Or being required to wear a ballistic parachute, because Amarena's Thunderjet design could reach altitudes as high as 10,000 feet.
Or any "reasonable" height for that matter. Jet pack use does not fail gracefully. No glide ratios or gyroscopic descents, just Ahhhhhh... splat. A parachute sounds like a fairly good idea here.
To restate what he is saying:
What is the powerplant failure mode of a fixed-wing a/c? It becomes a glider.
What is the powerplant failure mode of a rotary-wing a/c? It becomes an auto-gyro.
What is the powerplant failure mode of a jet pack? It becomes a large rock.
The flying car concept (based on ducted fans) has the same fatal flaw.
At some point we need to get rid of this silly notation of Internet Service Providers and simply let any device act as a wireless router for any other, forming a worldwide mesh.
Do some studying of how routing protocols work, then calculate the size of the routing tables you would have. Then calculate how much memory and cpu these devices would need just for processing the routing updates, and how much bandwidth the routing updates would require.
When really stupid ideas start seeing the light of day. That means most of the management team has insulated themselves from criticism by surrounding themselves with toadies and have, effectively, separated themselves from any semblance of reality.
Usually the case when you see corporate behavior and wonder, "How could they be that stupid?" Because on their little planet what they're doing makes sense. Just not on this world.
In my experience it also means upper management has divided themselves into warring camps.
Are we still talking about AT&T, or did the conversation move on to the Dubya administration?
A Microsoft problem? No. The feature is implemented correctly. If the monitor does not have the authorization chip that the new drivers in Vista are set to check for (thus closing the analog hole), the DRM will not play. Because VGA is older, the content will play on that. It's a feature of Windows Media, that might be fixed if Microsoft does not implement the monitor check in Silverlight which they are switching to. Since they want to support Macs, and Apple isn't that stupid, hopefully they won't be able to.
ANALOG hole??? Something isn't making sense here:
Look up the specs on his video card; It does HDCP.
Look up the specs on his monitor. It does HDCP.
The hardware is fully compliant with HDCP. I suppose he *might* be running a VGA cable from the card to the monitor, but why on earth would you want to run an analog link instead of a digital link???
So when will this mean that I can actually use IPv6 for connecting to servers?
Like, when will I be able to open my browser window, type in an IPv6 address, and connect to...say..google?
dig www.google.com any aaaa
Pretty tough to connect via IPv6 to a server not advertising an IPv6 address.
If you want to use IPv6, you need to do one of the following:
Get an ISP offering IPv6.
Use IPv6 Anycast.
Get a tunnel broker.
I currently use Anycast. I've used a tunnel broker in the past, but with a dynamic IP, Anycast is less fuss. The easiest way to do the 2nd or 3rd choice is to get an Apple AP.
Yes, you are trying to apply logic to bureaucratic activities. This isn't about security; It is about security theater, (a term coined by Bruce Schneir). It is all about blowing governmental resources to produce a big show of pseudo-security, with an unfortunate real side-effect of undermining civil liberties.
He made all his home runs, etc. while drinking and whoring, and looking like a fat pig....
Now Barry Bonds has to lower the pitcher's mound, shoot up, and use mechanical assists to score as much as Babe.
Guantanamo spokesman Lt. Col. Bush blasted Wikileaks for identifying one 'mass communications officer' by name, who has since received death threats for 'simply doing his job -- posting positive comments on the Internet about Gitmo.'
Lemme guess: The officers name is Winston Smith, and he is assigned to the Ministry of Truth?
The most evil of evil cellular companies, the company that replaces perfectly unacceptable, already crippled stock phone operating systems with COMPLETELY UTTERLY crippled operating systems, the same one who if you buy their Motorola RAZR and try to use MOTOROLA's OWN MOBILE PHONE TOOLS, will not allow said use.
And that is why after 5 years of being a loyal Verizon customer, when my old Startac died, I canceled my Verizon account and went to Sprint, who were happy to sell me a fully-functioning Razr for the same price Verizon wanted for a crippled one. Even the guys at the Verizon store were sympathetic when I came in to cancel the account.
Good god the original is THIRTY years old! No one under 30 can even remember a time *before* Star Wars! Not only has it jumped the shark, but the shark has died of old age! I am old enough remember when the original was released, but too old to remember when I still cared about the series.
A guy in a lab coat is in the Chief's office, demonstrating his new invention that took him a year to develop: a remotely-controlled robotic house-fly that can transmit a live audio feed back to the operator. He flies it around the room then lands it on the Chief's desk. Just then, Maxwell Smart walks in and begins talking to the Chief. He suddenly pauses, whips a rolled-up newspaper from under his arm, and smashes the fly on the desk. The guy in the lab coat leaves the office in tears, cupping the remains of the fly in his hands.
Neither have I. Also, the last time I touched Microsoft crap was in 1993. Since then I have only used Solaris, Linux, and {Free,Net,Open,Dragonfly}BSD. After Mac OS X came out, I bought a Mac as my first laptop. It is really a sad state of affairs, that in the 21st century people are still using an OS so broken in design that it requires 3rd-party duct-tape products for (semi)security.
With the level of incompetence of law enforcement agencies with respect to anything technical, why on earth would you want cybercrime at a high priority??? The less time they spend on it, the less damage they can do.
...sounds like it was pulled out of someone's ass.
Absolutely! When a thief robs a liquor store of $1000, he actually has the money, and the store has really lost the money. Now let me relay something I learned from a lecture I attended by a wekll-know former hacker a few years ago;
He had used social engineering to obtain a copy of some cell-phone infrastructure s/w from a large, well-known high-tech company. He later learned that when the cops questioned the mgt of the company, they wanted a dollar amount of the damages. When the mgt hesitated about how to determine the damages, the cops asked: "So what did it cost to develop it?"
