There was recently a physics presentation at my University about thermoacoustics and its ability to be used for heatsinks. The basic idea behind it was that a thermoacoustic engine could be made to take the heat from the processor and convert it into sound, dissipating the heat more effectively than conventional heatsinks.
The group working on the project already has a number of prototypes and showed some of them at the presentation and they were quite impressive! These 'engines' are already being made smaller than a penny in order to fit a number of them on a processor to increase cooling ability. And if you're worried about the sound coming out of them (the heat is converted to sound), the engines are converting it to high enough frequencies that it's undetectable to the human ear. They also told us that they're working on converting the sound back into electricity, perhaps to be used to cool the processor even further. I can't wait until these are commercially available...
It's just like everything else -- money will let people buy their way into just about anything. If you can buy your way into politics, why shouldn't you be able to buy your way into the space program? Both should require special training, but.. Not that I'm a proponent of using money like this, just making an observation.
The cosmonauts aren't the only ones gabbing on the amateur radio bands -- many US astronauts are also licensed amateurs and talk via ham radio with amateurs on the ground. Ham radio's first flight into space was back in 1983, and ham radios have been taken on more than two dozen space shuttle missions. Astronauts even talk to thousands of school children and even their families using SAREX, the Space Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment. Future plans for ham radio in the space program includes its place on the International Space Station.
Actually, the curriculum for a computer engineer or computer scientist can vary greatly from one university to another. At the University of Illinois, for example, the computer science department is in the college of engineering. This means that we CS guys go through the same physics and math as all the other engineers in our college. This translates to five plus semesters of math, all the physics you can stand (and then some), chemistry... well, you get the idea. There is also a great deal of theory in general ideas of computer science as opposed to just straight coding. Computer architecture courses are also a big part of the curriculum. Computer science and computer engineering are different, though related, paths. I think it would be a mistake to say one or the other was inherently more difficult than the other.
Now, personally, I think they were dumb hosting the site on their telco's network, and that the telco was perfectly within its rights in withdrawing service (it is their network, after all).
Or does this better parallel the distribution of the utilities? That is, water, electricity, telephone service, etc. The power company can't turn off the power to a building because the people inside are protesting the power company! Situations like this are governed by law to prevent companies from abusing their monopoly-like status. I don't quite know how this scales to Korea, though, but I assume that at least similar laws are in place to protect the consumer.
As the Internet continues to grow, and as it becomes more and more an indispensible household resource, it's going to be increasingly treated like any other utility. This will place its providers under much more regulation than we've become accustomed to, all in the name of consumer protection.
In this age where information is the key asset in so many business models, strong (and fair!) copyright laws are the only way to continue to encourage innovation and further work into information-based fields. Such copyright-protected industries include music, software, books, etc.
Without protection under copyright laws, why would anyone write a book? Author A decides to write a book and then goes to have his book published. The publisher thinks it's a good book, steals it, and keeps all of the profit. Without copyright laws, it'd be legal. The same holds for the other industries. Imagine writing a hit song and then have the music industry steal it and sell it, keeping all the profits. In the dispersive environment of the Internet, everyone has the ability to be a "publisher" with or without the consent of the author. Napster is a publisher. Anyone who downloads the song and gives it to a friend is publishing the song. Without strong copyright protection, who's to stop it?
If I decide to build a computer and set it out for sale, it's generally agreed that if someone takes my computer without paying for it, it's stealing. If the thief is caught, she gets fined or goes to jail. Why is it any different for information? If I write a song and someone steals it, I want that person fined too. The person may not be stealing a tangible product, but he's still stealing my time to write the song.
If you find what someone is doing useful to you, you should pay for it if they request it. If you don't want to pay what they want, don't use it. You live in a capitolistic society, people. If you don't like it, move to another country.
But continued voting for the "Big 2" only encourages continued political structuring that resembles the bipartisan politics of today. Our current two party system certainly isn't written into the Constitution nor was it intended by its drafters. The problem with the system today is the American public's general apathy toward politics. I think most people vote for a Republican or Democratic presidential candidate simply because they feel a vote for an "off-party" candidate is a wasted vote. "Voting tactically" is a perversion of the intended voting process. Only when Americans vote for the best candidate (regardless of his or her party afiliation) will our political system truly work.
I'd like to patent the molecular bond that forms between two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom to form a little molecule called H2O.
With a patent on water, they'd have to pay me royalties to drink water, eat foods, even live. The body is made up of 90% water (or something like that). If they don't pay... well too bad!
Perhaps I need a patent on the PeopleDehyrator 2000 as well...
I think you're overlooking what he's saying here. The idea isn't really to prevent data theft as you would agree is pretty hard to do with someone looking over the employees' shoulders all the time. The idea is to make the employees have to go the extra mile, to "take that extra willful step" as fuzzybunny puts it. This makes a lot of sense from a legal standpoint.
