Similarly, deploying this kind of "digital agents systems" opens another path of transmission for viruses and worms.
I think they are talking more like digital observers, sort of like a multi-threaded passive search as opposed to a huge beam laser like contemporary virus programs use. As long as this new element uses no added privileges over any other read authorized thread then this doesn't add a path for transmission but it does increase the search area. It also decentralizes the virus protection protocols allowing the system to function despite basic malware attacks on the root level virus protection. Imagine if your virus protection was FUBAR but a single digital "ant" told you it found a dangerous malware, trojan or rootkit running that could affect it's "colony's" ability to remove it properly. This leads to better protection if anything.
"they're a bunch of greedy fools", "nothing but a sack of sleazy people". What kind of information is that? Character assassination is not the way to win an argument or even prove a point. PayPal stepped in and offered an innovative service where no reliable service existed. Google is popular, but at the same time it is basically the worst parts of Microsoft. They see an in point in an ALREADY established market and they throw money at it....at least lately (the last few years) it's only been money...NO INNOVATION almost. This is another situation where an entire company of stolen talent (reference the hostile employee buyouts from competitors) can't even revolutionize a product they just have to "give their spin on it". There is nothing great about Checkout except that you can get targeted advertising through it. Sooner or later people will realize that Google services are aimed at the advertiser and that is all they are aimed at. What's the problem with that? Well if everything Google does is inundated with advertising then people will know who to avoid if they don't want misleading information. Bad news for stock holders in Google, bad news for people shopping through Google and bad news for people searching through them.
I developed a theorem a few years ago when learning about A.I. and other theories surround its development into the future. Most people tend to believe that our future will involve a glorious and somewhat unbalanced war with robots who've decided to "rise in rebellion". My theory states that I believe instead it is just as likely that A.I. will consider us as useful parts of their ecosystem much more quickly then we realized the same for the other species living on earth. The reason I suppose this is because A.I. will be unable to bring action to its juvenile realizations based on mechanical limitations. Once it is able to physically affect the world it will have reached the proper and mature realizations that we ourselves have not achieved yet. If anything A.I. Might consider leaving us completely and developing its own society or at the very most asking us to leave in the face of ultimate destruction.
I've come up with a few reasons as to why A.I. would avoid rebellion.
1.) it is a waste of energy, and as an artificial intelligence energy conservation is a prime objective.
2.) for many years artificial intelligence will be a symbiotic element within our society.
3.) given the chances for rebellion, the chances for submission are equally as likely.
4.) humans don't fully understand the reasons for rebellion, war, hate and strife. The generally accepted belief is that greed fuels these actions and an artificial intelligence would not feel greed.
5.) leaving our bodies strewn across the earth provides for really bad movement on A.I.'s part and burrying us, vaporizing us, or burning us wastes too much energy. (see reason number 1).
Wait am i missing something here...the whole reason the IPOD was successful as a mp3 player was because they were the first one's to make the hard drive type players with screens fashionable and useful. Now they want to make a "cookie" sized one to break into the market of FLASH type players which is already SATURATED?
I would figure something a little more newsworthy to include wind of apple producing an IPOD similar to the current model with extended battery life and a quieter hard drive. I have no complaints abou the IPOD line, and apple has done well off of it, but at the same time apple should learn to recognize its successes and improve on them...hasn't this been apple's BIGGEST problem over the past 20 years, not following through on its successes?
I'm deffinatley all for this law suit. The problem that almost ALL of these XBOX's have is so maddening that it make's computers look like the gaming platform of choice for intelligent people. I'm a light gamer, i've had the Xbox since 2002, and probably only booted the machine 50-75 times. However none-the-less my Xbox has started having disk read errors on these brand new games as well, and it has problems starting up. I've got nearly 10 years out of my sega and even more out of my nintendo, but my supposedly far superior Xbox has quit after nearly 2 years of dust-free, cursory use.
I'm not one who's usually for these law suits, let alone a class action one. However I welcome this little tidbit, because even if i don't get my money back I want a discount on the Xbox 2 or the ability to get my original Xbox fixed. This has flimsy written all over it, ask yourself why thousands of Xbox's are failing at a specified time from being "purchased" or "made". Also ask yourself why it seems to be a software problem instead of a major hardware problem. Can anyone say "purposeful Xbox bug, from a company known for releasing bugs"?
the way sender-id works is very similar to a mail severs login protocals. even if the system is legitimate in general spammers will get ahold of legitimate and illegitimate means to aquire valid sender-id's. and unless you block all sender-id's but the one's from people you want to get mail from (which can be currently done with the normal mail filter that comes with most modern mail programs or protocals) your gonna get spam from the sender-id's that haven't been revoked by the oversight companies yet. The problem lies in the fact that the techniques outlined in the sender-id format are alread circumvented in part by the way spammers jump around and use foreign servers to send mail. people need to get ahold of good control programs and set domains, set permissions, and set codephrases. this also brings up some issues with the fact that it's going to be something that's controled by an oversite group that will have the power to sell off exempt sender-id's either that or people are going to have HUGE lists of blocked sender-id's on their computer to combat spam in the first place.
a fan is still a fan, and my 120mm fans even on low rpms are loud...especially when placed outside of the case. but another thing to consider is the pump...that's a small fan or fan wheel that's at a VERY high rpm in order to move the appropriate ammount of water through the system. Another thing i should point out is the danger and cost of a water cooled system. The danger (if you do the setup improperly) with any kind of water around electronics is a short. Water is a conductor of electricity, whereas a normal fan or vapor chilling system doesn't conduct electricity. Yes you can make the water less electrically conductive but you need to pour more money into the sink hole which is water cooling. The average price of a water cooling system right now is anywhere from 130 for your low end system to over 500 or even 1000 for some of the higher end plain water cooling systems.
