What sort of environment would this sort of device need in order to operate? Glancing at the picture I looks like the device internals need to be very precisely aligned to work. How does it react to vibration? Temperature? Phase of the moon (kidding)? Would a regular CEV style environment be sufficent or does it require uber-protection?
Like NASA has nothing better to do than deal with some kooks and their overinflated-rumour-of-the-week. Maybe once this bit of nonsense is put to rest NASA can go back to doing some real science and Skiffy can actaully get some science fiction rolling again (as opposed to endless Knight Rider re-runs).
I'm no archaeologist, but the images have about the same level of conclusiveness as to their composition (that they are "axe-heads") as the Cydonia Face. I'm sure there are other reasons for their conclusions but I sure don't see them from my untrained eye.
Odd, I've been working with various versions of Linuxen for the last two years on an Inspiron 8K. I can't speak to the video issue (I have the ATI mobility in mine -- it installs without incident on RedHat 8/9) but I have not had any of the hard drive issues you cite. In fact, I upgraded the drive without problem one...
Of course corporations, through their employees, are protected by the first ammendment. However, the right to free speech does not entitle one to an audience.
I have every right to say, or have my company say through my representation, anything I choose. I don't have the right to make you listen.
So now the bozos are about to have access to 50-million recently *verified* phone numbers that were provided by the do-not-call list so that those clowns wouldn't call?
In fact wasn't one of the registers in the SID chip of the C-64/128 based on this very idea (I'm not sure about the VIC though). Something about one of the voice registers getting its input from line noise. Anybody remember the details on this one?
In fact isn't it a bit of a tennant in civil court that the parties are duty-bound to prevent damages if it is within their power? From what I can see much of the supposed damage could have been mitigated by SCO with a simple email or newsgroup posting. If that's correct than I don't see how they are entitled to almost any damages at all.
Perhaps instead of "boxers or briefs," our next presidential candidate will have to answer "POP3 or IMAP?"
No way. We need to resolve the whole "vi" vs "emacs" issue first. After that, "tabs" vs "spaces", then the whole issue of placement of braces (not to mention brace-less languages like Python). After all thats settled then maybe we'll be ready for email transport preferences if the browser wars don't flare up again first.
This case clearly shows how silly software patent-laws are. With guns and sanctions they dictate who can use what technology, because someone were "first". Come on! Most of us stopped such silliness in the kindergarden.
The problem with that approach (no software patents at all) is that the little guy STILL gets hurt. In this case it occurs when the fledgling inventor tries to convert his idea on a napkin into a prototype and then into a marketable product. Without some sort of patent, larger companies with far more manpower and money would snuff out the competition faster than you could say "Intellectual Property".
OTOH, the broadness applied in many of these patents is close to absurd. Some balence needs to be struck, but I for one have no idea how that should come to be...
foxnews.com also ran an article on this. My favorite part:
"This truly is a case of regulatory overkill," said Tim Searcy, ATA [ed: American Teleservices Association] executive director. "The FCC ignored its obligations under the federal law and the Constitution to carefully balance the privacy interests of consumers with the First Amendment rights of legitimate telemarketers."
I just don't get why it seems so hard to for some to understand that the right to free speech doesn't entitle one to an audience.
No, just admin rights, or at least some sort of Back-Oriface thingy. All that needs to be accessed is the appropriate bits of encrypted password data. And it's a difference between 15 seconds and 2 minutes, it's 15 seconds and 17 hours (15 seconds x 4096 possible salts), even if you could do it with the same algorithm. I'm not saying the UNIX password file is that overly secure but there is a difference between a reasonable level of encryption and almost no encryption at all.
I, being the consummate clothes mis-placer that I am, would certainly love to be able to wave a scanner around my home to locate my socks, underwear, shirts, car keys, housecat, etc. Maybe it could even be used to tell me which of the scanned objects is currently the cleanest based on the amount of time since it was last put into the washing machine -- which would also require scanning since it's usually buried under the other misplaced clothes.
...a whole university class full of fresh-monkeys armed with a high-school grasp of English are provided with glorified electronic typewriters. Creation of whole new works of Shakespeare should be right around the corner.:)
The issue isn't entirely about simply getting around the Windows license (that's part of it, don't get me wrong). The issue also includes the fact that I want to run some Windows apps while still doing Linux stuff. This means that some sort of sandbox/emulator is necessary (wine, win4lin, vmware, etc) so that I can run IE on rare occasion to test stuff while not having to reboot into Windows mode. As an added benfit, if the emulator is written correctly, my machine won't need a reboot simply because Windows crashes -- only the Windows apps would.
Yeah, that's the one I used. It worked out okay but I did have to do some magic to make sure that logouts worked (I wanted a specialized login manager for other reasons anyway).
For $200 plus another $80 in parts we recently purchased 10 machines that we are using for 20 users (via RedHat 9 and the multiple XFree86 hack). They are working quite well for data entry via the internet and at under $150/seat (purchased more RAM and a video card) they're quite a bargain if you ask me.
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What sort of environment would this sort of device need in order to operate? Glancing at the picture I looks like the device internals need to be very precisely aligned to work. How does it react to vibration? Temperature? Phase of the moon (kidding)? Would a regular CEV style environment be sufficent or does it require uber-protection?
