Clockwork Orange didn't come off as futuristic, merely a surreal representation of the world we live in. We have gangs, we have violence, we have a jail system which we've relabelled "Correctional Facilities", as though they "correct" people, not punish them. We talk about chemically castrating sex offenders, then re-releasing them. I always saw the movie as a black satire of how modern day society treats crime and punishment.
What's moral and ethical in 'research' constantly evolves.
Back in university, I did a pretty thorough study and report on Frederick Banting and how he discovered insulin. I took a little field trip down to the University of Toronto and thumbed through some of his actual research logs.
Quick backstory:
He expirimented on dogs, basically trying to figure out what the (at the time unknown) internal secretion of the pancreas was, what it did, and how to extract it. His expiriments were to basically remove a big chunk of the pancreas, leaving only the cells that produce the digestive juices, and see what happened. The dogs got diabetic. He figured a way to extract the juice (insulin) from the pancreas, gave it to the now diabetic dogs, and they lived.
Anyhow. His logs are full of really shaky, obvious stuff. He was either an amazing scientist, or he was cooking the books. One test animal starts off as a cocker spaniel, and is later a german shepherd, for instance.
It's pretty much known that he and some assistants would scour the streets at night, abducting stray animals for their expiriments.
Now, back on topic. His behaviours were highly unethical in many ways by todays standards. I don't see any university letting you dognap animals to test out theories on them, let alone replacing a test animal because another died in surgery and not making any sort of note of that.
But, he discovered insulin. If we could go back and stop his unethical research, perhaps millions would still be dying of what is now a managable disease because of his work. Do the ends justify the means?
I RTFA, but you basically buy *the* proc, *the* mobo and put it together yourself.
You still don't have all that much variety in your new 'mac'.. No more than if you bought a prebuilt and changed the videocard.
When I have time I'll crunch the numbers, but I doubt that all-told its any cheaper. I was under the impression that aftermarket Mac mobo's were quite pricy.
It's nice for that 'look what I did' feeling, but it'd be much nicer to see cheaper commodity hardware.
Then I might be interested in putting one together to see what OSX is all about, as I'd never pay so much for any pre-built desktop. Unless it had a creamy nougat center. Mmmmm.. Nougat.
Thats why the term is 'reasonable doubt'. The DNA technician can lie. The blood can be planted. You can doctor an analog photo just as easily.
I've mentioned before that I design, write, and support police records software. I know how important audit trailing is to them, I was up until 3 AM last night debugging some of it.
We've even been approached with this very idea, audit trailing and securly storing digital photos. (Not just fingerprints)
This is about showing a factual list of who had access to the photo, exactly what they changed, and when. If pixels were added, it'd be on the trail. If it was lightened, darkened, it'd be on the trail.
The reason is simple. The jackass lawyers who think the constitution spells out their job as 'get the client off, no matter what it takes'. Another rant entirely, but rigorous defence doesnt mean knowingly lying and misleading a jury.
Police are constantly accused of lying, tampering with evidence, planting evidence, in stupid cases like misdemeanor posession of pot.
So when Mr Defense gets up in front of the jury, with Mr Cop on the stand, and says "Isn't it true that anyone could have altered those photos?", "Mr Cop can say, here's an itemized list of every enhancement, change, and view of the photos since they were taken.".
If Mr. Defense is stupid enough to continue, they can present sworn depositions from people like me (who created the system) testifying to the authenticity of the data.
Of course - it'd go both ways. If Mr Defense truly thinks BeatCop O'Malley doctored the photos, someone like me could likely prove the when and how.
This isn't a bad thing, or about stripping rights. It's about helping to secure the right to a fair trial.
An anti-MS rant, anti-America rant, a whine about unemployment.. All paraded around on whats supposed to be a respectable linux 'news' site.
Thing is, people like my boss see this, and I can't even mention that I use linux in my home network router because they'll just assume that I'm using it for anti-corporate hippie reasons.
Meh.
They aren't even clever. I'll write one on the fly:
Jiggle Bells! Linux smells! GNU is teh cheese! Gnome and gimp's Users are limp! A Beowulf cluster of these!
>> why does Microsoft insist on treating each one of these issues as though it was a totally new problem instead of making a global change to secure the OS
I've always done this, having never trusted 'web content' in any folder I browse to (nor needing the extra overhead it causes drawing thumbnails of bitmaps and whatnot)
I believe any Windows that's upgraded to Media Player 7.1 and/or IE6 would be vulnerable, not just XP?
