This was the first thing that came to my mind. Every home has waste food, and restaurants and grocery stores have even more. It would be nice to have a small refrigerator-sized device (the size of a half height rack) out back that you put your left over and spoiled food into. I always hate throwing away rotten food, but I have no use for it (well, you/could/ compost it, but most people don't do that). People talk about distributing power generation and selling back to the grid, but a lot of people don't have access to solar or wind energy. This would make a distributed power grid much more feasible, since power could be generated across the country (even in dark places like the Pacific Northwest) and it would provide a much more steady source of power than wind or solar. I wonder what is the cost of one of these microbial fuel cells.
I remember a thread about this a while back on/. (probably a few years ago) and someone said that the soft g pronunciation was common during the 1950's, when that part of the movie took place.
I went to a talk by some engineers at Amazon a few months ago. I believe they mentioned one reason they started moving away from obidos is because they were approaching the limit of machines that could compile it (not enough memory). Amazon has gone through a lot of different code revisions, and it all sounded very impressive.
IIRC, the system they have now allows engineers to write code in whatever language they want. Also, I think they mentioned they have a system where you write what your program want to do in XML and one of their systems will compile it in a number of different languages (for interfacing with the rest of the system or whatever).
Take this with a grain of salt, though, since I forgot to take notes. I don't remember any of the names, except obidos (sounds like the planet from Stargate).
Reminds me of a skit I saw one time. I think it might have been this SNL skit. When asked how they would make money, the person replied authoritatively, "Volume." I laughed my ass off at that, it reminded me of Amazon (who wasn't making a profit at the time) and dot-coms who had no business model.
I live in Seattle. We aren't likely to get hit with anything (I don't think) because we have a nice big peninsula protecting us. However, I've known since I was little that a retreating sea meant a tsunami was coming. I can't remember how I learned that. Actually, now that I think of it, I seem to have a vague memory of a book or story about a tsunami... very possibly Japanese in origin. If I remember correctly, the water went out and lots of people went to pick up fish before the wave struck. Hmm. It would be interesting to know what that book was, now that I have thought about it.
So, while I don't remember explicitly being taught about tsunami danger in school (we are fairly far from the coast, even though we are on the water), it seems to be fairly common knowledge about the sea retreating.
I'm personally a fan of typing in 0x to see what Windows error messages are the most common.
Of course, one of the results is someone using the Google calculator, which just goes to show that lots of interesting stuff can be seen by using Google Suggest.
I run a tracker. There is no way for me to know what goes on in the tracker. I used it to track files for JPL's Maestro project. The torrents for Maestro are all located on my web server.
However, the only things I know are being hosted there are things I put there myself. There are things being hosted, but I have no way to know what they are. I can see occasional spikes in my download graphs, and it makes me wonder what they are, but I can't possibly know. All I see are IPs and hashes. If someone where hosting illegal torrents on my tracker, I don't see anything I can do about it or anyway I could be held responsible (since I have no knowledge of what is being tracked and no way (to my knowledge) to stop it). The tracker runs in the background on my server, I don't touch it for weeks or months and yet it can help move terabytes of data that I know nothing about.
However, if you hosted a torrent site that posted.torrents that point to your own tracker, than I see a problem, but with my server, I don't see anyway to be convicted.
So here is the thing, if people made torrents with random trackers they found on the internet (by, for example, a Google Search) and posted them on Freenet (which would be okay since.torrents are so small, it can handle), then it seems the *AAs would be powerless to stop it.
I don't know. Aren't most being settled for $2000 right now? As long they don't spend more than $2000 for each settlement, then they can continue. They aren't doing this for money, they are trying to strike fear in people. As long as they break even or better, then will continue indefinitely.
You should use the Google API. I don't believe you are allowed to screen scrape the Google results page, they would rather you use the API. It would probably be easier than screen scraping anyway.
I wonder if the reason they limit you to only certain path options (most/least freeways, etc.) is because it would be otherwise too expensive. I read one time that there are algorithms for picking the very best path from one place to another, but they are way to expensive. The online map servers use one that is almost as good most of the time, but much less expensive in processing. This is just what I heard, so take it with a grain of salt, however it sounds believable. Now... Google bought Keyhole and has computers up the wazoo, so who knows:). I'd love to see an integrated system that takes into consideration all modes of transportation (mass transit, etc.) for all cities. That might be difficult, though. I'd also like them to be smarter about avoiding traffic, like you said.
