothing monumental, no matter how small it is a detail of a bigger picture.
Now without addressing information in this manner and looking for ONE big hit , the process of intelligence gathering is broken.
YOU NEED SOMEONE to al least try to review this data before its all clumped into a selective search engine and forgotten. The CIA has horrible record retention policies in place. My bet 10:1 this is the worst possible fate of this data.
Probably just be better to auction it off to some willing buyer and hire more spooks to gather more data to auction off again, then maybe then the CIA could be considered usefull at least as a govt profit center:)
I have used OSX.1 and yeah its O.K. , that all I thought about it, Reminded me of Solaris in performance, I.E. pretty damm slow on hardware Yellow dog freaking screams on. Their hardware is getting better granted, but dumbing down *nix for the average Apple user, who still cant understand why you would ever need more than one button on a mouse ?
Im not some *nix elitist, hey let everyone use it, what I wonder is the impacts OSX will have on other mainstream *nix variants, I mean is everybody going to whore their codebase up to handle all the fun, pretty eye candy and usability, hiding stuf that doent need hidden , and so on ?
Apple, from the contact Ive had is a group thats right up their with MS in terms of "OURS ! OURS ! OURS !" They contibute little so far back to the OpenSource domain, their APSL Sucks(IMHO), and is too restrictive.
Im all for choice. Hey it it ran on X86 (Not JUST DARWIN !) I......well wouldnt feel any different. Why do people think Apple is less greedy or sniveling than MS, they had it perfected before MS was a player, just happened MS won by default because the PC won the last 30 year batle by a margin of 10:1
OpenSource and Apple make dangerous bedfellows.
IBM FREELY gives back to the OpenSource community , this is better than it sounds, If they didnt want to they wouldnt have too they have enough money and power to stall the courts and RMS pretty much forever. Apple does too , keep an eye out....
Ok, first , Yes you are correct on 2 points TiO2 not Ti02 , typo....
Second...Energy, correct,
Third "By the way, you can't quench thermite with water simply because it's too hot and the water will vaporize before quenching anything. "
Sorta , I said , or meant to say try, you CAN dump enough water on the reaction that some will dissacoiate , I have done it, both before and after being warned. The latter was to see if it was in fact true, it is.
I should have made my concern on thermal polltion more clear, Air , correct no problem there, not major, BUT we are talking an island over the pacific , WATER VAPOR in that air is where the potential exists. After it hits the island Im not concerned, its its inbound path I wonder about, atmospheric conditions VARY greatly, are we gonna shut em all down in the spring or while its raining , which brins up another point about the laser dispersial in adverse weather....
Lastly....
BIG WHAM !
"Free hydrogen will not get you cheap hydrocarbons. You'd have to use more energy to do this (although you could easily hydrogenate more of those lovely animal fats in your diet).
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You are apparently not familliar, with Fisher-Tropsch chemistry on sytnetic hydrocarbon fuels.It requires the most energy to convert methane to CO an H2, once the "synthesis gas" is produced it is a far less "expensive" process, HERE we are Being GIVEN the H2, Co is EASY to produce en masse CHEAPLY, Guess what at this point another catalyst later and weve got you guessed it HIGH Quality Diesel
Actually the heat in a thermite reaction is great enough it can break water into its parts, hydrogen / oxygen BEFORE it vaproizes thus releasing hydrogen and oxygen gasses which can freaking explode themselves reforming water.
There are more ways to seperate water than electrolysis, you can do it with heat, lots of it VERY hot, guess what thermite fits that bill, always use sand not water for playing Junior Mad Scientist....
Ok Im not a tree hugger, BUT what are the long term effects say on the Ozone of pumping a laser of this magnitude though the atmosphere not to mention ionizing radiation effects while it travels through the air ?
My understanding is it REQUIES VERY HIGH temperatures to Dissacociate water on the order of 3500 degreesf plus (PS Dont ever try to quelch a thermite reaction with water:)
Ok so were using Ti02 as a catalyst, what my question is what about thermal evnviormental pollution, hell in some cases its worse than chemical pollution. Hmm were encountering a greenhouse effect globally lets fire oh say 50 or so 10+ megawat lasers at earth. (Its only one until it works)
If this is going to be succesfull youll see a commercial proliferation of these without regard for saftey, No dont think so , look at the oil companies and their rigs , then consider again when Oil companies see this as the next big thing ?
