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Actress/Inventor Hedy Lamarr dies
No Such Agency writes "Wired News reports that Hedy Lamarr has died at the age of 86. Lamarr was not only a sex symbol and film star in the 30's-40's but also invented 'spread-spectrum' or frequency-hopping radio (with composer George Antheil). Originally intended to provide jamming-proof communications and remote torpedo control, the technology is one of the foundations of modern wireless communications, including wireless internet connections and GPS. Unfortunately their innovation was not appreciated until after their patent had expired. You can read more about Lamarr and spread-spectrum radio here."
so i guess he's the one we blame when we all get cancer from using our cell phones?
: )
-- Went home. Had to feed the kids.
Slashdot really needs to separate the dead-people articles from the technology articles. We're all too addicted to just not click on the story.
she was totally hot in "White Cargo" (an otherwise terrible movie) but who knew she
was a thinker? you'd never know from her
film roles.
"That's Hedley!"
garyr
-- your Web browser is Ronald Reagan
It's Headly!
I would like to blast the mainstream media (and, I suppose, mainstream culture) for regarding acting as more worthy of attention than invention. This will all change after the Geek Revolution (heh).
-- $SIGNATURE
...of the garage revolution. A composer and an actress coming up with a breakthrough in communications technology. Far out. I'm rethinking my whole approach:
/. tend to assume that the beautiful people are lusers.
Wanted: Hollywood starlets and composers to assist in next generation web development architecture. Must have interest in compression technology, just-in-time compilers and self modifying code. Large, firm breasts and/or
appreciation of Irving Berlin a plus. Competitive salaries, call today.
In all seriousness, I like this story in that is provides a (admittedly anecdotal) refutation to the frequently expressed opinion that only stereotypical geeks can contribute to technology. Some geeks have bulging biceps or a knack for (american) football. Some geeks are cute. Too many of us on
--Shoeboy
To Hedy Lamarr, the original, never-to-be forgotten, Tech Talking Babe.
TOYWAR!!
Finding God in a Dog
What's this about "Too bad the implications of her idea weren't discovered until after the patent lapsed," or something to that effect? I thought we were all against patents here?
-Ross
http://users.deltanet.com/users/d stickne/hedy.htm
Hmm... many of them are black and white, like a statue....
Oh my God. You mean back then you could be a sex symbol and still be smart?
kwsNI
See this wired link
I remember the 1989 Carnegie Hall
version. I don't remember it in any detail,
but I remember it kicked butt. We are not
talking a trivial film composer here.
but then I like Milton Babbit too.
garyr
-- your Web browser is Ronald Reagan
Hedy Lamarr must be about the closest thing to a geek guy's ideal woman. She was certainly a hot chick in her day. Just look at that Corel Draw picture of her that Corel uses for their. But before today I'd *no* idea she was an engineering genius.
The orginal Techno-Talking Babe!(TM)
Consciousness is not what it thinks it is
Thought exists only as an abstraction
I heard it from Paul Harvey (true!) That she and her composer friend were thinking about the jamming problem, and she simple asked "why does it have to be on one frequency?" Thus the invention of spread spectrum broadcasting.
:)
Not sure if it's true, but sometimes the best inventions come from people who aren't knee deep in the problem already.
Coincidentally, Hedy Lamarr is also the face on the package of CorelDRAW. IIRC, she successfully sued Corel for using her image without prior authorization.
Personally, I think Corel should pay for a permanent memorial to her, in recognition for her services both in entertainment AND technology. (Given Corel's extremely unpleasent treatment of her in the past, such as false allegations in order to overturn a lawsuit filed against them, it is the least they can do.)
I also think that there should be some kind of fund, linking not only Hedy Lamarr but other well-known female geeks, nerds and innovators, to go to educating women (kids, teachers and parents) that it's OK to think, OK to earn decent money whilst clothed & vertical, and VERY OK to be interested in technology.
Is this person's death -that- important? YES! The fewer role-models that can speak out, the less chance there is of change. And society, frankly, sucks. The average person seems to keep their brains at waist-height, and technology is something people avoid like the plague. (More than a few -blame- it for the plague.) We need people who can stand up and say that intelligence is OK, that we were born with brains, and they aren't just for decoration in gorefest movies.
