When will we learn that you can't apply traditional laws that are designed to scale in a linear way to the Internet where you can effect such different orders of magnitude?
It just doesn't work. How do you apply traditional laws to some hypothetical situations...
If I send 10 fake emails but they cause all 10 computers to erase themselves.
If I sent 100 fake emails? 1,000,000? 1,000,000,000? If i managed to send a billion emails its certainly worse than a million, but do I deserve 1000x the punishment?
What about if I send a 1Million but they all bounce off of some well setup server, which barely notes a blip in the logs and it doesn't really effect it? What if I send 10,000 but they all have huge attachments that crashes a server? Is this the same?
My point is what many other/.ers have been saying...
#1 The punishment should fit the crime. #2 Jail time is an outmoded punishment for non-violent internet crimes.
I'm in a canyon community in Los Angeles, and I have Chartercom as well. They've certainly not made me a happy customer. A while ago they did the Gold 1500/384k ($99+10), Silver768/128 and Bronze 384/64 package. Then they did away with the gold all together about a year ago (or more I don't remember) for new customers.
Anyway, about a week or so ago they got rid of the tiered thing...which sounds like a good thing over all... BUT, the new upgrade was from ANYTHING to 2000/128. So my 1500/384 was 'upgraded' to 2000/128 30% better download 300% worse upload.
I spent 5 days on tech support trying to fix my problem. Mostly they said "well that's just the way it is now". I ended up getting it fixed via their business division...Although its entirely over priced you can get 1500/384k ($99) and 2000/512k ($149 w/contract) from them if you can afford it. It actually might be $10 cheaper because you don't have to pay the $10 'cable access fee'.
I hate charter too, but maybe this will help you give more money to a company you don't like.
IBM has been testing SiGe chips at up to at least 350-400GHz last time I checked and producing and selling chips at up to at least 110GHz. Intel's made claims of tested transistors in the THz range.
Not to rain on the "OMG look how many GHz or THz that is!" parade, but there are even higher numbers to "OMG" at =)
Put InP (indium phosphide) and SiGE (silicon germanium) in to google for more max Ghz fun...
There is probably even faster stuff than that out there!
You mean word documents/[INSERT alternative MS product here] may contain crap you didn't think they did?! NO SH*T...
This has been a problem and reported for years now...
It's called Save As...
Oh? You say end users can't be trusted to understand technology and or can't be trusted to dispose of or not reveal sensitive information? Another...DUH!
1. Obtain balloons and fill with hydrogen (for superior lifting) 2. Launch balloons with compact Linux box with an 802.11b card, gnutella and a bunch of MP3's 3. Set it up to connect to any open 802.11 network 4. See how long it takes the RIAA to find a place to send the subpoena.
This is a short term problem. Scientists are working very hard for either growing replacement organs within other animals or doing it on external scaffolding OR doing it within your own body. Right now this requires using embryonic stem cells, but there are many scientists also working on how to get normal cells to revert to stem cells.
Yeah, but think about it...if all of this is automated software, the cost per transaction should be very very low. I mean moores law in the last 10 years should have been plenty enough to create computers fast enough to do millions of transactions at minimal cost...and if its too expensive today, then in a few years it should be feasible. I mean were talking about a system thats completely computer driven. Errors will happen and thats what the built in system will try and fix, and when large errors happen, you can have an operator check it out when its enough money to actually matter.
Like many replies have noted a cheap PC is really the way to go. For $500 you can build a machine like this...
1. DVD Player digital audio out 2. MB w/digital audio 3. 1.4ghz Athlon or equivalent 4. DVI Output video card 5. Happauge Hardware MPEG2 encoder/decoder (audio/video) 6. SageTV $59 (PVR Software, no monthlies) or equivalent 7. 120GIG drive $99
Done! Solved! Mission complete! Encryption got you down? Mplayer's Mencoder includes DeCSS. Want backups? Get a DVD-R, want firewire? Comes with many MB's or can be purchased for a trivial amount. I hear they even make compact and or Black cases so they'll match your TV!
