You only really shut the curtains when the outside light is a lot brighter than the monitor and starts causing glare. As long as the light coming through is brighter than the light reflecting off the viewing surface, the image should be fine. Try look through a window of a house (your house, preferably) on a full moon night; once with the interior lights off, and once with them on. Same idea.
The 3.8 watt output from a single panel wouldn't be sufficient for the lcd to power itself, would it? If not, how many panels would actually be needed? The idea is great, though. Reduce incoming/outgoing light, produce energy to further help offset the cooling or heating costs and (if you can link them) the world's biggest monitor. It's too bad they didn't post any specs of the resolution/refresh rate. Put D3 (or a good pr0n feed) on that, and you might have the only reason for hardcore gamers to step out into natural sunlight.
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Sure, monitor one of the known ends and dumping the packets to file for cracking later. Of course, the main question is how practical would it be to do? If the encryption has a good algorithm, then it could be too computationally expensive to decrypt meaningful amounts of data. If the algorithm is weak, then near real-time monitoring might be practical. Besides, reading the article, it's being set up more to help intelligence spooks do research without tipping everybody else in the world off. Not including terrorists and foriegn goverments, lots of entities would love to know what the US intelligence community finds interesting.
Mind you, it's doubtful the average user would be doing anything that interests the military. If you're seriouly worried about the military/goverment monitoring your home internet sessions, you probably need medication (or a lawyer). With everything else going on in the world, I'm sure even Big Brother needs a reason to focus his all seeing eye towards you...
If you don't have money, donate time. If you don't want to give time to a particular canidate, then give it to the community. If there are issues you want to have addressed, find out who else feels the same way and form a group to make your voices stand out. Half the time bills are passed because nobody does anything but complain to everyone but the official in charge. Politicians aren't psychic, so they don't know what you're thinking (thank god). Coherently, rationally, and intelligently spell out what it is you want. Then tell them. Get like-minded individuals together and say it again. This is one of those processes that requires faith and effort to work. Example: Years ago, my mother donated lots of time to the campaign of a republican canidate she thought would make a good Mayor for the island of Maui. That canidate got elected Mayor, served 2 (?) terms and went on to become the current Governor of Hawaii. She was the first republican Governor in 40 years! (We pretty much had a one party system the whole time prior. It's everything you hate about the 2 party system, but moreso). My mother couldn't vote in the Mayoral elections because she wasn't a naturalized citizen yet, but she did what she could to see her canidate make it through. The ballot box isn't the only part of the election process, it's just what everything is leading up to.
The value of your vote is from voting early and voting often. Support for a viable canidate starts long before the actual election, regardless of the position. Think long term. That Independent county council person you think is so great might be a presidential canidate in 20+ years. What are you doing to help them get in office? Are you voting for them? Electing allies or like minded individuals to help support them in their current office? Sending them your input on a challenging piece of legislation? Maybe donated some money or time to help with the cost of campaigning?
Democracy isn't just the right to vote, it's the right to support and participate.
You're right, assuming you maintain possession of the hard-drive until it's melted into slag or similar. Antics that can occur when you are away from your computer aside, if you ever sell the computer or even just the hard drive, the data is still there unless you perform a thorough data wipe (formating the disk isn't enough). It's about the same if you think the hard drive is broken and throw it away. A dumpster diver with some hardware skills might be able to get it working long enough to do a raw dump of the data to a more stable media. Slashdot had an article about two MIT grads who did data recovery like this with drives purchased at flea markets and eBay back in January.
Easy enough to negate that. Have some of the Japanese contributors make a manga/anime girl mascot. If they really want the sysadmin to dig in, encode a hentai version of her somewhere in the source code. If you make it so applying a patch will decrypt a new pic for them, you'll also solve most future stability/security issues...
No. The code was a "trade secret", even though it was posted everywhere (like DeCSS and California). If they actually pointed it out publicly, then everyone would have seen that those snippets were actually the only valuable lines of code in the linux kernel. Well, that or the fact that they had nothing to their case. But corporations would never try to intimidate money out of users, or extort other companies to buying silence, would they?
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I'd love to monitor SCO's web traffic right about now. I wonder if the Google search rates on "how to shortsell stock" and "SCO" have gone up. Or was it "Martha Stewart", "insider trading" and "legal defense" ? -------------
It'll be starting on the country wide "Road Show" at a Toho Cinema theater near you. "One Piece", the pirate mange/anime, also has a movie starting at the same time. I'm hoping it'll be a double feature (in my dreams, incompatible demographics). 1700yen (US$16-17) for a regular showing is expensive. I really miss getting ripped off at American theaters. The japanese ones I've seen are generally nicer, but the snack bar prices are about double for half.
