Rights holders believe that if your software cannot enforce the law, then your device violates the law. They don't get that the code of law punishes after the crime is committed and expect the code of software to instead prevent the crime.
I prefer screwless caddies. I don't want to have to buy a caddy for each drive nor do I want to have to unscrew a caddy from one drive just to screw it onto another one.
That said, the caddies for the SATA drives of a Mac Pro are tolerable to me. Only two screws to the base of the drive and they're big enough to turn with your fingers. Better though if they had wingnut heads for greater leverage.
That said, when it was time to move from 500 GB to 750 GB internal drives, I bought myself a stage rack. Drop a bare drive in it and it connects via USB, Firewire 400/800, or eSATA, my choice. Pulled the data off the 1.5 TB raid to two un-RAIDed 750 GB drives, then swapped them out three-for-three. 500 GBers now live in my drobo.
I could probably boot off the stage-rack drive if I wanted to, except that Boot Camp disables the extra two SATA ports on the mobo.
That's not the worst example I've seen failing to conjugate "haul". Torchwood episode 2x04 "Meat" had closed-captioned "haulage" as "hollidge". The same captioner also did not recognize the word "abattoir", spelling it "apatow" (IIRC, possibly "apataw").
So what, do they want proof of blindness before the speaker is activated? It's futile. There is no user test for blindness that can't be passed by a sighted person with their eyes closed (no pun intended). Even if it had the hardware, there's nothing to prevent a sighted person from learning braille, and even if blind people had electronically readable disability identification cards, it can't prevent a blind person from using it in the presence of sighted people or a microphone.
This is like the movie industry rejecting an invention of a non-rewindable-by-user VHS tape for rental stores because it could not track how many people sat in front of the screen in that one viewing and charge accordingly.
You can however create a device that converts sighted people into blind people (lasers), thereby authorizing them to hear their books. They could test market this DRM on Day of the Triffids (Kindle Edition).
The problem with this is that AHN isn't present. They are merely lifting AP stories.
The problem with AHN is that they are not sending reporters to stories, they are merely copying AP stories.
I see what you did there.
But what if they weren't just getting their facts from AP stories? What if they also got facts from another hot-news source that had information the AP didn't? Shouldn't they be able to combine the facts from two stories in a new narrative to create a more complete story?
It seems other useful actions may run afoul of this, including providing a translation service. Are only the people who read a hot news item's original published languages deserving to be informed?
I read the news today, oh boy! "Sir, I represent the Associated Press. I have a court order demanding an immediate halt to this unauthorized repackaging of our hot news item."
Rough water stabilized, diesel electric propulsion and radar stealthy. Me likely. I want to live on it. Too bad it would probably cost a fortune to move and retrofit. The ultimate party boat, though it would be a little tough to fish off the back.
Who says you have to keep it in the water? I'd put it on land and park my car underneath it. Or maybe on a tower with an elevator inside to take you aboard, perhaps rigged to turn it to face any direction you wanted. Not that there'd be any kind of view from inside.
Still, 12 bunks and only a small microwave, refrigerator, and table? Hopefully those bunks include restroom facilities.
"I don't get all this controversy over black zombies. You see, I don't see death. People tell me I'm alive and I believe them because I don't hunger for brains." -- Stephen T. Colbért
He hasn't actually said this, so that's why I used the é. And I only just changed my signature to this (away from "Real cherries may contain pits."), so save your redundant mods.
The UK government stated in 2006 that they wished to see 100% of UK consumer broadband ISPs' connections covered by blocking, which includes images of child abuse.
Maybe running on the spot and sudden jerks of the hands to indicate "recoil"? Either that or hook in an audio system and get the user being even more stupid by yelling "bang" for each shot.
The Atari VCS had it right. Only one button requiring minimal effort. Then came the NES with its 2 button "joy pad". That wasn't so bad until the SNES with its 4 button controller came out and the Sega with its 6 button Mega Drive/Genesis II controller. I think my head will explode if I start talking about the amount of buttons included on the Atari Jaguar controller!
