Look, if it's all the same to other/. readers, I'd be happy to find some affordable ( = cheap) spray to apply to my car windows, to help keep a bit of rain from making driving hazardous.
Anybody got some good ol' home remedies to that problem, by any chance, thanks?:-/
For a long time, geeks have come to share homes (eg, Open Sourcerers, who perfer lower living costs, et al.)
We can envision techie villages, bringing together a mix of renewable energy geeks with al the other geeks, onto a modest sized property, away from the smells & noises of cityscapes, within commuting distance, but closer to nature & its beauties, maybe with windows looking out over nothing but natural sights & sounds (if the windows are opened;-)
It the coming WiFi (WiMax & beyond) days, such villages might be happy to keep a near-constant watch over remote ISP facilities, either for $'s or some extra bandwidth.
There would possibly be problems with trust, but there always are. (Insurange could be the ISPs workaround, if they were to get stung.)
I'm hearing rumors, that so many folks [in USA, etc.] have converted Priuses to 100% Electric power, that Toyota has plans to release such a variation themselves...
Anybody know how likely this is to be true? (Is there such a version in any other market?)
Eg, consider the 5-person database-based web site making teams (corporations, from the point of view of the tax system... I think) that Phil Greenspun was promoting in one or both of his online "web whore" books (by different titles, of course).
If the job and/or environment you want isn't to be found, the Creative Minority go off & make one of their own design, either within an existing company context or in a company of their own design.
I don't mind (as much) being "censored" if the removed post can later be accessed (hopefully also by others beside its poster), albeit in an out-of-the-way area.
Only when "censors" simply make it disappear forever, with- out a trace, do I mind their infringement of my free-speech, such as it is...;-)
It would have been nice if these
puppies were open spec'd, so that
- like Amateur Radio's APRS -
anyone could receive the GPS
location "blips" (ie, Lat/Long data)
ie, without needing to pay Vodaphone
for a specialized service.
Anybodu up for hacking this phone's
GPS data comms protocol, eg, to
free it from a single-source of
GSM service?
Now that it's come - at least to cel.phones - I'd like to see it generalised to other products, as well.
(OK, so maybe my Electric Vehicle will has an atypical charger & connection to the car...;-)...preferably with no need to install software for all the different types of devices, too...
So, if a provider (ie, psiphonode) had an Internet connection
that with some blocked sites (eg, kiddy porn, etc.), wouldn't
those limitations flow through to the user (ie, psiphonuser)?
If so, then those who fear sharing their bandwidth should be
able to rest easier, knowing that only stuff that they could
themselves access is accessible to their overseas user.
Now, how to block access to such sites, locally...?
CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" Science program announced the Subject protocol long ago, and there have been human trials in subsequent years, in Canada, USA & Sweden, among other places on the planet.
One problems was that folks who'd undergone the procedure had to take drug to inhibit their immune systems, ie, to reduce the risk of rejection of the islets.
Nevertheless, some found that acceptable (presumably such drugs could be taken orally, rather than intravenously).
Any, if I've got the name of the protocol right, up there in the Subject, then WHY didn't it appear in the post's title?
Giving credit to those who've done the original work is to be expected, even if that work was done outside the USA.
Still, delays in getting this work translated into procedures available for the folks who have Type 1 diabetes might well be explained as much in the profitability of older techniques, both to makes of pumps & doctors.
I'm reminded of the awful metal braces that were -once- applied to the legs of very young sufferers of polio, ie, in -recent- "dark ages" of the treatment of that disease, while far less intrusive treatments enabled victims to walk on their own were both known and practiced by innovative doctors - who had been ignored or insulted, ie, until their methods were - at last - embraced by the medical community.
"Give me Evidence-Based medicine... or NUTHIN'";-)
(Actually, this comes from a "mind's eye" plan for a
"Geeks' share house" but it may work as an office...)
