- First of all, the birthrate would have to be chopped.
Agreed! The best way to accomplished that is the only proven and positive way (to me!) and that is to librate women, educate them, and give them equal access to jobs and capital. The birthrate always goes down when you free the baby-factories from slavery.
- As a practical matter, turnover in people is essential to clean out the social arteries.
This is a hard one. I would prefer that we learn to educate the stupid instead of throwing them away but I can see that some are uneducate-able and damn, they get to vote. This is bad.
- A large population of old, conservative property owners will smother the young, who can never catch up
I don't see it that way. Keep on lowering the birthrate until it is just a hair above the replacement point and the average age has GOT to get higher. That is the whole purpose of immorality. But as seen in China, the affect is not that the young are smothered but what the Chinese call, "The Little Emperor syndrome". A whole population of only children, spoiled by many relatives. So be it. Make everyone rich and spoiled!
- Space colonization would be essential. Not the piddly planets, but O'Neill structures
Once I agreed - but this will NOT substitute for a BIG drop in the birth rate. If all of the industry of the entire planet was channel to this mission it will still not keep up with the present rate of growth. I fear massive megadeath in the next 50 years.
- Wealth inequities will inevitably create a class of wealthy near-immortals in the short term.
Yeap. Big Problem. Maybe the biggest. Probably will not be solved without bloodshed. Wealth must be limited at some point and shared for a society to be stable.
I try to go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-026.asp today and I get Microcrap's 404 page ("The page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site.")
I am guess that fix came out before stopped supporting WinNT 4.0 and/or it did not work. Microsoft is not going to tell us!
The page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site.
Then "no soup for you!" Microsoft has not and (at this time says) will not provide a fix for this. They claim that "the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future." WHAT HORSESHIT! So all of the Windows NT 4.0 machines of the world are open doors to this (and other) attacks. Oh, they do recommend that you put it behind a firewall and block port 135. And if you happen to be using 135, well, you gotta have to recode and recompile any and all programs that do. Don't have the source code? Well, how good are you are reverse engineering. And be careful, it may be illegal were you live. AND you gotta trust everyone behind that firewall to not crack your machine!
Now, the karmaic debt in all of this - Microsoft's Windows Update will get attacked by WinNT 4.0 every month. Mmmm. So, everyone else gets fixed and the ones that MICROSOFT want you to upgrade become easily identified as problems on the net.
Sure, one P.-off muther-F. may have written this worm to get at Microsoft. Or maybe it came from somewhere in Washington state. So, what is next? All "obsolete" versions of Microsoft products get infected with worms that will install a gigabyte of child prono and then email the police? I guarantee with publicity like this, evildoers will be using WinNT as a platform for all kind of crap for now on. Thanks a lot, Microsoft, the Crackers Best Friend!
Here's the Microsoft spin on this from the FAQ in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-010 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-010.asp):
"If Windows NT 4.0 is listed as an affected product, why is Microsoft not issuing a patch for it?"
"During the development of Windows 2000, significant enhancements were made to the underlying architecture of RPC. In some areas these changes involved making fundamental changes to the way the RPC server software was built. The Windows NT 4.0 architecture is much less robust than the more recent Windows 2000 architecture, Due to these fundamental differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and its successors, it is infeasible to rebuild the software for Windows NT 4.0 to eliminate the vulnerability. To do so would require rearchitecting a very significant amount of the Windows NT 4.0 operating system, and not just the RPC component affected. The product of such a rearchitecture effort would be sufficiently incompatible with Windows NT 4.0 that there would be no assurance that applications designed to run on Windows NT 4.0 would continue to operate on the patched system."
"Microsoft strongly recommends that customers still using Windows NT 4.0 protect those systems by placing them behind a firewall which is filtering traffic on Port 135. Such a firewall will block attacks attempting to exploit this vulnerability, as discussed in the workarounds section below."
"Will Microsoft issue a patch for Windows NT 4.0 sometime in the future?"
"Microsoft has extensively investigated an engineering solution for NT 4.0 and found that the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future."
The moral is upgrade. Upgrade and get people like Microsoft who abandon you out of your life. Upgrade to Linux.
...as long as it is CHEAP! That brings us back to the micropayment problem.
But here are some upper limits, in U.S. dollars
A page.....$.01
A song (downloaded in Ogg Vorbis.5 quality or MP3 at 192 kpbs)....$.10
A whole CD.....$1
A 30 minute video (720x480, same sound quality as song above.....$1
A book (in HTML)....$1
A movie.....$2
And it must be free and clear. No damnable DRM crap. Otherwise it will fail.
