The following are circumvention devices or may be used as such and should be outlawed immediately
1) pencils 2) paper 3) calculators 4) finite state machines of any sort 5) eyes/ears memory and voice/hands
- an individual may have eyes/ears and memory, or voice/hands and memory. But any combination eyes/ears and voice/hands clearly consititues a circumvention device.
Uni-Solar shingles are unique and have been honored with thePopular Science Grand Award, " Best of what's new (Environmental Technology)," and Discover magazine's "Technological Innovation Award" for best innovation (Environment).
The PV shingle permits roofs of commercial and residential buildings to evolve from mere protection from the weather to a source of electric power. The flexible, thin-film solar cell shingle blends into roofing pattern of traditional asphalt shingles or roof tile.
> so who knows if they're dying, but the decrease in losses coupled with the steady revenue ($9 mil ain't too shabby) makes them look ok.
They have about $9M left in unreserved cash. The loss would have been almost $3M except for a 1 time gain of $700K+ on sale of stock that had been written off.
SCO has cut developers and marketing to get the cash flows down. It has not really worked.
Continued buisness is a loss. New buisness (lawsuits) is a bust.
They can take their ball and hide it if they want, for me that will be the same as the broadcast flag.
The only TV I watch is recorded. If I can't record it I won't watch it. Same as them taking it away, empty threat from my point.
If they DRM I will not watch it. Probably have more time to develop my own content - opps there goes more of their precious market.
Blogs are just the start of people developing their own content. What the media barons have to watch out for is independent media taking over. If they make it hard to get their media then more independent stuff will fill the holes and they lose even more ground.
Welcome to the information age, please leave your dinosaurs at the door.
> If you were to try to build a bomb from these instructions, it wouldn't work.
So is this an attempt by some unnamed organization to poision the information network?
This would make any information out there untrusted and require verification and tests before being trusted adding to the complexity of the process. Pretty good low cost method for reducing the value of information, (until critiques of its reliability get out anyways).
You do realize that the more people who view the offending article the more they are likely to publish stuff like this again.
They get paid by the viewer. The more viewers the better. This is why a lot of web news is no better than tabloid journalism, it brings in the page views.
Better that we all go cold turky on all sys-con links for a week or two.
From that statement alone I can tell that you do not understand the scientific method at all.
Evolution happens, it can be observed in action today. The fossil record and existing poplulations correspond to evolution. The mechanisms for evolution fully exist and can be traced right back from organized multicellular creatures, to single cellular organism, to self organizing protien shells, to the properties of atoms. The only really reamining questions are the nature of subatomic particles and properties. That is a ground for fundamental physics research.
The intelligent designer is not a valid counter theory. For a start the intelligent designer is a logical loop that negates its own validity. The intelligent designer proposal does not meet the definition of a scientific theory and cannot be an alternative to evolution. The intelligent designer is not science.
They are free to teach their religious interpretation at their religious institutions or in classes on comparitive religion not in science class.
Personally I like the turtles all the way down theory.
If you want the views to coexist do you also argue for the Catholic pre-Copernicus view of the universe to be taught? That is equally valid in view of the scientific evidence as the intelligent designer.
Looks like they watched the HHGTTG trailer and followed the guide entry on how to make a movie trailer. The deep voice seems like a characture of itself somehoe.
Missed the women in bikini's but really delivered on the explosions.
In general I am negativly biased to products I see advertised on the net. If I block your ad, I am doing you a favour by not putting your product into that negative space.
How do advertisers count it if ad views are actually negatives to a product? The people blocking the ads are more likely to be the ones with the negative associations so they are doing the advertisers a positive.
There is nothing about surfing a web that says the data must be viewed, displayed or processed in any particular way. HTTP is a data transfer protocol that sites use to present a set of data to the internet. There is nothing that says that HTTP data must be viewed by a browser or that all elements of "web page" must be downloaded or presented to a user.
If they want to package it they can make it a media-player file. But then I will probably never see it. RSS feeds and other technology are the new way forward, provide relevant accessable information or get out of the way.