Sadly, those who -do- think about high-tech think "big machines, big budgets, big teams, egg-heads on Penguin Mints, and Military Backing". They don't think "piano", which is how Hedy came up with the idea of shifting frequencies. They don't think "storms & a compass", which is how Marconi developed the radio. They don't think "growing cells" or "living beings", which were the roots behind Alan Turing's and Von Neuman's developments in computing.
In the end, I doubt anyone will do a damn thing, in memory of this ingenious lady, to improve education, or to improve women's standing in society. But there ya go. What can you expect?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I like to do that.
It isn't until they're in my secret laboratory, and have signed a non-disclosure agreement, that they realize I brought them there TO TURN THEM INTO GRANITE STATUES by means of an Open-source Patent-pending Method For Transforming Girls Into Granite Statues*
*patent pending
Well, that was quick. I submitted this, and by the time I had refreshed it had been marked down.
But anyway, This is an intresting dicotomy here. When that Unix guy died, the one who's books we'd all read (well, I hadn't, but anyway) We were all up in arms at the trolls. But here? we pay the trolls no mind at all, most arn't even -1'd yet.
In fact, most of the so-called legitemate posts arn't even any less offensive. "Who knew you could be hot and smart?" Well, I did. Quite lame.
yeah .. the he/she thing was a typo on my part
-- Went home. Had to feed the kids.
"You ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're dreaming or awake?"
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
Maybe a Slashdot Hedy Lamarr Award for the most outstanding contribution made by a woman in the last year?
Hey, it could work.
TOYWAR!!
Finding God in a Dog
Interesting that the Wired article didn't link to an earlier Wired article mostly about George Antheil's masterpiece for the player piano, Ballet mécanique . Although mostly about Antheil, it also contains more information about Lamarr and spread spectrum later in the article. It's a fascinating read about a man's unreachable dreams of a mechanized symphony of player pianos finally coming to life after his death, using modern music technologies.
God bless you, Hedy. You're missed
Much Love,
"S"HM
*****
(I refuse to spellcheck out of contempt for your belief system)
Oh, sure, my submission about the passing of Ms. Lamarr gets rejected. Not that I'm bitter, mind you...
Anyway, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a story about her passing, inclding some nic e photos of her. They also had an overview of her spread spectrum invention.
Hedy was also honored by the EFF with a Pioneer Award in 1997 for her spread spectrum work.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions
but some women really are men, like judge judy or gwyneth paltrow
"Hey, Tone; who'd you rather have sex with: Amelia Earhart or Betty Page?"
"Hank, I tell ya: Betty's got the package, right? Tits, abs, ass-she's built. But flyin' across the Atlantic solo? Man, that shit is hot."
In 2 years, it was by far the most well reasoned, least sexist thing I ever heard him say.
Tone would see the allure of Hedy, no problem. She's Betty's body with Amelia's soul.
Much Love,
"S"HM
*****
(I refuse to spellcheck out of contempt for your belief system)
now, give credit where credit's due.
de-karma bizatches!@@#!!
This is the first time I have ever heard of Hedy Lamarr the actress and the inventor!
Yay me!
Wish I had heard of her invention(s) before...
Insert mind here.
nuff saID!!!
Actually most of the "actresses" I have met actually prefer to be called actors. There was this one girl who told me that only airhead bimbos call themselves actresses. :)
Q.
..even. AND she was Austrian, oh baby.
As the evening wore on, Lamarr began outlining her idea for a sophisticated antijamming device for use in radio-controlled torpedoes. If this seems out of character for a 26-year old film beauty, the fact is that not only did Lamarr possess a first-class mind but she also had listened to her husband's dinner-table business discussions with customers for his armaments. After all, Fritz Mandl's Hirtenberger Patronen-Fabrik had supplied much of the equipment Benito Mussolini used when his troops invaded Ethiopia in 1935.
Seastead this.
Am I crazy or was there a character called Hedly Lamar (note the L in hedly) in the movie Blazing Saddles?
I've never put the two together before but the thought just popped in my head. Was this a coincedence or an homage?
-scuz me while I whip this out...
"But dude, it's your MOM."
I *MUST* have the sword you describe. Where can I find this castle you speak of? Who is Harkyn?
