Given religion has held the World back in many area's only to eventuly realise they cannot keep the sheeps eye's covered in the end.
I personaly find teligion distastful as a whole given it is for all intence legalised cults.
On a plus side people who are weak minded do need some form of moral guidance and indeed religion in its various forms does offer this and as a whole isn;t that bad. Though personaly this whole area is akin to the stone age were we didn't understand night and day and how it came about; religion being the remanants of that initial aspect.
Evolution is about moving forward as well as genetic evolvement, religion is about as opposite to that as you can get. But nice to see religion peer-preassured into something for a change instead of the otherway around - now thats evolution.
Whilst this osund intteresting and creative I also find it a very poorly thought out plan without enough research. Frankly it sounds a mighty ambitious and without any clear insight into the side-effects in detail. 8000 barges would be alot and indeed woul dpotentialy have a measurable impact in respect of potentialy forming ice sooner in the area there working in, BUT thats 8000 barges using other resources that will have to be balanced out somewere else, albeit in usual human vanity form of we see no problem here and over there is out of sight.
If you effect and change A then although you cannot see Z it is by definition also effected along the line. Its this type of mentality that causes these problem in the first place.
Why not force all cars to have some form of air filter fitted to the radiator air intake, whilst not doing huge amounts on a singular basis as a whole would add up to alot of crap taken out of the air without adding anything to what is in a car already. Given they happily pump out crap why not suck up crap as well. But alas that has no direct visable impact and as such no glory and wont happen with the mentality of problem fixing we endure today.
: ) ----see how the extra space makes it even more happier and avoids the copyrighted sequence.
Though the amount of patents on what are common sence, mainly prior art is very distastful and realy needs to be addressed before we all adapt a sue(shoot) first, ask questions later approach:(.
For those veiwing this post in Australia were the patent may not apply, all I can say is (:.
AGE - I have personaly been descriminated against due to my age, was contracting at the age of 18 and see alot of companies still pay equaly skilled people the different rates due to there age.
EXPERIENCE - I have on many occasions as have many others I know been refused even an interview on jobs as the company deems you over experienced, yes overqualified. there attitude is that they ASSUME that you will leave soon as. Well alas assuming somebody is something and acting upon it is indeed descrimination but alas they get away with it.
As for race, sex, sexual preferences I would say things have on many planes leveled to the extent that its fair, least in majority of cases. Only area were there seems some imbalance is sexual oriantation were there is a clear case of positive descrimination in favour of say lesbians, cross-dressers etc. Friend I know had sex change and cross-ressed, soon as he did that he got promoted and huge pay rise and new company car after few years of being stagnent and in same year the company was actualy cuttting back. I have also seen people promoted over others who were in balance less capable than the person that didn;t get the position only for it to transpire that the person who got the job is a lesbian or homosexual. I have no calms about any gender/sexual oriantation and bottom line were all pink on the inside, but would appear that many of those in power over-react for fear of reprisale of being called into court for descruimination becasue they didn't give such people such positions/jobs. As such there is a trend still prevailing for positive descrimination, least thats what I have witnessed and aware of from others within the UK. One left-wing council I believe you can walk in with a gay-pride badge and almost pick your position.
Anyhow it will level out, just whiched people would focus on actualities rather than knee-jerk to there paranoia. But when IT peeps are forced to wear a shirt/tie knowing fullwell the servers dont care, well you see the industry still has a way to go. But dont get me started on the subtleties of what women and men are allowed to wear at work.
So if you feel that a company is descriminating, I suggest attend the interview in a dress, you will either get the job or highlight a case of descrimination and have a laugh, thats if you have the guil to do it:).
was no attempt to justify it at all, mearly highlighting it for what it is.
Personaly I totaly beleieve in self-censorship as long as it dosn't effect others. Now when we have one internet for adults and one for children. Or perhaps an internet driving test, alas censorship will prevail.
As it is the internet is as censorship free as you want it to be. nomatter what the next man says.
You do highlight the real issue and that is that censorship impossed by the few onto the many is not just. Take wiki's by definition there censored, but censored by the community in much the same way as/. posts are. Now a community drioven firewall, perhaps htere is a market there:).
But to censor something that is already censored by the majority as is the case of China blocking wiki then its a kick in the teeth for the common man. ALL countries censor, some more openly than others and most a mixture of stealth and openess. As for China's stance I can see were there comming from given the govements culture. Though it hardly acts as a definitive block, lets face it I've never met a Chinaman who thinks the Earth is flat, even historicaly. Though i could name a few religious countries that used to percecute people for even thinking otherwise historicaly.
