Actually his show is more newsy than most 6:00 broadcasts in the States. You get World news, interesting events, and facts. And I'm not talking only the Wikipedia "facts" that he strews about, but his journalism exceeds most legitimate non-comdey newscasters. And he's involving the blogsophere and "netizens" in his broadcasts too, which is a clever move.
He could have a bazillion friends on a social networking site, and put the horde to good use. Perhaps by telling them to all vote independent next elections, because that's what the Bears wouldn't want.
I like how you didn't get an answer to this question. It always seems to send the babybottle stealers running for the hills in denial. Or they'll say, "stop giving the terrorists ideas!"
It could be argued that airlines are facing a large lawsuit for allowing dangerous water bottles on planes for years after 9/11. All this time we were in grave danger from someone's Dysani.
Here's a link to the earlier incident, but it's from a bad source. I remember seeing it on real news sites though.
"A key question, though, is whether this kind of detection system can realistically block terrorists from bringing seemingly innocuous liquids past security and combining them later to deadly effect."
The answer to that is of course, no. You can't design an idiot proof system because they keep coming up with better idiots. No only that, I believe some hacker guy called Kevin hypothesized that you can't firewall a system to be 100% secure, because social engineering is the exploit to overcome any hole in a system.
I know this isn't a political discussion about the matter of liquid bomb sniffers for airports, but we should be crying bloody murder that the government is letting the terrorists win this time without them firing a shot. Mothers tasting their baby formula again? I recall an airport employee doing that years ago to a mother with breatmilk in a bottle, and she sued didn't she?
I know everyone I meet is happy about throwing away their DVD player in favour of a new format, and updating their DVD collection to BluRay or whatever other HDDVD format is next. People will be thrilled to find out their monitor no longer works, and their TV doesn't get any channels after Vista implements PVP DRM, and the FCC finally turns off analog TV in favour of digital. The progress potential is staggering, but not so staggering as the profits to be made in the manufacturing and entertainment industries.
Never mind there will be hundreds of millions of useless monitors, TVs, DVD players and the like to throw into the landfills. I'm sure we can make room, and drink around the lead poisoned ground water.
How could it be ready yet? They haven't perfected the DRM obviously, and you can't release an operating system that might allow someone to burn CDs with impunity, or use an evil analog video input device.
The benefits are many. There would be fewer computers going to the landfill, and sreamlining could still take place, where instead of speed increases, people could benefit from heat decreases. Less heat means parts will last longer, use less electricity, and cooling systems are simplified and quieted. I wish I could pick the ear of a billionaire and make this a reality.
You could potentially test this bag theory by getting a friend to wave a RFID keyfob in a bag, in front of their Fob-door opener. If it opens, I'd discount your theory. If it doesn't, I'd keep testing.
The Slashdot front page is filled with crimes holding up progress in the field of computing.
- Vista tries to pretty up the PC case to shove DRM down our throats, by requiring the purchase of new DRM ready hardware like PVP screens.
- Rambus conspired to muddy the RAM providing market, so motherboards are made obsolete sooner rather than later, since we have to settle on one RAM standard to upgrade. If we don't have it, then we have to change the whole motherboard and probably CPU too. If it's in a mass produced computer, the consumer has to pitch the computer to upgrade.
- Apple's DRM found to be hindering customer use of media.
I wish we'd stop letting companies plan to build in failure mechanisms in their product. I'd pay 20% more for a computer that I knew would have new parts available in 5 years when it starts to legitimately wear out. That extra money could go to the collection of old computers and reusing or recylcing the materials in them in an ecologically sound way.
"Yawn, more uninformed, vague railing agains the big, bad DRM wolf.... Vista just makes it easier for the content provider and easier for the end-user since they don't have to deal with 10 different kinds of DRM."
You just contradicted yourself. It does make DRM easier to implement, and thus is a subtle attempt to put more DRM software and hardware into our homes for a big lockout coming from Sony or whoever wants to cripple access to their product.
