That's exactly what I thought 90 days ago, the minute I heard about the 911 deadline. 1: Buy the regulators, regulate the competition out of existence. 2: Raise rates endlessly on captive customers. 3: Profit!
Get used to using the word "info-feudalism", for that is what the corporations are creating. Think about it: under feudalism, the lord owned the land, the serfs worked on the land, and the serfs were not allowed to move away if they didn't like the deal.
Under info-feudalism:
Large corporations bribe legislatures to expand "intellectual property" to include many, many things that used to be open to all;
Government spends your money on basic drug research, but drug companies patent the results;
Copyright gets extended again and again so that works no longer pass into the public domain after the creator dies;
Your DNA gets patented by someone else without your say-so; authors patent story lines (!), corporations apply for ridiculously broad patents in an attempt to control what others can and cannot invent;
Police arrest scientists who publish papers on flaws in Digital Rights Management schemes;
You buy a song or a movie but never really own it;
Fair Use quotations are legally doubtful;
Crooked churches sue their critics because their 'bibles' are copyrighted;
Governments tell lies such as "piracy helps the terrorists;
News media are corrupted by their connection to cash-cow entertainment conglomerates;
And it's not like any of them truly invented the ideas all by themselves; all of society indirectly helped; yet they rob all of society by seeking monopoly.
Oh, I could go on and on.
See this demolition of the whole idea of "Intellectual Property": http://deoxy.org/aip.htm
Let's face it, an inefficient law-enforcement apparatus is the only reason we still have certain freedoms at all. The closer the government can get to truly universal surveillance (total tapping capability, cameras everywhere, biometrics and data-mining methods to handle the firehose of data), the closer we come to a police state that cannot be resisted. That's why the feds are leaning on Skype and other VOIP providers; currently, Skype can't be tapped.
The most dangerous weapon a criminal can carry is a badge.
The Department of Defense are the guys who screwed up the shuttle program (too many design changes for spying missions that never happened, especially polar flights out of Andrews).
What Paul had to recast to attract Roman gentiles was not the 'message' of Christianity but the then-recent historical events concerning the Roman part in the Christ story. Christ was EXECUTED by the Romans! Paul recasts the account to put more blame on the Jews, specifically the Sanhedrin (priest honchos) in order to fudge the issue of Roman guilt. "You people murdered Christ, join our church" is not an easy sell. Paul helps set the scene for 2,000 years of anti-Semitism, but you gotta break some eggs...
And, yes, in many ways Paul was teaching his own religion. Paul never knew Jesus, and before his conversion on the road to Damascus was a persecutor of Christians. Until he came along, Christianity was a Jewish sect exclusively, and Christians were competing for converts with other Jews. Paul was the one who came up with the idea of converting Gentiles. Incidentally, many (perhaps half?) of Jesus's sayings may have been put in his mouth by later writers.
No, d00d. The cyborg monkeys were costing too much, too. So the monkeys' keyboards were moved onto a windowsill where rats run in and out of the abandoned house where the monkeys lived. The rats step on the keys randomly, and their food is mostly tramp scraps left over by the C.H.U.D.s.
We still have AMD, don't we? MS can suck it. And there's mountains of great music without DRM, if you can live without the stuff on MTV. Go to www.garageband.com
There are enough free MP3's from unknown but very good artists at that site alone to make you forget about the Top 40.
Key word: OPENLY. There are quite a few sumbitches (beginning with the pResident) who COVERTLY wish to abolish, or loot, Social Security, and hope we're stupid enough to give them the benefit of the doubt. Do I have direct evidence? I guess that would depend on what your idea of direct evidence is. Put it this way: When you're as sure as I am that someone can't be trusted or believed at face value, you begin to know that waiting for absolute proof is a fool's game. Absolute proof would require waiting for the aforementioned sumbitches to go ahead and finish looting/abolishing/whatever else they have in mind. And even then, by golly, they'd rewrite history. "Who, us? We did our best to save Social Security, but, sadly, it was too flawed to save..."
When the satellite photo was taken for the google map, they were testing the force field, which blurs the area underneath. Look for these to appear in lots of places.
Intel working on silicon laser to link cores
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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My
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· Score: 5, Interesting
See MIT Technology review article:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/iss ue/feature_intel.asp
The silicon laser, being made from the same material as the rest of the chip, would replace the copper wires that need to connect cores, thus letting Intel 'keep Moore's Law alive for decades', the article says. It would do this by permitting many, many cores in fast communication with less heat and less energy required than current copper-wired chips.
Question: will Intel's possession of si-lasers shut AMD out?
Since Knoppix already auto-detects many system attributes, that shouldn't really be so hard to do. Why not copy it into a partition and then set that as the boot?
