I was lucky enough to attend Sir Arthur C. Clarke's live feed from Sri Lanka: he was in great spirits and answered a myriad of questions.
My favorite was, when someone asked if he had the opprotunity to be a space tourist, where would he want to end up, and his answer was:
Mars, of course. I'm convinced that there is life on Mars. New photographs have shown what looks like possible vegetation, and where there's vegtation there's bound to be something nibbling on it.
And incredible opprotunity to hear such a legend speak so informally to a small crowd, it was worth every minute of getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to see:)
Wow, that was quick. I get to work and she's getting sued, and I leave work and they've already settled? Gotta hand it to the RIAA lawyers on this one, has to be the fastest settlement in history. Poor girl is going to have an irrational fear of KaZaA for the rest of her life, too...
HR 2885 was the Statistical Efficiency Act of 1999... so does anyone know if there really is a HR in the pipes for this and if so, what number it really is?
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account
I think you've gotten your *AAs mixed up... last time I checked, the RIAA couldn't care less what movies you were renting/stealing from Netflix or anyone else. I'm pretty sure that's the MPAA's job. So how, exactly, is getting a Netflix account a valid response to anything the RIAA does?
That "white noise" is not truly random: it could easily be manipulated in many ways through human intervention, and although it's quite difficult, it's still possible. The goal here is to create a fairly inexpensive but completely isolated number generator. Pretty cool stuff IMHO.
Right, and then there's the problem of isolation. The reason that the camera in this project is in a sealed box is because that if you are going to try and actually prove mathematically that the randomness of the system is truly random, it needs to be in isolation, outside of the realm of any intervention.
Therefore, just putting a mic in a room allows for the possibility that the seed can be manipulated, although figuring out what sounds to make in the room to do so in a predicatable manner is incredibley difficult, it's still possible and therefore not theoretically sound.
That means that we're going to have to pay $209,700 for the aprox. 300 nodes in the Space Simulator cluster.
That's nearly 40% of the original entire cost of the cluster! If that isn't a good advertisment to use Linux (at least, as long as it remains free or until SCO's claims actually become founded - hah!), I don't know what is!
Along the same lines as many of the other posts, I've seen instances of this in places I've worked all the times. In fact, my school already does this with SSN numbers in the database because there were incidents of the SSN database being stolen, and as many services in the town are offered to students, they were interested in seeing if the "honeytokens" (or we could just call them fake records like we've been doing for years) were actually being used.
What I don't get is the why the poster thought this article was so amazingly thought provoking? Ok, so it's a fairly interesting idea, but frankly it's just an old idea with a new name, and even if it was an original idea, it still wouldn't be that revolutionary.
Galactic center studies are though provoking. Graviational waves are thought provoking. Genome research is thought provoking. This is most definitely is not.
Can't argue with that: the Jazz stations we have at home are awesome, but they're very few and far between (mostly for lack of interest) unless you're in a large city or near one. Where as the nasty, big-corporation bubble-gum pop stations are a dime a dozen almost everywhere (I go to school in a fairly isolated part of California and *all* the major stations in our area are owned by Clear Channel, with their executive-approved, 5-song playlists).
Right, and I agree with you as well, but I don't think this is what he was getting at: these are both subscription services, which means you have to pay a (IMHO) pretty heafty fee each month, mainly because radio has never lived up to it's promise, so if you want what you expect from radio, you have to pay.
However, I do agree that they're both pretty good services: a friend of mine had XM on a recent road trip of ours and I was quite impressed, but not nearly impressed enough to shell out for the hardware and equipment.
radio (TV sucks - cancel your cable and spend the time playing more real life)
And radio doesn't suck? Radio is easily as commercialized, if not more commercialized, than TV these days. If I could find one radio station that didn't have a playlist that I could figure out, entirely, after listening for three hours, I could die happy.
Needless to say, I'm not very optimistic on dying happy.
But as for the other stuff, all great ideas, althought I don't think we needed and exhastive list of what slashdot user 410687 does in his/her spare time. However, you do make a great point: get out and do something!
