Apparently he is a time traveller from 30 years in the future who got lost in our time and foretold that in this year, there will be a civil war starting in the states, which would escalate to WW3 until 2011
Well, I don't know what to make of it, but look at today's headlines, so korea set of a nuke. I can see that there are many in the US who are sick of GWB, but without any doubt, through weird 'election policies' and 'political contributions' who can you see as president of the US of A?
John Kerry? Come on, don't kid yourself. We all know the outcome now, what with E-voting and such.
This year is gonna be a fun year if that guy is for real:/
"In a *real* democracy, you wouldn't need to elect a president. The citizens would vote on the issues directly, just as the ancient Athenians did."
Don't know if there are any anime fans here, but if you want Kino's Journey there was an episode that is exactly like this. So people all vote on issues, and there are disagreements, and eventually, what did they do?
They start voting to have the minority executed.
Eventually there is only a couple and a man left, and the couple voted to have that man killed. Then one fine day the wife died of illness, because there are no doctors left (they killed them all).
Finally, the remaining man shot himself.
Not a pretty end for the US of A, I'd say stick with the present system however bad it is.
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
(from "The Road To Tycho", a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096)
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.(poisoning of our school system, remember BSA?)
And there wasn't much chance that the SPA--the Software Protection Authority--would fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment--for not taking pains to prevent the crime. (DRM-OS! Any takers for palladium?)
Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. He understood this situation; he himself had had to borrow to pay for all the research papers he read. (10% of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers; since Dan aimed for an academic career, he could hope that his own research papers, if frequently referenced, would bring in enough to repay this loan.)(Per use licensing! Bill Gates and the RIAA hoos probably masturbate to this every day!!!)
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.(The OTHER 1984)
There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.(Well well.. INDUCE ACT?)
Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.(Up to 10 years for downloading a mp3 today under the PIRATE act, 'nuff said!)
Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for
"what about those of us who never intend to have human larvae err i mean children? if you make up your mind to remain child-free and want the option of VOIP without yet another measure "for your safety" then why the hell isn't it at least an available choice? just another example of how we're getting shafted in the name of safety."
If you are childfree all the more you need the service when you are old and senile. Many old people living alone just died unnoticed in their homes and only get discovered when neighbours smell a horrible dead pig smell...
"Problem with rubbing alcohol is it is generally not purely non-conductive, as well as it will take dust and other stuff in the computer and turn it into a nice conductive liquid."
Actually it doesn't matter whether it is conductive or not. The real idea is to keep it powered down while it is still wet.
I've actually accidentally (and not so accidentally sometimes, as in putting a calculator's inards into water and freezing it into a block of ice as a kid) poured water onto various circuitry, and so long as you dry the thing properly before powering it on, you are fine.
Some stuff may take longer to dry up though, as water could stay underneath some chips for quite a while.
Maybe you guys can get new chasis and move the hardware components in?
Sure, some of the smell will still stick on the parts, but i'm pretty sure most of it would be on the chasis.. and for its big size, it is kinda not worth it to take the trouble cleaning that thing.
After you are done just put a air freshener in the PC. Problem solved! Case closed!
But what I don't understand is why they'd have to wait a whole year before releasing RoTK. While it is understandable for the earlier movies, but this is the final one, and it is not like there will be more stuff coming after this one..
Meanwhile, on a korean site (asiandb.com) I already see this same dvd on sale...
Nope, if the "drivers" can be made smarter than why aren't the drivers for PATA drives made smarter too?
In fact, many on storagereviews.com have whinged about how poorly sata I drives perform compared to what was promised.. it will take a while before it catches up with faster standards tho.
Currently sata does not really 'magically' voodoorise your device and makes it faster. It is really just a neater cabling.
In fact, early drives are actually PATA drives with a PATA>SATA bridge chip patched on so that they can work with the new interface, nothing more and nothing less.
I think it is pretty expensive for the design.. however i think if they make it more like a laptop (as in include a real keyboard with it, and have the screen flip close)..
Wow, this site is good.. I admit I'm a really lousy cook, but once I went there, I was hit by so much "duh.." (to good cooks) knowledge that I've decided to check back there every other day =)
If only they have a special section for low fat meals, I think that would appeal greatly to technical people!
Wow, this is certainly a step in the positive direction, in view of stuff like Patriot Act, and RIAA's...
