...the more they yadda yadda yadda. Invent any new tech for transmitting useful info on the net and sooner or later someone finds a way to massage the system to their advantage. Fix it and they find a way around.
Now if they were totally pro-active across the board at Google and shut this down completely no matter what the search terms, we'd be living in a perfect world but they can't and as good as they ever get, someone will get around it.
BTW, how long until Google becomes the Microsoft of search engines and a rebellion begins because we realize we've come to rely on them to the point that other avenues have withered away but at the same time they are far from perfect and perhaps in our view then possibly malignant?
First, in these days of whackers (script kiddie hackers cracking with one hand, stroking themselves over free porn with the other), spam-masters, and other assorted cretins and weasels, what is the point of allowing secret domain registrations? OF COURSE there should be accountability.
Second, if you really need to publish anonymously for whistle-blower reasons, et al, then between open proxies and nym and mixmaster, it ain't hard to put out what you need anonymously. But domain registrations? Come on, we have bigger and more realistic fish to fry in the world of privacy than that.
...that the experiment begun back on the Win95 CD with the Weezer video would finally bear fruit. I can hardly wait for their other pilot project they refer to as an "operating system" to similarly reach maturity.
...the matter is what form will it take? Will it get dispersed like foamy effervescence on a freshly poured glass of Coca-Cola in the organic morass that Open Source is becoming, which could end up being called Open Sore if it goes south? Or will it become like Debian where we can come up with more distros than AOL has CDs to push but still not change the fact that the core is the same-old same-old?
I don't let this worry me. If it is worth surviving, those who use it will cause it to by demand because someone always is there to fulfill that demand. With the exception of my demand for free laptop night at the ballpark of course.
...all the b*tching and moaning about Debian comes down to them being too conservative in development and release cycles for the tastes of the *nix public when such lack of conservatism over at Redmond w/respect to code stability and so forth is something everyone in the *nix community continuously whacks at MS for.
Okay, so they're a little slow on this. But I'm (still) getting my cram introduction to *nix through two channels: OpenBSD which is used where I work and Knoppix which just plain works right out of the box (or CD tray more to the point). Knoppix works around Debian. No, no pun intended wiseasses.
What kind of cycle are we looking for anyways? The kind AOL was using on their client for the longest time where you blink and there's a revision? Do we want to mimic Windows, shove it out the door, and rely on autmated network installers to patch and go on the fly?
I think this question is important. How fast, how furious? How slow, how stable? No, snail's pace isn't helping, but neither is bleeding edge going to help no matter how point and click the facade gets. If the guts are full of crap then it is no better than the guts being empty.
First, if he was afraid of being typecast, why bother taking the role in the first place? Given the short attention span yet tendency to seize on things like a dog with a bone of the movie and television watching public, he has to know that people are already going to see 28 Days Later and then Doctor Who and think "WTF?!"
Second, forget Leonard Nimoy. You want a better example? Andrew "Josh" Koenig of Growing Pains. Sometimes quoted about not wanting to go to "Boner Conventions" in reference to his more recognizable father Walter "Chekov" Koenig, he left Growing Pains well before the end of the series and where is he now? Any actor should do so bad as to be typecast and actually have work instead of dropping out of sight behind the newer rising stars who are hungry for any role.
...write a really really fast app in it to convert mounds of Perl code over within my lifetime. And then maybe they can make Windows more stable. And then...
Screw it. I'll settle for the first thing if it ever happens.
...are emblematic of the times or more to the point, their growing number is. When they whine about speech what they are really whining for is a world with no reprocussions for their actions.
Basic to the very concept of good and evil is that we have free will to choose our actions and paths through life and only by this can anything be judged one way or another. That which is compulsory as with a machine has no evil or goodness to it. It just is. Like a nearby star going nova and wiping out all life on Earth. Act of nature, G-d, whatever.
