He claims CNet isn't giving up control, but if they're the publisher, and he's the editor, and they can't hire and manage their own writers, why shouldn't the Indians just put up their own website to replace CNet, and we can all read what they write direct?
Lessig is a well-known public figure...the least we can hope for is that the mainstream media picks up his lecture -- which sums up most of the concerns voiced on Slashdot pretty well.
Incase somebody's planning to publish it, I would like to (as I have done earlier) point to the RMS's essay: The Right to Read cached on Google here (incase gnu.org is down -- they're moving their machines to another location).
Some of you might have seen the essay earlier, but I think it deserves a much wider audience.
This is a good time to catch up on RMS's essay titled theThe Right to Read. gnu.org seems to be down right now, so here's the google cache link.
This is a must read for anybody worried about patent_laws/copyright_laws/DRM/DMCA/etc. It outlines a future scenario where a student can face imprisonment for sharing/borrowing books/software which she could not afford.
There was a time when one would've considered this scenario farfeteched. With the new draconian laws, unfortunately it doesn't seem so anymore. A *must read* for any concerned Slashdotter AND to these folks trying to paint a BRIGHT picture for the current legislative system.
Quotes:
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.
---snip--
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.
i strive to follow in the footsteps of Orlando Soto. he's my role model. i can only hope that someday i will be as wise and giving as Him. he understands people and gives his most to benefit mankind.
i'm growing a pony tail now, and trying to imitate his ways. and i would urge everybody else to do the same. maybe some day we will all be as great as He is.
Phoenix is at the forefront of the industry, leading the evolution of device firmware to increase its capabilities beyond those of traditional PC BIOS," said H.S. Kim, executive vice president and general manager of Samsung, in a statement."We have been very pleased with Phoenix products not only for traditional quality, but also for the differentiation it offers and for helping us improve our time to market. This helps us to exceed the demands of increasingly connected and digitally dependent users. With cME-certified Phoenix core system software in our PCs, Samsung can feel confident that we are offering the best digital machines with unique capabilities that our users expect.
What he actually should've said is that he thinks most users won't know the difference/care one way or the other, and they'll make big bucks from Microsoft/Phoenix to do it...so as to tie users even more tightly to their soft/firmware.
I, for one, am waiting for the day when we will not require hardware to be made from metals and other hard substances.
Most devices/machines today depend heavily on a motors/engines/circuits that are not usually flexible and need to maintain a rigid structure. Sure, we try to cover/encapsulate these devices in a pleasing exterior (car bodies, plastic casings etc) in order to protect the hardware and us from the dangerous interiors.
Imagine cars made up of soft cushiony/rubbery material, which bounces back to absorb a collision...the metal body can dent in and absorb the force of the impact, but it works only against collisions against other cars/hard objects -- not against collisions with humans/animals and other "soft" substances.
Ofcourse, we could have a soft covering for cars, made of a cushiony substance, but the problem has been embedding circuits/machinery in the soft exteriors, because they tend to bend and damage the interiors.
Nature has found the perfect way to create organs/pumps/filters/wires which are made out of soft tissue, and is malleable enough to survive severe tension/distortion and bending.
Here's to hoping that one day we will be able to create soft fuzzy machines which won't be so hard on our water-bag bodies.
DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March 13th
Monday March 08, @10:40PM
GillBates0 writes "A quick reminder that the DARPA Grand Challenge is due to kick off March 13, the coming Saturday." He points to this "quick recap of the teams participating in the event," as well as details about the available satellite feeds. "The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is running a story about the event today. Quoting Frank Dellaert, co-director of Georgia Tech's robotics lab from the article, 'I would have trouble driving some of these roads myself. I think it's beyond the capabilities of autonomous vehicles today.' (shameless school plug). We'll see if the participants can prove him wrong."
Those words ring so true now...I never expected the contest to end on such a negative note.
GillBates0 writes "A quick reminder that the DARPA Grand Challenge is due to kick off March 13, the coming Saturday." He points to this "quick recap of the teams participating in the event," as well as details about the available satellite feeds. "The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is running a story about the event today. Quoting Frank Dellaert, co-director of Georgia Tech's robotics lab from the article, 'I would have trouble driving some of these roads myself. I think it's beyond the capabilities of autonomous vehicles today.' (shameless school plug). We'll see if the participants can prove him wrong."
