I think you missed a 0 in there. If the USA and EU are 1/100 of the world's population, then their combined populations are about equal to New York plus California.
Fine - make it 'impossible' for me to copy the disks. Make me buy a new HD-DRM monitor. Unfortunately for you, the analog hole CANNOT be closed because my eyes are analog, and nothing you can do can possibly stop me from single-stepping the entire disk and taking pictures of every frame with a digital camera, then re-assembling the frames into a movie. Cameras DRMed too? Fine, I'll buy a used high-speed camera and record the movie on film, then scan the frames. Oh, heck - I'll rootkit my own computer and read directly from memory!
My point is: Movie studios, get a fracking clue. You will never, NEVER stop someone who is determined to copy a movie. And once one person copies it and uploads it, you lose!
It was. Then they went with a backbone setup rather than a mesh (stupid). Then they had almost all the data lines going across the atlantic arrive at two points a few miles from each other so that one well-placed sinking ship can cut the US and Europe apart from each other (unforgivably stupid).
The Internet was supposed to be able to survive a nuclear war. Today, large parts of it couldn't survive a well-placed yokel with a backhoe. Someone remind me whose brilliant idea it was to go with a backbone, anyway. I mean, what's the problem with a mesh, other than that it's very hard to wiretap? *nudge nudge wink wink*
No, it gives a doubling period of four years. Silicon microprocessors take advantage of more bits in an arithmetic way, where 2x the bits leads to ~2x the computing power. Quantum computers are geometric, where 2x the bits will square computing power (ie 8qbit -> 16qbit == 256 times the processing power; 16 -> 32 == 65536x more power, 32 -> 64 == 4 billion times more power).
(If you aren't joking, and in response to those who want 'Net control in the UNs hands):
... Because having the internet under the control of a somewhat incompetent non-profit corporation in a generally not evil country is worse than having it under the control of a completely incompetent, corrupt assembly that gives equal voice to leaders of democracy and mass-murdering tyrants?
I went to the test exploit w/Konqueror-3.2.3 and it just sat there, not taking up any unusual amount of memory or CPU. No JS prompt, nothing. After closing the test exploit window I noticed a blank window popunder.
BTW - does anyone else find Konqueror to be far more stable than Firefox in general?
As the sun fuses hydrogen into helium, the helium 'ash' accumlates at it's center. As the mass of this ash increases, it increases the pressure and thus fusion rate and power output of the sun. The sun is getting brighter and more luminous as time goes by.
Too keep an acceptable temperature on earth's surface, the biosphere has been regulating the greenhouse effect by reducing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over time. Going back in time, the sun was dimmer and there was more CO2 in the atmosphere to compensate.
If you want to say "As dead tree format publishers, we think that Internet publishing hurts dead tree format publishing and therefore internet publishing should be stopped," that's fine. Don't try and feed us some bullshit about how the Internet (whose one and only purpose for existance is information exchange) will hurt information exchange. Just just come out and say it: "We hate the fact that the Internet makes us redundant. Someone prop up our business model for us!"
In fact, I'm honestly hoping that the RIAA comes up with a way to stop file-sharing. Then, when sales of CDs continue to suck balls, they have nothing to blame but themselves.
However, as long as they have the spectre of evil movie pirates, they have a lever to press for more evil, rights-perverting legislation and hardware DRM. If that goes away, their fulcrum disappears and they lose thier power over congress/parliament/etc to lobby for more control. The one thing those bastards want more than profit is power - Suing joe-ordinary for file sharing is trying to squeeze blood from a turnip in terms of money. But the intimidation factor!
How strange that the thing the RIAA hates so much is empowering them at the same time it destroys them.
Le Voyage Dans La Lune: The world's first science fiction/space movie, first movie with special affects, first movie to be extensively edited.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Still a powerful message for our time.
The Forbidden Planet: Another important message, as well as being the first big-budget Sci-Fi movie.
The Day The Earth Stood Still: Just bought it on DVD and I loved it. Gort: Klaatu Barada Nikto!
