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Of course, before email similar functions were (and Still are!) performed by Telex. There is a fascinating history of Telex here
Telex sprang from the same source as the Volkswagen automobile: The creative growth era of the early Third Reich. It was devised as a means of distributed military command and control messages and data in a time before we eve had a structure for data processing machinery. What existed at that point in time was 455 bps Baud automatic telegraph and dial-using telephone exchanges. The original Telex was essentially (director-controlled; yes, the Europeans were doing hat then) rotary telephone switches modified to carry DC telegraph lines, providing a switched service for teletypewriters in the same way as was done for telephones.
There is even a brief discussion on how to access telex from your email.
I have a right to make personal copies and refuse to buy protected CDs," reader Steve
Groen wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "If Hollywood had invented the toilet, it would be five times as expensive and you'd pay $1 every time you flush."
Sums it up pretty good for me.
These guys are simply criminal. send them to afghanistan for re-education
While it is true that most spammers ignore the law, and merely move to areas where it is easier to operate, you have to start someplace.
I still advocate a spam licensing system, merely for the purpose of being able to register spammers, maybe in a way similar to a sex-crime registry or something. The purpose is to allow individual users, ISPs, and backbone providers, etc the ability to track down and bill spammers appropriately for the bandwidth they consume. Make the IRS go after them or something, to help out with collections.
Heck, there could even be bounty hunters. I am also found of the idea of ear tags so you can avoid them in public.
The question of the legality of virtual porn seems to cross into two issues.
The first is the typical abuse of people, men, women, children, animals, etc for profit that you see in prostitution and in many criminal activities.
The second is the sensuality and sexuality of pornograpy as see in works of various degrees of and ranges of artistic merit.
The third is the morality issues
The forth is the thought control issues.
The thought control issues are the most troubling, because who hasn't wanted to stop someone from even thinking a certain criminal or other type of somehow forbidden thought. Hate, anger, jealousy, depression all come to mind.
Laws against virtual porn seek to restrict people from thinking thoughts that others believe to be bad. The question is if this is viable and practical, and the nature of the "bad thoughts" on the first place. Let's face it, all criminals want freedom to have their way, to do their thing.
But then, so do most rational folks, except that they respect their fellows.
You teach thinking by learning to apply what to you know to the full spectrum of Life. Thus a well rounded education in preimary and secondary education is highly recommended. And to be down right, should not be done as something that everyone dreads.
Drawn up, it almost reminds me, of something I read in a science fiction story.
Mastery of communication: Ability to write with a style which is clear and readable - Mastery of the mechanics of written communication-handwriting, spelling, punctuation, usage - Not dependent on slang in communication
- Ability to read and comprehend a wide range of literature; can also read newspapers and magazines easily - familiar with their cultural heritage through literature.
Mastery of Arts and Culture - Proficient in at least one art form outside of Writing - Strong Familiarity with history and cultures of several peoples not part of one's personal heritage. - Ability to speak well 1 additional language, and basics of a second (sufficient to do well as a traveller)
Mastery of fundamental of Science along with their applied fields - for example Biology, Medicine, and Agriculture would go together to somer degree.
Etc etc etc. with corresponding practical courses along side theory. Mathematics would have to something like navigation, architecture, or similar attached.
Essentially, this becomes the old style "hacker ethic" as applied to everything else in life, not just technology. Curiousity about everything.
how is this helpful?.. unless the spacecraft are in orbit around the earth, the geosync gsp satelites are going to rotate with it, so any
approaching spacecraft won't really be able to use it effectivley 'cept to find out their distance from the earth, which can be done by easier means:P
So how does GPS work on Earth? The Geometry of Triangles, be it distance, angles or whatever. In GPS, it is easier to use the differance in distance for multiple satellites. Note You need more than one.
Secondary neat important fact: The Satellites orbit around the earth, and do not stand still at all relative to the earth. They are NOT geosync at all.
The Question is one of elementary geometry.
Imagine the orbits as a circle on a piece of paper, and satellites as points on the circle. If you can use triangles to find the location of a point inside the circle using those points, you can also use triangle to find locations outside the circle.
