Isn't the point of a landmine to explode right under a group of people? Why does it matter if the charge is a nuclear detonation. As long as the people you are trying to nuke are withing a mile of the explosion, you're probably going to get them. Why not just do a remote control or timed device and save yourself all the hassle?
That's all fine and good if you know where you're sending your packets. But what if you have to do a DNS look up? Then you have to send several scout pigeons to the nearest aviary which will in turn send a pigeon back with a map of where to send your data pigeons.
And there's a whole other issue with those bastard Verisign Pigeons, but I'm not going to get into that now.
There's also a risk of packet sniffers who use various means to down your pigeons and read your data (no router protection).
And if they do happen to down your pigeon, they can give it new data and send it on its way as if it came from your IP (iniating pigeon). WATCH OUT CREDIT CARDS!
The solution of course is to use Pretty Good Pigeons to protect your data.
I heard one of those pitches once too. And what threw a red flag for me was: "This deal is only good today. Once you walk out that door, I can't legally offer you a price this low again." First of all... against the law to offer me a discount price after I leave? Secondly, the time limit and pressure shows that the salesman doesn't want you to have time to think things over. WHOOP WHOOOP Sirens should be going off in your head!
After an hour long tour (which was actually enjoyable) and listening to the sales pitch, I started to feel a tiny bit pursuaded. And that feeling made me so uncomfortable (knowing that his smooth talking had even slight power over my thought process) that I got up and left. Although as soon as I did, the salesman informed me that a new deal had just opened up. It was for half the original price, and he couldn't legally offer it to me once I walked out the door...
Interestingly enough, one of the best ways to get modded up is to invite the moderator to mod you down. As in:
There I said, it. I know my opinion is in the minority go ahead and mod me down.
Including such a statement greatly increases the chances of being modded up as insightful or interesting. The old reverse phychology / don't oppress the little guy approach.
You probably disgree with my analysis, so go ahead mod me down for it.
I often find that the best way to pursuade someone is to call them an insensitive clod, or a dolt, or something equally as curt and dimeaning for not seeing my point of view.
I'll admit right away that I'm not familiar with France's free speech laws.
But from a common sense point of view, I really don't see how telling the truth about weak software can be illegal. It may lead to damage to a company, but that damage was caused by the security holes, not someone exposing them (hidden defects are a ticking timebomb anyway.)
From the common sense view point, it also seems right to inform the company first, before telling everybody. But telling the truth should not be illegal.
No one wants your copyrighted code so it doesn't matter.
Posting negative comments as a coward with no substance? Hmmm
I never said it was code, and it happens to be worth a reasonable amount of royalty money. That only strengthens my point when I write to my congressmen. I don't think the DMCA or similar laws are necessary to protect my property and I think they do more harm than good.
I agree. The right to make backups should be protected (you can currently deny it to a consumer via the DMCA). I wouldn't mind so much not being able to back up a CD if the company would ship a replacement for cost. But I don't see that happenning any time soon.
Ever notice on the back of many products it says "This is the sole property of XXXX, all rights reserved, duplication, modification, or passing this to a friend is illegal
I have seen those notices, and those are what bother me. If the representative government decides something is truley harmful, and that there are no legitimate uses, then they can outlaw it. But, to my understanding, a company cannot alter the provisions of a sale without you specifically agreeing. That is why a court threw out a provision denying the right of first sale in the Adobe EULA.
If I sign a contract agreeing not to use a product in a certain way, or not to sell it to anyone else, then I've sacrificed my own rights. But no company has the right to tell me that I cannot sell or use their product in a manner outside what they intended it for.
This is what dumbs down the entire population - the idea that you have no control and shouldn't be interested in knowing or doing anything. You should just get your pay check and spend it. That is your purpose.
Actually, I have sent two letters to each of my congressmen concerning DMCA/copyright issues. In each I have noted that I am a copyright owner, and that I am totally against laws that skew the balance between copyright holders and copyright consumers.
I would encourage everyone else to contact their congressmen as well. Most of them have a contact form on their webpage.
I don't like the gun analogy because, like the Nazi analogy and many others, it brings a lot of emotion that is unrelated to the main point. To make your analogy match more fully, there would be many perfectly legitimate uses for an automatic weapon, as there are for a processor and electronic hardware like a modded XBox.
And, yes, I think most can agree that the damage is in the act of killing with the automatic weapon, not in the posession the weapon.
Modifying something you own is NOT illegal. You might be able to do something illegal as a result. Then that action would be illegal, not the modification.
When I was a kid, nothing was soldered shut. You could open any product you wanted to fix it or see how it worked.
Recently, I've seen companies try to scare you into not altering what you buy through voiding warranties and placing intimidating stickers on access panels.
