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Wired did an article on this guy at IBM a while a few months ago...am I the only one reading print anymore?? click here.

The Ars Technica RAM Guide is a good place to start for the technologies that are around now (SRAM, SDRAM, DRAM, etc.). Ars also has a story about MRAM, which links to this Wired article describing IBM's work in the field.

(Note: that was sarcastic)

http://www.wired.com/news/p olitics/0,1283,38207,00.html

Interesting record: supporting surveillance, data collection, and Clipper, but also cracking down on federal websites that abuse privacy.

sulli

On Wired.com: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,38203,00. html.

Writers to Recover Millions from Uncover: Ruling in favor of authors as copyright holders, U.S, District Court Judge Fern Smith last month awarded $7.25 million to a group of five freelance writers. The class action suit claimed that Uncover, an Internet-based document delivery service, illegally sold magazine and scholarly articles without obtaining permission from, or compensating, the authors.

A few choice quotes from the CEO of UnCover, too, about authors who are unreachable, as well as getting rights on multiple authorship works.

I remember this cover from wired a few month ago

It showed that they were many issues that weren't solved yet, even getting the medical support to do the thing was still not sure.

Anyway this whole article sounds *vapourous*, like if they were seeking for investor without having the technology behind it ready yet. The powering and switch off issue looks contradictory.

Big Brother doesn't care about you, why should he ?

People make verbal mistakes. It stretches credulity to think that Gore might feel entitled to credit for creating the Internet. A lot of people feel the way you do and I think the reasons are:

• They don't know how much credit Gore does deserve (a lot)
• They are very suspicious of people taking credit for anything
• Gore's statement is poorly worded

Gore made the famous quote to Wolf Blitzer in an interview. Blitzer didn't call Gore on it, and Blitzer is not known to be a shrinking violet. Blitzer probably didn't think much of it, and I don't either. I'm sorry, but one wording goof in one interview should not outweigh years of early, vocal support for the Internet.

The Internet and techies in general have a friend in Al Gore, based on real documented evidence. You don't dump a friend for a syntax error in this community -- or it's not much of a community.

When I say "he" i of course refer to his company but still that says a lot about how tight the networks' grips are on our tv

i thought the BBC was a rip off! This is like telling you that you cant fast forward on your VCR! hmm...

anyway there is an article in Wired this month about it if you want more info.

here is a link to the online article:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archi ve/8.03/bskyb.html

The Reform Party's primaries have already happened... Just like the recent Arizona election, they used Election.com to handle the ballots.

Here's a Wired News story about the election.

For more information on Lawrence Lessig see his Everything node.
Also see this article on Wired with more ICANN information...

Not strictly the same thing I know... but there's a fairly interesting article on molecular electronics that was in July's Wired magazine... the article is archived here
,Tez

Not strictly the same thing I know... but there's a fairly interesting article on molecular electronics that was in July's Wired magazine... the article is archived here
,Tez

I knew I had read about a very similar set of experiments going on with DNA in Wired. I didn't realize how long ago it was. Anyhow, I did me a search over there on the mag and found the article in their archives called Gene Genie -Aug1995. This is a rather old article, and I honestly have no idea how far this guy got with his research.

To quickly summarize, this Adleman fella actually got DNA to do some simple calculations. What the biggest stumbling block at that time (and most likely still) was getting an interface between the user and the DNA setup. Sounds like that's what these folks in England are up to now.

I feel I should clarify one point that seems to be getting mixed up here on this thread. The promise of DNA based computers isn't specifically to replace CPU's that we know today. In fact, DNA is far slower at running the repititive kinds of tasks that silicon deals with. The exciting stuff is in it's ability to do massive parallel processing on a small scale.

For example, if you had a race between silicon and DNA to count to 1e24 the silicon would most likely be a clear winner. On the other hand, DNA based processors usher in the ability to solve problems that silicon based machines simply can't do, like calculate a perfect game of chess.

Most likely, what we'll eventually see out of all this is a new hybrid computer utilizing both silicon and DNA based on their individual strengths. The prospects for this are both very cool, and very scary. We're talking about a machine that literally removes every advantage the human brain presently enjoys over silicon CPU's in the way of problem solving. Imagine HAL, only one hell of a lot smarter.

