I think that with technology like the old WASP, which really flew (download Real player movie), and the self balancing mechanisms of the Seqway, it would not be very difficult to have Flying ExoSkeletons as full fledged weapon platforms.
That goes for just about anything in life. Anyways... if only it were the politicians making the laws... that power is now (for all intents and purposes) in the hands of special interests and lobbyists.
If you look at many legistlatures, a sizable portion of them have membership that are in fact lawyers.
discount any morality they may have, and you get a bunch of crooks making the laws.
By Katz's argument McDonald's is better than the 5* Michelin-Approved restaurant down the road...
No, just more successful.
Ford or chevy vs Jaguar, etc.
The flaw in the argument is the unspoken idea that you can have success or you can have integrity (artistic, moral, philosophic, programic, whatever) That has merely been a debate for the past few hundred years at least.
This is merely the rebirth of the argument in terms of comuter technology.
To borrow a line from an NPR car show, this is an example of public and private policy "unencumbered by the thought process". Which is a fairly common practice, now that I think of it.
unless of course, you look at places like this, and see just how much money people are getting. Either way, long term planning suffers, and the situation acts like a monkey trap
I thought it was possible for two people to have a patent on the same thing from different countries. there is now such thing as a world wide patent system.
Think of how many people invented the car in the various countries around the world.
It is possible to take a disk apart and use an electron microscope to read information from the individual magnetic spots on the surface of a disk that may have been intentionally erased, Mr. Patzakis said. Originally a tool of the intelligence world, this technique -- which is costly -- has been used successfully in big legal cases.
So simply enough, legal cases can force the use of that kind of technique.
I can recall the nervousness of some folks dropping off their computer at a repair shop, because the machine had failed before they had a chance to destroy their pron collection and they had slightly exotic tastes. Things like that are always usefule to a legal team.
Well, there was always the martian defense forces.
But these seemed to have retreated to the asteroid belt, allowing our intrepid explorer to plant the flag of Earth, and stand guard as a lone sentry against the terrorists of the outer solar system.
Nice idea, but only for normal people. I'm sure you don't send thousands of emails a day, so this doesn't bother you, but the Linux Kernel mailing list does
so the question is: should the Linux Kernel mailing list be a trusted sender?
Somehow I thing that the people on the mailing list would be able to configure the mail server to see this as coming from a trusted source.
You could probably arrange to have it coordinated with one of the several blacklists, etc. out there, so that most are trusted, and a few are deservedly not.
I'm a student cryptographer and I'm working on a system which will provide authentication [signatures], privacy [via encryption] and at the same time make spam less feasible [you can do it but its easier to filter out].
The main thing I see is that the best idea is to somehow transfer costs back to the spammer. So an idea that forces the spamming computer to use up resources is fine.
similarly, a solution that causes you to spend time implementing more technical solutions is costing you time, and probably money.
bottom line: Make the spammer pay.
In my original example, the smtp could also be set to have several levels of trust, with corresponding levels of computional feedback for the sender.
I saw this idea else where, and it looks promising enough that I want to share....
One could extend the SMTP protocol for mail delivery so that (non-favored?) senders were forced to jump through some computationally expensive hoop before mail to local users will be accepted.
Currently SMTP looks like this:
>>> 220 mailhost.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.9/8.9.9; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:05:32 -0500 (EST)
>>> HELO host.domain2.com 250 mailhost.domain.com Hello host.domain2.com [155.108.129.30], pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From: 250... Sender ok >>> RCPT To: 250... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself 250 QAA00187 Message accepted for delivery >>> QUIT 221 mail.domain.com closing connection
We could add something like (not real numbers):
>>> 220 mailhost.domain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.9/8.9.9; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:05:32 -0500 (EST) >>> HELO host.domain2.com 250 mailhost.domain.com Hello host.domain2.com [155.108.129.30], pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From: 250... Sender untrusted, please give prime factor of 34576184516935692342934759132 to continue >>> FCTR 345837413 250 Ok, you bothered... >>> RCPT To: 250... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself 250 QAA00187 Message accepted for delivery >>> QUIT 221 mail.domain.com closing connection
The beauty of this is, putting support in sendmail would mostly be sufficient, and it lets you effectively add a cost per message without any sort of micropayments scheme, or giving up anonymity. I'd be curious what your reader groupmind thinks about this, or if the idea has been tossed around before?
- Mike Earl
Personally, I do not know the feasibility of this angle, although I am sure some expert with be willing to point out the flaws.
Even though the documentation said it could record TV shows, there is no obvious way to do this yet. One OEone employee told me the documentation writers had been a bit "enthusiastic" about some of what they included in the first version of the user guide. Look for video recording capability in the next software version.
No chat software, even though chat capability is mentioned in the docs. The story here is that they were planning to include a combination ICQ/IRC client in 1.0, but it wasn't quite ready by the scheduled release date, and was held back for the moment.