In the case of GPS and the Earth the problem is mostly one of signal strength.
With slight modifications, the logic also works in 3D.
Well, in the case of Drexel University, you could have a satire site called something like WrecksAll.com or wrexall or whatever. maybe have it tied into an actual newspaper. Same thing on other official names
There has been some effective arguement made that the actual purpose of the education system is not innovative thinkers but a properly propagandized population.
While crypto makes sense to majority of the/. readers, how are you going to explain crypto to your normal joes on the street (and those folks in power)
They need to have the quantity and quality of understanding and education that you have.
Remember that this is basically farther north than Norway and East Of Lapland. Even with the last traces of the Gulf Stream up there, I expect snow and ice to appear soon.
I was up there in that sea once on a navy ship. The terrain is barren for a reason!
would these be the same people that are (albeit indirectly) funding the terrorists, then?
There is this report that showed up in the WSJ: The Ex-President Bush Sr. may be in business with the Bin Laden Family Conglomerate through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. There is enough stuff there that this could be very bad for GWB, especially in these times.
There are reports that Bin Ladens short term strategic goals include the over throw of the possibly unstable House of Saud. This would give him something really big to use to mess with the west.
The long term solution would be to wean the USA off of an economy dependant of international oil supplies.
While many oil and energy companies may want to retain control of their assets in the area, solutions such as Fuel Cells may ultimately be the most elegant solution to the situation.
Fine, if they want to be poor, we can let them be poor.
This is something that I think the Bush Administration should go after Hard. Unfortunately, he may have some conflicts of interest given the support he has received from these very same oil companies.
Bottom line is that this is merely a marketing opportunity for someone to get capital for products that are NOT ready for prime time.
This has actually been examined by the US Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
which sponsored the Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2000, the test linked to above
Under live conditions in an uncontrolled enviroment, the best false detection rate (FDR) was 33 per cent, with a false acceptance rate (FAR) of ten per cent. This means that to detect 90 per cent of terrorists we'd need to raise an alarm for one in every three people passing through the airport.
Looks like the demons are no longer in the Building:
The site is now named HarvardNet Sucked - note the past tense
HarvardNet, after being sold to Allegiance Telecom in a somewhat questionable stock and
cash deal, was renamed to hosting.com and made one of a family of data centers across
the country. Most amusingly, the years-old (and pretty inaccurate) map of the Boston
Data Center is still viewable on the hosting.com site. Apparently the people working on
the site used what they had available, and not what was accurate. But here's the kicker:
MARK IS GONE.
Yep, out the door. It was painted as a "sabbatical" from the stresses of running the
company. It was more likely a laundry trip from all the dirt stains he got running the
company into the ground. But we're a little distanced from the whole process these
days, what with nearly every spy we had in the company now on to greener pastures. It
took a while for us to know that Mark had been ka-booted, and that's kind of sad; we
should have been right there, hours after he left, to do some sort of dance or
something on this site. But, you do what you can, right? So out he goes, with a
rumored package deal to get him out of Allegiance's hair. That should go down well with
all of you who were laid off in December, just in time for Christmas. Money for running
HarvardNet (poorly), Money for selling HarvardNet (for running it poorly) and now money
for leaving HarvardNet (after selling it and running it poorly).
Now since it is run by a whole different company, different management, we should continue to condemn the situation?
By combining an HDD with a DVD recorder, the new unit enables a maximum of 52 hours of recording on the HDD and 12 hours on DVD-RAM discs to realize easy editing and storage of recorded TV
broadcasts and images from digital video cameras. [...] The internal 40 GB HDD makes possible up to 52 hours of extended recording in EP mode to
the HDD and 12 hours to a double-sided DVD-RAM disc. [...] High-speed dubbing at 22 Mbps from
the HDD to DVD-RAM can be done with the touch of a single button, enabling 12x speed
in EP mode at its quickest (e.g., a one-hour program can be dubbed in just 5 minutes).
Dubbing from DVD-RAM to the HDD is available as well.
don't forget those essential copy protection features!
