The planet might be able to support 30 billion people, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Look at the population density in Manhattan. Now look at the amount of money people pay to live there. Boy, being crowded must suck really bad for folks to shell out that kind of green!
Now if I were a troll, I might point out that it's all those people that want to live by themselves out in the middle of BugTussle that are the really selfish SOBs. All the money and resources spent to run infrastructure (water, gas, sewer, roads, telephone lines) out to those loonies!
Think of how much better it would be for the environment if we packed every living human on the planet into, oh, say, Ohio. Anyone in the world that you wanted to visit, anyplace you wanted to work would just be a few hour's drive away! And most of the rest of the planet could get on with being human-free. And talk about diversity, every race, culture and religion known to man would be within a few hundred miles. That should break down some old barriers!
I guess I'm a righteous 'l33t haxor when I turn on my scanner and listen to the neighbor's cordless phone.
Unless I missed something here, this does not involve any 802.11b security issues. Some people didn't encrypt their wireless net, some other people could read their packets. BFD.
C'mon -- the F15/F18 was designed like in the 60s or 70s. That's still our "current" air combat technology. Stealth bombers were designed and flown decades ago. Don't you guys already think that the g-men already have been cloning people in the deep depths of black ops?
You're right! And remember the Apollo program goes back to the 60's! And people give me funny looks when I tell them about the moonbase the NSA/CIA uses to listen in on our conversations!
HOWEVER: From the moment they split, twins develop differently, live differently.
And that would make identical twins different from clones just how? Aside from the different birthdays. I guess I don't get your point.
I support a ban on cloning for now, until the majority of the US matures enough to handle the technology they're getting themselves into.
Aww, hell, what fun is that? You're the kind of spoilsport that would ban the Bomb, I bet!
Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children.
What's wrong with that? People generally pick breeding partners they have commonality with - if we all bred randomly then the human race would be well on it's way to a uniform color. As it is, everyone pretty much runs their own little eugenics program...
Now it looks as though there genuinely are some problems with the clones having reduced viability, so there are some very serious long term health issues to clear up.
So what? There's no ban against giving birth to a baby with a genetic defect that would limit it's life, why should their be one on creating a broken clone? What's the moral difference?
(And if the answer is "choice" I'd point out there's no ban against people who know there's a high chance of passing on a genetic disease from having kids)
It only makes sense to put a hold on human cloning until the clones are actually likely to be as healthy as an ordinary baby...
Sounds good, but you've got to give somebody the power to define "likely" and "healthy" and "ordinary". And once those restrictions are put on clones, what's to keep that power from being applied to regular old-fasioned conception?
People take for granted the freedom to pretty much breed however they like, so why shouldn't that same freedom apply to cloning?
I agree, this is akin to schools in the bible belt saying you can't teach evolution.
I disagree. In the case of evolution in the schools the decision is made at a very local level, by people who were voted into that capacity by the folks that live in that place.
Generally speaking, if the schools don't teach evolution it's because the parents don't want them to - the board is carrying out the Mandate of the People.
(Yeah, I know that you might consider that a Mandate of Idiots, but hey, some people think differently than you do, and they adjust their local environment accordingly. It's diversity in action.)
The RIAA is a corporate entity, we can't vote the fsckers out. And the reach is nation wide, rather than someplace like Dryhump Nevada. The only interests they're protecting is that of soulless mega-corps.
Once your mega-borg-box is built, how many watts do you think it'll pull while (a) in standby, (b) ripping a CD/DVD, (c) recording a broadcast, (d) playing video/audio, (e) mix-and-match any or all of the above.
And how many fans will it need to dissipate the heat build-up? I don't think there's a single fan on any of my component systems (not even the Replay, if there is one it's darned quiet).
Seems to me that a large capacity CD and/or DVD changer will wind up using less juice than having all those metal platters spinning all the time.
What with California scrambling for the megawatts, it might be time for us geeks to start factoring power consumption into our gadget-desirability equations.
. If someone did enter my room and turn off my computer (or even if they didn't turn off the computer), I could retrieve the mp3's of the event from where I was and find out what happened.
So assuming the mp3 gets to the target machine before the power is killed, you get a wonderful recording of:
1) Key in lock
2) Door opening
3) Footsteps
4) *click* of computer being turned off
. I suspect MS lawyers are even now scrambling to send out cease and desist letters.
