We can argue all we want about just who colluded with whom, but why not fix the root problem? Digital data are always going to be copied (and copy-able), and the sooner the law recognizes that, the sooner publishers as well as retailers (including Apple and Amazon) will adjust their prices to what people are willing to pay. As a close friend said to me,"Keep finding me free epubs on the net until the store price drops below $5." iTunes, for example, continues to sell a zillion tracks despite the plethora of torrent files available. The same model (i.e. acceptable price point) will work for books.
I've heard of light bulbs used as current limiters in speaker stacks. Put something like a motorcycle tailight in series with a bass driver.
Cool. Reminds me of the trick some pinball designers used (back in the EM days) to generate a one-shot long pulse, typically to fire off a buzzer. Run the solenoid enable line thru a blinker bulb, so the enable remains active until the bulb warms up. First "blink" and the circuit opens.
You got whooshed, or I wasn't sufficiently careful with my humor. I intended to refer to the software tool referred to as a "garbage collector," not the physical world trucks.
On something this critical, we need redundant humans pushing buttons and turning keys simultaneously.
Something which has repeatedly been shown to be achievable by one person with some string, spoons, rulers.. general McGyver stuff. But more to the point of TFA itself: no matter what you do, anyone with enough brain cells to be able to read a launch code and type it into the console is going to be bored to death within a month or two at most of this job. Boredom leads to foulups. And then...
Just a couple examples. 1) A student is out sick and plans a make-up final exam 2 weeks later. Oops, his textbook access died the day of the scheduled exam. 2) The ebook vendor accidentally kills off access on the last day of classes instead of the last day of finals.
Any time you let someone else control your access to information, you're headed for trouble. Or for world-wide distribution of python de-DRM scripts, I suppose.
The whole process could be automated. Ordering, billing, pay through whatever and delivery.
The guy who order should send their GPS location. When the UAV delivery vehicle arrives, the guy who ordered should flash some light to guide the arriving flight. Then the UAV would home in and hover. The guy on the ground hold up his cell phone to display a QR code to confirm his identity. The UAV will land and release the food after the QR code is validated.
Yeah but it works a lot faster and more reliably if it's delivered by a punk on a gyro-stabilized skateboard.
Of course, they have yet to make it work in pimates and humans. No small hurdle.
Combination of a missing letter and being in a/. frame of mind led me to wonder why a drug approved for humans wouldn't work for _pirates_. I'll go ask the FSM about this.
However, it is short sighted to say that DRM should not exist.
- When a doctor is sharing your medical information to another doctor, wouldn't you want control over when/where that medical information can be viewed?
I think you're confusing encryption (a Good Thing) with DRM (a Bad Thing). If encrypted, only authorized doctors would have the decryption key. They can access the data when needed. If DRM'd , the moment the controlling body -- think online gaming server -- dies or is obsoleted, no doctor will ever again be able to access your records. Not an ideal situation.
I don't think 'walled garden' and DRM are pertinent to this topic for two reasons. First, most slashdotters are knowledgeable enough to install things like ignobleepub plug-ins into Calibre and be off & running. Second, unless you buy a reader that doesn't allow side-loading (if there still is such a beast), there's Gutenberg for free stuff and several third-party ebook vendors who sell nonDRM ebooks.
The nook HD+ now looks pretty interesting. I like the google apps, but could live with the nook launcher (or install a new one off google play?)
$270 for a 9-inch tablet with access to google apps is pretty compelling.
The ASUS memopro 10-inch tablet is selling around that price point. I'm not recommending one or the other; just suggesting it's worth comparing to see which has the features you prefer.
No wonder kids these days are all depressed and turn to drugs and sex
Hey, wait a minute. Don't all the happy kids turn to sex and drugs (and rocknroll) too?
But, back to serious stuff, it is very sad what passes for Chem, and home-chemistry sets these days. By way of comparison, Google around and download yourself a copy of the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments (or title similar to that). It's full of very cool stuff to do.
but if you want the visceral feeling of playing a pinball game, you have to leave your basement.
