This sounds like a variation on the Thin Client model. Hopefully it runs a little smoother than Citrix Metaframe. The metaframe Installation I use is so unreilable as to be useless. With the money we wasted on staff sitting on their thumbs, I could have bought a round of 1GHz pc's for everyone. The system was dead for a month ?!?! after install due to driver conflicts. $15hr x 160hrs = $2400. That does not include the cost of them stupid terminals or the $ sent to Citrix and M$croshaft.
Someone needs to Recycle all these crappy TCs into something worth the effort.
If this is true (lead is disolved in the glass) why not melt old monitior bottles and use them to encapsulate radioactive waste.
We have plenty of radioactive waste just sitting around. An if we find a safe place to bury that stuff I suspect leeching will not be a problems for a while.
Could you not claim that the robot.txt file is a content protection system?
The a spider programed to ignore robots.txt would be circumventing you system. Any web hosting company could clog the courts with DMCA suits in a couple of days.
I seems a decent sized group of people have not recieved the snailmail pin (myself included). How do we get organized to get results from ICANN? After finally getting through to the regristration site, it is very dissapointing to miss out now.
TiVo is an 'internet' style product. Content is selectivly downloaded based on user requirments. The next step for a TiVo sytle product is to set up a central server (or heaven forbid a peer to peer solution)
By mitigating the time factor, TiVo has turned the fixed bandwith television medium into an almost unlimited content pool. The ability to set up TiVo "sites" by purchasing less desirable airtime and broadcasting specificly targeted shows is comparable to the web.
In my opinion TV and the 'Web' will merge into a single sources with the TiVo as a vision of the future.
This product looks to have 2 modes of operation.
1> Returning a false search hit and allowing you to download an incorrect file. (The metallica mp3 you download turns out to be an anti-piracy jingle from the RIAA) This would work similary to the Cucko recordings being circulated by other souls. When you download you do get the IP address (which you can send to your neighborhood script kiddie for some DOS action)
2> Returning an add with the search results aka:
Smell the Glove.MP3 Buy Dr. Stinkydog's special anti spam cream at WWW.goat.se
Annoying? Yes but they do not have any files to serve (otherwise you get that IP address)
I do not think this will end civilization as we know it but you never know.
Movable type started the first information revolution and gave Martin Luther his start. The relative cheapness of the printing press allowed people to experience the written word who did not have the chance previously.
The internet is the next printing press. It is allowing common people to work with a global informion pool. Previously you had to be a governtment or corporate CEO to access this quanity of information in real time.
I wonder what will usher in the 3rd information revolution?
I work for one of the major cities in Ohio and I am telling you that any kind of universal E-gov will not be implemented without a fight. Sure, some places will be progressive, but most local govenments will still be fumbling along in another 10 years. The problems are threefold managment, users and the system.
Managment in govenment is promoted from within. This means you get a lot of garbage collectors who end up directors of major departments. This problem only gets worse as goventments downsize because the younger employees with marketable skills just leave!
Unfortunatly, the users don't fair much better. Usually, they lack any kind of current training, they are give crap for equipment, and the software they use predates the transistor. Any attempt to provide the tools they need to do their job gets bogged down (I won't run on the mainframe, It's good but it need 3 million ne features.
Finally, the beaurocratic system is the the most effective tool for squashing innovation I have ever seen. Between the Unions, The Old Boys Network, Political crap and all the other 'special interests', only the blandest, least noteworthy ideas ever get implmentented (but boy do we know how to plan a project to death).
I once read "The more expensive a Government IT project is the less likely is is to be successful." The accompianing graph was nearly vertical at about $20 Million. Think about that everytime you read about another expensive Government IT project.
GPS should work anywhere you can recieve the signal.
GPS defines a location as: X Distance from Sat1 Y Distance from Sat2 Z Distance from Sat3 and so on
Which defines a point in 3D space that the reciever converts to Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude. It can just as easily define a point in space as on earth. The entertainment industry uses a similar system to allow moving lights to follow the performer. Several ultrasonic emmitters are set up in the corners of the stage and by listening to the time shift in the performer's microphone the computers plots the performer's position exactly and sends it to the lights.