Maybe some comparision to fashion and censorship can be derived given what is censored here today is censored there tomorrow and open here today. Moods change as do goverments. As with most goverments they will usualy try something to test the water and if they get away with it they carry on until enough people cry foul to the extent that they cant ignore it. Not saying people should go lock themselves to the outside railing near Chinise internet cafe's in protest, but if enough did; Maybe just maybe things would change.
But for now a loca wiki done localy by local people would fill the needs of the many who are unable to access the input from the many outside side firewall. And no firewall is 100% secure, several million schoolchildren around the World prove that on a daily bases one way or another.
I have to wonder if IBM got new tape drive out soon or is this a hidden drive for the LTO market.
All that said its the heat and sunlight exposure that seem to be the main issues, as such wouldn't we finaly have a justifiable excuse to the boss to buy a frigde so you can store backups in safty:o).
I can see it now, err boss my CDR's i use keep getting overheated and ruined in this brightrly light office. I need something that is small and easy to store them in at a lower tempreture. Now I saw this mini beer fridge the other day and its perfect:D.
I can see why the Chinse have blocked it, given the content is community dirreved and mainly from external sources outside china. As such it woudl be a conciren for them given there nature of possible decent.
No all that said, us in the western world look at this act as total cencorship and were right it is. But that is how China opperates, so we should count ourselves lucky.
All that said, I cant see why some local folks over in china cant start there own wiki. there is enough interlectual scrape artists out there and intelligent people who could and would propergate it.
That and given that 99.99% of definitions would be totaly accptable to the most stringent of authorita's (thats cartman south park speak for powers that be) then the issues become more managable and tangable as would be inside the wall and not out.
I half expect china to one day go IPV999 and mirror anything worthwile out there.
On the plus side I'd like a firewall like China just to cover all popup porn add's and other spam, or is that an issue over there as well still. Sure there are some positive aspects along with the obvious negative ones. Oh and remember cencorship; and that is what this is is something we all get subjected too, albiet at different levels. Now if there was a wiki on how to make a bomb or become a terrorist, well - would it get blocked, nope. Men in suits come and take there box's away. So in some ways China's approach is more democratic as they only effect those within there responsibility and not imposse there lawas onto all. Just a interesting side thought there. Not that anybody needs to know such things anyhow.
Given most metorite have iron then the breakup in the upper atomosphere would produce alot of iron particles.
Now if said particles get caught into the atomosphere and gravity they will fall. If they hit moisture laiden cloads they will act as catolists in the production of rain (this is how rain forms). As such the higher precipitation and red nature of the rain are totaly explainable without calling in ET.
Actualy, I want a new OS, something like plan 9 updated with.....APPLICATIONS.
Bottom line we use computers to run applications, and realy shouldn;t have to get tied down running an OS. My atari ST works fine, OS in BIOS, not many rootkits on that. Now application rootkits that root the application, that another area of concern as applications sit on the OS so if a hacker gains access to your system at the level you deal with then they will get all the juice they need.
TCB, naaaaaa i'd never install an OS if I wanted that to work 100%:).
Of all the pentests i've done the number of colo box's (mostly the mainframes and applications on box's) have.....default passwords still active. generaly there not disabled nd all the colo/customer does is add there own on top ignoring the defaults.
john the ripper on mainframes, as/400's - tend not to see that level of pre-emptive checking.
As a rule as a admin you should constantly try cracking your own systems passwords, each one you get that user owes you beer. Least they can do for potentialy saving there job and your company.
UltraSparc T1-based systems would have the same effect on carbon dioxide emissions as planting 1 million trees.
Thats great but did they offset all the marketing bumf about this; Now that surely made large dent into those newly planted tree's - caching in before even planted some might say.
There is also the factor of all the extra web/page hits and respective computer power and as such extra carbon dioxide ommisions related to that.
So in the end to be truly green you would just release the product and keep stum or the papers/marketing etc will offset the savings by eating up extra paper/computer resources saying how green things are.