Funny thing to say, seeing as my pins *are* in my basement. But I do agree that the cost of pins, new or old, is too high for most people to collect a bunch for their game room (and of course ya gotta want to work on them. They require almost as much maintenance as the '80s BMWs a pal of mine spends all his free time on).
And if anyone has an EM JokerPoker, I'd love to get my hands on it (as in buy).
a) find image you want to use at site X b) have someone strip the the image of identifying information and repost it at site Y c) discover image at site Y lacking traceable information d) do "due dilligence" based on image from site Y e) declare image from site Y as 'orphaned'
f) PROFIT
I was starting to think of steganographic information, but even that won't help, since a simple re-compression or imagetype conversion will blow that away, too.
Sure we can. Right up until your daughter's of dating age.
Somehow I think most of us draw the line at letting our child date a dinosaur. Doctors, ok; rich businessmen, ok; even maybe a rich businessman from the wrong (ie. other) side of the Mason-Dixon line, but no dinosaurs, dammit!
Hi. I have a house there. It's not a zipcode location, but to the locals, it's quite real enough.
BTW, I'm another VTEL fan. My current DSL line is not quite fast enough to stream video, but otherwise is smokin' powerful. I'm going to get fiber as soon as the truck rolls up the hill.
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We can argue all we want about just who colluded with whom, but why not fix the root problem? Digital data are always going to be copied (and copy-able), and the sooner the law recognizes that, the sooner publishers as well as retailers (including Apple and Amazon) will adjust their prices to what people are willing to pay. As a close friend said to me,"Keep finding me free epubs on the net until the store price drops below $5." iTunes, for example, continues to sell a zillion tracks despite the plethora of torrent files available. The same model (i.e. acceptable price point) will work for books.
When you're at the North Pole, which way is East?
More important: if you put your toilet on the North Pole, which way does the water swirl when you flush?
I hope they dont all decide to jump at the same time.
obligatory link: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
"... Any biologists out there?"
Nope. They've all specialized.
Didn't you mean "speciated" ? :-)
I've heard of light bulbs used as current limiters in speaker stacks. Put something like a motorcycle tailight in series with a bass driver.
Cool. Reminds me of the trick some pinball designers used (back in the EM days) to generate a one-shot long pulse, typically to fire off a buzzer. Run the solenoid enable line thru a blinker bulb, so the enable remains active until the bulb warms up. First "blink" and the circuit opens.
You got whooshed, or I wasn't sufficiently careful with my humor. I intended to refer to the software tool referred to as a "garbage collector," not the physical world trucks.
An employee of the company employing dozens of garbage collectors can write the program, and the team for each truck can load a map into that program
Replace "truck" with "operating system" and see what happens if you have dozens of "garbage collectors" running simultaneously.
. and before someone comes in with "they don't shoot [cows]!" ... pretty much they do.
They did (shoot cows) until Anton Chigurh stole the apparatus for his own purposes.
On something this critical, we need redundant humans pushing buttons and turning keys simultaneously.
Something which has repeatedly been shown to be achievable by one person with some string, spoons, rulers.. general McGyver stuff.
But more to the point of TFA itself: no matter what you do, anyone with enough brain cells to be able to read a launch code and type it into the console is going to be bored to death within a month or two at most of this job. Boredom leads to foulups. And then...
Just a couple examples.
1) A student is out sick and plans a make-up final exam 2 weeks later. Oops, his textbook access died the day of the scheduled exam.
2) The ebook vendor accidentally kills off access on the last day of classes instead of the last day of finals.
Any time you let someone else control your access to information, you're headed for trouble. Or for world-wide distribution of python de-DRM scripts, I suppose.
Lord Renfrew may be a respected archaeologist, but his views on historical linguistics are rejected by most of the field.
And here I thought his only claim to fame was being a
Mountie
The whole process could be automated. Ordering, billing, pay through whatever and delivery.
