Bob has already revealed a foul mouthed side...
In the original release of the episode featuring Bob trying to put wallpaper up: when he gets wallpaper all over his head, you can distinctly hear him using the F-word and a number of other naughty words that we generally pretend children shouldn't hear.
I could hardly believe this, but one of my friends has a copy, and we played it, and sure enough - rude words...She hadn't previously noticed. After all, Bob says exactly what you'd expect anyone else to say if they got gluey wallpaper all over their head instead of the wall.
Just for completeness...
It looks like you could argue that a copy controlled disk is really software and then it is ok to make a backup and run error correction over it, etc. (p135-136 of pdf, section 110B, p 113-114 of the document)
And it looks like you can make a copy to preserve your copy of the recording for a library or archive, so long as you put a note saying why you made the copy and the date you made it. The act is a bit vague about what a library or archive is. So my copy is for my personal archive?
It also gets a bit vague about expiry dates, saying the fifty years dates from the original recording eg if something is re-released that re-release copyright dates from the original recording?
And it is about as clear as mud when it comes to you making a copy of an authorised sound recording. Eg you didn't make a recording yourself, you made a copy of a legit recording (which is not a recording of itself, ie you didn't get microphones out and record a performance..). So long as you don't try to trade on your copy, it looks like things should be ok. Maybe. But I don't want to be the one to find out.
I think you'd have a really good chance at the copy-control things being software not sound recordings...
Hmm, not allowed to copy music, but are allowed to backup/copy software. Are allowed to tape broadcasts. Is Kazaa/Internet a broadcast medium? What about streaming radio? etc etc.
At least the insults have a certain quality to them.
Lemme try:
You spend so much time with your computer in the basement that your breeding opportunity is nonexiestant, all suitable members of the opposite sex can and do outpace you easily.
Gawd, "read the manual" the coward says. And "I'm sorry I'm not here to..." - I didn't force you to reply did I?
I hate reading games manuals. That's one of the reasons I always liked space invaders until my computer started running the program faster than it would accept keyboard input. Dead dead dead wha? Game over.
Yeah, I am more familiar with a live DM who matches his monsters to his players, afterall he doesn't want the game to end too quickly either.
I sometimes play network quake and the like, and I tend to get creamed by the guys who play regularily which takes the fun out of it for me. It's like having your first game of golf against the professionals. (Hmm, maybe you don't play outdoor sport).
Do the MMORPG just hack and slash, ie you only rack up points for killing things, or can you make or lose points, like real life (sort of), by actions like losing iq points by watching CNN, and gain Karma by making donations to the "poor", is it possible to ask questions first (perhaps from a distance) and hack and slash later?
Are the groups of human players (ie creatures representing and controlled by real humans not entirely computer generated) likely to let a beginner into their group or just kill the newbie off for points?
Hmm, you're probaby right, I've got no idea what you mean. I've got a fair idea what Daniel meant.
I'm not real obsessive about games, and I still hate this glary purple layout.
Exact Audio Copy.
How rude is it to put out music on something that cannot be copied for personal use? Personal copies eg cassette tape, minidisk, MP3, for car CD player, are legal in Australia.
As for the spyware. I've yet to install Kazaa. My favourite version of the file sharing networks is sneakernet. Slow but effective.
how come you don't get wiped out by the first monster with an excess of constitution or skill compared to you?
Leastways I liked monsters or other players that matched my level approximately rather than being completely obliterated every time I played before I even knew what happened.
Warning: I think the concept is a sick reflection of some sections of our society. It ain't funny, or at least, if this is a scam, the customers deserve to be ripped off.
Chances are a bank here (Australia) wouldn't print a name like that on the cheque to start with.
The companies register people and yellow pages refused to list a company that wanted to call itself "Get Stuffed" (An all you can eat restaurant). I guess times may have changed now.
I think the excuse was something to do with Opium poppies.
So Mike could be forgiven for thinking the USA supported the Taliban (until the bombing started) and now he's being crucified for it.
BTW Today (7th August) is David Hicks' birthday. He was arrested under similar balony as some sort of trophy scapegoat for the USA. "Look we got some sucker, so this will prevent people from trying to fly planes into sky scrapers". Huh?
Does not compute, does not compute, does not compute, does not compute, does not c o m p u t e, d o e s n o t c o m p u t e argh.