The web is not a service for presenting packaged content in any particular format. The web is a data transfer medium. Sites can present whatever data they want, the client end is free to do whatever it wants with the available data.
I don't care about the ads. The internet works just fine, actually better, with real information and not advertising fluff. It will still work without advertising revenues.
Any site pushing the "social contract" message is not on the web/internet. Such a site is trying to make the web act like old media.
> The range of the RFID transmission will be around 10 cm. IIRC it weakens with the power of 6 to the distance.
We can see the remains of the big bang and could detect the light of a firefly beyond pluto.
Range means nothing to directional high-gain antennas. Sure no one is going to retarget Jordell Bank or the deep space network to snoop for pasport id's but that does not mean someone could not get 10m or more gain from an antenna hidden on the back of truck driven through the airport arrivals zone.
Manufacturing things like integrated circuits and LCD screens face a very predictable statistical distribution of defects due to the nature of the manufacturing process. There is a definite probablilty that a defect will occur on a device of a given size. This scales directly with the device area.
Lets say it costs $10 to make a screen. Lets say there is a 1% probability of making a screen with 0 defects and a 50% probability of making a screen with 10 defects.
The average cost of perfect screens is $1000. The average cost of acceptable screens is $20.
From the article (it is good, I suggest you read it) there are links to a scholarship fund for these 4 as well as comments in general on a proposed federal act. These families probably cannot even afford the 3% interest.
---- Oscar wipes the white gypsum dust from his face. It's a hot Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, and he's hanging sheetrock. He graduated from Carl Hayden last spring, and this is the best work he can find. He enjoys walking into the half-built homes and analyzing the engineering. He thinks it'll keep him sharp until he can save up enough money to study engineering at Arizona State University. It will cost him approximately $50,000 as an out-of-state student. That's a lot of sheet-rocking.
Luis also graduated and is filing papers in a Phoenix Social Security Services office. Cristian and Lorenzo are now juniors. Their families can barely support themselves, let alone raise the money to send their kids to college. Last summer, Cristian's hopes flagged even further when his family was forced to spend $3,000 to replace the decrepit air-conditioning unit in their aluminum trailer. Without AC, the trailer turns into a double-wide oven in the desert heat.
---- And they're not alone. Approximately 60,000 undocumented students graduate from US high schools every year. One promising solution, according to Cameron and other advocates for immigrant kids, is the Dream Act, federal legislation that would give in-state tuition and temporary resident status to undocumented students who graduate from a US high school after being enrolled in the States for five years or more. The bill, which was introduced in 2003 and is slated to be resubmitted this spring, aims to give undocumented students a reason to stay in school. If they do, the act promises financial assistance for college. In turn, immigrants would pay taxes and be able to contribute their talents to the US.
Some immigration activists don't see it that way. Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, successfully lobbied against the legislation last year. He says it will put citizens and legal immigrants in direct competition for the limited number of seats at state colleges. "What will you say," he asks, "to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?"
RTFA, unless someone with $ steps up to the plate these are not future MIT students. They are currently in manual labor jobs and likely to stay there.
These students come from disadvantaged backgrounds and are unable to get into MIT. Half of them have graduated and they are not getting further education as they cannot afford it.
Would the photocopier have ever been made if the paper publishers had taken the line the RIAA and MPAA are taking now?
Would text scanners exist at all?
These both have infringing uses but they are not the subject of lobbying groups attempting to deny their very existance.
It is all about powerful lobby groups attempting to maintain their stranglehold on media creation and deny the people their voice. (Ok that is a little strong). It is about $$$$.
Corel almost imploded a while back. Bought out by some US company and reverted to private ownership. Probably still do development work here in the third world called Canada. If it wern't for the heating costs we would probably be a real threat.
The local AMC 24 multiplex movie theatre self serve movie ticket terminals run Windows 98. There was one stuck at its boot screen at one point. Also I have seen the familair blue several times. These machines handle Debit transactions with a PIN number and credit card transactions without a PIN.
Security does not seem to be a big issue on closed networks. At least I hope it is a closed network.
