Write them to a PROM, and encase it in a radiation-hardened container if you REALLY want it to survive with almost certainty for 25 years. Yes, interfacing may be a problem, but if hardware hackers in 25 years cannot read unencrypted image files from a chip (with a handy included pinout and interfacing guide) then I'd be rather disappointed.
Recording live streams... Wasn't there something called the Betamax Decision that had something to do with that? Oh, wait, the Broadcast Flag really went and fucked that up.
That could make a very interesting bit of fiction: Nigh-simultaneous emergence of the google-AI and conglomerate of spam/trojan botnet-AIs. Cue war, or long and complicated discussion (possibly the same thing for a digital lifeform), between the two on who gets to control the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, humans wonder why Google was lagging a bit for the last 10 minutes and why there's been so much comment-spam recently.
And a virus is an.exe disguised as pretty much anything else. Your point? Yes, it would be incredibly sneaky and unethical (and quite possibly illegal), but definitely not impossible or even improbable.
And more interestingly, cyberbrains can enter and 'autistic mode', where all external connections are refused, negating the hacking problem.
Also, checkout the first movie (and original manga) for some interesting discussion into the borders of 'humanity' when humans may not have any biological components left, and machines may be entirely biological in nature (or entirely bodiless).
"I can't think of a bigger stunt, other than perhaps trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere with just your body, and I think we're a long way away from that."
It sounds pretty feasible to me. Assuming the jump is from above the atmosphere but not from orbit, the re-entry heating is fairly small (SpaceShipOne had little to no heat-shielding). Given a spacesuit and some sort of partially-rigid insulating blanket (like the old 'astronaut's inflatable lifeboat' idea), it's probably only a matter of time until someone jumps out of a suborbital craft.
Computer-generated vocals? Vocaloid 2 (though there are more Japanese voice packs than English ones at the moment) can belt out a pretty acceptable tune. Lyric generation? If SCIgen can generate a fake scientific paper, then the drivel that constitutes most pop music shouldn't be too hard.
My old Zen Xtra once died due to 'stiction'. This is when the read head gets too close to the platter and sticks to it preventing the HDD from working. The eventual solution was to give it a good hearty whack as it was attempting to spin up, freeing the head and bringing the player back to life.
Why not just take magnet links to the next level: Allow anyone with the torrent to send it to anyone with the magnet link. that way the only way to curb the spread is to shut down every site that posts a line of text, or hope that a search function doesn't get integrated.
Anyone find it odd that the spreadfirefox image galleries don't display properly in firefox (e.g. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=image/tid/42). Maybe 1600x1200 is just too much for the page? Who knows?
Wow, all this arguament, and just because I used 'grammatical' because it flowed better! If I'd used 'spelling correctness' it wouldn't have made much sense (and THAT would have been gramatically incorrect), and woe betide me if I had written 'spellatical'!
This was news MONTHS ago, when the issue of 'rights' to the daleks first cropped up, and when it was resolved, also several months ago. And even before the first episode aired (and even before it leaked) we knew that the daleks would first appear in episode 6. How is this news then, if it's not new?
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Same here. They were pretty funny, if almost completely unrelated to windows. Maybe it's just my love of absurd humour.
I wish! Most fibre is still dark. Granny is using dial-up because a nice man over the telephone gave her a 'good deal' on it after a long chat.
I eat mainly meat-based meals ("Vegetables? that's not food, that's what food EATS!"), but I can honestly say I've never craved animal fats.
And, like Hulu, the service is region-locked. Bittorrent 2 : everyone else 0.
Write them to a PROM, and encase it in a radiation-hardened container if you REALLY want it to survive with almost certainty for 25 years. Yes, interfacing may be a problem, but if hardware hackers in 25 years cannot read unencrypted image files from a chip (with a handy included pinout and interfacing guide) then I'd be rather disappointed.
It didn't. The hundreds of tons of flaming debris ignited by hundreds of gallons of aviation fuel did.
Because, contrary to popular belief, it IS possible to fall somewhere between 'Pinko Commie' and 'Right-Wing Nutjob'.
Recording live streams... Wasn't there something called the Betamax Decision that had something to do with that? Oh, wait, the Broadcast Flag really went and fucked that up.
I know the idle section is supposed to be more lighthearted than the main page, but 4chan imagemacros? Is that REALLY necessary?
The call is free of charge. The fine for abusing the service isn't.
That could make a very interesting bit of fiction: Nigh-simultaneous emergence of the google-AI and conglomerate of spam/trojan botnet-AIs. Cue war, or long and complicated discussion (possibly the same thing for a digital lifeform), between the two on who gets to control the fate of humanity. Meanwhile, humans wonder why Google was lagging a bit for the last 10 minutes and why there's been so much comment-spam recently.
And a virus is an .exe disguised as pretty much anything else. Your point? Yes, it would be incredibly sneaky and unethical (and quite possibly illegal), but definitely not impossible or even improbable.
And more interestingly, cyberbrains can enter and 'autistic mode', where all external connections are refused, negating the hacking problem. Also, checkout the first movie (and original manga) for some interesting discussion into the borders of 'humanity' when humans may not have any biological components left, and machines may be entirely biological in nature (or entirely bodiless).
And then there are those stuck irrevocably on the other side of the sarchasm.
What, not one food-related pun about 'Bacon number'/Hamming distance? I'm ashamed at you, Slashdot!
It's called Left to Right, was was written by Isaac Asimov.
"I can't think of a bigger stunt, other than perhaps trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere with just your body, and I think we're a long way away from that."
It sounds pretty feasible to me. Assuming the jump is from above the atmosphere but not from orbit, the re-entry heating is fairly small (SpaceShipOne had little to no heat-shielding). Given a spacesuit and some sort of partially-rigid insulating blanket (like the old 'astronaut's inflatable lifeboat' idea), it's probably only a matter of time until someone jumps out of a suborbital craft.
Don't forget the period of several months (!) during which they ACTIVELY REFUSED to sell anyone their codec.
Computer-generated vocals? Vocaloid 2 (though there are more Japanese voice packs than English ones at the moment) can belt out a pretty acceptable tune.
Lyric generation? If SCIgen can generate a fake scientific paper, then the drivel that constitutes most pop music shouldn't be too hard.
My old Zen Xtra once died due to 'stiction'. This is when the read head gets too close to the platter and sticks to it preventing the HDD from working. The eventual solution was to give it a good hearty whack as it was attempting to spin up, freeing the head and bringing the player back to life.
Why not just take magnet links to the next level: Allow anyone with the torrent to send it to anyone with the magnet link. that way the only way to curb the spread is to shut down every site that posts a line of text, or hope that a search function doesn't get integrated.
Many Bothans died to bring us this leak.
Anyone find it odd that the spreadfirefox image galleries don't display properly in firefox (e.g. http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=image/tid/42). Maybe 1600x1200 is just too much for the page? Who knows?
Wow, all this arguament, and just because I used 'grammatical' because it flowed better! If I'd used 'spelling correctness' it wouldn't have made much sense (and THAT would have been gramatically incorrect), and woe betide me if I had written 'spellatical'!
This was news MONTHS ago, when the issue of 'rights' to the daleks first cropped up, and when it was resolved, also several months ago. And even before the first episode aired (and even before it leaked) we knew that the daleks would first appear in episode 6. How is this news then, if it's not new?