What if whois makes a list of visitors/domains, and any mailserver can look at it, decide if it is spam. If someone wants to REALLY contact the site holder, let them find a second site that lists them. It would be too much of a bother for anyone who does this on a regular basis. Besides, phone lookup would list anyone any(w)hoo;) There may be a time when servers only allow from a contact list, cull the rest. I can imagine it would kill terabytes of pink mailstuff...
They assume you WILL copy, therefore they want to charge a surtax on blank media, burning devices. As someone else has pointed out before, isn't it wrong to allow it, tax it, then outlaw it? Therefore, wouldn't the RIAA actually be on the copiers side? Umm fair use? Unless I misunderstood the last great copy debate...
Lasers operate on the priciple that an atom 'detects' a wavelength of energy going by it that it happens to be holding, and releases it in the same phase as the other. Repeat X1000^2. Voila, laser light. The beam gets repeated by two parallel mirrors, one is opaque, the other is part-way(leaky), which lets the light out, lasing maerial between. Replace the opaque mirror with a prism, which spreads the spectrum out, pick a color and place a mirror perpendicular to the beam, and it will reenter the lasing material. The stimulation will reinforce the one color, and the others will degrade(filters would reduce the frequency you want due to imperfections), works with multiple frequncies. What should be really fun would be a EL-display type laser device, which might be tunable with the voltage across. (As far as rude colors, ever see a neon *plasma* pink?)
Oh, favorite? "I wonder if that silly duck remembers he can fly?" POOF "Guess not...";) I feel the world laughs a little less now. Wasn't it last year Charles Shultz(Peanuts) went, now this. I think the studios holding his work will try to capitolise on their monopoly by releasing tape collections. When Looney Tunes first came out, weren't they on the big screen anyway? Part of their alure was during the depression-pre-post war era, people needed a good laugh. We really need some now, with all the Global BS.:P He was a genious, missed. Too bad Speilberg can't duplicate the humor without the sappiness...
The main idea is defining a problem in such a way you can sneak in something so odious, it normally wouldn't pass, but, "What are you, some kind of terrorist?!" rings Ashcroft.
Lemme see, in order to preserve freedom, we must suspend it? And, "The terrorists hate our freedom." So what do we do? We let our politicos take it freely(?).
I see ratcheting like this all the time(WI). Tuition increases side by side with huge prison budgets make for a totally numb dumb society. You know the former Gov. as Health Secretary, and he started the prison craze. We, (Milwaukee), are the worlds #1 FSCKING EXPORTER OF PRISONERS! NOT CHINA, NOT RUSSIA, HERE! To the tune of 5,000+ inmates sent out of state.
K, you are asking yourself, "What has this to do with the topic?" This-If you subsidize(sp?) prisons, get more prisons, less student grants-loans, fewer educated adults. The slingo around here is "The Brain Drain." Graduates leave in droves, and don't contribute back to the local system.
It all starts with the politicians, make no doubt, he's right. They are entrusted with assuring domestic tranquility, but end up bleeding taxes on military/police/prison budgets. If we challenge these priorities, we are labeled liberals.
The Big Brother of 1984 was supposed to be a benevolent government, but if you disagreed with it, you (read the book, this ain't cliff notes!)
My point is he didn't extend the consequences and causes far enough, but I agree with what is stated.
I'm convinced if they view liberty and freedoms as the priority, vs. we are tough on criminals/terrorists/Govt. of choice, we would hear different rhetoric.
I think it comes down to control. People in prison are definately under control, but I haven't figured out how paranoia driving graduates out solves anything either, but it's definately on state agenda.
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I didn't have a depth thingy to tell me how to replace the image, we had blue backgrounds which had to be equally lit, and pray nobody came with blue on.
The real reason blue was used is because if you see a video signal, it is only 11% of the signal, at most, and also a very rare color(saturation wise) in a picture. Most people don't wear blue tarp mascara, and it was acceptable.
The other type of keying was on an Amiga with a Gen Lock, using background color as the transparency, a static image over a live background. You could also set the transparency, so you could get ghost-like effects.
But with one of these, you can probably make a scrolling background with the occasional tree popping to front. If you were to do the same with an editing suite, you're looking at at least a good hour, and when you rent out facilities, you look for all the helpies you can. Just printing out a still from video can cost more if you're using a "video printer".
