Why should the airlines pay? Look at how many billions the governments have already spent looking for planes. What if the satellite connections are subsidized by governments instead?
What they really need is scientific and strategic thinking on how to take their life ahead, manage the village life, their farms more modern and productive, etc. in a smart way, etc. Simply throwing computers and computer education around without first giving them the fundamentals does not help at all. It just adds to the problem.
That said there are many ideas:
Write or install software where they can create friendly quiz for each other on various topics. Teach them how to draw graphs and interpret them. How to use maps. If there is internet in a far away school, let the children interact with each other over Video Chat once in a month with proper agenda on discussing something important. Really, there is no limit to how they can use computers to make their life more interesting and better , all limited by imagination.
Not at all an expert in this field, but I think your post leads to a good idea. And the following is a braindump of my ideas. If you are really bent on doing custom Linux based stuff, use your power of customization. Instead of a standard siren sound, add fake Dog barks, Police sirens, etc. and place speakers strategically for best realistic effect. Make sure the recording(and playback) is in stereo and is long enough that it convinces the miscreants it is a real dog/siren.
Add triggers to fake police car flashing lights in strategic places. Also add a trigger to call *your* cellphone. Depending on the type of neighborhood, also add fake gunshot sounds?
Think psychology and plan first. Plan technology next. Add timers and fake the lights, fake television sound/ vacuum sound in the house if you are away to make them feel someone is still at home.
Add fake cameras in visible areas complete with fake wiring and red "active" LED. Keep the real cameras hidden. If you are a total DIY type, trigger the door and windows to automatically close and lock back after 40 seconds. I know it is silly, but the scare it gives them will be worth it? Psychology expert advice needed on that.
Add weight sensors below your matting. This could trigger the cameras immediately and send you the photo over whatsapp/hangout/custom app, etc.
Minimum 2 of everything:
2 different controllers cum DVRs located in 2 different places in the house, connected to 2 different cloud services. through 2 different ISP of which 1 is wired the other wireless 3g/4g Internet connection. Both must have battery backup.
When you talk about stuff specifically related to America, please do mention that it is American. There are slashdot readers from rest of the world too. For example: This summary talked about "The Navy" . Nowhere in the summary is it mentioned as "The *US* Navy". I had to go RTFA before I realized that! I have come across this "frog in the well" syndromes in many other summaries problem before too. It makes Americans look bad
Do meditation, Try to understand the world in different perspective. Try solving totally different types of problems. Try learning a new human language. Practical discipline. *Practical* These things will add different new patterns for your mind which will help you do better when you come back.
Whats the point of re-inventing the human to that level. If the robot has to be so self ware as to be moral and know compute ethics, then it starts a new debate of ethics = should we humans be ready to sacrifice/put in risk our couterparts which are so self-aware? You will only complicate stuff.. I guess PETOR = People for Ethical Treatement Of Robots will form even before the first prototype.
Also, even if you think practically, if you can have robots which are so self aware, why have other sodiers at all?!
It might be somewhere in the Network Stack of some Internet backbone router? Or some code shared by Network stack of multiple Oses? The code would have to run continuously on so many devices for *every* *packet* going through? May be sometimes multiple times for the same packet! Firewall ? Routing algorithm?
Slashdot Mirror
Why do slashdotters think America is the only country which reads Slashdot?
I am from India. I am just saying rest of the nation (India) should follow on ISRO when it comes to efficiency)
If only the rest of the nation was as effecient as ISRO!
Also bring back the N900, Just upgrade specs to current standards
Just bring 1100 back.
Only upgrades required
1) Compatibility with newer SIM cards and current networks.
2) Increase memory capacity.
And we will blow your minds with the sales figures.
Why should the airlines pay? Look at how many billions the governments have already spent looking for planes. What if the satellite connections are subsidized by governments instead?
'Skynet dances to "Gangam Style" '
What they really need is scientific and strategic thinking on how to take their life ahead, manage the village life, their farms more modern and productive, etc. in a smart way, etc. Simply throwing computers and computer education around without first giving them the fundamentals does not help at all. It just adds to the problem.
