Personally, I'm all for that fiber optic network that was in a previous article. Then again, if I could just even get DSL or any other broadband in my neighborhood . . .
As a teenager in a predominantly religious (read: Mormon) community, the general cultural influence has been to have computers in public areas of our house. Even so, that has not stopped at least a few of us (myself and friends -- doubtlessly more, I'm sure) from venturing into the darker end of the internet. Some have done well and chosen more promising activities to pursue, while others have become slaves to irc and porn collections. As a teenager, I don't particularly want my parents reading my IM conversations -- those are personal, those are mine. At the same time, I see that they make choices and try to teach me so that I can make good decisions about the media choices I make and the other ways I decide to spend my time. I think it's a delicate balance. That balance is not achieved in this home because I am the only one who knows anything about computers. There are many times that I, as a teen, wish that someone else controlled the computers. (Wow, did I just type that? I guess 17 years old is getting to be more mature...) As for what I'll probably do as a parent when I have kids? My kids will have their own computers, and I don't even care if they are in their rooms because all internet traffic will go through a server that I control that will have some sort of very advanced packet sniffer. I'll still respect privacy, but I'll be sure to be notified when my kids start searching for life's answers. (Hopefully my future wife will have them . . . )
. . . can't I log on to slashdot just ONCE without hearing about this? If something important happened, say, oh, I don't know, a COURT RULING, then I wouldn't be upset, but let's just rehash everything and watch Darl McBride's every nuance to see what is going on. Ugh. Get a life, people.
Frankly, I'm addicted to this whole idea of putting new features and software on old hardware. I think it was when I realized for myself for the first time that you could do cool stuff like going to a thrift store like Salvation Army and picking up some really old electronics, and still do something useful with it. Props to these guys. Time to get back to my Linux-enabled PS2.
So the laser doesn't have to stay on for more than 1 picosecond? I'm pretty sure that if you move the laser while it's being fired (and that the firing is going to take more than a few milliseconds) . . . Just a thought, though.
to 'reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems.' Here's a novel idea. How about do it right, and do it open-source? (Oh, yeah, did they forget to mention that these were security experts doing the criticism? Do you trust a black box voting system with no accountability and no reassurance that they're isn't a back door that will allow me to hack the election? Then again, I guess you could also 'reduce . . . criticism from computer scientists and security experts' by just killing them all with pinpoint accuracy.
. . . after reading this: ". . . perhaps someday even being mounted on Humvees." . . . of a humvee driving down a bumpy road and someone accidentally taking out a bunch of civilians after hitting a pothole?
Interestingly enough, at the robotics lab at Utah State University (http://www.usu.edu/) we were building general designs like this, and then another team was taking those and designing software to make the robot sniff out car-bombs. The robot would scan the undercarriage of the car and use some cool sensors. Then again, I've had issues with VIA myself . . . sometimes their chipsets do weird things. Unnatural things.
Big government with big solutions and big, broad laws is not the solution. The problem that faces the upcoming generation is how to reconcile the problem of the generally Godless and amoral global community with all of the associated problems of destroying morality and the rights of individuals that most Americans cherish and take for granted (i.e., the right to ridiculously strong encryption, even though you have nothing to hide). I suspect, though, that the older, soon-to-be-passing generation will do its fair share of damage to the civil rights of everyone on the planet. Let's just hope the rising generation is smart enough to see what is going on, to be deeply alarmed, and to do something about it!
. . . the Indo.com Distance Calculator (http://indo.com/distance/index.html) is a VERY useful tool. From the site: This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server. P.S. Let this post recover me from the bad karma post that I made before, please! Mod me up if you think this is even a remotely cool tool!
MO might make a reappearance. Some people might adopt it for a bit, but in the end, it will be the sort of things like the USB thumb drives and that technology that will win out. Those things are so tiny, and they're getting bigger and bigger capacity. I can get a 2 GB CF card for my Dell Axim, and the capacities just keep going up and up. Pretty soon you're going to have CF cards (and the like) that rival DVD +/- R/RW for capacity. I think that's the way things are going, not Magneto-Optical.
The thing is, what choice do you have? I use Premiere all of the time in my business. I use Photoshop. There is no open source alternative (don't even get me started about GIMP -- yes, it's good, but it doesn't withstand the rigors of professional filmmaking). The only other serious option that my business has is Mac, but even there, you're using Adobe Photoshop! And the cost to migrate our entire system would be huge, even just to use Final Cut Pro.
Thanks Adobe. Your loyal customers really deserved this.:p
Is there some reason that we need to have a play-by-play on this whole SCO nonsense anyway? Their claims have been refuted over and over again, and if some other company is just trying to turn a fast buck by shorting SCOX, it shouldn't matter to us! (I only wish I had thought of it first.) There used to be a time when I could come to/. and be able to escape junk like this.
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. . . that I would feel this way, but I actually think I prefer the Canadian solution for most things. Less technology. Think "simplify".
Personally, I'm all for that fiber optic network that was in a previous article. Then again, if I could just even get DSL or any other broadband in my neighborhood . . .
