an image just to remind people next they'll commission some computer software house to develop a counting and tracking program... cos we must know how many and where they all are...
why would there not be concern that the employees of the store itself could be trawling the hard drive while it is in the repair shop looking for data to sell?
remember Gary Glitter... he got caught cos some employee of a computer store went trolling through the data of his hard drive while it was in for repair... there wasn't any stink kicked up about the fact that the personal data was being explored... the press just went wild about the nature of the data (he was convicted for possessing indecent images of children)
My kids are going to have chemistry sets and electrical sets and all sorts of stuff.
ah yes, but where are you going to get them from??? and just how few experiments will you be able to do when you finally get hold of them??? the contents of "chemistry" sets have been seriously neutered to avoid liability claims
"The search was initiated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency best known for instigating recalls of faulty cribs and fire-prone space heaters."
Great, just one more federal agency for me to fear/hate. You just made the list, CPSC!
personally, I would say that the CPSC is well outside it's jurisdiction...
they would really, really have to work hard to establish links between postings in high traffic usenet groups and the people reading them... an awfull lot of info can be put into a subject line without making it too obvious and the recipient merely has to download the headers, doesn't actually have to access the body at all... so there's absolutely no way to ascertain who, out of the thousands of people using that group, is actually receiving commands.
Similarly with blog comments... a lot of it looks like spam, but it could be disguised commands, and it can be seen by people using search engines so there's a disconnect (cutout) between the poster and the recipient. All the reader would have to do would be to search on an innocent phrase agreed between the poster and the recipient and then view the cache of the page that matches that content...
they could be using Slashdot right now to coordinate the next big one...
well... if we want to flood them with data then just keep repeatedly downloading Debian DVDs over bittorrent and deleting them... My ubuntu dapper update downloads so far this past couple of months must be at least 26 Gigs alone... hmmm... I think it's time to rsynch my mirrors again...
look at a piece of rope... that's made of fibres... now think of ropes made of carbon fibres... and to protect them from micrometeroids and oxygen erosion, encase the rope in a sheath just like serious ropes for climbing, sailing etc. are encased in a sheath to protect them from UV.
How do you think we ever got telephone cables to work across the Atlantic Ocean? we cased them up and protected them from the elements.
With the carbon fibre ropes, we just have to work out a way of safely splicing them together during assembly in space.
Basically, we should let the engineers get on with solving the problems rather than giving up on the whole idea without even trying.
so they've got their hands on the odt import filter for word then???
cos this is the only way to do a format parsing test... and microsoft's xml format is purely a dump of their internal binary format and wrapping the info with xml tags... microsoft's format is mind bogglingly bloated by comparison with odt...
odt concentrates on tagging up the structured information in sensible form, while microsoft's merely dumps the memory and horribly bloats out as a result... just like word does when saving to html...
The problem is, MS knows this very VERY well. Thus, MS Office products are chock full of every conceivable 'feature', hoping that you'll find a way to do what you need to do somewhere in there without going to someone elses software...damned if it's the right tool or not.
correct, that's why they stuck those crappy graphic tools in word for producing org charts, flow charts etc... to stop people from using Visio... it worked well enough for Visio to give up and sell out to Microsoft...
did you know that Office has speech recognition built in? They licensed that from L&H (stupid idiots) and effectively killed the speech recognition market
About speech recognition This feature is available in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English (U.S.), and Japanese language versions of Microsoft Office.
You can use speech recognition to dictate text into any Office program. You can also select menu, toolbar, dialog box (U.S. English only), and task pane (U.S. English only) items by using your voice.
Speech recognition is not designed for completely hands-free operation; you'll get the best results if you use a combination of your voice and the mouse or keyboard.
To use speech recognition for the first time, install it by clicking Speech on the Tools menu in Microsoft Word, or by doing a custom installation. After speech recognition is installed, it is available on the Tools menu in any speech-enabled Office program.
and the vast majority of users don't even realise they've got it...
