I can't help but wonder on your third point. If you're not dead yet, but just very very slow, wouldn't you still be aware of both your surroundings and possible pain ? Sure, they'll drug you to oblivion before 'freezing' you, but given that your vital processes are still going (slow, but still), the drugs will also eventually wear out, and because you're so slow, you'll have no way of notifying anyone that you're there and in excruciating pain.
I can't remember either Microsoft or Mozilla whining this loud when the IE tab plugin for firefox appeared, which does exactly the same thing. I guess that didn't really add any competition for them:-)
Now drop a 747 full of matchbox cars off that roof, and see how much damage they suffer. The combined weight of the dropping object affects the impact velocity and force of every component in it, I'd say, and a cellphone will weight a lot more than just one of these crystals.
I do agree that even the weight of a cellphone won't be enough to damage the tiny cristals, but your car analogy was flawed:-)
Now there's the interesting one. Do you have a link (or links) to a manufacturer(s) or reseller(s) ? Also, do you know if these things can also be made to work on Mac and Linux ?
The possibility of that changes nothing as long as the ultimate issue remains businesses who believe that they still own the right to to everything they want to the things you've bought from them.
Still doesn't fix the 'single point of ownership' issue that's the main thing about DRM: I buy something, and they can just decide to disable it when it suits them.
I don't know the exact wording, but over here, the law roughly states that you have to apply your full attention to the road when driving. Strictly speaking, that could also be interpreted as 'no loud music, no eating breakfast, no reading your newspaper, no applying makeup and no shaving'. Yes, I've seen people do all of that behind the wheel.
> I think this technology works best if it can be disabled sometimes.
This is the case for all technology, IMO. Feel free to make failsafes for dangerous tech hard to override, but make sure you *can* override if you need to. You never know when you'll need to reconfigure your graviton emitter arrays.
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I can't help but wonder on your third point. If you're not dead yet, but just very very slow, wouldn't you still be aware of both your surroundings and possible pain ? Sure, they'll drug you to oblivion before 'freezing' you, but given that your vital processes are still going (slow, but still), the drugs will also eventually wear out, and because you're so slow, you'll have no way of notifying anyone that you're there and in excruciating pain.
Doesn't look like the best prospect, to me.
I can't remember either Microsoft or Mozilla whining this loud when the IE tab plugin for firefox appeared, which does exactly the same thing. I guess that didn't really add any competition for them :-)
Yes, but that does not answer my question :-)
For linux, I've in the mean time found blueproximity, which monitors bluetooth connection strenght to $device, say your cellphone. Works a charm.
Now drop a 747 full of matchbox cars off that roof, and see how much damage they suffer. The combined weight of the dropping object affects the impact velocity and force of every component in it, I'd say, and a cellphone will weight a lot more than just one of these crystals.
:-)
I do agree that even the weight of a cellphone won't be enough to damage the tiny cristals, but your car analogy was flawed
Most informative comment I've seen today, and I'm fresh out of modpoints.
One also assumes there isn't a patch for bad spelling.
Yep, did that. Also changed win.ini to have shell=clock.exe.
Now there's the interesting one. Do you have a link (or links) to a manufacturer(s) or reseller(s) ? Also, do you know if these things can also be made to work on Mac and Linux ?
> Piracy is making a copy of an item
Tell that to the people whose ships get hijacked.
Can't we breed them ?
> Which is a big relief, at least for me (being an evil godless file sharer and all that).
:-)
You made a typo there, I believe
> Maybe we should just start over completely.
A Web 2.0, so to speak ?
The possibility of that changes nothing as long as the ultimate issue remains businesses who believe that they still own the right to to everything they want to the things you've bought from them.
A 10Gbps link should roughly be able to do that.
Getting the data fast enough off the DVD might be an issue, not to mention getting storage that can write fast enough.
I know of PHBs and PFYs, but I guess we're to blame L'Oreal for the PHYs ?
I sure as hell wouldn't like to be probed by that droid.
Hell, brew up a strain that holds THC and I'll spread it in my neighbourhood, so I can then volunteer to help cleaning it up.
Ignore the americans, everyone else does.
Still doesn't fix the 'single point of ownership' issue that's the main thing about DRM: I buy something, and they can just decide to disable it when it suits them.
> The government already pays people to find security holes
Apparently they're not paying them enough.
You have to be fair here. The reason you don't wan't people to know that you're using Visual Basic, has nothing to do with "appearing unique".
I think OP meant that he doesn't like superhero *soaps*.
> how lazy are we?
YMBNH.
I don't know the exact wording, but over here, the law roughly states that you have to apply your full attention to the road when driving. Strictly speaking, that could also be interpreted as 'no loud music, no eating breakfast, no reading your newspaper, no applying makeup and no shaving'. Yes, I've seen people do all of that behind the wheel.
> I think this technology works best if it can be disabled sometimes.
This is the case for all technology, IMO. Feel free to make failsafes for dangerous tech hard to override, but make sure you *can* override if you need to. You never know when you'll need to reconfigure your graviton emitter arrays.