Something I've wondered is when the terrorists will actually have the explosives INSIDE them. Fuck, if you are gonna die anyway, just pull out a kidney or pack some explosives inside a lung.
The main problem will be to get the guy so drugged he won't care about the stitches/pain yet will still be able to physically board the plane.
It'd be even better to use a post-partum woman. She'd already have a lot of room and wouldn't really require surgery to implant the explosives. It'd be hard to get a woman recruited into their little cult, but if they kidnap a baby and promise to release the child if the woman goes with their plan, I'm sure they'd get a few willing moms.
Just remember: The next thing will be something we don't expect. Kinda like the Inquisition.
If you are going to do it, make sure it looks OK without the images. My client gives me the option to load the images and, quite frankly, I never do.
In e-mail, I want the content, not fucking bling-bling.
If I wanted to SEE your product, I'd go you to your web site.
And shit like company banners and the like just piss me off to no end.
Finally, the tracker images. These, like read recipt, are of the devil. Read recipt is disabled in my client. My boss wants to know why I never read any of his e-mails. I tell him I do, but WHEN I read it is none of his fucking buisness.
Same for you. If I catch you tracking when I open an e-mail using something like http:\\server\images\myemailaddy\blank.gif, you'll be filtered. In fact, if I get any kind of weird feeling about the e-mail at all, you'll be filtered.
Make sure you understand that my client may be displayed in a preview frame. Don't expect me to open the item and maximixe it to read it. If it doesn't display properly in the frame, I won't scroll sideways to read it.
Not sure what you are trying to get at here. Yes, we still give Soldiers and Marines bayonets. However, I'd like to see some statistics on how many times they have been used in various conflicts over the last 100 years.
I think you'd find that the bayonet has probably been used to open more MREs than body cavities.
The point is, you have a single Jedi with a single blade. Just have three guys fire at different places at the same time. Two of thoes should hit him.
I'd ask for unrestricted use for education. Specifically state-funded education at the k-12 level. One of the stipulations should be that the copyright holder/publisher should provide, at cost, a copy of material for each student that needs the material.
As much as I loved books like Tom Sawyer, I hated having to pay for them out of pocket.
And I know something has been written in the last 100 years that students SHOULD be reading, but can't because of copyright.
This should include music (sheet for the band members and performances for appretiation classes), movies, books, software, etc. Basicly anything that can be copyrighted should be avalible at no cost to students.
There would be an exception for books written specifically to be used as textbooks.
I haven't see the eppisode you talk about, but aircraft that don't have RADAR aren't completely without RADAR information. Another aircraft (AWACS) can gather very detailed information and feed that (along with other supporting data) into a ground-based processing center. At that point, data is aggregated and filtered to show pertinant info. That data can be uploaded via secure link to an aircraft trying to hide by not using active RADAR.
In fact, not using active RADAR is fairly common. It's almost like a sub using active SONAR. As soon as you flip the RADAR on, everyone can see you.
Cali cannot ban internet hunting. A state cannot impose a law that infringes on interstate commerce. If I have a server in Nevada and I'm charging people to hunt, then Cali lawmakers can get bent.
If they try and stop their residents from connecting to my server, Nevada (or I) could sue at the federal level and have the law declared unconstitutional.
I've not really looked into this whole OpenSolaris thingy, so forgive me if I make a mistake here.
Here's my take on it: If I wanted to open a product that was laden with other people's IP, I'd make a list of all the source files. Then, I'd have my people go through them, one at a time, until a file was certified as 100% IP free. Then I'd have that file uploaded to a server.
Release early and often is a great idea.
I'd probably take about 20 minutes to count all the files and make a progress bar. Everyone would know what was out there. They'd have a pretty good idea of what was to come. And they'd know the progress of the project.
Holding onto your entire batch of cookies until the last one is out of the oven is a great way to piss off the children.
No, but you could Trademark(TM) it all. TM your fingerprints. If anyone tries to use them, then sue them.
Ahh well.
In reality, this is like trying to stop the tide from coming in. You'd have better luck stopping the sun on it's ecliptic than trying to stop biometrics from becoming the defacto identification.
It will happen!
Eventually, your credit card, bank account, paycheck, network password, car key, and every thing else you can think of will be tied to your voice, fingerprints, or GATTACA-style DNA scans.