"Blake 7" is NOT returning. A new mini-series set in the "Blake 7" is being considered. Not the same thing.
Now, Paul Darrow is a fine actor and Avon is a complex character and I do wish him well in this project. But still, I would look to the original series again, digitally restored in all of it's low budget glory. I would mourn Cally once again.
And I always suspect that Avon would have survived the finale!
Think about it. We rent video all of the time. But no one rent audio CD's. What is that?
As film director, Richard Linkletter said once, "I thought the film industry was run like a Mafia until I had to deal with the music industry!" He was trying to get rights to a certain song for a film. But my point is the RIAA are not reasonable people. They are Special People with Special Powers. It appears that there was a Secret Admendment to the Constitution pass when we were looking and They would never allow this.
I would just like my DVD rental service to have the right to backup out of print DVD's so they would have a spare when one breaks! And the public domain return to us - 28 years was plenty!
"defaultuser@Kazaa" is the default username in Kazaa++. I notice that it is not on the last. Does anyone know if anyone using this default name was ever been hit with the RIAA's crap. Yes, they remind of monkey with malodorus missiles.
Well, said. If this piece of crap passes, it will prove that America is one pile of lies and only the Almighty Dollar counts.
Although, the current copyright is far to harsh - I would return to the original law thats allow only one renewal after 14 years for a second 14 years. Everything between 1927 and 1975 belongs in the public domain and the present law robs us of this. The Kontent Nazi are out to destory the public domain - why make THAT a felony!
...make it 128Kbps Ogg Vorbis format, stereo, and downloadable with the "Save file as" function. Do not charge more than 10 cents a song or a dollar an album.
Have a web page per song with lyrics and artwork. These pages can be saved. Have a tutorial for newbies.
Never use Real Player, Quicktime, or anything but Ogg Vorbis, or maybe MP3 if you have to.
>No. But not as much as I hate seeing the same >damn commerical many times in an hour. That is >sooo cheap.
And then Angry Pixie said:
>Cheap yes...but Sci-Fi probably needs the money. >It doesn't have the kind of financial backing >that other channels have. For example, TLC has >the Discovery Channel, a major money maker. > >At least I haven't had to endure another Sci-Fi >Chain Reaction in a while.
And now I come back and say:
I don't understand. It would seem that Sci-Fi would make more money by selling more unique adverts that selling the same ones over and over. I imagine they have to offer a discount when the same is shown 6 times an hour.
Whereas Microsoft Windows has proven time and time again to be the greatest computer security risk in the history of all Lifekind, and the company Microsoft has no ethics, no morals, and no honor, I do hereby pledge that for as long as I am a citizen of these United States of America and eligible to vote, I will NEVER vote using any system running any version of Microsoft Windows.
I should sent copies of this pledge to each and every elected official who has juristdiction our myself. I implore all to to the same.
Let's shake the pillars of Hell and crack the Sky with our disgust and anger at this infection into the sacred democratic process.
CRT storage - a special CRT tube would store dots on the phospher of the tube, kinda of like a storage oscilloscope stores a waveform, only it stores dots.
Core memory - little doughdots of iron ferrite in a basketweave of little wires. Each one was a bit when magentized or a zero when no.
Magentic drums - a cylinder instead of a platter.
The only two I know from more recent times to have actually made it to market are "RAM drives" (very expensive but very fast) and magnetic bubble memory. Bubbles was a chip that would cycle little magentic domains around like a shift register.
Not for the price. Many have tried and many have failed but writing magnetic bits on spinning platters have proven time and time again, to be the cheapesy way to store gigabytes and gigabytes that can be retrieved in a reasonable amount of time for an incredibility reasonable price.
"But if you bash Star Wars (at least the first trilogy) or Babylon 5 on Slashdot, somebody will spring to its defense, citing imaginary literary element or "suspension of disbelief". But not for BG. Very curious."
Let me explain this to you. "Star Wars", "Babylon 5", and the original "Star Trek" series all have many flaws but they benefit from have either better writing than 95% of anything available at the time, or in the case of "Star Wars", great storycraft and cinema mojo. They were were we call, Good Stuff. We bash BG because us is what we call Bad Stuff.
The prime directive is tell a good story. It can even overcome a low budget and cheesy effect as in "Blake 7".
"Galactica 1980", "Logan's Run", and "Planet of the Apes" were TV series? The smell must have knocked out my memory and thankfully, I never watch them. The body can protect you occasionally, thank the sweet Goddess.
