I really think SPAM is a far greater threat, but I love torrent and P2P.
I feel the greater problem is ISP's selling me 1Megabit per second then getting upset with how I choose to use it.
I buy X Mbps and want to push max bandwidth in or out 24/7/365 I should be able to if unless they sold me some contract for less. If I choose to stream video in or out, or download P2P or serve web pages or craw web sites or what ever, I don't see it as any of their business what I choose to do with it.
Imagine if my electric company decided that it's ok for me to watch TV but I can't use a CB radio or HAM radio? What if my electric company decided I can't charge my electric car using their electricity, that I should have to buy special more expensive electricity for that.
It's the same deal.
Internet Data Packet's should be a Utility.
DATA is DATA
If they want to start to meter my usage and charge me a usage fee that is fair, let them put it in to the new contracts like cell carriers do.
But don't sabotage or censor or decided for me how I decide for me how I use my DATA.
I have been hearing this for year,
but sorry there really is NO "doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity" from video! I am really getting sick of hearing this.
Digital video is all or nothing, meaning it will play or it will not play. If you can't get enough bandwidth you net nothing! It's not like analog TV where the signal just gets degraded a bit but you can still watch it, on the net you just can't get it to play at all.
If it doesn't play most people will give up, get board and go away, back to there TV's or what ever they do and so the Internet doesn't die.
It self regulates where just a certain percentage of video is too crappy to play and people give up, and some start ups can't make their cheap crappy ISP's work and go bust.
It's not like everyone will just keep trying to use the video even when it's not working for them. They will back off.
So far youtube hasn't brought down the Internet.
There are also many architectures that allow a company like youtube to bypass much of the backbones and so they will also not effect the performance of the Internet as much as you might think. I was calling this distributed servers, now called content distribution networks, but basically, you don't put up one massive server in one place but many server as close to the views as possible minimizing the distance the video packets must travel. Thereby using a little of the Internet as possible. So even QoS and these cable-laying booms really aren't going to make any difference with video since most video doesn't go over International cables and can't use QoS unless your some large corporation paying for QoS on your H.323 Video Conferencing System.
In the end, any crying "doomsday scenarios" is like crying the sky is falling, they are just trying to grab headlines and should be treated like the idiots they are.
But with ISP taking a hostile approach, application writers could also start talking a more aggressive approach in a sort of arms race.
I know everyone has been afraid of this, but I feel that this is indeed a necessary step if some sort if truce is to be reached between USERS and their ISP's. Right now we are really fighting over our rights on how we can use the "last mile" since it's all now been consolidated into the hands of only a few companies. We have already lost our ability to choose and market freedom.
Why doesn't one of these companies just offer make deal with home owners and install there solar plants on individual roof tops. They can use the current very favorable agreements where homeowners can sell power back to the grid.
I'd take that deal.
They can come in, wire up my roof, and sell their power to me and the utilities, and I would pay my utility bill as usual, but to them and the utilities.
My payoff is knowing I am using solar instead of oil without having to kick in any upfront $$$ and they can keep all of the profits, so they get the use of my land(roof) and wires for free.
After having been programming and doing video for 30 years (www.videotechnology.com) I had recent first hand experience with recovering video, audio, images, software from old media.
It's the media formats, media failure and bit formats that are your 3 biggest enemy's.
With with USB and firewire Media format is a Non-issue since no reader will be required. Maybe also get a Firewire drive also.
The Video Should be in MPEG2. and bit format will also be a non-issue.
Get several drives, make at least 3 or more copies on different brand drives because some will fail. Wrap then in foil and air tight vacuum sealed bags.
Maybe also store in several location 100's of miles apart or on several different continents just to be safe. Caves in dessert seem to work well, or any cool dry place, where there will not be too much thermal cycling.
"thermal cycling" this last one is important, it's caused by the change in temperature from day and night and summer and winter. You want to make sure the temperature isn't changing too much where ever the drives , or any media, are going to be stored.
Total cost around $500.
Looking back over 30 years,
how many of you can still read 9 track tape, QIC40, 8 Inch Floppy's, 5 1/4, how about 3 1/4 floppies even?
What about MFM, RLL, ESDI, SMD, or Old 40 PIN SCSI drives, or pre SCSI SASI Drives?
How about Jazz or Zip Drives?