I'm getting sort of sick of it. Once I buy something, it is mine to do with as I please. I can meddle with it, improve it, or smash it with a hammer. It's mine. And I'd appreciate if they could all remember that.
I realized after writing this that you may be referring to the fact that you need an internal jump to execute "if A then B". I don't know if the Z3 implemented an internal jump in an IF statement or not. It was certainly doable, since, as I mentioned, Zuse used a jump in the floating point arithmetic. I won't guess whether that's what he did or not, since that would just be noise.
He invented a mechanical computing machine that I think is most like what we think of today as a computer. It was programmable, digital, and stored data on a tape. It had memory similar to RAM. It didn't become famous because he did his work in Germany during the WW2 period. Others were independantly working on similar projects in Europe and America, which is why we tend to think of them first.
To my knowledge Babbage started working on theory prior to Zuse's first computer, the Z1, was completed. But Zuse had independantly created his own theory and language before Babbage. Furthermore, I don't think Babbage ever made a working Analytical Engine, whereas Zuse made the Z1, Z2, and Z3.
I could look up more if you're interested.
If I've gotten anything wrong, feel free to point it out.
Not only did Tesla get royally screwed out of his biggest inventions, the original creator of a digital computer, Konrad Zues, hardly ever gets credit either. Windows and Apple...
The lesson is not to try to hard yourself. But to watch others closely for good ideas you can steal.
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I was wondering that myself. If nuclear material is hot enough to run a power plant, why can't it keep itself warm?
Seymour Cray would've used oxen to warm his nuclear landmine.
Isn't the point of a landmine to explode right under a group of people? Why does it matter if the charge is a nuclear detonation. As long as the people you are trying to nuke are withing a mile of the explosion, you're probably going to get them. Why not just do a remote control or timed device and save yourself all the hassle?
That's all fine and good if you know where you're sending your packets. But what if you have to do a DNS look up? Then you have to send several scout pigeons to the nearest aviary which will in turn send a pigeon back with a map of where to send your data pigeons.
And there's a whole other issue with those bastard Verisign Pigeons, but I'm not going to get into that now.
There's also a risk of packet sniffers who use various means to down your pigeons and read your data (no router protection).
And if they do happen to down your pigeon, they can give it new data and send it on its way as if it came from your IP (iniating pigeon). WATCH OUT CREDIT CARDS!
The solution of course is to use Pretty Good Pigeons to protect your data.
Not to pick on you, but didn't the author just warn you against group think?
I don't believe in God because those brilliant guys did. I'm just mentioning that they did. I would believe anyway.
Parent is not offtopic (currently modded that way). It is a Simpsons quote in wich Homer tries to brainwash TV viewers with a picture of Rudy.
I heard one of those pitches once too. And what threw a red flag for me was: "This deal is only good today. Once you walk out that door, I can't legally offer you a price this low again." First of all... against the law to offer me a discount price after I leave? Secondly, the time limit and pressure shows that the salesman doesn't want you to have time to think things over. WHOOP WHOOOP Sirens should be going off in your head!
After an hour long tour (which was actually enjoyable) and listening to the sales pitch, I started to feel a tiny bit pursuaded. And that feeling made me so uncomfortable (knowing that his smooth talking had even slight power over my thought process) that I got up and left. Although as soon as I did, the salesman informed me that a new deal had just opened up. It was for half the original price, and he couldn't legally offer it to me once I walked out the door...
Interestingly enough, one of the best ways to get modded up is to invite the moderator to mod you down. As in:
There I said, it. I know my opinion is in the minority go ahead and mod me down.
Including such a statement greatly increases the chances of being modded up as insightful or interesting. The old reverse phychology / don't oppress the little guy approach.
You probably disgree with my analysis, so go ahead mod me down for it.
I often find that the best way to pursuade someone is to call them an insensitive clod, or a dolt, or something equally as curt and dimeaning for not seeing my point of view.
That's very intersting! There are some crazy laws out there. Some local laws are just amazing.
I'll admit right away that I'm not familiar with France's free speech laws.
But from a common sense point of view, I really don't see how telling the truth about weak software can be illegal. It may lead to damage to a company, but that damage was caused by the security holes, not someone exposing them (hidden defects are a ticking timebomb anyway.)
From the common sense view point, it also seems right to inform the company first, before telling everybody. But telling the truth should not be illegal.
No one wants your copyrighted code so it doesn't matter.
Posting negative comments as a coward with no substance? Hmmm
I never said it was code, and it happens to be worth a reasonable amount of royalty money. That only strengthens my point when I write to my congressmen. I don't think the DMCA or similar laws are necessary to protect my property and I think they do more harm than good.