Why would we try to do logic gates with DNA when we're already completing work on molecular computing? It's crystal based so it assembles on its own, works on the atomic level (electrons moving from orbit to orbit register as bit changes), and doesn't have that nasty ethics aftertaste.

This story says that the IMC site's implementation of slash was done by members of the Debian core team.

Here is the wired article

According to an article at Wired it seems as though they did this to prove that it could be done. IBM is trying to show that Linux is by far the best operating system for an assortment of all kinds of devices, that can easily tweaked to suit the needs of the industry. Many said that Linux could not be scaled down this far...they are just showing that Linux is da bomb in scalability.

You are a unique individual, just like everyone else.

Why can't one phone send a stream of a sampled audio memo from its ram to the IR of another phone directly to an FTP site? Why do we still not use Dick Tracy 2way video watches or tune cable channels wherever we go?

It's not so much a issue of bandwidth... compression just keeps getting better; Rather, it's the OS of protocols and command structures we have yet to invent. Early devices would only address the microphone and earpiece as all-useful... Actually using the packet stream is rather recent. The Microsoft school of thought is terribly constraining in its "device metaphore"... even the APIs are machines and the machines must be fed very narrow parameters. Unix goes the other way in that it's used to piping generic streams to a generic filespace. What's missing are the protocols.

Perhaps BXXP will fill this niche... or perhaps it'll take something newer still. But the silliest part of it all is that we're watching the barriers fall now and will continue to see more integration, both now and in the years to come.

The FBI has been reluctant to reveal Carnivore details, partly on the grounds that such exposure would let programmers create their own, malicious Carnivore clones.

I rolled when I saw this. The Linux development community wrote a complete software environment, for god's sake...and the FBI doesn't think it can figure out how to put to together a glorified sniffer? What arrogance.

There was this Timothy McVeigh guy who had some "non-mainstream" political views. Good thing he had his privacy, we wouldn't want the government infringing on that!

Well, maybe you should read up on the
other
Timothy Mc Veigh
and maybe get a clue about what privacy means.

When I got interviewed by Wired Magazine and others for an article or two about a little web thing I was doing, Leander and all the reporters were sure to get me on the phone to repeat my comments to them, even if what I was saying to them was exactly what I had written on the website. A bunch of the smaller outlets did what C|Net did this time around and just copied my more conversational comments from my website, put quotations around it and made an article from it. I thought that was a little sketchy even while this was going on, but I was still happy for the coverage.

I suppose there's two points of view here. You could consider a web page or mailing list like a press conference, roundtable or demonstration where anyone who attends can write about it, but also you could hope that the reporters would put a little more effort into their stories and actually try to get original quotes when people like the Mozilla planners are so easy to contact via e-mail and telephone.

Or maybe in the tech news obsession to scoop the next guy, they're losing what professionalism is left. I sure hope not.

Not to point fingers, but Slashdot hasn't been exactly innocent of this lately, either.

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When I got interviewed by Wired Magazine and others for an article or two about a little web thing I was doing, Leander and all the reporters were sure to get me on the phone to repeat my comments to them, even if what I was saying to them was exactly what I had written on the website. A bunch of the smaller outlets did what C|Net did this time around and just copied my more conversational comments from my website, put quotations around it and made an article from it. I thought that was a little sketchy even while this was going on, but I was still happy for the coverage.

I suppose there's two points of view here. You could consider a web page or mailing list like a press conference, roundtable or demonstration where anyone who attends can write about it, but also you could hope that the reporters would put a little more effort into their stories and actually try to get original quotes when people like the Mozilla planners are so easy to contact via e-mail and telephone.

Or maybe in the tech news obsession to scoop the next guy, they're losing what professionalism is left. I sure hope not.

Not to point fingers, but Slashdot hasn't been exactly innocent of this lately, either.

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The July issue of Wired has another article on the subject.