The words ring true now, though I never expected such a -ve outcome.
Choice quote from the article: In a world where there are $500 million dollar patent infringement lawsuits imposed on OS companies (although this is not completely settled yet), how would somebody like Red Hat compete when 6 months ago they only had $80-$90 million in cash? At that point they could not even afford to settle a fraction of a single judgment without devastating their shareholders. I suspect Microsoft may have 50 or more of these lawsuits in the queue. All of them are not asking for hundreds of millions, but most would be large enough to ruin anything but the largest companies. Red Hat did recently raise several hundred million which certainly gives them more staying power. Ultimately, I do not think any company except a few of the largest companies can offer any reasonable insulation to their customers from these types of judgments. You would need a market cap of more than a couple billion to just survive in the OS space.
This attitude is wrong at SO many levels. New players can't enter the OS space NOT because they will have to compete against marketing schemes/ad campaigns of a richer company BUT because they'll be sued into oblivion by the competition.
It is being assumed here that a company with $85 million in the bank won't be able to survive because they don't have money to survive a LAWSUIT...the quality of their products/service/innovation apparently doesn't even enter the equation anywhere.
Text extracted from the comic strip 75% of the way down on this page:
Pierce (with nosering/earrings/cell): Great my phone battery is dead!
Dude1: Dude! Do you want to call from my house Pierce?
Pierce: Yeah, okay.
Dude1: It's too bad technology today is so limited.
Pierce: I know. There should be some kind of system in place which wouldn't require people to carry phones around wherever they go.
Dude1: Yeah! Like communication centers placed in areas where people congregate.
Dude2: And there would be individual glass enclosures where people could make calls in privacy.
Dad (coming in): Like a phone booth?
Dude1: Catchy term!
Dude2: I can't believe nobody's thought of this before.
Pierce: Progress moves so slowly!
:) That page has a couple of pictures of nice chicks talking on payphones too...wonder who they're calling.
India's been using cow dung and other cattle waste to make biogas for a while now. The greatest benefit is that it's clean and a renewable energy resource.
Biomass Energy is produced by burning the solid Biomass fuels (green plants, agricultural residues, carbonaceous waste, wood etc). Direct burning of Biomass in an efficient manner causes the energy loss. But through Gasification programme , Biomass is converted in to high quality of gaseous fuel through Gasifier power plants. In the Biomass Gasifier , Biomass (a solid fuel) is converted into gaseous fuel, called producer gas formed through a series of thermo chemical process. The producer gas mainly consists of carbon-monoxide, hydrogen and nitrogen gas. The gaseous fuel energy is used in several applications.
Another reason not to eat beef! Let 'em live and generate shit...err energy.(Just kidding, it's a joke, laugh).
You need to be employed by a US company, which has to show a "need" for your skills, and send the documents over, after which the US Consulate will decide if you are eligible for an H1.
You can't just "land" at Ellis Island (moreover it's only a museum now) like in the 1800's and start looking for a job here.
The last image with the earth showing as a small star in the sky made me feel very small indeed.
Consider that the human life span of about 80 years is but an instant compared to the lifecycle of the stars/galaxies/etc.
And we spend a significant amount of that time destructively (fighting/quarreling/warring/killing/spiting). Feels kinda weird...even destruction is bad only from our point of view....who knows what's actually "good" or "bad". Our knowledge and lives are just insignificant specks in the vastness of the Universe.
A special nod of appreciation to Dave Taylor's Tintin references!
And a special nod of appreciation to norburym for mentioning the Tintin references in the review!
It was cool to see a reference to one of my favorite fiction/comic books on Slashdot. I hate to call Tintin and Asterix comic books because they're so much more than mere comics.
I've noticed though, that not many people are as hooked to the Tintin and Asterix series in the US as in Europe/Asia. They're great for kids and much *much* better than the shitload of comics that they read nowadays.
