Wow! So the US *actually* want to create backdoors in US software that foreign states can exploit?
I can almost hear the non-US intelligence agencies shout with joy! =o)
Not that I have any reason to encrypt my mail, etc, but as a non-US citizen I'm glad to have that choice if I were to mail sensitive information sometime in the future.
I hope for the sake of the US that such a stupid law never is passed.
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That's no worry anyway, since I can send and recieve E-mail through SMS.
And since my SMS adress is my mobile-phone number, I can switch to a phone that supports the "final" standard when it comes and keep my adress/phone number.
(I the new phone doesn't change the cardstandard too...)
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Well... There *are* a standard.
But that's european, so why should US companies bother about them, right?;-)
And they would bend *in the wrong direction*, taking a turn through the powersupply before going to the destination.
And instead of not sending electrons down a wire to represent a zero, he would us *a second cpu*, connected with another wire going to the same place. This would send a serie of signals indicating that "that one there is actually a zero now".;-)
(That is, if he design chips the way he design biological systems, like humans for an example.)
There's an obvious problem with using electronic cpu-cores and optic interconnects.
You'd have to put a "electric to light" converter in one end of the fiber and a "light to electric" in the other.
Those converters would take up lots of space inside the chips, generate lots of heat and connecting the chips would be a major hassle.
You'd also have to use one fiber for each direction, doubleing the amount of interconnects.
One solution, and I know people are working on this, is to build optic cpu's.
Haven't got any links though.:-/
A little now and then, news about optical logic chips float around but I've haven't heard anything in a while now.
Heard that song by "S.P.O.C.K."? =-)
(A swedish synth-pop band that makes a lot of Star-Trek related lyrics.)
They've got a homepage at http://www.subspace.se/spock/
But isn't it illegal to use someone elses smtp-server without permissiont?
If so, no new laws would be nessecary since most spam goes through badly configured smtp-servers.
On the other hand, the general public knows very little about fuel cells and do not automatically associate it with hydrogen, methanol and other flamable substances.:-)
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Hmm... But compare todays PS1 titles with the ones it shipped with.
The same thing will happen to PS2.
Once developers learn to take advantage of the hardware, titles will become much better.
The shipping titles, that people were so dissapointed with, were probably developed in a hurry. Possibly even developed for the PS1, suddenly retargeted for the PS2.
And then it's the problem that curses *all* consoles.
If they wait too long, the wopping capabilities of the X-box won't be that cool anymore.
In half a year/one year, new hardware will surpass the X-box's "old" hardware by far.
Sorry... The unit's only got one ethernet-port.
Can't route or firewall anything...:-(
But as a webserver/mailserver/fileserver/etc it would probably work pretty good.:-)
Wonder if it can boot off the harddrive though.
And the small memory size could become a problem.
Is there anyone who knows what chipset/busses/etc it runs on anyway?
Ah! What the heck!
Why not construct a device that generates electricity from the moon's rotation around the earth instead?
(Then patent it and get payed by the oil-companies not to let anyone produce it!)
There is one easy solution: Don't use AOL.
If they're doing filtering, or in other ways are sabotageing your netconnection, move to another provider...
Maybe their funds are drying up and are trying to hype lasertechnology for the oil companies to make them invest large sums of money?
It's not an uncommon thing to overhype something in order to gain investors.:-)
You're supposed to be able to phone MS, tell them your ID (apparently derrived from various hardware stuff) and then get a 20 digit number to enter as your activation key if you haven't got a internet-connection.
If I've not missunderstod the concept, you have to get a *new* key *every* time you change your hardware in a fashion that alters this ID.
Great fun for administrators. =-)
We're running ghost to install new machines or repair a corrupt installation.
Wonder how they're planning to solve stuff like that.
Or maybe they'll do what they usually do.
Say: "It's not a microsoft propriertary standard, so it's not supported by our OS"
I've also heard that there's a bug in Active Directory. It was found last spring and MS is working on a patch, but to use the patch you'll have to uppgrade your servers from 2000.
(It seems like Win2000 allready is legacy and not supported anymore;-)
"but I see them as eventually becoming ubiquitous devices "
Hmm... Allready happened, I think.
Once you start looking around you, you see people talking in their phones everywhere.
But, at least I, do not think about it if I'm not actively trying to spot them.
And as far as I've gathered, an "ubiquitous devices" is a device that's all around you without you noticing it.
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Ho hum...
:o/
;o)
Wonder if it's possible to configure it to ignore me tapping my fingers.
Maybe something that will ignore tappings at the same bpm as the playing mp3.
You could use a tape-raid solution. :o)
Wow! So the US *actually* want to create backdoors in US software that foreign states can exploit?
I can almost hear the non-US intelligence agencies shout with joy! =o)
Not that I have any reason to encrypt my mail, etc, but as a non-US citizen I'm glad to have that choice if I were to mail sensitive information sometime in the future.
I hope for the sake of the US that such a stupid law never is passed.