How green is a new CPU that uses lower power; Well initialy less so due to hype and marketing using more paper/computer resources. This is up there with SETI and there search for extra human life by chewing up loads of CPU generating way more carbon monoxide and as such killing life on our planet in the hope of finding intelligent life on another planet. Lets face it if i was an intelligent alien would i want to be sat next to a snotty kid who farted alot or would I do my best to ignore them. Begs the question about what is actualy green and what is actuly intelligent.
Giving binary driver only options is like giving companies the option to release binary only drivers without the source.
Its like releasing an open loveable OS and then having your low level API's call windows - kinda defeatest.
If any company whants to relaease only binary drivers- let em, just dont encourage it by giving them an easy option to do so.
I like openbsd, and the whole wifi/scsi driver snafu only went to highlight that this binary only way/option is bad. Would openbsd have binary only drivers - hell no and if openbsd dont do you have to ask, hmm why.
Binary only drivers secure OS, cause hand compiled ddrivers dont assure this eaither but then least you have a fighting chance.
Whilst I agree it should be against the law to have a open wireless network I'd also rather they had a law against people who get worms on there PC's. An insecure PC is more dangerous to others than a open wireless netork which is more dangerous to the owner than a open PC which is dangerous to all.
That aside what assistance/help/regilation are they doing to monitor/enforce this.
I still recall friend having a Linux box taken by police and 3 years l8r still awaiting for it back as the 1police1 weer still trying to read the disk. Even after they contracted a external consultant in as they didn;t understand linux. Seems neither did the consultant. So giving powers to the law to make open networks is illegal but what is the true definition of a open network.
I can make a network open with more honeypots(dynamics hosts) than are on the internet and still yet offer secure wireless as any valid connection would need to port/knock and VPN intot eh main real network. Technicaly i'd have a open wireless netowrk on the face of it but in practice it would be very very secure to the stage that the wirless aspect was assumed flawed security wise and securty hadn;ed another way for full valid network access. Now in that situation would I be breaking the law, Technicaly yes but for those who knew what they were on about I wouldn;t be. Given that who polices the police with regards to creadability on technical issues.
On the same argument, is it illegal to leave your front door unlocked, nope. But in this case its easy and clear to all how to turn a key to make it otherwise. Now would a wireless netork be secure if it had a default password or a poor password/configuration. No, actualy imho it would be a poorer case as the owner would think it was secure when it is far far far from secure. So on balance less secure than a open netowrk as the owner woudl have a false sence of security.
So on the whole I call this law a kneee-jerk law that on the whole will do more harm than good. Laws are all very nice but guidance on how to carefully follow said law's/guidlines are what is needed and relying on joe-public to flesh them out is like asking joe-public to lock there doors with a paper-clip all the time, whilst technicaly possible most wont have a clue were to start and as such not bother, let alone be aware they needed to bother. As for the law/policing of it, well; Until they show solid guidlines on how to achive this in a joe-public way and are computent themselves and not justa select few then I forsee alot of messy cases and wasted resources when the real issues are being highlighted selctivly but never addressed. Law against unpatched computers, wonder why we dont have that yet.
Why slow it down when you could just have longer signal lengths. This potentialy has the posibility of becoming the qwerty keyboard equivelant to the light bus.
That aside I long dream of building a PC HIFI stylee with light/fiber interconnects semi lego stylee. Add another memory brick/CPU. But ideals aside its still a remarkable achivement. Potentialy usualy for memory if you could slow it down and have a long enough bit of fiber you could potentialy use the fibre to store data as slowed down light. Which would be more than fast enough for todays CPU bottleneck issues.
Having 1 thruster active with directional nossels is safer than two either side as per the shuttle design. As if one booster/rocket fails on the shuttle you would lose directional control.
If one thuster fails on a standard rocket then you end up without it going anywere.
Now a normal rocket also offerers better stremlining and as such less fuel needs over the larger front surface profile of the shuttle.
Also the possiblities of having the top command capsule capable of having a seperate jetison detach rocket and parachute landing system incase of failure enabling the crew to for all effect eject and and be recovered does seen alot more viable over any modification to the shuttle design.
So basicly it will be cheaper/simpler/safer and for some....sexier.
Now what I would like to see is a way to send all the old space junk into a pile or crashing onto the moon ready for one day when we do eventualy go back and stay there. Scrap metal/floating space junk is afterall probably the bestest concentrated form of resource up there at the moment that is already past the hurdle for getting to the moon with regards to breaking out of earth's gravity.