These so-called radicals always want to throw stones at the government and big business and so on and apply the term "evil" but they never take any responsibility for what they do, only credit. Free will doesn't work that way. Your actions have consequences and speech requires action to convey it.
Generally, most speech doesn't have reprocussions of an immediately actionable criminal or civil nature, but sometimes it does. Like telling someone to go some place to set them up to be murdered, or agreeing not to disclose classified documents and then doing so, or what have you.
He and his fellow poseurs lack the courage of their supposed convictions.
...but it is an interesting look at the insides of the core of the whole thing. I for one like being able to see what they're currently up against and what their cycles are like and so on. Very good development.
...coming generations of techs, geeks, nerds, weenies, and middle managers won't ever know what a wonderful experience an industry con can be.
Despite the downturn in manufacturing slaughtering the industry, Eastec and Westec are still held every year without missing a beat. Similarly, other industries still manage to hold their cons. Why is COMDEX the one to keep failing at this?
Oh well, we'll have to settle for cherry-picking among the more specialized industry cons and getting sick there.
...as chattel of the government. Go to another country and do something which is perfectly legal there but illegal here, you will be punished for breaking a law that has no jurisdiction where it is being applied. No different than Mississippi trying to enforce its laws in Louisiana. The feds do it, the states do it, next thing you know the town you are born in will charge you taxes no matter where you move to. You are essentially property in their view.
three one-year-old PCs used for the price of one new, a low-end KVM, load up XP Pro, Knoppix, BSD, and go to town having techie fun experimenting away. Why feed Jobs' ego and wallet just so I can pretend I think different(ly)?
...who've been as effective as the League of Nations at preventing wars and fostering international peace and a sense of global community. These people are as evil as INGSOC and as incompetent as the USPS. Yeah, let's let them regulate the Internet.
Yet one more reason for nonviolent peaceful non-co-operation being the way to the future on the Internet.
...but people keep missing the point. Photoelectric won't work, won't solve even a small fraction of our power needs, not remotely. The amount of solar energy in watts per square meter at our orbital distance is well known and easily looked up. Also well known and easily looked up are losses due to atmosphere from clear sky to overcast day. And on top of this, the cells are far less than 100% effective.
You can't magically make this change. You can take up the square meters with cells or with mirrors and send the light to fewer cells. It doesn't matter.
We could have been using nuclear fission reactors that even an AOL user could not make malfunction more than thirty years ago, but the public's fascination with hypothetical disasters and poor understanding of physics, biology, and every area of engineering not related to lifting a Coke to their lips is the opening every anti-nuke nutcase has exploited.
To keep linking nuclear power to nuclear weapons is like linking wood burning stoves to witches being burned at the stake. Their lack of basic knowledge on modern nuclear reactor design when the texts are availible at public university and college libraries across the USA combined with so many having (liberal arts) degrees is its own area of the concept of "irony".
Meanwhile, the animal environmentalists can only argue with the alternate energy environmentalists over endangered birds being chopped up in California windmills and we keep burning extremely valuable petrochemicals which would be much more useful in other endeavors while we wait for the unobtanium reactor that only puts out clean energy and bunny farts is developed.
If things keep going the way they have we will eventually reach the point where we don't have the resources to escape Earth and colonize the system where the resources for more energy than we'll ever need short of fantastic sci-fi megaengineering are waiting.
Nice technological advance, but in the end useful mostly for Casio calculators and whatnot.
...can we please forcibly re-educate all programmers who will not properly, logically, and clearly document their code? I think it more important that we help each other understand machine code which we created, than help machines understand human code. It's like being too lazy to write magazine articles properly and instead writing an AI word processor to rephrase everything for us which is ten times more work than just doing it right in the first place.
Adobe has in an odd way given us a ready-made excuse for missing deadlines: "I started up Premiere on Monday morning and by the time it was finally ready to use on Saturday night, I was off the clock. If you want that edited, just pay me time and a half and I'll start it next Monday and work the following Saturday night on it."