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned here earlier. Wired had a story about this eons ago (May. 17 - not an eon, but close enough).
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Perhaps this would normally be posted anonymously, at 0, but I wanted to request that the parent post be moderated down. It contains a broken link and a totally uncalled-for perjorative. Oh well, at least Bowie managed to refrain from throwing in a link to Propaganda (outside of his sig, of course).

What the hell, might as well be a productive member of society. I think this is what Bowie was trying to link to.

Thanks for your attention.

So now you say, "Napster sells more records" Nope. Napsters COSTS records. Why pay when you can have it for free? I like the idea myself sometimes, especially when I see a CD priced at $15. So some altruistic souls go buy more, but I doubt that's what most of the users do.

You doubt it do you? Show me some statistics, and not the ones that show that sales of cd's near a university went down -IN THE SUMMMER! Every study (for example)I've seen of the habits of those of us that use Napster (and here I include my 72 year old mother, who has discovered quite a bit of music that she's since purchased) has shown that we buy more music once we start using Napster. Opinions are meaningless without facts.

http://www.wired.com/news/cu lture/0,1284,37878,00.html

After the announcement of the federal court ruling, the number of unique visitors to Napster rose by 71 percent from 443,000 to 758,000, according to statistics compiled by Nielsen Net Ratings.

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Prior to the Napster decision, Gnutella's primary Web site generally received 1,800 hits per hour and 30,000 hits for the day, according to Karen Lim of WeGo, which serves as a portal provider for Gnutella.

But shortly after the decision was announced on Wednesday, the site was receiving 72,000 hits per hour and finished the day with 1.6 million hits.

I bet some RIAA execs are beating themselves on the head right about now.
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Wired have an story under the title "ICANN't Believe That Domain Name", but it is linked to from here as "ICAAN't Believe That Domain Name"! They can't even get their puns right.

Let's say someone set up juliaroberts.com, and it was a fan site, and they registered it in good faith. Should she be able to take it away? I'd say not. Obviously the microsof.com guy was abusing microsofts trademark on their name, because he was posting a page related to the software industry. But this has come up before, for example, when the people who produce Archie Comics went and sued a parent who registered veronica.org (which is a dead site now), after his daughter Veronica was born.

Incidentally, you can find a nice collection of these blurbs here.

All in all, its most people with money for lawyers trampling on people without, and it is generally just disgusting abuse of IP law. The guy who once owned tatooine.com doesn't have it any more. And there's not even a web page there.

One obvious indication of squatting is people mass-registering domain names. But I'd say unless squatting is clear, first come, first serve. And even with a squatter, they should be reimbursed for all domain fees paid.

I'm just thankful we have 2600 to push some buttons and stand up for people.

Actually, a lot of those very unsung heroes were Turing and the work done at Bletchley Park ... it wasn't until the enigma was stolen that a lot of people actually knew what Bletchley was and their (large) contribution to the war effort.

As for another unsung hero, a guy called Ellis who worked at GCHQ in the 50's actually developed public key crypto way before the RSA/Duffie etc. It sometimes helps to look outside the box, the NSA museum is very interesting, however you have to bear in mind these places are extremely jingoistic, there are many other great people (from other countries) that have made massive contributions over the years who haven't received any recognition.

P.S. Don't rely on Hollywood for your history either.

I'm sure someone already posted the napster webcast that happened a short time ago .. I beleive it is still viewable from that link ... also, FYI Wired Magazine has a good 2 page article about the trial today, some interesting reading....

I'm sure someone already posted the napster webcast that happened a short time ago .. I beleive it is still viewable from that link ... also, FYI Wired Magazine has a good 2 page article about the trial today, some interesting reading....

is here.

"In a lengthy statemenet, the judge said the recording industry had shown the likelihood to win a trial, while the defendants had failed to prove it had substantial non-infriging uses."

If anyone is interested in the real world implications of this breakthrough, I suggest you check out Mother Earth, Mother Board. Written by Neal Stephenson, it is a rather lengthy article about the difficult process of laying undersea fiber. Part of that difficult is because of the imperfections of today's fiber and the need for signal amplification.

Technology such as this could eliminate the need for periodic repeaters and signal amplifiers, and quite possibly make cable-laying a less complicated proposition.

