But, I can't agree with them being hanged as an appropriate punishment. Let's save life ending punishment for the truly worst criminals. I'm also not really sure that longer sentences will be a deterrent. Let's put them to work deleting spam flagged by the major ISP's for the rest of their lives. Supervise them appropriately while they are serving their sentence and allow them no other computer access. A swift kick to the ass on a daily basis might make some spam recipients feel better too.
I'd settle for sending them to jail and forcing them to ingest dick-growth pills until it's long enough they can use it to climb down from a 4th floor window. 'Course, if the pills actually worked, that'd be the end of it. Except, after tieing off to the bars of a fourth floor window, they'd need a knife to cut themselves loose.
Aw, well. Such are the things that "Reality TV" programming is made of.
Doesn't the iphone have accelerometers? It's no great feat to foresee that becoming very popular. Why not have the phone/pda/plamtop differentiate dance moves? If you can't do the Fox Trot, maybe master hopping on one foot. Of course, it oughta be smart enough to tell which foot, jump height etc.
The hopping password might be really handy. When someone tries to mug you and your iphone won't accept your sign-on to transfer the extortion amount to their account, you can say... oh something like, "Oops! I'm a little short today", with total confidence.
By placing the CPU on the backside of the motherboard and let it protrude out from the case it would be very feasable to use passive cooling. One 10x20 cm cooling plate with fins is more than enough to cool away 120w if there is a free flow of air.
Interesting idea, but it'd be a death sentence for Fluffy. Every cat I've had since I started bringing computers home has liked sleeping behind the machines. Now I've got my machines (towers), sitting on pans in a 42u rack -- waiting for the day I can afford rack cases for them -- and plenty of room for the cats. Before that, the cats would wiggle and knudge stuff to make bunk space. ("Whoa! Head crash!") They love the hot exhaust flow, especially in the winter time. And, at least they're not shedding in front of the cases, choking the filters directly -- given the air flow here, they first choke out the refridgerator and only threaten CPUs when I'm too busy to clean the house.
Putting radiators on the back of the case would just result in burnt pussies.
OTOH, it's a great idea for catless apartments and small townhouses. A home beowolf cluster, with a P4 computer (with rear mounted radiator) in every room would nearly eliminate the gas bill. Keep an extra one going for frying bacon, heating soup and whatnot.
Presumably, Aunt Sally will be in your white-list and be passed through whether she's you tipping to startling new developments for viagra, or B-12. Most of the anti-spam work is done in an effort to avoid building mammoth personal black-lists of mostly short-lived addresses. I doubt we'll get rid of white-lists anytime soon, if ever.
What would impress me is an AI that filtered spam very effectively, but also noticed that Aunt Sally had a new email address and continued to deliver her mail.
If the Indian newspapers target a 6th grade level of comprehension, like ours do, then right away you can tell their 6th graders must be a lot smarter than our 6th graders.
I live in a mountainous area. You want curb-side 500-2000 foot pitches, we got 'em.
I can drive 35 miles to pay $25.00 to get rid of an old server or CRT, or I can drive it to the landfill a mile away, and they'll take it at $9.00 per pickup truck load. Less than a half bed of "regular consumer trash"? $4.50. "Yup, one Hefty bag of shit? That's what I got!" Or, I could drive it less than a mile away and toss it in a ditch.
The ditch is a micro-brew cheaper. They almost beg you to throw shit in ditchs out here. This would bother me, if the ground didn't already have lethal amounts of lead, cadmium, and arsenic. Mercury, too.
The public water supply already has worryin levels of lead, arsenic, mercury and other heavy metals. Aggressive chimps roam the streets, too.... What? I'm going to worry about weasliing an old CRT into the dump with the beer cans?
Suckered by a Roland Piquepaille submission, Again. Hate it when that happens.
They mentioned that the reactor operates at high temps (800 C. to 1000 C.) to avoid carbon (as soot) fouling of the reactor. So, they've either got an ash bin somewhere downstream or they sprew CO and/or CO2. The other boast was that they'd reformed ammonia (at 1000 C.) to produce hydrogen. No word on whether the waste was gaseous nitrogen or nitrous oxides. Hope it's not nitrous oxides. Denver's "brown cloud" used to be mainly nitrous oxides from car exhaust.
