Now.. if only we could get those same brilliant minds working on a compiler that produces a single executable that works on both platforms, and shares as much code as possible.
The reason for doing so is regulation. You would have to have a solid dc->dc supply inside the box in order to ensure everything worked well.
Your wall system sounds neat, but the problem arises that it is hard to regulate power on such large lines. You usually regulate DC, especially when dealing with low voltages in computer, as close to the destination as possible to avoid interference spiking the voltage.
In fact, to make it work, you'd need the power conversion circuitry at the wall plug.. otherwise you add in all kinds of resistance along the wiring as well.
In MOST states, it is legal to have a lockpick set.
You don't have to be registered, or specially licensed. In mnay places, there is no such thing as a 'registered' locksmith. If you open locks for poeple for money, you are by definition a locksmith.
The statutes often don't define locksmith.
There is dual use with those devices. They are used to open locks, including your own locks, or locks of buildings you have legit access to but misplaced your key.
In most states, it IS legal to own lockpicks. They only become burglary tools if used in the comission of a crime.. just like a crowbar.
Also, in many states, locksmithin is not a 'registered' profession. You don't need a license to be a locksmith in many places. Locksmith is also not clearly defined in many statutes.
A need can be "I like the ability to open locks if I lose my keys"
There are laws specifically about lockpicks, and in some states, and all of Canada, it is unlawful to have a lockpick unless you are a practicing locksmith on the job (and in Canada, that includes being registered & carrying papers.. how draconian).
However, in MOST states, something is only a 'burglar tool' if used to commit burglary. (Crowbar, lockpick, etc). Posessing the item in and of itself is not a crime.
It is a totally legitimate domain. There is nothing WRONG with it.
It's particular uses of it that can be wrong, but not the domain itself.
And as to what you said, you, directly or indirectly, implied that Verisign should not allow domains like this to be registered because they are in the certificate authority business. Totally different things.
I don't see the connection you are drawing. No, bill clinton's relationship with his wife has nothing to do with his ability to govern, and I cannot *believe* that people actually think it has an effect. Actually, what I realy think (read this carefullY) is that it's a big deal because people THINK that other people think that it has some effect, and don't want to appear different.
No. THe point of hte article is to try to blame this on verisign when in fact they are doing nothing wrong.
It sounds like you don't really understand how certificates work. Verisign will NOT issue you a certificate for www.microsoft.com using some cyrillic characters. So there is no way a site can present a certificate, signed by verisign, indicating the site is microsoft.com
The article tries to make it out that because verising issues certificates, it shoudl ALSO be verifying domains people register.
Why re-release it into the wild? What about for pure science? To say that we can do it? To put an animal in the zoo?
Why should we NOT be able to use our skills to bring new life into this world. Has too much sciece fiction/horror and religious rehetoric caused us to think we have no right to interfere?
Sorry, but I say go for it.
Let's make mammoths. Let's make dinosaurs. Let's bring back the dodo. let's start with the tasmanian tiger.
Just because it's a technical no-brainer doesn't mean it's legal, and doens't mean it even treads on laws that have anything to do with the internet.
If you pretend to be someone else, or if someone registered an alternate lookalike domain for microsoft.com and used it to in any way whatsoever to benefit from the fact.. they'd be in deep sheep.
I never said it was competing. I understand exactly what both technologies are.
802.11 would not be for cellphones. I know they are totally different things.
My point was whether or not there were any innovtive new uses of bluetooth out there, and that I don't consider ethernet access via bluetooth or wireless mice innovative.
YEs, cellphone to bluetooth pda/laptop is great. So far, that's the only useful one I've hard.
I'm curious. I know what bluetooth is and how it works, and what it was designed for.
But...
Can anyone point to any actual useful uses it's been put to so far?
Note: Internet access for a laptop is NOT a useful purpose. 802.11 is much better suited for such things. The same goes for handhelds.
I mean uses like your cellphone talking to your pda talking to your laptop; pdas able to exchange information just by being in the vacinity of each other, etctera.
A cordless mouse that uses bluetooth is not useful. We could do this without bluetooth.