This is what defines Canada's virtue to me. Canada does not convert. Canada heals. Canada leads. First among the nations, creating the Peacekeepers. Pushing the Land Mine ban. Still not perfect, but doing their best at reconciling issues with the aboriginal peoples even as other nations such as Australia choke on their responsibility. Allowing Quebec its poetic, myopic thrashings. I'm always a little dismayed at native Canadians who whinny about Canada's missing identity. I, as an adopted son, know damn well what Canada is. "Come, have a pint, I don't mind your odd accent -- mine's a bit dodgy too. Your business is your business, we can all be friends as long as you buy the next round."
So 97% of the current DVD rippers cannot touch macrovision protected discs (I expect buffer overflow problems). That just means that there exist rippers that work. Guess what those that don't work will disappear, those that do work will get more popular.
Macrovision makes money, the ripping problem is not solved.
1) have lots of mass and dive into a gravity well. The gravity field and the mass cause you to accelerate into the well. 2) drop mass at the bottom of the gravity well 3) remaining mass has extra speed from the dive but will feel less pull back into the well on the way out 4) result is increased speed away from the gravity well, cost was loss of mass into the well
It is quite easy to see how this could happen to a star getting sucked into the well around a black hole.
Gartner again, are we listening to them or laughing at them this week?
Gartner gets ridiculed when they make comments "the crowd" does not like and gets exhaulted when they make comments that are liked. This is inconsistant, either Gartner is good at analysis or not, just to agree with them when they make predictions "the crowd" likes is not right.
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No wonder President Bush does not listen to his science advisors, he does not even know what science is.
The following are circumvention devices or may be used as such and should be outlawed immediately
1) pencils
2) paper
3) calculators
4) finite state machines of any sort
5) eyes/ears memory and voice/hands
- an individual may have eyes/ears and memory, or voice/hands and memory. But any combination eyes/ears and voice/hands clearly consititues a circumvention device.
Roof Shingle power sources. There are now a number of suppliers.
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http://www.kingsolar.com/catalog/mfg/uni-solar/sh
Uni-Solar shingles are unique and have been honored with thePopular Science Grand Award, " Best of what's new (Environmental Technology)," and Discover magazine's "Technological Innovation Award" for best innovation (Environment).
The PV shingle permits roofs of commercial and residential buildings to evolve from mere protection from the weather to a source of electric power. The flexible, thin-film solar cell shingle blends into roofing pattern of traditional asphalt shingles or roof tile.
> so who knows if they're dying, but the decrease in losses coupled with the steady revenue ($9 mil ain't too shabby) makes them look ok.
They have about $9M left in unreserved cash. The loss would have been almost $3M except for a 1 time gain of $700K+ on sale of stock that had been written off.
SCO has cut developers and marketing to get the cash flows down. It has not really worked.
Continued buisness is a loss.
New buisness (lawsuits) is a bust.
They can take their ball and hide it if they want, for me that will be the same as the broadcast flag.
The only TV I watch is recorded. If I can't record it I won't watch it. Same as them taking it away, empty threat from my point.
If they DRM I will not watch it. Probably have more time to develop my own content - opps there goes more of their precious market.
Blogs are just the start of people developing their own content. What the media barons have to watch out for is independent media taking over. If they make it hard to get their media then more independent stuff will fill the holes and they lose even more ground.
Welcome to the information age, please leave your dinosaurs at the door.
> If you were to try to build a bomb from these instructions, it wouldn't work.
So is this an attempt by some unnamed organization to poision the information network?
This would make any information out there untrusted and require verification and tests before being trusted adding to the complexity of the process. Pretty good low cost method for reducing the value of information, (until critiques of its reliability get out anyways).
You do realize that the more people who view the offending article the more they are likely to publish stuff like this again.
They get paid by the viewer. The more viewers the better. This is why a lot of web news is no better than tabloid journalism, it brings in the page views.
Better that we all go cold turky on all sys-con links for a week or two.
> saying that evolution is not fully proven fact.
