They're really going to hate it when suspects start using steganography.
Good point. Life in prison!
This is really all about privacy rights, isn't it? The state is asserting there aren't any. If you make it difficult to uncover your private information, all the more unfortunate that they have to hold you until they do.
He has historical brand recognition and he's a lot cuter than the christmas tree ornament with tumours.
Can we talk? Nothing is going to stop the evangelical crowd from saying the OS is the spawn of satan if they get it into their minds to think so. What's the use of pandering?
My introduction to C/S databases was Oracle -- stepping directly from Borland desktop dBASE and Paradox. That said, I've been pretty amazed at what PostgreSQL can do -- if you don't absolutely, positively need moment of failure recovery, it seems like PostgreSQL would work great for organizations below that top level of cream that pulls a heavy input transaction load.
But a small-organization free Oracle is somthing I will almost certainly feel I have to look at. It's one of the 800-lb gorilla twins with DB2, right?
If you're reasonably ticked that you can't legally get around encrypted files
Haven't seen anyone mention yet that it would be nice if our officials could learn how our voting machines work. Not as important as ripping CDs, I guess.
"Wife! I NEED a new dual-processor multi-gigabyte machine. No, OF COURSE, it isn't just for games. How could you think even think that."
Nonetheless, I'm finding that I'm opening Abiword about 1/2 the time these days. I was a WordPerfect fanatic in the day but since Word set the standard for lowest common denominator for slapping simple text on the screen, I'm finding that Abiword fills those needs nicely a great deal of the time.
I think a lot of us who cut our teeth on '80s home BASIC machines have typed in an Eliza program and the self-induced wonder was cool. But that was then. I hung onto a '90s feeling that my OS/2 desktop was a "magic desktop" of sorts. But they're just machines to me now -- often X&*#@#@% machines. Where's my facial recognition desktop that comprehended and remembers our last discussion? As a rhetorical question, I think the answer is a long, long time away since epistemology and consciousness are a lot more complicated than this century appreciates.
Granted Kubrick was a person for over-the-top set design but I saw 2001 twice, original theater release and at a sci fi convention in -- 2001, so I got hit hard with the cognitive dissonance of my memories and how dated it seems today. Science fiction's inevitable clay feet guessing the future grounded in today.
I've casually wondered for years why.xxx wasn't created earlier to quiet a flood of complaints. I guess it makes sense. It's the same mentality that bans sex ed because it would make the kids think of sex.
Yup -- A&J Microdrive, Sunnyvale, California. Claimed to be backward compatible with an (8K) ZX80 too.
I don't see it mentioned in the manual but I seem to remember they said it was some microformat for portable video at the time. They are quite small cassettes (1-1/2"x2-3/8"x3/16"), like a micro audio recorder so tape is much thinner than a standard audio cassette. You can hear it spooling rather quickly when it is accessing data -- they claimed "almost 30 times faster than cassette recorders". They came in different "foot" lengths of storage: 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50.
I went as far as taking a photo of the lot for ebay but never went through with it. I also have a ZX morse code decoder and I think the setup would make an even cooler dystopian sci fi prop this decade if I actually used it.
How about CONSUMERS pay for new TVs or converters themselves? They don't get cable free. They don't get a free CD palyer when cassettes go out of style.
U.S. television is a service to the Bush regime. It isn't healthy for me to watch U.S. news and commentary because I can't help responding out loud to the lies, distortions and evasions that appear by the minute.
Of course the U.S. government wants to pay us to watch TV. It's a no-brainer. The joke is that this guy is complaining NOW after the criminal war in Iraq and negligent drowning of New Orleans that THIS piddly handful of billions isn't a sound use of money?
Bought a metal "keybaord case" and a set of keyboard keys and hard-wired it to the ZX-81. The computer and PS went into the case. The keyboard added a reset key and with the PS in the case I added a power switch and an LCD "on" indicator. Hardwired the 16K memory expansion to the computer so I could point the "bus" out of the case where I could plug in the printer and a sound effects card. Grommetted output for the tape drive cord and put in a recepticle to the 6-8 keys (if I remember) so I could use a joystick for the flight sim.
Got something called a stringy floppy that used tiny videotape cartridges. Made access about as convenient as a Commodore floppy drive.
Fortunately, I worked in a decently large city and could pick up ZX magazine. The Brits came up with the best programs to type in.
I think his point was getting down to "real people" in rural or township life. When was the last time you vacationed North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Watts or Chicago's South Side? Same thing. A European who has vacationed Manhattan or Orlando hasn't really "seen the USA" either. And I'm sure one would observe differing cultural mores in Nebraska and Watts as one would between Chad and Angola.