Yes, it's possible to cause massive disruption. It has been for a long, long time.
I recall the FBI stating that it was not some ddos attack that scared them, but hte fact that so many young kids controlled so many computers and DIDN'T do anything with it.
So we ask ourselves, what if this were in the hands of someone who actively wanted to exploit it?
Who are we kidding? Most of the kids that control tons of computers for their ddos attacks for taking over irc servers are not geniuses. If someone had a reason to take over many, many cmoputers and use them for financial gain, they would do it. Plain and simple.
The fact is, owning tons of bandwidth and cycles for a brief amount of time (because that's all you are going to get) is not all that useful long term. How are you going to cash in on it?
Perhaps it's the detail I meant. I know I could punch up my hometown in central British Columbia, and literally fly by sight, watching landmarks such as mountains and rivers.
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Now.. if only we could get those same brilliant minds working on a compiler that produces a single executable that works on both platforms, and shares as much code as possible.
Yes.. but that's only really beneficial in Europe.
THe US cellphone market is so screwed up that they don't get it.
Text messaging is a gimmick that hardly anyone uses in the US.
In fact, when many say text messaging, they actually mean one-way text message paging.
You don't feel the PDA/Cellphone combo has come of age because the cellular coverage in the US is not ubiquitous enough to make it really useful?
The ability to be anywhere in europe & have datacomm for your pda & voice etc..... is a huge plus when it comes to this.
It's totally impractical. You would have to ensure that no metal objects were in the house, or they would pick up the power as well.
Read up no Tesla, he was a fan of this. Lots of wireless lights in his labs. High frequency, high voltage electric fields really.
The reason for doing so is regulation. You would have to have a solid dc->dc supply inside the box in order to ensure everything worked well.
Your wall system sounds neat, but the problem arises that it is hard to regulate power on such large lines. You usually regulate DC, especially when dealing with low voltages in computer, as close to the destination as possible to avoid interference spiking the voltage.
In fact, to make it work, you'd need the power conversion circuitry at the wall plug.. otherwise you add in all kinds of resistance along the wiring as well.
Totaly myth.
Not possible.
Even if the resistance was only 1000 ohms, and it was most certainly a great deal higher, he would only have 9 mA, not 80.
In MOST states, it is legal to have a lockpick set.
You don't have to be registered, or specially licensed.
In mnay places, there is no such thing as a 'registered' locksmith. If you open locks for poeple for money, you are by definition a locksmith.
The statutes often don't define locksmith.
There is dual use with those devices. They are used to open locks, including your own locks, or locks of buildings you have legit access to but misplaced your key.
Lockpick sets are quite legal in many places.
In most states, it IS legal to own lockpicks. They only become burglary tools if used in the comission of a crime.. just like a crowbar.
Also, in many states, locksmithin is not a 'registered' profession. You don't need a license to be a locksmith in many places. Locksmith is also not clearly defined in many statutes.
A need can be "I like the ability to open locks if I lose my keys"
Wow. Nitpick or what.
I should have said "The Unix operating system that Sun Microsystems Inc. Produces" and you would have been happy.
So they changed the name for marketing reasons. Whee.
Yes, I know that there were other changes as well.
But not because it's a 'burglar tool'.
There are laws specifically about lockpicks, and in some states, and all of Canada, it is unlawful to have a lockpick unless you are a practicing locksmith on the job (and in Canada, that includes being registered & carrying papers.. how draconian).
However, in MOST states, something is only a 'burglar tool' if used to commit burglary. (Crowbar, lockpick, etc). Posessing the item in and of itself is not a crime.
It is a totally legitimate domain. There is nothing WRONG with it.
It's particular uses of it that can be wrong, but not the domain itself.
And as to what you said, you, directly or indirectly, implied that Verisign should not allow domains like this to be registered because they are in the certificate authority business.
Totally different things.
I don't see the connection you are drawing.
No, bill clinton's relationship with his wife has nothing to do with his ability to govern, and I cannot *believe* that people actually think it has an effect.
Actually, what I realy think (read this carefullY) is that it's a big deal because people THINK that other people think that it has some effect, and don't want to appear different.