In Japan, the cashieer has a magnet and a metal plate on the side of the register. Your money goes on the metal plate then is held by a magnet untill the transaction is complete.
US stores could prevent a lot of stupid problems by doing this.
I tend to agree. The police are not allowed to make a determination of who is right or wrong. They just collect evidince and arrest suspects.
The right to actually dismiss charges is retained by the accuser and/or the prosicuter.
It's no wonder that people aren't arrested every day for stupid shit. Imagine that your neghbor pisses you off. Call the cops and say that someone with his license plates ran over your garbage can.
On second thought, the penalties for filing a false clain are pretty high. I hope BB gets fucked on this one.
My firends tell me that most clubs force you to buy "Euro notes" at the door. Basicly, you give them 50 euros and they give you 50 slips of paper worth one euro. You can use them for drinks and girls. The next night, the bills will be a different color and/or have different writing on them.
I'd thought about slipping in with a PDA, WiFi, and a scanner. Send a bmp of the bill to someone outside with a laptop and small printer. Print several hundred of the bills and then slip into the club. Let drunken night of whore-plundering fun begin.
Then my buddies reminded me that the clubs are all mafia-controlled. Fucking with the european mafia is likely to get you buried in Brataslava.
GED isn't a bad deal either. My highschool was hell because of my geekiness and other's inability to accept anything different.
The day I turned 16, I dropped from school, got a GED, and started working. I interned with a guy for about 3 months learning to install DOS and Win 3.11 and set it all up for corporate usage.
My mom flipped out! But within 6 months I was making more while working less than she ever had.
Anyway, I worked days and went to Community College at night. My boss pushed me real hard in that direction. After a year or so, I moved up to a public university and never looked back.
Some people look down on me when I say I have a GED. But the truth is that while my peers were learning about verbs and the public school fucked version of American history, I was learning a trade and getting college credit. Hell, I had my first degree before most of them had even enrolled in college.
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I did one for a friend and configured a lot of extras. Photo slideshow, RSS feeds of shows he missed or couldn't get. MP3 playback. Scripted DVD ripping. Network share for media files.
Took literally months to tweak out.
Charged him $1500 but really lost my ass on time and support.
It is VERY difficult to make a PC for less than $500. We were, of course, using Shuttles or Shuttle clones (Aopen XC Cubes, actually). Anything bigger does not fit in an entertainment center.
Case/mobo = $200 CPU = $100 RAM = $50 CD/DVD = $50 120gb hard drive = $100
Add another $150 for a PVR card and you've broken most budgets. Consumers won't pay $800 for a VCR.
We did offer to turn old PCs into VCRs for some friends. Basicly, they were upgrading and we took the old shit and dropped in a PVR and Linux. These went OK, but still took a LOT of tweaking.
On top of all that, MythTV is a bear ro set up. We are on an unlisted cable network unwilling to provide listings in XML format. It was impossible to make MythTV just record evert Thursday at 9pm. That's basic functionality in my book. Sorely lacking.
I've been assured that Myth works flawless on listed networks.
In any event, you're looking at $800~$1000 per MythTV box. No way to make a good model around that.
Yes, but Gentoo isn't doing ALL the work. Someone, somewhere has to figure out how to compile all that shit. In a big project, it can be confusing as hell.
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Something I've wondered is when the terrorists will actually have the explosives INSIDE them. Fuck, if you are gonna die anyway, just pull out a kidney or pack some explosives inside a lung.
The main problem will be to get the guy so drugged he won't care about the stitches/pain yet will still be able to physically board the plane.
It'd be even better to use a post-partum woman. She'd already have a lot of room and wouldn't really require surgery to implant the explosives. It'd be hard to get a woman recruited into their little cult, but if they kidnap a baby and promise to release the child if the woman goes with their plan, I'm sure they'd get a few willing moms.
Just remember: The next thing will be something we don't expect. Kinda like the Inquisition.
But the shift would occour across the entire spectrum. Assuming there is something in the >400nm range, it'd shifted into visible, no?
Of course, far blue carries less information than far red.
Still, it'd be cool to see the effect of ultraviolet being shifted through the visible spectrum.
If you are going to do it, make sure it looks OK without the images. My client gives me the option to load the images and, quite frankly, I never do.
In e-mail, I want the content, not fucking bling-bling.
