Now I can caclulate the *EXTACT* percentage of morons using the Internet.. being that anyone with a quarter of a brain knows not to open such stuff (or fixes it within a short time if they happened toopen something).. this "max" should give you a pretty good statistic of the clue-free using the internet.
When you go to a fertility clinic with your wife/partner.. and they pump her full of all sorts of drugs, she ovulates like a cat. there could be 1,3, 10 or 40 eggs in there (any number). At that point you have to CHOOSE how many you want to have. I want twins. Now, I don't think you can see the sex chromasomes, but its not much different. The thing that annoyed me about those "septuplets" was that this was how she had them, she CHOSE to keep all 7 embryos, at taxpayer/consumer expense (free college, free diapers, etc). Isn't that nice?
Download and Upload have no distinction in english. Excepting that download comes "toward" the speaker... which is typically the client, but not always. I've had several conversations where we had to use different terms when designing interop software, since each team saw itself as "downloading". You can use push (upload) and pull (download) I think more easily... it presents context better. I suppose "sync" is more similar to the french term?
So, is China building a "space station"? Don't be surprised when you find out its really a ship. (And Shipwrecks some poor chinese scientist on Europa) Oh, Arthur C. Clark must be so proud.
I was trying to secure rights to stream several movies.. and guess what, for all the MPAA and RIAA's heavy handedness over people not getting rights? I couldn't... couldn't even figure out who to talk to, and no one that I called could do more than refer me to some large outlets that said "We don't do that." So not only are they going after people for electronic distribution of their works, they make it damn near impossible to actually license said works for electronic distribution. silly bastards. To put this in the perspective of the post, I honestly felt that they had "abandoned" the electronic medium, I hope the law says "fire away" to people who can't find licensing channels for works.
now they'll finally test the old adage "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft".. when someone gets really fired for choosing Microsoft. Wonder if they'll hold MS responsible for security breaches?
That job would belong to television thank you very much. Why every one of my 9 kids here in the trailor park wuz done raised good on TV. How many slashdotters remember the jingle sung by a cowboy on CBS, "After the messegez, weee'll be rigghhht back"... Inanimate objects have been raising our kids for 50 years.. and it shows.
If they are a small user (grandmom), they will box the damn thing up and go back to reading the paper and playing bingo at the VFW.
Eventually, someone will create a ROM-booted web applicance that has flash and pdf capability built in that they will feel comfortable using, will work for 10 years without an upgrade, and is immune to viruses because when you turn it off - everything is wiped. Their "Desktop" will be on google or somewhere external to their own system.
In todays Berlin Post, Herr Heinrich Himmler has accepted a post as US government secretary of petting zoos and kindergarteners.
In a way I can only hope that Bush is this malicious, If he isn't this only furthers the idea that he is completely oblivious of what is going on around him.
Thats funny, I've been considering moving toward SVG 2.0... which provides lots of nice GUI features, PLUS javascript, and native sockets support. (Well in the standard anyway)
Its not about efficiency, its about "Creepy" factor. Robots that *look* or *act* human need all those little things that make us feel comfortable... they need to walk naturally, or blink at a normal rate - or you won't interact with them properly, and they give you a feeling of "Wrongness" .
Hey, Why build something you can repair when you could just buy a 10 pack of disposables. Sure, it might be *less* wasteful to build a new one from scratch, but it just seems such a sign of the times. Maybe they could get Gillette to sponsor the project.
Oh look! Their project plan is online!
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I remembered watching this series back in the 70's:
Salvage 1
This just underlines the engineer's problem with making something secure, yet making sure every moron in the U.S. can plug it in and turn it on and have it basically work.
PVFS (PVFS2, specficially), work very much like a P2P system.. offering a layer for storage. I think people forget the P2P is just a description for a protocol and not necessarily a set of specific uses of the protocol. Gee, thats like saying the web is just for porn.. oh, well.. ok.. still, you get the idea.
In "the Moon is a harsh mistress" (heinlein), they used a great big railgun to accellerate boulders enough to get them into orbit. course, this was later used during the revolution as a threat weapon to declare independance from the earth.
thousands of websites move away from network solutions DNS service and american hosting to european-based servers/DNS. This will only serve to lower our competitiveness in the global market place.
Most people (think "grandma") just need a browser and the ability to view various file formats, maybe a free word processor (whichc could be done w/ DHTML anyway), etc.. all the storage could be attached to gmail or msn or something. They just need an applicance that can do 800x600 (at least), webbrowser with flash, maybe a printer and/or webcam. A simple appliance could probably be built, not much more processing involved that what a router can do - only graphics and sound on top of that... I bet that would go for $100, and most grandmas want to just plug it in, turn it on, and play bridge. The whole OS would be on ROM, with maybe jumpdrives(USB) for local storage... 0 storage to start (or attach it to "web storage")
"Dreams of Gods and men" By William Quick... the "Meat Box" the entire "Matrix/Metaverse/whatever" was interfaced with little computers that were made from neural material.
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Now, take two and put them back to back running a variant of iptables/whatever to build a "on the cable" firewall.
Now I can caclulate the *EXTACT* percentage of morons using the Internet.. being that anyone with a quarter of a brain knows not to open such stuff (or fixes it within a short time if they happened toopen something).. this "max" should give you a pretty good statistic of the clue-free using the internet.
