actually most cellphones only deliver about 600mW of radiated power. Why does a cell phone have such a great range compared to your 900MHz cordless? Because
base-stations are located in high visibility locations.
base staions have a much higher EIRP, usually in excess of 50W.
Cellular base stations use very large high-gain antennas to boost the gain of your puny 0.6W handset to a useable level.
high frequency microwaves (like those used by cell phones) have much greater penetration power than UHF
And let's not forget that cellular is a very strictly controlled RF band (reducing intereference)
Add to all of this that the RFID tag is a passive device, meaning that it does not provide any power of it's own. It must convert the 500mW of power used by the tag sensor into enough energy to power it's circuitry (even the most efficient means we have of converting RF energy to electrical energy are only about 10-15%) and then whatever power is left can be used to transmit a signal back.
You've fallen victim to a fanatical ignorance of reality coupled with a complete lack of free thought.
I think what we need is a website that will offer a spammer-death-pool. Ante your nickle into the pot and the person that can most accurately "guess" the exact circumstances of the spammer's demise (exact time and means of death) takes the pot...perhaps a bonus for the person that first tracked down the spammer too.
Given the fact that Microsoft is financing SCO's anti-Linux crusade (or do you really believe that they pay millions for a license they don't need?), I can't agree with you.
Perhaps this is just MS's way of getting SCO out of the way. I imagine the meeting went something like this:
MS: Oh yeah, those IBM guys have nothing on you. They're trying to rob you blind!
SCO: Yeah! Your right! Gee I wish we could afford the lawyers to fight them
MS: Why don't we buy licensing from you to finance your legal battle. We can both come out on top here...Go get 'em Tiger!
MS: [turns to own lawyers] how much can we get SCO's IP for after they lose and file chapter 11?
Actually they code causes your hdd heads to modulate at such an exact frequency that the electomagnetic resonance opens up a worm-hole in the space-time continuum.
This portal is used to summon thousand of magic gnomes that sit in the spaces between time on your ethernet interface where they use their prescient abilities to determine who is trying to download pr0n so they know exactly when to reach out and "snatch" your packets. Depending on your configuration each gnome will hold the packets in stasis for a predetrmined amount of time, thus limiting your bandwidth.
duh!
Actually the H.323 protocol is primarily for call setup, but is on it's way out. It's cumbersome and inefficient.
A for bandwidth requirements, 90kbps would probably be ADPCM encoding, which actually is onyl about 88kbps (that's full duplex). G.729a is even more efficient at 34Kbps while maintaining a very reasonable voice quality. There are, of course, many less efficient codecs as well. A good system can recognize when there is congestion and drop to a lower bit rate as well.
Most good VoIP phones will acutally recreate some of the "noise" locally during the call. It's called comfort noise. (as in nice and fuzzy?!?)
And yes, silence suppression is a HUGE saver of bandwidth, especially when you are looking at a call network with many thousands of simultaneous users.
Actually, a friend of mine has an Everquest account that he cancelled several months ago. He just got an email telling him that his account has been reactivated for free for the next seven days...bets are that I don't see much of him for the next few months!
Couldn't this be considered criminal activity?
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The patent is explicit, describing computer code that can "interact with the browser to modify or control one or more of the browser functions, such that the user is directed to a predesignated site or page, instead of accessing the site or page typically associated with the selected browser function."
Wouldn't this fall under some criminal activity of unauthorized interference with the normal operation of my computer. I didn't give him permission to "modify or control" my browser functions. He has hacked my computer and now must pay!!!
Seriously though, does anyone know what laws are typically applied to cases such as 'hacking' and virus writing, etc...
I know HP uses similar technology on their large format plotters. I don't think it is aplied to the consumer grade stuff.
The way HP works it, each ink cartridge has a small identifier chip that returns something like a 12 digit ID code (the printer can use this ID to store various calibration information and such as well--quite cool, really)
There are also four very tiny resistors embedded in the cartridge. The printer (using the ID code) keeps track of how many sweeps of the carriage that cartridge has been installed for. Each colour is rated for a certain number of passes based on some very fancy statistical averaging. After the cartridge has completed 1/4 of its rated number of passes, a power surge is sent through the cartridge that actually burns out the resistor.
