Ah, but that's where the savage beatings come in. Let's see a method actor maintain their concentration after being worked over for an hour with a rubber hose! A hard enough beating administered before questioning ought to return their brains to its base state: fearful of authority, as it should be!
IronKey's patent-pending "flash-trash" methodology incorporates an exhaustive hardware erase of all flash and Cryptochip memory. This is not a simple clearing of file allocation tables, but a secure overwriting of data. This is done in hardware rather than via a software application for the ultimate protection. You, personally, should not be physically harmed when this happens.
She won't be a slave. If she loses the appeals she can file chapter 7 bankruptcy and walk away from the whole mess. Not a happy outcome for her, but way better than having her wages garnished for the rest of her life. The RIAA knows they aren't going to see a penny of that huge settlement if they insist on breaking her; that's why they want to settle for a smaller amount.
If they are going to screw you over if you don't pay and you know this, then what they are doing is not "taking bribes", it is extortion. Call a shakedown a shakedown, otherwise the extortionists win the rhetoric battle.
... this isn't a file copying problem, but rather a verification problem. If a file sometimes winds a few KB short could it be that someone or some process at the destination grabbed the file before it finished copying? If that is what's happening then any file copying protocol that copies the file to a temp location and then links the file into place at completion would solve this problem.
Surely I'm not the only one who remembers Van Eck phreaking... ? That's why you don't ever want your password displayed on the screen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck
Time Machine is basically rsync + hardlinks except Apple has brought back a blast from UNIX past: hardlinking directories. This gets rid of the need to clone hardlinks of all the unchanged files in a backup directories with no changed files--- you just hardlink the directories instead.
The question presupposes that talking is the correct response. If intelligent aliens visit us here in our solar system we can reasonably expect to be enslaved or slaughtered. Interstellar space travel is a stupendously expensive undertaking, and anyone attempting it will expect a return on their investment at the end. And if you believe in Vinge's technological singularity, the visitor will no doubt be from a post-singularity culture. In that case your chances of being simply engulfed courtesy of that culture's hard-takeoff are close to 100%.
So, forget talk. Running or fighting are your choices.
I'm looking forward to the weakly-superhuman AI capable of generating a movie from a book on the fly. There's no reason it shouldn't be possible given that we essentially do something similar in our heads while reading.
Alien Skin makes software to reproduce the look of vintage film stocks, including Polaroid. If you just want that Polaroid look anyone could have had it long ago without futzing with the klunky old cameras and expensive film. But you'll never convince the diehards with reason; it's not a rational decision to use it any more than preferring peanut butter over chocolate is rational.
When you live in a multifamily building it is inevitable that one of your neighbors will be careless and set their place on fire. (It happened year seven at the place I've lived for the past nine years.) The more people there are around you, the more likely the place is to go up in flames. The largest of these apartments is about the size of a normal hotel room. So there are going to be a LOT of people around you. Will there be enough exits? Will there be proper fire barriers between the units and between the floors? Sprinklers?
... we'll be wrong. My own theory is that strong AI is the ultimate weapon and that it will never ever fall into the hands of the likes of you and me. Whether the machines get out of control is irrelevant; eventually the parties that control them will be slugging it out with weapons powerful enough to make life here hardly worth living. I expect to be dead before then, thankfully. But remember the first sentence of this post.
I like her parent's attitude. Give her every opprtunity to learn and hopefully keep her away from the jackals^H^H^H^H^H^Hother children who will persecute her in the name of "socialization." I hope she graduates college by the time she turns 18. I wish I had.
I enjoyed the first Craig-as-007 movie, but it felt like I was watching Transporter 2 or Bourne Identity. The spectacle was there, the action was there, but the 007 character had left the building. In its place there was this Cro-Magnon fighting machine, particularly in Quantum of Solace. I'm not looking forward to seeing this done to the Trek characters that have been a part of my life for over thirty years now.
Funny thing is that my biggest gripe with Trek is that they [b]ignored[/b] almost everything that had come before. Godlike races were conjured up and never mentioned again. The same went for technologies that could be crafted into fearsome weapons, with which the Federation would have been able to enslave or destroy the Romulans, the Dominion or anyone else who disagree with them. While they were cribbing from Niven they should have stolen the ARM as well, so they could have the technology police grab all the crazy weapons and tech.
As for this being a reboot, I think I'm going to enjoy it about as much as I'm enjoying the current 007 reboot, that is, not at all. If you're going to write a new story, then call it something else. "Star Trek / 007 is whatever we say it is" might be true legally, but it's a steaming crock artistically.
