Create a new version of Usenet that is insanely difficult to use, such that only hack0rz like us would actually want to take the time to do so. That will stop spam!
Every ethernet card EVER MADE has a unique 48-bit ID. This ID is attached to *every* Ethernet packet that the card sends, including ones received by web sites. If someone really wants to track you, it doesn't matter whether you have an Intel P3 processor, an AMD, or IBM's new maybe-it's-Big-Brother-and-maybe-it's-not-but-peop le-naturally-freak-at-anything-which-sma cks-of-Big-Brother-so-who-cares chip. Sheesh, people, use your brains. The Intel thing was a nonissue to begin with, let alone this IBM stuff. Every piece of hardware of any kind you've ever owned has a unique serial number! Toasters! Weed whackers! Barbecues! Cars! Televisions! Hard drives! Get over it.
Geez, two hours to scan 500 channels? That's, like, 15 seconds per channel... you've seriously got to learn how to surf, buddy. Why, back in my day, I could surf 100 channels per minute! With my eyes closed! While I was on fire! With no remote! Uphill in the snow both ways!
Get a clue -- every network card ever made has a unique serial number. So does every car, television, mouse, lawnmower, or any other piece of electronic/hardware equipment ever made.
If Intel was going to deliberately make it evil (read: insecure, compromised, etc.), someone would find out, and the hullabaloo would make the Pentium bug look like nothing.
I think it shows that they have a sense of humor, which may be a key element in their plan -- not only having some wonderful new technology, but having the proper corporate image ("Hey, we're hip, daddy-o") to get hackers and geeks like us to like them.
Yeah... you'd think they'd have cited, say, AMD, which actually had the potential to be a threat at that point... Transmeta was only a 3-year vaporware company at that point, not a 4-year one.
Like what? It's all well and good to make scary pronouncements about how humans should not dare tamper with mother nature, but you never hear any really good reasons why not...
This article, and all the others in recent [months|years], are indicating a definite trend toward the day when we can arbitrarily and indefinitely prolong the life of the human brain. Couple this with cloning research and the eventual evolution of nanotechnology (specifically, tiny little machines that we can use to repair damage in a fraction of the time that our body can naturally), and within fifty, maybe sixty years, science will have achieved the ability to make a person effectively immortal -- even if they are already advanced in years. Painless restructuring of an elderly body into a younger, stronger form, and eternal neurons, will allow any human (short of violent trauma or nuclear explosions) to live for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years (if you're lucky). Sign me up.:)
Maybe I'm missing something but since we don't know where cosmic rays come from (according to the article), and since the earth's mass is only blocking half of the spatial sphere around the Antares, isn't there going to be some kind of problem with cosmic rays coming from the half of the spatial sphere around the Antares that isn't blocked by earth's bulk?
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--- Dirtside
Every ethernet card EVER MADE has a unique 48-bit ID. This ID is attached to *every* Ethernet packet that the card sends, including ones received by web sites. If someone really wants to track you, it doesn't matter whether you have an Intel P3 processor, an AMD, or IBM's new maybe-it's-Big-Brother-and-maybe-it's-not-but-peop le-naturally-freak-at-anything-which-sma cks-of-Big-Brother-so-who-cares chip. Sheesh, people, use your brains. The Intel thing was a nonissue to begin with, let alone this IBM stuff. Every piece of hardware of any kind you've ever owned has a unique serial number! Toasters! Weed whackers! Barbecues! Cars! Televisions! Hard drives! Get over it.
--- I'm goin' Dirtside, Ma!
Geez, two hours to scan 500 channels? That's, like, 15 seconds per channel... you've seriously got to learn how to surf, buddy. Why, back in my day, I could surf 100 channels per minute! With my eyes closed! While I was on fire! With no remote! Uphill in the snow both ways!
--- I'm goin' Dirtside, Ma!
If Intel was going to deliberately make it evil (read: insecure, compromised, etc.), someone would find out, and the hullabaloo would make the Pentium bug look like nothing.
I think it shows that they have a sense of humor, which may be a key element in their plan -- not only having some wonderful new technology, but having the proper corporate image ("Hey, we're hip, daddy-o") to get hackers and geeks like us to like them.
Yeah... you'd think they'd have cited, say, AMD, which actually had the potential to be a threat at that point... Transmeta was only a 3-year vaporware company at that point, not a 4-year one.
Like what? It's all well and good to make scary pronouncements about how humans should not dare tamper with mother nature, but you never hear any really good reasons why not...
This article, and all the others in recent [months|years], are indicating a definite trend toward the day when we can arbitrarily and indefinitely prolong the life of the human brain. Couple this with cloning research and the eventual evolution of nanotechnology (specifically, tiny little machines that we can use to repair damage in a fraction of the time that our body can naturally), and within fifty, maybe sixty years, science will have achieved the ability to make a person effectively immortal -- even if they are already advanced in years. Painless restructuring of an elderly body into a younger, stronger form, and eternal neurons, will allow any human (short of violent trauma or nuclear explosions) to live for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years (if you're lucky). Sign me up. :)
Maybe I'm missing something but since we don't know where cosmic rays come from (according to the article), and since the earth's mass is only blocking half of the spatial sphere around the Antares, isn't there going to be some kind of problem with cosmic rays coming from the half of the spatial sphere around the Antares that isn't blocked by earth's bulk?