Happy birthday David, you deserve human rights, letters from home, to be charged with something, anything before being held prisoner, a trial by your peers, and a lawyer who is allowed to represent you. But now you get to relive the life of Breaker Morant, while the USA military shows how a "kangaroo court" is done. Just proves that the action in Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with JUSTICE.
At least that what this comment reads like. Hmm Everest has been climbed, why climb it again?
Tourists are even happy to pay for trips to Antartica to get covered in penguin shit. And some tourists are daft enough to try crossing the Australian desert in summer. The only thing that seems to slow them down is fear of something less likely to kill them than a car accident back home. Something = anything from SARS, bombing, snake bite, shark bite, lightning strike etc. They don't usually think of death by thirst, jellyfish stingers, crocodiles, or wombat/roo/donkey/camel/sheep/sandhill/washout car accidents).
I just hope that successful space trips don't give corporates a new excuse to continue trashing the only planet we've got.
And is that why they kept taking me off "tech support"? I gave useful support (and then suggested the customer would be better off with a different email client or even different O/S).
Never mind the boss, so long as the customer is happy. I suppose those who provide ikea like assembly instructions wouldn't follow up with decent phone or video conference support either. But those of us who do provide useful help will have more customers available without having to travel. If only I could speak Hindi.
It would be a bit like having a do-it-yourself interactive library available. So that when the water filtration hardware arrives, and comes with a set of IKEA like installation instructions, the locals can get on the video-PC and dial up tech support in town, and get useful assistance, quickly.
This way the experts in town can be shared around the countryside without having to waste hours travelling.
Being from a very spread out country myself, where it can take hours to get between two towns and days to get to the capital city, by road or air, something that skips the wasted travel time and works over phone lines or satelite connections would be excellent. Especially when broadband and cable are never likely to reach the outback.
Think about it, every time you show something to a friend or expert to get assistance to make it work or even sit down to coffee together and chat thinking how much better this is than by phone, you get an idea about how good something like this low bandwith system can be in a place where the main facilities are over 1000km (600miles) apart.
Imagine some places that are 5 days by road (from the black top) or 30 minutes by helicopter but it takes a week to get the helicopter within fuel range to start with. And then there's no fuel because the trucks can't get in because all the roads washed away in the wet season. 3 weeks by bulldozer? Also (if you had planned ahead and got the fuel in during the last dry season) it would be nice to get the helicopter repair man on the video conference. It would be really good if you could do it from the phone line in the helicopter garage.
something like a new revolution might seriously cramp my access to good wine (not that capitalism and fashion slaves don't already from time to time).
I'm not much for white fizzy but I will drink Ashton Hills Blanc de Blanc (let's see the Frogs get their blanc back)
But mostly (in the fizzies) I like sparkling red, especially these two:
Sparkling Grenache like iced raspberries, goes down really easily.
Sparkling merlot Not overly fond of Merlot but I like this, like mulberries and blackberries and plums, for thinking about and then drinking before it warms up or you notice the price of it.
google for appellation champagne switzerland white wine
get this http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News /0,114 5,1772,00.html
Explaining that the Swiss town of Champagne has been making wine for 700 years longer than the french guys. It is a different wine, white and still (not fizzy). There was another link that came up that suggested that wine grapes were introduced to France via Switzerland by the Romans. So now whose grape is it?
Unfortunately with bad brand management (by the Swiss?), Champagne has come to mean white fizzy wine. The French are trying to claim it back as "white fizzy wine from the Champagne region in France", which is a bit rough for the citizens of Champagne in Switzerland. I figure if the French can use the name (for white fizzy wine), so can everyone else. Otherwise the French can licence the name from Switzerland.
Mine was mostly used in public hospitals where insurance payouts were generally irrelevant as your stay in a public hospital is fully paid by our Australian Government. Sometimes it takes a long time to get in.
The system doesn't determine the correct treatment. The medical staff do that, and then key in what their plan is, and the system keeps track of it, so that the next shift know what pills to give patients when etc. There is usually a hardcopy somewhere (that the rellies can't find it, times have changed). The hardcopy gets scribbled on and the scribble gets typed into the computer. I knew a doctor who described the system as a device to keep nurses away from patients. And it was keeping nurses busy for at least 25% of their shift. Bleck.
Even my GP keeps all his notes on the computer and the computer prints the scripts - so even I can read them.
I agree that the "expert systems" for determining treatment are about as useful as the yellow pages for finding a music shop in a CBD shopping area.
