This thing needs pneumatic claws so it can grip the sides of mountains and buildings. Walking a cliff face or wall vertically or horizontally would be a requirement for any kind of urban deployment of this technology
Also, it should look more like an actual giant armored space ant.
turret with high powered water/foam/fire cannon would be a nice option. Perhaps with harpoon/grappling hook gun with high test line on gear reduced winch. That way it would be able to swing from building to building and fight fires, mothra or those angels from evangelion.
clear chap stick. You can swipe it over the black lines on the left of a scantron to get it to not grade it...not mark any wrong. If the teacher's weary, she'll get 100% because the teacher didn't see any marked wrong.
Lock box that can screw into a desk drawer. good for keeping the roomie out of your...stuff
Resolve carpet cleaner. Clean up that barf or bongwater before the RA finds out
Spray Bottle and rubbing alcohol. gets any nature of odor out of the air...quickly
"Do Not Disturb" sign. use your imagination
microcassette recorder. good for lectures, bugging and recording any nature of other thing
The broadband providers perceive nat as a threat. Several months ago, there were stories here about the broadband industry seeing nat as a kind of theft, where they were missing out on revenues from leasing IP's for each of those machines that without nat, would have real internet IP's.
So their solution is to provide modems with a different protocol which can identify machines behind nat...so that the connection between the ISP and your home is not IP.
Given that those schemes are on their minds, it seems only natural that they would want to discourage the use of a modem they do not control, or can not recall and replace with their new ones. Even if you don't cave in and pay for more IP's (which is ridiculous, you don't pay for additional phones hooked up to the same line/number, even though those numbers are scarce as well) they still get some extra ca$h.
I suggest we coin a term to combat the idea that every net connected device should be paying for an IP, even if behind a firewall/nat. I propose "IP Gouging". I also think people should contact the local public utility commission and explain how shady a practice it is. We pay primarily for bandwidth and connectivity, we only need one IP to make use of the utility.
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there's a durigible hangar in sunnyvale, california. It's quite large, you can see it from the bay bridge, which is 15 - 20 miles away (that's a guess). It used to belong to the navy, but now it belongs to NASA.
Nothing bugs me more than all those classic apps hogging my perty screen and harshing my alpha-transparency terminal buzz. I use space to create a nice little corral for them. the only quirk is that apps in a given workspace will switch spaces if you bring it into focus in a different one. That drives me nuts.
I remember a wired story from way back talking about tetris being a pharmogenic drug. Apparently, the part of your brain that does that kind of stuff always gets the same amount of sugar, and the more you play tetris, the more efficient that chunk o' noggin becomes. The surplus in sugar due to increased efficiency gives it a bit of a kick...the cycle continues-more tetris, more efficiency, more kick.
So yes, some video games have been classified as being physically addictive. Explains all the tetris dreams I had when I was younger.
Anybody who cared to pay attention in art history class knows that master artists have had intimate, detailed knowledge of their mediums. When I was a multimedia art major at my university (the first to have a masters program, tho I was undergrad), they made certain to press that point, and make us intimately acquainted on how the computers worked. they also taught us object oriented programming.
I'm by no means ignorant here. I've been using macs nearly since their inception, have been trained by a university to use them as artistic tools and have provided tech and network support services for artists and design houses for several years. In short, I know computers, I know art and I know what my skill level is relative to other digital artists. The great ones know the capabilities of the medium and are able to use that knowledge to take the medium where nobody else thought to. Just as Ryder made alcohol based paint, and Pollock painted with motion and gravity.
I can see how one could think, in the context of IT guys and users, how my comments could be considered arrogant. However, I'm speaking in the context of several thousand years of art history. To measure yourself against the great artists of humanity, you must understand your medium. In order for people to notice you in a sea of greats, you must master it. Your claim holds water for managers and receptionists in an office, but is asinine and ill-informed in an artistic setting.
A designer not knowing how to maintain his Mac is like a painter not knowing how to clean a brush. Like a musician not knowing how to tune.
I say your problem is the designer, not the mac. Artists take the time to know the techniques and tools of their medium. A lot of designers using computers don't care to learn about their tools. That is one distinction between artists and wankers.
I've read the site and I was at CodeCon for the presentation.