I wonder if you can set the depth manually, or if it's hard coded. It might be fun to see something pass "through" something else.
On erasing the drive:Wouldn't it have been better to give some cryptic error message that prompts you to call the "service" number for some agency? If you just wipe the drive, wouldn't anyone know the drive died? I did like the idea of phone home, then get caller id. Just don't use *(remove call id!;) Whoever the "fence" is(hot item buyer), they should know a few things.
However, I've known a few machines that had a hard drive crash due to heads hitting the platters, maybe that would be a useful "feature";) to implement.
I have another idea. ID the cpu somehow, so no matter if you pull the drive, unless you dissect the sucker, it will register itself, and the phone number connected, to a security co., then pay them a visit *weg*
New Zealand broke story on Echelon, and Australia doesn't even know, YET!
My guess is if you were to look at all possible news, and see what got filtered out.
Seriously, if all we want is information, I'm sure you can find it, albeit a little late. I listen to BBC, CBC myself, I'm from US, I figure the Canuks and Brits(--I mean in friendly k?) don't care what US companies get stepped on by their reporting. Often I'll hear a story break long before the spin doctors have had a chance to do major sir-jury.(sp!) Streaming audio was curtailed here for a while, was the best thing in the world! I looked to the great white north for broadcasts, lovin' it! What I saw at first as a problem just highlighted the differences.
If you have 'light' fibre instead of dark, I see some things being alot more practical, like on-demand streaming movies, free access to streaming tv, direct connections to studio head-ends, a one-person one-vote democracy, GAMING 0-lag!, Education on demand, etc...
Seems to me status quo likes to be in the drivers seat, and if that means stifling innovation, so be it. (I don't see Gates whining that his products have to overtake linux-unix-all that) I just think if the corporate boards understand the true empowerment things like broadband brings, I think they'll vote against. Not everything is free market, and I'm disappointed some have tried to make this an economic, "If somebody wants it, someone will sell it" approach.
Look at the music industry-payola-the word for pay for d.j. to play your record. You always wondered why some suck song winds up top 40-repeat it long enough, they will like(?) it.
If you want me to applaud, then give companies incentives to take on established industry biggies, don't just pad *enron*cough* your wallet!
I also waould like to see people encouraged to actually use high speed connections, HDTV could really use the shot in the arm!
But, like I said before, not everyone wants to unleash that kind of control for the masses. Imagine having a web cam 24-7 on your congressman.(ooooh, look _under_ the desk!j.k.;)
Down side-easier access for traffic cams, more spam, etc.:P
Article mentions ferromagnetics cross polarised as a switch, a memory cell.
If you cool Xenon to around 0k, it becomes an Einstein condensate-the atoms align and act as one.(Don't have link handy, search will prolly churn plenty) The idea is coherence, just as a laser aligns all it's photons polarizations. It sounds like they have learned how to do this on an atomic level. From what I also understand, domains(think quantized magnet 'particle') tends to degrade unless they are cooled/remain undisturbed.
It does sound like a neat idea, flip an electron without having to take it anywhere, then you don't need a conductor, only a 'resonating structure' to channel the effect somewhere.
Also mentioned is the fact it has no gain, too bad, everything we interface with needs amplification in order to operate. Even your retinas send cascades of electrons with only a single photon. If they can solve the gain problem, this would seem like one of those Moore's Law things, but I wonder how they hold up against stray magnetic/electric fields?
Also mentioned is the energy stored,(n*2+1)/2, which suspiciously sounds like the energy levels of the electrons, ignoring the spins. Even that could be used to store information, but it would certainly be a bugger to keep the electron from transferring the energy.
If they can come up with something equivalent to hi-temp superconductors for spins, I see alot of good coming, just not this week;)
I just think the way the company mismanaged its projects(U7-10), basicly sabotaging them, is a shame. Origin had tons of kewl games, I'm just glad R.G. has found something productive.
Who did you look up to when you started acting? Who would you want to play the part of YOU?
I kinda lump you in with Alec Baldwin/Harrison Ford/James Garner-you know, the pinache crowd. I also know you are a down to earth type who has phone troubles just like the rest of us(!), but, who inspired you, and who do you like to see on film/tv?
Last, what kind of a role would you reeeeaaaaallly want to play? Seems you get the unorthadox maverick types, like Rockford P.I.