Unfortunately, what with Republican malfeasance draining the treasury, we are not the rabbit any more. The Chinese are going to have a lot more spare yuan to spend in the long run than we will have dollars. There's a real likelihood they'll go a lot of places first now.
Why did we cancel the last few Apollo missions? Because Nixon needed the money to spend on bombing Vietnam.
Swallowable cameras already exist; the 800nm diameter robot is still on the drawing board; it would have to be that small to be injected, not swallowed, and might be used for drug deliver or other tasks.
That's probably exactly what he's doing; they still take time to work. A full scan takes a few minutes, and one program finds stuff another missed. I did a Spyware Doctor scan on my sister-in-law's Dell. It had, get this, 2,654 infections!!!
As far as I know, the most secure machine a home user can have right now would be a no-OS computer with a Knoppix disk in the CD drive. Nothing would be stored on the hard drive but user files. Updating software would mean updating Knoppix.
That'd work, right?
I too read Wu Li Masters long ago; it's not easy to find (well, maybe now it is with Amazon and Ebay). read Capra too. I say they're both excellent, and it was stuff like this that made me ready when I got to Godel, Escher, Bach.
So week before last I was over at my wife's sister's house and they were having a heck of a time with their Pentium 4 Dell, which ought to run fast enough, but it was choking on web pages, even. I d/led Spyware Doctor and ran it, and it found 2,654 infections. Granted, that's mostly cookies'n'cream, but STILL. 2,654!
The meme that average nontechnical users need to hear is that "A computer is not like a toaster, it's like a car. A toaster works, and if it breaks you throw it away. A car needs constant attention, fuel, check the oil, service the brakes, etc. or it stops working. A computer is like a car."
A seriously secure computer, I keep saying, would be for instance a no-OS machine with a Knoppix disk glued in the CD reader.
Pro: no new programs, like malware. The hard drive used only to store user-created data (pictures, etc.
Con: no new programs.
Lots of people don't want or need new programs very often anyway; a new disk might suffice.
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That's exactly what I thought 90 days ago, the minute I heard about the 911 deadline. 1: Buy the regulators, regulate the competition out of existence. 2: Raise rates endlessly on captive customers. 3: Profit!
Get used to using the word "info-feudalism", for that is what the corporations are creating. Think about it: under feudalism, the lord owned the land, the serfs worked on the land, and the serfs were not allowed to move away if they didn't like the deal.
Under info-feudalism:
Large corporations bribe legislatures to expand "intellectual property" to include many, many things that used to be open to all;
Government spends your money on basic drug research, but drug companies patent the results;
Copyright gets extended again and again so that works no longer pass into the public domain after the creator dies;
Your DNA gets patented by someone else without your say-so; authors patent story lines (!), corporations apply for ridiculously broad patents in an attempt to control what others can and cannot invent;
Police arrest scientists who publish papers on flaws in Digital Rights Management schemes;
You buy a song or a movie but never really own it;
Fair Use quotations are legally doubtful;
Crooked churches sue their critics because their 'bibles' are copyrighted;
Governments tell lies such as "piracy helps the terrorists;
News media are corrupted by their connection to cash-cow entertainment conglomerates;
And it's not like any of them truly invented the ideas all by themselves; all of society indirectly helped; yet they rob all of society by seeking monopoly. Oh, I could go on and on.
See this demolition of the whole idea of "Intellectual Property":
http://deoxy.org/aip.htm
Let's face it, an inefficient law-enforcement apparatus is the only reason we still have certain freedoms at all. The closer the government can get to truly universal surveillance (total tapping capability, cameras everywhere, biometrics and data-mining methods to handle the firehose of data), the closer we come to a police state that cannot be resisted. That's why the feds are leaning on Skype and other VOIP providers; currently, Skype can't be tapped.
The most dangerous weapon a criminal can carry is a badge.
Or is it Edwards? Yep. Edwards. Posted too fast. Can't find the article where I read about the polar flights that never happened.
The Department of Defense are the guys who screwed up the shuttle program (too many design changes for spying missions that never happened, especially polar flights out of Andrews).
What Paul had to recast to attract Roman gentiles was not the 'message' of Christianity but the then-recent historical events concerning the Roman part in the Christ story. Christ was EXECUTED by the Romans! Paul recasts the account to put more blame on the Jews, specifically the Sanhedrin (priest honchos) in order to fudge the issue of Roman guilt. "You people murdered Christ, join our church" is not an easy sell. Paul helps set the scene for 2,000 years of anti-Semitism, but you gotta break some eggs... And, yes, in many ways Paul was teaching his own religion. Paul never knew Jesus, and before his conversion on the road to Damascus was a persecutor of Christians. Until he came along, Christianity was a Jewish sect exclusively, and Christians were competing for converts with other Jews. Paul was the one who came up with the idea of converting Gentiles. Incidentally, many (perhaps half?) of Jesus's sayings may have been put in his mouth by later writers.