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Alot of games have evil EULA's like this. Remember what tollerance for bugs we endure with `work` applications; games are much more 2nd class with support and rights bestowed upon you. But there again if you could buy WindowsXP over steam with those terms and a reduced cost - say half what you pay in a retail shop - would you buy it and keep stum on the bugs/issues with it as we generaly do with games.
There was artuicle recently about a EULA that gave away money - was small print in EULA saying send email to here and we will send you some x,y,z; WHich they did. Highlighting that 99.9% of people dont read EULA. From those 99.9% 99.9% of them are also the type to ignore pop-ups and click OK just so they can see the `website` they happened upon.
Conclusion - people who dont read EULA's are more likely to have worms and virus'supon there PC's and as such more likely to have issues with there PC. In that respect any evil EULA's is mearly a placibo for the software producers to deal with any support, sorry EULA says no its your computer; Which it generaly is, in alot of cases.
Bottom line there is a trend in gaming and more importantly in subscription based games for you to agree to hand over your first-born, any inventions you may have and your soul becasue you clicked this button. Imagine if banks were like that. "Sir you withdrew all your money", "did I, how", "You clicked this popup OK button and agreed to give it all to us", "you sure I pressed that button".
This comes back to the golden rule, get a pet and train them to upon software and press OK buttons for EULA's. I know I might not have many rights myself but my neibours cat has already agreed to send its kidney to Microsoft if Mr Gates deems it so:).
Given scientests have managed to make light go slower and indications that some of the universes constants have not been fixed thoughout its lifetime and are constantly changing albeit on such a small scale we dont notice. Could you get a different value for E from the same mass by varying the speed of light, and if light can get slower would that potentialy mean that Energy is being lost or is that touching into relativity.
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Given religion has held the World back in many area's only to eventuly realise they cannot keep the sheeps eye's covered in the end.
I personaly find teligion distastful as a whole given it is for all intence legalised cults.
On a plus side people who are weak minded do need some form of moral guidance and indeed religion in its various forms does offer this and as a whole isn;t that bad. Though personaly this whole area is akin to the stone age were we didn't understand night and day and how it came about; religion being the remanants of that initial aspect.
Evolution is about moving forward as well as genetic evolvement, religion is about as opposite to that as you can get. But nice to see religion peer-preassured into something for a change instead of the otherway around - now thats evolution.
Well, I dont expect to wait long until we see TitBorrents and the like appearing.
1) release something into the open source community
2) ???????
3) Lawyers/profit
Anyhow the chap just had a new baby into the family so fair play and good luck to him on this.
Whilst this osund intteresting and creative I also find it a very poorly thought out plan without enough research. Frankly it sounds a mighty ambitious and without any clear insight into the side-effects in detail. 8000 barges would be alot and indeed woul dpotentialy have a measurable impact in respect of potentialy forming ice sooner in the area there working in, BUT thats 8000 barges using other resources that will have to be balanced out somewere else, albeit in usual human vanity form of we see no problem here and over there is out of sight.
If you effect and change A then although you cannot see Z it is by definition also effected along the line. Its this type of mentality that causes these problem in the first place.
Why not force all cars to have some form of air filter fitted to the radiator air intake, whilst not doing huge amounts on a singular basis as a whole would add up to alot of crap taken out of the air without adding anything to what is in a car already. Given they happily pump out crap why not suck up crap as well. But alas that has no direct visable impact and as such no glory and wont happen with the mentality of problem fixing we endure today.
: ) ----see how the extra space makes it even more happier and avoids the copyrighted sequence.
:(.
Though the amount of patents on what are common sence, mainly prior art is very distastful and realy needs to be addressed before we all adapt a sue(shoot) first, ask questions later approach
For those veiwing this post in Australia were the patent may not apply, all I can say is (:.
AGE - I have personaly been descriminated against due to my age, was contracting at the age of 18 and see alot of companies still pay equaly skilled people the different rates due to there age.
:).
EXPERIENCE - I have on many occasions as have many others I know been refused even an interview on jobs as the company deems you over experienced, yes overqualified. there attitude is that they ASSUME that you will leave soon as. Well alas assuming somebody is something and acting upon it is indeed descrimination but alas they get away with it.