No. THe point of hte article is to try to blame this on verisign when in fact they are doing nothing wrong.
It sounds like you don't really understand how certificates work. Verisign will NOT issue you a certificate for www.microsoft.com using some cyrillic characters. So there is no way a site can present a certificate, signed by verisign, indicating the site is microsoft.com
The article tries to make it out that because verising issues certificates, it shoudl ALSO be verifying domains people register.
Well.. ever since I saw that house-hippo on TV... I've wanted one.
I think a miniature elephant would just ROCK. About the size of a toy poodle.
Solaris has been running on the x86 since before linux existed.
Why re-release it into the wild? What about for pure science? To say that we can do it? To put an animal in the zoo?
Why should we NOT be able to use our skills to bring new life into this world. Has too much sciece fiction/horror and religious rehetoric caused us to think we have no right to interfere?
Sorry, but I say go for it.
Let's make mammoths. Let's make dinosaurs. Let's bring back the dodo. let's start with the tasmanian tiger.
Okay. I've seen lots of new laptops with SD readers, and now handhelds as well.
But I've yet to see a single SD card in use.
What is SD, and why would I use it over, say, any other conventional flash.
Is it actually useful, or something some industry is trying to push?
Verisign's activites as a domain registrar are NOT the same thing as their CA business.
They are not required to, nor do they claim to, verify domain registrants UNLESS those registrants apply for digital certificates.
Yes, verisign are scum.. but you are barking up the wrong tree here. They are not at all requred or expected to verify domain registrars.
Hey. I wish they were. Imagine how many domains would have to be revoked? Literally millions.
Just because it's a technical no-brainer doesn't mean it's legal, and doens't mean it even treads on laws that have anything to do with the internet.
If you pretend to be someone else, or if someone registered an alternate lookalike domain for microsoft.com and used it to in any way whatsoever to benefit from the fact.. they'd be in deep sheep.
This is the EXACT reason we have certificate authorities like Verisign, and why a system using these certificates is built into common web browsers.
IT is NOT so that you can use encryption; that is a side effect engineered into the system so that they can sell more certificates.
I never said it was competing. I understand exactly what both technologies are.
802.11 would not be for cellphones. I know they are totally different things.
My point was whether or not there were any innovtive new uses of bluetooth out there, and that I don't consider ethernet access via bluetooth or wireless mice innovative.
YEs, cellphone to bluetooth pda/laptop is great. So far, that's the only useful one I've hard.
Somehow I don't think my little hometown was "important".
This was not 'flying in the city'. It was flying all over the interior of the province by landmarks alone, mountains, rivers, valleys, etc.
I'm curious. I know what bluetooth is and how it works, and what it was designed for.
But...
Can anyone point to any actual useful uses it's been put to so far?
Note: Internet access for a laptop is NOT a useful purpose. 802.11 is much better suited for such things. The same goes for handhelds.
I mean uses like your cellphone talking to your pda talking to your laptop; pdas able to exchange information just by being in the vacinity of each other, etctera.
A cordless mouse that uses bluetooth is not useful. We could do this without bluetooth.
Same goes for keyboards.
Anyone?
Yes, it's possible to cause massive disruption. It has been for a long, long time.
I recall the FBI stating that it was not some ddos attack that scared them, but hte fact that so many young kids controlled so many computers and DIDN'T do anything with it.
So we ask ourselves, what if this were in the hands of someone who actively wanted to exploit it?
Who are we kidding? Most of the kids that control tons of computers for their ddos attacks for taking over irc servers are not geniuses. If someone had a reason to take over many, many cmoputers and use them for financial gain, they would do it. Plain and simple.
The fact is, owning tons of bandwidth and cycles for a brief amount of time (because that's all you are going to get) is not all that useful long term. How are you going to cash in on it?
Perhaps it's the detail I meant. I know I could punch up my hometown in central British Columbia, and literally fly by sight, watching landmarks such as mountains and rivers.
Many cases do. I've had plenty of cases to work with that were a breeze to open. Single thumbscrew, single panel, everything exposed, drive bay on a qwik-release arm so you can replace drives easily, etcetera.