Hell with all that free hydrogen you could manufacture your own hydrocarbons CHEAP, aka GAS...
Nice big vicious cycle Gotta Love Science
If I put a BillBoard up on Canadian Soil bashing an American company can they sue me in America , (where as on the web it can be seen from) NO !
Its crap, If I shout slanders from France to Germany say can I be sued in Germany NO,
If I dance Naked in ??? and you can see me from ??? (Alright bad example as you would most certainly be blind at that point) and its legal to dance naked where I am , can I be sued for indecent exposure where you are ?
I tell you this I some worthless Aussie tried to sue me here I go over there and show the boy what "Down Under" really means.........
Why in gods name would someone buy this at $100 a crack ????? It isnt gooing to be ANYWHERE (Windows isnt stable you say, Ok , whatever but for running Windows apps youre going to tell me a hacked emulator is)near as stable for windows apps as windows, and the Linux stuff is going to get dragged down by bloating everything to the moon for compatibilty ???
Hell now that courts have ruled its legal to resell throw a copy of Win98 under VMWare, at least there I can run all kinds of fun stuff.
At $100 a crack I cold buy a copy of whatever windows version I wanted, you mean to tell me I should buy this monstrosity because BillG isnt getting my money ?
This seems to me (I am a 30% Windows user 70% Linux user) te be the single stupidest approach for either system.
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No bashing here , but Samba validates Microsoft.
Samba is awesome stuff a little harry for a late night conversion on a 300 gig W2K server at times but good stuff.
Samba makes MS look that much better and more important, funny about every couple months you hear about MS planning to do something on their end to undo the work of Samba team, seems to me like a good bed fellow for Microsoft.
Good Bad Ugly or None of the above , none of it matters when talking MS, fact is its here for the long haul, we have to connect to it, Ostritch networking dosent work in the real work (i.e. Its ms were just no going to connect and well stick our heads in the sand and act like it dosent exist) MS has been the bearer or butcher, whatever you think of many standards, Samba VALIDATES a few of those MS altered standards.
"We have almost got it, we have the basic principals and the trademarked names" (INSIDE)"Now watch this the money will come pouring in,Haa haaaaahaaa
Honestly did you guys read their sting of random data ? All fricking 0's yeah thats random in theory.
But why no go all the way.hell why not 1000:1 or 100000:1 no problem with all zero's
Ok if it works ?
Hey its a boon to civilization, VOip and 1000 times more MP3's and PORN at superspeeds.
Hmm , If you had something this truly unbeliveable wouldnt you wait on a public announcment until AFTER you had a functional demonstration ?
I look in mine on a weekly basis , dont you ???
Seriously, Ive had STTTTRRAAAANNNGGGEEE things happen before. I have had my root password no longer work on a development box with NO network capablity, and other strangeness, sites in cache I was out of town on those dates (for real), Actually im in my machine doing something or another on a weekly basis so I look around. For a time (2 years) while working on some projects and this strangness was happening I had my work area monitored by camera after a couple too many odditied for a home dev enviroment and a guy that lives alone and owns his house(no landlord issues)
I do and have done things on my machine that I am certain MANY people would love to get their hands on, nothing Illegal certainly, but all kinds of stuff, govt projects that made their way home as weekend work, you name it. Hell we had a competitor of one company going through our employees trash (no shit) we found this out when we hired one of their developers....
Checksums, visual inspections, swap keyboards and mice periodically. Its all good security, NEVER network in any way a box with secret squirrel quality data. now if all you have on your system is a bunch of Quake levels and porn who gives a crap.
Who was it said "Youre not paranoid if people really are after you" ???
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Freedom, and Independence PERIOD something that was given up in England and most of Europe LONG ago.
This isnt a bash, You opr Europeans do and have done all this unto themselves, for the most part it is acceped and they are content with it. Not here, I dont want to be told I cant go to the supermarket I want to one day because the rail is down and only one goes there, I can get damm near ANYWHERE with my car, I once drove somewhere so steep and treacherour, guys at the top, a construction crew ad a $100 pool going to see if I COULD make it to the top, I didnt know there was a paved access road on the backside but that wasnt the point, I made it up. MYSELF, with no dependence from some goddam transportation conglomerate.