Then there is the data formats?
I have had to do this for images from 30 years ago, it's painful. Since back then there wasn't BMP or GIF even let alone JPG, it's all raw, or Run length encoded. I did some video from 1991 that is in a format called CellB a type of VQ.
Even audio from back then is painful to play back these days.
I don't expect todays video and audio will be nearly as hard to play in 20 to 30 years, but still I'd really avoid anything non-standard like flash, ON2, WM9, DIVX or the like and go with MPEG2. Even MPEG4 I am reluctant to recommend because of variation that can make playback problematic and in 20 years, it will be too late to go back and fix.
Where there is electricity there is hackers. Just as there were lock picks for as long as there were lock.
And where there is electricity, and free school and lots of computer trained graduates with no jobs and plenty of electricity and internet like in China there is a lot of potential lying around. Anybody with a few dollars in there pocket could probably get a lot of hacking done cheaply.
Heck, they out source every else to China and India, why not the hacking....
GOD, That's when you know it's not cool any longer.
On the surface the Google apps sound just as bad too. But when you get past your biases from really crappy p2p and bad software you will see that eventually the line between your PC and the network and other PC's will begin to blur.
Why not use some CPU cycle from some of the other unused PC in your home when needed, or even in your neighborhood?
How about disk space? I have some codes and algorithms that can do this now, that will allow data to be spread out in such a way that it be more secure protecting it from theft, corruption and damage.
And with other things like data bases and large files like movies or other large data sets, it's a complete waste to for everyone to keep having their own private copies they almost never access. It's in this last category there P2P has really shined, but P2P is too manual and painful. It's unreliable hit or miss right now, but it's doesn't have to be that way, it can be 100% rock solid, and transparant, and made to be as reliable as having the file on your drive RIGHT NOW!.
Think about it. Why do you want a file on your drive RIGHT NOW. Because you don't trust the system. You don't trust Bit Torrent or the web site that with that file that it will be there when you plan to use that file, let say watch the movie, in 6 month or play that mp3 for a friend some time in the future. This is why I want it have it on my disk NOW. Why I burn it to DVD. So I know I have it and it's not going to vanish and become ephemeral as so much of the Internet already is.
They are just getting ready to move forward with this 1990's style massive centralize server model of services that Google and Yahoo now dominate.
But there is a small problem with this. It's already obsolete. Yes, Distributed "GRID" , P2P style will ultimately be the next generation and it's the place where Microsoft could easily upend Google at this point.
M$ will never catch up with Google by following them in the older game, Google is really driving a lot of new research in Parallel processing and threads in C++, Linux, computing platforms and in the community as a whole and so it not just competing against Google but the whole FOSS community at once.
They need to create something that will add value to the whole computer community and not just come in and try to take over and mess up something that is already working well.
I want a P2P OS where ever PC in my office and house add to each others ability seamlessly. forget backups, and having to manage files, everything should be a cache unless I am creating it. I am sure they would already love that. But a system that is a hybrid part way between google apps / VNC / X windows / Java and Current OS's. My desktop session should be remembered between logins like VNC, but tied to a specific computer's running environment, Google Apps does this a little. A PC should boot off a P2P system, based on a Micro Kernel. It's OS components should come in over P2P as needed and most of the Hardware will act as a Cache and part of the P2P network and computing node and 1/2 community property and 1/2 graphics terminal for it's user. In return us a user are given access to 1/2 of millions of other computers out there as a resource too. At your disposal are CPU/Storage/Data.
I am just wondering what the heck is the point of this, these are not robots, are not dancing and are not on a pin. Or am I missing something here.
Just some schmuck trying to grab headlines with a cute press release and succeeded, my goodness even Slashdot fell for it.
I'd bet it will be all over the new on TV tonight though, worse yet my parent are going to be thinking of these little C3P0's with arms and legs doing waltz's and so with the other 95% of the viewers where the reality is more like they make some flecks of dust wiggle with a static charge.
Then this guy a Duke gets grants for this retarted stuff, mean while other more deserving things don't get attention.
I am sorry but I don't consider Ruby or Python as serious contenders yet (leaving some wiggle room)
And I think the jury is still out on Java. It's just such a mess even without goto's .
The fact that this site has already tipped over is a good indication of the merits this article must have. Too bad I can't read it.