Bravo, kudos, and I hope you can break into something like Stargate/Andromeda just so they aren't all sterilised quips. You add a, "I wish I were that guy!" to all your roles.
FYI-I only have a Dreamcast, OK, sue me. (NO!)
Before I lose my point, this machine is PS1, and was limited in the abilities, not very expandable. Now there are PS2s, and they are so good as to be mistaken for missle control boxes!
I wouldn't expect this to be too much beyond a DVD-game console. K, What do you expect the CUBE^2 to be? All bugs shaken out-stable-lots of titles-reverse compat-keyboard *n*x OS add on-etc.
This is NOT that machine. It tests the waters. But what DO you want, eh?
Some of the best games I've played were the find the switch, open the door, item quest-so long as it isn't super tedious. Just have both sides working toward a common-yet 'monopoly' goal. Like golf, except you can thwart their efforts, or strengthen your own.
I find some strategy games don't include enough achilles heels, where this works REALLY good, and nothing else. Some games of late are The Summoning(1980's), Red Alert 2, and Septerra Core. They are great stand-aloners, except the computer isn't all that great. There is much problem solving, w/o all the, "Brute force will always win the day!", with an attack plan.
Having upgrades along the way is more fun, more of a goal in intermediate game, rather than BFG units. Realism is more like this. Experience should be DAMMAGED based, rather than kills(!)
If components can be put together, combined, in unique ways, it would be interesting to see if variation X works better than Y, then reconfig. Give the grunt a flamer, tank-AA guns....all interchangable, and expandable.
Lastly, if the units themselves could be 'Programmed' to act intelligently(contact/don't attack-retreat!) Some of my smartest units are towers cuz the dumb-ass grunts insist on killing themselves, and towers don't move! Retreat if superior opponent, attack at all costs, ambush!, and others would definately increase strategy play, but only if they really make a difference. Upgrading buildings would be neat, instead of building defenses. "Hey, my engineer bdg. took out a TANK! KEWL!"
Seems to me the 'net sites might start getting shut down, annon posts will drop off(duh!), and there will be pressure to drop the service, not the individual lists.
Gawd, they already have enuf fake "See REAL Lolita" trolls already. These guys spam the crap out of what should be alt.binaries.go.to.jail
I would just like a sane approach. If they were that concerned about children who are exploited, why don't they check out some sweatshops, eh?
I guess it comes down to this-Which would you rather have;Oppressive Govt. controls, or insinuated tolerance of smut and the 1st Ammendment(persuit of happiness too)
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I believe this is how they can not only detain him, but call him a spy, etc...
I think they would really have preferred doing this to a citizen, but they would be soooo wrong. The powers that be are using this as an example, hoping to scare anyone else who breaks encryption.
I hope this doesn't have a chilling effect, because the worst hackers are better than the best oversight committee when it comes to getting down to the truth.
(If you've ever seen INF agents at work, this might also explain a few other things =:(
I read alot of posts, some with abilities sought, some with laments about current tech, some about heuristics.
I've got points to ponder. Like, if true AI is spawned as an internet node, it would reflect the environment? Prolly pr0n. Or, equally, would it condemn political systems, and what would it use as its baseline? Would it have a social insect model for thought?
As for learning, I believe it could learn things, but adapt? It might get better, but as for being able to fathom its 'creator', metaphysics might be lost on it. Ethics might be another touchy subject. Unless it can hurt, and empathise, I doubt it would make a good politician. (WHOA! Forget what I just said, do any of them?)
Contemplate art, social values. Would it even have the same ideals of freedom?(yes, I read the posts).
What about good vs. evil, would you teach it to I Robot? What would you use for definitions? How could it apply them? Would it apply them?
And can we even define rational thought as a computation, especially with emotions. If the programs resources were low, would it claim to be having a bad day? How would we react to a cranky AI?
Would it sense how we treat one another, and make moral judgements, tempered with wisdom and mercy? That might take alot of expectation.
I think we should be happy with modelling aspects, not try to create a being which would be quite lonely(if true AI). It might only be good for the perspective of what it thinks of us. I wonder what it would think of us?
I recomend it because it gets down to futuristic possiblities. He also gives examples of bad teaching practices, such as courseware/jargonitis.