Just curious...
Like NASA has nothing better to do than deal with some kooks and their overinflated-rumour-of-the-week. Maybe once this bit of nonsense is put to rest NASA can go back to doing some real science and Skiffy can actaully get some science fiction rolling again (as opposed to endless Knight Rider re-runs).
Sheesh.
I'm no archaeologist, but the images have about the same level of conclusiveness as to their composition (that they are "axe-heads") as the Cydonia Face. I'm sure there are other reasons for their conclusions but I sure don't see them from my untrained eye.
Hmmm... so what sort of frothy, evil, radioactive monster might be spawned after exposure to *that*?
Oh wait... never mind...
Odd, I've been working with various versions of Linuxen for the last two years on an Inspiron 8K. I can't speak to the video issue (I have the ATI mobility in mine -- it installs without incident on RedHat 8/9) but I have not had any of the hard drive issues you cite. In fact, I upgraded the drive without problem one...
As with everythng, your milage may vary...
Does anyone know which cities the re-releases (of FOTR and TTT) will appear?
Of course corporations, through their employees, are protected by the first ammendment. However, the right to free speech does not entitle one to an audience.
I have every right to say, or have my company say through my representation, anything I choose. I don't have the right to make you listen.
So now the bozos are about to have access to 50-million recently *verified* phone numbers that were provided by the do-not-call list so that those clowns wouldn't call?
Yippie. >:|
that the network card has more computing horsepower than the motherboard?
Suits me just fine. Now all I have to do is figure out which month reality will set in so I can buy a few Puts on ole' SCOX...
Unless, of course, that your whole business is the warehousing and distribution of RFID tags. If that's the case, you're probably just about set.
In fact wasn't one of the registers in the SID chip of the C-64/128 based on this very idea (I'm not sure about the VIC though). Something about one of the voice registers getting its input from line noise. Anybody remember the details on this one?
Here are some links:
SID chip features
Boulder Dash used the CIA apparently
In fact isn't it a bit of a tennant in civil court that the parties are duty-bound to prevent damages if it is within their power? From what I can see much of the supposed damage could have been mitigated by SCO with a simple email or newsgroup posting. If that's correct than I don't see how they are entitled to almost any damages at all.
No way. We need to resolve the whole "vi" vs "emacs" issue first. After that, "tabs" vs "spaces", then the whole issue of placement of braces (not to mention brace-less languages like Python). After all thats settled then maybe we'll be ready for email transport preferences if the browser wars don't flare up again first.
The problem with that approach (no software patents at all) is that the little guy STILL gets hurt. In this case it occurs when the fledgling inventor tries to convert his idea on a napkin into a prototype and then into a marketable product. Without some sort of patent, larger companies with far more manpower and money would snuff out the competition faster than you could say "Intellectual Property".
OTOH, the broadness applied in many of these patents is close to absurd. Some balence needs to be struck, but I for one have no idea how that should come to be...
I just don't get why it seems so hard to for some to understand that the right to free speech doesn't entitle one to an audience.
No, just admin rights, or at least some sort of Back-Oriface thingy. All that needs to be accessed is the appropriate bits of encrypted password data. And it's a difference between 15 seconds and 2 minutes, it's 15 seconds and 17 hours (15 seconds x 4096 possible salts), even if you could do it with the same algorithm. I'm not saying the UNIX password file is that overly secure but there is a difference between a reasonable level of encryption and almost no encryption at all.
Anyone have a .torrent for this puppy yet?
Anyone know which specific models or serial #s are affected by this? It didn't appear to be in the article or any of the links I clicked through.
I, being the consummate clothes mis-placer that I am, would certainly love to be able to wave a scanner around my home to locate my socks, underwear, shirts, car keys, housecat, etc. Maybe it could even be used to tell me which of the scanned objects is currently the cleanest based on the amount of time since it was last put into the washing machine -- which would also require scanning since it's usually buried under the other misplaced clothes.
...a whole university class full of fresh-monkeys armed with a high-school grasp of English are provided with glorified electronic typewriters. Creation of whole new works of Shakespeare should be right around the corner. :)
(Yes, I know they tried that experiment already. Maybe this bunch won't make a mess on the keyboards.)
The issue isn't entirely about simply getting around the Windows license (that's part of it, don't get me wrong). The issue also includes the fact that I want to run some Windows apps while still doing Linux stuff. This means that some sort of sandbox/emulator is necessary (wine, win4lin, vmware, etc) so that I can run IE on rare occasion to test stuff while not having to reboot into Windows mode. As an added benfit, if the emulator is written correctly, my machine won't need a reboot simply because Windows crashes -- only the Windows apps would.
Yeah, that's the one I used. It worked out okay but I did have to do some magic to make sure that logouts worked (I wanted a specialized login manager for other reasons anyway).
For $200 plus another $80 in parts we recently purchased 10 machines that we are using for 20 users (via RedHat 9 and the multiple XFree86 hack). They are working quite well for data entry via the internet and at under $150/seat (purchased more RAM and a video card) they're quite a bargain if you ask me.
... Fat Tony from the Simpsons myself.