1. Start with an ideal orange
2. Cut a slice at right angles to its center-axis
(getting rough idea of floor plan)
3. Draw a circle with center at center of slice
4. Empty the circle, eg, for service & server gear
5. Make windows of each occupant's preferred height (for air & sun)
- or, better, maybe make windows capable of moving up & down -
each along the wall correpsonding to the orange slice's rind
6. Make flexible work areas at opposite end of each sector-shaped
work room
7. Whiteboards & occupant's choice of art blended along the other
two walls (thst divide one sector from two adjacent ones)
8. Setup windowed-walls to rotate (in part) to yield doorways
9. Services are delivered to the center (to minimize use of
materials) 10. Make a conference/meeting room one level up, but
of a smaller diameter, leaving room for sky viewing,
antennas, deck chairs, etc. on the rest of occupant's
roof area 11. Build all this above a car park (so sun isn't hitting cars
direcly 12. Since cars are All-Electric they charge at a central post
(& there's no exhaust to breath above the car park) 13. (Now, it's your turn... what have I forgotten?) 14. A large windgenerator rises up from center of conf/mtg rm 15. storage batteries are below the conf/mtg rm (among other things) 16. all of the above (built as a unit) is located up on a
very scenic hill top, with a few others like it dotting
other selected/nearby hilltops 17. The whole structure defends its occupants from weather &
intruders (physical & electronic) 18. Just a walk away is a similar or compatible structure,
which provides underground living spaces, underground.
In Oz, the thing comes locked to Vodaphone and might not work with other carriers' (except as a phone, if at all), since its GPS signals would need a custom base (read: paid service) to do any tracking.
While not quite the "Dead Man" switch sought in the article, I'd say it's a short step away from becoming one.
And it just might do - as is - (if there's a nearby network that can track it) in a pinch.;-)
The Astronauts are almost all Radio Amateurs and there's both voice & data Amateur Radio equipment to toy with up there (& lots of classes of school kids happy to speak with a Space Traveller.
For a real buzz (ie, after viewing Earth from Space & all the Science experiments has been done), this Space Tourist should really try to make a connection or three with some Muslim schools; I think it would even be a first (as most of the schools that are selected from the queue are from USA, I understand).
If anyone can get the suggestion up there to her, maybe she'll be kind enough to give such schools (or any schools or other Hams she might find on-the-air, for that matter) a Big Thrill, as well as a model of what's possible - these days - for a woman of means to do.
Oh, for those who'd like to listen to on-air chats with the ISS, the place to go for dates/times, frequencies & pass predictions is:
(Not knowing any place names in the UAR, I just picked one from the list that came up, in response to my entering "*" for Town/City, to get each of the following URLs.)
The free shell folks at sdf.LoneStar.org once had somebody break through their Linux security (years ago already), so they went to NetBSD, I think (from memory).
They might have something to say about Linux -vs- [Net]BSD
Selecting only "WiFi" on Nokia's web-based handset select web page left 3 handsets showing (when I used it a week or so ago); one is a "clam-shell" design that suggests you'd be more likely to use its WiFi features to access files to ber massaged & returned to a workgroup server.
The other two handsets seem to be better suited to the cool feature of enabling cheap/free VoIP calls mentioned in this article.
(I seem to recall hearing mention of an auto-roaming WiFi-based VoIP handset, eg, on Systm's Asterisk video. 'dunno if one of these Nokia handsets would work like that. These cool Nokia handsets aren't promoted in Australia, at least not by the TelCo's, who'd lose high-profit revenues every time we used the WiFi.)
Still lacking is a cost-free "walkie-talkie" function (not to be confused with the current generation of "Push-to-Talk" handsets) that would work when to phones are out of range of their base(s) - eg, when camping in the Aussie Bush.
Look, a private Post Office box (while keeping your address to yourself), not giving folks your land-line tel.no. (get a SkypeIn number instead; only answer folks whose Caller-ID or Skype-name you recognize & like), & keep a low, law-abiding profile.
So, then, who's going to harass you?:-/
QED;-)
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What you describe, by way of neighbors' ill-founded feedback, reminds me of a scene from "Fahrenheit 451" in which a suspi- cious neighbor reveals the reason for her suspicion (that a neighbor of hers had been - shock horrors! - reading books!):
"Look... Up there!" (No TV antenna on her neighbor's roof!)