Three weeks ago I got four of them with a new powerhaus charger (for four or two batteries). I use those for my digital camera.
I got two 1200mAh AA batteries with a new portable cd player. Curses. But they last at least three CD plays. Enough for a 3 hour plane trip anyway (and yes I switched off everything for take off and landing).
Interesting what you say about the single battery chargers. The only recharging problems I'm having at the moment is the cell phone battery (Nokia 5110). I think that would best be cured by a new cell phone. Perhaps we could ask Slashdot for best new cell phone.
BitTorrent is software to enable file sharing over the internet, especially from RedHat Linux computers.
So it has elements in common with Kazza and Napster and Morpheus. And it has elements in common with FTP sites and Web Pages/Web Server implementations. And conceptually it can work a bit like mirror web sites, to spread the load of file transfers over the net.
And people can share what ever they like, except if they share copyright stuff the copyright lawyers will probably come after them, and everyone else who uses BitTorrent.
And like any computer system, too much traffic to a single computer can cripple it. So you still have to find a less busy or more powerful site to get the best file transfer?
And the selling point/difference about BitTorrent is that the software tries to balance uploads with downloads ie it tries to prevent download hogs who share nothing of their own?
Argh my age is showing. I remember when we used sneakernet exclusively. And you had to plug a set of old headphones into the tape player to stop it squealing during data transfer.
Personally I prefer the web server system or FTP sites to get my files. Perhaps I am a net "toddler" ie "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine too", and I'll download your stuff and keep my stuff to myself (a download hog?).
So the JFK record would have to be corrupted, because if it emulated a correct record, then when the senior ward supervisor (nurse) was rostering staff to look after patients, JFK would be selected and allocated automatically. You'd have to fake all the way up to the top, ie ward, doctor, everything. And then the staff would recognise it as fake. Hospital patient databases are mostly for making sure patients get the right treatment, and a legal record of that treatement, and a financial record of the cost of that treatment, so a fake record would still have to be accessible to people responsible for these.
It doesn't make sense to say that nobody should be looking at the JFK record. It would make more sense to see the ward staff go nuts trying to find where he nicked off to (like an altzheimer's patient). He's in the computer so he should be in the hospital. If it is merely a historical record, the same problem would apply to the accounting staff (why hasn't he paid his bill?).
And mostly when you go into a hospital or medical facility they get you to sign something that says vaguely that you consent to have your details available to anyone they deem appropriate. They're not going to come back and try to get your permission separately to give details to the cardiac doctor if you happen to have a heart attack while staying with them!
I understand the concept, but I think the example is fairly poor. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say something like "access to this record should be limited". And I think the concept may be fairly old, eg in WWII examples of feeding the enemy false data, rather than actually imprisoning the detected spy.
Last time I got a new bios to install on a PC (compaq En), the computer was rendered completely cactus afterwards.
I can cope with swapping hard drives and re-installing O/S but no idea how to fix a dead bios.
Freebsd on 80 gig by itself was ok for some strange reason, it was the dual boot with win98 that refused to work. I don't think win nt would run my scsi scanner arrangement, the kernel protection probably would stop it. That was the point of having the dual boot.
Eventually I think I'll get a new machine for the gateway and just run freebsd on it (or something) and restore the orignal PC with 2gig and win98. When I originally set the thing up in 1996 I thought 2 gig was huge and div'd the whole thing up into 250MB partitions, which win95 promptly ate.
I always knew that your need for computer power (or any other space) always expands to at least 110% of capacity.
I've got freebsd running on the P133 which is my gateway (internet not cows) PC. We had to do quite a bit of trickery to get the bios to accept a new 80 gig hard drive instead of the 2 gig one it had. It seemed unprepared to recognise anything bigger than 8 gig. And win98 didn't want to know about anything bigger than 32 gig (I did find a new fdisk to fix that).
Still it absolutely refused to dual boot from the 80 gig drive. Perhaps because we decided on a 10 gig boot partition, that the bios didn't recognise (oops).
So now I can't dual boot. Which is sad because the scsi card that works my flatbed scanner only fits in the slots in the old P133. And I can't get it to work with freebsd So I'm going to have to try again, or use something else for my gateway.
I was able to dual boot on the 2gig drive but I ran out of room for the freebsd. Imagine no ports and no upgrades, and no more development because nothing fits on now.
