If we could just send a manned mission already. NASA has the budget and capability. Yes they would be there forever, but with some good caves this would be doable.
Never underestimate the resourcefulness of someone living on a new planet.:)
In terms of reality TV, what would it be like to have a reality show with trekkies participating in the same studio that the actors normally play in? What would make this one interesting, is that you could have the ship actually being piloted though VR space with internet participants.
Then, just to make it interesting you could, in the same way they do for MUDs, allocate points to internet participants who (via videoconferencing) have the most convincing characters, and then have them participate with greater ships, which they got by using their points.
Of course there would have to be some 'mission' to the whole thing (pick your trekkie episode), or perhaps a second crew on another ship (another studio).
Finally the studios would have to be modified to allow the participants to actually live there for a while...
If you want to get a good perspective on it all then there really is only one way: Celestia!
Then download the model and the trajectory information of the cassini probe from some able contributors!
Maybe Google has an old pentium in their server farm somwhere. I think it was called the repentium or something and, given the right calculation to do, resulted in spectacular errors. Maybe certain texts refer it to this incorrect entry in the multiplication table? Yea right, like they would be using a pentuim 60! Then again, I don't remember paying anything for the service...
I haven't looked at one of the cookies myself, but if memory serves me correctly you could hack the cookie to make you look like someone else. And then, once you see that you have a valid user, ie. >3 searches, then you could happily search knowing that you've beaten the system.
On the other hand, it could be that the entries in the cookie are encrypted and that would put you stright out of luck, but given the number of google users, a valid unencrypted entry should not be that hard to find.
Well now that we might be predicting when and where hurricanes will occur, do you think it may convince religious zealots that hurricanes are just part of life? Or do we have to make peace that some people still think an eclipse is the work of the supernatural and that some of us always like to read our horoscopes?
Aah yes, that may be so. I was however referring to the first 2 movies, I haven't seen T3 either. What was that you say? In the movie the governor of California was armed with a 5.76TeV something and saved the day?
Two wrongs don't make a right, but if you lie down with the dogs you wake up with fleas....
I'm just worried that many 'fairly honest' people would fall into that sort of trap. Could you imagine if everyone suddenly got billed for the songs which the companies know they downloaded? How many people would be paying large fees then?
Still, I can't help laughing. This story was categorized very appropriately!
Information by it's very nature is free.
If you can't beat them accept the threat model?
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I don't know if saying that the adoption of a threat model isn't just a nice way of saying that you have to accept what you cannot change. The problem of napsterisation, is more complex than that.
It would be far better to approach this problem on a social rather than a technical security basis.
I would perhaps like to see a model where you license a song for life. Something along the lines of paying $1.50 for a song and you get a digital certificate that licences you to own the song, no matter where you got it from.
That would mean that I could get the song quickly from my buddy down the road, and while that is downloading via the loacal bandwidth I could log on to BMI, Sony or whoever (The RIAA homepage!?!?), and pay my royalties.
No wait, I could just log on to the artist's homepage and pay the $.50 directly to him/her/them!!!
If people can get something for nothing they become very greedy.
I spoke to a guy refilling an ATM once and asked him if they ever switch the denominations when they refill the teller machine. He said that it has happened once or twice and that you can see the logs show how people keep withdrawing 50s that come out as 100s.
In those cases they just correct the error by adjusting the balances of the individuals' accounts. I think they also gave them each a call and probably got responses like: "REALLY!?, I had no idea the machine was giving the wrong bills, I always draw money one 50 at a time! Besides, it was your error, you can't/shouldn't correct it now at my expense!"
Hey, I wonder if I could be that Alien running around giving users 'more than they bargained for', so that they'll have to restore at some REALLY early part of their chatting sessions... hehe.
It seems as though, with each Intel announcement, that AMD is not quite there as much as it used to be.
Although notebooks have never been AMD's strong point because of greater heat production.
Surely if it were a 'real' problem, the military would have to find some other way of using their radar.
So ok, the noise interference from many civilians is a hard thing for an attacer to create from scratch, but we've allready seen that 'asking' people not to jam GPS signals isn't going to work.