Who knows, one day soon, our only worries in accessing a trans-Pacific might be the latency inherent in the speed of light! yours,
john

There was a brief report in Wired on Monday, and John confirmed in email last night.

I have no idea if this is a new trend in sites targetted for DoS attacks, but definitely it is not good.

See his oft-cited Wired essay Why the Future Doesn't Need Us. He's concerned that nanotechnology etc will become so cheap that anyone will be able to hack at the basic building blocks of matter. Is that a problem? He thinks so.

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The point about them not being picked up in the States (particularly for season 3) was partly the cause of the improved storyline and plotting for season 3. The staff of the show had long felt that they were being unduly cramped by BS&P - Broadcast Standards & Practices - and felt they had a chance to cover more ground without that restriction.

Some specific examples come to mind - the "BS&P Approved liferaft", and Dot's monobreast (search on 'monobreast' inside the article).

A more important and less noticably point is that the Canadian episodes were 'censored down' for U.S. viewing. There was consistent pressure to control language and imagery, but there were also apparently post-production cuts. If you watched it in the U.S., missing bits may contribute to plot inconsistencies.

Although "YRO" may not be the original reason this item made it to /., it's a good thing to note here; if you are getting the originals on DVD, then there is one less snipping layer between you and the creators of the work...

Mr. McNeely ... is that you?

Combine this with some of the other available snooping tools and technologies, such (Echelon, C arnivore, etc..) and there are IS no privacy on the net.

Throw ICANN into the mix and see how they are "protecting" the internet, and it makes me very glad the Microsoft, regardless of the disagreements I have from them, is proactively making it possible for users to protect themselves from these abuses.

I think its dangerous to assume that only those "fascist countries over there" are being monitered, especially after the discovery of Carnivore and even the local police taking part as seen in this article from wired.

Looks like a fella named Joshua Quittner was the culprit.

Ender

Under cross-examination by Marty Garbus, Shamos the phony expert, admitted he could not have conducted his test for MPAA without the skill and help of real expert, Eric Burns [a student at CMU]. As a result Burns is now to become a witness to tell what he actually did to get the DivX, get it decoded synchronized and playable. Shamos looked swell while being examined by Proskauer and got blown away by Garbus. Even the judge took a few whacks, and approved Frank Stevenson and Eric Burns as witnesses over Proskauer's objections. ... An attempt is to be made to bring him over to the angel side.

Schumann's affidavit and testimony that DeCSS was created to be a tool of piracy was severely undermined on cross-examination by EFF's defense team when asked about a report he submitted to the MPAA concluding that members of the Livid mailing list (where DeCSS was published) were attempting to build a Linux DVD player.

"Do you know of any DVD that has been sold anywhere in the world that has been decrypted with DeCSS?" asked Martin Garbus.

"Not with absolute certainty, no," Schumann replied.

He also said that he didn't know of anyone who distributed a DVD online that had been decrypted with DeCSS.

As Garbus kept pressing, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan seemed to become irritated.

Oh, if you want Apple Cubism, see the story in Wired about its resemblance to NeXT.

Bah. If you want a real caffeine fix have a Jolt, and use it to wash down some Energy mints.

Hey, are we wired yet? :)
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What's this linux thingie? A new camera? Better TP, perhaps?

I'm sure it couldn't be an operating system since according to this Wired article we have the Honorable Justice Jackson and various industry pundits salivating at the chance to destroy Microsoft for, among other reasons, there being no other choices for a PC operating system other than Microsoft products.

There was an article sort of along those lines on Wired a day or so ago. Linked here.

Except that some scientists are starting to view gasoline as a renewable resource - something that will never run out in humankind's lifetime (see this wired article).

Available here. Kaplan refuses the recuse request!

The sad truth is that 2600 is gonna lose this round. Kaplan's not interested in considering the constitutional merits of the DMCA, just whether Eric Corley violated the statute as written. (Which he did. It's a bad law, but DeCSS pretty clearly circumvents an access control device, and the law doesn't care for what purpose - all such circumvention is proscribed.) This is one for the appellate courts, IMHO.

-Isaac