You can read this article for a few reasons why, but essentially it means poorer quality hardware that is designed to break, and be unrepairable, while filling our landfills with toxic lead and other garbage from devices that should work for ten years or more.
We need to start charging companies that build devices and tools with no way to recycle or reuse them. Thanks to the FCC and digital TV, TV sets are about to fill up your city landfill and make your taxes go up. That's one reason why you should care.
They can dress Vista computers up however they want, it won't change the fact that Vista is mostly an attempt to push DRM like PVP down our throats just a little bit more so that they can force us to buy new hardware before the old hardware is obsolete. Forced obsolecence is a serious concern, and "prettying up" PCs is about as important as makeup on a dog.
The PVP is going to be as destructive as the HDTV initiative - it will render millions of computer monitors obsolete when there is nothing improved in the newer models. It's a shame we can't get governments to make DRM illegal before 2007.
I guess Netcraft has confirmed then, that PayPal is dying.
Next expect scammers to use Skype to phone you for your password, PayPal to empty your bank account, and eBay to sell the goods they steal from you. eBay is offering crooks one stop shopping to rip you off.
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I'd like to say that I welcome my IBM typo bearing overlords.
Out of respect for the other 1,299,999,999 Slashdotters to make jokes about a space station, I will refrain from doing so.
"By breeding mice lacking the TREK-1 gene, which is involved in serotonin transmission"
I knew that Star Trek was at the center of depression. How could one not be after they cancelled Enterprise and didn't make a new series after it?
Actually his show is more newsy than most 6:00 broadcasts in the States. You get World news, interesting events, and facts. And I'm not talking only the Wikipedia "facts" that he strews about, but his journalism exceeds most legitimate non-comdey newscasters. And he's involving the blogsophere and "netizens" in his broadcasts too, which is a clever move.
He could have a bazillion friends on a social networking site, and put the horde to good use. Perhaps by telling them to all vote independent next elections, because that's what the Bears wouldn't want.
I think they'll make a comeback, now that Colbert is pimping BlackFriendster on his nightly comedy show.
I like how you didn't get an answer to this question. It always seems to send the babybottle stealers running for the hills in denial. Or they'll say, "stop giving the terrorists ideas!"
Is this like a Slashdot poll where we whine about missing options?
Where does Cowboy Neal fit into the 7?
Are politicians their own category, or are they basketcases, or Pornhounds?
It could be argued that airlines are facing a large lawsuit for allowing dangerous water bottles on planes for years after 9/11. All this time we were in grave danger from someone's Dysani.
Here's a link to the earlier incident, but it's from a bad source. I remember seeing it on real news sites though.
All you have to do is puke and you've got a dangerous HCl acid that will eat the face of a pilot right off!
This is all a red herring anyway.
"A key question, though, is whether this kind of detection system can realistically block terrorists from bringing seemingly innocuous liquids past security and combining them later to deadly effect."
The answer to that is of course, no. You can't design an idiot proof system because they keep coming up with better idiots. No only that, I believe some hacker guy called Kevin hypothesized that you can't firewall a system to be 100% secure, because social engineering is the exploit to overcome any hole in a system.
I know this isn't a political discussion about the matter of liquid bomb sniffers for airports, but we should be crying bloody murder that the government is letting the terrorists win this time without them firing a shot. Mothers tasting their baby formula again? I recall an airport employee doing that years ago to a mother with breatmilk in a bottle, and she sued didn't she?
I know everyone I meet is happy about throwing away their DVD player in favour of a new format, and updating their DVD collection to BluRay or whatever other HDDVD format is next. People will be thrilled to find out their monitor no longer works, and their TV doesn't get any channels after Vista implements PVP DRM, and the FCC finally turns off analog TV in favour of digital. The progress potential is staggering, but not so staggering as the profits to be made in the manufacturing and entertainment industries.
