I had a 9GB SCSI DeskStar fail after two months. For various reasons (mgmt was too cheap to buy a tapedrive), it wasn't backed up... Thank G-d for Ontrack and their clean room!
How the hell long is it going to take for people to grow some spine and not buy a single CD from any artist from any RIAA member? It isn't that bad, folks. The only chance for us to break this racket is to not buy the product from the racket's participants.
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It's the same thing folks./.ers bitch and moan about how evil the MPAA is for the anti-DeCSS -- ooh, look a brand new Star Trek DVD! Let's go buy it!
I attended UIST 94 (in Marina del Rey), and a lot of the work was cutting edge (for that time, and some even for now!). Somebody did some presentation there that was similar to the visual pipe concept. I'll have to drag the proceedings out of storage, though...
Besides, the Star Trek systems aren't very secure. They may even be less secure than Windows!
Think about it. Any alien can beam onto Voyager, and know how to use the computers and take over the ship. Among some groups of fans, this is called an "Invader Friendly OS".
Seatbelt laws are state, not federal. The rationale was usually economic... many people involved in accidents were un/underinsured, or were on state medical insurance (Medi-Cal, etc...), and therefore the more severe injuries caused by not wearing a belt had a direct economic cost to the state. Ergo, the state had the right (and fiduciary duty?) to demand that drivers wear seat belts.
They used B-52, B-1 (both based out of Diego Garcia), and B-2 (based in MO -- 27 hour mission!). The B-2s landed at Diego after their mission.
When did the B-1 get certified for conventional weapons? I know that it wasn't used in the Gulf War because at the time it was certified for nukes only.
When Blair was elected, the impression I got was that he was supposed to be the British Clinton.
After listening to him since 9/11, I doubt that even the Iron Lady herself (Thatcher) could have done better. Of course, he's no Churchill, but nobody else is, either.
I was in elementary school/Jr. High, so we used bubble cards instead of punch cards. The first thing I did was run a job that ran off a bunch of customized punched $JOB cards.
Back in the dark ages (1984) at UC Santa Cruz, there was a lot of disagreement between the "theoreticians" and the "applicationists"(?) in the Computer Science department. Naturally, the students wanted more practical training.
Look back, some 17 years later, the decision to teach theory was correct. You can always learn the specifics of XYZ OS, or the syntax of language ABC. But learning why they work the way they do is much more important.
Scott Neugroschl
-- Founding Member of CISSA, UCSC Crown College 1984
For the "free" ones, think of PBS and NPR. Aside from the occasional pledge drive, they are more or less ad-free (ignoring the fact that the sponsorship messages can get quite long, at least they barely interrupt the programming in progress). The program quality is good, and in the case of NPR, the reporting is better than salon.com (in my opinion, yours may vary). Yes, they ask for money, and, yes, despite your beliefs, I pay for what I get with them (In fact, I pay both VT and NH public radio since I get both).
Sorry, dude, bad example. NPR and PBS get public funds (that's what the "P" stands for). That's tax money, in case you didn't know.
Try doing anything in the US now without that Unique Identification Number. Get a job
Yeah, but in this specific instance, you're wrong. How exactly is your employer supposed to pay the taxes into your social security account without that number?
All the other instances, though, I agree iwth you.
Since the 2600 case has found that programs aren't protected speech
Do your work in California. The Ninth Circuit has found that code is protected speech (Bernstein v. Reno, I believe), and the particular case involved strong crypto!
wouldn't it make more sense if we just applied current laws and required that, upon presentation of an appropriate warrent, you had to decrypt documents and files that the authorities tell you to decrypt rather than having some third parties do it for you and them?
That would be nice, except for a little item called The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
"No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
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I wouldn't go that far!
You had hex editors? We had to use handheld magnets to flip bits in memory!
I had a 9GB SCSI DeskStar fail after two months. For various reasons (mgmt was too cheap to buy a tapedrive), it wasn't backed up... Thank G-d for Ontrack and their clean room!
How the hell long is it going to take for people to grow some spine and not buy a single CD from any artist from any RIAA member? It isn't that bad, folks. The only chance for us to break this racket is to not buy the product from the racket's participants.
/.ers bitch and moan about how evil the MPAA is for the anti-DeCSS -- ooh, look a brand new Star Trek DVD! Let's go buy it!
s/CD/DVD/g
s/people/Slashdotters/g
s/RIAA/MPAA/g
It's the same thing folks.
http://www.acm.org/uist
I attended UIST 94 (in Marina del Rey), and a lot of the work was cutting edge (for that time, and some even for now!). Somebody did some presentation there that was similar to the visual pipe concept. I'll have to drag the proceedings out of storage, though...
