P.S. I don't care about DMCA, if you erase the comments, you somehow restrict access to the "past" as it really happened (it has a certain "revisionistic" sound to it, dont't you think). This makes me mad beyond words... if \. folds in to this one, what will be next? What law will some other powerfull lobby get voted? (and let's get real that's how these things work!) This must be THE line, the one we shouldn't fall behind. Goddammit, if you break a law, and that law is bad, are you evil 'cause you broke it? (read this question carefully! I don't believe in "the law is the law". If a law was voted to gas all jews, would you be evil if you broke that law?) The law is there in order to protect the people, not to help some megalomaniac in control of a giant firm get it his way.
>Actually, no it's not your "right." >U.S. law only allows you to make your own copies of your own albums for your own personal use and archival purposes. It is not your right to redistribute those copies to other people or >take someone else's copies just because you also own an original. The law's pretty specific in that respect.
under U.S. law... maybe, but I don't see anyone suing me over this in Belgium. Please remember that US-law is not universal, global law (even if you'd want it to be so ). And if they do sue, well, heck I don't give a damn... A few of my lawyer friends are more then willing to help me out for free (they owe me one becaused I helped them out once), and I doubt they have a very strong case against me. Go prove I didn't download those MP3 by mistake (I of course immediatly deleted them), and those MP3's that are on my hard-disk weren't ripped by me.
I'm sure your laws are pretty specific... and I don't care. There I said it. Now moderate me down, and flame me all you like...
na na na na nah
J.
PS: We can't buy guns easily over here ("Europeans have no freedom"), but we can walk down the street drinking a can of beer... Now tell me what's more important to you [don't respond in this thread please, just mail me]
but how do they know that the guys trading the MP3's don't actually own the CD with the tracks on it?
I have a cable connection here, and I prefer downloading the MP3's I wanna play on my computer, iso ripping them myself. So what, that's my right... sue me.
Extra problem:
If I name my "FreeSong" by "Free Cool band" Unforgiven_Metallica.mp3. How will they know?
What if I do it the other way round?
I hope they have a lot of bandwith to bit-match every file that goes through napster.
Whilst you are right when you say that more than tin-foil is required to block radiation (working on the design Radiation Tolerant chip right now so I know what I'm talking about), it WILL stop or at least dramatically reduce magnetic interference.
The amount of energy stored in a battery is not expressed in Volts. The current(A) * the voltage(V) * the time the battery kan keep it up(s) = Energy(J)
J.
P.S. Its only in "The Matrix" that you can compare measure the energy in voltages. (What do you mean "a human produces more energy than a 120V battery")
Frequency hopping is a technique by which you move the entire information stream from one frequency to another, whilst spread-spectrum techniques spread (smear out) your signal over multiple frequencies.
And yes, I'm sure of this, 'cause I'm workin' on a very high precision GPS-chip. And as you all know GPS uses frequency spreading...
J.
P.S. both techniques are used for the same purpose dough:
- to prevent jamming - and eavesdropping - as a MAC(Medium Acces Control)-technique
Open source documentation has always been a bit of an outsider within the open-source movement. It's also quite rare to see women in charge of an open source project.
Do you think these two facts are somehow related?
How do you think a larger part of the female population could be involved in open-source projects?
If the data travels through your monitor-cable encrypted, then all an evesdropper has to do (in stead of just picking up the signals), is picking up the signal, and using a reverse engineered monitor for decrypting it. Hell he could just pull the decryption-chip out of a computer he bought.
... if you would you would understand, that it's not a real black that will be created but something that will have similar behaviour...
Jeez,...
its those scientist you seem to distrust so much that've told you all they suppose about black holes. They're the ones who make back of the envelope estimates. Yet you think you (clearly someone who gets all his knowledge from SF-comic books or movies) understand the dangers better than they do,...
oh puh-lease,
If you know nothing, understand nothing and have no clue whatsoever what you are talking about just shut up will you...
... if you would you would understand, that it's not a real black that will be created but something that will have similar behaviour... Jeez,... its those scientist you seem to distrust so much that've told you all they suppose about black holes. They're the ones who make back of the envelope estimates. Yet you think you (clearly someone who gets all his knowledge from SF-comic books or movies) understand the dangers better than they do,... oh puh-lease, If you know nothing, understand nothing and have no clue whatsoever what you are talking about just shut up will you... (Oh yeah, real (wo)men post their name) J.
Phantasmagoria is THE game that springs to mind when I try to explain how an interactive movie shouldn't be done.
I mean c'mon this was far to easy (even for my 11 year old sister). Most people finish it the first time they play I (if they have an afternoon to spend)
Some games featured movies wich really helped set an atmosphere (Wing Commander or Gabriel Knight 2 f.i.) but most "interactive" movies are just a pile of crap pressed on a CD.