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This has been in the works for a long time. Most of the cable box vendors are already standardized on DOCSIS3.0 and OCAP. OCAP is an OpenCable Application Platform that is based on Java and most cable boxes already are using it, this is why they are so darn slow when pulling up channel guides and flipping channels, and let's not forget the occasional crash.
Cable TV people don't do anything fast or radical, I don't know if I'd call them conservative as much as lethargic.
So now the marketing people have invented a new pretend technical term "tru2way" and we are supposed to believe they have done something innovative, while really they are just starting to roll out 5 year old technology. Yawn...
These cable boxes really are terrible.
At some point far enough out in the future we will just have a flat TCP/IP network for everything and everyone will live on the same even playing field.
Then I will be able to watch Star Wars IX on opening day using 3D video goggles in 4K Digital Cinema resolution on my Google IPTV Set top box streaming live in real time.
Your Dad's out in the middle of know where. This cable is only going to be in place 5 maybe 10 years max.
I'd just run it across the ground. To hell with the regulations, odd's are no one will ever know or care.
I have also found that lawn mowers will pass right over an Ethernet cable, and lawns will absorb them so they sink into the ground a bit and after a year are almost completely vanished.
And at a $150 replacement cost for the whole 500 Meter run (if you use good 100Mbps 8 Conductor Cat 5), who cares if it wears out or gets damaged.
If you use 4 conductor 24 gauge phone wire for 10Mbps Ethernet it's more like $75 for 500 Meters. https://www.allelectronics.com/
Although at 500 Meters your getting near the limit, you may need to put a router 1/2 way between and run 12v to it. To act as a signal repeater. The router could just be stuck in a paint bucket with brick on it.
Hey it ain't pretty, but it will work.
The old 50 Ohm Coax RG58/U 10Base2 cables also work great too for this sort of thing, back in the day we had the storm drains & fence lines wired up with the stuff bringing 10 Mbps internet across our neighborhood in 1987!
billions of dollars --- will eventually generate 4 gigawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes. So $1,000,000,000 can generate power for 1,300,000 this is only a cost of $770 per house!!
Can this be!?!?!?! That a $1000 per house investment gets a zero carbon wind power!
If this is so, then what the heck are they waiting for, this should have been done ages ago.
My uncle used to run embroidery machines in union New Jersey. These were built in the late 1800 and were about 100 feet long 10 feet wide and 2 stories tall with 1000's of needles stitching constantly. Literally were built as part of the building they were housed in.
Where it gets interesting is these were driven by a large mechanical computer that ran from paper punch cards. The device itself was about a 1 meter cube. There were adders, and carry, multiples, and I think even branches and loops. It used to move paper cards back and forth as it created post man patches or frillies part of ladies undergarments.
Don't know if this counts though and I think it's decommissioned anyhow, but it was sure was cool to watch.
I wonder if this is how sports fans must feel with scandals like Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson, and Mike Tyson take place.
I guess from the perspective of a computer nerd, it's hard to believe that one of our own could commit murder, and even harder to believe that he failed to get away with it.
At least the aren't testing us programmers for Steroids or other performance enhancing drugs yet. Or at least most of us anyhow.
I have know a few off shore spammers first hand (I don't approve of there professions). There is no way any of these guys could write any kind of an OCR app, maybe just off the shelf tools scripted together at best. Even that's pushing it.
So I started to look into this. From much the the research a friend and I have been doing into spam and CAPTCHA cracking we have found that many are cracked not by machine but unwitting humans.
Basic idea. Put up free porn sites that allow access if you pass a CAPTCHA test. But here is the trick, the CAPTCHA test is just a proxies off an account setup for some other service getting cracked.
So when the user desiring his free porn responds it is actually allowing the hacker entrance to a CAPTCHA protected site without having to pass some OCR/Turing test.
This eliminates the need to develop some complex piece of software. And is well withing in the skill levels of my spammer acquaintances.
So improving the complexity of CAPTCHA will have NO EFFECT!
Toshiba's project in Ghz can translate to faster CPU clock speed, I agree isn't not 1:1 but they are related.
But from first hand observations a 0.8 Micron fab Intel and Motorola's fastest was 66Mhz while Chuck's Moore's f21 Forth processor was hitting 700 Mhz in the same fab.
