I would rather like to see every public domain human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium to be archived. A Project Gutenberg so to speak, but for not just books but also images, audio and video as well. For example, there are veritable treasure troves of old films just lying around degrading and collecting dust in television archives around the world but even if they were all digitized (as is being done with some extra valuable movies in danger of degrading to unusability) I doubt we would see them offered for free to the general public. The bandwidth costs would just be too big for any company/state television attempting it. A distributed P2P system however would be ideal for this.
In the meantime, there are a few sites attempting it on a smaller scale - the Prelinger Archives over on archive.org are definitely worth a look for anyone interested in old American war, educational and propaganda films for example (like the (in)famous "Duck & Cover" movie)...
One reason for this is if you have encrypted data on your disk, then courts can demand the password for it. Stenography allows you to insist there is no hidden data.
No, stenography allows the court to keep accurate protocols when they ask you for that hidden data;-)
Even though I was going to post something like it myself when I read the topic, I salute you:) Just a shame today's mods don't get it...
For those who don't get the joke it's a play on words (or acronyms rather): DDR = Dance Dance Revolution (popular arcade dancing game) DDR = Deutsche Demokratische Republik (the official name of the state of East Germany)
And those isolated microbes have been isolated from contact with us as well, so they wouldn't know what to do with us. Organisms and their parasites & diseases co-evolve. And terrorists? Come on! What terrorist would go out to freakin' Antarctica, drill a couple of kilometers down, just to get what basically amounts to mineral water someone left in a fridge for 500000 years? If you're actually scared of that, you should probably live in fear of terrorists raiding your fridge.
Jeez, some people will see a terrorist connection in everything... no wonder laws like the PATRIOT act can be passed without public uproar.
So, are they talking about the total number of files swapped or the total size of them? I suspect the latter, and in that case it's no big surprise: One ripped movie shared - ~700 MB. One ripped CD shared - 70 MB.
A couple of acquaintances of mine, back in the 486 days, took it upon themselves to install a new sound card in one of their computers. They were all pretty much novices at it, and they couldn't get the card working in DOS no matter what they did... so finally one of them gets a bright idea: the little red switch on the back of the computer! That probably does something! So they flicked it, turned on the computer... and were greeted by a "WHOMPH!" and a stone dead computer. You see, the little red button was the voltage switch on the PSU. Setting a PSU to expect 110 Volts and then giving it (European standard) 230V is apparently a bad idea...
According to the computer repair shop, the box was black inside.
Whoa. Never had that happen to me, and I use acetone quite frequently for cleaning computers... the inside of them at least. It's an extremely good solvent for most things you want to remove from, say, a CPU or a connector (like dirt, grease or thermal paste - especially the residue left by thermal pads from cheap heatsinks is hell to remove normally), it usually doesn't harm what you are cleaning and it isn't that toxic or flammable.
Spilled a couple of drops of lemon juice on an old Microsoft Natural Keyboard once though... and it actually ate deep pits into the plastic. Hmm... maybe I should try and see what acetone does to it - it is a Microsoft keyboard, and this is Slashdot after all;-)
Either it will make fatigued drivers stop, or it will make them learn to type really really fast as they zoom through the WiFi hotspots...
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The pattern of most other metals, not most other elements. Every element ending in -ium is a metal except helium. The latter was first observed on the sun, via spectrometry, and was believed to be a metal, so it was named "sun metal" in Latin. By the time it was found on earth, it was too late to change the name.
-ium vs -um in Latin doesn't have anything to do with the elements being metals or not. Just look at the names of the different elements and you'll see a heap of non-metals ending in -ium: Hydrogenium, Oxygenium, Nitrogenium... while just as many, or even more, metals end in just -um: Ferrum, Cuprum, Plumbum, Hydragurum, Aurum...
I think if you communicate over a network that is regulated by the company itself, as well as a federal orginization, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. (like now)
So you think that if I FedEx a letter to someone I should expect FedEx to open it, photocopy it and store it in an archive somewhere? Or that if I make a phone call, I should expect that the telco tapes it and keeps the tape for an indefinite amount of time?
It's the same thing here really - SMSs are basically condensed phone messages, and it is definitely a reasonable expectation that your phone conversation is confidential between you and the other party, and that it stays that way. There's a huge difference between storing who phoned who (or in the case of FedEx: "person Foo payed for a package to be sent to person Bar at YYYY-MM-DD") and actually storing the contents. In a reasonable privacy climate, phone companies should definitely be busted for this... but with Ashcroft et al. in charge, it is more likely that SMS retention becomes law rather than a punishable act.:P
Not to mention the different GUI - Inkscape uses MDI, which is a must under MS Windows (all those windows and no "always on top" feature makes Sodipodi completely unusable under Windows). Mmmm, MDI...