Is he willing to sell the sword?
Does he have a cute daughter? If he lives in a castle, he must be some kind of king or something, which would make her some kind of princess, and I *LOVE* turning princesses to stone!!!!
"Hello, Princess"
PRINCESS: "Is that a large sword in your sheath, or are you just happy to see me?"
"I AM happy to see you, but it's actually... the STONE SWORD!!!!!!!"
PRINCESS: "........."
"Now I have my way with you, Princess"
***WHOOSH, HOO YEAH***
I must know more about this sword!
Please!
Speaking of lateral thinking, that's a far better idea than the one I came up with. Hat's off to you.
How about it Slashdot? If you want I'll start developing products that we can sell...proceeds to go to the Hedy Lamarr Award for Lateral Thinking.
TOYWAR!!
Finding God in a Dog
You are *RIGHT ON*!!!
Smart women are for more than just inventing stuff and looking good.
THEY'RE FOR TURNING TO STONE!!!!!!
...because there's that nagging fear that those hot chix0rs in highschool that wouldn't give them the time of day might have been uber-geeks in the privacy of their own homes.
SUGGESTION
As a prize to the winner, we TURN HER TO STONE.
Then, EVERYBUDDY wins!!!!
how to turn women to stone?
You know the Bible quite well so I'm asking you.
The Bible doesn't mention turning girls to stone. So is it a good thing or a bad thing????? Is it sinful??
PLEASE ANSWER.
NOT JUST IN THE KITCHEN, BUT:
-IN THE KITCHED
-BAREFOOT
-NAKED
-PETRIFIED
I'd rather see naked and petrified AC's. Not because I'd lust after them, but because then they'll SHUT UP ABOUT PETRIFIED WOMEN.
as i sit here drinking my glass of red wine (for my high cholesterol), smoking a cigarette (to replenish that coating of tar i lost when i had to abstain from smoking due to an earth-scorching case of bronchitis) and browsing alt.binaries.nospam.teenfem while waiting (forever) for the slashdot pages to load, i can't help but to make an observation here.
when trying to come to grips with a situation like this, one must always ask oneself, "what would natalie portman do in this situation." this couldn't be any more appropriate than in this situation. after all, hedy lamarr was a hot young actress once!
well, one thing i can assure you, natalie portman is not reading a slashdot story about the death of hedy lamarr. harsh, yes... but true. so, what would natalie portman be doing?
i can only answer this by thinking about what i would be doing if i was natalie portman. if i was natalie portman, i think i would be standing, naked, in front of the mirror. i would be touching myself sensually. i would explore the new curves budding on my chest. i would explore the firmness of my swelling buttocks. i would carefully explore that new (open) source of goodness thriving between my legs.
i guess what i'm trying to say is, shutdown your browser (don't worry, slashdot will load back up in an hour or so), go grab a barely 18 and go do some exploring in the bathroom.
that's what natalie would be doing and that's what i'm gonna do!
thank you.
A Canadian company specializing in wireless technology, Wi-Lan,acquired the original patent from Lamarr for "spread spectrum" technology back in 1998. Wi-Lan claimed that they were going to promote her role in developing the technology but sadly, I never saw much of that (I live in Canada and recall reading the article in June/98 in TCP, before Wi-Lan's apparent "discovery" by investors). The long overdue credit could still happen, but it's not the same once the co-inventor is dead (Lamarr's husband helped invent SST).
Read about it here
http://www.wilan.com/news/press/press23a.html
Could someone pleeeease let me in on this? Don't MAKE me get Kibo on yo' ass.
She was also in the news in '98 when she sued Corel for using her picture on the CorelDraw box without permission.
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Not Hedy, HEDLY LAMARR!
I was banned from Nitrozak's SHITTY message board just for speaking the TRUTH. That stuff is EVIl!!! Nitrozak and her friends are ******EVIL COMMUNISTS*******
KICK them in the heads.
People who ban me are evil!!
Here's a quote from the San Francisco Chronicle obit (near the bottom):
... and lawyer Lewis W. Boies Jr
:-) :-)
She was married and divorced six times -- to
Could this lawyer be any relation to the Boies hired by the DoJ who did such a wonderful job against M$?
And moderators -- lighten up! laugh, it's funny!
