That would be cool. I'm not a Trek Fan (except for TNG) and I never watched B5 until just last month (the entire series in one week). But Bester was an excellent character, played to perfection by Koenig.
Of course, Koenig is also about 70 now. He's young-looking, but with the rest of the original Trek players dying off in the last decade, he may not be around long.
Of course, another option would be to have a "TNG: Children"... Sort of like how they had a Scooby Doo series, based on child-versions of the original Scooby Doo characters. *snicker*
This article should be from the "beating a dead horse department".
Seriously. Outside of The Next Generation, all Star Treks (including the original) are pretty lame, uninteresting, boring, cookie-cutter and about as sci-fi as "Little Wonder" with the robotic Vicki.
A lot of companies and products use SHA1 in some form or another. Does this mean that we can arrest and imprison these "researchers" if they ever step foot in America?
First, your justification of the media levy is irrelevant. Even if the media levy does legalize downloading music you do not own over the net, it doesn't make the levy right. If I don't download or copy any material that I don't rightly own in the first place and just want some storage for archiving my family photos or digital videos - who are you to tax me for it and hand it over to the CRIA?
Second, Tom Leykis was banned from radio in Canada because his content was deemed "hate speech". For anyone who is not familiar with his show, it's no worse than what you'd hear from the nattering old hens on The View about men, except on his show the sexes are reversed. He talks a lot about staying out of serious relationships and focusing on getting laid without getting (financially) screwed.
He's never advocated the mistreatment, abuse or hatred of women in anyway whatsoever. But there you have it. People don't like the fact that someone says something they disagree with and isn't politically correct (I'm sure it'd be fine to bash MEN for hours every day on Canadian radio) - and you get yanked off the air. That reeks of censorship, to me.
Oh, and how is this for an interesting Canadian tidbit?
BLASPHEMY
There's no law in Canada that says you have to believe in God, but be careful about what you might say about Him. Section 296(1) of the Criminal Code warns that "Every one who publishes a blasphemous libel is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years."
Right. MS licenses the content from the US Government (assuming it's a government sat that takes the photos and not a private one). Nevertheless, they're using the photos for a commercial enterprise and I see no difference between them photographing this place and someone on the ground photographing it and being charged, except the angle of the photo.
If I get some clay or some iron and a welding torch and I build an exact copy of your sculpture for public display or sale, I'm violating your work. I might even grant that the person should be compensated if someone were to create and sell postcards where the sole selling point was a photo of the sculpture on the front.
Anything short of that is ridiculous.
Better get permission from Ford and GMC next time you take a photo where a vehical is in the background.
Canada isn't any better. They have a some serious censorship problems. Especially when it comes to radio broadcasting. And you'd be a fool to think that their RIAA/MPAA equivelant is any different. They have absurd royalty and copyright problems just like America. Not to mention, bizarre taxation of blank media.
Any largely democratized nation - especially one with free trade - will suffer the same problems as the US sooner or later (if they aren't already). Not only due to their own stupid government and politicians, but due to ours imposing on them. Extraditions, embargos, trade agreements centered around "okay, but first you have to agree to the DMCA and sign this waiver saying we can send the CIA in to nab your citizens when the RIAA tells us to"...
In all, about $200 million of the funding came from private contributors whose names are sprinkled throughout the park -- Wrigley Square, Bank One Promenade, BP Pedestrian Bridge, McCormick Tribune Plaza, the Lurie Garden.
This is depressing. I would rather not have a park than have a park like this, where my city has completely sold out to build it. Using taxes to help a billionaire build a sports stadium (Paul Allen) and name it after their businesses is bad enough.
Remember that episode of The Simpsons, where Homer went around labeling EVERYTHING? Grass, trees, roads, signs, cats, hamsters, cars, mailboxes, windows and picnic tables?
I do not want to take my child to the Bank One public park to play on the Enron monkey-bars, next to the American Express sculpture, while I sit on a Starbucks bench and listen to the splashing water of the WalMart fountains across the McDonald's field, while families around us are feeding bread to the ducks in the General Motors duck pond.
Does this mean that, next time Microsoft's terraserver updates the area (seems to happen every two or three years for major cities), they'll have to pay royalties for the right to show the piece of land "The Bean" is on?
I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that. - (Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003)
In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless. - 2002 interview with Harvard Political Review's Derek Slater
If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. - Nov, 2003
Copyright should last forever less one day
We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault... and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine, the VCR. The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology threatens an entire industry's economic vitality and future security. [The new technology - the VCR] is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. - Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America, testifying on videocassette recorders before the House Judiciary Committee in 1982.
Cable will become a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair. - On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
Wrong. Many - if not most - public school districts have done just that for at least two or three decades. If your child isn't in school that morning, you can expect a phone call by mid-morning or noon at the latest.
