The "connection to the source" explanation for the sentinel knockout, however crappy it is, is canon. There's no evidence for any of your other suggestions beyond "what if?".
Also, I believe Lucas has said that he will not even try to do 7, 8, and 9.
And you might want to change your sig, it's a bit late:)
Do we ask that all drivers be mechanics? Do we ask that everyone who can read be capable of operating a printing press? Do we ask that everyone who owns a house be a mason or carpenter?
The author of this article appears to be stuck in an outmoded view of computers in which they are something totally new and completely different from everything else in history. Wrong; computers are just complex machines. They are not the final frontier or the brave new world. They're made to be used as tools to perform tasks, and it's perfectly reasonable to ask that the computer hide its internal quirks and leave the user free to concentrate on something besides the computer itself.
First problem with that plan is that *all* Internet communication is two-way, even if it's only handshake packets.
Second problem is that people will just tunnel blocked services over the allowed services. Even Microsoft is getting into the act, with "web services" that are little more than RPC over port 80.
I think what the poster meant was, what if the router only does the registration check on packets coming from the LAN interfaces? That would be a sensible technical solution that wouldn't be any more insecure than web config pages which already do this.
Exactly... The point the Register is missing is that the ITMS is not a critical bet-the-company project. Apple never expected to make a killing on it, probably expected to lose money on it overall, and has planned the rest of their business accordingly. Apple will most likely never have an overall financial loss that can be directly attributed to the ITMS; if it becomes infeasible to keep pouring money into it they'll simply walk away and go back to emphasizing CD ripping for the iPod.
They aren't seriously expecting people to do step 1 on the strength of this campaign, but there are plenty of computer owners out there. Step 2 is pretty easy given step 1, or perhaps McDonalds will also make a deal with AOL. Step 3 is trivial given step 2. And once you do steps 1-3, you can skip to step 4 all subsequent times you get a free song coupon.
Don't forget the Yankee Stadium analogy: The sun is on home plate, the first 4 planets are between home and the pitcher's mound, Jupiter is on second base, Saturn and Uranus are in the outfield, Pluto is in the parking lot, and Centauri is in San Franciso.
If anyone could address those problems today, nanobots would be here and someone would be very, very rich.
I'd say the best evidence for nanobot feasibility is the existence of microscopic animals. They prove it is indeed possible for an object of that size (and nanobots will most likely start out far larger) to be self-powering, self-propelled, and manufactured in large quantities.
Yes, because not everyone has the same demands on their music. I could care less about liner notes. Media is a one-time use device for moving music from the store to my hard drive. The quality of 128K AACs is acceptable to me at that price. I may be getting less, but in my opinion I am losing less value than that of the money I'm saving.
Just a note on the bit about radio stations: That's only a directory listing. Apple doesn't run the vast majority of them, and iTunes can receive any standard mp3 stream.
Unless it executes in the sandbox by default every time. While this is the basic principle underlying Java and TCPA, it's starting to look like more and more of a good idea...
First of all, this thread is about science fiction universes.
Secondly, the morality problem only comes up (well, is strongest) when dealing with *sentient* machines. If we can build a machine that is for all intents and purposes human, then we can build a machine that is far smarter than today's computesr but is for all intents and purposes a nonsentient animal similar to a pack rat which roams the neighborhood collecting the contents of garbage cans and squirreling them away in its "nest", which would be the local garbage dump or recycling plant input hatch. It could be modeled even more closely on real-life scavengers by giving it an aversion to humans (thereby avoiding all sorts of safety problems direct interaction would cause).
What do they gain from this? The only advantage of the Internet over the existing cable TV distribution system is its bidirectional nature, which is useless for this application. I could see an Xbox Media Player-style TV feature or separate box that could go over the LAN, but why use IP for sending video from remote sites?
Iain M. Banks takes the opposite view: Virtually all menial tasks up to and including automated manufacturing can be relegated to nonsentient robots and computers who don't care.
60% of the subjects went to the maximum setting. I can't find a reference for this, but I believe 100% went beyond the point where the learner began to indicate he was in pain.
If you try actually *loading* the directories listed in the robots.txt, they don't exist. Not one. Not by going to their index.html or trying to find them through the site navigation. While they could still be accused of deleting them, many of the links are unlikely to have existed in the first place (http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/heartland-tou r-gallery/iraq?/president/holiday/decorations/iraq?/president/tee-ball-01/iraq? ) This may be just some IT grunt running a bad script on robots.txt.
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The "connection to the source" explanation for the sentinel knockout, however crappy it is, is canon. There's no evidence for any of your other suggestions beyond "what if?".
:)
Also, I believe Lucas has said that he will not even try to do 7, 8, and 9.
And you might want to change your sig, it's a bit late
Do we ask that all drivers be mechanics? Do we ask that everyone who can read be capable of operating a printing press? Do we ask that everyone who owns a house be a mason or carpenter?
