between the stars to minimize gravitational distortions affecting their flight path
Which makes sense for interstellar travel.
in interplanetary travel, these areas are probably constantly shifting, and so I wonder if the speed of shift is faster or slower than current space craft.
Each planet and moon has five locations in space called Lagrange points, where one body's gravity balances another's. Spacecraft can orbit there while burning very little fuel. To find the Interplanetary Superhighway, Lo mapped all the possible flight paths among the Lagrange points, varying the distance the spacecraft would go and how fast or slow it would travel. Like threads twisted together to form a rope, the possible flight paths formed tubes in space. Lo plans to map out these tubes for the whole solar system.
Territorial determination of remote computer location in a wide area network for conditional delivery of digitized products
Abstract
Digital products are delivered to a client computer through a wide area network such as the Internet only upon determination that the client computer is located in a geopolitical territory, such as a country or state, for which delivery of the digital product is authorized.
A server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's network address through contact information in a network address allocation database.
Alternatively, the server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's custom name, e.g., domain name. The domain name itself can specify a country within which the client computer is located. Such can be conventional or can be parse according to ad hoc patterns developed by large, international organizations identified by a root domain name. In addition, contact information for the domain name can be retrieved and geopolitical territory information parsed from the contact information. A super-classification of the domain name can indicate a geopolitical territory. Records associating geopolitical territories with network address ranges are stored in such a manner that maximizes resolution within a cache of such records, perhaps at the expense of reduce efficiency but so as to maximum currency and accuracy.
It almost sounds like they patented the use of somebody else's leg work
true, although maybe it's a good thing for all of us current college (or high-school) future engineers. Less supply available to industry == more $$$ for us;-)
India's computer industry is booming despite a slowdown in IT sales worldwide, and its technology capital Bangalore is leading the charge. Karnataka, whose capital is Bangalore, aims to boost exports of software and allied services by 60 percent this fiscal year, twice the expected Indian growth rate of 30 percent.
[...] (much detail ommitted)
Building on India's proven software skills, foreign firms are also flocking to set up centres to process financial claims, payroll data and build customer support desks. Commerce and English language graduates are in great demand. -
While the technology sector has been hit worldwide, accompanying cost-cuttting measures are a boon for Bangalore. - "The majority of the companies in U.S. are under cost pressure and that's why we expect them to continue to move into India, which offers them a ready-made talent pool," Kulkarni said. - "Cost obviously is the driving force but that doesn't mean that quality is being compromised," he said.
In Bangalore, software engineers can be hired for about $200 per month, nearly one-tenth of what it costs in the United States. The city of about 5.5 million people is home to over 120,000 IT workers.
If this were to happen, how are we going do to decide what is in the public interest? We have a real hard time even with the sample of people that is slashdot deciding what is in the public interest.
This is the whole problem addressed by the concept of "The Social Contract"
Problem being, people have gotten so used to the system that they treat it like a video game, trying to get as many trinkets out of the system as possible, instead of working together for the greater community. Thus we have things like the preamble of the US Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
This is an attempt at a social contract. This was hot and radical political thought at the time it was written.
These days people some people might not relate to this. but the issues are very relevant.
Definition of Lore: the kind of knowledge that lets you accomplish something easily, quickly, and effectively, with not much fuss. If you do not have access to the Lore on the subject, you can spend many hours trying to figure out how to do something that should be easy.
An example is OutLook and OutLook Express. The slimming down of the offical manuals has reduced many functions to the realm of lore, especially if the user does not know the official jargon with which to ask a question in order to get an answer.
The online help is getting better, but is still infuriating.
The situation in Linux basically is that much of the system is Lore Based. It may be superior in all other regards, and some things may be inherently complex and difficult, requiring study, but the bottom line is that it is still Lore Oriented and Lore Based. It is in fact, to some degree a way of life.
Many consumers are not Lore oriented. Some never learn to set the time on the VCR. This forms a barrier to the introduction of Linux to the Broad masses, the "I just want it to work" crowd. Never mind that other systems often never really work right in the first place. Why would people accept the idea that "computers just crash" otherwise?
This is the problem the Lore Masters face: How to make something that is Lore oriented and Lore based accessible to people who aren't
poke around, and you will find some interesting things, including a cpu cooling system using, among other things, a Hyundai Charade (Nippon Denso) radiator.
Do you mean Hyundai Excel or Dihatsu Charade? I poked around a bit and could not find exactly what you are talking about. Being from Australia, Adelaide at that, there is definately no Hyundai Charade sold here!
one of the parts mentioned here is labeled as such
poke around, and you will find some interesting things, including a cpu cooling system using, among other things, a Hyundai Charade (Nippon Denso) radiator.
