1 square mile of COASTAL ocean to harness enough energy to power only 22,000 homes? What kind of environmental price is this? And why is the BC gov't buying it? I'm really confused on this one -- especially since Blue Energy has been in operation here for years and has not been able to secure such a contract with a more powerful and environmentally responsible davis turbine setup to harness the ocean's currents which are very strong and predictable. As an added bonus, these systems can at the same time serve as a floating bridge. One such proposal has been made for the San Fransisco Bay. Check this stuff out!! (no I don't work for them, and don't have any financial interest there)
Let's just hope that north pole doesn't head into any nuclear weapons testing zones up in Siberia... we could be looking at some pretty freaky looking babies!
For those of you whining about tactile feedback, consider directing your energy into some ways this problem might be solved...
Beyond the obvious keyboard click, produce different tones for different keypresses, so you know if you're hitting two keys with one finger without even looking
Create a device that uses microelectronic pulses carefully directed at different nerves in your hand to simulate a keyboard -- probably best imbedded in a glove. Potentially, this could actually "feel" like a keyboard. For work in a germ or particle free environment, the device would have to be smooth enough to be worn under latex surgical gloves.
Political correctness taken to the next level!
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So now, regardless of the fact that I'm doing something completely benign, I have to also be careful about "offending" some poorly administered mail server? I won't even get into how stupid it is to set up a mail server with a local loop -- it's the principle of the matter that really pisses me off. Next I won't be allowed to surf the web with an adbuster because it confuses and even crashes some websites...eghads! What the hell is this world coming to?
Oh really, didn't realize slashdot went to court -- oh wait -- they made it into page 4 of the ruling!
Of interest is the explanation as to why source code is a valid means of communication and should be given first ammendment protection -- it's simply the most efficient means for programmers to communicate ideas about encryption. Even a much simpler concept, say a regular expression would take much longer to say in words than it would take to just write the damn regexp.
One thing that really annoyed me was DVDCSS's argument that there wasn't any evidence indicating that Bunner would suffer serious consequences if he'd have to stop his disclosure of DeCSS code vs what would happen if it were freely copied everywhere -- irreperable damage to DVDCSS. First, the damage has been done, although I suppose that there cuold be new dvd players coming out with that Xing master key without having paid licensing fees to DVDCSS. Second, and most importantly, being denied the right to free speech is some pretty darn serious stuff to have to live with. You can't put a dollar figure on that, and you shouldn't have to in order to justify the importance of your rights to some corporation.
With the proper amount of data storage, there would be no need to do "on site editing" and with proper data transmission capabilities, the collected pictures could be sent to home base in an endless stream to a massive data storage server where they could be archived forever.
My major issue with digital photography is that it can be copied without degradation. However, as long as photographers stenographically sign their pictures, it'll be easy to tell if the exact copy of that picture was used. On the other hand, an altered copy might prove more difficult to track down without tenacious visual inspection
That's a cut and paste from Usenet -- again!
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If 10 percent of all matter in the universe is made of "stardust" and the other 90 percent of the matter is made up of dark matter, we've got a pretty serious problem. There may yet be some other sort of matter out there that we don't know about yet, since the 10% of all regular matter occupies only a tiny fraction of the actual space available and dark matter is,by the accounts in the article, clumped together into pockets. So what about all the rest of that space? Is is occupied by purple matter?
Damn that's too cool. I mean, that's a lot of stuff.
But isn't paying for a _personal_ sparc server _and_ dsl line paying "twice the price for useless stuff"?
If you consider yourself joe average consumer, g3 would be expected to be a smashing success! You're not average though, and g3 flunks the big one -- but damn you've got some nifty toys! Just don't smack me over the head and tell me that you got all that _and_ a wife and family.
Actually, while the slashdot article was a little scant on details it stopped short of being misleading. The page from which that quote is pasted talks about the counter essay contest in response to the contest put on by the WIPO because the contest that the WIPO is putting on openly states that it will be suppressing and disregarding the entries that go against the grain of the common IP doctrine.
Why don't we hear about this stuff _before_ it's a done deal? I realize that the chances of it actually affecting any given person are slim to none but in the event that this type of patent actually gets leveraged in some way or other, I'd prefer to have a chance to voice my objection before the patent is actually granted.
Befunge's mailing list has [brainfuck] as a popular topic.. This feels like link osmosis. I got so engrossed in this stuff that I actually forgot where I found the link to it. Haven't felt like that since I first invented the internet.
I'm listening to ideas about a pci card with ram sticks on it that backs up onto a harddrive in the event of power failure. Why the hell don't we just buy a whole ton of ram, make a ramdisk that's sync'd with a harddrive partition, so all the writes are written to a disk buffer and the ram while all the reads only access the ram. If we crank up the size of the write buffer, we've got some pretty impressive performance!