Star Wars Ep. IV - VI: I am Darth Vulgar. Defy me and get a boot up your ass!
Star Trek VII: First Contact - Clearly laid-out good vs evil, yet with enough side-plots to keep you interested.
3001: A Final Oddessy - When they finally DO make it, I will be first to camp out in front of the theater.
HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Both the original series and the movie, loved 'em.
Spaceballs - A nonstop lollocoaster
Plan 9 From Outer Space - So bad it's good; A classic!
I was suprised that no one's yet proposed Le Voyage - C'mon, world's first real Sci-Fi movie! Other than that, almost all of these are mentioned somewhere. Some of them are obvious choices, some not so much - but they're my choices. Have fun picking my list apart! R
How 'bout a top ten WORST space movies ever list? I nominate Star Trek: Nemesis...
Was anyone thinking that the music labels wanted tiered pricing because they thought it would be better for anyone but themselves?/laughs hysterically. That they would use thier power not to screw as many people as hard as possible but to help thier victims^Wartists?/laughs so hard my sides hurt.
They are corporations owned and controlled by people who know that the internet makes them redundant and shortly will make them irrelevant, as artists warm up to internet distribution. And like all evil people faced with what they see as a problem, they will try to preserve the status quo and not care how many people they hurt in the process (- we are here). Then they will go down in flames, cursing and blaming everyone but themselves the whole time (- eagerly looking forward to it).
Malware? Probably, while it does not attempt to damage the system in and
of itself, it does use additional resources unnecessarily; which can
affect other applications like virus scanners and distributed computing
projects. And it has been shown to leave the computer in a vulnerable
state, and can even affect system stability if it is not removed properly.
It allows anyone to hide any file they want by simply renaming the file, and opens security vulnerabilities that apparently have already been exploited. The immediately obvious remedy, deleting it's files, will render your CD drives unusable. If that isn't damaging my system, what is?
You have gauranteed that I will never purchase any hardware, software, or music made by your or your affiliates again. You have also gauranteed that I will do my best to make all my friends and family members do likewise. I will also put up a banner on my website telling everyone who goes there to never buy from you again.
I love their 'removal' instructions... "Go to Sony and download the newer version of the rootkit." WTF over?
Dear Symantec: To remove a rootkit does not mean to install an updated version of it. This piece of malware is no different than any other, I want it OFF MY SYSTEM.
Once you get Jets'n'Guns to start, Pontifex to not crash over sound buffer underruns constantly, Simcity 4 Deluxe to start (note: Not just SC4, the deluxe version), and Tropico to run, I'm sold.
But if you think you can replace Windows with WINE right now, you're deluded. I've got hundreds of PC games going back about 12 years. With programs from before 2000, it's about 50-50 run/won't even start. With more recent stuff, maybe 1 in 4 or 5 will run something resembling correctly. Let's not start about those games that don't like my 'debugger' or have DRM on the CD.
On a more positive note, Outpost 2 runs nicely, as does 1602 AD and Cyberstorm II.
Rods are only active in low light levels, ie night vision. Each eye has 120 to 180 million cones that we use to perceive color. With two eyes working in tandem, you'd need a screen with ~19000 pixels on a side.
Unless you have a projector that projects pictures from a large format camera, you don't have to worry about more resolution than the human eye:)
1) Regularly run a script that prepends all audio/video files with $sys$ (you're not 'destroying evidence', they were already hidden)
2) RIAA sues you for uploading
3) RIAA comes looking for files
4) Windows API shows no audio/video files of any kind
5) RIAA is fux0r3d?
Can any lawyers comment on what would happen in such a scenario? Do you get off? Is it Obstruction of unJustice? What if you use steganography to hide mp3 or avi data? Is the RIAA, in fact, fux0r3d? Tell me quick, I think they're about to break the door down...
23Mbps down and ONE Mbps up? I don't need a download speed faster than most small website's upstream, I need an upload speed that allows me to meaningfully give something BACK to the 'Net. But that's bad for certain companies *coughriaacough* that want the 'Net to be nothing but a glorified TV.