I've had trouble finding them in the public libraries (in 3 states) and even the big book stores. So people who haven't heard/read these books, are definetly missing out on some cool reading. Check them out at your local library or atleast their websites: Tintin and Asterix.
Note: I am in no way affiliated to these books/publishers/websites. I'm just an avid fan:)
Here's the babelfish: English->Japanese->English translated text:
Friday it is posted by the machine translation and the American eastern standard time March 05th @ 13:10:57 bjs
of IM Iraqi front So, effectively and it is not, each other which for example the soldier and the commander who speak the language where the theater of war differs in order to transmit, by mistake is blown is obtained, how? TJ0 0N remove the instantly message software of the shelf, throw with the dose of machine translation. So it is the office of naval research.
From office of naval research: '
You chat in Iraq '
The troop of chat line help of combination to transmit The Iraqi United States and the allied forces the cruel enemy, face the new political substance, and the complicated environment of the culture which differs very. Challenge increases with the barrier of word: Many languages of ally where the Arabic and power of the Iraqi person have supported operation. However the technology which fund is supplied has helped the fact that the cultural gap is made narrow the United States and combined power the Iraqi person and by making that to transmit effectively in them themselves possible during the organizing other DoD today, depending upon the office of naval research.
Now around Iraq at the plural United States and the place where it has formed an alliance is used the "combined chat line" quickly and was well known in the teenager of the operator and some 1000000 where you speak the language which differs in order securely to transmit, using "instantly message" practice, it makes the commander possible. That in slow 2002, those with cost of custom translation practice and the method of decreasing lag, the fact that to transmit quickly and accurately is helped, leader secondary Superintendent naval force Europe of Jr. of the male deer of rear Adm. t., proposed the use stock technology of the American, United States and ally. Answering to that, the advisor of the science of ONR of naval European order the office of the solution of the technology of ONR and the work group of the mathematics of ONR, set up the computer and the information science section in order to modify the program which crith Hillenbrand and MITRE Corp. developed for the service program of plural other things.
The trim or trans-lingual instantly message was used, was integrated with the machine-translation engine from of Logomedia Corp., other commercial that the hardware. Result: Chat line of combination. Technology has obtained intense praising/supporting from the staff of the United States and alliance combination. Chat line technology was appraised during the effort which is connected by the practice of 2003 May where nation of 39 joins alliance combination. That furthermore, was appraised to June between chronology BALTOPS for power of nation of 12. The American alliance multi-national part which as for the call from the public official of the effort which is connected uses the technology between (MND) in the SPAWAR system center of the navy, the prototype chat line software the test was put in place through the circle whose San Diego is fast. That was tested simultaneously in San Diego; London; Stuttgart and Germany; And Baghdad. Hillenbrand and that team had the notebook PC of 10 in Iraq the chat line program and the load were concluded in November.
On the 4th those in Al Hilla installed the software in the headquarters of MND; The place moves with Karbala due to the unit of the Polish person; The Spanish operation of announcement Diwaniyah; And because of the Ukrainian of Al Kut group. The Ukrainian person could use the alphabet character set to which the chat line has been attached. The extent chat line function where MND installs that more in 200 unit computers of the public official of information system behavior proved validity and spread. Chat line prototype, passing by the headquarters network of MND, being made in the "clean extent", you call Hillenbrand. "Crossing order really," note
Anybody see the "national IQ test" on fox?
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It was of a surprisingly higher quality (not much, but definetly a little) than the other reality junk that's been running lately.
Being a geek with no friday evening social life to speak of, I got drunk and took the IQ test and ended up with 129 on it. LOL! And this while I couldn't stand/walk/think straight...had problems during the Memory section though;)
According to the website 130 is considered "genius" level:) Wish I hadn't been drunk while taking it:)
The website has pretty interesting statistics, btw...IQ of blondes vs students vs teachers vs doctors etc.
According to this site, he's been fighting to prevent unauthorized posting of books/creating work on the intarweb without the authors consent...he believes AOL was partly responsible for his works being posted.
TO PROTECT WRITERS' CREATIVE PROPERTIES.
