The operators of the scanners are only allowed to scan people of the same sex as themself. They should only be allowed to scan people of the same perversion as themselves, or is it the other way around? Well you get the idea.
Glue foil cutouts onto your clothing to spell out your message to the scanner. (such as "go f$#k yourself!") How about aluminum foil 'fig leafs', that would also send a message.
The photos on the website are under-exposed. The keyboard looks like my old IBM PS2 keyboard spray painted black with "DAS-KEYBOARD" put on it with pressure release lettering. The they photograph it in a dark room using a single 15w bulb for light and under-expose (and poorly focus) the camera.
OTOH,it's the perfect keyboard for use with my footmouse.
This has been in sci fi before. Most of the time the story gets it as NOT making a copy of one's brain, but a trasfer to another brain or a computer. IE: the original is destroyed in the copy process. In the former (copy) we are making a clone, in the later we are doing a transplant. But do you realize what this all means? The religious will say that you can't make a copy of the soul, so you can only transfer the soul from one body to another or to a computer? Boy will the bible thumpers be all over this one, it will make the protests of abortion look tame!
Needs to police itself and look for moles rather than going after bit torrent users. This time it was an inside job (and that's probably where MOST of the 'leaks' come from).
Anyway for a flick like this one I'd much rather find a THX equipped movie with a wide screen and pay the price of a ticket than watch it with my kids in the family room on the boob tube. (We usually sneek our own M&M's in rather than get ripped off at the concession stand!)
Remember that? What SHOULD happen is that any LEGAL digital recorder must NOT record from a COPY, but MAY record an off the air signal. As for cable vs broadcast, it's the original source that counts. Cable re-transmissions of broadcast material count as if they were received over the air. Cable programs COULD be protected by DRM, but the serial copy protection should apply to allow for time shifting.
Then throw the little switch on the back of the power supply (labeled '0' and'1') to the '0' position to turn off the computer. This is usually a DPDT switch and will kill BOTH legs of the line at the same time. This will be safe.
Since this problem only affects porting existing windows code to Linux, it could be solved by using the MS tools and linking the app with winlib. Before you flame this, consider who would be doing this....someone who has a closed source application already working on Windows and wants to sell his application to the Linux market. IIRC, winlib is licensed under the LGPL, so this approach would be legal. (and this is EXACTLY how Coral ported Wordperfect 2000 from windows to Linux).
Red-Herring: No-one, I repeat, No-one has ever successfully sued MS for damages after something went hugely wrong due to a bug in Windows. According to the Windows Terms of Use, damages are limited to what was paid for Windows. The EULA that states that your damgages are limited to the cost of the software could be broken by a good legal staff, but you'd probably have to prove a ton of culpible liability on MS's part.
If nothing else Linux has put MS on their toes, and they are actually putting out a much better product these days.
Porting from 32 to 64 bits isn't always smooth thanks to stupid use of int and long int types and other inconsistancies in many applications. Take a look at OpenOffice, the 2.0 release is rumored to be 64 bit friendly, but so far no beta versions have been compiled 64 bit.
Now add to this a processor that can go both ways without rebooting. TWO environments running at the same time (though the OS is strickly 64 bit). Do we have dual libraries or chroot? It's a LOT easier to have only a native 64 bit environment running than to try and be backward binary compatible. Alphas, IA64, Spark, and other pure 64 bit cpus have been running under Linux for years, the AMD64 variant will take a little time to settle down to a common way of doing things.
Once upon a time, people made a living by delivering ice to your home. Now we have freezers and make our own ice. What kind of money can you make delivering ice? Not very much.
But they did find a way to stay in business, most convienince stores have ice delivered to them for retail sale. Amazing how some adapt and succede. Too bad most people are idiots and would rather sue.
Well your icemaker can produce a limited amount of ice, which is suitable for most of your needs. Until you throw a party. Then you need more ice than your 'fridge can make in the alloted time. So there IS a market for ice after all!
