Even if we assume that none of the cancers forecasted has arisen (and that's an absurd assumption to make, since cancers take decades to appear in exposed populations)...
Um. None of the forcasted cancers are ever going to show up, since the uncontrolled reentry of Cassini into the earth's atmosphere was a prerequsite for the cancers to happen, and Cassini didn't reenter the atmosphere. Or weren't you paying attention?
That condition is for a web broadcast license, not a radio broadcast license. ASCAP, etc. are worried about the ability to make high-quality copies. To their mind, the loss in quality that happens because of the conversion to radio frequencies makes the copies you get non high quality.
While I realize that "copyright" is kind of a nasty word these days, any time you talk about doing this sort of thing, you're going to run into copyright laws. If the laws are wrong, then you work to change them either by going through the system, or being prepared to stand up to take your medicine if (when) the authorities come down on you (see any discussion of Civil Disobedience). Otherwise, you earn the distinction of being a scoflaw and get no respect from society at large.
There used to be the Journal of Irreproducable Results, which went through several lives and finally died when the wrong company (one without much of a sense of humor) bought it. It was absolutely hysterical for years.
It was pretty much supersceded by the Annals of Improbable Research. They're the folks responsible for the Ig Noble awards.
2) Force test cases to the Supreme Court -- this requires violating the law. HOWEVER.. if a law is ruled unconstitutional, it is null and void and
no crime has been committed and you CANNOT be punished. You just have to have the guts to be the guy to get sued or go to jail in the first
place to prove the point--and make sure you've got a GOOD civil rights lawyer.
Such a case needs serious money to proceed, considering the deep pockets that are lined up to keep the DMCA around. It could be funded by a fairly disparate group, including the EFF and the American Libraries Assn (in fact, probably most of the groups that spoke against the DMCA would be in a position to help out).
...phil
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If it did, viruses, trojans and whatnot wouldn't be able to read and write files they weren't supposed to. The evidence is against your statement.
Have you ever looked at the security structure of an IBM mainframe or AS/400? Now THERE'S a proper security structure. A virus cannot even get started on those machines.
Just in case it wasn't clear -- the microcode update is not permanent. It apparently loaded into what looks like microcode RAM on boot. So, you wouldn't need a new processor, you'd reflash the BIOS on your motherboard.
Historical note: I used a Perkins-Elmer minicomputer in the late 70s that had user-programmable microcode. You could design and implement your own instruction set. wheee! Talk about highly technical programming. There also used to be a company (can't remember the name) that sold a family of chips that allowed you to build a processor. It was a bit-slice configuration -- each family set was 4 bits wide, and you could stack them horizontally to be as wide as you wanted. 32 or 64 bits wide was no problem. It also had user-defined microcode, as I recall. I wonder if that's still around?
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But if the operating system had a proper security structure, then a rampaging binary would not be able to cause any damage. Thus NT is at least partially to blame.
hat reason do we have to disbelieve them? If Wesley could claim freedom of speech, it's trumped by confidentiality and copyright law!
Others have addressed the issue of copyright. As far as confidentiality is concerned, if Wesley has not under an agreement, he is under no obligation to preserve the confidentiality of anything. The person who gave the documents to Wesley may have violated some kind of agreement, but Wesley probably has not.
And don't forget, the establishment in power at the time would have thought that the 'rag-tag hooligans' were just a bunch of noisy reactionaries that should be supressed.
I tend to agree with the general tenor of the replies. Politics isn't going to dissapear, since it's the interaction of people (and control, as one very enlightened fellows says). Instead, it's going to be transformed. Already, you can see politicans trying to extend their control to the net. The question is, are they going to succeed? That's what we have to work on.
The worst thing is that none of these domains
ever seem to have a web site on them (Okay, the web isn't the 'net, but it's a fairly good indicator that a domain is actually in use.
No, it's not. My previous company went 4 years without a web site, using the domain for email only. It's not that unusual.
I heard that before, and so I ran a test. Last week, I did an enquiry on the NSI web site of some 5-letter.com names. All pronounceable, but nonsense words in english. I found one that was not taken. I haven't done anything about it except to make a note. In a week, I'll go back and see if it's taken. It's not proof, but it might well be an indication of some hanky-panky in the NSI system.
The AS/400 works like this. There is only one address space. It's stored on the disk. (The address space is so freaking huge that no practical amount of disk could cover it.) You can think of RAM as a cache for the disk - when you want to work on something (program segment, database record, whatever), it gets read into memory so it's closer to the processor, but it's still sitting at its address, and it gets written back out if it gets changed (managed by the hardware).
>Come on everyone, we know that the insurance
>companies will just pocket any savings. Do you
>actually think you'll ever see a news article like
>"Insurance companies have announced a general
>rate decrease because of savings from exclusion
>of high-risk people." Not a chance in hell
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but I recently got 4 checks back, totalling a couple hundred dollers, from my auto insurance company (State Farm) because they had collected more in premiums than they had in claims. Now, maybe the payments didn't take their bank account to zero, but they didn't keep it all, either.