Not able to participate, such as they did at the time, in the daily [Pseudo-Cousin] TV series (pre-cursor to Big Brother & other 'reality' series, I'd suggest...)
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"I don't watch TV, I have a Life":Candice Bergen as
"Murphy Brown"
Slashdot Mirror
Look, if it's all the same to other /. readers,
:-/
I'd be happy to find some affordable ( = cheap)
spray to apply to my car windows, to help keep
a bit of rain from making driving hazardous.
Anybody got some good ol' home remedies to that
problem, by any chance, thanks?
There was an eye-opening documentary on Australia's proxy-voting norms.
The bottom line was: In some companies, using the proxy votes is at the DISCRETION of the Chair.
I as you: Is THIS democractic corporate governance?!?
PS What are the norms in other contries / well-known companies? TIA.
For a long time, geeks have come to share homes (eg, Open Sourcerers, who perfer lower living costs, et al.)
;-)
We can envision techie villages, bringing together a mix of renewable energy geeks with al the other geeks, onto a modest sized property,
away from the smells & noises of cityscapes, within commuting distance, but closer to nature & its beauties, maybe with windows looking out over nothing but natural sights & sounds (if the windows are opened
It the coming WiFi (WiMax & beyond) days, such villages might be happy to keep a near-constant watch over remote ISP facilities, either for $'s or some extra bandwidth.
There would possibly be problems with trust, but there always are.
(Insurange could be the ISPs workaround, if they were to get stung.)
so, why not floating on the Oceans, etc.?
(Maybe a city that's lost its power plants to terrorist bombs can Rent-a-Nuke, until they are replaced)
On the other hand, aren't Global Warming scientists predicting ever LARGER STORMS?
If they're right, who wants a floating nuke to spill radioactive bits into the sea?
She works (or did, last time we tested her) & we may have some accessories & software for her, maybe even a few manuals...
TIA
I'm hearing rumors, that so many folks [in USA, etc.] have converted Priuses to 100% Electric power, that Toyota has plans to release such a variation themselves...
Anybody know how likely this is to be true? (Is there such a version in any other market?)
Eg, consider the 5-person database-based web site making teams
;-)
(corporations, from the point of view of the tax system...
I think) that Phil Greenspun was promoting in one or both of
his online "web whore" books (by different titles, of course).
If the job and/or environment you want isn't to be found, the
Creative Minority go off & make one of their own design, either
within an existing company context or in a company of their
own design.
Next challenge, please...
I don't mind (as much) being "censored" if the removed post
;-)
can later be accessed (hopefully also by others beside its
poster), albeit in an out-of-the-way area.
Only when "censors" simply make it disappear forever, with-
out a trace, do I mind their infringement of my free-speech,
such as it is...
Subj sez it all...
;-)
Nothing to see here, folks... Move along...
i-Kids = GSM phone + GPS
(but easy for kids' use)
It would have been nice if these
puppies were open spec'd, so that
- like Amateur Radio's APRS -
anyone could receive the GPS
location "blips" (ie, Lat/Long data)
ie, without needing to pay Vodaphone
for a specialized service.
Anybodu up for hacking this phone's
GPS data comms protocol, eg, to
free it from a single-source of
GSM service?
I've been wanting this kind of policy for yonks!
;-) ...preferably with no need to install software
Now that it's come - at least to cel.phones -
I'd like to see it generalised to other products,
as well.
(OK, so maybe my Electric Vehicle will has an
atypical charger & connection to the car...
for all the different types of devices, too...
My advice for these Students:
- Gather into small Learning Cells (about 5 students / cell)
- Setup Internet-based home study centers (eg, share houses
with FAST Internet on each of their computers)
- discuss ideas, develop skills (technical, entrepreneurial) & knowledge
from Internet sources, courses & talks
- publish & exchange ideas with similar groups
- start on-line businesses
:
- profit & live well...
