I can't say I'd blame them. As long as there are other countries gaining an economic advantage at the cost of environmental damage then I don't see that another country should pick up their crap and decrease their export because it's so cheap to produce in such "dirty" countries.
As long as there is such an active oil lobby and alternative energy sources like nuclear fusion is being treated like something from Star-Trek I don't see any short term improvement by forcing countries to reduce their carbon footprint.
BTW: Has Canada been given the favor they their trees are eating up a lot of the world's carbon dioxide and producing oxygen? Prolly the next thing scientists are coming up with is that oxygen is making global warming even worse.
I still think you overestimate the intelligence of the average internet user. I'll give you a couple indicators:
- E-mail spam still exists because people click links and (God forbid) order pills. - Accounts still get hacked because people "verify" their account when asked to. - People execute/install any crap they can find without questioning its origin. - Facebook exists.
If commercial and governmental entities keep pushing us in a direction where are forced to use our real life identity then I believe the meaning of identity will change.
Just because I happen to live in a country, have a bank account there and have a VISA card means I have a valid identity? I can even have officially my name changed. Is that the true meaning of identity?
I think it won't be long before the Coconut Islands will begin to offer identities for $50,- per month. You can get to choose your name, get a passport and a bank account. Installation fee: $75,- and renaming cost you only $25,- plus shipping charges for your new passport.
Who said you can't have multiple identities? In the internet we already had them for a long time in less official form of nicknames. Even artists have a artist identity to protect their private lives for the public. Also forbidden in the future?
If you squeeze tight enough people will run through your fingers.
I heard the same thing long time ago. They could read things which have been written over multiple times. You can imagine the magnetic fields on the disk as ripples in a pond. The newest info small and sharp borders with the older data spreading around it like diarrhea.:) That means the feds could dig up some old shit.
I believe they could read info from a blackbox (airplane) up to 12 times and a HD up to 8 times but I'm not sure about the numbers with current HD density.
Most Americans I speak with on the phone can't speak proper English (or American for that matter). Did it cross your mind that it COULD be that foreigners live in a country?
And I don't ever plan too.
I just hope they do not force their way of "free" life upon the rest of the world.
Wasn't there a saying: Do not bite the hand that feeds you?
Lets start our own FUD tactics. We say that there are rumors of an even better Xbox in a few months and after that the Xbox-neXt. Or that later versions of the Xbox are going to have more features, more memory, faster graphics card etc. But don't tell anyone, it's all very secret!
I mean, what do you expect from AOL? A serious internet provider? Don't make me laugh. It reminds me of my newly invented SPAM filter. It's quite short. Basically it comes down to this: If from:==*@aol.com,*@msn.com,*@hotmail.com then | SPAM. Personally I do not have "friends" who in their right state of mind have an AOL account. And anybody which has is not serious enough to spend my time on. Their problem.
But it's quite interesting that a gigantic provider like AOL can be labeled as "not serious". That brings up another question: Are there any "serious" or "trustworthy" providers? Some elite ISPs which do profile checks on their customers if they are good enough to have services from them?
Forgive my ramblings, I'm but a worm. I just wanted to make some noise like the rest of you dweeps.;)
Am I the only one who fears that with Gates is holding back the gaming development industry here? Forcing game developers to develop for a medium system. I mean 750 Mhz ain't that much. I know the fill rate is covered but nowadays the game looks come from the processor. If X-block's specs are frozen for... let's say 3 years (remember the PS1? What was it? 4 years??)... You can imagine how development goes with designers making games on a 3 year old system.
If you build a game now, build it for a system which will be there in 2003, not for a system which is medium NOW!. I guess Intel&AMD ain't happy now that games are being developed for a target processor which is almost not even produced anymore!
X-box is made for parents who don't know jack. It's made for the hype.
I wonder how long it boots and how long a reinstall takes. How long it takes to install Office for it and Micro$ releases a keyboard.
-Danny
What about the GNU compiler? It already compiles a ready-to-go backdoor in each probram you make. Maybe this code was already there in the compiler for the GNU compiler. Or the compiler from the compiler from the compiler.......