I'm not lying.. The playstation name has been a bitching point for nintendo for years. This article is bullshit, but with a tiny kernel of some truth.
I distinctly remember an old Nintendo Power magazine, with a preview of the SNES (still the Super Famicom), and reading about the CD-Addon called "playstation".
The 'megaton' rumor that Nintendo is buying Capcom and Sega is because some assclown 'game' reporter posted a teaser pic of Sonic, MegaMan, and Mario together.
The 'megaton' announcement is probably some lame marketing hype for Smash Bros Melee 2 (or the like), with Megaman and Sonic as playable characters. Much more believable, IMO.
Well, the story is fake, but, IIRC the history was more like this:
- Nintendo and Sony to jointly develop CD Addon for SNES
- Nintendo reannounces its partnership with Phillips - citing 'superior' technology. Though it was probably just a better (cheaper) deal.
- Sony gets pissed. Sony produces many of the proprietary chips inside the SNES, like the audio unit for one.
- Sony shows up at industry trade show with a new console, called Playstation. It has a cartridge slot, which plays SNES games. It has a cd-drive which playes SNES CD games (which never existed). SNES liscencing was Nintendo's, but the tech was Sony's. Sony has Nintendo by the balls.
- Nintendo does some kissing ass, and eventually winds up in some screwy 3-way partnership thing with Sony and Nintendo to jointly develop the 'Playstation', Phillips to be involved in production somehow.
- As you said, Nintendo sees Sega CD and TurboGrafx CD, watches them bomb, drops out, vows to only produce cartridges.
- Sony produces new console, Playstation X (the PSX we all know), Nintendo partners up with SGI for N64
There is a kernel of truth. There is some litigation as to the contract Nintendo had with Sony. Sony may have the trademark, but there's a contract saying that "Playstation" was to be produced for Nintendo. AFAIK, it's still in the hands of the lawyers, and will likely stay there forever.
No, this suit's been going on since sony took the jointly developed CD player addon for SNES and spun it into their own console - and threatened to stop supplying Nintendo with the SNES' sound chips if they tried to stop it.
The PlayStation name was already being thrown around in the Nintendo world at that point. I remember reading magazines and waiting for the 'playstation' CD player for SNES to come out.
Sony technically announced their box as the "Playstation X" (Hence, PSX)
Well, there's more to it than that - but that's what it boils down to.
>> 2AM, sitting in front of my C-64, watching that EOA title screen come up... gaming all night long (in between using a 300 baud modem to contact BBS's in germany, Japan...)
Yes, I remember the *REAL* Test Drive for C64.. but 300 baud? You sure that wasn't a vic 20 or a PET even? Even the local wannabe had a 1200baud, us elites had an RS-232C adaptor and a 2400..
Long distance phone bills? Guess you missed the phreaking/call extender train too!
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It's not just EA, they really are the 'Disney' of the gaming world, buying up anyone and everyone who comes along.
Chances are, whatever you're playing, the people who made it work for EA.
They have huge sway in the console world. Arguably one of the biggest reasons Dreamcast died was because EA refused to produce titles for it (because Sega had the gall to produce their own NHL/NFL/MLB games)
The sports franchises themselves are perenially the best selling games. You're average Jimmy Goober has no problem shelling out 60$ a year for the same game, with updated player rosters.
Like any collectables, they're worth what someone will pay for 'em.
I know they're rare - so you might get lucky on eBay. I found a couple at a funcoland once for 25 cents apiece, but then I find lots of shit that they have no idea what it's worth.
Slashdot Mirror
Clockwork Orange didn't come off as futuristic, merely a surreal representation of the world we live in. We have gangs, we have violence, we have a jail system which we've relabelled "Correctional Facilities", as though they "correct" people, not punish them. We talk about chemically castrating sex offenders, then re-releasing them. I always saw the movie as a black satire of how modern day society treats crime and punishment.
Electing Clinton
/.'ers hated Gore, because he was the one in favor of censoring the media and the 'net.
During the election, all you
Now everyone puts on this phony 'I told you so' act. When they didn't.
>> Perhaps you should find a "respectable" Linux site, and stick with it
I thought linuxworld was just that.
What's moral and ethical in 'research' constantly evolves.
Back in university, I did a pretty thorough study and report on Frederick Banting and how he discovered insulin. I took a little field trip down to the University of Toronto and thumbed through some of his actual research logs.