Anyhow if the overclockers can get to 6Ghz then this is really a matter of cooling.
Denser Fabs = high frequency and more heat. Lower voltage = lower frequency and less heat.
Because power density has been the largest limiting factor, as they shrink the size they are also reducing voltage to deal with heat, and so the expect increase in clock speeds has almost flattened out at 3 to 4 Ghz. But if you had been following the trend like we should be at well over 6Ghz by now. So instead they have been increasing transistors while keeping clock speeds the same. But with increased cooling the over clockers can hit higher speeds, and I wish they would design cpu's to run with increase cooling and higher voltages, so then we will be reliably running much faster.
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A friend of mine is investigating an interesting approach to spam.
From this article it quite clear that chasing the source of the spam is quite pointless.
His research is into tracking the destination.
Spams only make sense if they can make some money from it. This means the payload(content) must lead someplace with a URL to order, a URL with adds, or a phone number for orders.
I have to push him to post some of the more interesting stuff he has discussed in E-Mails with me.
One very odd note. My domain unmailable.com get's no spam! without any filters and addresses even posted publicly there is just no spam to it. I think they must remove any mail reference to unmailable assuming it must not be a real domain.
Toshiba Develops 60 GHz Receiver Made With CMOS Processes
June 18, 2007...Toshiba of Tokyo, Japan, reports that it has developed a new technology to manufacture integrated circuits for the millimeter-waveband. Toshiba says that its new fabrication uses low-cost CMOS processes to produce devices that can achieve high speed, wireless communication in the 60 GHz band. The company points out that at the 60 GHz frequency (which is ten times greater than wireless LAN), communication distances are limited to a few meters, but data can be transferred at a rate of more than a gigabit per second.
I totally love nerdy Asian girls, the nerdier the better, even pop bottle glasses and acne as long as she can use a computer and loves SciFi it's all good.
I didn't mean to imply some sort of promiscuous or polygamous behavior. Nerds in general tend to be incredibly loyal.
If you have ever spend time in Silicon Valley (San Jose area)in Northern California, not to be confused with Silicone Valley (Los Angeles area) in Southern California.
Or for that matter any where in the USA around hard core computer hacker/nerds (assumption of them being classic Asperger syndrome males), there is over an 90% chance of the ones lucky enough to have a girlfriend that they are northern Asian and into computers at least on some level.
Unless there Indian computer nerds at which point they would almost certainly have some absolutely gorgeous knock out white cheerleader type. I still can't figure this one out.
Why this is, I am not sure, but it just seems to be the natural order of things.
Hey I am not making this up, really.
So the reason to pair them up with a nerdy Asian girl, is to keep them in line. Prevent them from hacking porn sites and focused on hacking into the enemy's computers, while also providing some form of physical exercise, and emotional stability.
Frankly typical American women just can't/won't put up with a guy who obsessively spends over 100 hr a week in front of a computer.
I mean many chips where all specifically fab'ed in such a way as to be very sensitive to a specific frequency and permanently fail when exposed to it.
Oven, hahaha Microwave right.
You'd be amazed fixed someones Mac after is was in a house fire and sprayed with salt water.
Soaked the all the boards in a bathtub for a day, hosed down the monitor and chassis.
Put the boards in an oven at 150F for a few hours assembled it and it worked like a charm.
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I really think SPAM is a far greater threat, but I love torrent and P2P.
I feel the greater problem is ISP's selling me 1Megabit per second then getting upset with how I choose to use it.
I buy X Mbps and want to push max bandwidth in or out 24/7/365 I should be able to if unless they sold me some contract for less.
If I choose to stream video in or out, or download P2P or serve web pages or craw web sites or what ever, I don't see it as any of their business what I choose to do with it.
Imagine if my electric company decided that it's ok for me to watch TV but I can't use a CB radio or HAM radio? What if my electric company decided I can't charge my electric car using their electricity, that I should have to buy special more expensive electricity for that.
It's the same deal.
Internet Data Packet's should be a Utility.
DATA is DATA
If they want to start to meter my usage and charge me a usage fee that is fair, let them put it in to the new contracts like cell carriers do.
But don't sabotage or censor or decided for me how I decide for me how I use my DATA.
Then they are just moving you to lower quality video streams, still nothing like analog.
and eventually users will get tired of it.