None of those scenerios makes the attempt any more of a "big brother" action than the way they already take attendance and follow up (immediately) on absences in school. It makes the solution potentially less reliable, but that is an issue unrelated to "tracking students is big brother".
Besides, I think it's commonly known that children do not have the same rights and benefits of the bill of rights or other liberties that full citizens do.
1) Student walks into class. Sits in seat. Teacher calls name. Teacher completes attendance call and sends it to the office down the hall. Office down the hall compiles a list of students who are not in attendance, but should be. School's office calls parents sometime that morning to report that the child is not in school and tries to find out why.
2) Student walks into class. As they enter, scanner in entrance reads the RFID tag on their card. Computer in the office down the hall updates the attendance list. Students who should be in attendance, but are not, are listed out and their parents are called that morning to notify them that the child is not in school and find out why.
The difference, other than not having to physically write down and send the attendance report down the hall anymore, is what?
I'm not a fan of radical RFID use. I'm skeptical of many uses, such as sticking them in bank cards so that when you step through the doors of your local branch, they know whether they can ignore you or if you're a significant enough customer that they should meet you at the door and give you tip-top attention.
This just doesn't seem like a big deal. Rather than wasting class time doing roll-call, they automate it so that as soon as you walk into the class, you're counted as present. This will help parents and school officials know that students are not missing and are where they should be. Maybe they'll even implement full blown java cards to ensure that only the AV-club students can access the AV room, only faculty can access the faculty lounge and so on. Even better would be requiring the use of a java card to gain access to the school at all. Swipe the card to get in the front door. No more lunatics wandering the halls.
Oh, and most adults have to use these cards in the real world, too. The only difference is that we have to swipe our cards and that swipe usually ends up in a database, logging the time, door and building we entered. The only difference here is that the RFID readers in the door eliminate the need to swipe the card.
I also don't see the big deal with tagging body parts like this. It enforced accountability and I'm pretty sure dead people or someone who no longer has that arm attached to them doesn't much care what happens to it - tagged or not.
Also, any remotely intelligent kid will just wrap the card with a couple layers of tin foil, stick it in their lunch box, etc.
Like I said, I'm a really skeptical person when it comes to RFIDs. I hate the idea of tagging, tracking and cataloging EVERYTHING under the sun. But these two cited implementations seem entirely reasonable.
You know, I heard a woman on the Art Bell program almost a full decade ago who had supposedly miraculously cured herself of cancer despite the expectations of the medical community. She was supposedly a doctor in her own right and had decided to follow her own regimine rather than just the one prescribed by her doctors.
She ditched the chemo and, among other things, consumed an extraordinary amount of carrots, carrot juice and orange juice in her diet. Granted, this was on the Art Bell show, but I thought it was interesting when I saw this supposed research paper.
Whether or not they're actively pursuing SPAM as a business venture, they have an obligation to perform even the most rudimentary examination of their potential customers to prevent providing services to known spammers. Not only is this important for the health of mail servers everywhere, but for all of their other customers who pay good money and should not have 80% of their outbound email refused because someone MCI is providing services to on another IP address (but in the same block) is abusing their services and has caused everyone to be blacklisted.
We're not talking about expensive blacklists here. We're talking about some lackey at MCI going to Spamhaus and checking if the person or business signing up with them is in the top ROKSO list of top 200 professional spammers. There is no excuse for providing services to these people, other than laziness, greed and disgregard for their other customers.
Take iMedia, for example. It's very simple to do a check for iMedia and find all of the commonly registered names under which they do business. Someone signs up a dozen accounts with marked names from this list - deny them business. You've just saved your company's reputation, your customer services representatives time and aggrivation, your other customer's frustration and business (nobody likes being unfairly blacklisted for weeks at a time, because of your poor business practices) and mail administrators the world over.
Or . . . just grab the money and run. That's MCI/WorldCom's way, after all. From the top down.
Awhile back, fewer peopel attended college. It was, indeed, a form of higher-education.
Today, college is an expectation of all persons much in the way highschool once was. So you have a greater variety (and lower common denominator) of potential students - few of them capable or interested in true "higher education".
So, to appeal to the vast sea of potential students, they turn colleges into vocational schools. Welding, back massage, basket weaving . . .
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That would be cool. I'm not a Trek Fan (except for TNG) and I never watched B5 until just last month (the entire series in one week). But Bester was an excellent character, played to perfection by Koenig.
Of course, Koenig is also about 70 now. He's young-looking, but with the rest of the original Trek players dying off in the last decade, he may not be around long.
Of course, another option would be to have a "TNG: Children"... Sort of like how they had a Scooby Doo series, based on child-versions of the original Scooby Doo characters. *snicker*
More Wil Wheaton!