That's no worry anyway, since I can send and recieve E-mail through SMS.
And since my SMS adress is my mobile-phone number, I can switch to a phone that supports the "final" standard when it comes and keep my adress/phone number.
(I the new phone doesn't change the cardstandard too...)
Well... There *are* a standard. ;-)
But that's european, so why should US companies bother about them, right?
And they would bend *in the wrong direction*, taking a turn through the powersupply before going to the destination. ;-)
And instead of not sending electrons down a wire to represent a zero, he would us *a second cpu*, connected with another wire going to the same place. This would send a serie of signals indicating that "that one there is actually a zero now".
(That is, if he design chips the way he design biological systems, like humans for an example.)
There's an obvious problem with using electronic cpu-cores and optic interconnects.
:-/
You'd have to put a "electric to light" converter in one end of the fiber and a "light to electric" in the other.
Those converters would take up lots of space inside the chips, generate lots of heat and connecting the chips would be a major hassle.
You'd also have to use one fiber for each direction, doubleing the amount of interconnects.
One solution, and I know people are working on this, is to build optic cpu's.
Haven't got any links though.
A little now and then, news about optical logic chips float around but I've haven't heard anything in a while now.
Heard that song by "S.P.O.C.K."? =-)
(A swedish synth-pop band that makes a lot of Star-Trek related lyrics.)
They've got a homepage at http://www.subspace.se/spock/
But isn't it illegal to use someone elses smtp-server without permissiont?
If so, no new laws would be nessecary since most spam goes through badly configured smtp-servers.
Well, the USA has got a lot of excess guns. Why not use them for a better purpose than
selling them to idiots and shoot all spammers instead?
=-)
Who are actually a swedish band. :-)
Not surprising really.
The 386 is a very stable cpu, proven in space-conditions and it's apparenly quite resistent to radiation induced errors.
Will my laptop come with a free radiation suit? =-)
On the other hand, the general public knows very little about fuel cells and do not automatically associate it with hydrogen, methanol and other flamable substances. :-)
Hmm... But compare todays PS1 titles with the ones it shipped with.
The same thing will happen to PS2.
Once developers learn to take advantage of the hardware, titles will become much better.
The shipping titles, that people were so dissapointed with, were probably developed in a hurry. Possibly even developed for the PS1, suddenly retargeted for the PS2.
And then it's the problem that curses *all* consoles.
If they wait too long, the wopping capabilities of the X-box won't be that cool anymore.
In half a year/one year, new hardware will surpass the X-box's "old" hardware by far.
"Use it for a cheap firewall or router."
:-(
:-)
Sorry... The unit's only got one ethernet-port.
Can't route or firewall anything...
But as a webserver/mailserver/fileserver/etc it would probably work pretty good.
Wonder if it can boot off the harddrive though.
And the small memory size could become a problem.
Is there anyone who knows what chipset/busses/etc it runs on anyway?
Another idéa is the kinetic projectiles (not sure about the spelling) in Peter F. Hamilton's Nights dawn trillogy.
Rods of a heavy material accellerated to high velocity in orbit and then pointed at the target at the surface.
It says that it refracts *microwaves* with a negative refraction. Not light.
Acually, it specifically says that it does *not* bend light...
Well... If it doesn't fade away, the community will eventually get bigger.
Ah! What the heck!
Why not construct a device that generates electricity from the moon's rotation around the earth instead?
(Then patent it and get payed by the oil-companies not to let anyone produce it!)
There is one easy solution: Don't use AOL.
If they're doing filtering, or in other ways are sabotageing your netconnection, move to another provider...
Ever read the comic "Cobra"?
He had a really cool "psycho" laser that could bend. =-)
Maybe their funds are drying up and are trying to hype lasertechnology for the oil companies to make them invest large sums of money? :-)
It's not an uncommon thing to overhype something in order to gain investors.
You're supposed to be able to phone MS, tell them your ID (apparently derrived from various hardware stuff) and then get a 20 digit number to enter as your activation key if you haven't got a internet-connection.
;-)
If I've not missunderstod the concept, you have to get a *new* key *every* time you change your hardware in a fashion that alters this ID.
Great fun for administrators. =-)
We're running ghost to install new machines or repair a corrupt installation.
Wonder how they're planning to solve stuff like that.
Or maybe they'll do what they usually do.
Say: "It's not a microsoft propriertary standard, so it's not supported by our OS"
I've also heard that there's a bug in Active Directory. It was found last spring and MS is working on a patch, but to use the patch you'll have to uppgrade your servers from 2000.
(It seems like Win2000 allready is legacy and not supported anymore
"but I see them as eventually becoming ubiquitous devices "
Hmm... Allready happened, I think.
Once you start looking around you, you see people talking in their phones everywhere.
But, at least I, do not think about it if I'm not actively trying to spot them.
And as far as I've gathered, an "ubiquitous devices" is a device that's all around you without you noticing it.