I'd imagine that most of the flights that crashed that day never made it to cruising altitude. I don't have any facts, but I imagine they weren't flying at normal altitude when those phone calls were made.
What is the media always mentioning on TV? America has a huge obesity problem and a huge eating disorder problem. Well, I think the obesity problem affects more people than eating disorders. I think what the grandparent is arguing is that we should get our ever increasing sized youth to at least make an effort to lose weight. This isn't about getting an average girl down to anorexic, this is about getting obese girls down to healthy. Same as with guys. I used to be heftier, but I lost some weight (and a lot of fat) while gaining muscle. I feel healthier, I have more energy, and I think I look better. Is that not something strive for?
Exactly. Geeks don't have multiple addresses for different people (excluding domain name catch-alls that go to the same mailbox and also excluding Gmail accounts to brag to friends (back when they were new) and stress testing Gmail). Real geeks filter spam and have wonderful filters.
Gmail's spam filter is a lot better at filtering out spam than when I first got it (back in the middle of May). I posted my address lots of places and now I get 10+ spams per day. Almost none of them reach my account anymore. However, there are lots of false positives.
Maybe I think it is high in false positives because I get so many e-mails... hundreds per day. I subscribed to the Linux Kernel list and some other high traffic lists to try and fill up my account (54%!). Most false positives come from this or the python mailing list, but almost nothing else. I guess it is pretty good then. I'll see once I fill up my Gmail account, unsubscribe from the lists, and delete all the old messages. Actually, now that I think about it, the spam filtering is a orders of magnitudes better now. Wonder what kind of system they have. They have so much hardware they can use pretty much whatever algorithm they want:).
What the fuck are you talking about? No wonder I have you on my foe list. Where did you get off that he was brainwashed by Steve? He said, "I have x CDs in iTunes." WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?
I agree. My science club had a lot of trouble recruiting people. One day we had a guy come to talk to us and show us a robot they made for the FIRST robotics competition and the turnout was spectacular. Unfortunately, many of the people didn't show up again, they just wanted to see a robot. I think robots interest a lot of people. I find the show BattleBots annoying because it was too commercial and tried to be like a sports show. I prefer the real nerdy competitions they showed on PBS or the Discovery channel myself. However, I saw some videos from the FIRST competition and they were much cooler than any battle robots. There is only so much you can do with a robot to destroy stuff. However, with different challenges every year, and lots of ways to go about the challenges, the FIRST competition really inspires creative thinking. I just wish I had a chance to participate in high school.
Andrew
PS: My science club is probably near-defunct now, because almost everyone who was on it was a senior. We all got really involved while juniors and competed in Science Olympiad (and did pretty well for a first year, thrown together team), but we were all busy senior year (and some of us were lazy).
This is one of the reasons I rarely go to movie theatres these days.
A group of my friends convinced me to go see a movie at the Bellevue Galleria. I really didn't want to go, but they all wanted me to. We arrive and sit in the theatre. While you are sitting down waiting for it to begin (where they used to have semi-unobtrusive advertisements (from slide projectors)), they have this thing called "The 20." It is the lamest amount of crap ever. It is full motion video and like featurettes. These are the things that mask themselves as behind the scenes, but are really just poorly hided advertisements for the movie. I never watch this on DVDs anymore. Once the movie is set to begin, they play commercials. This wouldn't be too bad, except they are straight from TV, so the sound and video both suck and they are so damn annoying. After the minutes of commercials, they get into trailers. Trailers aren't one minute each, they are three to four minutes. These are theatrical trailers, not teaser trailers or the ones shown on TV. Finally, by the time you have forgotten what movie you are about to see, and ready to leave because you have been sitting down for nearly an hour with these videos playing, the movie actually begins. Fortunately for me, the movie was interrupted by a fire alarm, giving me an excuse to leave. I didn't need to hear stupid middle schoolers shout at the screen how hot the 19th century era clothing made the actress look. Stupid fucking kids (hell, I'm 18 myself and I find these pricks annoying). I used to go to movie theatres all the time, but now that I value my time more and don't want to put up with this crap, I never go to movies anymore. I can't believe anyone would put up with nearly 50 minutes of ads before a movie, it is unbelievable. Yet these same people run back again and again. My friend even went to the worst theatre in the area to see Lord of the Rings, just because it was close. Ahhh! I want to scream.
