Ever been pulled over because you were in a rich neighborhood? --- Yup.
How about being stopped for driving a nice car? --- Yup.
Didn't think so. Minority status these days is about who holds the whip and who gets beaten. --- honestly, if you're still holding on to the idea that you're being "repressed"... You probably NEED the beating. So shut the fuck up and take it, i'm sick of not being able to get a job because the area business haven't filled their illegal alien quota.
I don't think this is a partisan issue actually. The "Elite" - i.e. Congress - passed the Patriot act w/o much real opposition. Yes, its bad, and its just another example of the gov't chipping away at our rights, but its NOT caused by one party or another...
After viewing the google-cache version of the site, it seems that this kid was running a web design company. Is this not a substantially different field that software/hardware design? Also, check out his work, this kid is NOT BAD!
You still provide no information. WHAT laws? WHAT companies? UK, Japan, and Korea are all MUCH smaller countries than the US, and i can assure you, the framework is NOT in place. I know of cities of >10,000 that cannot get cable television, much less broadband.
First off, let it be known that i am NOT an expert. I am a college student with far-ou ideas that will probably never happen
Now, my idea: Send a pod of Von Neumann 'bots to Mars. Mars is red because there is a high percentage of iron in the soil, and direct sunlight w/o and atmosphere or vegetation turns this into iron oxide, therebygiving it the red tinge. So why not make a few small robot that can use this iron in the soil to reproduce themselves? They could then go about building a small settlement, complete with shelters, a water supply, and, depending upon the complexity of the 'bots, perhaps even a life support system.
Even if we could not make sufficiently complex robots as to reproduce, how about ones that simply collect a small amount of soil, vaporize it, extract the iron, and then "excrete" it - think of a coral reef - building the primary structures of a base? I imagine it would be much easeir to make a permanent settlement if there was a ready-made cluster of building ready to go, awaiting the installation of life support hardware.
As for getting these robots to Mars, once we have an established moon base, this would be fairly simply, a'la Heinlein - a mass accelerator. Just put a series of electromagnets in a tube, and use it to launch the little metal guys out into space. Make sure you aim then about where you want them to land, and push the button. Attach a long wing sticking out one side of the robot that will detach once it lands. That way, once it entered the Martian atmosphere, it would twirl to the surface at a manageable speed, like the paper "whirlybirds" we all made as children.
At any rate, my lunch break is nearly over, so i must be off - all you space types out there post and tell me why my ideas could never work:)
Yeah, we weren't under budget by any stretch, but we had an Apple IIgs computer lab on campus unitl 1999, when we upgraded to Pentium 3 500Mhz machines padi for by the EAST Initiative... A major improvement.
Well, Hello.... My name is Lyndsy.... You have now someone who has used P2P legally.
I downloaded Wolfenstein:Enemy Territoy via KLite earlier this morning, because FilePlanet's servers were busy. And before you scream "PIRATE" - ET is a freely released game, that was never finished, and only the multiplayer works - which is the only part i would have played anyhow;)
This of course, is not to say i've never used P2P illegally(sp?). Bt using this argument is that same as saying "Well, i say you broke the speed limit in your car before, and i can't guarantee that you won't do it again, therefore i'm taking away your car". If you agree with this way of thinking, perhaps you should apply for a job at the Ministry or Truth
"While they... have restrained broadband adoption""
Really now? While this sounds great to spout off in the slashdot forums, please show me something to back this up. "The Media" doesn't exist. Its just a collection of rich old men that control what stories are run, and all the money and {percieved} power got to their heads.
Details? We had to borrow books! What more details do you want? The fact is, books cost a LOT less than buildings! My school graduated 27 people in 2002... Do we REALLY need a new gym? Its not like we decided to put in an athletics program, we HAD a gym.
Steel and aluminum weren't the issue there, it was the ceramic ablative heat tiles on the underside of the wing. These tiles were designed specifically for teh space program and were DESIGNED to be destroyed on the way backinto the earth's atmosphere. Even a small scratch on those causes an uneven burn - not catastrophic per se, but not good. The reason Columbia was destroyed was because NASA didn't listen to the engineers when they told them that there was a problem. With something as high-profile as the Shuttle, there should be a "Panic button" on everyone's desk - but that's a whole other article
"So, guess where the money is going? To the kids that lack textbooks, healthcare and lobbyists or to the slick, plausible, verbose representatives of millions of dollars in campaign funds?"