This looks like a really cool trick, but otherwise nearly worthless at this late date. I really don't want to run down to the gas station every couple of hours for a hydrogen recharge, and really, really dont't want a long warmup 800 C. appliance running in the house -- unless it also cooks 60 second pizzas. Additionally, the world's running out of their feedstock. If they had something that took plastic packaging, waste paper, saw dust, or the neighbors yapping little pets as an input and efficiently produced butane, propane, diesel or gasline, along with nicely segregated saleable piles of sulfur and laser printer toner, that'd be a newsworthy dazzling thing.
If it also made nutritious little green biscuits (maybe call 'em Soylent Green?) that'd be extra special.
When you all 'em "Pro-Life", you're playing in their court according to their rules, and who knows what the rules are this week or today?
I've known "Pro-Life" folks on the job, seen 'em on the street and watched 'em in donut shops and cafes before their protests and marches. And then there's the abortion clinic bombers.
Adherence to the Pro-Life PR mold fits a bell curve. A few actually believe "all life is holy". A few find the Pro-LIfe crowd to be good cover for their serial and mass murders, or a couple hundred death warrants signed. Most are somewhere between those two extremes, seeking popularity, social approval, political gain and whatsnots.
Most are definitely not Pro-Life, though they most likely are Anti-Abortion. The majority of the anti-abortion types I've run into are wife-beaters, guys that engage in more physical and mental abuse of their spouses and kids than most people I know would consider the norm. Some will apologize after hitting/kicker a pregnant wife in the belly, some won't. Many of them kill all sorts of animals, large and small. On a depressive day, some might kill your dog, if they can corner it, away from your supervision/oversight.
They probably won't kill anyone or anything that someone else is protecting, while they're sober and have some potential "rereational money" left. Pro-Life is a laugh. Call it what it is, at best, Anti-Abortion.
I prefer to take it as a peep-hole view into Bush family philosophy and dynamics. They clearly see the rest of the population of the US as obstacles to their god-given and ordained birthright of world domination. A nation of terrorists! Some as young as the new born -- and that's new born, the first time!
The quicker "Poppy", Dubya and Jeb go to jail, the safer we'll all be. Or, send them to whereever they've stashed their skim from the asset-stripping of the country and test the "honor among thieves" theory in a big way.
Forget "engagement management". It looks more like "battle commander."
How long before MS battle commanders like Lawless are bucking up their troops, after the hardest engagements, with dismissive comments like, "To save the customer, it was neccessary to destroy the customer."?
Rally the peasants! We must storm the gates of MS with flailing keyboards and mice! (Oh, damn! I've got wireless gear!)
I think that after more than 200 years of trying to legistlate morality, they'd finally see it doesn't work. Then maybe they'd think, "Gee legistlating technoloy won't either and sets up a preferred vendor class where there's no good reason to do so."
I also think all prospective candidates for office should be required to take an IQ test before their name goes on the ballot. If their IQ score isn't higher than the fahrenheit temperature of my icebox, they don't get to run. Period. I call this the "Smart People on Ice" test.
This testing should also be extended to appointees. If things were currently run this way, the entire Bushit crowd and 3/4 of the rest of the house and senate would be back on the sidewalk selling pencils. Of course, if the test were extended to voters, there'd be a very small pool of qualified voters (As evidenced by the listener rankings frequently posted on the Drudge Report page.) But there's good news to that, too: the remaining voters wouldn't be complete and total neocon tools.
Okay, ya, whatever. I'm tempted to send the whack-job a $550/hr invoice for the time I spent listening to her attempts at singing everytime the office building plays one of her things. (And, no I can't change the station. It's elevator music.)
Looks interesting, but the Buy-IT-Now page only supports Internet Explorer. Anytime I'm using a security product site that only supports virus-bait, I gotta wonder about their sincerity and competence.
There's probably many ways to deal with fundie sexual repression and camel-toe obsession. The easiest is probably to require all fundies to wear a rubber or employ some other means of birth control, when they're messing around with their immediate family members, first cousins, family pets and farm animals.
" I'd think that you'd want as much medical information in the hands of your doctors as possible."
The only information they want or need is your bank account number. Why confuse them with more?
The auto-braking thing sounds really neat, but doesn't it lead to detraining the whole human braking response? Speed control is about all that keeps some drivers awake. Seems like this is just going to lead to an epidemic of "Driving Dutchmen", folks who got on the interstate and can never get off.
Except that in Rise of the Machines we learned that what become SkyNet was originally mistaken for a rash of viruses. Everyone knows that Microsoft and viruses have a pretty tight relationship going on. Bill Gates is just drooling over the idea of having a planetary computer to charge for upgrades and maintenance.