WE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE ABOVE PARTIES TO STOP THEM FROM POSTING MY WORKS ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT PERMISSION. THIS IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. RAMPANT. OUT OF CONTROL. PANDEMIC.
What I find surprising is that the lower court sided WITH AOL in what looks to be a one sided case in favor of Ellison. How can the lower court support the DMCA and still side with an evil corporation...are they that corrupt now? Do we need federal courts to provide simple justice to the common man now?
Movieoke gives film lovers a chance to emulate their favorite stars, from Robert De Niro to Tom Cruise. Participants just choose a scene they want to perform, then get up on a small stage while the scene is projected onto a screen behind them.
Considering the fact that I'm boycotting the RIAA and the MPAA. Haven't seen LoTR yet...just read the book. Don't own a CD/DVD player or TV. Watch a few broadcast channels on my PC (TV Tuner card). Haven't bought CDs/DVDs for about a year now (and download only legally free stuff).
I'm pretty sure that the bar has to pay to obtain permission to play the movie/videos on the screen. Ofcourse, if we vote with our wallet, and don't encourage anything RIAA/MPAA related, they will just fade away.
Not trolling...every fact in the first paragraph is true...I enjoy the Internet/books much better than other media anyway.
Not exactly related to the topic, but I found out only a few days back from a comment on/. that a TV License is needed in the UK to just *operate* a TV. I submitted a story about it with quite a few links/outrageous excerpts but it didn't make it.
Some choice excerpts from the website:
If you use or install television receiving equipment to receive or record television programme services you are required by law to have a valid TV Licence.
Students: If you're using a television set at university or college, or anything else to receive or record television programme services (such as video recorders, set-top boxes or PCs with broadcast cards) without a valid TV Licence then you could be prosecuted and fined - which could make your days at college a lot less fun than they should be.
Mockery:
There is no valid excuse for using a television and not having a TV Licence, but some people still try - sometimes with the most ridiculous stories ever heard. To read some of our favourites click here.
Can't find the excerpt right now, but it says somewhere that blind people get a discount of 50% and seniors above 75 years go free.
AND ALL THIS: even if you want to receive free broadcast channels...wow.
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:03:48 -0800 From: support@xxx.edu To: me@cc.xxx.edu Subject: Warning about your e-mail account. Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 10 lines Text 2 12 KB Application
Dear user of "xxx.edu" mailing system,
We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions.
For more information see the attached file.
Cheers, The xxx.edu team http://www.xxx.edu
[ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "Information.pif") 16KB. ] [ Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file. ]
------ Pretty *good* social engineering, if you ask me. The other earlier worms did not send customized messages according to the domain. I had to stop a couple of family/friends from giving in and opening the attachment.
With your cool new ZVUE you can view full-color, high-quality video right in the palm of your hand.
I'd rather have a bigger screen at the cost of some color and video quality. Does it atleast allow me to stream video out to a bigger monitor/TV? The FAQs and other pages don't say anything about it.
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I pity you so :'( tsk tsk
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Incase somebody's planning to publish it, I would like to (as I have done earlier) point to the RMS's essay: The Right to Read cached on Google here (incase gnu.org is down -- they're moving their machines to another location).
Some of you might have seen the essay earlier, but I think it deserves a much wider audience.
This is a must read for anybody worried about patent_laws/copyright_laws/DRM/DMCA/etc. It outlines a future scenario where a student can face imprisonment for sharing/borrowing books/software which she could not afford.
There was a time when one would've considered this scenario farfeteched. With the new draconian laws, unfortunately it doesn't seem so anymore. A *must read* for any concerned Slashdotter AND to these folks trying to paint a BRIGHT picture for the current legislative system.
Quotes:
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan. This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.
---snip--
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.
i'm growing a pony tail now, and trying to imitate his ways. and i would urge everybody else to do the same. maybe some day we will all be as great as He is.
thank you.
What he actually should've said is that he thinks most users won't know the difference/care one way or the other, and they'll make big bucks from Microsoft/Phoenix to do it...so as to tie users even more tightly to their soft/firmware.