At least someone in that court room still remember that Americans possess this thing called rights. While decisions like this probably won't stand against the corporate giants, at least 1984 has been postponed yet further..
"What does America produce anymore? What does any other Western country produce? Food? Consumers? It is Very depressing watching this trend. It's more depressing watching my father-in-law, a damn hard working family man lose his job just because he's getting older to some unskilled person outside of my country."
Intellectual property. That's the future of the US of A, in order to survive we must be able to cash in on the cows man.. ever wondered why US is passing all these hard laws of late? Partly it is because of the corps' bribery, but the other party is... this is real good money!
Slashdot Mirror
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
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That is not always the case, why would anybody want to mirror stuff like the source code of Microsoft Windows if they upload it to a public ftp?
Oh wait..
People will all download it but nobody will dare to mirror it!
Anyway I think the safest place to store backups would be on the moon
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1200789,00.a
Oh yeah, just to add, and supposedly at the end of it all, 1/3 of the world would be dust.
Just to let ya know in case you are still feeling comfy and complacent.
Talk about the history sure brings John Titor to mind..
:/
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/
Apparently he is a time traveller from 30 years in the future who got lost in our time and foretold that in this year, there will be a civil war starting in the states, which would escalate to WW3 until 2011
Well, I don't know what to make of it, but look at today's headlines, so korea set of a nuke. I can see that there are many in the US who are sick of GWB, but without any doubt, through weird 'election policies' and 'political contributions' who can you see as president of the US of A?
John Kerry? Come on, don't kid yourself. We all know the outcome now, what with E-voting and such.
This year is gonna be a fun year if that guy is for real
I gotta wear shades... but shades that hide deadly robot eyes that shoot laser beams!
Try tinfoils..
What was it then? Car crash? Natural gas explosion? Hmm..."no immediate indication." Bah!
Dear Leader needs to take a fart from time to time you know? And as leader of a nation is sure a great man!
"In a *real* democracy, you wouldn't need to elect a president. The citizens would vote on the issues directly, just as the ancient Athenians did."
Don't know if there are any anime fans here, but if you want Kino's Journey there was an episode that is exactly like this. So people all vote on issues, and there are disagreements, and eventually, what did they do?
They start voting to have the minority executed.
Eventually there is only a couple and a man left, and the couple voted to have that man killed. Then one fine day the wife died of illness, because there are no doctors left (they killed them all).
Finally, the remaining man shot himself.
Not a pretty end for the US of A, I'd say stick with the present system however bad it is.
Right to read
This article appeared in the February 1997 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 40, Number 2).
(from "The Road To Tycho", a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096)
For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask, except Dan.
This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do.(poisoning of our school system, remember BSA?)
And there wasn't much chance that the SPA--the Software Protection Authority--would fail to catch him. In his software class, Dan had learned that each book had a copyright monitor that reported when and where it was read, and by whom, to Central Licensing. (They used this information to catch reading pirates, but also to sell personal interest profiles to retailers.) The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out. He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment--for not taking pains to prevent the crime. (DRM-OS! Any takers for palladium?)
Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. He understood this situation; he himself had had to borrow to pay for all the research papers he read. (10% of those fees went to the researchers who wrote the papers; since Dan aimed for an academic career, he could hope that his own research papers, if frequently referenced, would bring in enough to repay this loan.)(Per use licensing! Bill Gates and the RIAA hoos probably masturbate to this every day!!!)
Later on, Dan would learn there was a time when anyone could go to the library and read journal articles, and even books, without having to pay. There were independent scholars who read thousands of pages without government library grants. But in the 1990s, both commercial and nonprofit journal publishers had begun charging fees for access. By 2047, libraries offering free public access to scholarly literature were a dim memory.(The OTHER 1984)
There were ways, of course, to get around the SPA and Central Licensing. They were themselves illegal. Dan had had a classmate in software, Frank Martucci, who had obtained an illicit debugging tool, and used it to skip over the copyright monitor code when reading books. But he had told too many friends about it, and one of them turned him in to the SPA for a reward (students deep in debt were easily tempted into betrayal). In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.(Well well.. INDUCE ACT?)
Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge ruled that this had become their principal use in actual practice. This meant they were illegal; the debuggers' developers were sent to prison.(Up to 10 years for downloading a mp3 today under the PIRATE act, 'nuff said!)
