It seems you are implying that a human courier can't be intercepted and broken. That's already been done, and more than once. Sometimes it is fun for the courier, other times not so much.
Libertarian isn't better just on the merit of it being a third choice.
The main beauty of voting Libertarian is that you get to say you voted, and there is absolutely no chance that your candidate will get to make any mistakes. If you just stay home, it is an admission of defeat, that you don't care about "elections", and that everything is going just fine by you.
You can now purchase a hard disk big enough to hold a 2K file on every man, woman, and child in the USA for under $500. While the posters and readers of Slashdot generally support traditional US freedoms, I think it likely that Slashdot is one of many forums that is electronically monitored by one or more US intelligence gathering groups. (Ok, so it is a thin soup.) I think anonymous posting is a safe way to speak out in a public forum, at least for the time being.
I like several ideas I've heard over the years, besides the elevator to space, which still seems out of reach.
1) Send a robot to Mars with empty tanks, a reactor, a pump, and telemetry. Let it mine the Martian atmosphere for a year or so to extract oxygen from C02 in the thin air, and H2 from the water vapor in the thin air. Check on it to make sure there are plenty of both before sending the people, and then you don't have to carry your return fuel and oxygen all the way there. The savings are astounding! Here is one plan.
2)Put a base on the north pole of the Moon. There 's water there (as ice) so with energy from a reactor you can make a livable place much cheaper than at a space station. It lots easer to get rocks to protect your living quarters too! Melt the rocks down to make the equivalent of fiber glass, concrete, etc. It's very much cheaper to take off from the Moon, (even at its north pole) than it is from the Earth at its equator.
3)Talk to Burt Rutan about making an airbreather plane that converts to a rocket after it leaves the atmophere. Most of the weight of a rocket now is oxidant.
It is more like the way that an entire auditorium full of people can clap in unison without a leader.
Each node just queries some other random node, and if it is behind that node, it advances a little, (say 10% of the difference,) and if it is ahead of the other node, it backs up a little. This way, by repeatedly seeing how the others are doing, each node tracks onto the average of the group. The goal isn't to be right, it is just to agree.
That's right. MS doesn't want to kill the competion, at least not completely. They are very happy with only 97% of any market they take over, the other companies can fight over the remaining 3%. If not, where would inovations come from?
In Windows 3.1 you could run DOS-atop-Windows-atop-DOS
I think that is the real point, the DOS-atop-Win3.1 was a fake DOS, but the DOS-under-Win3.1
was in fact a real MS-DOS. There is no real MS-DOS under WinXP, or Win2K, or WinNT, it is really OS/2!:-)
Just using a pre-Palladium machine wouldn't be circumventing copy protection if you're not copying anything.
You misunderstand the DMCA. Merely owning something (hardware or software) that could be used to circumvent an encryption scheme is a violation of the law. For example, just having a copy of DeCSS, which has valid legal uses, puts you in voilation of this law.
just because something is weak or stupidly implemented doesn't mean it's ok to take advantage of it
If you can restart a rolling code on demand, it is not a rolling code at all. It's not just weakly implemented, or poorly implemented, by definition it is not implemented at all.
I heard an explanation for the necessity of DVD regions which actually made sense...
Sorry, I don't think that makes any sense. If the movie studio believes that the DVD will not sell without promotion, what could possibly be the harm in releasing it world wide? Even after releasing world wide, there would be no barrier to them promoting it, (and getting step 5: PROFIT!,) one country at a time.
The reason that makes the most sense to me is that different regions have different buying power. The movie studios want to charge a higher price for the exact same product in coutries where they can. By denying individuals the right to sell goods they have legally purchased through technical means, they can keep a monopoly on their product even from resellers of their product.
That's interesting. I was thinking it smells like C# - except for compiled instead of JITed.
You knew that MS bought Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland (where he was the main force behind Delphi)so he could architect MS Java^H^H^H^H C# for them, right? So D and C# may have an ancestor in common.
This is a great deal of storage, so much that it is hard to comprehend. To put it into perspective, let's say that somebody wanted to keep a 1K byte file on every US citizen. You could store that online for under $500 at these rates.
There's "What's good for the next quarter?" business, and then there's "What's good for our business over the long haul?" business. Not considering the future won't keep it from happening.