No NTSC or S-video output on the video card. Sad. I am disappointed that it isn't there. Add this capability, and the Internet Computer could amost replace a TiVo or other time-shifting TV-watching aid, and serve as the heart of a simple home entertainment center, over and above its computer functions.
An optional superdrive (combo DVD/CD reader/writer) and drivers for it would make the Internet Computer a perfect "video archiving" device. This would allow users to save an endless number of favorite TV programs, either for their own future pleasure or to share with friends.
If you're browsing local files while not connected to the Internet, you get constant "cannot connect to server" error messages. This will never be noticed by users with full-time cable or DSL connections, but is going to annoy people who use dialup and can't tie up a phone line every second they're using their computer.
Also, the screen shots seemed to be hosed in the main page on news forge, so here is the link for screen shots of the Calendar app. I think the OEone site is under s heavy load for some reason;-)
It basically sounds similar to the old atomic rockets they were speculating about some years ago. Big fat nuclear explosion pushing the ship forward.
You could probably engineer something like a constant inflow of anti-matter to make for continous thrust. The only problem is the back flow on the fuel lines. this would be a lot easier than having a continous atomic fission explosion for thrust.
Strangely enough, this also works as a method fo moving asteroids around, since you could have atomic fuel lines running to a convenient crater. A trickle feed would create a continous nuclear reaction that would push the asteroid to a new course.
Alot of this stuff would need to be NOT engineered in low earth orbit, for obvious reasons.
I cannot think of a Telco service combination that is wort 230 dollars usian to me. And the only thing that unnerves me more is that this is probably someplace near where Microsoft wants to go someday. Maybe.
A package irradiated as part of the government's anti-anthrax screening gave off a noxious gas Thursday when it was opened at the Commerce Department, sickening at least 11 workers, a fire official said [...] a package of copy paper tightly wrapped in plastic gave off a noxious gas when it was opened. He said health officials believe the irradiation process can cause paper to give off hydrocarbons that are harmful when concentrated.
In this cases it was not the workers that were irradiated. It was just the package. But I guess it cooked something, accounting for the fumes.
A comprehensive, yet highly targeted, crawl of Web sites identified by classification experts will be used to create a database of all the relevant information while excluding sites deemed to be of little value to an organization's goals.
Probably the biggest online version of "Where is Waldo?" known to man
As usual, Linux/unix/*nix/etc are found where important research are found. This is very encouraging for the future.
Just for the educational point:
What is a "gated intensified camera"?
This term refers to a class of ultra-fast cameras, with exposure times in the nanosecond range. "Intensified" comes from image intensifiers -- vacuum tubes similar to those for the nigh-vision devices. "Gated" means those tubes (in contrast to night-vision applications) are used as shutters by applying fast electrical pulses to the control electrodes.
The neat thing is that the camera is operating as a webserver:
I have always disliked trying to find out why my company's systems were not working our customers' sites -- had my hardware really failed, or had they just updated some (seemingly unrelated) software on their computers which were running a popular OS? - - - This last issue unambiguously told me the camera should run a web server. Internet technologies are the best de-facto "common denominator" for the different computers and operating systems.
So can those griping Star Wars fans finally breath easy? Not quite. Lucasfilm spokeswoman Lynn Hale wouldn't confirm Thursday whether 'N Sync will or will not appear in the final cut of Clones, saying "it's just too early to make that decision." - "The 'N Sync guys were shot as extras, and whether they're in or out won't be determined until the final edit," Hale says.
So you may get surprised after all. it may all depend on their acting abilities, such as they are.
Do I miss-understand, or can any produce these cd's and charge a "reasonable" free for them ?
I believe that is how it works. But IANAL [smile]
Even so, I intend to pre-order and pay these guys for at least one set of CDs, if not more. Just to reward them for doing the work and doing a good job.
First off you make the absurd claim that With large probability, no civilization exists (nor will ever exist) which is significantly more technically advanced than we are right now. you then go on w/ a "proof" of said claim.
etc.
Actually the odds are at least roughly similar to the collections of civilizations that we have had here on earth at any random period of time for the history of the species. Say the past ten thousand to fifty thousand years. Select a bunch of random samples, times and locations (ten square Km or mile areas), and see what you get.
the odds may be comparable. and are at least based a bit on reality.
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Heck, just look at these things.
The prospects remind me of several cartoon series
http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/5/12625.html
Alot of this is spin, but investors can be a nasty crowd.
or else we could get all the psychs to make us all trustworthy
"Let me apply this shock one more time just to be sure"
Personally, I think that each state should have at least one rep looking into MS
It is a matter of trust. In this case, past performance is an indicator of future results.