I have been hearing this for year,
but sorry there really is NO "doomsday scenarios of the internet running out of capacity" from video! I am really getting sick of hearing this.
Digital video is all or nothing, meaning it will play or it will not play. If you can't get enough bandwidth you net nothing! It's not like analog TV where the signal just gets degraded a bit but you can still watch it, on the net you just can't get it to play at all.
If it doesn't play most people will give up, get board and go away, back to there TV's or what ever they do and so the Internet doesn't die.
It self regulates where just a certain percentage of video is too crappy to play and people give up, and some start ups can't make their cheap crappy ISP's work and go bust.
It's not like everyone will just keep trying to use the video even when it's not working for them.
They will back off.
So far youtube hasn't brought down the Internet.
There are also many architectures that allow a company like youtube to bypass much of the backbones and so they will also not effect the performance of the Internet as much as you might think. I was calling this distributed servers, now called content distribution networks, but basically, you don't put up one massive server in one place but many server as close to the views as possible minimizing the distance the video packets must travel. Thereby using a little of the Internet as possible. So even QoS and these
cable-laying booms really aren't going to make any difference with video since most video doesn't go over International cables and can't use QoS unless your some large corporation paying for QoS on your H.323 Video Conferencing System.
In the end, any crying "doomsday scenarios" is like crying the sky is falling, they are just trying to grab headlines and should be treated like the idiots they are.
John L. Sokol
www.videotechnology.com
I worked on implementing Error correction codes over IP some time back http://www.ecip.com/
This is what we would call part of a family of Rude protocols that would do reverse Throttling.
All of these ISP are counting on TCP being polite, but it's also counting on the network being passive or at least polite as well.
In our case we originally implemented ECIP and SPAK when we had a 100KBPS video stream and 99KBPS gave us nothing but garbage. Since video is all or nothing. http://www.videotechnology.com/jessem/all_or_nothing.html
But with ISP taking a hostile approach, application writers could also start talking a more aggressive approach in a sort of arms race.
I know everyone has been afraid of this, but I feel that this is indeed a necessary step if some sort if truce is to be reached between USERS and their ISP's. Right now we are really fighting over our rights on how we can use the "last mile" since it's all now been consolidated into the hands of only a few companies. We have already lost our ability to choose and market freedom.
Why doesn't one of these companies just offer make deal with home owners and install there solar plants on individual roof tops. They can use the current very favorable agreements where homeowners can sell power back to the grid.
I'd take that deal.
They can come in, wire up my roof, and sell their power to me and the utilities, and I would pay my utility bill as usual, but to them and the utilities.
My payoff is knowing I am using solar instead of oil without having to kick in any upfront $$$ and they can keep all of the profits, so they get the use of my land(roof) and wires for free.
After having been programming and doing video for 30 years (www.videotechnology.com) I had recent first hand experience with recovering video, audio, images, software from old media.
It's the media formats, media failure and bit formats that are your 3 biggest enemy's.
With with USB and firewire Media format is a Non-issue since no reader will be required.
Maybe also get a Firewire drive also.
The Video Should be in MPEG2. and bit format will also be a non-issue.
Get several drives, make at least 3 or more copies on different brand drives because some will fail.
Wrap then in foil and air tight vacuum sealed bags.
Maybe also store in several location 100's of miles apart or on several different continents just to be safe.
Caves in dessert seem to work well, or any cool dry place, where there will not be too much thermal cycling.
"thermal cycling" this last one is important, it's caused by the change in temperature from day and night and summer and winter. You want to make sure the temperature isn't changing too much where ever the drives , or any media, are going to be stored.
Total cost around $500.
Looking back over 30 years,
how many of you can still read 9 track tape, QIC40, 8 Inch Floppy's, 5 1/4, how about 3 1/4 floppies even?
What about MFM, RLL, ESDI, SMD, or Old 40 PIN SCSI drives, or pre SCSI SASI Drives?
How about Jazz or Zip Drives?
Then there is the data formats?
I have had to do this for images from 30 years ago, it's painful.
Since back then there wasn't BMP or GIF even let alone JPG, it's all raw, or Run length encoded.
I did some video from 1991 that is in a format called CellB a type of VQ.
Even audio from back then is painful to play back these days.