Slashdot Mirror
but then, it is probably the all time champion of obfuscation, in any language.
unless we look at something like OS/2?
This is all discussed in all the geekish detail you could ever want in the Telecom Digest, a eighteen (18!) year archive of discussion about telecom technology.
TELECOM Digest was founded in August, 1981, by Jon Solomon. It has been published continuously since that time. The location has changed over the years. It has been published at MIT, at Boston University, at Rutgers, and for about six years (since 1989) at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. We are back at MIT as of November, 1995.
TELECOM Digest is distributed on several networks: In addition to the mailing list, the Digest appears on Usenet as the 'comp.dcom.telecom' (moderated) news group.
Telex sprang from the same source as the Volkswagen automobile: The creative growth era of the early Third Reich. It was devised as a means of distributed military command and control messages and data in a time before we eve had a structure for data processing machinery. What existed at that point in time was 455 bps Baud automatic telegraph and dial-using telephone exchanges. The original Telex was essentially (director-controlled; yes, the Europeans were doing hat then) rotary telephone switches modified to carry DC telegraph lines, providing a switched service for teletypewriters in the same way as was done for telephones.
There is even a brief discussion on how to access telex from your email.
Sums it up pretty good for me.
These guys are simply criminal. send them to afghanistan for re-education
I still advocate a spam licensing system, merely for the purpose of being able to register spammers, maybe in a way similar to a sex-crime registry or something. The purpose is to allow individual users, ISPs, and backbone providers, etc the ability to track down and bill spammers appropriately for the bandwidth they consume. Make the IRS go after them or something, to help out with collections.
Heck, there could even be bounty hunters. I am also found of the idea of ear tags so you can avoid them in public.
The first is the typical abuse of people, men, women, children, animals, etc for profit that you see in prostitution and in many criminal activities.
The second is the sensuality and sexuality of pornograpy as see in works of various degrees of and ranges of artistic merit.
The third is the morality issues
The forth is the thought control issues.
The thought control issues are the most troubling, because who hasn't wanted to stop someone from even thinking a certain criminal or other type of somehow forbidden thought. Hate, anger, jealousy, depression all come to mind.
Laws against virtual porn seek to restrict people from thinking thoughts that others believe to be bad. The question is if this is viable and practical, and the nature of the "bad thoughts" on the first place. Let's face it, all criminals want freedom to have their way, to do their thing.
But then, so do most rational folks, except that they respect their fellows.
But we are not their yet. We are all way too much individuals to be a truly coherent group mind.
Drawn up, it almost reminds me, of something I read in a science fiction story.
- Mastery of communication: Ability to write with a style which is clear and readable - Mastery of the mechanics of written communication-handwriting, spelling, punctuation, usage - Not dependent on slang in communication
- Ability to read and comprehend a wide range of literature; can also read newspapers and magazines easily - familiar with their cultural heritage through literature.
- Mastery of Arts and Culture - Proficient in at least one art form outside of Writing - Strong Familiarity with history and cultures of several peoples not part of one's personal heritage. - Ability to speak well 1 additional language, and basics of a second (sufficient to do well as a traveller)
- Mastery of fundamental of Science along with their applied fields - for example Biology, Medicine, and Agriculture would go together to somer degree.
Etc etc etc. with corresponding practical courses along side theory. Mathematics would have to something like navigation, architecture, or similar attached.Essentially, this becomes the old style "hacker ethic" as applied to everything else in life, not just technology. Curiousity about everything.
This would be very satisfying.
On the hand, if they win, the government might not appeal since they would not want to have the DMCA so ruled.
In any case, it would be ironic for the whole thing to be thrown out because it was an action in a foreign land by a foreign national.
under this paradigm, a new frontier requires an entirly new technology.
I don't see it yet, unless it is something like th computerization of telepathy and the Aklashic records [joke!]
After all, They have banished TV, Radio, Music and Musical instruments, statues, freedom of speech, etc.
So everything we do to support and promote the culture, especially the best of any culture, is as deadly as any bullet fired in their direction.
Art can be a weapon.