That might not even work. Most insurance companies have this clause about "pre-existing conditions", of which this probably counts. If you got insurance while you knew about this condition, that's usually grounds to have the insurance revoked (and they probably wouldn't give back the premiums, either).
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Um. None of the forcasted cancers are ever going to show up, since the uncontrolled reentry of Cassini into the earth's atmosphere was a prerequsite for the cancers to happen, and Cassini didn't reenter the atmosphere. Or weren't you paying attention?
...phil
Higher altitude means slightly more exposure to radiation from space.
...phil
Good luck receiving streaming audio in your car, anywhere in the country.
...phil
Funny, I thought that attitude was limited to idiots like Jerry Falwell, Pat Buchanan, etc
And Ghandi, don't forget to ask him.
...phil
Sure. Turn a tidy profit, if you don't have to pay for the launch of 66 satellites. It's the early investors that get to eat the up-front costs.
...phil
That condition is for a web broadcast license, not a radio broadcast license. ASCAP, etc. are worried about the ability to make high-quality copies. To their mind, the loss in quality that happens because of the conversion to radio frequencies makes the copies you get non high quality.
...phil
Assumes facts not yet in evidence.
...phil
While I realize that "copyright" is kind of a nasty word these days, any time you talk about doing this sort of thing, you're going to run into copyright laws. If the laws are wrong, then you work to change them either by going through the system, or being prepared to stand up to take your medicine if (when) the authorities come down on you (see any discussion of Civil Disobedience). Otherwise, you earn the distinction of being a scoflaw and get no respect from society at large.
...phil
It was pretty much supersceded by the Annals of Improbable Research . They're the folks responsible for the Ig Noble awards.
...phil
I also note that the patent was issued to a couple of guys in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Isn't that where Bell Labs is/was?
...phil
Such a case needs serious money to proceed, considering the deep pockets that are lined up to keep the DMCA around. It could be funded by a fairly disparate group, including the EFF and the American Libraries Assn (in fact, probably most of the groups that spoke against the DMCA would be in a position to help out).
...phil
Have you ever looked at the security structure of an IBM mainframe or AS/400? Now THERE'S a proper security structure. A virus cannot even get started on those machines.
...phil
Historical note: I used a Perkins-Elmer minicomputer in the late 70s that had user-programmable microcode. You could design and implement your own instruction set. wheee! Talk about highly technical programming. There also used to be a company (can't remember the name) that sold a family of chips that allowed you to build a processor. It was a bit-slice configuration -- each family set was 4 bits wide, and you could stack them horizontally to be as wide as you wanted. 32 or 64 bits wide was no problem. It also had user-defined microcode, as I recall. I wonder if that's still around?
...phil
But if the operating system had a proper security structure, then a rampaging binary would not be able to cause any damage. Thus NT is at least partially to blame.
...phil
Others have addressed the issue of copyright. As far as confidentiality is concerned, if Wesley has not under an agreement, he is under no obligation to preserve the confidentiality of anything. The person who gave the documents to Wesley may have violated some kind of agreement, but Wesley probably has not.
...phil
And don't forget, the establishment in power at the time would have thought that the 'rag-tag hooligans' were just a bunch of noisy reactionaries that should be supressed.
...phil
Actually, I was paying close attention during the CORE debate, and Mr. Meeks' comments are quite accurate.
...phil
I tend to agree with the general tenor of the replies. Politics isn't going to dissapear, since it's the interaction of people (and control, as one very enlightened fellows says). Instead, it's going to be transformed. Already, you can see politicans trying to extend their control to the net. The question is, are they going to succeed? That's what we have to work on.
...phil
No, it's not. My previous company went 4 years without a web site, using the domain for email only. It's not that unusual.
...phil
I heard that before, and so I ran a test. Last week, I did an enquiry on the NSI web site of some 5-letter .com names. All pronounceable, but nonsense words in english. I found one that was not taken. I haven't done anything about it except to make a note. In a week, I'll go back and see if it's taken. It's not proof, but it might well be an indication of some hanky-panky in the NSI system.
...phil
The AS/400 works like this. There is only one address space. It's stored on the disk. (The address space is so freaking huge that no practical amount of disk could cover it.) You can think of RAM as a cache for the disk - when you want to work on something (program segment, database record, whatever), it gets read into memory so it's closer to the processor, but it's still sitting at its address, and it gets written back out if it gets changed (managed by the hardware).
...phil
It's orbiting the center of the galaxy.
...phil
Uh, that's not what it says on the site. Do you have information that nobody else has? Or are you blowing smoke out your butt?
...phil
>companies will just pocket any savings. Do you
>actually think you'll ever see a news article like
>"Insurance companies have announced a general
>rate decrease because of savings from exclusion
>of high-risk people." Not a chance in hell
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but I recently got 4 checks back, totalling a couple hundred dollers, from my auto insurance company (State Farm) because they had collected more in premiums than they had in claims. Now, maybe the payments didn't take their bank account to zero, but they didn't keep it all, either.
...phil
That might not even work. Most insurance companies have this clause about "pre-existing conditions", of which this probably counts. If you got insurance while you knew about this condition, that's usually grounds to have the insurance revoked (and they probably wouldn't give back the premiums, either).
...phil