Is this news? I work for a gov't lab that does computational astrophysics, and our physics-heads generate huge multi-terabyte data files all the time. We are actually under contract from NASA at the moment to develop a large, distributed disk array for the storage of these files.
But what did the proposal we wrote to NASA say? You guessed it: even in our official documents we recognized the fact that it's much cheaper to ship even bulky, heavy hard drives than try and transfer the data over the wire. In fact, if I can dig up the concrete numbers we came up with I'll respond with them, it's quite interesting.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they're betting on. The article says that Infinium Labs is investing a bunch of time and effort into helping other companies with the effort to port their already existing games to the console.
But in the case of a PC release, there is nothing to be ported. The Phantom is just a fancy WinXP machine with some yet-to-be-cracked (and it will) encryption scheme. If it plays in XP (which is the target for nearly all PC game development these days) then it plays on the Phantom. So while I'm still a skeptic, they do have a pretty good idea here.
By law, they are required to disclose that there may be a bias in their actions because of the fact that both NF and/. are run by OSDN. That's why, nothing more.
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with peanuts;)
It's number 90 on the new list (was number 85 when it first came out), is entirely self-built by members of the theoretical astrophysics group here at LANL, and (in re: to a comment below) we've even been able to convince LANL to categorize it as a single computer, instead of 294 smaller ones.
Been using the beta for about two weeks now, and I'm incredibley impressed, this may be one of the best Slackware releases yet (and I've been using it since...like, 3.0 days, or 'round there. Damn, I'm getting old).
Check it out - Slackware is still alive and kicking ass!
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I was lucky enough to attend Sir Arthur C. Clarke's live feed from Sri Lanka: he was in great spirits and answered a myriad of questions.
:)
My favorite was, when someone asked if he had the opprotunity to be a space tourist, where would he want to end up, and his answer was:
Mars, of course. I'm convinced that there is life on Mars. New photographs have shown what looks like possible vegetation, and where there's vegtation there's bound to be something nibbling on it.
And incredible opprotunity to hear such a legend speak so informally to a small crowd, it was worth every minute of getting up at the buttcrack of dawn to see
Wow, that was quick. I get to work and she's getting sued, and I leave work and they've already settled? Gotta hand it to the RIAA lawyers on this one, has to be the fastest settlement in history. Poor girl is going to have an irrational fear of KaZaA for the rest of her life, too...
HR 2885 was the Statistical Efficiency Act of 1999... so does anyone know if there really is a HR in the pipes for this and if so, what number it really is?
My own response to the RIAA crackdown was to get a Netflix account
I think you've gotten your *AAs mixed up... last time I checked, the RIAA couldn't care less what movies you were renting/stealing from Netflix or anyone else. I'm pretty sure that's the MPAA's job. So how, exactly, is getting a Netflix account a valid response to anything the RIAA does?
Procmail. Procmail for everything.
Yeah, this is called lockout/tagout. Everyone who knows what they're doing has been doing this for years, because it works.
That "white noise" is not truly random: it could easily be manipulated in many ways through human intervention, and although it's quite difficult, it's still possible. The goal here is to create a fairly inexpensive but completely isolated number generator. Pretty cool stuff IMHO.
Right, and then there's the problem of isolation. The reason that the camera in this project is in a sealed box is because that if you are going to try and actually prove mathematically that the randomness of the system is truly random, it needs to be in isolation, outside of the realm of any intervention.
Therefore, just putting a mic in a room allows for the possibility that the seed can be manipulated, although figuring out what sounds to make in the room to do so in a predicatable manner is incredibley difficult, it's still possible and therefore not theoretically sound.
Are you implying that the nForce is good?
That means that we're going to have to pay $209,700 for the aprox. 300 nodes in the Space Simulator cluster.
That's nearly 40% of the original entire cost of the cluster! If that isn't a good advertisment to use Linux (at least, as long as it remains free or until SCO's claims actually become founded - hah!), I don't know what is!
...and yet my broadband provider still rapes and plunders me every month for my own static IP?
...has anyone noticed that the Torrentse.cx linked has changed, a *bit*? I think the editors *might* want to remove that...just a thought...
