The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide.
Excuse me, but it's about how far to the Moon?
And it's about how much farther to anything else at all interesting, let alone the rest of the Universe?
They believe that internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers.
Yup, knowledge is only true and valuable when you pay lots of money for it and distribute it to a limited group. Everyone knows that. After all, that's how it's always been. Can't change that now, can we? Heaven forbid the chaos that would ensue if there were a peer reviewed, moderated system like Slashdot to replace our sacred institutions.
(Oh, and yes, some publishers making a good living might lose their monopoly gravy train in the process.)
So where is the original draft? Why doesn't some unhappy person release it on the web with a side-by-side comparison to the final draft? Done this way it should truly embarass someone.
So why doesn't someone just make a licensed "Linux Game" disc for XBox. A lot of people would enjoy playing that, and MS would get royalities. And you could still play game discs on it too!
If overheating is the problem as a number of posts seem to suggest, then I can see why Microsoft waited to release XBox 360 in November. Expect the real wave of failures to start hitting about June of 2006.
Maybe I can't build a Star Destroyer out of them, but I could certainly build a big enough block of P2P storage to destroy the Enemies of the Empire -- the **AA's.
The highest profile 'choke points' are Pirate Bay, Torrentspy, and Mininova. Everyone I know uses these.
Maybe their strategy is that if they can knock one or two of them off, the others will become overloaded when all BT users move to them and either become unusable, or uneconomic in bandwidth charges as traffic goes up.
Or perhaps even if they can get it down to a single choke point (e.g. Pirate Bay) that they can't close directly, they can still pressure major ISPs to block that site to their users.
How long before daily, or even hourly, tracker updates start being distributed via Usenet?
This amounts to censorship of information. No matter how beloved Bram may have been, no one has yet prospered after becoming a sellout and agreeing to censorship. I predict that his star will start falling after this is actually implemented, while other, less-encumbered, versions of the BT client will ascend to its place.
The real problem to the Fundamentalist Christians is not that Evolution is wrong -- but that it's right!
You can ignore what's wrong without worry. It's a lot harder to ignore what you know is right. It's a lot more likely that the dinosaurs are millions of years old, rather than that the entire Earth was created only 8K years ago and God put the fossils there to confound the unbelievers.
Trying to remove the only theory that actually has some evidence to support it from discussion overall, or elevate truly unproven speculations to having equal weight, only confuses children -- and harms the nation's future.
Slashdot Mirror
Spoken by a man who can't get his own stories posted on /.
And a 100 Canadian Slashdot users cried out as one -- and were suddenly silenced.
Sound doesn't travel well on the Moon.
As quoted by Mr. R. U. Kidding, "Let's see those human rights pansies find this one. What do you mean Google has Moon maps already on line?"
Excuse me, but it's about how far to the Moon?
And it's about how much farther to anything else at all interesting, let alone the rest of the Universe?
Hard to call that one much of a Forward Base.
Yup, knowledge is only true and valuable when you pay lots of money for it and distribute it to a limited group. Everyone knows that. After all, that's how it's always been. Can't change that now, can we? Heaven forbid the chaos that would ensue if there were a peer reviewed, moderated system like Slashdot to replace our sacred institutions.
(Oh, and yes, some publishers making a good living might lose their monopoly gravy train in the process.)
So where is the original draft? Why doesn't some unhappy person release it on the web with a side-by-side comparison to the final draft? Done this way it should truly embarass someone.
So it uses XML. Does this mean if I give Microsoft a whole lot of money for their latest Office product that I can PodCast Word documents now?
M@donna
M1nogue
As for Audible Magic fingerprinting, how long before people just start trading encrypted files? Even ROT-13 would defeat AM I'm betting.
At least it is curb-side recyclable once you're done with it.
So why doesn't someone just make a licensed "Linux Game" disc for XBox. A lot of people would enjoy playing that, and MS would get royalities. And you could still play game discs on it too!
If overheating is the problem as a number of posts seem to suggest, then I can see why Microsoft waited to release XBox 360 in November. Expect the real wave of failures to start hitting about June of 2006.
Step 2: Stop playing Sony music CD's in your new XBox. Everyone knows by now only MS O/S's are vulnerable to being rooted by Sony malware.
Of course it crashes. XBox 360 == XBox Version 2.0. Everyone knows MS never gets anything right until Version 3 + SP 1.
Maybe I can't build a Star Destroyer out of them, but I could certainly build a big enough block of P2P storage to destroy the Enemies of the Empire -- the **AA's.
He gets:
1: No lawsuits from the MPAA.
2: Good press to encourage his investors who don't like legal uncertainity.
Since neither of these things appear to have forced him to do things he didn't want to do otherwise, he did alright by this.
And open source!
Maybe their strategy is that if they can knock one or two of them off, the others will become overloaded when all BT users move to them and either become unusable, or uneconomic in bandwidth charges as traffic goes up.
Or perhaps even if they can get it down to a single choke point (e.g. Pirate Bay) that they can't close directly, they can still pressure major ISPs to block that site to their users.
How long before daily, or even hourly, tracker updates start being distributed via Usenet?
This amounts to censorship of information. No matter how beloved Bram may have been, no one has yet prospered after becoming a sellout and agreeing to censorship. I predict that his star will start falling after this is actually implemented, while other, less-encumbered, versions of the BT client will ascend to its place.
Shouldn't that be: Step 4. Jesus Prophets!!!
Not one for overstatement, I see.
What are you talking about? They blame the Apple for all the problems we now face.
You can ignore what's wrong without worry. It's a lot harder to ignore what you know is right. It's a lot more likely that the dinosaurs are millions of years old, rather than that the entire Earth was created only 8K years ago and God put the fossils there to confound the unbelievers.
Trying to remove the only theory that actually has some evidence to support it from discussion overall, or elevate truly unproven speculations to having equal weight, only confuses children -- and harms the nation's future.
Now only the geeks will learn about it.
Darwin Exhibit, huh. Does it include the evolution of DRM on audio CD's, and the roadkill *coughSonycough* along the way?
Sticky tape got your tongue?