THATS why simple,
Europeans and Americans have VERY different Ideas on FREEDOM, Thats OK, You do what works for you, we do what works for US, I grew up in a Euro/American family, Ive been to Euorpe MANY times and lived there a short stint, I know. Most Europeans are content to have their Govt run their live, AND most importantly, THEY TRUST them to do it. Ok, Hey once again it works for them, America is a country that Inherently distrusts its OWN govt, as it should..
Some things arent whats the better solution as they are a political manifest of independence.
I have always been the person that if someone says it cant be done I try it. Just to prove them wrong.
I think a fair amount of us Uber-Geek types are just like this, we strive for that code which is impossible only a short while ago.
Their scheme makes every bone in my body whine to go out buy one , hack it, rip it and distribute it and THEN return it, even though I dont do and havent done it ever before.
I have an extensive MP3 Collection, I bought EVERY damm CD though, loooon before MP3 were practical with the exception of the gig of non-copyrighted classical music I have, some of that stuff is hard to find.
Nonetheless, I think that companies are going to learn hopefully sooner than later, this DRM crap is DOOMED from the start, the harder they make it the more attractive to break it is, the laws wont hold up, and they know it, thats one of the reasons Syralov, or whatever was let loose, BUT they try to maintain the pretense it will even after by lying he agreed to help them.
Bring on the encrypted music, after racing motorcycles for 20 years I cant hear crap anyway.
Audio CD out, Digital in.....DOH, I just broke their 10 million $ Piracy scheme, I wonder if thats a violation of the DCMA !
Why are the brits, or most OTHER non American so hung up on friggn trains ? This isnt a flame(usually a sure note it probably is) But WHAT about train or derivation of it makes it SO appealing to people ? Japan , Ok I can actually see a use there, its like a goddam ant farm. In the US we have the space. Contract roads and transportation to a PRIVATE company, tell em they get paid (for improvements etc) on a per car on time basis. You'd see a hell of an increase in the efficeny of traffic.
At the point they start talking about "driving" the things home , why not just use a car ?
This concept reminds me of those Antique Cars on a rail at Disney World. you can drive a little, but have nor real control.
The infrastructure needed for this would be overwhelming.
Why when everyone talks about "Future" or "Ultra-Modern" does it reming me of a 1950's popular science article like the one on JET POWERED SUPERSONIC ZEPPLINS ??? Yeah they hit that one right on the nose.....
How about this ??? We widen roads, use quality materials, stop contracting to the lowest bidder so they fall apart in 5 years, and quiet and clean up emissions some more, NAW thats too sensible....
PS, I love picture #5 on the Paper , reminds me of the tube in "Logans Run" that musta taken creativity....
If a safe maufacturer makes a safe advertised as the "Fort-Knox" of safes, but there is a glitch that allows anyone to toggle the handle 3 times and Voila it opens, guess what its defective and depending on the result of that safe being opened they can be held liable, IF they were aware a problem exists.
Software vendors selling CRAP any 12 year old script kiddie can comprimise NEED to be held accountable. XP Flaws, hell almost ALL windows security flaws are nothing more than a piss poor product. Needless to say you dont ever see life support equiptment running off windows, unix , yes. windows, no....
But aside from my MS bash, this could have negative reppurcussions as well, Open Source software is EXPLICITLY offered with no suitablity clauses, no warranty clauses etc, commercial products cannot do this, under the laws that govern this in the US at least, there is an apperance of support for commercial software, that is ENOUGH , even if they throw no warranty clauses in it. For example even under Lemon Laws for used cars , a dealer says AS IS NO WARRANTY, but on the window advertises ONE OWNER, that ONE OWNER statement im most states costitutes an implied warranty (Ive pulled this card and won so dont tell me it dosent). It may see a serious quash in innovation for commercial products.
There is more software than the OS itself, look at checkpoints flaw, they tout their software as secure , secure , secure, but then it turns out it has holess, just like any other. Guess what its a product defect, and hence they could be sued for damages, lets make those penalties MUCH STIFFER !
Open source also has the MAJOR advantage of extenive peer review, but that dosent always work either, sendmail, dns, apache, all have been comprimised at some time or another over the last few years, BUT they are opensource, and the USER HAS the ability to correct the problem themselves, not rely on a hodge podge commercial patch roll.
The COMMERCIAL software vendors need to be held accountable for product defects JUST as manufacturers of hard goods are.