Blame me for not knowing about if it existed before the Star Trek TOS, but looks like Spock's favorite game is quite popular
Most devices/machines today depend heavily on a motors/engines/circuits that are not usually flexible and need to maintain a rigid structure. Sure, we try to cover/encapsulate these devices in a pleasing exterior (car bodies, plastic casings etc) in order to protect the hardware and us from the dangerous interiors.
Imagine cars made up of soft cushiony/rubbery material, which bounces back to absorb a collision...the metal body can dent in and absorb the force of the impact, but it works only against collisions against other cars/hard objects -- not against collisions with humans/animals and other "soft" substances.
Ofcourse, we could have a soft covering for cars, made of a cushiony substance, but the problem has been embedding circuits/machinery in the soft exteriors, because they tend to bend and damage the interiors.
Nature has found the perfect way to create organs/pumps/filters/wires which are made out of soft tissue, and is malleable enough to survive severe tension/distortion and bending.
Here's to hoping that one day we will be able to create soft fuzzy machines which won't be so hard on our water-bag bodies.
DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March 13th
Monday March 08, @10:40PM
GillBates0 writes "A quick reminder that the DARPA Grand Challenge is due to kick off March 13, the coming Saturday." He points to this "quick recap of the teams participating in the event," as well as details about the available satellite feeds. "The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is running a story about the event today. Quoting Frank Dellaert, co-director of Georgia Tech's robotics lab from the article, 'I would have trouble driving some of these roads myself. I think it's beyond the capabilities of autonomous vehicles today.' (shameless school plug). We'll see if the participants can prove him wrong."
Those words ring so true now...I never expected the contest to end on such a negative note.
DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March 13th
Monday March 08, @10:40PM
GillBates0 writes "A quick reminder that the DARPA Grand Challenge is due to kick off March 13, the coming Saturday." He points to this "quick recap of the teams participating in the event," as well as details about the available satellite feeds. "The Atlanta-Journal Constitution is running a story about the event today. Quoting Frank Dellaert, co-director of Georgia Tech's robotics lab from the article, 'I would have trouble driving some of these roads myself. I think it's beyond the capabilities of autonomous vehicles today.' (shameless school plug). We'll see if the participants can prove him wrong."
The words ring true now, though I never expected such a -ve outcome.
In a world where there are $500 million dollar patent infringement lawsuits imposed on OS companies (although this is not completely settled yet), how would somebody like Red Hat compete when 6 months ago they only had $80-$90 million in cash? At that point they could not even afford to settle a fraction of a single judgment without devastating their shareholders. I suspect Microsoft may have 50 or more of these lawsuits in the queue. All of them are not asking for hundreds of millions, but most would be large enough to ruin anything but the largest companies. Red Hat did recently raise several hundred million which certainly gives them more staying power. Ultimately, I do not think any company except a few of the largest companies can offer any reasonable insulation to their customers from these types of judgments. You would need a market cap of more than a couple billion to just survive in the OS space.
This attitude is wrong at SO many levels. New players can't enter the OS space NOT because they will have to compete against marketing schemes/ad campaigns of a richer company BUT because they'll be sued into oblivion by the competition.
It is being assumed here that a company with $85 million in the bank won't be able to survive because they don't have money to survive a LAWSUIT...the quality of their products/service/innovation apparently doesn't even enter the equation anywhere.
litiguous fucking bastards
Pierce (with nosering/earrings/cell): Great my phone battery is dead!
Dude1: Dude! Do you want to call from my house Pierce?
Pierce: Yeah, okay. Dude1: It's too bad technology today is so limited.
Pierce: I know. There should be some kind of system in place which wouldn't require people to carry phones around wherever they go. Dude1: Yeah! Like communication centers placed in areas where people congregate.
Dude2: And there would be individual glass enclosures where people could make calls in privacy.
Dad (coming in): Like a phone booth?
Dude1: Catchy term!
Dude2: I can't believe nobody's thought of this before.
Pierce: Progress moves so slowly!
Worth a look after the slashdotting's through.