No, d00d. The cyborg monkeys were costing too much, too. So the monkeys' keyboards were moved onto a windowsill where rats run in and out of the abandoned house where the monkeys lived. The rats step on the keys randomly, and their food is mostly tramp scraps left over by the C.H.U.D.s.
We still have AMD, don't we? MS can suck it. And there's mountains of great music without DRM, if you can live without the stuff on MTV. Go to www.garageband.com There are enough free MP3's from unknown but very good artists at that site alone to make you forget about the Top 40.
No diss meant to factual ravens, and I would not diss the fictional one either. Love that sig! Fnord, indeed.
What about that raven which understood the concept of 'nevermore'?
Key word: OPENLY. There are quite a few sumbitches (beginning with the pResident) who COVERTLY wish to abolish, or loot, Social Security, and hope we're stupid enough to give them the benefit of the doubt. Do I have direct evidence? I guess that would depend on what your idea of direct evidence is. Put it this way: When you're as sure as I am that someone can't be trusted or believed at face value, you begin to know that waiting for absolute proof is a fool's game. Absolute proof would require waiting for the aforementioned sumbitches to go ahead and finish looting/abolishing/whatever else they have in mind. And even then, by golly, they'd rewrite history. "Who, us? We did our best to save Social Security, but, sadly, it was too flawed to save..."
No, make the case out of wax. That way, if the machine overheats, new ventilation holes will magically appear!
When the satellite photo was taken for the google map, they were testing the force field, which blurs the area underneath. Look for these to appear in lots of places.
See MIT Technology review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/iss ue/feature_intel.asp
The silicon laser, being made from the same material as the rest of the chip, would replace the copper wires that need to connect cores, thus letting Intel 'keep Moore's Law alive for decades', the article says. It would do this by permitting many, many cores in fast communication with less heat and less energy required than current copper-wired chips.
Question: will Intel's possession of si-lasers shut AMD out?
Since Knoppix already auto-detects many system attributes, that shouldn't really be so hard to do. Why not copy it into a partition and then set that as the boot?
Oh, a wise guy! (pokes his eyes out)
Unfortunately, what with Republican malfeasance draining the treasury, we are not the rabbit any more. The Chinese are going to have a lot more spare yuan to spend in the long run than we will have dollars. There's a real likelihood they'll go a lot of places first now. Why did we cancel the last few Apollo missions? Because Nixon needed the money to spend on bombing Vietnam.
Swallowable cameras already exist; the 800nm diameter robot is still on the drawing board; it would have to be that small to be injected, not swallowed, and might be used for drug deliver or other tasks.
That's probably exactly what he's doing; they still take time to work. A full scan takes a few minutes, and one program finds stuff another missed. I did a Spyware Doctor scan on my sister-in-law's Dell. It had, get this, 2,654 infections!!!
As far as I know, the most secure machine a home user can have right now would be a no-OS computer with a Knoppix disk in the CD drive. Nothing would be stored on the hard drive but user files. Updating software would mean updating Knoppix. That'd work, right?
"No home computer will ever need more than a megabyte of memory!" - Bill Gates, back when DOS had trouble handling any more than 640k
I too read Wu Li Masters long ago; it's not easy to find (well, maybe now it is with Amazon and Ebay). read Capra too. I say they're both excellent, and it was stuff like this that made me ready when I got to Godel, Escher, Bach.
"the worst post I saw was something about stealing pizza." Stealing pizza from desecrated graves!!!!!!!
So week before last I was over at my wife's sister's house and they were having a heck of a time with their Pentium 4 Dell, which ought to run fast enough, but it was choking on web pages, even. I d/led Spyware Doctor and ran it, and it found 2,654 infections. Granted, that's mostly cookies'n'cream, but STILL. 2,654! The meme that average nontechnical users need to hear is that "A computer is not like a toaster, it's like a car. A toaster works, and if it breaks you throw it away. A car needs constant attention, fuel, check the oil, service the brakes, etc. or it stops working. A computer is like a car." A seriously secure computer, I keep saying, would be for instance a no-OS machine with a Knoppix disk glued in the CD reader. Pro: no new programs, like malware. The hard drive used only to store user-created data (pictures, etc. Con: no new programs. Lots of people don't want or need new programs very often anyway; a new disk might suffice.
A machine with no OS but a Knoppix CD is pretty damn wormproof, isn't it?