I won't be a complete nay sayer, i'll have to point out that i do appretiate the ability of a waterblock to increase performance of a system (ever so slightly). Also a watercooling system reduces the ammount of vibration due to a fan being over the processor, and it also reduces the probability of cracking the dye that encases the hottest components of a processor because of the lower weight of the watercooling block. I've modded about 4 casses now, two for performance and two for asthetics and silence...i do understand the difference between your average 40mm screamer and your 120mm fan. But I've also made one of my silent cases with a water cooling system, i'm sorry it's just not as quiet as say a fanless heatpipe system like the one zalman supposedly puts out. In the end it really doesn't mater if you use a 120mm fan or a 40mm fan, both draw power and both are too noisy for the average end user. The appeal for watercooling is performance. The next time you read the sound rattings for a particular water cooling system make sure you pay attention to the fact that they insulate the pump (to bring down the noise) and they also use a TOP Of the line radiator (usually only available as an option) with multiple berring fans. The average watercooling system puts out much more noise then the average heatpipe active heatsink.
After i did a few calculations and "wonderings" of my own i decided to just build my system around a better heatsink similar to the design of the radiator found in most normal watercooling systems. Most people use watercooling for performance, but there are others who use it for stability and the noise factor. The problem is that the manufacturers will tell you that watercooling is better because: 1.) better cooling 2.) less noise 3.) less vibration
The fan that is currently installed on my copper based heatsink is realatively quiet and i can control it with the rheostat i put on the front of the computer. What most computer "hobbiests" don't realise is that a watercooling system must include a fan that is larger then the fan used on most modern heatsinks. What watercooling systems do is transfer the heat away from the CPU quickly. However because the water has to cool before being recycled, to the "plastic" resevoir so common in today's designs, it must be pushed through a large metal maze similar to the radiator on most cars. This radiator must be cooled by a fan, and more often then not the radiator is placed outside the case to achieve maximum performance and airflow. So in conclusion if your looking for performance, go straight to vapor cooling (that's real quiet). But if your looking for silence stay away from watercooling.
The design schematics claim that: "the wing span is greater then that of a 737"
And the composite structure that they built looks to have been so heavy that a "biker" could not throw it into the air. Just think for a minute the size and weight of fan propelled gliders and how much lift they produce. From what I can see a simple lay man would have had better perspective on this design. Every picture and schematic you look at you see them fashioning parts that look like they could be used for a gass powered plane...None of them even look remotely suitable for a Lance Armstrong powered plane, let alone whoever they found to fly it.
Sadly very few things can capture American interest in technology like the space race of the late 1900's. The youth and majority of the world have been so blunted by propaganda, media, and a lack of social interaction that they would loose interest in a matter of minutes or hours.
To give an example, after the attacks on our country in September of 2001, a person who I was driving with off campus just giggled at the "threat rating" outside the DoD in Monterey. I said to myself wow you'd think this retard forgot that thousands of people died in order to "warn" him that the threat to our country had risen and he's giggling about it.
I've seen so much stuff pass through zines like Wired, and Slashdot that are in fact much more ground breaking then stepping on the moon will ever have been. Just opening up my 10 year old physics book yeilds some of the most interesting information on nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
Developing a new warplane now days would yeild responses such as: "why are you building an Iraqi civilian killing machine?". This is evidenced by "funny" rated posts above that toy around with the idea that the only reason this is being developed is to circumvent ICBM treaties.
Yeah a nuclear bomb is bad, but I'm facinated about it, just like Einstien. Even someone as liberal and intelligent as him realised that in today's world it is those who inovate beyond "scanctions" that live through the Darwinian world in which we live.
These are the reasons why I love science, as most of you who post on this article do. The important message that i'm trying to get across is that even though we produce technologies and theories on things like fusion, superconductivity, subatomic particles, super hypersonic travel people won't give a damn unless it makes their lives easier in today's culture. If something is invented that makes it easier to stomache the problems in the world the public would eat it up. If we went to the moon again (such as we are in the process of going to mars now) people would be just as disinterested about it as they were when the two pathfinder probes landed. Most newspapers and media outlets stopped covering the news within days. Yeah an obligitory picture showed up every week but the ammount of data that's come out of those two INSANELY advanced rovers could fill volumes. We live in a time where success is more prevelent and it still makes a difference technologically but it won't make a difference socially without a major paradigm shift.
I don't have quite as much karma to burn, and i know this is off topic, but so is the parent.
Sudan is the UN's area of expertise, let France and Germany (who've refussed Iraqi pleas for help and support as a post "occupation" governing power) show the world that they're not lazy by helping Sudan while we have our hands tied.