I don't expect todays video and audio will be nearly as hard to play in 20 to 30 years, but still I'd really avoid anything non-standard like flash, ON2, WM9, DIVX or the like and go with
MPEG2. Even MPEG4 I am reluctant to recommend because of variation that can make playback problematic and in 20 years, it will be too late to go back and fix.
Where there is electricity there is hackers.
Just as there were lock picks for as long as there were lock.
And where there is electricity, and free school and lots of computer trained graduates with no jobs and plenty of electricity and internet like in China there is a lot of potential lying around.
Anybody with a few dollars in there pocket could probably get a lot of hacking done cheaply.
Heck, they out source every else to China and India, why not the hacking....
GOD, That's when you know it's not cool any longer.
See, sounds great.
On the surface the Google apps sound just as bad too. But when you get past your biases from really crappy p2p and bad software you will see that eventually the line between your PC and the network and other PC's will begin to blur.
Why not use some CPU cycle from some of the other unused PC in your home when needed, or even in your neighborhood?
How about disk space? I have some codes and algorithms that can do this now, that will allow data to be spread out in such a way that it be more secure protecting it from theft, corruption and damage.
And with other things like data bases and large files like movies or other large data sets, it's a complete waste to for everyone to keep having their own private copies they almost never access.
It's in this last category there P2P has really shined, but P2P is too manual and painful. It's unreliable hit or miss right now, but it's doesn't have to be that way, it can be 100% rock solid, and transparant, and made to be as reliable as having the file on your drive RIGHT NOW!.
Think about it. Why do you want a file on your drive RIGHT NOW. Because you don't trust the system. You don't trust Bit Torrent or the web site that with that file that it will be there when you plan to use that file, let say watch the movie, in 6 month or play that mp3 for a friend some time in the future. This is why I want it have it on my disk NOW. Why I burn it to DVD. So I know I have it and it's not going to vanish and become ephemeral as so much of the Internet already is.
They are just getting ready to move forward with this 1990's style massive centralize server model of services that Google and Yahoo now dominate.
But there is a small problem with this. It's already obsolete. Yes, Distributed "GRID" , P2P style will ultimately be the next generation and it's the place where Microsoft could easily upend Google at this point.
M$ will never catch up with Google by following them in the older game, Google is really driving a lot of new research in Parallel processing and threads in C++, Linux, computing platforms and in the community as a whole and so it not just competing against Google but the whole FOSS community at once.
They need to create something that will add value to the whole computer community and not just come in and try to take over and mess up something that is already working well.
I want a P2P OS where ever PC in my office and house add to each others ability seamlessly. forget backups, and having to manage files, everything should be a cache unless I am creating it. I am sure they would already love that. But a system that is a hybrid part way between google apps / VNC / X windows / Java and Current OS's.
My desktop session should be remembered between logins like VNC, but tied to a specific computer's running environment, Google Apps does this a little.
A PC should boot off a P2P system, based on a Micro Kernel. It's OS components should come in over P2P as needed and most of the Hardware will act as a Cache and part of the P2P network and computing node and 1/2 community property and 1/2 graphics terminal for it's user. In return us a user are given access to 1/2 of millions of other computers out there as a resource too.
At your disposal are CPU/Storage/Data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_stand_on_the_head_of_a_pin%3F
But I guess the first poster already pointed that one out.
I am just wondering what the heck is the point of this, these are not robots, are not dancing and are not on a pin. Or am I missing something here.
Just some schmuck trying to grab headlines with a cute press release and succeeded, my goodness even Slashdot fell for it.
I'd bet it will be all over the new on TV tonight though, worse yet my parent are going to be thinking of these little C3P0's with arms and legs doing waltz's and so with the other 95% of the viewers where the reality is more like they make some flecks of dust wiggle with a static charge.
Then this guy a Duke gets grants for this retarted stuff, mean while other more deserving things don't get attention.
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And I think the jury is still out on Java. It's just such a mess even without goto's .
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This has been in the works for a long time.
Most of the cable box vendors are already standardized on DOCSIS3.0 and OCAP. OCAP is an OpenCable Application Platform that is based on Java and most cable boxes already are using it, this is why they are so darn slow when pulling up channel guides and flipping channels, and let's not forget the occasional crash.
Cable TV people don't do anything fast or radical, I don't know if I'd call them conservative as much as lethargic.