The NSA is using terrorist threat and child porn as an EXCUSE to use such measures. Wasn't the saying "The goal justifies the means?". In fact the real reason is that the USA seeks to get an industrial and economic advantage over the rest of the world by intercepting inter-company communication.
I mean, really. Would a real terrorist be so stoopid to use any commercially available encryption? Use e-mail? Use electronic communication?
True. In a couple of years you'll get a computer, scanner, printer and 10Mbit internet access for free!!! (We only want to have a camera installed on your head to see what your doing the whole day...) (Heh, don't forget the daily blood probes and a permanent armpit sniffer.)
At least it's for free. I guess in the future there will be a time where you can get everything for free but privacy costs money.. If you can buy it... If it doesn't have any reporting tools too. You never know.
But some day there are enough demographic statistics. Too much will decrease demand. Fuck the future. Prolly even/. has got exact statistics on what interests me. Maybe they'll set up a geek partner service or somesuch.
any operating system as far as I can throw a rock at them. You would be mad as hell if you would blindly install the newst updates RH presents to you, or any other update source for that matter. Linux as Stable and Good(tm) as long as you have put time into installing the system and carefully select only the packages you need. Personally I would never use a default installation with "most" of the functionality and configuration compliance. A good operating system is a system which you understand, control and configure ONLY for the tasks you need. Even Windows could be good OS if it conforms to these criteria.
This feature is not new and it wasn't Cisco who started it. If companies wanted to do this then they would have done it with or without Cisco. Packeteer for example. But all the same it is interesting that Cisco makes router configurations on higher level protocols. I thougth it's not their territory.
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I can't say I'd blame them. As long as there are other countries gaining an economic advantage at the cost of environmental damage then I don't see that another country should pick up their crap and decrease their export because it's so cheap to produce in such "dirty" countries.
As long as there is such an active oil lobby and alternative energy sources like nuclear fusion is being treated like something from Star-Trek I don't see any short term improvement by forcing countries to reduce their carbon footprint.
BTW: Has Canada been given the favor they their trees are eating up a lot of the world's carbon dioxide and producing oxygen? Prolly the next thing scientists are coming up with is that oxygen is making global warming even worse.
I still think you overestimate the intelligence of the average internet user. I'll give you a couple indicators:
- E-mail spam still exists because people click links and (God forbid) order pills.
- Accounts still get hacked because people "verify" their account when asked to.
- People execute/install any crap they can find without questioning its origin.
- Facebook exists.
Need I say more?
Thank you for giving us a site where geeks can baseline their common sense and find different takes on current events.
If commercial and governmental entities keep pushing us in a direction where are forced to use our real life identity then I believe the meaning of identity will change.
Just because I happen to live in a country, have a bank account there and have a VISA card means I have a valid identity? I can even have officially my name changed. Is that the true meaning of identity?
I think it won't be long before the Coconut Islands will begin to offer identities for $50,- per month. You can get to choose your name, get a passport and a bank account. Installation fee: $75,- and renaming cost you only $25,- plus shipping charges for your new passport.
Who said you can't have multiple identities? In the internet we already had them for a long time in less official form of nicknames. Even artists have a artist identity to protect their private lives for the public. Also forbidden in the future?
If you squeeze tight enough people will run through your fingers.
With all the doctors telling him he's fine it's pretty hard to cheat when filling out a new life insurance.
Sorry, I had to mention that you have to take it apart etc. Of course the normal HD head and mechanics can't do this.
I heard the same thing long time ago. They could read things which have been written over multiple times. You can imagine the magnetic fields on the disk as ripples in a pond. The newest info small and sharp borders with the older data spreading around it like diarrhea. :) That means the feds could dig up some old shit.
I believe they could read info from a blackbox (airplane) up to 12 times and a HD up to 8 times but I'm not sure about the numbers with current HD density.
Most Americans I speak with on the phone can't speak proper English (or American for that matter). Did it cross your mind that it COULD be that foreigners live in a country?
And I don't ever plan too.
