The Internet was designed to be used for all forms of free speech.
Last time I checked, the internet was disigned as a "post WW III telephone system." A network that can still transmit data even after/during a nuclear war. That's why all your IP packets usually get there. I wonder why I'm splitting hairs at 5am...
I had a teacher who tried to regester something like Olympics2002.com A few days later the FBI called him and said that regestering the name broke some law about amateur sports. He had to give up the domain names, but he didn't lose the money.
<JOKE> No, as we ALL know, electric cars are not "in" because they don't go "VROOM!" All they need is speakers to make them make engin noises in leu of the engin. Fortunatly, some small cars on the market have pioneered this technoligy, have you ever hit the gas and heard you car excellerate while it hasn't? Just apply this amazing speaker technology to your spiffy new electric car, and you have a winner... </JOKE>
Wasn't the WHOLE point of the Crusoe chip to draw a tiny amount of power? Yeah, they talked about optimizations in the chip, but those were not about out performing their AMD/Intel counterpart, just achiving the lowest power consumption possible while achiving accecptable performance. I liked this:
"Dell has found that the performance of the current TM 5400 chips is not yet up to par with similarly rated mobile chips from Intel."
That sounds to me like (although I could be totaly off as this has no basis) management saw a nice juicey 700MHz number, and thought that it will run just like the latest 700MHz Pentium. This is to all who are confused: 700MHz is the Clock Speed. That is the number of times an operation CAN be performed per second. (~7 Million) That can vary wildly. If there is a cache miss, then you get less. If two unrelated regesters are used (in most x86 chips for years) then you can get more. There is no way that a 700 MHz chip running an additional layer of code, code morphing, is going to touch a chip that is running native instructions. There is also no way the native chips can touch the power consumption as long as the chip doesn't use as many transistors. (Well, that's not ALL the way true.) The point is that the Crusoe is not about performance, it is about not needing 2 batteries for you laptop just to use it for more than <exageration> 10 Minutes!!!</exageration> This is for people who could probibly be using a computer like a Pentium/450 with out complaning but DO complane if they have to keep changing laptop bateries.
How much data is held on a MiniDisk? I know that it's not 650MB to store 74 minutes of music, so it must be compressed. How much is it? I think that that'd make an attractive portable data storage technique for me. Maybe I'll hook my stereo's audio tape recorder to the output of my sound card just like an old atari..........
Cans with string here on slashdot should be called a Mechano-acoustically coupled two-way analog to analog audio transmission network. That way everyone will know exacly what your talking about. Describing such a network by it's components would be just downright confusing. Also if you ever decide to change the components, to for example plastic cups, with out changeing the basic concept, you won't have to change any of your documentation. I hope that I have informed you of the proper way to talk to all of us.
That should probibly be called a Remote Controlled/Homing Pidgeon. In the cartoon, you hit the "G" button, and a little robotic pidgeon would fly out of the car. It could hold things like tapes, secrete codes, etc. It could be flown with a remote control, or if you hit the "H" button (near where the radio is, as opposed to on the stearing wheel) the robot would go home. I think that home was speed racer's house, but it could also be the car. While it may be computer controlled, I doubt that it has a file system, so fsck will have no effect.;-)
One problem that a bunch of people have mentioned is getting truly random data. The best approach ever has gotta be from SGI at http://lavarand.sgi.com/ They use lava lamps for making random data. I would have to agree about naming the files with a hash rather than just the hex of the first 8 bytes. And remember: think of all the fun you could have randomly getting random pads looking for somthing intresting, ok maybe not...
Seriously, what good are ads if only astronauts can see them? Space tourism is still a little ways away... (the recent Mir thing notwithstanding)
I think that the law was written that way so that space tourism wouldn't be restricted in the future. I'm not sure as to the actual wording of the law because I heard about it on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell when Art was interviewing they guy from Space Island Group (see the link above) talking about plans to make a space station that could be a hotel in the short term.
