Found this: Here's the link Do a search for Gaiman on the page. Apparently his father is real high up, and Neil used to be active. But the site is sceptical about Gaiman's active status.
I imagine it's rather certain that I did not know Henry V, even without knowing who I am.
However, I'm getting a little tired of this game. I just watched Mulholland Dr. this morning, and I feel like I can't take any more games about identity and logic puzzles. And since you didn't guess...
I haven't heard too much about our classmates, expect for Michael Yellot's suicide a while back, unfortunately. I didn't know him so well in school, and don't know that Elizabeth did either.
Hopefully your wife is doing fine. And like I said, it's a small world.
Post Script
To clarify. The polarizer settings can be shared afterwards, but not in a manner secure from interception and then alteration to make it look like like the photons were not intercepted.
Wrong. Read the article. In order to use this method, they each need to know each other's polarizer settings. Which means they have to share some key. (01110 might mean 45 90 90 90 45 degrees or somesuch). Which means you need a key to transmit your secure key. Anyone with access to the first key can retransmit the key that you are trying to send.
Not nearly secure. Physics protects this communication from straight interception. However, it does not protect it from interception and then retransmission. But cool buzzwords. They'll make a little bit of cash before the con is up.
I know what you mean. I just recently learned that Windows enforces DVD player firmware region locking mechanisms. (RCP2) I have to update the DVD bios in order to change the region more than 5 times. Of course, even reinstalling Windows would not help a bios issue.
Changing the region is not illegal! Microsoft has the legal clout to do what's best for their customers (not enforce RCP2), and it annoys me when they don't.
So that's what he meant
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Absolutely. In January Bill Gates sent a memo to all Microsoft employees declaring a new, overarching, even revolutionary mandate: Software must be reliable and "trustworthy." This new focus is both welcome and worrisome, because the very steps needed to secure our computers and networks can be the steps that will deaden them to continued innovation and creative uses -- while opening them to more intrusive monitoring by mainstream technology manufacturers and content providers.
Mr. Gates and the co-captains of his industry are producing blueprints for so-called "trusted" PC's. They will employ digital gatekeepers that act like the bouncers outside a nightclub, ensuring that only software that looks or behaves a certain way is allowed in. The result will be more reliable computing -- and more control over the machine by the manufacturer or operating system maker, which essentially gives the bouncer her guest list.
I agree with you a great deal. But I feel that it is very dangerous to mix the structure of corporations with any large non-capitalistic ideologies. It hurts everybody in the long run. Socialism does not work on any scale. Greed wins out in human nature.
If Mandrake sets itself up as a organization to make the world better, then they sure as hell should find a better way than structuring themseleves as a for-profit company. There are lots of other methods that might be used.
Double standard? I simply haven't posted anything about the topic before. As far as slashdot goes, they are an entertainment company providing a service. They charge people through either commercials or for direct commercial-free access. If that makes them money, good for them. If not, well, I'm hardly about to start distributing my own personal coporate welfare.
Mandrake may be trying to make money by suppling support, but it's a fools game. Either their product is so bad that most people need support and give up, or it's too good, and they still don't make money. Plus they have too many competitors. Well, time for Corporate Darwinism to the rescue.
Mandrake is great and all (I use it), but how short term is this money crunch going to be?
Could it be that they don't have any viable business strategy, and too much competition?
I love linux and open source dearly, but when it comes to my money, I am cold and calculating. I'll send a check to Microsoft because they force me to. That's a business transaction. I'll use Mandrake's products that they give away for free, that's another business transaction (dumb on their part).
But when they start asking for handouts, that's when I ask "Why don't you guys get real jobs?" I like your products and all, but I am not grateful, any more than I am grateful for any consumer product. I am not grateful for my TV set or my DVD player. Some engineer probably enjoyed designing them. Designing the specs may have even been like masturbating for him. I don't care. I bought a product. If a company was running itself into the ground giving me those things for nothing or next to nothing, I still wouldn't be grateful. I'd be happy, but my feelings toward the company would be those of pity.
