Because IA-64 requires a lot of work to support for mediocre results on an atrociously expensive platform that appears to be on a glide path to catastrophic failure. Those efforts could be more productively spent elsewhere.
That's the best one-sentence indictment of the Inanium I've seen to date.
They simply took their camera, started filming and showed how they walked pretty much unharassed from the parking lot up to the nearest plane that was being refueled. If they were carrying a bomb instead of a camera, there might be a problem.
How about if they had a bomb _in_ a camera? TV cameras are big things... how much Semtex do you think you could get in one of those?
Clearly though the idea that Echelon can hoover up phone/emails and record/scan them is just so much hooey, as I always thought it was. Reassuring in a way.
Did you read Mr Blair's famous file on the Iraqi weapons programme? This coming from the PM of a country with some very serious espionage and eavesdropping capability, and enough friends in high places at CIA to call on extra material resources if necessary... Not a word of it wasn't already in the public domain. It was all stuff we already knew, from old news and from the inspectors' reports from the nineties, before they were thrown out. The only contributions from James Bond and friends were speculation about Saddam's intentions, which quite frankly any TV news programme could have made.
It looks like Big Brother doesn't know half as much as he'd like us to think.
if this is impossible and I must have seen something else, tell me, I could be wrong.
It's impossible. You must have seen something else. I tell you, you're wrong.
It couldn't possibly have been neutrinos - the setups to detect those are huge things, vast underground caverns full of bleach or water. The vapour would detect much heavier particles... Was there a radioactive source nearby?
Anyone think Microsoft may be starting to sound a little like a government. They are proposing 'sanctions' now, next it will be 'peace keeping' and 'police actions'. Perhaps a dark vision of the future to come.
If Microsoft are a government, they can have war declared on them.
So, next time they get found guilty of abusing their monopoly, the judge can give them a penalty that will stick: a squadron of Harriers at 4 am in Redmond...;-)
Palladium would have been Microsoft's price for x86-64 Windows. If MS develop that OS, then end users are going to see what Hammer can really do. If they don't, and everyone just runs XP in 32-bit mode, then all you have is a fast Athlon.
Early models will be able to deactivate Pd, anyway. When it becomes hardwired, that's the day I start looking at Apple and ARM.
The thing is, though, email is _not_ a government-mandated public service. It's a privilege you enjoy as a consequence of paying someone to maintain an email server, and for the bandwidth necessary to access it.
Now, if I'm running a mail server, it's _my_ server. My network - my rules; I am absolute dictator. I'll block what I like for whatever reasons I like, and the only people who can complain are my users, who pay for the service. Complaints from them might change my mind. Complaints from outsiders won't.
So if I feel that a particular network on the internet is so spam-ridden that it's not worth accepting mail from, I won't accept the mail. It's that simple.
In practice, of course, you can be more flexible than this; the ideal might be some web-based front-end to SpamAssassin, allowing the users themselves to set their own weightings to each blacklist and spam fingerprint, and their own threshold of spammishness above which mails will be dumped...
I was personally involved in a case a year ago where thousands of IPs (including mine) were blacklisted, and had been blacklisted for many months, all because a spammer operated from a single IP number for about 1 week. The ISP shut them down. The blacklist even had a note with the date that the ISP confirmed the spammer would be removed within 1 week. But did they remove the block. No.
Promises are worthless. You promise to remove the spammer in 1 week - I promise to remove the block in 1 week. And my promise is exactly as good as yours is.
First, I'd set up some spamtrap addresses, at various ISPs throughout the world. I'd seed these addresses on web pages and USENET, but never use them to sign up for anything. Thus, there's guaranteed to be no truth to the claim 'you signed up for this'.
Anyone spamming these addresses gets traced and a complaint is sent to their ISP. If the same spammer sends again from the same ISP, another complaint is sent, and the spammer's own IP number is added to a published blacklist. Continued spamming leads to the blacklisting of larger and larger sections of IP address space, up to and including the entire ISP. The idea is to put pressure on the ISP to disconnect, rather than just move, the spammer.
Obviously this will piss many people off, so it would have to be done anonymously - no contact information, either for tip-offs or for complaints. I'd monitor news.admin.net-abuse.email, and if anyone posted a genuine error in my list, I'd fix it ASAP.
Oh, wait... someone already did that. Well, that's saved me a lot of time, then!
we need live action akira like we need anime plan 9 from outer space...