Last year under the US passed a law that US space stations can have adds on the sides, but they must not be visible from earth with the naked eye. At least on the modules that NASA is putting up, we won't be going outside and seeing Coca-Cola and Microsoft comming up in the night sky, that's a strange thought, isn't it?
Having a retinal degenerative eye disease, I've read a lot of inforation, kept up on that information, and during the a test about 2 weeks ago, I talked to one of a leading reasearcher on my specific eye disease.
First of all, it's important to know how the eye works. Here is a bad diagram. (view as monospaced test)
| (2 / |4 -1--> ( --- |*5 ( \ | 3|
1 is light. 2 is the lense, 3 is the cornia 4 is the retina, and 5 is the optic nerve.
Light comes in to the eye, and is refracted by the lense to the retna. The retna is like a CCD in a camera. It translates light in to nerve impulses. then it goes along the optic nerve to the brain to be translated to mesages like "Hey! I'm reading slashdot!" Where the optic nerve is on the retina, you have a blind spot. Take a pen with a funny colored cap. close your left eye, and move it around you field of vision low in the middle to the left a little, and you'll find it. The cornia keeps the fluid in your eye in your eye, and germs out.
The most common Retinal degenerative eye disease is Mascular Degeneration. (Especially Age related MD) Another diseas (that I have) is Retenitus Pigmentosa. Generally the diseases (these two do, there are others that don't) work by killing patches of your retina. RP for example starts by killing the outer cells in your eye (the ones responsible for parapheral vision and dark vision) then the disease works it's way in. MD works by killing the central cells in your eye which are responsible for hi-res, high-light situations (like reading a slashdot artical.) A lot of blindness is caused by eye diseases like those. Those would be the most treatable with this technology.
Here are the problems:
- Just like electronics(implants) your body is likely to reject it. - The modified/nonmodified organic cells may not be able to run off of blood. - Even if the first two are solved, blood stops flowing to the blind areas in an eye. - the nerves also die in the blind part of the eye. - How do you properly emulate nerve impulses. - One would need to compensate for the light seeing and dark seeing parts of the retina called rods and cones. - Probibly others I can't think of.
The good news is that some of these technologies are being reasearched. Hopefuly this will be another step to making the implants work.
If Slashdot would do A LITTLE reasearch once and a while, and didn't just pass of a copy of some one's incorrect work as a news story, they would know the following:
1 This year there are 8 crawlers, not 5 due to increased internet usership
2 The time will be going for an extra hour in California because all the extra computers in silicon vally
3 You must remove the batterys from, and in no way use a "Web Phone" or PDA with wireless modem.
The foundation is developing a country-wide technology grid, which will connect researchers across the country by linking together the supercomputers located in national labs and universities.
hmmmm, A nation wide network of computers made to connect researchers toghther... Take away the millitary, and they used to call this ARPANET. Ok, maybe not the supercomputer thing, but wasn't NCAC on ARPANET? Then again, I could have all of my facts wrong.
Since all of the cliche's are taken, I submit this:A computer that fast just gets me thinking. There is no mention of hard drive space (It could obvously be over 1 TB (Terabye) with that many machines,) We'll have to go with processing power. How many simultanious streams of mp3s can it play?
Well if you have $10,000 (but hey, the shipping is free) then you can buy a 1 terabyte tape drive. You could then back up 13 full 75GB drives with absolutly no compression. You can use the remaining 25GB for your friends computer.
Someone mentioned "The Book People" from Fahrenheit 451's end in a DeCSS discussion. It seems as thought the government is being paid by corporations in to developing a group of firemen like in the book Fahrenheit 451, whose job was the reverse of our firemen today. They burnt all unauthorized books. Yeah, that is pretty drastic, but really they are more or less paving the way for that to happen. Of course, our "firemen" are using law to stop publication. By stopping the circulation of a movie here or there, and this book or that book, some one is gaining control on the past.