Never thought I'd see a company that was seemingly in competition with Microsoft to purposely bloat and slow down their own product to the point of uselessness.
...that by the time Duke Nukem Forever launches, this will be the level of computing power on every desktop? I can hardly wait for Windows mean-time-to-failure to be measured in femtoseconds.
...it was always explained to me by lawyers back when I first started writing programs that copyright and patent and trademark were only supposed to be civil constructs for the early protection of the originator, giving them a chance to make first fair use of their creations.
They were NOT supposed to be used to create monopolies on things like calling "dibs" on the front seat of the car in perpetuity when you were a kid. The onus was on the originator to take steps to protect their turf at the outset, and from then on. It was up to the originator to perform due diligence in enforcement of their transitory rights in the matter or lose them. These were NOT rights in the same sense as freedom of speech and so on, these were legal constructs based in laws and not presupposed natural holdings recognized in the US Constitution.
Now it's at the point that various associations are unilaterally taking it upon themselves to do the due diligence on behalf of the originators and in most cases with no legal agreement to perform that representation on their behalf. Only the parties directly affected have any standing and they must do their own work short of legal assignment of rights and/or responsibilities by binding contract.
You cannot merely imply that a third party has standing simply by virtue of the subject matter. IOW, you can't simply have the RIAA do your copyright enforcement for no better reason than they are a recording association and you made a recording. You have to enter into an agreement or they have no business doing your enforcement for you. That's the way it was explained to me when I wrote my first program and like an adult, I accepted my responsibilities.
Moving it from the civil side to the criminal side is the next level of lunacy. As most every lawyer I've ever spoken with agrees, we already have some several hundred times more laws than we can possibly enforce, causing us to reduce more and more criminal offenses to de minimus status, where they aren't worth the time of the authorities to go after.
If we continue on this path unabated, we will get to the point that the police will have to either put all this crap on the back burner and ignore most of it, or they will have to become a weird combination of the firemen of Fahrenheit 451 and the thought police of 1984. Is this really what we want?
The other consequence is growing civil unrest and here in the age of the global Internet, with cryptography and hacking knowledge being so freely availible, and the growing anti-corporate socialistic mindset combining more and more with basic human cynicism, we're looking at more and more subversive and reactionary fighting back.
Does it only seem like the future is going to end up like some techno-future anime? I am all for growing rabid peaceful noncompliance, fighting them to a standstill, until a peace treaty of sorts can be worked out if only in terms of a gentlemens' silent agreement. We need to come to an accomodation somewhere in between before it is too late.
...so many Palm users lacking real intelligence of their own?
Sorry, but I've dealt with too many dim bulbs with Palms in support to not trot that out. If someone turns a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP into a serious PDA-like tool, I know I'll have to deal with those tools as well. The users being tools I mean.
I'm also seriously dubious on any AI work. The multiple levels and combinations of complications that the human brain has are just so far and away beyond any attempt at modelling, the best result we're going to get now is an a-life experiment combined with a search engine. It will be some time before we really see any electronic anything that comes close to what could really be called thinking.
Of course, the same can be said of many living people today.
I love how many people glom onto this corporate bashing stance of forcing "competition" without any idea of the technical wherewithal involved in making it happen and the degredation of service in the near, mid, and long term.
I've worked for DSL CLECs which had resellers self-branding what they sold for another partner ISP which actually supplied the IPs and had a layer two frame or atm circuit to us and we had one then onward to a partner CLEC which held the facilities where we didn't have a build and from them over ILEC copper to the customer using a customer owned CPE.
Can you say clusterf*ck? I knew you'd try.
Occam's Razor applies here.
On top of this, are we going to legally require the cable companies to give away connections for free? No? Then we can add the charge they give to the competing ISP on to whatever the other ISP charges the customer.