Ultimately, there has to be a way to make money off spammers.
My own pet solution Involves spammer licenses, charging for spam by the government, at least for Unsolicited Commercial email.
Included in this would be Internet Bounty Hunters, also known as Spam Hunters, who, for the benefit of a piece of the action, would go go out and hunt down illegal spammers, or help in the collection of deliquent fees assessed to spammers vy the government, backbone providers, ISPs, consumers, etc
I also think that everyone who has to deal with spam should be able to get their nickle, dime, or quarter for dealing with it. I know I would gladly cede my share to my ISP to get a discount on my broadband bill.
Of course, tagging spammers with an orange ear tag is optional. But it could be useful.
Normally the lawyers would have all kinds of legal protections packed in fifteen layers deep, with all kinds of disclaimers, and indemnification up the ying yang.
I imagine that they will be coordinating with the service providers to find those 1 or 2 percent (or what ever it is) that are using up 25 percent of the bandwidth.
I know that this would be a quick way to get a short list.
I can also imagine them then trying to get the FBI to help them out tracking down which of these are actually music file trafficers, vs merely trafficing in other warez, although there might not be that much difference.
After all, this fits into the war on terrorism. These folks are terrorizing American Industry (tm).
Cringley has a slightly self-congratulatory comment on Palladium too.
I was surprised to see that somebody didn't pick up on Cringely remarks here, seeing as they support the enlightened opinion of skepticism of Microsoft, and document how Palladium is using Microsoft's security weaknesses as an excuse to make all internet technology closed proprietary Microsoft Technology.
A fairly damning read, and it lays it all out
The Microsoft solution to the problems caused by Microsoft is to give control of everything to Microsoft.
Usually, I thought the answer was to remove the sdource of the problem, not to strengthen it.
2002-06-29 01:24:55 Cringely On Palladium (articles,news) (rejected)
Slashdot Mirror
Go to the website here:
http://www.genesismission.org/
includes pictures, decent diagrams, etc.
Which makes sense for interstellar travel.
in interplanetary travel, these areas are probably constantly shifting, and so I wonder if the speed of shift is faster or slower than current space craft.
- Each planet and moon has five locations in space called Lagrange points, where one body's gravity balances another's. Spacecraft can orbit there while burning very little fuel. To find the Interplanetary Superhighway, Lo mapped all the possible flight paths among the Lagrange points, varying the distance the spacecraft would go and how fast or slow it would travel. Like threads twisted together to form a rope, the possible flight paths formed tubes in space. Lo plans to map out these tubes for the whole solar system.
They apparently delivered the software tool to NASA back in 2000.if we have clockless computers for the desktop, HOW will Intel and AMD market them?
After all, a large quick and dirty rating they have used for decades is the clock speed. Throw that away and what do you have?
I can see the panic in their faces now...
CNet reports on this with the Headline: House OKs life sentences for hackers
This seems to have almost no opposition, passing in the House passed 385-3 on Monday evening.
features include new and improved (Tougher! Stronger!) survelliance provisions.
It is very strange which bills get attention in tech forums, and which slipp through with barely a whisper.
not that I care all that much any more.
Territorial determination of remote computer location in a wide area network for conditional delivery of digitized products
Abstract
Digital products are delivered to a client computer through a wide area network such as the Internet only upon determination that the client computer is located in a geopolitical territory, such as a country or state, for which delivery of the digital product is authorized.
A server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's network address through contact information in a network address allocation database.
Alternatively, the server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's custom name, e.g., domain name. The domain name itself can specify a country within which the client computer is located. Such can be conventional or can be parse according to ad hoc patterns developed by large, international organizations identified by a root domain name. In addition, contact information for the domain name can be retrieved and geopolitical territory information parsed from the contact information. A super-classification of the domain name can indicate a geopolitical territory. Records associating geopolitical territories with network address ranges are stored in such a manner that maximizes resolution within a cache of such records, perhaps at the expense of reduce efficiency but so as to maximum currency and accuracy.
It almost sounds like they patented the use of somebody else's leg work
[sigh]
The rest of the world may be expanding the digital world so fast that MS continues to shrink in relationship to it.
well, one can always hope.
