I thought Buffalo Technology did develop and sell the affected 802.11a chipset. Your right in that CSIRO launched injunctions international, but was only successful in the US.
On a side note: The research done by the CSIRO was done at Macquarie University, which currently has active 802.11a buffalo chip wifi (comp.sci/stat/econ buildings).
I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but in many countries e.g., nz/australia/uk civilian work and are hired by the defence forces for similar roles. Aus has the dsd.gov.au You'd just need to pass and get a top secret (positive vetting), clearance.
I'm all for breaking IP if its for personal use, or to increase the scope of the research. But in this case its a massive company being greedy! Not paying its due to a non profit organisation devoted to research. Who developed wi-fi when no one else was really interested in it. That to me is analogous to the open source movement, especially so when you consider that Buffalo sued CSIRO first.
When I always read items like this, concerning nationwide objective the first thing that comes to mind is... the project of 2.2m would have only been funded if localised projects were already active and effective. If it was for a totally new adventure the funding would have been a lot more than 2.2million. The technology isn't complex.. (blah blah blah) And most cities here have tollways when a 100s of camera's, its native not to think the intelligence agencies ain't already hacking about with them.
I wouldn't leave Sun Sparc arch out to die just yet. The new Rock processor due out next year sounds pretty dam cool! Seems (to me) they are just having demand volume/price ratio problems. Also when Solaris/open solaris is better tuned to run on x64/power archs you never know what might happen.
An operating system that is a always evolving at the rate SunOs is won't die anytime soon, not at least when every other OS is gutting its open source features.
+1 for vim +2 freebsd Its not that bloody hard, what its like 5 or 6 keys/commands you need to learn to get started. Thats less than most fps(etc) these days
People really do equal the internet with google/googling, especially so in demographics where people have more money than sense. With its huge brand name and a bit of advertising it might get a slice of that money laded pie.
What's interesting, is that google have in the past been giving firefox/mozilla free www.google.com advertising, knowing full well that chrome was in development.
Setting aside the point that 'Snow leopard' is going to be its first actually full 64bit operating system.
I think you'll find that most OS X applications are still very much 32bit centric. So if the javascript engine is 32bit, it wouldn't be a problem anyway.
Also some of the first intel iMac's are 32bit core duo based..i know i have one:(
Actually these type of sythetic life forms have already been shaped by evolutionary forces. I think it is wrong to think of this new life forms, they are more like biological hacking together a life form, from genes already known.
Even the genes that are artificially designed and built are done so from the knowledge already gain from the study of genetics/protometrics. Its a bit like mixing and matching engine and car parts, to get something that runs.
Still if you believe that this idea would still constitute artificial Life then in essense its already been created by the J. Craig Venter Institute with Mycoplasma laboratorium & Phi X 174. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology
Which have been built with safeguards (e.g., a suicide gene) to stop it from surviving outside a secured lab. By design most of these initiatives are commerical ventures (think synthetic oil/fuel), so while some genetic code has been released - its the techniques and the genetic databases that are the money spinners.
China's internet firewall, is about as useful as its great wall
Having lived in China, most of common/normal people I met and talked were naively curious about the world outside of China very little about it. It is not that they simply don't care about politics or internet censorship, its that they don't know what they are missing, to start missing it in the first place?!
Propaganda is successful to the innocent, and poor. Also computers and the internet may be ubiquitous in our society now, but give China some time.
Piracy and to a lesser degree theft of food,shelter&art should always be deemed morally okay, for those you can't afford them.
As I believe it is inhumane to deprive people of food, shelter and art.
And further to this, the balance of societies' riches is not hinged intellectual property or copyright law. Nations have never respected either of those ideas, and therefore why should morally guided citizens when for the most part they are so ill-conceived.
---- What ever happened to Art for Art's sake. Greed is the virus of society & Money is the root of all evil.
Dude, I run my life in exactly the same way.
Spite ftw!
Pinball games need to be made bigger, at least 5 times bigger. That'd get more people interested, and they need to be mega hard as per the above post.
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I thought Buffalo Technology did develop and sell the affected 802.11a chipset.
Your right in that CSIRO launched injunctions international, but was only successful in the US.
On a side note: The research done by the CSIRO was done at Macquarie University, which currently has active 802.11a buffalo chip wifi (comp.sci/stat/econ buildings).
really? I thought I read somewhere that they've green lighted 802.1n
I'm not sure how it is in the USA, but in many countries e.g., nz/australia/uk civilian work and are hired by the defence forces for similar roles.
