That is a fascinating idea, that by slowing down light you can look into the past. But there is a ramification, that if this would work then everything is pre-determined. And would you only get to look back on what that light ray would have been near, or would it not matter. Either way, it is fascinating.
I found the links to the treaty regarding Antartica, and it appears as if no country is in complete control. So, if I wanted to go and tour, can I just rent a plane and go? What if I found some inverstors who thought Antartica was the next big tourist spot, and they wanted to invest thier money building a resort there? Could that be done? Who would you buy the land from, or is this like the wild west, where you just pick a spot and say "MINE".
I agree. The navigation buttons should not be removed, along with security settings. Will you be able to right click on the window to get the "back or source"?
RIAA hires a guy who takes down cocian kings and dealers, and wepons guys to find a 13 year old on a P-to-P network for downloading something Lars demands money for? Who is the bad guy? What is next, paid militants from Germany?
These guys are going to make Bill Gates look good. At least he tries to play the good cop and convince you he is selling a service. The RIAA is just a bully.
What made you think spammers were ever mom&pop. It is their son in the basement. Can't get a job at K-Mart, so he sends out spam. A penny here, a penny there, and soon he can afford a subscription to milfhunter.com.
All jokes aside, this sucks that people will steal bandwith and commendeer other peoples computers. If we do not correct this problem, Microsoft might decide their "trusted computing" is the anwser because it would identify everyone and market it as "more secure". Have you seen the butterfly that keeps porn away from your kids? Or ISP's could blacklist anyone who is not on their "approved list". I guess freedom of speech is wothless if 100's of spammers are yelling all at the same time. Is there any way we call all yell "SHUT UP" back at them?
I was wondering why they did "-1 Troll". My experiance with that company (real media) has been bad. I do not trust them. I was just stating a truthful fact. Same company = Same managment.
While I agree with everything you wrote, I think they will do what the movie industry is doing. I went to see a flick, and they had some small dots flash on the screen, so if it was stolen they could track where it came from. I would not be suprised if the music industry did this with CD's. They could have some small differance in less than a second of sound (perhaps just a small differance in pitch), and then have variations based on different parts of the country. Then they can tell where the piracy is comming from.
Who know what they will do with this data. But it appears they are intent on suing everyone with an MP3 on their hard drive, regardless of where it came from. Maybe this is all the evidence they think they will need for "beyond a resonable doubt". I can just see it: A jury of non-pc people being told be a RIAA "expert" they have tracked it to this pc like a fingerprint.
I will never use anything from Real Player, not anything. I had a PC which I purchased from a store (It was a Sony), and it came with real player installed. Whenever I connected to the internet, real player felt compelled to connect to real networks to tell them what I have been doing. I can just imagine what their pay service is like if their free service is so horrible.
The other thing we told the record companies was that if you go to Kazaa to download a song, the experience is not very good. You type in a song name, you don't get back a song -- you get a hundred, on a hundred different computers. You try to download one, and, you know, the person has a slow connection, and it craps out. And after two or three have crapped out, you finally download a song, and four seconds are cut off, because it was encoded by a ten-year-old. By the time you get your song, it's taken fifteen minutes. So that means you can download four an hour. Now some people are willing to do that. But a lot of people aren't.
What I found, while wanting to sample a song (before I buy the CD), was when you download a song and play it, they have the first ten seconds of the song play normally, then a high pitched sound screeches designed to destroy speakers. I doubt a 10 year old kid is behind that.
But the good news is that WinMX is not as spammed as Kazaa. Not as many people, but chances are you will not get the mp3's which are clearly designed to destroy speakers.
I loved Real Genius. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It made me want to go to a college like that, filled with crazy nerdy fun people. But we were never able ice skate in our dorm. We had a Nazi for a RA.
