obEmoPhilips: "I used to think... I used to think the brain was the most in-ter-esting organ in the body... Then I thought, 'Look what's telling me that!'"
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"I used to fly for United Airlines But then I got fired for reading High Times My license expired in almost no time Now I'm retired and I think that's fine."
Hate to be a downer, but it sounds like a bank of modems is really what you want.
To have to go from data -> fax -> data sounds like a process that could introduce errors, and if you have a fax on your end and a fax on their end, then you might as well just have modems on both ends.
I suppose a fax could be slightly more automated, like you dial up with a voice phone and "Please enter the Hotfix you would like faxed. If you do not know the Hotfix, please press 0 for a menu." So you type in the Hotfix number, like "1834502" and then it says "Press Start on your fax machine to begin transmission." You press Start, and the fax receives the Hotfix.
Then you can apply it to multiple computers, while only having to "download" it a single time. You can do this via data transmission too, but Windows Update is geared more towards downloading for every machine rather than a localized centralized download (although they have methods for corporate users to do exactly that, it sounds like you were talking more about home users since corporate users would have alternate methods to get onto the internet securely).
Nice idea, but it won't work. Faxes transmit at 14.4K (some may be slightly higher but at any rate they are limited to 53K by government standards).
Even if you were sending data via fax using every possible bit, you'd be no faster than a 56K modem. And if you're using more than one black dot per bit, then you're transmitting slower.
If your internet-based updates are coming too slow, then the fax-based ones will be coming even slower.
And it's not much more secure, either: you're talking security-by-obscurity ("my fax number is unpublished"), which is much easier to defeat. Although it may raise the bar enough so that very few are willing to invest the time and resources involved to crack mom-and-pop's grocery store...
We might be smarter, but will we be happier? That's what life is about.
Well, if ignorance is bliss, then no, we will not be any happier.;-)
More seriously, I will be very much happier knowing that I am growing and improving and increasing my capabilities. I will be very happy to sprout a pair of wings and leap off tall buildings for pleasure. Having backups in case one of me goes splat (with a transmitter telling my "home base" my current state/configuration, and all the sensory input I take in, so that another me can be brought into existence upon accident with all the memories and thoughts that "I" had instants before my untimely demise) would make me very happy indeed, and more of a risk-taker as well.
The future is going to be drastically different than anything we've ever seen.
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I found an answer; it's not official, but it sounds plausible:
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:12:54 +1200
From: james dot dignan at stonebow dot otago dot ac dot nz (James Dignan)
Subject: LTIA: what does it mean?
Matthew Carton asked:
>Question: I have no idea of the significance of the title of "Lark's
> Tongues in Aspic" -- what the hell does it mean?
Les Labbauf replied:
>I cannot say what Robert Fripp, or KC had in mind when they gave
>the the name "Lark's Tongues In Aspic" to their work. However I
>take it to mean that the music sounds exactly like what title implies.
> Think of the lark, a bird who sings a pretty song, now think of that
>bird's tongue in a jelly made from meat gelatin. A pretty nasty
>picture, if you get the idea. So the music is not pretty, but harsh and
>grinding. Definitely meant to disturb the listener.
I reply to the reply:
Larks's tongues make beautiful music. Aspic is a preserving medium. Any
recording of King Crimson is, IMHO, a preserved piece of beautiful music.
What better analogy for their sound than Lark's Tongues in Aspic?
James
Separately, I see here that Jamie Muir actually came up with the name.
Not on Cox, it's Adelphia here. My router does wireless, but I have that turned off since I have no wireless devices (it was $10 more than the non-wireless, so I figured I'd spend the extra and be ready for it). I don't do Usenet downloads so I can't help you there. I haven't used LinkSys but I have heard of BitTorrent problems with LinkSys NICs (google for it if you also have a NIC by LinkSys). Hope this helps.
That's not entirely accurate, because not everyone is downloading. As I said in another response to the parent, I'm currently getting download speeds over 200 KB/s, and am connected to 4609 seeds and 902 peers.
