I bought a pair of SGI Origin 200 machines that contained names, credit cards, and enough data to be a real problem for many thousands of people. The labels on the machines listed them as from @home which had closed their doors.
I did the dd if=/dev/zero dance and reinstalled IRIX.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/
Microsoft acquired OpenGL from SGI during the downward spiral of SGI. It is not in M$'s best interest to extend a platform/API that is used for high-end graphics by their closest and most capable competitors - Linux and Apple.
When decisions made are based not on reason but on faith what actions follow are certainly unreasonable.
Once again the poor public school science curriculum is exposed. If the adults pushing this garbage had been taught what science is, they would not be so easily duped by the snake-oil salesmen posing as modern day prophets.
Looks like they read slashdot and turned off the processing/squatting. Did a lookup at ns for some choice ones: randomcrapfromnetworksolutions asslickeratnetworksolutions with ALL available dom endings. They are still available from GoDaddy after the networksolutions search.
I keep hearing about this process and I don't understand why the bright people on/. don't get a clue.
The ONLY thing the morons at RIAA will ever understand is a cash flow interruption. But to make this work, everyone has to be in on it. No file sharing, turn it all off for one week, no music purchases of any kind, turn off the radios, don't listen to any form of recorded music.
It's not a hard thing to imagine. Maybe the better thing to do is to stop being a consumer and start being a creator. Get an instrument and make your own music! Then you can give it away on KaZaa.
So if you get upset about what RIAA does to protect their cash flow, get off your butt and stop playing their game. Start playing a new game. Make your own music.
And quit whining about RIAA. There are bigger issues ahead beyond "I can't listen to what ever music I want. I must be entertained at all times."
Since IR is blocked by glass, all they will read from the windshield is the temperature of the glass. Now have the driver running the defroster on the windshield and you've got absolutely nothing useful. They will not detect the number of warm bodies inside the car. No wonder we have such bad policies. The yahoos making the decisions didn't pass a high school physics class.
So now there can be a transcript of what you look at that is matched up with who was looking at it with a picture of the face overlayed on the screen for BigBrother to use as he wishes. Once again, all technology advances are really sharp double-edged swords. The more tech I use the better I like writing in the sand on a beach...
So I did a very short study on MY kids. The boy is a math wiz and the girl is a writer. The boy has a FIRST finger longer than his ring. So does his sister. So I measured the ratios and they are the same ratios for both kids. So I looked at my hands (I am a physicist) and my wifes and the kids have their mothers fingers. They have other features from me and some from Mom. Until puberty, my daughter was a math wiz and became disinterested in math when she got a male math teacher in grade 7.
Finding a statistical corellation does NOT equate to a causal relationship.
I can just hear Microsoft gloating over this "Wow! Now we can add all the DRM our real customers want without any apparent performance penalty." "Quick, run out and buy stock in every power and cooling company you can!". Of course the malware will be able to fly faster on the new Microsft DRM 2010 Media Center release (due in 2012)
After sitting through the full 58 minutes I was truly disapointed that Dr. Cormack was still pacing back and forth. The style and delivery of the presentation was truly horrid. 58 minutes of his pontification was enough. I still need to sort through the "data" he presented in a very unclear manner to see it it makes sense. Too much "off the top of the head" and not enough deliberate, directed information.
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John Brunner's "Stand On Zanzibar", 1968 Hugo Award winner.
The item was called "karatands". A soft glove-like material until hardening on impact.
This is a truly oustanding book that should be digested by geeks everywhere. The political and social points are even more relevant today that 30+ years ago.
The thought of making "sweaty geeks" is really kind of gross! I mean, bathing already takes too much time away from reading/. and playing games and coding....
What we need is an open source air freshener...
My company, Local Net Solutions has been working toward that goal for about a year now. The system is about ready to go. Depending on the office size and bandwidth from that office, I am looking at a local machine to be the master update server. The SOHO office will update directly from my servers.
I have had the pleasure of judging different Science Olympiad events for a number of years now. I started with "Metric Mastery" for the middle school crowd. It involves some pretty difficult estimation skills. After I got my own college physics lab to run, I ran the entire physics lab portion of the Science Olympiad for 3 years. I got to do both the regional and the state competitions. I was enthusiastic about the future after seeing what these kids could do! I'm now at my third school and Science Olympiad is comming up. It's a great event to be involved with!
I have been a college Physics and Astronomy teacher for 10 years. I decided to look into the online schools as way of expanding my teaching coverage.
The entire process of "teaching" in that environment is only suitable for subjects that allow lots of "round table" style discussion. A liturature class where the plot motives are hashed out online in a forum would be a good example.
Math and science is next to impossible.