From that statement alone I can tell that you do not understand the scientific method at all.
Evolution happens, it can be observed in action today. The fossil record and existing poplulations correspond to evolution. The mechanisms for evolution fully exist and can be traced right back from organized multicellular creatures, to single cellular organism, to self organizing protien shells, to the properties of atoms. The only really reamining questions are the nature of subatomic particles and properties. That is a ground for fundamental physics research.
The intelligent designer is not a valid counter theory. For a start the intelligent designer is a logical loop that negates its own validity. The intelligent designer proposal does not meet the definition of a scientific theory and cannot be an alternative to evolution. The intelligent designer is not science.
There is no scientific controversy.
They are free to teach their religious interpretation at their religious institutions or in classes on comparitive religion not in science class.
Personally I like the turtles all the way down theory.
If you want the views to coexist do you also argue for the Catholic pre-Copernicus view of the universe to be taught? That is equally valid in view of the scientific evidence as the intelligent designer.
> Malcolm Reynolds will shoot an unarmed man.
An unarmed man who it looks like wiped out a village or three on his way to locate River.
Frontier justice straight up.
Looks like they watched the HHGTTG trailer and followed the guide entry on how to make a movie trailer. The deep voice seems like a characture of itself somehoe.
Missed the women in bikini's but really delivered on the explosions.
In general I am negativly biased to products I see advertised on the net. If I block your ad, I am doing you a favour by not putting your product into that negative space.
How do advertisers count it if ad views are actually negatives to a product? The people blocking the ads are more likely to be the ones with the negative associations so they are doing the advertisers a positive.
Put that in the spread sheet.
There is nothing about surfing a web that says the data must be viewed, displayed or processed in any particular way.
HTTP is a data transfer protocol that sites use to present a set of data to the internet. There is nothing that says that HTTP data must be viewed by a browser or that all elements of "web page" must be downloaded or presented to a user.
If they want to package it they can make it a media-player file. But then I will probably never see it. RSS feeds and other technology are the new way forward, provide relevant accessable information or get out of the way.
The web is not a service for presenting packaged content in any particular format. The web is a data transfer medium. Sites can present whatever data they want, the client end is free to do whatever it wants with the available data.
I don't care about the ads. The internet works just fine, actually better, with real information and not advertising fluff. It will still work without advertising revenues.
Any site pushing the "social contract" message is not on the web/internet. Such a site is trying to make the web act like old media.
Change or die, the dinosaurs got the message.
> The range of the RFID transmission will be around 10 cm. IIRC it weakens with the power of 6 to the distance.
We can see the remains of the big bang and could detect the light of a firefly beyond pluto.
Range means nothing to directional high-gain antennas. Sure no one is going to retarget Jordell Bank or the deep space network to snoop for pasport id's but that does not mean someone could not get 10m or more gain from an antenna hidden on the back of truck driven through the airport arrivals zone.
Manufacturing things like integrated circuits and LCD screens face a very predictable statistical distribution of defects due to the nature of the manufacturing process. There is a definite probablilty that a defect will occur on a device of a given size. This scales directly with the device area.
Lets say it costs $10 to make a screen. Lets say there is a 1% probability of making a screen with 0 defects and a 50% probability of making a screen with 10 defects.
The average cost of perfect screens is $1000.
The average cost of acceptable screens is $20.
From the article (it is good, I suggest you read it) there are links to a scholarship fund for these 4 as well as comments in general on a proposed federal act. These families probably cannot even afford the 3% interest.
----
Oscar wipes the white gypsum dust from his face. It's a hot Tuesday afternoon in Phoenix, and he's hanging sheetrock. He graduated from Carl Hayden last spring, and this is the best work he can find. He enjoys walking into the half-built homes and analyzing the engineering. He thinks it'll keep him sharp until he can save up enough money to study engineering at Arizona State University. It will cost him approximately $50,000 as an out-of-state student. That's a lot of sheet-rocking.