This whole IP thing is getting kinda nuts. If a person were acting this nuts, they'd be institutionalized.
There oughta be an equivalent treatment for psychotic companies.
Microsoft kills another competitor? Off to the corporate jail, for life.
Game company starts imagining every potential customer is thief? Thorazine in the corporate institution for all the officers and the board.
Some folks might argue that we'd be forcing some narrow morality on the companies of this country/world, but that already happens all the time: prohibition, drug laws, indecent apparel laws, laws about the manner, marital status or gender orientation of the other partner, and location of sex acts, and more. Jail time for smoking around your kid? (Regardless of the diesel traffic on the street out front?)
I'm against legistlated morality, but as long as I'm stuck with wacky people in the community buying wacky morality legislation, maybe there's a sugar-daddy that'll buy some minimal corporate sanity laws?
With the scores/hundreds of thousands of IT folks bored and/or looking for work, busting or rechiping a "trusted BIOS" would be an afternoon's lark, if there was sufficient motivation.
Presently, there isn't easily available hardware to toy with and thus insufficient motivation, but give it a year or two. Heck those out of work techs built the global networks. If sufficiently annoyed, they can probably take the whole thing down in an eye-blink. I'm surprised nobody's pulled the plug already.
I bet these guys have some killer gags for party situations, so give 'em a break.
There's that problem with the gas plasma weapon, but I like the pulsed UV laser technique better, anyway. Aim into a crowd of people wearing love beads and shiny belt buckles and the assault team ends up getting juiced by their own weapons.
Probably the same problem when used downtown in a canyon of mirrored windows.
The HSA better hope these things are non-lethal or the Barney Fifes of the world are going to have a hard time with things.
The real problem will be that the only way to package a whopping load of code very compactly is probably DNA. You know how viruses and bacteria like to swap DNA? Heck, they'll even swap with the cells of your body.
How would you like to go to sleep worrying about taxes one day, and wake the next to find that you're just another node in the/. mega-cluster, churning out next years/. one pixel at a time?
Worse, you could end up in the RNC photoshop cluster, tireless working to make Bush look less goofy. (The horror.)
A AI smart enough to deal with programmer speech will just code things up do admin without the human. They'll be so smart they'll code up their own macros:
VB: Kill-line
C#: Backspace
Outlook: Reboot
BSOD: Profit!
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The excess is for the EULA. What's Windows without the EULA?
I'd settle for sending them to jail and forcing them to ingest dick-growth pills until it's long enough they can use it to climb down from a 4th floor window. 'Course, if the pills actually worked, that'd be the end of it. Except, after tieing off to the bars of a fourth floor window, they'd need a knife to cut themselves loose.
Aw, well. Such are the things that "Reality TV" programming is made of.
How many ways are there to sign in with an X?
... oh something like, "Oops! I'm a little short today", with total confidence.
Doesn't the iphone have accelerometers? It's no great feat to foresee that becoming very popular. Why not have the phone/pda/plamtop differentiate dance moves? If you can't do the Fox Trot, maybe master hopping on one foot. Of course, it oughta be smart enough to tell which foot, jump height etc.
The hopping password might be really handy. When someone tries to mug you and your iphone won't accept your sign-on to transfer the extortion amount to their account, you can say
Interesting idea, but it'd be a death sentence for Fluffy. Every cat I've had since I started bringing computers home has liked sleeping behind the machines. Now I've got my machines (towers), sitting on pans in a 42u rack -- waiting for the day I can afford rack cases for them -- and plenty of room for the cats. Before that, the cats would wiggle and knudge stuff to make bunk space. ("Whoa! Head crash!") They love the hot exhaust flow, especially in the winter time. And, at least they're not shedding in front of the cases, choking the filters directly -- given the air flow here, they first choke out the refridgerator and only threaten CPUs when I'm too busy to clean the house.
Putting radiators on the back of the case would just result in burnt pussies.
OTOH, it's a great idea for catless apartments and small townhouses. A home beowolf cluster, with a P4 computer (with rear mounted radiator) in every room would nearly eliminate the gas bill. Keep an extra one going for frying bacon, heating soup and whatnot.
Presumably, Aunt Sally will be in your white-list and be passed through whether she's you tipping to startling new developments for viagra, or B-12. Most of the anti-spam work is done in an effort to avoid building mammoth personal black-lists of mostly short-lived addresses. I doubt we'll get rid of white-lists anytime soon, if ever.