Besides, the Star Trek systems aren't very secure. They may even be less secure than Windows!
Think about it. Any alien can beam onto Voyager, and know how to use the computers and take over the ship. Among some groups of fans, this is called an "Invader Friendly OS".
Seatbelt laws are state, not federal. The rationale was usually economic... many people involved in accidents were un/underinsured, or were on state medical insurance (Medi-Cal, etc...), and therefore the more severe injuries caused by not wearing a belt had a direct economic cost to the state. Ergo, the state had the right (and fiduciary duty?) to demand that drivers wear seat belts.
I sent snailmail to my rep (Brad Sherman, D-Woodland Hills CA) re DMCA and Dmitry.
I pointed out that I had spoken with him at a community night at my temple, and that I was a voting constituent.
Nada. Zip. Nothing. No response... worse than sleeping at SPL 7.
They used B-52, B-1 (both based out of Diego Garcia), and B-2 (based in MO -- 27 hour mission!). The B-2s landed at Diego after their mission.
When did the B-1 get certified for conventional weapons? I know that it wasn't used in the Gulf War because at the time it was certified for nukes only.
When Blair was elected, the impression I got was that he was supposed to be the British Clinton.
After listening to him since 9/11, I doubt that even the Iron Lady herself (Thatcher) could have done better. Of course, he's no Churchill, but nobody else is, either.
Hmmm... In Thrust We Trust... That's the name of a flick on the Hot Network this month.
Come on, we are talking about orbital insertion here.
I thought that nobody was having sex on the ISS yet???
Syndicate Wars had one of the coolest openings ever made
Even cooler than Zero Wing?
We used WATFIV.
I was in elementary school/Jr. High, so we used bubble cards instead of punch cards. The first thing I did was run a job that ran off a bunch of customized punched $JOB cards.
Back in the dark ages (1984) at UC Santa Cruz, there was a lot of disagreement between the "theoreticians" and the "applicationists"(?) in the Computer Science department. Naturally, the students wanted more practical training.
Look back, some 17 years later, the decision to teach theory was correct. You can always learn the specifics of XYZ OS, or the syntax of language ABC. But learning why they work the way they do is much more important.
Scott Neugroschl
-- Founding Member of CISSA, UCSC Crown College 1984
It's a $300 increment. BUT... Multiply that 300 by, oh, say, 20,000 desktops...
For the "free" ones, think of PBS and NPR. Aside from the occasional pledge drive, they are more or less ad-free (ignoring the fact that the sponsorship messages can get quite long, at least they barely interrupt the programming in progress). The program quality is good, and in the case of NPR, the reporting is better than salon.com (in my opinion, yours may vary). Yes, they ask for money, and, yes, despite your beliefs, I pay for what I get with them (In fact, I pay both VT and NH public radio since I get both).
Sorry, dude, bad example. NPR and PBS get public funds (that's what the "P" stands for). That's tax money, in case you didn't know.
Try doing anything in the US now without that Unique Identification Number. Get a job
Yeah, but in this specific instance, you're wrong. How exactly is your employer supposed to pay the taxes into your social security account without that number?
All the other instances, though, I agree iwth you.
Yeah, but they were dot-com stocks! It's not worth showing up for those!
I doubt they would miss the connection between quartering soldiers and/or quartering escrowed keys
Congress will just claim the "time of war" excpetion in the Third Amendment.
Since the 2600 case has found that programs aren't protected speech
Do your work in California. The Ninth Circuit has found that code is protected speech (Bernstein v. Reno, I believe), and the particular case involved strong crypto!
wouldn't it make more sense if we just applied current laws and required that, upon presentation of an appropriate warrent, you had to decrypt documents and files that the authorities tell you to decrypt rather than having some third parties do it for you and them?
That would be nice, except for a little item called The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
"No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".
You AC, you ever hear of "Fair Use"? Ever hear of making "Mix CDs"? There are lots of ways to rip/copy CDs that aren't criminal.
So bite me.
Remember when businesses tried to *please* their customers?
Remember when businesses found out that ripping customers off was more profitable?
Remember when businesses didn't automatically assume their customers were criminals?
Sorry, dude.
Iraq is "Bablyon". Iran is "Persia".