Now compare this to the best theatre I have ever been to, the Cinerama. First of all, it has the biggest, clearest, most flicker free projection I have seen (outside of IMAX, which is a separate category. Second, they treat you like movie fans, not consumers. Before the movie begins, the screen has a curtain in front of it. At the most, they sometimes play the movie soundtrack in the background. Once it is set to begin, they play only trailers, no TV commercials. Although, this isn't guaranteed. A few times I have been there, they didn't show trailers at all! They skip right to the movie. That is class. The Cinerama is a class act (thanks Paul Allen!). There are only two complaints I have with them: they got rid of the free refills on popcorn and sometimes there digital projector is broken (like when I went to see Star Wars). If my biggest complaint is not seeing the movie digitally (and instead having to settle for the best film projection system I have ever seen), well, then I think I am set. This movie costs a few dollars more (10 dollars for a standard ticket), but for how little I see movies in the theatres, I say a few extra bucks is definitely better than a few hours of stress.
I know it is not in wide use, but neither is IPv6. I guess you could say we'll all be using multicast over IPv6 networks to play Duke Nukem Forever on our machine with the WinFS.
The post I was replying to mentioned Internet TV and radio as a big use of this SwarmCasting, but it would be better to just use multicast. This would work wonders for things like Steve Jobs keynotes because they have thousands of users. Imagine a megabit stream video encoded in H.264 being multicasted over the the internet. I think multicast could be used more than it might seem. You want the latest Steam or World of Warcraft update? Turn on your client, it starts grabbing the file in the middle at high speed, continues to grab the file as the stream ends and starts over from the beginning, and then pieces it together. The WoW servers would just need to multicast the update in a loop for a few weeks, and then they could move to a unicast system if needed. Multicast would be ideal but it is a huge obstacle to overcome (getting all the routers and such to support it).
One more thing, are you sure most network equipment doesn't support it? I used it over, I believe, a consumer access point at a SeattleWireless meeting once (it was a local stream, just to test). Or did you mean big backbone routers? I imagine core routers would support it, or could be made to support it with a software update. I imagine it is all a matter of configuring the necessary settings, but I don't know.
All the articles on/. mentioning going after the server operators say they are going after BitTorrent trackers. After reading TFA, I didn't see any mention of going after tracker operators, instead they are going after the websites that host the.torrent files. Please be more clear about this in future. I host a tracker on my website that has been used primarily for legal torrents (I can't think of any illegal torrents that it has hosted, but I don't watch too carefully). I hosted the Maestro torrents and someone unbeknownst to me hosted a NASA video on there. There is no way I can be held responsible for what people use my tracker for, I can only ever see the MD5. This article says that the MPAA is going after people hosting the.torrent files. I host some of them, but they are all illegal. I don't host any illegal.torrent files on my server, even if someone did set me as a tracker for their illegal file. I am in the clear. These articles need to make that distinction, it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't know how BT works.
There is a much better way to send out video or radio broadcasts over the internet en masse. It already exists and I have used it (albeit, on a local network). The answer is multicast. We just need to get the internet backbone companies to put multicast support on their routers, and we'll be all set. I believe Sprint's network already supports it, as do many others, I'm sure.
It is 'free' since they are paying Napster a subscription. You are getting charged for this somewhere, which means you may be getting a few less computers this year or they'll have to wait a little longer to be upgraded.
In my opinion, this is a horrible misuse of student funds and I would never go for it. I'm glad my college (University of Washington) doesn't do it, they are real smart about those kinds of things.