It gets better kids. Think about this... How big are the cable providers' fiber nets? Many of them either own a load of their own or they combine their sizeable assets with others. We're not talking a couple DS3s on a dial-up ISP here, we're talking major OC fiber lines handling hugantic ginormous (thank you Bruce Almighty) amounts of data quite well every day.
I'm supposed to want someone other than my cable company for what reason? So I can say that my last mile is cable but the undersized backhaul is on an overutilized interface on an underpowered Cisco router administered by some nineteen year old cert whore? So that I can say I'm doing business with TWO different entities instead of one? So that I can say my ISP is a mom and pop (or t-shirt wearing crew of Linux geeks) unlike those big corporate cable people (in polo shirts)?
If you want something done right, you use the right tools and methods, and you do it with intent to succeed. You don't host a mission critical commercial web server on a DSL line, you have it hosted professionally on a good pipe. You host a personal vanity server on DSL.
Similarly, my broadband is too important to sacrifice to some so-called competitor's vanity. Even today in DSL we still see ISPs taken seriously whose idea of a NOC is two teens occasionally taking time out from their endless Half-Life game to run pings in five or six windows and don't even know what Matt's Traceroute is, never mind even know how to check the atm traffic on their own router. Such have been contributory to the disasterous collapse of some CLECs. I know, I used to work with such yahoos and was there when they helped down us.
Your statement answers your wonder. It was precisely because it would have been a wasted exercise. What we declassified was a backhanded measure of what we reasonably believed the other side would have already compromised. Hence, why hide it? It was not as though we were up against an enemy who would cross the line so heavily and blatantly as Al Queda and the rest of the loony schmucks on the loose do today.
Now we have a ragtag enemy without the appropriate experience and intelligence infrastructure to penetrate really deep and who are in any case, showing themselves very good at abusing commonly availible information to attack wide open targets.
Why should be aid and abet the terrorists? We've already been shown graphically on 9/11/1 how they work.
That said, much of the missing info looks like it was capriciously chosen by public service drones more than it was seasoned intelligence and anti-terror people. But then, this IS government we're talking about. Did you really expect it to be intelligent and sensible from start to finish?
...can we please grow up and stop harkening to Nazi anything? If Slashdotters get any faster at Godwining themselves, they'll violate causality and do it before the fact.
This is nothing new under the sun. During the 80s the USSR sent physicists here to discuss information on nuclear fusion which was directly generated by the USSR. The USSR declassified it. They were giving the data on USSR government orders. The USA saw it differently and decided that since similar information generated by the USA was still classified, this information was also classified. Their reasoning was shallow at best regarding
Anyone who's done any time working for the government expects this inane nonsense anti-thinking. The concept that you should not bother closing the barn door once the horses have all left is firmly rejected by almost any government composed of humans never mind the USA. In their minds, closing the door will cause the horses to do a Casper and float right back through in the barn as if they never left.
This has nothing to do with Nazi, fascist, or any other tinfoil hat paranoia serving puerile fantasies of fighting some uphill struggle or whatever it is that drives people to think that way. I tell this to raving rightists as well as leftists. Grow up. They're too busy being incompetent to spend energies on hassling you personally. Any hassles they give you are merely SOP for everyone.
Illogical idiot non-thinking is what this reclassification is. Par for the course. Did you really think that prior to George W. Bush that the US government was some brain trust under Bill Clinton? Wow. Between the IRS during the 70s, USPS since inception, and the Hoover years of the FBI, I didn't think anyone could miss it. You want a better and more troublesome conspiracy? Ask why hot dogs and buns never seem to come in the same number at the same time at the store.
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...the more they yadda yadda yadda. Invent any new tech for transmitting useful info on the net and sooner or later someone finds a way to massage the system to their advantage. Fix it and they find a way around. Now if they were totally pro-active across the board at Google and shut this down completely no matter what the search terms, we'd be living in a perfect world but they can't and as good as they ever get, someone will get around it.
