The topic at hand is a weapons technology whose destructive power dwarfs that of thermonuclear. (Dirty or not, destruction is destruction.)
Yet this person in the article-- who expresses concern that we'll destroy this planet-- believes that we can use this same technology to colonize other planets, and simultaneously somehow avoid destroying those planets.
Which causes of earth's destruction would we be leaving behind?
At the end of TFA: 'Lynn is enthusiastic about antimatter because he believes it could propel futuristic space rockets. "I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it." '
Oh, you mean by pursuing ever-more-super super-weapons?
And we'll escape from this problem by taking the same technology and attitudes to other planets?
Collective licensing is the solution, but EFF has the wrong stance on the mechanism: the fairest and most effective way is to tax the storage media AND the bandwidth/QOS.
Part #1... Think about it: to store 2x the stuff, you buy 2x the blank media, and you pay 2x the tax-- ONCE. IOW, you pay for the volume of stuff you KEEP-- no matter how many times you copy over it-- instead of paying for the number of times that you re-write the media.
If you don't buy more media, you can't record new files without throwing out old ones. I *think* this already happens in Canada, at least with some media.
Part #2 covers streaming playback, by taxing bandwidth/QOS. This is just like what happens today with U.S. radio broadcasts.
Furthermore, using a tax avoids cheating on a monthly fee.
-- Agnitum.com's "Outpost" firewall, with all kinds of free plug-ins which let me control -- on a PER-DOMAIN basis -- things like scripts, activeX, java, referrers, etc. Also controls those things separately for http vs mail vs news. Tried it on trial, liked it so much I paid for it.:o
-- McAfee VirusScan, because I got it free (corporate) and it seems to work ok.
-- on another system, english.mks.com.pl "mks_vir", which has recently been favorably reviewed for its dynamic adaptablility to not-yet-signatured new threats.
"speculation that a Google browser would probably be a browser, feed reader, blog tool, desktop search, online search, gmail, news reader, photo editing, and online photo publishing all rolled into one"...
which, if true, would show that Google is being sucked into the Dark Side, becoming another msft. After all, it probably wouldn't be an OSS effort, and the hyper-integration is reminiscent of the Win/IE integration trick.
OTOH, if it WERE oss, how does this swiss-army-knife abomination fit oss traditions?
"suspected of sharing massive amounts of copyrighted material over a private, local DC++ hub that was infiltrated by SMAIS"
I just finished reading TFA, and the only two hits on google-news, and I saw no explanation for the phrase "private local hub".
This phrase made it sound (to me) like the arrestees were on a LAN, where the p2p traffic wasn't passing over the public net -- which, IF true, would be a lot more chilling.
Well, that's one perspective. I use it, but only for the size. Yahoo is faster. Lots of providers have spam filers. Gmail's search will always be second-class without full nested/parenthesized booleans. And I hate not having folders, with or without "labels".
And I REALLY hate how you have to open a conversation to see the individual mails. I want to be able to view my inbox with one line per piece of mail.
And I want to be able to sort/reverse by size, date, sender, subject, etc. There are some usages that CAN'T be done comfortably without those, even with searching.
"You would have to be a complete knob to keep anything important in a free webmail account."
Not true. You'd be dumb to keep something important ONLY in ONE such account. I sometimes use free mail for redundant backups (for my digcam, etc.).
And the handiest thing about large free webmail isn't permanent storage, but rather the fact that it's easy to access and hard to overflow, when you're away for a while and unable to download to your local mailbox.
"Gartner's making a bold prediction that the number of machines sold as Linux desktops may eclipse the number of machines actually running Linux."
Not sure what they were actually thinking. Even if NONE of the sold-as-linux boxes remained linux, I doubt they'd exceed the total of all OTHER machines which run linux.
"What happens if you put M&M's in a bottle of soda and shake it?"
when I was a kid there was a 7-Up clone called BubbleUp (I think). My best friend and I discovered that inserting M&Ms made it foam violently. Shaking, of course, aggravates it.;-)
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I'm not sure, but I think you've missed my point.
The topic at hand is a weapons technology whose destructive power dwarfs that of thermonuclear.
(Dirty or not, destruction is destruction.)
Yet this person in the article-- who expresses concern that we'll destroy this planet-- believes that we can use this same technology to colonize other planets, and simultaneously somehow avoid destroying those planets.
Which causes of earth's destruction would we be leaving behind?
"please stop treating me as a second rank costumer" [sic]
;-)
OK, here's your big chance:
whip up something wonderful for me to wear on Halloween, and I'll grant you recognition as a first-rank costumer.
or did you mean customer?...
At the end of TFA:
'Lynn is enthusiastic about antimatter because he believes it could propel futuristic space rockets.
"I think," he said, "we need to get off this planet, because I'm afraid we're going to destroy it." '
Oh, you mean by pursuing ever-more-super super-weapons?
And we'll escape from this problem by taking the same technology and attitudes to other planets?
""Seems"? Not when we tested it." [re McAfee VirusScan]
well, that's the difference between "seems" and "does".