And strangely an 8 gig drive would cost me $80 (OZ) while the 80 gig drive cost $120. And similar extreme prices for memory for obsolete systems. Maybe I could fund a new pc and scanner by wrecking (breaking up for spares) the old one?
I can't even get gnome to work properly with my new intel motherboard with the sound and graphics all combined and sharing memory. Naturally intel doesn't want to admit that anyone would run anything but windoze on their system. Bleck. And I had trouble persuading the machine to cough up its personal details even with win installed (as well as Freebsd). Freebsd is quite happy, it's just the GUI layers that won't speak to me.
I would love a "default" install that just runs, offers me choices that are available instead of expecting me to know how the intel board understands itself (when intel won't tell me either). Then I'd like to be able to go back and tweak things later.
Knoppix: IQ test1: Find a page in english Knoppix: IQ test2 (tech knowlege): Figure out how to fix the frame representation so that the page is not at 110% (ie no matter how much screen your browser takes up, you still have to scroll to see the last couple of words of every line).
And that's just their web page. Not very encouraging. I don't think either group (Knoppix or Debian) are very focussed on non-geeks. Perhaps if they imagined that undirected computers were going to use their operating system. Ie build an interface a moron could use.
Missing FAQ: What's the difference between Knoppix KDE and Gnome?
How do I know I'm getting an english language gui install cd image (and not german)?
The one I like to ask Jehovah's witnesses impertinate enough to get me out of bed early on Saturday mornings, is borrowed from philosphy "Descartes" (?)
How do you know that the world was not created with everything including your memories precisely 10 minutes ago?
Why entropy? Why get out of bed? Answer:
Eventually entropy makes your bed uninhabitable and you have to get out of it (or get someone else to lift you out of it) and fix it up.
Why can't slashdot code automatically detect that I have placed no html code in my post and display it as plain text with line breaks as I intended?
What happens when you combine a short attention span with a highly active brain?
Slashdot Mirror
Bob has already revealed a foul mouthed side... In the original release of the episode featuring Bob trying to put wallpaper up: when he gets wallpaper all over his head, you can distinctly hear him using the F-word and a number of other naughty words that we generally pretend children shouldn't hear. I could hardly believe this, but one of my friends has a copy, and we played it, and sure enough - rude words...She hadn't previously noticed. After all, Bob says exactly what you'd expect anyone else to say if they got gluey wallpaper all over their head instead of the wall. Just for completeness...
http://www.copyright.com.au/CopyrightAct.pdf
Australian Commonwealth copyright act
It looks like you could argue that a copy controlled disk is really software and then it is ok to make a backup and run error correction over it, etc. (p135-136 of pdf, section 110B, p 113-114 of the document)
And it looks like you can make a copy to preserve your copy of the recording for a library or archive, so long as you put a note saying why you made the copy and the date you made it. The act is a bit vague about what a library or archive is. So my copy is for my personal archive?
It also gets a bit vague about expiry dates, saying the fifty years dates from the original recording eg if something is re-released that re-release copyright dates from the original recording?
And it is about as clear as mud when it comes to you making a copy of an authorised sound recording. Eg you didn't make a recording yourself, you made a copy of a legit recording (which is not a recording of itself, ie you didn't get microphones out and record a performance..). So long as you don't try to trade on your copy, it looks like things should be ok. Maybe. But I don't want to be the one to find out.
I think you'd have a really good chance at the copy-control things being software not sound recordings...
how schizophrenic are our laws?
Hmm, not allowed to copy music, but are allowed to backup/copy software. Are allowed to tape broadcasts. Is Kazaa/Internet a broadcast medium? What about streaming radio? etc etc.
At least the insults have a certain quality to them. Lemme try: You spend so much time with your computer in the basement that your breeding opportunity is nonexiestant, all suitable members of the opposite sex can and do outpace you easily.
Gawd, "read the manual" the coward says. And "I'm sorry I'm not here to..." - I didn't force you to reply did I?
I hate reading games manuals. That's one of the reasons I always liked space invaders until my computer started running the program faster than it would accept keyboard input. Dead dead dead wha? Game over.
Yeah, I am more familiar with a live DM who matches his monsters to his players, afterall he doesn't want the game to end too quickly either.
I sometimes play network quake and the like, and I tend to get creamed by the guys who play regularily which takes the fun out of it for me. It's like having your first game of golf against the professionals. (Hmm, maybe you don't play outdoor sport).
