Heck, I can sign an agreement that I am willing to be put on stand in the middle of a square and get tomatoes thrown at my head. That doesn't make it "legal" by law. Last I heard, the law overrules a contract when it clearly 'goes the other way' (not talking about the casual leapholes..). Sorry, I need a different answer:)
... while in an internet cafe? I mean, in theory it's not much different from a hotel providing a phone service to a customer, whilst sneakingly listening in. Don't get me wrong here, spammers are bad and should be caught, but it doesn't do any good when the spammer is let go in a day because of lack of undisputed evidence. My eavesdropping on a communications channel doesn't really do much good there.
I understand that when the communication actually goes to your own server there is nothing wrong (practically, in many countries it is ok to record a conversation as long as you are the one having it), but I feel that intercepting his yahoo or mail.com passwords is a little on the gray side of the law... Please correct me, I want to be wrong here.
...something like a TBC: my V2000 VCR:=) The V2000 does *not* support Macrovision (it's a VHS thing), therefore it's OK to copy a VHS tape over to V2000 and back. Maybe it won't be too good for the quality, but it should work (never tried it though). Perhaps Betamax and others work too ?
...using 44.09 drivers under 2000. Then again, I am using TVTool to get my Nvidia card to go TV-out in full-screen and without macrovision. Not that I need the last one, never interested in copying DVD to VHS anyway.
...your country. Please don't start with the "I have nothing to hide so what" comments, because they mean nothing. The fact that people are treated like a criminal before they ever committed a criminal offense is plain wrong. This, apart from the possibility that people are wrongfully accused.
I think the European parliament agrees, they didn't whistle Bolkestein (yes, the same person that loves software patents) back from his deal with the US for nothing. Time will learn whether perhaps a mass drop in tourism and business-trips to the US will have an impact on this decision.
I wonder what will happen if you, for example, gave your child a first name that would constitute a valid VBA backdoor for lets say Outlook. All kinds of questions pop up then:
- Would you get sued constantly for spreading a virus when e-mailing to anyone, signing with your name ?
- How will the custom officer look when he enters your name in his console and saw it go totally nuts ?
- Would the photographers that took your photo for the wanted-portrait be arrested themselves for knowingly spreading illegal code ?
- Would you ever become a succesful programmer, writing kernelcode for Linux V6.2.6, even when that meant every comment with your name in it would make the kernel overflow with proprietary M$ bugcode ?
- What will your parents say when your grade report was not only mailed to them but to the rest of the world as well - automatically ?
On the bright side: you'll probably end up a millionaire, because M$ will pay you everything to change your name by the time you turn 18:=)
While this is really cool, it is ofcourse a snapshot of current state of affairs: how many times is a certain news item highlighted.
The very small items could however be interesting too: Take for example a small accident that gets catched on by more and more news companies as time goes on, simply because it is found out that an important person was involved. Thus, 'small' news items that have a 'high rate of increase' across various sites should be voted more important than static ones. For simplicity sake, perhaps this could be done visually (simply animate the news from a certain point in time forward to the now, and you see developments more clearly).
This thing is certainly an eye-opener however, applauds to the designer.
...here. So why isn't there a bit more excitement in this 'brave new age of space exploration' and why won't people use this excitement in JPL, NASA et al. to start their working day a bit earlier, say 5:00 am ?
The security guard that left the light on at least keeps up with the pace.
..is that it requires some vision of things to come. Sure the start is highly unpractical, but in theory could end up being very profitable indeed. I for one would not be surprised to see a 'Shell Moon department' in a hundred years or so.
But I agree that 1 MW in 1 year doesn't really seem attractive. Yet that didn't stop our ancestors from creating a crude vehicle that drove on petrol - grossly inefficient at the time.
...that in a time when incredible shortcomings of Microsoft's OS are found, some of you actually talk about 'American/European (skewed) relationships' and how 'unfair this is to an American company'.
For once look at the big picture, and forget that Microsoft is an American company, and the EU filed a European verdict: Microsoft is a major global player in an international market ruled mainly by European and American companies together.
In this playing field it is only fair that a referree - no matter if US or EU - rules when a player crosses the legal line. It is to the benefit of both the Europeans as the Americans in the long term, and we will pick the fruits of this decision in time.