Wake me up when I can trade my 1536/256 for 892/892 and pay the same cost for the same amount of speed.
You must be joking - there are several ways to extract usable energy from fusion reactors, and none of them involve irradiating the reactor itself with uncharged particles. Believe it or not, you CAN simply use the fact that the reactor is hot compared to it's surroundings to do work, like every fossil fuel and nuclear power plant does. Indeed, draw off a plasma stream and make it radiatively drive a stirling engine and you'd be darn close to 100% efficiency because the hot side would be so hot. You can also use the enormous pressure that the plasma is under to drive it through an MHD generator and directly convert the charge to electric current.
So, how exactly do I efficiently (or rather, more efficiently than the above methods) extract energy from particles that have no charge, and therefore cannot be contained, directed at a target, or made to induce a current in a wire?
As for green power being uneconomical, show me any developed country that gets the majority of it's energy from renewable sources other than Iceland (which sits on top the only surface portion of the Transatlantic Ridge). Part of it being uneconomical is the cost of dealing with environmentalist wackos who will protest ANY power source: Dams destroy rivers and farmland, wind turbines kill birds, solar arrays take up too much space, tidal power prevents natural ocean flow, nuclear power is BAD because it's nuclear, fossil fuel plants pollute the earth, you name it there's something wrong with it. The other part is that although they're wonderful concepts, they can't yet or in the forseeable future scale to the point of meeting world energy demand.
Wind turbines are wonderful - only we've got most of the areas that are both windy and populated covered. All the good hydro sites are already dammed. Solar power is too intermittent and it's use is confined to consistently sunny areas. Few areas of earth have tides large enough to make tidal power worth it. Thanks to bad design, stupid engineers, and arguably criminal safety errors, everyone associates 'nuclear power' with 'chernobyl' and refuses to let new plants be built. Biofuel is literally just solar power with biological solar cells and an efficiency of 2% instead of 15%.
So what else can we do? Only fission or fusion power will allow us to maintain our lifestyles once fossil fuels run out, and environmentalist nuts refuse to allow fission.
You're accusing ME of bullshitting? So that's how you got moderated interesting! There are a number of possible fusion reactions under study. One of the more promising is the helium-3 deuterium reaction. Helium 3 and deuterium fuse and create lithium-5. The reaction is theoretically aneutronic, so the reactor would not become radioactive after extended service. But I don't suppose that came up in a quick Google search, did it?
As for current renewable energy sources, they're nice for the feelgood affect but they can't replace fossil fuel if we expect to continue living anything like we do now. Solar cells have a lot of nasty chemical byproducts associated with their production, and currently take 1/3 of the energy they will produce in thier lifetimes to make. Wind power is simply too diffuse to be collected economically, and most of the places where it does make sense already have it. Tidal power is another problem of a large amount of energy that's to diffuse to gather effectively. Biomatter is just solar power, only using biological components that will maintain themselves (but return 1/5 as much power density as silicon).
I also like how you say 'energy saving' and expect that to magically reduce our power consumption by the 70-something percent it would take to run ourselves on renewable power. What exactly are you proposing? Limit every house to 1 kilowatt power draw?
PS, I'm not a Republican, I don't drive an SUV, sol does fusion not fission, and condescending assholes like you really grind my gears.
PPS, You really lost all credibility with your last sentence.
1. As opposed to a lot of corporate CEOs that seem to know key members of the Bush administration who are currently $300 billion richer?
2. Fission power does have some drawbacks; eventually, there is some volume of waste that has to be disposed of. If the damn environmentalists would let us reprocess it, that volume would shrink 95%, but even that needs to be disposed of.
3. Because (forbidding a Ben Bova-esqe future) fusion reactors can't melt down (If anything happens to a number of very difficult-to-maintain conditions, the reaction stops dead in milliseconds) and generate no radioactive waste. Put the helium in tanks and send it to Greenpeace parties and even they'll get behind it!:)
Perhaps the weeks following a terrorist attack are not the best time to write legislation regarding what to do about terrorism.
