The problem with these closed systems, any closed system really, is the inability to find and locate not only the errors, but the correct data either. The more erroneous data there is, the less likely one will find and retrieve the needed data. If anything, you get a "security through obfuscation" situation, but you're giving the security for the folk you need to target!
Keep your lists pruned and accurate. And the best method for this is with open and honest auditing in the public light. Not necessarily by the public themselves, but with public employees such as in the judicial system. Trained, skilled and non-biased eyes are always the best tools to not only perform oversight, but to keep this country or any country safe and secure.
Oh man, I'd forgotten about it being listen.com's originally.
I just got to thinking how it never captured the presense that Apple did through iTunes or Napster did during it's heyday. But then again, Rhapsody is still going strong on a "slow but steady" course, and has outlasted all of it's competition to date.
Most of the time yes, but I have cought a few occasions where disks were not labelled as such, but when I played them compared to my friends bought-elsewhere disks, there were parts missing. Sometimes the missing parts were odd to select for removal as well. **boggle**
I'd almost forgotten Rhapsody even existed anymore with the rise of iTunes. I remember when Real originally rolled out their service, it seems like forever ago. They couldn't make it work, and this was pre-iTunes. I hope for them that they can somehow capture it, the Nth time around.
For the geek with everything... freeze them in carbonite! Have the souvenier of a lifetime when you return from your vacation to Bespin! Amaze your friends, shock your family! And you can pick and choose when you are dethawed! Wake up in a week, a month, a year, when the Cubs win the world series, it doesn't matter! So come on down and have yourself frozen today!
Would this be just by people they hve harassed, or against any potential target? This leaves the door very open to wild interpretation untill we get clarification.
I wonder if the rise in popularity of such community-developed software will almost make software into a commodity, generally available for all. Perhaps Marx was not wrong in his assertion that a group dynamic can be as productive as any other, but it took a truely equalizing force, such as the internet, to put it to the true test.
Might I point out that the mercury from vaccinations has been tied to a trend of rising autism here in Florida? That is why the wife and I worked with our doctor to use non-mercural based vaccinations, despite the fact that our insurance would not cover them. Cost us a pretty penny, and we're pinching them to begin with, but is worth it for not exposing our son to risk.
Frankly, calling someone that does not give vaccinations child abusers is really not only misguided, but ignorant. Might I point out that most of the issues that Damien here mentioned are caused by recent trends in vaccinating techniques, not by the vaccines themselves. The urge to "save a buck" does put children at risk, and if you cannot see that, then I'm sorry. The concept of vaccinating is a good one, no one will argue with you on that, but don't you ever wonder if there isn't a better manner of handling it?
If Sun makes this move, it could be the worst mistake they've ever made. First off, they do not seem to grasp the nature of the Linux desktop, or any desktop for that matter. Second off, they seem to have this idea that IBM *needs* Novell, when in fact it is the other way around. If Sun comes in, and tries to pull a Microsoft-like bullying technique, I have a strong feeling that IBM will be pulling the plug and switching to another distribution, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, or even developing its own distribution. Sun has not woken up to the new marget reality, and their revenue shortfalls show that. Sun, don't make a billion dollar mistake, just say "no" to aquiring Novell.
I don't think there will be an issue with the Pedler estate for rights to the Cybermen, and I know Mr. Davis would love to see them back. (Kit Pedler and Gary Davis created them) As for not being "kick-assed" enough, due to budget limits, the true scope of the original concept was never pushed to it's limits. At their root, the Cybermen are more terrifying than the Borg. With the Borg, a human conciousness is crushed by the collective. With the Cybermen, they re-program you so that you don't *want* to be something else. The borg retain what you are, making it part of them. The Cybermen, by contrast, changes what you are so that you are now one of them.
And how will you read them in 10 years? 20 years? 100 years? Let's see, 10 years ago, everything was stored on Exabyte tapes and floppy disks. (5.25" at that in many cases) How do you propose we read these media when noone manufactures them anymore? What about some 8" floppy disks, 30 years old? Film has an inherent advantage here, the only technology necessary to display film is light and lens. Digital requires a lot more material to be made viewable, and much of that goes out of 'vogue' after a few years, rendering the material stored on it inaccessable. Digital media degrades from the sheer presence of the earths magnetic field, hence why video shot in the 80's has this lovely "green" tint to it. And tapes from the 50's have been found absolutely blank.