If you look at many legistlatures, a sizable portion of them have membership that are in fact lawyers.
discount any morality they may have, and you get a bunch of crooks making the laws.
or going in circles shouting "Kernel Panic" or something.
Just an image. Tron with bicyles ;-)
No, just more successful.
Ford or chevy vs Jaguar, etc.
The flaw in the argument is the unspoken idea that you can have success or you can have integrity (artistic, moral, philosophic, programic, whatever) That has merely been a debate for the past few hundred years at least.
This is merely the rebirth of the argument in terms of comuter technology.
unless of course, you look at places like this, and see just how much money people are getting. Either way, long term planning suffers, and the situation acts like a monkey trap
Think of how many people invented the car in the various countries around the world.
I can recall the nervousness of some folks dropping off their computer at a repair shop, because the machine had failed before they had a chance to destroy their pron collection and they had slightly exotic tastes. Things like that are always usefule to a legal team.
But these seemed to have retreated to the asteroid belt, allowing our intrepid explorer to plant the flag of Earth, and stand guard as a lone sentry against the terrorists of the outer solar system.
Stand proud, little space probe!
so the question is: should the Linux Kernel mailing list be a trusted sender?
Somehow I thing that the people on the mailing list would be able to configure the mail server to see this as coming from a trusted source.
You could probably arrange to have it coordinated with one of the several blacklists, etc. out there, so that most are trusted, and a few are deservedly not.
The main thing I see is that the best idea is to somehow transfer costs back to the spammer. So an idea that forces the spamming computer to use up resources is fine.
similarly, a solution that causes you to spend time implementing more technical solutions is costing you time, and probably money.
bottom line: Make the spammer pay.
In my original example, the smtp could also be set to have several levels of trust, with corresponding levels of computional feedback for the sender.
need coffee
bright light sunshine hurts
owwww
- Even though the documentation said it could record TV shows, there is no obvious way to do this yet. One OEone employee told me the documentation writers had been a bit "enthusiastic" about some of what they included in the first version of the user guide. Look for video recording capability in the next software version.
- No chat software, even though chat capability is mentioned in the docs. The story here is that they were planning to include a combination ICQ/IRC client in 1.0, but it wasn't quite ready by the scheduled release date, and was held back for the moment.
- No NTSC or S-video output on the video card. Sad. I am disappointed that it isn't there. Add this capability, and the Internet Computer could amost replace a TiVo or other time-shifting TV-watching aid, and serve as the heart of a simple home entertainment center, over and above its computer functions.
- An optional superdrive (combo DVD/CD reader/writer) and drivers for it would make the Internet Computer a perfect "video archiving" device. This would allow users to save an endless number of favorite TV programs, either for their own future pleasure or to share with friends.
- If you're browsing local files while not connected to the Internet, you get constant "cannot connect to server" error messages. This will never be noticed by users with full-time cable or DSL connections, but is going to annoy people who use dialup and can't tie up a phone line every second they're using their computer.
Also, the screen shots seemed to be hosed in the main page on news forge, so here is the link for screen shots of the Calendar app. I think the OEone site is under s heavy load for some reasonYou could probably engineer something like a constant inflow of anti-matter to make for continous thrust. The only problem is the back flow on the fuel lines. this would be a lot easier than having a continous atomic fission explosion for thrust.
Strangely enough, this also works as a method fo moving asteroids around, since you could have atomic fuel lines running to a convenient crater. A trickle feed would create a continous nuclear reaction that would push the asteroid to a new course.
Alot of this stuff would need to be NOT engineered in low earth orbit, for obvious reasons.
AOLTW vs MS. what a choice.
In this cases it was not the workers that were irradiated. It was just the package. But I guess it cooked something, accounting for the fumes.
Probably the biggest online version of "Where is Waldo?" known to man
Corporations will try harder to freeload. and people will try to stop them. Of course, the corporations would argue that it is the other way around.
But that is why we have courts, I think.
Just for the educational point:
The neat thing is that the camera is operating as a webserver:I have always disliked trying to find out why my company's systems were not working our customers' sites -- had my hardware really failed, or had they just updated some (seemingly unrelated) software on their computers which were running a popular OS? - - - This last issue unambiguously told me the camera should run a web server. Internet technologies are the best de-facto "common denominator" for the different computers and operating systems.
The world's fastest webcam! amazing! ;-)
I believe that is how it works. But IANAL [smile]
Even so, I intend to pre-order and pay these guys for at least one set of CDs, if not more. Just to reward them for doing the work and doing a good job.
They deserve it.
etc.
Actually the odds are at least roughly similar to the collections of civilizations that we have had here on earth at any random period of time for the history of the species. Say the past ten thousand to fifty thousand years. Select a bunch of random samples, times and locations (ten square Km or mile areas), and see what you get.
the odds may be comparable. and are at least based a bit on reality.