Defender, arcade version. And if that's not complex enough, Stargate, arcade version.
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens...? They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on.... [W]hen you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts in... enormous amounts of material." -- United States Senate Commerce Committee Chairman
She stopped at a news station. "...results of the special election will be announced as they occur," the announcer said. "Meanwhile on the science front: astronomers report another `inexplicable nova' discovered. That makes seven so far. According to scientists, these novas shouldn't be happening, because they aren't the right type of stars. They--"
Something connected in Quaid's mind. "Oh, my God!" he breathed.
Melina looked at him again. "Something wrong?"
"That news item--those novas--I just realized--" He choked off, not wanting to believe it.
"What's the matter, Doug?" she asked, alarmed.
"Those novas--they're artificial," he said. "That's why they don't seem to make sense. They're seeded, same way as the No'ui seed species."
"I suppose, if the aliens are as powerful as you say," she said doubtfully. "But I can't believe that--"
"Believe it!" he said. "You haven't seen the sheer scale of that reactor! If they can build something like that, and use alien science to make air in a way we couldn't, they can seed a star to go nova!"
"Well, maybe so, if you say so. But what has that to do with this?"
"I told you, they don't pussyfoot! It's all or nothing with them. No second chance."
"Yes, but--"
"The destruct symbol," he said, feeling the horror rise as he spoke. "It was a nova."
Melina shrugged. "Why not? We put a skull and crossbones to indicate poison. We don't mean it literally. It's figurative."
"They don't know figurative. They're a literal species, maybe because of the way they come genetically preprogrammed, like ants. To them, something either is or it isn't, or it is ignored. It can't be partway, unless it's something under construction. So when they use a nova symbol--"
Now the horror came to her face too. "You mean--?"
"I mean that when they say nova, they mean nova! If we abuse the reactor--"
"Our sun will go nova," she said.
"It must be keyed in. The moment the reactor starts to go wrong, it sends the destruct signal to the sun. The sun flares up and takes everything out, maybe through the orbit of Jupiter. Just a little flare, on the galactic scale, but our species will be gone. Just as those other species went, thousands of years ago when they didn't pass the test, and now we're seeing their novas. There are three requirements, one being that we achieve limited space travel on our own, another that we are able to recognize the nature of the artifact, and the third is undefined--but now we know that it means to do it right, or else."
"No second chance," she agreed, staring straight ahead.
"We're shooting for all the marbles!" His face felt frozen. He remembered the dream he had had, of mankind ending. No dream, but an alien warning!
"All the marbles," she echoed hollowly. "God, Doug--"
"Yeah." He arrowed on down the passage, feeling numb.
If there are some [ET species], there's still again only two answers possible :
We're "advanced" compared to them, or they're "advanced" compared to us. If we're advanced compared to them, we don't need anything from them. If they're advanced compared to us, they'll find us primitive and won't need us for anything.
Yeah, history on Earth has shown it is not that simple. I'm sure we'll find something we want that a "less advanced" society might have. For an example, look at the interactions between European explorers and the native peoples of foreign lands like the Americas.
"We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals such as the vanished bison and dodo, but also upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years." -- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Preface
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Rights holders believe that if your software cannot enforce the law, then your device violates the law. They don't get that the code of law punishes after the crime is committed and expect the code of software to instead prevent the crime.
I prefer screwless caddies. I don't want to have to buy a caddy for each drive nor do I want to have to unscrew a caddy from one drive just to screw it onto another one.
That said, the caddies for the SATA drives of a Mac Pro are tolerable to me. Only two screws to the base of the drive and they're big enough to turn with your fingers. Better though if they had wingnut heads for greater leverage.
That said, when it was time to move from 500 GB to 750 GB internal drives, I bought myself a stage rack. Drop a bare drive in it and it connects via USB, Firewire 400/800, or eSATA, my choice. Pulled the data off the 1.5 TB raid to two un-RAIDed 750 GB drives, then swapped them out three-for-three. 500 GBers now live in my drobo.