The blessing (and the curse) of the Internet is its ability to route around roadblocks. I see enforcement of these types of rules as an impossibility. Businesses will set up outside national borders and do whatever they want. If the US becomes more restrictive than they will move these data collection sites somewhere else.
"But in a wired world, it's a simple matter to send data to someone outside the EU, where those restrictions do not apply. So the directive, like many European privacy laws, includes a provision that prohibits sending personal information to countries that do not have "adequate" privacy protection. "
We will have to see how the battle between the nation and the corporation goes, but right now it looks like the corporations are winning.
This tech seems like a start of an effective nerual interface technology. Bond a few of these guys to an active nerve and wire from them to the machine and you coudl create a nerual impluse reader. I will be interested to see how finely this process can be controlled.
The other interesting part of 'growing' computers is being able to play with the base media. I can imagine going to the electronics store and buying a new viral TV.
Instructions 1. Open Box 2. Spread paste on Desired wall 3. Wait 2 Days 4. Do not ingest leftover paste
Tommorrow is either going to be pretty cool or a nanotechnological wasteland!
The part most folks forget when talking about SPAM is that somebody is buying the junk the folks are selling. Like everyone else on the net I look forward to a cascade of crap every time I open my mail program. What amazes me is that somebody is sending these idiot money for their get-rich-quick scheme and their diet drugs. I wonder how many responses are required to make bulk e-mail profitable? I be their bussinesses are on pretty shaky ground and a small reduction in the number of responses could put them out of bussiness. I think the answers might be to educate the 'consumers' of these questionable products against responding. This is the surest way to put a stop to commercial spam. With a little more education, we could erect a tombstone in the dot-com graveyard for bulk e-mail. StinkyDog -Sit, Stinky, sit. Good dog.
Slashdot Mirror
This sounds like a variation on the Thin Client model. Hopefully it runs a little smoother than Citrix Metaframe. The metaframe Installation I use is so unreilable as to be useless. With the money we wasted on staff sitting on their thumbs, I could have bought a round of 1GHz pc's for everyone. The system was dead for a month ?!?! after install due to driver conflicts. $15hr x 160hrs = $2400. That does not include the cost of them stupid terminals or the $ sent to Citrix and M$croshaft.
Someone needs to Recycle all these crappy TCs into something worth the effort.
Just stick your coffee inside the case for 2 minuntes. MMMuuum toasty warm. Popcorn anyone?
If this is true (lead is disolved in the glass) why not melt old monitior bottles and use them to encapsulate radioactive waste.
We have plenty of radioactive waste just sitting around. An if we find a safe place to bury that stuff I suspect leeching will not be a problems for a while.
Could you not claim that the robot.txt file is a content protection system?
The a spider programed to ignore robots.txt would be circumventing you system. Any web hosting company could clog the courts with DMCA suits in a couple of days.
I seems a decent sized group of people have not recieved the snailmail pin (myself included). How do we get organized to get results from ICANN? After finally getting through to the regristration site, it is very dissapointing to miss out now.
This belongs in everyone's technomage toolbelt. "Pay no attention to the voices in your head"
TiVo is an 'internet' style product. Content is selectivly downloaded based on user requirments. The next step for a TiVo sytle product is to set up a central server (or heaven forbid a peer to peer solution)
By mitigating the time factor, TiVo has turned the fixed bandwith television medium into an almost unlimited content pool. The ability to set up TiVo "sites" by purchasing less desirable airtime and broadcasting specificly targeted shows is comparable to the web.
In my opinion TV and the 'Web' will merge into a single sources with the TiVo as a vision of the future.
