The debate is about a few things. One of them is bragging rights.
Colossus was the key to cracking the other German code, which was based on the Baudot code. Unlike their German counterparts on land, the Navy was on the ball and knew that the cipher had weaknesses. They had books, which were printed red on pink paper, which had all the transmission codes. (These were the 'secret keys'.)
This also meant that, unlike the Army's use of Enigma, there was no 'initial marker' which could be cracked to determine the key to encode.
For enigma, they had a machine which was able to, with the application of human know-how (meaning: because of the way enigma worked, you could tell which letter was excluded from the possible space, excluding 1,951 possible starting patterns.
The two Colossus machines were designed by a post-office engineer.
This was for bragging rights, plain and simple. ENIAC was two years after Colosssus, and the reason ENIAC was given credit was because that was unclassified.
(Colossus was hidden until the 70's.)
And one more thing: Colossus' speed was limited by the speed of input. It was set to 5k cps to prevent injury:)
What Red Hat did was take advantage of the GPL.
You can sell free software, because free isn't supposed to be a reference to cost, but a reference to freedom.
Maybe a better term for FS is "Software Libre", but English is funny that way. (It's probably the only European language without a distinctive term separating 'no cost' with 'ability to do without restraint'.)
Open Source started in the days of yore with American Telegraph and Telephone creating Unix at Bell Labs. They let academics tweak the source so that their installations would work. These tweaks allowed early networking (AKA Darpanet) to occur.
Unix source availability became an issue when SCO and BSD tried to release their own Unices. They were sued, and had to tweak it more. SCO became a corporate distro, while BSD kept something of an Open Source philosophy. (UC-Berkley had final say over edition control.)
Then, in '91, came the Holy Grail Known As Linux.
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Patents are NOT determined by 'whether humanity gets a new benefit that nothing else would give.'
Patents are SUPPOSED to be given for a new product that is useful and non-obvious to an expert in that particular field.
For example, discovering that an altered form of Vitamin C acts as an immunoamplifier (I am not a doctor.. yet.. so I don't know what the term for the opposite of an immunosuppressant is) and makes the body tolerate organ transplants would be patent-worthy.
Public-key cryptography, the practice of a two-key system was a new thing 28 years ago, and it was non-obvious to experts (who denied that it was possible to have a secure cryptosystem with a pair of keys), so it was patent-worthy.
But, a great number of software patents are NOT patentworthy. The GUI Apple built in 1984 was patentable; I mean, no consumer hardware could support a gui on so little! But Microsoft patenting Win32? No way.
I also feel that patenting genomes is wrong, because PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY. Patenting parts of genes could easily lead to 'licensing fees' for human beings.....
There's a great organization, which is easily the most funded secret organization in existance. Unlike some secret societies (which are highly secretive), this one is somewhat public. Not in membership or what they talk about, mind you, but in their results. This organization's decisions visibly shape American foreign policy. They even have a periodical, Foreign Affairs, with article which, though seemingly bipartisan (laugh now), are so close to each other in terms of political POV that they are the same.
Amazing to me is that they have a website with public access.... (Just don't believe the bulldrek.)
This organization consists of some of the more important business, political, and military leaders of the nation, as well as no small number of NY Times journalists, who serve as background on the NY Times massive policy reviews, once they are announced.
In 1972, there was a quote, which boiled down to there not being a damn's worth of difference between CFR Candidate Nixon and CFR Candidate Humphrey. That situation exists today with CFR Candidate Gore, Jr. and CFR Candidate Bush, Jr.
That's why I am encouraging everyone who prefers to have a better life online and in the real world to vote for Ralph Nader. Click the link below, and you get to see where he's going, and show your support.
Remember: The real majority in this country consists of people who don't vote. Make your voice heard, unless you like living in a country for the GM's, by the Exxon's, and of the GE's instead of for, by, and of the people.
The recording industry and motion picture industry of America are the most bureaucratic fascist set of companies on earth.
If your ideas are not in vogue, meaning not some copy of a prior successful movie, you can zark off and put your idea in the drek pile.
You say, what about Blair Witch Project. Fair enough, the guys that shot it couldn't show it at Sundance and had set up the film co execs to see it at a restaurant. Fine. It takes some big courage to do that sort of thing (unless you're in SoCal, The Pit Of All Evil, in which case the LAPD will beat your sorry ass if they don't shoot you first).