"Good gravy, how can it get worse?" The vast wasteland is litter with incredibity bad science fiction. In the early days of the Sci-Fi, it made up about 80% or more if it's programming - thankfully they are better now. Here are a few of my personal worst. Many are from the distant past and I hope buried forever:
Lost in Space (definitely toward the bottom of the heap) Rocky Jones: Space Ranger (I did love when I was six). Radar Men of the Moon (I did love when I was 7 - until Alex Shepherd was launch and I learned what Real Space Flight is) My Favorite Martian (okay, I did love Bill Bixby and Ray Walson, but as sci-fi, it sucked) Buck Rogers (okay for high camp, but at the time they were almost serious!) Almost any and every show that was based on Time Travel.
With all of the great, great science fiction that was written since the 40's and later, there was no excuse for bad science fiction on TV in the 50's and beyond except that TV was ruled by stupid man in suits. Times have changed. They have one or two stupid women around and an occasional smart person who lets a Star Trek:The Next Generation or a Babylon 5 happen. But then they killed "Firefly", proven that the stupidity still rules TV.
Hell, even the complaint that good sci-fi requires a big budget is disproved by that jewel of BBC sci-fi, "Blake 7".
I never saw "Plan 9". I have no time for any more bad crap.
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- First of all, the birthrate would have to be chopped.
Agreed! The best way to accomplished that is the only proven and positive way (to me!) and that is to librate women, educate them, and give them equal access to jobs and capital. The birthrate always goes down when you free the baby-factories from slavery.
- As a practical matter, turnover in people is essential to clean out the social arteries.
This is a hard one. I would prefer that we learn to educate the stupid instead of throwing them away but I can see that some are uneducate-able and damn, they get to vote. This is bad.
- A large population of old, conservative property owners will smother the young, who can never catch up
I don't see it that way. Keep on lowering the birthrate until it is just a hair above the replacement point and the average age has GOT to get higher. That is the whole purpose of immorality. But as seen in China, the affect is not that the young are smothered but what the Chinese call, "The Little Emperor syndrome". A whole population of only children, spoiled by many relatives. So be it. Make everyone rich and spoiled!
- Space colonization would be essential. Not the piddly planets, but O'Neill structures
Once I agreed - but this will NOT substitute for a BIG drop in the birth rate. If all of the industry of the entire planet was channel to this mission it will still not keep up with the present rate of growth. I fear massive megadeath in the next 50 years.
- Wealth inequities will inevitably create a class of wealthy near-immortals in the short term.
Yeap. Big Problem. Maybe the biggest. Probably will not be solved without bloodshed. Wealth must be limited at some point and shared for a society to be stable.
That's enough for now. Gotta go.
If you are running a version of WinXP or WinSvr2003, you might discover that the patch will not install!
You are screwed in that case. "Up the backside and sweetly, too" to paraphase Octavio Solis, my favorite playwright.
Curiouser and curiouser. So, they could fix the buffer overflow but this new exploit cannot be fix. HA!
I wish Slashdot had an edit and delete function, at least for the first two hours after a post. Oh, well - you got me.
Dude, you are still hosed as long as you run WinNT!
I try to go to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin /ms03-026.asp today and I get Microcrap's 404 page ("The page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site.")
I am guess that fix came out before stopped supporting WinNT 4.0 and/or it did not work. Microsoft is not going to tell us!
The page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site.
Then "no soup for you!" Microsoft has not and (at this time says) will not provide a fix for this. They claim that "the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future." WHAT HORSESHIT! So all of the Windows NT 4.0 machines of the world are open doors to this (and other) attacks. Oh, they do recommend that you put it behind a firewall and block port 135. And if you happen to be using 135, well, you gotta have to recode and recompile any and all programs that do. Don't have the source code? Well, how good are you are reverse engineering. And be careful, it may be illegal were you live. AND you gotta trust everyone behind that firewall to not crack your machine!
t .asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-010.asp):
Now, the karmaic debt in all of this - Microsoft's Windows Update will get attacked by WinNT 4.0 every month. Mmmm. So, everyone else gets fixed and the ones that MICROSOFT want you to upgrade become easily identified as problems on the net.
Sure, one P.-off muther-F. may have written this worm to get at Microsoft. Or maybe it came from somewhere in Washington state. So, what is next? All "obsolete" versions of Microsoft products get infected with worms that will install a gigabyte of child prono and then email the police? I guarantee with publicity like this, evildoers will be using WinNT as a platform for all kind of crap for now on. Thanks a lot, Microsoft, the Crackers Best Friend!