I think that capitalism is great, but for it to be great you need competition. They are giving money to the congressmen, and the congressmen need the money to buy air get elected. More than that, they need votes. You can use your power of vote to not re-elect the guy next time around when he upholds some stupid law when you wrote a letter. (DMCA anyone?) A look back just about 100 years shows what happens when big corporations aren't regulated to some degree. With no minimum wage companies drove wages DOWN which goes counter to logic. People would of coarse gravitate to the higher waged jobs. The companies made deals, and broke up unions and their strikes.
I think a possible legal set up is that if the defendant of a case wins, the plaintiff has to pay his legal fees. Solutions based on who has how much money will never work because of the change in world markets, inflation, and most other economic things. Corporations may just sue individuals who have over the dollar limit on them paying, and then a few suites later, their standard of living is below someone who makes $30,000 per year.
Now how many copyrights did I mention in this posting? Well first Fahrenhe.....
Unlike funtax, I like AM radio, but that is beside the point. Art Bell IMHO would be a perfect choice to get the word about DeCSS out. He has about 12 Million Weekly listeners, and over 460 affiliates. Usually he has an hour of open lines at the begining and end of his show. (1 AM - 6 AM Estern) If he has a guest, he interviews the guest, but lets the listener decide if it is true, or whatever. He also has an e-mail address artbell@mindspring.com which he reads himself, and if enough subject lines read "The DeCSS trial is a shame" or the like, then he is going to read at least one of the messages. He gets hundreds a day, but I'm sure that with high enough volume, he can be easly reached. BTW: Yeah, I'm a fan. There is also fax and snail mail info to go along with the on air numbers that are available on the website. So go check it out. If he covers the topic, there is a major potential for tons of people to hear it. If you call in, be prepared (especially with the reason that the encryption isn't copy protection) to make a clear concise point of it. He if fourth in ratings, then we can work our way up from there. Although I don't know if Howerd Stern or Dr. Laura are the "target shows":-). Maybe, just maybe, we can get on the number one show (Rush Limba) to get the word out to millions more. Hey, Rolly Jane (sorry about the spelling) is on and you know who she just mentioned? Kevin Mitick. (again, if I got it wrong...) I think it's the way to go...
Slashdot Mirror
I just ran this in QB4.5, what am I looking at?
Last time I checked, the internet was disigned as a "post WW III telephone system." A network that can still transmit data even after/during a nuclear war. That's why all your IP packets usually get there. I wonder why I'm splitting hairs at 5am...
--Josh
Sorry, but $10 is WAY over shooting it for most clothes...
What are you paying/gal? Here in Michigan it's gone up as high as $2.10/gal, $230-ish in Detroit, and the roads suck.
--Josh
I had a teacher who tried to regester something like Olympics2002.com A few days later the FBI called him and said that regestering the name broke some law about amateur sports. He had to give up the domain names, but he didn't lose the money.
If you MUST spam EVERY discusion with talk of MDMA, could you please, at least fix the ascii art?
--Josh
Yup. I didn't write that to be 10000% accurate, just to make the show why a 700MHz != another 700MHz chip.
<JOKE>
No, as we ALL know, electric cars are not "in" because they don't go "VROOM!" All they need is speakers to make them make engin noises in leu of the engin. Fortunatly, some small cars on the market have pioneered this technoligy, have you ever hit the gas and heard you car excellerate while it hasn't? Just apply this amazing speaker technology to your spiffy new electric car, and you have a winner...
</JOKE>
--Josh
That's why I always run on my 386/16 with 1GB of ram.
 
--Josh
Wasn't the WHOLE point of the Crusoe chip to draw a tiny amount of power? Yeah, they talked about optimizations in the chip, but those were not about out performing their AMD/Intel counterpart, just achiving the lowest power consumption possible while achiving accecptable performance. I liked this:
"Dell has found that the
performance of the current TM 5400 chips is not yet up to par with similarly rated mobile chips from Intel."