... the crap-fest that's usually the result of a game->movie conversion or the mandatory third-person-view licensed games that follow every high-grossing movie...
Seriously, name three good movies based on video games. Impossible. I don't know what they do with them - my theory is that they simply think that the hard-core gamers will see the movie anyway and just throw in everything and the kitchen sink to draw in other groups, creating an end result of a horrible horrible mess.
It's almost as bad the other way around - name three original and good licensed games. Almost as hard. They're without fail uninspired third-person (so the audience can see their favorite actors on screen all the time) shooters, platformers or so-called adventures...
Except this is the European Council, so the European voters don't actually elect them. The only part of the EU they can directly affect, the European parliament, is basically powerless and seemingly only exists to give the masses an illusion of control.
1) Send a letter to the appropriate bureaucrat stating that you are upset, and inform them that they have lost your vote. 2) In the next election, send a letter to their opponent telling them why the incumbent pissed you off (software patent support), along with a check. 3) Vote for the challenger. 4) Watch as a few people wake up and realize that the voting public is not completely stupid and full of sheep. 5) Profit (not in money, but in Freedom).
Points 1, 2 & 3 - see part about not directly electing them.
4 - change that to "watch as people wake up and realize the European Union isn't a democratic institution". 5 - change that to "patents , voter apathy".
How exactly is this an anti-virus feature? Anti-buffer-overflow, yes. Anti-worm... well, maybe, but it'd be a bit of a stretch (anti-worm-based-on-buffer-overflow rather). Anti-virus? Hell no.
It's just like morse code, just waaaaaaaaaaaay faster!
Nah, it's like morse code, only if you look at what you receive the probability wave collapses and the cat dies. This means quantum cryptography uses up a heck of a lot of cats, and this is why there's a limit on its practical usability and speed in the real world...
I wonder if the post-9/11 paranoia has something to do with it? One of the US's major strengths in research has always been the ability to attract top scientists from all over the world, but with the more and more draconian immigration and visa laws it's becoming harder and harder for foreign scientists to work in the US...
Getting rid of patents altogether isn't the answer - the mousetrap analogy only works for low-R&D items. High/extreme R&D cost industries like medicine and aerospace on the other hand would simply collapse, or at least stop innovating with a no-patent system (it would create an entire system of free riders). Instead, we should get rid of bad patents. Sticking "on the web" at the end of an existing invention or trivial implementation is not, I repeat not patent-worthy. We should start with a working patent review process and go from there...
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I would rather like to see every public domain human creation in existence that can be expressed by a digital medium to be archived. A Project Gutenberg so to speak, but for not just books but also images, audio and video as well. For example, there are veritable treasure troves of old films just lying around degrading and collecting dust in television archives around the world but even if they were all digitized (as is being done with some extra valuable movies in danger of degrading to unusability) I doubt we would see them offered for free to the general public. The bandwidth costs would just be too big for any company/state television attempting it. A distributed P2P system however would be ideal for this.
In the meantime, there are a few sites attempting it on a smaller scale - the Prelinger Archives over on archive.org are definitely worth a look for anyone interested in old American war, educational and propaganda films for example (like the (in)famous "Duck & Cover" movie)...
Now steganography on the other hand...
Even though I was going to post something like it myself when I read the topic, I salute you :)
Just a shame today's mods don't get it...
For those who don't get the joke it's a play on words (or acronyms rather):
DDR = Dance Dance Revolution (popular arcade dancing game)
DDR = Deutsche Demokratische Republik (the official name of the state of East Germany)
And those isolated microbes have been isolated from contact with us as well, so they wouldn't know what to do with us. Organisms and their parasites & diseases co-evolve.
And terrorists? Come on! What terrorist would go out to freakin' Antarctica, drill a couple of kilometers down, just to get what basically amounts to mineral water someone left in a fridge for 500000 years? If you're actually scared of that, you should probably live in fear of terrorists raiding your fridge.
Jeez, some people will see a terrorist connection in everything... no wonder laws like the PATRIOT act can be passed without public uproar.
So, are they talking about the total number of files swapped or the total size of them? I suspect the latter, and in that case it's no big surprise: One ripped movie shared - ~700 MB. One ripped CD shared - 70 MB.
A couple of acquaintances of mine, back in the 486 days, took it upon themselves to install a new sound card in one of their computers. They were all pretty much novices at it, and they couldn't get the card working in DOS no matter what they did... so finally one of them gets a bright idea: the little red switch on the back of the computer! That probably does something! So they flicked it, turned on the computer... and were greeted by a "WHOMPH!" and a stone dead computer.
You see, the little red button was the voltage switch on the PSU. Setting a PSU to expect 110 Volts and then giving it (European standard) 230V is apparently a bad idea...
According to the computer repair shop, the box was black inside.