Worse, spending the billions of dollars that the GAO estimates will be necessary to implement biometric systems at border-crossing points--$1.4 billion to $2.9 billion initially, and $700m to $1.5 billion annually thereafter
Someone is getting rich, and I bet it is someone affiliated with a politician. Could it be politicians see this as the goose that laid the golden egg? We already know some of the ways George Bush is connected to the oil industry and how he helped his friends. We remember how he was given a controlling interest in the Texas Rangers when nobody else would have had that oppertunity, and they paid him out millions of dollars becuase he had political connections that the owners of the Rangers wanted to influance. We know how Senator Orin Hatch's kid is an influential lawyer getting millions with the music piracy legislation. Here is another way that they can make their friends rich.
You may not know it, but if you ever went to a casino in Las Vegas, they probably have you on tape. They have photos and images of well-known gamblers who like to cheat, and they have software which takes photo's of people inside the casino's and they attempt to match the photo to the database. The only differance is the casino's hire lots of security specalists that make the final decision.
Having said that, if someone is taking my picture and storing it in a database, there should be a sign by the entrance warning people of that.
Something else from the link that I find disturbing: In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, however, these objections have been swept aside. After all, if you are already being forced to remove your shoes at the airport, and submit your laptop for explosives testing, surely you will not object to having your fingers scanned too?
I think this is really dangerous that every law that takes away civil liberties is linked to September 11th. And they give those laws such nice names, like "the patriot act".
American citizens will also be affected, as new passports with a chip that contains biometric data are issued from next year.
This is something that will be too easy to abuse. Remember, our government illegally bugged black panther offices, and did all sorts of illegal crap. I wonder if our government will use this kind of data to track private groups, such as those that protest the WTO. Could it be that if you show up to protest the WTO, then you will get audited by the IRS the next year?
I have never used Mozialla to read email. I am wondering, does it have anything that will not allow the img src tag in email to work? In other words, can it open just the text without allowing any requests to be sent out? I know many spammers validate email addresses by sending spam with a small image, and when you request that image, they know they have a real email account. All you have to do is make the mistake of opening one wrong email. Then they start sending you 10 times the amount of spam. I think it would be benificial if there was an email program which has a setting so that no requests are sent. I guess what I am asking is this possible or does it already exsist?
You are wrong. You do not have a right to record everything you see.
As to the issue of cell phones with camera's, I think they are a horrible idea. The are prime to invade the privacy rights of others. I can just imagine horny teenage boys taking photos of women in dressing rooms. Or in locker rooms. Someone can pretend they are chatting on the cell phone, and then the moment you turn you back on them, ZAPP they get a picture of your rear. Or jelous girlfriends. The possibilities of humiliating photo's are endless.
For the law about camcorders in theaters, I too thought that was law already. You gotta be asking for it if they catch you with a camcorder in a theater. They should force that person to sit through the advertising and pre-views as punishment.
I was the first guy on the block to get a cable modem. Then everyone else got one, and the speed decreased (everyone must have been running napster at the same time). But the speed is not that bad the past year. Having said goodbye to my cable modem after a bad customer service experiance a few years ago, and switching to AOL dial-up, I can say with 100% certainty that a slow cable modem blows away the best AOL could ever do with dial up. I ended up calling back my cable company for the cable modem after four months of AOL dial-up. I am happy as long as I can get over 100k a second. Just as long as pages load within a second or two. What I hated with AOL is it would take forever for a page to load.
In the neighborhood I grew up as a kid, there were no families I knew which had saved enough to pay for their kids to go to college. Many bright friends I had decided to work at local fast food resturants and go to a community college part time. How much studying someone can do when they work 25 hours a week is much less than a full time student who has time to read more and attend study sessions with peers. It is not easy waking up after working the night before, to make it to classes. Work sucks up any extra time, so there is less time to study or socalize with other students. Some decided to quit college and move from part-time fast food to a 40 an hour a week job making 9 or 10 dollars an hour. This was 10 years ago, and those without the college degree are still working those 40 hour a week jobs which require little thought for just a few dollars an hour more, maybe 12 or 13 dollars an hour. What sucks the worst about those jobs is many are repetitive, they do the same task over and over again. So I would say, while many will pay to star their college education, will they get the true college experiance?
There is also something wrong with the idea that if someone comes out the right vagiana then they everything for free, while others have to struggle for the same oppertunity. Isn't education something everyone has a right to? It is the only thing I can think of which by itself can take a person and improve their quality of life, their job, the amount of money they make, and their happiness.