..is the key to a good tool. Like the pen you pick up, a good tool should be able to 'be picked up easily': the most easiest way for a pen is to take it with 2 fingers.
In that respect, the same counts for a PC: the easiest way to access a certain 2-dimensional function is through the most simple way of approaching the problem. This is not by using the mouse, but by using the keyboard. Sure, the keyboard has a higher learning-curve (think 'vi', think 'emacs'), but you can and will pick the fruits later. In that very same way, a 3d-interface to do something which is most easiest done two-dimensional is superfluous and looks further than one should want to.
Exceptions have to be made though. When I want to interact with the real world, the translation 3d to 3d is most easiest and should be chosen over a keyboard or mouse. But as with all interfaces, the interface is strongly coupled to the surroundings in which you want to use the interface.
While I understand that Sun's idea is mostly a "view", not a "direct interface", eye-candy does not always interact that much better...
I guess they should have gotten a nuclear device as in Andromeda Strain which practically covers about any mistake you can make at such a facility.
(Except ofcourse if the organism thrives on that)
... sure, we do it this way, but Nokia targets it's phones to everyone, including for an important part (and this is not meant discriminative, nor stereo-typing) women.
And they happen to fancy phones that look nice, rather than those with pure functionality.
The Hague Invasion Act being one of the examples. Maybe, after the election, the law is broadened even more to include economic charges against an American based company as a valid reason to act against European countries.
It may have been a joke, but this could leave a sour taste.
"With these P2P Trojan networks, even if you take down half of the affected machines, the rest of the network continues to work just fine," said Mikko Hypponen, director of F-Secure, an antivirus software company based in Finland.
The irony is that it seems like this system harnasses the power of the internet correctly and thus we allowed our own Frankenstein's monster in.
... when I clicked on the link above, Mozilla showed me whether I wanted to accept the cookie from the above website and I clicked 'Allow'.
Now I will be tracked and this tracking can be used to target people with similar interests as me !
...not the next crappy research that comes by and shows it's ugly head.
If you are not frequently ill, and work on your desktop-pc at your office, what is the worry ? It's not that you are going to eat the stuff out of your keyboard, or are you one of those guys who needs to eat his Mars-bar uptil the last chocolate-piece, even if that's inside your keyboard. If so, flip it over, eat it, but don't go complaining afterwards:)
Apart from that, if your body 'knows' the bacteria - it excreted them itself you know - it shouldn't be that harmful.
The Amiga followed the same road.
I have to disagree on that: The Amiga proved to be on the forefront of many interesting game (genre) we have today/had yesterday. Just think about Lemmings, long gone now, but you can still see some of the ideas in current games (take the idea as "controlling a huge number of individual AI"). Or what about Dune 2 ? It wasn't exactly stolen from the PC either, which was a pretty blippy machine back then.
Sure, once the PC got it's SVGA, and sound went to 16-bits, the Amiga went in the section of 'been there done that', but not until it proved its merits in the current gaming world. Merits we still see today.
... of a tour inside a similar missile silo, by underground explorers. Maybe it's the same, I didn't check that. But at least it gives you an impression of what is under there.
...sorry to break it to you, but suppose this draft ends is indeed called for, the computer specialists are going to get rather rare (again). Thus, other people will have to take their place. Compare it to woman in WO-II working at armories, because all the men were enlisted.
I guess in a way that is good for people who sit on the bench right now, for they will have a (normal) job again:)
...it feels just like the cold war: they attack us, we attack them. What's left in the end ? An assured nothing!
It sure helped then, so I think we can apply it again. I propose an even more stringent system that will simply shut down every root DNS server and every major backbone. That way, the attacker shall have to think twice before DDOS'ing a server he wishes to be unreachable, 't could easily be accomplished with a computer.
(..puts on cowboy hat and eats some tabacco..)Yeehaah !
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Heck, I can sign an agreement that I am willing to be put on stand in the middle of a square and get tomatoes thrown at my head. That doesn't make it "legal" by law. Last I heard, the law overrules a contract when it clearly 'goes the other way' (not talking about the casual leapholes..). Sorry, I need a different answer :)
... while in an internet cafe? I mean, in theory it's not much different from a hotel providing a phone service to a customer, whilst sneakingly listening in.
