It seems to me that this whole article hinges on a single notion:
"Mr. Acosta said the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all National Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel whom the public could perceive as speaking for the agency. He added that government scientists were free to discuss scientific findings, but that policy statements should be left to policy makers and appointed spokesmen."
They just don't want scientists running around spouting off all kinds of ideas/theories only to result in the media latching on to these ideas as some sort of "official NASA position." The public is a fairly skittish beast, and as soon as they hear some "expert from NASA" telling them one thing, even if it is a theory, they'll run with it for miles. Next thing you know "The next ice age could be coming in the next several thousand years" has turned into "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE GLACIERS ARE COMING!!!"
The real question (rumor?) floating around other mac-specific news sites is whether or not this is just to hold us over until the release of G5 notebooks sometime in the not to distant future (January?) A couple interesting threads:
Repeated compaction and water loss might be a problem, but just wait until one of these badboys gets out of hand and ends up mowing down some precious kangaroo farm. Then we'll see who gives a damn about how compact their soil is.
Hmmm...maybe the Senators were all nervous that a lot of them would be exposed for their own personal "un-American" activities. Ahha! I figured it out!!
This is silly. While it's fine and dandy that we can now crunch the data down even further and make it fly across our phone lines faster, this fails to address the real issue. Eventually we can compress no more, sorta like chip development. Smaller and smaller dies are great, but we need to focus on the long term future, not the next six to eighteen months.
Rather than working on compression, they ought to be working on expanding current broadband networks or developing the 802.16 standard or something. Faster phone line transmissions aren't going to be worth the effort in the end.
There will always be backdoors and new applications for sharing. Until the RIAA decides to shut down IRC and FTP et al. they will never remove music swapping from the world of file sharing.
People are greedy, they want it for free, and they'll get it.
This is certainly fun/interesting/cool etc. but I don't really see the point of putting Linux on your PS2 - other than to say you did it. I bought the PS2 to play PS2 games, if I want to run Linux I'll scoot over to my PC.
Don't get me wrong, 'yay' for doing things for the hell of it, but what's the point of this past that?
Doesn't anyone understand that just because Microsoft fought on one side of the war at one point does not mean they must stick to that side? Switching sides is much more lucrative for them at this point. I mean, yeesh, you make it seem like its about ideals or something...
So does that mean if you fight for the right to have a free trial you are going to commit a crime? Is it not possible for someone to fight for something based purely on ideology rather than self-interest? What happened to standing up for what you believed because you believe it, and not because you gain from it?
If you're not willing to fight for your privacy, you don't deserve it in the first place.
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It seems to me that this whole article hinges on a single notion:
"Mr. Acosta said the restrictions on Dr. Hansen applied to all National Aeronautics and Space Administration personnel whom the public could perceive as speaking for the agency. He added that government scientists were free to discuss scientific findings, but that policy statements should be left to policy makers and appointed spokesmen."
They just don't want scientists running around spouting off all kinds of ideas/theories only to result in the media latching on to these ideas as some sort of "official NASA position." The public is a fairly skittish beast, and as soon as they hear some "expert from NASA" telling them one thing, even if it is a theory, they'll run with it for miles. Next thing you know "The next ice age could be coming in the next several thousand years" has turned into "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE GLACIERS ARE COMING!!!"
At least that's all this seems to be about to me.
Here's the last one you were looking for:1770.
The real question (rumor?) floating around other mac-specific news sites is whether or not this is just to hold us over until the release of G5 notebooks sometime in the not to distant future (January?) A couple interesting threads:
Apple Insider
MacNN
...until someone sues this old coot for infringing on their patented idea to sue companies for patent infringement of frivilous patents.
Wooo man will the judges have fun with that one.
Repeated compaction and water loss might be a problem, but just wait until one of these badboys gets out of hand and ends up mowing down some precious kangaroo farm. Then we'll see who gives a damn about how compact their soil is.
Just you wait.
...they were shelling out $8,000-$10,000 for some dude to sit in a room with a couple of cases of crazy glue and a knack for deciphering ink blots...
Crap! my secret's out.
Hmmm...maybe the Senators were all nervous that a lot of them would be exposed for their own personal "un-American" activities. Ahha! I figured it out!!
Why is there a black car in front of my house...
Does this mean we'll soon have to watch video clips of the editors posting stories or chrisd pondering the next poll?
Better still, does this mean that we'll soon be able to immerse ourselves in 24/7, live CowboyNeal?
This is silly. While it's fine and dandy that we can now crunch the data down even further and make it fly across our phone lines faster, this fails to address the real issue. Eventually we can compress no more, sorta like chip development. Smaller and smaller dies are great, but we need to focus on the long term future, not the next six to eighteen months.
Rather than working on compression, they ought to be working on expanding current broadband networks or developing the 802.16 standard or something. Faster phone line transmissions aren't going to be worth the effort in the end.
Or am I wrong?
Galaga is still one of the greatest games ever!
Just curious, how long was this one in the preview que (or whatever) before it got posted to Slashdot?
Yeah, this isn't me. In case anyone thought it was.
Here is the real link to the article on OSNews
Link
Oops...I guess I forgot the humor tags around my comment.
big enough!? If it comes prepackaged at all then it's straight from the pits of BSOD!
There will always be backdoors and new applications for sharing. Until the RIAA decides to shut down IRC and FTP et al. they will never remove music swapping from the world of file sharing.
People are greedy, they want it for free, and they'll get it.
Man, if I could get one of these mounted on my car it sure would cut down the drive time on my morning commute!
Red light, huh? *ZAP* Not red anymore...
Forget flying cars and vacationing on red planets, I'm still looking forward to when 640K isn't enough.
Oh, wait....
This is certainly fun/interesting/cool etc. but I don't really see the point of putting Linux on your PS2 - other than to say you did it. I bought the PS2 to play PS2 games, if I want to run Linux I'll scoot over to my PC.
Don't get me wrong, 'yay' for doing things for the hell of it, but what's the point of this past that?
There are some features missing, after all - GNUs NOT unix.
Seriously though, feasibly any Unix feature could be added to Linux, it just takes time and man power.
Doesn't anyone understand that just because Microsoft fought on one side of the war at one point does not mean they must stick to that side? Switching sides is much more lucrative for them at this point. I mean, yeesh, you make it seem like its about ideals or something...
Google link didn't work for me. Here is a link to another article about the same topic.
Article
And if you like Nebraska a lot (I don't care one way or the other) here's an article about it in the Omaha newspaper.
Omaha
So does that mean if you fight for the right to have a free trial you are going to commit a crime? Is it not possible for someone to fight for something based purely on ideology rather than self-interest? What happened to standing up for what you believed because you believe it, and not because you gain from it?
If you're not willing to fight for your privacy, you don't deserve it in the first place.
I guess Sun found a way to circumvent this evil Microsoft plot.
:(
Looks like I lost my excuse for being so pasty