TC(Trusted Computing) solves this. TC puts encrypted data in memory that is unavailable to unauthorized programs(the OS as well). And if they try to access this memory the hardware component, in the worst case scenario, becomes a brick or more likely the component just shuts down.
That's the real fear of DRM with TC. In essence you won't even own your computer anymore.
Look I think it's about time you just admit that slashdot has pretty much degraded from a news site to basically a bbs. Why not just have open threads and the like so we can troll each other to our hearts' content. Yes yes, I know there is trolltalk But ever since you and CowboyNeal started flooding it, it hasn't been the same. So either stop flooding trolltalk or give us open threads.
any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life..
The word 'nigger' has been used for such discriminating purposes. Redneck has not. That is why redneck is not racist. People who could be called rednecks were not marginalized or segregated, had their rights taken away, enslaved, and punished for being who they are.
Yes the parent poster reminds us of the great sacrifices that our redneck forefathers have made in order for redneck racism to be a thing of the past. God Bless you Jeff Foxworthy! I'll never be ashamed of stacking my new TV on top of my old broken TV again!
This is OT but here is the founder of Red Hat in a NYTimes article featuring a picture of him with his laptop. What laptop is it? A Mac. And what OS is it running? Mac OS X. I'm sure that really breeds confidence in the Red Hat desktop hackers. You fail it Havoc.
First let me reply to your other post about the recoil. Yes you are right if the ammunition is the same you will have the same recoil. But if you combine caseless ammunition with electronic firing, you can do better weapon barrel design where recoil is delayed in short burst firing. Meaning your short bursts of say 3 bullets will be much more accurate.
As far as the rings and RFIDs type technology I agree they don't really do that much. But in the case of biometrics like dynaimic grip recognition you can easily record multiple grips from authorized users. A few hours of firing the gun could record all possible grips that one could use. Anyway if you don't have a firm and relatively constant grip on your weapon you will not hit your target.
I can understand why veteran police officers would be cautious and skeptic of new technology in their weapons. I don't think police officers should be forced to use these weapons. However as time goes by the technology will only get better and the new generation of police officers will not have the same skepticism.
I don't want to paint myself as someone who favors gun control to for the sake of gun control. But I think with technology and time we can make better weapons who can be abused lessed and more effective in doing what they are supposed to do, protect their owners.
Actually electronic firing is more reliable than mechanical firing. Think how many times you have used your mouse and it failed to work. If anything the future of gun technology is in electronic firing. Also you get some cool bonuses like the ability to fire faster, less recoil, and increased accuracy.
Well I define highly reliable as a 99.99% success rate. As you know guns tend to jam and fail even without technology involved. I'm well aware of the exemption of police officers from the NJ law however it is hard to find a reason why a police officer would not want a "smart gun" if the rate of success was equal or better than the rate of a gun jamming or failing. It's only a matter of time before such a technology is viable.
Also "smart gun" technology could help prevent straw purchasing, in which a gun is bought by a third-party then sold to a criminal. Because of the lenient gun laws is PA, straw purchasing in a huge problem in NJ. Then of course is the case of gun owners shot with their own guns or gun accidents.
Honestly I don't see a problem with "smart gun" technology as long as it's highly reliable.
You'll find a significant number of police officers are actually shot with their own guns. I think the vast majority of police would be in favor of a highly reliable system where a gun can only be fired by its owner.
Honestly, I think we socialize more than ever. Yet the social relationships we build are less meaningful. You are right when you claim the reason for less meaningful relationships is because we don't need other people like in the past. We can be self-sufficient without ever really knowing or caring about anyone. This of course leads to empathy towards others and in turn makes the situation worse.
There is a breaking point. Because we are all connected in some social stratum and what others do does affect your life. It will become apparent one day most likely when the result of our actions has become beyond repair.
A war driven, confrontational society, consisting of mostly poor people, where women are kept in their place, sex is removed from common discussion, right and wrong have rigid definitions, and a government that have so empathy for the poor.
I think we already tried that and it pretty much sucks. You know maybe if we spent more money on trying to educate the masses they wouldn't be such clueless fucktards. Maybe they would demand facts from their news outlets. They would elect representatives that actually represent them. They wouldn't buy into all the mindless consumerborg bullshit. And at the same we can have meaningful discussions without attacking each other and other countries. But then again that would be a more *liberal* society and that's what you really dont want, do you?
Noncommutative geometry, K-Theory, and Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT correspondence), among other fields of mathematics that have been advanced with the help of string theorists.
I think parents can only be a limiting case on environmental factors. We can exclude genetic factors for this discussion. But your parents are even influenced by environmental factors. Which in turn can influence their children plus whatever environmental forces their children interact with directly.
