i can see it now, pink floyd sues fusion reactor makers everywhere for using their quadrophonic sound developed for concerts in the 60's. but seriously, the potential for sonoluminescence has some pretty heavy birth of the universe theory behind it. sci am feb/04 issue has an article theorizing that the initial soup of the universe was shaped by soundwave propagation caused by photons traveling the soup. maybe a combination of sound and mag trapped plasma, if it hasn't been done already, would be an interesting question?
with microsoft as behind the drm as they are it's going to be near impossible to locate equipment manufacturers that won't put this in due to microsoft's stranglehold on the pc product. some have said before that it's a dollars thing and they're right. they just have to make it tough enough, and terrorize the rest. it must have come up sometime before but it's worth saying again that drm will remove the backdoor some makers put in. like the chinese dvd player that could be easily unlocked to use all countrycodes just by pushing a few buttons on the remote control. now, if you tried to do that with a drm system and because you didn't read the license your computer would send requests to verify your ability to watch a dvd. windows player 9 already includes regular phone homes to "check things". some spyware/adware products pick them up, but then the media player won't work anymore. anyway this just smacks of a grab as much as we can get and see if they notice. if basic playback must have an active internet connection, even at a registration phase to verify through ip etc basic identity then phones home ocassionally to update not only the dvd but any bits of "other " media, downloaded clips, music whatever. right now, it's microsoft. what about when others are forced to join in because the hardware now demands it? and then there's the "not personally attached" database being generated in all this...
so, how long before the robin hood device(interference/nusiance account debit [like charging an account of the dept of highways for example] generator) laid by anarchists outside of stores or at tollboothes all over just for the fu factor?
if you really wanted to get it done, train a bird to carry a camera and then fly it over the base. any radar signature outside of a bird would probably trigger a big response and a triangulation of any radio signals in the surrounding area. of course being paranoid enough to annex the mountaintops around the base means that they probably auto eyeball every object in local space.
not just on the bandwidth either. the obviousness of the riaa legal ploy is really quite brutal. jack prices in collusion with others, pay next to nothing for manufacturing, lure in first time artists with explosive first albums and force them to sign a crappy contract, then do this for 20 years. then get taken to court and make everyone who want's a check worth less than the cost of a new cd in the store run the red tape to get it (no sir i have never downloaded music). any thoughts as to how much money was made, in profit, from the scam? sounds like piracy to me.
i can see where you're coming from on that. you're right, it does say that the signals were induced, transmitted biologically, and recorded by the chip (i'd like to know if they tried playing it back myself). the recording aspect is important, especially if an article is taken into account from march 12,2003 in new scientist "world's first brain prosthesis revealed" regarding a replacement hippocampus in people(yesss, i'm lame, i don't know how to link. i call it my lucky fin). you said "While I agree that this is a fascinating article, we should make sure not to sensationalize it too much. Making chips that interface with actual brains in actual animals, even if they are snails, is still a long way off." in that you are wrong./. has posted several times on the joystick/no joystick (soon to be) monkey (rulers of the earth when they figure out how to control microsoft with their minds) brainchipped to control a robot in the next room. one thing just occured to me, if synaptic activity is increased by this device, presumably in an electrochemical fashion) then is it not generating it's own power? then add a dash of rfid tech, mix liberally with the idea of a police state...
http://www.theecologist.org/archive_article.html?a rticle=272&category=56
this gives a decent overview of the issue. effectively it states that co2 levels were much higher in the past, and as the climate turned a significant portion of it was locked in the ice sheets that up until recently were pretty stable. not any more. other concerns are methane gas pockets from rotted plant deposits that were eventually covered by the oceans or ice as well as bacteria colonies (http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-04/cover/) and could cause some pretty serious problems from a bunch of different angles. things like- you can't breathe co2 or methane with much success, so, like the big bubble that rose out of the lake in south africa
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issue s03/sep03/killer_lakes.html
and killed a bunch of people in the immediate vicinity. or tsunami activity. heck, a bubble coming up under a carrier battlegroup would probably swallow it whole and start another war, which would keep our minds and mouths occupied with everything but the selfextinction of man.
from all the negative press the show got before and after airing i had some pretty low expectations, but couldn't check it out for myself until it played in canada. frankly, while i grew up at just the right age to adore the original and forgive it's shortcomings, the remake far outstripped the old one by a long mile. the combat sequences were shot in a handheld style that i loved in attack of the clones and loved just as much here. the story itself was pretty solid, but with a few, ahem, issues. i did find the religious byline a bit curious, a little unexpected in it's heavyhandedness. the show seems to have a decent cast so far, with probably a few tweaks sometime soon. if i had one suggestion for the series though is that it goes back to the planet and follows up with what's left, from a tempoary survivor view. the handheld style might enhance the impact a little and the religion could be played hard. anyway, interesting schtuff.