I could probably boot off the stage-rack drive if I wanted to, except that Boot Camp disables the extra two SATA ports on the mobo.
That's like saying someone who connects a blimp to a camper has invented a flying home.
I bet the tornadoes are going to just love having their favorite food being delivered to them.
"General played him on the turntable, and he went wing, zoom, into the fan and got shmushed!" -- Amanda, Stephen King's Cat's Eye
Slashdot stories can be listened to in audio form via an RSS feed, as read by our own robotic overlord.
Here is the link to this particular story as it was when I just checked it. I don't know how stable that link is.
That's not the worst example I've seen failing to conjugate "haul". Torchwood episode 2x04 "Meat" had closed-captioned "haulage" as "hollidge". The same captioner also did not recognize the word "abattoir", spelling it "apatow" (IIRC, possibly "apataw").
So what, do they want proof of blindness before the speaker is activated? It's futile. There is no user test for blindness that can't be passed by a sighted person with their eyes closed (no pun intended). Even if it had the hardware, there's nothing to prevent a sighted person from learning braille, and even if blind people had electronically readable disability identification cards, it can't prevent a blind person from using it in the presence of sighted people or a microphone.
This is like the movie industry rejecting an invention of a non-rewindable-by-user VHS tape for rental stores because it could not track how many people sat in front of the screen in that one viewing and charge accordingly.
You can however create a device that converts sighted people into blind people (lasers), thereby authorizing them to hear their books. They could test market this DRM on Day of the Triffids (Kindle Edition).
Indeed. President of the Authors Guild, meet the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The problem with this is that AHN isn't present. They are merely lifting AP stories.
The problem with AHN is that they are not sending reporters to stories, they are merely copying AP stories.
I see what you did there.
But what if they weren't just getting their facts from AP stories? What if they also got facts from another hot-news source that had information the AP didn't? Shouldn't they be able to combine the facts from two stories in a new narrative to create a more complete story?
It seems other useful actions may run afoul of this, including providing a translation service. Are only the people who read a hot news item's original published languages deserving to be informed?
I read the news today, oh boy!
"Sir, I represent the Associated Press. I have a court order demanding an immediate halt to this unauthorized repackaging of our hot news item."
Rough water stabilized, diesel electric propulsion and radar stealthy. Me likely. I want to live on it. Too bad it would probably cost a fortune to move and retrofit. The ultimate party boat, though it would be a little tough to fish off the back.
Who says you have to keep it in the water? I'd put it on land and park my car underneath it. Or maybe on a tower with an elevator inside to take you aboard, perhaps rigged to turn it to face any direction you wanted. Not that there'd be any kind of view from inside.
Still, 12 bunks and only a small microwave, refrigerator, and table? Hopefully those bunks include restroom facilities.
"I don't get all this controversy over black zombies. You see, I don't see death. People tell me I'm alive and I believe them because I don't hunger for brains." -- Stephen T. Colbért
He hasn't actually said this, so that's why I used the é. And I only just changed my signature to this (away from "Real cherries may contain pits."), so save your redundant mods.
The UK government stated in 2006 that they wished to see 100% of UK consumer broadband ISPs' connections covered by blocking, which includes images of child abuse.
"See no evil"?
since when is this about customers?
Since the customers started modeling nude in their ads.
Maybe running on the spot and sudden jerks of the hands to indicate "recoil"? Either that or hook in an audio system and get the user being even more stupid by yelling "bang" for each shot.
Real Men the videogame?
The Atari VCS had it right. Only one button requiring minimal effort. Then came the NES with its 2 button "joy pad". That wasn't so bad until the SNES with its 4 button controller came out and the Sega with its 6 button Mega Drive/Genesis II controller. I think my head will explode if I start talking about the amount of buttons included on the Atari Jaguar controller!
Defender, arcade version. And if that's not complex enough, Stargate, arcade version.
enormous amounts of material.