As for race, sex, sexual preferences I would say things have on many planes leveled to the extent that its fair, least in majority of cases. Only area were there seems some imbalance is sexual oriantation were there is a clear case of positive descrimination in favour of say lesbians, cross-dressers etc. Friend I know had sex change and cross-ressed, soon as he did that he got promoted and huge pay rise and new company car after few years of being stagnent and in same year the company was actualy cuttting back. I have also seen people promoted over others who were in balance less capable than the person that didn;t get the position only for it to transpire that the person who got the job is a lesbian or homosexual. I have no calms about any gender/sexual oriantation and bottom line were all pink on the inside, but would appear that many of those in power over-react for fear of reprisale of being called into court for descruimination becasue they didn't give such people such positions/jobs. As such there is a trend still prevailing for positive descrimination, least thats what I have witnessed and aware of from others within the UK. One left-wing council I believe you can walk in with a gay-pride badge and almost pick your position.
Anyhow it will level out, just whiched people would focus on actualities rather than knee-jerk to there paranoia. But when IT peeps are forced to wear a shirt/tie knowing fullwell the servers dont care, well you see the industry still has a way to go. But dont get me started on the subtleties of what women and men are allowed to wear at work.
So if you feel that a company is descriminating, I suggest attend the interview in a dress, you will either get the job or highlight a case of descrimination and have a laugh, thats if you have the guil to do it
was no attempt to justify it at all, mearly highlighting it for what it is.
/. posts are. Now a community drioven firewall, perhaps htere is a market there :).
Personaly I totaly beleieve in self-censorship as long as it dosn't effect others. Now when we have one internet for adults and one for children. Or perhaps an internet driving test, alas censorship will prevail.
As it is the internet is as censorship free as you want it to be. nomatter what the next man says.
You do highlight the real issue and that is that censorship impossed by the few onto the many is not just. Take wiki's by definition there censored, but censored by the community in much the same way as
But to censor something that is already censored by the majority as is the case of China blocking wiki then its a kick in the teeth for the common man. ALL countries censor, some more openly than others and most a mixture of stealth and openess. As for China's stance I can see were there comming from given the govements culture. Though it hardly acts as a definitive block, lets face it I've never met a Chinaman who thinks the Earth is flat, even historicaly. Though i could name a few religious countries that used to percecute people for even thinking otherwise historicaly.
Maybe some comparision to fashion and censorship can be derived given what is censored here today is censored there tomorrow and open here today. Moods change as do goverments. As with most goverments they will usualy try something to test the water and if they get away with it they carry on until enough people cry foul to the extent that they cant ignore it. Not saying people should go lock themselves to the outside railing near Chinise internet cafe's in protest, but if enough did; Maybe just maybe things would change.
But for now a loca wiki done localy by local people would fill the needs of the many who are unable to access the input from the many outside side firewall. And no firewall is 100% secure, several million schoolchildren around the World prove that on a daily bases one way or another.
I have to wonder if IBM got new tape drive out soon or is this a hidden drive for the LTO market.
:o).
:D.
All that said its the heat and sunlight exposure that seem to be the main issues, as such wouldn't we finaly have a justifiable excuse to the boss to buy a frigde so you can store backups in safty
I can see it now, err boss my CDR's i use keep getting overheated and ruined in this brightrly light office. I need something that is small and easy to store them in at a lower tempreture. Now I saw this mini beer fridge the other day and its perfect
I can see why the Chinse have blocked it, given the content is community dirreved and mainly from external sources outside china. As such it woudl be a conciren for them given there nature of possible decent.
No all that said, us in the western world look at this act as total cencorship and were right it is. But that is how China opperates, so we should count ourselves lucky.
All that said, I cant see why some local folks over in china cant start there own wiki. there is enough interlectual scrape artists out there and intelligent people who could and would propergate it.
That and given that 99.99% of definitions would be totaly accptable to the most stringent of authorita's (thats cartman south park speak for powers that be) then the issues become more managable and tangable as would be inside the wall and not out.
I half expect china to one day go IPV999 and mirror anything worthwile out there.
On the plus side I'd like a firewall like China just to cover all popup porn add's and other spam, or is that an issue over there as well still. Sure there are some positive aspects along with the obvious negative ones. Oh and remember cencorship; and that is what this is is something we all get subjected too, albiet at different levels. Now if there was a wiki on how to make a bomb or become a terrorist, well - would it get blocked, nope. Men in suits come and take there box's away. So in some ways China's approach is more democratic as they only effect those within there responsibility and not imposse there lawas onto all. Just a interesting side thought there. Not that anybody needs to know such things anyhow.