This is so much crap its unbelievable,
Borland NEVER had any of those right they so claimed in their liscence, Removing something COMPLETLEY unenforcable Dosent mean backing down !
They said they made a mistake, OK, but EVEN in a "Enterprise Enviroment" this wouldnt fly either.
If I put a sign in my driveway that says, "All trespassers will become property of Wertman Enterprises, by coming on this land you acknowledge forfiture of your soul, independence and freedom. You will becom personal property with no recourse and by agreeing to come on this property you forefit your right to a Jury trial"
Horseshit....
Does that mean if a person stray I can keep em ?
NO , It is UNENFORCABLE, because it blatantly violates consitutional right, basic constitutional freedoms cannot be simply waved willy nilly, If you want to refuse your right to a jury trial you need to SIGH in accordance. not just say "Nah I dont think so" it would be a mess of crooked judges and prosectors in a he said she said .
Borland cant back off excersising rights they NEVER had, a click through cant waive 2 or 3 consitutional right, either for a person or a corporation.
I have a couple of questions for you BSD fellows.
How much control over direction does the sponsor have ? Linux is graced or stymied by (depending on opion) A benevolent dictator Linus Himself, where does BSD gain its driection from and does the sponsor have any input ?
If they dont have any input and just throw cash and bandwith at it who cares who sponsors it ?
I hope FreeBSD can get all the kinks in what sounds like a nagging problem hammered out, I have heard many good things and If I wasnt a Linux geek might actually try it now that Solaris 9 wont be released for X86....
Actually Linux is trademarked....
Owner , no other than Linux himself
This was after someonw tried to pull a
fast one and copyright it after the fact,
Then the dumbass tried to enforce it an make the
linux companies pay up....
They stripped his and gave it to Linus.
This is cool, Im all for minature robotics, like the
one the Brit came up with that feeds and then powers itself on their bodies. They could gather invaluable
information on the oceans, BUT are hey going to put a JONAH circut in these things ?
I mean what happens when a plankton feeder sucks up a hundred thousand or so of these, it will (may) register a higher temp, movement pattern etc.
I love the idea of a self sufficient ocengoing robot, I always have, I saw a solar robot creature
demo a few years ago, neuralnet stuff, that the jellyfish would react to the crab etc, Why no use a larger scale verson, build em in Taiwan at 2 bucks a pop and set em loose, A larger unit could accomplish this, perhaps much more efficently, Miniturization for Minituriztions sake has always eluded me.
This is mostly a moot point, until a TV can be so integrted as not to need an external source in this is all moot. The industry will not for 100 years agree on a standard for that. The signal leaves whatever device you are playing from AND MUST be understood by your common average dumb TV set, NTSC, PAL what have you.
NOW that said that is the weak link and an Ideal place to transmit from or encode to an alternative Digital Medium, I just got Mplayer encoding right, and guess what was horking all kinds of signals off line, my 300 gig box is just about ready to start filling up with TV shows, movies, races,etc. I want, as soon as I can get the damm remote working with this box.
Because of the above set up I dug out an OLD (15 year plus TV transmitter, I had , you hook it up and Channel 3 gets vid audio. Im too lazy to wire the upstairs and may be moving soon, so my 32" tv in the bedroom gets REBROADCASTED signaal. They sell these things on ebay for 30 bucks, they work like a charm, you could make your own with 1/3 of that in parts, no IC , all coils trimmers and pots.
My computer has a tuner card as well, and antenna and I can catch anything I want off my "TIVO KILLER" EITHER via the network, or antenna, I would LOVE to put a box in my trunk and pump over 802.1b so my kids can watch flciks on drives, upload a playlist the night before from my computer in the house to my car in the drive. (I do plan on doing this with my MP3's)
Sooooooo.....
As long as a TV can understand the signal there is NO possible way (at present) to keep that signal from being rebroadcasted. With TONS of MONEY being pouredinto this sort of DRM research its amazing our TV sets dont cost $3000 !
As posted above even if you dont like his stuff, its different, there are some things I do and dont like, But he seems to be one of the few designers that takes any amount of function into account.
:()
Personally I dont like the new Imac, BUT that really dosent mean SQUAT since Im not a prospective customer. Ill stick with the UltraSparcs.
