Ms. McCaughey said she is now concerned that discussions in online classrooms may be less private than those that take place in traditional ones.
If it took something like this to raise that concern for the first time, then maybe it was a good thing. She should be concerned about the security of online discussions, if they are about sensitive topics. Not just because of possible police action, but to stop random snoopers.
There's no way to do that. There's no direct connection between the server and the listener's speakers (or ears). The files have to go over the network, and through the listener's computer and audio card and such in order to be heard. If the listener's computer can play the music, then it can also make a copy.
IIRC, deliberately sinking someone else's ship also counts, unless you're at war. It's not as profitable, but it can be useful: make a habit of sinking everyone who doesn't let you board willingly, and the rest will soon wise up.
Hmm, now why does this sound familiar?
Hmm... I seem to recall that a few years ago, they successfully sued the Scouts for singing copyrighted songs around a fireplace. Does anyone have a reference to that?
Unfortunately, if you successfully boycott them they will just use their lower sales figures as "evidence" of "piracy", and get even more draconian laws -- and higher blank-media taxes.
Are you seriously saying there is no chance of finding alien intelligence? I'd say there is a much better chance of finding intelligence out there than down here:-)
Cloning the game would be much more work. It's much better (and more fun!) to make a new game instead. Then such a new game could easily be adapted to be playable with bnetd:-)
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That's true, but it also becomes easier to argue that the time travelers were there all along, in other words that the time travel is a closed loop rather than an act of interference.
So if they step on a bug, it was probably the bug that would otherwise have mutated into a poisonous insect that would have killed the first tribe of humans.
*Two* neutrons? He must mean *three*.
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If the time machine works, you would see three neutrons, not two:
1. The original neutron, traveling forward in time
2. The same neutron, traveling backward in time
3. The same neutron, traveling forward in time again after it reached the start of the experiment
There would be a brief instant when neutrons 2 and 3 are the same, but that wouldn't be measurable. So for all intents you should observe three neutrons. Probably two neutrons and an anti-neutron, since that's what a backward-traveling neutron will look like.
That is, unless you permanently reverse the neutron's direction of time. But in that case the event is indistinguishable from a normal neutron <-> antineutron annihilation, which happens all the time.
... or, I guess, if the neutron "teleports"
(chronoports?) back through time rather than traveling there.
You have a clock, relativly close to sea level, where gravity has a greater pull and there are more particles compacted together. Then you have this plane way up there further away from the earth. Equalling less gravity and less particals compacting it. Of course it is going to slow down.
That wasn't how the experiment went. What they did was put the clocks in two different planes, one going west (against the earth's rotation) and the other going east (along with the earth's rotation). Then they compared the clocks.
When you push on the sand on one end, you don't immediately push sand out the other. Instead, you will create a shockwave in the sand (a moving area of higher-density sand), and that wave will travel slower than light.
... try it and see:-)
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This is exactly what Julian May's Many-Coloured Land series is about. People are sent 6M years back in time because they want to escape modern civilization. Good books, if a bit long:-)
The series avoids time-travel paradoxes by making the trip one-way, and far enough that anything the time-travelers do would have been wiped out by the time of recorded history.
Don't worry, these are not spoilers -- everything I said can be found in the first few chapters.
This is very different. Bentini's theorem is simply "Mathematicians can be wrong":-)
I agree with that one. Some proofs are large and complicated, and they might have bugs in them that haven't been noticed yet. I even think it's possible that human minds have bugs which makes them incapable of noticing certain kinds of errors.
More straightforwardly, some proofs have computer-generated parts and their verification is computer-assisted (the four-colour problem, IIRC), and we all know that computer programs have bugs:-)
Being so close to the kernel version numbers was confusing. Potato (Debian 2.2) actually works with 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 kernels. With some updates it'll run with 2.4 kernels as well. If we call woody 3.0, then it's very clear that the number is not related to the kernel. Until we get Linux 3.0 of course:-)
These days, any idea is patentable if you add "... on the Internet!".
Amazon: Remember your customers' billing information... on the Internet!
Overture: Give well-paying advertisers the best spots... on the Internet!