If I wanted to SEE your product, I'd go you to your web site.
And shit like company banners and the like just piss me off to no end.
Finally, the tracker images. These, like read recipt, are of the devil. Read recipt is disabled in my client. My boss wants to know why I never read any of his e-mails. I tell him I do, but WHEN I read it is none of his fucking buisness.
Same for you. If I catch you tracking when I open an e-mail using something like http:\\server\images\myemailaddy\blank.gif, you'll be filtered. In fact, if I get any kind of weird feeling about the e-mail at all, you'll be filtered.
Make sure you understand that my client may be displayed in a preview frame. Don't expect me to open the item and maximixe it to read it. If it doesn't display properly in the frame, I won't scroll sideways to read it.
You think the dude telling you about the details of the game is an actual developer?
They already hire men. Thay are called marketing droids. They have nice hair and white teeth and they go to the gym a few times a week.
Not sure what you are trying to get at here. Yes, we still give Soldiers and Marines bayonets. However, I'd like to see some statistics on how many times they have been used in various conflicts over the last 100 years.
I think you'd find that the bayonet has probably been used to open more MREs than body cavities.
The point is, you have a single Jedi with a single blade. Just have three guys fire at different places at the same time. Two of thoes should hit him.
I'd ask for unrestricted use for education. Specifically state-funded education at the k-12 level. One of the stipulations should be that the copyright holder/publisher should provide, at cost, a copy of material for each student that needs the material.
As much as I loved books like Tom Sawyer, I hated having to pay for them out of pocket.
And I know something has been written in the last 100 years that students SHOULD be reading, but can't because of copyright.
This should include music (sheet for the band members and performances for appretiation classes), movies, books, software, etc. Basicly anything that can be copyrighted should be avalible at no cost to students.
There would be an exception for books written specifically to be used as textbooks.
About point 2:
I haven't see the eppisode you talk about, but aircraft that don't have RADAR aren't completely without RADAR information. Another aircraft (AWACS) can gather very detailed information and feed that (along with other supporting data) into a ground-based processing center. At that point, data is aggregated and filtered to show pertinant info. That data can be uploaded via secure link to an aircraft trying to hide by not using active RADAR.
In fact, not using active RADAR is fairly common. It's almost like a sub using active SONAR. As soon as you flip the RADAR on, everyone can see you.
Cali cannot ban internet hunting. A state cannot impose a law that infringes on interstate commerce. If I have a server in Nevada and I'm charging people to hunt, then Cali lawmakers can get bent.
If they try and stop their residents from connecting to my server, Nevada (or I) could sue at the federal level and have the law declared unconstitutional.
Right?
The closer to the equator you are, the easier it is to reach orbit.
Of course, this mission is "planned to fail", so they might as well use an amatuer rocket in the Nevada desert...
I've not really looked into this whole OpenSolaris thingy, so forgive me if I make a mistake here.
Here's my take on it: If I wanted to open a product that was laden with other people's IP, I'd make a list of all the source files. Then, I'd have my people go through them, one at a time, until a file was certified as 100% IP free. Then I'd have that file uploaded to a server.
Release early and often is a great idea.
I'd probably take about 20 minutes to count all the files and make a progress bar. Everyone would know what was out there. They'd have a pretty good idea of what was to come. And they'd know the progress of the project.
Holding onto your entire batch of cookies until the last one is out of the oven is a great way to piss off the children.
No, but you could Trademark(TM) it all. TM your fingerprints. If anyone tries to use them, then sue them.
Ahh well.
In reality, this is like trying to stop the tide from coming in. You'd have better luck stopping the sun on it's ecliptic than trying to stop biometrics from becoming the defacto identification.
It will happen!
Eventually, your credit card, bank account, paycheck, network password, car key, and every thing else you can think of will be tied to your voice, fingerprints, or GATTACA-style DNA scans.
That is only a problem if you insist on using mail-order shops. If you have a local mom-n-pop, it'll take you 5 minutes to show them the RAM is bad.
This could be a good way for b&m to compete with mail order.
Find a lady with a big purse. Drop something small into her purse while she's not looking. Follow her around till she's ready to leave.
After she sets off the alarm, walk out casually while shooting her a bad look.
In Japan, the cashieer has a magnet and a metal plate on the side of the register. Your money goes on the metal plate then is held by a magnet untill the transaction is complete.