Well it does help explain some concepts I guess...
(It sure helped explain "MAGE: THE ASCENSION" to a couple of newbie players)
However when I talk to a friend of mine (who has an university degree in Philosophy) he says the most the most important aspect of philosophy is imagination and carefull pondering.
If you need a movie to understand some concepts, it might be a good idea NOT to study philosophy...
(of course the article says the film is used as introduction material which is definetlt a good idea. I wished more teachers would be so open-minded)
C'mon anyone who has a bit of a scientific mind knows this article is a big load of crap.
Just try to imagine it. You are Bart the Bacteria, you live on Mars. One day while you're walkin' around, a big meteor hits (It had to be quite a big one, or a very fast one... it was to launch pieces of debris into space.) It hits next to where you're standing, but you're lucky you can deal with the heat and the impact, and while you cling hard to the rock on wich you stand you are hurled into space.
Now in space it gets real tough. Luckily you need no air and radiation can't hurt you... Clinging to the rock you notice you are lucky, you're apparently heading toward that little blue planet over there.
When entering earths atmosphere you thank father nature (remember you're from Mars, mother nature is from earth) that he's blessed you with this heat shield that saved you life once and is now saving it again. You als thank him that not only you are equiped to survive in near vacuum, but you can also survive the highly corrosive oxygen (you, also being known as smart Bart, know that this is not so common as one might think, because most life forms need "oxygen (XOR) nooxygen" in order to survive. ) that surrounds your new home planet.
Now the landing was easy... You're a tough guy and the G-forces from the impact mean nothing to you. (if you land on solid ground) If you were to land in water your rusty and trusty heat-shield is going to protect you from the hot steam...
"Well", you think, "here I am, the toughest living being ever. I will do good for this planet..."
If anyone interested how this story ends, just let me know... i'll gladly tell you the end.
(Just to get you pondering it envolves some stupid "scientific reporters" and some people having a brain the size of a dried grape...)
Still can't believe any sane person can believe this crap...
...but I wouldn't care to have a chip implanted at birth. If for instance something were to happen to you, rescue-teams would find you more easily.
Maybe they even could integrate some info on the chip, like your ID, some basic medical info (think how usefull it would be if people wouldn't have to check your bloodtype after an accident before they can start transfusing you some blood, or to know what you are allergic for, if you already had a shot against tetanus etc...), your drivers-license or even your credit-card.
Think about the telecom possibilities. You could dial someone personal number, and any phone close to him would just ring, even if he's sitting in someone elses office for the moment... (I helped with the implementation of this kind of system, but with infrared badges, in a hospital)
BUT, of course, you should be able to disable the chip if you wich to...
Everytime the old US vs. Europe thing shows up the "you had a genocide"-thing rears it ugly head.
About 9 million jews got killed during WWII, but how many native americans are there left (When the first colonists arrived there were roughly some 20 million of them) The Monroe-clause any-one?
You wanna count the numbers of wars? Yeah OK, so you guys go make war elsewhere (Vietnam, Korea,...) or secretely help dictators. But of course all the wars you fight are for "the greater good"...
What about crime? The USA have the highest number of prisoners (in relative and absolute numbers) of the whole planet.
It's always reassuring for us to hear on CNN that, when one of your "hot-shot" pilots goes breaking some rules and kills 20 civilians (that elevator thing in italy remeber), "luckily no american citizens got hurt".
And no we are not technologically retarded, and we don't all wanna live in "the land of the free" (In Europe it's not illegal to drink a beer while walking on the street, in most countries. Now that's freedom).
When I read this I admit I slightly overreact, but you've been pushin' this american chauvinism thing to far lately...
Slashdot Mirror
Man, here's five bucks,
go learn how to turn off
a topic
Jeez...
but why doesn't this story appear on the main page?
J.
someone in Redmond is reading Slashdot.
J.
P.S. I don't care about DMCA, if you erase
the comments, you somehow restrict access to
the "past" as it really happened (it has a certain
"revisionistic" sound to it, dont't you think).
This makes me mad beyond words...
if \. folds in to this one, what will be next?
What law will some other powerfull lobby get
voted? (and let's get real that's how these things
work!)
This must be THE line, the one we shouldn't fall
behind. Goddammit, if you break a law, and that
law is bad, are you evil 'cause you broke it?
(read this question carefully! I don't believe
in "the law is the law". If a law was voted to
gas all jews, would you be evil if you broke that
law?) The law is there in order to protect the
people, not to help some megalomaniac in control
of a giant firm get it his way.
P.P.S. F*CK THE M$-DRONE READING THIS!
>Actually, no it's not your "right."