I would disagree there about the film being nearly destroyed. In a test, Kodak ran film shot by Edison in 1898, and it was as clear as the day it was developed. Using electron microscopes, kodak has estimated that the film will be viewable well into the 24th century. One area where degredation might occur would be with color-stocks. But, using the same process on early kodachrome, they've found a life expectancy in the hundreds of years. With technicolor, about the same. With the newer stocks however, the aging is occuring faster, so only 150-200 years for an original stock before some loss occurs.
The Agfa's grain capability is significantly larger than the brand-new Kodak Vision2 stock, however. By an order of magnitude in my experience. (Shoot, I saw some Super8 done with Vision2 and the grain was of the same level as 16mm from the 80's, damned impressive if you asked me)
First thing, don't be inside of the US developing it. The US doesn't want anything in the way of them rolling over any foreign countries that they find Oil in.
Otherwise, I'd love to see such a system out there. I've always drafted up ideas for tanks, planes, missile guidence systems, but being in the US, there's no way I could ever develop them.
Seems like a dead end to me
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I tried to contact the simputer folk on 3 different occasions to license the design to no responce. For being an "open" platform, the docs and schematics are similarly locked-down making it impossible to even do a review.
I think the term about those kids that felt that they were doing the "right thing" that is most apt is "shoot the messenger." Some young kids uncover security holes that could lead into millions of fraud if not patched, and then tell the authorities, let's arrest the kids. Makes it less likely that some good samaritin will do the same in the future, leaving security holes open for those less ethical to actually steal the money!
What's next, arresting the kid that stuck his finger into the dike?
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The problem with these closed systems, any closed system really, is the inability to find and locate not only the errors, but the correct data either. The more erroneous data there is, the less likely one will find and retrieve the needed data. If anything, you get a "security through obfuscation" situation, but you're giving the security for the folk you need to target!
Keep your lists pruned and accurate. And the best method for this is with open and honest auditing in the public light. Not necessarily by the public themselves, but with public employees such as in the judicial system. Trained, skilled and non-biased eyes are always the best tools to not only perform oversight, but to keep this country or any country safe and secure.
Oh man, I'd forgotten about it being listen.com's originally.
I just got to thinking how it never captured the presense that Apple did through iTunes or Napster did during it's heyday. But then again, Rhapsody is still going strong on a "slow but steady" course, and has outlasted all of it's competition to date.
Well, I should have been more clear, they didn't capture market saturation like iTunes has.
Me, I'm all for alternatives. Rhapsody, Napster, iTunes, give me more options, and let me decide!
Most of the time yes, but I have cought a few occasions where disks were not labelled as such, but when I played them compared to my friends bought-elsewhere disks, there were parts missing. Sometimes the missing parts were odd to select for removal as well. **boggle**
I'd almost forgotten Rhapsody even existed anymore with the rise of iTunes. I remember when Real originally rolled out their service, it seems like forever ago. They couldn't make it work, and this was pre-iTunes. I hope for them that they can somehow capture it, the Nth time around.
For the geek with everything... freeze them in carbonite! Have the souvenier of a lifetime when you return from your vacation to Bespin! Amaze your friends, shock your family! And you can pick and choose when you are dethawed! Wake up in a week, a month, a year, when the Cubs win the world series, it doesn't matter! So come on down and have yourself frozen today!
I am imagining the phone call to go like this.
*ring ring* Hello and wel...
*BWEEP*
What...
*BWAP*
Pardon me but I'm not...
*BLEEN*
Stop pressing numbers...
*BOOP*
Couldn't he have at least had to say "Hello World"?
Would this be just by people they hve harassed, or against any potential target? This leaves the door very open to wild interpretation untill we get clarification.
I wonder if the rise in popularity of such community-developed software will almost make software into a commodity, generally available for all. Perhaps Marx was not wrong in his assertion that a group dynamic can be as productive as any other, but it took a truely equalizing force, such as the internet, to put it to the true test.
Might I point out that the mercury from vaccinations has been tied to a trend of rising autism here in Florida? That is why the wife and I worked with our doctor to use non-mercural based vaccinations, despite the fact that our insurance would not cover them. Cost us a pretty penny, and we're pinching them to begin with, but is worth it for not exposing our son to risk.
