(Peter, Joe Swanson, Quagmire, and Cleveland are sitting in a boat, at a table) Peter: Okay, imagine none of you were married. If you could have any woman in the world, who would it be? Joe: I'd pick Muriel Hemmingway. (others moan in disagreement) Joe: No, she's beautiful in a classical way. Quagmire: Yeah, but you could cut a roast on her face! Cleveland: I'd pick Margaret Thatcher. (others moan in disagreement again) Cleveland: Oh, so no one finds power sexy. Not one of you finds power sexy?
Everyone's in a twist and no one went over there to see what's what? I mean, I know this is Slashdot and all, and RingTFA is beyond the pale (much less actually digging around), but sheesh.
* Numerous news outlets are quoting a Reuters report that Jimmy Wales has stated that there will be a "freeze" on editing. Jimbo says that statements about methods for achieving the widely-discussed stable "Wikipedia 1.0" were misinterpreted as implying a project-wide lockdown. Wikipedia's open editing will continue for the forseeable future, and any potential stablized version would exist alongside the current system. Jimbo was last seen looking for the 'edit this page' link on the Reuters article.
At least that's what it says as I write this -- earlier, there was a note about the whole report being, quote, "a giant steaming pile". (I'm not kidding. Check the history.)
But processors can be (and are) emulated too. All you have to do is set up your own emulated public/private key pair in that emulation, and you're good to go. This doesn't work if there is only one correct key pair in the world and all software looks for that; but in that case it wouldn't be too long before someone or some group in the world figures out that single pair and publishes it, at which point you're back to square one.
The ideal, historically, in America is that the power does not come from the top, but from the bottom -- the people. That the government is a servant of the people, not their ruler. In this way, it has been thought, America could avoid the pitfalls of those former world hegemonies -- you might be able to knock over a government, but not a people.
Unfortunately, almost no one, it seems, thinks this way anymore. And that will be our downfall.
We are allowing our government to rule us rather than serve us. The situation will revert to the old way, and we'll be doomed.
Trusted software will not run on emulation layers.
Why? Is there something magic about the numbers a real chip returns versus what an emulated chip returns? Are they shinier 1s and 0s? And the software can measure that reflectivity?
No. This can and will be subverted, as all DRM is.
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Good thing they did repeat it, though: it reminds me -- I need to reinstall my Torx drivers.
The problem is not bandwidth in total, it is making the connection to the home to the nearest big fiber point. DSL and cable are popular with ISPs because the cables already go to the customer. Running broadband over a phone line or cable costs next to nothing. The big cost was digging up the street to put in the wire.
And yet, the cable companies managed to do just that in pretty short order. Why is Fiber To The Premises any different?
Wireless headphones are common consumer-level items; and when I say "robot", I don't mean The Terminator. I'm talking about one of those hospital-bots -- travel a predefined route, avoid obstacles/announce "excuse me", display video and audio (the latter through the a transmitter, of course). It would be simpler in that it wouldn't need the pill delivery/what-have-you mechanisms that a real hospital-bot has. And I remind you that those hospital-bots have been around for years and years. None of this is new, folks...
A more complicated version of this was invented several years ago at MIT Labs -- their version had AI Vision to see posted "barcodes" and use those to know what and where to overlay. My position/orientation idea should be simpler than a several-year-old techonology, yes?
...and I just hope they make them less restrictive than the current audio-tour players. They were ok in most respects, except that it was not possible to rewind beyond the most recent "checkpoint" on the tour. Missed the end of that bit? Sorry, gotta keep the turnover up...keep moving!
Besides that, I think it would be rather distracting from the real-life thing you're there to see to have to devote a lot of eyeball time to watching a tiny screen. Much better would be some sort of head-mounted heads-up display overlaid on whatever you're looking at (inertial orientation sensors?). Circles and arrows (and an audio paragraph describing what each one is (thanks Arlo)) would actually be quite an improvement over the clunky method in the audio-only tour: "Now walk toward the door, away from A and B block, and stop at the windows on the right..." Sheesh.
Come to that point, it would probably be simpler to have wireless headphones fed from a roving tour robot, with a high-mounted screen to watch suplemental materials on, and a laser pointer to...well, point things out. This would actually be better than regular human tour guides, as competing tour groups would wind up competing with each other for sound.
Unless maybe you just give the human tour guide a corresponding headset mic and a laser pointer. Then all you're missing is the actual supplemental video. Hmmm.
Download may be ambitious for now. But, hell, I'd even be happy if they successfully pioneered the concept of the direct-to-DVD series. If we had had that just a few years ago, MST3K need never have died.
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(Peter, Joe Swanson, Quagmire, and Cleveland are sitting in a boat, at a table)
Peter: Okay, imagine none of you were married. If you could have any woman in the world, who would it be?