:-)
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Infuriate left and right
It was obvious from the title what this was about. I happened to be particularly interested because I was in a discussion just yesterday about her invention of spread spectrum.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Its Headly!@#
;)
Wiggeda Wiggeda Wack - Kriss Kross
Outside of the obvious things that she did for science and the Allied forces during WWII- as well as the simple fact that I would not have a modem if not for her, the one thing that sticks in my mind is this:
After her accomplishments were turned over to the Government for the war effort, they did not welcome her into the halls of the nations think tanks.
Instead, they asked her to sell her sex appeal as a spokesmodel for the sale of U.S. war bonds.
Out of sheer patriotism, she did.
I'm just happy that she has started to recieve some of the respect that she's had coming for so long, and that the EFF was good enough to say 'thanks' while she was still alive.
CLICK HERE, and then click on the SECOND PICTURE on the SECOND ROW.
ENJOY!
its your fucking problem for looking up ada, the language of the military power structre.
use GNAT, developed at NYU!!!
If you know how to do a web search, then search, and learn the truth.
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
I've read quite a bit about Nikola Tesla and his inventions, and I'm certain he invented this system right after the turn of the century.
He invented radio, patented it, and in 1893 gave a lecture about it and published it free for everyone in the world to use. He was then totally ripped off by Marconi around the turn of the century when he made the first transatlantic broadcast using the exact same apparatus that Tesla had described in the paper he published.
At this time, Tesla was trying to push the government to adopt his system of wireless war machines that could do battle without having humans be sitting ducks inside them. He demonstrated a model boat at the world's fair that was not only wireless, but used spread spectrum techonology to encrypt its signal. Nobody, of course picked up on this.
He went on to invent radar and offered to build radar systems for the government in the late 1920's, but they refused, and were forced to play catchup in 1938 and develop their own radar system.
If you'd like some more information about Tesla, go check out this short article about his major achievements: http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/ tesla/tesla.html.
Tesla was not a crackpot, like a lot of people who know nothing about the man seem to think. This view was created by Thomas Edison who spent a large portion of his life trying to smash Tesla's image, and he ended up succeeding very well.
- Chris
You're an Anonymous Coward. We'll turn YOU to stone first.
SEXY, BRAH, **VERY** **SEXY***
NOW HOW BOUT SOME HEMOS PETRIFICATION, BRAH?
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Actually.. I think saying 'Spread Spectrum' covers more than just Frequency Hopping....
There is Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum.. and I'm sure there are/will be others....
Freq. Hopping is when you shift carrier frequencies arond within the wider spectrum (hence, spread) that you are using.
Direct Sequence is a lot wierder (very closely tied in to CDMA... or rather, I think CDMA is an extension of DSSS). In direct sequency, you simply 'spread' the signal over the whole wide spectrum at once.... and the special way the signal is coded gives it redundancy, and makes it hide.
in FHSS, on a spectrum analyzer, a definite pattern of carriers on different frequencies shows up.. ina proper bell curve around the center frequency. (I think it's a bell.. something similar anyway).
in DSSS, on a spectrum analyzer, a 'plateau' is all you see.. with fuzz under it.
I will give you another one of my alternate e-mail addresses, since I don't want to give out my real e-mail addresses here:
bigmac@itookmyprozac.com
I am "naked and petrified guy", I am not "hot grits guy" or "open source man". WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT PEOPLE WITH OUR OWN IDENTITIES!!!
So e-mail me, because I don't know what you want "in on". You'll have to be more specific. Or "get Kibo on" my ass. That sounds FUN. Now, I'm no expert, but Kibo sounds really messed-up.
I'm with you. I haven't read a decent slashdot comment in a looong time.
...of course, the other alternative is to cremate her, smoke her ashes, and get stoned, incidentally jamming radio frequencies.
...but, that sounds more likely than waiting for some good slashdot moderation.
Please, moderate this *story* down, so we can get some News already.
Actually, here, I'll help. It's POSSIBLE SLASHDOT STORYTIME, boys and girls!
Let me just search through the OBITUARIES real quick.
OH MY GOD! Did you know that at least FOUR important people DIE in every MAJOR CITY in every AMERICAN NEWSPAPER, every DAY?!?!?!