BTW, how long until Google becomes the Microsoft of search engines and a rebellion begins because we realize we've come to rely on them to the point that other avenues have withered away but at the same time they are far from perfect and perhaps in our view then possibly malignant?
First, in these days of whackers (script kiddie hackers cracking with one hand, stroking themselves over free porn with the other), spam-masters, and other assorted cretins and weasels, what is the point of allowing secret domain registrations? OF COURSE there should be accountability.
Second, if you really need to publish anonymously for whistle-blower reasons, et al, then between open proxies and nym and mixmaster, it ain't hard to put out what you need anonymously. But domain registrations? Come on, we have bigger and more realistic fish to fry in the world of privacy than that.
...that the experiment begun back on the Win95 CD with the Weezer video would finally bear fruit. I can hardly wait for their other pilot project they refer to as an "operating system" to similarly reach maturity.
...the matter is what form will it take? Will it get dispersed like foamy effervescence on a freshly poured glass of Coca-Cola in the organic morass that Open Source is becoming, which could end up being called Open Sore if it goes south? Or will it become like Debian where we can come up with more distros than AOL has CDs to push but still not change the fact that the core is the same-old same-old?
I don't let this worry me. If it is worth surviving, those who use it will cause it to by demand because someone always is there to fulfill that demand. With the exception of my demand for free laptop night at the ballpark of course.
...all the b*tching and moaning about Debian comes down to them being too conservative in development and release cycles for the tastes of the *nix public when such lack of conservatism over at Redmond w/respect to code stability and so forth is something everyone in the *nix community continuously whacks at MS for.
Okay, so they're a little slow on this. But I'm (still) getting my cram introduction to *nix through two channels: OpenBSD which is used where I work and Knoppix which just plain works right out of the box (or CD tray more to the point). Knoppix works around Debian. No, no pun intended wiseasses.
What kind of cycle are we looking for anyways? The kind AOL was using on their client for the longest time where you blink and there's a revision? Do we want to mimic Windows, shove it out the door, and rely on autmated network installers to patch and go on the fly?
I think this question is important. How fast, how furious? How slow, how stable? No, snail's pace isn't helping, but neither is bleeding edge going to help no matter how point and click the facade gets. If the guts are full of crap then it is no better than the guts being empty.
First, if he was afraid of being typecast, why bother taking the role in the first place? Given the short attention span yet tendency to seize on things like a dog with a bone of the movie and television watching public, he has to know that people are already going to see 28 Days Later and then Doctor Who and think "WTF?!"
Second, forget Leonard Nimoy. You want a better example? Andrew "Josh" Koenig of Growing Pains. Sometimes quoted about not wanting to go to "Boner Conventions" in reference to his more recognizable father Walter "Chekov" Koenig, he left Growing Pains well before the end of the series and where is he now? Any actor should do so bad as to be typecast and actually have work instead of dropping out of sight behind the newer rising stars who are hungry for any role.
Fist, that I don't know why but I seem to be one of those people with no Firefox/Acrobat issues whatsoever.
Second, if this is as good and instructive as their Knoppix hacks offering, then I must go out and get it.
...write a really really fast app in it to convert mounds of Perl code over within my lifetime. And then maybe they can make Windows more stable. And then...
Screw it. I'll settle for the first thing if it ever happens.
...are emblematic of the times or more to the point, their growing number is. When they whine about speech what they are really whining for is a world with no reprocussions for their actions.
Basic to the very concept of good and evil is that we have free will to choose our actions and paths through life and only by this can anything be judged one way or another. That which is compulsory as with a machine has no evil or goodness to it. It just is. Like a nearby star going nova and wiping out all life on Earth. Act of nature, G-d, whatever.
These so-called radicals always want to throw stones at the government and big business and so on and apply the term "evil" but they never take any responsibility for what they do, only credit. Free will doesn't work that way. Your actions have consequences and speech requires action to convey it.