What matters is Mac people do, and they liked the original, and the I book, I have used both and I can say I came closer than EVER to buying a Apple for the Wife, Part of that was the integrated packaging, part of it "ease of use" etc.
If they almost had me hooked after my last Apple experience (I bought a Lisa when they were new
Im sure they wont have a problem hooking people in.
Does it remind anyone else of their home-ec project gone awary , a slunk of dough , then sticking a pencil in it with a sign, (insert team name here) RULE ! ??? No wonder I failed HomeEc....
Well at 799 its a bit on the pricey side.....
:) Hell you could probably save almost all tooling costs and buy up another manufacturers mols of a dead line and make em fly as well as the low cost of a say 11.5 screen.
I would love to see a cheap internet terminal @ under 300 , with specs like this one, I know however there is no way to make money At that point, I hate LCD's they drive my eyes bonkers and at lower res they box in, ever try and run doom on a laptop ?
On the other hand thats about all I use my laptop for, Laptops have an air about them, just ask all the posers at Starbucks, How about a LAPTOP sized appliance , No hard drive, network capablity, guts could be based on one of the small PDA units, for card compatibility etc, only with a full sized keyboard and screen, it's be LIGHT, CHEAP, and battery life could be pretty amazing. Do most anything you need whilst mobile. email, documents editing, etc. LINUX based of course
Offer that a $300-400 and they would get snapped up like nuts, if nothing else from all the posers that are too poor to buy a full unit but want to hang out with their buddies at Starbucks, and act all aloof like thier solving the probblems of the world on their laptop >:)
I cannot however see using Mozilla as the GUI at this point, I use and Like mozilla, but if the performance of their desktop compares to Nautilus , ayyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeekkkkk.
The market is there for these applicances, the right one just hasnt hit in my opinion...
Thats funny.
:)
When I was about 12(81 or so) my dad brought me slews of stuff from work to scrap parts off of, LONG story short he took all the lithium batteries on the boards I was given, several had them, their engineer had to pick shards of PCB ut of his arm after he shorted one, (This was beore they had an internal "breaker") ,
A couple of years ago I was short on cash so, I decided to sell my IMSAI , well I went to power it up to test it so I could say, "Working Condition"
Well shit started blowing everywhere, caps going off like firecrackers, kinda makes me wonder whats going to happen when I fire up my 386 in 20 years to show my son
In roughly 85% of all the countries Aucio CD's are being sold, there are Fi Use laws in place that do no allow for manufacturers to circumvent copy ability.
Im glad to see Phillips is at least protecting their
property and not allowing it to be emblazoned on a CD that does not conform to those standards, would MS allow their logo to be pasted on a S/390 and say built for windows 98 ?? No dont think so.....
I hope all this copy circumvention leads to more piracy than ever before. JUST piracy of the stuff that was to be protected, maybe then theyll think twice....
Ok Im a RedHat follower, I like their distro's everything and the kitchen sink and It may or may not work right, but thts OK because theyre soo much overload youll never be bored....
...most dont...
Saying that Come On DEBIAN people, get that kernel moving, dont you know its guys like you that give linux a good name, stable, secure and a little archane ????
MY GO there are like 10 security fixes in this release !!!! (Im used to 10 a week !)
Seriusly, is there a reason the Debian people have dragged their feet on this for soo long ? Of course you can roll your own butt
2.5 is in the work FCOL, I mean at 2.4 release Ok I could see why not too, but all the dev is in the 2.4-2.5 does device support stink as bad as I think it should ?
I have been in this industry for what often times seems too long, My father was in from the beggining 1962, When I was younger and he asked me how long I thought it would take to write I blurted out my answer and he said no X , I said noooo thats way too long how did you arrive at that ?
Here was his answer I have ALWAYS found it accuraye to +/- 10% so far on hundreds on small to massive projects.
1. Once you know all , or most of the forseeable estimates take that number. say 10 hours.
This number is an instinctual reaction to a perfect enviroment , a little experience, some ego on your part of what might be accomplishable in a vacum.
2 Take that Number ad double it.
This takes into account all the real world distractions. Events, etc.
3.Take that number and double it again. This takes into account unssen variables and events beond mortal control.
40 Hours.........
I use this on EVERY single estimate I provide, WHY ?? It works, its not too high not too low, just right.
