Now you mention the sun.... what about a close fly-by that will roast the critter half, then the other half is done upon re-entry in the atmosphere... How is that for geeky?
Here is some positive news for you: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot/all/ Happy reading! By the way, ponies ARE dangerous. The risks can be reduced greatly by feeding them with a flattened hand (not getting your keyboard-sausages in that grinder) and when you want to walk behind them take some distance so they wont kick you. I dont want to sound like an alarmist, but... well, y'know:-)
It will be either the 'sharks with frikkin lasers atached to their head'-jokes, or an accumulation of these people who thought that the LHC would produce micro-black-holes getting all excited about blowing something up. Turning from black hole alarmist to Death Star alarmists. I wonder if these people are the same as the;
- OMG the acidic rain will render the world uninhabitable! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the LHC will end the world with a man-made black hole! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG they want to ship radio active waste to the moon! Think about the radiation! Think about the kids! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG you drove a car today, according to these models, that will raise the sea level three feet by next Thursday you idiot! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the Mayan calender is going to finish us all! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG they want to teach the kids Darwinism! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the Y2K bug! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG Ponies! These people somehow never get tired of running around, waving their arms in the air like an evil Dervish... Just like some people are never getting tired of sharks / beowulf clusters / does it run Linux / your anus jokes... No matter how funny / annoying (pick one) that is, it is less harmful than the alarmist. So, I would really rather have you picking at the alarmist:-)
Why there are so many 'crowdfunding' stories here on/. Exactly why is it so interesting how a company raises money? It was interesting the first couple of times, but now? Meh... not so much. By the way, its about time for a bitcoin / RaspberryPi story;-)
> People expect way too much from their internet. They have a slow dsl line at the moment. Probably they could just as well write out each IP packet by hand and deliver it at the requested site by bicycle... In Taiwan... So if HawkeyeMI underpromises, he will ultimatly overdeliver.
> Do they have a number they can call at 2 AM when it's not working? Who has? Not me, that is for sure...
> Running an ISP, even a small local one isn't a 1-3 person job at this point in time. I don't see why not. Run it on debian stable, automate as much as possible and keep a sharp eye on the preformance. Okay, maybe he needs a hand once in a while, but I bet you there are some teens around who have an ambition in tech and who would just LOVE to have "16 years old, assistant CTO of ISP hawkeye inc." on their resume.
> If a switch dies do you have one on hand to replace it immediately, or does everyone go without internet for a day or two while you order a new one? Well, that is something everybody who participates should agree on. Democratically right? It doesn't matter that much for the cost of the operation however, whether it is bought at the moment a switch blows or on forehand, the cost would be (more or less) the same. And the shelf life is actually quite long. Oh, and statistically if you have a 1000 routers the chance that one blows on day X is bigger than the chance that one of the two blows on day X.
> People aren't going to go digging ditches unless you can provide some pretty big advantages over their local ISP. I think that is true in Sunnyvale California, but this is a rural community. Good chance there are already people around working in the mud. (with the advantage that they even might have some hydraulic digging equipment)
> Unless it's a really geeky community, you aren't going to find a lot of people interested in digging cable ditches if they still have to spend the same amount of money every month on their bill, that is even assuming you could get the level of service up to where your other ISP has it. I dont think there are lots of 'geeky communities' in the rural area's. That is the advantage HawkeyeMI has over regular ISP's people know him, he knows them, and they can find him if 'the email stops working'. He can even come over to help them getting the 'email to work again'. What ISP does that for his customers huh? None that I know of. So I think that he has some real advantages there.
Oh, forgot... If you are going to set up a network, why not interconnecting the nodes, and have it all on a VPN or a TORnet so everybody can be completely anonymous? Just a thought...
I couldn't agree more. Why not make it a community based movement? That is the way I would go. If I understand it correctly, this is a small, rather isolated community. Usually in those communities the social cohesion is much stronger and therefore people usually work together in order to get things done for that community. 1 - get people together 2 - decide what way to go (what kind of organisation to set up) in a democratic way. 3 - Ask them to participate with money or getting their hands dirty (digging ditches for cable for example, if you choose not to go for wifi) 4 - quit your day-job and be the (only?) paid employee (can you do tech / administration / tax-stuff / customer support / rest ?) 5 - work hard and you will definitely succeed!