That sounds to me like (although I could be totaly off as this has no basis) management saw a nice juicey 700MHz number, and thought that it will run just like the latest 700MHz Pentium. This is to all who are confused: 700MHz is the Clock Speed. That is the number of times an operation CAN be performed per second. (~7 Million) That can vary wildly. If there is a cache miss, then you get less. If two unrelated regesters are used (in most x86 chips for years) then you can get more. There is no way that a 700 MHz chip running an additional layer of code, code morphing, is going to touch a chip that is running native instructions. There is also no way the native chips can touch the power consumption as long as the chip doesn't use as many transistors. (Well, that's not ALL the way true.) The point is that the Crusoe is not about performance, it is about not needing 2 batteries for you laptop just to use it for more than <exageration> 10 Minutes!!!</exageration> This is for people who could probibly be using a computer like a Pentium/450 with out complaning but DO complane if they have to keep changing laptop bateries.
--Josh
How much data is held on a MiniDisk? I know that it's not 650MB to store 74 minutes of music, so it must be compressed. How much is it? I think that that'd make an attractive portable data storage technique for me. Maybe I'll hook my stereo's audio tape recorder to the output of my sound card just like an old atari..........
--Josh
Cans with string here on slashdot should be called a Mechano-acoustically coupled two-way analog to analog audio transmission network. That way everyone will know exacly what your talking about. Describing such a network by it's components would be just downright confusing. Also if you ever decide to change the components, to for example plastic cups, with out changeing the basic concept, you won't have to change any of your documentation. I hope that I have informed you of the proper way to talk to all of us.
[Please not that this is in no way serious]
--Josh
Yes, there is a Boise ID facility. My brother has worked there (not doing fabrication) for 3 1/2 years.
--Josh
That should probibly be called a Remote Controlled/Homing Pidgeon. In the cartoon, you hit the "G" button, and a little robotic pidgeon would fly out of the car. It could hold things like tapes, secrete codes, etc. It could be flown with a remote control, or if you hit the "H" button (near where the radio is, as opposed to on the stearing wheel) the robot would go home. I think that home was speed racer's house, but it could also be the car. While it may be computer controlled, I doubt that it has a file system, so fsck will have no effect. ;-)
--Josh
Yeah, it will run any x86 OS, but some of them will have trouble dealing with the fact that the processing speed changes.
--Josh
One problem that a bunch of people have mentioned is getting truly random data. The best approach ever has gotta be from SGI at http://lavarand.sgi.com/
They use lava lamps for making random data. I would have to agree about naming the files with a hash rather than just the hex of the first 8 bytes. And remember: think of all the fun you could have randomly getting random pads looking for somthing intresting, ok maybe not...
--Josh
I think that the law was written that way so that space tourism wouldn't be restricted in the future. I'm not sure as to the actual wording of the law because I heard about it on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell when Art was interviewing they guy from Space Island Group (see the link above) talking about plans to make a space station that could be a hotel in the short term.
--Josh
Last year under the US passed a law that US space stations can have adds on the sides, but they must not be visible from earth with the naked eye. At least on the modules that NASA is putting up, we won't be going outside and seeing Coca-Cola and Microsoft comming up in the night sky, that's a strange thought, isn't it?
--Josh
Having a retinal degenerative eye disease, I've read a lot of inforation, kept up on that information, and during the a test about 2 weeks ago, I talked to one of a leading reasearcher on my specific eye disease.
First of all, it's important to know how the eye works. Here is a bad diagram. (view as monospaced test)
|
(2 / |4
-1--> ( --- |*5
( \ |
3|
1 is light. 2 is the lense, 3 is the cornia 4 is the retina, and 5 is the optic nerve.
Light comes in to the eye, and is refracted by the lense to the retna. The retna is like a CCD in a camera. It translates light in to nerve impulses. then it goes along the optic nerve to the brain to be translated to mesages like "Hey! I'm reading slashdot!" Where the optic nerve is on the retina, you have a blind spot. Take a pen with a funny colored cap. close your left eye, and move it around you field of vision low in the middle to the left a little, and you'll find it. The cornia keeps the fluid in your eye in your eye, and germs out.