Don't get me wrong here, spammers are bad and should be caught, but it doesn't do any good when the spammer is let go in a day because of lack of undisputed evidence. My eavesdropping on a communications channel doesn't really do much good there.
I understand that when the communication actually goes to your own server there is nothing wrong (practically, in many countries it is ok to record a conversation as long as you are the one having it), but I feel that intercepting his yahoo or mail.com passwords is a little on the gray side of the law...
Please correct me, I want to be wrong here.
...something like a TBC: my V2000 VCR :=)
The V2000 does *not* support Macrovision (it's a VHS thing), therefore it's OK to copy a VHS tape over to V2000 and back. Maybe it won't be too good for the quality, but it should work (never tried it though). Perhaps Betamax and others work too ?
...using 44.09 drivers under 2000.
Then again, I am using TVTool to get my Nvidia card to go TV-out in full-screen and without macrovision. Not that I need the last one, never interested in copying DVD to VHS anyway.
...to send out ('fake') scam e-mails ?
I hate to be caught up in a scam spamming contest...
...your country.
Please don't start with the "I have nothing to hide so what" comments, because they mean nothing. The fact that people are treated like a criminal before they ever committed a criminal offense is plain wrong. This, apart from the possibility that people are wrongfully accused.
I think the European parliament agrees, they didn't whistle Bolkestein (yes, the same person that loves software patents) back from his deal with the US for nothing.
Time will learn whether perhaps a mass drop in tourism and business-trips to the US will have an impact on this decision.
I wonder what will happen if you, for example, gave your child a first name that would constitute a valid VBA backdoor for lets say Outlook. All kinds of questions pop up then:
:=)
- Would you get sued constantly for spreading a virus when e-mailing to anyone, signing with your name ?
- How will the custom officer look when he enters your name in his console and saw it go totally nuts ?
- Would the photographers that took your photo for the wanted-portrait be arrested themselves for knowingly spreading illegal code ?
- Would you ever become a succesful programmer, writing kernelcode for Linux V6.2.6, even when that meant every comment with your name in it would make the kernel overflow with proprietary M$ bugcode ?
- What will your parents say when your grade report was not only mailed to them but to the rest of the world as well - automatically ?
On the bright side: you'll probably end up a millionaire, because M$ will pay you everything to change your name by the time you turn 18
While this is really cool, it is ofcourse a snapshot of current state of affairs: how many times is a certain news item highlighted.
The very small items could however be interesting too:
Take for example a small accident that gets catched on by more and more news companies as time goes on, simply because it is found out that an important person was involved.
Thus, 'small' news items that have a 'high rate of increase' across various sites should be voted more important than static ones.
For simplicity sake, perhaps this could be done visually (simply animate the news from a certain point in time forward to the now, and you see developments more clearly).
This thing is certainly an eye-opener however, applauds to the designer.
...awful pictures on the first page, and hideous tabs on the results-page.
...here.
So why isn't there a bit more excitement in this 'brave new age of space exploration' and why won't people use this excitement in JPL, NASA et al. to start their working day a bit earlier, say 5:00 am ?
The security guard that left the light on at least keeps up with the pace.
..is that it requires some vision of things to come. Sure the start is highly unpractical, but in theory could end up being very profitable indeed. I for one would not be surprised to see a 'Shell Moon department' in a hundred years or so.
Research being done already, apparently :)
But I agree that 1 MW in 1 year doesn't really seem attractive. Yet that didn't stop our ancestors from creating a crude vehicle that drove on petrol - grossly inefficient at the time.
On the moon, there is plenty of room to place large arrays of solar panels.
Using a "laser", one could possibly transport the energy from the moon to earth.
How do we get the solar panels there ? Well, the moon is largely a brick of silicon, which could be very well used to produce solar panels.
Enough motivation wouldn't you think ?
...that in a time when incredible shortcomings of Microsoft's OS are found, some of you actually talk about 'American/European (skewed) relationships' and how 'unfair this is to an American company'.
For once look at the big picture, and forget that Microsoft is an American company, and the EU filed a European verdict:
Microsoft is a major global player in an international market ruled mainly by European and American companies together.
In this playing field it is only fair that a referree - no matter if US or EU - rules when a player crosses the legal line.