You don't need 'google-sized' servers for this, a couple of x86-64 pc's with a bunch of NIC's should do the trick. I would love such an ISP, especially if you support Linux and BSD as well, and you can personally come over to grandma to set up her e-mail client for her. That way you can provide 200% of the service provided by normal ISP's for a fraction of the cost. Make a sound calculation of the costs including interconnection fee's, hardware costs, electricity, your wage etc. If you run it from a dedicated room in the house you could even use the wasted heat to warm your house (or tropical fish tank), provide courses for the 'not so technical' people and make yourself much more valued than you would in a normal day-job. Besides, having your own NOC down the hallway is just friking awesome!:-D Good luck!
But can it calculate 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times 9999999999999999999999999998999989999989899999999999999999999976499 ?
I couldn't agree more. That is why I think we should re-explore the concept of analogue computers and/or fuzzylogic computers. In order to get more 'brain-like' computers. Not an expert on this, just thinking out loud...
Must... Resist... To make... Easy joke... I have an analogue pen with ink. It can write 0010010010110100101110101 without a problem... Sorry, it was to easy, couldn't resist...
I find it surprising that they used aluminum. The ship is build in Yurp, and usually the Yupeens use the far more superior 'aloy' (as you call it) aluminium...
And to add to this, redundant tubes. So if one day you decide to switch to glassfiber, extra speakers, or something, you don't have to break up all the wall's again, just run them through those tubes. Or alternatively you could have all the tubes, valves and wiring neatly side by side running in plain sight at the ceiling, color-coded, and labelled , just like a sub-marine. Then have a "command centre" with the whole system, flowrates, temperature's, power-usage per socket a and other measurements at your finger-tips. http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_1210x1210/0/499/inside-a-submarine-4993d2.jpg Or maybe not if you go for cosy:-)
I, on the other hand, see another correlation.... Singapore has one of the fastest internet connections in the area. I guess they just looked at this flick of Bernadette Rostenkowski and realised that being violent is not cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlQ0NBwaqjc For the peoploe without broadband, here is whet she said: Being mean is lame. What's cool is being nice!
Oh, and for all the people who are STILL convinced that "being offended" is a good reason to petrol-bomb embassies and the like, watch this on of Steve Hughes.: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1311191/704ed283/steve_hughes_offended.html
I know that this was possible already, but my suggestion is that it is more easy now than it was before. Just as you answered: yes it is. There must be millions of interesting things to receive, things that one would (normally) never even think of. For example these RFID locks on the company's door here. It must be quite interesting to check that out, see if there is a difference in 'fingerprint' between the several different doors that keep people out of areas where they dont need to be. And no, I dont (necessarily) need to know the answers from people here, I just want to check it out myself. You know, like when you're a kid and do little experiments to see if there really IS hydrogen coming of that electrode;-) This must be the RF equivalent of "x-ray-glasses":-D
I don't have a lot of knowledge in this, but it seems to me that one should be able to crack scrambled comm's much more easy right? Eavesdrop on GSM's, listen out on dect-telephones for example? Or 'tinker' with that new 'smart-meter' the neighbours had installed. Just some suggestions... not saying you should, but you could;-) Sounds absolutely interesting!
The modern trend in legislation is to grant police the power to bypass oversight, usually with the excuse that the courts "take too long".
Usually the excuse is child pr0n;-) And this is granting the police to hack whenever they seem fit. Every time the citizens have to give up (internet)freedom it is about childpr0n. And do I have news for them. Those sickoś who are into that usually have everything locked up, off-line and encrypted... (Can you hear the gasps of the politicians reading this? Probably they think that ´ Dirty Hank' is using an un-patched windows 98 and uses his full name on all the fora ) I have enough confidence in the police to hack a standard install of windows, I dont think they will be able to get in a openBSD standard install with the usual honey-pots, intrusion detection, firewallś and multiple levels of encryption. So basically it is the he average user who is bothered, not the real baddies
Oh, and for another fun thing out of the slease-sleeve of Dutch minister of Justice... He wants the police to be able to gather DNA collected by hospitals who withdrew that for testing purposes in an other proposed law. FU volunteer, nice of you to help the medical sciences, but you are now also in the cops database, whether you like it (let alone approve it ) or not. That will make it even more easy for scientists to get volunteers huh? Medical ethics? Meh...blablabla..childpr0n blablablabla murder mumble... if you got nothing to hide bla bla... same old, same old.
I do think that the baddies should be found and taken care of, but not at ALL costs... Treating EVERYONE as a potential criminal is a step to far IMHO.
Man unearths 2000 year old bit-coin with metal-detector
An anonymous reader writes "A novice metal detector has found one of the largest bit coin servers ever unearthed in the UK. From the article: 'National newspapers reported on Wednesday that the man, from Berkhamsted, had been sold a beginner’s metal detector from the town’s High Street-based Hidden History for £135. He is reported to have gone back with 40 of the bit coins, dating to the last days of 'Cameron' rule in Britain, and asked: “What do I do with this?”'"