I would argue that the instructors are working in an unsuitable environment more than I would argue that the instructors are slack. It is a system that encourages a very hands off approach.
I would also argue that the degree obtained from those online schools is exactly what was purchased, a piece of paper. It has no academic merit. Like many private, for profit "schools", they exist to make money, not educated graduates. The one I was with even had incentives like those of a dot-com (stock options!).
In short, if you want an education that will move you ahead in life, go to the best traditional school in your interest area that you can get in.
If you want an impressive piece of paper that verifies you (or your parents) paid enough classes to qualify for a graduation ticket, go to a big name traditional private school.
If you want to wast several years online to "earn" a "diploma" doing the barest minimum for a big bucket of cash, go to an online school. It won't advance your career unless you dig ditches or hang off the back of a garbage truck (an completely horrid job that I am very gratefull that those people do. I always thank them when I'm out and the truck shows up.)
The MPAA and friends understand one thing and one thing only. Cash. Loads of it. If the public want to make a statement about what they are doing, it has to impact the cash flow.
We need to organize a "No Media" week protest. A single day won't make them blink. A week of no revenues will.
For one full week, spend no money on any form of MPAA supported media. No movies, no CD's, no DVD's, no video rentals. Not a single thin dime!
And to keep the argument clean, make sure that no media files that MPAA is concerned about gets sent down the Internet wires either. Basically, walk away from the entertainment industry.
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Welcome to the Tucker Best Buy. Now take your business elsewhere.
I have had problems with that store as well. That manager, in fact. They must be desparate for ANYONE to work there as a manager to keep that bozo.
I was also accused of attempting to defraud them when I tried to return som RAM that wouldn't work in an IBM Aptiva. (Picky box, Crucial ram worked fine). He told me they didn't even sell the brand I was returning. I had purchased it less than 30 minutes earlier! When I tried to get him to look in the locked case where the ram is so he could SEE THE SAME BRAND, he ordered me out of the store.
I am no longer a customer. I will not EVER be customer again. I go out of my way to tell anyone who will listen to my story just how crappy of a store Best Buy, and the Tucker store in particular is.
I vote for quality business with my money. Best Buy would eventually go out of business if it were not for the hourdes of people willing to tolerate crap for service where they shop.
Once again, the elected leaders of Georgia demonstrate why this state is still ranked 49th in education quality.
It's stupidity that leads to violence. Since this state is chock full of stupid people it might explain the high violent crime rate.
Sadly, as more people pass through the public school process in Georgia, the situation will only get worse. We might even sink below Mississippi at some point .
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I bought a pair of SGI Origin 200 machines that contained names, credit cards, and enough data to be a real problem for many thousands of people. The labels on the machines listed them as from @home which had closed their doors. I did the dd if=/dev/zero dance and reinstalled IRIX.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transfers_3d_graphics_patents/
Microsoft acquired OpenGL from SGI during the downward spiral of SGI. It is not in M$'s best interest to extend a platform/API that is used for high-end graphics by their closest and most capable competitors - Linux and Apple.
When decisions made are based not on reason but on faith what actions follow are certainly unreasonable.
Once again the poor public school science curriculum is exposed. If the adults pushing this garbage had been taught what science is, they would not be so easily duped by the snake-oil salesmen posing as modern day prophets.
Let's let the paranoia party make more decisions please.
Looks like they read slashdot and turned off the processing/squatting. Did a lookup at ns for some choice ones: randomcrapfromnetworksolutions asslickeratnetworksolutions with ALL available dom endings. They are still available from GoDaddy after the networksolutions search.
Now to go after NSF funded research as well
Sounds like Best Buy. With all the great press they get on/., why do people still go there?
I keep hearing about this process and I don't understand why the bright people on /. don't get a clue.
The ONLY thing the morons at RIAA will ever understand is a cash flow interruption. But to make this work, everyone has to be in on it. No file sharing, turn it all off for one week, no music purchases of any kind, turn off the radios, don't listen to any form of recorded music.
It's not a hard thing to imagine. Maybe the better thing to do is to stop being a consumer and start being a creator. Get an instrument and make your own music!
Then you can give it away on KaZaa.
So if you get upset about what RIAA does to protect their cash flow, get off your butt and stop playing their game. Start playing a new game. Make your own music.
And quit whining about RIAA. There are bigger issues ahead beyond "I can't listen to what ever music I want. I must be entertained at all times."
Since IR is blocked by glass, all they will read from the windshield is the temperature of the glass. Now have the driver running the defroster on the windshield and you've got absolutely nothing useful. They will not detect the number of warm bodies inside the car.
No wonder we have such bad policies. The yahoos making the decisions didn't pass a high school physics class.