It reads at newspaper level, with insights. Too bad its out of print... =^|
I defeated a system lock out to get to the op system, and was immediately lightning rod for trouble. Staff on regular 'rounds' would only walk past the machine I was using, copy the number down for later monitoring.
As for the 'crime'(?), I exposed their waaaayy bloated ignorance. "Where was this?", you say? Some backwater school district? Library?
Yes, a library. A university library. UWM's library. I'll paraphrase the first and second letters I got.
You are a pronography nut(huh?) viewing 'objectionable' materials, and have been running a business(lmao, not then tho..) off the terminals of the library, punishable for 1 year loss of access.
You, you eeeeeeevil curmudgeon, are eeeeevil becuase you dared to use our machines(not true, they are property of Student Gov:P) for purposes other than stated. You have raped our precious hard drives of room(untrue, if they really cared a rats a$$, they would have cleaned all the FOUND.00X files cluttering megs worth!), and accesses the operating system. Your access denied for TWO years...
I took the first letter to two experts, a journalism prof, and computer security for campus. They both said it was a letter of intimidation, and if the staff could have proved anything, they would have come after me for real time. Slap on the wrist.
I feel for the kid, the admin peeps didn't even state their part of responsibility, throwing the book at a bright and talented kid, all they could do is fear and loath him. Why not tap into that kind of talent? You don't 'Own' him? Control? WTF?
This is now my rant, check out if you want to.
I think we as taxpayers, however insignificant we are, should have a right to say how our money is spent. Mind you, I don't demand access to public payed for service revolvers, not being an idiot, but at a machine that is paid for my use, I want to use it as I would any other terminal available to me. The staff wishes a 300Mhz P3 to be: a rolodex, calculator, and typewriter. Uhhh, couldn't you have installed a 8086 and done same? What's up with that? A $3000+ machine into that crap? Whos money you been spendin' here? Nah, I'd rather repair the dammage and get something I want done. Sure, there are online utils that I could use, but why waste their server, when I can use something here, and not tie up Net resources? It makes sense to both me and the comp. prof. I asked. He said I did nothing wrong, technically, but they wanted a social engineering solution for a technical problem. They singled me out, censored me, discriminated and smear campaigned me, last I checked was illegal. They made me out to be some child molester, after which, noone would entertain any possibility I might be innocent. Nope, I think this kid understood something of the pariah effect, I don't think we'll be keeping our best and brightest at this rate, sigh...
...hashed out by all the different vendors, and you would pick one. In reality however, I'd say embed an 'immortal' key, then when they go belly up, give out the key, free, or allow another to license/lease it.
There are alot of gaming companies that do things like this, TSR sold to WoC, WoC sold to Hasbro...We still can play Monopoly(tm). What needs to happen is better control on the developers side, so they won't lose out to crackers, etc., and take risks.
Then you have service providers that leave you out to dry, ie Ameritech buys out competitor, then you get their bill in the mail saying you didn't pay for the service that was previously free. Tough tacos amigo!
I think there needs to be less schitzo in all laws in general about aquisition, saying if you aquire it, you need to have the same level of responsibility to customers[gets off soap box...]
we found a medium which slows the passage of time itself? wouldn't that do the same thing?
Take a lens and accelerate it, would this happen too? slow down?
Ack, the stuff of sci-fi =)
Suppose a new wild type is introduced from nature, then a farmer cultivates it. Noone has a problem, because there is no economic repercussions(except for the farmer).
Now, take a similar idea, IP, which can be copied, and redestributed, but if it is to be kept secret, it must be kept at risk by the owner.
bash>Idea_merge GE.crops IP.ownership=
You are responsible for whatever happens from the unintentional (mis)use of your product.
I say Monsanto should replace his crop, or pay for it, if they can't prove he outright stole the seeds, and everybody happy again? If he did steal seed, he gets what he deserves, but it needs to be investigated by independent sources!
I just don't like it when someone is blamed negligently when it was a 'collateral incident'.
The farmer has a right to make a profit, I hope he wins, otherwise it will lead to heavy handed closures anywhere their neighbors plant a cross-polinate.
I can't forget the StarLink/Taco Bell fiasco;P
noone, nowhere, and the RIAA will claim success at last! They have us right where they want us! Copy this!, you little ba$tard$!
More like, Play this! you poor $uckers!