Biomass Energy is produced by burning the solid Biomass fuels (green plants, agricultural residues, carbonaceous waste, wood etc). Direct burning of Biomass in an efficient manner causes the energy loss. But through Gasification programme , Biomass is converted in to high quality of gaseous fuel through Gasifier power plants. In the Biomass Gasifier , Biomass (a solid fuel) is converted into gaseous fuel, called producer gas formed through a series of thermo chemical process. The producer gas mainly consists of carbon-monoxide, hydrogen and nitrogen gas. The gaseous fuel energy is used in several applications.
Another reason not to eat beef! Let 'em live and generate shit...err energy.(Just kidding, it's a joke, laugh).
You can't just "land" at Ellis Island (moreover it's only a museum now) like in the 1800's and start looking for a job here.
Consider that the human life span of about 80 years is but an instant compared to the lifecycle of the stars/galaxies/etc.
And we spend a significant amount of that time destructively (fighting/quarreling/warring/killing/spiting). Feels kinda weird...even destruction is bad only from our point of view....who knows what's actually "good" or "bad". Our knowledge and lives are just insignificant specks in the vastness of the Universe.
And a special nod of appreciation to norburym for mentioning the Tintin references in the review!
It was cool to see a reference to one of my favorite fiction/comic books on Slashdot. I hate to call Tintin and Asterix comic books because they're so much more than mere comics. I've noticed though, that not many people are as hooked to the Tintin and Asterix series in the US as in Europe/Asia. They're great for kids and much *much* better than the shitload of comics that they read nowadays.
I've had trouble finding them in the public libraries (in 3 states) and even the big book stores. So people who haven't heard/read these books, are definetly missing out on some cool reading. Check them out at your local library or atleast their websites: Tintin and Asterix.
Note: I am in no way affiliated to these books/publishers/websites. I'm just an avid fan :)
Friday it is posted by the machine translation and the American eastern standard time March 05th @ 13:10:57 bjs
of IM Iraqi front So, effectively and it is not, each other which for example the soldier and the commander who speak the language where the theater of war differs in order to transmit, by mistake is blown is obtained, how? TJ0 0N remove the instantly message software of the shelf, throw with the dose of machine translation. So it is the office of naval research.
From office of naval research: '
You chat in Iraq '
The troop of chat line help of combination to transmit The Iraqi United States and the allied forces the cruel enemy, face the new political substance, and the complicated environment of the culture which differs very. Challenge increases with the barrier of word: Many languages of ally where the Arabic and power of the Iraqi person have supported operation. However the technology which fund is supplied has helped the fact that the cultural gap is made narrow the United States and combined power the Iraqi person and by making that to transmit effectively in them themselves possible during the organizing other DoD today, depending upon the office of naval research.
Now around Iraq at the plural United States and the place where it has formed an alliance is used the "combined chat line" quickly and was well known in the teenager of the operator and some 1000000 where you speak the language which differs in order securely to transmit, using "instantly message" practice, it makes the commander possible. That in slow 2002, those with cost of custom translation practice and the method of decreasing lag, the fact that to transmit quickly and accurately is helped, leader secondary Superintendent naval force Europe of Jr. of the male deer of rear Adm. t., proposed the use stock technology of the American, United States and ally. Answering to that, the advisor of the science of ONR of naval European order the office of the solution of the technology of ONR and the work group of the mathematics of ONR, set up the computer and the information science section in order to modify the program which crith Hillenbrand and MITRE Corp. developed for the service program of plural other things.
The trim or trans-lingual instantly message was used, was integrated with the machine-translation engine from of Logomedia Corp., other commercial that the hardware. Result: Chat line of combination. Technology has obtained intense praising/supporting from the staff of the United States and alliance combination. Chat line technology was appraised during the effort which is connected by the practice of 2003 May where nation of 39 joins alliance combination. That furthermore, was appraised to June between chronology BALTOPS for power of nation of 12. The American alliance multi-national part which as for the call from the public official of the effort which is connected uses the technology between (MND) in the SPAWAR system center of the navy, the prototype chat line software the test was put in place through the circle whose San Diego is fast. That was tested simultaneously in San Diego; London; Stuttgart and Germany; And Baghdad. Hillenbrand and that team had the notebook PC of 10 in Iraq the chat line program and the load were concluded in November.
