It strikes me as strange that something like Wikipedia could not be distributed across user's PCs in more of a peer-to-peer fashion. Surely the web itself could benefit from further decentralisation.
This issue bothered me some years ago, when I discovered that my desktop PC at work had about 40Gb of unpartitioned disk space. I often wondered about the sense of running file servers in big organisations, when each user probably has a few tens of gigabytes of unused or unpartitioned disk space.
If illicit music and video can be distributed by P2P, why not all information?
It would be quite easy to get unsuspecting individuals to look at a camera lens in a reasonably predictable way. Locate the camera (covertly) near an ATM screen, or an elevator button/floor keypad. An infomation notice board, perhaps. There are many ways to get people to look at a hidden camera lense. By controlling the lighting/colours of what they are too look at, you might even get most of your customers to take their sunglasses off.
They should send up large lumps of Blu-tack, which would zoom around and absorb all the bits'n'pieces. Eventually, after enough collisions, its velocity would reduce and then would out of LEO, to be burned up on re-entry.
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Hear hear.
Scrap the patent idea. If he wants to save the world, introduce him to the open source way of getting this done.
If patents are important, then obviously he's wanting to save his hip pocket first.
Your neighbours would get a little pissed off at the noise from your Volkswagen revving at 5500 revs per minute at wide open throttle...
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In Australia, names are marked off the electoral roll in the presence of electors (voting is compulsory, btw). A simple comparision between the electoral roll, the ballot printer logfile and the scanned OCR ballot count would pick up any significant errors.
Of course, the electoral roll checkers could cross off extra names. People could walk out with ballots. People could bring in forged ballots. The net result would be count discrepancies, which the UN could report (as "voting irregularities") to the media. Since GWB is marketing democracy to the world, one would think he'd want to avoid obvious rorting of the system.
The biggest challenge is creating traceabilty whilst maintaining anonymity.
May I ask with which nation the US is at war? My understanding is that, for the last war (Iraq invasion), major combat operations ceased years ago. The US government is actively cooperating with the Iraqi government. Is occupation war? Methinks not.
So now is entirely appropriate to question the invasion. It's not unpatriotic at all.
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Yep. They could sell tee-shirts with the donation amount printed on the front. That way they could leverage the ego's of the purchasers.
I donated [big sum] to Wikipedia
Mod parent up.
It strikes me as strange that something like Wikipedia could not be distributed across user's PCs in more of a peer-to-peer fashion. Surely the web itself could benefit from further decentralisation. This issue bothered me some years ago, when I discovered that my desktop PC at work had about 40Gb of unpartitioned disk space. I often wondered about the sense of running file servers in big organisations, when each user probably has a few tens of gigabytes of unused or unpartitioned disk space. If illicit music and video can be distributed by P2P, why not all information?
Excellent. Then you'd better return it, or Amazon will charge your credit card for the full amount.
Yeah, I agree. That's a suitable location.
But where does Microsoft and the Bush administration fit into this schema?
That's right. All Derrière Rest Mechanisms (DRMs) should be destroyed.
So the RIAA wouldn't derive any sort of royalties or benefits from movie soundtracks?
People with Aero Glass Windows shouldn't throw...
Wot, no pr0n surfing witticisms yet?
I think you've got some network latency problems there.
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You have to have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed so you can move the mountain, or so Jesus said once.
The power switch?
Last few paragraphs? You must be new here.
It would be quite easy to get unsuspecting individuals to look at a camera lens in a reasonably predictable way. Locate the camera (covertly) near an ATM screen, or an elevator button/floor keypad. An infomation notice board, perhaps. There are many ways to get people to look at a hidden camera lense. By controlling the lighting/colours of what they are too look at, you might even get most of your customers to take their sunglasses off.
They should send up large lumps of Blu-tack, which would zoom around and absorb all the bits'n'pieces. Eventually, after enough collisions, its velocity would reduce and then would out of LEO, to be burned up on re-entry.
Hear hear.
Scrap the patent idea. If he wants to save the world, introduce him to the open source way of getting this done.
If patents are important, then obviously he's wanting to save his hip pocket first.
In Aus, they're called _arses_.
Your neighbours would get a little pissed off at the noise from your Volkswagen revving at 5500 revs per minute at wide open throttle...
In Australia, names are marked off the electoral roll in the presence of electors (voting is compulsory, btw). A simple comparision between the electoral roll, the ballot printer logfile and the scanned OCR ballot count would pick up any significant errors.
Of course, the electoral roll checkers could cross off extra names. People could walk out with ballots. People could bring in forged ballots. The net result would be count discrepancies, which the UN could report (as "voting irregularities") to the media. Since GWB is marketing democracy to the world, one would think he'd want to avoid obvious rorting of the system.
The biggest challenge is creating traceabilty whilst maintaining anonymity.
with GnuCash and Gnash you are free to Flash your cash.
May I ask with which nation the US is at war? My understanding is that, for the last war (Iraq invasion), major combat operations ceased years ago. The US government is actively cooperating with the Iraqi government. Is occupation war? Methinks not.
So now is entirely appropriate to question the invasion. It's not unpatriotic at all.
The new North Korean rabbit farmers will then need something calicivirus.
I guess it depends on how big your micrometer is.