I wonder if that's how they subsidize rebuilding Tokyo everytime Godzilla attacks? ----------
True. Maybe the product initially being offered isn't real, but if you follow up they know they've got a live address. After that, the spammers can sell your addy for more money to other spammers, and to companies that want a more 'targeted' audience.
What happens if there's a case of role reversal? An OS drive having to submit to a data drive? Oh. Wait. There's already proprietary software to do that...
"These condoms may only be used for hetersexual sex in the Classic Missionary position. We reserve the right to monitor and record any and all incidences of use for compliance. For more information on our privacy policy..."
"These fertility drugs may only be used to produce intelligent children. Producing stupid children violates the terms of this agreement. This agreement can be terminated by either party without notice. Upon termination, all children and remaining medicinal doses must be immediately destroyed or returned to the manufacturer..."
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Sidestepping SCO's colorful law interpretations, if Lycoris and SCO/Caldera had an agreement (handshake, cup of coffee, undisclosed sum of money), they had an agreement which seems to have been upheld so far. If SCO decides to attack Lycoris as well, they only further undermine what they are trying to do. I can see them pointing to Lycoris and saying that at least one company had the foresight to do things the right way. If nothing else, they'll write it off and say,"Lycoris? Oh, they got grandfathered in". Legally, they might have a case (it might be much harder to prove than their case against IBM and the rest of the world). PR wise, there are better places for the FUD slinging.
Is using Lycoris really supporting SCO? I bought a copy of Lycoris months ago (and Suse, and Red Hat), and it costs less than what SCO wants to extort. Even if SCO got some kind of royalty from it, it's nothing they weren't getting earlier before this mess got started, and the practice doesn't seem to be too different than what Sun is doing with Red Hat or Suse. Even reading the article states that they reject the additional licensing claim. If nothing else, they're one of the first distros to try putting their more jittery customers at ease without beating war drums.
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You only really shut the curtains when the outside light is a lot brighter than the monitor and starts causing glare. As long as the light coming through is brighter than the light reflecting off the viewing surface, the image should be fine. Try look through a window of a house (your house, preferably) on a full moon night; once with the interior lights off, and once with them on. Same idea.
The 3.8 watt output from a single panel wouldn't be sufficient for the lcd to power itself, would it? If not, how many panels would actually be needed? The idea is great, though. Reduce incoming/outgoing light, produce energy to further help offset the cooling or heating costs and (if you can link them) the world's biggest monitor. It's too bad they didn't post any specs of the resolution/refresh rate. Put D3 (or a good pr0n feed) on that, and you might have the only reason for hardcore gamers to step out into natural sunlight.
Sure, monitor one of the known ends and dumping the packets to file for cracking later. Of course, the main question is how practical would it be to do? If the encryption has a good algorithm, then it could be too computationally expensive to decrypt meaningful amounts of data. If the algorithm is weak, then near real-time monitoring might be practical. Besides, reading the article, it's being set up more to help intelligence spooks do research without tipping everybody else in the world off. Not including terrorists and foriegn goverments, lots of entities would love to know what the US intelligence community finds interesting.
Mind you, it's doubtful the average user would be doing anything that interests the military. If you're seriouly worried about the military/goverment monitoring your home internet sessions, you probably need medication (or a lawyer). With everything else going on in the world, I'm sure even Big Brother needs a reason to focus his all seeing eye towards you...
If you don't have money, donate time. If you don't want to give time to a particular canidate, then give it to the community. If there are issues you want to have addressed, find out who else feels the same way and form a group to make your voices stand out. Half the time bills are passed because nobody does anything but complain to everyone but the official in charge. Politicians aren't psychic, so they don't know what you're thinking (thank god). Coherently, rationally, and intelligently spell out what it is you want. Then tell them. Get like-minded individuals together and say it again. This is one of those processes that requires faith and effort to work.
Example: Years ago, my mother donated lots of time to the campaign of a republican canidate she thought would make a good Mayor for the island of Maui. That canidate got elected Mayor, served 2 (?) terms and went on to become the current Governor of Hawaii. She was the first republican Governor in 40 years! (We pretty much had a one party system the whole time prior. It's everything you hate about the 2 party system, but moreso). My mother couldn't vote in the Mayoral elections because she wasn't a naturalized citizen yet, but she did what she could to see her canidate make it through. The ballot box isn't the only part of the election process, it's just what everything is leading up to.