What would impress me is an AI that filtered spam very effectively, but also noticed that Aunt Sally had a new email address and continued to deliver her mail.
Something I just noticed:
If the Indian newspapers target a 6th grade level of comprehension, like ours do, then right away you can tell their 6th graders must be a lot smarter than our 6th graders.
It's scarier in the outback.
... What? I'm going to worry about weasliing an old CRT into the dump with the beer cans?
I live in a mountainous area. You want curb-side 500-2000 foot pitches, we got 'em.
I can drive 35 miles to pay $25.00 to get rid of an old server or CRT, or I can drive it to the landfill a mile away, and they'll take it at $9.00 per pickup truck load. Less than a half bed of "regular consumer trash"? $4.50. "Yup, one Hefty bag of shit? That's what I got!" Or, I could drive it less than a mile away and toss it in a ditch.
The ditch is a micro-brew cheaper. They almost beg you to throw shit in ditchs out here. This would bother me, if the ground didn't already have lethal amounts of lead, cadmium, and arsenic. Mercury, too.
The public water supply already has worryin levels of lead, arsenic, mercury and other heavy metals. Aggressive chimps roam the streets, too.
Not a f*cking chance.
Suckered by a Roland Piquepaille submission, Again. Hate it when that happens.
They mentioned that the reactor operates at high temps (800 C. to 1000 C.) to avoid carbon (as soot) fouling of the reactor. So, they've either got an ash bin somewhere downstream or they sprew CO and/or CO2. The other boast was that they'd reformed ammonia (at 1000 C.) to produce hydrogen. No word on whether the waste was gaseous nitrogen or nitrous oxides. Hope it's not nitrous oxides. Denver's "brown cloud" used to be mainly nitrous oxides from car exhaust.
This looks like a really cool trick, but otherwise nearly worthless at this late date. I really don't want to run down to the gas station every couple of hours for a hydrogen recharge, and really, really dont't want a long warmup 800 C. appliance running in the house -- unless it also cooks 60 second pizzas. Additionally, the world's running out of their feedstock. If they had something that took plastic packaging, waste paper, saw dust, or the neighbors yapping little pets as an input and efficiently produced butane, propane, diesel or gasline, along with nicely segregated saleable piles of sulfur and laser printer toner, that'd be a newsworthy dazzling thing.
If it also made nutritious little green biscuits (maybe call 'em Soylent Green?) that'd be extra special.
When you all 'em "Pro-Life", you're playing in their court according to their rules, and who knows what the rules are this week or today?
I've known "Pro-Life" folks on the job, seen 'em on the street and watched 'em in donut shops and cafes before their protests and marches. And then there's the abortion clinic bombers.
Adherence to the Pro-Life PR mold fits a bell curve. A few actually believe "all life is holy". A few find the Pro-LIfe crowd to be good cover for their serial and mass murders, or a couple hundred death warrants signed. Most are somewhere between those two extremes, seeking popularity, social approval, political gain and whatsnots.
Most are definitely not Pro-Life, though they most likely are Anti-Abortion. The majority of the anti-abortion types I've run into are wife-beaters, guys that engage in more physical and mental abuse of their spouses and kids than most people I know would consider the norm. Some will apologize after hitting/kicker a pregnant wife in the belly, some won't. Many of them kill all sorts of animals, large and small. On a depressive day, some might kill your dog, if they can corner it, away from your supervision/oversight.
They probably won't kill anyone or anything that someone else is protecting, while they're sober and have some potential "rereational money" left. Pro-Life is a laugh. Call it what it is, at best, Anti-Abortion.
I prefer to take it as a peep-hole view into Bush family philosophy and dynamics. They clearly see the rest of the population of the US as obstacles to their god-given and ordained birthright of world domination. A nation of terrorists! Some as young as the new born -- and that's new born, the first time!
The quicker "Poppy", Dubya and Jeb go to jail, the safer we'll all be. Or, send them to whereever they've stashed their skim from the asset-stripping of the country and test the "honor among thieves" theory in a big way.
Forget "engagement management". It looks more like "battle commander."
How long before MS battle commanders like Lawless are bucking up their troops, after the hardest engagements, with dismissive comments like, "To save the customer, it was neccessary to destroy the customer."?
Rally the peasants! We must storm the gates of MS with flailing keyboards and mice! (Oh, damn! I've got wireless gear!)
I think that after more than 200 years of trying to legistlate morality, they'd finally see it doesn't work. Then maybe they'd think, "Gee legistlating technoloy won't either and sets up a preferred vendor class where there's no good reason to do so."