But all the senators were panicking, and all their constituents were panicking demanding they do something, although they (the constituents) had no idea what. So no wonder that a bad piece of legislation gets written.
My solution to terrorism? Take the amount of money we've spent in Iraq and direct it towards fusion power research. Once fusion power is achieved, we don't need to prop up those regimes in the middle east any more. At last, we will be able to leave and flip them off on the way out. Then when the middle east is still a hellhole they can't blame us.
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I think you missed a 0 in there. If the USA and EU are 1/100 of the world's population, then their combined populations are about equal to New York plus California.
Fine - make it 'impossible' for me to copy the disks. Make me buy a new HD-DRM monitor. Unfortunately for you, the analog hole CANNOT be closed because my eyes are analog, and nothing you can do can possibly stop me from single-stepping the entire disk and taking pictures of every frame with a digital camera, then re-assembling the frames into a movie. Cameras DRMed too? Fine, I'll buy a used high-speed camera and record the movie on film, then scan the frames. Oh, heck - I'll rootkit my own computer and read directly from memory!
My point is: Movie studios, get a fracking clue. You will never, NEVER stop someone who is determined to copy a movie. And once one person copies it and uploads it, you lose!
It was. Then they went with a backbone setup rather than a mesh (stupid). Then they had almost all the data lines going across the atlantic arrive at two points a few miles from each other so that one well-placed sinking ship can cut the US and Europe apart from each other (unforgivably stupid).
The Internet was supposed to be able to survive a nuclear war. Today, large parts of it couldn't survive a well-placed yokel with a backhoe. Someone remind me whose brilliant idea it was to go with a backbone, anyway. I mean, what's the problem with a mesh, other than that it's very hard to wiretap? *nudge nudge wink wink*
No, it gives a doubling period of four years. Silicon microprocessors take advantage of more bits in an arithmetic way, where 2x the bits leads to ~2x the computing power. Quantum computers are geometric, where 2x the bits will square computing power (ie 8qbit -> 16qbit == 256 times the processing power; 16 -> 32 == 65536x more power, 32 -> 64 == 4 billion times more power).
(If you aren't joking, and in response to those who want 'Net control in the UNs hands):
... Because having the internet under the control of a somewhat incompetent non-profit corporation in a generally not evil country is worse than having it under the control of a completely incompetent, corrupt assembly that gives equal voice to leaders of democracy and mass-murdering tyrants?
I went to the test exploit w/Konqueror-3.2.3 and it just sat there, not taking up any unusual amount of memory or CPU. No JS prompt, nothing. After closing the test exploit window I noticed a blank window popunder.
BTW - does anyone else find Konqueror to be far more stable than Firefox in general?
As the sun fuses hydrogen into helium, the helium 'ash' accumlates at it's center. As the mass of this ash increases, it increases the pressure and thus fusion rate and power output of the sun. The sun is getting brighter and more luminous as time goes by.
Too keep an acceptable temperature on earth's surface, the biosphere has been regulating the greenhouse effect by reducing the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over time. Going back in time, the sun was dimmer and there was more CO2 in the atmosphere to compensate.
If you want to say "As dead tree format publishers, we think that Internet publishing hurts dead tree format publishing and therefore internet publishing should be stopped," that's fine. Don't try and feed us some bullshit about how the Internet (whose one and only purpose for existance is information exchange) will hurt information exchange. Just just come out and say it: "We hate the fact that the Internet makes us redundant. Someone prop up our business model for us!"
In fact, I'm honestly hoping that the RIAA comes up with a way to stop file-sharing. Then, when sales of CDs continue to suck balls, they have nothing to blame but themselves.
However, as long as they have the spectre of evil movie pirates, they have a lever to press for more evil, rights-perverting legislation and hardware DRM. If that goes away, their fulcrum disappears and they lose thier power over congress/parliament/etc to lobby for more control. The one thing those bastards want more than profit is power - Suing joe-ordinary for file sharing is trying to squeeze blood from a turnip in terms of money. But the intimidation factor!