>U.S. law only allows you to make your own copies of your own albums for your own personal use and archival purposes. It is not your right to redistribute those copies to other people or
>take someone else's copies just because you also own an original. The law's pretty specific in that respect.
under U.S. law... maybe, but I don't see anyone suing me over this in Belgium.
Please remember that US-law is not universal, global law (even if you'd want
it to be so ). And if they do sue, well, heck I don't give a damn...
A few of my lawyer friends are more then willing to help me out for free
(they owe me one becaused I helped them out once), and I doubt they have
a very strong case against me. Go prove I didn't download those MP3 by
mistake (I of course immediatly deleted them), and those MP3's that are on my
hard-disk weren't ripped by me.
I'm sure your laws are pretty specific... and I don't care. There I said it.
Now moderate me down, and flame me all you like...
na na na na nah
J.
PS: We can't buy guns easily over here ("Europeans have no freedom"),
but we can walk down the street drinking a can of beer...
Now tell me what's more important to you
[don't respond in this thread please, just mail me]
Yeah sure,
but how do they know that the guys trading the
MP3's don't actually own the CD with the tracks
on it?
I have a cable connection here, and I prefer
downloading the MP3's I wanna play on my
computer, iso ripping them myself. So what,
that's my right... sue me.
Extra problem:
If I name my "FreeSong" by "Free Cool band"
Unforgiven_Metallica.mp3. How will they know?
What if I do it the other way round?
I hope they have a lot of bandwith to bit-match
every file that goes through napster.
Fuck Metallica
Fuck them big time
J.
Not quite entirely true.
Whilst you are right when you say
that more than tin-foil is required
to block radiation (working on the
design Radiation Tolerant chip right
now so I know what I'm talking about),
it WILL stop or at least dramatically
reduce magnetic interference.
You know, Faraday's cage...
J.
The amount of energy stored in
a battery is not expressed in Volts.
The current(A) * the voltage(V) *
the time the battery kan keep it up(s) =
Energy(J)
J.
P.S. Its only in "The Matrix" that you
can compare measure the energy in voltages.
(What do you mean "a human produces more energy
than a 120V battery")
I agree with you,
but you must admit that for a band,
that is "anti-establishment" in most
of its song-text, this does tend
to look a lot like hypocrisy.
J.
Sorry, but that is not true.
Frequency hopping is a technique by which you
move the entire information stream from one
frequency to another, whilst spread-spectrum
techniques spread (smear out) your signal over
multiple frequencies.
And yes, I'm sure of this, 'cause I'm workin' on
a very high precision GPS-chip. And as you all
know GPS uses frequency spreading...
J.
P.S. both techniques are used for the same purpose
dough:
- to prevent jamming
- and eavesdropping
- as a MAC(Medium Acces Control)-technique
the situation is identical in Belgium.
J.
... and don't even get me started on the whole
"resize == reload"-thing.
J.
Open source documentation has always been
a bit of an outsider within the open-source
movement. It's also quite rare to see women
in charge of an open source project.
Do you think these two facts are somehow related?
How do you think a larger part of the female
population could be involved in open-source
projects?
J.
They have to put the algae in very specific
conditions in order to make them produce
H2. (no sulfur etc)
There is no danger of these algae escaping
(in fact they're very common and can be found
in water al over the planet)
J.
If the data travels through your monitor-cable
encrypted, then all an evesdropper has to do
(in stead of just picking up the signals), is
picking up the signal, and using a reverse
engineered monitor for decrypting it. Hell he
could just pull the decryption-chip out of a
computer he bought.
it stinks,
J.
... if you would you would understand,
that it's not a real black that will be
created but something that will have
similar behaviour...
Jeez,...
its those scientist you seem to distrust
so much that've told you all they suppose
about black holes. They're the ones who
make back of the envelope estimates. Yet
you think you (clearly someone who gets all
his knowledge from SF-comic books or movies)
understand the dangers better than they do,...
oh puh-lease,
If you know nothing, understand nothing
and have no clue whatsoever what you are
talking about just shut up will you...
(Oh yeah, real (wo)men post their name)
J.
P.S. sorry messed up lay-out last time
... if you would you would understand, that it's not a real black that will be created but something that will have similar behaviour... Jeez,... its those scientist you seem to distrust so much that've told you all they suppose about black holes. They're the ones who make back of the envelope estimates. Yet you think you (clearly someone who gets all his knowledge from SF-comic books or movies) understand the dangers better than they do,... oh puh-lease, If you know nothing, understand nothing and have no clue whatsoever what you are talking about just shut up will you... (Oh yeah, real (wo)men post their name) J.
> plus the full size keyboard is the fastest
> method of input available without speech
> recognition.
I can type a lot faster than I can talk really.
(every good 10 finger typist can do that as a
matter of fact.)
Speech recognition != speed improvement
I mostly agree with the rest of your comment...
J.