I mean it, start a viable company that actually benefits the capitalist system. Pay some taxes and fund a war or two in the Middle East, why don't you?
It was not doing so seriously. There were elements in the Japanese military that never would have agreed. And Japan had yet to make any serious proposal to America for surrender. They certainly had not "already surrendered" as the poster who I was replying to claimed.
1) Japanese negotiation was not especially serious. Certain hardline elements in the military would never have even considered surrender. And even if they were starting to be serious, there was no way for America to know it.
2) The bombs were dropped as a show of force (that ended the war), but the idea that it was some form of scientific testing (other than incidental) is laughable. America had plenty of places to test nukes, and it used them.
2) A large number of Americans, who didn't happen to have started the war, would have died during the time the negotiation took.
3) The bombs worked to end a war that had killed millions, with only a couple hundred thousand casualities.
In all my time of reading slashdot, I have never heard an historical inaccuracy quite so large as the one you just regurgitated.
Japan had already surrendered when the bomb was dropped?
Ha Ha Ha Ha. As the troll says, your ideas intrigue me, how can I subscribe to your newsletter?
That's about it. For some reason I'm banned from moderating. (I have the right box checked on my homepage, no metamod, no nothing.) I didn't moderate in the great Troll round-up or anything. The only thing that I can think of that may have caused it is a joke I made about Katz a while back. It is nearly the first post on the topic where they introduced the friend/foe system a while back.
We do not test nuclear weapons underground, or above ground for that matter. America is confident in its computer simulations. But our confidence in our simulations is not the only factor. Nuclear weapons are never meant to be used. They are meant to deter (threaten). Therefore what is paramount is our enemies' confidence in our simulations.
Slashdot Mirror
Found this:
Here's the link
Do a search for Gaiman on the page. Apparently his father is real high up, and Neil used to be active. But the site is sceptical about Gaiman's active status.
Now California should start providing their extra copies of Oracle for free to whomever asks. First come, first serve. How do you like that Elison?
I imagine it's rather certain that I did not know Henry V, even without knowing who I am.
However, I'm getting a little tired of this game. I just watched Mulholland Dr. this morning, and I feel like I can't take any more games about identity and logic puzzles. And since you didn't guess...
I haven't heard too much about our classmates, expect for Michael Yellot's suicide a while back, unfortunately. I didn't know him so well in school, and don't know that Elizabeth did either.
Hopefully your wife is doing fine. And like I said, it's a small world.
Poor Slashdotters,
AMD good... but M$ bad... but AMD good... but M$ bad... but AMD good
MOMMY!
It's actually the smartest thing I've heard lately. A bunch of different OS versions won't help consumers, but releasing the APIs would. Go Sanders.
But then again, who stole the show in Henry IV?
Complete strike out, I'm afraid. Was that someone I knew from Albuquerque?
Guess what Henry V .009 means, and I'll tell you.
How is Elizabeth, by the way?
Wow, what a small world. I checked his web site. I knew his wife in high school.
I know. You missed my postscript.
Post Script To clarify. The polarizer settings can be shared afterwards, but not in a manner secure from interception and then alteration to make it look like like the photons were not intercepted.
Wrong. Read the article. In order to use this method, they each need to know each other's polarizer settings. Which means they have to share some key. (01110 might mean 45 90 90 90 45 degrees or somesuch). Which means you need a key to transmit your secure key. Anyone with access to the first key can retransmit the key that you are trying to send.
Not nearly secure. Physics protects this communication from straight interception. However, it does not protect it from interception and then retransmission. But cool buzzwords. They'll make a little bit of cash before the con is up.
Ah, but I never moderated. Not even once. But I'd like to have the option.
P.S.
Paul Graves had good things to say about your site. I never saw it when it was up. Are you doing anything now?