It's all relative. Are there people who make a living fishing Lake Victoria and do South African vineyards make good wine? Of course. But water nonetheless is a major issue in much of Africa. He was talking about West Africa and didn't even mention the Sahara or Namibian deserts. They don't call it the Great Karoo for nothing and a lot of Africa is "semiarid" like Botswana. I've got a "brook" out back that a South African would be proud to call a "river". And that isn't even taking into consideration the worldwide problem of irrigation farming sucking the water table dry.
If anything, you should thank the poster for making Americans more often think of Africa as savannah land instead of pygmies chasing elephants through dense jungle. It's an overall improvement.
But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.'"
And the fact that we have laws means we never need police.
I guess the author never heard a psycho CB operator talk about killing and raping everybody he meets (perhaps running a few hundred watts) or a schizo amateur operator running his VFO back and forth over people he disagrees with or somebody intentionally or unintentionally interfering with aircraft.
You are damn right. So much technological progress but we know almost nothing about our brain. We understand how 20 million transistors work together to form a computer but we do not have any idea what makes us love or hate each other.
Yes and no. On the one hand, it seems so clear that Kurzweil is a hardware guy and for all his AI accolades seems to take epistemology lightly. Maybe he just hopes->believes->rationalizes that conscieousness will spontaneously erupt from sufficiently complex inputs. I'm not even sure his hardware predictions are very interesting considering the recent experiment that seems to show that a single neuron is sufficient to recognize a celebrity's face. By 2019 my $1000 PC will have the processing power of the human brain? Give me a break. That prediction and my personal rocket ship will help me get a Starbucks on Mars.
On the other hand, I think more generally that two hundred years of humanistic Enlightenment and American progressive pragmatism and social science have discovered a lot about how to create a society that would work well. We just have extra-specially visionless people in power at the moment who want to roll back those two hundred years of humanities and social science. People, for instance, who think you can invade a country and overlay a fresh culture over the natives' thousands of years of heritage as simply as converting the Epcot Japanese pavillion into Thai Disney. Such empty, cultureless fanatics are barbarian thugs precisely because they haven't a clue that they are cultureless barbarians.
But that does not mean learned humanity has not evolved. Like Huxley's Ape and Essence, it always comes down to whether we can do an end run around the apes holding back social progress.
I wonder how long the rule will survive the courts
Last week's Court or next week's Court?
To phrase it in succinct Neocon: "Where does the Constitution talk about VoIP?"
In our new conservatism, we don't want an "activist court" that writes in freedoms to technology the founding fathers wouldn't have envisoned, now do we? So in all such things, I assume we are now so screwed.
Troll? Sir, you aren't nearly cynical enough for the real world.
1. Weird stuff gets tacked onto legislation all the time. And you generally just notice the stuff that floats to the top. Get yourself a subscription to the Federal Register and perhaps your state registers. You'll want to wear Depends reading them after you see the amazing proposals in committee hearings that _don't_ "quite" make it through each and every session.
2. Who says a disaster bill has to do anything to benefit the populace in general much less New Orleans in particular? They can _say_ it's "for the children" in front of the TV cameras while it is really a Halliburton contract to repair oil rigs, can't they? Are you saying the children don't deserve oil, citizen? Well, are you?
3. The reason Alaska in particular is bitching is because they don't want to give up the money for their 200+ million pork barrel bridge project to 50 people and they're getting testy about the ridicule.
4. Iraq spending/Katrina spending: what's the difference? As long as it is a no-bid contract to Halliburton, it's all good. And as long as it's just promissory notes to China, it isn't like the interest is costing us much, is it?
"The question isn't whether you're paranoid. The question is whether you're paranoid _enough_." -- Strange Days
I took one of those one-day/one-credit courses from Andrew Weil, http://www.drweil.com/ , before he metamorphed into the alternative health dude and was still known as the post-Tim Leary drug researcher.
He told us about the early research he participated in that showed people can learn to compensate for the effects of marijuana and show little statistical difference from controls in a driving simulator. Grant didn't get renewed to pursue that line further. He said that in itself was a lesson learned.
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Just thinking that a lot of 3rd-world kids won't get a ride to school and back in the family SUV.
They're really going to hate it when suspects start using steganography.
Good point. Life in prison!
This is really all about privacy rights, isn't it? The state is asserting there aren't any. If you make it difficult to uncover your private information, all the more unfortunate that they have to hold you until they do.
to the Hamster Dance.