We've burned up a lot of space junk in the upper reaches of our atmosphere, and it always strikes me as a big waste, albeit for the time being, perhaps an unavoidable one. But these little satellites, according to the article, don't have much transmission power. Perhaps that'd offer some insentive to get them to survive re-entry, bringing the data back home the old-fashioned way.
I just think that people who have been using linux enough to write that book should be able to tell the difference between cracking and hacking. Then again, perhaps it was the publisher that forced this title? I mean, the word "hacking" has been so popularized, it's without a doubt going to generate more sales.
The FSF issued a press release because on it's own, it doesn't really have any clout to get Company x,y, or z to change. It needed the press coverage and the discussion that it generated to have any amount of sway. It has everything to do with Politics and PR rather than power and substance.
All the same, I'm glad things seem to have worked out for the best, albeit at the unfortunate cost of airing dirty laundry in public.
The statement says they're cooperating with investigators. That statement is a lot broader than "complying with the subpeona". Given the fact that national and even international security is at stake, maybe we they're justified in cooperating and we're overreacting. If an invasion of privacy becomes par for the course, on the other hand, then we've lost too many freedoms.
I can't believe it... not _yet another_ debian based distribution! Look around! The only debian based distribution that has even the faintest hope of turning a profit is Progeny. Even then, the only reason is the quality of developers involved. Others who have tried and failed should serve as enough of a warning to newcomers. The only reason I can possibly see for this company to undertake this endeavor is to try to squeeze money out of underinformed venture capitalists to pay their own 6 figure salaries.
The FSF is sticking it's nose where it doesn't belong on this one. Let the copyright owners take issue with this. If the FSF wants to object to what's going on, let them object to RT-Linux directly and have that be the end of it.
As for the added jab at the end about making sure people say GNU/Linux, while I agree with it in principle, I think that this is not the forum for the FSF to be tooting it's own horn.
Although few have ever attempted such a feat, and it would require a very unamerican personality to pull this off, notebook hijaackings have been known to happen. In recent days, there has been widespread fear and panic that these activities are on the uprise, but there is no conclusive evidence to support those claims, and the Central Processing Utilitarians have issued press releases emphasizing that those who are responsible will be rebooted.
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1 square mile of COASTAL ocean to harness enough energy to power only 22,000 homes? What kind of environmental price is this? And why is the BC gov't buying it? I'm really confused on this one -- especially since Blue Energy has been in operation here for years and has not been able to secure such a contract with a more powerful and environmentally responsible davis turbine setup to harness the ocean's currents which are very strong and predictable. As an added bonus, these systems can at the same time serve as a floating bridge. One such proposal has been made for the San Fransisco Bay. Check this stuff out!! (no I don't work for them, and don't have any financial interest there)
Let's just hope that north pole doesn't head into any nuclear weapons testing zones up in Siberia... we could be looking at some pretty freaky looking babies!
Beyond the obvious keyboard click, produce different tones for different keypresses, so you know if you're hitting two keys with one finger without even looking
Create a device that uses microelectronic pulses carefully directed at different nerves in your hand to simulate a keyboard -- probably best imbedded in a glove. Potentially, this could actually "feel" like a keyboard. For work in a germ or particle free environment, the device would have to be smooth enough to be worn under latex surgical gloves.
So now, regardless of the fact that I'm doing something completely benign, I have to also be careful about "offending" some poorly administered mail server? I won't even get into how stupid it is to set up a mail server with a local loop -- it's the principle of the matter that really pisses me off. Next I won't be allowed to surf the web with an adbuster because it confuses and even crashes some websites...eghads! What the hell is this world coming to?
Get em as they stand up to claim damages due to copyright violations!
The last line of the ruling:
The order granting a preliminary injunction is reversed. Defendant Andrew Bunner shall recover his appellate costs.
Of course, that only covers his appellate costs, but it's at least something.
Oh really, didn't realize slashdot went to court -- oh wait -- they made it into page 4 of the ruling!
Of interest is the explanation as to why source code is a valid means of communication and should be given first ammendment protection -- it's simply the most efficient means for programmers to communicate ideas about encryption. Even a much simpler concept, say a regular expression would take much longer to say in words than it would take to just write the damn regexp.