These industries, like any established megalithic company, are refusing to change with the times. If the RIMPAA wanted to, they could have embraced MP3 and downloadable distribution. But their claims of '(potential) piracy' and 'artist's rights' (laugh now) swayed Sonny Bono's widow (who probably would've done this anyway, considering the speed with which she took his seat) to make a new copyright length of life plus 70 years for humans and 95 years for coroporations. (This means that a good number of copyrights will be held longer by a corporation than by a person's estate.)
But back to the issue. The difference between a broadcaster and a bandcaster is that the broadcaster paid the FCC a truckload of cash for broadcast rights and is highly regulated, while the bandcaster doesn't pay nearly as much in connection costs (unless dude's sucking on a T3 or higher), doesn't have the same rules to follow, and can reach people worldwide.
If the RIMPAA starts charging, expect a lot of bandcasters to move to domains ending with a.ca,.uk,.de,.fr,.es,.it,.jp,.au......
Nothing like extranational status to protect your sorry ass..
The problem Red Hat has in a nutshell, is "RHAT". Because it is publicly traded, it must first be concerned with its margins and the easiest way to jack 'em up is "Hey, let's add some new drek and call it... seven Point Oh!" The corp heads are in agreement and voila - seven point oh.
SuSE has several things that I need:
1. European language support. SuSE GmbH is German and their distro is #1 in Europe.
2. A tricked-out KDE 2.0 with tons of apps, as well as a great deal of GNOME. (I use both simultaneously.)
3. A LOT of apps. 1600+. And their 7.0 Pro includes a DVD with the stuff. (No disk switching if ya got one;)
4. They are still private.
5. They sponsor UserFriendly.org for one cartoon a month. (Pitr's support in a cartoon probably didn't hurt either. [We put in SuSE or Pitr do evil things to you!])
I know, flamebait first class. I tried RH, then I put in the SuSE. SuSE was smoother than RH.
Removal of the common carrier status of the ISP's is just another way to crew over the little guy over what is discussed online.
Protect your rights! Make your messages encrypted!
Mancow and the Free Speech Radio Network - 1-888-2-MANCOW
Once I get my Apple Cube, it runs LinuxPPC.
Why?
-True multitasking. Older MacOS isn't too hot with MT, whereas I can work the Gimp and pull up a java-heavy website with Mozilla at the same time.
-Much more customizable GUI. I use GNOME and KDE. At the same time.
-Easier to upgrade kernels. I visit SourceForge, or some other kernel repository, and voila!
-CivCTP works on RISC processors:)
Until 1997, they were a British colony. And since Britannia wanted, in part, to sour the taste of Chinese rule, they gave HK citizens stuff similar to those of Anglia subjects of the Crown.
For example, until the changeover there was democratically elected officials. One person, one vote. The Chinese reverted to 'corporate voting' where a group of persons only had one vote. (Correct me if I am wrong.)
Now, the EU, of which the UK is a non-Euro member, adopted GSM as the Continental Standard for Digital Cellular Service. This made the cell markets of the EU much, much cleaner, as manufacturers only needed to produce one type of phone for the entirety of the EU market. And because your subscriber information in a GSM phone is based off a chipcard, and not the phone itself! (Meaning, if I travel from the EU to New York, LA, or most any other major metro area in the US (except Chicago) with a GSM provider, I just remove my chip, insert into a new phone, and voila! That phone has all my information!
The really good thing for the EU denizens is G3 will be out in full force within two years.
Repeat: By 2002, the European continent will be fully G3. ISDN speeds on wireless phones.
The US is behind because of several reasons:
1. The FCC, in its infinite wisdom, did not mandate a single, national digital cellular protocol. We have GSM, CDMA, and TDMA. Which means the manufacturers have to brew up three different phone types for the US market. (Also, this is why the wizzer phones are in the EU first: Only one network protocol means everyone can use any phone designed for that protocol.
2. In the EU, there is 'caller pays.' Simple translation: I call you from a hardline to your cell, I pay the air fees. (This is true no matter where in the world you're calling from, as long as the recipient is a cell user in a nation which has the 'caller pays' philosophy.) This also cheapens the cost of cell use; if you have a phone merely to recieve calls, it costs you nothing (besides the monthly subscriber fees.) That's one reason why cell phone penetration is over 50% in most of the EU, and over 75% in several.