And that was the number they used! The hacker had done nothing but use social engineering to persuade an employee to FedEx him a copy of the s/w which he kept, but did nothing with it. He never even broke into a single computer, nor ever distributed the s/w, nor did any kind of damage. But in their zeal to pump this up into a big case, the cops used the completely bogus multi-million dollar cost of the project and charged him with that dollar amount of (non-existent) damage.
If Sun had bought Apple any of the many times it's been rumored the past decade or more, then IBM mainframes might be running OSX right now. Huh??? Go back and look at all the acquisitions Sun has made. With the exception of Cray and Kealia, their product lines are gone. If Sun had bought Apple, there is a 95% probability Apple would also be gone.
Now if Apple had acquired Sun, (especially with Jobs at the helm), things would have been very interesting.
I don't really tend to think in terms of the police having the job of preventing crime. I think there job should be to apprehend criminals who are involved in or have committed a crime.
You just hit on a fact that should be obvious, most isn't apparent to most people, and which the gun-control crowd would like to ignore: The cops are there to apprehend criminals AFTER the crime has been committed. Unless you have a cop at your side 24x7, the cops CANNOT protect you.
This was drilled into me the night I was attacked by a raging drunken lunatic much bigger than myself, who dragged me out of my car one night in a traffic jam.
And something else I learned that night: John Q. Public is a coward. Dozens of people witnessed what was happening, and not one person came to my assistance. They were all busy locking their doors and rolling up their windows, while they watched.
If you are the victim of a crime, there will be no one you can depend on but yourself.
My gosh, your posting sounds exactly like what I was going to post! I use the Kensington Expert Mouse with my workstation, and the Logitech Trackman Marble is attached to my laptop in the den. I still firmly believe the mouse was created by a dumb accident when someone in manufacturing read the trackball blueprints upside down. There is just no reason for mice to exist.
Except companies like VZW intentionally cripple your phone so you can't do things no it without paying them. My Motorola E810 or whatever it is, has full bluetooth capabilities....if you don't buy it from Verizon. If you do buy it from Verizon, you can only connect a bluetooth headset, can't move files via bluetooth, and can't move files to and from the transSD slot either.
And that is exactly the reason I left VZW after being a customer for six years. My old StarTac died, and I wanted a Razr. VZW would have been happy to sell me a crippled one. I went to Sprint and bought the same Razr for the same price, but fully functional. When I went back toe the VZW store to cancel my service, even the guys who worked there were sympathetic to my reasons. To hell with any company that tries to sell me a broken product!
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- What is the powerplant failure mode of a fixed-wing a/c? It becomes a glider.
- What is the powerplant failure mode of a rotary-wing a/c? It becomes an auto-gyro.
- What is the powerplant failure mode of a jet pack? It becomes a large rock.
The flying car concept (based on ducted fans) has the same fatal flaw.-
Look up the specs on his video card; It does HDCP.
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Look up the specs on his monitor. It does HDCP.
The hardware is fully compliant with HDCP. I suppose he *might* be running a VGA cable from the card to the monitor, but why on earth would you want to run an analog link instead of a digital link???dig www.google.com any aaaa
Pretty tough to connect via IPv6 to a server not advertising an IPv6 address.
If you want to use IPv6, you need to do one of the following:- Get an ISP offering IPv6.
- Use IPv6 Anycast.
- Get a tunnel broker.
I currently use Anycast. I've used a tunnel broker in the past, but with a dynamic IP, Anycast is less fuss. The easiest way to do the 2nd or 3rd choice is to get an Apple AP....an Iranian cluster of these!
Dammit, I'd like to mod you up, but I don't have nay mod points today!!!
Good god the original is THIRTY years old! No one under 30 can even remember a time *before* Star Wars! Not only has it jumped the shark, but the shark has died of old age! I am old enough remember when the original was released, but too old to remember when I still cared about the series.
A guy in a lab coat is in the Chief's office, demonstrating his new invention that took him a year to develop: a remotely-controlled robotic house-fly that can transmit a live audio feed back to the operator. He flies it around the room then lands it on the Chief's desk. Just then, Maxwell Smart walks in and begins talking to the Chief. He suddenly pauses, whips a rolled-up newspaper from under his arm, and smashes the fly on the desk. The guy in the lab coat leaves the office in tears, cupping the remains of the fly in his hands.
...don't need their government's permission to own a book.
With the level of incompetence of law enforcement agencies with respect to anything technical, why on earth would you want cybercrime at a high priority??? The less time they spend on it, the less damage they can do.
You just hit on a fact that should be obvious, most isn't apparent to most people, and which the gun-control crowd would like to ignore: The cops are there to apprehend criminals AFTER the crime has been committed. Unless you have a cop at your side 24x7, the cops CANNOT protect you.
This was drilled into me the night I was attacked by a raging drunken lunatic much bigger than myself, who dragged me out of my car one night in a traffic jam.
And something else I learned that night: John Q. Public is a coward. Dozens of people witnessed what was happening, and not one person came to my assistance. They were all busy locking their doors and rolling up their windows, while they watched.
If you are the victim of a crime, there will be no one you can depend on but yourself.
My gosh, your posting sounds exactly like what I was going to post! I use the Kensington Expert Mouse with my workstation, and the Logitech Trackman Marble is attached to my laptop in the den. I still firmly believe the mouse was created by a dumb accident when someone in manufacturing read the trackball blueprints upside down. There is just no reason for mice to exist.