Man you should check out twitter, facebook and the more traditional Dutch versions of social media (usually involving a bar, sausages, cheese and Heineken beer). We are tolerant people, and we like free speech, but this is explosive here. Riots in the streets, burning shops / flags / cars / books, shouting very loud, bricks flying through the air, even the stoning of an elderly woman because... Well, for the hell of it of course. petitions are put up to make the infidel site/. ban fustakrakich and his whole history here forever. Free speech is fine, but there IS a limit to that! We are outraged and offended, calling us an uncivilised Bunch of overexcited monkey's... This is how we show you we are actually peaceful! You see now?!?
That is already happening! Didn't you hear of the 14 year old girl who got shot in the face because she was intolerant to the nice people of the Taliban. The Taliban, those nice people who only try to spread the religion of tolerance and respect? That shall teach her a lesson! Huh?
Weird kind of mind-set those people have... Shooting a 14 year old girl from point-blank, no problems... Making a film...mmmmnot so cool. Pffff.. medieval hatebeards.
I probably wont host a 30 years of/. party since the other one 15 years ago wasn't a big success. Thank god I got the t-shirt nevertheless! Then I go to the/. site and post some snarly replies to dumbasses with 40digit uid's telling them that back in the olden day's things were much better. Mainly because with a CRT you got cheap laser eye surgery. (I think I might end up rather cynical) Then Ill drink some moonlight still, cause that is the only stuff around (because those pesky crypto-communist-health-and-safety-environmentalists got their way) and curse at my cat for half an hour. No problems, he is old and deaf cause he is born way back in 2012, and there (still) is no wife to yell at. Then I hit another shot at the little altar erected in 2018 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of George Carlin. Erected just to piss him off in case he IS in heaven looking down. Before I go to my damp cold bed and take a look at the martian sunset one more time before I close my eyes.:-)
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Now you mention the sun.... what about a close fly-by that will roast the critter half, then the other half is done upon re-entry in the atmosphere...
How is that for geeky?
Here is some positive news for you: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot/all/ :-)
Happy reading!
By the way, ponies ARE dangerous. The risks can be reduced greatly by feeding them with a flattened hand (not getting your keyboard-sausages in that grinder) and when you want to walk behind them take some distance so they wont kick you. I dont want to sound like an alarmist, but... well, y'know
It will be either the 'sharks with frikkin lasers atached to their head'-jokes, or an accumulation of these people who thought that the LHC would produce micro-black-holes getting all excited about blowing something up. Turning from black hole alarmist to Death Star alarmists. :-)
I wonder if these people are the same as the;
- OMG the acidic rain will render the world uninhabitable! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the LHC will end the world with a man-made black hole! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG they want to ship radio active waste to the moon! Think about the radiation! Think about the kids! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG you drove a car today, according to these models, that will raise the sea level three feet by next Thursday you idiot! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the Mayan calender is going to finish us all! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG they want to teach the kids Darwinism! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG the Y2K bug! We must do something or we are all gonna die!
- OMG Ponies!
These people somehow never get tired of running around, waving their arms in the air like an evil Dervish... Just like some people are never getting tired of sharks / beowulf clusters / does it run Linux / your anus jokes... No matter how funny / annoying (pick one) that is, it is less harmful than the alarmist. So, I would really rather have you picking at the alarmist
Why there are so many 'crowdfunding' stories here on /. ;-)
Exactly why is it so interesting how a company raises money? It was interesting the first couple of times, but now? Meh... not so much.
By the way, its about time for a bitcoin / RaspberryPi story
> People expect way too much from their internet.
They have a slow dsl line at the moment. Probably they could just as well write out each IP packet by hand and deliver it at the requested site by bicycle... In Taiwan... So if HawkeyeMI underpromises, he will ultimatly overdeliver.
> Do they have a number they can call at 2 AM when it's not working?
Who has? Not me, that is for sure...
> Running an ISP, even a small local one isn't a 1-3 person job at this point in time.
I don't see why not. Run it on debian stable, automate as much as possible and keep a sharp eye on the preformance. Okay, maybe he needs a hand once in a while, but I bet you there are some teens around who have an ambition in tech and who would just LOVE to have "16 years old, assistant CTO of ISP hawkeye inc." on their resume.
> If a switch dies do you have one on hand to replace it immediately, or does everyone go without internet for a day or two while you order a new one?
Well, that is something everybody who participates should agree on. Democratically right? It doesn't matter that much for the cost of the operation however, whether it is bought at the moment a switch blows or on forehand, the cost would be (more or less) the same. And the shelf life is actually quite long. Oh, and statistically if you have a 1000 routers the chance that one blows on day X is bigger than the chance that one of the two blows on day X.