As a teenager in a predominantly religious (read: Mormon) community, the general cultural influence has been to have computers in public areas of our house. Even so, that has not stopped at least a few of us (myself and friends -- doubtlessly more, I'm sure) from venturing into the darker end of the internet. Some have done well and chosen more promising activities to pursue, while others have become slaves to irc and porn collections. As a teenager, I don't particularly want my parents reading my IM conversations -- those are personal, those are mine. At the same time, I see that they make choices and try to teach me so that I can make good decisions about the media choices I make and the other ways I decide to spend my time. I think it's a delicate balance. That balance is not achieved in this home because I am the only one who knows anything about computers. There are many times that I, as a teen, wish that someone else controlled the computers. (Wow, did I just type that? I guess 17 years old is getting to be more mature...) As for what I'll probably do as a parent when I have kids? My kids will have their own computers, and I don't even care if they are in their rooms because all internet traffic will go through a server that I control that will have some sort of very advanced packet sniffer. I'll still respect privacy, but I'll be sure to be notified when my kids start searching for life's answers. (Hopefully my future wife will have them . . . )
. . . can't I log on to slashdot just ONCE without hearing about this? If something important happened, say, oh, I don't know, a COURT RULING, then I wouldn't be upset, but let's just rehash everything and watch Darl McBride's every nuance to see what is going on. Ugh. Get a life, people.
Frankly, I'm addicted to this whole idea of putting new features and software on old hardware. I think it was when I realized for myself for the first time that you could do cool stuff like going to a thrift store like Salvation Army and picking up some really old electronics, and still do something useful with it. Props to these guys. Time to get back to my Linux-enabled PS2.
Gotta love edible media! Finally, a modern alternative to edible paper!
So the laser doesn't have to stay on for more than 1 picosecond? I'm pretty sure that if you move the laser while it's being fired (and that the firing is going to take more than a few milliseconds) . . . Just a thought, though.
Remeber the two key rules:
1) Jam it harder.
2) Use duct tape.
"If it's not broke, you're not trying."
to 'reduce substantially the level and amount of criticism from computer scientists and other security experts about the fallibility of electronic voting systems.'
Here's a novel idea. How about do it right, and do it open-source? (Oh, yeah, did they forget to mention that these were security experts doing the criticism? Do you trust a black box voting system with no accountability and no reassurance that they're isn't a back door that will allow me to hack the election?
Then again, I guess you could also 'reduce . . . criticism from computer scientists and security experts' by just killing them all with pinpoint accuracy.
. . . after reading this: ". . . perhaps someday even being mounted on Humvees." . . . of a humvee driving down a bumpy road and someone accidentally taking out a bunch of civilians after hitting a pothole?
Interestingly enough, at the robotics lab at Utah State University (http://www.usu.edu/) we were building general designs like this, and then another team was taking those and designing software to make the robot sniff out car-bombs. The robot would scan the undercarriage of the car and use some cool sensors.
Then again, I've had issues with VIA myself . . . sometimes their chipsets do weird things. Unnatural things.
Big government with big solutions and big, broad laws is not the solution. The problem that faces the upcoming generation is how to reconcile the problem of the generally Godless and amoral global community with all of the associated problems of destroying morality and the rights of individuals that most Americans cherish and take for granted (i.e., the right to ridiculously strong encryption, even though you have nothing to hide). I suspect, though, that the older, soon-to-be-passing generation will do its fair share of damage to the civil rights of everyone on the planet. Let's just hope the rising generation is smart enough to see what is going on, to be deeply alarmed, and to do something about it!
. . . the Indo.com Distance Calculator (http://indo.com/distance/index.html) is a VERY useful tool. From the site:
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list of cities around the world to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server.
P.S. Let this post recover me from the bad karma post that I made before, please! Mod me up if you think this is even a remotely cool tool!
Google says, "Did you mean Linux Tag?"
LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org/
Be very scared, Billy Boy!
MO might make a reappearance. Some people might adopt it for a bit, but in the end, it will be the sort of things like the USB thumb drives and that technology that will win out. Those things are so tiny, and they're getting bigger and bigger capacity. I can get a 2 GB CF card for my Dell Axim, and the capacities just keep going up and up. Pretty soon you're going to have CF cards (and the like) that rival DVD +/- R/RW for capacity. I think that's the way things are going, not Magneto-Optical.
The thing is, what choice do you have? I use Premiere all of the time in my business. I use Photoshop. There is no open source alternative (don't even get me started about GIMP -- yes, it's good, but it doesn't withstand the rigors of professional filmmaking). The only other serious option that my business has is Mac, but even there, you're using Adobe Photoshop! And the cost to migrate our entire system would be huge, even just to use Final Cut Pro.
:p
Thanks Adobe. Your loyal customers really deserved this.
... especially after playing those games at night, when it's really dark. I'm STILL scared of Half-Life. (AND spiders)
YAH!
. . . most of us weren't aware of that fact, so this IS nice for the rest of us, bringing it to our attention.
Is there some reason that we need to have a play-by-play on this whole SCO nonsense anyway? Their claims have been refuted over and over again, and if some other company is just trying to turn a fast buck by shorting SCOX, it shouldn't matter to us! (I only wish I had thought of it first.) There used to be a time when I could come to /. and be able to escape junk like this.
I, for one, would have welcomed our new Darl McBride overlord.