That 1 petabyte, if stored as an area of black and white 8mm square bathroom tiles with 2mm grout would cover an area of 900,720 square kilometres which is about 741 times the area of Los Angeles.
Well your 20GB of mp3s would fit on my 20GB Neo jukebox portable. I've owned one for 4 or 5 months and I love it. I've only managed to fill 8GB so far though, so I do agree that 5GB on the end of firewire (fast frequent reorganising) would be about right, especially for the size, weight and batter life.
Children, while many people who make children's programming don't realise this, are not stupid. They can spot something phony and manipulative(which you have to admit that this is, even if you agree that filesharing is wrong) from a mile away.
This is simply not true. Children may or may not dismiss something as phoney the first time they see it, but repeated doses will eventually wear them down. This has phenomenom been studied at great depth and in layman's terms it's known as brainwashing. It has nothing to do with being stupid or not. All people are susceptible to it, but children are the most vulnerable.
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One thing I read on/. was "physically separate the pilots from the passenger cabin". I think that would make it a lot harder. It could be improved by adding security personnel in plain clothes (preferably Constable Angua von Überwald;o) israeli-style.
The US already has a plain-clothed anti-terrorism force for aircraft. They sit on flights with concealed weapons and in the documentary I saw some months ago (on Discovery) they took credit for the absence of a foreign terrorist attack on US soil. They concealed their faces during interviews so that they could not be recognised by the public.
I think what a lot of people are missing is that from a legal point of view, you have to consider where the information is.
The scheme that is proposed can be thought of as a bizzare compression technique. You hide the bulk of the data in public view but strip it of all its information. The information is in the description of the 5 (or so) pads that you need (the key). The key is very short, but it contains all the information of the message. If a legal entity wishes to suppress the information, they need to suppress the description of the key, not the pads themselves. What this scheme offers is the ability to make the information arbitrarily smaller than the data, and hence easier to share.
What the idea seems to be begging for is a proposal for a Gnutella-for-pads application whereby you can create, exchange and assemble pads in a single app. Also the standard should explain how larger files are constructed and the exact format of the key information (which pads you need) since you will need a different set of pads for each 128kb block of data in the potentially large file.
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That 1 petabyte, if stored as an area of black and white 8mm square bathroom tiles with 2mm grout would cover an area of 900,720 square kilometres which is about 741 times the area of Los Angeles.
Bring on the pixie dust!
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There are some commercial companies who have been working in this area for several years.
Most notably Reachin and SensAble.
Well your 20GB of mp3s would fit on my 20GB Neo jukebox portable. I've owned one for 4 or 5 months and I love it. I've only managed to fill 8GB so far though, so I do agree that 5GB on the end of firewire (fast frequent reorganising) would be about right, especially for the size, weight and batter life.
Children, while many people who make children's programming don't realise this, are not stupid. They can spot something phony and manipulative(which you have to admit that this is, even if you agree that filesharing is wrong) from a mile away.
This is simply not true. Children may or may not dismiss something as phoney the first time they see it, but repeated doses will eventually wear them down. This has phenomenom been studied at great depth and in layman's terms it's known as brainwashing. It has nothing to do with being stupid or not. All people are susceptible to it, but children are the most vulnerable.
(I'm glad we won't be seeing AOL-TW-MS-NBC.)
Isn't that CNN, not NBC?
One thing I read on /. was "physically separate the pilots from the passenger cabin". I think that would make it a lot harder. It could be improved by adding security personnel in plain clothes (preferably Constable Angua von Überwald ;o) israeli-style.
The US already has a plain-clothed anti-terrorism force for aircraft. They sit on flights with concealed weapons and in the documentary I saw some months ago (on Discovery) they took credit for the absence of a foreign terrorist attack on US soil. They concealed their faces during interviews so that they could not be recognised by the public.
Where were they on Tuesday?
The scheme that is proposed can be thought of as a bizzare compression technique. You hide the bulk of the data in public view but strip it of all its information. The information is in the description of the 5 (or so) pads that you need (the key). The key is very short, but it contains all the information of the message. If a legal entity wishes to suppress the information, they need to suppress the description of the key, not the pads themselves. What this scheme offers is the ability to make the information arbitrarily smaller than the data, and hence easier to share.
What the idea seems to be begging for is a proposal for a Gnutella-for-pads application whereby you can create, exchange and assemble pads in a single app. Also the standard should explain how larger files are constructed and the exact format of the key information (which pads you need) since you will need a different set of pads for each 128kb block of data in the potentially large file.