Given most metorite have iron then the breakup in the upper atomosphere would produce alot of iron particles.
Now if said particles get caught into the atomosphere and gravity they will fall. If they hit moisture laiden cloads they will act as catolists in the production of rain (this is how rain forms). As such the higher precipitation and red nature of the rain are totaly explainable without calling in ET.
Actualy, I want a new OS, something like plan 9 updated with.....APPLICATIONS.
:).
Bottom line we use computers to run applications, and realy shouldn;t have to get tied down running an OS. My atari ST works fine, OS in BIOS, not many rootkits on that. Now application rootkits that root the application, that another area of concern as applications sit on the OS so if a hacker gains access to your system at the level you deal with then they will get all the juice they need.
TCB, naaaaaa i'd never install an OS if I wanted that to work 100%
Of all the pentests i've done the number of colo box's (mostly the mainframes and applications on box's) have.....default passwords still active. generaly there not disabled nd all the colo/customer does is add there own on top ignoring the defaults.
john the ripper on mainframes, as/400's - tend not to see that level of pre-emptive checking.
As a rule as a admin you should constantly try cracking your own systems passwords, each one you get that user owes you beer. Least they can do for potentialy saving there job and your company.
UltraSparc T1-based systems would have the same effect on carbon dioxide emissions as planting 1 million trees.
Thats great but did they offset all the marketing bumf about this; Now that surely made large dent into those newly planted tree's - caching in before even planted some might say.
There is also the factor of all the extra web/page hits and respective computer power and as such extra carbon dioxide ommisions related to that.
So in the end to be truly green you would just release the product and keep stum or the papers/marketing etc will offset the savings by eating up extra paper/computer resources saying how green things are.
How green is a new CPU that uses lower power; Well initialy less so due to hype and marketing using more paper/computer resources. This is up there with SETI and there search for extra human life by chewing up loads of CPU generating way more carbon monoxide and as such killing life on our planet in the hope of finding intelligent life on another planet. Lets face it if i was an intelligent alien would i want to be sat next to a snotty kid who farted alot or would I do my best to ignore them. Begs the question about what is actualy green and what is actuly intelligent.
Giving binary driver only options is like giving companies the option to release binary only drivers without the source.
Its like releasing an open loveable OS and then having your low level API's call windows - kinda defeatest.
If any company whants to relaease only binary drivers- let em, just dont encourage it by giving them an easy option to do so.
I like openbsd, and the whole wifi/scsi driver snafu only went to highlight that this binary only way/option is bad. Would openbsd have binary only drivers - hell no and if openbsd dont do you have to ask, hmm why.
Binary only drivers secure OS, cause hand compiled ddrivers dont assure this eaither but then least you have a fighting chance.
Whilst I agree it should be against the law to have a open wireless network I'd also rather they had a law against people who get worms on there PC's. An insecure PC is more dangerous to others than a open wireless netork which is more dangerous to the owner than a open PC which is dangerous to all.
That aside what assistance/help/regilation are they doing to monitor/enforce this.
I still recall friend having a Linux box taken by police and 3 years l8r still awaiting for it back as the 1police1 weer still trying to read the disk. Even after they contracted a external consultant in as they didn;t understand linux. Seems neither did the consultant. So giving powers to the law to make open networks is illegal but what is the true definition of a open network.
I can make a network open with more honeypots(dynamics hosts) than are on the internet and still yet offer secure wireless as any valid connection would need to port/knock and VPN intot eh main real network. Technicaly i'd have a open wireless netowrk on the face of it but in practice it would be very very secure to the stage that the wirless aspect was assumed flawed security wise and securty hadn;ed another way for full valid network access. Now in that situation would I be breaking the law, Technicaly yes but for those who knew what they were on about I wouldn;t be. Given that who polices the police with regards to creadability on technical issues.
On the same argument, is it illegal to leave your front door unlocked, nope. But in this case its easy and clear to all how to turn a key to make it otherwise. Now would a wireless netork be secure if it had a default password or a poor password/configuration. No, actualy imho it would be a poorer case as the owner would think it was secure when it is far far far from secure. So on balance less secure than a open netowrk as the owner woudl have a false sence of security.