This really isn't some insidious scheme on behalf of HP to try and maintain some ink monopoly, though. It actually costs HP a lot of money in service calls for these things when the problem is that some dumb-ass has refilled the inks and now the print quality sucks. Keep in mind that with ink-jet, the ink cartridge is also the print-head, and these things do wear out.
The biggest problem is plain old ignorance. If people would stop buying penis pumps and ink-jet refills from spammers, it would fail to be a useful marketing tool.
As it is, legislation is barely useful. In the few states where spam has been legislated, it is almost impossible to charge anyone with a violation and claim damages, the process is far too encumbering--that is if you can actually track down the spammer. The few people that actually do get charged are usually (fairly) legitimate, i.e. big business where you signed up for a service, and they are notifiying you of something new. This really does not account for the heart of the problem which is the thousands of schmucks in their basement selling email lists to each other and polluting our inboxes.
No, legislation is not really the answer. I propose a spammer bounty: An organisation that people can report known spammers to. Caught your neighbour sending spam? Report them. Post all of their personal details: name, address, photos, license plate, etc, etc... and then organize public protests around their homes. Get local busniess to unite and refuse to serve these people. Make their life a living hell. After a few good examples of this vigilante justice, see how quickly spammers give up!
I guess all those thousands of Kilometers of fibre cabling, routers, switches, DSLAMS, etc, should all be free too, becuase they are really, an near-limitless resource. We can always make more, right? I suppose the computers to access the internet should be free, 'cuz really silicon is just sand, right, and we've got a nearlt limitless supply of that. Oh, but wait, I'm forgetting wireless access. We could just use that because there is a completely unlimited supply of RF spectrum. It all just a conspiracy to make us wage slaves
One thing that nobody here seems to have mentioned is RAM. Again, assuming you are merely using typical internet/office applications, the best bang for your buck would be to install a plethora of RAM. You should be able to pick up a couple of DIMMS for your 266 for less than price of a tank of gas.
Actually this would lead to something more like the movie Total Recall. Where memories are artificially implanted into the brain without the actual experience, since the hippocampus is actually just for storing memories in the brain.
Of course, this could be the first step towards capturing those memories from someones brain, a-la Strange Days...
If everyone kicks a couple of bucks into the pot we could probably pick SCO's IP up pretty easily and then release it into the public domain. I think the biggest argument though would be which license to use...
Funny, but isn't DirecTV obligated under some sort of Security Comission regulations to report all losses to their share-holders?
I'm pretty sure that DirecTV has not reported this loss. I suppose this could lead to 1 of 2 things. Either the losses must be re-evaluated, or DirecTV executives are in breach of trust and should now all go to jail!
...run on a variety of operating platforms including Windows, Macintosh, WebTV, Internet appliances, hand-held devices, and web-enabled cellular phones
I would think they would make a point of including Linux in that list if they actually supported it.
Essential all they are doing is running "office" on Citrix and selling the client really cheaply.
... all data is stored on the service provider's system, generating storage revenue for the SP.
So now the city saves up front and pays for the rest of eternity? Isn't this the Model that MS wants to go to in the future anyway? I fail to see where this becomes a "victory" over MS, since I very much doubt the city of Huston will be implementing a fleet of Macs or WebTV on every desk!
heheh, yeah, I think glasses are a more likely technology. Too many issues with contact lenses, like power, communication, etc. anyway, but hey, if you're gonna dream up new tech...
Your glasses could even have bluetooth or some other means of communication with your cellphone to hook you up to the internet, printer, etc...