3. The US has a LARGE number of analog cell users. All that bandwidth in the 800 Mhz range for cell users is mainly for analog cellular phones. In the EU, all cells are digital. Analogs were mandated out. The FCC should take the same stand on analog cell as it did with analog TV: Out in so many years.
PS: Catching cell signals in the tube isn't that hard to do: All the cellco needs to do is install a few antenna banks at several stations along the line. The catch is the cost-to-use ratio. If people don't use the Metro's cell 'towers,' they are a waste of money.
Or is it possible that LucasFilm is trying a disinformation campaign?
Think about it: A copies of the script was purloined. Considering that Lucas has enough money to buy armed security guards for the set sites and the people sign mega-NDA's, this is a little far-fetched. What if the purloined script is a pseudo-script? I mean, the "Episode II Trailer" was a fake, so why couldn't this be as well?
The Simpsons made several endings to the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger a few years ago to keep even the people working the show somewhat in the dark.
A great line to keep in mind when it comes to information such as this: "Information easily obtained is easily false. In time of war, a steel worker would not know about the tactical abilities of a secret airbase, nor would a double agent in the armed forces know much about public morale."
Here's the way things go in the Corporate World.
Coroporations, ideally, use each other to increase both's revenues. Example: IBM buys advertising from Leo Burnett. Leo Burnett buy rigs from IBM.
Corporations also go after end-user dollars to increase revenues. That VA Linux server puts money in VA's pocket. A small store buying a POS system puts cash in the pockets of the corp they bought it from.
Anti-ideally, corps can cannibalize each other. That's what's happening here.
This is text, copied verbatim from the first page of the proposal:
The data in this proposal shall not be disclosed outside the Government and shall not be duplicated, used, or disclosed in whole or in part for any purpose other than to evaluate the proposal; provided, that if a contract is awarded to this offeror as a result or in connection with the submission of these data, the Government shall have the right to duplicate, use, or disclose the data to the extent provided in the contract.
Guess we be in trouble for showing the stupidity of the Gov'ment (and IIT.. If I knew this three days ago, I would have called them up and visited their campus.. and probably get busted by the USSS:)) in action....
This was bound to happen sooner or later.
The Linux kernel's flexibility is being taken to the limit, and people are forgetting the easiest way to improve performance for their particular rig:
Customize your kernel!
You can add all the code in the universe, and then you pick and choose the particular things you need or don't need!
Say I run a 486/25 with 16 MB RAM as an IP Masq router. The hard drive is an old IDE with 600 megs of space. I have two network cards, and that's about it. Do I need SCSI support? Do I need to support joysticks, X, Pentiums, AX.25, or anything else?
No! I compile a kernel specifically to run the IP Masq, and run it well.
My P100 laptop, on the other hands needs a bit more. I use it for packet, so I need AX.25. It uses PCMCIA, so PCMCIA support needs to go in. I use XWS to run Netscape and the GIMP, so I need graphics. But, my HD is not SCSI. I yank out SCSI. My CPU is subject to the 0xf00f bug, so that gets included. I brew a custom kernel, and boot time is a lot shorter.
My big-rig is a C433. I need just about everything, as I have a 3dfx card for Quake3; XWS; a SCSI scanner; and a connection to my Packet base station. I optimize compilation for the higher-end computers.
I plan on getting a Cube from Apple and putting SuSE on it. Again, by optimizing the options I optimize my system.
Get the point? If you want a once-size-fits-all kernel, use Windows. If you want a kernel which can be adjusted for your particular and peculiar environment, use Linux and customize your kernel!
Now, for my laptop.
and x86 architecture is good from a price/performance standpoint right now
Translation: I can't afford to buy anything besides a x86 drekbox, therefore the price/performance ratio is pretty good.
Unless you can show me a box that processes 1,3 million keys per second on the distributed.net client that costs less than $300.
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This is why the MPAA won the first round. This is what DeCSS.exe (Yes, the Win32 program, not the LiViD player) is being used for. It is certainly possible to transfer enough of a DVD to a 650 MB CD-ROM using this technology.
Yes I know about making backups, about control over media, etc etc but you have to admit this does make pirating movies easier (much easier than image-copying DVDs with CSS in tact).
I guess the one thing stopping this from taking solid root is that on a 56kbps connection it would take, like oh... FOREVER to download or upload any file that side. DSL runs you 1/2 to 1/4 of forever, and a T1 brings it to a day and a half. (T3 makes it 8 hours.)