The linear view of the world is just a weaker model. It can not explain how people with "bad parents" can become successful and people with "good parents" can become anti-social maniacs. From that alone you have to admit parents are not the dominating force. Of course given right environmental factors "parenting" can appear to be the dominate force because the other factors cancel each other out.
However parents can in some ways influence environmental factors. For example choosing what town to live in. Yet other things like culture, parents can do very little about unless they take draconian measures.
Anyway in essence my view is that parents no matter who they are can use a little help from time to time. I don't see anything wrong with MySpace helping parents out. I never said MySpace should baby-sit other people's children or the like. That is what school and TV are for.
Well you think MySpace is an ISP and I do not think they are. You might be right though and maybe they are not legally liable to provide any safeguards. However morally and at least in the interest of consumer protection, I think they should at least try which they are doing.
ST is an attempt to unify QFT with GR. In that setting QFT and GR are a consequence of ST. However string theorists have discovered something called the landscape. In which not only is QFT and GR possible but so are 10^500 other types of universes and the theories that describe them.
This is a huge problem. Of course there is the possibility that finding the ultimate theory of everything is impossible and this would be the physics dual to Godel's incompleteness result. Which I'm sure sure scares the shit out of many physicists.
Telecoms have no problems working with the government. But you are confusing MySpace for an ISP, which it isn't. MySpace can be held responsible for its content, just like Slashdot can. Remember when Slashdot removed a posting about Scientology?
Of course Slashdot opted not to fight the case but they might have lost.
String Theory is still very incomplete. I think it's very premature to say String Theory will never make any predictions. Of course it's been a long time but that may just indicate how hard ST is.
Yeah but String Theory explains while Intelligent Design defers that duty. In a sense String Theory is actually a theory while Intelligent Design is just an idea.
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TC(Trusted Computing) solves this. TC puts encrypted data in memory that is unavailable to unauthorized programs(the OS as well). And if they try to access this memory the hardware component, in the worst case scenario, becomes a brick or more likely the component just shuts down.
That's the real fear of DRM with TC. In essence you won't even own your computer anymore.
Look I think it's about time you just admit that slashdot has pretty much degraded from a news site to basically a bbs. Why not just have open threads and the like so we can troll each other to our hearts' content. Yes yes, I know there is trolltalk But ever since you and CowboyNeal started flooding it, it hasn't been the same. So either stop flooding trolltalk or give us open threads.
And btw, dumbass, there is nothing "ignorant" about the Bush Administration. They know EXACTLY what they are doing.
They sure have a funny way of showing it.
The word 'nigger' has been used for such discriminating purposes. Redneck has not. That is why redneck is not racist. People who could be called rednecks were not marginalized or segregated, had their rights taken away, enslaved, and punished for being who they are.
Yes the parent poster reminds us of the great sacrifices that our redneck forefathers have made in order for redneck racism to be a thing of the past. God Bless you Jeff Foxworthy! I'll never be ashamed of stacking my new TV on top of my old broken TV again!
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However I doubt Bob Young does *any* video editing.
This is OT but here is the founder of Red Hat in a NYTimes article featuring a picture of him with his laptop. What laptop is it? A Mac. And what OS is it running? Mac OS X. I'm sure that really breeds confidence in the Red Hat desktop hackers. You fail it Havoc.
First let me reply to your other post about the recoil. Yes you are right if the ammunition is the same you will have the same recoil. But if you combine caseless ammunition with electronic firing, you can do better weapon barrel design where recoil is delayed in short burst firing. Meaning your short bursts of say 3 bullets will be much more accurate.
As far as the rings and RFIDs type technology I agree they don't really do that much. But in the case of biometrics like dynaimic grip recognition you can easily record multiple grips from authorized users. A few hours of firing the gun could record all possible grips that one could use. Anyway if you don't have a firm and relatively constant grip on your weapon you will not hit your target.
I can understand why veteran police officers would be cautious and skeptic of new technology in their weapons. I don't think police officers should be forced to use these weapons. However as time goes by the technology will only get better and the new generation of police officers will not have the same skepticism.
I don't want to paint myself as someone who favors gun control to for the sake of gun control. But I think with technology and time we can make better weapons who can be abused lessed and more effective in doing what they are supposed to do, protect their owners.
Actually electronic firing is more reliable than mechanical firing. Think how many times you have used your mouse and it failed to work. If anything the future of gun technology is in electronic firing. Also you get some cool bonuses like the ability to fire faster, less recoil, and increased accuracy.