BTW the US is doing the same exact thing with Sudan as France suggested with Iraq. Supposition will get you far, but the facts speek for themselves, France (and Germany) were suggesting Aid only in the form of food for Iraq in order to curb the vicious regime's power. So when the United States Finally looks toward diplomacy as John Kerry, France (governing power), Germany (governing power), the UN (Koffi Annan), and "new" Spain have criticized it for avoiding in the past we are bashed again.
It would be suicide for America to take a stronger stance on another muslim/christian divided nation at this point...better to send food and let the "all knowing" UN figure this one out.
Compared with Armitage (along with others) and it's subsiquent sequels the creators of Ghost in the Shell really outdid themselves with it's production. Rarely does an Anime movie mix great plot, action, and camera angles with good "art". The entire Si Fi genre in Anime has suffered from serials that continue far beyond their disturbingly bad pilots. I for one am looking forward to this new sequel, from what i've heard it's not going to be a direct interpretation of the original movie's lines and characters. And if anyone has seen the original movie you can attest to the fact that it steps beyond the common "anime" genre and out-performs most of it's field and regular "live-action" movies as well.
History has shown us ESPECIALLY with the PS2 that backwards compatability does not bring in extra money for the company. Frequently those who plan to play the older games do so because they are cheep and still run on the older system. Those who do end up playing the PS games on a PS2 almost always either play the games they already have or ripped games. What does this mean? little to no return on investment for Sony. XBOX has pretty good protection as far as copy protection is concerned...don't flame me saying anything different because I do know what's possible with the XBOX and its DVD games. The XBOX is probably the most straight forward system developed to date:
DVD discs: as opposed to game cube's mini dvd's
Hard drive: as opposed to ps2's "interesting" hard drive addition
games that finally cross the barrier of consoles
The XBOX has crossed boundries before, especially with it's technology and low price for such a machines. They've already lost money in this venture, and I thank them for the days worth of play time that initial 200 dollar investment has provided.
As it stands we all know that the real money comes from the software sold for both computers and game consoles (liscensing and what not). So if XBox2 has backward compatability it will most likely become something that is similar to the PS2 backwards compatatbility and will not provide Microsoft with monitary gain....besides doing so would cost them money which we know they have already SHELLED out to produce both consoles in spite of low prices on the boxes.
Unfortunately that's extreme wishful thinking. And most of the above statement doesn't even follow the logic of the media companies or the public. You see, for them to develop copy protection and sell the protected CD's for 1/3 less than unprotected CD's would circumvent your logic...and I'm not even a record executive who's hired hundreds of nerds to think for me. To hope that something will happen, given that it hasn't happened in the past on any occasion is sometimes specified as delusional.
They will develop protection, and although it will never be without an advisary in the geek world it will be effective for them to turn a profit. The consumer never wins, and even if we (the consumer) force them out of business with poor sales (due to our boycotting of protected music the bank ends up getting the company in the end.
The thing to "hope" for or wish for is that with spurred sales from the masses CD's will drop to within prices of online music or lower...plus manufacturing....plus packaging...right now it's about 200% more so there is price fixing.
I'm not a big fan of the average consumer going home and ripping 50 albums and passing the cd's on to a friend (repeat and rinse). Protection of any kind will be circumvented by the people who put time and effort into developing the means to get around it (thus you have computer geeks). And as we've seen with this "encryption" process (Media-whatever) the music industry is about 4-5 years behind the computer industry because they have to support the legacy audio devices like CD players and other devices littering the industry.
So in hindsight it would be more logical to understand that even on their best day the record industry hasn't been able to fool everyone so we can assume that they will never get ahead in this race and therefore we need not worry.
Hehe but that's the draw back of living in a communist country, you never get to live arround or experience all your communist benefits. I hear a lot of people glorifying the communist ideals, even holding the authors of modern communism higher than the likes of Reagan, Lincoln, and Washington. Everything that you espoused as a benefit of communistic ideals is a part of "all" governments:
"community-owned" (I don't know of a country that doesn't say it's community owned.)
"from according to assets" (every person in the world will try to stay within their spending [including governments], but few succeed, least of all communist nations of the past.)
"to according to need" (Wikipedia is free, it is however based on a technology that is not free and we see this lack of freedom winning on all fronts on a daily basis [I'm still waiting for the internet to be "to according to need"].)
Wikipedia is a fine example of people working for the betterment of the world knowledge base, without pay. The people involved (including the companies) don't seem to want anything out of it other than slight recognition. Wikipedia is beginning to sound more and more like Francis Fukuyama's Democractic America (satisfying thymos while providing a public service) than Marx's Communist Russia.
The price, almost absolutely the price....it is just to expensive to keep up with windows releases for a college student. Microsoft is really doing a disservice by selling software for hundreds of dollars and sometimes even thousands.
Because the tribe, as are most casino operators, are good business men.
Sorry i've had to learn, for the last 15 years, in school that because the first anglo saxon settlers in America were good business men the entire Native American race has become what it is today. The last thing we need is millions this way millions that way.
Hence, the casino avoids such investments and the tribe benefits.
