Ok, let's talk brass tacks. My IP address of my computer is 10.0.0.4. My router is 64.xx.yy.zz. 10.0.0.4 is not in the DMZ, and has no in-bound portmapping. Now, explain to me how malicious incoming packets are going to be routed to a *non-routable* Private IP address. If that's not security, then I'd like to hear your definition of it.
In Eve-Online, death is not really death, a can thief will just get his ship blown up if he loses. So the NPC police in this case are just turning a blind eye to one property crime as a result of another. Even if the aggrieved kills the pilot in the escape pod, the pilot has a clone stashed away on a space station which then gets activated, and the game goes on. As for banking, many of these swords and sorcery games are actually set at a tech level similar to the early Renaissance period rather than the medieval Era. World of Warcraft for instance has firearms, crossbows, and full plate armor. It is therefore perfectly reasonable that they have banks, as banking was an innovation of that period in real life, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger
As an American who cares about computer security, I'm sorry this happened. As a workaround, why can't these trainings be done virtually? There's no need for a visa for bits to enter the country, and we're all computer engineers, we can follow presentations and screencasts as easily on our screens as on his. To heck with plane travel. It's bad for the climate anyway.
Yeah, but notice the complete lack of other things the Federation had:
Genetic Engineering -- Due to the Eugenics Wars, Khan Noonian Singh, ooh, scary
Utility Robots -- Not one blinking robot walking around TOS Enterprise, why? Afraid of a Cylon revolt?
Androids- Apparently only Dr. Noonian Soong and his progeny could build humanoid robots in the Federation (not counting all the hot androids we saw on alien worlds in TOS)
Mind-Machine-Interface-- Spock's Brain and Reginald Barclay were flukes!!! The Borg can do it, why not the Feds?
Strong AI-- Dr. Moriarity on the Holodeck was a fluke! They had to have a trial to even determine if Data was considered a person.
Real Nanotech- Replicator technology kinda subsumed this one. When Intelligent Nanites took over the Enterprise-D it was, say it with me, A fluke! Not to mention a surprise.
Cloning -- Sure, there are clone societies on strange new alien worlds, but in the Federation itself? Fuhggedaboutit!
Mind duplication, transferrance and storage-- Yes, alien cultures can do it, Data's grandfather could do it, but the Feds? Nah.
Money -- Ferengi have to trade using strips of latinum. Talk about hard currency.
Massive Interplanetary Engineering-- Ringworlds, Dyson Spheres, Space Elevators. Admittedly a space elevator is obsolete assuming sufficiently large and powerful transporters, but when the Enterprise-D discovered the Dyson Sphere they were like "This thing has substantially more land area than all the worlds of the Federation put together" and then, because the star inside gave off powerful flares, they abandoned it! This from the culture which had metaphasic shielding which enabled them to hang out in the photosphere of a star.
Conclusion: The Federation consisted of Interstellar luddites too afraid of the implications of their technology to do cool extropian things. So poor Chris Pike was stuck in his wheelchair beeping away instead of being transplanted into a cloned or android body, or at least being mentally transported into an awesome VR world and communicating in RL as an avatar.
While I'm sure you're being funny, a more modulated approach might actually work. I'd just like to point out that I am categorically against censorship and for the freedom of information, but... if the politicians are going to be wacko anyway, let's up the ante. Make it illegal for anyone under 18 to use the Internet. If minors use it, arrest their parents for negligence, just as we would if an unlicensed underage teenager tried to drive. Since this law would eliminate the incidence of children on the Internet, then the politicos could not use "think of the children" as an excuse for censorship. Indeed, there would be no excuse for censorship since all net users would be adults. Children would have to use good-old-fashioned research methods at the library to write papers and would then truly appreciate the remarkable ease of access that search engines grant when they turn 18 and go away to college with their first internet accounts. Also solves the liability problems parents currently are under the threat of from the (RI|MP)AA that their children can get them into.