Having said that, most of these comments are ignorant tripe. Before you post, you might want to take a look at the site and read about what actually goes on in BitTorrent. This will help you avoid looking like an ignoranus.
So if we see the goo being deployed, we all run in the direction of those applying it, then "slip 'n' slide" at them at great speed. This could be just as devastating on the opposition as a stampede.
So we go from an annoying crowd to thousands of people hurtling through the town upwards of 20 MPH, especially on a downhill. It's like a giant shotgun blast of people.
And the resulting news coverage, if the media doesn't just stay silent about it like it obediently always does, is that the cops are causing all these people to skid uncontrollably to their inevitable death on impact of a solid object.
I don't think this was very well thought out, at least not in the context of "how can a crowd use this to their advantage."
Hey guys, this ain't released yet, and for good reason. There's still work to do. If you have an attack which you think is probable of success, you would do good to let them know so they can design countermeasures.
So we build a nuclear strike proof network, cluster the nodes on it, make some of those nodes control robots and we end up terraforming the surface of the planet into a mainboard for a giant computer with many sharp/flailing appendages which we can never turn off.
Why is it that every time we get closer to the classic scifi doomsday plot of a giant computer which controls everything with humanity powerless to stop it that we think it's cool?
Well, if the SSSCA passes, this is what I see as the future of these types of schemes. The RIAA/MPAA/AAP want to use prohibition to not have swapping on this scale take place, and this is what we'll get as a result.
It will be illegal to make or sell these things in the US, but not in the 3rd world. So there will be a need to set up manufacturing overseas and smuggle them over the border. Then some outlaws will have to sell them here.
The infrastructure is set up for this already. Street gangs in san diego and LA have ties to rebels and paramilitaries deep in south america. Usually these are temporary strategic alliances. The technology for these things would be of interest for operational coordination for the paramilitaries. So the gangs get them the technology in return for manufacturing a surplus.
The surplus devices then become part of the drug/arms/people underground trade finding their way in with those products. It's a lot easier to get past dogs who can't sniff the difference between a walkman and a wireless portable music player.
Once across the border, the street gangs and other players in underground marketing will take on the distribution. Likely the same people who sell cloned cell phones.
There will also be a group of people who will modify hardware and software for a fee or with kits. This is like car ignition mod chips and cable descramblers.
This is the system we will have for general purpose consumer electronics post SSSCA. It's a world where only outlaws can publish, and you can get shot during a tape recorder deal gone bad.
the problem with everybody walking around with active bluetooth devices is that iw will jam 802.11 wireless ethernet. They share the same spectrum, but bluetooth checks for new channels 1,600 times per second, then just grabs one it wants and uses it. If this channel is being used by 802.11 devices in close proximity, 802.11 politely waits (it checks for channels far less often) then does it's search. In essence, bluetooth DOS's 802.11. this is why you don't see bluetooth devices made by Apple.
it might be as easy as inking a deal with broadband provider to give reduced rates to those that use routers (airport, linksys) with 802.11 built in, with the city making up the difference and mail in rebates for those routers.
The deal also enhances the name ID and rollout for that provider.
Are you now, or have you ever been employed by Microsoft corporation or a third party which in any way was affiliated or working with said corporation? If so, in what capacity were you employed?
I don't mind the fee. They do have phat bandwidth, and as such, their service is fairly reliable.
However, I only will pay this fee if:
The bands get a cut of the action. They're the ones making the music and giving it away. If MP3.com recieves a penny more than operating expenses + a little for a rainy day, then screw them. If MP3.com charges, the bulk of that money better go the the artists that spent their hard earned dough to write and record it.
They respect my privacy. I should need no more than authentication and authorization to get in. I am more than willing to put up a pot o' gold on paypal for pay sites to deduct from, so I don't have to give that pay site my personal info. Anybody interested in making such a "pot o gold" payment protocol with me should email me. I will GPL it if interested.
Actually, he's getting a much speedier trial than Kevin did. He DID get a bail hearing pretty soon after he arrived in San Jose...and he DID get one in Nevada. His arraingment is only a couple weeks after the bail hearing. So he's getting pretty speedy service as far as our judicial system is concerned.