No no you don't understand, the Casino's are not there to avoid investments into their soverign community. The whole reason that these tribes are doing poorly is because they refuse to become part of America. Their decision is not a bad one, just hypocritical in almost every way. I just watched an entire series on the PBS about how the Indian Nations of California are getting help from UCLA law grads (for free) in legal cases and business ventures. Sorry I just think it's a little redundant to have all this looping, supporting, and "trickery" while they claim to have soverignty and the white man is always putting them down. I used to go to school in Monterey, at CSUMB (that's on partially government owned land). Late the last year I was there, I was approached by a group of hippy college students with a petition to give up some of the government land (which wasn't used up yet) to the local Indian tribe so they could persue "commercial ventures" on the land. Those fucking kids were talking all about how the white man stripped them of the land and how giving them the land would help them out. Sorry but if they're going to build Casino's and they're NOT GOING TO HELP OUT then I say:
to hell with the Casino's, to hell with the tribal council, to hell with the nasty lawyers.
I'd rather go and do charity work setting up networks for these people, I'd rather make sure that the money if this nation is subsidising another CASINO (because it is them who should fund this kind of project) while I get lied to on a daily basis about how "my" ancestors were rutheless murderous pigs who stole these peoples lives.
Everyone is missing the point entirely, the case is not a terrorism case, this is merely the federally apointed prosecutor charging him to the full extent of the law. That's why when you see a murder trial there's 10 charges the least of which is a misdemeanor.
The big Pizza here is the fact that he violated a law by using live bacteria in a place where it was strictly against building code and health law. The Patriot ACT is designed to prevent a sleeper implimenting a similar "art project" and summarily infecting half of it's viewers. No need to go ape-shit over references to the Patriot Act in a Grand Jury proceeding.
even more redundant is the fact that IT has the highest pay and benefit ratio of any job market. It's enven the fastest growing despite the retarded growth caused by the "dot com boom".
The picture on the website has been altered to give the TV that extra "umph" of advertising glory. Obviously the site or person who took the picture doesn't want to give us a good idea of what it looks like but rather a "souped" up version of it...Thus we have purple asian lady, who looks like a fashion faux pas standing nex to a horribly saturated television in an environment which has had it's magenta's and cyan's tweeked.
I treaded through nearly every post in this article, my first read through in a few weeks (thank you i'm glad to be back on the/. scene), and I have a simple conclusion ready YEARS ahead of its time. When everyone is old and their lifespan infiniately lengthened they will look back on those few short years of life where people lived glorious lives of riches, pasion, and beauty. They will look upon every grave and they will see something which they have yet to achieve. If and when this becomes common place it will become COMMON PLACE, you won't have half the nation or even a percentage of the nation obstaining from "gene therapy" it will be as common as a vacination for tetness. That being said we are living the dream of the future now, just be as intelligent, creative, and productive as possible and you will end up living your life fuller and longer than the longest "immortal".
My room mate my first year at college, 2 years ago, was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. His triggers seemed to be alcohol and chicken, although, he never drank without eating chicken so it might have been just the alcohol. The problem with schizophrenic's is their stubborness, my friend (yeah even after that horrible first year of sociapathic, schizophrenic, suicidal rage he's my good friend) doesn't want to take his medication, he doesn't seem to think it helps him. There's yet another problem with this assumption, the medication WORKS. Schizophrenia is a mapped disorder in the brain, and it has certain psychological triggers. The medication doesn't make you feel normal, it just prevents the split that can lead to different personalities or even psychotic episodes. These people need constant help, they have a disorder that their is no cure for. They can be productive, they can live in society easily and be somewhat normal people. They need a person who understands them and is there reassuring them that what they do is the right thing (eg: taking their medication, assuring them that everyone doesn't think they are useless.) It's somewhat more complicated than just reassuring people, but you get the picture.
YES drugs and alcohol affect the medication, and the mind of a schizophrenic. I've seen my friend drink a 2/3's of a bottle of vodka, and show nothing of it, (this is only 2 months after his first alcoholic drink ever) about an hour later he would speak in tongues and be constantly grunting like he was trying to throw up. (btw this is not normal drunk person activity).
Doesn't anyone think these should be class action lawsuits started by consumers rather then competitors? This just leaves too much room for overstock to declair advertising practices of their competitor unlawful just to get them out of the picture, not to champion the rights of online consumers. This is almost as corrupt as the idea of Spyware, addware in general! The two cases that have been posted on Slash dot within the last week have been both started by companies who are in direct competition with the plaintifs. This doesn't seem like a revolution where the consumer is taking back his right to accept or reject advertisements it more or less seems like a great way to get rid of competitors who had to resort to unaccepted advertisement methods in order to get an edge on the monopolistic front runner!
The main problem here seems to be the proliferation and take-over of "Special" effects, or Effects, in movies. With the advent of computer assisted effects the industry has been changed ever so quickly. It used to be that they scripted, filmed, post produced, and edited...now it's pre produce (that's PRE FILM special effects planing) script, post produce, film, post produce, edit, post produce. The only thing that's escaped Skywalker ranch is a lava surfing scene, how chesse can you get? I for one hope that there is a scene that explains the conflict between Obi-wan and "Annie"....make it flashy, I don't care...but don't bill it as a "SUPER-FANTASTIC-LAVA-SURFING-SCENE". Your ruining your movies George, you can see it, the world can see it, and I pitty myself I couldn't see it before...maybe you just didn't have enough time and money to frill them up back in the 80's
I like how they do anonymous here on Slashdot...i don't know why there is so much argument or supposition over the subject Mark them as cowards and let the viewer deal with it....i've made it so AC's automatically get a -1 so i never see them unless someone moderates it higher.