I don't think Marxism works at all. But to confuse it with totalitarianism is both inaccurate and foolish. Given the ways in which Bush has violated the Constitution, the laws of this nation and the international treaties we have ratified and the complete unwillingness of the Congress to stop him it would be accurate to say that the current form of Government is Bushist rather than the constitutional Republic we used to have. But that will change if Bush sees fit to obey the term limits written into the Constitution, in 544 days. The only way Soviet leadership ever changed was through the death of the General Secretary.
Callling the USSR Marxist simply because they claimed to be Marxist indicates that you have fallen for Soviet propaganda. The Soviet Union was Stalinist and prior to that Leninist, but Marx himself would have been revolted at them.
While the source may be well-structured and well-commented, it's extremely poorly designed for its functionality. It's constantly getting into states that are difficult if not impossible to get out of. There's no easy way to reload the software or initialize the system so as to start over with a clean state. Its logic is suspect unless the neural net has had long training times, and in power-save mode there's all sorts of extraneous activity. It's also a bear to modify the code directly without resorting to training the neural net. And don't even get me started on the lack of debug data.
While I agree with you that nonproliferation efforts are merely delaying the inevitable, atomic weapons do not predate television. The 1936 Olympics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehsender_Paul_Ni pkow were televised, and the 1939 World's Fair was broadcast by NBC. I also disagree with you about bombing being an incentive to develop nuclear weapons. Perhaps conventional airstrikes might be an incentive, but a pre-emptive annihilating nuclear strike on Iran would almost certainly forestall other nations from threatening to develop nuclear weapons. However, such an attack would both be immoral as it would kill tens of millions of innocents and would certainly invite reprisals and revenge attacks by the aggrieved parties, so probably would not make the US actually safer, even though it would discourage "proliferation". A state or group doesn't actually have to develop nuclear weapons on its own in order to use them. There are plenty of surplus ones lying about and command and control of them is incredibly lax in some cases.
Ha! Brazillion miles an hour! try tens of thousands. Even at a measly 1 million miles per hour which we are nowhere near achieving, you'd make Mars orbit in 35 hours at Mars' minimum distance to earth. Scientists only dream of such speeds being produced by our engines.
And how exactly is Apple going to prevent you from replacing the battery? Even if the device were similar to an iPod in terms of how easy it is to open, a google search will reveal dozens of firms who will replace your iPod battery for you when it wears out.
Ah, the old "we don't even know" argument. Strange how that's never used in a positive sense, as in "Cell phones may make us richer, smarter, more beautiful and longer-lived, but we just don't know."
> Sometimes businesses don't work out. It happens. However I think it's terribly unfair to crucify LiftPort, Laine, or the space elevator concept because this particular venture is having problems.
In fact, usually businesses don't work out. The frequently-quoted failure rate of new restaurants is something like 90%. But nobody says that restaurants in general are a bad idea or can't be profitable. But it does seem likely that the business community has not yet figured out that 99.9% of the valuable resources and energy within a light-year or so of here is offplanet. So it's an extremely difficult business climate to try this in and as such, execution is everything. I salute Liftport for their efforts, and wish them and their successor companies best of luck in the future.
Anybody been flying on a Wright-brand airplane recently? Anybody using an Altair-brand personal computer? (yes, yes, techno-archaeologists, you don't count) How many people run Multics or CP/M? Got a Fairchild Semiconductor chip or a Texas Instruments transistor in your computer? Microsoft was not first with the GUI, Apple was not first with the mp3 player, nor Google with the search engine. All first-mover advantage means is that for a little while you have the market to yourself and it's yours to lose. This is not in any way to disparage the Parallels product, I haven't used it though I've been following its development with interest. Choice and competition are good in the marketplace. Getting there first just sets the bar, and usually because it's a first effort make people aware of what it's lacking and how it can be improved.