Anyone else get this idea? HDTV ala emperors new clothes for CDs?
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What if whois makes a list of visitors/domains, and any mailserver can look at it, decide if it is spam. ;)
If someone wants to REALLY contact the site holder, let them find a second site that lists them. It would be too much of a bother for anyone who does this on a regular basis.
Besides, phone lookup would list anyone any(w)hoo
There may be a time when servers only allow from a contact list, cull the rest. I can imagine it would kill terabytes of pink mailstuff...
They assume you WILL copy, therefore they want to charge a surtax on blank media, burning devices.
As someone else has pointed out before, isn't it wrong to allow it, tax it, then outlaw it?
Therefore, wouldn't the RIAA actually be on the copiers side? Umm fair use?
Unless I misunderstood the last great copy debate...
(somebody have the link?)
Lasers operate on the priciple that an atom 'detects' a wavelength of energy going by it that it happens to be holding, and releases it in the same phase as the other. Repeat X1000^2. Voila, laser light.
The beam gets repeated by two parallel mirrors, one is opaque, the other is part-way(leaky), which lets the light out, lasing maerial between.
Replace the opaque mirror with a prism, which spreads the spectrum out, pick a color and place a mirror perpendicular to the beam, and it will reenter the lasing material. The stimulation will reinforce the one color, and the others will degrade(filters would reduce the frequency you want due to imperfections), works with multiple frequncies.
What should be really fun would be a EL-display type laser device, which might be tunable with the voltage across.
(As far as rude colors, ever see a neon *plasma* pink?)
Oh, favorite? "I wonder if that silly duck remembers he can fly?" POOF "Guess not..." ;) :P
I feel the world laughs a little less now.
Wasn't it last year Charles Shultz(Peanuts) went, now this.
I think the studios holding his work will try to capitolise on their monopoly by releasing tape collections.
When Looney Tunes first came out, weren't they on the big screen anyway? Part of their alure was during the depression-pre-post war era, people needed a good laugh. We really need some now, with all the Global BS.
He was a genious, missed. Too bad Speilberg can't duplicate the humor without the sappiness...
I won't insult intelligence.
The main idea is defining a problem in such a way you can sneak in something so odious, it normally wouldn't pass, but, "What are you, some kind of terrorist?!" rings Ashcroft.
Lemme see, in order to preserve freedom, we must suspend it? And, "The terrorists hate our freedom." So what do we do? We let our politicos take it freely(?).
I see ratcheting like this all the time(WI). Tuition increases side by side with huge prison budgets make for a totally numb dumb society. You know the former Gov. as Health Secretary, and he started the prison craze. We, (Milwaukee), are the worlds #1 FSCKING EXPORTER OF PRISONERS! NOT CHINA, NOT RUSSIA, HERE! To the tune of 5,000+ inmates sent out of state.
K, you are asking yourself, "What has this to do with the topic?" This-If you subsidize(sp?) prisons, get more prisons, less student grants-loans, fewer educated adults. The slingo around here is "The Brain Drain." Graduates leave in droves, and don't contribute back to the local system.
It all starts with the politicians, make no doubt, he's right. They are entrusted with assuring domestic tranquility, but end up bleeding taxes on military/police/prison budgets. If we challenge these priorities, we are labeled liberals.
The Big Brother of 1984 was supposed to be a benevolent government, but if you disagreed with it, you (read the book, this ain't cliff notes!)
My point is he didn't extend the consequences and causes far enough, but I agree with what is stated.
I'm convinced if they view liberty and freedoms as the priority, vs. we are tough on criminals/terrorists/Govt. of choice, we would hear different rhetoric.
I think it comes down to control. People in prison are definately under control, but I haven't figured out how paranoia driving graduates out solves anything either, but it's definately on state agenda.
I didn't have a depth thingy to tell me how to replace the image, we had blue backgrounds which had to be equally lit, and pray nobody came with blue on.
The real reason blue was used is because if you see a video signal, it is only 11% of the signal, at most, and also a very rare color(saturation wise) in a picture. Most people don't wear blue tarp mascara, and it was acceptable.
The other type of keying was on an Amiga with a Gen Lock, using background color as the transparency, a static image over a live background. You could also set the transparency, so you could get ghost-like effects.
