Also: First FP for this calendar month, another sublime accomplishment by your humble revolutionary hero.
(How can we do this, you ask? Volume. Why do we do this, you ask? For great justice. Some people are content merely to remove "zigs", or perform main screen turnons, but not yr fearless PTADH fp guy, laws no--I go the extra mile to ensure pure quality for YOU, the reader and end user. It's my duty to please that booty, you masochistic beauty.)
I like the idea. Slashboxes for ads...even the idea about a forum for comments on ads is starting to grow on me the more I think about it. More empowerment to the end user--cool beans.
(Article posted @ 8:02, above comment posted 8:00...you guys could at least throw a "first post!" in there when utilizing insider FP privileges...)
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We can use something like this too!
on
The Dot in .mars
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· Score: 2
Interesting how they plan to translate all this to a standard IP stack, described in the article a bit vaguely as thus:
"We're working on developing a layered architecture that would allow us to move data from point to point without worrying about the fine details. That way, as new technologies come along, we'll be able to make changes to the underlying physical infrastructures without disturbing the protocols that are already in place. So we'll have a layering of how we flow information across some infrastructure that lets us evolve it in time and accommodate technology infusion without having to scrap our investment."
This technology could be of great use to those in rural and/or remote areas here on Earth, especially where habitat and conditions are most demanding (Lord knows, broadband is currently beyond their reach in most cases..).
Additionally, if they can really pull this off, it could be the next NASA "killer app" like Velcro/Teflon/Tang/etc., improving their profile in the public eye dramatically by developing new "space-age" technology with everyday usefulness. Nice!
_
Will people go for this? Doubtful.
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CPRM Smokescreen
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· Score: 4
From the article:
ANY function stuffed into a disk drive would be compatible with this
spec, which means it doesn't define a standard at all. How exactly
would this promote interoperability among manufacturers? Or as the
committee chair asked, before voting against it, preventing it from
immediately becoming part of the standard, "Why are we doing this?"
Exactly. That dude realized that people are going to vote with their wallets on this one. Given the choice between a brand name, copy-protected drive or an unknown manufacturer's "open" drive, people will choose the more non-intrusive option.
This is one instance where consumers CAN make a difference, by electing not to go along with this strangely Orwellian notion of CPRM.
...and now it appears to be fixed...Zounds! I salute your quick response. May you eventually get all the nano stuff you dream of sir!
thx. Regarding the article itself, I believe that the CueCat (and perhaps, in their own four-fingered way, the Simpsons) would currently appear to have no chance to survive, and should therefore (in light of its predicament at hand) make its time.
A superconductor of this nature would be highly beneficial to scientists working in this field, however...surely the applications are numerous. Hopefully the ramifications of what this could mean are being tempered with the necessity of further study before any sort of deployment on a large scale occurs, for to implement such a solution prematurely could have potentially disastrous results.
This might make things difficult for hosts in the USA, but what can they realistically do about servers in, say, Europe? Or a "Sealand"-ish offshore host? (Although the DeCSS issue does come to mind...)
Ultimately the RIAA would seem to be aiming at an ever-moving target here anyway--have all the recent attacks on "software piracy" by MS and others been a deterrent to the warez d00dz? I still see just as much free (as in beer!) stuff available now as there has ever been...
The Napster argument gets old here on/. 'cause the rebuttal is always "yeah but you're STEALING!!! It's WRONG!" Nevertheless, people are now accustomed to getting free music and WILL NOT GO BACK. Even the clueless will get clued in quickly when Napster (1)shuts down (2)begins charging $, and millions will migrate to whatever alternative is available. Stealing or not, that's just how people ARE.
There will always be props for dead homiez. AND: one day there will again be no shortage of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Until that glorious day, PTADH shall have to suffice, and righteously so.
Props to that 3 car too, we're gonna miss ol' Dale.
That is one of the reasons I choose to FP in their honor instead. Now their legacy is digitally enshrined, intact. Behold, the meme propagateth, and the meme raths outgrabe.
"Props to all dead homiez" is a message from which we all can draw a measured dosage of comfort and hope, a rarity in These Troubled Times where THE MAN considers PTADH's trVth to be a lesson best unheard by the masses, a call to arms best picked up by Their answering service--hence the (-1; Offtopic) bestowed upon it by unknown yet diabolical forces at Their command...