Never mind there will be hundreds of millions of useless monitors, TVs, DVD players and the like to throw into the landfills. I'm sure we can make room, and drink around the lead poisoned ground water.
The demand is there, but everything the public sees on the weekly tech segment on their TV is crippled by DRM.
How could it be ready yet? They haven't perfected the DRM obviously, and you can't release an operating system that might allow someone to burn CDs with impunity, or use an evil analog video input device.
The benefits are many. There would be fewer computers going to the landfill, and sreamlining could still take place, where instead of speed increases, people could benefit from heat decreases. Less heat means parts will last longer, use less electricity, and cooling systems are simplified and quieted. I wish I could pick the ear of a billionaire and make this a reality.
So does this mean the Goatse guy was just trying to find a way to fix his CD scratches?
-Posting anonymously for obvious reasons, too.
You could potentially test this bag theory by getting a friend to wave a RFID keyfob in a bag, in front of their Fob-door opener. If it opens, I'd discount your theory. If it doesn't, I'd keep testing.
The Foil'ID Again is technically still available.
The Slashdot front page is filled with crimes holding up progress in the field of computing.
- Vista tries to pretty up the PC case to shove DRM down our throats, by requiring the purchase of new DRM ready hardware like PVP screens.
- Rambus conspired to muddy the RAM providing market, so motherboards are made obsolete sooner rather than later, since we have to settle on one RAM standard to upgrade. If we don't have it, then we have to change the whole motherboard and probably CPU too. If it's in a mass produced computer, the consumer has to pitch the computer to upgrade.
- Apple's DRM found to be hindering customer use of media.
I wish we'd stop letting companies plan to build in failure mechanisms in their product. I'd pay 20% more for a computer that I knew would have new parts available in 5 years when it starts to legitimately wear out. That extra money could go to the collection of old computers and reusing or recylcing the materials in them in an ecologically sound way.
"Yawn, more uninformed, vague railing agains the big, bad DRM wolf. ... Vista just makes it easier for the content provider and easier for the end-user since they don't have to deal with 10 different kinds of DRM."
You just contradicted yourself. It does make DRM easier to implement, and thus is a subtle attempt to put more DRM software and hardware into our homes for a big lockout coming from Sony or whoever wants to cripple access to their product.
I do mind, and so should you.
You can read this article for a few reasons why, but essentially it means poorer quality hardware that is designed to break, and be unrepairable, while filling our landfills with toxic lead and other garbage from devices that should work for ten years or more.
We need to start charging companies that build devices and tools with no way to recycle or reuse them. Thanks to the FCC and digital TV, TV sets are about to fill up your city landfill and make your taxes go up. That's one reason why you should care.
They can dress Vista computers up however they want, it won't change the fact that Vista is mostly an attempt to push DRM like PVP down our throats just a little bit more so that they can force us to buy new hardware before the old hardware is obsolete. Forced obsolecence is a serious concern, and "prettying up" PCs is about as important as makeup on a dog.
I don't think the "Gansus yumenensis and the egg" paradox is likely to catch on.
In Communist China the egg hatches Gansus yumenensis?
I bet this law won't stand up to first ammendment rights.
Ooops, good thing I'm not in Washington.
According to demand? If this car is going to be in a major Hollywood movie, do you really think demand to see it will go DOWN?
I think Dialup users will be completely screwed when trying to use Vista. Imagine the computer trying to dial every time you try to play a media file?
"June 1, 2007, or later:
* A Green Driver Quality Rating for all drivers.
* "Protected Video Path" (PVP) support, including HDCP.
"
The PVP is going to be as destructive as the HDTV initiative - it will render millions of computer monitors obsolete when there is nothing improved in the newer models. It's a shame we can't get governments to make DRM illegal before 2007.
I guess Netcraft has confirmed then, that PayPal is dying.
Next expect scammers to use Skype to phone you for your password, PayPal to empty your bank account, and eBay to sell the goods they steal from you. eBay is offering crooks one stop shopping to rip you off.