I dunno if that is correct. Students have to show they are making progress, they can not take 20 years to finish a bachelors degree.
Plus, there is a reason society should pay for students to go to school. Over the long run, the country will get back more money in taxes than they paid for the tuition. Think about it, if government paid $8000 a year for tuition and another $5000 for room and board, heck make it a cool $15,000 a year for the student, then that would be $60,000 for the 4 years. Now a college graduate will probably make at least $20,000 a year more than a non-college graduate on avarage, and probably much more later in life as they advance in their careers. If government taxed 20% of this extra $20,000 a year, then government would get $140,000 back over the next 35 years. And those are lowball estimates. Consider the extra money would probably push the person into a higher tax bracket (more than 20% taxes, probably closer to 40%), and they will probably be making $50,000/year more than non-graduates after 10 or 15 years of work.
I do not understand why country's do not offer free college education for all.
Slashdot Mirror
That is a fascinating idea, that by slowing down light you can look into the past. But there is a ramification, that if this would work then everything is pre-determined. And would you only get to look back on what that light ray would have been near, or would it not matter. Either way, it is fascinating.
I found the links to the treaty regarding Antartica, and it appears as if no country is in complete control. So, if I wanted to go and tour, can I just rent a plane and go? What if I found some inverstors who thought Antartica was the next big tourist spot, and they wanted to invest thier money building a resort there? Could that be done? Who would you buy the land from, or is this like the wild west, where you just pick a spot and say "MINE".
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/About_Antarctica/tour
I guess some people already have tourism packages there.
And why do we have military bases there? They said they want to discourage tourism. This makes me want to go there and check it out.
I agree. The navigation buttons should not be removed, along with security settings. Will you be able to right click on the window to get the "back or source"?
These guys are going to make Bill Gates look good. At least he tries to play the good cop and convince you he is selling a service. The RIAA is just a bully.
The part that I was serious about is companies using events such as this as an excuse to limit what the end consumer can do.
All jokes aside, this sucks that people will steal bandwith and commendeer other peoples computers. If we do not correct this problem, Microsoft might decide their "trusted computing" is the anwser because it would identify everyone and market it as "more secure". Have you seen the butterfly that keeps porn away from your kids? Or ISP's could blacklist anyone who is not on their "approved list". I guess freedom of speech is wothless if 100's of spammers are yelling all at the same time. Is there any way we call all yell "SHUT UP" back at them?
I was wondering why they did "-1 Troll". My experiance with that company (real media) has been bad. I do not trust them. I was just stating a truthful fact. Same company = Same managment.
Who know what they will do with this data. But it appears they are intent on suing everyone with an MP3 on their hard drive, regardless of where it came from. Maybe this is all the evidence they think they will need for "beyond a resonable doubt". I can just see it: A jury of non-pc people being told be a RIAA "expert" they have tracked it to this pc like a fingerprint.
I will never use anything from Real Player, not anything. I had a PC which I purchased from a store (It was a Sony), and it came with real player installed. Whenever I connected to the internet, real player felt compelled to connect to real networks to tell them what I have been doing. I can just imagine what their pay service is like if their free service is so horrible.
What I found, while wanting to sample a song (before I buy the CD), was when you download a song and play it, they have the first ten seconds of the song play normally, then a high pitched sound screeches designed to destroy speakers. I doubt a 10 year old kid is behind that.
But the good news is that WinMX is not as spammed as Kazaa. Not as many people, but chances are you will not get the mp3's which are clearly designed to destroy speakers.
When he heard the voice "stop playing with yourself." He thought it was God. They had that implant in his tooth.
Duh! Even that poor fool did not know where the voice was comming from?
And be a little more creative than "playing with yourself".
Okay a question, not too related to what is happening in Colorado, but it made me wonder. What is the differance between a Laser and Phaser?
I loved Real Genius. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It made me want to go to a college like that, filled with crazy nerdy fun people. But we were never able ice skate in our dorm. We had a Nazi for a RA.