You swine, you utter, utter swine. Now I'm going to have a mental image of an anime Bela Lugosi pratting about with his cloak over his face... For the rest of my LIFE! Now they have to make an anime Plan 9, just to save my sanity!
Actually, the anime guy would probably look a lot more like Lugosi than the fellow they used in the original Plan 9:-)
I mean, forget wardriving - imagine being able to sit next to someone with a laptop and actually get between them and their hard disk!
Oh, the havoc you could cause;-)
Provided we're not looking at severe glaciation, just a mini-ice-age like we had a few centuries ago, Europe can probably take it. Most of us live in artificial urban environments anyway, and there's plenty of room to improve our insulation. A colder climate could devastate our agriculture, but Brussels already pays out billions of euros to people just for them _not_ to farm!
And, to be honest, we're fantastically rich by global standards. Look for English and Germans to go buying places in Spain, Italy and north Africa if things start getting a little chilly at home...
... is a fourth, and a fifth, and a sixth, and more, and the last one's wired to some ACME-brand TNT.
I wonder if they're stubborn enough to open all those doors?...
Get Hollywood to the Moon. They could make some badass movies there. Call Ronnie Howard - he could probably shoot a sequel to Apollo 13 there, they'd have closer to real weightlessness.
Yeah, but I doubt a movie of Apollo 14 would have the same dramatic tension...
Bertelsmann got a lot of free advertising out of this, so it is not like they lost all of thier investment.
Does that help, though?
As far as I know nobody goes to the CD store and says 'Ooh, a new EMI album! Must have!' The valuable brands are the various McPunk skater kiddies or bubblegum plastic-pop groups, rather than the name of the record label itself. Being a recognised brand could help when signing new artists, but I doubt it helps sales of CDs directly.
Seriously, though, this isn't news. Bertelsmann got its tentacles into Napster when it was the biggest thing on the net. Now it's a set of servers with no users.
Napster is, de facto, a stiff, bereft of life; it is no more. Bertelsmann have enough sense not to throw good money after bad.
I'll just add to all the other people saying how you can die in LucasArts games...
Maniac Mansion (from before the No-Death policy)
- drown in the pool
- radiation poisoning if you microwave water from the pool
- murdered by Weird Ed if you give him the Exploded Bits of Hamster
- murdered by Weird Ed if you give him the publishing offer for Purple Tentacle's manuscript
- murdered by Green Tentacle if you give him a publishing offer for anything other than the Sushi Platter demo tape
- cause a nuclear meltdown (in several ways)
- waste the essential Paint Remover (no-win situation)
- launch the Weird Edsel without the Evil Purple Meteor (no-win)
- waste the coins when steering the Really Powerful Telescope (again, no-win)
Monkey Island 1: let Guybrush stay underwater for over ten minutes.
Fate of Atlantis: there are various ways of getting killed by Nazis.
Whew...
I remember watching the Daily Show several months ago, and they did a segment on how the U.K. recognized Jedi as a religion.
It wasn't officially recognised in any sense, but enough people put 'Jedi' for it to get its own category when they published the numbers. This does not mean that people who declare their homes to be Jedi temples get tax breaks, nor can they perform weddings...
I can't remember whether I put 'None', 'Atheist', 'Other' or 'Kibologist', but I'm fairly sure I didn't go for Jedi.
Make them use the force to move some shit around the room. If they can do it, let them have their religion.
How about these weird 'Christians' we hear so much about these days, then? Make them use the Mustard Seed of Faith to move a mountain about the place. If they can do it, let them have their religion...
The only problem is that this technology makes it possible to transmit pay-per-view transmissions via 802.11 wireless to your neighbors - and that's not legal.
Don't do that, then.
The technology of 'drill through wall, run cable along row of houses' also allows you to transmit pay-per-view to your neighbours. I wonder if Black & Decker are violating the DMCA?
I don't know why it is, but the moment American media gets hold of something, it turns it into bland, flavorless mush. Is it really so hard to come up with a half hour of entertaining television, devoid of filler?
Um, the Americans had this before the UK. Biohazard astounded the crowd by self-righting, a full two years before Rex's legendary backflip. Blendo tore opponents to shreds long before Hypnodisc came up with an inferior implementation of the flywheel weapon.
I think the main reason UK Robot Wars is so good as regards the action / bullshit ratio is that we have so _many_ robots to get through. There's simply no time for filler material. Anyone with a bit of mechanical ability can knock together a robot, and getting it down to London is hardly a transcontinental commute.