Microsoft: Upgrade software according to the vendor's recommendations... on the Internet!
Oh well. I used to have more of these but my memory isn't very good. It's amusing to construct them though. And a bit sad, because it seems to really work that way.
I hope Google wins this one. Is there some way the public can help? I wouldn't mind contributing to a legal fund, even if Google isn't "little guys".
If you read the license carefully you will see that it's also a license for U.S. patents 5,265,261 and 5,437,013.
These patents are pretty similar, and the second seems to be an update of the first. They look to me like bogus software patents, covering the stunning invention of single-copy network drivers.
The Big Questions:
Will Microsoft attempt to enforce these patents?
Can Samba be implemented without infringing these patents?
A quick read of the patent gives the impression that adding an extra copy step would do it, in which case a user-space implementation should be safe. But I'm not sure. It depends on what level of abstraction they can get away with for "receiver" and "transport" and so forth. And it might be that any "computer system" with an mswindows client on one end infringes. IANAL.
The game all the family can play! Destroy a business model while watching TV! I think that phone companies should provide a service where they announce your Telemarketer Game score after each call. Then we can all post our scores on Slashdot and brag about them.
The game all the family can play! Destroy a business model while watching TV! I think that phone companies should provide a service where they announce your Telemarketer Game score after each call. Then we can all post our scores on Slashdot and brag about them.
The watermark would only show which user you originally sold the copy to; it might have been sold secondhand, for example. Or simply stolen. And if users leave the files on their Windoze machines, then expect the next SirCam-like virus to target.mp3 instead of.doc.
Actually what I like most about the Chronicles is the way its universe keeps expanding. Every time I thought I'd figured out how Corwin's world worked, he discovered something new that blew my mind. Of course, it doesn't work that well on a second read, but I still spend some evenings puzzling out details about how shadow-walking works:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Look at what he's really saying here:
Thesis: Microsoft products
Antithesis: Marketplace
Says it all, really :-)
If it took something like this to raise that concern for the first time, then maybe it was a good thing. She should be concerned about the security of online discussions, if they are about sensitive topics. Not just because of possible police action, but to stop random snoopers.
There's no way to do that. There's no direct connection between the server and the listener's speakers (or ears). The files have to go over the network, and through the listener's computer and audio card and such in order to be heard. If the listener's computer can play the music, then it can also make a copy.
IIRC, deliberately sinking someone else's ship also counts, unless you're at war. It's not as profitable, but it can be useful: make a habit of sinking everyone who doesn't let you board willingly, and the rest will soon wise up. Hmm, now why does this sound familiar?
Hmm... I seem to recall that a few years ago, they successfully sued the Scouts for singing copyrighted songs around a fireplace. Does anyone have a reference to that?
Unfortunately, if you successfully boycott them they will just use their lower sales figures as "evidence" of "piracy", and get even more draconian laws -- and higher blank-media taxes.
So... the security assurance process is directed by someone who is very easily astonished? This does not raise my trust in Microsoft's security :-)
Even better! One million humans with one million televisions will eventually produce a nuclear explosion :-)
Are you seriously saying there is no chance of finding alien intelligence? I'd say there is a much better chance of finding intelligence out there than down here :-)
I suspect that the techies did make their own private network for clueful people only.
... and none of us were invited :-)
Cloning the game would be much more work. It's much better (and more fun!) to make a new game instead. Then such a new game could easily be adapted to be playable with bnetd :-)
That's true, but it also becomes easier to argue that the time travelers were there all along, in other words that the time travel is a closed loop rather than an act of interference.
So if they step on a bug, it was probably the bug that would otherwise have mutated into a poisonous insect that would have killed the first tribe of humans.
If the time machine works, you would see three neutrons, not two:
1. The original neutron, traveling forward in time
2. The same neutron, traveling backward in time
3. The same neutron, traveling forward in time again after it reached the start of the experiment
There would be a brief instant when neutrons 2 and 3 are the same, but that wouldn't be measurable. So for all intents you should observe three neutrons. Probably two neutrons and an anti-neutron, since that's what a backward-traveling neutron will look like.