Here's the Microsoft spin on this from the FAQ in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-010 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul
"If Windows NT 4.0 is listed as an affected product, why is Microsoft not issuing a patch for it?"
"During the development of Windows 2000, significant enhancements were made to the underlying architecture of RPC. In some areas these changes involved making fundamental changes to the way the RPC server software was built. The Windows NT 4.0 architecture is much less robust than the more recent Windows 2000 architecture, Due to these fundamental differences between Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and its successors, it is infeasible to rebuild the software for Windows NT 4.0 to eliminate the vulnerability. To do so would require rearchitecting a very significant amount of the Windows NT 4.0 operating system, and not just the RPC component affected. The product of such a rearchitecture effort would be sufficiently incompatible with Windows NT 4.0 that there would be no assurance that applications designed to run on Windows NT 4.0 would continue to operate on the patched system."
"Microsoft strongly recommends that customers still using Windows NT 4.0 protect those systems by placing them behind a firewall which is filtering traffic on Port 135. Such a firewall will block attacks attempting to exploit this vulnerability, as discussed in the workarounds section below."
"Will Microsoft issue a patch for Windows NT 4.0 sometime in the future?"
"Microsoft has extensively investigated an engineering solution for NT 4.0 and found that the Windows NT 4.0 architecture will not support a fix to this issue, now or in the future."
The moral is upgrade. Upgrade and get people like Microsoft who abandon you out of your life. Upgrade to Linux.
Methinks these feisty crew be in talks with other outlets in order to continue continuing with the continuity!
RIGHT ON!!
...as long as it is CHEAP! That brings us back to the micropayment problem.
.5 quality or MP3 at 192 kpbs)....$.10
But here are some upper limits, in U.S. dollars
A page.....$.01
A song (downloaded in Ogg Vorbis
A whole CD.....$1
A 30 minute video (720x480, same sound quality as song above.....$1
A book (in HTML)....$1
A movie.....$2
And it must be free and clear. No damnable DRM crap. Otherwise it will fail.
I also have good results with NiMH - the AA's. AAA's suck outloud and I will avoid any device that requires AAA's in the future
"Blake 7" is NOT returning. A new mini-series set in the "Blake 7" is being considered. Not the same thing.
Now, Paul Darrow is a fine actor and Avon is a complex character and I do wish him well in this project. But still, I would look to the original series again, digitally restored in all of it's low budget glory. I would mourn Cally once again.
And I always suspect that Avon would have survived the finale!
But then, they do have the money to buy the best. Maybe IBM can intict Hideki Anno to back into animation and to forget this live action nonsense!
Think about it. We rent video all of the time. But no one rent audio CD's. What is that?
As film director, Richard Linkletter said once, "I thought the film industry was run like a Mafia until I had to deal with the music industry!" He was trying to get rights to a certain song for a film. But my point is the RIAA are not reasonable people. They are Special People with Special Powers. It appears that there was a Secret Admendment to the Constitution pass when we were looking and They would never allow this.
I would just like my DVD rental service to have the right to backup out of print DVD's so they would have a spare when one breaks! And the public domain return to us - 28 years was plenty!
"defaultuser@Kazaa" is the default username in Kazaa++. I notice that it is not on the last. Does anyone know if anyone using this default name was ever been hit with the RIAA's crap. Yes, they remind of monkey with malodorus missiles.
then stir the ashes.
Well, said. If this piece of crap passes, it will prove that America is one pile of lies and only the Almighty Dollar counts.
Although, the current copyright is far to harsh - I would return to the original law thats allow only one renewal after 14 years for a second 14 years. Everything between 1927 and 1975 belongs in the public domain and the present law robs us of this. The Kontent Nazi are out to destory the public domain - why make THAT a felony!
...make it 128Kbps Ogg Vorbis format, stereo, and downloadable with the "Save file as" function. Do not charge more than 10 cents a song or a dollar an album.
Have a web page per song with lyrics and artwork. These pages can be saved. Have a tutorial for newbies.
Never use Real Player, Quicktime, or anything but Ogg Vorbis, or maybe MP3 if you have to.
To recap, I said:
>No. But not as much as I hate seeing the same >damn commerical many times in an hour. That is >sooo cheap.
And then Angry Pixie said:
>Cheap yes...but Sci-Fi probably needs the money. >It doesn't have the kind of financial backing >that other channels have. For example, TLC has >the Discovery Channel, a major money maker.