The most common Retinal degenerative eye disease is Mascular Degeneration. (Especially Age related MD) Another diseas (that I have) is Retenitus Pigmentosa. Generally the diseases (these two do, there are others that don't) work by killing patches of your retina. RP for example starts by killing the outer cells in your eye (the ones responsible for parapheral vision and dark vision) then the disease works it's way in. MD works by killing the central cells in your eye which are responsible for hi-res, high-light situations (like reading a slashdot artical.) A lot of blindness is caused by eye diseases like those. Those would be the most treatable with this technology.
Here are the problems:
- Just like electronics(implants) your body is likely to reject it.
- The modified/nonmodified organic cells may not be able to run off of blood.
- Even if the first two are solved, blood stops flowing to the blind areas in an eye.
- the nerves also die in the blind part of the eye.
- How do you properly emulate nerve impulses.
- One would need to compensate for the light seeing and dark seeing parts of the retina called rods and cones.
- Probibly others I can't think of.
The good news is that some of these technologies are being reasearched. Hopefuly this will be another step to making the implants work.
If Slashdot would do A LITTLE reasearch once and a while, and didn't just pass of a copy of some one's incorrect work as a news story, they would know the following:
1 This year there are 8 crawlers, not 5 due to increased internet usership
2 The time will be going for an extra hour in California because all the extra computers in silicon vally
3 You must remove the batterys from, and in no way use a "Web Phone" or PDA with wireless modem.
When you get the facts, We might believe you.
hmmmm, A nation wide network of computers made to connect researchers toghther... Take away the millitary, and they used to call this ARPANET. Ok, maybe not the supercomputer thing, but wasn't NCAC on ARPANET? Then again, I could have all of my facts wrong.
Since all of the cliche's are taken, I submit this:A computer that fast just gets me thinking. There is no mention of hard drive space (It could obvously be over 1 TB (Terabye) with that many machines,) We'll have to go with processing power. How many simultanious streams of mp3s can it play?
Well if you have $10,000 (but hey, the shipping is free) then you can buy a 1 terabyte tape drive. You could then back up 13 full 75GB drives with absolutly no compression. You can use the remaining 25GB for your friends computer.
--Josh
What's next, punch card readers for Linux, drum memory interfaces?
I hope so, I think it'd be fun to have them laying around. "Not only can it store 20MB, but I can also make it walk to the door!"
--Josh
Someone mentioned "The Book People" from Fahrenheit 451's
end in a DeCSS discussion. It seems as thought the government is
being paid by corporations in to developing a group of firemen
like in the book Fahrenheit 451, whose job was the reverse of our
firemen today. They burnt all unauthorized books. Yeah, that is
pretty drastic, but really they are more or less paving the way
for that to happen. Of course, our "firemen" are using law to
stop publication. By stopping the circulation of a movie here or
there, and this book or that book, some one is gaining control on
the past.
I think that capitalism is great, but for it to be great you
need competition. They are giving money to the congressmen, and
the congressmen need the money to buy air get elected. More than
that, they need votes. You can use your power of vote to not
re-elect the guy next time around when he upholds some stupid law
when you wrote a letter. (DMCA anyone?) A look back just about
100 years shows what happens when big corporations aren't
regulated to some degree. With no minimum wage companies drove
wages DOWN which goes counter to logic. People would of coarse
gravitate to the higher waged jobs. The companies made deals, and
broke up unions and their strikes.
I think a possible legal set up is that if the defendant of
a case wins, the plaintiff has to pay his legal fees. Solutions
based on who has how much money will never work because of the
change in world markets, inflation, and most other economic
things. Corporations may just sue individuals who have over the
dollar limit on them paying, and then a few suites later, their
standard of living is below someone who makes $30,000 per year.
Now how many copyrights did I mention in this posting? Well first
Fahrenhe.....
--Josh