Need to verify a couple of things. Blu-Ray is the one which requires "Activation" for use and disc's once used in one player will not play in another. Right/Wrong? Does it send back info to SONY about what you are playing on the device, thereby breaking a few US laws on spying? Does it have a remote internet kill sequence that SONY can send out to turn your Blu-Ray player into a brick? If true it will probably take some hacker a few days to figure out and broadcast sequences on the net turning every Blu-Ray player into a brick.
Does it apply only to video and audio? If not will this outlaw any computer used to recieve and process faxes? How about the equipment that converts audio into text for the deaf? Analog to digital conversion is required for that equipment to work. Knowing the techo-illiterate congress we have they will probably pass a law so vague that it criminalizes everyone.
/sarcasm Of course the RIAA will have Homeland Security chasing after every violater of the law because by then they will have made a case that IP is a national security issue.:p \sarcasm
Loved the TV show, and I loved the movie, have it playing right now.:)
If the show is over thats ok, I have the DVD's and the hope Joss comes up with more and better shows.
What is really sad is that this even got to the courtrooms. Teaching and defining science should be left to the scientists. Not to political appointees who have no clue what science is.
All I know is, voodoopc has gathered all the parts for OMEN system they are shipping me. That will be a FX-57/4GB RAM/2x7800 GTX-512 SLI system. I do not think it is a market limitiation, they can sell more 512 cards than they can manufacture. It is either a supply issue or the G71 will be out in 4 months and trounce the 7800's by a huge margin for a much lower price point.
Depends on your contract. Most job contracts I have signed basically say either party can terminate the agreement at any time. ie no 2 weeks notice. My previous job I got po'ed enough that I quit my job at 3:00 AM after fixing a problem despite having to deal with micromangement from a manager who had no clue what I was doing.
Depending on how amiable the seperations are I have had to terminate accounts for system admins the day they put in 2 weeks notice. In other cases the system admin accounts are left intact and the admins are kept on retainer as paid consultants on an hourly basis if their expertise is needed.
What makes you think the first quantum computer will be developed and built in the US? I would bet on Japan or India developing and building the first ones. The US is too backward facing technologically these days to invest money into real science.
We have patents so our lawyers and corporations can make money suing people who actually try to create new products. Not too much of a worry, soon other countries are just going to ignore our patents. This will happen when some US patent company tries to sue some Foreign Film maker for making a movie that stepped on US patented storylines.
I just love that post by the guy who wants ISO's of the CD so they can use the rootkit. Now SONY will now have their entire product pirated not for the content they are trying to protect but for the content protection system they chose to employ! ROFL
It will not be long before M$ "Trusted computing platform" will be used instead of all these spyware. That will be a few years away. For now however the only way I would play WOW is on a seperate boot image. Create a boot image for WOW and keep all your personal stuff in another closed off boot image. It means you have to reboot if you want to do other stuff but given that most guys playing WOW play for hours at a time that will not matter too much. Hmm, anyone try to run WOW in a virtual machine partition?
They will probably try to make it illegal for you to not watch your required 1-2 hours a day of commercials. ie skipping commercials via PVR will be outlawed. I guess they consider TV a right and not a priviledge. That the $3 Billion could go to real Science, be used to pay down the deficit, pay for more cops, etc.. is not a consideration.
I already have too much LED lighting in my bedroom. LED's from my air ionizer, DVD/VCR player, Amp/Reciever, 3 computers, Tivo, HDTV reciever, Digital Cable box, UPS,... red, blue, orange and green LED's. Who needs Christmas decorations, my home electronics supply more than enough garish lighting.
Well PA is getting a lot of free publicity from this right now. If they manage it well which they seem to have so far, Jack Thompson gets dipicted as a loony, ambulance chasing lawyer with political aspirations. If they can emphasise the loony ambulance chasing aspect strong enough, the current political movers will think twice about using his crusade as a political platform. In that case it will be a win situation for PA.