So the number of people downloading is only 902, whereas there are 4609+902=5511 people uploading. So if upload speeds are 1/5 download speeds, everyone will be getting it at their maximum download rate.
That's the cool thing about BitTorrent; if people leave their torrents open when they're done, everyone else gets it much faster.
Wow, I'm impressed: 4609 seeds, 902 peers, and I'll be able to watch it in 4 1/2 minutes. It's coming down faster than 200 KB/s over my cable modem, and I haven't even opened the BitTorrent ports (the tracker is yellow (in Azureus) but it still seems to work).
I intentionally don't forward the ports because the stupid SMC Barricade g (SMC2804WBR) router gives up the ghost after 15 minutes to a couple hours; every time I come home I have to power-cycle it to get my connection back on the machine that's doing the torrent. However, all the other machines here work fine so it's not that the router is completely borked; it just stops wanting to talk to my torrenting machine.
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I can appreciate the motivational aspic
As in, Lark's Tongues In?
Seriously, I would bet that some of us here have written more than 50k words in a month just posting. Gather your posts, and make a book out of them!;-)
How about an open-source alternative to voting? It would obviously require quite a bit of funding, but here's the general idea:
1. A website where people can record the way they voted.
2. There needs to be a way to keep people from voting more than once; this is more difficult. We don't want to be able to keep track of the individual votes, merely who has already voted, and the Social Security Number "should be" a unique identifier for each citizen, but of course there are issues with using that for anything other than its intended purpose (reporting income). Then again, when you rent a truck from Budget they need your SSN even though they're not reporting any income for you, so it may not be as much of a hot potato. But there are other ways; perhaps the voter registration card has a unique number on it. This is the biggest "how?" in my idea.
3. The votes will be tabulated by district, and will then be compared to the "official" vote to better identify fraud.
4. Not everyone has a computer, so the count might be heavily weighted toward the tech side. This is where the funding comes in: we would want to set up "voting stations" so that anyone could walk in off the street and use our computers to cast their votes. These polling areas could be set up right next to the actual polling stations, with of course big signs saying "this is not the official polling location, go next door and vote then come here and record your vote anonymously" or something to that effect.
This would do one of two things: either the people would see that Diebold is honest and calculating fairly, or they would see that we need better accountability from the group that counts the votes. (Of course, people could attempt to "poison" the count by voting then recording a different vote in our location, but that's not really something we can do anything about since we cannot be inside the polling place.)
Just wait till the lowlifes out there start doing DoS's using bogus takedown letters instead of packets.
Lowlifes? How about, "s/the lowlifes out there/we/"?
Seriously, the law is broken. It is part of living in a free society that we make the authorities aware of broken laws. What better way to do that than (well, telling them should be the best way but they only respond to mobs, it seems) DoSing a ton of content which isn't really violating copyright?
In fact, make it even better: claim to own the copyright on George Bush's and John Kerry's sites, and see what their providers do.
I really like this idea; it's civil disobedience, and if you have legal counsel you'll likely "get away with it".
Things will get ugly; that's the point. Show them how ugly the world would be when this law is in effect, and hopefully they'll realize that the law is the problem, not the solution. (But then I'm an optimist...)
That's nothing, there's a new reality show called "Drawn Together" that's, get this, animated!
It's so funny what they can lump under the rubric "reality" these days. Obviously it's not real if it's animated, but it's billed as "real"ity. That's so funny I've already programmed my ReplayTV (not as cool as saying "I'm tivoing it"; oh well, I chose wrong 5 years ago, but at least it's lasted this long!).
"If you're not liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not conservative when you're old, you don't have a brain."
And plently of others, which describe how gaining something to hold onto pushes one towards conservativism: you now have something to conserve. Early life is going out and seeking a fortune; later life is making sure nobody takes it away from you.
It's weird to have witnessed Microsoft go so rapidly through that transition. But it's like when they decided the Internet was the future -- Bill turned the company on a dime to add support for it.