Your insightful dystopian [google.com] rant about strong DRM restrictions reminded me of another important deadline related to digital television:
After July 2005, it will be illegal to manufacture or import over-the-air DTV tuners that can ignore the "broadcast flag."
So we have about 2 months to buy an OTA HDTV tuner card for our HTPCs.
I was thinking about buying one of those cards to stick in a myth tv box. The problem is that the card ONLY receives over the air tv, it cannot receive cable. There is very little network tv that I have ever wanted to record, and the stuff that I DO record will probably never be blocked by the broadcast flag. (Can you see 'the Simpsons' ever being copy protected?) The use of the broadcast flag will be limited to first run movies, some sports, some live concerts. That's about it. I don't even have a tv antenna, it will be either cable or Satellite at my house for the foreseeable future, so that OTA HDTV tuner card is rather a moot point.
OTHO, maybe I should buy one and stick it in the closet just in case. If nothing else, it will probably fetch close to $1000 on Ebay by next year!
For the last few years the only place I have bought ram from was mailorder from Crucial's website. There are a few other ram maker's that I would also buy direct from their websites, but Crucial has often had the best price (and they make GOOD ram). CompUSA, OfficeDepot and OfficMax stand behind everything they sell so if you must buy from a local store (need it NOW) they are also safe. I'd keep away from BestBuy though. I've heard too many horror stories about them (some on/.).
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The operators of the scanners are only allowed to scan people of the same sex as themself.
They should only be allowed to scan people of the same perversion as themselves, or is it the other way around? Well you get the idea.
Glue foil cutouts onto your clothing to spell out
your message to the scanner. (such as "go f$#k yourself!") How about aluminum foil 'fig leafs', that would also send a message.
The photos on the website are under-exposed.
The keyboard looks like my old IBM PS2 keyboard
spray painted black with "DAS-KEYBOARD" put on it
with pressure release lettering. The they photograph it in a dark room using a single 15w bulb
for light and under-expose (and poorly focus) the camera.
OTOH,it's the perfect keyboard for use with my
footmouse.
A lunch with Steve Balmer
How long until McAfee becomes self aware! ...And becomes skynet.
According to 'steal this book' by A. Hoffman
you can make napalm by disolving sytrofoam cups
in gasoline.
or better yet, sodium
Also in a story published online called
'down and out in the magic kingdom"
do a google for it.
This has been in sci fi before. Most of the time the story gets it as NOT making a copy of one's brain, but a trasfer to another brain or a computer.
IE: the original is destroyed in the copy process.
In the former (copy) we are making a clone, in the later we are doing a transplant. But do you realize what this all means? The religious will say that you can't make a copy of the soul, so you can only transfer the soul from one body to another or to a computer? Boy will the bible thumpers be all over this one, it will make the protests of abortion look tame!
Needs to police itself and look for moles rather than going after bit torrent users. This time it was an inside job (and that's probably where MOST of the 'leaks' come from).
Anyway for a flick like this one I'd much rather find a THX equipped movie with a wide screen and pay the price of a ticket than watch it with my kids in the family room on the boob tube. (We usually sneek our own M&M's in rather than get ripped off at the concession stand!)
Remember that? What SHOULD happen is that any LEGAL digital recorder must NOT record from a COPY, but MAY record an off the air signal. As for cable vs broadcast, it's the original source that counts. Cable re-transmissions of broadcast material count as if they were received over the air. Cable programs COULD be protected by DRM, but the serial copy protection should apply to allow for time shifting.
Then throw the little switch on the back of the
power supply (labeled '0' and'1') to the '0' position to turn off the computer. This is usually a DPDT switch and will kill BOTH legs of the line at the same time. This will be safe.
Since this problem only affects porting existing windows code to Linux, it could be solved by
using the MS tools and linking the app with winlib.
Before you flame this, consider who would be doing this....someone who has a closed source application already working on Windows and wants to sell his application to the Linux market. IIRC, winlib is licensed under the LGPL, so this approach would be legal. (and this is EXACTLY how Coral ported Wordperfect 2000 from windows to Linux).