He has historical brand recognition and he's a lot cuter than the christmas tree ornament with tumours.
Can we talk? Nothing is going to stop the evangelical crowd from saying the OS is the spawn of satan if they get it into their minds to think so. What's the use of pandering?
My introduction to C/S databases was Oracle -- stepping directly from Borland desktop dBASE and Paradox. That said, I've been pretty amazed at what PostgreSQL can do -- if you don't absolutely, positively need moment of failure recovery, it seems like PostgreSQL would work great for organizations below that top level of cream that pulls a heavy input transaction load.
But a small-organization free Oracle is somthing I will almost certainly feel I have to look at. It's one of the 800-lb gorilla twins with DB2, right?
If you're reasonably ticked that you can't legally get around encrypted files
Haven't seen anyone mention yet that it would be nice if our officials could learn how our voting machines work. Not as important as ripping CDs, I guess.
"Wife! I NEED a new dual-processor multi-gigabyte machine. No, OF COURSE, it isn't just for games. How could you think even think that."
Nonetheless, I'm finding that I'm opening Abiword about 1/2 the time these days. I was a WordPerfect fanatic in the day but since Word set the standard for lowest common denominator for slapping simple text on the screen, I'm finding that Abiword fills those needs nicely a great deal of the time.
Not "insightful" cynicism? You got gipped.
I think a lot of us who cut our teeth on '80s home BASIC machines have typed in an Eliza program and the self-induced wonder was cool. But that was then. I hung onto a '90s feeling that my OS/2 desktop was a "magic desktop" of sorts. But they're just machines to me now -- often X&*#@#@% machines. Where's my facial recognition desktop that comprehended and remembers our last discussion? As a rhetorical question, I think the answer is a long, long time away since epistemology and consciousness are a lot more complicated than this century appreciates.
Granted Kubrick was a person for over-the-top set design but I saw 2001 twice, original theater release and at a sci fi convention in -- 2001, so I got hit hard with the cognitive dissonance of my memories and how dated it seems today. Science fiction's inevitable clay feet guessing the future grounded in today.
Just the latest example of how the Catholic church doesn't tolerate competition.
Doh!! I'm am amateur radio operator. I should have been able to do the math too.
Yes. The last time I heard this story, I thought they were using a laser beam -- which makes a lot more sense.
I've casually wondered for years why
Yup -- A&J Microdrive, Sunnyvale, California. Claimed to be backward compatible with an (8K) ZX80 too.
I don't see it mentioned in the manual but I seem to remember they said it was some microformat for portable video at the time. They are quite small cassettes (1-1/2"x2-3/8"x3/16"), like a micro audio recorder so tape is much thinner than a standard audio cassette. You can hear it spooling rather quickly when it is accessing data -- they claimed "almost 30 times faster than cassette recorders". They came in different "foot" lengths of storage: 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50.
I went as far as taking a photo of the lot for ebay but never went through with it. I also have a ZX morse code decoder and I think the setup would make an even cooler dystopian sci fi prop this decade if I actually used it.
How about CONSUMERS pay for new TVs or converters themselves? They don't get cable free. They don't get a free CD palyer when cassettes go out of style.
U.S. television is a service to the Bush regime. It isn't healthy for me to watch U.S. news and commentary because I can't help responding out loud to the lies, distortions and evasions that appear by the minute.
Of course the U.S. government wants to pay us to watch TV. It's a no-brainer. The joke is that this guy is complaining NOW after the criminal war in Iraq and negligent drowning of New Orleans that THIS piddly handful of billions isn't a sound use of money?
Bought a metal "keybaord case" and a set of keyboard keys and hard-wired it to the ZX-81. The computer and PS went into the case. The keyboard added a reset key and with the PS in the case I added a power switch and an LCD "on" indicator. Hardwired the 16K memory expansion to the computer so I could point the "bus" out of the case where I could plug in the printer and a sound effects card. Grommetted output for the tape drive cord and put in a recepticle to the 6-8 keys (if I remember) so I could use a joystick for the flight sim.
Got something called a stringy floppy that used tiny videotape cartridges. Made access about as convenient as a Commodore floppy drive.
Fortunately, I worked in a decently large city and could pick up ZX magazine. The Brits came up with the best programs to type in.
Roche is Swiss. I'm sure China, mainland or Taiwanese, quakes in fear at the thought of the Swiss navy launching an assault.
I think his point was getting down to "real people" in rural or township life. When was the last time you vacationed North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Watts or Chicago's South Side? Same thing. A European who has vacationed Manhattan or Orlando hasn't really "seen the USA" either. And I'm sure one would observe differing cultural mores in Nebraska and Watts as one would between Chad and Angola.
