It's not about the scientific side of it.....(which by the way also has to contribute) but the political side too. It has to be a "team" effort.
shoot....large-scale change....just think of the human contribution over the last 200 years.....every person contributing in a small way....and look how much things have changed (both good and bad).
does that mean that there should be a democratic process to decide on what "1 + 1" is?
First off, we have to realize that global warming is a problem. Next step, reduce, reduce, reduce while scientists, engineers, and inventors come up with a more permanent solution to help rid ourselves of well....not so eco-friendly "things" (everything from transportation, energy, manufacturing, etc.)
well they can't really...since the original order will inevitably lead to violating the law no matter what; some what of a Catch-22/entrapment. Following the order requires the separation of the RAM from the computer which destroys the data.
anyways, as far as logging, that's also very difficult to do. Lets say that 25% of the operations of a given computer are to manipulating memory and that the clock of this hypothetical computer is 1 billion cycles per second. So that means 250 million bytes per second, which in turn is already beyond the performance ability of hard drive storage devices. That's 21.6 trillion bytes per day. Plus how long do you have to retain the data? This doesn't include things that happen in various buffers and caches (L1/L2, etc.) nor the fact that the mere act of writing to the hard drive changes information in memory. (and yes, 1GHz is pretty low and a single core, etc.)
I could have sworn there was a law that requires judicial orders to be grounded in the realm of reality. But then again.....
how will this affect those "unlocked" iPhones that are being advertised online (currently on pre-order) which are typically a hundred to a few hundred more than the stated AT&T/Apple soap-on-a-rope bundle price?
Will the WiFi (802.11x) on those unlocked iPhones be disabled or useless?
what if it isn't identifiable, say that the is a giant smiley face emoticon where the person's head is (or some other methond of censoring their face)?
For instance, visual browsers frequently display the title as a "tool tip" (a short message that appears when the pointing device pauses over an object). Audio user agents may speak the title information in a similar context.
Just like how tags such as "<i>" have been deprecated doesn't mean browsers should stop rendering them.
I'm trying to remember if the older version of Safari (on the Mac) rendered the title attribute as a tooltip or not (or even the Mac version of Safari 3).
From what I found using Safari on Windows, it doesn't seem to support the basic of "tooltips" (aka the TITLE attribute of HTML).
I'm sure there are other things if I really tried to look. I wonder if someone has run the ACID tests on it and how it did compared to FF, IE, and Opera? What about compared to Konqueror or Safari Mac?
don't forget, the second Matrix movie (Matrix Reloaded) has Keannu's well..."bareness". it's too bad we don't have access to the "birdie" device from MIB to erase that part of our memories.
Now just need to modify the mosquitoes more to only use rodents as their food source (and not as resistant to malaria or some disease that's fatal to rodents) so that they will help reduce the rodent population.
now Feinstein and the other Senators who are trying to push the bill for mandatory DRM on internet music (streaming music for now but who knows....slippery slope to cover all digital music) should and need to read this from Steve Jobs.
I don't own a PS3 but I do have a TV that is affected by it (someone brought a PS3 to the lanparty....it blinked plus couldn't play DDR so it went back into it's box...and we Wii'ed for hours.)
I'm skeptical about those Blu-ray stats...just like the numbers that the MPAA cited for Canadian piracy (see/. post for Michael Geist from a few days ago).
Plus PS3 has that blinking issue...maybe good for "3D" movies (ref to old vid cards that came with "special" LCD glasses).
old news...I watched it in action on "Future Weapons" on Discovery Channel last night....and that was a rerun (it aired last Monday night as a new episode).
it's too bad Feinstein is doing this....again....she keeps forgetting who her constituents are....the tech companies in the Silicon Valley and free-minded ppl in the area.
even if this "law" passes (remote), the "reasonable" loophole exists. Maybe it can be as simple (and economical) as a javascript alert box.
geez....now this is proof that he's a nut case. he's gonna waste his time and money on something as stupid as this?
why doesn't he spend it on his Dallas Mavericks? According to the NBA Conference scores page, his Mavericks are getting creamed by the LA Clippers... (3:4 for the Mavs, and 5:2 for the Clippers)
Maybe the solution will have to have some sort of financial incentive for those broadband companies to remain neutral.
For instance, since in this case, NextGenTel-whatever is getting paid by other companies to prioritize their data, why not apply a special tax (as well as reduction or inelligibility for govt grants and assistance programs) on it....such much so that it would cost NextGenTel more to unneutral than to be neutral even with the higher cost of the extra bandwidth needed.
Or maybe just the threat/idea of such a tax coming into effect might scare them back into neutrality. (hey, why do you think gas prices have drop significantly as of late? It's not because of the war in Iraq...)
Just remember, companies that aren't into net neutrality will at least understand one thing.....money.
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I'm not sure how kosher this change is in terms of the fair use laws (not limited to the US) or the archiving law
n ish-court-rules-dvd-drm.html?inform)
plus the Finnish courts have ruled that a DVD's protection scheme is ineffective. (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/052807-fin
kinda like those ppl who keep looking for "second opinions" after they been diagnosed with something they don't like. :D
fine...."1 - 1" then.
It's not about the scientific side of it.....(which by the way also has to contribute) but the political side too.