So when are coke smugglers going to realize they can build an army of robotic fish to smuggle their stuff.
When you go to a fertility clinic with your wife/partner.. and they pump her full of all sorts of drugs, she ovulates like a cat. there could be 1,3, 10 or 40 eggs in there (any number). At that point you have to CHOOSE how many you want to have. I want twins. Now, I don't think you can see the sex chromasomes, but its not much different. The thing that annoyed me about those "septuplets" was that this was how she had them, she CHOSE to keep all 7 embryos, at taxpayer/consumer expense (free college, free diapers, etc). Isn't that nice?
Download and Upload have no distinction in english. Excepting that download comes "toward" the speaker... which is typically the client, but not always. I've had several conversations where we had to use different terms when designing interop software, since each team saw itself as "downloading". You can use push (upload) and pull (download) I think more easily... it presents context better. I suppose "sync" is more similar to the french term?
So, is China building a "space station"? Don't be surprised when you find out its really a ship. (And Shipwrecks some poor chinese scientist on Europa) Oh, Arthur C. Clark must be so proud.
I was trying to secure rights to stream several movies.. and guess what, for all the MPAA and RIAA's heavy handedness over people not getting rights? I couldn't... couldn't even figure out who to talk to, and no one that I called could do more than refer me to some large outlets that said "We don't do that." So not only are they going after people for electronic distribution of their works, they make it damn near impossible to actually license said works for electronic distribution. silly bastards. To put this in the perspective of the post, I honestly felt that they had "abandoned" the electronic medium, I hope the law says "fire away" to people who can't find licensing channels for works.
now they'll finally test the old adage "No one ever got fired for choosing Microsoft".. when someone gets really fired for choosing Microsoft. Wonder if they'll hold MS responsible for security breaches?
That job would belong to television thank you very much. Why every one of my 9 kids here in the trailor park wuz done raised good on TV. How many slashdotters remember the jingle sung by a cowboy on CBS, "After the messegez, weee'll be rigghhht back"... Inanimate objects have been raising our kids for 50 years.. and it shows.
If they are a small user (grandmom), they will box the damn thing up and go back to reading the paper and playing bingo at the VFW.
Eventually, someone will create a ROM-booted web applicance that has flash and pdf capability built in that they will feel comfortable using, will work for 10 years without an upgrade, and is immune to viruses because when you turn it off - everything is wiped. Their "Desktop" will be on google or somewhere external to their own system.
If they could make a charging device that was powered by my six-year old's pure exuberance (sp?) for life.
In todays Berlin Post, Herr Heinrich Himmler has accepted a post as US government secretary of petting zoos and kindergarteners. In a way I can only hope that Bush is this malicious, If he isn't this only furthers the idea that he is completely oblivious of what is going on around him.
Thats funny, I've been considering moving toward SVG 2.0 ... which provides lots of nice GUI features, PLUS javascript, and native sockets support. (Well in the standard anyway)
Just waiting for a root kit that fdisks, makes a partition at the end, and hides there. Would standard MBR scans catch that?
Its not about efficiency, its about "Creepy" factor. Robots that *look* or *act* human need all those little things that make us feel comfortable... they need to walk naturally, or blink at a normal rate - or you won't interact with them properly, and they give you a feeling of "Wrongness" .
Hey, Why build something you can repair when you could just buy a 10 pack of disposables. Sure, it might be *less* wasteful to build a new one from scratch, but it just seems such a sign of the times. Maybe they could get Gillette to sponsor the project.
I remembered watching this series back in the 70's: Salvage 1
This just underlines the engineer's problem with making something secure, yet making sure every moron in the U.S. can plug it in and turn it on and have it basically work.
Wow, 90% of US kids can't do that. I say hail our Paragraph-COmprehending-Candian-Prime-Minister-kno wing LSI-based overlords!
PVFS (PVFS2, specficially), work very much like a P2P system.. offering a layer for storage. I think people forget the P2P is just a description for a protocol and not necessarily a set of specific uses of the protocol. Gee, thats like saying the web is just for porn.. oh, well.. ok .. still, you get the idea.
In "the Moon is a harsh mistress" (heinlein), they used a great big railgun to accellerate boulders enough to get them into orbit. course, this was later used during the revolution as a threat weapon to declare independance from the earth.
thousands of websites move away from network solutions DNS service and american hosting to european-based servers/DNS. This will only serve to lower our competitiveness in the global market place.
Most people (think "grandma") just need a browser and the ability to view various file formats, maybe a free word processor (whichc could be done w/ DHTML anyway), etc.. all the storage could be attached to gmail or msn or something. They just need an applicance that can do 800x600 (at least), webbrowser with flash, maybe a printer and/or webcam. A simple appliance could probably be built, not much more processing involved that what a router can do - only graphics and sound on top of that... I bet that would go for $100, and most grandmas want to just plug it in, turn it on, and play bridge. The whole OS would be on ROM, with maybe jumpdrives(USB) for local storage... 0 storage to start (or attach it to "web storage")
Does anyone know how costly it would be to modify a palm-like archetecture to hook up to a TV or monitor? 800*600?
"Dreams of Gods and men" By William Quick ... the "Meat Box" the entire "Matrix/Metaverse/whatever" was interfaced with little computers that were made from neural material.