Do the MMORPG just hack and slash, ie you only rack up points for killing things, or can you make or lose points, like real life (sort of), by actions like losing iq points by watching CNN, and gain Karma by making donations to the "poor", is it possible to ask questions first (perhaps from a distance) and hack and slash later?
Are the groups of human players (ie creatures representing and controlled by real humans not entirely computer generated) likely to let a beginner into their group or just kill the newbie off for points?
Hmm, you're probaby right, I've got no idea what you mean. I've got a fair idea what Daniel meant.
I'm not real obsessive about games, and I still hate this glary purple layout.
Exact Audio Copy. How rude is it to put out music on something that cannot be copied for personal use? Personal copies eg cassette tape, minidisk, MP3, for car CD player, are legal in Australia. As for the spyware. I've yet to install Kazaa. My favourite version of the file sharing networks is sneakernet. Slow but effective.
how come you don't get wiped out by the first monster with an excess of constitution or skill compared to you?
Leastways I liked monsters or other players that matched my level approximately rather than being completely obliterated every time I played before I even knew what happened.
At least to catch people who deserve to be scammed. Funny how spam and scam are intimately linked.
Try this on for size. Note none of this stuff is the least bit reliable so don't send any money, we'll bill you...
Joey Skaggs taking prankstering to a higher level: Art!
and a prank or business idea: hunting for bambi
Warning: I think the concept is a sick reflection of some sections of our society. It ain't funny, or at least, if this is a scam, the customers deserve to be ripped off.
At least they do in this country.
Chances are a bank here (Australia) wouldn't print a name like that on the cheque to start with.
The companies register people and yellow pages refused to list a company that wanted to call itself "Get Stuffed" (An all you can eat restaurant). I guess times may have changed now.
I think the excuse was something to do with Opium poppies.
So Mike could be forgiven for thinking the USA supported the Taliban (until the bombing started) and now he's being crucified for it.
BTW Today (7th August) is David Hicks' birthday. He was arrested under similar balony as some sort of trophy scapegoat for the USA. "Look we got some sucker, so this will prevent people from trying to fly planes into sky scrapers". Huh?
Does not compute, does not compute, does not compute, does not compute, does not c o m p u t e, d o e s n o t c o m p u t e argh.
Happy birthday David, you deserve human rights, letters from home, to be charged with something, anything before being held prisoner, a trial by your peers, and a lawyer who is allowed to represent you. But now you get to relive the life of Breaker Morant, while the USA military shows how a "kangaroo court" is done. Just proves that the action in Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with JUSTICE.
At least that what this comment reads like. Hmm Everest has been climbed, why climb it again?
Tourists are even happy to pay for trips to Antartica to get covered in penguin shit. And some tourists are daft enough to try crossing the Australian desert in summer. The only thing that seems to slow them down is fear of something less likely to kill them than a car accident back home. Something = anything from SARS, bombing, snake bite, shark bite, lightning strike etc. They don't usually think of death by thirst, jellyfish stingers, crocodiles, or wombat/roo/donkey/camel/sheep/sandhill/washout car accidents).
I just hope that successful space trips don't give corporates a new excuse to continue trashing the only planet we've got.
That's my rant for the day...
And is that why they kept taking me off "tech support"? I gave useful support (and then suggested the customer would be better off with a different email client or even different O/S).
Never mind the boss, so long as the customer is happy. I suppose those who provide ikea like assembly instructions wouldn't follow up with decent phone or video conference support either. But those of us who do provide useful help will have more customers available without having to travel. If only I could speak Hindi.
It would be a bit like having a do-it-yourself interactive library available. So that when the water filtration hardware arrives, and comes with a set of IKEA like installation instructions, the locals can get on the video-PC and dial up tech support in town, and get useful assistance, quickly.
This way the experts in town can be shared around the countryside without having to waste hours travelling.
Being from a very spread out country myself, where it can take hours to get between two towns and days to get to the capital city, by road or air, something that skips the wasted travel time and works over phone lines or satelite connections would be excellent. Especially when broadband and cable are never likely to reach the outback.
Think about it, every time you show something to a friend or expert to get assistance to make it work or even sit down to coffee together and chat thinking how much better this is than by phone, you get an idea about how good something like this low bandwith system can be in a place where the main facilities are over 1000km (600miles) apart.