So, given that you currently see a difference between digital and physical copying, how is your argument going to change in 5-20 years when we perfect nanotechnology and can duplicate any physical good?
I'd love to give my brother a Corvette for his birthday. Should I be prevented from doing so, since "Chevrolet can't make money if people are copying their cars?"
Of course, the reply is that Chevrolet can also duplicate any physical good, so they can give their employees all the food they need, several cars, unlimited supplies of fuel, etc. -- so what do they need money for?
Technology is very disruptive; it has been since the printing press took jobs away from the monks, and it still is today. Currently we can (and do) freely copy any digital good (and post it on Suprnova.org). It's only going to get more interesting as we slide from only digital goods, to the realm of physical goods. I, for one, can't wait.
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What about Emacs?
obEmoPhilips: "I used to think ... I used to think the brain was the most in-ter-esting organ in the body... Then I thought, 'Look what's telling me that!'"
"I used to fly for United Airlines
But then I got fired for reading High Times
My license expired in almost no time
Now I'm retired and I think that's fine."
To have to go from data -> fax -> data sounds like a process that could introduce errors, and if you have a fax on your end and a fax on their end, then you might as well just have modems on both ends.
I suppose a fax could be slightly more automated, like you dial up with a voice phone and "Please enter the Hotfix you would like faxed. If you do not know the Hotfix, please press 0 for a menu." So you type in the Hotfix number, like "1834502" and then it says "Press Start on your fax machine to begin transmission." You press Start, and the fax receives the Hotfix.
Then you can apply it to multiple computers, while only having to "download" it a single time. You can do this via data transmission too, but Windows Update is geared more towards downloading for every machine rather than a localized centralized download (although they have methods for corporate users to do exactly that, it sounds like you were talking more about home users since corporate users would have alternate methods to get onto the internet securely).
Thanks for the discussion!
Even if you were sending data via fax using every possible bit, you'd be no faster than a 56K modem. And if you're using more than one black dot per bit, then you're transmitting slower.
If your internet-based updates are coming too slow, then the fax-based ones will be coming even slower.
And it's not much more secure, either: you're talking security-by-obscurity ("my fax number is unpublished"), which is much easier to defeat. Although it may raise the bar enough so that very few are willing to invest the time and resources involved to crack mom-and-pop's grocery store...
Only on /. would a post about a post about a post about nether-monkey-flight be modded to +5, Insightful.
That, my friends, is the beauty of recursion.
Well, if ignorance is bliss, then no, we will not be any happier. ;-)
More seriously, I will be very much happier knowing that I am growing and improving and increasing my capabilities. I will be very happy to sprout a pair of wings and leap off tall buildings for pleasure. Having backups in case one of me goes splat (with a transmitter telling my "home base" my current state/configuration, and all the sensory input I take in, so that another me can be brought into existence upon accident with all the memories and thoughts that "I" had instants before my untimely demise) would make me very happy indeed, and more of a risk-taker as well.
The future is going to be drastically different than anything we've ever seen.
Separately, I see here that Jamie Muir actually came up with the name.
Not on Cox, it's Adelphia here. My router does wireless, but I have that turned off since I have no wireless devices (it was $10 more than the non-wireless, so I figured I'd spend the extra and be ready for it). I don't do Usenet downloads so I can't help you there. I haven't used LinkSys but I have heard of BitTorrent problems with LinkSys NICs (google for it if you also have a NIC by LinkSys). Hope this helps.
So the number of people downloading is only 902, whereas there are 4609+902=5511 people uploading. So if upload speeds are 1/5 download speeds, everyone will be getting it at their maximum download rate.
That's the cool thing about BitTorrent; if people leave their torrents open when they're done, everyone else gets it much faster.
I intentionally don't forward the ports because the stupid SMC Barricade g (SMC2804WBR) router gives up the ghost after 15 minutes to a couple hours; every time I come home I have to power-cycle it to get my connection back on the machine that's doing the torrent. However, all the other machines here work fine so it's not that the router is completely borked; it just stops wanting to talk to my torrenting machine.