Could the DMCA be used against spammers? Say for example, that I post a message to usenet. That would be a copyrighted original work. Now, if I include an email address as part of that post, except I post it as my_usenet_address.at.myhost.com. Despite the weakness of it, there is still a digital "encryption" technique being used here. Lots of spam-bots are programmed to look for exactly this and "decrypt" it. Now, if I were to use a uniqe email address in usenet only, I could guarantee that any email received at that address must have come from someone breaking my "digital encyption technique" and thus, violating the DMCA...
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Add to all of this that the RFID tag is a passive device, meaning that it does not provide any power of it's own. It must convert the 500mW of power used by the tag sensor into enough energy to power it's circuitry (even the most efficient means we have of converting RF energy to electrical energy are only about 10-15%) and then whatever power is left can be used to transmit a signal back.
You've fallen victim to a fanatical ignorance of reality coupled with a complete lack of free thought.
I think what we need is a website that will offer a spammer-death-pool. Ante your nickle into the pot and the person that can most accurately "guess" the exact circumstances of the spammer's demise (exact time and means of death) takes the pot...perhaps a bonus for the person that first tracked down the spammer too.
Perhaps this is just MS's way of getting SCO out of the way. I imagine the meeting went something like this:
MS: Oh yeah, those IBM guys have nothing on you. They're trying to rob you blind!
SCO: Yeah! Your right! Gee I wish we could afford the lawyers to fight them
MS: Why don't we buy licensing from you to finance your legal battle. We can both come out on top here...Go get 'em Tiger!
MS: [turns to own lawyers] how much can we get SCO's IP for after they lose and file chapter 11?
heheh, while we're at it, I thik we need a mod for "-1 dumbass!"
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Bigassmofohairygorillalawyerswithaninfinitebudg
Actually they code causes your hdd heads to modulate at such an exact frequency that the electomagnetic resonance opens up a worm-hole in the space-time continuum.
This portal is used to summon thousand of magic gnomes that sit in the spaces between time on your ethernet interface where they use their prescient abilities to determine who is trying to download pr0n so they know exactly when to reach out and "snatch" your packets. Depending on your configuration each gnome will hold the packets in stasis for a predetrmined amount of time, thus limiting your bandwidth.
duh!
Actually the H.323 protocol is primarily for call setup, but is on it's way out. It's cumbersome and inefficient.
A for bandwidth requirements, 90kbps would probably be ADPCM encoding, which actually is onyl about 88kbps (that's full duplex). G.729a is even more efficient at 34Kbps while maintaining a very reasonable voice quality. There are, of course, many less efficient codecs as well. A good system can recognize when there is congestion and drop to a lower bit rate as well.
Most good VoIP phones will acutally recreate some of the "noise" locally during the call. It's called comfort noise. (as in nice and fuzzy?!?)
And yes, silence suppression is a HUGE saver of bandwidth, especially when you are looking at a call network with many thousands of simultaneous users.
This is beacuse:
I'm pretty sure GWB is a 'tard!
Actually, a friend of mine has an Everquest account that he cancelled several months ago. He just got an email telling him that his account has been reactivated for free for the next seven days...bets are that I don't see much of him for the next few months!
The patent is explicit, describing computer code that can "interact with the browser to modify or control one or more of the browser functions, such that the user is directed to a predesignated site or page, instead of accessing the site or page typically associated with the selected browser function."
Wouldn't this fall under some criminal activity of unauthorized interference with the normal operation of my computer. I didn't give him permission to "modify or control" my browser functions. He has hacked my computer and now must pay!!!
Seriously though, does anyone know what laws are typically applied to cases such as 'hacking' and virus writing, etc...
I guess if we were transmitting to Mars they would definitely be Terra bits, but if you were sending from the moon would you have Luna Bits?
I know HP uses similar technology on their large format plotters. I don't think it is aplied to the consumer grade stuff.
The way HP works it, each ink cartridge has a small identifier chip that returns something like a 12 digit ID code (the printer can use this ID to store various calibration information and such as well--quite cool, really)
There are also four very tiny resistors embedded in the cartridge. The printer (using the ID code) keeps track of how many sweeps of the carriage that cartridge has been installed for. Each colour is rated for a certain number of passes based on some very fancy statistical averaging. After the cartridge has completed 1/4 of its rated number of passes, a power surge is sent through the cartridge that actually burns out the resistor.