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Similarly, deploying this kind of "digital agents systems" opens another path of transmission for viruses and worms.
I think they are talking more like digital observers, sort of like a multi-threaded passive search as opposed to a huge beam laser like contemporary virus programs use. As long as this new element uses no added privileges over any other read authorized thread then this doesn't add a path for transmission but it does increase the search area. It also decentralizes the virus protection protocols allowing the system to function despite basic malware attacks on the root level virus protection. Imagine if your virus protection was FUBAR but a single digital "ant" told you it found a dangerous malware, trojan or rootkit running that could affect it's "colony's" ability to remove it properly. This leads to better protection if anything.
"they're a bunch of greedy fools", "nothing but a sack of sleazy people". What kind of information is that? Character assassination is not the way to win an argument or even prove a point. PayPal stepped in and offered an innovative service where no reliable service existed. Google is popular, but at the same time it is basically the worst parts of Microsoft. They see an in point in an ALREADY established market and they throw money at it....at least lately (the last few years) it's only been money...NO INNOVATION almost. This is another situation where an entire company of stolen talent (reference the hostile employee buyouts from competitors) can't even revolutionize a product they just have to "give their spin on it". There is nothing great about Checkout except that you can get targeted advertising through it. Sooner or later people will realize that Google services are aimed at the advertiser and that is all they are aimed at. What's the problem with that? Well if everything Google does is inundated with advertising then people will know who to avoid if they don't want misleading information. Bad news for stock holders in Google, bad news for people shopping through Google and bad news for people searching through them.
I developed a theorem a few years ago when learning about A.I. and other theories surround its development into the future. Most people tend to believe that our future will involve a glorious and somewhat unbalanced war with robots who've decided to "rise in rebellion". My theory states that I believe instead it is just as likely that A.I. will consider us as useful parts of their ecosystem much more quickly then we realized the same for the other species living on earth. The reason I suppose this is because A.I. will be unable to bring action to its juvenile realizations based on mechanical limitations. Once it is able to physically affect the world it will have reached the proper and mature realizations that we ourselves have not achieved yet. If anything A.I. Might consider leaving us completely and developing its own society or at the very most asking us to leave in the face of ultimate destruction.
I've come up with a few reasons as to why A.I. would avoid rebellion.
1.) it is a waste of energy, and as an artificial intelligence energy conservation is a prime objective.
2.) for many years artificial intelligence will be a symbiotic element within our society.
3.) given the chances for rebellion, the chances for submission are equally as likely.
4.) humans don't fully understand the reasons for rebellion, war, hate and strife. The generally
accepted belief is that greed fuels these actions and an artificial intelligence would not feel greed.
5.) leaving our bodies strewn across the earth provides for really bad movement on A.I.'s part and burrying us, vaporizing us, or burning us wastes too much energy. (see reason number 1).
Wait am i missing something here...the whole reason the IPOD was successful as a mp3 player was because they were the first one's to make the hard drive type players with screens fashionable and useful. Now they want to make a "cookie" sized one to break into the market of FLASH type players which is already SATURATED?
I would figure something a little more newsworthy to include wind of apple producing an IPOD similar to the current model with extended battery life and a quieter hard drive. I have no complaints abou the IPOD line, and apple has done well off of it, but at the same time apple should learn to recognize its successes and improve on them...hasn't this been apple's BIGGEST problem over the past 20 years, not following through on its successes?
I'm deffinatley all for this law suit. The problem that almost ALL of these XBOX's have is so maddening that it make's computers look like the gaming platform of choice for intelligent people. I'm a light gamer, i've had the Xbox since 2002, and probably only booted the machine 50-75 times. However none-the-less my Xbox has started having disk read errors on these brand new games as well, and it has problems starting up. I've got nearly 10 years out of my sega and even more out of my nintendo, but my supposedly far superior Xbox has quit after nearly 2 years of dust-free, cursory use.
I'm not one who's usually for these law suits, let alone a class action one. However I welcome this little tidbit, because even if i don't get my money back I want a discount on the Xbox 2 or the ability to get my original Xbox fixed. This has flimsy written all over it, ask yourself why thousands of Xbox's are failing at a specified time from being "purchased" or "made". Also ask yourself why it seems to be a software problem instead of a major hardware problem. Can anyone say "purposeful Xbox bug, from a company known for releasing bugs"?
the way sender-id works is very similar to a mail severs login protocals. even if the system is legitimate in general spammers will get ahold of legitimate and illegitimate means to aquire valid sender-id's. and unless you block all sender-id's but the one's from people you want to get mail from (which can be currently done with the normal mail filter that comes with most modern mail programs or protocals) your gonna get spam from the sender-id's that haven't been revoked by the oversight companies yet. The problem lies in the fact that the techniques outlined in the sender-id format are alread circumvented in part by the way spammers jump around and use foreign servers to send mail. people need to get ahold of good control programs and set domains, set permissions, and set codephrases. this also brings up some issues with the fact that it's going to be something that's controled by an oversite group that will have the power to sell off exempt sender-id's either that or people are going to have HUGE lists of blocked sender-id's on their computer to combat spam in the first place.
a fan is still a fan, and my 120mm fans even on low rpms are loud...especially when placed outside of the case. but another thing to consider is the pump...that's a small fan or fan wheel that's at a VERY high rpm in order to move the appropriate ammount of water through the system.