Generally, most speech doesn't have reprocussions of an immediately actionable criminal or civil nature, but sometimes it does. Like telling someone to go some place to set them up to be murdered, or agreeing not to disclose classified documents and then doing so, or what have you.
He and his fellow poseurs lack the courage of their supposed convictions.
...but it is an interesting look at the insides of the core of the whole thing. I for one like being able to see what they're currently up against and what their cycles are like and so on. Very good development.
...coming generations of techs, geeks, nerds, weenies, and middle managers won't ever know what a wonderful experience an industry con can be.
Despite the downturn in manufacturing slaughtering the industry, Eastec and Westec are still held every year without missing a beat. Similarly, other industries still manage to hold their cons. Why is COMDEX the one to keep failing at this?
Oh well, we'll have to settle for cherry-picking among the more specialized industry cons and getting sick there.
...as chattel of the government. Go to another country and do something which is perfectly legal there but illegal here, you will be punished for breaking a law that has no jurisdiction where it is being applied. No different than Mississippi trying to enforce its laws in Louisiana. The feds do it, the states do it, next thing you know the town you are born in will charge you taxes no matter where you move to. You are essentially property in their view.
three one-year-old PCs used for the price of one new, a low-end KVM, load up XP Pro, Knoppix, BSD, and go to town having techie fun experimenting away. Why feed Jobs' ego and wallet just so I can pretend I think different(ly)?
...who've been as effective as the League of Nations at preventing wars and fostering international peace and a sense of global community. These people are as evil as INGSOC and as incompetent as the USPS. Yeah, let's let them regulate the Internet.
Yet one more reason for nonviolent peaceful non-co-operation being the way to the future on the Internet.
...but people keep missing the point. Photoelectric won't work, won't solve even a small fraction of our power needs, not remotely. The amount of solar energy in watts per square meter at our orbital distance is well known and easily looked up. Also well known and easily looked up are losses due to atmosphere from clear sky to overcast day. And on top of this, the cells are far less than 100% effective.
You can't magically make this change. You can take up the square meters with cells or with mirrors and send the light to fewer cells. It doesn't matter.
We could have been using nuclear fission reactors that even an AOL user could not make malfunction more than thirty years ago, but the public's fascination with hypothetical disasters and poor understanding of physics, biology, and every area of engineering not related to lifting a Coke to their lips is the opening every anti-nuke nutcase has exploited.
To keep linking nuclear power to nuclear weapons is like linking wood burning stoves to witches being burned at the stake. Their lack of basic knowledge on modern nuclear reactor design when the texts are availible at public university and college libraries across the USA combined with so many having (liberal arts) degrees is its own area of the concept of "irony".
Meanwhile, the animal environmentalists can only argue with the alternate energy environmentalists over endangered birds being chopped up in California windmills and we keep burning extremely valuable petrochemicals which would be much more useful in other endeavors while we wait for the unobtanium reactor that only puts out clean energy and bunny farts is developed.
If things keep going the way they have we will eventually reach the point where we don't have the resources to escape Earth and colonize the system where the resources for more energy than we'll ever need short of fantastic sci-fi megaengineering are waiting.
Nice technological advance, but in the end useful mostly for Casio calculators and whatnot.
...can we please forcibly re-educate all programmers who will not properly, logically, and clearly document their code? I think it more important that we help each other understand machine code which we created, than help machines understand human code. It's like being too lazy to write magazine articles properly and instead writing an AI word processor to rephrase everything for us which is ten times more work than just doing it right in the first place.
Adobe has in an odd way given us a ready-made excuse for missing deadlines: "I started up Premiere on Monday morning and by the time it was finally ready to use on Saturday night, I was off the clock. If you want that edited, just pay me time and a half and I'll start it next Monday and work the following Saturday night on it."
Never thought I'd see a company that was seemingly in competition with Microsoft to purposely bloat and slow down their own product to the point of uselessness.