I'm hoping for a Battlestar/SG:Atlantis crossover. The Cylons find Earth, and the Tauri blast them out of space using the Ancient weapons outpost in Antarctica. Or beam nukes aboard using the Asgard beaming technology. Now that would be entertaining!
Cool man, I was 1.5 years old and my dad had to hold down the folding movie theatre seat in order for it to not fold up on me. And it only cost me (my folks) 99 cents to see. Seeing that Star Destroyer roar across the screen warped me for life, I think.
I hear you, what you're saying is we need a more hard-core guitar sim to complement Guitar Hero's "arcade mode". Makes sense to me. Hex-based wargames have a small fraction of the players or interest that realtime strategy games do, but that doesn't mean they are any more or less valid or fun to play for those of us who who enjoy them. The primary difficulty here that I can see is economic. GH doesn't just rely on the idea that a pretend guitar is fun to play, but on the shared cultural legacy of a well-known body of popular music. It's fun to "play" the songs because you know, or at least have heard the songs. Thus, the barrier to a small-market realistic sim is the exorbitant costs of licensing the songs which everybody knows. An Open Source "Guitar Overlord" with only Creative Commons music would not be nearly as enjoyable because by and large the music woulld be unknown to the majority of players, even if it were high quality.
I've seen this effect in karaoke. Even with the words on the screen, if you've never heard the song before, you'll make a hash of it.
If he's 59 now, that means the microcomputer revolution started when he was 27-29. And the worldwide web started when he was 44. Perhaps sometime in the intervening time he could have troubled himself to learn a little about the *biggest* advance in the storage and dissemination of knowledge since the movable type printing press?
I know, I know, he was busy hearing cases. Judgin' ain't easy.
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Ok, let's talk brass tacks. My IP address of my computer is 10.0.0.4. My router is 64.xx.yy.zz. 10.0.0.4 is not in the DMZ, and has no in-bound portmapping. Now, explain to me how malicious incoming packets are going to be routed to a *non-routable* Private IP address. If that's not security, then I'd like to hear your definition of it.
In Eve-Online, death is not really death, a can thief will just get his ship blown up if he loses. So the NPC police in this case are just turning a blind eye to one property crime as a result of another. Even if the aggrieved kills the pilot in the escape pod, the pilot has a clone stashed away on a space station which then gets activated, and the game goes on. As for banking, many of these swords and sorcery games are actually set at a tech level similar to the early Renaissance period rather than the medieval Era. World of Warcraft for instance has firearms, crossbows, and full plate armor. It is therefore perfectly reasonable that they have banks, as banking was an innovation of that period in real life, for instance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger
As an American who cares about computer security, I'm sorry this happened. As a workaround, why can't these trainings be done virtually? There's no need for a visa for bits to enter the country, and we're all computer engineers, we can follow presentations and screencasts as easily on our screens as on his. To heck with plane travel. It's bad for the climate anyway.
Yeah, I used carriage returns. Apparently I should have used paragraph tags. Oh well, I'll preview in the futue.