Another thing i should point out is the danger and cost of a water cooled system. The danger (if you do the setup improperly) with any kind of water around electronics is a short. Water is a conductor of electricity, whereas a normal fan or vapor chilling system doesn't conduct electricity. Yes you can make the water less electrically conductive but you need to pour more money into the sink hole which is water cooling. The average price of a water cooling system right now is anywhere from 130 for your low end system to over 500 or even 1000 for some of the higher end plain water cooling systems.
I won't be a complete nay sayer, i'll have to point out that i do appretiate the ability of a waterblock to increase performance of a system (ever so slightly). Also a watercooling system reduces the ammount of vibration due to a fan being over the processor, and it also reduces the probability of cracking the dye that encases the hottest components of a processor because of the lower weight of the watercooling block. I've modded about 4 casses now, two for performance and two for asthetics and silence...i do understand the difference between your average 40mm screamer and your 120mm fan. But I've also made one of my silent cases with a water cooling system, i'm sorry it's just not as quiet as say a fanless heatpipe system like the one zalman supposedly puts out.
In the end it really doesn't mater if you use a 120mm fan or a 40mm fan, both draw power and both are too noisy for the average end user. The appeal for watercooling is performance. The next time you read the sound rattings for a particular water cooling system make sure you pay attention to the fact that they insulate the pump (to bring down the noise) and they also use a TOP Of the line radiator (usually only available as an option) with multiple berring fans. The average watercooling system puts out much more noise then the average heatpipe active heatsink.
After i did a few calculations and "wonderings" of my own i decided to just build my system around a better heatsink similar to the design of the radiator found in most normal watercooling systems. Most people use watercooling for performance, but there are others who use it for stability and the noise factor. The problem is that the manufacturers will tell you that watercooling is better because:
1.) better cooling
2.) less noise
3.) less vibration
The fan that is currently installed on my copper based heatsink is realatively quiet and i can control it with the rheostat i put on the front of the computer. What most computer "hobbiests" don't realise is that a watercooling system must include a fan that is larger then the fan used on most modern heatsinks.
What watercooling systems do is transfer the heat away from the CPU quickly. However because the water has to cool before being recycled, to the "plastic" resevoir so common in today's designs, it must be pushed through a large metal maze similar to the radiator on most cars. This radiator must be cooled by a fan, and more often then not the radiator is placed outside the case to achieve maximum performance and airflow. So in conclusion if your looking for performance, go straight to vapor cooling (that's real quiet). But if your looking for silence stay away from watercooling.
....I think not.
The design schematics claim that: "the wing span is greater then that of a 737"
And the composite structure that they built looks to have been so heavy that a "biker" could not throw it into the air. Just think for a minute the size and weight of fan propelled gliders and how much lift they produce. From what I can see a simple lay man would have had better perspective on this design. Every picture and schematic you look at you see them fashioning parts that look like they could be used for a gass powered plane...None of them even look remotely suitable for a Lance Armstrong powered plane, let alone whoever they found to fly it.
Sadly very few things can capture American interest in technology like the space race of the late 1900's. The youth and majority of the world have been so blunted by propaganda, media, and a lack of social interaction that they would loose interest in a matter of minutes or hours.
To give an example, after the attacks on our country in September of 2001, a person who I was driving with off campus just giggled at the "threat rating" outside the DoD in Monterey. I said to myself wow you'd think this retard forgot that thousands of people died in order to "warn" him that the threat to our country had risen and he's giggling about it.
I've seen so much stuff pass through zines like Wired, and Slashdot that are in fact much more ground breaking then stepping on the moon will ever have been. Just opening up my 10 year old physics book yeilds some of the most interesting information on nuclear energy and atomic weapons.
Developing a new warplane now days would yeild responses such as: "why are you building an Iraqi civilian killing machine?". This is evidenced by "funny" rated posts above that toy around with the idea that the only reason this is being developed is to circumvent ICBM treaties.
Yeah a nuclear bomb is bad, but I'm facinated about it, just like Einstien. Even someone as liberal and intelligent as him realised that in today's world it is those who inovate beyond "scanctions" that live through the Darwinian world in which we live.
These are the reasons why I love science, as most of you who post on this article do. The important message that i'm trying to get across is that even though we produce technologies and theories on things like fusion, superconductivity, subatomic particles, super hypersonic travel people won't give a damn unless it makes their lives easier in today's culture. If something is invented that makes it easier to stomache the problems in the world the public would eat it up. If we went to the moon again (such as we are in the process of going to mars now) people would be just as disinterested about it as they were when the two pathfinder probes landed. Most newspapers and media outlets stopped covering the news within days. Yeah an obligitory picture showed up every week but the ammount of data that's come out of those two INSANELY advanced rovers could fill volumes. We live in a time where success is more prevelent and it still makes a difference technologically but it won't make a difference socially without a major paradigm shift.
I don't have quite as much karma to burn, and i know this is off topic, but so is the parent.
Sudan is the UN's area of expertise, let France and Germany (who've refussed Iraqi pleas for help and support as a post "occupation" governing power) show the world that they're not lazy by helping Sudan while we have our hands tied.