So now the marketing people have invented a new pretend technical term "tru2way" and we are supposed to believe they have done something innovative, while really they are just starting to roll out 5 year old technology. Yawn...
These cable boxes really are terrible.
At some point far enough out in the future we will just have a flat TCP/IP network for everything and everyone will live on the same even playing field.
Then I will be able to watch Star Wars IX on opening day using 3D video goggles in 4K Digital Cinema resolution on my Google IPTV Set top box streaming live in real time.
Your Dad's out in the middle of know where.
This cable is only going to be in place 5 maybe 10 years max.
I'd just run it across the ground. To hell with the regulations, odd's are no one will ever know or care.
I have also found that lawn mowers will pass right over an Ethernet cable, and lawns will absorb them so they sink into the ground a bit and after a year are almost completely vanished.
And at a $150 replacement cost for the whole 500 Meter run (if you use good 100Mbps 8 Conductor Cat 5), who cares if it wears out or gets damaged.
If you use 4 conductor 24 gauge phone wire for 10Mbps Ethernet it's more like $75 for 500 Meters.
https://www.allelectronics.com/
Although at 500 Meters your getting near the limit, you may need to put a router 1/2 way between and run 12v to it. To act as a signal repeater. The router could just be stuck in a paint bucket with brick on it.
Hey it ain't pretty, but it will work.
The old 50 Ohm Coax RG58/U 10Base2 cables also work great too for this sort of thing, back in the day we had the storm drains & fence lines wired up with the stuff bringing 10 Mbps internet across our neighborhood in 1987!
this is only a cost of $770 per house!!
Can this be!?!?!?! That a $1000 per house investment gets a zero carbon wind power!
If this is so, then what the heck are they waiting for, this should have been done ages ago.
My uncle used to run embroidery machines in union New Jersey. These were built in the late 1800 and were about 100 feet long 10 feet wide and 2 stories tall with 1000's of needles stitching constantly. Literally were built as part of the building they were housed in.
Where it gets interesting is these were driven by a large mechanical computer that ran from paper punch cards. The device itself was about a 1 meter cube. There were adders, and carry, multiples, and I think even branches and loops. It used to move paper cards back and forth as it created post man patches or frillies part of ladies undergarments.
Don't know if this counts though and I think it's decommissioned anyhow, but it was sure was cool to watch.
I did realize that, there was some sarcasm in my remark about Fry's. Non the less, Dual Laptop drives for example.
If you going to spend the money for one drive, why not two just to make sure you don't loose your data.
I can't believe such an important experiment would rely on just one drive without any raid or mirroring.
The drive looks to be in amazing good condition for having fallen from space. With 90% recovery wow.
So if they had a second or third drive with the contents mirrored they would have had 100% recovery.
If only they had spent the extra $300 at Frys.
I wonder if this is how sports fans must feel with scandals like Kobe Bryant, OJ Simpson, and Mike Tyson take place.
I guess from the perspective of a computer nerd, it's hard to believe that one of our own could commit murder, and even harder to believe that he failed to get away with it.
At least the aren't testing us programmers for Steroids or other performance enhancing drugs yet.
Or at least most of us anyhow.
John
I have know a few off shore spammers first hand (I don't approve of there professions).
There is no way any of these guys could write any kind of an OCR app, maybe just off the shelf tools scripted together at best. Even that's pushing it.
So I started to look into this.
From much the the research a friend and I have been doing into spam and CAPTCHA cracking we have found that many are cracked not by machine but unwitting humans.
Basic idea. Put up free porn sites that allow access if you pass a CAPTCHA test.
But here is the trick, the CAPTCHA test is just a proxies off an account setup for some other service getting cracked.
So when the user desiring his free porn responds it is actually allowing the hacker entrance to a CAPTCHA protected site without having to pass some OCR/Turing test.
This eliminates the need to develop some complex piece of software. And is well withing in the skill levels of my spammer acquaintances.
So improving the complexity of CAPTCHA will have NO EFFECT!
Toshiba's project in Ghz can translate to faster CPU clock speed, I agree isn't not 1:1 but they are related.
But from first hand observations a 0.8 Micron fab Intel and Motorola's fastest was 66Mhz while Chuck's Moore's f21 Forth processor was hitting 700 Mhz in the same fab.