...that by the time Duke Nukem Forever launches, this will be the level of computing power on every desktop? I can hardly wait for Windows mean-time-to-failure to be measured in femtoseconds.
...it was always explained to me by lawyers back when I first started writing programs that copyright and patent and trademark were only supposed to be civil constructs for the early protection of the originator, giving them a chance to make first fair use of their creations.
They were NOT supposed to be used to create monopolies on things like calling "dibs" on the front seat of the car in perpetuity when you were a kid. The onus was on the originator to take steps to protect their turf at the outset, and from then on. It was up to the originator to perform due diligence in enforcement of their transitory rights in the matter or lose them. These were NOT rights in the same sense as freedom of speech and so on, these were legal constructs based in laws and not presupposed natural holdings recognized in the US Constitution.
Now it's at the point that various associations are unilaterally taking it upon themselves to do the due diligence on behalf of the originators and in most cases with no legal agreement to perform that representation on their behalf. Only the parties directly affected have any standing and they must do their own work short of legal assignment of rights and/or responsibilities by binding contract.
You cannot merely imply that a third party has standing simply by virtue of the subject matter. IOW, you can't simply have the RIAA do your copyright enforcement for no better reason than they are a recording association and you made a recording. You have to enter into an agreement or they have no business doing your enforcement for you. That's the way it was explained to me when I wrote my first program and like an adult, I accepted my responsibilities.
Moving it from the civil side to the criminal side is the next level of lunacy. As most every lawyer I've ever spoken with agrees, we already have some several hundred times more laws than we can possibly enforce, causing us to reduce more and more criminal offenses to de minimus status, where they aren't worth the time of the authorities to go after.
If we continue on this path unabated, we will get to the point that the police will have to either put all this crap on the back burner and ignore most of it, or they will have to become a weird combination of the firemen of Fahrenheit 451 and the thought police of 1984. Is this really what we want?
The other consequence is growing civil unrest and here in the age of the global Internet, with cryptography and hacking knowledge being so freely availible, and the growing anti-corporate socialistic mindset combining more and more with basic human cynicism, we're looking at more and more subversive and reactionary fighting back.
Does it only seem like the future is going to end up like some techno-future anime? I am all for growing rabid peaceful noncompliance, fighting them to a standstill, until a peace treaty of sorts can be worked out if only in terms of a gentlemens' silent agreement. We need to come to an accomodation somewhere in between before it is too late.
...so many Palm users lacking real intelligence of their own?
Sorry, but I've dealt with too many dim bulbs with Palms in support to not trot that out. If someone turns a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP into a serious PDA-like tool, I know I'll have to deal with those tools as well. The users being tools I mean.
I'm also seriously dubious on any AI work. The multiple levels and combinations of complications that the human brain has are just so far and away beyond any attempt at modelling, the best result we're going to get now is an a-life experiment combined with a search engine. It will be some time before we really see any electronic anything that comes close to what could really be called thinking.
Of course, the same can be said of many living people today.
Sega Game Gear
So I need another console squashed thanks to advancing technology into a smaller space and now I should go hog wild over it.
One more word (if you can call it that): OQO
Wake me when someone ports BSD to it as has been done with the Sega Dreamcast.
Too many cooks.
I love how many people glom onto this corporate bashing stance of forcing "competition" without any idea of the technical wherewithal involved in making it happen and the degredation of service in the near, mid, and long term.
I've worked for DSL CLECs which had resellers self-branding what they sold for another partner ISP which actually supplied the IPs and had a layer two frame or atm circuit to us and we had one then onward to a partner CLEC which held the facilities where we didn't have a build and from them over ILEC copper to the customer using a customer owned CPE.
Can you say clusterf*ck? I knew you'd try.
Occam's Razor applies here.
On top of this, are we going to legally require the cable companies to give away connections for free? No? Then we can add the charge they give to the competing ISP on to whatever the other ISP charges the customer.