Yea, tho it lacks the immediacy and cachet of the Latest Internet Catchphrase (that honor, as you know, "are belong" to something else), its enduring legacy shall be the direct simplicity and abstracted sincerity it manages to encompass in the mere space of five small words; surely all among us can utilize the short time it takes to read through this historic phrase for a brief reflection upon our own dead homiez, and be bettered for the experience. (And it wouldn't hurt to mod it up every once in awhile, in order that our valued/. friends who browse at high thresholds may receive the benefit of its wisdom as well.)
Don't sweat it man, I found myself nodding in agreement with the bulk of it...very well put.
(Would it be of further embarrassment to you--and it's not meant to be--for me to note that "Major Tom" was actually by David Bowie? Maybe you're thinking about "Rocket Man", another good space tune;)
Actually sir, while I have a great deal of respect for your product and overall body of work here, I must confess that each "props to all dead homiez" fp is gained the old fashioned way, through the nebulous workings of the Force (as well as conventional advanced weaponry and tactics--broadband, knowledge of/. editor posting patterns, etc.) plus the magical powers bestowed upon all who have a low user ID.
Props to you and the Bone-O-Rama massive however, as well as Ida, Katy, Jamie S (my babe), French Toast, Bob Abooey, Huge ASCII FP Guy, and all the first posters keepin this schitt real in this new century. Do not dismiss us out of hand, for FP is the arena where Science and Art convene!!!
1.1.2000: Y2K. Computers ok, but run on banks causes friction for a few days. Apocalyptic belief investment by high percentage of general population adds to brief period of instabililty. Many cool parties ensue.
Jan 2000: Dallas beats Buffalo in Super Bowl. Again. Garth Brooks "as Chris Gaines" consumes own feces onstage during halftime show.
Spring 2000: Amid more "random shootings" and "threat of deadly anthrax" in a major American city/cities, US declares Martial Law. FEMA, National Guard, military deployed into American cities. All guns/weapons confiscated. Internet restrictions deployed, NSA censors/blocks foreign packet traffic. Dissidents, intellectuals identified, neutralized. George W. Bush anointed Supreme High Epopt of New America, marries Britney Spears. First slam dunk in WNBA game occurs. War breaks out in the Middle East. Again.
Summer 2000: Last "militia group" neutralized. CIA-planted "Turner Diaries", advocating small guerrila armies, effective in fragmenting "militia" movement into tiny local squads easily eliminated by government military force. Buddy Hackett continues his comeback. Latrell Sprewell scores 75 points vs. LA Clippers.
Fall 2000: system in place. Most folks don't notice, don't care, or know better than to "step out of line". A few freedom fighters, working with the ideas of Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich (among others), attempt to solidify movement, but encounter more resistance from the governed than the government. Ideas are transmitted to the lumpenprole through TV (and HAARP, electromagnetically affecting brainwaves through trace metals in "anti-depressants" and other chemically suggestive products of the pharmaceutical industry). People disappear often, like those old Russia/KGB stories; apathy reigns nevertheless. A dude who travels the country sharing spiritual insights is hailed as a prophet, then killed soon after.
1.1.2001: Canadian freedom fighters liberate the state of Wisconsin. US zombie citizens, mesmerized by "Backstreet Boys New Year's Rockin Eve 2001" tv program, barely notice.
1.20.2001: Bob Hope dies, as does William Shatner (separately). Last "outlaw" independent radio/tv outlets hunted down, killed. Vice-Epopt Gates and his marauding hordes build a pyramid of LUG members' skulls outside Portland, Oregon.
3.13.2001: Everybody is HAARPed into thinking it's 1994. Forever. Many soma'd citizens become huge collection of wet cell batteries. Carrot Top remakes "Young Einstein" and wins Oscar--PROOF the deintellectualization process is complete.
May 2001: New Star Wars movie out.
2003 A small group finds a way to get off the planet unnoticed. Sporting events are violent Roman circuses where many players are killed during the course of games. Tom Jones and Courtney Love collaborate on an album of old Armenian filk songs. Statue of Liberty dismantled, buried up to head on beach.