The value of your vote is from voting early and voting often. Support for a viable canidate starts long before the actual election, regardless of the position. Think long term. That Independent county council person you think is so great might be a presidential canidate in 20+ years. What are you doing to help them get in office? Are you voting for them? Electing allies or like minded individuals to help support them in their current office? Sending them your input on a challenging piece of legislation? Maybe donated some money or time to help with the cost of campaigning?
Democracy isn't just the right to vote, it's the right to support and participate.
You're right, assuming you maintain possession of the hard-drive until it's melted into slag or similar. Antics that can occur when you are away from your computer aside, if you ever sell the computer or even just the hard drive, the data is still there unless you perform a thorough data wipe (formating the disk isn't enough). It's about the same if you think the hard drive is broken and throw it away. A dumpster diver with some hardware skills might be able to get it working long enough to do a raw dump of the data to a more stable media. Slashdot had an article about two MIT grads who did data recovery like this with drives purchased at flea markets and eBay back in January.
I wonder what his view on the First Ammendment is?
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:bA95RIAgNowJ: www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
Sloooooooooow copy, though...
Forced who to speed up? Microsoft or Debian?
Easy enough to negate that. Have some of the Japanese contributors make a manga/anime girl mascot. If they really want the sysadmin to dig in, encode a hentai version of her somewhere in the source code. If you make it so applying a patch will decrypt a new pic for them, you'll also solve most future stability/security issues...
Try one... or try another. -------------
No. The code was a "trade secret", even though it was posted everywhere (like DeCSS and California). If they actually pointed it out publicly, then everyone would have seen that those snippets were actually the only valuable lines of code in the linux kernel. Well, that or the fact that they had nothing to their case. But corporations would never try to intimidate money out of users, or extort other companies to buying silence, would they? ----------
I'd love to monitor SCO's web traffic right about now. I wonder if the Google search rates on "how to shortsell stock" and "SCO" have gone up. Or was it "Martha Stewart", "insider trading" and "legal defense" ?
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It'll be starting on the country wide "Road Show" at a Toho Cinema theater near you. "One Piece", the pirate mange/anime, also has a movie starting at the same time. I'm hoping it'll be a double feature (in my dreams, incompatible demographics). 1700yen (US$16-17) for a regular showing is expensive. I really miss getting ripped off at American theaters. The japanese ones I've seen are generally nicer, but the snack bar prices are about double for half.
I wonder if that's how they subsidize rebuilding Tokyo everytime Godzilla attacks?
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Too bad that copy of the letter you made was illegal. The RIAA will be by shortly to deliver your subpoena.
True. Maybe the product initially being offered isn't real, but if you follow up they know they've got a live address. After that, the spammers can sell your addy for more money to other spammers, and to companies that want a more 'targeted' audience.
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http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/08/1833213.sht
http://www.msnbc.com/news/940490.asp?0ql=c9p&cp1=
Oh, wait. You were being sarcastic, weren't you?
What happens if there's a case of role reversal? An OS drive having to submit to a data drive? Oh. Wait. There's already proprietary software to do that...
"These condoms may only be used for hetersexual sex in the Classic Missionary position. We reserve the right to monitor and record any and all incidences of use for compliance. For more information on our privacy policy..."
"These fertility drugs may only be used to produce intelligent children. Producing stupid children violates the terms of this agreement. This agreement can be terminated by either party without notice. Upon termination, all children and remaining medicinal doses must be immediately destroyed or returned to the manufacturer..."
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Sidestepping SCO's colorful law interpretations, if Lycoris and SCO/Caldera had an agreement (handshake, cup of coffee, undisclosed sum of money), they had an agreement which seems to have been upheld so far. If SCO decides to attack Lycoris as well, they only further undermine what they are trying to do. I can see them pointing to Lycoris and saying that at least one company had the foresight to do things the right way. If nothing else, they'll write it off and say,"Lycoris? Oh, they got grandfathered in". Legally, they might have a case (it might be much harder to prove than their case against IBM and the rest of the world). PR wise, there are better places for the FUD slinging.
Is using Lycoris really supporting SCO? I bought a copy of Lycoris months ago (and Suse, and Red Hat), and it costs less than what SCO wants to extort. Even if SCO got some kind of royalty from it, it's nothing they weren't getting earlier before this mess got started, and the practice doesn't seem to be too different than what Sun is doing with Red Hat or Suse. Even reading the article states that they reject the additional licensing claim. If nothing else, they're one of the first distros to try putting their more jittery customers at ease without beating war drums.