Slightly off topic as this is a home use printer...
Paid $50 refurb Canon S520.
Excellent photo output. Only printer consumer reports could find that was cheap ($99ish retail), low ink costs (separate bins, separate head), photo like output and FAST (45seconds for a HQ 4x6, 2-3mins for an 8.5x11). Text output is decent and better on better papers.
I'd just buy a half dozen (couple of spares) of these and put them on every desk. At refurb prices that's $300 and they come with FULL ink bins unlike some printers.
The only negative is i hear the canon inks aren't good for long term archiving of photos.
Although I think your point of fraud and disputes is an interesting and worthy point. I also think that with some intelligent planning and some agreement from the people using the system, you could avoid many of these pitfalls.
Since, in just the few seconds I've thought about the problem, I've come up with several solutions, this tells me that a real team of people could probably come up with a pretty decent system.
Some ideas...
Design an automated way of dealing with disputes. Something that penalizes the seller if they get too many disputes, like freezes their account and blacklists them. The disputes have to come from a certain threshold of people who also have high a 'rating' of some sort. e.g. A group of people all dispute some transactions of a penny lets say. If lets say some threshold of like 50 different people all dispute this transaction, the system automatically gives them money back and dings the sellers rating a point. It also increases the 'contentious' rating of the plaintiffs, if this rating gets too high you are no longer aloud to complain for x amount of time etc...
You come up with completely automated rules based system that is fair to the buyers and sellers. Although not perfect, its likely to work well in a real life situation. Look at Ebay, its far from perfect, but it also seems to work fairly well. Buy from reputable buyers and sellers, allow feedback, etc... Seems to work well.
Yes, ultimately you are going to lose a few pennies here and there, but you probably lose more than that in your couch on a regular basis anyway =)
Why not simply attach a small bit of legistlation that says that if you put a cell phone number on the donotcall list that you should receive data as well as voice spam?
Ways of knowing Apple is going to release something.
1. Supply chain starts drying up.
2. Apple allows upgrade makers to catch up.
On the supply chain i've heard conflicting rumors, but on the upgrade side both OWC and Powerlogix have now released 1.42Ghz upgrades, this matches the top of the line G4 desktops.
So there is definitely SOMETHING coming, whether it is a new 970 based machine or simply speed bumped G4's only time will tell.
1. Bryce does not support multiple processors. So the MP results should NOT be significantly different.
2. The Pentium 4 and 1.42Ghz DP G4 numbers were lifted directly off of Barefeats website!!! The odds of them using theEXACT combination of hardware and software setup to receive exactly to the second numbers is *HIGHLY* suspicious.
See this page to see where they got some of the numbers... http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html
3. In general they have been hit and miss on rumors.
I wouldn't believe these numbers at all. Although, I would love for them to be true.
So at full rate you get 50 seconds of bandwidth a month before they charge you more! Spread evenly you get a mind blowing.23kbytes/sec. At typical modem rates I could use up 4kbytes/sec*60*60*24*31=10.7GBytes or 85.7Gbits/month.
So to get the equivalent of modem bandwidth for a month you would pay $280 ($240 + $40) at $3/Gigabit.
Compared to a $300 1.5Mbit sDSL. Where you could use 192kbytes*60*60*24*31=514GBits or 100x the bandwidth for the same cost.
I'll take my crappy cable modem where I can use as much as my 48k up and 200k down allows per month.
Maybe if that was a factor of 100 cheaper I would reconsider.
Is it me or does Slashdot tend to ignore Storagereview.com? They tend to be one of the first to review a lot of new drives, as well as back when they first put up the Drive Reliability Database I don't remember seeing anything on slashdot about it (even after I submitted it).
Of all places, slashdot users are probably the best demographic to fill out such a database.
It seems to me, that if you need to place the antennas at least a halfwave away, this is going to definitely limit the number of antennas on portable devices.
At 1800mhz the halfwave is 3.12" so you are talking about maybe two antennas in a small cell phone. At 3000mhz were still talking 1.87".