Without fat pipe, the debate over piracy is inherently limited to those who use the mails to send copies to each other, and that may violate even more laws.
As far as I care, I make backups on gold-backed CD-R's for preservation and to make sure that I CAN see the damned thing whenever and wherever I choose. (I am not condoning or saying I do do that, mind you:) )
No. This is much worse. By sending potentially hundreds of unsolicited commercial emails, you are violating your ISPs Terms of Service. When 5 or 10 of these posts trigger a spamcop report or other similar complaint, YAIT!
Think about this for a second.
Is it possible - just bear with me on this - that this could be a GOOD thing? I mean, the average Intel(da,da,da,dunk)igence of the new Internet user is sharply decreasing.
(Just look at Slashdot.)
But... if the person who is a total "fucking idiot" and knows naught of the Ways of the Net decides that to send everyone he has ever known in the span of time s/he has been online sending jokes and bulldrek offers etc. a piece of UCE, then we may achieve two, very good things:
Net congestion due to spam shall radically decrease.
Slashdot will be easier to load without a +3 filter in place.:)
I think that any expansion of processor choices is good.
That said, I'm not likely to go to Sun anytime soon. I'm too damned cheap, and x86 architecture is good from a price/performance standpoint right now.
I have one en route to a pseudonymous address. (Hackers of the World Unite!)
Anyways, one great way to get (semi) random keys is to go to a country which uses chipcards for the payphones.
A nearby nation is Canada; other good choices include France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Japan, and other first- and second- world nations. (Ignore the UK and Italy. UK because of RIP; Italy because its cards are mini-magstripes.)
What you do is use buy a few cards of the lower denominations and use them to a certain extent. Not neccesarily to extinction (like you could easily do on a direct-dial call to the US), but close to it. That way, you have a stream of cards with different values on them.
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The debate is about a few things. One of them is bragging rights.
:)
Colossus was the key to cracking the other German code, which was based on the Baudot code. Unlike their German counterparts on land, the Navy was on the ball and knew that the cipher had weaknesses. They had books, which were printed red on pink paper, which had all the transmission codes. (These were the 'secret keys'.)
This also meant that, unlike the Army's use of Enigma, there was no 'initial marker' which could be cracked to determine the key to encode.
For enigma, they had a machine which was able to, with the application of human know-how (meaning: because of the way enigma worked, you could tell which letter was excluded from the possible space, excluding 1,951 possible starting patterns.
The two Colossus machines were designed by a post-office engineer.
This was for bragging rights, plain and simple. ENIAC was two years after Colosssus, and the reason ENIAC was given credit was because that was unclassified.
(Colossus was hidden until the 70's.)
And one more thing: Colossus' speed was limited by the speed of input. It was set to 5k cps to prevent injury
What Red Hat did was take advantage of the GPL. You can sell free software, because free isn't supposed to be a reference to cost, but a reference to freedom. Maybe a better term for FS is "Software Libre", but English is funny that way. (It's probably the only European language without a distinctive term separating 'no cost' with 'ability to do without restraint'.) Open Source started in the days of yore with American Telegraph and Telephone creating Unix at Bell Labs. They let academics tweak the source so that their installations would work. These tweaks allowed early networking (AKA Darpanet) to occur. Unix source availability became an issue when SCO and BSD tried to release their own Unices. They were sued, and had to tweak it more. SCO became a corporate distro, while BSD kept something of an Open Source philosophy. (UC-Berkley had final say over edition control.) Then, in '91, came the Holy Grail Known As Linux.
Patents are NOT determined by 'whether humanity gets a new benefit that nothing else would give.'
Patents are SUPPOSED to be given for a new product that is useful and non-obvious to an expert in that particular field.
For example, discovering that an altered form of Vitamin C acts as an immunoamplifier (I am not a doctor.. yet.. so I don't know what the term for the opposite of an immunosuppressant is) and makes the body tolerate organ transplants would be patent-worthy.
Public-key cryptography, the practice of a two-key system was a new thing 28 years ago, and it was non-obvious to experts (who denied that it was possible to have a secure cryptosystem with a pair of keys), so it was patent-worthy.
But, a great number of software patents are NOT patentworthy. The GUI Apple built in 1984 was patentable; I mean, no consumer hardware could support a gui on so little! But Microsoft patenting Win32? No way.
