This country is being overrun, at this minute, with madmen such as yourself. Did this man Fyodor commit a crime by attacking a criminal? Of course not. The right to self defense is as old as it is basic. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If I had been the victim of a confidence game such as this, I would have flown to the con man's house and shot him! I believe that breaking into the young man's computer and taking pictures was insufficient defense, let alone a "crime"!
This is the logical extension of "Airbag Politics". Despite the fact that airbags kill more children than school shootings, the government continues to legislate guns out of existence and airbags into existence. So too shall the government legislate Microsoft out of existence and Sun into a monopoly. Arbitrary conclusions fueled by non-facts are costing hard working enterprises their very existence.
Given the common practice of 'WarDriving' that most young people seem to be 'in to' these days, it is probable - nay, inevitable, that these wireless points will be detected by someone and posted at a site such as cryptome. The interesting question, of course, is whether the publishing of data about the presence and location of these acccess points will be considered illegal, and whether the 'War Drivers' will be arrested for detecting the signal.
After some consideration, I propose that this system should be applied to Slashdot stories! Each Slashdot story, after being submitted by an editor, should be reviewed by at least two readers before being posted in order to correct inadvertent spelling mistakes and story duplicity. Thank you sir, for inspiration!
I remember using a Macintosh, it was called the 'SE'. I found that while it presented a nice graphical interface, it was far slower than a PC, and I've been a PC user ever since.
Slashdot has posted a story which reports that there will soon be a story to report. Is there something I should know about Microsoft and why it is important enough to merit the posting of such a pre-story?
but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
Solaris notebooks will satisfy their own market niche - users who need a stable, secure Unix with good development tools. Linux notebooks will be available for the rest of the Unix market.
For things like nations, elections may be all well and good (though I fail to see that that's been proven yet) but for small institutions on a limited budget, elections are a monumental pain in the arse. I hope my local Board of Regents follows suit. Putting University funding and appointment behind close doors would stop a whole rash of problems, from students smearing us in their rag of a newspaper to inquisitive alumni attempting to get their shills elected.
One has to wonder how much faith we should have in a body which named their original effort 'Wired Equivalent Protocol'. Anyone who believed that signals blared across the electromagnetic spectrum were equivalent to those inside of copper wires needs to take a deep breath and then leave the field of Engineering.
I for one have no faith in this body whatsoever. I use cables, and so does anyone who values their privacy.
However, any advanced design like this is not without its hurdles. "The real hub is the storage," Howe says. "There's a lot of technology between here and there."
That is quite possibly the most circuitous way I have ever seen someone admit that something is impossible. Fascinating.
Can anyone put forward a well-reasoned argument why the Internet should be exempt to sales tax? Every other method of interaction in the world - from face-to-face transactions to mail order to telephone sales - is governed by state statues which tax that commerce. Is the Internet exempt simply because it is 'too cool' or 'over the head of stuffy old lawmakers'?
Perhaps taxation laws are merely over the heads of overexcited teenagers.
The invisible addendum to this sentence is expendable. Small, cheap, and expendable - the mantra of the Japanese economy. Someday we'll be so deep in silicon poisoning that it will be a worldwide crisis, and we'll have to have a resolution like the Kyoto Protocol so that our president can ignore it. But like our automobile industry fifty years ago, we should march relentlessly ahead with abandon until we reach a crisis point, rather than attempt to head it off now.
If machines could truly think they would be screaming at us: "Don't Throw Us Out!!!".
The article summary is incorrect in stating the vague nature of these patents. They are, in order:
Each multimedia terminal comprises a video screen and a video memory which holds co-related image-and-sound-generating information arranged to simulate the aspect and speech of an application loan officer on the video screen. The simulated loan officer is used to acquire personal loan data from the applicant by guiding him through an interactive sequence of inquiries and answers.
and...