The amount of water in the oceans goes up and down every year. This is due to the amount of ice build up at the poles. There is a specific cycle. Water gets locked up in the Artic, as water is released in the Antartic and vice versa. There is a measurable difference as this yearly cycle is followed with a maximum amount of water in the oceans 2 times a year. The ice in the permanent ice packs is now melting. The glaciers in Greenland and permanent snowpacks in the mountains are all melting, these have never been part of the cycle. All of this additional water adds to the yearly rise in height of the oceans. Tidal bulge just makes it worse.
Consider the ice at the poles as out of the glass. Look up tidal bulge, the total volume of water does not include the water frozen at the poles. Once melted or melting on the oceans the effect of that extra volume of water will be the ice cubes dumped into a full glass.
What scientific lead? Most of the new patents in the world are now developed outside of the US. All the new electronic toys come out first in Korea and Japan.
What is not amazing is that they were capable of creating the pyramids or other technologies. They were not all ignorant savages back then. That they used a hundred or so peasants holding bronze mirrors to sink ships instead of trained archers should not be a surprise.
I started blocking ads when I started up the task manager one day to discover that 90%+ of my cpu was being taken up by firefox which was sitting in the background while I was working on some other stuff. Turned out to be all those flash ads. Started zapping ads since then. Nowdays if an ad catches my attention it gets zapped and the originating website of the ad get blocked permanently.
Does it work in the lab, possibly. Does it work in deployment? Hooked up to a ship that has been out of port for 8 months, corrosion barnacles etc.. will it work at that time? Pretty much do not care about ecological effects, those are mitigated by the far more disastrous effects of a damaged/destroyed ship. What concerns me is the cost of deploying a high maintenance system that becomes ineffective when deployed for long durations.
Kind of works for a while, then they embed RFID scanners into your DVD players and use it to "Protect" their content. Each time you play that DVD your "connected" DVD player authorizes your use after suitable charges are made to your CC account. Or it just refuses to play on your friend's DVD player if you loan it to them as it has already been authorized to play only on your DVD player.
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They will probably pass a law to make it illegal for you to mask your linux OS as windows.
Need to verify a couple of things.
Blu-Ray is the one which requires "Activation" for use and disc's once used in one player will not play in another. Right/Wrong?
Does it send back info to SONY about what you are playing on the device, thereby breaking a few US laws on spying?
Does it have a remote internet kill sequence that SONY can send out to turn your Blu-Ray player into a brick? If true it will probably take some hacker a few days to figure out and broadcast sequences on the net turning every Blu-Ray player into a brick.
Gamma Ray Bursters? They would tend to destroy all complex forms within their path.
Does it apply only to video and audio? If not will this outlaw any computer used to recieve and process faxes? How about the equipment that converts audio into text for the deaf? Analog to digital conversion is required for that equipment to work. Knowing the techo-illiterate congress we have they will probably pass a law so vague that it criminalizes everyone.
/sarcasm :p
Of course the RIAA will have Homeland Security chasing after every violater of the law because by then they will have made a case that IP is a national security issue.
\sarcasm
Loved the TV show, and I loved the movie, have it playing right now. :)
If the show is over thats ok, I have the DVD's and the hope Joss comes up with more and better shows.
What is really sad is that this even got to the courtrooms. Teaching and defining science should be left to the scientists. Not to political appointees who have no clue what science is.
They are encoding signals into the HDTV signal and DRM chips into the camcorders so that it scrambles the picture if is sees the do not record signal.
All I know is, voodoopc has gathered all the parts for OMEN system they are shipping me. That will be a FX-57/4GB RAM/2x7800 GTX-512 SLI system. I do not think it is a market limitiation, they can sell more 512 cards than they can manufacture. It is either a supply issue or the G71 will be out in 4 months and trounce the 7800's by a huge margin for a much lower price point.
Depends on your contract. Most job contracts I have signed basically say either party can terminate the agreement at any time. ie no 2 weeks notice. My previous job I got po'ed enough that I quit my job at 3:00 AM after fixing a problem despite having to deal with micromangement from a manager who had no clue what I was doing. Depending on how amiable the seperations are I have had to terminate accounts for system admins the day they put in 2 weeks notice. In other cases the system admin accounts are left intact and the admins are kept on retainer as paid consultants on an hourly basis if their expertise is needed.