One thing that really annoyed me was DVDCSS's argument that there wasn't any evidence indicating that Bunner would suffer serious consequences if he'd have to stop his disclosure of DeCSS code vs what would happen if it were freely copied everywhere -- irreperable damage to DVDCSS. First, the damage has been done, although I suppose that there cuold be new dvd players coming out with that Xing master key without having paid licensing fees to DVDCSS. Second, and most importantly, being denied the right to free speech is some pretty darn serious stuff to have to live with. You can't put a dollar figure on that, and you shouldn't have to in order to justify the importance of your rights to some corporation.
I'm glad the judge ruled in "our favor".
With the proper amount of data storage, there would be no need to do "on site editing" and with proper data transmission capabilities, the collected pictures could be sent to home base in an endless stream to a massive data storage server where they could be archived forever.
My major issue with digital photography is that it can be copied without degradation. However, as long as photographers stenographically sign their pictures, it'll be easy to tell if the exact copy of that picture was used. On the other hand, an altered copy might prove more difficult to track down without tenacious visual inspection
Check it at google.com .
If 10 percent of all matter in the universe is made of "stardust" and the other 90 percent of the matter is made up of dark matter, we've got a pretty serious problem. There may yet be some other sort of matter out there that we don't know about yet, since the 10% of all regular matter occupies only a tiny fraction of the actual space available and dark matter is ,by the accounts in the article, clumped together into pockets. So what about all the rest of that space? Is is occupied by purple matter?
It's next to the timestamp.
Damn that's too cool. I mean, that's a lot of stuff.
But isn't paying for a _personal_ sparc server _and_ dsl line paying "twice the price for useless stuff"?
If you consider yourself joe average consumer, g3 would be expected to be a smashing success! You're not average though, and g3 flunks the big one -- but damn you've got some nifty toys! Just don't smack me over the head and tell me that you got all that _and_ a wife and family.
I didn't know a lot of that stuff, and I'll be damned if I still don't. Suffice it to say I won't be overclocking my cpu.
Actually, while the slashdot article was a little scant on details it stopped short of being misleading. The page from which that quote is pasted talks about the counter essay contest in response to the contest put on by the WIPO because the contest that the WIPO is putting on openly states that it will be suppressing and disregarding the entries that go against the grain of the common IP doctrine.
Why don't we hear about this stuff _before_ it's a done deal? I realize that the chances of it actually affecting any given person are slim to none but in the event that this type of patent actually gets leveraged in some way or other, I'd prefer to have a chance to voice my objection before the patent is actually granted.
Befunge's mailing list has [brainfuck] as a popular topic.. This feels like link osmosis. I got so engrossed in this stuff that I actually forgot where I found the link to it. Haven't felt like that since I first invented the internet.
I'm listening to ideas about a pci card with ram sticks on it that backs up onto a harddrive in the event of power failure. Why the hell don't we just buy a whole ton of ram, make a ramdisk that's sync'd with a harddrive partition, so all the writes are written to a disk buffer and the ram while all the reads only access the ram. If we crank up the size of the write buffer, we've got some pretty impressive performance!
We've burned up a lot of space junk in the upper reaches of our atmosphere, and it always strikes me as a big waste, albeit for the time being, perhaps an unavoidable one. But these little satellites, according to the article, don't have much transmission power. Perhaps that'd offer some insentive to get them to survive re-entry, bringing the data back home the old-fashioned way.
The OS is not under that license.
I just think that people who have been using linux enough to write that book should be able to tell the difference between cracking and hacking. Then again, perhaps it was the publisher that forced this title? I mean, the word "hacking" has been so popularized, it's without a doubt going to generate more sales.
All the same, I'm glad things seem to have worked out for the best, albeit at the unfortunate cost of airing dirty laundry in public.
The statement says they're cooperating with investigators. That statement is a lot broader than "complying with the subpeona". Given the fact that national and even international security is at stake, maybe we they're justified in cooperating and we're overreacting. If an invasion of privacy becomes par for the course, on the other hand, then we've lost too many freedoms.
I can't believe it... not _yet another_ debian based distribution! Look around! The only debian based distribution that has even the faintest hope of turning a profit is Progeny. Even then, the only reason is the quality of developers involved. Others who have tried and failed should serve as enough of a warning to newcomers. The only reason I can possibly see for this company to undertake this endeavor is to try to squeeze money out of underinformed venture capitalists to pay their own 6 figure salaries.
As for the added jab at the end about making sure people say GNU/Linux, while I agree with it in principle, I think that this is not the forum for the FSF to be tooting it's own horn.
Although few have ever attempted such a feat, and it would require a very unamerican personality to pull this off, notebook hijaackings have been known to happen. In recent days, there has been widespread fear and panic that these activities are on the uprise, but there is no conclusive evidence to support those claims, and the Central Processing Utilitarians have issued press releases emphasizing that those who are responsible will be rebooted.