But with one of these, you can probably make a scrolling background with the occasional tree popping to front. If you were to do the same with an editing suite, you're looking at at least a good hour, and when you rent out facilities, you look for all the helpies you can. Just printing out a still from video can cost more if you're using a "video printer".
I wonder if you can set the depth manually, or if it's hard coded. It might be fun to see something pass "through" something else.
On erasing the drive:Wouldn't it have been better to give some cryptic error message that prompts you to call the "service" number for some agency? If you just wipe the drive, wouldn't anyone know the drive died? I did like the idea of phone home, then get caller id. Just don't use *(remove call id!;)
Whoever the "fence" is(hot item buyer), they should know a few things.
However, I've known a few machines that had a hard drive crash due to heads hitting the platters, maybe that would be a useful "feature";) to implement.
I have another idea. ID the cpu somehow, so no matter if you pull the drive, unless you dissect the sucker, it will register itself, and the phone number connected, to a security co., then pay them a visit *weg*
New Zealand broke story on Echelon, and Australia doesn't even know, YET!
My guess is if you were to look at all possible news, and see what got filtered out.
Seriously, if all we want is information, I'm sure you can find it, albeit a little late. I listen to BBC, CBC myself, I'm from US, I figure the Canuks and Brits(--I mean in friendly k?) don't care what US companies get stepped on by their reporting. Often I'll hear a story break long before the spin doctors have had a chance to do major sir-jury.(sp!)
Streaming audio was curtailed here for a while, was the best thing in the world! I looked to the great white north for broadcasts, lovin' it! What I saw at first as a problem just highlighted the differences.
If you have 'light' fibre instead of dark, I see some things being alot more practical, like on-demand streaming movies, free access to streaming tv, direct connections to studio head-ends, a one-person one-vote democracy, GAMING 0-lag!, Education on demand, etc...
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Seems to me status quo likes to be in the drivers seat, and if that means stifling innovation, so be it. (I don't see Gates whining that his products have to overtake linux-unix-all that) I just think if the corporate boards understand the true empowerment things like broadband brings, I think they'll vote against. Not everything is free market, and I'm disappointed some have tried to make this an economic, "If somebody wants it, someone will sell it" approach.
Look at the music industry-payola-the word for pay for d.j. to play your record. You always wondered why some suck song winds up top 40-repeat it long enough, they will like(?) it.
If you want me to applaud, then give companies incentives to take on established industry biggies, don't just pad *enron*cough* your wallet!
I also waould like to see people encouraged to actually use high speed connections, HDTV could really use the shot in the arm!
But, like I said before, not everyone wants to unleash that kind of control for the masses. Imagine having a web cam 24-7 on your congressman.(ooooh, look _under_ the desk!j.k.;)
Down side-easier access for traffic cams, more spam, etc.
Article mentions ferromagnetics cross polarised as a switch, a memory cell.
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If you cool Xenon to around 0k, it becomes an Einstein condensate-the atoms align and act as one.(Don't have link handy, search will prolly churn plenty) The idea is coherence, just as a laser aligns all it's photons polarizations. It sounds like they have learned how to do this on an atomic level. From what I also understand, domains(think quantized magnet 'particle') tends to degrade unless they are cooled/remain undisturbed.
It does sound like a neat idea, flip an electron without having to take it anywhere, then you don't need a conductor, only a 'resonating structure' to channel the effect somewhere.
Also mentioned is the fact it has no gain, too bad, everything we interface with needs amplification in order to operate. Even your retinas send cascades of electrons with only a single photon. If they can solve the gain problem, this would seem like one of those Moore's Law things, but I wonder how they hold up against stray magnetic/electric fields?
Also mentioned is the energy stored,(n*2+1)/2, which suspiciously sounds like the energy levels of the electrons, ignoring the spins. Even that could be used to store information, but it would certainly be a bugger to keep the electron from transferring the energy.
If they can come up with something equivalent to hi-temp superconductors for spins, I see alot of good coming, just not this week
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I just think the way the company mismanaged its projects(U7-10), basicly sabotaging them, is a shame. Origin had tons of kewl games, I'm just glad R.G. has found something productive.
Resistance is futile...you will be assimilated.
What you say?
Someone set up us the bleem.
We get signal.
How are you gentlemen?
You have no chance to survive, make your DL.
You are on your way to lawsuit.