So on the whole I call this law a kneee-jerk law that on the whole will do more harm than good. Laws are all very nice but guidance on how to carefully follow said law's/guidlines are what is needed and relying on joe-public to flesh them out is like asking joe-public to lock there doors with a paper-clip all the time, whilst technicaly possible most wont have a clue were to start and as such not bother, let alone be aware they needed to bother. As for the law/policing of it, well; Until they show solid guidlines on how to achive this in a joe-public way and are computent themselves and not justa select few then I forsee alot of messy cases and wasted resources when the real issues are being highlighted selctivly but never addressed. Law against unpatched computers, wonder why we dont have that yet.
Why slow it down when you could just have longer signal lengths. This potentialy has the posibility of becoming the qwerty keyboard equivelant to the light bus.
:).
That aside I long dream of building a PC HIFI stylee with light/fiber interconnects semi lego stylee. Add another memory brick/CPU. But ideals aside its still a remarkable achivement. Potentialy usualy for memory if you could slow it down and have a long enough bit of fiber you could potentialy use the fibre to store data as slowed down light. Which would be more than fast enough for todays CPU bottleneck issues.
L0- cache light memory anybody
Explains why I cant find a like-minded women, as there all watching TV.
Can see it now, multi-millionare geeks advertising singles AD's on the SCIFI channel, and i thought the Crazy frog was bad enough.
Having 1 thruster active with directional nossels is safer than two either side as per the shuttle design. As if one booster/rocket fails on the shuttle you would lose directional control.
If one thuster fails on a standard rocket then you end up without it going anywere.
Now a normal rocket also offerers better stremlining and as such less fuel needs over the larger front surface profile of the shuttle.
Also the possiblities of having the top command capsule capable of having a seperate jetison detach rocket and parachute landing system incase of failure enabling the crew to for all effect eject and and be recovered does seen alot more viable over any modification to the shuttle design.
So basicly it will be cheaper/simpler/safer and for some....sexier.
Now what I would like to see is a way to send all the old space junk into a pile or crashing onto the moon ready for one day when we do eventualy go back and stay there. Scrap metal/floating space junk is afterall probably the bestest concentrated form of resource up there at the moment that is already past the hurdle for getting to the moon with regards to breaking out of earth's gravity.
Alot of games have evil EULA's like this. Remember what tollerance for bugs we endure with `work` applications; games are much more 2nd class with support and rights bestowed upon you. But there again if you could buy WindowsXP over steam with those terms and a reduced cost - say half what you pay in a retail shop - would you buy it and keep stum on the bugs/issues with it as we generaly do with games.
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There was artuicle recently about a EULA that gave away money - was small print in EULA saying send email to here and we will send you some x,y,z; WHich they did. Highlighting that 99.9% of people dont read EULA. From those 99.9% 99.9% of them are also the type to ignore pop-ups and click OK just so they can see the `website` they happened upon.
Conclusion - people who dont read EULA's are more likely to have worms and virus'supon there PC's and as such more likely to have issues with there PC. In that respect any evil EULA's is mearly a placibo for the software producers to deal with any support, sorry EULA says no its your computer; Which it generaly is, in alot of cases.
Bottom line there is a trend in gaming and more importantly in subscription based games for you to agree to hand over your first-born, any inventions you may have and your soul becasue you clicked this button. Imagine if banks were like that. "Sir you withdrew all your money", "did I, how", "You clicked this popup OK button and agreed to give it all to us", "you sure I pressed that button".
This comes back to the golden rule, get a pet and train them to upon software and press OK buttons for EULA's. I know I might not have many rights myself but my neibours cat has already agreed to send its kidney to Microsoft if Mr Gates deems it so
That'll be 1000$ shipping costs and enjoy this PC XT we cant egonomicaly dispose of. Look at the free software :D
Sure there many old ones about that still work without needing there battery changing or winding up ;).
Given scientests have managed to make light go slower and indications that some of the universes constants have not been fixed thoughout its lifetime and are constantly changing albeit on such a small scale we dont notice. Could you get a different value for E from the same mass by varying the speed of light, and if light can get slower would that potentialy mean that Energy is being lost or is that touching into relativity.
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SO one of MY DVD's has a crack fom the centre hole, so should I sue the company that made it or is my DVD player in violation of cracking DVD's :D.
Well it will be truely smart if it crash's or switch's itself of when you get a call from a salesperson - that I'd buy.
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Wise words indeed, and the concept of getting a pet/cat is brilliant.
Only thing I would add is getting a Large bin with a top scoop to sit in a corner of the room so you can throw your trash at it.