Anyhow if the overclockers can get to 6Ghz then this is really a matter of cooling.
Denser Fabs = high frequency and more heat.
Lower voltage = lower frequency and less heat.
Because power density has been the largest limiting factor, as they shrink the size they are also reducing voltage to deal with heat, and so the expect increase in clock speeds has almost flattened out at 3 to 4 Ghz.
But if you had been following the trend like we should be at well over 6Ghz by now.
So instead they have been increasing transistors while keeping clock speeds the same.
But with increased cooling the over clockers can hit higher speeds, and I wish they would design cpu's to run with increase cooling and higher voltages, so then we will be reliably running much faster.
Should work. Had to remove some characters slashdot didn't like.
unmailable can get mail from yahoo, hotmail, gmail just fine.
cat db.unmailable.com.hosts
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
TTL 3600
IN SOA unmailable.com. sokol.dnull.com. (
20080305 Serial number
172800 ; Refresh every 2 days
3600 ; Retry every hour
1728000 ; Expire every 20 days
3600 ; Minimum 2 days
)
IN NS NS1.DNULL.COM.
IN MX 10 tm1300.com.
IN A 209.237.44.241
www IN A 209.237.44.241
(asterisk) IN A 209.237.44.241
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A friend of mine is investigating an interesting approach to spam.
From this article it quite clear that chasing the source of the spam is quite pointless.
His research is into tracking the destination.
Spams only make sense if they can make some money from it. This means the payload(content) must lead
someplace with a URL to order, a URL with adds, or a phone number for orders.
His blog is at:
http://spamdirect.blogspot.com/
I have to push him to post some of the more interesting stuff he has discussed in E-Mails with me.
One very odd note.
My domain unmailable.com get's no spam!
without any filters and addresses even posted publicly there is just no spam to it.
I think they must remove any mail reference to unmailable assuming it must not be a real domain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSwf5LxGAM
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=195427
Using the technology below it shouldn't be too long before we have devices in the 10's of GHz.
http://www.compoundsemi.com/documents/articles/news/8479.html
Toshiba Develops 60 GHz Receiver Made With CMOS Processes
June 18, 2007...Toshiba of Tokyo, Japan, reports that it has developed a new technology to manufacture integrated circuits for the millimeter-waveband. Toshiba says that its new fabrication uses low-cost CMOS processes to produce devices that can achieve high speed, wireless communication in the 60 GHz band. The company points out that at the 60 GHz frequency (which is ten times greater than wireless LAN), communication distances are limited to a few meters, but data can be transferred at a rate of more than a gigabit per second.
OP?
Now I am really veering off topic.
I totally love nerdy Asian girls, the nerdier the better, even pop bottle glasses and acne as long as she can use a computer and loves SciFi it's all good.
I didn't mean to imply some sort of promiscuous or polygamous behavior. Nerds in general tend to be incredibly loyal.
If you have ever spend time in Silicon Valley (San Jose area)in Northern California, not to be confused with Silicone Valley (Los Angeles area) in Southern California.
Or for that matter any where in the USA around hard core computer hacker/nerds (assumption of them being classic Asperger syndrome males), there is over an 90% chance of the ones lucky enough to have a girlfriend that they are northern Asian and into computers at least on some level.
Unless there Indian computer nerds at which point they would almost certainly have some absolutely gorgeous knock out white cheerleader type. I still can't figure this one out.
Why this is, I am not sure, but it just seems to be the natural order of things.
Hey I am not making this up, really.
So the reason to pair them up with a nerdy Asian girl, is to keep them in line. Prevent them from hacking porn sites and focused on hacking into the enemy's computers, while also providing some form of physical exercise, and emotional stability.
Frankly typical American women just can't/won't put up with a guy who obsessively spends over 100 hr a week in front of a computer.
Great an OpAmp as your handle.
I mean many chips where all specifically fab'ed in such a way as to be very sensitive to a specific frequency and permanently fail when exposed to it.
Oven, hahaha Microwave right.
You'd be amazed fixed someones Mac after is was in a house fire and sprayed with salt water.
Soaked the all the boards in a bathtub for a day, hosed down the monitor and chassis.
Put the boards in an oven at 150F for a few hours assembled it and it worked like a charm.
Maybe you just didn't set the right temperature.