You are right, but allow me to add the Hotjobs total to your Delphi totals.
Delphi:
Delphi: 158 (Monster)
Delphi 58 (Dice)
Delphi: 64 (Hotjobs)
This puts Delphi ahead of Fortran in popularity, anyway. Since Delphi can go cross-platform with Kylix, it should be seeing some growth as Linux increases in popularity, versus the Visual Studio languages which will be caught in the.Net.
They created content (or signed acts that created content) that brings in millions of dollars a year.
In case you haven't been reading this thread, the copyright holders did not create the content. The content creators (like Walt Disney) are dead and buried, or at least frozen. Our original deal with Walt calls for the content to go into the public domain. Why hasn't it?
I think the house-building analogy you use doesn't fit. To me, it is more like the copyright holders are a neighbor borrowing your lawn mower "for just a week". (The lawn mower is the exclusive right to use that art.) A week later, they come back and say "I need it one week more." This goes on all summer, and you haven't gotten your lawnmower back. Next summer doesn't look so good either.
You don't understand how stuff works. Power has to get to the unit. GPS signals have to get to the unit through a reception antenna. The unit must be able to report back, through a transmission antenna. The unit itself must be intact to work.
A 5 minute session with a hand drill can take out any of these systems.
In short, the intended effect on drivers' habits can be tuned in a much more fine grained way.
Just implant the GPS so you can get fine grained control over the citizen at all times. Much more efficient, don't you think?
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...one thing I recall reading on there is that the earth moves about 18 miles/sec in its orbit and for every 19 miles... the earth departs from a straight line by about 0.9 inches. Now if the earth moved 0.8 inches or 1.0 inches instead, all life on earth would either freeze or incinerate. The probability of this happening by chance, as I'm sure you can imagine, or not too good. And there's 1000's, if not millions, more facts like that out there.
If you imagine that the Earth was formed from a spinning disk of dust, by accretion, it is easy to guess why the orbit is so close to circular. It had to be, the probability was close to 100%. It also explains why all the orbits of all the planets are nearly in the same plane, and go in the same direction. If some diety or another put the planets in their orbits, they might as well put the planets in orbit in opposite directions from one to the next.
You are right that there are millions of facts like this, that seem to be outrageous coincidences, until we understand how things really work. What are the chances that all the grains of salt in your salt shaker are cubes, with no tetrahedrons? Who made them all that way?
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It seems you are implying that a human courier can't be intercepted and broken. That's already been done, and more than once. Sometimes it is fun for the courier, other times not so much.
So was this LCD display for a serial bus, or parellel?
The main beauty of voting Libertarian is that you get to say you voted, and there is absolutely no chance that your candidate will get to make any mistakes. If you just stay home, it is an admission of defeat, that you don't care about "elections", and that everything is going just fine by you.
You can now purchase a hard disk big enough to hold a 2K file on every man, woman, and child in the USA for under $500. While the posters and readers of Slashdot generally support traditional US freedoms, I think it likely that Slashdot is one of many forums that is electronically monitored by one or more US intelligence gathering groups. (Ok, so it is a thin soup.) I think anonymous posting is a safe way to speak out in a public forum, at least for the time being.
Did you notice anything stuck on the back of the bunny? It might be useful someplace else. Heh heh.
1) Send a robot to Mars with empty tanks, a reactor, a pump, and telemetry. Let it mine the Martian atmosphere for a year or so to extract oxygen from C02 in the thin air, and H2 from the water vapor in the thin air. Check on it to make sure there are plenty of both before sending the people, and then you don't have to carry your return fuel and oxygen all the way there. The savings are astounding! Here is one plan.
2)Put a base on the north pole of the Moon. There 's water there (as ice) so with energy from a reactor you can make a livable place much cheaper than at a space station. It lots easer to get rocks to protect your living quarters too! Melt the rocks down to make the equivalent of fiber glass, concrete, etc. It's very much cheaper to take off from the Moon, (even at its north pole) than it is from the Earth at its equator.
3)Talk to Burt Rutan about making an airbreather plane that converts to a rocket after it leaves the atmophere. Most of the weight of a rocket now is oxidant.
You manually saved as text. Bzzzt! Thanks for playing. Try saving in the default format, Microsoft Document (*.doc) and see what happens.