I'll list a few here so you'll all be posted for tomorrow.
Seattle
Boston
Grosse Pointe
This just in: Only famous people in America in big cities *actually* die!
And you can read all about it in Slashdot! "News for Nerds; Dead people that Mattered".
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BLOW IT OUT YER ASS
I wouldn't want to have sex with EITHER of them. I'd rather turn them TO STONE.
:) Cute. A few additions / corrections:
:)
;)
aviator - aviatrix (I believe Amelia Earheart objected to the term)
gigolo - prostitute
All the ones with "man" ending them -- usually replaced by "woman". (I think it's Hebrew -- "of man" -- of course, that's also offensive. But, if it was supposed to be "of woman", then we'd be "wowoman", and we'd just wander around all day going "whoa"... "WHOA!"... and not get any work done.
king -- queen
...and remember, guys, for every dollar a man earns, a woman gets ~ 60 cents. So if you're wondering why you work all day and only get 40 cents to the dollar, it's those darn women.
I just had a sooper jesus orgasm thinking about DISTANCE EDUCation!
imagine thgat, doods!!!!!!
31337 for us kiddies!
Hedy Lamarr's patent partner, George Antheil, was also no slouch at premature applications of future technologies. His riot-inciting work, Ballet Mécanique required sixteen synchronized player pianos to sound right. This wasn't technically possible until 1991, and first performed correctly in 1999 so perhaps the "George Antheil award for premature killer apps" is in order too... Anyway we geeks will miss you, Hedy!
THAT's how he'd be ahead of his time!
Apparently you only get this famous after you die and you finally can't stop the media from talking about you--it sounds like the story of her life.
Here's a link from before she died...
MIT Inventors
Now, the Forbes article was pretty good. I can understand how someone with her background could help out on an idea like this, but she certainly didn't invent it outright, which is what the Wired article sounds like. Maybe we could have gotten the full story before, but she's dead now, and let the media make a story about it all they want, they always do...
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I know this *really* hot muslim chick and god! what I would give for her to be naked and petrified and in my house!
if only allah would hear my prayers
(perhaps Ada Lovelace was the penultimate original tech talking babe, but can't forget Nitrozac either .. oh my)
Tesla is one guy who really got screwed by history. I remember back in the day (OK, early 90s when I was still *listening* to Tesla, the band) doing some research for a college paper on Tesla. He was also the one that pressed for the use of Alternating Current when Edison was pushing for Direct Current. We all know which one is more widely used, but somehow, we all think Edison came up with that idea.
Tesla was, however, very eccentric which didn't help his image any.
we all know beautiful women aren't smart -- look at all the women in comp-sci
What are you talking about? All the woman I've ever seen in Comp-Sci have been unnatractive nerds. I mean, not that I'm not an unatractive nerd, but I wouldn't want to date one.
Like everyone in CS, they range from smart to stupid. And like everyone in CS, they are mostly stupid. Most will probably drop down to MIS where they can hurt more people with there stupidy. (I'm talking about all CS-students, not jsut girls here).
Anyway, all CS-girls are ugly, so I don't see how you can make any sort of point.
Don't give up on your dreams of naked+petrified girls. NEVER give up on your dreams of naked+petrified girls.
Maybe paganism holds the answers? I know these Wiccan dudes who claim they know how to turn girls to stone. I'm going to give them money, and they're going to tell me how. It'll be SWEET.
A thread based on something NEW!!!
We only have 3 more posts of the same thing today and one more every 6 mos. That is until the Andover stock drops.
UGH
Better luck tomorrow.
Someone dies
Someone posts to slashdot with a link to "hot pics" of said person, and gets a score+1 informative?
"Subtle Mind control? why do html buttons say submit?",
ReadThe ReflectionEngine, a cyberpunk style n
Wow, ur kewl.
You replaced all the sentances that he said, with ones meaning the opposite. asside from 'no-god' being an absolutly stupid hack, this type of argument is usualy only used to invalidate, therefor you simply devalued both arguments by posting it. Ah well, stupid chistians. whatever
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Feedin' crap to the trolls, until they barf.
The hard transfer limit for this user has been reached
Not everyone has a site that can be slashdotted. Not everyone can afford it. I think in this case, someone has web hosting with limits, and we exceeded them.