Aus has the dsd.gov.au
You'd just need to pass and get a top secret (positive vetting), clearance.
I'm all for breaking IP if its for personal use, or to increase the scope of the research.
But in this case its a massive company being greedy! Not paying its due to a non profit organisation devoted to research. Who developed wi-fi when no one else was really interested in it.
That to me is analogous to the open source movement, especially so when you consider that Buffalo sued CSIRO first.
When I always read items like this, concerning nationwide objective the first thing that comes to mind is ... the project of 2.2m would have only been funded if localised projects were already active and effective.
If it was for a totally new adventure the funding would have been a lot more than 2.2million.
The technology isn't complex.. (blah blah blah)
And most cities here have tollways when a 100s of camera's, its native not to think the intelligence agencies ain't already hacking about with them.
No, crime will stop when the second to last person dies.
puts a whole new spin on being a crime fighter...
I wouldn't leave Sun Sparc arch out to die just yet.
The new Rock processor due out next year sounds pretty dam cool! Seems (to me) they are just having demand volume/price ratio problems.
Also when Solaris/open solaris is better tuned to run on x64/power archs you never know what might happen.
An operating system that is a always evolving at the rate SunOs is won't die anytime soon, not at least when every other OS is gutting its open source features.
$37 billion dollars says your wrong.....
Larry Page.. $18.6 billion
Sergey Brin.. $18.7 billion USD (2008)
What's google?
You obversely haven't played spore.
+1 for vim +2 freebsd
Its not that bloody hard, what its like 5 or 6 keys/commands you need to learn to get started.
Thats less than most fps(etc) these days
I hear wikileaks.org is pretty good.
Sometimes I want to marry VLC.
People really do equal the internet with google/googling, especially so in demographics where people have more money than sense. With its huge brand name and a bit of advertising it might get a slice of that money laded pie.
What's interesting, is that google have in the past been giving firefox/mozilla free www.google.com advertising, knowing full well that chrome was in development.
Google did not cofound Mozilla.
Mozilla is older than Google.
Setting aside the point that 'Snow leopard' is going to be its first actually full 64bit operating system.
I think you'll find that most OS X applications are still very much 32bit centric. So if the javascript engine is 32bit, it wouldn't be a problem anyway.
Also some of the first intel iMac's are 32bit core duo based..i know i have one :(
2words4CreepyCrawler.
Thank you!
Actually these type of sythetic life forms have already been shaped by evolutionary forces. I think it is wrong to think of this new life forms, they are more like biological hacking together a life form, from genes already known.
Even the genes that are artificially designed and built are done so from the knowledge already gain from the study of genetics/protometrics. Its a bit like mixing and matching engine and car parts, to get something that runs.
Still if you believe that this idea would still constitute artificial Life then in essense its already been created by the J. Craig Venter Institute with Mycoplasma laboratorium & Phi X 174. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology
Which have been built with safeguards (e.g., a suicide gene) to stop it from surviving outside a secured lab. By design most of these initiatives are commerical ventures (think synthetic oil/fuel), so while some genetic code has been released - its the techniques and the genetic databases that are the money spinners.
I don't know much physics but isn't the speed problem just a frame of reference problem?
Thats why it'd be easier just going with the flow and coming about from behind.
China's internet firewall, is about as useful as its great wall
Having lived in China, most of common/normal people I met and talked were naively curious about the world outside of China very little about it. It is not that they simply don't care about politics or internet censorship, its that they don't know what they are missing, to start missing it in the first place?!
Propaganda is successful to the innocent, and poor. Also computers and the internet may be ubiquitous in our society now, but give China some time.
Wouldn't you think any TBL would be embedded in the hardware?
Piracy and to a lesser degree theft of food,shelter&art should always be deemed morally okay, for those you can't afford them.
As I believe it is inhumane to deprive people of food, shelter and art.
And further to this, the balance of societies' riches is not hinged intellectual property or copyright law. Nations have never respected either of those ideas, and therefore why should morally guided citizens when for the most part they are so ill-conceived.
----
What ever happened to Art for Art's sake.
Greed is the virus of society &
Money is the root of all evil.
Dude, I run my life in exactly the same way. Spite ftw! Pinball games need to be made bigger, at least 5 times bigger. That'd get more people interested, and they need to be mega hard as per the above post.
This looks like ManBearPig central!
GTA 8: Horse and Buggy! DAM, gimma some of that western hot coffee crime