Quick backstory:
He expirimented on dogs, basically trying to figure out what the (at the time unknown) internal secretion of the pancreas was, what it did, and how to extract it. His expiriments were to basically remove a big chunk of the pancreas, leaving only the cells that produce the digestive juices, and see what happened. The dogs got diabetic. He figured a way to extract the juice (insulin) from the pancreas, gave it to the now diabetic dogs, and they lived.
Anyhow. His logs are full of really shaky, obvious stuff. He was either an amazing scientist, or he was cooking the books. One test animal starts off as a cocker spaniel, and is later a german shepherd, for instance.
It's pretty much known that he and some assistants would scour the streets at night, abducting stray animals for their expiriments.
Now, back on topic. His behaviours were highly unethical in many ways by todays standards. I don't see any university letting you dognap animals to test out theories on them, let alone replacing a test animal because another died in surgery and not making any sort of note of that.
But, he discovered insulin. If we could go back and stop his unethical research, perhaps millions would still be dying of what is now a managable disease because of his work. Do the ends justify the means?
I RTFA, but you basically buy *the* proc, *the* mobo and put it together yourself.
You still don't have all that much variety in your new 'mac'.. No more than if you bought a prebuilt and changed the videocard.
When I have time I'll crunch the numbers, but I doubt that all-told its any cheaper. I was under the impression that aftermarket Mac mobo's were quite pricy.
It's nice for that 'look what I did' feeling, but it'd be much nicer to see cheaper commodity hardware.
Then I might be interested in putting one together to see what OSX is all about, as I'd never pay so much for any pre-built desktop. Unless it had a creamy nougat center. Mmmmm.. Nougat.
Thats why the term is 'reasonable doubt'. The DNA technician can lie. The blood can be planted. You can doctor an analog photo just as easily.
I've mentioned before that I design, write, and support police records software. I know how important audit trailing is to them, I was up until 3 AM last night debugging some of it.
We've even been approached with this very idea, audit trailing and securly storing digital photos. (Not just fingerprints)
This is about showing a factual list of who had access to the photo, exactly what they changed, and when. If pixels were added, it'd be on the trail. If it was lightened, darkened, it'd be on the trail.
The reason is simple. The jackass lawyers who think the constitution spells out their job as 'get the client off, no matter what it takes'. Another rant entirely, but rigorous defence doesnt mean knowingly lying and misleading a jury.
Police are constantly accused of lying, tampering with evidence, planting evidence, in stupid cases like misdemeanor posession of pot.
So when Mr Defense gets up in front of the jury, with Mr Cop on the stand, and says "Isn't it true that anyone could have altered those photos?", "Mr Cop can say, here's an itemized list of every enhancement, change, and view of the photos since they were taken.".
If Mr. Defense is stupid enough to continue, they can present sworn depositions from people like me (who created the system) testifying to the authenticity of the data.
Of course - it'd go both ways. If Mr Defense truly thinks BeatCop O'Malley doctored the photos, someone like me could likely prove the when and how.
This isn't a bad thing, or about stripping rights. It's about helping to secure the right to a fair trial.
An anti-MS rant, anti-America rant, a whine about unemployment.. All paraded around on whats supposed to be a respectable linux 'news' site.
Thing is, people like my boss see this, and I can't even mention that I use linux in my home network router because they'll just assume that I'm using it for anti-corporate hippie reasons.
Meh.
They aren't even clever. I'll write one on the fly:
Jiggle Bells!
Linux smells!
GNU is teh cheese!
Gnome and gimp's
Users are limp!
A Beowulf cluster of these!
512x384 interlaced on an NTSC set, 720x? PAL (cant think of it right now).
VCD and SVCD are both well below that resolution and look fine.
>> why does Microsoft insist on treating each one of these issues as though it was a totally new problem instead of making a global change to secure the OS
Palladium
Oh wait, you don't want that.
So what do you want?
Tools->Folder Options
set Web View to "Use Windows Classic Folders"
I've always done this, having never trusted 'web content' in any folder I browse to (nor needing the extra overhead it causes drawing thumbnails of bitmaps and whatnot)
I believe any Windows that's upgraded to Media Player 7.1 and/or IE6 would be vulnerable, not just XP?
I'm not lying.. The playstation name has been a bitching point for nintendo for years. This article is bullshit, but with a tiny kernel of some truth.