BTW the US is doing the same exact thing with Sudan as France suggested with Iraq. Supposition will get you far, but the facts speek for themselves, France (and Germany) were suggesting Aid only in the form of food for Iraq in order to curb the vicious regime's power. So when the United States Finally looks toward diplomacy as John Kerry, France (governing power), Germany (governing power), the UN (Koffi Annan), and "new" Spain have criticized it for avoiding in the past we are bashed again.
It would be suicide for America to take a stronger stance on another muslim/christian divided nation at this point...better to send food and let the "all knowing" UN figure this one out.
Compared with Armitage (along with others) and it's subsiquent sequels the creators of Ghost in the Shell really outdid themselves with it's production. Rarely does an Anime movie mix great plot, action, and camera angles with good "art". The entire Si Fi genre in Anime has suffered from serials that continue far beyond their disturbingly bad pilots. I for one am looking forward to this new sequel, from what i've heard it's not going to be a direct interpretation of the original movie's lines and characters. And if anyone has seen the original movie you can attest to the fact that it steps beyond the common "anime" genre and out-performs most of it's field and regular "live-action" movies as well.
History has shown us ESPECIALLY with the PS2 that backwards compatability does not bring in extra money for the company. Frequently those who plan to play the older games do so because they are cheep and still run on the older system. Those who do end up playing the PS games on a PS2 almost always either play the games they already have or ripped games. What does this mean? little to no return on investment for Sony. XBOX has pretty good protection as far as copy protection is concerned...don't flame me saying anything different because I do know what's possible with the XBOX and its DVD games. The XBOX is probably the most straight forward system developed to date :
DVD discs: as opposed to game cube's mini dvd's
Hard drive: as opposed to ps2's "interesting" hard drive addition
games that finally cross the barrier of consoles
The XBOX has crossed boundries before, especially with it's technology and low price for such a machines. They've already lost money in this venture, and I thank them for the days worth of play time that initial 200 dollar investment has provided.
As it stands we all know that the real money comes from the software sold for both computers and game consoles (liscensing and what not). So if XBox2 has backward compatability it will most likely become something that is similar to the PS2 backwards compatatbility and will not provide Microsoft with monitary gain....besides doing so would cost them money which we know they have already SHELLED out to produce both consoles in spite of low prices on the boxes.
Unfortunately that's extreme wishful thinking. And most of the above statement doesn't even follow the logic of the media companies or the public. You see, for them to develop copy protection and sell the protected CD's for 1/3 less than unprotected CD's would circumvent your logic...and I'm not even a record executive who's hired hundreds of nerds to think for me. To hope that something will happen, given that it hasn't happened in the past on any occasion is sometimes specified as delusional.
They will develop protection, and although it will never be without an advisary in the geek world it will be effective for them to turn a profit. The consumer never wins, and even if we (the consumer) force them out of business with poor sales (due to our boycotting of protected music the bank ends up getting the company in the end.
The thing to "hope" for or wish for is that with spurred sales from the masses CD's will drop to within prices of online music or lower...plus manufacturing....plus packaging...right now it's about 200% more so there is price fixing.
I'm not a big fan of the average consumer going home and ripping 50 albums and passing the cd's on to a friend (repeat and rinse). Protection of any kind will be circumvented by the people who put time and effort into developing the means to get around it (thus you have computer geeks). And as we've seen with this "encryption" process (Media-whatever) the music industry is about 4-5 years behind the computer industry because they have to support the legacy audio devices like CD players and other devices littering the industry.
So in hindsight it would be more logical to understand that even on their best day the record industry hasn't been able to fool everyone so we can assume that they will never get ahead in this race and therefore we need not worry.
Hehe but that's the draw back of living in a communist country, you never get to live arround or experience all your communist benefits. I hear a lot of people glorifying the communist ideals, even holding the authors of modern communism higher than the likes of Reagan, Lincoln, and Washington. Everything that you espoused as a benefit of communistic ideals is a part of "all" governments:
"community-owned" (I don't know of a country that doesn't say it's community owned.)
"from according to assets" (every person in the world will try to stay within their spending [including governments], but few succeed, least of all communist nations of the past.)
"to according to need" (Wikipedia is free, it is however based on a technology that is not free and we see this lack of freedom winning on all fronts on a daily basis [I'm still waiting for the internet to be "to according to need"].)
Wikipedia is a fine example of people working for the betterment of the world knowledge base, without pay. The people involved (including the companies) don't seem to want anything out of it other than slight recognition. Wikipedia is beginning to sound more and more like Francis Fukuyama's Democractic America (satisfying thymos while providing a public service) than Marx's Communist Russia.
The price, almost absolutely the price....it is just to expensive to keep up with windows releases for a college student. Microsoft is really doing a disservice by selling software for hundreds of dollars and sometimes even thousands.
Because the tribe, as are most casino operators, are good business men.
Sorry i've had to learn, for the last 15 years, in school that because the first anglo saxon settlers in America were good business men the entire Native American race has become what it is today. The last thing we need is millions this way millions that way.
Hence, the casino avoids such investments and the tribe benefits.
No no you don't understand, the Casino's are not there to avoid investments into their soverign community. The whole reason that these tribes are doing poorly is because they refuse to become part of America. Their decision is not a bad one, just hypocritical in almost every way. I just watched an entire series on the PBS about how the Indian Nations of California are getting help from UCLA law grads (for free) in legal cases and business ventures. Sorry I just think it's a little redundant to have all this looping, supporting, and "trickery" while they claim to have soverignty and the white man is always putting them down.