Whoa. Never had that happen to me, and I use acetone quite frequently for cleaning computers... the inside of them at least. It's an extremely good solvent for most things you want to remove from, say, a CPU or a connector (like dirt, grease or thermal paste - especially the residue left by thermal pads from cheap heatsinks is hell to remove normally), it usually doesn't harm what you are cleaning and it isn't that toxic or flammable.
;-)
Spilled a couple of drops of lemon juice on an old Microsoft Natural Keyboard once though... and it actually ate deep pits into the plastic. Hmm... maybe I should try and see what acetone does to it - it is a Microsoft keyboard, and this is Slashdot after all
Either it will make fatigued drivers stop, or it will make them learn to type really really fast as they zoom through the WiFi hotspots...
-ium vs -um in Latin doesn't have anything to do with the elements being metals or not. Just look at the names of the different elements and you'll see a heap of non-metals ending in -ium: Hydrogenium, Oxygenium, Nitrogenium...
while just as many, or even more, metals end in just -um: Ferrum, Cuprum, Plumbum, Hydragurum, Aurum...
So you think that if I FedEx a letter to someone I should expect FedEx to open it, photocopy it and store it in an archive somewhere? Or that if I make a phone call, I should expect that the telco tapes it and keeps the tape for an indefinite amount of time?
It's the same thing here really - SMSs are basically condensed phone messages, and it is definitely a reasonable expectation that your phone conversation is confidential between you and the other party, and that it stays that way.
There's a huge difference between storing who phoned who (or in the case of FedEx: "person Foo payed for a package to be sent to person Bar at YYYY-MM-DD") and actually storing the contents. In a reasonable privacy climate, phone companies should definitely be busted for this... but with Ashcroft et al. in charge, it is more likely that SMS retention becomes law rather than a punishable act.
Eh, correction. It doesn't completely use MDI, but at least it keeps the main toolbar and menus in the same window as the actual graphics...
Too much caffeine and too little sleep...
Not to mention the different GUI - Inkscape uses MDI, which is a must under MS Windows (all those windows and no "always on top" feature makes Sodipodi completely unusable under Windows). Mmmm, MDI...
... the crap-fest that's usually the result of a game->movie conversion or the mandatory third-person-view licensed games that follow every high-grossing movie...
Seriously, name three good movies based on video games. Impossible. I don't know what they do with them - my theory is that they simply think that the hard-core gamers will see the movie anyway and just throw in everything and the kitchen sink to draw in other groups, creating an end result of a horrible horrible mess.
It's almost as bad the other way around - name three original and good licensed games. Almost as hard. They're without fail uninspired third-person (so the audience can see their favorite actors on screen all the time) shooters, platformers or so-called adventures...
Points 1, 2 & 3 - see part about not directly electing them.
4 - change that to "watch as people wake up and realize the European Union isn't a democratic institution".
5 - change that to "patents , voter apathy".
How exactly is this an anti-virus feature? Anti-buffer-overflow, yes. Anti-worm... well, maybe, but it'd be a bit of a stretch (anti-worm-based-on-buffer-overflow rather). Anti-virus? Hell no.
I just love tech journalism...
Hey, I never thought of that! Next time someone tells me to do some Origami I'll fold the Ancient Japanese Tetra Brik... that'll show 'em...
Nah, it's like morse code, only if you look at what you receive the probability wave collapses and the cat dies. This means quantum cryptography uses up a heck of a lot of cats, and this is why there's a limit on its practical usability and speed in the real world...
*cough*
I wonder if the post-9/11 paranoia has something to do with it?
One of the US's major strengths in research has always been the ability to attract top scientists from all over the world, but with the more and more draconian immigration and visa laws it's becoming harder and harder for foreign scientists to work in the US...
Getting rid of patents altogether isn't the answer - the mousetrap analogy only works for low-R&D items. High/extreme R&D cost industries like medicine and aerospace on the other hand would simply collapse, or at least stop innovating with a no-patent system (it would create an entire system of free riders). Instead, we should get rid of bad patents. Sticking "on the web" at the end of an existing invention or trivial implementation is not, I repeat not patent-worthy.
We should start with a working patent review process and go from there...
Jesus! And I thought my microwave oven was high-powered!
"Introducing the new Roentgen Roaster 3000 - gives a whole new meaning to nuking your food"
I'm not so sure you'd want that...
"So Mr Professr3, I see you have just transferred USD 500,000,000 to a bank account in the Bahamas. How would you like to start paying off your debt?"
If Slashdot started comparing the general shape of submitted articles maybe we would avoid a couple of dupes...
One could also percieve the lesson as "there's no use trying".
SWEDX still sells wooden monitors, keyboards and mice. I'd get myself a Beech wood TFT if the things hadn't been so horribly expensive...
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