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This was the first thing that came to my mind. Every home has waste food, and restaurants and grocery stores have even more. It would be nice to have a small refrigerator-sized device (the size of a half height rack) out back that you put your left over and spoiled food into. I always hate throwing away rotten food, but I have no use for it (well, you /could/ compost it, but most people don't do that). People talk about distributing power generation and selling back to the grid, but a lot of people don't have access to solar or wind energy. This would make a distributed power grid much more feasible, since power could be generated across the country (even in dark places like the Pacific Northwest) and it would provide a much more steady source of power than wind or solar. I wonder what is the cost of one of these microbial fuel cells.
I remember a thread about this a while back on /. (probably a few years ago) and someone said that the soft g pronunciation was common during the 1950's, when that part of the movie took place.
I went to a talk by some engineers at Amazon a few months ago. I believe they mentioned one reason they started moving away from obidos is because they were approaching the limit of machines that could compile it (not enough memory). Amazon has gone through a lot of different code revisions, and it all sounded very impressive.
IIRC, the system they have now allows engineers to write code in whatever language they want. Also, I think they mentioned they have a system where you write what your program want to do in XML and one of their systems will compile it in a number of different languages (for interfacing with the rest of the system or whatever).
Take this with a grain of salt, though, since I forgot to take notes. I don't remember any of the names, except obidos (sounds like the planet from Stargate).
Andrew
Reminds me of a skit I saw one time. I think it might have been this SNL skit. When asked how they would make money, the person replied authoritatively, "Volume." I laughed my ass off at that, it reminded me of Amazon (who wasn't making a profit at the time) and dot-coms who had no business model.
I live in Seattle. We aren't likely to get hit with anything (I don't think) because we have a nice big peninsula protecting us. However, I've known since I was little that a retreating sea meant a tsunami was coming. I can't remember how I learned that. Actually, now that I think of it, I seem to have a vague memory of a book or story about a tsunami... very possibly Japanese in origin. If I remember correctly, the water went out and lots of people went to pick up fish before the wave struck. Hmm. It would be interesting to know what that book was, now that I have thought about it.
So, while I don't remember explicitly being taught about tsunami danger in school (we are fairly far from the coast, even though we are on the water), it seems to be fairly common knowledge about the sea retreating.
Reminds me of one of the Ferengi rule of acquisition #59: Free advice is seldom cheap.
In this case, I think we can say, "Free iPod is seldom cheap."
Andrew
I'm personally a fan of typing in 0x to see what Windows error messages are the most common.
Of course, one of the results is someone using the Google calculator, which just goes to show that lots of interesting stuff can be seen by using Google Suggest.
Mike86554319234@aol.com
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I don't see the problem.
Maybe you should be more careful when signing up to make a joke
I run a tracker. There is no way for me to know what goes on in the tracker. I used it to track files for JPL's Maestro project. The torrents for Maestro are all located on my web server.
.torrents that point to your own tracker, than I see a problem, but with my server, I don't see anyway to be convicted.
.torrents are so small, it can handle), then it seems the *AAs would be powerless to stop it.
However, the only things I know are being hosted there are things I put there myself. There are things being hosted, but I have no way to know what they are. I can see occasional spikes in my download graphs, and it makes me wonder what they are, but I can't possibly know. All I see are IPs and hashes. If someone where hosting illegal torrents on my tracker, I don't see anything I can do about it or anyway I could be held responsible (since I have no knowledge of what is being tracked and no way (to my knowledge) to stop it). The tracker runs in the background on my server, I don't touch it for weeks or months and yet it can help move terabytes of data that I know nothing about.
However, if you hosted a torrent site that posted
So here is the thing, if people made torrents with random trackers they found on the internet (by, for example, a Google Search) and posted them on Freenet (which would be okay since
Andrew
I don't know. Aren't most being settled for $2000 right now? As long they don't spend more than $2000 for each settlement, then they can continue. They aren't doing this for money, they are trying to strike fear in people. As long as they break even or better, then will continue indefinitely.
You should use the Google API. I don't believe you are allowed to screen scrape the Google results page, they would rather you use the API. It would probably be easier than screen scraping anyway.
I wonder if the reason they limit you to only certain path options (most/least freeways, etc.) is because it would be otherwise too expensive. I read one time that there are algorithms for picking the very best path from one place to another, but they are way to expensive. The online map servers use one that is almost as good most of the time, but much less expensive in processing. This is just what I heard, so take it with a grain of salt, however it sounds believable. Now... Google bought Keyhole and has computers up the wazoo, so who knows :). I'd love to see an integrated system that takes into consideration all modes of transportation (mass transit, etc.) for all cities. That might be difficult, though. I'd also like them to be smarter about avoiding traffic, like you said.