It is more like the way that an entire auditorium full of people can clap in unison without a leader.
Each node just queries some other random node, and if it is behind that node, it advances a little, (say 10% of the difference,) and if it is ahead of the other node, it backs up a little. This way, by repeatedly seeing how the others are doing, each node tracks onto the average of the group. The goal isn't to be right, it is just to agree.
That's right. MS doesn't want to kill the competion, at least not completely. They are very happy with only 97% of any market they take over, the other companies can fight over the remaining 3%. If not, where would inovations come from?
I think that is the real point, the DOS-atop-Win3.1 was a fake DOS, but the DOS-under-Win3.1 was in fact a real MS-DOS. There is no real MS-DOS under WinXP, or Win2K, or WinNT, it is really OS/2! :-)
You misunderstand the DMCA. Merely owning something (hardware or software) that could be used to circumvent an encryption scheme is a violation of the law. For example, just having a copy of DeCSS, which has valid legal uses, puts you in voilation of this law.
If you can restart a rolling code on demand, it is not a rolling code at all. It's not just weakly implemented, or poorly implemented, by definition it is not implemented at all.
Can you tell me what "schmaz-kapop" means, or where it comes from? I saw it in a Kazy Kat cartoon, if I recall correctly.
Sorry, I don't think that makes any sense. If the movie studio believes that the DVD will not sell without promotion, what could possibly be the harm in releasing it world wide? Even after releasing world wide, there would be no barrier to them promoting it, (and getting step 5: PROFIT!,) one country at a time.
The reason that makes the most sense to me is that different regions have different buying power. The movie studios want to charge a higher price for the exact same product in coutries where they can. By denying individuals the right to sell goods they have legally purchased through technical means, they can keep a monopoly on their product even from resellers of their product.
You knew that MS bought Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland (where he was the main force behind Delphi)so he could architect MS Java^H^H^H^H C# for them, right? So D and C# may have an ancestor in common.
This is a great deal of storage, so much that it is hard to comprehend. To put it into perspective, let's say that somebody wanted to keep a 1K byte file on every US citizen. You could store that online for under $500 at these rates.
If you know any twins like this, send them to take James Randi's test and collect $1,000,000. Maybe they will give you a cut!
There's "What's good for the next quarter?" business, and then there's "What's good for our business over the long haul?" business. Not considering the future won't keep it from happening.
Delphi:
- Delphi: 158 (Monster)
- Delphi 58 (Dice)
- Delphi: 64 (Hotjobs)
This puts Delphi ahead of Fortran in popularity, anyway. Since Delphi can go cross-platform with Kylix, it should be seeing some growth as Linux increases in popularity, versus the Visual Studio languages which will be caught in theYou might want to own a gun because:
In case you haven't been reading this thread, the copyright holders did not create the content. The content creators (like Walt Disney) are dead and buried, or at least frozen. Our original deal with Walt calls for the content to go into the public domain. Why hasn't it?
I think the house-building analogy you use doesn't fit. To me, it is more like the copyright holders are a neighbor borrowing your lawn mower "for just a week". (The lawn mower is the exclusive right to use that art.) A week later, they come back and say "I need it one week more." This goes on all summer, and you haven't gotten your lawnmower back. Next summer doesn't look so good either.
You don't understand how stuff works. Power has to get to the unit. GPS signals have to get to the unit through a reception antenna. The unit must be able to report back, through a transmission antenna. The unit itself must be intact to work.
A 5 minute session with a hand drill can take out any of these systems.
Just implant the GPS so you can get fine grained control over the citizen at all times. Much more efficient, don't you think?
If you imagine that the Earth was formed from a spinning disk of dust, by accretion, it is easy to guess why the orbit is so close to circular. It had to be, the probability was close to 100%. It also explains why all the orbits of all the planets are nearly in the same plane, and go in the same direction. If some diety or another put the planets in their orbits, they might as well put the planets in orbit in opposite directions from one to the next.
You are right that there are millions of facts like this, that seem to be outrageous coincidences, until we understand how things really work. What are the chances that all the grains of salt in your salt shaker are cubes, with no tetrahedrons? Who made them all that way?
I think the "horse of a different color" as seen in the "Wizard of Oz" movie is a good example.