I just hope they do not force their way of "free" life upon the rest of the world.
Wasn't there a saying: Do not bite the hand that feeds you?
You mean slashdot.org?
-Crae
Lets start our own FUD tactics. We say that there are rumors of an even better Xbox in a few months and after that the Xbox-neXt. Or that later versions of the Xbox are going to have more features, more memory, faster graphics card etc. But don't tell anyone, it's all very secret!
-Crae
I mean, what do you expect from AOL? A serious internet provider? Don't make me laugh. It reminds me of my newly invented SPAM filter. It's quite short. Basically it comes down to this: If from:==*@aol.com,*@msn.com,*@hotmail.com then | SPAM. Personally I do not have "friends" who in their right state of mind have an AOL account. And anybody which has is not serious enough to spend my time on. Their problem.
;)
But it's quite interesting that a gigantic provider like AOL can be labeled as "not serious". That brings up another question: Are there any "serious" or "trustworthy" providers? Some elite ISPs which do profile checks on their customers if they are good enough to have services from them?
Forgive my ramblings, I'm but a worm. I just wanted to make some noise like the rest of you dweeps.
Am I the only one who fears that with Gates is holding back the gaming development industry here? Forcing game developers to develop for a medium system. I mean 750 Mhz ain't that much. I know the fill rate is covered but nowadays the game looks come from the processor. If X-block's specs are frozen for... let's say 3 years (remember the PS1? What was it? 4 years??)... You can imagine how development goes with designers making games on a 3 year old system. If you build a game now, build it for a system which will be there in 2003, not for a system which is medium NOW!. I guess Intel&AMD ain't happy now that games are being developed for a target processor which is almost not even produced anymore! X-box is made for parents who don't know jack. It's made for the hype. I wonder how long it boots and how long a reinstall takes. How long it takes to install Office for it and Micro$ releases a keyboard. -Danny
...like the o-zone!
What about the GNU compiler? It already compiles a ready-to-go backdoor in each probram you make. Maybe this code was already there in the compiler for the GNU compiler. Or the compiler from the compiler from the compiler.......
-Danny
The NSA is using terrorist threat and child porn as an EXCUSE to use such measures. Wasn't the saying "The goal justifies the means?". In fact the real reason is that the USA seeks to get an industrial and economic advantage over the rest of the world by intercepting inter-company communication.
I mean, really. Would a real terrorist be so stoopid to use any commercially available encryption? Use e-mail? Use electronic communication?
-Danny
True. In a couple of years you'll get a computer, scanner, printer and 10Mbit internet access for free!!! (We only want to have a camera installed on your head to see what your doing the whole day...) (Heh, don't forget the daily blood probes and a permanent armpit sniffer.)
/. has got exact statistics on what interests me. Maybe they'll set up a geek partner service or somesuch.
At least it's for free. I guess in the future there will be a time where you can get everything for free but privacy costs money.. If you can buy it... If it doesn't have any reporting tools too. You never know.
But some day there are enough demographic statistics. Too much will decrease demand. Fuck the future. Prolly even
-Danny
any operating system as far as I can throw a rock at them. You would be mad as hell if you would blindly install the newst updates RH presents to you, or any other update source for that matter. Linux as Stable and Good(tm) as long as you have put time into installing the system and carefully select only the packages you need. Personally I would never use a default installation with "most" of the functionality and configuration compliance. A good operating system is a system which you understand, control and configure ONLY for the tasks you need. Even Windows could be good OS if it conforms to these criteria.
-Danny
Couldn't it be that the 40W of heat is transmuted to 40W of soundwaves? Maybe a bit loud bit still pretty cool. :)
-Danny
Normal FUD. They can only deliver a couple of them but at least it's "official" and Intel has reached the 1 Ghz barrier. Well done.
-Danny
This feature is not new and it wasn't Cisco who started it. If companies wanted to do this then they would have done it with or without Cisco. Packeteer for example.
But all the same it is interesting that Cisco makes router configurations on higher level protocols. I thougth it's not their territory.
-Danny