A page that is probably lucky to get maybe a few hundred hits a month has probably been hit more tonight then it has in it's entire existance. In this case, some person's content may be totally inaccessable to others until their next billing period, which is sad.
Slashdot needs to remember this before linking a url in an article like that.
Problem is, I don't have a solution. Any suggestions?
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Intelligence is definitely a recessive trait.
Don't you know? Our open source socialist pamphlet distributing countries actively clone cute teenage girls and turn them to stone!!! Socialism and cute petrified teenage girls go hand in hand!!!
In case anyone missed it, the German film Ecstasy which launched Hedy Lamarr's career had a nude scene. It's quite tasteful by today's standards, and no, there's no petrification involved.
And if it doesn't disturb you to ogle the body of someone who is now dead, you should perhaps reconsider. And if you find it disturbing that someone posted this comment, then you're probably right.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
A few comments:
1. I've never heard of Bill Klinton
2. Socialism is not necessarily the same as Communism
3. Communists and Nazis are complete opposites, as well as arch-enemies.
sup
Hey dude if you think east coast liberals are bad STAY AWAY FROM THE LEFT COAST!
Out there the paganist homolesbian communists have taken over the government for the decent God-fearing Americans by using the vote of the half-breed Mexican. In fact the left coast is home to the worlds largest population of homolesbian sodomists, half-breed mexicans asians and negroes, and computer "scientists". Is this a coincidence? I think not.
Why reply anonamously? Be proud to be the athiest you are. But since we've gotten into the whole spiritual thing, why not just worship me not as a god, or God but as a man not a deity. I say it's good for women to do their thing, in fact I have a thing for good-looking women that can apreciate the geek speek. Let them love me and i'll love them (unless they're piggies, tons of them at my school). Be happy that they do something instead of spend your money! Please for my cell phone's sake.. let the women think, and sure let them think they are superior whatever. it's all perspective. Even all that hippe christain stuff.
My first wife was extremely beautiful, almost (but not quite) on par with Hedy Lamarr. She was well educated and articulate. My first wife was also a pathological liar, a compulsive shoplifter, sexually cold and distant, a check kiter, and occasional drunkard. She was mixed up in credit card fraud and all sorts of petty larceny. She was the perfect con artist and because of her beauty I've seen her con cops and judges in court. She beat many a rap.
She had a mean temper when drinking, and was bulemic to boot. Well, my friends all envied me because she was so poised and lovely to look at. If they only knew ...
Moral: beauty is only skin deep. I know oh how I know. Hedy Lamarr once said something to the effect that ``any woman can be glamorous, just stand still and look dumb''.
Yeah, true, _now_ - but think history, man.
She was an actress in the 1930s-50s, and that's what they said back then.
No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.
A pretty good Hedy Lamarr Website can be found at www.hedylamarr.at . It's in German as well as in English, an offers some nice information about her Invention.
http://www.techmall.com/techdocs/TS970826-16.html http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/didyouknow.1.html http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/inventorsI-Q/lamarr. html
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Yes, they are told to have IQ in the 130s.
What are they inventing?
But probably you can make much more money in world-class acting vs. inventing now than in the 30s.
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Men with no respect for life must never be allowed to control the ultimate instruments of death.
GW Bu
The story of the "Secret Communications System" patent is truly one of the most incredible stories I've ever heard, (wouldn't it make a great film?) and a look at the patent is a real eye-opener for people who are familiar with modern digital technology.. Why? Because the design was for a digital system built with analog components..
And the person who said that Hedy and George had given their patent to the government in hopes of helping to stop Hitler was right..Hedy had seen facists and facism at close hand.. and so had my father, and they both knew what was at stake..
in spite of this, Hedy was still looked at suspiciously as an "enemy alien" by some.. :(
She was married off by her family when she was stillin her teens, and was kept virtual prisoner in Austria as a "trophy bride" of the Austrian arms magnate Fritz Mandel a few years before the war, and she literally had to drug a maid in order to flee..