2004-2011: Some other stuff happens. Like:
Japanese built "Mr. Robotos" appear ubiquitously in US cities, monitoring citizens' daily lives. Howard Stern, a fugitive for eight years, shot down by FCC jet fighters over Sacramento. The riddle of the Ancient Star will be solved and used by the righteous to build the Ditto Machine. Plesiosaur discovered living in Lake Michigan; the "city of Chicago" is revealed as a mind control experiment which never existed. Self-microwaving burritos change the face of the culinary landscape.
Nerf technology is used to repel an oncoming asteroid. A new type of cheese is synthesized. The night sky is lit up with space advertising. Scooby Doo turns 40 (280 in dog years). Clint Eastwood dies, inspiring the Spaghetti Rebellion (immediately squashed). A controversial report states that french fries are "the perfect food". People begin to spontaneously disco dance.
Dec 2012: The real apocalypse, at least for us. Bye bye!
2012-: Single cell life starts all over again, for the umpteenth time on this planet...
Now THERE'S a writer, dammit! Woo-hoo! Read, and be enlightened. heh.
"Sneak shameless hangman rope gangster government leaders into Frankenstein living death eternal slavery, I now go to death for your lowest deadly felony crime against me. Frankenstein Earphone Radio parroting puppet gangster slave do not dare to repeat any part of this truthful message. For like Mr. Francis E. Dec, Esquire, you too are expendable and you too can be beaten bloodily by the gangster police and dragged in chains into a windowless telephone booth type prison cell and put into maximum security insanity prison for undetectable extermination, and by the lowest gangsterism, namely, the law, character assassinated for life as an insane, criminal menace to this worse Gangster Communism. Now that your terrified, trembling delirium has subsided have your computer subdivision play out my letter, and you, reread my letter FOR YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR A FUTURE. Francis E. Dec, Esquire, 29 Maple Street, Hempstead, NY."
Slashdot Mirror
Also: First FP for this calendar month, another sublime accomplishment by your humble revolutionary hero.
(How can we do this, you ask? Volume. Why do we do this, you ask? For great justice. Some people are content merely to remove "zigs", or perform main screen turnons, but not yr fearless PTADH fp guy, laws no--I go the extra mile to ensure pure quality for YOU, the reader and end user. It's my duty to please that booty, you masochistic beauty.)
props to all live homiez
You can check them out at the Joint Center for Atomic Research site. According to their organizational chart, they are working on some interesting things indeed!!
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I like the idea. Slashboxes for ads...even the idea about a forum for comments on ads is starting to grow on me the more I think about it. More empowerment to the end user--cool beans.
(Article posted @ 8:02, above comment posted 8:00...you guys could at least throw a "first post!" in there when utilizing insider FP privileges...)
_
Interesting how they plan to translate all this to a standard IP stack, described in the article a bit vaguely as thus:
"We're working on developing a layered architecture that would allow us to move data from point to point without worrying about the fine details. That way, as new technologies come along, we'll be able to make changes to the underlying physical infrastructures without disturbing the protocols that are already in place. So we'll have a layering of how we flow information across some infrastructure that lets us evolve it in time and accommodate technology infusion without having to scrap our investment."
This technology could be of great use to those in rural and/or remote areas here on Earth, especially where habitat and conditions are most demanding (Lord knows, broadband is currently beyond their reach in most cases..).
Additionally, if they can really pull this off, it could be the next NASA "killer app" like Velcro/Teflon/Tang/etc., improving their profile in the public eye dramatically by developing new "space-age" technology with everyday usefulness. Nice!
_
From the article:
ANY function stuffed into a disk drive would be compatible with this
spec, which means it doesn't define a standard at all. How exactly
would this promote interoperability among manufacturers? Or as the
committee chair asked, before voting against it, preventing it from
immediately becoming part of the standard, "Why are we doing this?"
Exactly. That dude realized that people are going to vote with their wallets on this one. Given the choice between a brand name, copy-protected drive or an unknown manufacturer's "open" drive, people will choose the more non-intrusive option.
This is one instance where consumers CAN make a difference, by electing not to go along with this strangely Orwellian notion of CPRM.
Nice one sir. Props to you as well!
__
...and now it appears to be fixed...Zounds! I salute your quick response. May you eventually get all the nano stuff you dream of sir!
thx. Regarding the article itself, I believe that the CueCat (and perhaps, in their own four-fingered way, the Simpsons) would currently appear to have no chance to survive, and should therefore (in light of its predicament at hand) make its time.