So, they wanted to come up with a mechanism to encourage creation of ideas. What they decided to do was to basically give the creator an opportunity to lease a "copyright" or "patent" from the government. The government would agree to enforce certain privilages for the creator over the term of the lease, and would take as payment the creation of idea itself. Note that that's not the idea, which is already inherently public property, but the act of creation of the idea.
unfortunately, the artists (or rights holders) believe that they should be able to milk the material for as long as possible... the limited term is meant to provide for the artist ( or rights holder) to get some payment for the act of creativity, but isn't supposed to allow them to just sit back after making that one killer book or record and live off the royalties... what's worse is that his/her heirs expect to inherit this IP as if it were property and expect to sit back and sponge off their forebears creative work as well for many years...
I'm all for a return to a truly limited period of copyright of say 10 years maximum... that way the artists have ten years max to milk the item before it goes back to the public domain... and this should be an encouragement for the artists (rights holders) to remain productive rather than sitting on their laurels and the royalties for work they did some 40 oddd years ago... (yes, you know who you are... those who are currently campaigning to get the copyright term extended in the EU)
However, we encourage you to make the source code available under a license that offers users very broad use rights, with few restrictions, and so would enable a larger community to come together for learning, collaboration, and reuse based on your Project. For an example, see the Microsoft Permissive License.
Somehow I fail to feel harmed if someone hears my conversations.
would you be happy then if the "government" listened in on your phonecalls with your lawyer? or your tax attorney? or your doctor? or your psychiatrist? or your stockbroker? or your mistress? or your wife? or your election campaign manager? or any of a myriad of things you would rather not get out into public or potentially be used against you?
Because someday the FBI (or whoever) may find it harder to listen in on these encrypted conversations in cases where they have a court order to do so.
Jesus...H... Christ... That's why they have supercomputers......... any comercial grade encryprtion/decryption program has to have a key short enough to enable real time encryption/decryption using normal computer chips... any key short enough for fast encryption/decryption of things like telephone conversations has to be easily brute forceable. The algorythm for the encryption/decryption is public knowledge... the key merely provides protection against casual eavesdropping... the FBI has access to serious horsepower when it comes to decryption... the only problem comes when they are mass decrypting phonecalls... and then they are outside the limits of the court order and in the realms of spying on all of us...
It's knowledge required (vertical axis) vs. usability (horizontal axis).
bollocks... here's a proper definition that even wintrolls cannot dispute...
learn.ing curve (plural learn.ing curves)
noun Definition:
1. rate of learning: the rate at which a new subject or skill is learned
2. graph plotting learning outcomes: a graph that shows the relation between the rate at which knowledge or a skill is learned and the time spent acquiring it
so a "steep" learning curve is one where knowledge is mastered quickly...
if you plot knowledge gained (vertical axis) against time taken (horizontal axis), then a steep learning curve is the best to have as you learn a lot quickly...
twas the first time I've seen a torrent where there were so many clients that the number got displayed wrong as a negative value... methinks there was a type mismatch there in Azureus's display.
I hate to say it, but how the heck do they expect Java apps to run well on this $100 laptop anyway? I like Java, my company works mostly in Java, but it can be a resource hog. How is it that they would even want to run it on these stripped down machines?
b0ll0cks... I was running java apps on my old 486 SX 2 50 with win 3.1 and only 4 Meg of RAM way back in '94... I didn't notice any lack of performance then... and the Negroponte machine has better specs than that... way better.
This Java is slow FUD meme has been running ever since MS got their ass kicked by Sun and had to stop distributing that extended MS Java. I wonder why...
Slashdot Mirror
an image just to remind people next they'll commission some computer software house to develop a counting and tracking program... cos we must know how many and where they all are...
remember Gary Glitter... he got caught cos some employee of a computer store went trolling through the data of his hard drive while it was in for repair... there wasn't any stink kicked up about the fact that the personal data was being explored... the press just went wild about the nature of the data (he was convicted for possessing indecent images of children)
ah yes, but where are you going to get them from??? and just how few experiments will you be able to do when you finally get hold of them??? the contents of "chemistry" sets have been seriously neutered to avoid liability claims
walking to Walmart is a crime??? sheesh...
personally, I would say that the CPSC is well outside it's jurisdiction...