This product looks to have 2 modes of operation. 1> Returning a false search hit and allowing you to download an incorrect file. (The metallica mp3 you download turns out to be an anti-piracy jingle from the RIAA) This would work similary to the Cucko recordings being circulated by other souls. When you download you do get the IP address (which you can send to your neighborhood script kiddie for some DOS action) 2> Returning an add with the search results aka: Smell the Glove.MP3 Buy Dr. Stinkydog's special anti spam cream at WWW.goat.se Annoying? Yes but they do not have any files to serve (otherwise you get that IP address) I do not think this will end civilization as we know it but you never know.
Movable type started the first information revolution and gave Martin Luther his start. The relative cheapness of the printing press allowed people to experience the written word who did not have the chance previously.
The internet is the next printing press. It is allowing common people to work with a global informion pool. Previously you had to be a governtment or corporate CEO to access this quanity of information in real time.
I wonder what will usher in the 3rd information revolution?
Managment in govenment is promoted from within. This means you get a lot of garbage collectors who end up directors of major departments. This problem only gets worse as goventments downsize because the younger employees with marketable skills just leave!
Unfortunatly, the users don't fair much better. Usually, they lack any kind of current training, they are give crap for equipment, and the software they use predates the transistor. Any attempt to provide the tools they need to do their job gets bogged down (I won't run on the mainframe, It's good but it need 3 million ne features.
Finally, the beaurocratic system is the the most effective tool for squashing innovation I have ever seen. Between the Unions, The Old Boys Network, Political crap and all the other 'special interests', only the blandest, least noteworthy ideas ever get implmentented (but boy do we know how to plan a project to death).
I once read "The more expensive a Government IT project is the less likely is is to be successful." The accompianing graph was nearly vertical at about $20 Million. Think about that everytime you read about another expensive Government IT project.
I've got to go, the mainframe needs more coal.
GPS should work anywhere you can recieve the signal.
GPS defines a location as:
X Distance from Sat1
Y Distance from Sat2
Z Distance from Sat3
and so on
Which defines a point in 3D space that the reciever converts to Latitude, Longitude, and Altitude. It can just as easily define a point in space as on earth. The entertainment industry uses a similar system to allow moving lights to follow the performer. Several ultrasonic emmitters are set up in the corners of the stage and by listening to the time shift in the performer's microphone the computers plots the performer's position exactly and sends it to the lights.
The blessing (and the curse) of the Internet is its ability to route around roadblocks. I see enforcement of these types of rules as an impossibility. Businesses will set up outside national borders and do whatever they want. If the US becomes more restrictive than they will move these data collection sites somewhere else.
"But in a wired world, it's a simple matter to send data to someone outside the EU, where those restrictions do not apply. So the directive, like many European privacy laws, includes a provision that prohibits sending personal information to countries that do not have "adequate" privacy protection. "
We will have to see how the battle between the nation and the corporation goes, but right now it looks like the corporations are winning.
This tech seems like a start of an effective nerual interface technology. Bond a few of these guys to an active nerve and wire from them to the machine and you coudl create a nerual impluse reader. I will be interested to see how finely this process can be controlled.
The other interesting part of 'growing' computers is being able to play with the base media. I can imagine going to the electronics store and buying a new viral TV.
Instructions
1. Open Box
2. Spread paste on Desired wall
3. Wait 2 Days
4. Do not ingest leftover paste
Tommorrow is either going to be pretty cool or a nanotechnological wasteland!
Stinkydog
The part most folks forget when talking about SPAM is that somebody is buying the junk the folks are selling. Like everyone else on the net I look forward to a cascade of crap every time I open my mail program. What amazes me is that somebody is sending these idiot money for their get-rich-quick scheme and their diet drugs. I wonder how many responses are required to make bulk e-mail profitable? I be their bussinesses are on pretty shaky ground and a small reduction in the number of responses could put them out of bussiness. I think the answers might be to educate the 'consumers' of these questionable products against responding. This is the surest way to put a stop to commercial spam. With a little more education, we could erect a tombstone in the dot-com graveyard for bulk e-mail. StinkyDog -Sit, Stinky, sit. Good dog.