The issue is that he should not be there in the first place. It doesn't help, distorting the events here. they speak for themselves:
He was doing something that restored fair use to humanity.
What he did is legal where he did it.
The law they're using against him is unconstitutional.
They are doing this very professionally and efficiently.
Making the DOJ look like a bunch of potentates doesn't work against the censoring parties as bad as being a very skilled and professional tool of illegal corporate oppression.
Perhaps I could have been more clear in the meaning of my sentence. Hosting on top of the NT kernel would be a bad STRATEGIC move. What if M$ just up and decided to not let Apple use it any more? What then?
And yes, they did consider many kernels. MacOS X's kernel is mostly MACH with flavors from BSD, NuKernel and MK Linux.
I come from an Apple family. I saw the first cd-rom drive for a PC a year before any of you did. It was cool. My dad had just gotten back from Japan, and he had to make me swear to tell nobody about what I had seen in our den. It was my first exposure to manga and anime. I had never thought of images that cool coming from a computer. It was a breakthrough. Yes, there was macpaint, and the function in or near it that allowed you to animate (in the mid 80's!!!), but this was the stuff...650MB..that was unheard of.
This was a formative experience for me. It was the day when I learned that computers weren't for sitting around and typing, it was a way to say something profound.
Now, there will be kids having the same experience . Only nowadays, it will be with emacs/VI and gcc. Maybe they'll use the GIMP or Broadcast2000.
The question is not if Apple matters. It's if kids, and to a greater extent humanity matters. If a legion of kids can have the same revelation with Open Source that I did because of the CD-ROM drive, then maybe Apple will have really changed the world for the better.
Making UNIX usable for my grandma, and my future kids is an innovation that only Apple has pulled off.
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This thing needs pneumatic claws so it can grip the sides of mountains and buildings. Walking a cliff face or wall vertically or horizontally would be a requirement for any kind of urban deployment of this technology
Also, it should look more like an actual giant armored space ant.
turret with high powered water/foam/fire cannon would be a nice option. Perhaps with harpoon/grappling hook gun with high test line on gear reduced winch. That way it would be able to swing from building to building and fight fires, mothra or those angels from evangelion.
What's this business with audible.com support in iTunes 3? Do they use DRM? This document says they make a special codec:
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http://www.fullplaymedia.com/partners/partners.
and this document says they definitely do:
http://www.cognitrol.com/ADBL/devices.htm
So is this audible.com support a trojan horse for DRM in iTunes? The answer is likely yes. This is one mac user who won't upgrade to iTunes 3.
Apparently, iPod also now supports it, so beware firmware updates.
I tried to grab the flash file to share on gnutella, but eff.org keeps denying me when I use wget or curl (grabbed url from page source).
Is there a URL where we can grab it so we can spread the word?
Lock box that can screw into a desk drawer. good for keeping the roomie out of your...stuff
Resolve carpet cleaner. Clean up that barf or bongwater before the RA finds out
Spray Bottle and rubbing alcohol. gets any nature of odor out of the air...quickly
"Do Not Disturb" sign. use your imagination
microcassette recorder. good for lectures, bugging and recording any nature of other thing
The broadband providers perceive nat as a threat. Several months ago, there were stories here about the broadband industry seeing nat as a kind of theft, where they were missing out on revenues from leasing IP's for each of those machines that without nat, would have real internet IP's.
So their solution is to provide modems with a different protocol which can identify machines behind nat...so that the connection between the ISP and your home is not IP.
Given that those schemes are on their minds, it seems only natural that they would want to discourage the use of a modem they do not control, or can not recall and replace with their new ones. Even if you don't cave in and pay for more IP's (which is ridiculous, you don't pay for additional phones hooked up to the same line/number, even though those numbers are scarce as well) they still get some extra ca$h.
I suggest we coin a term to combat the idea that every net connected device should be paying for an IP, even if behind a firewall/nat. I propose "IP Gouging". I also think people should contact the local public utility commission and explain how shady a practice it is. We pay primarily for bandwidth and connectivity, we only need one IP to make use of the utility.
there's a durigible hangar in sunnyvale, california. It's quite large, you can see it from the bay bridge, which is 15 - 20 miles away (that's a guess). It used to belong to the navy, but now it belongs to NASA.