This argument reminds me of the VHS vs Betamax article that we had a while ago. In the end it is the WHOLE product that is important, and to that end the marketing and distribution people are notable contributors.
But I do however feel that the technical creator should get the most of the credit!
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If we could just send a manned mission already. NASA has the budget and capability. Yes they would be there forever, but with some good caves this would be doable. Never underestimate the resourcefulness of someone living on a new planet. :)
Then, just to make it interesting you could, in the same way they do for MUDs, allocate points to internet participants who (via videoconferencing) have the most convincing characters, and then have them participate with greater ships, which they got by using their points.
Of course there would have to be some 'mission' to the whole thing (pick your trekkie episode), or perhaps a second crew on another ship (another studio).
Finally the studios would have to be modified to allow the participants to actually live there for a while...
Take an egg. Heat it. Observe the liquid changing into a solid... (BTW it is not reversible)
If you want to get a good perspective on it all then there really is only one way: Celestia!
Then download the model and the trajectory information of the cassini probe from some able contributors!
Maybe Google has an old pentium in their server farm somwhere. I think it was called the repentium or something and, given the right calculation to do, resulted in spectacular errors. Maybe certain texts refer it to this incorrect entry in the multiplication table? Yea right, like they would be using a pentuim 60! Then again, I don't remember paying anything for the service...
On the other hand, it could be that the entries in the cookie are encrypted and that would put you stright out of luck, but given the number of google users, a valid unencrypted entry should not be that hard to find.
Well now that we might be predicting when and where hurricanes will occur, do you think it may convince religious zealots that hurricanes are just part of life? Or do we have to make peace that some people still think an eclipse is the work of the supernatural and that some of us always like to read our horoscopes?
Aah yes, that may be so. I was however referring to the first 2 movies, I haven't seen T3 either. What was that you say? In the movie the governor of California was armed with a 5.76TeV something and saved the day?
Didn't we see something similar in the Teminator movies? Can they still shut it down?
I'm just worried that many 'fairly honest' people would fall into that sort of trap. Could you imagine if everyone suddenly got billed for the songs which the companies know they downloaded? How many people would be paying large fees then?
Still, I can't help laughing. This story was categorized very appropriately!
Information by it's very nature is free.
It would be far better to approach this problem on a social rather than a technical security basis.
I would perhaps like to see a model where you license a song for life. Something along the lines of paying $1.50 for a song and you get a digital certificate that licences you to own the song, no matter where you got it from.
That would mean that I could get the song quickly from my buddy down the road, and while that is downloading via the loacal bandwidth I could log on to BMI, Sony or whoever (The RIAA homepage!?!?), and pay my royalties.
No wait, I could just log on to the artist's homepage and pay the $.50 directly to him/her/them!!!
I spoke to a guy refilling an ATM once and asked him if they ever switch the denominations when they refill the teller machine. He said that it has happened once or twice and that you can see the logs show how people keep withdrawing 50s that come out as 100s.
In those cases they just correct the error by adjusting the balances of the individuals' accounts. I think they also gave them each a call and probably got responses like: "REALLY!?, I had no idea the machine was giving the wrong bills, I always draw money one 50 at a time! Besides, it was your error, you can't/shouldn't correct it now at my expense!"
Hey, I wonder if I could be that Alien running around giving users 'more than they bargained for', so that they'll have to restore at some REALLY early part of their chatting sessions... hehe.
It seems as though, with each Intel announcement, that AMD is not quite there as much as it used to be. Although notebooks have never been AMD's strong point because of greater heat production.
Surely if it were a 'real' problem, the military would have to find some other way of using their radar. So ok, the noise interference from many civilians is a hard thing for an attacer to create from scratch, but we've allready seen that 'asking' people not to jam GPS signals isn't going to work.
Well actually, you don't actually make any sense actually.
This argument reminds me of the VHS vs Betamax article that we had a while ago. In the end it is the WHOLE product that is important, and to that end the marketing and distribution people are notable contributors. But I do however feel that the technical creator should get the most of the credit!
Oh dear...
Do the bubbles make it more efficient because they seed the sockwaves or is there something more elegant at work?