Wouldn't have been my first choice if not free.
What else has your experience/research shown?
Alternatives?
Collective licensing is the solution, but EFF has the wrong stance on the mechanism:
the fairest and most effective way is to tax the storage media AND the bandwidth/QOS.
Part #1...
Think about it:
to store 2x the stuff, you buy 2x the blank media, and you pay 2x the tax-- ONCE.
IOW, you pay for the volume of stuff you KEEP-- no matter how many times you copy over it-- instead of paying for the number of times that you re-write the media.
If you don't buy more media, you can't record new files without throwing out old ones.
I *think* this already happens in Canada, at least with some media.
Part #2 covers streaming playback, by taxing bandwidth/QOS. This is just like what happens today with U.S. radio broadcasts.
Furthermore, using a tax avoids cheating on a monthly fee.
"You either want to run scripts or not. You either want to use plug-ins and accept cookies or you don't."
Not true for me, depends a lot on the site.
Fortunately, Agnitum.com "Outpost" fw lets me control ALL those things on a per-site basis.
-- Agnitum.com's "Outpost" firewall, with all kinds of free plug-ins which let me control -- on a PER-DOMAIN basis -- things like scripts, activeX, java, referrers, etc. Also controls those things separately for http vs mail vs news. :o
Tried it on trial, liked it so much I paid for it.
-- McAfee VirusScan, because I got it free (corporate) and it seems to work ok.
-- on another system, english.mks.com.pl "mks_vir", which has recently been favorably reviewed for its dynamic adaptablility to not-yet-signatured new threats.
-- SpyBot, AdAware
"three new patents, one of them on the companies per-employee software pricing plan"
"companY'S", dammit...
dude, that's some uuuuuuuuuuuuggglly furniture.
Those plaid chairs gotta go, man.
(if you don't grok the reference, google it.)
"speculation that a Google browser would probably be a browser, feed reader, blog tool, desktop search, online search, gmail, news reader, photo editing, and online photo publishing all rolled into one"...
which, if true, would show that Google is being sucked into the Dark Side, becoming another msft.
After all, it probably wouldn't be an OSS effort, and the hyper-integration is reminiscent of the Win/IE integration trick.
OTOH, if it WERE oss, how does this swiss-army-knife abomination fit oss traditions?
"suspected of sharing massive amounts of copyrighted material over a private, local DC++ hub that was infiltrated by SMAIS"
I just finished reading TFA, and the only two hits on google-news,
and I saw no explanation for the phrase "private local hub".
This phrase made it sound (to me) like the arrestees were on a LAN,
where the p2p traffic wasn't passing over the public net --
which, IF true, would be a lot more chilling.
"And if you hold any tenents outside societal norm"
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"I'm not sure I agree with all the tenants of eHarmony"
tenants != tenets
sorry, can't help myself, and some people recognize that i'm not just trying to be an asshole or embarass people.
"easy to use. Thats the real power of GMail."
Well, that's one perspective.
I use it, but only for the size.
Yahoo is faster.
Lots of providers have spam filers.
Gmail's search will always be second-class without full nested/parenthesized booleans.
And I hate not having folders, with or without "labels".
And I REALLY hate how you have to open a conversation to see the individual mails.
I want to be able to view my inbox with one line per piece of mail.
And I want to be able to sort/reverse by size, date, sender, subject, etc.
There are some usages that CAN'T be done comfortably without those, even with searching.
"You would have to be a complete knob to keep anything important in a free webmail account."
Not true.
You'd be dumb to keep something important ONLY in ONE such account.
I sometimes use free mail for redundant backups (for my digcam, etc.).
And the handiest thing about large free webmail isn't permanent storage, but rather the fact that it's easy to access and hard to overflow, when you're away for a while and unable to download to your local mailbox.
"Gartner's making a bold prediction that the number of machines sold as Linux desktops may eclipse the number of machines actually running Linux."
Not sure what they were actually thinking.
Even if NONE of the sold-as-linux boxes remained linux, I doubt they'd exceed the total of all OTHER machines which run linux.
"What happens if you put M&M's in a bottle of soda and shake it?"
;-)
when I was a kid there was a 7-Up clone called BubbleUp (I think).
My best friend and I discovered that inserting M&Ms made it foam violently.
Shaking, of course, aggravates it.
This info has been there for quite a while.
It's merely been recently revised/updated.
...stupid stuff we did as kids?
"bombarding a Bismuth atom target with 2.5 trillion zinc atoms per second for 80 days"
ants and magnifying glass, M&M's shaken-up in a bottle of soda, etc.
whoooossshhhhhh!! [sound of irony passing undetected above /.er's head...] ;-)
...says virtually nothing about the actual HTS technology, which seems to be the only really novel aspect of this equipment.
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kewl
... to skim the title and briefly wonder, "What's an asteroid fly?"
"treadmill that acts as a keyboard and mouse"
I don't get it.
The whole point of computers (and games),
is that your actual body never has to be involved, right?