I get the part about aircraft, but how will they protect the birds? I also wonder if this laser is powerfull enough to fry a bird.
Someone is getting rich, and I bet it is someone affiliated with a politician. Could it be politicians see this as the goose that laid the golden egg? We already know some of the ways George Bush is connected to the oil industry and how he helped his friends. We remember how he was given a controlling interest in the Texas Rangers when nobody else would have had that oppertunity, and they paid him out millions of dollars becuase he had political connections that the owners of the Rangers wanted to influance. We know how Senator Orin Hatch's kid is an influential lawyer getting millions with the music piracy legislation. Here is another way that they can make their friends rich.
Having said that, if someone is taking my picture and storing it in a database, there should be a sign by the entrance warning people of that.
Something else from the link that I find disturbing:
In the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, however, these objections have been swept aside. After all, if you are already being forced to remove your shoes at the airport, and submit your laptop for explosives testing, surely you will not object to having your fingers scanned too?
I think this is really dangerous that every law that takes away civil liberties is linked to September 11th. And they give those laws such nice names, like "the patriot act".
American citizens will also be affected, as new passports with a chip that contains biometric data are issued from next year.
This is something that will be too easy to abuse. Remember, our government illegally bugged black panther offices, and did all sorts of illegal crap. I wonder if our government will use this kind of data to track private groups, such as those that protest the WTO. Could it be that if you show up to protest the WTO, then you will get audited by the IRS the next year?
I have never used Mozialla to read email. I am wondering, does it have anything that will not allow the img src tag in email to work? In other words, can it open just the text without allowing any requests to be sent out? I know many spammers validate email addresses by sending spam with a small image, and when you request that image, they know they have a real email account. All you have to do is make the mistake of opening one wrong email. Then they start sending you 10 times the amount of spam. I think it would be benificial if there was an email program which has a setting so that no requests are sent. I guess what I am asking is this possible or does it already exsist?
As to the issue of cell phones with camera's, I think they are a horrible idea. The are prime to invade the privacy rights of others. I can just imagine horny teenage boys taking photos of women in dressing rooms. Or in locker rooms. Someone can pretend they are chatting on the cell phone, and then the moment you turn you back on them, ZAPP they get a picture of your rear. Or jelous girlfriends. The possibilities of humiliating photo's are endless.
For the law about camcorders in theaters, I too thought that was law already. You gotta be asking for it if they catch you with a camcorder in a theater. They should force that person to sit through the advertising and pre-views as punishment.
I was the first guy on the block to get a cable modem. Then everyone else got one, and the speed decreased (everyone must have been running napster at the same time). But the speed is not that bad the past year. Having said goodbye to my cable modem after a bad customer service experiance a few years ago, and switching to AOL dial-up, I can say with 100% certainty that a slow cable modem blows away the best AOL could ever do with dial up. I ended up calling back my cable company for the cable modem after four months of AOL dial-up. I am happy as long as I can get over 100k a second. Just as long as pages load within a second or two. What I hated with AOL is it would take forever for a page to load.
There is also something wrong with the idea that if someone comes out the right vagiana then they everything for free, while others have to struggle for the same oppertunity. Isn't education something everyone has a right to? It is the only thing I can think of which by itself can take a person and improve their quality of life, their job, the amount of money they make, and their happiness.
Plus, there is a reason society should pay for students to go to school. Over the long run, the country will get back more money in taxes than they paid for the tuition. Think about it, if government paid $8000 a year for tuition and another $5000 for room and board, heck make it a cool $15,000 a year for the student, then that would be $60,000 for the 4 years. Now a college graduate will probably make at least $20,000 a year more than a non-college graduate on avarage, and probably much more later in life as they advance in their careers. If government taxed 20% of this extra $20,000 a year, then government would get $140,000 back over the next 35 years. And those are lowball estimates. Consider the extra money would probably push the person into a higher tax bracket (more than 20% taxes, probably closer to 40%), and they will probably be making $50,000/year more than non-graduates after 10 or 15 years of work.
I do not understand why country's do not offer free college education for all.