Similarly with blog comments... a lot of it looks like spam, but it could be disguised commands, and it can be seen by people using search engines so there's a disconnect (cutout) between the poster and the recipient. All the reader would have to do would be to search on an innocent phrase agreed between the poster and the recipient and then view the cache of the page that matches that content...
they could be using Slashdot right now to coordinate the next big one...
that would be a cool hack to do to MySpace...
well... if we want to flood them with data then just keep repeatedly downloading Debian DVDs over bittorrent and deleting them... My ubuntu dapper update downloads so far this past couple of months must be at least 26 Gigs alone... hmmm... I think it's time to rsynch my mirrors again...
look at a piece of rope... that's made of fibres... now think of ropes made of carbon fibres... and to protect them from micrometeroids and oxygen erosion, encase the rope in a sheath just like serious ropes for climbing, sailing etc. are encased in a sheath to protect them from UV.
How do you think we ever got telephone cables to work across the Atlantic Ocean? we cased them up and protected them from the elements.
With the carbon fibre ropes, we just have to work out a way of safely splicing them together during assembly in space.
Basically, we should let the engineers get on with solving the problems rather than giving up on the whole idea without even trying.
so they've got their hands on the odt import filter for word then???
cos this is the only way to do a format parsing test... and microsoft's xml format is purely a dump of their internal binary format and wrapping the info with xml tags... microsoft's format is mind bogglingly bloated by comparison with odt...
odt concentrates on tagging up the structured information in sensible form, while microsoft's merely dumps the memory and horribly bloats out as a result... just like word does when saving to html...
what it also needs is OpenOffice 2 and WinGIMP...
what, like corporations? run for the hills... it's life Jim, but not as we know it...
correct, that's why they stuck those crappy graphic tools in word for producing org charts, flow charts etc... to stop people from using Visio... it worked well enough for Visio to give up and sell out to Microsoft...
did you know that Office has speech recognition built in? They licensed that from L&H (stupid idiots) and effectively killed the speech recognition market
and the vast majority of users don't even realise they've got it...
unfortunately, the artists (or rights holders) believe that they should be able to milk the material for as long as possible... the limited term is meant to provide for the artist ( or rights holder) to get some payment for the act of creativity, but isn't supposed to allow them to just sit back after making that one killer book or record and live off the royalties... what's worse is that his/her heirs expect to inherit this IP as if it were property and expect to sit back and sponge off their forebears creative work as well for many years...
I'm all for a return to a truly limited period of copyright of say 10 years maximum... that way the artists have ten years max to milk the item before it goes back to the public domain... and this should be an encouragement for the artists (rights holders) to remain productive rather than sitting on their laurels and the royalties for work they did some 40 oddd years ago... (yes, you know who you are... those who are currently campaigning to get the copyright term extended in the EU)
rules
would you be happy then if the "government" listened in on your phonecalls with your lawyer? or your tax attorney? or your doctor? or your psychiatrist? or your stockbroker? or your mistress? or your wife? or your election campaign manager? or any of a myriad of things you would rather not get out into public or potentially be used against you?
Jesus...H... Christ... That's why they have supercomputers......... any comercial grade encryprtion/decryption program has to have a key short enough to enable real time encryption/decryption using normal computer chips... any key short enough for fast encryption/decryption of things like telephone conversations has to be easily brute forceable. The algorythm for the encryption/decryption is public knowledge... the key merely provides protection against casual eavesdropping... the FBI has access to serious horsepower when it comes to decryption... the only problem comes when they are mass decrypting phonecalls... and then they are outside the limits of the court order and in the realms of spying on all of us...
cheers... bye for now
so a "steep" learning curve is one where knowledge is mastered quickly...
if you plot knowledge gained (vertical axis) against time taken (horizontal axis), then a steep learning curve is the best to have as you learn a lot quickly...
twas the first time I've seen a torrent where there were so many clients that the number got displayed wrong as a negative value... methinks there was a type mismatch there in Azureus's display.
no... it will take three days to photograph the entire night sky, then it starts over again... each photo only covers 4 degrees
or go browsing for screensaver programs...
b0ll0cks... I was running java apps on my old 486 SX 2 50 with win 3.1 and only 4 Meg of RAM way back in '94... I didn't notice any lack of performance then... and the Negroponte machine has better specs than that... way better.
This Java is slow FUD meme has been running ever since MS got their ass kicked by Sun and had to stop distributing that extended MS Java. I wonder why...
oh by the way, that was a really dirty trick stripping the anti-spam feature from my address and making it into a mailto link... thanks numb nuts...