The author of this article appears to be stuck in an outmoded view of computers in which they are something totally new and completely different from everything else in history. Wrong; computers are just complex machines. They are not the final frontier or the brave new world. They're made to be used as tools to perform tasks, and it's perfectly reasonable to ask that the computer hide its internal quirks and leave the user free to concentrate on something besides the computer itself.
You should know, you had to memorize all those lines Neo said...
First problem with that plan is that *all* Internet communication is two-way, even if it's only handshake packets.
Second problem is that people will just tunnel blocked services over the allowed services. Even Microsoft is getting into the act, with "web services" that are little more than RPC over port 80.
I think what the poster meant was, what if the router only does the registration check on packets coming from the LAN interfaces? That would be a sensible technical solution that wouldn't be any more insecure than web config pages which already do this.
Exactly... The point the Register is missing is that the ITMS is not a critical bet-the-company project. Apple never expected to make a killing on it, probably expected to lose money on it overall, and has planned the rest of their business accordingly. Apple will most likely never have an overall financial loss that can be directly attributed to the ITMS; if it becomes infeasible to keep pouring money into it they'll simply walk away and go back to emphasizing CD ripping for the iPod.
They aren't seriously expecting people to do step 1 on the strength of this campaign, but there are plenty of computer owners out there. Step 2 is pretty easy given step 1, or perhaps McDonalds will also make a deal with AOL. Step 3 is trivial given step 2. And once you do steps 1-3, you can skip to step 4 all subsequent times you get a free song coupon.
Better yet, what happens when one of the contestants gets leaked?
"Look out, Radioactive Man! The sun is exploding again!"
No, Voyager's last message is going to be "What?! KLINGONS?! OH SHI"
Don't forget the Yankee Stadium analogy: The sun is on home plate, the first 4 planets are between home and the pitcher's mound, Jupiter is on second base, Saturn and Uranus are in the outfield, Pluto is in the parking lot, and Centauri is in San Franciso.
If anyone could address those problems today, nanobots would be here and someone would be very, very rich.
I'd say the best evidence for nanobot feasibility is the existence of microscopic animals. They prove it is indeed possible for an object of that size (and nanobots will most likely start out far larger) to be self-powering, self-propelled, and manufactured in large quantities.
Yes, because not everyone has the same demands on their music. I could care less about liner notes. Media is a one-time use device for moving music from the store to my hard drive. The quality of 128K AACs is acceptable to me at that price. I may be getting less, but in my opinion I am losing less value than that of the money I'm saving.
Just a note on the bit about radio stations: That's only a directory listing. Apple doesn't run the vast majority of them, and iTunes can receive any standard mp3 stream.
You mean I should stop letting strangers use my toothbrush?
Unless it executes in the sandbox by default every time. While this is the basic principle underlying Java and TCPA, it's starting to look like more and more of a good idea...
First of all, this thread is about science fiction universes.
Secondly, the morality problem only comes up (well, is strongest) when dealing with *sentient* machines. If we can build a machine that is for all intents and purposes human, then we can build a machine that is far smarter than today's computesr but is for all intents and purposes a nonsentient animal similar to a pack rat which roams the neighborhood collecting the contents of garbage cans and squirreling them away in its "nest", which would be the local garbage dump or recycling plant input hatch. It could be modeled even more closely on real-life scavengers by giving it an aversion to humans (thereby avoiding all sorts of safety problems direct interaction would cause).
What do they gain from this? The only advantage of the Internet over the existing cable TV distribution system is its bidirectional nature, which is useless for this application. I could see an Xbox Media Player-style TV feature or separate box that could go over the LAN, but why use IP for sending video from remote sites?
Iain M. Banks takes the opposite view: Virtually all menial tasks up to and including automated manufacturing can be relegated to nonsentient robots and computers who don't care.
60% of the subjects went to the maximum setting. I can't find a reference for this, but I believe 100% went beyond the point where the learner began to indicate he was in pain.
It's not just "many people" and it *does* apply to you. Humans are pack animals. Read about Milgram's authority experiments.
But they tested the later Enterprise model, which is capable of much greater speeds.
If you try actually *loading* the directories listed in the robots.txt, they don't exist. Not one. Not by going to their index.html or trying to find them through the site navigation. While they could still be accused of deleting them, many of the links are unlikely to have existed in the first place (http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/heartland-tou r-gallery/iraq? /president/holiday/decorations/iraq? /president/tee-ball-01/iraq? ) This may be just some IT grunt running a bad script on robots.txt.
No, a study showing how much oil is left in the planet would show how much of a resource drain it is, and *nobody* knows that.
It's not a tragedy of the commons. The city maintains the traffic lights and is trying to compensate, it's a simple arms race.