Imagine some places that are 5 days by road (from the black top) or 30 minutes by helicopter but it takes a week to get the helicopter within fuel range to start with. And then there's no fuel because the trucks can't get in because all the roads washed away in the wet season. 3 weeks by bulldozer? Also (if you had planned ahead and got the fuel in during the last dry season) it would be nice to get the helicopter repair man on the video conference. It would be really good if you could do it from the phone line in the helicopter garage.
is this year zero?
something like a new revolution might seriously cramp my access to good wine (not that capitalism and fashion slaves don't already from time to time).
I'm not much for white fizzy but I will drink Ashton Hills Blanc de Blanc (let's see the Frogs get their blanc back)
But mostly (in the fizzies) I like sparkling red, especially these two: Sparkling Grenache like iced raspberries, goes down really easily.
Sparkling merlot Not overly fond of Merlot but I like this, like mulberries and blackberries and plums, for thinking about and then drinking before it warms up or you notice the price of it.
google for
s /0,114 5,1772,00.html
appellation champagne switzerland white wine
get this
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/New
Explaining that the Swiss town of Champagne has been making wine for 700 years longer than the french guys. It is a different wine, white and still (not fizzy). There was another link that came up that suggested that wine grapes were introduced to France via Switzerland by the Romans. So now whose grape is it?
Unfortunately with bad brand management (by the Swiss?), Champagne has come to mean white fizzy wine. The French are trying to claim it back as "white fizzy wine from the Champagne region in France", which is a bit rough for the citizens of Champagne in Switzerland. I figure if the French can use the name (for white fizzy wine), so can everyone else. Otherwise the French can licence the name from Switzerland.
Mine was mostly used in public hospitals where insurance payouts were generally irrelevant as your stay in a public hospital is fully paid by our Australian Government. Sometimes it takes a long time to get in. The system doesn't determine the correct treatment. The medical staff do that, and then key in what their plan is, and the system keeps track of it, so that the next shift know what pills to give patients when etc. There is usually a hardcopy somewhere (that the rellies can't find it, times have changed). The hardcopy gets scribbled on and the scribble gets typed into the computer. I knew a doctor who described the system as a device to keep nurses away from patients. And it was keeping nurses busy for at least 25% of their shift. Bleck. Even my GP keeps all his notes on the computer and the computer prints the scripts - so even I can read them. I agree that the "expert systems" for determining treatment are about as useful as the yellow pages for finding a music shop in a CBD shopping area.
Three weeks ago I got four of them with a new powerhaus charger (for four or two batteries). I use those for my digital camera.
I got two 1200mAh AA batteries with a new portable cd player. Curses. But they last at least three CD plays. Enough for a 3 hour plane trip anyway (and yes I switched off everything for take off and landing).
Interesting what you say about the single battery chargers. The only recharging problems I'm having at the moment is the cell phone battery (Nokia 5110). I think that would best be cured by a new cell phone. Perhaps we could ask Slashdot for best new cell phone.
I'll bid next week's winning lotto numbers...
So let me get this straight
BitTorrent is software to enable file sharing over the internet, especially from RedHat Linux computers.
So it has elements in common with Kazza and Napster and Morpheus.
And it has elements in common with FTP sites and Web Pages/Web Server implementations.
And conceptually it can work a bit like mirror web sites, to spread the load of file transfers over the net.
And people can share what ever they like, except if they share copyright stuff the copyright lawyers will probably come after them, and everyone else who uses BitTorrent.
And like any computer system, too much traffic to a single computer can cripple it. So you still have to find a less busy or more powerful site to get the best file transfer?
And the selling point/difference about BitTorrent is that the software tries to balance uploads with downloads ie it tries to prevent download hogs who share nothing of their own?
Argh my age is showing. I remember when we used sneakernet exclusively. And you had to plug a set of old headphones into the tape player to stop it squealing during data transfer.
Personally I prefer the web server system or FTP sites to get my files. Perhaps I am a net "toddler" ie "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine too", and I'll download your stuff and keep my stuff to myself (a download hog?).
What do these other things have as an advantage?
So the JFK record would have to be corrupted, because if it emulated a correct record, then when the senior ward supervisor (nurse) was rostering staff to look after patients, JFK would be selected and allocated automatically. You'd have to fake all the way up to the top, ie ward, doctor, everything. And then the staff would recognise it as fake. Hospital patient databases are mostly for making sure patients get the right treatment, and a legal record of that treatement, and a financial record of the cost of that treatment, so a fake record would still have to be accessible to people responsible for these.