This article should be from the "beating a dead horse department".
Seriously. Outside of The Next Generation, all Star Treks (including the original) are pretty lame, uninteresting, boring, cookie-cutter and about as sci-fi as "Little Wonder" with the robotic Vicki.
*yawn*
A lot of companies and products use SHA1 in some form or another. Does this mean that we can arrest and imprison these "researchers" if they ever step foot in America?
Who the hell is Gil Sellers?
Remember, some of us don't play Final Fantasy.
God, no kidding!
If I'd have known this internet thing was going to take off, I would have posted with much more caution when I was a teenager.
Sir, you are my favorite Slashdotter, even though you do have six digits in your UID. That is post of the year, right there. If not all-time.
Haven't most multiplayer videogames been offering statistical breakdowns like this for years?
No kidding. Since when did Art Bells and George Noorey start guest editor-ing on Slashdot?!
First, your justification of the media levy is irrelevant. Even if the media levy does legalize downloading music you do not own over the net, it doesn't make the levy right. If I don't download or copy any material that I don't rightly own in the first place and just want some storage for archiving my family photos or digital videos - who are you to tax me for it and hand it over to the CRIA?
Second, Tom Leykis was banned from radio in Canada because his content was deemed "hate speech". For anyone who is not familiar with his show, it's no worse than what you'd hear from the nattering old hens on The View about men, except on his show the sexes are reversed. He talks a lot about staying out of serious relationships and focusing on getting laid without getting (financially) screwed.
He's never advocated the mistreatment, abuse or hatred of women in anyway whatsoever. But there you have it. People don't like the fact that someone says something they disagree with and isn't politically correct (I'm sure it'd be fine to bash MEN for hours every day on Canadian radio) - and you get yanked off the air. That reeks of censorship, to me.
Oh, and how is this for an interesting Canadian tidbit?
BLASPHEMY
There's no law in Canada that says you have to believe in God, but be careful about what you might say about Him. Section 296(1) of the Criminal Code warns that "Every one who publishes a blasphemous libel is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for two years."
That you can believe.
Right. MS licenses the content from the US Government (assuming it's a government sat that takes the photos and not a private one). Nevertheless, they're using the photos for a commercial enterprise and I see no difference between them photographing this place and someone on the ground photographing it and being charged, except the angle of the photo.
No, this is like ford SELLING you a car, then telling you that you can't take photoes of it.
What's grey about it?
If I get some clay or some iron and a welding torch and I build an exact copy of your sculpture for public display or sale, I'm violating your work. I might even grant that the person should be compensated if someone were to create and sell postcards where the sole selling point was a photo of the sculpture on the front.
Anything short of that is ridiculous.
Better get permission from Ford and GMC next time you take a photo where a vehical is in the background.
Canada isn't any better. They have a some serious censorship problems. Especially when it comes to radio broadcasting. And you'd be a fool to think that their RIAA/MPAA equivelant is any different. They have absurd royalty and copyright problems just like America. Not to mention, bizarre taxation of blank media.
Any largely democratized nation - especially one with free trade - will suffer the same problems as the US sooner or later (if they aren't already). Not only due to their own stupid government and politicians, but due to ours imposing on them. Extraditions, embargos, trade agreements centered around "okay, but first you have to agree to the DMCA and sign this waiver saying we can send the CIA in to nab your citizens when the RIAA tells us to"...
In all, about $200 million of the funding came from private contributors whose names are sprinkled throughout the park -- Wrigley Square, Bank One Promenade, BP Pedestrian Bridge, McCormick Tribune Plaza, the Lurie Garden.
This is depressing. I would rather not have a park than have a park like this, where my city has completely sold out to build it. Using taxes to help a billionaire build a sports stadium (Paul Allen) and name it after their businesses is bad enough.
Remember that episode of The Simpsons, where Homer went around labeling EVERYTHING? Grass, trees, roads, signs, cats, hamsters, cars, mailboxes, windows and picnic tables?
I do not want to take my child to the Bank One public park to play on the Enron monkey-bars, next to the American Express sculpture, while I sit on a Starbucks bench and listen to the splashing water of the WalMart fountains across the McDonald's field, while families around us are feeding bread to the ducks in the General Motors duck pond.
Does this mean that, next time Microsoft's terraserver updates the area (seems to happen every two or three years for major cities), they'll have to pay royalties for the right to show the piece of land "The Bean" is on?
How is taking a photo of a sculpture "reproducing" it anymore than taking a photo of an album is stealing the music?