I'd imagine that most of the flights that crashed that day never made it to cruising altitude. I don't have any facts, but I imagine they weren't flying at normal altitude when those phone calls were made.
What is the media always mentioning on TV? America has a huge obesity problem and a huge eating disorder problem. Well, I think the obesity problem affects more people than eating disorders. I think what the grandparent is arguing is that we should get our ever increasing sized youth to at least make an effort to lose weight. This isn't about getting an average girl down to anorexic, this is about getting obese girls down to healthy. Same as with guys. I used to be heftier, but I lost some weight (and a lot of fat) while gaining muscle. I feel healthier, I have more energy, and I think I look better. Is that not something strive for?
Exactly. Geeks don't have multiple addresses for different people (excluding domain name catch-alls that go to the same mailbox and also excluding Gmail accounts to brag to friends (back when they were new) and stress testing Gmail). Real geeks filter spam and have wonderful filters.
Gmail's spam filter is a lot better at filtering out spam than when I first got it (back in the middle of May). I posted my address lots of places and now I get 10+ spams per day. Almost none of them reach my account anymore. However, there are lots of false positives.
:).
Maybe I think it is high in false positives because I get so many e-mails... hundreds per day. I subscribed to the Linux Kernel list and some other high traffic lists to try and fill up my account (54%!). Most false positives come from this or the python mailing list, but almost nothing else. I guess it is pretty good then. I'll see once I fill up my Gmail account, unsubscribe from the lists, and delete all the old messages. Actually, now that I think about it, the spam filtering is a orders of magnitudes better now. Wonder what kind of system they have. They have so much hardware they can use pretty much whatever algorithm they want
Andrew
I love that, even when new memes arise, the old ones still live on. Many of these were around from when I first joined /. a number of years ago.
What the fuck are you talking about? No wonder I have you on my foe list. Where did you get off that he was brainwashed by Steve? He said, "I have x CDs in iTunes." WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?
I agree. My science club had a lot of trouble recruiting people. One day we had a guy come to talk to us and show us a robot they made for the FIRST robotics competition and the turnout was spectacular. Unfortunately, many of the people didn't show up again, they just wanted to see a robot. I think robots interest a lot of people. I find the show BattleBots annoying because it was too commercial and tried to be like a sports show. I prefer the real nerdy competitions they showed on PBS or the Discovery channel myself. However, I saw some videos from the FIRST competition and they were much cooler than any battle robots. There is only so much you can do with a robot to destroy stuff. However, with different challenges every year, and lots of ways to go about the challenges, the FIRST competition really inspires creative thinking. I just wish I had a chance to participate in high school.
Andrew
PS: My science club is probably near-defunct now, because almost everyone who was on it was a senior. We all got really involved while juniors and competed in Science Olympiad (and did pretty well for a first year, thrown together team), but we were all busy senior year (and some of us were lazy).
This is one of the reasons I rarely go to movie theatres these days.
A group of my friends convinced me to go see a movie at the Bellevue Galleria. I really didn't want to go, but they all wanted me to. We arrive and sit in the theatre. While you are sitting down waiting for it to begin (where they used to have semi-unobtrusive advertisements (from slide projectors)), they have this thing called "The 20." It is the lamest amount of crap ever. It is full motion video and like featurettes. These are the things that mask themselves as behind the scenes, but are really just poorly hided advertisements for the movie. I never watch this on DVDs anymore. Once the movie is set to begin, they play commercials. This wouldn't be too bad, except they are straight from TV, so the sound and video both suck and they are so damn annoying. After the minutes of commercials, they get into trailers. Trailers aren't one minute each, they are three to four minutes. These are theatrical trailers, not teaser trailers or the ones shown on TV. Finally, by the time you have forgotten what movie you are about to see, and ready to leave because you have been sitting down for nearly an hour with these videos playing, the movie actually begins. Fortunately for me, the movie was interrupted by a fire alarm, giving me an excuse to leave. I didn't need to hear stupid middle schoolers shout at the screen how hot the 19th century era clothing made the actress look. Stupid fucking kids (hell, I'm 18 myself and I find these pricks annoying). I used to go to movie theatres all the time, but now that I value my time more and don't want to put up with this crap, I never go to movies anymore. I can't believe anyone would put up with nearly 50 minutes of ads before a movie, it is unbelievable. Yet these same people run back again and again. My friend even went to the worst theatre in the area to see Lord of the Rings, just because it was close. Ahhh! I want to scream.