Each multimedia terminal comprises a video screen and a video memory which holds co-related image-and-sound-generating information arranged to simulate the aspect and speech of an application loan officer on the video screen. The simulated loan officer is used to acquire personal loan data from the applicant by guiding him through an interactive sequence of inquiries and answers.
The patents are specific to loan applications. What a load of willy-nilly hand-wringing and poppycock!
What's amazing about this device is not the ingenuity of the actual idea, but rather the minaturization required to fit a GPS receiver inside so small a vessel. A novel application for GPS, to be sure, and a victory for granularity in consumer GPS receivers. My personal Garmin, for instance, is only accurate to 30 feet or more, whereas this pen can apparently receive within inches.
Finally, common sense from the bar. A new law is needed to define the rights of the disabled in cyberspace. Like the Digital Millenium Copyright Act defined how Copyright functions in cyberspace, a Cyber-ADA needs to be passed by Congress to define how (and whether) the handicapped shall access cyberspace.
Why are the Macintosh LCD monitors not represented? They work quite well not just with Macintosh computers but with PCs as well, as my desktop can easily demonstrate. Additionally, Apple's patented display has none of the viewing angle problems the author complains of. Hardly representative.
Eric Raymond's name is closely associated with the bazaar model, while Richard Stallman's evokes the cathedral
I appear to have made a vast mistake when reading and interpreting Mr. Raymond's work - it was my impression that his 'Cathedral' metaphor was used to describe closed, proprietary software design similar to Microsoft's, not Stallman's GPL'd design method. Was I wrong? Or is the author wrong?
"Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk said Red Storm reflects Cray's strategy to deliver high-efficiency, high bandwidth supercomputer systems. "Red Storm embodies the same design philosophy as our new Cray X1(TM) vector-based product in a highly cost-effective superscalar architecture and will be a key initiative for Cray."
Ah, I remember my days on the venerable Cray Y-MP, optimizing my programs for vector processing. I am unsure how Cray has managed to make a combined parallel-vector machine like the Y-MP out of PC chips provided by AMD, but I do not envy the programmers who must now begin the task of vector-optimizing their code to take advantage of this beast.
I had hoped that this idea died with Cray. Apparently not.
While the author is correct in stating that modern advances in digital spread spectrum allow digital signal processors to place multiple signals in the same frequency, he ignores the impact this would have on existing analog technologies which are incapable of this feat. I personally do not wish to be walking down the street the day it starts raining model airplanes.
I'm not sure I agree with the story's claim that Wal-Mart sells R-rated movies to the 12-and-under audience this game was created for. That would be illegal. Some fact checking appears to be in order.
I must point out a factual inaccuracy in the article summary. It is not stated that 80% of Chinese computers have at one point experienced a virus infection. In fact, it is stated that over 80% of a sample group of Chinese computer users believed they had been infected with a virus. This perception is a much muddier number, considering I know many of my colleagues believe that advertising pop-up ads for casinos are actually computer viruses.
Here is the source for my observation:
"Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper quoted the center's chief engineer, Zhang Jian, as saying.
The Japanese neutrino detector, Kamiokande, was constructed to observe neutron collapse. It failed. It has proved, to a certain extent, that neutron collapse is impossible, or that Koshiba's scientific apparatus is flawed. As a side affect, Koshiba found that neutrinos from space were interfering with his experiment. When the supernova of 1987A lit Koshiba's apparatus up like a Christmas tree, Koshiba found that his mistake even provided an early warning system for supernovae. Through this "oops", "neutrino astronomy" was born. All scientists should be so lucky as to have made a mistake of this magnitude and grandeur. It is truly worthy of the Nobel.
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This country is being overrun, at this minute, with madmen such as yourself. Did this man Fyodor commit a crime by attacking a criminal? Of course not. The right to self defense is as old as it is basic. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. If I had been the victim of a confidence game such as this, I would have flown to the con man's house and shot him! I believe that breaking into the young man's computer and taking pictures was insufficient defense, let alone a "crime"!