I also feel that patenting genomes is wrong, because PEOPLE ARE NOT PROPERTY. Patenting parts of genes could easily lead to 'licensing fees' for human beings.....
philosophy on the half-shell ]=[ d.valued
There's a great organization, which is easily the most funded secret organization in existance. Unlike some secret societies (which are highly secretive), this one is somewhat public. Not in membership or what they talk about, mind you, but in their results. This organization's decisions visibly shape American foreign policy. They even have a periodical, Foreign Affairs, with article which, though seemingly bipartisan (laugh now), are so close to each other in terms of political POV that they are the same. Amazing to me is that they have a website with public access.... (Just don't believe the bulldrek.) This organization consists of some of the more important business, political, and military leaders of the nation, as well as no small number of NY Times journalists, who serve as background on the NY Times massive policy reviews, once they are announced. In 1972, there was a quote, which boiled down to there not being a damn's worth of difference between CFR Candidate Nixon and CFR Candidate Humphrey. That situation exists today with CFR Candidate Gore, Jr. and CFR Candidate Bush, Jr. That's why I am encouraging everyone who prefers to have a better life online and in the real world to vote for Ralph Nader. Click the link below, and you get to see where he's going, and show your support. Remember: The real majority in this country consists of people who don't vote. Make your voice heard, unless you like living in a country for the GM's, by the Exxon's, and of the GE's instead of for, by, and of the people.
Why?
.ca, .uk, .de, .fr, .es, .it, .jp, .au ......
Why should there be two different standards?
The recording industry and motion picture industry of America are the most bureaucratic fascist set of companies on earth.
If your ideas are not in vogue, meaning not some copy of a prior successful movie, you can zark off and put your idea in the drek pile.
You say, what about Blair Witch Project. Fair enough, the guys that shot it couldn't show it at Sundance and had set up the film co execs to see it at a restaurant. Fine. It takes some big courage to do that sort of thing (unless you're in SoCal, The Pit Of All Evil, in which case the LAPD will beat your sorry ass if they don't shoot you first).
These industries, like any established megalithic company, are refusing to change with the times. If the RIMPAA wanted to, they could have embraced MP3 and downloadable distribution. But their claims of '(potential) piracy' and 'artist's rights' (laugh now) swayed Sonny Bono's widow (who probably would've done this anyway, considering the speed with which she took his seat) to make a new copyright length of life plus 70 years for humans and 95 years for coroporations. (This means that a good number of copyrights will be held longer by a corporation than by a person's estate.)
But back to the issue. The difference between a broadcaster and a bandcaster is that the broadcaster paid the FCC a truckload of cash for broadcast rights and is highly regulated, while the bandcaster doesn't pay nearly as much in connection costs (unless dude's sucking on a T3 or higher), doesn't have the same rules to follow, and can reach people worldwide.
If the RIMPAA starts charging, expect a lot of bandcasters to move to domains ending with a
Nothing like extranational status to protect your sorry ass..
It's cool that some of the great writers return to their works and make their modern-day comparisons.
Huxley, who wrote the dystopian novel "Brave New World," returned to it in the essay "Brave New World Revisited."
Clarke, who set the bar with "2001", has pushed it up further than any of us can argue with in the last installment, "3001."
[d.v]: Hey there. I was reading up on your patent, and was wondering how you could claim that this was new and unique.
[PR]: Very simple. We have the patent. Ha ha ha.
[d.v]: But it is not an idea which is non-obvious and is built on other content-revision-control systems. So how could you file for a patent.
[PR]: (After he pops me in the head a few times) We have the patent, moron. Ha ha ha!
Isn't it something that, for a change, the trolling on the article was dead-on?
Maybe Slashdot should be required reading for every rep and senator in DC!
I was going to go on a one-man picket in front of IIT, but this is better!
This is why we must put a booster on Mir and jack it towards the sun.
Put sensors on the POD (Piece Of Drek), if you need justification.
If fungus is growing OUTSIDE the craft, then a crashdown might not be the best idea.
Unless you're a car-hater, in which case you could take some fungus and spread it in Manhattan garages... Ahhh. Clean air.
I use SuSE :)
;)
The problem Red Hat has in a nutshell, is "RHAT". Because it is publicly traded, it must first be concerned with its margins and the easiest way to jack 'em up is "Hey, let's add some new drek and call it... seven Point Oh!" The corp heads are in agreement and voila - seven point oh.