Phantasmagoria is THE game that springs to mind
when I try to explain how an interactive movie
shouldn't be done.
I mean c'mon this was far to easy (even for my
11 year old sister). Most people finish it the
first time they play I (if they have an afternoon
to spend)
Some games featured movies wich really helped set
an atmosphere (Wing Commander or Gabriel Knight 2
f.i.) but most "interactive" movies are just a
pile of crap pressed on a CD.
Of course
"de coloris et de gustibus non disputandum est"
J.
Well it does help explain some concepts I guess...
(It sure helped explain "MAGE: THE ASCENSION" to
a couple of newbie players)
However when I talk to a friend of mine (who
has an university degree in Philosophy) he says
the most the most important aspect of philosophy
is imagination and carefull pondering.
If you need a movie to understand some concepts,
it might be a good idea NOT to study philosophy...
(of course the article says the film is used
as introduction material which is definetlt
a good idea. I wished more teachers would be
so open-minded)
J.
C'mon anyone who has a bit of a scientific mind
knows this article is a big load of crap.
Just try to imagine it. You are Bart the
Bacteria, you live on Mars. One day while
you're walkin' around, a big meteor hits (It
had to be quite a big one, or a very fast one...
it was to launch pieces of debris into space.)
It hits next to where you're standing, but you're
lucky you can deal with the heat and the impact,
and while you cling hard to the rock on wich you
stand you are hurled into space.
Now in space it gets real tough. Luckily you need
no air and radiation can't hurt you...
Clinging to the rock you notice you are lucky,
you're apparently heading toward that little blue
planet over there.
When entering earths atmosphere you thank father
nature (remember you're from Mars, mother nature
is from earth) that he's blessed you with this
heat shield that saved you life once and is now
saving it again. You als thank him that not only
you are equiped to survive in near vacuum, but you
can also survive the highly corrosive oxygen (you,
also being known as smart Bart, know that this is
not so common as one might think, because most
life forms need "oxygen (XOR) nooxygen" in order
to survive. ) that surrounds your new home planet.
Now the landing was easy... You're a tough guy
and the G-forces from the impact mean nothing to
you. (if you land on solid ground) If you were
to land in water your rusty and trusty heat-shield
is going to protect you from the hot steam...
"Well", you think, "here I am, the toughest living
being ever. I will do good for this planet..."
If anyone interested how this story ends,
just let me know... i'll gladly tell you the end.
(Just to get you pondering it envolves some
stupid "scientific reporters" and some people
having a brain the size of a dried grape...)
Still can't believe any sane person can believe
this crap...
J.
for that price,
lay low for a couple of months,
and buy yourself a Playstation 2
J.
...but I wouldn't care to have a chip
implanted at birth. If for instance
something were to happen to you,
rescue-teams would find you more
easily.
Maybe they even could integrate
some info on the chip, like your
ID, some basic medical info (think
how usefull it would be if people
wouldn't have to check your bloodtype
after an accident before they can
start transfusing you some blood,
or to know what you are allergic for,
if you already had a shot against
tetanus etc...), your drivers-license
or even your credit-card.
Think about the telecom possibilities.
You could dial someone personal number,
and any phone close to him would just
ring, even if he's sitting in someone
elses office for the moment...
(I helped with the implementation of this
kind of system, but with infrared badges,
in a hospital)
BUT, of course, you should be able to
disable the chip if you wich to...
Just to much of a dreamer I guess
J.
Sorry, to be off-topic and all,
but why didn't this article "appear"
on the top of the page?
It just popped up on position number 3.
Anyone got an explanation?
I'm really sick of this...
...) or secretely help dictators.
Everytime the old US vs. Europe thing shows up the
"you had a genocide"-thing rears it ugly head.
About 9 million jews got killed during WWII,
but how many native americans are there left
(When the first colonists arrived there were
roughly some 20 million of them)
The Monroe-clause any-one?
You wanna count the numbers of wars? Yeah OK,
so you guys go make war elsewhere (Vietnam,
Korea,
But of course all the wars you fight are for "the
greater good"...
What about crime? The USA have the highest number
of prisoners (in relative and absolute numbers)
of the whole planet.
It's always reassuring for us to hear on CNN that, when one of your "hot-shot" pilots goes breaking some rules and kills 20 civilians (that elevator
thing in italy remeber), "luckily no american
citizens got hurt".
And no we are not technologically retarded,
and we don't all wanna live in "the land of the
free" (In Europe it's not illegal to drink a
beer while walking on the street, in most
countries. Now that's freedom).
When I read this I admit I slightly overreact,
but you've been pushin' this american chauvinism
thing to far lately...
Get of our backs,
we'll stay of yours.
No hard feelings
J.
I sense fear in you,
fear leads to anger,
and anger leads to pain
or something
;)
J.