That is, unless you permanently reverse the neutron's direction of time. But in that case the event is indistinguishable from a normal neutron <-> antineutron annihilation, which happens all the time.
... or, I guess, if the neutron "teleports" (chronoports?) back through time rather than traveling there.
You have a clock, relativly close to sea level, where gravity has a greater pull and there are more particles compacted together. Then you have this plane way up there further away from the earth. Equalling less gravity and less particals compacting it. Of course it is going to slow down.
That wasn't how the experiment went. What they did was put the clocks in two different planes, one going west (against the earth's rotation) and the other going east (along with the earth's rotation). Then they compared the clocks.
When you push on the sand on one end, you don't immediately push sand out the other. Instead, you will create a shockwave in the sand (a moving area of higher-density sand), and that wave will travel slower than light.
... try it and see :-)
This is exactly what Julian May's Many-Coloured Land series is about. People are sent 6M years back in time because they want to escape modern civilization. Good books, if a bit long :-)
The series avoids time-travel paradoxes by making the trip one-way, and far enough that anything the time-travelers do would have been wiped out by the time of recorded history.
Don't worry, these are not spoilers -- everything I said can be found in the first few chapters.
This is very different. Bentini's theorem is simply "Mathematicians can be wrong" :-)
I agree with that one. Some proofs are large and complicated, and they might have bugs in them that haven't been noticed yet. I even think it's possible that human minds have bugs which makes them incapable of noticing certain kinds of errors.
More straightforwardly, some proofs have computer-generated parts and their verification is computer-assisted (the four-colour problem, IIRC), and we all know that computer programs have bugs :-)
Being so close to the kernel version numbers was confusing. Potato (Debian 2.2) actually works with 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 kernels. With some updates it'll run with 2.4 kernels as well. If we call woody 3.0, then it's very clear that the number is not related to the kernel. Until we get Linux 3.0 of course :-)
These days, any idea is patentable if you add "... on the Internet!".
Amazon: Remember your customers' billing information... on the Internet!
Overture: Give well-paying advertisers the best spots... on the Internet!
Microsoft: Upgrade software according to the vendor's recommendations... on the Internet!
Oh well. I used to have more of these but my memory isn't very good. It's amusing to construct them though. And a bit sad, because it seems to really work that way.
I hope Google wins this one. Is there some way the public can help? I wouldn't mind contributing to a legal fund, even if Google isn't "little guys".
If you read the license carefully you will see that it's also a license for U.S. patents 5,265,261 and 5,437,013. These patents are pretty similar, and the second seems to be an update of the first. They look to me like bogus software patents, covering the stunning invention of single-copy network drivers.
The Big Questions:
Will Microsoft attempt to enforce these patents?
Can Samba be implemented without infringing these patents?
A quick read of the patent gives the impression that adding an extra copy step would do it, in which case a user-space implementation should be safe. But I'm not sure. It depends on what level of abstraction they can get away with for "receiver" and "transport" and so forth. And it might be that any "computer system" with an mswindows client on one end infringes. IANAL.
... to encourage widespread popularity of the Telemarketer Game.
The game all the family can play! Destroy a business model while watching TV! I think that phone companies should provide a service where they announce your Telemarketer Game score after each call. Then we can all post our scores on Slashdot and brag about them.
Oops, I posted this comment to the wrong article. Sorry.
... to encourage widespread popularity of the Telemarketer Game.
The game all the family can play! Destroy a business model while watching TV! I think that phone companies should provide a service where they announce your Telemarketer Game score after each call. Then we can all post our scores on Slashdot and brag about them.
The watermark would only show which user you originally sold the copy to; it might have been sold secondhand, for example. Or simply stolen. And if users leave the files on their Windoze machines, then expect the next SirCam-like virus to target .mp3 instead of .doc.
Actually what I like most about the Chronicles is the way its universe keeps expanding. Every time I thought I'd figured out how Corwin's world worked, he discovered something new that blew my mind. Of course, it doesn't work that well on a second read, but I still spend some evenings puzzling out details about how shadow-walking works :-)