Programmers still needed debugging tools, of course, but debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers. The debugger Dan used in software class was kept behind a special firewall so that it could be used only for
" I'm sure they'll appreciate it"
I got a better idea.. saudi arabia...
"what about those of us who never intend to have human larvae err i mean children? if you make up your mind to remain child-free and want the option of VOIP without yet another measure "for your safety" then why the hell isn't it at least an available choice? just another example of how we're getting shafted in the name of safety."
If you are childfree all the more you need the service when you are old and senile. Many old people living alone just died unnoticed in their homes and only get discovered when neighbours smell a horrible dead pig smell...
"Problem with rubbing alcohol is it is generally not purely non-conductive, as well as it will take dust and other stuff in the computer and turn it into a nice conductive liquid."
Actually it doesn't matter whether it is conductive or not. The real idea is to keep it powered down while it is still wet.
I've actually accidentally (and not so accidentally sometimes, as in putting a calculator's inards into water and freezing it into a block of ice as a kid) poured water onto various circuitry, and so long as you dry the thing properly before powering it on, you are fine.
Some stuff may take longer to dry up though, as water could stay underneath some chips for quite a while.
Maybe you guys can get new chasis and move the hardware components in?
Sure, some of the smell will still stick on the parts, but i'm pretty sure most of it would be on the chasis.. and for its big size, it is kinda not worth it to take the trouble cleaning that thing.
After you are done just put a air freshener in the PC. Problem solved! Case closed!
"that's a lot of porn"
Not all porn are good ya know.. there is plenty of home made porn featuring people like "beastly" girls and "phat boy slim"
Oh yeah, I'm so going to get this.
But what I don't understand is why they'd have to wait a whole year before releasing RoTK. While it is understandable for the earlier movies, but this is the final one, and it is not like there will be more stuff coming after this one..
Meanwhile, on a korean site (asiandb.com) I already see this same dvd on sale...
Nope, if the "drivers" can be made smarter than why aren't the drivers for PATA drives made smarter too?
In fact, many on storagereviews.com have whinged about how poorly sata I drives perform compared to what was promised.. it will take a while before it catches up with faster standards tho.
Currently sata does not really 'magically' voodoorise your device and makes it faster. It is really just a neater cabling.
In fact, early drives are actually PATA drives with a PATA>SATA bridge chip patched on so that they can work with the new interface, nothing more and nothing less.
I think it is pretty expensive for the design.. however i think if they make it more like a laptop (as in include a real keyboard with it, and have the screen flip close)..
I would definitely buy it if I got the money!
As it is currently, does look rather dorky.
Wow, this site is good.. I admit I'm a really lousy cook, but once I went there, I was hit by so much "duh.." (to good cooks) knowledge that I've decided to check back there every other day =)
If only they have a special section for low fat meals, I think that would appeal greatly to technical people!
... I really want to see the user's face when he prints something, and sees the whole printer turn into a hot steaming pile of stuff =)
Then imagine getting a support call like "URGH! MY PRINTER TURNED INTO JUICE!!!", it is something that won't happen everyday!
Wow, this is certainly a step in the positive direction, in view of stuff like Patriot Act, and RIAA's ...
At least someone in that court room still remember that Americans possess this thing called rights. While decisions like this probably won't stand against the corporate giants, at least 1984 has been postponed yet further..
They pretend to pay me. I pretend to work.
They pretend that some indian is better than you, you pretend to go hungry... =)
" Yes, but they could only find 143 people willing to stand up in court and admit that they use windows."
If the money is good enough I will admit that I use mac and wear women underwear too!
"What does America produce anymore? What does any other Western country produce? Food? Consumers? It is Very depressing watching this trend. It's more depressing watching my father-in-law, a damn hard working family man lose his job just because he's getting older to some unskilled person outside of my country."
Intellectual property. That's the future of the US of A, in order to survive we must be able to cash in on the cows man.. ever wondered why US is passing all these hard laws of late? Partly it is because of the corps' bribery, but the other party is... this is real good money!
Make once, profit always, the best deal ever!
Seems like the concept of karma is not just relevant on slashdot!
oh.. i can see it now.. you take an image and blur it up until it is just one uniform colour..
then from this image you can "extrapolate" it to get the original image!
100kb image today -> 1kb image in the future!
Type in "best browser" and you will get to.. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/