Personally, I just want to get hold of a video of Razer on Battlebots. Their website brags like mad about that.
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Because IA-64 requires a lot of work to support for mediocre results on an atrociously expensive platform that appears to be on a glide path to catastrophic failure. Those efforts could be more productively spent elsewhere.
That's the best one-sentence indictment of the Inanium I've seen to date.
That's two sentences.
How about if they had a bomb _in_ a camera? TV cameras are big things... how much Semtex do you think you could get in one of those?
Did you read Mr Blair's famous file on the Iraqi weapons programme? This coming from the PM of a country with some very serious espionage and eavesdropping capability, and enough friends in high places at CIA to call on extra material resources if necessary... Not a word of it wasn't already in the public domain. It was all stuff we already knew, from old news and from the inspectors' reports from the nineties, before they were thrown out. The only contributions from James Bond and friends were speculation about Saddam's intentions, which quite frankly any TV news programme could have made.
It looks like Big Brother doesn't know half as much as he'd like us to think.
if this is impossible and I must have seen something else, tell me, I could be wrong.
It's impossible. You must have seen something else. I tell you, you're wrong.
It couldn't possibly have been neutrinos - the setups to detect those are huge things, vast underground caverns full of bleach or water. The vapour would detect much heavier particles... Was there a radioactive source nearby?
... if this goes through, to write a batch converter to fix the newline characters?
$ fixnewline *.xml
Shouldn't take too much Perl... hell, a shell script could probably do it. Or am I missing something?
Excuse me? Microsoft close a port? What colour is the sky where you live?
Anyone think Microsoft may be starting to sound a little like a government. They are proposing 'sanctions' now, next it will be 'peace keeping' and 'police actions'. Perhaps a dark vision of the future to come.
;-)
If Microsoft are a government, they can have war declared on them.
So, next time they get found guilty of abusing their monopoly, the judge can give them a penalty that will stick: a squadron of Harriers at 4 am in Redmond...
Palladium would have been Microsoft's price for x86-64 Windows. If MS develop that OS, then end users are going to see what Hammer can really do. If they don't, and everyone just runs XP in 32-bit mode, then all you have is a fast Athlon.
Early models will be able to deactivate Pd, anyway. When it becomes hardwired, that's the day I start looking at Apple and ARM.
The thing is, though, email is _not_ a government-mandated public service. It's a privilege you enjoy as a consequence of paying someone to maintain an email server, and for the bandwidth necessary to access it.
Now, if I'm running a mail server, it's _my_ server. My network - my rules; I am absolute dictator. I'll block what I like for whatever reasons I like, and the only people who can complain are my users, who pay for the service. Complaints from them might change my mind. Complaints from outsiders won't.
So if I feel that a particular network on the internet is so spam-ridden that it's not worth accepting mail from, I won't accept the mail. It's that simple.
In practice, of course, you can be more flexible than this; the ideal might be some web-based front-end to SpamAssassin, allowing the users themselves to set their own weightings to each blacklist and spam fingerprint, and their own threshold of spammishness above which mails will be dumped...
I was personally involved in a case a year ago where thousands of IPs (including mine) were blacklisted, and had been blacklisted for many months, all because a spammer operated from a single IP number for about 1 week. The ISP shut them down. The blacklist even had a note with the date that the ISP confirmed the spammer would be removed within 1 week. But did they remove the block. No. Promises are worthless. You promise to remove the spammer in 1 week - I promise to remove the block in 1 week. And my promise is exactly as good as yours is.
So, what would you suggest?
First, I'd set up some spamtrap addresses, at various ISPs throughout the world. I'd seed these addresses on web pages and USENET, but never use them to sign up for anything. Thus, there's guaranteed to be no truth to the claim 'you signed up for this'.
Anyone spamming these addresses gets traced and a complaint is sent to their ISP. If the same spammer sends again from the same ISP, another complaint is sent, and the spammer's own IP number is added to a published blacklist. Continued spamming leads to the blacklisting of larger and larger sections of IP address space, up to and including the entire ISP. The idea is to put pressure on the ISP to disconnect, rather than just move, the spammer.
Obviously this will piss many people off, so it would have to be done anonymously - no contact information, either for tip-offs or for complaints. I'd monitor news.admin.net-abuse.email, and if anyone posted a genuine error in my list, I'd fix it ASAP.
Oh, wait... someone already did that. Well, that's saved me a lot of time, then!
we need live action akira like we need anime plan 9 from outer space...