I also think all prospective candidates for office should be required to take an IQ test before their name goes on the ballot. If their IQ score isn't higher than the fahrenheit temperature of my icebox, they don't get to run. Period. I call this the "Smart People on Ice" test.
This testing should also be extended to appointees. If things were currently run this way, the entire Bushit crowd and 3/4 of the rest of the house and senate would be back on the sidewalk selling pencils. Of course, if the test were extended to voters, there'd be a very small pool of qualified voters (As evidenced by the listener rankings frequently posted on the Drudge Report page.) But there's good news to that, too: the remaining voters wouldn't be complete and total neocon tools.
Okay, ya, whatever. I'm tempted to send the whack-job a $550/hr invoice for the time I spent listening to her attempts at singing everytime the office building plays one of her things. (And, no I can't change the station. It's elevator music.)
Looks interesting, but the Buy-IT-Now page only supports Internet Explorer. Anytime I'm using a security product site that only supports virus-bait, I gotta wonder about their sincerity and competence.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
There's probably many ways to deal with fundie sexual repression and camel-toe obsession. The easiest is probably to require all fundies to wear a rubber or employ some other means of birth control, when they're messing around with their immediate family members, first cousins, family pets and farm animals.
" I'd think that you'd want as much medical information in the hands of your doctors as possible." The only information they want or need is your bank account number. Why confuse them with more?
So I take it, when they said "Land of the Free, home of the brave", they weren't talking about D.C. or Minnesota.
The auto-braking thing sounds really neat, but doesn't it lead to detraining the whole human braking response? Speed control is about all that keeps some drivers awake. Seems like this is just going to lead to an epidemic of "Driving Dutchmen", folks who got on the interstate and can never get off.
Except that in Rise of the Machines we learned that what become SkyNet was originally mistaken for a rash of viruses. Everyone knows that Microsoft and viruses have a pretty tight relationship going on. Bill Gates is just drooling over the idea of having a planetary computer to charge for upgrades and maintenance.
This whole IP thing is getting kinda nuts. If a person were acting this nuts, they'd be institutionalized. There oughta be an equivalent treatment for psychotic companies. Microsoft kills another competitor? Off to the corporate jail, for life. Game company starts imagining every potential customer is thief? Thorazine in the corporate institution for all the officers and the board. Some folks might argue that we'd be forcing some narrow morality on the companies of this country/world, but that already happens all the time: prohibition, drug laws, indecent apparel laws, laws about the manner, marital status or gender orientation of the other partner, and location of sex acts, and more. Jail time for smoking around your kid? (Regardless of the diesel traffic on the street out front?) I'm against legistlated morality, but as long as I'm stuck with wacky people in the community buying wacky morality legislation, maybe there's a sugar-daddy that'll buy some minimal corporate sanity laws?
With the scores/hundreds of thousands of IT folks bored and/or looking for work, busting or rechiping a "trusted BIOS" would be an afternoon's lark, if there was sufficient motivation.
Presently, there isn't easily available hardware to toy with and thus insufficient motivation, but give it a year or two. Heck those out of work techs built the global networks. If sufficiently annoyed, they can probably take the whole thing down in an eye-blink. I'm surprised nobody's pulled the plug already.
I bet these guys have some killer gags for party situations, so give 'em a break.
There's that problem with the gas plasma weapon, but I like the pulsed UV laser technique better, anyway. Aim into a crowd of people wearing love beads and shiny belt buckles and the assault team ends up getting juiced by their own weapons.
Probably the same problem when used downtown in a canyon of mirrored windows.
The HSA better hope these things are non-lethal or the Barney Fifes of the world are going to have a hard time with things.
The real problem will be that the only way to package a whopping load of code very compactly is probably DNA. You know how viruses and bacteria like to swap DNA? Heck, they'll even swap with the cells of your body.
/. mega-cluster, churning out next years /. one pixel at a time?
How would you like to go to sleep worrying about taxes one day, and wake the next to find that you're just another node in the
Worse, you could end up in the RNC photoshop cluster, tireless working to make Bush look less goofy. (The horror.)
A AI smart enough to deal with programmer speech will just code things up do admin without the human. They'll be so smart they'll code up their own macros: VB: Kill-line C#: Backspace Outlook: Reboot BSOD: Profit!
I'm wondering many people with 200 cd music libraries would be willing to store 1200 CDs against the day their master copies rot out?