I agree. The right to make backups should be protected (you can currently deny it to a consumer via the DMCA). I wouldn't mind so much not being able to back up a CD if the company would ship a replacement for cost. But I don't see that happenning any time soon.
Ever notice on the back of many products it says "This is the sole property of XXXX, all rights reserved, duplication, modification, or passing this to a friend is illegal
I have seen those notices, and those are what bother me. If the representative government decides something is truley harmful, and that there are no legitimate uses, then they can outlaw it. But, to my understanding, a company cannot alter the provisions of a sale without you specifically agreeing. That is why a court threw out a provision denying the right of first sale in the Adobe EULA.
If I sign a contract agreeing not to use a product in a certain way, or not to sell it to anyone else, then I've sacrificed my own rights. But no company has the right to tell me that I cannot sell or use their product in a manner outside what they intended it for.
This is what dumbs down the entire population - the idea that you have no control and shouldn't be interested in knowing or doing anything. You should just get your pay check and spend it. That is your purpose.
What a crock!
Actually, I have sent two letters to each of my congressmen concerning DMCA/copyright issues. In each I have noted that I am a copyright owner, and that I am totally against laws that skew the balance between copyright holders and copyright consumers.
I would encourage everyone else to contact their congressmen as well. Most of them have a contact form on their webpage.
I don't like the gun analogy because, like the Nazi analogy and many others, it brings a lot of emotion that is unrelated to the main point. To make your analogy match more fully, there would be many perfectly legitimate uses for an automatic weapon, as there are for a processor and electronic hardware like a modded XBox.
And, yes, I think most can agree that the damage is in the act of killing with the automatic weapon, not in the posession the weapon.
Modifying something you own is NOT illegal. You might be able to do something illegal as a result. Then that action would be illegal, not the modification.
When I was a kid, nothing was soldered shut. You could open any product you wanted to fix it or see how it worked.
Recently, I've seen companies try to scare you into not altering what you buy through voiding warranties and placing intimidating stickers on access panels.
I'm getting sort of sick of it. Once I buy something, it is mine to do with as I please. I can meddle with it, improve it, or smash it with a hammer. It's mine. And I'd appreciate if they could all remember that.
I realized after writing this that you may be referring to the fact that you need an internal jump to execute "if A then B". I don't know if the Z3 implemented an internal jump in an IF statement or not. It was certainly doable, since, as I mentioned, Zuse used a jump in the floating point arithmetic. I won't guess whether that's what he did or not, since that would just be noise.
You are aware that Zuse and Babbage were not contemporaries? Babbage was a half century in the grave before Zuse was born.
You are absolutely right. I don't know that much about Babbage, and I wasn't even looking at the two most significant digits of the date!
So Zuse couldn't have done any theory before Babbage.
I think the Z3 was a fully functional/fully programmable computer. http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse/en/Re chner_Z3.html
You are correct that it did not have a jump instruction (although it implimented one internally for float arithmetic).
So you could not represent "Goto D" but goto is not required to be fully programmable.
But you could represent "if A then B else C" since it is just shorthand for "if A then B" "if !A then C"
I got the spelling wrong, that's: Zuse
i cians/Zuse.html
Here's a general info link:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathemat
He invented a mechanical computing machine that I think is most like what we think of today as a computer. It was programmable, digital, and stored data on a tape. It had memory similar to RAM. It didn't become famous because he did his work in Germany during the WW2 period. Others were independantly working on similar projects in Europe and America, which is why we tend to think of them first.
To my knowledge Babbage started working on theory prior to Zuse's first computer, the Z1, was completed. But Zuse had independantly created his own theory and language before Babbage. Furthermore, I don't think Babbage ever made a working Analytical Engine, whereas Zuse made the Z1, Z2, and Z3.
I could look up more if you're interested.
If I've gotten anything wrong, feel free to point it out.
You know what else I just thought of...
Not only did Tesla get royally screwed out of his biggest inventions, the original creator of a digital computer, Konrad Zues, hardly ever gets credit either. Windows and Apple...
The lesson is not to try to hard yourself. But to watch others closely for good ideas you can steal.
Tesla will just have to settle for creating 40 foot arcs of lightning and enough inventions to fill a museum.
Gavin Weightman tells the story of the life of Guglielmo Marconi...
My guess...
Up until the point he revolutionized communication, he got beat up a lot and kids called him Goulash Macaroni.
Why do people mark these comments flamebait, at least the post is speaking some level of truth.
Thanks for having my back. I'm not trashing Mandrake. I have it on one of my machines and happen to think they are excellent in several UI areas.
But they do REALLY push you send them a check. Here's the link:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3