The guy who order should send their GPS location. When the UAV delivery vehicle arrives,
the guy who ordered should flash some light to guide the arriving flight. Then the UAV would
home in and hover. The guy on the ground hold up his cell phone to display a QR code
to confirm his identity. The UAV will land and release the food after the QR code is validated.
Yeah but it works a lot faster and more reliably if it's delivered by a punk on a gyro-stabilized skateboard.
Of course, they have yet to make it work in pimates and humans. No small hurdle.
Combination of a missing letter and being in a /. frame of mind led me to wonder why a drug approved for humans wouldn't work for _pirates_. I'll go ask the FSM about this.
"You must feel the same way about spelling checkers."
As much as you hate grammar.
Yeah, it should have read "You must feel the same way about spelling 'checkers' ."
However, it is short sighted to say that DRM should not exist.
- When a doctor is sharing your medical information to another doctor, wouldn't you want control over when/where that medical information can be viewed?
I think you're confusing encryption (a Good Thing) with DRM (a Bad Thing). If encrypted, only authorized doctors would have the decryption key. They can access the data when needed. If DRM'd , the moment the controlling body -- think online gaming server -- dies or is obsoleted, no doctor will ever again be able to access your records. Not an ideal situation.
I don't think 'walled garden' and DRM are pertinent to this topic for two reasons. First, most slashdotters are knowledgeable enough to install things like ignobleepub plug-ins into Calibre and be off & running. Second, unless you buy a reader that doesn't allow side-loading (if there still is such a beast), there's Gutenberg for free stuff and several third-party ebook vendors who sell nonDRM ebooks.
The nook HD+ now looks pretty interesting. I like the google apps, but could live with the nook launcher (or install a new one off google play?)
$270 for a 9-inch tablet with access to google apps is pretty compelling.
The ASUS memopro 10-inch tablet is selling around that price point. I'm not recommending one or the other; just suggesting it's worth comparing to see which has the features you prefer.
No wonder kids these days are all depressed and turn to drugs and sex
Hey, wait a minute. Don't all the happy kids turn to sex and drugs (and rocknroll) too?
But, back to serious stuff, it is very sad what passes for Chem, and home-chemistry sets these days. By way of comparison, Google around and download yourself a copy of the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments (or title similar to that). It's full of very cool stuff to do.
"Got rogue ions, hire a professional ion trapper"
Obligatory: Just don't cross the beams.
but if you want the visceral feeling of playing a pinball game, you have to leave your basement.
Funny thing to say, seeing as my pins *are* in my basement. But I do agree that the cost of pins, new or old, is too high for most people to collect a bunch for their game room (and of course ya gotta want to work on them. They require almost as much maintenance as the '80s BMWs a pal of mine spends all his free time on).
And if anyone has an EM JokerPoker, I'd love to get my hands on it (as in buy).
The sun has finite energy.
Is that different from "the sun doesn't have an infinite supply of energy"?
Yes it is. Consider the case of a sun which has no energy (supply). One of the statements above is still true; the other isn't.
FT Summary:
and not be 'duplicative of other research.'
So, no more duplicate articles allowed, you editors!
a) find image you want to use at site X
b) have someone strip the the image of identifying information and repost it at site Y
c) discover image at site Y lacking traceable information
d) do "due dilligence" based on image from site Y
e) declare image from site Y as 'orphaned'
f) PROFIT
I was starting to think of steganographic information, but even that won't help, since a simple re-compression or imagetype conversion will blow that away, too.
Sure we can. Right up until your daughter's of dating age.
Somehow I think most of us draw the line at letting our child date a dinosaur. Doctors, ok; rich businessmen, ok; even maybe a rich businessman from the wrong (ie. other) side of the Mason-Dixon line, but no dinosaurs, dammit!
Hi. I have a house there. It's not a zipcode location, but to the locals, it's quite real enough.
BTW, I'm another VTEL fan. My current DSL line is not quite fast enough to stream video, but otherwise is smokin' powerful. I'm going to get fiber as soon as the truck rolls up the hill.