It's all relative. Are there people who make a living fishing Lake Victoria and do South African vineyards make good wine? Of course. But water nonetheless is a major issue in much of Africa. He was talking about West Africa and didn't even mention the Sahara or Namibian deserts. They don't call it the Great Karoo for nothing and a lot of Africa is "semiarid" like Botswana. I've got a "brook" out back that a South African would be proud to call a "river". And that isn't even taking into consideration the worldwide problem of irrigation farming sucking the water table dry.
If anything, you should thank the poster for making Americans more often think of Africa as savannah land instead of pygmies chasing elephants through dense jungle. It's an overall improvement.
When the article mentions "cooking" it means Teflon without naming the product, right?
But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else.'"
And the fact that we have laws means we never need police.
I guess the author never heard a psycho CB operator talk about killing and raping everybody he meets (perhaps running a few hundred watts) or a schizo amateur operator running his VFO back and forth over people he disagrees with or somebody intentionally or unintentionally interfering with aircraft.
There is more in the airwaves than wi fi and TV.
Which brings up the question: how many colleges have Microsoft clubs?
Don't leave that empty pack of smokes at the bar. They'll show up at the crime scene later.
You are damn right. So much technological progress but we know almost nothing about our brain. We understand how 20 million transistors work together to form a computer but we do not have any idea what makes us love or hate each other.
Yes and no. On the one hand, it seems so clear that Kurzweil is a hardware guy and for all his AI accolades seems to take epistemology lightly. Maybe he just hopes->believes->rationalizes that conscieousness will spontaneously erupt from sufficiently complex inputs. I'm not even sure his hardware predictions are very interesting considering the recent experiment that seems to show that a single neuron is sufficient to recognize a celebrity's face. By 2019 my $1000 PC will have the processing power of the human brain? Give me a break. That prediction and my personal rocket ship will help me get a Starbucks on Mars.
On the other hand, I think more generally that two hundred years of humanistic Enlightenment and American progressive pragmatism and social science have discovered a lot about how to create a society that would work well. We just have extra-specially visionless people in power at the moment who want to roll back those two hundred years of humanities and social science. People, for instance, who think you can invade a country and overlay a fresh culture over the natives' thousands of years of heritage as simply as converting the Epcot Japanese pavillion into Thai Disney. Such empty, cultureless fanatics are barbarian thugs precisely because they haven't a clue that they are cultureless barbarians.
But that does not mean learned humanity has not evolved. Like Huxley's Ape and Essence, it always comes down to whether we can do an end run around the apes holding back social progress.
I wonder how long the rule will survive the courts
Last week's Court or next week's Court?
To phrase it in succinct Neocon: "Where does the Constitution talk about VoIP?"
In our new conservatism, we don't want an "activist court" that writes in freedoms to technology the founding fathers wouldn't have envisoned, now do we? So in all such things, I assume we are now so screwed.
Troll? Sir, you aren't nearly cynical enough for the real world.
1. Weird stuff gets tacked onto legislation all the time. And you generally just notice the stuff that floats to the top. Get yourself a subscription to the Federal Register and perhaps your state registers. You'll want to wear Depends reading them after you see the amazing proposals in committee hearings that _don't_ "quite" make it through each and every session.
2. Who says a disaster bill has to do anything to benefit the populace in general much less New Orleans in particular? They can _say_ it's "for the children" in front of the TV cameras while it is really a Halliburton contract to repair oil rigs, can't they? Are you saying the children don't deserve oil, citizen? Well, are you?
3. The reason Alaska in particular is bitching is because they don't want to give up the money for their 200+ million pork barrel bridge project to 50 people and they're getting testy about the ridicule.
4. Iraq spending/Katrina spending: what's the difference? As long as it is a no-bid contract to Halliburton, it's all good. And as long as it's just promissory notes to China, it isn't like the interest is costing us much, is it?
"The question isn't whether you're paranoid. The question is whether you're paranoid _enough_." -- Strange Days
Now's the time to tack it onto a Katrina spending bill. Republican and Democrat alike will be _forced_ to vote for it "for the children," blah, blah.
I took one of those one-day/one-credit courses from Andrew Weil, http://www.drweil.com/ , before he metamorphed into the alternative health dude and was still known as the post-Tim Leary drug researcher.
He told us about the early research he participated in that showed people can learn to compensate for the effects of marijuana and show little statistical difference from controls in a driving simulator. Grant didn't get renewed to pursue that line further. He said that in itself was a lesson learned.