> People aren't going to go digging ditches unless you can provide some pretty big advantages over their local ISP.
I think that is true in Sunnyvale California, but this is a rural community. Good chance there are already people around working in the mud. (with the advantage that they even might have some hydraulic digging equipment)
> Unless it's a really geeky community, you aren't going to find a lot of people interested in digging cable ditches if they still have to spend the same amount of money every month on their bill, that is even assuming you could get the level of service up to where your other ISP has it.
I dont think there are lots of 'geeky communities' in the rural area's. That is the advantage HawkeyeMI has over regular ISP's people know him, he knows them, and they can find him if 'the email stops working'. He can even come over to help them getting the 'email to work again'. What ISP does that for his customers huh?
None that I know of. So I think that he has some real advantages there.
Oh, forgot... If you are going to set up a network, why not interconnecting the nodes, and have it all on a VPN or a TORnet so everybody can be completely anonymous?
Just a thought...
I couldn't agree more. Why not make it a community based movement?
:-D
That is the way I would go. If I understand it correctly, this is a small, rather isolated community. Usually in those communities the social cohesion is much stronger and therefore people usually work together in order to get things done for that community.
1 - get people together
2 - decide what way to go (what kind of organisation to set up) in a democratic way.
3 - Ask them to participate with money or getting their hands dirty (digging ditches for cable for example, if you choose not to go for wifi)
4 - quit your day-job and be the (only?) paid employee (can you do tech / administration / tax-stuff / customer support / rest ?)
5 - work hard and you will definitely succeed!
You don't need 'google-sized' servers for this, a couple of x86-64 pc's with a bunch of NIC's should do the trick. I would love such an ISP, especially if you support Linux and BSD as well, and you can personally come over to grandma to set up her e-mail client for her. That way you can provide 200% of the service provided by normal ISP's for a fraction of the cost. Make a sound calculation of the costs including interconnection fee's, hardware costs, electricity, your wage etc.
If you run it from a dedicated room in the house you could even use the wasted heat to warm your house (or tropical fish tank), provide courses for the 'not so technical' people and make yourself much more valued than you would in a normal day-job.
Besides, having your own NOC down the hallway is just friking awesome!
Good luck!
But can it calculate 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 times 9999999999999999999999999998999989999989899999999999999999999976499 ?
:-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KKgvRw1rrU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Just asking aaaait?
I couldn't agree more. That is why I think we should re-explore the concept of analogue computers and/or fuzzylogic computers. In order to get more 'brain-like' computers. Not an expert on this, just thinking out loud...
Must...
Resist...
To make...
Easy joke...
I have an analogue pen with ink. It can write 0010010010110100101110101 without a problem...
Sorry, it was to easy, couldn't resist...
I find it surprising that they used aluminum. The ship is build in Yurp, and usually the Yupeens use the far more superior 'aloy' (as you call it) aluminium...
And to add to this, redundant tubes. So if one day you decide to switch to glassfiber, extra speakers, or something, you don't have to break up all the wall's again, just run them through those tubes. :-)
Or alternatively you could have all the tubes, valves and wiring neatly side by side running in plain sight at the ceiling, color-coded, and labelled , just like a sub-marine. Then have a "command centre" with the whole system, flowrates, temperature's, power-usage per socket a and other measurements at your finger-tips.
http://image.yaymicro.com/rz_1210x1210/0/499/inside-a-submarine-4993d2.jpg
Or maybe not if you go for cosy
I, on the other hand, see another correlation.... Singapore has one of the fastest internet connections in the area. I guess they just looked at this flick of Bernadette Rostenkowski and realised that being violent is not cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlQ0NBwaqjc
For the peoploe without broadband, here is whet she said: Being mean is lame. What's cool is being nice!
Oh, and for all the people who are STILL convinced that "being offended" is a good reason to petrol-bomb embassies and the like, watch this on of Steve Hughes.: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1311191/704ed283/steve_hughes_offended.html
Thank you...
I know that this was possible already, but my suggestion is that it is more easy now than it was before. Just as you answered: yes it is. ;-) :-D
There must be millions of interesting things to receive, things that one would (normally) never even think of.
For example these RFID locks on the company's door here. It must be quite interesting to check that out, see if there is a difference in 'fingerprint' between the several different doors that keep people out of areas where they dont need to be.
And no, I dont (necessarily) need to know the answers from people here, I just want to check it out myself. You know, like when you're a kid and do little experiments to see if there really IS hydrogen coming of that electrode
This must be the RF equivalent of "x-ray-glasses"
It even is so slow that when I tried to visit the site provided by the URL... It timed out on me!