I'd seriously doubt it - this is almost certainly being done with Microsoft's blessing, if not by their decree. Do you think someone would go to the trouble of hiring Gilbre Gotfried to do the Flash voiceovers just to get sued by M$?
Heh... if that were true, we wouldn't have Barbie on the top of the charts. And Deer Hunter. And Millionaire. And...
...and it's obvious that the average computer user's taste in games is different than that of the average Slashdotter's. That shouldn't be a major revelation to anyone.
Everything went onto the pyre of UO, and everything else went to the back burner.
I didn't play UO (at least not for more than ten minutes), but I seem to recall that soon after it went on line there were massive complaints about the servers not staying up, bugs in the software - wasn't there a class action lawsuit brewing? In light of that, maybe Origin had to dedicate all their resources to getting their premier product to Stop Sucking. Maybe that, in the long term, was the right decision.
But then again maybe I'm thinking of some other online game....
First, we need to do away with all *.com, *.org, *.net, *.gov, *.mil and *.gov. These are all US-centric, and since the internet is global, are inappropriate.
That's interesting - I come to the opposite conclusion. Because the internet is international, what should I care where a site is hosted?
The bigger issue, I recon, would be users (and site owners) balking at the length of the URL. coke.com is much sexier than coke.atlanta.ga.com or whatever.
But you've given me an idea for standardizing e-mail addresses. Example:
I'd like to see this test repeated with a Ghz (1.2? 1/5?) cordless phone in the room.
Based on my experience, you do not want to use a 2.4Ghz phone if you're running 802.11b.
I've got Lucent/Orinoc stuff. Bought a Siemens coordless, ran it in the same room as the wireless gateway (which is always on). The coordless would not see the base station if it were farther than a foot away.
I didn't bother checking my throughput with the phone on, I just took the phone back. My old 900Mhz phone works just fine, no interference.
If anyone knows a 2-handset capable 900Mhz phone, give a shout.
I just wanna know the speed in a typical evironment like my home, which is where *I* will be using it.
I'm using the Lucent stuff in my home. I've got the RSG-1000 gateway hooked to my cable modem, then I've got a tower PC with a PCI-to-PC card adapter, my laptop with it's PC card and my Jornada 720 gets a card too.
I've been able to download file at 400kps from the 'net, but that doesn't tell me whether the speed limit is the card or the broadband (my guess is the latter).
I'm running Windows on all the machines (I know, I know, but I make a living writing stuff for Windows) - if someone can suggest a compatible benchmark for peer-to-peer speed testing I'd be happy to give it a whirl.
On the topic of Windows... great glubb almighty, is SMB the slowest fscking thing in the word or what? I do better using Zip disks to transfer files!
The significance is this: Someone set up a way for people to move their wealth around securely, privately and without governmental knowledge, interference or permission. The government doesn't like what it can't control.
Bradley really ought to count his blessings - they didn't shoot his wife or set fire to the place. An uncommon show of restraint.
. I think that all users who register NEED to be verfied as LEGITIMATE people, so that when someone does send spam using fdgstshsts@hotmail.com, they'll know WHO IT IS...
Geez, that's going to mean a lot of birth certificate lookups and blood tests...
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The planet might be able to support 30 billion people, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Look at the population density in Manhattan. Now look at the amount of money people pay to live there. Boy, being crowded must suck really bad for folks to shell out that kind of green!
Now if I were a troll, I might point out that it's all those people that want to live by themselves out in the middle of BugTussle that are the really selfish SOBs. All the money and resources spent to run infrastructure (water, gas, sewer, roads, telephone lines) out to those loonies!
Think of how much better it would be for the environment if we packed every living human on the planet into, oh, say, Ohio. Anyone in the world that you wanted to visit, anyplace you wanted to work would just be a few hour's drive away! And most of the rest of the planet could get on with being human-free. And talk about diversity, every race, culture and religion known to man would be within a few hundred miles. That should break down some old barriers!
http://www.keyboardco.com/ do refurbished original IBM PC's - the ones with the satisfying klunkiness that a really nice keyboard has.
