And I remember the humorous website at jesus.com. The guy stated in his FAQ that he would never sell this domain name, unless you propose him 10 million dollars. This was told as a joke but now he changed his address. I am curious...
They don't have a grasp of technology, that's not their job. They should instead be competent to find competent people with no private interest to delegate decisions and design.
He wants to make a political statement but his PDF is not free to download, you have to be premium member of Ars Technica ? Am I missing something here ?
Well, this is a news for nerds : now intelligence gathering is automatizing its processes.
CycCorp, known in the OSS world for releasing OpenCyc is rumored to have provided NSA with a software for doing exactly this. Well, at least they are taking federal bonds to do just this. Except the program in question was the TIA "Total Information Awareness" program (renamed "Terrorist Information Awareness"). Its goal is simply to have a file of a dozen of pages on every individual on the planet. From what I read, the technology is quite the same, except it would have access to non-open sources of news. Is that wrong ?
Personally I would say no, but I only shiver at what would happen if I had a file with the habits of a dozen of government personalities, their agenda, their itinerary to go home, the school where their children attend, the kind of food they like, their religious beliefs, the people they gave money too...
I agree that the gathering of information is not a crime, but if it is a right for governemental agencies, I claim that right for me too.
They'd have to sort through hours of "Micr0$0f7 suxx, lam3r!!!" in order to get any useful information. Not terribly dissimilar from regular Slashdot users.
But quite dissimilar from the +5 moderated posts. Slashdot has this unique automoderation feature that one seems interested in copying. Flames on/. take the shape of a lot of nested posts with, occasionally, one intelligent argument being shown at +5.
Really, the signal/noise ratio is very high here compared to other forums.
I don't linke the "we are the core of the technology world" meme, though...
I'm sure all artists would love to return to the days when artists of all stripes travelled from town to town hoping to eke out maybe at least a meal or two before moving on, and then died penniless and destitute leaving behind nothing for their families, except for the rare few that managed to milk the patronage of some rich old person.
That wouldn't be like those days, that would be a unique situation where a billion persons (those who have internet access, mainly) can listen freely to music and where, potentially one billion persons can make a donation. I don't know if it would lower or raise artists income. I don't think anyone can know for sure.
And, on a side note, I think it is normal, if no one is willing to support an artist, that he can't make a living out of his creations.
And the people who created all this content got paid how exactly?
Alas, they'll suffer. Artists will become poorer, those who do music would have to love what they are doing, because making a living out of it is gonna be hard. The music world will change, will evolve. It is artistic, it is subject to radical transformations. Artists have not always lived like rock-stars (sic) but art has never ceased to exist. Before the mass-marketing of music, it worked a lot by patronage of a few rich aristocrats. Maybe we can switch to a mass-patronage of the multitude of music listeners around the world. There are no guarantees that profits will be the same or that the successful groups will be today's successful groups. But what I can guarantee is that today's system can't last ad vitam eternam.
That would be like : "Welcome to WikiTune, please chose : - Listen today's featured songs - Browse by categories - Browse by artists - Go to your playlists - Listen to what your friends recommanded you"
An exhaustive music catalog, containing every version of every tune from classical music to the latest trash-ska-punk band from Canton, made by fans, organized by fans. All of this while sitting in the subway with your earphones plugged to your cell phone. Is that a communist utopia ? Is that the future ten years from now ?
You mean that a broad, automatic, transparent tampering, is difficult because it requires the tampering software to be concealed ? The fact that it would require to hire a few competent and dishonest developers surely doesn't make it secure enough to use it in any serious election.
Also, why do the ballots move to the counters where counters could go themselves to the preccinct ?
Stop thinking that democracy is a complex thing to organize. When one can have an army, one can have a voting system that is reliable and fast. I wouldn't say inexpensive, but since when do we discuss budget when we talk about Democracy ?
these guys are touting how Firefox is vulnerable because they were able to find a bug that they refused to warn the firefox team about (like that refusal is Firefox's fault)
There was a bug, it was firefox team's fault. That's okay, nobody asked them to take responsibilities for a project they develop for free. But I don't like to blame the whistle blowers. Okay they wanted to make themselves a name by releasing a zero-day exploit, at least they were wise enough not to unleash it in the wild. Now the firefox team will patch this, but I don't like to make it sound like it is the black-hats who are responsible for the bug.
The report did not specify whether the device... had succeeded at producing more energy than it consumed, the main obstacle to making fusion commercially viable
If it lasted only three seconds, it was probably not self-sufficient.
So, what about listening to messages transmitted in China from a listening post in the US? Are you saying that we have to not listen? Or do they have the right to bomb us if we listen?
While a common practice, spying of another country is a gray zone. A caught spy is usually condemned by the spyied country unless he/she has a diplomatic status.