Maybe the Programmer hinted (or threatened) a release
of How To Do It info... to all the rest of us
So, if a provider (ie, psiphonode) had an Internet connection
that with some blocked sites (eg, kiddy porn, etc.), wouldn't
those limitations flow through to the user (ie, psiphonuser)?
If so, then those who fear sharing their bandwidth should be
able to rest easier, knowing that only stuff that they could
themselves access is accessible to their overseas user.
Now, how to block access to such sites, locally...?
CBC's "Quirks & Quarks" Science program announced the Subject protocol long ago,
;-)
and there have been human trials in subsequent years, in Canada, USA & Sweden,
among other places on the planet.
One problems was that folks who'd undergone the procedure had to take drug to
inhibit their immune systems, ie, to reduce the risk of rejection of the islets.
Nevertheless, some found that acceptable (presumably such drugs could be taken
orally, rather than intravenously).
Any, if I've got the name of the protocol right, up there in the Subject, then
WHY didn't it appear in the post's title?
Giving credit to those who've done the original work is to be expected, even if
that work was done outside the USA.
Still, delays in getting this work translated into procedures available for the
folks who have Type 1 diabetes might well be explained as much in the profitability
of older techniques, both to makes of pumps & doctors.
I'm reminded of the awful metal braces that were -once- applied to the legs of very young
sufferers of polio, ie, in -recent- "dark ages" of the treatment of that disease,
while far less intrusive treatments enabled victims to walk on their own were both
known and practiced by innovative doctors - who had been ignored or insulted, ie,
until their methods were - at last - embraced by the medical community.
"Give me Evidence-Based medicine... or NUTHIN'"
(Actually, this comes from a "mind's eye" plan for a
"Geeks' share house" but it may work as an office...)
1. Start with an ideal orange
2. Cut a slice at right angles to its center-axis
(getting rough idea of floor plan)
3. Draw a circle with center at center of slice
4. Empty the circle, eg, for service & server gear
5. Make windows of each occupant's preferred height (for air & sun)
- or, better, maybe make windows capable of moving up & down -
each along the wall correpsonding to the orange slice's rind
6. Make flexible work areas at opposite end of each sector-shaped
work room
7. Whiteboards & occupant's choice of art blended along the other
two walls (thst divide one sector from two adjacent ones)
8. Setup windowed-walls to rotate (in part) to yield doorways
9. Services are delivered to the center (to minimize use of
materials)
10. Make a conference/meeting room one level up, but
of a smaller diameter, leaving room for sky viewing,
antennas, deck chairs, etc. on the rest of occupant's
roof area
11. Build all this above a car park (so sun isn't hitting cars
direcly
12. Since cars are All-Electric they charge at a central post
(& there's no exhaust to breath above the car park)
13. (Now, it's your turn... what have I forgotten?)
14. A large windgenerator rises up from center of conf/mtg rm
15. storage batteries are below the conf/mtg rm (among other things)
16. all of the above (built as a unit) is located up on a
very scenic hill top, with a few others like it dotting
other selected/nearby hilltops
17. The whole structure defends its occupants from weather &
intruders (physical & electronic)
18. Just a walk away is a similar or compatible structure,
which provides underground living spaces, underground.
Amaze them by finding / discussing
why a company -might- be pursuaded
to share a good idea w/competitors
without seeking license fees from
them...
Swedes are / were / have or had ex-
amples among them, who are or were
real Mensch[en].
Wallenberg & Volvo's decisionmakers
stand among them, as would Alfred
Nobel, despite his explosive inven-
tion(s).
On eBay, I recently noticed a cellphone designed for kids' use,
- with-GPS_W0QQitemZ270032251531
;-)
known (in Australia, at least) as an "i-Kids"
K-Mart had the pink version on sale (but each store had only ONE
to sell, when we tried to buy one, so we missed out) for Au$ 35.
See this (or similar) Aussie eBay item listing (of, better, the
web site referred to in it) for details:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ikids-mobile-phone-Prepaid
In Oz, the thing comes locked to Vodaphone and might not work
with other carriers' (except as a phone, if at all), since its
GPS signals would need a custom base (read: paid service)
to do any tracking.