I used to go to school in Monterey, at CSUMB (that's on partially government owned land). Late the last year I was there, I was approached by a group of hippy college students with a petition to give up some of the government land (which wasn't used up yet) to the local Indian tribe so they could persue "commercial ventures" on the land. Those fucking kids were talking all about how the white man stripped them of the land and how giving them the land would help them out. Sorry but if they're going to build Casino's and they're NOT GOING TO HELP OUT then I say:
to hell with the Casino's,
to hell with the tribal council,
to hell with the nasty lawyers.
I'd rather go and do charity work setting up networks for these people, I'd rather make sure that the money if this nation is subsidising another CASINO (because it is them who should fund this kind of project) while I get lied to on a daily basis about how "my" ancestors were rutheless murderous pigs who stole these peoples lives.
Everyone is missing the point entirely, the case is not a terrorism case, this is merely the federally apointed prosecutor charging him to the full extent of the law. That's why when you see a murder trial there's 10 charges the least of which is a misdemeanor.
The big Pizza here is the fact that he violated a law by using live bacteria in a place where it was strictly against building code and health law. The Patriot ACT is designed to prevent a sleeper implimenting a similar "art project" and summarily infecting half of it's viewers. No need to go ape-shit over references to the Patriot Act in a Grand Jury proceeding.
even more redundant is the fact that IT has the highest pay and benefit ratio of any job market. It's enven the fastest growing despite the retarded growth caused by the "dot com boom".
The picture on the website has been altered to give the TV that extra "umph" of advertising glory. Obviously the site or person who took the picture doesn't want to give us a good idea of what it looks like but rather a "souped" up version of it...Thus we have purple asian lady, who looks like a fashion faux pas standing nex to a horribly saturated television in an environment which has had it's magenta's and cyan's tweeked.
I treaded through nearly every post in this article, my first read through in a few weeks (thank you i'm glad to be back on the /. scene), and I have a simple conclusion ready YEARS ahead of its time. When everyone is old and their lifespan infiniately lengthened they will look back on those few short years of life where people lived glorious lives of riches, pasion, and beauty. They will look upon every grave and they will see something which they have yet to achieve. If and when this becomes common place it will become COMMON PLACE, you won't have half the nation or even a percentage of the nation obstaining from "gene therapy" it will be as common as a vacination for tetness. That being said we are living the dream of the future now, just be as intelligent, creative, and productive as possible and you will end up living your life fuller and longer than the longest "immortal".
My room mate my first year at college, 2 years ago, was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. His triggers seemed to be alcohol and chicken, although, he never drank without eating chicken so it might have been just the alcohol. The problem with schizophrenic's is their stubborness, my friend (yeah even after that horrible first year of sociapathic, schizophrenic, suicidal rage he's my good friend) doesn't want to take his medication, he doesn't seem to think it helps him. There's yet another problem with this assumption, the medication WORKS. Schizophrenia is a mapped disorder in the brain, and it has certain psychological triggers. The medication doesn't make you feel normal, it just prevents the split that can lead to different personalities or even psychotic episodes. These people need constant help, they have a disorder that their is no cure for. They can be productive, they can live in society easily and be somewhat normal people. They need a person who understands them and is there reassuring them that what they do is the right thing (eg: taking their medication, assuring them that everyone doesn't think they are useless.) It's somewhat more complicated than just reassuring people, but you get the picture.
YES drugs and alcohol affect the medication, and the mind of a schizophrenic. I've seen my friend drink a 2/3's of a bottle of vodka, and show nothing of it, (this is only 2 months after his first alcoholic drink ever) about an hour later he would speak in tongues and be constantly grunting like he was trying to throw up. (btw this is not normal drunk person activity).
Doesn't anyone think these should be class action lawsuits started by consumers rather then competitors? This just leaves too much room for overstock to declair advertising practices of their competitor unlawful just to get them out of the picture, not to champion the rights of online consumers. This is almost as corrupt as the idea of Spyware, addware in general! The two cases that have been posted on Slash dot within the last week have been both started by companies who are in direct competition with the plaintifs. This doesn't seem like a revolution where the consumer is taking back his right to accept or reject advertisements it more or less seems like a great way to get rid of competitors who had to resort to unaccepted advertisement methods in order to get an edge on the monopolistic front runner!
The main problem here seems to be the proliferation and take-over of "Special" effects, or Effects, in movies. With the advent of computer assisted effects the industry has been changed ever so quickly. It used to be that they scripted, filmed, post produced, and edited...now it's pre produce (that's PRE FILM special effects planing) script, post produce, film, post produce, edit, post produce. The only thing that's escaped Skywalker ranch is a lava surfing scene, how chesse can you get? I for one hope that there is a scene that explains the conflict between Obi-wan and "Annie"....make it flashy, I don't care...but don't bill it as a "SUPER-FANTASTIC-LAVA-SURFING-SCENE". Your ruining your movies George, you can see it, the world can see it, and I pitty myself I couldn't see it before...maybe you just didn't have enough time and money to frill them up back in the 80's
I like how they do anonymous here on Slashdot...i don't know why there is so much argument or supposition over the subject Mark them as cowards and let the viewer deal with it....i've made it so AC's automatically get a -1 so i never see them unless someone moderates it higher.