Actually I believe those are the original IBM PC/AT keyboards. The PC (model 5150) version didn't have F11/F12, or the separate cursor keys.
Ok, I'll switch off the old fogey pedantry now... hey, wow, they have left handed keyboards! I might want to try one of those...
I guess I'm a righteous 'l33t haxor when I turn on my scanner and listen to the neighbor's cordless phone.
Unless I missed something here, this does not involve any 802.11b security issues. Some people didn't encrypt their wireless net, some other people could read their packets. BFD.
So how far away from the thing do you have to be in order to listen to AM radio? When the computer's running, I mean.
It'd be a real shame if the Federal Chicken Checkers took an axe to the thing.
C'mon -- the F15/F18 was designed like in the 60s or 70s. That's still our "current" air combat technology. Stealth bombers were designed and flown decades ago. Don't you guys already think that the g-men already have been cloning people in the deep depths of black ops?
You're right! And remember the Apollo program goes back to the 60's! And people give me funny looks when I tell them about the moonbase the NSA/CIA uses to listen in on our conversations!
HOWEVER: From the moment they split, twins develop differently, live differently.
And that would make identical twins different from clones just how? Aside from the different birthdays. I guess I don't get your point.
I support a ban on cloning for now, until the majority of the US matures enough to handle the technology they're getting themselves into.
Aww, hell, what fun is that? You're the kind of spoilsport that would ban the Bomb, I bet!
Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children.
What's wrong with that? People generally pick breeding partners they have commonality with - if we all bred randomly then the human race would be well on it's way to a uniform color. As it is, everyone pretty much runs their own little eugenics program...
Now it looks as though there genuinely are some problems with the clones having reduced viability, so there are some very serious long term health issues to clear up.
So what? There's no ban against giving birth to a baby with a genetic defect that would limit it's life, why should their be one on creating a broken clone? What's the moral difference?
(And if the answer is "choice" I'd point out there's no ban against people who know there's a high chance of passing on a genetic disease from having kids)
It only makes sense to put a hold on human cloning until the clones are actually likely to be as healthy as an ordinary baby...
Sounds good, but you've got to give somebody the power to define "likely" and "healthy" and "ordinary". And once those restrictions are put on clones, what's to keep that power from being applied to regular old-fasioned conception?
People take for granted the freedom to pretty much breed however they like, so why shouldn't that same freedom apply to cloning?
I agree, this is akin to schools in the bible belt saying you can't teach evolution.
I disagree. In the case of evolution in the schools the decision is made at a very local level, by people who were voted into that capacity by the folks that live in that place.
Generally speaking, if the schools don't teach evolution it's because the parents don't want them to - the board is carrying out the Mandate of the People.
(Yeah, I know that you might consider that a Mandate of Idiots, but hey, some people think differently than you do, and they adjust their local environment accordingly. It's diversity in action.)
The RIAA is a corporate entity, we can't vote the fsckers out. And the reach is nation wide, rather than someplace like Dryhump Nevada. The only interests they're protecting is that of soulless mega-corps.
Once your mega-borg-box is built, how many watts do you think it'll pull while (a) in standby, (b) ripping a CD/DVD, (c) recording a broadcast, (d) playing video/audio, (e) mix-and-match any or all of the above.
And how many fans will it need to dissipate the heat build-up? I don't think there's a single fan on any of my component systems (not even the Replay, if there is one it's darned quiet).
Seems to me that a large capacity CD and/or DVD changer will wind up using less juice than having all those metal platters spinning all the time.
What with California scrambling for the megawatts, it might be time for us geeks to start factoring power consumption into our gadget-desirability equations.
. If someone did enter my room and turn off my computer (or even if they didn't turn off the computer), I could retrieve the mp3's of the event from where I was and find out what happened.
So assuming the mp3 gets to the target machine before the power is killed, you get a wonderful recording of:
1) Key in lock
2) Door opening
3) Footsteps
4) *click* of computer being turned off
And this helps you how?
. I suspect MS lawyers are even now scrambling to send out cease and desist letters.
I'd seriously doubt it - this is almost certainly being done with Microsoft's blessing, if not by their decree. Do you think someone would go to the trouble of hiring Gilbre Gotfried to do the Flash voiceovers just to get sued by M$?
...did anyone else notice that? I wonder where the book goes if you buy him one. I'm tempted to waste the money just to find out.