Nothing bugs me more than all those classic apps hogging my perty screen and harshing my alpha-transparency terminal buzz. I use space to create a nice little corral for them. the only quirk is that apps in a given workspace will switch spaces if you bring it into focus in a different one. That drives me nuts.
I remember a wired story from way back talking about tetris being a pharmogenic drug. Apparently, the part of your brain that does that kind of stuff always gets the same amount of sugar, and the more you play tetris, the more efficient that chunk o' noggin becomes. The surplus in sugar due to increased efficiency gives it a bit of a kick...the cycle continues-more tetris, more efficiency, more kick.
So yes, some video games have been classified as being physically addictive. Explains all the tetris dreams I had when I was younger.
Anybody who cared to pay attention in art history class knows that master artists have had intimate, detailed knowledge of their mediums. When I was a multimedia art major at my university (the first to have a masters program, tho I was undergrad), they made certain to press that point, and make us intimately acquainted on how the computers worked. they also taught us object oriented programming.
I'm by no means ignorant here. I've been using macs nearly since their inception, have been trained by a university to use them as artistic tools and have provided tech and network support services for artists and design houses for several years. In short, I know computers, I know art and I know what my skill level is relative to other digital artists. The great ones know the capabilities of the medium and are able to use that knowledge to take the medium where nobody else thought to. Just as Ryder made alcohol based paint, and Pollock painted with motion and gravity.
I can see how one could think, in the context of IT guys and users, how my comments could be considered arrogant. However, I'm speaking in the context of several thousand years of art history. To measure yourself against the great artists of humanity, you must understand your medium. In order for people to notice you in a sea of greats, you must master it. Your claim holds water for managers and receptionists in an office, but is asinine and ill-informed in an artistic setting.
A designer not knowing how to maintain his Mac is like a painter not knowing how to clean a brush. Like a musician not knowing how to tune.
I say your problem is the designer, not the mac. Artists take the time to know the techniques and tools of their medium. A lot of designers using computers don't care to learn about their tools. That is one distinction between artists and wankers.
I've read the site and I was at CodeCon for the presentation.
Having said that, most of these comments are ignorant tripe. Before you post, you might want to take a look at the site and read about what actually goes on in BitTorrent. This will help you avoid looking like an ignoranus.
Icecast mp3 compatability....is it only in 6? I know it exists though. Surely better documentation than icecast itself.
So if we see the goo being deployed, we all run in the direction of those applying it, then "slip 'n' slide" at them at great speed. This could be just as devastating on the opposition as a stampede.
So we go from an annoying crowd to thousands of people hurtling through the town upwards of 20 MPH, especially on a downhill. It's like a giant shotgun blast of people.
And the resulting news coverage, if the media doesn't just stay silent about it like it obediently always does, is that the cops are causing all these people to skid uncontrollably to their inevitable death on impact of a solid object.
I don't think this was very well thought out, at least not in the context of "how can a crowd use this to their advantage."
Why should I pay for no ads, when I've effectively filtered out all the ads you currently have?
I already have this feature for free.
Hey guys, this ain't released yet, and for good reason. There's still work to do. If you have an attack which you think is probable of success, you would do good to let them know so they can design countermeasures.
So we build a nuclear strike proof network, cluster the nodes on it, make some of those nodes control robots and we end up terraforming the surface of the planet into a mainboard for a giant computer with many sharp/flailing appendages which we can never turn off.
Why is it that every time we get closer to the classic scifi doomsday plot of a giant computer which controls everything with humanity powerless to stop it that we think it's cool?
I think it's foolish.
Well, if the SSSCA passes, this is what I see as the future of these types of schemes. The RIAA/MPAA/AAP want to use prohibition to not have swapping on this scale take place, and this is what we'll get as a result.
It will be illegal to make or sell these things in the US, but not in the 3rd world. So there will be a need to set up manufacturing overseas and smuggle them over the border. Then some outlaws will have to sell them here.
The infrastructure is set up for this already. Street gangs in san diego and LA have ties to rebels and paramilitaries deep in south america. Usually these are temporary strategic alliances. The technology for these things would be of interest for operational coordination for the paramilitaries. So the gangs get them the technology in return for manufacturing a surplus.