Then you should find this story interesting, from Silicon India:
[...] (much detail ommitted)
Building on India's proven software skills, foreign firms are also flocking to set up centres to process financial claims, payroll data and build customer support desks. Commerce and English language graduates are in great demand. - While the technology sector has been hit worldwide, accompanying cost-cuttting measures are a boon for Bangalore. - "The majority of the companies in U.S. are under cost pressure and that's why we expect them to continue to move into India, which offers them a ready-made talent pool," Kulkarni said. - "Cost obviously is the driving force but that doesn't mean that quality is being compromised," he said.
In Bangalore, software engineers can be hired for about $200 per month, nearly one-tenth of what it costs in the United States. The city of about 5.5 million people is home to over 120,000 IT workers.
This is the whole problem addressed by the concept of "The Social Contract"
Problem being, people have gotten so used to the system that they treat it like a video game, trying to get as many trinkets out of the system as possible, instead of working together for the greater community. Thus we have things like the preamble of the US Constitution:
- We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
This is an attempt at a social contract. This was hot and radical political thought at the time it was written.These days people some people might not relate to this. but the issues are very relevant.
Just take a look at your question.
If I recall right, there has been a decline in engineers in school in the USA. So this would be a good way to promote that sort of thing.
Unless the workforce gets shipped out overseas.
I have at least one client who has crash problems, and plenty other issues.
But then this is an operator error situation.
An example is OutLook and OutLook Express. The slimming down of the offical manuals has reduced many functions to the realm of lore, especially if the user does not know the official jargon with which to ask a question in order to get an answer.
The online help is getting better, but is still infuriating.
The situation in Linux basically is that much of the system is Lore Based. It may be superior in all other regards, and some things may be inherently complex and difficult, requiring study, but the bottom line is that it is still Lore Oriented and Lore Based. It is in fact, to some degree a way of life.
Many consumers are not Lore oriented. Some never learn to set the time on the VCR. This forms a barrier to the introduction of Linux to the Broad masses, the "I just want it to work" crowd. Never mind that other systems often never really work right in the first place. Why would people accept the idea that "computers just crash" otherwise?
This is the problem the Lore Masters face: How to make something that is Lore oriented and Lore based accessible to people who aren't
Most raisins still have some moisture.
The image I wanted was something dried to the point of negative water content.
This has a certain irony in it.
a rocket ship going up a couple dozen miles....
It's called the Spamdemic map, but they had to pull the plug due to bandwidth cost issues
http://www.sfsite.com/10b/cl114.htm
http://www.januarymagazine.com/SFF/chronoliths.htm l
http://www.mervius.com/books/chronoliths.htm
Probably until the Slash dot effect kicks in, and their monthly bandwith allowance is sucked dry like a raisin in the sun in Death Valley.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
one of the parts mentioned here is labeled as such
http://obelix.cs.adelaide.edu.au/album/cooling/ind ex.html
although his working version does use something else
http://obelix.cs.adelaide.edu.au/album/cooling/ins talled/index.html
just slightly radical
http://obelix.cs.adelaide.edu.au/
My own pet solution Involves spammer licenses, charging for spam by the government, at least for Unsolicited Commercial email.
Included in this would be Internet Bounty Hunters, also known as Spam Hunters, who, for the benefit of a piece of the action, would go go out and hunt down illegal spammers, or help in the collection of deliquent fees assessed to spammers vy the government, backbone providers, ISPs, consumers, etc
I also think that everyone who has to deal with spam should be able to get their nickle, dime, or quarter for dealing with it. I know I would gladly cede my share to my ISP to get a discount on my broadband bill.
Of course, tagging spammers with an orange ear tag is optional. But it could be useful.
Or have they been collecting taxes all along, and just don't care about the rest?
kinda sad really.
So what went right this time?
I know that this would be a quick way to get a short list.
I can also imagine them then trying to get the FBI to help them out tracking down which of these are actually music file trafficers, vs merely trafficing in other warez, although there might not be that much difference.
After all, this fits into the war on terrorism. These folks are terrorizing American Industry (tm).
I was surprised to see that somebody didn't pick up on Cringely remarks here, seeing as they support the enlightened opinion of skepticism of Microsoft, and document how Palladium is using Microsoft's security weaknesses as an excuse to make all internet technology closed proprietary Microsoft Technology.
A fairly damning read, and it lays it all out
The Microsoft solution to the problems caused by Microsoft is to give control of everything to Microsoft.
Usually, I thought the answer was to remove the sdource of the problem, not to strengthen it.
2002-06-29 01:24:55 Cringely On Palladium (articles,news) (rejected)
It seems that some of the biggests problems would be an inadequate supply of red tape
;)