You sir are beside yourself with lunacy.
This is the logical extension of "Airbag Politics". Despite the fact that airbags kill more children than school shootings, the government continues to legislate guns out of existence and airbags into existence. So too shall the government legislate Microsoft out of existence and Sun into a monopoly. Arbitrary conclusions fueled by non-facts are costing hard working enterprises their very existence.
Poppycock!
Given the common practice of 'WarDriving' that most young people seem to be 'in to' these days, it is probable - nay, inevitable, that these wireless points will be detected by someone and posted at a site such as cryptome. The interesting question, of course, is whether the publishing of data about the presence and location of these acccess points will be considered illegal, and whether the 'War Drivers' will be arrested for detecting the signal.
One would hope so, but you never know.
After some consideration, I propose that this system should be applied to Slashdot stories! Each Slashdot story, after being submitted by an editor, should be reviewed by at least two readers before being posted in order to correct inadvertent spelling mistakes and story duplicity. Thank you sir, for inspiration!
I remember using a Macintosh, it was called the 'SE'. I found that while it presented a nice graphical interface, it was far slower than a PC, and I've been a PC user ever since.
How is this news?
Slashdot has posted a story which reports that there will soon be a story to report. Is there something I should know about Microsoft and why it is important enough to merit the posting of such a pre-story?
Solaris notebooks will satisfy their own market niche - users who need a stable, secure Unix with good development tools. Linux notebooks will be available for the rest of the Unix market.
For things like nations, elections may be all well and good (though I fail to see that that's been proven yet) but for small institutions on a limited budget, elections are a monumental pain in the arse. I hope my local Board of Regents follows suit. Putting University funding and appointment behind close doors would stop a whole rash of problems, from students smearing us in their rag of a newspaper to inquisitive alumni attempting to get their shills elected.
One has to wonder how much faith we should have in a body which named their original effort 'Wired Equivalent Protocol'. Anyone who believed that signals blared across the electromagnetic spectrum were equivalent to those inside of copper wires needs to take a deep breath and then leave the field of Engineering.
I for one have no faith in this body whatsoever. I use cables, and so does anyone who values their privacy.
That is quite possibly the most circuitous way I have ever seen someone admit that something is impossible. Fascinating.
Can anyone put forward a well-reasoned argument why the Internet should be exempt to sales tax? Every other method of interaction in the world - from face-to-face transactions to mail order to telephone sales - is governed by state statues which tax that commerce. Is the Internet exempt simply because it is 'too cool' or 'over the head of stuffy old lawmakers'?
Perhaps taxation laws are merely over the heads of overexcited teenagers.
How will things that think be developed?"
By making them small and cheap.
The invisible addendum to this sentence is expendable. Small, cheap, and expendable - the mantra of the Japanese economy. Someday we'll be so deep in silicon poisoning that it will be a worldwide crisis, and we'll have to have a resolution like the Kyoto Protocol so that our president can ignore it. But like our automobile industry fifty years ago, we should march relentlessly ahead with abandon until we reach a crisis point, rather than attempt to head it off now.
If machines could truly think they would be screaming at us: "Don't Throw Us Out!!!".
I don't understand why NASA does not employ lead shielding to protect its astronauts. This time-tested solution is proven and effective.
The article summary is incorrect in stating the vague nature of these patents. They are, in order:
Each multimedia terminal comprises a video screen and a video memory which holds co-related image-and-sound-generating information arranged to simulate the aspect and speech of an application loan officer on the video screen. The simulated loan officer is used to acquire personal loan data from the applicant by guiding him through an interactive sequence of inquiries and answers.
and...
Each multimedia terminal comprises a video screen and a video memory which holds co-related image-and-sound-generating information arranged to simulate the aspect and speech of an application loan officer on the video screen. The simulated loan officer is used to acquire personal loan data from the applicant by guiding him through an interactive sequence of inquiries and answers.