While being forced to sit at the dinner table with her husband and his facist friends, who included high-ranking Nazi military officials, she built up a knowledge of military technology and carried that with her when she fled to London. (where Samuel Goldwyn, I think, gave her a ticket to the US) She met my father at a party at Janet Gaynor's house, and asked him if he could help her turn what was then a valid, but unformed idea into something that could work..(My father had a reputation in Hollywood as an experimental musician and as somebody who was familiar with the latest in technology..)
It took them about six months to do the whole process, and the patent is really interesting.
Hedy and George never made a penny from the patent, which was really unjust, I think, because the government had classified it as "Top Secret" and made the commercial utilization of the invention difficult. Just after the patent expired, in 1960, it began to see commercial use..(in the Cuban Missle Crisis) Its now the main secure communications technology in use in Milstar, the US govt's 25 billion dollar "survivable" satellite communications system. Spread Spectrum is, in addition to being an incredibly efficient way to send data, inherently secure.. (one needs to know the code, in order to read the message..or usually, even know a message exists..)
By the way, spread spectrum holds out another possibility with startling implications.. It could be used to create a new television and/or radio broadcasting service that would be able to, in any given geographic area, accomodate the broadcast of many, many more channels of information, at higher quality, than we have now, eliminating scarcity on the airwaves and the battles over bandwidth .. Just imagine, community radio, community television, creativity, true democracy of the airwaves, and perhaps, even, no need for a license to broadcast..and no more canned satellite shows..
That possibility scares some interests tremendously. And its something worth fighting for.
They have digital radio in Europe, why not here?
Guess why...
Anyway, my father died about six weeks after I was born, so I never knew him.. But I definitely did inherit his interest in communications technology...and music..and now that I know the real story, I'm very proud of him..
Now if only I could only get my only two relatives on this planet to stop saying I'm "blackmailing" them for simply being open about my father..(Its a generational thing, I guess. my mother and father weren't married, big deal..)
By the way, thanks for an excellent site, I read it almost every day..
Chris Beaumont
chris@ncafe.com
Funny. I have found no comments about the fact that according to the IMDB bio (link in the article), she was arrested two times for shoplifting (in 1966 and 1991).
Had she used her genius for Good!
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That fucking press release is offensive.
"Like Ms. Lamarr, Wi-LAN is a pioneer in the invention of spread spectrum wireless technology and we want to keep her contribution prominent as we continue to build on the technology to enhance global communication."
And invented a spaceship to fly in space.
Moderators, the parent page is highly informative, an account of a related part, besides he is the owner of one of the pages linked in the article.
But I couldn't see it, even the cached page at Google.
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I want to think perl scripts, but they
couldn't be too stupid (I mean, there is bit of variation there...
Amazing how World War II got a lot of women to do things they would never to today. With all the men fighting it was like a phsychological switch. By forcing them to take their husband's place they found that technology wasn't impossible and that seems to have carried over into the 60's. Today of course, there is no incentive for them to work and we live in a rapidly moving economy, with very high economic mobility, equal opportunity for everyone, and no women.
so we now have a TRUE hacker goddess ..
.. ;-)
'bout time if you ask me
73 de N5VB (ex-KD5BIV) AR SK
the spread-spectrum scheme that Lamarr came up with was direct-sequence, where you code across time, not across frequency tones as in frequency-hopping.
For the past few months I've been reading Slashdot's front page and avoiding reading the comments because of the idiots who post petrified crap here. (BTW, you can thank me for being a part of the clean-up at Segfault) :-)
/. into a woman-hating boy's club. It's a real shame, because I know the women that would like to contribute here, I believe /. is suffering from their absence.
/. allow women to be raped literally here, like someone did to me on my interview page?
For the first time in about 2 months I checked out the comments here because I've been getting a ton of email to check out this story. I'm furious at the sheer amount of the stone posts, I just don't think the moderation is clearing them out fast enough. I think Slashdot should ban the IPs of these abusers, because in essence if you just leave them to post, you're pushing away the many intelligent women who would like to be a part of this community, including myself.
These petrified posts, assault women, they're cleary mysogynist. I think the intent is to drive away women. It's a good way to turn
I understand that freedom of speech is important, but wouldn't you want IPs to be banned if they spewed racist hate? Why does
Nitrozac
........BANNED ME FROM HER COMMUNIST MESSAGE BOARD
I HATE HER COMMUNIST MESSAGE BOARD AND I NEVER WANT TO POST THERE, WHICH IS FINE BECAUSE THE ****************ERS BANNED ME!!