Yeah, but notice the complete lack of other things the Federation had: Genetic Engineering -- Due to the Eugenics Wars, Khan Noonian Singh, ooh, scary Utility Robots -- Not one blinking robot walking around TOS Enterprise, why? Afraid of a Cylon revolt? Androids- Apparently only Dr. Noonian Soong and his progeny could build humanoid robots in the Federation (not counting all the hot androids we saw on alien worlds in TOS) Mind-Machine-Interface-- Spock's Brain and Reginald Barclay were flukes!!! The Borg can do it, why not the Feds? Strong AI-- Dr. Moriarity on the Holodeck was a fluke! They had to have a trial to even determine if Data was considered a person. Real Nanotech- Replicator technology kinda subsumed this one. When Intelligent Nanites took over the Enterprise-D it was, say it with me, A fluke! Not to mention a surprise. Cloning -- Sure, there are clone societies on strange new alien worlds, but in the Federation itself? Fuhggedaboutit! Mind duplication, transferrance and storage-- Yes, alien cultures can do it, Data's grandfather could do it, but the Feds? Nah. Money -- Ferengi have to trade using strips of latinum. Talk about hard currency. Massive Interplanetary Engineering-- Ringworlds, Dyson Spheres, Space Elevators. Admittedly a space elevator is obsolete assuming sufficiently large and powerful transporters, but when the Enterprise-D discovered the Dyson Sphere they were like "This thing has substantially more land area than all the worlds of the Federation put together" and then, because the star inside gave off powerful flares, they abandoned it! This from the culture which had metaphasic shielding which enabled them to hang out in the photosphere of a star. Conclusion: The Federation consisted of Interstellar luddites too afraid of the implications of their technology to do cool extropian things. So poor Chris Pike was stuck in his wheelchair beeping away instead of being transplanted into a cloned or android body, or at least being mentally transported into an awesome VR world and communicating in RL as an avatar.
While I'm sure you're being funny, a more modulated approach might actually work. I'd just like to point out that I am categorically against censorship and for the freedom of information, but... if the politicians are going to be wacko anyway, let's up the ante. Make it illegal for anyone under 18 to use the Internet. If minors use it, arrest their parents for negligence, just as we would if an unlicensed underage teenager tried to drive. Since this law would eliminate the incidence of children on the Internet, then the politicos could not use "think of the children" as an excuse for censorship. Indeed, there would be no excuse for censorship since all net users would be adults. Children would have to use good-old-fashioned research methods at the library to write papers and would then truly appreciate the remarkable ease of access that search engines grant when they turn 18 and go away to college with their first internet accounts. Also solves the liability problems parents currently are under the threat of from the (RI|MP)AA that their children can get them into.
No,
I don't think Marxism works at all. But to confuse it with totalitarianism is both inaccurate and foolish. Given the ways in which Bush has violated the Constitution, the laws of this nation and the international treaties we have ratified and the complete unwillingness of the Congress to stop him it would be accurate to say that the current form of Government is Bushist rather than the constitutional Republic we used to have. But that will change if Bush sees fit to obey the term limits written into the Constitution, in 544 days. The only way Soviet leadership ever changed was through the death of the General Secretary.
Callling the USSR Marxist simply because they claimed to be Marxist indicates that you have fallen for Soviet propaganda. The Soviet Union was Stalinist and prior to that Leninist, but Marx himself would have been revolted at them.
Not true, Cingular (now ATT)'s goPhone PayAsYouGo plan does allow rollover.
While the source may be well-structured and well-commented, it's extremely poorly designed for its functionality. It's constantly getting into states that are difficult if not impossible to get out of. There's no easy way to reload the software or initialize the system so as to start over with a clean state. Its logic is suspect unless the neural net has had long training times, and in power-save mode there's all sorts of extraneous activity. It's also a bear to modify the code directly without resorting to training the neural net. And don't even get me started on the lack of debug data.
Thermonuclear war? Here ya go
http://www.everybody-dies.com/
While I agree with you that nonproliferation efforts are merely delaying the inevitable, atomic weapons do not predate television. The 1936 Olympics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernsehsender_Paul_Ni pkow were televised, and the 1939 World's Fair was broadcast by NBC. I also disagree with you about bombing being an incentive to develop nuclear weapons. Perhaps conventional airstrikes might be an incentive, but a pre-emptive annihilating nuclear strike on Iran would almost certainly forestall other nations from threatening to develop nuclear weapons. However, such an attack would both be immoral as it would kill tens of millions of innocents and would certainly invite reprisals and revenge attacks by the aggrieved parties, so probably would not make the US actually safer, even though it would discourage "proliferation". A state or group doesn't actually have to develop nuclear weapons on its own in order to use them. There are plenty of surplus ones lying about and command and control of them is incredibly lax in some cases.