My Aunt Elise++?
As in, Lark's Tongues In?
Seriously, I would bet that some of us here have written more than 50k words in a month just posting. Gather your posts, and make a book out of them! ;-)
1. A website where people can record the way they voted.
2. There needs to be a way to keep people from voting more than once; this is more difficult. We don't want to be able to keep track of the individual votes, merely who has already voted, and the Social Security Number "should be" a unique identifier for each citizen, but of course there are issues with using that for anything other than its intended purpose (reporting income). Then again, when you rent a truck from Budget they need your SSN even though they're not reporting any income for you, so it may not be as much of a hot potato. But there are other ways; perhaps the voter registration card has a unique number on it. This is the biggest "how?" in my idea.
3. The votes will be tabulated by district, and will then be compared to the "official" vote to better identify fraud.
4. Not everyone has a computer, so the count might be heavily weighted toward the tech side. This is where the funding comes in: we would want to set up "voting stations" so that anyone could walk in off the street and use our computers to cast their votes. These polling areas could be set up right next to the actual polling stations, with of course big signs saying "this is not the official polling location, go next door and vote then come here and record your vote anonymously" or something to that effect.
This would do one of two things: either the people would see that Diebold is honest and calculating fairly, or they would see that we need better accountability from the group that counts the votes. (Of course, people could attempt to "poison" the count by voting then recording a different vote in our location, but that's not really something we can do anything about since we cannot be inside the polling place.)
Kennedy: "They dyed me this color! That's how clever they are!"
(Bubba Ho-Tep)
What if three tasks told the system "I need a minimum of 15.7ms execution time every 31ms."
Would the third one get an error? (Well, the second should actually because after the first takes his chunk, there is only 15.3ms every 31ms.)
Just wondering how robust it is...
Lowlifes? How about, "s/the lowlifes out there/we/"?
Seriously, the law is broken. It is part of living in a free society that we make the authorities aware of broken laws. What better way to do that than (well, telling them should be the best way but they only respond to mobs, it seems) DoSing a ton of content which isn't really violating copyright?
In fact, make it even better: claim to own the copyright on George Bush's and John Kerry's sites, and see what their providers do.
I really like this idea; it's civil disobedience, and if you have legal counsel you'll likely "get away with it".
Things will get ugly; that's the point. Show them how ugly the world would be when this law is in effect, and hopefully they'll realize that the law is the problem, not the solution. (But then I'm an optimist...)
Yes.
It's so funny what they can lump under the rubric "reality" these days. Obviously it's not real if it's animated, but it's billed as "real"ity. That's so funny I've already programmed my ReplayTV (not as cool as saying "I'm tivoing it"; oh well, I chose wrong 5 years ago, but at least it's lasted this long!).
For your typo: " Ha -ha!"
"If you're not liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not conservative when you're old, you don't have a brain."
And plently of others, which describe how gaining something to hold onto pushes one towards conservativism: you now have something to conserve. Early life is going out and seeking a fortune; later life is making sure nobody takes it away from you.
It's weird to have witnessed Microsoft go so rapidly through that transition. But it's like when they decided the Internet was the future -- Bill turned the company on a dime to add support for it.
...But not a real green dress; that's cruel.
I'd love to give my brother a Corvette for his birthday. Should I be prevented from doing so, since "Chevrolet can't make money if people are copying their cars?"
Of course, the reply is that Chevrolet can also duplicate any physical good, so they can give their employees all the food they need, several cars, unlimited supplies of fuel, etc. -- so what do they need money for?
Technology is very disruptive; it has been since the printing press took jobs away from the monks, and it still is today. Currently we can (and do) freely copy any digital good (and post it on Suprnova.org). It's only going to get more interesting as we slide from only digital goods, to the realm of physical goods. I, for one, can't wait.
Yeah, I'll burn in hell... ;-)
At first glance, I thought you were saying that General Aviation serves America by generating the blood and organs used for transfer to other humans.
Then I realized that was ridiculous, as most aviation accidents don't leave many organs to mop up.