Well... As a recent student in the Arkansas school system, with my father being a teacher, i can assure you there is PLENTY of money out there for text books... The problem is how the schools are organized. We need reform, not more money. Before you mod me off topic, this applies to ALL areas of government. In the school instance, i was in a small rural school, and we borrowed math textbooks from a neighboring school because we "couldn't afford them". Yet, during that same year, the school began construction on a $2,000,000 Gym and put $45,000 of new sod on the baseball field. We need to restructure and reorganize most of the gov't.
And o yeah - Go Bush!:) Flame away libs:)
Why do you conclude a high-end graphics is only for gaming? I have a laptop that i use for client presentations in SoftImage|XSI. While i got the best i could afford in 2002, I have still have to run a modified UI to make it work, as the resolution i need isn't available on the LCD. Personally, if had purchased a machine labelled as a 8xAGP 9200m, i'd want a 9200m - not a 4xAGP 9000m.
As a recipient of a full academic scholarship - $50k to Univ. of Arkansas - I can tell you first hand that this isn't the best way for everyone. The sheer pressure of a scholarship community and the knowledge that if you screw up, you lose all that money was enough to nearly give me a nervous breakdown. I ended up losing it my first year, and now i'm doing well by taking small loans and working for my living expenses. With luck finding a decent job over summer, i can pay off the previous year's tuition loands over summer. As previous posters have said - its not just the academics that are important, its the gorwth as a person. I have learned to deal with a lot of stress, and I'm glad I learned it when still in college, as opposed to cracking under the pressure working on a multi-million dollar project somewhere.
1) Africa is not a nation. Yes, i know it is a typo, but please proofread your posts. 2) Spent nuclear fuel is currently a major issue. This stuff is "hot" for thousands upon thousands of years. There is no way to mark these containers, or to totally destroy them. 3)Nuclear energy is by no means "safe", but when you think about it, are fossil fuels? How many deaths are there in the manufacture of these fuels alone, annually? I would rather life next door to a nuclear reactor, however, than a coal power plant any day.
Finally, i have to agree, i'm glad someone is finally stepping up to the plate and devoloping nuclear technology once again. Chernobyl was bad, but if the place was kept up, much less designed proberly, it never woudl have happened. Three Mile Island was teh same way. It was an early reactor, and some idiot of an engineer allow a single person to remove the control rods(I'm not a nuke engineer, i know what the stuff does, but not what it is called) COMPLETELY! Maybe pebble beds are they way to go - if not, at least we are going somewhere with it, you know?
For once, I am going to have to side with the RIAA. Don't you DARE think this is goign to become a habit!
Anyhow, just because there is an unexpected benefit form illegal filesharing doesn't make it right to share files. Don't get me wrong - i share files 24/7, and I am proud to do so. That doesn't mean i think it is ethical.
This has been covered by our old friend, John Titor... People are becoming alienated to tehir governments, and the government is getting large, and more oppresive.
Go read johntitor.com
If this had gone through, the next step could have been software. If you cannot use a 3rd party openner for a garage door, then you cannot use "unauthorized" extensions for software. Next thing you know M$ would be sueing people who made skinners for windows. What about making a GUI front-end for software? Can't do that, as that is not how the software was intended to work:(
Yeah... And do you honestly think a jury - or even a judge - will know the difference between encrypted data and unencrypted data over a secure medium? suuuuure.
So hurting someone's business is now illegal, eh? So if a compnay that sells hamburger meat finds out in an internal investigation that a murder took place on the grounds of their meat processing plant (and that can't find the body - Honey, does this hamburger taste rigth to you?), and they decide to not tell the public this information, is the person who tells the cops in violation of the DMCA? I mean, it was never supposed to be public knowledge, and it would definately hurt their business.
As we all know, this law is flawed - so what can we do about it?
Ok, so let me get this straight - Atheros is producing a WiFi AP that intereferes with all nearby APs, rendering them nearly inoperable...
Microsoft ships Windows with IE, and makes it difficult for Netscape and similar to work properly...
Whats the difference?
By patenting this "technology", they are showing the weaknesses of current spam filters. Maybe that's what they intended all along...
And now that i think about it, wouldn't this come under the heading of a software patent? I mean, its not code, but its an algorithm, right?
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Hmm... I"m a 19 year old white male...
Ever been pulled over because you were in a rich neighborhood? --- Yup.
How about being stopped for driving a nice car? --- Yup.