Now, THAT is slow!
I don't have a lot of knowledge in this, but it seems to me that one should be able to crack scrambled comm's much more easy right? ;-)
Eavesdrop on GSM's, listen out on dect-telephones for example? Or 'tinker' with that new 'smart-meter' the neighbours had installed.
Just some suggestions... not saying you should, but you could
Sounds absolutely interesting!
... wich dips into lake Vostok to get water without those pesky little bacteria...
The modern trend in legislation is to grant police the power to bypass oversight, usually with the excuse that the courts "take too long".
Usually the excuse is child pr0n
And this is granting the police to hack whenever they seem fit. Every time the citizens have to give up (internet)freedom it is about childpr0n. And do I have news for them. Those sickoś who are into that usually have everything locked up, off-line and encrypted... (Can you hear the gasps of the politicians reading this? Probably they think that ´ Dirty Hank' is using an un-patched windows 98 and uses his full name on all the fora )
I have enough confidence in the police to hack a standard install of windows, I dont think they will be able to get in a openBSD standard install with the usual honey-pots, intrusion detection, firewallś and multiple levels of encryption. So basically it is the he average user who is bothered, not the real baddies
Oh, and for another fun thing out of the slease-sleeve of Dutch minister of Justice... He wants the police to be able to gather DNA collected by hospitals who withdrew that for testing purposes in an other proposed law. FU volunteer, nice of you to help the medical sciences, but you are now also in the cops database, whether you like it (let alone approve it ) or not. That will make it even more easy for scientists to get volunteers huh? Medical ethics? Meh...blablabla..childpr0n blablablabla murder mumble... if you got nothing to hide bla bla... same old, same old.
I do think that the baddies should be found and taken care of, but not at ALL costs... Treating EVERYONE as a potential criminal is a step to far IMHO.
Man unearths 2000 year old bit-coin with metal-detector
An anonymous reader writes
"A novice metal detector has found one of the largest bit coin servers ever unearthed in the UK. From the article: 'National newspapers reported on Wednesday that the man, from Berkhamsted, had been sold a beginner’s metal detector from the town’s High Street-based Hidden History for £135. He is reported to have gone back with 40 of the bit coins, dating to the last days of 'Cameron' rule in Britain, and asked: “What do I do with this?”'"
Read all comments.
Man you should check out twitter, facebook and the more traditional Dutch versions of social media (usually involving a bar, sausages, cheese and Heineken beer). We are tolerant people, and we like free speech, but this is explosive here. Riots in the streets, burning shops / flags / cars / books, shouting very loud, bricks flying through the air, even the stoning of an elderly woman because... Well, for the hell of it of course. petitions are put up to make the infidel site /. ban fustakrakich and his whole history here forever. Free speech is fine, but there IS a limit to that!
We are outraged and offended, calling us an uncivilised Bunch of overexcited monkey's... This is how we show you we are actually peaceful!
You see now?!?
Trending topic, check #lets-burn-the-embassy-of-whatever-fustakrakich-is-from.
(for the not-so-bright... the above is meant a joke)
That is already happening! Didn't you hear of the 14 year old girl who got shot in the face because she was intolerant to the nice people of the Taliban. The Taliban, those nice people who only try to spread the religion of tolerance and respect? That shall teach her a lesson! Huh?
Weird kind of mind-set those people have... Shooting a 14 year old girl from point-blank, no problems... Making a film...mmmmnot so cool.
Pffff.. medieval hatebeards.
It was a covert light-sabre, the reporter obviously missed it.
That is how good it is!
That Gargamel was finally successful replacing smurfs with hobbits...
FTL, cold fusion, time travel, snu-snu with green women from an exotic planet.
I probably wont host a 30 years of /. party since the other one 15 years ago wasn't a big success. Thank god I got the t-shirt nevertheless! Then I go to the /. site and post some snarly replies to dumbasses with 40digit uid's telling them that back in the olden day's things were much better. Mainly because with a CRT you got cheap laser eye surgery. (I think I might end up rather cynical) :-)
Then Ill drink some moonlight still, cause that is the only stuff around (because those pesky crypto-communist-health-and-safety-environmentalists got their way) and curse at my cat for half an hour. No problems, he is old and deaf cause he is born way back in 2012, and there (still) is no wife to yell at. Then I hit another shot at the little altar erected in 2018 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of George Carlin. Erected just to piss him off in case he IS in heaven looking down. Before I go to my damp cold bed and take a look at the martian sunset one more time before I close my eyes.