NITROZAK SUCKS
AFTER Y2K SUCKS
NITROZAK'S KOMMUNIST FRIENDS SUCK
I always thought Socialism was evil, but if I can get some naked+petrified girls out of it, SIGN ME UP.
Thanks Nitrozac for speaking up. I'm a guy, and I too find this hate-speak to be really unacceptable. I just don't understand the reasoning behind letting it continue. The only real reason I can see is that Slashdot wants the banner hits from these creeps.
/., the big backlash is coming!
Unfortunately, in the long run, it means less banner hits, as intelligent readers go elsewhere. Hey, I go to Segfault now that's it's been cleaned up, and I congratulate the guys there for making the changes.
Wake up
"If only I'd been born in Lily^H^H^H^HHedy's time, I would have been all right...."
I also keep thinking of the song from Little Shop of Horrors: "Would you like a Cadilac car? / Or a guest shot on Jack Parr? / How's about a date with Hedy Lamarr? / You're gonna get it (if you want it, baby)."
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
Now it looks like we have a choice: we can get more people like Nitrozac, or we can get more "naked and petrified" people.
I know which one has a hell of a lot more interesting things to say!
It's not just the cretinous content of the posts:
It's the drain on moderators. I'd rather moderate interesting articles up then spend all my points moderating garbage down every time I moderate. Especially when the garbage-spewers simply spew more and more garbage.
It's the strain on readers. I enjoy being confronted by lunatic fringe opinions. But the garbage isn't someone with a lunatic fringe opinion -- it's someone who's expressly out to disrupt other people's conversations.
So what to do? I think any solution has to tie posts to identity a bit stronger. I like being an AC most of the time, but I'm willing to be a pseudonymous coward if I have to -- and I'm willing to give up an e-mail address (and not some throwaway hotmail account) if that's what it takes.
How about a new level of moderation: -2, garbage. When a poster accumulates several of these, their account gets disabled.
...we're gonna get what you deserve"
"Huh?" paused Trent Reznor, puzzledly shuffling through his lyrics.
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That's my depiction of the consequences of this unrelenting woman bashing crap. There are some geeks who are incredibly territorial about the computer profession and are really hostile to women. They usually don't have a girlfriend or any serious relationships with women (okay so I'm stereotyping, but I'd bet the farm on this one), and they get what they deserve.
But then they make other geek women angry, defensive and suspicious, and then the rest of us wind up having to make up for these guys. Worse yet some women are driven away from the 'geek' lifestyle, or if they're into it, they don't jump in with the rest of us for fear of being savaged by some open source natalie portman troll, so the geek guys are stuck hanging with each other. So we wind up getting what those trolls deserve, too.
However, there is a bigger picture involved here. Geek girls don't catch 1/100th as much shit as, say, a stay at home dad. I'll also throw in Hispanic Jews, african american linux users, asian country western singers, white rappers, and women soldiers, and if you know what I am talking about when I mention those things, you'll understand that the crap geek chicks get, is nothing new in a society where everyone is assigned implicit boundaries by race, religion and gender. Knowing this won't stop the open source natalie portman crap but at least you'll know what mentality the trolls are 'bowing down' to.
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These posts sicken me. It is a deep seated hatred of women that represents them as immobile sexual objects. They are openly hostile to women.
Just read Telsa Cox's diary page (and here)to see what she thinks about Slashdot.
Naked and Petrified posts are ruining Slashdot.
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This is a two step proposal. One step is trival. The second takes a lot of work.
One possible abuse: moderators who disagree with someone's comments can abuse the "Naked and Petrified" option. Blip their comments are never seen again, until meta-moderation, and then the moderator loses only one karma point. I'm not sure how to fix this except to up the karma penalty for an unfair "Naked and Petrified" post to -5.
TOYWAR!!
Finding God in a Dog
or -6, garbage (connotations of "deep six").
Garbage. Most descriptive term I've seen yet.
Not to be confused with "innocent" fun like mmept, first post, trolls, flame wars, etc.
Probably do something like not losing moderator points but losing moderator status unless a 2/3 majority of metamoderators are in agreement.