Red-Herring: No-one, I repeat, No-one has ever successfully sued MS for damages after something went hugely wrong due to a bug in Windows. According to the Windows Terms of Use, damages are limited to what was paid for Windows.
The EULA that states that your damgages are limited to the cost of the software could be broken by a good legal staff, but you'd probably have to prove a ton of culpible liability on MS's part.
If nothing else Linux has put MS on their toes, and they are actually putting out a much better product these days.
Porting from 32 to 64 bits isn't always smooth thanks to stupid use of int and long int types and other inconsistancies in many applications. Take a look at OpenOffice, the 2.0 release is rumored to be 64 bit friendly, but so far no beta versions have been compiled 64 bit.
Now add to this a processor that can go both ways without rebooting. TWO environments running at the same time (though the OS is strickly 64 bit). Do we have dual libraries or chroot? It's a LOT easier to have only a native 64 bit environment running than to try and be backward binary compatible. Alphas, IA64, Spark, and other pure 64 bit cpus have been running under Linux for years, the AMD64 variant will take a little time to settle down to a common way of doing things.
Why does this sound like something Douglas Addams
would have written?
No man, cassette tape. For Commodore 64.
Hey how about PAPER TAPE, or even better
a huge deck of PUNCH CARDS! (now THAT would be an
IBM statement!)
That's 80 GB of source code,.......provided on CD
Dude! Ever hear of DVD? 100+ CDs! That's an awfully large unnecessary stack of CDs.
If IBM wins the suit, they can also countersue for the cost of the CDs.
hey if I were IBM' I'd have sent the code over on FLOPPIES just for spite!
How about Intel calling their next cpu
Munchausen (after the BSing Baron)?
Or a dual core cpu named Janus?
(Roman two faced god).
Once upon a time, people made a living by delivering ice to your home. Now we have freezers and make our own ice. What kind of money can you make delivering ice? Not very much.
But they did find a way to stay in business, most convienince stores have ice delivered to them for retail sale. Amazing how some adapt and succede. Too bad most people are idiots and would rather sue.
Well your icemaker can produce a limited amount of ice, which is suitable for most of your needs. Until you throw a party. Then you need more ice than your 'fridge can make in the alloted time. So there IS a market for ice after all!
Moral: look for the market!
"Mars rovers get stuck in sand trap on way to 18th hole." Mars would make a nice golf course! (But the moon would be even better!
He'll be in the pool on the QM2 all the way....
Your insightful dystopian [google.com] rant about strong DRM restrictions reminded me of another important deadline related to digital television:
After July 2005, it will be illegal to manufacture or import over-the-air DTV tuners that can ignore the "broadcast flag."
So we have about 2 months to buy an OTA HDTV tuner card for our HTPCs.
I was thinking about buying one of those cards to stick in a myth tv box. The problem is that the card ONLY receives over the air tv, it cannot receive cable. There is very little network tv that I have ever wanted to record, and the stuff that I DO record will probably never be blocked by the broadcast flag. (Can you see 'the Simpsons' ever being copy protected?) The use of the broadcast flag will be limited to first run movies, some sports, some live concerts. That's about it. I don't even have a tv antenna, it will be either cable or Satellite at my house for the foreseeable future, so that OTA HDTV tuner card is rather a moot point.
OTHO, maybe I should buy one and stick it in the closet just in case. If nothing else, it will probably fetch close to $1000 on Ebay by next year!
A bunch of martians sitting around a campfire
eating beans and releasing methane.
Oh wait, I've seen that before....
For the last few years the only place I have bought ram from was mailorder from Crucial's website. /.).
There are a few other ram maker's that I would also buy direct from their websites, but Crucial has often had the best price (and they make GOOD ram).
CompUSA, OfficeDepot and OfficMax stand behind everything they sell so if you must buy from a local store (need it NOW) they are also safe. I'd keep away from BestBuy though. I've heard too many horror stories about them (some on