Ha! Brazillion miles an hour! try tens of thousands. Even at a measly 1 million miles per hour which we are nowhere near achieving, you'd make Mars orbit in 35 hours at Mars' minimum distance to earth. Scientists only dream of such speeds being produced by our engines.
So if you were to send data from one terminal to another would that be sending data via a Series of Tubes?
And how exactly is Apple going to prevent you from replacing the battery? Even if the device were similar to an iPod in terms of how easy it is to open, a google search will reveal dozens of firms who will replace your iPod battery for you when it wears out.
Morse code! Luxury! When I was young we had to use semaphore! --... ...--
3 laws safe!
Ah, the old "we don't even know" argument. Strange how that's never used in a positive sense, as in "Cell phones may make us richer, smarter, more beautiful and longer-lived, but we just don't know."
> Sometimes businesses don't work out. It happens. However I think it's terribly unfair to crucify LiftPort, Laine, or the space elevator concept because this particular venture is having problems. In fact, usually businesses don't work out. The frequently-quoted failure rate of new restaurants is something like 90%. But nobody says that restaurants in general are a bad idea or can't be profitable. But it does seem likely that the business community has not yet figured out that 99.9% of the valuable resources and energy within a light-year or so of here is offplanet. So it's an extremely difficult business climate to try this in and as such, execution is everything. I salute Liftport for their efforts, and wish them and their successor companies best of luck in the future.
Quantum teleportation of information is *not* what the sci-fi and fantasy communities refer to as teleportation.
Anybody been flying on a Wright-brand airplane recently? Anybody using an Altair-brand personal computer? (yes, yes, techno-archaeologists, you don't count) How many people run Multics or CP/M? Got a Fairchild Semiconductor chip or a Texas Instruments transistor in your computer? Microsoft was not first with the GUI, Apple was not first with the mp3 player, nor Google with the search engine. All first-mover advantage means is that for a little while you have the market to yourself and it's yours to lose. This is not in any way to disparage the Parallels product, I haven't used it though I've been following its development with interest. Choice and competition are good in the marketplace. Getting there first just sets the bar, and usually because it's a first effort make people aware of what it's lacking and how it can be improved.
I'm hoping for a Battlestar/SG:Atlantis crossover. The Cylons find Earth, and the Tauri blast them out of space using the Ancient weapons outpost in Antarctica. Or beam nukes aboard using the Asgard beaming technology. Now that would be entertaining!
Cool man, I was 1.5 years old and my dad had to hold down the folding movie theatre seat in order for it to not fold up on me. And it only cost me (my folks) 99 cents to see. Seeing that Star Destroyer roar across the screen warped me for life, I think.
I hear you, what you're saying is we need a more hard-core guitar sim to complement Guitar Hero's "arcade mode". Makes sense to me. Hex-based wargames have a small fraction of the players or interest that realtime strategy games do, but that doesn't mean they are any more or less valid or fun to play for those of us who who enjoy them. The primary difficulty here that I can see is economic. GH doesn't just rely on the idea that a pretend guitar is fun to play, but on the shared cultural legacy of a well-known body of popular music. It's fun to "play" the songs because you know, or at least have heard the songs. Thus, the barrier to a small-market realistic sim is the exorbitant costs of licensing the songs which everybody knows. An Open Source "Guitar Overlord" with only Creative Commons music would not be nearly as enjoyable because by and large the music woulld be unknown to the majority of players, even if it were high quality.
I've seen this effect in karaoke. Even with the words on the screen, if you've never heard the song before, you'll make a hash of it.
If he's 59 now, that means the microcomputer revolution started when he was 27-29. And the worldwide web started when he was 44. Perhaps sometime in the intervening time he could have troubled himself to learn a little about the *biggest* advance in the storage and dissemination of knowledge since the movable type printing press?
I know, I know, he was busy hearing cases. Judgin' ain't easy.