I distinctly remember an old Nintendo Power magazine, with a preview of the SNES (still the Super Famicom), and reading about the CD-Addon called "playstation".
The 'megaton' rumor that Nintendo is buying Capcom and Sega is because some assclown 'game' reporter posted a teaser pic of Sonic, MegaMan, and Mario together.
The 'megaton' announcement is probably some lame marketing hype for Smash Bros Melee 2 (or the like), with Megaman and Sonic as playable characters. Much more believable, IMO.
Anyhow.
Slashdot. News for Nerds. Made up Shit.
Well, the story is fake, but, IIRC the history was more like this:
- Nintendo and Sony to jointly develop CD Addon for SNES
- Nintendo reannounces its partnership with Phillips - citing 'superior' technology. Though it was probably just a better (cheaper) deal.
- Sony gets pissed. Sony produces many of the proprietary chips inside the SNES, like the audio unit for one.
- Sony shows up at industry trade show with a new console, called Playstation. It has a cartridge slot, which plays SNES games. It has a cd-drive which playes SNES CD games (which never existed). SNES liscencing was Nintendo's, but the tech was Sony's. Sony has Nintendo by the balls.
- Nintendo does some kissing ass, and eventually winds up in some screwy 3-way partnership thing with Sony and Nintendo to jointly develop the 'Playstation', Phillips to be involved in production somehow.
- As you said, Nintendo sees Sega CD and TurboGrafx CD, watches them bomb, drops out, vows to only produce cartridges.
- Sony produces new console, Playstation X (the PSX we all know), Nintendo partners up with SGI for N64
There is a kernel of truth. There is some litigation as to the contract Nintendo had with Sony. Sony may have the trademark, but there's a contract saying that "Playstation" was to be produced for Nintendo. AFAIK, it's still in the hands of the lawyers, and will likely stay there forever.
And me, with all 3, think you and your friends are pathetic, piss-poor, wannabes!
Play the games, not the system.
>> but they also can't give Nintendo all their earnings.
No, just 10%.
No, this suit's been going on since sony took the jointly developed CD player addon for SNES and spun it into their own console - and threatened to stop supplying Nintendo with the SNES' sound chips if they tried to stop it.
The PlayStation name was already being thrown around in the Nintendo world at that point. I remember reading magazines and waiting for the 'playstation' CD player for SNES to come out.
Sony technically announced their box as the "Playstation X" (Hence, PSX)
Well, there's more to it than that - but that's what it boils down to.
And if they were using WM8 then people could protect the content they worked so hard to create from gutless thieves and pirates!
And I'm sure it will be posted again if you missed it.
Why would you throw all those PCBs into the river in the first place.
Surely you could have run linux on them.
Wasteful yankees.
Well, to be fair it specifically says:
"TELL THAT BEARDED LUNATIC TO STOP CALLING US!"
It could mean almost anyone (whos a bearded lunatic).
Oh c'mon now!
Treasure Planet will turn things around!
>> 2AM, sitting in front of my C-64, watching that EOA title screen come up... gaming all night long (in between using a 300 baud modem to contact BBS's in germany, Japan...)
Yes, I remember the *REAL* Test Drive for C64.. but 300 baud? You sure that wasn't a vic 20 or a PET even? Even the local wannabe had a 1200baud, us elites had an RS-232C adaptor and a 2400..
Long distance phone bills? Guess you missed the phreaking/call extender train too!
It's not just EA, they really are the 'Disney' of the gaming world, buying up anyone and everyone who comes along.
Chances are, whatever you're playing, the people who made it work for EA.
They have huge sway in the console world. Arguably one of the biggest reasons Dreamcast died was because EA refused to produce titles for it (because Sega had the gall to produce their own NHL/NFL/MLB games)
The sports franchises themselves are perenially the best selling games. You're average Jimmy Goober has no problem shelling out 60$ a year for the same game, with updated player rosters.
They're evil because they're cash registers run an OS I don't like!
</SARCASM>
What's that about freedom of choice again?
Here's a corporation that actually considered the alternative, and for whatever their reasons, right or wrong, decided it was inferior.
How about instead of condemning them, the community looks to the reasons that linux lost a fair fight and addresses them?
Like any collectables, they're worth what someone will pay for 'em.
I know they're rare - so you might get lucky on eBay. I found a couple at a funcoland once for 25 cents apiece, but then I find lots of shit that they have no idea what it's worth.