Imagine that the "disgruntled employee" starts emailing credit cards to his home address (yes, this would be stupid, but it's just an example). Now if the company catches the employee doing this, he's going to get in trouble, but the employee can always say "oh gee, oops. I must have accidentally sent sensitive information. I'll try to be good next time."
On the other hand if the company routinely sniffs for credit card numbers (or whatever info) and announces this policy to its employees, then the employees know they're going to have to be craftier than email. So when Joe Employee encrypts the credit card numbers and sends them home, and gets caught, he's going to be in a lot more trouble than had he just emailed it and gotten caught.
Originally the TLDs existed to help sort out sites by their content.. e.g..org's were supposed to be for non-profit organizations. This didn't quite happen, now did it? If this were the case, microsoft.org wouldn't go to the same place as microsoft.com. So what good then does it do to add more domains without registration restrictions? Without these, you can be sure microsoft.gnu is going to go to the same site as right now.
I've also had my eye on a domain for a few months that has finally lapsed. I waited and waited for the registration to drop and the domain to be open for a new registration again. After an inquiry to InterNIC I was given this information:
Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc.
All domain name registrations are subject to deactivation and/or deletion if payment has not been made by the invoice due date.
However, if payment is not received for the domain name after the first invoice, a second invoice would be sent to the Billing Contact. An extended 15-day grace period would also be granted to remit payment.
If payment is still not received, a 10-day Deactivation Notice would be sent to the Registrant.
Following the ten days, if we still have not received payment, the domain name would be deactivated (Pending Deletion).
Please note that a 30-day grace period extension is also available for the asking.
Domain names are deleted in a bulk. They are placed into a batch until it is full, and they are altogether deleted.
Meanwhile, if payment is received (before the domain name is cancelled), the domain would be reactivated.
The expiration date does not necessarily indicate that the domain name will become available at the date listed in WHOIS. Several circumstances associated with the domain name could extend the expiration date indefinitely, however you may continue on checking our WHOIS Database.
Please continue to check our WHOIS Database as to if and/or when the requested domain name becomes available. The current registration record can be reviewed at the URL:
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If you wish to obtain the domain name registration, you should contact the domain name holder.
We look forward to providing you with continued quality service in the future.
Several circumstances associated with the domain name could extend the expiration date indefinitely? Does this mean that Network Solutions thinks it can keep domains for however long it pleases?
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There was recently a physics presentation at my University about thermoacoustics and its ability to be used for heatsinks. The basic idea behind it was that a thermoacoustic engine could be made to take the heat from the processor and convert it into sound, dissipating the heat more effectively than conventional heatsinks. The group working on the project already has a number of prototypes and showed some of them at the presentation and they were quite impressive! These 'engines' are already being made smaller than a penny in order to fit a number of them on a processor to increase cooling ability. And if you're worried about the sound coming out of them (the heat is converted to sound), the engines are converting it to high enough frequencies that it's undetectable to the human ear. They also told us that they're working on converting the sound back into electricity, perhaps to be used to cool the processor even further. I can't wait until these are commercially available...
It's just like everything else -- money will let people buy their way into just about anything. If you can buy your way into politics, why shouldn't you be able to buy your way into the space program? Both should require special training, but.. Not that I'm a proponent of using money like this, just making an observation.
The cosmonauts aren't the only ones gabbing on the amateur radio bands -- many US astronauts are also licensed amateurs and talk via ham radio with amateurs on the ground. Ham radio's first flight into space was back in 1983, and ham radios have been taken on more than two dozen space shuttle missions. Astronauts even talk to thousands of school children and even their families using SAREX, the Space Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment. Future plans for ham radio in the space program includes its place on the International Space Station.
Actually, the curriculum for a computer engineer or computer scientist can vary greatly from one university to another. At the University of Illinois, for example, the computer science department is in the college of engineering. This means that we CS guys go through the same physics and math as all the other engineers in our college. This translates to five plus semesters of math, all the physics you can stand (and then some), chemistry... well, you get the idea. There is also a great deal of theory in general ideas of computer science as opposed to just straight coding. Computer architecture courses are also a big part of the curriculum. Computer science and computer engineering are different, though related, paths. I think it would be a mistake to say one or the other was inherently more difficult than the other.
Now, personally, I think they were dumb hosting the site on their telco's network, and that the telco was perfectly within its rights in withdrawing service (it is their network, after all).
Or does this better parallel the distribution of the utilities? That is, water, electricity, telephone service, etc. The power company can't turn off the power to a building because the people inside are protesting the power company! Situations like this are governed by law to prevent companies from abusing their monopoly-like status. I don't quite know how this scales to Korea, though, but I assume that at least similar laws are in place to protect the consumer.
As the Internet continues to grow, and as it becomes more and more an indispensible household resource, it's going to be increasingly treated like any other utility. This will place its providers under much more regulation than we've become accustomed to, all in the name of consumer protection.