That said there are many ideas:
Write or install software where they can create friendly quiz for each other on various topics.
Teach them how to draw graphs and interpret them.
How to use maps.
If there is internet in a far away school, let the children interact with each other over Video Chat once in a month with proper agenda on discussing something important.
Really, there is no limit to how they can use computers to make their life more interesting and better , all limited by imagination.
> "...Doggie would help. ...
And yes, they bark really loud.
Alvie
Not at all an expert in this field, but I think your post leads to a good idea. And the following is a braindump of my ideas.
If you are really bent on doing custom Linux based stuff, use your power of customization.
Instead of a standard siren sound, add fake Dog barks, Police sirens, etc. and place speakers strategically for best realistic effect.
Make sure the recording(and playback) is in stereo and is long enough that it convinces the miscreants it is a real dog/siren.
Add triggers to fake police car flashing lights in strategic places.
Also add a trigger to call *your* cellphone.
Depending on the type of neighborhood, also add fake gunshot sounds?
Think psychology and plan first. Plan technology next.
Add timers and fake the lights, fake television sound/ vacuum sound in the house if you are away to make them feel someone is still at home.
Add fake cameras in visible areas complete with fake wiring and red "active" LED. Keep the real cameras hidden. If you are a total DIY type, trigger the door and windows to automatically close and lock back after 40 seconds. I know it is silly, but the scare it gives them will be worth it? Psychology expert advice needed on that.
Add weight sensors below your matting. This could trigger the cameras immediately and send you the photo over whatsapp/hangout/custom app, etc.
Minimum 2 of everything:
2 different controllers cum DVRs located in 2 different places in the house, connected to 2 different cloud services. through 2 different ISP of which 1 is wired the other wireless 3g/4g Internet connection. Both must have battery backup.
Thats more an idiot-admin proofing issue than a security risk.
Dear American Slashdot (and other) reporters,
When you talk about stuff specifically related to America, please do mention that it is American. There are slashdot readers from rest of the world too.
For example: This summary talked about "The Navy" . Nowhere in the summary is it mentioned as "The *US* Navy". I had to go RTFA before I realized that! I have come across this "frog in the well" syndromes in many other summaries problem before too. It makes Americans look bad
Thanks and regards,
Sincerely,
kamathln
Xerox Alto did it even before
http://www.miataturbo.net/inse...
And some views about the same.
http://www.miataturbo.net/inse...
Possibility: Is this attack staged to gain traction on public's mind for the movie? Did they incur much explicit loss due to this? Just a hunch.
The Kim Dotcom Bubble .. has popped ?
Compiled from other's
Do meditation,
Try to understand the world in different perspective.
Try solving totally different types of problems.
Try learning a new human language.
Practical discipline. *Practical*
These things will add different new patterns for your mind which will help you do better when you come back.
when it can detect spider-man guesture and throw spider webs on your enemy
How are you going to ship it from china?
Whoever downvoted the above probably either lived underneath a glacier for most of his time, or doesn't read properly
Whats the point of re-inventing the human to that level. If the robot has to be so self ware as to be moral and know compute ethics, then it starts a new debate of ethics = should we humans be ready to sacrifice/put in risk our couterparts which are so self-aware? You will only complicate stuff .. I guess PETOR = People for Ethical Treatement Of Robots will form even before the first prototype.
Also, even if you think practically, if you can have robots which are so self aware, why have other sodiers at all?!
Its like that for all tech .. Emacs is a text editor OS.
A Mobile phone is a [strike]phone[/strike] a complete pocketable computer.
A Smart TV is a [strike]TV[/strike] Huge tablet computer that you interact with in a slightly different way.
This post is about WebKit . And when it comes to WebKit based browsers, you are not tied down to Chrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
Just call them "Differently evolved"
http://neo900.org/
Seems like the best alternative for a hacker right now.
It might be somewhere in the Network Stack of some Internet backbone router? Or some code shared by Network stack of multiple Oses? The code would have to run continuously on so many devices for *every* *packet* going through? May be sometimes multiple times for the same packet! Firewall ? Routing algorithm?