Hey man, can you fix the formatting? Following this article on the main page, everything else is now in italics
*not that i have anything against italics; just trying to be (+1; Informative)....
from the main page. Strange.
A superconductor of this nature would be highly beneficial to scientists working in this field, however...surely the applications are numerous. Hopefully the ramifications of what this could mean are being tempered with the necessity of further study before any sort of deployment on a large scale occurs, for to implement such a solution prematurely could have potentially disastrous results.
This might make things difficult for hosts in the USA, but what can they realistically do about servers in, say, Europe? Or a "Sealand"-ish offshore host? (Although the DeCSS issue does come to mind...)
/. 'cause the rebuttal is always "yeah but you're STEALING!!! It's WRONG!" Nevertheless, people are now accustomed to getting free music and WILL NOT GO BACK. Even the clueless will get clued in quickly when Napster (1)shuts down (2)begins charging $, and millions will migrate to whatever alternative is available. Stealing or not, that's just how people ARE.
Ultimately the RIAA would seem to be aiming at an ever-moving target here anyway--have all the recent attacks on "software piracy" by MS and others been a deterrent to the warez d00dz? I still see just as much free (as in beer!) stuff available now as there has ever been...
The Napster argument gets old here on
was a frood who really knew where his towel was. Here's the Fuller FAQ, as well as a coupla other (+1; Informative) links to Bucky/Buckyball info...
There will always be props for dead homiez. AND: one day there will again be no shortage of lemon-soaked paper napkins. Until that glorious day, PTADH shall have to suffice, and righteously so.
Props to that 3 car too, we're gonna miss ol' Dale.
That is one of the reasons I choose to FP in their honor instead. Now their legacy is digitally enshrined, intact. Behold, the meme propagateth, and the meme raths outgrabe.
/. friends who browse at high thresholds may receive the benefit of its wisdom as well.)
"Props to all dead homiez" is a message from which we all can draw a measured dosage of comfort and hope, a rarity in These Troubled Times where THE MAN considers PTADH's trVth to be a lesson best unheard by the masses, a call to arms best picked up by Their answering service--hence the (-1; Offtopic) bestowed upon it by unknown yet diabolical forces at Their command...
Yea, tho it lacks the immediacy and cachet of the Latest Internet Catchphrase (that honor, as you know, "are belong" to something else), its enduring legacy shall be the direct simplicity and abstracted sincerity it manages to encompass in the mere space of five small words; surely all among us can utilize the short time it takes to read through this historic phrase for a brief reflection upon our own dead homiez, and be bettered for the experience. (And it wouldn't hurt to mod it up every once in awhile, in order that our valued
No.
I was reminded more of Jim Carrey as "Fire Marshall Bill" in that old In Living Color TV show...
Don't sweat it man, I found myself nodding in agreement with the bulk of it...very well put.
;)
(Would it be of further embarrassment to you--and it's not meant to be--for me to note that "Major Tom" was actually by David Bowie? Maybe you're thinking about "Rocket Man", another good space tune
"Eight Miles High" was about drugs, dude.
However, the hoax regarding Glen Campbell's playing the guitar parts has been disproven...
His comment was actually "Good Luck, Mr. Gorsky". Interesting story, actually.
Actually sir, while I have a great deal of respect for your product and overall body of work here, I must confess that each "props to all dead homiez" fp is gained the old fashioned way, through the nebulous workings of the Force (as well as conventional advanced weaponry and tactics--broadband, knowledge of /. editor posting patterns, etc.) plus the magical powers bestowed upon all who have a low user ID.
Props to you and the Bone-O-Rama massive however, as well as Ida, Katy, Jamie S (my babe), French Toast, Bob Abooey, Huge ASCII FP Guy, and all the first posters keepin this schitt real in this new century. Do not dismiss us out of hand, for FP is the arena where Science and Art convene!!!
fp
Here. It's in Quicktime.
TIA for the +5 Informative score which this comment will no doubt garner.
"The Solomon Project" was the OJ trial computer thing. Lots of other hilarious ones on the site as well...
dr. j
Jan 2000: Dallas beats Buffalo in Super Bowl. Again. Garth Brooks "as Chris Gaines" consumes own feces onstage during halftime show.