It gets better kids. Think about this... How big are the cable providers' fiber nets? Many of them either own a load of their own or they combine their sizeable assets with others. We're not talking a couple DS3s on a dial-up ISP here, we're talking major OC fiber lines handling hugantic ginormous (thank you Bruce Almighty) amounts of data quite well every day.
I'm supposed to want someone other than my cable company for what reason? So I can say that my last mile is cable but the undersized backhaul is on an overutilized interface on an underpowered Cisco router administered by some nineteen year old cert whore? So that I can say I'm doing business with TWO different entities instead of one? So that I can say my ISP is a mom and pop (or t-shirt wearing crew of Linux geeks) unlike those big corporate cable people (in polo shirts)?
If you want something done right, you use the right tools and methods, and you do it with intent to succeed. You don't host a mission critical commercial web server on a DSL line, you have it hosted professionally on a good pipe. You host a personal vanity server on DSL.
Similarly, my broadband is too important to sacrifice to some so-called competitor's vanity. Even today in DSL we still see ISPs taken seriously whose idea of a NOC is two teens occasionally taking time out from their endless Half-Life game to run pings in five or six windows and don't even know what Matt's Traceroute is, never mind even know how to check the atm traffic on their own router. Such have been contributory to the disasterous collapse of some CLECs. I know, I used to work with such yahoos and was there when they helped down us.
oh, it was Playstion Portable. Never mind.
Ah, screw it. I'm awaiting a sizeable build-up in titles of the sort I'd care to invest money in before purchasing either one.
Besides, I'm already saving for a Mac laptop which will act as its own joystick.
Your statement answers your wonder. It was precisely because it would have been a wasted exercise. What we declassified was a backhanded measure of what we reasonably believed the other side would have already compromised. Hence, why hide it? It was not as though we were up against an enemy who would cross the line so heavily and blatantly as Al Queda and the rest of the loony schmucks on the loose do today.
Now we have a ragtag enemy without the appropriate experience and intelligence infrastructure to penetrate really deep and who are in any case, showing themselves very good at abusing commonly availible information to attack wide open targets.
Why should be aid and abet the terrorists? We've already been shown graphically on 9/11/1 how they work.
That said, much of the missing info looks like it was capriciously chosen by public service drones more than it was seasoned intelligence and anti-terror people. But then, this IS government we're talking about. Did you really expect it to be intelligent and sensible from start to finish?
...can we please grow up and stop harkening to Nazi anything? If Slashdotters get any faster at Godwining themselves, they'll violate causality and do it before the fact.
This is nothing new under the sun. During the 80s the USSR sent physicists here to discuss information on nuclear fusion which was directly generated by the USSR. The USSR declassified it. They were giving the data on USSR government orders. The USA saw it differently and decided that since similar information generated by the USA was still classified, this information was also classified. Their reasoning was shallow at best regarding
Anyone who's done any time working for the government expects this inane nonsense anti-thinking. The concept that you should not bother closing the barn door once the horses have all left is firmly rejected by almost any government composed of humans never mind the USA. In their minds, closing the door will cause the horses to do a Casper and float right back through in the barn as if they never left.
This has nothing to do with Nazi, fascist, or any other tinfoil hat paranoia serving puerile fantasies of fighting some uphill struggle or whatever it is that drives people to think that way. I tell this to raving rightists as well as leftists. Grow up. They're too busy being incompetent to spend energies on hassling you personally. Any hassles they give you are merely SOP for everyone.
Illogical idiot non-thinking is what this reclassification is. Par for the course. Did you really think that prior to George W. Bush that the US government was some brain trust under Bill Clinton? Wow. Between the IRS during the 70s, USPS since inception, and the Hoover years of the FBI, I didn't think anyone could miss it. You want a better and more troublesome conspiracy? Ask why hot dogs and buns never seem to come in the same number at the same time at the store.