Didn't think so. Minority status these days is about who holds the whip and who gets beaten. --- honestly, if you're still holding on to the idea that you're being "repressed"... You probably NEED the beating. So shut the fuck up and take it, i'm sick of not being able to get a job because the area business haven't filled their illegal alien quota.
I don't think this is a partisan issue actually. The "Elite" - i.e. Congress - passed the Patriot act w/o much real opposition. Yes, its bad, and its just another example of the gov't chipping away at our rights, but its NOT caused by one party or another...
After viewing the google-cache version of the site, it seems that this kid was running a web design company. Is this not a substantially different field that software/hardware design? Also, check out his work, this kid is NOT BAD!
You still provide no information. WHAT laws? WHAT companies? UK, Japan, and Korea are all MUCH smaller countries than the US, and i can assure you, the framework is NOT in place. I know of cities of >10,000 that cannot get cable television, much less broadband.
First off, let it be known that i am NOT an expert. I am a college student with far-ou ideas that will probably never happen
:)
Now, my idea: Send a pod of Von Neumann 'bots to Mars. Mars is red because there is a high percentage of iron in the soil, and direct sunlight w/o and atmosphere or vegetation turns this into iron oxide, therebygiving it the red tinge. So why not make a few small robot that can use this iron in the soil to reproduce themselves? They could then go about building a small settlement, complete with shelters, a water supply, and, depending upon the complexity of the 'bots, perhaps even a life support system.
Even if we could not make sufficiently complex robots as to reproduce, how about ones that simply collect a small amount of soil, vaporize it, extract the iron, and then "excrete" it - think of a coral reef - building the primary structures of a base? I imagine it would be much easeir to make a permanent settlement if there was a ready-made cluster of building ready to go, awaiting the installation of life support hardware.
As for getting these robots to Mars, once we have an established moon base, this would be fairly simply, a'la Heinlein - a mass accelerator. Just put a series of electromagnets in a tube, and use it to launch the little metal guys out into space. Make sure you aim then about where you want them to land, and push the button. Attach a long wing sticking out one side of the robot that will detach once it lands. That way, once it entered the Martian atmosphere, it would twirl to the surface at a manageable speed, like the paper "whirlybirds" we all made as children.
At any rate, my lunch break is nearly over, so i must be off - all you space types out there post and tell me why my ideas could never work
Yeah, we weren't under budget by any stretch, but we had an Apple IIgs computer lab on campus unitl 1999, when we upgraded to Pentium 3 500Mhz machines padi for by the EAST Initiative... A major improvement.
Does the strong encryption make it illegal to use this for international communications
:)
Good point, i'll research it and check back by tonight... Would be quite ironic if USPS was a "weapons exporter" via the downloads on its site
Well, Hello.... My name is Lyndsy.... You have now someone who has used P2P legally.
;)
I downloaded Wolfenstein:Enemy Territoy via KLite earlier this morning, because FilePlanet's servers were busy. And before you scream "PIRATE" - ET is a freely released game, that was never finished, and only the multiplayer works - which is the only part i would have played anyhow
This of course, is not to say i've never used P2P illegally(sp?). Bt using this argument is that same as saying "Well, i say you broke the speed limit in your car before, and i can't guarantee that you won't do it again, therefore i'm taking away your car". If you agree with this way of thinking, perhaps you should apply for a job at the Ministry or Truth
"While they ... have restrained broadband adoption""
Really now? While this sounds great to spout off in the slashdot forums, please show me something to back this up. "The Media" doesn't exist. Its just a collection of rich old men that control what stories are run, and all the money and {percieved} power got to their heads.
Um... no. There were only 300 kids k-12, and 27 people graduated in 2002.
Details? We had to borrow books! What more details do you want? The fact is, books cost a LOT less than buildings! My school graduated 27 people in 2002... Do we REALLY need a new gym? Its not like we decided to put in an athletics program, we HAD a gym.