SuSE has several things that I need:
1. European language support. SuSE GmbH is German and their distro is #1 in Europe.
2. A tricked-out KDE 2.0 with tons of apps, as well as a great deal of GNOME. (I use both simultaneously.)
3. A LOT of apps. 1600+. And their 7.0 Pro includes a DVD with the stuff. (No disk switching if ya got one
4. They are still private.
5. They sponsor UserFriendly.org for one cartoon a month. (Pitr's support in a cartoon probably didn't hurt either. [We put in SuSE or Pitr do evil things to you!])
I know, flamebait first class. I tried RH, then I put in the SuSE. SuSE was smoother than RH.
Removal of the common carrier status of the ISP's is just another way to crew over the little guy over what is discussed online. Protect your rights! Make your messages encrypted! Mancow and the Free Speech Radio Network - 1-888-2-MANCOW
OK, let's see what Microsoft is:
1. Microsoft bought QDOS for $50k or so, repackaged it as MS-DOS, and licensed it to IBM.
2. The GUI is a rip off Apple's interface.
3. Their browser, built on the original Mosaic code, was introduced as a rip of Netscape's wares.
4. The dot-trap is a double-rip off Sun: first, in a theoretically portable language, and second, in serving applications over a network.
Anyone want to IDP Windows?
Once I get my Apple Cube, it runs LinuxPPC. Why? -True multitasking. Older MacOS isn't too hot with MT, whereas I can work the Gimp and pull up a java-heavy website with Mozilla at the same time. -Much more customizable GUI. I use GNOME and KDE. At the same time. -Easier to upgrade kernels. I visit SourceForge, or some other kernel repository, and voila! -CivCTP works on RISC processors :)
OK. There's a reason the HK is ahead of the US:
Until 1997, they were a British colony. And since Britannia wanted, in part, to sour the taste of Chinese rule, they gave HK citizens stuff similar to those of Anglia subjects of the Crown.
For example, until the changeover there was democratically elected officials. One person, one vote. The Chinese reverted to 'corporate voting' where a group of persons only had one vote. (Correct me if I am wrong.)
Now, the EU, of which the UK is a non-Euro member, adopted GSM as the Continental Standard for Digital Cellular Service. This made the cell markets of the EU much, much cleaner, as manufacturers only needed to produce one type of phone for the entirety of the EU market. And because your subscriber information in a GSM phone is based off a chipcard, and not the phone itself! (Meaning, if I travel from the EU to New York, LA, or most any other major metro area in the US (except Chicago) with a GSM provider, I just remove my chip, insert into a new phone, and voila! That phone has all my information!
The really good thing for the EU denizens is G3 will be out in full force within two years.
Repeat: By 2002, the European continent will be fully G3. ISDN speeds on wireless phones.
The US is behind because of several reasons:
1. The FCC, in its infinite wisdom, did not mandate a single, national digital cellular protocol. We have GSM, CDMA, and TDMA. Which means the manufacturers have to brew up three different phone types for the US market. (Also, this is why the wizzer phones are in the EU first: Only one network protocol means everyone can use any phone designed for that protocol.
2. In the EU, there is 'caller pays.' Simple translation: I call you from a hardline to your cell, I pay the air fees. (This is true no matter where in the world you're calling from, as long as the recipient is a cell user in a nation which has the 'caller pays' philosophy.) This also cheapens the cost of cell use; if you have a phone merely to recieve calls, it costs you nothing (besides the monthly subscriber fees.) That's one reason why cell phone penetration is over 50% in most of the EU, and over 75% in several.
3. The US has a LARGE number of analog cell users. All that bandwidth in the 800 Mhz range for cell users is mainly for analog cellular phones. In the EU, all cells are digital. Analogs were mandated out. The FCC should take the same stand on analog cell as it did with analog TV: Out in so many years.
PS: Catching cell signals in the tube isn't that hard to do: All the cellco needs to do is install a few antenna banks at several stations along the line. The catch is the cost-to-use ratio. If people don't use the Metro's cell 'towers,' they are a waste of money.
Or is it possible that LucasFilm is trying a disinformation campaign? Think about it: A copies of the script was purloined. Considering that Lucas has enough money to buy armed security guards for the set sites and the people sign mega-NDA's, this is a little far-fetched. What if the purloined script is a pseudo-script? I mean, the "Episode II Trailer" was a fake, so why couldn't this be as well? The Simpsons made several endings to the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger a few years ago to keep even the people working the show somewhat in the dark. A great line to keep in mind when it comes to information such as this: "Information easily obtained is easily false. In time of war, a steel worker would not know about the tactical abilities of a secret airbase, nor would a double agent in the armed forces know much about public morale."