Spring 2000: Amid more "random shootings" and "threat of deadly anthrax" in a major American city/cities, US declares Martial Law. FEMA, National Guard, military deployed into American cities. All guns/weapons confiscated. Internet restrictions deployed, NSA censors/blocks foreign
packet traffic. Dissidents, intellectuals identified, neutralized. George W. Bush anointed Supreme High Epopt of New America, marries Britney Spears. First slam dunk in WNBA game occurs.
War breaks out in the Middle East. Again.
Summer 2000: Last "militia group" neutralized. CIA-planted "Turner Diaries", advocating small guerrila armies, effective in fragmenting "militia" movement into tiny local squads easily eliminated by government military force. Buddy Hackett continues his comeback. Latrell Sprewell scores 75 points vs. LA Clippers.
Fall 2000: system in place. Most folks don't notice, don't care, or know better than to
"step out of line". A few freedom fighters, working with the ideas of Nikola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich (among others), attempt to solidify movement, but encounter more resistance from the governed than the government. Ideas are transmitted to the lumpenprole through TV (and HAARP, electromagnetically affecting brainwaves through trace metals in "anti-depressants" and other chemically suggestive products of the pharmaceutical industry). People disappear often,
like those old Russia/KGB stories; apathy reigns nevertheless. A dude who travels the country sharing spiritual insights is hailed as a prophet, then killed soon after.
1.1.2001: Canadian freedom fighters liberate the state of Wisconsin. US zombie citizens, mesmerized by "Backstreet Boys New Year's Rockin Eve 2001" tv program, barely notice.
1.20.2001: Bob Hope dies, as does William Shatner (separately). Last "outlaw" independent radio/tv outlets hunted down, killed. Vice-Epopt Gates and his marauding hordes build a pyramid of LUG members' skulls outside Portland, Oregon.
3.13.2001: Everybody is HAARPed into thinking it's 1994. Forever. Many soma'd citizens become huge collection of wet cell batteries.
Carrot Top remakes "Young Einstein" and wins Oscar--PROOF the deintellectualization process is complete.
May 2001: New Star Wars movie out.
2003 A small group finds a way to get off
the planet unnoticed. Sporting events are violent Roman circuses where many players are killed during the course of games. Tom Jones and Courtney Love collaborate on an album of old Armenian filk songs. Statue of Liberty dismantled, buried up to head on beach.
2004-2011: Some other stuff happens. Like:
Japanese built "Mr. Robotos" appear ubiquitously in US cities, monitoring citizens' daily lives. Howard Stern, a fugitive for eight years, shot down by FCC jet fighters over Sacramento. The riddle of the Ancient Star will be solved and used by the righteous to build the Ditto Machine. Plesiosaur discovered living in Lake Michigan; the "city of Chicago" is revealed as a mind control experiment which never existed. Self-microwaving burritos change the face of the culinary landscape.
Nerf technology is used to repel an oncoming asteroid. A new type of cheese is synthesized.
The night sky is lit up with space advertising. Scooby Doo turns 40 (280 in dog years). Clint Eastwood dies, inspiring the Spaghetti Rebellion (immediately squashed). A controversial report states that french fries are "the perfect food".
People begin to spontaneously disco dance.
Dec 2012: The real apocalypse, at least for us. Bye bye!
2012-
Now THERE'S a writer, dammit! Woo-hoo! Read, and
be enlightened. heh.
"Sneak shameless hangman rope gangster government leaders into Frankenstein living death eternal
slavery, I now go to death for your lowest deadly felony crime against me. Frankenstein Earphone Radio
parroting puppet gangster slave do not dare to repeat any part of this truthful message. For like Mr. Francis
E. Dec, Esquire, you too are expendable and you too can be beaten bloodily by the gangster police and
dragged in chains into a windowless telephone booth type prison cell and put into maximum security
insanity prison for undetectable extermination, and by the lowest gangsterism, namely, the law, character
assassinated for life as an insane, criminal menace to this worse Gangster Communism. Now that your
terrified, trembling delirium has subsided have your computer subdivision play out my letter, and you, reread
my letter FOR YOUR ONLY HOPE FOR A FUTURE. Francis E. Dec, Esquire, 29 Maple Street,
Hempstead, NY."
dr. j
"hey, where's my $100?"