While not quite the "Dead Man" switch sought in the article,
I'd say it's a short step away from becoming one.
And it just might do - as is - (if there's a nearby network
that can track it) in a pinch.
Let us know how you solve this.
Cel tel carriers subsidize handsets & sell air-time...
:-/
Free razor, you buy the blades...
Sony subsidizes the PS3 & wants to sell content...
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All examples of tried & ture business practices
So, what's newsworthy here?
Or... is this another "sponsored news article"...?
The Astronauts are almost all Radio Amateurs and there's both voice &
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data Amateur Radio equipment to toy with up there (& lots of classes
of school kids happy to speak with a Space Traveller.
For a real buzz (ie, after viewing Earth from Space & all the Science
experiments has been done), this Space Tourist should really try to
make a connection or three with some Muslim schools; I think it would
even be a first (as most of the schools that are selected from the
queue are from USA, I understand).
If anyone can get the suggestion up there to her, maybe she'll be kind
enough to give such schools (or any schools or other Hams she might
find on-the-air, for that matter) a Big Thrill, as well as a model of
what's possible - these days - for a woman of means to do.
Oh, for those who'd like to listen to on-air chats with the ISS, the
place to go for dates/times, frequencies & pass predictions is:
http://heavens-above.com/
Eg, select your location - eg, someplace in United Arab Emerates - & go
- from the selection page to a page like this one:
http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.asp?lat=25.7
It's also possible to display info for LOTS of Amateur Radio equipped
satellites which are likely 'visible' from your location, eg, here:
http://heavens-above.com/amateursats.asp?lat=25.7
(Not knowing any place names in the UAR, I just picked one from the list that came up,
in response to my entering "*" for Town/City, to get each of the following URLs.)
Enjoy & let us know what you hear!
The free shell folks at sdf.LoneStar.org once had somebody
break through their Linux security (years ago already), so
they went to NetBSD, I think (from memory).
They might have something to say about Linux -vs- [Net]BSD
Two directional antennas - back-to-back - placed
;-)
on top of the ridge that blocks your connection.
One antenna is aimed at the carrier's cell tower;
the other antenna is aimed at your home/property.
Let us know how this works, if you try it...
Selecting only "WiFi" on Nokia's web-based handset select web page
left 3 handsets showing (when I used it a week or so ago); one is
a "clam-shell" design that suggests you'd be more likely to use
its WiFi features to access files to ber massaged & returned to a
workgroup server.
The other two handsets seem to be better suited to the cool feature
of enabling cheap/free VoIP calls mentioned in this article.
(I seem to recall hearing mention of an auto-roaming WiFi-based
VoIP handset, eg, on Systm's Asterisk video. 'dunno if one of
these Nokia handsets would work like that. These cool Nokia
handsets aren't promoted in Australia, at least not by the
TelCo's, who'd lose high-profit revenues every time we used
the WiFi.)
Still lacking is a cost-free "walkie-talkie" function (not to be
confused with the current generation of "Push-to-Talk" handsets)
that would work when to phones are out of range of their base(s)
- eg, when camping in the Aussie Bush.
Look, a private Post Office box (while keeping your address to yourself),
:-/
;-)
:Candice Bergen as
not giving folks your land-line tel.no. (get a SkypeIn number instead;
only answer folks whose Caller-ID or Skype-name you recognize & like), &
keep a low, law-abiding profile.
So, then, who's going to harass you?
QED
---
What you describe, by way of neighbors' ill-founded feedback,
reminds me of a scene from "Fahrenheit 451" in which a suspi-
cious neighbor reveals the reason for her suspicion (that a
neighbor of hers had been - shock horrors! - reading books!):
"Look... Up there!" (No TV antenna on her neighbor's roof!)
Not able to participate, such as they did at the time,
in the daily [Pseudo-Cousin] TV series (pre-cursor to
Big Brother & other 'reality' series, I'd suggest...)
---
"I don't watch TV, I have a Life"
"Murphy Brown"
Track your wandering kid [or elderly relative]; details:
http://www.i-kids.net/
http://mobiles2go.com.au/ == from memory