Now compare this to the best theatre I have ever been to, the Cinerama. First of all, it has the biggest, clearest, most flicker free projection I have seen (outside of IMAX, which is a separate category. Second, they treat you like movie fans, not consumers. Before the movie begins, the screen has a curtain in front of it. At the most, they sometimes play the movie soundtrack in the background. Once it is set to begin, they play only trailers, no TV commercials. Although, this isn't guaranteed. A few times I have been there, they didn't show trailers at all! They skip right to the movie. That is class. The Cinerama is a class act (thanks Paul Allen!). There are only two complaints I have with them: they got rid of the free refills on popcorn and sometimes there digital projector is broken (like when I went to see Star Wars). If my biggest complaint is not seeing the movie digitally (and instead having to settle for the best film projection system I have ever seen), well, then I think I am set. This movie costs a few dollars more (10 dollars for a standard ticket), but for how little I see movies in the theatres, I say a few extra bucks is definitely better than a few hours of stress.
Andrew
I know it is not in wide use, but neither is IPv6. I guess you could say we'll all be using multicast over IPv6 networks to play Duke Nukem Forever on our machine with the WinFS.
The post I was replying to mentioned Internet TV and radio as a big use of this SwarmCasting, but it would be better to just use multicast. This would work wonders for things like Steve Jobs keynotes because they have thousands of users. Imagine a megabit stream video encoded in H.264 being multicasted over the the internet. I think multicast could be used more than it might seem. You want the latest Steam or World of Warcraft update? Turn on your client, it starts grabbing the file in the middle at high speed, continues to grab the file as the stream ends and starts over from the beginning, and then pieces it together. The WoW servers would just need to multicast the update in a loop for a few weeks, and then they could move to a unicast system if needed. Multicast would be ideal but it is a huge obstacle to overcome (getting all the routers and such to support it).
One more thing, are you sure most network equipment doesn't support it? I used it over, I believe, a consumer access point at a SeattleWireless meeting once (it was a local stream, just to test). Or did you mean big backbone routers? I imagine core routers would support it, or could be made to support it with a software update. I imagine it is all a matter of configuring the necessary settings, but I don't know.
Andrew
All the articles on /. mentioning going after the server operators say they are going after BitTorrent trackers. After reading TFA, I didn't see any mention of going after tracker operators, instead they are going after the websites that host the .torrent files. Please be more clear about this in future. I host a tracker on my website that has been used primarily for legal torrents (I can't think of any illegal torrents that it has hosted, but I don't watch too carefully). I hosted the Maestro torrents and someone unbeknownst to me hosted a NASA video on there. There is no way I can be held responsible for what people use my tracker for, I can only ever see the MD5. This article says that the MPAA is going after people hosting the .torrent files. I host some of them, but they are all illegal. I don't host any illegal .torrent files on my server, even if someone did set me as a tracker for their illegal file. I am in the clear. These articles need to make that distinction, it sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't know how BT works.
Andrew
PS: My BT server is http://andrewhitchcock.org:6969/.
There is a much better way to send out video or radio broadcasts over the internet en masse. It already exists and I have used it (albeit, on a local network). The answer is multicast. We just need to get the internet backbone companies to put multicast support on their routers, and we'll be all set. I believe Sprint's network already supports it, as do many others, I'm sure.
Andrew
It is 'free' since they are paying Napster a subscription. You are getting charged for this somewhere, which means you may be getting a few less computers this year or they'll have to wait a little longer to be upgraded.
In my opinion, this is a horrible misuse of student funds and I would never go for it. I'm glad my college (University of Washington) doesn't do it, they are real smart about those kinds of things.
How does that compare to a black hood cracker ?