In this age where information is the key asset in so many business models, strong (and fair!) copyright laws are the only way to continue to encourage innovation and further work into information-based fields. Such copyright-protected industries include music, software, books, etc.
Without protection under copyright laws, why would anyone write a book? Author A decides to write a book and then goes to have his book published. The publisher thinks it's a good book, steals it, and keeps all of the profit. Without copyright laws, it'd be legal. The same holds for the other industries. Imagine writing a hit song and then have the music industry steal it and sell it, keeping all the profits. In the dispersive environment of the Internet, everyone has the ability to be a "publisher" with or without the consent of the author. Napster is a publisher. Anyone who downloads the song and gives it to a friend is publishing the song. Without strong copyright protection, who's to stop it?
If I decide to build a computer and set it out for sale, it's generally agreed that if someone takes my computer without paying for it, it's stealing. If the thief is caught, she gets fined or goes to jail. Why is it any different for information? If I write a song and someone steals it, I want that person fined too. The person may not be stealing a tangible product, but he's still stealing my time to write the song.
If you find what someone is doing useful to you, you should pay for it if they request it. If you don't want to pay what they want, don't use it. You live in a capitolistic society, people. If you don't like it, move to another country.
But continued voting for the "Big 2" only encourages continued political structuring that resembles the bipartisan politics of today. Our current two party system certainly isn't written into the Constitution nor was it intended by its drafters. The problem with the system today is the American public's general apathy toward politics. I think most people vote for a Republican or Democratic presidential candidate simply because they feel a vote for an "off-party" candidate is a wasted vote. "Voting tactically" is a perversion of the intended voting process. Only when Americans vote for the best candidate (regardless of his or her party afiliation) will our political system truly work.
Nah, that doesn't hurt.
I'd like to patent the molecular bond that forms between two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom to form a little molecule called H2O.
With a patent on water, they'd have to pay me royalties to drink water, eat foods, even live. The body is made up of 90% water (or something like that). If they don't pay... well too bad!
Perhaps I need a patent on the PeopleDehyrator 2000 as well...
I think you're overlooking what he's saying here. The idea isn't really to prevent data theft as you would agree is pretty hard to do with someone looking over the employees' shoulders all the time. The idea is to make the employees have to go the extra mile, to "take that extra willful step" as fuzzybunny puts it. This makes a lot of sense from a legal standpoint.
Imagine that the "disgruntled employee" starts emailing credit cards to his home address (yes, this would be stupid, but it's just an example). Now if the company catches the employee doing this, he's going to get in trouble, but the employee can always say "oh gee, oops. I must have accidentally sent sensitive information. I'll try to be good next time."
On the other hand if the company routinely sniffs for credit card numbers (or whatever info) and announces this policy to its employees, then the employees know they're going to have to be craftier than email. So when Joe Employee encrypts the credit card numbers and sends them home, and gets caught, he's going to be in a lot more trouble than had he just emailed it and gotten caught.
Originally the TLDs existed to help sort out sites by their content.. e.g. .org's were supposed to be for non-profit organizations. This didn't quite happen, now did it? If this were the case, microsoft.org wouldn't go to the same place as microsoft.com. So what good then does it do to add more domains without registration restrictions? Without these, you can be sure microsoft.gnu is going to go to the same site as right now.
I've also had my eye on a domain for a few months that has finally lapsed. I waited and waited for the registration to drop and the domain to be open for a new registration again. After an inquiry to InterNIC I was given this information:
i s
Thank you for contacting Network Solutions, Inc.
All domain name registrations are subject to deactivation and/or deletion if payment has not been made by the invoice due date.
However, if payment is not received for the domain name after the first invoice, a second invoice would be sent to the Billing Contact. An extended 15-day grace period would also be granted to remit payment.
If payment is still not received, a 10-day Deactivation Notice would be sent to the Registrant.
Following the ten days, if we still have not received payment, the domain name would be deactivated (Pending Deletion).
Please note that a 30-day grace period extension is also available for the asking.
Domain names are deleted in a bulk. They are placed into a batch until it is full, and they are altogether deleted.
Meanwhile, if payment is received (before the domain name is cancelled), the domain would be reactivated.
The expiration date does not necessarily indicate that the domain name will become available at the date listed in WHOIS. Several circumstances associated with the domain name could extend the expiration date indefinitely, however you may continue on checking our WHOIS Database.
Please continue to check our WHOIS Database as to if and/or when the requested domain name becomes available. The current registration record can be reviewed at the URL:
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/who
If you wish to obtain the domain name registration, you should contact the domain name holder.
We look forward to providing you with continued quality service in the future.
Several circumstances associated with the domain name could extend the expiration date indefinitely? Does this mean that Network Solutions thinks it can keep domains for however long it pleases?