To put it differently, if you're going to a university where the assignments can be outsourced to India for $10, you aren't learning the material you need in order to be globally competitive. Your best bet is to just leave. True enough, but if these people actually cared about what was in their best interest would they be cheating in the first place?
It's worse. What they are proposing is nothing less than the total elimination of the current DNS and replacing it with AOL keywords. And raising the price a hundredfold while they are at it. And making sure it stays centralized under ICANN's control by cutting out the national registrars. Wasn't the whole purpose of decentralizing the DNS system in the first place because it's not technically feasable to have one person (or entity) managing the whole thing?
I still don't know how the technology even works without the red/green separation? I believe they use polarized lenses in the glasses. One lens is polarized vertically while the other is horizontal.
I just had a second look at your post and realized that you mentioned that it would be slow. That's what I get for posting first thing in the morning before the higher brain functions have kicked in.
And if Linux hadn't been created, they would have made or found another kernel. I think that the point is that GNU and Linux have a symbiotic relationship.
Before I even start here... no, I'm not a parent. I do however, have a strong opinion on this subject.
I don't think that children should be allowed to use the 'net unsupervised. Put all the "parental controls" in place you want, it's still a bad idea. Period. More and more, I see people substituting technology for good parenting, and it worries me a great deal.
That being said, I understand that there's no 100% way for parents to enforce a policy like this (I'm sure little Johnny has friends with internet access and more lenient parents) but don't go blaming the internet boogyman because it's a convenient cop-out.
I think that the best way to handle a problem like this is to let them understand the situation, and hope that they'll make rational decisions, just as it is with any other parenting issue.
It's the customer that is responsible for the reason of DRM, not the industry.. If the customer just bought it's stuff instead of copying it, then there would be no need for DRM... The industry is just trying to protect it's income like any normal thinking person would... Most people who are complaining about DRM are people who don't even buy stuff... But here we aren't talking about DRM, we are talking about a copyprotection.. You can play any HD-DVD/BR disk in any HD-DVD/BR player, so if you buy your stuff you won't have any problems..
Your objection sounds perfectly logical at first, but what if you want to make a backup copy for yourself or convert it to another format to play on something else? These are both perfectly legal and ethical, unless of course you have to deal with breaking a copy-protection scheme to do it.
A more impressive absentee is one that they mention in the "things code doesn't do in real life" list - Jeff Goldblum from Independence Day. He hacked an alien spacecraft with a Mac in the space of a couple of minutes.
FTA:
10. Most code is not inherently cross platform
Remember in Independence Day when whatshisface-math-guy writes a virus that works on both his apple laptop AND an alien mothership? Bullshit!
If real life were like film I'd be able to port wordpress to my toaster using a cat5 cable and a bag of glitter.
When I read the article, I couldn't believe that anyone would even consider building a "secure" system where third-party machines have to decrypt and re-encrypt such sensitive data... or any encrypted data for that matter... that's why it's encrypted in the first place.
In recent years, sales of watches have been down because people carry other devices which tell the time anyway. I wonder if this will do anything to help the watch manufacturers recover.
I imagine that a laptop would get quite hot before exploding like that, especially if it's caused by a defective battery. You probably wouldn't be able to keep it on your lap before it exploded. Mind you, I could be wrong.
At any rate, I think that the more important thing to consider would be solving the problem that causes it to explode in the first place.
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Oh you mean like "reversing the polarity" of each- and everything? :-)
Don't forget that the deflector dish can be modified in some way to solve just about any problem.
That aside, I still consider Star Trek to be sci-fi.
The newer EEEpcs or the newer Aspire Ones?
I have an Aspire One, and it runs at 1024x800. I still find it kind of cramped, though.
But what stops them from doing this now?
My GPS does a perfectly good job of this.
Thanks anyway.
According to Murphy's Law, they wouldn't even bother to look at the laptop.
Would be pretty funny if they did, though.
Steganography anyone?
Yeah, but have you ever tried to read source code that's been decompiled?
It can be done, but it's a lot easier with all the comments intact.
This can also be done under linux, but I don't know the particular commands for it.
I imagine it would vary somewhat between distros, but netconfig (requires root) seems to be pretty much the standard way of doing it.
Considering how much of a driving hazard they can be already, do you really think that's such a good idea?
I just had a second look at your post and realized that you mentioned that it would be slow. That's what I get for posting first thing in the morning before the higher brain functions have kicked in.
My bad. ^^;
Yes, and you'd also be able to download at about 500bps... if you're lucky.
And if Linux hadn't been created, they would have made or found another kernel. I think that the point is that GNU and Linux have a symbiotic relationship.
Before I even start here... no, I'm not a parent. I do however, have a strong opinion on this subject.
I don't think that children should be allowed to use the 'net unsupervised. Put all the "parental controls" in place you want, it's still a bad idea. Period. More and more, I see people substituting technology for good parenting, and it worries me a great deal.
That being said, I understand that there's no 100% way for parents to enforce a policy like this (I'm sure little Johnny has friends with internet access and more lenient parents) but don't go blaming the internet boogyman because it's a convenient cop-out.
I think that the best way to handle a problem like this is to let them understand the situation, and hope that they'll make rational decisions, just as it is with any other parenting issue.
Exactly my thinking.
When I read the article, I couldn't believe that anyone would even consider building a "secure" system where third-party machines have to decrypt and re-encrypt such sensitive data... or any encrypted data for that matter... that's why it's encrypted in the first place.
What did they hope to accomplish by doing this?
And they didn't even bother to thank us for the fish.
Geez, what's the world coming to?
In recent years, sales of watches have been down because people carry other devices which tell the time anyway. I wonder if this will do anything to help the watch manufacturers recover.
Time will tell, I suppose. (No pun intended.)
I imagine that a laptop would get quite hot before exploding like that, especially if it's caused by a defective battery. You probably wouldn't be able to keep it on your lap before it exploded. Mind you, I could be wrong.
;)
At any rate, I think that the more important thing to consider would be solving the problem that causes it to explode in the first place.
Just a thought.