The surplus devices then become part of the drug/arms/people underground trade finding their way in with those products. It's a lot easier to get past dogs who can't sniff the difference between a walkman and a wireless portable music player.
Once across the border, the street gangs and other players in underground marketing will take on the distribution. Likely the same people who sell cloned cell phones.
There will also be a group of people who will modify hardware and software for a fee or with kits. This is like car ignition mod chips and cable descramblers.
This is the system we will have for general purpose consumer electronics post SSSCA. It's a world where only outlaws can publish, and you can get shot during a tape recorder deal gone bad.
the problem with everybody walking around with active bluetooth devices is that iw will jam 802.11 wireless ethernet. They share the same spectrum, but bluetooth checks for new channels 1,600 times per second, then just grabs one it wants and uses it. If this channel is being used by 802.11 devices in close proximity, 802.11 politely waits (it checks for channels far less often) then does it's search. In essence, bluetooth DOS's 802.11. this is why you don't see bluetooth devices made by Apple.
it's funny that the x-ray images are from a powerbook titanium G4. That thing uses a different bootloader, last I had SuSE on a mac.
it might be as easy as inking a deal with broadband provider to give reduced rates to those that use routers (airport, linksys) with 802.11 built in, with the city making up the difference and mail in rebates for those routers.
The deal also enhances the name ID and rollout for that provider.
Are you now, or have you ever been employed by Microsoft corporation or a third party which in any way was affiliated or working with said corporation? If so, in what capacity were you employed?
I don't mind the fee. They do have phat bandwidth, and as such, their service is fairly reliable.
However, I only will pay this fee if:
The bands get a cut of the action. They're the ones making the music and giving it away. If MP3.com recieves a penny more than operating expenses + a little for a rainy day, then screw them. If MP3.com charges, the bulk of that money better go the the artists that spent their hard earned dough to write and record it.
They respect my privacy. I should need no more than authentication and authorization to get in. I am more than willing to put up a pot o' gold on paypal for pay sites to deduct from, so I don't have to give that pay site my personal info. Anybody interested in making such a "pot o gold" payment protocol with me should email me. I will GPL it if interested.
Actually, he's getting a much speedier trial than Kevin did. He DID get a bail hearing pretty soon after he arrived in San Jose...and he DID get one in Nevada. His arraingment is only a couple weeks after the bail hearing. So he's getting pretty speedy service as far as our judicial system is concerned.
The issue is that he should not be there in the first place. It doesn't help, distorting the events here. they speak for themselves:
He was doing something that restored fair use to humanity.
What he did is legal where he did it.
The law they're using against him is unconstitutional.
They are doing this very professionally and efficiently.
Making the DOJ look like a bunch of potentates doesn't work against the censoring parties as bad as being a very skilled and professional tool of illegal corporate oppression.
I know what a kernel is.
Perhaps I could have been more clear in the meaning of my sentence. Hosting on top of the NT kernel would be a bad STRATEGIC move. What if M$ just up and decided to not let Apple use it any more? What then?
And yes, they did consider many kernels. MacOS X's kernel is mostly MACH with flavors from BSD, NuKernel and MK Linux.
I come from an Apple family. I saw the first cd-rom drive for a PC a year before any of you did. It was cool. My dad had just gotten back from Japan, and he had to make me swear to tell nobody about what I had seen in our den. It was my first exposure to manga and anime. I had never thought of images that cool coming from a computer. It was a breakthrough. Yes, there was macpaint, and the function in or near it that allowed you to animate (in the mid 80's!!!), but this was the stuff...650MB..that was unheard of.
This was a formative experience for me. It was the day when I learned that computers weren't for sitting around and typing, it was a way to say something profound.
Now, there will be kids having the same experience . Only nowadays, it will be with emacs/VI and gcc. Maybe they'll use the GIMP or Broadcast2000.
The question is not if Apple matters. It's if kids, and to a greater extent humanity matters. If a legion of kids can have the same revelation with Open Source that I did because of the CD-ROM drive, then maybe Apple will have really changed the world for the better.
Making UNIX usable for my grandma, and my future kids is an innovation that only Apple has pulled off.