Well I define highly reliable as a 99.99% success rate. As you know guns tend to jam and fail even without technology involved. I'm well aware of the exemption of police officers from the NJ law however it is hard to find a reason why a police officer would not want a "smart gun" if the rate of success was equal or better than the rate of a gun jamming or failing. It's only a matter of time before such a technology is viable.
Also "smart gun" technology could help prevent straw purchasing, in which a gun is bought by a third-party then sold to a criminal. Because of the lenient gun laws is PA, straw purchasing in a huge problem in NJ. Then of course is the case of gun owners shot with their own guns or gun accidents.
Honestly I don't see a problem with "smart gun" technology as long as it's highly reliable.
You'll find a significant number of police officers are actually shot with their own guns. I think the vast majority of police would be in favor of a highly reliable system where a gun can only be fired by its owner.
Maybe make a movie about it... call it "An Inconvenient File Format"
And I thought only Democrats had no solutions.
And by "clueless fucktards" I was talking about Red and Blue states. You are the one that presumed that "clueless fucktards" only live in Red States.
Honestly, I think we socialize more than ever. Yet the social relationships we build are less meaningful. You are right when you claim the reason for less meaningful relationships is because we don't need other people like in the past. We can be self-sufficient without ever really knowing or caring about anyone. This of course leads to empathy towards others and in turn makes the situation worse.
There is a breaking point. Because we are all connected in some social stratum and what others do does affect your life. It will become apparent one day most likely when the result of our actions has become beyond repair.
So your solution is..
A war driven, confrontational society, consisting of mostly poor people, where women are kept in their place, sex is removed from common discussion, right and wrong have rigid definitions, and a government that have so empathy for the poor.
I think we already tried that and it pretty much sucks. You know maybe if we spent more money on trying to educate the masses they wouldn't be such clueless fucktards. Maybe they would demand facts from their news outlets. They would elect representatives that actually represent them. They wouldn't buy into all the mindless consumerborg bullshit. And at the same we can have meaningful discussions without attacking each other and other countries. But then again that would be a more *liberal* society and that's what you really dont want, do you?
Noncommutative geometry, K-Theory, and Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT correspondence), among other fields of mathematics that have been advanced with the help of string theorists.
Obviously you don't understand mathematics.
You can make ANYTHING work in mathematics if you try hard enough, and are willing to do the invention.
That's just plainly false. I'm sorry but false proofs is not making something "work".
Also you are confusing Green's Theorem for Stokes' Theorem.
Surely you can have opinion about anything you want but if you don't have proficient knowledge in the specific area why should anyone listen to you?
I think parents can only be a limiting case on environmental factors. We can exclude genetic factors for this discussion. But your parents are even influenced by environmental factors. Which in turn can influence their children plus whatever environmental forces their children interact with directly.
The linear view of the world is just a weaker model. It can not explain how people with "bad parents" can become successful and people with "good parents" can become anti-social maniacs. From that alone you have to admit parents are not the dominating force. Of course given right environmental factors "parenting" can appear to be the dominate force because the other factors cancel each other out.
However parents can in some ways influence environmental factors. For example choosing what town to live in. Yet other things like culture, parents can do very little about unless they take draconian measures.
Anyway in essence my view is that parents no matter who they are can use a little help from time to time. I don't see anything wrong with MySpace helping parents out. I never said MySpace should baby-sit other people's children or the like. That is what school and TV are for.
Yes of course this is /. You don't need to understand the topic at hand in order to have an opinion about it.
Well you think MySpace is an ISP and I do not think they are. You might be right though and maybe they are not legally liable to provide any safeguards. However morally and at least in the interest of consumer protection, I think they should at least try which they are doing.
Sounds like a cut-n-run philosophy. I think it's better to stay-the-course with String Theory.
ST is an attempt to unify QFT with GR. In that setting QFT and GR are a consequence of ST. However string theorists have discovered something called the landscape. In which not only is QFT and GR possible but so are 10^500 other types of universes and the theories that describe them.
This is a huge problem. Of course there is the possibility that finding the ultimate theory of everything is impossible and this would be the physics dual to Godel's incompleteness result. Which I'm sure sure scares the shit out of many physicists.
Telecoms have no problems working with the government. But you are confusing MySpace for an ISP, which it isn't. MySpace can be held responsible for its content, just like Slashdot can. Remember when Slashdot removed a posting about Scientology?
Of course Slashdot opted not to fight the case but they might have lost.
String Theory is still very incomplete. I think it's very premature to say String Theory will never make any predictions. Of course it's been a long time but that may just indicate how hard ST is.
Yeah but String Theory explains while Intelligent Design defers that duty. In a sense String Theory is actually a theory while Intelligent Design is just an idea.