by Will Rodger, director of public policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association:
"First it was the Hollings bill, then Induce, now the Copyright Office's bill. They look different, but they all revolve around the same thing: Giving content (providers) veto power over all new technology," Rodger said. "Who decided that holders of government-granted monopolies should determine the future of high tech? I don't remember reading that memo."
Mirrors my feelings exactly. Just goes to show that companies (with convenient government puppets) will stop at nothing to establish monopoly over everything in their power.
nuclear fission powered car. I'm not a physicist, so I don't know - do power generators based on Nuclear Fusion tend to be smaller/more compact than the current humungous nuclear reactors? It certainly tends to be cleaner (as in less radioactive waste, etc). It would be nice to have a portable, safe and seemingly endless replacement to hydrocarbon based fuels.
I hope we find Extraterrestrial life sometime during my lifetime. I think that a scientific discovery as huge as this would change my life forever. It's not that I believe Earth is the only inhabited planet, but it'll be really *really* nice to find some concrete evidence of life elsewhere.
Maybe it's just me, but I think such an event will broaden my horizons, make me rethink life and change it for the better - and hopefully also help us as a whole (ie humans) to forget violence, wars, differences etc in the larger scheme of things.
Again, maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm rambling, but I have nothing to do, the site's Slashdotted.
and ponders over whether the recent MD5 news from the Mathematics conference (in an earlier/. story today) will lead to any discoveries that may help answer whether P=NP.
Ignoring the fact that the answer to P?=NP has little to do with breaking encryption for a moment, even if an NP computer is conceived and developed, it'll just lay down a *huge* plethora of computing possibilities at our disposal, including new encryption techniques.
I'm not much of an Anime fan, and usually refrain from commenting on related stories. However I came across this site in a comment in the IOCCC story yesterday, and thought it was pretty cool.
Lots of ASCII-art type Anime characters there, except that all of it is source code.
Every self respecting geek knows what the IOCCC is. By admitting that you don't, you've demonstrated your inability to cope with the rigorous demands of abiding by the high standards of geekiness.
Please hand in your Geek membership card on your way out. Thank you.
Next you'll be telling me that Santa and the Tooth Fairy don't exist either.
What about Linus? Please don't tell me he doesn't exist either *sob*.
We really need to find something like...
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A Flying Leap for Cars?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Anti-gravity, or atleast better flotation or something.
All the effort, fuel and pollution required just to get a hunk of metal off the ground and keep it there with the current technology is wasteful and unsustenable.
www.internettrafficreport.com is a one of the sites which gives a nice overview of the network throughputs across the globe (average response time, packetloss, etc).
At about 12:15pm on the US east coast, it should be "tomorrow" soon in the Eastern continents. I'll keep a watch on the stats and flip the switch if necessary:P
This is the *third* time this story has been posted:). Slashdot pulled this one that was posted hours after the first original post.
I managed to save a screenshot (well, actually HTML) of the pulled story, because everything (including my comment) disappeared. Check out my Journal entry about it. If you try replying to my comment in the Journal entry, you get a message like:
Is it time to pay more attention to end-users?(who aren't geeks)
Most OSS is written by geeks as a personal hobby - just because they like writing code.
IMHO and experience, designing and implementing a GUI is one of the more boring, cumbersome and uninteresting parts of programming, something like writing office or business applications (atleast for me).
I don't see why a hobbyist would do something he didn't like.
The MPAA's summary of the survey claims, among other hard-to-believe assertions, that 'about one in four Internet users have downloaded a movie.
claims like this would work against them. They should be trying to convince the public that they're only against this "band" of pirates which is trying to harm the innocent population and ofcourse CHILDREN by their misdeeds.
By claiming that 1 in 4 internet users have committed a "crime", they'll (hopefully) make the Avg Joe realize that the "filthy" pirates are actually the next door Avg Smith or even the beautiful chick across the street being chased down and convicted in court.
Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania! ... The Complete Guide to Googlemania! (continued). 4 Scenarios for the Future of Google
Sometimes a liquidity event changes everything. By Tom McNichol....
GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org)
GooOS, the Google Operating System. He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. His last few paragraphs are so much more perceptive than anything that's been written about Google
MacMinute: The future of Google and Web searching?
* WWDC 2004: Discover how to put Mac OS X to work for you at WWDC! *. The
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none of his speculation strikes me as "miraculous" or wishful thinking.
Maybe it's just because it's a projection just 10 years in the future...
But I think it's more because everything is based on computing, microchips, faster computers and resultant automation. He's not thinking "out of the box".
I bet if people from the 1920's see the world today, they would be alarmed by the technology and hitech gadgets (simple automatic doors for that matter) around them. I want to feel like that when I think of the future - not just some old computer capable of working really really fast.