79 episodes, 4 matching the keyword "Klingon" in Vidiot's decades old TOS guide.
"ERRAND OF MERCY" [*** 1/2]
First aired March 23, 1967. Kirk and Spock, stranded on Organia, attempt to interfere with the Klingon occupation of the planet, despite the Organians' insistence upon the non-necessity of violence.
"THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES" [*****]
First aired December 29, 1967. Kirk must put up with Federation bureaucrats and hordes of hungry tribbles while protecting a shipment of quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon sabotage.
"A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR" [***]
First aired February 2, 1968. When the Klingons hasten the arms development of one faction on a hitherto peaceful planet, Kirk must arm the other side in order to maintain a balance of power.
"DAY OF THE DOVE" [** 1/2]
First aired November 1, 1968. Klingons and the Enterprise crew must unite to overcome an alien who feeds on the hatred between them.
I wonder if this hole has implications for Amazon's EC2 servers. Being able to "go over the wall" on a virtual server could make a big mess for them and their clients if their servers prove to be vulnerable.
Heroes, as I remember it, was carefully plotted. But I haven't watched it in a couple of years. Anyway, my point is that if time is the constraint that makes crap out of good sf, then give screenwriter and director more time so they can do proper job with the material.
Cramming Starship Troopers credibly into two hours is impossible but I think it could be serialized into a week long miniseries or a tightly scripted Heroes-type story spread over a season. The same goes for the Forever War. I'd be much more excited about projects like that rather than another butchered sf movie.
Steal it and do what with it? If I saw one of these things I'd start looking for the hidden camera, because this looks like one of the stunts Candid Camera or one of its many imitators would pull. I think the thought of unseen surveillance would keep people on their best behavior, even if they had evil thoughts.
To be clear, "Xvid" is an encoder (like DivX) and it makes MPEG4 ASP video streams. Calling a file an "Xvid" file is like calling a photocopy a "Xerox". It might have been created with a genuine Xerox machine but just looking at the paper, you wouldn't know or care.
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Ah, but that's where the savage beatings come in. Let's see a method actor maintain their concentration after being worked over for an hour with a rubber hose! A hard enough beating administered before questioning ought to return their brains to its base state: fearful of authority, as it should be!
From the IronKey website:
IronKey's patent-pending "flash-trash" methodology incorporates an exhaustive hardware erase of all flash and Cryptochip memory. This is not a simple clearing of file allocation tables, but a secure overwriting of data. This is done in hardware rather than via a software application for the ultimate protection. You, personally, should not be physically harmed when this happens.
I could not help but think of the uploaded FSB lobsters from Accelerando when I read the horribly malformed missives the thieves sent to be edited.
She won't be a slave. If she loses the appeals she can file chapter 7 bankruptcy and walk away from the whole mess. Not a happy outcome for her, but way better than having her wages garnished for the rest of her life. The RIAA knows they aren't going to see a penny of that huge settlement if they insist on breaking her; that's why they want to settle for a smaller amount.
If they are going to screw you over if you don't pay and you know this, then what they are doing is not "taking bribes", it is extortion. Call a shakedown a shakedown, otherwise the extortionists win the rhetoric battle.
... this isn't a file copying problem, but rather a verification problem. If a file sometimes winds a few KB short could it be that someone or some process at the destination grabbed the file before it finished copying? If that is what's happening then any file copying protocol that copies the file to a temp location and then links the file into place at completion would solve this problem.
Surely I'm not the only one who remembers Van Eck phreaking... ? That's why you don't ever want your password displayed on the screen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck
Time Machine is basically rsync + hardlinks except Apple has brought back a blast from UNIX past: hardlinking directories. This gets rid of the need to clone hardlinks of all the unchanged files in a backup directories with no changed files--- you just hardlink the directories instead.
How does being watched in public spaces restrict your freedom?
The question presupposes that talking is the correct response. If intelligent aliens visit us here in our solar system we can reasonably expect to be enslaved or slaughtered. Interstellar space travel is a stupendously expensive undertaking, and anyone attempting it will expect a return on their investment at the end. And if you believe in Vinge's technological singularity, the visitor will no doubt be from a post-singularity culture. In that case your chances of being simply engulfed courtesy of that culture's hard-takeoff are close to 100%.
So, forget talk. Running or fighting are your choices.
I'm looking forward to the weakly-superhuman AI capable of generating a movie from a book on the fly. There's no reason it shouldn't be possible given that we essentially do something similar in our heads while reading.