On the 4th those in Al Hilla installed the software in the headquarters of MND; The place moves with Karbala due to the unit of the Polish person; The Spanish operation of announcement Diwaniyah; And because of the Ukrainian of Al Kut group. The Ukrainian person could use the alphabet character set to which the chat line has been attached. The extent chat line function where MND installs that more in 200 unit computers of the public official of information system behavior proved validity and spread. Chat line prototype, passing by the headquarters network of MND, being made in the "clean extent", you call Hillenbrand. "Crossing order really," note
Being a geek with no friday evening social life to speak of, I got drunk and took the IQ test and ended up with 129 on it. LOL! And this while I couldn't stand/walk/think straight...had problems during the Memory section though ;)
According to the website 130 is considered "genius" level :) Wish I hadn't been drunk while taking it :)
The website has pretty interesting statistics, btw...IQ of blondes vs students vs teachers vs doctors etc.
Harlan Ellison's webpage:
From his NEWS page he's been on a campaign to Kick Internet Piracy.
According to this site, he's been fighting to prevent unauthorized posting of books/creating work on the intarweb without the authors consent...he believes AOL was partly responsible for his works being posted.
TO PROTECT WRITERS' CREATIVE PROPERTIES.
WE FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE ABOVE PARTIES TO STOP THEM FROM POSTING MY WORKS ON THE INTERNET WITHOUT PERMISSION. THIS IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. RAMPANT. OUT OF CONTROL. PANDEMIC.
What I find surprising is that the lower court sided WITH AOL in what looks to be a one sided case in favor of Ellison. How can the lower court support the DMCA and still side with an evil corporation...are they that corrupt now? Do we need federal courts to provide simple justice to the common man now?
1. Pull network cord
2. Pull power cord
3. ???
4. Security!!!
Considering the fact that I'm boycotting the RIAA and the MPAA. Haven't seen LoTR yet...just read the book. Don't own a CD/DVD player or TV. Watch a few broadcast channels on my PC (TV Tuner card). Haven't bought CDs/DVDs for about a year now (and download only legally free stuff).
I'm pretty sure that the bar has to pay to obtain permission to play the movie/videos on the screen. Ofcourse, if we vote with our wallet, and don't encourage anything RIAA/MPAA related, they will just fade away.
Not trolling...every fact in the first paragraph is true...I enjoy the Internet/books much better than other media anyway.
But if you *really* believe it's alright for them to ban you from watching television altogether, then that's a problem.
What if I DONT want BBC....WHY can't I watch any other channels or operate the TV without a license?
Some choice excerpts from the website:
If you use or install television receiving equipment to receive or record television programme services you are required by law to have a valid TV Licence.
Students:
If you're using a television set at university or college, or anything else to receive or record television programme services (such as video recorders, set-top boxes or PCs with broadcast cards) without a valid TV Licence then you could be prosecuted and fined - which could make your days at college a lot less fun than they should be.
Mockery:
There is no valid excuse for using a television and not having a TV Licence, but some people still try - sometimes with the most ridiculous stories ever heard. To read some of our favourites click here.
Can't find the excerpt right now, but it says somewhere that blind people get a discount of 50% and seniors above 75 years go free.
AND ALL THIS: even if you want to receive free broadcast channels...wow.
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:03:48 -0800
From: support@xxx.edu
To: me@cc.xxx.edu
Subject: Warning about your e-mail account.
Parts/Attachments:
1 Shown 10 lines Text
2 12 KB Application
Dear user of "xxx.edu" mailing system,
We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may
contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe,
please, follow the instructions.
For more information see the attached file.
Cheers,
The xxx.edu team http://www.xxx.edu
[ Part 2, Application/OCTET-STREAM (Name: "Information.pif") 16KB. ]
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Pretty *good* social engineering, if you ask me. The other earlier worms did not send customized messages according to the domain. I had to stop a couple of family/friends from giving in and opening the attachment.
I'd rather have a bigger screen at the cost of some color and video quality. Does it atleast allow me to stream video out to a bigger monitor/TV? The FAQs and other pages don't say anything about it.