I want us to live up to the Arthur C. Clarke's vision ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."). I think we've done pretty well upto this point (except ofcourse for all the -ve uses of technology (weapons) that we've figured out, but we need to get off our asses if we are to avoid Stagnation and other pitfalls that this "corporate society" averse to innovation, selfless contribution and *real* art is imposing upon us.
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"First it was the Hollings bill, then Induce, now the Copyright Office's bill. They look different, but they all revolve around the same thing: Giving content (providers) veto power over all new technology," Rodger said. "Who decided that holders of government-granted monopolies should determine the future of high tech? I don't remember reading that memo."
Mirrors my feelings exactly. Just goes to show that companies (with convenient government puppets) will stop at nothing to establish monopoly over everything in their power.
nuclear fission powered car. I'm not a physicist, so I don't know - do power generators based on Nuclear Fusion tend to be smaller/more compact than the current humungous nuclear reactors? It certainly tends to be cleaner (as in less radioactive waste, etc). It would be nice to have a portable, safe and seemingly endless replacement to hydrocarbon based fuels.
Maybe it's just me, but I think such an event will broaden my horizons, make me rethink life and change it for the better - and hopefully also help us as a whole (ie humans) to forget violence, wars, differences etc in the larger scheme of things.
Again, maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm rambling, but I have nothing to do, the site's Slashdotted.
Pardon me while I step out to light up my giant "WELCOME TO EARTH" sign.
Ignoring the fact that the answer to P?=NP has little to do with breaking encryption for a moment, even if an NP computer is conceived and developed, it'll just lay down a *huge* plethora of computing possibilities at our disposal, including new encryption techniques.
Encryption cannot die, algorithms can.
that and Darryl's shiny metal ass.
Lots of ASCII-art type Anime characters there, except that all of it is source code.
...just how many of these "holes" or rather bugs were intended to be features.
I resent that. As we all know, the correct term is r as in coder.
...he could've fed the mother-in-law copious amounts of chickpeas and beans the night before. Radishes too for added effect.
Please hand in your Geek membership card on your way out. Thank you.
C0N6R47UL4710N5 W1NN3RZZ!
for that DoublePlusUnGood joke.
What about Linus? Please don't tell me he doesn't exist either *sob*.
All the effort, fuel and pollution required just to get a hunk of metal off the ground and keep it there with the current technology is wasteful and unsustenable.
Don't need no trucks no more.
At about 12:15pm on the US east coast, it should be "tomorrow" soon in the Eastern continents. I'll keep a watch on the stats and flip the switch if necessary :P
the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury.
I managed to save a screenshot (well, actually HTML) of the pulled story, because everything (including my comment) disappeared. Check out my Journal entry about it. If you try replying to my comment in the Journal entry, you get a message like:
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There was an unknown error in the submission
Most OSS is written by geeks as a personal hobby - just because they like writing code.
IMHO and experience, designing and implementing a GUI is one of the more boring, cumbersome and uninteresting parts of programming, something like writing office or business applications (atleast for me).
I don't see why a hobbyist would do something he didn't like.
claims like this would work against them. They should be trying to convince the public that they're only against this "band" of pirates which is trying to harm the innocent population and ofcourse CHILDREN by their misdeeds.
By claiming that 1 in 4 internet users have committed a "crime", they'll (hopefully) make the Avg Joe realize that the "filthy" pirates are actually the next door Avg Smith or even the beautiful chick across the street being chased down and convicted in court.
Wired 12.03: The Complete Guide to Googlemania!
... The Complete Guide to Googlemania! (continued). 4 Scenarios for the Future of Google
Sometimes a liquidity event changes everything. By Tom McNichol. ...
GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org)
GooOS, the Google Operating System. He argues that Google is building a huge computer with a custom operating system that everyone on earth can have an account on. His last few paragraphs are so much more perceptive than anything that's been written about Google
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Maybe it's just because it's a projection just 10 years in the future...
But I think it's more because everything is based on computing, microchips, faster computers and resultant automation. He's not thinking "out of the box".
I bet if people from the 1920's see the world today, they would be alarmed by the technology and hitech gadgets (simple automatic doors for that matter) around them. I want to feel like that when I think of the future - not just some old computer capable of working really really fast.
I want us to live up to the Arthur C. Clarke's vision ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."). I think we've done pretty well upto this point (except ofcourse for all the -ve uses of technology (weapons) that we've figured out, but we need to get off our asses if we are to avoid Stagnation and other pitfalls that this "corporate society" averse to innovation, selfless contribution and *real* art is imposing upon us.
never mind.