Luis also graduated and is filing papers in a Phoenix Social Security Services office. Cristian and Lorenzo are now juniors. Their families can barely support themselves, let alone raise the money to send their kids to college. Last summer, Cristian's hopes flagged even further when his family was forced to spend $3,000 to replace the decrepit air-conditioning unit in their aluminum trailer. Without AC, the trailer turns into a double-wide oven in the desert heat.
----
And they're not alone. Approximately 60,000 undocumented students graduate from US high schools every year. One promising solution, according to Cameron and other advocates for immigrant kids, is the Dream Act, federal legislation that would give in-state tuition and temporary resident status to undocumented students who graduate from a US high school after being enrolled in the States for five years or more. The bill, which was introduced in 2003 and is slated to be resubmitted this spring, aims to give undocumented students a reason to stay in school. If they do, the act promises financial assistance for college. In turn, immigrants would pay taxes and be able to contribute their talents to the US.
Some immigration activists don't see it that way. Ira Mehlman, the Los Angeles-based media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, successfully lobbied against the legislation last year. He says it will put citizens and legal immigrants in direct competition for the limited number of seats at state colleges. "What will you say," he asks, "to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?"
RTFA, unless someone with $ steps up to the plate these are not future MIT students. They are currently in manual labor jobs and likely to stay there.
These students come from disadvantaged backgrounds and are unable to get into MIT. Half of them have graduated and they are not getting further education as they cannot afford it.
Would the photocopier have ever been made if the paper publishers had taken the line the RIAA and MPAA are taking now?
Would text scanners exist at all?
These both have infringing uses but they are not the subject of lobbying groups attempting to deny their very existance.
It is all about powerful lobby groups attempting to maintain their stranglehold on media creation and deny the people their voice. (Ok that is a little strong). It is about $$$$.
Paths to make money of OSS
1) Support. Provide support for the software. Fixing or adapting it to the customers requirements for money.
2) Installation. Really a subset of support. Will install and train in the usage of OSS for money.
3) Add/Create OSS for money. They customer wants something. You will code it.
Corel almost imploded a while back. Bought out by some US company and reverted to private ownership. Probably still do development work here in the third world called Canada. If it wern't for the heating costs we would probably be a real threat.
The local AMC 24 multiplex movie theatre self serve movie ticket terminals run Windows 98. There was one stuck at its boot screen at one point. Also I have seen the familair blue several times. These machines handle Debit transactions with a PIN number and credit card transactions without a PIN.
Security does not seem to be a big issue on closed networks. At least I hope it is a closed network.
Found this amusing rant on the nature of Canada recently.
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http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/02/oh-oh-canada
This is what defines Canada's virtue to me. Canada does not convert. Canada heals. Canada leads. First among the nations, creating the Peacekeepers. Pushing the Land Mine ban. Still not perfect, but doing their best at reconciling issues with the aboriginal peoples even as other nations such as Australia choke on their responsibility. Allowing Quebec its poetic, myopic thrashings. I'm always a little dismayed at native Canadians who whinny about Canada's missing identity. I, as an adopted son, know damn well what Canada is. "Come, have a pint, I don't mind your odd accent -- mine's a bit dodgy too. Your business is your business, we can all be friends as long as you buy the next round."
So 97% of the current DVD rippers cannot touch macrovision protected discs (I expect buffer overflow problems). That just means that there exist rippers that work. Guess what those that don't work will disappear, those that do work will get more popular.
Macrovision makes money, the ripping problem is not solved.
Sling shot:
1) have lots of mass and dive into a gravity well. The gravity field and the mass cause you to accelerate into the well.
2) drop mass at the bottom of the gravity well
3) remaining mass has extra speed from the dive but will feel less pull back into the well on the way out
4) result is increased speed away from the gravity well, cost was loss of mass into the well
It is quite easy to see how this could happen to a star getting sucked into the well around a black hole.
Gartner again, are we listening to them or laughing at them this week?
Gartner gets ridiculed when they make comments "the crowd" does not like and gets exhaulted when they make comments that are liked. This is inconsistant, either Gartner is good at analysis or not, just to agree with them when they make predictions "the crowd" likes is not right.