How strange that the thing the RIAA hates so much is empowering them at the same time it destroys them.
I was suprised that no one's yet proposed Le Voyage - C'mon, world's first real Sci-Fi movie! Other than that, almost all of these are mentioned somewhere. Some of them are obvious choices, some not so much - but they're my choices. Have fun picking my list apart!
R How 'bout a top ten WORST space movies ever list? I nominate Star Trek: Nemesis...
Was anyone thinking that the music labels wanted tiered pricing because they thought it would be better for anyone but themselves? /laughs hysterically. That they would use thier power not to screw as many people as hard as possible but to help thier victims^Wartists? /laughs so hard my sides hurt.
They are corporations owned and controlled by people who know that the internet makes them redundant and shortly will make them irrelevant, as artists warm up to internet distribution. And like all evil people faced with what they see as a problem, they will try to preserve the status quo and not care how many people they hurt in the process (- we are here). Then they will go down in flames, cursing and blaming everyone but themselves the whole time (- eagerly looking forward to it).
Who voted against it and why? That is to say, who was bribed and who was bribing?
You have gauranteed that I will never purchase any hardware, software, or music made by your or your affiliates again. You have also gauranteed that I will do my best to make all my friends and family members do likewise. I will also put up a banner on my website telling everyone who goes there to never buy from you again.
Congratulations you facist pricks!
I love their 'removal' instructions... "Go to Sony and download the newer version of the rootkit." WTF over?
Dear Symantec: To remove a rootkit does not mean to install an updated version of it. This piece of malware is no different than any other, I want it OFF MY SYSTEM.
Once you get Jets'n'Guns to start, Pontifex to not crash over sound buffer underruns constantly, Simcity 4 Deluxe to start (note: Not just SC4, the deluxe version), and Tropico to run, I'm sold.
But if you think you can replace Windows with WINE right now, you're deluded. I've got hundreds of PC games going back about 12 years. With programs from before 2000, it's about 50-50 run/won't even start. With more recent stuff, maybe 1 in 4 or 5 will run something resembling correctly. Let's not start about those games that don't like my 'debugger' or have DRM on the CD.
On a more positive note, Outpost 2 runs nicely, as does 1602 AD and Cyberstorm II.
Rods are only active in low light levels, ie night vision. Each eye has 120 to 180 million cones that we use to perceive color. With two eyes working in tandem, you'd need a screen with ~19000 pixels on a side.
:)
Unless you have a projector that projects pictures from a large format camera, you don't have to worry about more resolution than the human eye
1) Regularly run a script that prepends all audio/video files with $sys$ (you're not 'destroying evidence', they were already hidden)
2) RIAA sues you for uploading
3) RIAA comes looking for files
4) Windows API shows no audio/video files of any kind
5) RIAA is fux0r3d?
Can any lawyers comment on what would happen in such a scenario? Do you get off? Is it Obstruction of unJustice? What if you use steganography to hide mp3 or avi data? Is the RIAA, in fact, fux0r3d? Tell me quick, I think they're about to break the door down...
23Mbps down and ONE Mbps up? I don't need a download speed faster than most small website's upstream, I need an upload speed that allows me to meaningfully give something BACK to the 'Net. But that's bad for certain companies *coughriaacough* that want the 'Net to be nothing but a glorified TV.
Wake me up when I can trade my 1536/256 for 892/892 and pay the same cost for the same amount of speed.
An increase that is less than the year's inflation is a decrease.
You must be joking - there are several ways to extract usable energy from fusion reactors, and none of them involve irradiating the reactor itself with uncharged particles. Believe it or not, you CAN simply use the fact that the reactor is hot compared to it's surroundings to do work, like every fossil fuel and nuclear power plant does. Indeed, draw off a plasma stream and make it radiatively drive a stirling engine and you'd be darn close to 100% efficiency because the hot side would be so hot. You can also use the enormous pressure that the plasma is under to drive it through an MHD generator and directly convert the charge to electric current.