So unless we are talking really high frequencies, I'm not sure how practical this is for really small devices.
Personally, I would be happy to get a full half wave antenna on my current cell phone, rather than the internal crap they've been doing recently.
I'm very interested in any suggestions anyone has for LOW cost IDE RAID systems. I was considering a 3WARE 7500-8 card as they are pretty cheap these days (around $375 on pricewatch). But, it doesnt support Online Capacity Expansion (OCE).
Requirements:
1. Online capacity expansion (expansion without reformatting) 2. RAID 5 support 3. Inexpensive 4. IDE Support
I've found software that seems to support this, but if anyone has alternative advice or experience with this I'd appreciate the feedback.
Disclaimer: This is just an idea off the top of my head, I'm sure there are holes...
Plaintiff must roughly estimate the amount they intend to spend. From that money they provide the defendant with equal funds for his own defense.
Example 1: A big corporation intends on suing you, it needs to provide equal large dollars for your defense.
Example 2: Little guy sues big corporation, slight burden as he has to spend twice what he would normally have, but he could find a lawyer who will work pro-bono.
Example 3: Little guy sues big corporation with lawyer on pro-bono. No money need be exchanged.
So it solves the big guys threatening the little guys, but does not necessarily help with suing the big guys. But, really how often do small time people sue big players without some sort of pro-bono situation?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp1.asp ?txtName=Diebold
But its just a $200,965 guess =)
a sp ?txtName=Diebold
http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp1.
Personally I think this should automatically disqualify them, but I guess I don't really understand the system that well.
When will we learn that you can't apply traditional laws that are designed to scale in a linear way to the Internet where you can effect such different orders of magnitude?
/.ers have been saying...
It just doesn't work. How do you apply traditional laws to some hypothetical situations...
If I send 10 fake emails but they cause all 10 computers to erase themselves.
If I sent 100 fake emails? 1,000,000? 1,000,000,000? If i managed to send a billion emails its certainly worse than a million, but do I deserve 1000x the punishment?
What about if I send a 1Million but they all bounce off of some well setup server, which barely notes a blip in the logs and it doesn't really effect it? What if I send 10,000 but they all have huge attachments that crashes a server? Is this the same?
My point is what many other
#1 The punishment should fit the crime.
#2 Jail time is an outmoded punishment for non-violent internet crimes.
I'm in a canyon community in Los Angeles, and I have Chartercom as well. They've certainly not made me a happy customer. A while ago they did the Gold 1500/384k ($99+10), Silver768/128 and Bronze 384/64 package. Then they did away with the gold all together about a year ago (or more I don't remember) for new customers.
Anyway, about a week or so ago they got rid of the tiered thing...which sounds like a good thing over all... BUT, the new upgrade was from ANYTHING to 2000/128. So my 1500/384 was 'upgraded' to 2000/128 30% better download 300% worse upload.
I spent 5 days on tech support trying to fix my problem. Mostly they said "well that's just the way it is now". I ended up getting it fixed via their business division...Although its entirely over priced you can get 1500/384k ($99) and 2000/512k ($149 w/contract) from them if you can afford it. It actually might be $10 cheaper because you don't have to pay the $10 'cable access fee'.
I hate charter too, but maybe this will help you give more money to a company you don't like.
Funny how laser printers original standard for text output was 300DPI and monitors seem to look good a 72HZ...
Oh wait, engineers already solved all these problems a while ago.
Why do I feel troll modding coming?
IBM has been testing SiGe chips at up to at least 350-400GHz last time I checked and producing and selling chips at up to at least 110GHz. Intel's made claims of tested transistors in the THz range.
Not to rain on the "OMG look how many GHz or THz that is!" parade, but there are even higher numbers to "OMG" at =)
Put InP (indium phosphide) and SiGE (silicon germanium) in to google for more max Ghz fun...
There is probably even faster stuff than that out there!
You mean word documents/[INSERT alternative MS product here] may contain crap you didn't think they did?! NO SH*T...
This has been a problem and reported for years now...
It's called Save As...