>
>At least I haven't had to endure another Sci-Fi >Chain Reaction in a while.
And now I come back and say:
I don't understand. It would seem that Sci-Fi would make more money by selling more unique adverts that selling the same ones over and over. I imagine they have to offer a discount when the same is shown 6 times an hour.
I mean cheap as in whoredogslut cheap.
Whereas Microsoft Windows has proven time and time again to be the greatest computer security risk in the history of all Lifekind, and the company Microsoft has no ethics, no morals, and no honor, I do hereby pledge that for as long as I am a citizen of these United States of America and eligible to vote, I will NEVER vote using any system running any version of Microsoft Windows.
I should sent copies of this pledge to each and every elected official who has juristdiction our myself. I implore all to to the same.
Let's shake the pillars of Hell and crack the Sky with our disgust and anger at this infection into the sacred democratic process.
Alternative to hard drives:
In the beginning:
CRT storage - a special CRT tube would store dots on the phospher of the tube, kinda of like a storage oscilloscope stores a waveform, only it stores dots.
Core memory - little doughdots of iron ferrite in a basketweave of little wires. Each one was a bit when magentized or a zero when no.
Magentic drums - a cylinder instead of a platter.
The only two I know from more recent times to have actually made it to market are "RAM drives" (very expensive but very fast) and magnetic bubble memory. Bubbles was a chip that would cycle little magentic domains around like a shift register.
Yo, Slashdotters, what have I missed?
"The original "Battlestar Galactica" was not the worst science fiction show on TV but it was not good, not good at all."
Thank you all for your good mods and comments.
And you, you know who you are, I have to say that expressing one's honest opinion is *NOT* flamebaiting. I, sir, am no troll!
"Did anyone like the Alien Nation series?"
Oh, it was just okay.
"Did anyone still like it when Sci-Fi saw fit to air it several times a day?"
No. But not as much as I hate seeing the same damn commerical many times in an hour. That is sooo cheap.
Not for the price. Many have tried and many have failed but writing magnetic bits on spinning platters have proven time and time again, to be the cheapesy way to store gigabytes and gigabytes that can be retrieved in a reasonable amount of time for an incredibility reasonable price.
"But if you bash Star Wars (at least the first trilogy) or Babylon 5 on Slashdot, somebody will spring to its defense, citing imaginary literary element or "suspension of disbelief". But not for BG. Very curious."
Let me explain this to you. "Star Wars", "Babylon 5", and the original "Star Trek" series all have many flaws but they benefit from have either better writing than 95% of anything available at the time, or in the case of "Star Wars", great storycraft and cinema mojo. They were were we call, Good Stuff. We bash BG because us is what we call Bad Stuff.
The prime directive is tell a good story. It can even overcome a low budget and cheesy effect as in "Blake 7".
"Galactica 1980", "Logan's Run", and "Planet of the Apes" were TV series? The smell must have knocked out my memory and thankfully, I never watch them. The body can protect you occasionally, thank the sweet Goddess.
As bad as it was, BG did pop in a good line or two. One of my favorites (from the few that I watched) was:
"Just what sort of crime is STARBUCKING?"
"Good gravy, how can it get worse?" The vast wasteland is litter with incredibity bad science fiction. In the early days of the Sci-Fi, it made up about 80% or more if it's programming - thankfully they are better now. Here are a few of my personal worst. Many are from the distant past and I hope buried forever:
Lost in Space (definitely toward the bottom of the heap)
Rocky Jones: Space Ranger (I did love when I was six).
Radar Men of the Moon (I did love when I was 7 - until Alex Shepherd was launch and I learned what Real Space Flight is)
My Favorite Martian (okay, I did love Bill Bixby and Ray Walson, but as sci-fi, it sucked)
Buck Rogers (okay for high camp, but at the time they were almost serious!)
Almost any and every show that was based on Time Travel.
With all of the great, great science fiction that was written since the 40's and later, there was no excuse for bad science fiction on TV in the 50's and beyond except that TV was ruled by stupid man in suits. Times have changed. They have one or two stupid women around and an occasional smart person who lets a Star Trek:The Next Generation or a Babylon 5 happen. But then they killed "Firefly", proven that the stupidity still rules TV.
Hell, even the complaint that good sci-fi requires a big budget is disproved by that jewel of BBC sci-fi, "Blake 7".
I never saw "Plan 9". I have no time for any more bad crap.