It doesn't make sense to say that nobody should be looking at the JFK record. It would make more sense to see the ward staff go nuts trying to find where he nicked off to (like an altzheimer's patient). He's in the computer so he should be in the hospital. If it is merely a historical record, the same problem would apply to the accounting staff (why hasn't he paid his bill?).
And mostly when you go into a hospital or medical facility they get you to sign something that says vaguely that you consent to have your details available to anyone they deem appropriate. They're not going to come back and try to get your permission separately to give details to the cardiac doctor if you happen to have a heart attack while staying with them!
I understand the concept, but I think the example is fairly poor. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say something like "access to this record should be limited". And I think the concept may be fairly old, eg in WWII examples of feeding the enemy false data, rather than actually imprisoning the detected spy.
You're braver than I am
Last time I got a new bios to install on a PC (compaq En), the computer was rendered completely cactus afterwards.
I can cope with swapping hard drives and re-installing O/S but no idea how to fix a dead bios.
Freebsd on 80 gig by itself was ok for some strange reason, it was the dual boot with win98 that refused to work. I don't think win nt would run my scsi scanner arrangement, the kernel protection probably would stop it. That was the point of having the dual boot.
Eventually I think I'll get a new machine for the gateway and just run freebsd on it (or something) and restore the orignal PC with 2gig and win98. When I originally set the thing up in 1996 I thought 2 gig was huge and div'd the whole thing up into 250MB partitions, which win95 promptly ate.
I always knew that your need for computer power (or any other space) always expands to at least 110% of capacity.
I've got freebsd running on the P133 which is my gateway (internet not cows) PC. We had to do quite a bit of trickery to get the bios to accept a new 80 gig hard drive instead of the 2 gig one it had. It seemed unprepared to recognise anything bigger than 8 gig. And win98 didn't want to know about anything bigger than 32 gig (I did find a new fdisk to fix that).
Still it absolutely refused to dual boot from the 80 gig drive. Perhaps because we decided on a 10 gig boot partition, that the bios didn't recognise (oops).
So now I can't dual boot. Which is sad because the scsi card that works my flatbed scanner only fits in the slots in the old P133. And I can't get it to work with freebsd So I'm going to have to try again, or use something else for my gateway.
I was able to dual boot on the 2gig drive but I ran out of room for the freebsd. Imagine no ports and no upgrades, and no more development because nothing fits on now.
And strangely an 8 gig drive would cost me $80 (OZ) while the 80 gig drive cost $120. And similar extreme prices for memory for obsolete systems. Maybe I could fund a new pc and scanner by wrecking (breaking up for spares) the old one?
I can't even get gnome to work properly with my new intel motherboard with the sound and graphics all combined and sharing memory. Naturally intel doesn't want to admit that anyone would run anything but windoze on their system. Bleck. And I had trouble persuading the machine to cough up its personal details even with win installed (as well as Freebsd). Freebsd is quite happy, it's just the GUI layers that won't speak to me.
I would love a "default" install that just runs, offers me choices that are available instead of expecting me to know how the intel board understands itself (when intel won't tell me either). Then I'd like to be able to go back and tweak things later.
Knoppix: IQ test1: Find a page in english
Knoppix: IQ test2 (tech knowlege): Figure out how to fix the frame representation so that the page is not at 110% (ie no matter how much screen your browser takes up, you still have to scroll to see the last couple of words of every line).
And that's just their web page. Not very encouraging. I don't think either group (Knoppix or Debian) are very focussed on non-geeks. Perhaps if they imagined that undirected computers were going to use their operating system. Ie build an interface a moron could use.
Missing FAQ:
What's the difference between Knoppix KDE and Gnome?
How do I know I'm getting an english language gui install cd image (and not german)?
refs
google Knoppix
First result German
second result page overwidth
at last, just right, sort of
The one I like to ask Jehovah's witnesses impertinate enough to get me out of bed early on Saturday mornings, is borrowed from philosphy "Descartes" (?)
How do you know that the world was not created with everything including your memories precisely 10 minutes ago?
Why entropy? Why get out of bed?
Answer: Eventually entropy makes your bed uninhabitable and you have to get out of it (or get someone else to lift you out of it) and fix it up.
Why can't slashdot code automatically detect that I have placed no html code in my post and display it as plain text with line breaks as I intended?
What happens when you combine a short attention span with a highly active brain?