Oh? You say end users can't be trusted to understand technology and or can't be trusted to dispose of or not reveal sensitive information? Another...DUH!
I couldn't find anything that said what they are hoping for as far as gains i efficiency or power.
Does anyone have a clue how much potential efficiency there is to be gained?!
Any numbers would be appreciated.
1. Obtain balloons and fill with hydrogen (for superior lifting)
2. Launch balloons with compact Linux box with an 802.11b card, gnutella and a bunch of MP3's
3. Set it up to connect to any open 802.11 network
4. See how long it takes the RIAA to find a place to send the subpoena.
This is a short term problem. Scientists are working very hard for either growing replacement organs within other animals or doing it on external scaffolding OR doing it within your own body. Right now this requires using embryonic stem cells, but there are many scientists also working on how to get normal cells to revert to stem cells.
Once that happens, all bets are off =)
Yeah, but think about it...if all of this is automated software, the cost per transaction should be very very low. I mean moores law in the last 10 years should have been plenty enough to create computers fast enough to do millions of transactions at minimal cost...and if its too expensive today, then in a few years it should be feasible. I mean were talking about a system thats completely computer driven. Errors will happen and thats what the built in system will try and fix, and when large errors happen, you can have an operator check it out when its enough money to actually matter.
Like many replies have noted a cheap PC is really the way to go. For $500 you can build a machine like this...
1. DVD Player digital audio out
2. MB w/digital audio
3. 1.4ghz Athlon or equivalent
4. DVI Output video card
5. Happauge Hardware MPEG2 encoder/decoder (audio/video)
6. SageTV $59 (PVR Software, no monthlies) or equivalent
7. 120GIG drive $99
Done! Solved! Mission complete! Encryption got you down? Mplayer's Mencoder includes DeCSS. Want backups? Get a DVD-R, want firewire? Comes with many MB's or can be purchased for a trivial amount. I hear they even make compact and or Black cases so they'll match your TV!
Say goodbye to the old...please...let it go!
Slightly off topic as this is a home use printer...
Paid $50 refurb Canon S520.
Excellent photo output. Only printer consumer reports could find that was cheap ($99ish retail), low ink costs (separate bins, separate head), photo like output and FAST (45seconds for a HQ 4x6, 2-3mins for an 8.5x11). Text output is decent and better on better papers.
I'd just buy a half dozen (couple of spares) of these and put them on every desk. At refurb prices that's $300 and they come with FULL ink bins unlike some printers.
The only negative is i hear the canon inks aren't good for long term archiving of photos.
Although I think your point of fraud and disputes is an interesting and worthy point. I also think that with some intelligent planning and some agreement from the people using the system, you could avoid many of these pitfalls.
Since, in just the few seconds I've thought about the problem, I've come up with several solutions, this tells me that a real team of people could probably come up with a pretty decent system.
Some ideas...
Design an automated way of dealing with disputes. Something that penalizes the seller if they get too many disputes, like freezes their account and blacklists them. The disputes have to come from a certain threshold of people who also have high a 'rating' of some sort. e.g. A group of people all dispute some transactions of a penny lets say. If lets say some threshold of like 50 different people all dispute this transaction, the system automatically gives them money back and dings the sellers rating a point. It also increases the 'contentious' rating of the plaintiffs, if this rating gets too high you are no longer aloud to complain for x amount of time etc...
You come up with completely automated rules based system that is fair to the buyers and sellers. Although not perfect, its likely to work well in a real life situation. Look at Ebay, its far from perfect, but it also seems to work fairly well. Buy from reputable buyers and sellers, allow feedback, etc... Seems to work well.
Yes, ultimately you are going to lose a few pennies here and there, but you probably lose more than that in your couch on a regular basis anyway =)
Duh! Don't you know? The harder you hit it, the stiffer the entire thing becomes! Haven't you played with Ooblic? =P
So its flexible for wear and hard when you get hit! Although, i'm not sure how they got it from being so sticky when its soft.
Why not simply attach a small bit of legistlation that says that if you put a cell phone number on the donotcall list that you should receive data as well as voice spam?