It has to be a "team" effort.
shoot....large-scale change....just think of the human contribution over the last 200 years.....every person contributing in a small way....and look how much things have changed (both good and bad).
ummm.....where have you been? scientists already say it is.
besides, we are talking about the political side of the problem not the scientific side.
does that mean that there should be a democratic process to decide on what "1 + 1" is?
First off, we have to realize that global warming is a problem. Next step, reduce, reduce, reduce while scientists, engineers, and inventors come up with a more permanent solution to help rid ourselves of well....not so eco-friendly "things" (everything from transportation, energy, manufacturing, etc.)
and damn...it's hot today.
well they can't really...since the original order will inevitably lead to violating the law no matter what; some what of a Catch-22/entrapment.
Following the order requires the separation of the RAM from the computer which destroys the data.
anyways, as far as logging, that's also very difficult to do. Lets say that 25% of the operations of a given computer are to manipulating memory and that the clock of this hypothetical computer is 1 billion cycles per second. So that means 250 million bytes per second, which in turn is already beyond the performance ability of hard drive storage devices. That's 21.6 trillion bytes per day. Plus how long do you have to retain the data?
This doesn't include things that happen in various buffers and caches (L1/L2, etc.) nor the fact that the mere act of writing to the hard drive changes information in memory. (and yes, 1GHz is pretty low and a single core, etc.)
I could have sworn there was a law that requires judicial orders to be grounded in the realm of reality.
But then again.....
how will this affect those "unlocked" iPhones that are being advertised online (currently on pre-order) which are typically a hundred to a few hundred more than the stated AT&T/Apple soap-on-a-rope bundle price?
Will the WiFi (802.11x) on those unlocked iPhones be disabled or useless?
what if it isn't identifiable, say that the is a giant smiley face emoticon where the person's head is (or some other methond of censoring their face)?
From http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#a
Just like how tags such as "<i>" have been deprecated doesn't mean browsers should stop rendering them.
I'm trying to remember if the older version of Safari (on the Mac) rendered the title attribute as a tooltip or not (or even the Mac version of Safari 3).
not to mention being W3C compliant.
From what I found using Safari on Windows, it doesn't seem to support the basic of "tooltips" (aka the TITLE attribute of HTML).
I'm sure there are other things if I really tried to look.
I wonder if someone has run the ACID tests on it and how it did compared to FF, IE, and Opera?
What about compared to Konqueror or Safari Mac?
don't forget, the second Matrix movie (Matrix Reloaded) has Keannu's well..."bareness".
it's too bad we don't have access to the "birdie" device from MIB to erase that part of our memories.
so how many points is this gonna cost us?
if that's the case....I think I can find old code that I wrote back in the mid-90's that I did that...
I was about to say the same thing...they do have serial numbers...plus they give you the option to have it engraved.
that's cool
Now just need to modify the mosquitoes more to only use rodents as their food source (and not as resistant to malaria or some disease that's fatal to rodents) so that they will help reduce the rodent population.
now Feinstein and the other Senators who are trying to push the bill for mandatory DRM on internet music (streaming music for now but who knows....slippery slope to cover all digital music) should and need to read this from Steve Jobs.
I don't own a PS3 but I do have a TV that is affected by it (someone brought a PS3 to the lanparty....it blinked plus couldn't play DDR so it went back into it's box...and we Wii'ed for hours.)
without the blinking too! :D
I'm skeptical about those Blu-ray stats...just like the numbers that the MPAA cited for Canadian piracy (see /. post for Michael Geist from a few days ago).
Plus PS3 has that blinking issue...maybe good for "3D" movies (ref to old vid cards that came with "special" LCD glasses).
old news...I watched it in action on "Future Weapons" on Discovery Channel last night....and that was a rerun (it aired last Monday night as a new episode).
it's too bad Feinstein is doing this ....again....she keeps forgetting who her constituents are....the tech companies in the Silicon Valley and free-minded ppl in the area.
even if this "law" passes (remote), the "reasonable" loophole exists.
Maybe it can be as simple (and economical) as a javascript alert box.
why not use recycled building materials that are crushed into a fine powder or whatever consistency is "near" moondust?
Drywall/sheetrock, concrete, I'm sure it can be ground-down and it provides a use for them instead of being chucked into the landfill.
According to Wiki, as of Dec 2004, it no longer applies to mp3 devices and such (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_media_tax#Canad a ).
a nd ).
However, there's one in Finland....of all things, based on the "per min" capacity with a max of 15euros per device. (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_media_tax#Finl
geez....now this is proof that he's a nut case.
he's gonna waste his time and money on something as stupid as this?
why doesn't he spend it on his Dallas Mavericks?
According to the NBA Conference scores page, his Mavericks are getting creamed by the LA Clippers... (3:4 for the Mavs, and 5:2 for the Clippers)
Maybe the solution will have to have some sort of financial incentive for those broadband companies to remain neutral.
For instance, since in this case, NextGenTel-whatever is getting paid by other companies to prioritize their data, why not apply a special tax (as well as reduction or inelligibility for govt grants and assistance programs) on it....such much so that it would cost NextGenTel more to unneutral than to be neutral even with the higher cost of the extra bandwidth needed.
Or maybe just the threat/idea of such a tax coming into effect might scare them back into neutrality. (hey, why do you think gas prices have drop significantly as of late? It's not because of the war in Iraq...)
Just remember, companies that aren't into net neutrality will at least understand one thing.....money.