So, how exactly do I efficiently (or rather, more efficiently than the above methods) extract energy from particles that have no charge, and therefore cannot be contained, directed at a target, or made to induce a current in a wire?
As for green power being uneconomical, show me any developed country that gets the majority of it's energy from renewable sources other than Iceland (which sits on top the only surface portion of the Transatlantic Ridge). Part of it being uneconomical is the cost of dealing with environmentalist wackos who will protest ANY power source: Dams destroy rivers and farmland, wind turbines kill birds, solar arrays take up too much space, tidal power prevents natural ocean flow, nuclear power is BAD because it's nuclear, fossil fuel plants pollute the earth, you name it there's something wrong with it. The other part is that although they're wonderful concepts, they can't yet or in the forseeable future scale to the point of meeting world energy demand.
Wind turbines are wonderful - only we've got most of the areas that are both windy and populated covered. All the good hydro sites are already dammed. Solar power is too intermittent and it's use is confined to consistently sunny areas. Few areas of earth have tides large enough to make tidal power worth it. Thanks to bad design, stupid engineers, and arguably criminal safety errors, everyone associates 'nuclear power' with 'chernobyl' and refuses to let new plants be built. Biofuel is literally just solar power with biological solar cells and an efficiency of 2% instead of 15%.
So what else can we do? Only fission or fusion power will allow us to maintain our lifestyles once fossil fuels run out, and environmentalist nuts refuse to allow fission.
You're accusing ME of bullshitting? So that's how you got moderated interesting! There are a number of possible fusion reactions under study. One of the more promising is the helium-3 deuterium reaction. Helium 3 and deuterium fuse and create lithium-5. The reaction is theoretically aneutronic, so the reactor would not become radioactive after extended service. But I don't suppose that came up in a quick Google search, did it?
As for current renewable energy sources, they're nice for the feelgood affect but they can't replace fossil fuel if we expect to continue living anything like we do now. Solar cells have a lot of nasty chemical byproducts associated with their production, and currently take 1/3 of the energy they will produce in thier lifetimes to make. Wind power is simply too diffuse to be collected economically, and most of the places where it does make sense already have it. Tidal power is another problem of a large amount of energy that's to diffuse to gather effectively. Biomatter is just solar power, only using biological components that will maintain themselves (but return 1/5 as much power density as silicon).
I also like how you say 'energy saving' and expect that to magically reduce our power consumption by the 70-something percent it would take to run ourselves on renewable power. What exactly are you proposing? Limit every house to 1 kilowatt power draw?
PS, I'm not a Republican, I don't drive an SUV, sol does fusion not fission, and condescending assholes like you really grind my gears.
PPS, You really lost all credibility with your last sentence.
1. As opposed to a lot of corporate CEOs that seem to know key members of the Bush administration who are currently $300 billion richer?
:)
2. Fission power does have some drawbacks; eventually, there is some volume of waste that has to be disposed of. If the damn environmentalists would let us reprocess it, that volume would shrink 95%, but even that needs to be disposed of.
3. Because (forbidding a Ben Bova-esqe future) fusion reactors can't melt down (If anything happens to a number of very difficult-to-maintain conditions, the reaction stops dead in milliseconds) and generate no radioactive waste. Put the helium in tanks and send it to Greenpeace parties and even they'll get behind it!
Perhaps the weeks following a terrorist attack are not the best time to write legislation regarding what to do about terrorism.
But all the senators were panicking, and all their constituents were panicking demanding they do something, although they (the constituents) had no idea what. So no wonder that a bad piece of legislation gets written.
My solution to terrorism? Take the amount of money we've spent in Iraq and direct it towards fusion power research. Once fusion power is achieved, we don't need to prop up those regimes in the middle east any more. At last, we will be able to leave and flip them off on the way out. Then when the middle east is still a hellhole they can't blame us.