I know what you mean. I just recently learned that Windows enforces DVD player firmware region locking mechanisms. (RCP2) I have to update the DVD bios in order to change the region more than 5 times. Of course, even reinstalling Windows would not help a bios issue.
Changing the region is not illegal! Microsoft has the legal clout to do what's best for their customers (not enforce RCP2), and it annoys me when they don't.
I agree with you a great deal. But I feel that it is very dangerous to mix the structure of corporations with any large non-capitalistic ideologies. It hurts everybody in the long run. Socialism does not work on any scale. Greed wins out in human nature.
If Mandrake sets itself up as a organization to make the world better, then they sure as hell should find a better way than structuring themseleves as a for-profit company. There are lots of other methods that might be used.
Double standard? I simply haven't posted anything about the topic before. As far as slashdot goes, they are an entertainment company providing a service. They charge people through either commercials or for direct commercial-free access. If that makes them money, good for them. If not, well, I'm hardly about to start distributing my own personal coporate welfare.
Mandrake may be trying to make money by suppling support, but it's a fools game. Either their product is so bad that most people need support and give up, or it's too good, and they still don't make money. Plus they have too many competitors. Well, time for Corporate Darwinism to the rescue.
Mandrake is great and all (I use it), but how short term is this money crunch going to be?
Could it be that they don't have any viable business strategy, and too much competition?
I love linux and open source dearly, but when it comes to my money, I am cold and calculating. I'll send a check to Microsoft because they force me to. That's a business transaction. I'll use Mandrake's products that they give away for free, that's another business transaction (dumb on their part).
But when they start asking for handouts, that's when I ask "Why don't you guys get real jobs?" I like your products and all, but I am not grateful, any more than I am grateful for any consumer product. I am not grateful for my TV set or my DVD player. Some engineer probably enjoyed designing them. Designing the specs may have even been like masturbating for him. I don't care. I bought a product. If a company was running itself into the ground giving me those things for nothing or next to nothing, I still wouldn't be grateful. I'd be happy, but my feelings toward the company would be those of pity.
I mean it, start a viable company that actually benefits the capitalist system. Pay some taxes and fund a war or two in the Middle East, why don't you?
It was not doing so seriously. There were elements in the Japanese military that never would have agreed. And Japan had yet to make any serious proposal to America for surrender. They certainly had not "already surrendered" as the poster who I was replying to claimed.
1) Japanese negotiation was not especially serious. Certain hardline elements in the military would never have even considered surrender. And even if they were starting to be serious, there was no way for America to know it.
2) The bombs were dropped as a show of force (that ended the war), but the idea that it was some form of scientific testing (other than incidental) is laughable. America had plenty of places to test nukes, and it used them.
2) A large number of Americans, who didn't happen to have started the war, would have died during the time the negotiation took.
3) The bombs worked to end a war that had killed millions, with only a couple hundred thousand casualities.
In all my time of reading slashdot, I have never heard an historical inaccuracy quite so large as the one you just regurgitated.
Japan had already surrendered when the bomb was dropped?
Ha Ha Ha Ha. As the troll says, your ideas intrigue me, how can I subscribe to your newsletter?
We need to have the capacity to use nukes against any country who has weapons of mass destruction or the capability to make them.
It is called deterence.
World peace is a pipe dream. There are bad people in the world, and they don't always get nicer if we ignore them.
Appeasement is a failure. 1939 taught us that in a way that no one should ever forget.
That's about it. For some reason I'm banned from moderating. (I have the right box checked on my homepage, no metamod, no nothing.) I didn't moderate in the great Troll round-up or anything. The only thing that I can think of that may have caused it is a joke I made about Katz a while back. It is nearly the first post on the topic where they introduced the friend/foe system a while back.
We do not test nuclear weapons underground, or above ground for that matter. America is confident in its computer simulations. But our confidence in our simulations is not the only factor. Nuclear weapons are never meant to be used. They are meant to deter (threaten). Therefore what is paramount is our enemies' confidence in our simulations.