Here's the way things go in the Corporate World. Coroporations, ideally, use each other to increase both's revenues. Example: IBM buys advertising from Leo Burnett. Leo Burnett buy rigs from IBM. Corporations also go after end-user dollars to increase revenues. That VA Linux server puts money in VA's pocket. A small store buying a POS system puts cash in the pockets of the corp they bought it from. Anti-ideally, corps can cannibalize each other. That's what's happening here.
This was bound to happen sooner or later. The Linux kernel's flexibility is being taken to the limit, and people are forgetting the easiest way to improve performance for their particular rig: Customize your kernel! You can add all the code in the universe, and then you pick and choose the particular things you need or don't need! Say I run a 486/25 with 16 MB RAM as an IP Masq router. The hard drive is an old IDE with 600 megs of space. I have two network cards, and that's about it. Do I need SCSI support? Do I need to support joysticks, X, Pentiums, AX.25, or anything else? No! I compile a kernel specifically to run the IP Masq, and run it well. My P100 laptop, on the other hands needs a bit more. I use it for packet, so I need AX.25. It uses PCMCIA, so PCMCIA support needs to go in. I use XWS to run Netscape and the GIMP, so I need graphics. But, my HD is not SCSI. I yank out SCSI. My CPU is subject to the 0xf00f bug, so that gets included. I brew a custom kernel, and boot time is a lot shorter. My big-rig is a C433. I need just about everything, as I have a 3dfx card for Quake3; XWS; a SCSI scanner; and a connection to my Packet base station. I optimize compilation for the higher-end computers. I plan on getting a Cube from Apple and putting SuSE on it. Again, by optimizing the options I optimize my system. Get the point? If you want a once-size-fits-all kernel, use Windows. If you want a kernel which can be adjusted for your particular and peculiar environment, use Linux and customize your kernel! Now, for my laptop.
and x86 architecture is good from a price/performance standpoint right now Translation: I can't afford to buy anything besides a x86 drekbox, therefore the price/performance ratio is pretty good. Unless you can show me a box that processes 1,3 million keys per second on the distributed.net client that costs less than $300.
This is why the MPAA won the first round. This is what DeCSS.exe (Yes, the Win32 program, not the LiViD player) is being used for. It is certainly possible to transfer enough of a DVD to a 650 MB CD-ROM using this technology. Yes I know about making backups, about control over media, etc etc but you have to admit this does make pirating movies easier (much easier than image-copying DVDs with CSS in tact). I guess the one thing stopping this from taking solid root is that on a 56kbps connection it would take, like oh... FOREVER to download or upload any file that side. DSL runs you 1/2 to 1/4 of forever, and a T1 brings it to a day and a half. (T3 makes it 8 hours.) Without fat pipe, the debate over piracy is inherently limited to those who use the mails to send copies to each other, and that may violate even more laws. As far as I care, I make backups on gold-backed CD-R's for preservation and to make sure that I CAN see the damned thing whenever and wherever I choose. (I am not condoning or saying I do do that, mind you :) )
Processors 1 to 15 would work on distributed.net...
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Numbers 16 to 20 would do Seti.
Numbers 21-29 would run Quake3, Civ:CTP, and XWS.
Numbers 30 and 31 would run the realtime disk encryption/decryption series
I think that any expansion of processor choices is good. That said, I'm not likely to go to Sun anytime soon. I'm too damned cheap, and x86 architecture is good from a price/performance standpoint right now.
I'll start one if there are people that are interested!!! I want to build a killer device out of a car engine and AOL CD's.
I have one en route to a pseudonymous address. (Hackers of the World Unite!) Anyways, one great way to get (semi) random keys is to go to a country which uses chipcards for the payphones. A nearby nation is Canada; other good choices include France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Japan, and other first- and second- world nations. (Ignore the UK and Italy. UK because of RIP; Italy because its cards are mini-magstripes.) What you do is use buy a few cards of the lower denominations and use them to a certain extent. Not neccesarily to extinction (like you could easily do on a direct-dial call to the US), but close to it. That way, you have a stream of cards with different values on them.