The patents are specific to loan applications. What a load of willy-nilly hand-wringing and poppycock!
What's amazing about this device is not the ingenuity of the actual idea, but rather the minaturization required to fit a GPS receiver inside so small a vessel. A novel application for GPS, to be sure, and a victory for granularity in consumer GPS receivers. My personal Garmin, for instance, is only accurate to 30 feet or more, whereas this pen can apparently receive within inches.
Absolutely remarkable.
Finally, common sense from the bar. A new law is needed to define the rights of the disabled in cyberspace. Like the Digital Millenium Copyright Act defined how Copyright functions in cyberspace, a Cyber-ADA needs to be passed by Congress to define how (and whether) the handicapped shall access cyberspace.
Why are the Macintosh LCD monitors not represented? They work quite well not just with Macintosh computers but with PCs as well, as my desktop can easily demonstrate. Additionally, Apple's patented display has none of the viewing angle problems the author complains of. Hardly representative.
Eric Raymond's name is closely associated with the bazaar model, while Richard Stallman's evokes the cathedral
I appear to have made a vast mistake when reading and interpreting Mr. Raymond's work - it was my impression that his 'Cathedral' metaphor was used to describe closed, proprietary software design similar to Microsoft's, not Stallman's GPL'd design method. Was I wrong? Or is the author wrong?
"Cray Chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk said Red Storm reflects Cray's strategy to deliver high-efficiency, high bandwidth supercomputer systems. "Red Storm embodies the same design philosophy as our new Cray X1(TM) vector-based product in a highly cost-effective superscalar architecture and will be a key initiative for Cray."
Quoted from the Cray Press Release.
Ah, I remember my days on the venerable Cray Y-MP, optimizing my programs for vector processing. I am unsure how Cray has managed to make a combined parallel-vector machine like the Y-MP out of PC chips provided by AMD, but I do not envy the programmers who must now begin the task of vector-optimizing their code to take advantage of this beast.
I had hoped that this idea died with Cray. Apparently not.
While the author is correct in stating that modern advances in digital spread spectrum allow digital signal processors to place multiple signals in the same frequency, he ignores the impact this would have on existing analog technologies which are incapable of this feat. I personally do not wish to be walking down the street the day it starts raining model airplanes.
I'm not sure I agree with the story's claim that Wal-Mart sells R-rated movies to the 12-and-under audience this game was created for. That would be illegal. Some fact checking appears to be in order.
"Stop Anthropomorphizing Me. Instead, go outside and play".
I must point out a factual inaccuracy in the article summary. It is not stated that 80% of Chinese computers have at one point experienced a virus infection. In fact, it is stated that over 80% of a sample group of Chinese computer users believed they had been infected with a virus. This perception is a much muddier number, considering I know many of my colleagues believe that advertising pop-up ads for casinos are actually computer viruses.
Here is the source for my observation:
"Only 16 percent of computer users we sampled this year reported they were free from any virus attack, while last year nearly one in three users said they suffered no computer infections," the newspaper quoted the center's chief engineer, Zhang Jian, as saying.
That's one small step for television, but one giant leap for degrading space travel.
The Japanese neutrino detector, Kamiokande, was constructed to observe neutron collapse. It failed. It has proved, to a certain extent, that neutron collapse is impossible, or that Koshiba's scientific apparatus is flawed. As a side affect, Koshiba found that neutrinos from space were interfering with his experiment. When the supernova of 1987A lit Koshiba's apparatus up like a Christmas tree, Koshiba found that his mistake even provided an early warning system for supernovae. Through this "oops", "neutrino astronomy" was born. All scientists should be so lucky as to have made a mistake of this magnitude and grandeur. It is truly worthy of the Nobel.
Sadly, Koshiba made another mistake which destroyed his billion dollar apparatus. Another "oops", which so far has not yielded a Nobel.
Yet!