This really isn't some insidious scheme on behalf of HP to try and maintain some ink monopoly, though. It actually costs HP a lot of money in service calls for these things when the problem is that some dumb-ass has refilled the inks and now the print quality sucks. Keep in mind that with ink-jet, the ink cartridge is also the print-head, and these things do wear out.
The biggest problem is plain old ignorance. If people would stop buying penis pumps and ink-jet refills from spammers, it would fail to be a useful marketing tool.
As it is, legislation is barely useful. In the few states where spam has been legislated, it is almost impossible to charge anyone with a violation and claim damages, the process is far too encumbering--that is if you can actually track down the spammer. The few people that actually do get charged are usually (fairly) legitimate, i.e. big business where you signed up for a service, and they are notifiying you of something new. This really does not account for the heart of the problem which is the thousands of schmucks in their basement selling email lists to each other and polluting our inboxes.
No, legislation is not really the answer. I propose a spammer bounty: An organisation that people can report known spammers to. Caught your neighbour sending spam? Report them. Post all of their personal details: name, address, photos, license plate, etc, etc... and then organize public protests around their homes. Get local busniess to unite and refuse to serve these people. Make their life a living hell. After a few good examples of this vigilante justice, see how quickly spammers give up!
I guess all those thousands of Kilometers of fibre cabling, routers, switches, DSLAMS, etc, should all be free too, becuase they are really, an near-limitless resource. We can always make more, right? I suppose the computers to access the internet should be free, 'cuz really silicon is just sand, right, and we've got a nearlt limitless supply of that. Oh, but wait, I'm forgetting wireless access. We could just use that because there is a completely unlimited supply of RF spectrum. It all just a conspiracy to make us wage slaves
Get a clue dumbass!!!
So if you had Web-TV, would tahat make it ok to file share?
One thing that nobody here seems to have mentioned is RAM. Again, assuming you are merely using typical internet/office applications, the best bang for your buck would be to install a plethora of RAM. You should be able to pick up a couple of DIMMS for your 266 for less than price of a tank of gas.
Why not, that's what I use my old Intel Chips for...
"I'll see your SX25 and Raise you a DXII66!"
Actually this would lead to something more like the movie Total Recall. Where memories are artificially implanted into the brain without the actual experience, since the hippocampus is actually just for storing memories in the brain.
Of course, this could be the first step towards capturing those memories from someones brain, a-la Strange Days...
yes, the mice will be furios when they find out someone is trying to steal their IP!
I'm pretty sure that DirecTV has not reported this loss. I suppose this could lead to 1 of 2 things. Either the losses must be re-evaluated, or DirecTV executives are in breach of trust and should now all go to jail!
I would think they would make a point of including Linux in that list if they actually supported it.
Essential all they are doing is running "office" on Citrix and selling the client really cheaply.
So now the city saves up front and pays for the rest of eternity? Isn't this the Model that MS wants to go to in the future anyway? I fail to see where this becomes a "victory" over MS, since I very much doubt the city of Huston will be implementing a fleet of Macs or WebTV on every desk!
heheh, yeah, I think glasses are a more likely technology. Too many issues with contact lenses, like power, communication, etc. anyway, but hey, if you're gonna dream up new tech...
Your glasses could even have bluetooth or some other means of communication with your cellphone to hook you up to the internet, printer, etc...
Could the DMCA be used against spammers? Say for example, that I post a message to usenet. That would be a copyrighted original work. Now, if I include an email address as part of that post, except I post it as my_usenet_address.at.myhost.com. Despite the weakness of it, there is still a digital "encryption" technique being used here. Lots of spam-bots are programmed to look for exactly this and "decrypt" it. Now, if I were to use a uniqe email address in usenet only, I could guarantee that any email received at that address must have come from someone breaking my "digital encyption technique" and thus, violating the DMCA...
BLAMMO! Litigation!