Ways of knowing Apple is going to release something.
1. Supply chain starts drying up.
2. Apple allows upgrade makers to catch up.
On the supply chain i've heard conflicting rumors, but on the upgrade side both OWC and Powerlogix have now released 1.42Ghz upgrades, this matches the top of the line G4 desktops.
So there is definitely SOMETHING coming, whether it is a new 970 based machine or simply speed bumped G4's only time will tell.
1. Bryce does not support multiple processors. So the MP results should NOT be significantly different.
l
2. The Pentium 4 and 1.42Ghz DP G4 numbers were lifted directly off of Barefeats website!!! The odds of them using theEXACT combination of hardware and software setup to receive exactly to the second numbers is *HIGHLY* suspicious.
See this page to see where they got some of the numbers...
http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.htm
3. In general they have been hit and miss on rumors.
I wouldn't believe these numbers at all. Although, I would love for them to be true.
So at full rate you get 50 seconds of bandwidth a month before they charge you more! Spread evenly you get a mind blowing .23kbytes/sec. At typical modem rates I could use up 4kbytes/sec*60*60*24*31=10.7GBytes or 85.7Gbits/month.
So to get the equivalent of modem bandwidth for a month you would pay $280 ($240 + $40) at $3/Gigabit.
Compared to a $300 1.5Mbit sDSL. Where you could use 192kbytes*60*60*24*31=514GBits or 100x the bandwidth for the same cost.
I'll take my crappy cable modem where I can use as much as my 48k up and 200k down allows per month.
Maybe if that was a factor of 100 cheaper I would reconsider.
Is it me or does Slashdot tend to ignore Storagereview.com? They tend to be one of the first to review a lot of new drives, as well as back when they first put up the Drive Reliability Database I don't remember seeing anything on slashdot about it (even after I submitted it).
Of all places, slashdot users are probably the best demographic to fill out such a database.
It seems to me, that if you need to place the antennas at least a halfwave away, this is going to definitely limit the number of antennas on portable devices.
At 1800mhz the halfwave is 3.12" so you are talking about maybe two antennas in a small cell phone. At 3000mhz were still talking 1.87".
So unless we are talking really high frequencies, I'm not sure how practical this is for really small devices.
Personally, I would be happy to get a full half wave antenna on my current cell phone, rather than the internal crap they've been doing recently.
Its a cable nightmare, but...
Cable Coax -> PC With Digital Coax input -> CPU with cracked decoder -> PC DVI Video Out -> Back to the big screen
Isn't this just DVD all over again? Just a matter of time before someone steals the keys out of the hardware/software?
I'm very interested in any suggestions anyone has for LOW cost IDE RAID systems. I was considering a 3WARE 7500-8 card as they are pretty cheap these days (around $375 on pricewatch). But, it doesnt support Online Capacity Expansion (OCE).
Requirements:
1. Online capacity expansion (expansion without reformatting)
2. RAID 5 support
3. Inexpensive
4. IDE Support
I've found software that seems to support this, but if anyone has alternative advice or experience with this I'd appreciate the feedback.
RAID Reconfiguration tool
http://unthought.net/raidreconf/
Disclaimer: This is just an idea off the top of my head, I'm sure there are holes...
Plaintiff must roughly estimate the amount they intend to spend. From that money they provide the defendant with equal funds for his own defense.
Example 1: A big corporation intends on suing you, it needs to provide equal large dollars for your defense.
Example 2: Little guy sues big corporation, slight burden as he has to spend twice what he would normally have, but he could find a lawyer who will work pro-bono.
Example 3: Little guy sues big corporation with lawyer on pro-bono. No money need be exchanged.
So it solves the big guys threatening the little guys, but does not necessarily help with suing the big guys. But, really how often do small time people sue big players without some sort of pro-bono situation?
Just a thought...
Load it up with a half dozen big guys in the weight bucket for power.
I think the hardest part would be finding a pilot brave enough to do it!
It would look pretty cool too...
Any Takers?