Frankly, calling someone that does not give vaccinations child abusers is really not only misguided, but ignorant. Might I point out that most of the issues that Damien here mentioned are caused by recent trends in vaccinating techniques, not by the vaccines themselves. The urge to "save a buck" does put children at risk, and if you cannot see that, then I'm sorry. The concept of vaccinating is a good one, no one will argue with you on that, but don't you ever wonder if there isn't a better manner of handling it?
If Sun makes this move, it could be the worst mistake they've ever made. First off, they do not seem to grasp the nature of the Linux desktop, or any desktop for that matter. Second off, they seem to have this idea that IBM *needs* Novell, when in fact it is the other way around. If Sun comes in, and tries to pull a Microsoft-like bullying technique, I have a strong feeling that IBM will be pulling the plug and switching to another distribution, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, or even developing its own distribution. Sun has not woken up to the new marget reality, and their revenue shortfalls show that. Sun, don't make a billion dollar mistake, just say "no" to aquiring Novell.
I don't think there will be an issue with the Pedler estate for rights to the Cybermen, and I know Mr. Davis would love to see them back. (Kit Pedler and Gary Davis created them) As for not being "kick-assed" enough, due to budget limits, the true scope of the original concept was never pushed to it's limits. At their root, the Cybermen are more terrifying than the Borg. With the Borg, a human conciousness is crushed by the collective. With the Cybermen, they re-program you so that you don't *want* to be something else. The borg retain what you are, making it part of them. The Cybermen, by contrast, changes what you are so that you are now one of them.
Ya know, if I had the money I'd buy them to reverse-engineer it all...
Or I'd just buy myself a Lexus, still deciding on it all.
Ah cool, Ekta-100 is quite good to work with, tight grain. Only 4x as grainy as the new stock in my experience.
And how will you read them in 10 years? 20 years? 100 years? Let's see, 10 years ago, everything was stored on Exabyte tapes and floppy disks. (5.25" at that in many cases) How do you propose we read these media when noone manufactures them anymore? What about some 8" floppy disks, 30 years old? Film has an inherent advantage here, the only technology necessary to display film is light and lens. Digital requires a lot more material to be made viewable, and much of that goes out of 'vogue' after a few years, rendering the material stored on it inaccessable. Digital media degrades from the sheer presence of the earths magnetic field, hence why video shot in the 80's has this lovely "green" tint to it. And tapes from the 50's have been found absolutely blank.
That will be the first thing out of any non-computer-literate folk when they hear about anything computer-micro-chip-gadget these days.
Imagine this conversation:
"Hey, let's go for a walk?"
"Love to honey, but my knee is too busy playing solitare."
I would disagree there about the film being nearly destroyed. In a test, Kodak ran film shot by Edison in 1898, and it was as clear as the day it was developed. Using electron microscopes, kodak has estimated that the film will be viewable well into the 24th century. One area where degredation might occur would be with color-stocks. But, using the same process on early kodachrome, they've found a life expectancy in the hundreds of years. With technicolor, about the same. With the newer stocks however, the aging is occuring faster, so only 150-200 years for an original stock before some loss occurs.
The Agfa's grain capability is significantly larger than the brand-new Kodak Vision2 stock, however. By an order of magnitude in my experience. (Shoot, I saw some Super8 done with Vision2 and the grain was of the same level as 16mm from the 80's, damned impressive if you asked me)
Then buy from dealers such as Computer City and Vesalia, who pick theirs up from bPlan directly.
As for my boss, she's in the other room wondering why I'm not getting the ice cream for her as I said I would and instead typing on Slashdot.
Thankfully there is the Pegasos running MorphOS still out there.
Wow, a new use for those 386's I have in the closet......
First thing, don't be inside of the US developing it. The US doesn't want anything in the way of them rolling over any foreign countries that they find Oil in.
Otherwise, I'd love to see such a system out there. I've always drafted up ideas for tanks, planes, missile guidence systems, but being in the US, there's no way I could ever develop them.
I tried to contact the simputer folk on 3 different occasions to license the design to no responce. For being an "open" platform, the docs and schematics are similarly locked-down making it impossible to even do a review.
I think the term about those kids that felt that they were doing the "right thing" that is most apt is "shoot the messenger." Some young kids uncover security holes that could lead into millions of fraud if not patched, and then tell the authorities, let's arrest the kids. Makes it less likely that some good samaritin will do the same in the future, leaving security holes open for those less ethical to actually steal the money!
What's next, arresting the kid that stuck his finger into the dike?