I tell people this and they laugh, then I tell them that there are MANY legacy applications SSI, IRS, FBI, you name it that were qutoed by my father in this EXACT manner.
There is NO practical limit to estimation, As long as you have the information neccesary to determine what the job youre actually doing is.
The CIA and FBI (and others) have masses of data so large that their entire staff reading for 100 years couldnt possibly sort it all.
:)
It makes you wonder about the QUALITY of the data they are collecting,
Are they going o index their HOWTO's aka
HOW TO WIRE A CAT WITH A MIC (Seen previoulsy on slashdot)
As they teach you DAY ONE in Naval Intelligence
Everything is simply a piece of a puzzle, expect nothing monumental, no matter how small it is a detail of a bigger picture.
Now without addressing information in this manner and looking for ONE big hit , the process of intelligence gathering is broken.
YOU NEED SOMEONE to al least try to review this data before its all clumped into a selective search engine and forgotten. The CIA has horrible record retention policies in place. My bet 10:1 this is the worst possible fate of this data.
Probably just be better to auction it off to some willing buyer and hire more spooks to gather more data to auction off again, then maybe then the CIA could be considered usefull at least as a govt profit center
I have used OSX.1 and yeah its O.K. , that all I thought about it, Reminded me of Solaris in performance, I.E. pretty damm slow on hardware Yellow dog freaking screams on. Their hardware is getting better granted, but dumbing down *nix for the average Apple user, who still cant understand why you would ever need more than one button on a mouse ?
......well wouldnt feel any different. Why do people think Apple is less greedy or sniveling than MS, they had it perfected before MS was a player, just happened MS won by default because the PC won the last 30 year batle by a margin of 10:1
Im not some *nix elitist, hey let everyone use it, what I wonder is the impacts OSX will have on other mainstream *nix variants, I mean is everybody going to whore their codebase up to handle all the fun, pretty eye candy and usability, hiding stuf that doent need hidden , and so on ?
Apple, from the contact Ive had is a group thats right up their with MS in terms of "OURS ! OURS ! OURS !" They contibute little so far back to the OpenSource domain, their APSL Sucks(IMHO), and is too restrictive.
Im all for choice. Hey it it ran on X86 (Not JUST DARWIN !) I
OpenSource and Apple make dangerous bedfellows.
IBM FREELY gives back to the OpenSource community , this is better than it sounds, If they didnt want to they wouldnt have too they have enough money and power to stall the courts and RMS pretty much forever. Apple does too , keep an eye out....
Ok, first , Yes you are correct on 2 points TiO2 not Ti02 , typo....
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Second...Energy, correct,
Third "By the way, you can't quench thermite with water simply because it's too hot and the water will vaporize before quenching anything. "
Sorta , I said , or meant to say try, you CAN dump enough water on the reaction that some will dissacoiate , I have done it, both before and after being warned. The latter was to see if it was in fact true, it is.
I should have made my concern on thermal polltion more clear, Air , correct no problem there, not major, BUT we are talking an island over the pacific , WATER VAPOR in that air is where the potential exists. After it hits the island Im not concerned, its its inbound path I wonder about, atmospheric conditions VARY greatly, are we gonna shut em all down in the spring or while its raining , which brins up another point about the laser dispersial in adverse weather....
Lastly
BIG WHAM !
"Free hydrogen will not get you cheap hydrocarbons. You'd have to use more energy to do this (although you could easily hydrogenate more of those lovely animal fats in your diet).
"
You are apparently not familliar, with Fisher-Tropsch chemistry on sytnetic hydrocarbon fuels.It requires the most energy to convert methane to CO an H2, once the "synthesis gas" is produced it is a far less "expensive" process, HERE we are Being GIVEN the H2, Co is EASY to produce en masse CHEAPLY, Guess what at this point another catalyst later and weve got you guessed it HIGH Quality Diesel
Actually the heat in a thermite reaction is great enough it can break water into its parts, hydrogen / oxygen BEFORE it vaproizes thus releasing hydrogen and oxygen gasses which can freaking explode themselves reforming water.
There are more ways to seperate water than electrolysis, you can do it with heat, lots of it VERY hot, guess what thermite fits that bill, always use sand not water for playing Junior Mad Scientist....
Ok Im not a tree hugger, BUT what are the long term effects say on the Ozone of pumping a laser of this magnitude though the atmosphere not to mention ionizing radiation effects while it travels through the air ?