Joe: I'd pick Muriel Hemmingway.
(others moan in disagreement)
Joe: No, she's beautiful in a classical way.
Quagmire: Yeah, but you could cut a roast on her face!
Cleveland: I'd pick Margaret Thatcher.
(others moan in disagreement again)
Cleveland: Oh, so no one finds power sexy. Not one of you finds power sexy?
Seriously, though, folks...
Computers can be completely silent. Most PDAs are. Not that you'd want to rely on that level of restriction for your intensive (ahem) computing tasks.
Then again, nothing is technically completely silent. Not above a temperature of absolute zero, anyway.
I don't need smaller. I need thinner. And quit it with the exposed controls. That's assinine. MAKE MORE FLIPS, dammit.
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Everyone's in a twist and no one went over there to see what's what? I mean, I know this is Slashdot and all, and RingTFA is beyond the pale (much less actually digging around), but sheesh.
The situation is explained on the Wikipedia:Announcements page, thusly:
At least that's what it says as I write this -- earlier, there was a note about the whole report being, quote, "a giant steaming pile". (I'm not kidding. Check the history.)
...song-identification based on me humming it into my computer's microphone.
P.S. Slashdot is definitely broken. Not that that ever stopped anyone.
How come they don't shrink-wrap the foam? Or Plasti-Dip? Or anything??
But processors can be (and are) emulated too. All you have to do is set up your own emulated public/private key pair in that emulation, and you're good to go. This doesn't work if there is only one correct key pair in the world and all software looks for that; but in that case it wouldn't be too long before someone or some group in the world figures out that single pair and publishes it, at which point you're back to square one.
The ideal, historically, in America is that the power does not come from the top, but from the bottom -- the people. That the government is a servant of the people, not their ruler. In this way, it has been thought, America could avoid the pitfalls of those former world hegemonies -- you might be able to knock over a government, but not a people.
Unfortunately, almost no one, it seems, thinks this way anymore. And that will be our downfall.
We are allowing our government to rule us rather than serve us. The situation will revert to the old way, and we'll be doomed.
Please prove me wrong. Anyone. I'm begging.
Altering binaries.
Let's see Windows lock you out when you snip a particular bit of code out of one of its precious DLLs.
No. This can and will be subverted, as all DRM is.
Good thing they did repeat it, though: it reminds me -- I need to reinstall my Torx drivers.
Obviously, in that case, the FCC makes VOIP illegal. Easy!
When you breathe, you deplete the atmosphere of life-giving oxygen molecules and inject the well-known greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.
Death is the only true environmentalist.
Aren't all connections shared, at some point? Isn't that more or less the definition of the Internet?
Those DSL lines all go somewhere, you know, and I'm betting each one doesn't get its own T3...
I know I am.
[SIGH]
Wireless headphones are common consumer-level items; and when I say "robot", I don't mean The Terminator. I'm talking about one of those hospital-bots -- travel a predefined route, avoid obstacles/announce "excuse me", display video and audio (the latter through the a transmitter, of course). It would be simpler in that it wouldn't need the pill delivery/what-have-you mechanisms that a real hospital-bot has. And I remind you that those hospital-bots have been around for years and years. None of this is new, folks...
A more complicated version of this was invented several years ago at MIT Labs -- their version had AI Vision to see posted "barcodes" and use those to know what and where to overlay. My position/orientation idea should be simpler than a several-year-old techonology, yes?
...and I just hope they make them less restrictive than the current audio-tour players. They were ok in most respects, except that it was not possible to rewind beyond the most recent "checkpoint" on the tour. Missed the end of that bit? Sorry, gotta keep the turnover up...keep moving!
Besides that, I think it would be rather distracting from the real-life thing you're there to see to have to devote a lot of eyeball time to watching a tiny screen. Much better would be some sort of head-mounted heads-up display overlaid on whatever you're looking at (inertial orientation sensors?). Circles and arrows (and an audio paragraph describing what each one is (thanks Arlo)) would actually be quite an improvement over the clunky method in the audio-only tour: "Now walk toward the door, away from A and B block, and stop at the windows on the right..." Sheesh.
Come to that point, it would probably be simpler to have wireless headphones fed from a roving tour robot, with a high-mounted screen to watch suplemental materials on, and a laser pointer to...well, point things out. This would actually be better than regular human tour guides, as competing tour groups would wind up competing with each other for sound.
Unless maybe you just give the human tour guide a corresponding headset mic and a laser pointer. Then all you're missing is the actual supplemental video. Hmmm.
Download may be ambitious for now. But, hell, I'd even be happy if they successfully pioneered the concept of the direct-to-DVD series. If we had had that just a few years ago, MST3K need never have died.
Are you saying a PVR can replace a wife? That's just ridic-- I mean, it's...uh...
Hmmmm.