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i can see it now, pink floyd sues fusion reactor makers everywhere for using their quadrophonic sound developed for concerts in the 60's. but seriously, the potential for sonoluminescence has some pretty heavy birth of the universe theory behind it. sci am feb/04 issue has an article theorizing that the initial soup of the universe was shaped by soundwave propagation caused by photons traveling the soup. maybe a combination of sound and mag trapped plasma, if it hasn't been done already, would be an interesting question?
uhmmmm, was everyone else carrying 5s in the places these people were going? it doesn't mention anyone else having these problems.
with microsoft as behind the drm as they are it's going to be near impossible to locate equipment manufacturers that won't put this in due to microsoft's stranglehold on the pc product. some have said before that it's a dollars thing and they're right. they just have to make it tough enough, and terrorize the rest. it must have come up sometime before but it's worth saying again that drm will remove the backdoor some makers put in. like the chinese dvd player that could be easily unlocked to use all countrycodes just by pushing a few buttons on the remote control. now, if you tried to do that with a drm system and because you didn't read the license your computer would send requests to verify your ability to watch a dvd. windows player 9 already includes regular phone homes to "check things". some spyware/adware products pick them up, but then the media player won't work anymore. anyway this just smacks of a grab as much as we can get and see if they notice. if basic playback must have an active internet connection, even at a registration phase to verify through ip etc basic identity then phones home ocassionally to update not only the dvd but any bits of "other " media, downloaded clips, music whatever. right now, it's microsoft. what about when others are forced to join in because the hardware now demands it? and then there's the "not personally attached" database being generated in all this...
so, how long before the robin hood device(interference/nusiance account debit [like charging an account of the dept of highways for example] generator) laid by anarchists outside of stores or at tollboothes all over just for the fu factor?
if you really wanted to get it done, train a bird to carry a camera and then fly it over the base. any radar signature outside of a bird would probably trigger a big response and a triangulation of any radio signals in the surrounding area. of course being paranoid enough to annex the mountaintops around the base means that they probably auto eyeball every object in local space.
not just on the bandwidth either. the obviousness of the riaa legal ploy is really quite brutal. jack prices in collusion with others, pay next to nothing for manufacturing, lure in first time artists with explosive first albums and force them to sign a crappy contract, then do this for 20 years. then get taken to court and make everyone who want's a check worth less than the cost of a new cd in the store run the red tape to get it (no sir i have never downloaded music). any thoughts as to how much money was made, in profit, from the scam? sounds like piracy to me.
i can see where you're coming from on that. you're right, it does say that the signals were induced, transmitted biologically, and recorded by the chip (i'd like to know if they tried playing it back myself). the recording aspect is important, especially if an article is taken into account from march 12,2003 in new scientist "world's first brain prosthesis revealed" regarding a replacement hippocampus in people(yesss, i'm lame, i don't know how to link. i call it my lucky fin). you said "While I agree that this is a fascinating article, we should make sure not to sensationalize it too much. Making chips that interface with actual brains in actual animals, even if they are snails, is still a long way off." in that you are wrong. /. has posted several times on the joystick/no joystick (soon to be) monkey (rulers of the earth when they figure out how to control microsoft with their minds) brainchipped to control a robot in the next room. one thing just occured to me, if synaptic activity is increased by this device, presumably in an electrochemical fashion) then is it not generating it's own power? then add a dash of rfid tech, mix liberally with the idea of a police state...
http://www.theecologist.org/archive_article.html?a rticle=272&category=56
this gives a decent overview of the issue. effectively it states that co2 levels were much higher in the past, and as the climate turned a significant portion of it was locked in the ice sheets that up until recently were pretty stable. not any more. other concerns are methane gas pockets from rotted plant deposits that were eventually covered by the oceans or ice as well as bacteria colonies (http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-04/cover/) and could cause some pretty serious problems from a bunch of different angles. things like- you can't breathe co2 or methane with much success, so, like the big bubble that rose out of the lake in south africa
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issue s03/sep03/killer_lakes.html
and killed a bunch of people in the immediate vicinity. or tsunami activity. heck, a bubble coming up under a carrier battlegroup would probably swallow it whole and start another war, which would keep our minds and mouths occupied with everything but the selfextinction of man.
cross border shopping does us in again....
from all the negative press the show got before and after airing i had some pretty low expectations, but couldn't check it out for myself until it played in canada. frankly, while i grew up at just the right age to adore the original and forgive it's shortcomings, the remake far outstripped the old one by a long mile. the combat sequences were shot in a handheld style that i loved in attack of the clones and loved just as much here. the story itself was pretty solid, but with a few, ahem, issues. i did find the religious byline a bit curious, a little unexpected in it's heavyhandedness. the show seems to have a decent cast so far, with probably a few tweaks sometime soon. if i had one suggestion for the series though is that it goes back to the planet and follows up with what's left, from a tempoary survivor view. the handheld style might enhance the impact a little and the religion could be played hard. anyway, interesting schtuff.