I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that. - (Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003)
In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless. - 2002 interview with Harvard Political Review's Derek Slater
If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one. - Nov, 2003
Copyright should last forever less one day
We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault ... and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry ... whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine, the VCR. The growing and dangerous intrusion of this new technology threatens an entire industry's economic vitality and future security. [The new technology - the VCR] is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. - Jack Valenti, President, Motion Picture Association of America, testifying on videocassette recorders before the House Judiciary Committee in 1982.
Cable will become a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair. - On the nascent cable industry, in 1974
Wrong. Many - if not most - public school districts have done just that for at least two or three decades. If your child isn't in school that morning, you can expect a phone call by mid-morning or noon at the latest.
None of those scenerios makes the attempt any more of a "big brother" action than the way they already take attendance and follow up (immediately) on absences in school. It makes the solution potentially less reliable, but that is an issue unrelated to "tracking students is big brother".
Besides, I think it's commonly known that children do not have the same rights and benefits of the bill of rights or other liberties that full citizens do.
You don't understand RFID.
Two scenerios:
1) Student walks into class. Sits in seat. Teacher calls name. Teacher completes attendance call and sends it to the office down the hall. Office down the hall compiles a list of students who are not in attendance, but should be. School's office calls parents sometime that morning to report that the child is not in school and tries to find out why.
2) Student walks into class. As they enter, scanner in entrance reads the RFID tag on their card. Computer in the office down the hall updates the attendance list. Students who should be in attendance, but are not, are listed out and their parents are called that morning to notify them that the child is not in school and find out why.
The difference, other than not having to physically write down and send the attendance report down the hall anymore, is what?
I'm not a fan of radical RFID use. I'm skeptical of many uses, such as sticking them in bank cards so that when you step through the doors of your local branch, they know whether they can ignore you or if you're a significant enough customer that they should meet you at the door and give you tip-top attention.
This just doesn't seem like a big deal. Rather than wasting class time doing roll-call, they automate it so that as soon as you walk into the class, you're counted as present. This will help parents and school officials know that students are not missing and are where they should be. Maybe they'll even implement full blown java cards to ensure that only the AV-club students can access the AV room, only faculty can access the faculty lounge and so on. Even better would be requiring the use of a java card to gain access to the school at all. Swipe the card to get in the front door. No more lunatics wandering the halls.
Oh, and most adults have to use these cards in the real world, too. The only difference is that we have to swipe our cards and that swipe usually ends up in a database, logging the time, door and building we entered. The only difference here is that the RFID readers in the door eliminate the need to swipe the card.
I also don't see the big deal with tagging body parts like this. It enforced accountability and I'm pretty sure dead people or someone who no longer has that arm attached to them doesn't much care what happens to it - tagged or not.
Also, any remotely intelligent kid will just wrap the card with a couple layers of tin foil, stick it in their lunch box, etc.
Like I said, I'm a really skeptical person when it comes to RFIDs. I hate the idea of tagging, tracking and cataloging EVERYTHING under the sun. But these two cited implementations seem entirely reasonable.
You know, I heard a woman on the Art Bell program almost a full decade ago who had supposedly miraculously cured herself of cancer despite the expectations of the medical community. She was supposedly a doctor in her own right and had decided to follow her own regimine rather than just the one prescribed by her doctors.
She ditched the chemo and, among other things, consumed an extraordinary amount of carrots, carrot juice and orange juice in her diet. Granted, this was on the Art Bell show, but I thought it was interesting when I saw this supposed research paper.
Whether or not they're actively pursuing SPAM as a business venture, they have an obligation to perform even the most rudimentary examination of their potential customers to prevent providing services to known spammers. Not only is this important for the health of mail servers everywhere, but for all of their other customers who pay good money and should not have 80% of their outbound email refused because someone MCI is providing services to on another IP address (but in the same block) is abusing their services and has caused everyone to be blacklisted.
We're not talking about expensive blacklists here. We're talking about some lackey at MCI going to Spamhaus and checking if the person or business signing up with them is in the top ROKSO list of top 200 professional spammers. There is no excuse for providing services to these people, other than laziness, greed and disgregard for their other customers.
Take iMedia, for example. It's very simple to do a check for iMedia and find all of the commonly registered names under which they do business. Someone signs up a dozen accounts with marked names from this list - deny them business. You've just saved your company's reputation, your customer services representatives time and aggrivation, your other customer's frustration and business (nobody likes being unfairly blacklisted for weeks at a time, because of your poor business practices) and mail administrators the world over.
Or . . . just grab the money and run. That's MCI/WorldCom's way, after all. From the top down.
Awhile back, fewer peopel attended college. It was, indeed, a form of higher-education.
Today, college is an expectation of all persons much in the way highschool once was. So you have a greater variety (and lower common denominator) of potential students - few of them capable or interested in true "higher education".
So, to appeal to the vast sea of potential students, they turn colleges into vocational schools. Welding, back massage, basket weaving . . .