The fellow makes a point in his Winners list that some CD sales might have gone down since DVDs are now taking up so much space in record stores. What he didn't mention is that you can get a DVD of a movie for $20 while just the soundtrack on DVD costs you $16. The movie industry wins my $20.
Auto theft is already profitable for the auto industry. A car is stolen (and presumably chopped up for its parts) means the owner gets a fat cheque from his insurance to get - a NEW car from the auto maker. Why else are cars so easy to steal out from the factory with only a slim jim and perhaps a screwdriver? There is no business case for making cars harder to steal for the auto industry.
If 2600 couldn't even link to sites offering DeCSS downloads, does the DMCA also prohibit news sites and Slashdot from even mentioning that markers can defeat Sony's CD copy protection mechanism? Whoops, did I just incriminate myself?
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You haven't noticed any MS bias reading MSNBC articles? What about the articles that you couldn't read that they chose not to run? Don't think you have the whole picture just by reading MSNBC for bias.
The ISS has been a naked-eye object since the launch of its first module. I've been watching it, along with the occasional tailing shuttle, for the past year or so, all without telescopes and binoculars. The new solar panels will make it much brighter, however; apparently it will outshine Sirius and Venus, the brightest objects in the sky next to the Sun and Moon.
I'm a Rogers Excite@Home customer, and I can assure everyone @Home broadband is safe: they knock you off their network for hours or days to make sure! You can't get hacked when you're off their network, which is quite often. Service has stunk lately, with email outtages lasting entire week-ends (and who knows if emails bounce or are lost). Now that's a good firewall.
And it was Hunkapiller who set up Celera Genomics (Celera sells genomic information) which, using 300 of the new meahines, was sequencing the human genome years ahead of the publicly financed Genome Project.
Latest Scientific American mentions how the publicly financed Human Genome Project posted its progressing results on the Internet and Celera would download and use the information to speed themselves along -- so saying how brilliant Celera was "years ahead" of the Genome Project is misleading and is not the full story. If you are interested in this stuff, get the latest SciAm issue at once.
The first real holodeck-gone-wrong story for me was the film "Westworld." Everything else ever done in the Star Trek series was just a rehash of this same film, including yesterday's horrid X-Files episode. And who knows, perhaps it wasn't even original in "Westworld" either...
It was Starlog #19. I too still have it, and had watched the original broadcast when it played. Being only 12, I don't remember hating it, but I remember being disappointed at the concentration on the folks in the ape suits rather than the cast of Star Wars. Ah well, the garbage one can feed 12-year-olds eh...
If I had a scanner, I'd scan in the article and cover and slam it on my homepage... I should have one in January!
With all these hundreds of comments, I imagine we lowly SlashDot readers 86'ed (or 8086ed?) the server containing the ST:Excellent story...why else would it suddenly go tits-up (or is that slash-dot?) after breaking news we Trek zombies would kill to read first-hand...
"ST is the McDonald's of science-fiction." -- David Gerrold, in Ellison's delicious "City on the Edge of Forever"
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Gee, I should preview before submitting - that last line should read "while just the soundtrack on CD costs you $16"...
The fellow makes a point in his Winners list that some CD sales might have gone down since DVDs are now taking up so much space in record stores. What he didn't mention is that you can get a DVD of a movie for $20 while just the soundtrack on DVD costs you $16. The movie industry wins my $20.
Auto theft is already profitable for the auto industry. A car is stolen (and presumably chopped up for its parts) means the owner gets a fat cheque from his insurance to get - a NEW car from the auto maker. Why else are cars so easy to steal out from the factory with only a slim jim and perhaps a screwdriver? There is no business case for making cars harder to steal for the auto industry.
If 2600 couldn't even link to sites offering DeCSS downloads, does the DMCA also prohibit news sites and Slashdot from even mentioning that markers can defeat Sony's CD copy protection mechanism? Whoops, did I just incriminate myself?
You haven't noticed any MS bias reading MSNBC articles? What about the articles that you couldn't read that they chose not to run? Don't think you have the whole picture just by reading MSNBC for bias.
The ISS has been a naked-eye object since the launch of its first module. I've been watching it, along with the occasional tailing shuttle, for the past year or so, all without telescopes and binoculars. The new solar panels will make it much brighter, however; apparently it will outshine Sirius and Venus, the brightest objects in the sky next to the Sun and Moon.
I'm a Rogers Excite@Home customer, and I can assure everyone @Home broadband is safe: they knock you off their network for hours or days to make sure! You can't get hacked when you're off their network, which is quite often. Service has stunk lately, with email outtages lasting entire week-ends (and who knows if emails bounce or are lost). Now that's a good firewall.
And it was Hunkapiller who set up Celera Genomics (Celera sells genomic information) which, using 300 of the new meahines, was sequencing the human genome years ahead of the publicly financed Genome Project.
Latest Scientific American mentions how the publicly financed Human Genome Project posted its progressing results on the Internet and Celera would download and use the information to speed themselves along -- so saying how brilliant Celera was "years ahead" of the Genome Project is misleading and is not the full story. If you are interested in this stuff, get the latest SciAm issue at once.
Francois Kupo
The first real holodeck-gone-wrong story for me was the film "Westworld." Everything else ever done in the Star Trek series was just a rehash of this same film, including yesterday's horrid X-Files episode. And who knows, perhaps it wasn't even original in "Westworld" either...
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Francois Kupo
It was Starlog #19. I too still have it, and had watched the original broadcast when it played. Being only 12, I don't remember hating it, but I remember being disappointed at the concentration on the folks in the ape suits rather than the cast of Star Wars. Ah well, the garbage one can feed 12-year-olds eh...
If I had a scanner, I'd scan in the article and cover and slam it on my homepage... I should have one in January!
With all these hundreds of comments, I imagine we lowly SlashDot readers 86'ed (or 8086ed?) the server containing the ST:Excellent story...why else would it suddenly go tits-up (or is that slash-dot?) after breaking news we Trek zombies would kill to read first-hand...
"ST is the McDonald's of science-fiction." -- David Gerrold, in Ellison's delicious "City on the Edge of Forever"