It is you.
Take off every copy protect for great justice...
Who did you look up to when you started acting?
Who would you want to play the part of YOU?
I kinda lump you in with Alec Baldwin/Harrison Ford/James Garner-you know, the pinache crowd. I also know you are a down to earth type who has phone troubles just like the rest of us(!), but, who inspired you, and who do you like to see on film/tv?
Last, what kind of a role would you reeeeaaaaallly want to play? Seems you get the unorthadox maverick types, like Rockford P.I.
Bravo, kudos, and I hope you can break into something like Stargate/Andromeda just so they aren't all sterilised quips. You add a, "I wish I were that guy!" to all your roles.
Before I lose my point, this machine is PS 1 , and was limited in the abilities, not very expandable. Now there are PS 2 s, and they are so good as to be mistaken for missle control boxes!
I wouldn't expect this to be too much beyond a DVD-game console. K, What do you expect the CUBE^2 to be? All bugs shaken out-stable-lots of titles-reverse compat-keyboard *n*x OS add on-etc.
This is NOT that machine. It tests the waters. But what DO you want, eh?
Some of the best games I've played were the find the switch, open the door, item quest-so long as it isn't super tedious. Just have both sides working toward a common-yet 'monopoly' goal. Like golf, except you can thwart their efforts, or strengthen your own.
I find some strategy games don't include enough achilles heels, where this works REALLY good, and nothing else. Some games of late are The Summoning(1980's), Red Alert 2, and Septerra Core. They are great stand-aloners, except the computer isn't all that great. There is much problem solving, w/o all the, "Brute force will always win the day!", with an attack plan.
Having upgrades along the way is more fun, more of a goal in intermediate game, rather than BFG units. Realism is more like this. Experience should be DAMMAGED based, rather than kills(!)
If components can be put together, combined, in unique ways, it would be interesting to see if variation X works better than Y, then reconfig. Give the grunt a flamer, tank-AA guns....all interchangable, and expandable.
Lastly, if the units themselves could be 'Programmed' to act intelligently(contact/don't attack-retreat!) Some of my smartest units are towers cuz the dumb-ass grunts insist on killing themselves, and towers don't move! Retreat if superior opponent, attack at all costs, ambush!, and others would definately increase strategy play, but only if they really make a difference. Upgrading buildings would be neat, instead of building defenses. "Hey, my engineer bdg. took out a TANK! KEWL!"
Gawd, they already have enuf fake "See REAL Lolita" trolls already. These guys spam the crap out of what should be alt.binaries.go.to.jail
I would just like a sane approach. If they were that concerned about children who are exploited, why don't they check out some sweatshops, eh?
I guess it comes down to this-Which would you rather have;Oppressive Govt. controls, or insinuated tolerance of smut and the 1st Ammendment(persuit of happiness too)
I believe this is how they can not only detain him, but call him a spy, etc...
I think they would really have preferred doing this to a citizen, but they would be soooo wrong. The powers that be are using this as an example, hoping to scare anyone else who breaks encryption.
I hope this doesn't have a chilling effect, because the worst hackers are better than the best oversight committee when it comes to getting down to the truth.
(If you've ever seen INF agents at work, this might also explain a few other things =:(
I read alot of posts, some with abilities sought, some with laments about current tech, some about heuristics.
I've got points to ponder. Like, if true AI is spawned as an internet node, it would reflect the environment? Prolly pr0n. Or, equally, would it condemn political systems, and what would it use as its baseline? Would it have a social insect model for thought?
As for learning, I believe it could learn things, but adapt? It might get better, but as for being able to fathom its 'creator', metaphysics might be lost on it. Ethics might be another touchy subject. Unless it can hurt, and empathise, I doubt it would make a good politician. (WHOA! Forget what I just said, do any of them?)
Contemplate art, social values. Would it even have the same ideals of freedom?(yes, I read the posts).
What about good vs. evil, would you teach it to I Robot? What would you use for definitions? How could it apply them? Would it apply them?
And can we even define rational thought as a computation, especially with emotions. If the programs resources were low, would it claim to be having a bad day? How would we react to a cranky AI?
Would it sense how we treat one another, and make moral judgements, tempered with wisdom and mercy? That might take alot of expectation.