International law (you know, the thing that applies to the US but no one else) says that a nation owns only 100 miles up, and beyond that they can lay no claims. So, if this is to be believed, a the Chinese military just attacked the US military while the US military was in international waters. That is an act of war. If the US acknowleges it, we have to acknowlege it as an act of war.
The same treaty makes space a military-free zone. So tell me, what was a US milmitary item doing in orbit ?
I don't like the chinese govt and such news give me a cold feeling in the back but I would consider that, regarding current laws and treaties, it is only fair game. They treat the spy satelite more gently than a spy : they didn't destroyed, didn't ask for it to be removed, they just blinded it temporarily.
There is a thing called international law. While I agress it is a bit laughable as no police force enforce these, they define duties and right of nations, governments, etc... Their ground are international treaties and are only enforced by the good will of every treaty members. It is fragile and breaks often, but it exists.
Wait, you're trying to tell me that a software program run on thousands of machines has failed in some cases!? No fscking way. That never happens--WGA should be error free--this is unacceptable.
This is, in fact, unacceptable. WGA was not sold as a software you purchase at your own risk, it was force-fed by windows update to legitimate windows update. The least they could have done is to make it run transparently.
The presence of lots of blood is already a problem. It tends to pool, obstucting the surgeons view. That's why they have suction mechanisms. Suction is still valid in micro-gravity.
At least, thanks to gravity, the blood pools and make it possible to just put a suction tube in the pool. In zero G, the problem is different, therefore, tools will probably differ too. Blood won't pool, but will probably "bubble". It could be an advantage if you need to work deeper in the wound where the blood would usually go but you would have to make suction engines with different specifications.
Generally speaking, I think surgery would be a lot simpler in zero-G : you wouldn't have to worry about the orientation of the patient, of the constraints applied to every organ, etc... You still would have to overcome the beggining period where tools will have to be invented.
Of course all my knowledge of surgery only comes from the MASH TV show...
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And I remember the humorous website at jesus.com. The guy stated in his FAQ that he would never sell this domain name, unless you propose him 10 million dollars. This was told as a joke but now he changed his address. I am curious...
Isn't this technology already commercialised ? I remember seeing it in pre-production research a few years ago...
They don't have a grasp of technology, that's not their job. They should instead be competent to find competent people with no private interest to delegate decisions and design.
He wants to make a political statement but his PDF is not free to download, you have to be premium member of Ars Technica ? Am I missing something here ?
... did they accept the cookie ?
3 works of world famous authors available for download on Slashdot's frontpage !
Seriously, I wonder if anyone could legally claim copyright ownership on a 6 word story.
If not, download my director's cut of the Star Wars saga script :
Luke, I am your father... Noooo!
You claim the right to own a program that reads the news for you? More power to you, I guess.
Laugh while you can, terrorist wannabe.
Well, this is a news for nerds : now intelligence gathering is automatizing its processes.
CycCorp, known in the OSS world for releasing OpenCyc is rumored to have provided NSA with a software for doing exactly this. Well, at least they are taking federal bonds to do just this. Except the program in question was the TIA "Total Information Awareness" program (renamed "Terrorist Information Awareness"). Its goal is simply to have a file of a dozen of pages on every individual on the planet. From what I read, the technology is quite the same, except it would have access to non-open sources of news. Is that wrong ?
Personally I would say no, but I only shiver at what would happen if I had a file with the habits of a dozen of government personalities, their agenda, their itinerary to go home, the school where their children attend, the kind of food they like, their religious beliefs, the people they gave money too...
I agree that the gathering of information is not a crime, but if it is a right for governemental agencies, I claim that right for me too.
but it's hardly worth the shock-factor of "Massive Hole Found In Linux" panic headlines.
The title reads "Weakness In Linux Kernel's Binary Format", quite accurate if you ask me.
They'd have to sort through hours of "Micr0$0f7 suxx, lam3r!!!" in order to get any useful information. Not terribly dissimilar from regular Slashdot users.
/. take the shape of a lot of nested posts with, occasionally, one intelligent argument being shown at +5.
But quite dissimilar from the +5 moderated posts. Slashdot has this unique automoderation feature that one seems interested in copying. Flames on
Really, the signal/noise ratio is very high here compared to other forums.
I don't linke the "we are the core of the technology world" meme, though...
I'm sure all artists would love to return to the days when artists of all stripes travelled from town to town hoping to eke out maybe at least a meal or two before moving on, and then died penniless and destitute leaving behind nothing for their families, except for the rare few that managed to milk the patronage of some rich old person.
That wouldn't be like those days, that would be a unique situation where a billion persons (those who have internet access, mainly) can listen freely to music and where, potentially one billion persons can make a donation. I don't know if it would lower or raise artists income. I don't think anyone can know for sure.
And, on a side note, I think it is normal, if no one is willing to support an artist, that he can't make a living out of his creations.
And the people who created all this content got paid how exactly?