US stores could prevent a lot of stupid problems by doing this.
I tend to agree. The police are not allowed to make a determination of who is right or wrong. They just collect evidince and arrest suspects.
The right to actually dismiss charges is retained by the accuser and/or the prosicuter.
It's no wonder that people aren't arrested every day for stupid shit. Imagine that your neghbor pisses you off. Call the cops and say that someone with his license plates ran over your garbage can.
On second thought, the penalties for filing a false clain are pretty high. I hope BB gets fucked on this one.
My firends tell me that most clubs force you to buy "Euro notes" at the door. Basicly, you give them 50 euros and they give you 50 slips of paper worth one euro. You can use them for drinks and girls. The next night, the bills will be a different color and/or have different writing on them.
I'd thought about slipping in with a PDA, WiFi, and a scanner. Send a bmp of the bill to someone outside with a laptop and small printer. Print several hundred of the bills and then slip into the club. Let drunken night of whore-plundering fun begin.
Then my buddies reminded me that the clubs are all mafia-controlled. Fucking with the european mafia is likely to get you buried in Brataslava.
GED isn't a bad deal either. My highschool was hell because of my geekiness and other's inability to accept anything different.
The day I turned 16, I dropped from school, got a GED, and started working. I interned with a guy for about 3 months learning to install DOS and Win 3.11 and set it all up for corporate usage.
My mom flipped out! But within 6 months I was making more while working less than she ever had.
Anyway, I worked days and went to Community College at night. My boss pushed me real hard in that direction. After a year or so, I moved up to a public university and never looked back.
Some people look down on me when I say I have a GED. But the truth is that while my peers were learning about verbs and the public school fucked version of American history, I was learning a trade and getting college credit. Hell, I had my first degree before most of them had even enrolled in college.
Touché!
Damn, whacked me with my own sig.
Do me a favor. Reply once you assemble and config the thing. That's 2 hours work, minimum.
Plus, if he's not a geek, you'll have to support him while he learns.
What is your time worth?
The point is it should be basic functionality. The very first thing Myth should have done is to make it work like a VCR.
Still looks dumb next to a TiVo.
I did one for a friend and configured a lot of extras. Photo slideshow, RSS feeds of shows he missed or couldn't get. MP3 playback. Scripted DVD ripping. Network share for media files.
Took literally months to tweak out.
Charged him $1500 but really lost my ass on time and support.
Yeah. Now how are you gonna make money off it?
Figure 2 hours to assemble and another 2 hours to configure. Maybe 30 min to config if you use a disk image.
So, add $100 to the price for your time.
Now you gotta train the customer. That's another hour if the customer is a quick learner. 2 if he isn't.
Then he'll call you once a week for about 2 months.
Before it's all over, it'll cost him $1000 to have a MythTV box.
Your $50 case would look like crap in an entertainment center.
Your $50 mobo lacks optical out and you have to add a vid card.
Your $30 vid card probably looks like crap and lacks s-video out.
My $200 Shuttle (only $70 more than you) looks better and has vid/s-vid, sound/optical, and NIC built in.
Oh and network shares don't work for non-geeks.
A friend and I priced it out once.
It is VERY difficult to make a PC for less than $500. We were, of course, using Shuttles or Shuttle clones (Aopen XC Cubes, actually). Anything bigger does not fit in an entertainment center.
Case/mobo = $200
CPU = $100
RAM = $50
CD/DVD = $50
120gb hard drive = $100
Add another $150 for a PVR card and you've broken most budgets. Consumers won't pay $800 for a VCR.
We did offer to turn old PCs into VCRs for some friends. Basicly, they were upgrading and we took the old shit and dropped in a PVR and Linux. These went OK, but still took a LOT of tweaking.
On top of all that, MythTV is a bear ro set up. We are on an unlisted cable network unwilling to provide listings in XML format. It was impossible to make MythTV just record evert Thursday at 9pm. That's basic functionality in my book. Sorely lacking.
I've been assured that Myth works flawless on listed networks.
In any event, you're looking at $800~$1000 per MythTV box. No way to make a good model around that.
Yes, but Gentoo isn't doing ALL the work. Someone, somewhere has to figure out how to compile all that shit. In a big project, it can be confusing as hell.