Along the same lines as many of the other posts, I've seen instances of this in places I've worked all the times. In fact, my school already does this with SSN numbers in the database because there were incidents of the SSN database being stolen, and as many services in the town are offered to students, they were interested in seeing if the "honeytokens" (or we could just call them fake records like we've been doing for years) were actually being used.
What I don't get is the why the poster thought this article was so amazingly thought provoking? Ok, so it's a fairly interesting idea, but frankly it's just an old idea with a new name, and even if it was an original idea, it still wouldn't be that revolutionary.
Galactic center studies are though provoking. Graviational waves are thought provoking. Genome research is thought provoking. This is most definitely is not.
Can't argue with that: the Jazz stations we have at home are awesome, but they're very few and far between (mostly for lack of interest) unless you're in a large city or near one. Where as the nasty, big-corporation bubble-gum pop stations are a dime a dozen almost everywhere (I go to school in a fairly isolated part of California and *all* the major stations in our area are owned by Clear Channel, with their executive-approved, 5-song playlists).
Right, and I agree with you as well, but I don't think this is what he was getting at: these are both subscription services, which means you have to pay a (IMHO) pretty heafty fee each month, mainly because radio has never lived up to it's promise, so if you want what you expect from radio, you have to pay.
However, I do agree that they're both pretty good services: a friend of mine had XM on a recent road trip of ours and I was quite impressed, but not nearly impressed enough to shell out for the hardware and equipment.
radio (TV sucks - cancel your cable and spend the time playing more real life)
And radio doesn't suck? Radio is easily as commercialized, if not more commercialized, than TV these days. If I could find one radio station that didn't have a playlist that I could figure out, entirely, after listening for three hours, I could die happy.
Needless to say, I'm not very optimistic on dying happy.
But as for the other stuff, all great ideas, althought I don't think we needed and exhastive list of what slashdot user 410687 does in his/her spare time. However, you do make a great point: get out and do something!
Is this news? I work for a gov't lab that does computational astrophysics, and our physics-heads generate huge multi-terabyte data files all the time. We are actually under contract from NASA at the moment to develop a large, distributed disk array for the storage of these files.
;)
But what did the proposal we wrote to NASA say? You guessed it: even in our official documents we recognized the fact that it's much cheaper to ship even bulky, heavy hard drives than try and transfer the data over the wire. In fact, if I can dig up the concrete numbers we came up with I'll respond with them, it's quite interesting.
Moral of the story? Duh, we already knew this
maybe a port after a PC release
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they're betting on. The article says that Infinium Labs is investing a bunch of time and effort into helping other companies with the effort to port their already existing games to the console.
But in the case of a PC release, there is nothing to be ported. The Phantom is just a fancy WinXP machine with some yet-to-be-cracked (and it will) encryption scheme. If it plays in XP (which is the target for nearly all PC game development these days) then it plays on the Phantom. So while I'm still a skeptic, they do have a pretty good idea here.
By law, they are required to disclose that there may be a bias in their actions because of the fact that both NF and /. are run by OSDN. That's why, nothing more.
;)
And no, it doesn't have anything to do with peanuts
...are almost as bad as the /. editors:
"Linux creator an open source"
If you're really a tech writer you'd stop using "Windoze" for "Windows".
Uhm...what about me?
It's number 90 on the new list (was number 85 when it first came out), is entirely self-built by members of the theoretical astrophysics group here at LANL, and (in re: to a comment below) we've even been able to convince LANL to categorize it as a single computer, instead of 294 smaller ones.
So there you have it, Beowulf in the Top 500.
...Cal Poly has been doing this for years, even decades now. Our motto is even "Learning by Doing."
...that emphasizes a "learn by doing" educational experience...
Burt Rutan is a graduate of the AERO department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo! Go Poly!
Been using the beta for about two weeks now, and I'm incredibley impressed, this may be one of the best Slackware releases yet (and I've been using it since...like, 3.0 days, or 'round there. Damn, I'm getting old).
Check it out - Slackware is still alive and kicking ass!