Alas, they'll suffer. Artists will become poorer, those who do music would have to love what they are doing, because making a living out of it is gonna be hard. The music world will change, will evolve. It is artistic, it is subject to radical transformations. Artists have not always lived like rock-stars (sic) but art has never ceased to exist. Before the mass-marketing of music, it worked a lot by patronage of a few rich aristocrats. Maybe we can switch to a mass-patronage of the multitude of music listeners around the world. There are no guarantees that profits will be the same or that the successful groups will be today's successful groups. But what I can guarantee is that today's system can't last ad vitam eternam.
If it would be legal, it would simply "happen"
That would be like :
"Welcome to WikiTune, please chose :
- Listen today's featured songs
- Browse by categories
- Browse by artists
- Go to your playlists
- Listen to what your friends recommanded you"
An exhaustive music catalog, containing every version of every tune from classical music to the latest trash-ska-punk band from Canton, made by fans, organized by fans.
All of this while sitting in the subway with your earphones plugged to your cell phone.
Is that a communist utopia ?
Is that the future ten years from now ?
You mean that a broad, automatic, transparent tampering, is difficult because it requires the tampering software to be concealed ? The fact that it would require to hire a few competent and dishonest developers surely doesn't make it secure enough to use it in any serious election.
Also, why do the ballots move to the counters where counters could go themselves to the preccinct ?
Stop thinking that democracy is a complex thing to organize. When one can have an army, one can have a voting system that is reliable and fast. I wouldn't say inexpensive, but since when do we discuss budget when we talk about Democracy ?
these guys are touting how Firefox is vulnerable because they were able to find a bug that they refused to warn the firefox team about (like that refusal is Firefox's fault)
There was a bug, it was firefox team's fault. That's okay, nobody asked them to take responsibilities for a project they develop for free. But I don't like to blame the whistle blowers. Okay they wanted to make themselves a name by releasing a zero-day exploit, at least they were wise enough not to unleash it in the wild. Now the firefox team will patch this, but I don't like to make it sound like it is the black-hats who are responsible for the bug.
The report did not specify whether the device... had succeeded at producing more energy than it consumed, the main obstacle to making fusion commercially viable
If it lasted only three seconds, it was probably not self-sufficient.
So, what about listening to messages transmitted in China from a listening post in the US? Are you saying that we have to not listen? Or do they have the right to bomb us if we listen?
While a common practice, spying of another country is a gray zone. A caught spy is usually condemned by the spyied country unless he/she has a diplomatic status.
International law (you know, the thing that applies to the US but no one else) says that a nation owns only 100 miles up, and beyond that they can lay no claims. So, if this is to be believed, a the Chinese military just attacked the US military while the US military was in international waters. That is an act of war. If the US acknowleges it, we have to acknowlege it as an act of war.
The same treaty makes space a military-free zone. So tell me, what was a US milmitary item doing in orbit ?
I don't like the chinese govt and such news give me a cold feeling in the back but I would consider that, regarding current laws and treaties, it is only fair game. They treat the spy satelite more gently than a spy : they didn't destroyed, didn't ask for it to be removed, they just blinded it temporarily.
There is a thing called international law. While I agress it is a bit laughable as no police force enforce these, they define duties and right of nations, governments, etc... Their ground are international treaties and are only enforced by the good will of every treaty members. It is fragile and breaks often, but it exists.
A spy satellite is a near object, Mars isn't.
A spying telescope based on Mars (or the Moon) should raise some interesting points then...
It surely may sound ironic in the case of China, but : a sovereign nation has a right to privacy.
Wait, you're trying to tell me that a software program run on thousands of machines has failed in some cases!? No fscking way. That never happens--WGA should be error free--this is unacceptable.
This is, in fact, unacceptable. WGA was not sold as a software you purchase at your own risk, it was force-fed by windows update to legitimate windows update. The least they could have done is to make it run transparently.
The presence of lots of blood is already a problem. It tends to pool, obstucting the surgeons view. That's why they have suction mechanisms. Suction is still valid in micro-gravity.
At least, thanks to gravity, the blood pools and make it possible to just put a suction tube in the pool. In zero G, the problem is different, therefore, tools will probably differ too. Blood won't pool, but will probably "bubble". It could be an advantage if you need to work deeper in the wound where the blood would usually go but you would have to make suction engines with different specifications.
Generally speaking, I think surgery would be a lot simpler in zero-G : you wouldn't have to worry about the orientation of the patient, of the constraints applied to every organ, etc... You still would have to overcome the beggining period where tools will have to be invented.
Of course all my knowledge of surgery only comes from the MASH TV show...
The thing should be long enough to finally get into geostationary orbit and the test here is made on a
100 meters long cable ?
What do they think they'll learn from such a thing ? We have buildings 5 times that high...
Couldn't they make it at least one kilometer ? 1/36000 th of the distance...
All of that, without the function "save", *sigh*...
By the way, am I the only Amber geek who imagined wired things with MySpace making a call to YouTube thanks to a Trump card ?