Alien Skin makes software to reproduce the look of vintage film stocks, including Polaroid. If you just want that Polaroid look anyone could have had it long ago without futzing with the klunky old cameras and expensive film. But you'll never convince the diehards with reason; it's not a rational decision to use it any more than preferring peanut butter over chocolate is rational.
Explain one man being hit seven times with lightning.
Easy. He lied about the last six strikes.
When you live in a multifamily building it is inevitable that one of your neighbors will be careless and set their place on fire. (It happened year seven at the place I've lived for the past nine years.) The more people there are around you, the more likely the place is to go up in flames. The largest of these apartments is about the size of a normal hotel room. So there are going to be a LOT of people around you. Will there be enough exits? Will there be proper fire barriers between the units and between the floors? Sprinklers?
... we'll be wrong. My own theory is that strong AI is the ultimate weapon and that it will never ever fall into the hands of the likes of you and me. Whether the machines get out of control is irrelevant; eventually the parties that control them will be slugging it out with weapons powerful enough to make life here hardly worth living. I expect to be dead before then, thankfully. But remember the first sentence of this post.
I like her parent's attitude. Give her every opprtunity to learn and hopefully keep her away from the jackals^H^H^H^H^H^Hother children who will persecute her in the name of "socialization." I hope she graduates college by the time she turns 18. I wish I had.
I enjoyed the first Craig-as-007 movie, but it felt like I was watching Transporter 2 or Bourne Identity. The spectacle was there, the action was there, but the 007 character had left the building. In its place there was this Cro-Magnon fighting machine, particularly in Quantum of Solace. I'm not looking forward to seeing this done to the Trek characters that have been a part of my life for over thirty years now.
Funny thing is that my biggest gripe with Trek is that they [b]ignored[/b] almost everything that had come before. Godlike races were conjured up and never mentioned again. The same went for technologies that could be crafted into fearsome weapons, with which the Federation would have been able to enslave or destroy the Romulans, the Dominion or anyone else who disagree with them. While they were cribbing from Niven they should have stolen the ARM as well, so they could have the technology police grab all the crazy weapons and tech.
As for this being a reboot, I think I'm going to enjoy it about as much as I'm enjoying the current 007 reboot, that is, not at all. If you're going to write a new story, then call it something else. "Star Trek / 007 is whatever we say it is" might be true legally, but it's a steaming crock artistically.
79 episodes, 4 matching the keyword "Klingon" in Vidiot's decades old TOS guide.
"ERRAND OF MERCY" [*** 1/2]
First aired March 23, 1967. Kirk and Spock, stranded on Organia, attempt to interfere with the Klingon occupation of the planet, despite the Organians' insistence upon the non-necessity of violence.
"THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES" [*****]
First aired December 29, 1967. Kirk must put up with Federation bureaucrats and hordes of hungry tribbles while protecting a shipment of quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon sabotage.
"A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR" [***]
First aired February 2, 1968. When the Klingons hasten the arms development of one faction on a hitherto peaceful planet, Kirk must arm the other side in order to maintain a balance of power.
"DAY OF THE DOVE" [** 1/2]
First aired November 1, 1968. Klingons and the Enterprise crew must unite to overcome an alien who feeds on the hatred between them.
I wonder if this hole has implications for Amazon's EC2 servers. Being able to "go over the wall" on a virtual server could make a big mess for them and their clients if their servers prove to be vulnerable.
Heroes, as I remember it, was carefully plotted. But I haven't watched it in a couple of years. Anyway, my point is that if time is the constraint that makes crap out of good sf, then give screenwriter and director more time so they can do proper job with the material.
Cramming Starship Troopers credibly into two hours is impossible but I think it could be serialized into a week long miniseries or a tightly scripted Heroes-type story spread over a season. The same goes for the Forever War. I'd be much more excited about projects like that rather than another butchered sf movie.
Steal it and do what with it? If I saw one of these things I'd start looking for the hidden camera, because this looks like one of the stunts Candid Camera or one of its many imitators would pull. I think the thought of unseen surveillance would keep people on their best behavior, even if they had evil thoughts.
To be clear, "Xvid" is an encoder (like DivX) and it makes MPEG4 ASP video streams. Calling a file an "Xvid" file is like calling a photocopy a "Xerox". It might have been created with a genuine Xerox machine but just looking at the paper, you wouldn't know or care.
You hope.
... to the tune of 470M per annum according to Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang, maybe we should pile on instead of boycotting them. :)