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Especially when it's 8 bits.
But I've never understood the value of someones papers, someone famous notes....it's a note, we already know the content...why would the "original" be worth 10K? I don't get it, probably never will (this from a guy who personally collects 80's memorabilia like speak'n'spell, atari 2600, phong, c64 etc... )
But seriously...someones letter...stating something??!??!!?!?
You still need the illegal ingredients to make those illegal drugs, it wont work over here in Sweden anyway. Same with knives, you can kill people with knives....the biggest drug is Alcohol, and it's legal, go figure.
I'm an old Commodore 64 guy, a coder that has been around since the ZX80 jupiter ace days, yes...I've been around and been into every computer and every language you can think of - never mind that...it's besides the point I am about to make...
The company next door has a woman employed, she is rather new into the business, but she really kicks ass. When it came to programming, I could literally ask her anything, she was modest, not implying that she actually knows anything, but she kicked ass every time...every time she found the answer to any of the programming issues that we had at hand, any problems we had...she solved. In other words...Women can KICK ASS when it comes to coding, and trust me...I am as old SKOOL as it comes, I've been coding everything from C64s to microcontrollers at any bit..but she?...She understood everything...and fixed it all...you know what that means? This is a woman! She kicks ass at coding...she is a natural...and I don't believe for a second that women can't kick it at this stuff, it's just a matter of attention, women can do this stuff as well as we can. Seriously...
That's your problem (or rather our problem) today. Everything today is subject to patents and liability. Every time some scientist makes some significant progress somewhere, that scientist is limited to several buzz killers like:
- Patents
- Religious implications
- Political complications
- Today's glass-fragile ethics
All these factors severely complicates life for your average scientists, well - nothing prohibits you to come up with the next cure for aids or stop world hunger, but there are many out there that can and WILL stop you from doing so.
To Open Source science however, making sure that formulas can't be patented, opens up the freedom we once had in science, the freedom to spread ideas, freely combine formulas and derivative material any way we needed to get that new idea working - is nearly long gone. That is why it's so important not to let greed hinder progress, that's easier said that done in our world today with all the super powerful "world health org - endorsed" pharmaceutical companies vigorously defending their purchased patents while half the planet is either starving or dying from not being able to afford it, while affordable techniques already exists, but is prohibited by patent issues.
...of any security, that's just babble from their PR dep.
How can I say that? Simple...I'm not even a hacker, but I've used a certain "Boot-cd" (you'll have to search for it on the net yourself), to get into every single system MS have made to date, to help out a school recover their students accounts, nothing illegal as it was the schools themselves who requested this from me, as their IT dep. was inadequate and said the usual MS-BS...the accounts are NOT retrievable if there is only an admin account and the PW is unknown, which
...this camera was invented to prove that superman exists.
Now I'll know for sure that Clark Kent taunts his boss at least 36 million times a day at the Daily Planet!
It's already a felony in basically every democratic city in the world to snatch whatever private property someone else owns, and tossing it away like that (out the window).
It's not yours, so you can't snatch it, it's that simple. Nothing complex about it.
I've got a better name for it...
PARANOID!
The story about a scared little ball, out to break trough the bricky bastards!
Imagine being round, dreaming of squares, would scare the bajeezus outta any sin & cos shape any day!
A few moments in my life can be considered life changing, very rare, very seldom...
Let me explain where I come from, so you understand why I react the way I do to this if it sounds weird or foreign to you, but I was the kid in class who asked too many "dumb" questions, the teachers couldn't answer, I wanted to know WHY X and Y was what they where, and not just accept that they where there. The teacher wasn't creative enough to explain why, and told me to just accept that it was there....
that made me feel dumb for 15+ years, until I actually discovered that I was smarter than any of those teachers, and had an IQ way WAY above average (yep..that explains why I didn't need manuals...duh!)
The point of the case is, not how intelligent I am, but the way I LEARN THINGS! Such as the video demonstrates very elegantly.
I'm a tech nerd, I have a room filled with Test-Instruments, you know...oscilloscopes, multimeters, rf-generators, spectrum analyzers etc....I don't have a heavy theoretical science background, but yet I'm very capable of building and constructing robots and advanced circuitry (much to the confusion of my educated friends), but the truth of the matter is - these instruments..
Did you get that, slashdot audience? Visual feedback is what it's all about (to certain visual persons like me), we're no dummies because we can't just accept or visualize data inside our mind based on eg. traditional math such as you know it, but have a different...visual mind)
Benoit Mandelbrot comes to mind....if I'm not mistaken...
Get it?
I'd like to hear more people asking good questions...
You're all clear now, kid. Now blow this thing so we can all go home. -- Han Solo