Yeah, couldn't have managed to spell that in the subject correctly as well, could I.
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens...? They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on.... [W]hen you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts in... enormous amounts of material."
-- United States Senate Commerce Committee Chairman
She stopped at a news station. "...results of the special election will be announced as they occur," the announcer said. "Meanwhile on the science front: astronomers report another `inexplicable nova' discovered. That makes seven so far. According to scientists, these novas shouldn't be happening, because they aren't the right type of stars. They--"
Something connected in Quaid's mind. "Oh, my God!" he breathed.
Melina looked at him again. "Something wrong?"
"That news item--those novas--I just realized--" He choked off, not wanting to believe it.
"What's the matter, Doug?" she asked, alarmed.
"Those novas--they're artificial," he said. "That's why they don't seem to make sense. They're seeded, same way as the No'ui seed species."
"I suppose, if the aliens are as powerful as you say," she said doubtfully. "But I can't believe that--"
"Believe it!" he said. "You haven't seen the sheer scale of that reactor! If they can build something like that, and use alien science to make air in a way we couldn't, they can seed a star to go nova!"
"Well, maybe so, if you say so. But what has that to do with this?"
"I told you, they don't pussyfoot! It's all or nothing with them. No second chance."
"Yes, but--"
"The destruct symbol," he said, feeling the horror rise as he spoke. "It was a nova."
Melina shrugged. "Why not? We put a skull and crossbones to indicate poison. We don't mean it literally. It's figurative."
"They don't know figurative. They're a literal species, maybe because of the way they come genetically preprogrammed, like ants. To them, something either is or it isn't, or it is ignored. It can't be partway, unless it's something under construction. So when they use a nova symbol--"
Now the horror came to her face too. "You mean--?"
"I mean that when they say nova, they mean nova! If we abuse the reactor--"
"Our sun will go nova," she said.
"It must be keyed in. The moment the reactor starts to go wrong, it sends the destruct signal to the sun. The sun flares up and takes everything out, maybe through the orbit of Jupiter. Just a little flare, on the galactic scale, but our species will be gone. Just as those other species went, thousands of years ago when they didn't pass the test, and now we're seeing their novas. There are three requirements, one being that we achieve limited space travel on our own, another that we are able to recognize the nature of the artifact, and the third is undefined--but now we know that it means to do it right, or else."
"No second chance," she agreed, staring straight ahead.
"We're shooting for all the marbles!" His face felt frozen. He remembered the dream he had had, of mankind ending. No dream, but an alien warning!
"All the marbles," she echoed hollowly. "God, Doug--"
"Yeah." He arrowed on down the passage, feeling numb.
Poor little Conficker never bothers anyone,
Just runnin' down the road's his idea of having fun.
And still true: it still hasn't done anything more than spread and try to keep itself from being purged.
With all the suspense and the scale of infection, whatever the payload is going to be, it'd better be something totally awesome!
Do you think their descendants should pay too?
Only if it were a matter under copyright law.
I just wonder if the next will be Leaping Lizard.
Poof goes the cloud bank.
looking up cheat codes. So how much longer before we see a variation of this on our real-world car windshields?
What's the cheat code for enabling infinite fuel in my car?
Window up, window down, window up, window down, turn signal left, turn signal right, turn signal left, turn signal right, AC, emergency brake, ignition.
If there are some [ET species], there's still again only two answers possible :
We're "advanced" compared to them, or they're "advanced" compared to us. If we're advanced compared to them, we don't need anything from them. If they're advanced compared to us, they'll find us primitive and won't need us for anything.
Yeah, history on Earth has shown it is not that simple. I'm sure we'll find something we want that a "less advanced" society might have. For an example, look at the interactions between European explorers and the native peoples of foreign lands like the Americas.
"We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals such as the vanished bison and dodo, but also upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years." -- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Preface
An earth devastated by an asteroid is still a much more friendly place to live on then either Moon or Mars.
Indeed, Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact, it's cold as hell! And there's no one there to raise them if you did.