:-)
You swine, you utter, utter swine. Now I'm going to have a mental image of an anime Bela Lugosi pratting about with his cloak over his face... For the rest of my LIFE! Now they have to make an anime Plan 9, just to save my sanity!
Actually, the anime guy would probably look a lot more like Lugosi than the fellow they used in the original Plan 9
I mean, forget wardriving - imagine being able to sit next to someone with a laptop and actually get between them and their hard disk! Oh, the havoc you could cause ;-)
Then the camera, being a good trusted DRM-compliant appliance, will realise it has no licence to look at you and promptly shut itself down...
... Yes, seriously.
Provided we're not looking at severe glaciation, just a mini-ice-age like we had a few centuries ago, Europe can probably take it. Most of us live in artificial urban environments anyway, and there's plenty of room to improve our insulation. A colder climate could devastate our agriculture, but Brussels already pays out billions of euros to people just for them _not_ to farm!
And, to be honest, we're fantastically rich by global standards. Look for English and Germans to go buying places in Spain, Italy and north Africa if things start getting a little chilly at home...
... is a fourth, and a fifth, and a sixth, and more, and the last one's wired to some ACME-brand TNT. I wonder if they're stubborn enough to open all those doors?...
Get Hollywood to the Moon. They could make some badass movies there. Call Ronnie Howard - he could probably shoot a sequel to Apollo 13 there, they'd have closer to real weightlessness.
Yeah, but I doubt a movie of Apollo 14 would have the same dramatic tension...
Turned out to be a duplicate. Got pulled.
Does that help, though?
As far as I know nobody goes to the CD store and says 'Ooh, a new EMI album! Must have!' The valuable brands are the various McPunk skater kiddies or bubblegum plastic-pop groups, rather than the name of the record label itself. Being a recognised brand could help when signing new artists, but I doubt it helps sales of CDs directly.
Seriously, though, this isn't news. Bertelsmann got its tentacles into Napster when it was the biggest thing on the net. Now it's a set of servers with no users.
Napster is, de facto, a stiff, bereft of life; it is no more. Bertelsmann have enough sense not to throw good money after bad.
I'll just add to all the other people saying how you can die in LucasArts games... Maniac Mansion (from before the No-Death policy) - drown in the pool - radiation poisoning if you microwave water from the pool - murdered by Weird Ed if you give him the Exploded Bits of Hamster - murdered by Weird Ed if you give him the publishing offer for Purple Tentacle's manuscript - murdered by Green Tentacle if you give him a publishing offer for anything other than the Sushi Platter demo tape - cause a nuclear meltdown (in several ways) - waste the essential Paint Remover (no-win situation) - launch the Weird Edsel without the Evil Purple Meteor (no-win) - waste the coins when steering the Really Powerful Telescope (again, no-win) Monkey Island 1: let Guybrush stay underwater for over ten minutes. Fate of Atlantis: there are various ways of getting killed by Nazis. Whew...
It wasn't officially recognised in any sense, but enough people put 'Jedi' for it to get its own category when they published the numbers. This does not mean that people who declare their homes to be Jedi temples get tax breaks, nor can they perform weddings...
I can't remember whether I put 'None', 'Atheist', 'Other' or 'Kibologist', but I'm fairly sure I didn't go for Jedi.
How about these weird 'Christians' we hear so much about these days, then? Make them use the Mustard Seed of Faith to move a mountain about the place. If they can do it, let them have their religion...
The only problem is that this technology makes it possible to transmit pay-per-view transmissions via 802.11 wireless to your neighbors - and that's not legal.
Don't do that, then.
The technology of 'drill through wall, run cable along row of houses' also allows you to transmit pay-per-view to your neighbours. I wonder if Black & Decker are violating the DMCA?
I don't know why it is, but the moment American media gets hold of something, it turns it into bland, flavorless mush. Is it really so hard to come up with a half hour of entertaining television, devoid of filler?
Um, the Americans had this before the UK. Biohazard astounded the crowd by self-righting, a full two years before Rex's legendary backflip. Blendo tore opponents to shreds long before Hypnodisc came up with an inferior implementation of the flywheel weapon.
I think the main reason UK Robot Wars is so good as regards the action / bullshit ratio is that we have so _many_ robots to get through. There's simply no time for filler material. Anyone with a bit of mechanical ability can knock together a robot, and getting it down to London is hardly a transcontinental commute.
Personally, I just want to get hold of a video of Razer on Battlebots. Their website brags like mad about that.