So how does GPS work on Earth? The Geometry of Triangles, be it distance, angles or whatever. In GPS, it is easier to use the differance in distance for multiple satellites. Note You need more than one.
Secondary neat important fact: The Satellites orbit around the earth, and do not stand still at all relative to the earth. They are NOT geosync at all.
The Question is one of elementary geometry.
Imagine the orbits as a circle on a piece of paper, and satellites as points on the circle. If you can use triangles to find the location of a point inside the circle using those points, you can also use triangle to find locations outside the circle.
In the case of GPS and the Earth the problem is mostly one of signal strength.
With slight modifications, the logic also works in 3D.
;-)
There has been some effective arguement made that the actual purpose of the education system is not innovative thinkers but a properly propagandized population.
make of it what you will.
They need to have the quantity and quality of understanding and education that you have.
For some, this will be difficult.
Also, some people DO prefer safety to freedom.
They were doing their sea games out in the open sea, not in the harbor
Remember that this is basically farther north than Norway and East Of Lapland. Even with the last traces of the Gulf Stream up there, I expect snow and ice to appear soon.
I was up there in that sea once on a navy ship. The terrain is barren for a reason!
I wish them luck!
There is this report that showed up in the WSJ: The Ex-President Bush Sr. may be in business with the Bin Laden Family Conglomerate through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. There is enough stuff there that this could be very bad for GWB, especially in these times.
Agreed, just because the VCs are hungry to make up all of their losses.
Time to watch another company get raped.
The long term solution would be to wean the USA off of an economy dependant of international oil supplies.
While many oil and energy companies may want to retain control of their assets in the area, solutions such as Fuel Cells may ultimately be the most elegant solution to the situation.
Fine, if they want to be poor, we can let them be poor.
This is something that I think the Bush Administration should go after Hard. Unfortunately, he may have some conflicts of interest given the support he has received from these very same oil companies.
Technically? No.
It is much closer to burning an extra second copy for your friend. This is the slippery slope that Napster went down.
Big Media considers it a pain when you say that you have several million friends you want to share extra copies with. We've been through this before.
Don't forget those essential copy protection features!
There is also this vendor nuetral test
Bottom line is that this is merely a marketing opportunity for someone to get capital for products that are NOT ready for prime time.
This has actually been examined by the US Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which sponsored the Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2000, the test linked to above
Under live conditions in an uncontrolled enviroment, the best false detection rate (FDR) was 33 per cent, with a false acceptance rate (FAR) of ten per cent. This means that to detect 90 per cent of terrorists we'd need to raise an alarm for one in every three people passing through the airport.
I would say it is somewhat unacceptable.
You just have to remember that most of the hot air comes out of the mouth, for testing purposes.
I can somehow imagine what it would look like in a testing center.
The site is now named HarvardNet Sucked - note the past tense
HarvardNet, after being sold to Allegiance Telecom in a somewhat questionable stock and cash deal, was renamed to hosting.com and made one of a family of data centers across the country. Most amusingly, the years-old (and pretty inaccurate) map of the Boston Data Center is still viewable on the hosting.com site. Apparently the people working on the site used what they had available, and not what was accurate. But here's the kicker:
Yep, out the door. It was painted as a "sabbatical" from the stresses of running the company. It was more likely a laundry trip from all the dirt stains he got running the company into the ground. But we're a little distanced from the whole process these days, what with nearly every spy we had in the company now on to greener pastures. It took a while for us to know that Mark had been ka-booted, and that's kind of sad; we should have been right there, hours after he left, to do some sort of dance or something on this site. But, you do what you can, right? So out he goes, with a rumored package deal to get him out of Allegiance's hair. That should go down well with all of you who were laid off in December, just in time for Christmas. Money for running HarvardNet (poorly), Money for selling HarvardNet (for running it poorly) and now money for leaving HarvardNet (after selling it and running it poorly).Now since it is run by a whole different company, different management, we should continue to condemn the situation?
makes sense to me.
or an obsolete hatred for people long gone
Just in case.
Since you happen to be right down the road.
(Local headquarters in Woburn, I think.)
don't forget those essential copy protection features!