:)
...
My understanding is it REQUIES VERY HIGH temperatures to Dissacociate water on the order of 3500 degreesf plus (PS Dont ever try to quelch a thermite reaction with water
Ok so were using Ti02 as a catalyst, what my question is what about thermal evnviormental pollution, hell in some cases its worse than chemical pollution. Hmm were encountering a greenhouse effect globally lets fire oh say 50 or so 10+ megawat lasers at earth. (Its only one until it works)
If this is going to be succesfull youll see a commercial proliferation of these without regard for saftey, No dont think so , look at the oil companies and their rigs , then consider again when Oil companies see this as the next big thing ?
Hell with all that free hydrogen you could manufacture your own hydrocarbons CHEAP, aka GAS
Nice big vicious cycle Gotta Love Science
If I put a BillBoard up on Canadian Soil bashing an American company can they sue me in America , (where as on the web it can be seen from) NO !
Its crap, If I shout slanders from France to Germany say can I be sued in Germany NO,
If I dance Naked in ??? and you can see me from ??? (Alright bad example as you would most certainly be blind at that point) and its legal to dance naked where I am , can I be sued for indecent exposure where you are ?
I tell you this I some worthless Aussie tried to sue me here I go over there and show the boy what "Down Under" really means.........
Why in gods name would someone buy this at $100 a crack ????? It isnt gooing to be ANYWHERE (Windows isnt stable you say, Ok , whatever but for running Windows apps youre going to tell me a hacked emulator is)near as stable for windows apps as windows, and the Linux stuff is going to get dragged down by bloating everything to the moon for compatibilty ???
Hell now that courts have ruled its legal to resell throw a copy of Win98 under VMWare, at least there I can run all kinds of fun stuff.
At $100 a crack I cold buy a copy of whatever windows version I wanted, you mean to tell me I should buy this monstrosity because BillG isnt getting my money ?
This seems to me (I am a 30% Windows user 70% Linux user) te be the single stupidest approach for either system.
No bashing here , but Samba validates Microsoft.
Samba is awesome stuff a little harry for a late night conversion on a 300 gig W2K server at times but good stuff.
Samba makes MS look that much better and more important, funny about every couple months you hear about MS planning to do something on their end to undo the work of Samba team, seems to me like a good bed fellow for Microsoft.
Good Bad Ugly or None of the above , none of it matters when talking MS, fact is its here for the long haul, we have to connect to it, Ostritch networking dosent work in the real work (i.e. Its ms were just no going to connect and well stick our heads in the sand and act like it dosent exist) MS has been the bearer or butcher, whatever you think of many standards, Samba VALIDATES a few of those MS altered standards.
Looks like IPO drilling to me,
,Haa haaaaahaaa
"We have almost got it, we have the basic principals and the trademarked names" (INSIDE)"Now watch this the money will come pouring in
Honestly did you guys read their sting of random data ? All fricking 0's yeah thats random in theory.
But why no go all the way.hell why not 1000:1 or 100000:1 no problem with all zero's
Ok if it works ?
Hey its a boon to civilization, VOip and 1000 times more MP3's and PORN at superspeeds.
Hmm , If you had something this truly unbeliveable wouldnt you wait on a public announcment until AFTER you had a functional demonstration ?
I look in mine on a weekly basis , dont you ???
Seriously, Ive had STTTTRRAAAANNNGGGEEE things happen before. I have had my root password no longer work on a development box with NO network capablity, and other strangeness, sites in cache I was out of town on those dates (for real), Actually im in my machine doing something or another on a weekly basis so I look around. For a time (2 years) while working on some projects and this strangness was happening I had my work area monitored by camera after a couple too many odditied for a home dev enviroment and a guy that lives alone and owns his house(no landlord issues)
I do and have done things on my machine that I am certain MANY people would love to get their hands on, nothing Illegal certainly, but all kinds of stuff, govt projects that made their way home as weekend work, you name it. Hell we had a competitor of one company going through our employees trash (no shit) we found this out when we hired one of their developers....
Checksums, visual inspections, swap keyboards and mice periodically. Its all good security, NEVER network in any way a box with secret squirrel quality data. now if all you have on your system is a bunch of Quake levels and porn who gives a crap.
Who was it said "Youre not paranoid if people really are after you" ???