So now there can be a transcript of what you look at that is matched up with who was looking at it with a picture of the face overlayed on the screen for BigBrother to use as he wishes. Once again, all technology advances are really sharp double-edged swords.
The more tech I use the better I like writing in the sand on a beach...
Finding a statistical corellation does NOT equate to a causal relationship.
I can just hear Microsoft gloating over this "Wow! Now we can add all the DRM our real customers want without any apparent performance penalty."
"Quick, run out and buy stock in every power and cooling company you can!".
Of course the malware will be able to fly faster on the new Microsft DRM 2010 Media Center release (due in 2012)
After sitting through the full 58 minutes I was truly disapointed that Dr. Cormack was still pacing back and forth. The style and delivery of the presentation was truly horrid. 58 minutes of his pontification was enough. I still need to sort through the "data" he presented in a very unclear manner to see it it makes sense. Too much "off the top of the head" and not enough deliberate, directed information.
John Brunner's "Stand On Zanzibar", 1968 Hugo Award winner. The item was called "karatands". A soft glove-like material until hardening on impact.
This is a truly oustanding book that should be digested by geeks everywhere. The political and social points are even more relevant today that 30+ years ago.
The thought of making "sweaty geeks" is really kind of gross! I mean, bathing already takes too much time away from reading /. and playing games and coding....
What we need is an open source air freshener...
My company, Local Net Solutions has been working toward that goal for about a year now. The system is about ready to go. Depending on the office size and bandwidth from that office, I am looking at a local machine to be the master update server. The SOHO office will update directly from my servers.
I have had the pleasure of judging different Science Olympiad events for a number of years now. I started with "Metric Mastery" for the middle school crowd. It involves some pretty difficult estimation skills.
After I got my own college physics lab to run, I ran the entire physics lab portion of the Science Olympiad for 3 years. I got to do both the regional and the state competitions. I was enthusiastic about the future after seeing what these kids could do!
I'm now at my third school and Science Olympiad is comming up. It's a great event to be involved with!
I have been a college Physics and Astronomy teacher for 10 years. I decided to look into the online schools as way of expanding my teaching coverage.
The entire process of "teaching" in that environment is only suitable for subjects that allow lots of "round table" style discussion. A liturature class where the plot motives are hashed out online in a forum would be a good example.
Math and science is next to impossible.
I would argue that the instructors are working in an unsuitable environment more than I would argue that the instructors are slack. It is a system that encourages a very hands off approach.
I would also argue that the degree obtained from those online schools is exactly what was purchased, a piece of paper. It has no academic merit. Like many private, for profit "schools", they exist to make money, not educated graduates. The one I was with even had incentives like those of a dot-com (stock options!).
In short, if you want an education that will move you ahead in life, go to the best traditional school in your interest area that you can get in.
If you want an impressive piece of paper that verifies you (or your parents) paid enough classes to qualify for a graduation ticket, go to a big name traditional private school.
If you want to wast several years online to "earn" a "diploma" doing the barest minimum for a big bucket of cash, go to an online school. It won't advance your career unless you dig ditches or hang off the back of a garbage truck (an completely horrid job that I am very gratefull that those people do. I always thank them when I'm out and the truck shows up.)
The MPAA and friends understand one thing and one thing only. Cash. Loads of it. If the public want to make a statement about what they are doing, it has to impact the cash flow.
We need to organize a "No Media" week protest. A single day won't make them blink. A week of no revenues will.
For one full week, spend no money on any form of MPAA supported media. No movies, no CD's, no DVD's, no video rentals. Not a single thin dime!
And to keep the argument clean, make sure that no media files that MPAA is concerned about gets sent down the Internet wires either. Basically, walk away from the entertainment industry.
I have had problems with that store as well. That manager, in fact. They must be desparate for ANYONE to work there as a manager to keep that bozo.
I was also accused of attempting to defraud them when I tried to return som RAM that wouldn't work in an IBM Aptiva. (Picky box, Crucial ram worked fine). He told me they didn't even sell the brand I was returning. I had purchased it less than 30 minutes earlier! When I tried to get him to look in the locked case where the ram is so he could SEE THE SAME BRAND, he ordered me out of the store.
I am no longer a customer. I will not EVER be customer again. I go out of my way to tell anyone who will listen to my story just how crappy of a store Best Buy, and the Tucker store in particular is.
I vote for quality business with my money. Best Buy would eventually go out of business if it were not for the hourdes of people willing to tolerate crap for service where they shop.
Once again, the elected leaders of Georgia demonstrate why this state is still ranked 49th in education quality . It's stupidity that leads to violence. Since this state is chock full of stupid people it might explain the high violent crime rate. Sadly, as more people pass through the public school process in Georgia, the situation will only get worse. We might even sink below Mississippi at some point .
cool toy!.