Steel and aluminum weren't the issue there, it was the ceramic ablative heat tiles on the underside of the wing. These tiles were designed specifically for teh space program and were DESIGNED to be destroyed on the way backinto the earth's atmosphere. Even a small scratch on those causes an uneven burn - not catastrophic per se, but not good. The reason Columbia was destroyed was because NASA didn't listen to the engineers when they told them that there was a problem. With something as high-profile as the Shuttle, there should be a "Panic button" on everyone's desk - but that's a whole other article
"So, guess where the money is going? To the kids that lack textbooks, healthcare and lobbyists or to the slick, plausible, verbose representatives of millions of dollars in campaign funds?" Well... As a recent student in the Arkansas school system, with my father being a teacher, i can assure you there is PLENTY of money out there for text books... The problem is how the schools are organized. We need reform, not more money. Before you mod me off topic, this applies to ALL areas of government. In the school instance, i was in a small rural school, and we borrowed math textbooks from a neighboring school because we "couldn't afford them". Yet, during that same year, the school began construction on a $2,000,000 Gym and put $45,000 of new sod on the baseball field. We need to restructure and reorganize most of the gov't. And o yeah - Go Bush! :) Flame away libs :)
Why do you conclude a high-end graphics is only for gaming? I have a laptop that i use for client presentations in SoftImage|XSI. While i got the best i could afford in 2002, I have still have to run a modified UI to make it work, as the resolution i need isn't available on the LCD. Personally, if had purchased a machine labelled as a 8xAGP 9200m, i'd want a 9200m - not a 4xAGP 9000m.
As a recipient of a full academic scholarship - $50k to Univ. of Arkansas - I can tell you first hand that this isn't the best way for everyone. The sheer pressure of a scholarship community and the knowledge that if you screw up, you lose all that money was enough to nearly give me a nervous breakdown. I ended up losing it my first year, and now i'm doing well by taking small loans and working for my living expenses. With luck finding a decent job over summer, i can pay off the previous year's tuition loands over summer. As previous posters have said - its not just the academics that are important, its the gorwth as a person. I have learned to deal with a lot of stress, and I'm glad I learned it when still in college, as opposed to cracking under the pressure working on a multi-million dollar project somewhere.
A few things:
1) Africa is not a nation. Yes, i know it is a typo, but please proofread your posts.
2) Spent nuclear fuel is currently a major issue. This stuff is "hot" for thousands upon thousands of years. There is no way to mark these containers, or to totally destroy them.
3)Nuclear energy is by no means "safe", but when you think about it, are fossil fuels? How many deaths are there in the manufacture of these fuels alone, annually? I would rather life next door to a nuclear reactor, however, than a coal power plant any day.
Finally, i have to agree, i'm glad someone is finally stepping up to the plate and devoloping nuclear technology once again. Chernobyl was bad, but if the place was kept up, much less designed proberly, it never woudl have happened. Three Mile Island was teh same way. It was an early reactor, and some idiot of an engineer allow a single person to remove the control rods(I'm not a nuke engineer, i know what the stuff does, but not what it is called) COMPLETELY! Maybe pebble beds are they way to go - if not, at least we are going somewhere with it, you know?
For once, I am going to have to side with the RIAA. Don't you DARE think this is goign to become a habit! Anyhow, just because there is an unexpected benefit form illegal filesharing doesn't make it right to share files. Don't get me wrong - i share files 24/7, and I am proud to do so. That doesn't mean i think it is ethical.
This has been covered by our old friend, John Titor... People are becoming alienated to tehir governments, and the government is getting large, and more oppresive. Go read johntitor.com
If this had gone through, the next step could have been software. If you cannot use a 3rd party openner for a garage door, then you cannot use "unauthorized" extensions for software. Next thing you know M$ would be sueing people who made skinners for windows. What about making a GUI front-end for software? Can't do that, as that is not how the software was intended to work :(
Yeah... And do you honestly think a jury - or even a judge - will know the difference between encrypted data and unencrypted data over a secure medium? suuuuure.
So hurting someone's business is now illegal, eh? So if a compnay that sells hamburger meat finds out in an internal investigation that a murder took place on the grounds of their meat processing plant (and that can't find the body - Honey, does this hamburger taste rigth to you?), and they decide to not tell the public this information, is the person who tells the cops in violation of the DMCA? I mean, it was never supposed to be public knowledge, and it would definately hurt their business. As we all know, this law is flawed - so what can we do about it?
Ok, so let me get this straight - Atheros is producing a WiFi AP that intereferes with all nearby APs, rendering them nearly inoperable... Microsoft ships Windows with IE, and makes it difficult for Netscape and similar to work properly... Whats the difference?
By patenting this "technology", they are showing the weaknesses of current spam filters. Maybe that's what they intended all along... And now that i think about it, wouldn't this come under the heading of a software patent? I mean, its not code, but its an algorithm, right?