I think we should be happy with modelling aspects, not try to create a being which would be quite lonely(if true AI). It might only be good for the perspective of what it thinks of us. I wonder what it would think of us?
I recomend it because it gets down to futuristic possiblities. He also gives examples of bad teaching practices, such as courseware/jargonitis. It reads at newspaper level, with insights. Too bad its out of print... =^|
As for the 'crime'(?), I exposed their waaaayy bloated ignorance. "Where was this?", you say? Some backwater school district? Library?
Yes, a library. A university library. UWM's library. I'll paraphrase the first and second letters I got.
You are a pronography nut(huh?) viewing 'objectionable' materials, and have been running a business(lmao, not then tho..) off the terminals of the library, punishable for 1 year loss of access.
You, you eeeeeeevil curmudgeon, are eeeeevil becuase you dared to use our machines(not true, they are property of Student Gov :P) for purposes other than stated. You have raped our precious hard drives of room(untrue, if they really cared a rats a$$, they would have cleaned all the FOUND.00X files cluttering megs worth!), and accesses the operating system. Your access denied for TWO years...
I took the first letter to two experts, a journalism prof, and computer security for campus. They both said it was a letter of intimidation, and if the staff could have proved anything, they would have come after me for real time. Slap on the wrist.
I feel for the kid, the admin peeps didn't even state their part of responsibility, throwing the book at a bright and talented kid, all they could do is fear and loath him. Why not tap into that kind of talent? You don't 'Own' him? Control? WTF?
This is now my rant, check out if you want to.
I think we as taxpayers, however insignificant we are, should have a right to say how our money is spent. Mind you, I don't demand access to public payed for service revolvers, not being an idiot, but at a machine that is paid for my use, I want to use it as I would any other terminal available to me. The staff wishes a 300Mhz P3 to be: a rolodex, calculator, and typewriter. Uhhh, couldn't you have installed a 8086 and done same? What's up with that? A $3000+ machine into that crap? Whos money you been spendin' here? Nah, I'd rather repair the dammage and get something I want done. Sure, there are online utils that I could use, but why waste their server, when I can use something here, and not tie up Net resources? It makes sense to both me and the comp. prof. I asked. He said I did nothing wrong, technically, but they wanted a social engineering solution for a technical problem. They singled me out, censored me, discriminated and smear campaigned me, last I checked was illegal. They made me out to be some child molester, after which, noone would entertain any possibility I might be innocent.
Nope, I think this kid understood something of the pariah effect, I don't think we'll be keeping our best and brightest at this rate, sigh...
...hashed out by all the different vendors, and you would pick one. In reality however, I'd say embed an 'immortal' key, then when they go belly up, give out the key, free, or allow another to license/lease it.
There are alot of gaming companies that do things like this, TSR sold to WoC, WoC sold to Hasbro...We still can play Monopoly(tm). What needs to happen is better control on the developers side, so they won't lose out to crackers, etc., and take risks.
Then you have service providers that leave you out to dry, ie Ameritech buys out competitor, then you get their bill in the mail saying you didn't pay for the service that was previously free. Tough tacos amigo!
I think there needs to be less schitzo in all laws in general about aquisition, saying if you aquire it, you need to have the same level of responsibility to customers[gets off soap box...]
we found a medium which slows the passage of time itself? wouldn't that do the same thing? Take a lens and accelerate it, would this happen too? slow down? Ack, the stuff of sci-fi =)
Now, take a similar idea, IP, which can be copied, and redestributed, but if it is to be kept secret, it must be kept at risk by the owner.
bash>Idea_merge GE.crops IP.ownership=
You are responsible for whatever happens from the unintentional (mis)use of your product.
I say Monsanto should replace his crop, or pay for it, if they can't prove he outright stole the seeds, and everybody happy again? If he did steal seed, he gets what he deserves, but it needs to be investigated by independent sources!
I just don't like it when someone is blamed negligently when it was a 'collateral incident'.
The farmer has a right to make a profit, I hope he wins, otherwise it will lead to heavy handed closures anywhere their neighbors plant a cross-polinate. ;P
I can't forget the StarLink/Taco Bell fiasco
noone, nowhere, and the RIAA will claim success at last! They have us right where they want us! Copy this!, you little ba$tard$! More like, Play this! you poor $uckers! Anyone else get this idea? HDTV ala emperors new clothes for CDs?