It is to the benefit of both the Europeans as the Americans in the long term, and we will pick the fruits of this decision in time.
..is the key to a good tool. Like the pen you pick up, a good tool should be able to 'be picked up easily': the most easiest way for a pen is to take it with 2 fingers.
In that respect, the same counts for a PC:
the easiest way to access a certain 2-dimensional function is through the most simple way of approaching the problem.
This is not by using the mouse, but by using the keyboard. Sure, the keyboard has a higher learning-curve (think 'vi', think 'emacs'), but you can and will pick the fruits later.
In that very same way, a 3d-interface to do something which is most easiest done two-dimensional is superfluous and looks further than one should want to.
Exceptions have to be made though. When I want to interact with the real world, the translation 3d to 3d is most easiest and should be chosen over a keyboard or mouse. But as with all interfaces, the interface is strongly coupled to the surroundings in which you want to use the interface.
While I understand that Sun's idea is mostly a "view", not a "direct interface", eye-candy does not always interact that much better...
I guess they should have gotten a nuclear device as in Andromeda Strain which practically covers about any mistake you can make at such a facility.
(Except ofcourse if the organism thrives on that)
... sure, we do it this way, but Nokia targets it's phones to everyone,
:)
including for an important part (and this is not meant discriminative, nor stereo-typing) women .
And they happen to fancy phones that look nice, rather than those with pure functionality.
As research shows that more women own mobile phones than men,
you better be giving that group the advantage.
It'll probably be a temporary thing though.
Once every phone is fashioned with a touchscreen like the SE-P900, you can make your own key-layout
The Hague Invasion Act being one of the examples. Maybe, after the election, the law is broadened even more to include economic charges against an American based company as a valid reason to act against European countries.
It may have been a joke, but this could leave a sour taste.
"With these P2P Trojan networks, even if you take down half of the affected machines, the rest of the network continues to work just fine," said Mikko Hypponen, director of F-Secure, an antivirus software company based in Finland.
The irony is that it seems like this system harnasses the power of the internet correctly and thus we allowed our own Frankenstein's monster in.
... when I clicked on the link above, Mozilla showed me whether I wanted to accept the cookie from the above website and I clicked 'Allow'.
Now I will be tracked and this tracking can be used to target people with similar interests as me !
I feel dirty...
...not the next crappy research that comes by and shows it's ugly head.
:)
If you are not frequently ill, and work on your desktop-pc at your office, what is the worry ?
It's not that you are going to eat the stuff out of your keyboard, or are you one of those guys who needs to eat his Mars-bar uptil the last chocolate-piece, even if that's inside your keyboard. If so, flip it over, eat it, but don't go complaining afterwards
Apart from that, if your body 'knows' the bacteria - it excreted them itself you know - it shouldn't be that harmful.
The Amiga followed the same road.
I have to disagree on that: The Amiga proved to be on the forefront of many interesting game (genre) we have today/had yesterday. Just think about Lemmings, long gone now, but you can still see some of the ideas in current games (take the idea as "controlling a huge number of individual AI"). Or what about Dune 2 ? It wasn't exactly stolen from the PC either, which was a pretty blippy machine back then.
Sure, once the PC got it's SVGA, and sound went to 16-bits, the Amiga went in the section of 'been there done that', but not until it proved its merits in the current gaming world. Merits we still see today.
... of a tour inside a similar missile silo, by underground explorers. Maybe it's the same, I didn't check that. But at least it gives you an impression of what is under there.
...sorry to break it to you, but suppose this draft ends is indeed called for, the computer specialists are going to get rather rare (again).
:)
Thus, other people will have to take their place. Compare it to woman in WO-II working at armories, because all the men were enlisted.
I guess in a way that is good for people who sit on the bench right now, for they will have a (normal) job again
...it feels just like the cold war: they attack us, we attack them. What's left in the end ? An assured nothing!
It sure helped then, so I think we can apply it again.
I propose an even more stringent system that will simply shut down every root DNS server and every major backbone. That way, the attacker shall have to think twice before DDOS'ing a server he wishes to be unreachable, 't could easily be accomplished with a computer.
(..puts on cowboy hat and eats some tabacco..)Yeehaah !