Clippy on Amazon
Heh... if that were true, we wouldn't have Barbie on the top of the charts. And Deer Hunter. And Millionaire. And...
...and it's obvious that the average computer user's taste in games is different than that of the average Slashdotter's. That shouldn't be a major revelation to anyone.
Everything went onto the pyre of UO, and everything else went to the back burner.
I didn't play UO (at least not for more than ten minutes), but I seem to recall that soon after it went on line there were massive complaints about the servers not staying up, bugs in the software - wasn't there a class action lawsuit brewing? In light of that, maybe Origin had to dedicate all their resources to getting their premier product to Stop Sucking. Maybe that, in the long term, was the right decision.
But then again maybe I'm thinking of some other online game....
We did not have the management bandwidth to grow intelligently.
"Management Bandwidth" - now there's a concept! Why do I keep thinking I got stuck with 1200 baud?
tell your friends, make them think about it.
"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him think"
Now if only we could use them to reboot the electric company's billing computers...
...they'd still crash trying to figure out how to buy something for a dime, sell it for a nickel, and stay in business.
Well, everybody. Here's how it really is:
California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
I've also noticed that CA's weather doesn't exactly suck. How does it rank once you take heating and cooling factors out of the equation?
First, we need to do away with all *.com, *.org, *.net, *.gov, *.mil and *.gov. These are all US-centric, and since the internet is global, are inappropriate.
That's interesting - I come to the opposite conclusion. Because the internet is international, what should I care where a site is hosted?
The bigger issue, I recon, would be users (and site owners) balking at the length of the URL. coke.com is much sexier than coke.atlanta.ga.com or whatever.
But you've given me an idea for standardizing e-mail addresses. Example:
monte.protestant.caucasion.male@hoodyhoo.com
This should help clear up chat-room confusion.
You mean the Don Henley that tried to grab this site?
So stealing your music is bad, but stealing some guy's domain name is ok? Up yers, Henley.
OK, but where does the original phrase come from?
The short, simple answer: A badly translated Japanese video game.
More info: http://hubert.retrogames.com/history.htm
ReplayTV has already disabled this feature.
In fact, they did so months ago!
Thanks for pointing that out, the article really had me scratching my head - I bought a Replay a couple months ago, and I'd never seen this "feature".
File this one under "old news".
It should be "All your bit are belong to us!"
It's the singular/plural thing that's part of the joke.
I'd like to see this test repeated with a Ghz (1.2? 1/5?) cordless phone in the room.
Based on my experience, you do not want to use a 2.4Ghz phone if you're running 802.11b.
I've got Lucent/Orinoc stuff. Bought a Siemens coordless, ran it in the same room as the wireless gateway (which is always on). The coordless would not see the base station if it were farther than a foot away.
I didn't bother checking my throughput with the phone on, I just took the phone back. My old 900Mhz phone works just fine, no interference.
If anyone knows a 2-handset capable 900Mhz phone, give a shout.
I just wanna know the speed in a typical evironment like my home, which is where *I* will be using it.
I'm using the Lucent stuff in my home. I've got the RSG-1000 gateway hooked to my cable modem, then I've got a tower PC with a PCI-to-PC card adapter, my laptop with it's PC card and my Jornada 720 gets a card too.
I've been able to download file at 400kps from the 'net, but that doesn't tell me whether the speed limit is the card or the broadband (my guess is the latter).
I'm running Windows on all the machines (I know, I know, but I make a living writing stuff for Windows) - if someone can suggest a compatible benchmark for peer-to-peer speed testing I'd be happy to give it a whirl.
On the topic of Windows... great glubb almighty, is SMB the slowest fscking thing in the word or what? I do better using Zip disks to transfer files!
The significance is this: Someone set up a way for people to move their wealth around securely, privately and without governmental knowledge, interference or permission. The government doesn't like what it can't control.
Bradley really ought to count his blessings - they didn't shoot his wife or set fire to the place. An uncommon show of restraint.
. I think that all users who register NEED to be verfied as LEGITIMATE people, so that when someone does send spam using fdgstshsts@hotmail.com, they'll know WHO IT IS...
Geez, that's going to mean a lot of birth certificate lookups and blood tests...