What makes you think the first quantum computer will be developed and built in the US? I would bet on Japan or India developing and building the first ones. The US is too backward facing technologically these days to invest money into real science.
We have patents so our lawyers and corporations can make money suing people who actually try to create new products. Not too much of a worry, soon other countries are just going to ignore our patents. This will happen when some US patent company tries to sue some Foreign Film maker for making a movie that stepped on US patented storylines.
I just love that post by the guy who wants ISO's of the CD so they can use the rootkit. Now SONY will now have their entire product pirated not for the content they are trying to protect but for the content protection system they chose to employ! ROFL
It will not be long before M$ "Trusted computing platform" will be used instead of all these spyware. That will be a few years away. For now however the only way I would play WOW is on a seperate boot image. Create a boot image for WOW and keep all your personal stuff in another closed off boot image. It means you have to reboot if you want to do other stuff but given that most guys playing WOW play for hours at a time that will not matter too much. Hmm, anyone try to run WOW in a virtual machine partition?
They will probably try to make it illegal for you to not watch your required 1-2 hours a day of commercials. ie skipping commercials via PVR will be outlawed. I guess they consider TV a right and not a priviledge. That the $3 Billion could go to real Science, be used to pay down the deficit, pay for more cops, etc.. is not a consideration.
I already have too much LED lighting in my bedroom. LED's from my air ionizer, DVD/VCR player, Amp/Reciever, 3 computers, Tivo, HDTV reciever, Digital Cable box, UPS, ... red, blue, orange and green LED's. Who needs Christmas decorations, my home electronics supply more than enough garish lighting.
He purchased it along with his Knighthood a few years ago. Unfortunately the "get a clue" part is specific and only temporary.
Well PA is getting a lot of free publicity from this right now. If they manage it well which they seem to have so far, Jack Thompson gets dipicted as a loony, ambulance chasing lawyer with political aspirations. If they can emphasise the loony ambulance chasing aspect strong enough, the current political movers will think twice about using his crusade as a political platform. In that case it will be a win situation for PA.
The amount of water in the oceans goes up and down every year. This is due to the amount of ice build up at the poles. There is a specific cycle. Water gets locked up in the Artic, as water is released in the Antartic and vice versa. There is a measurable difference as this yearly cycle is followed with a maximum amount of water in the oceans 2 times a year. The ice in the permanent ice packs is now melting. The glaciers in Greenland and permanent snowpacks in the mountains are all melting, these have never been part of the cycle. All of this additional water adds to the yearly rise in height of the oceans. Tidal bulge just makes it worse.
Consider the ice at the poles as out of the glass. Look up tidal bulge, the total volume of water does not include the water frozen at the poles. Once melted or melting on the oceans the effect of that extra volume of water will be the ice cubes dumped into a full glass.
What scientific lead? Most of the new patents in the world are now developed outside of the US. All the new electronic toys come out first in Korea and Japan.
What is not amazing is that they were capable of creating the pyramids or other technologies. They were not all ignorant savages back then. That they used a hundred or so peasants holding bronze mirrors to sink ships instead of trained archers should not be a surprise.
I converted to gaim from trillian about a year ago. I very much prefer Gaim, it does my IRC, yahoo and AIM messenging without any issues.
I started blocking ads when I started up the task manager one day to discover that 90%+ of my cpu was being taken up by firefox which was sitting in the background while I was working on some other stuff. Turned out to be all those flash ads. Started zapping ads since then. Nowdays if an ad catches my attention it gets zapped and the originating website of the ad get blocked permanently.
Does it work in the lab, possibly. Does it work in deployment? Hooked up to a ship that has been out of port for 8 months, corrosion barnacles etc.. will it work at that time? Pretty much do not care about ecological effects, those are mitigated by the far more disastrous effects of a damaged/destroyed ship. What concerns me is the cost of deploying a high maintenance system that becomes ineffective when deployed for long durations.
Kind of works for a while, then they embed RFID scanners into your DVD players and use it to "Protect" their content. Each time you play that DVD your "connected" DVD player authorizes your use after suitable charges are made to your CC account. Or it just refuses to play on your friend's DVD player if you loan it to them as it has already been authorized to play only on your DVD player.