No. Sorry I wasn't clear. When a bullet is fired because no two bores are exactly alike the bullet ends up with minor scratches that are similar each time the gun is fired (each firing actually makes it more unique). A copier with a scratch on the glass will always reproduce that scratch. And there's always scratches. Or black dots that are imperfections on the printing drum. Yes its not an id exactly but it identifiable. So an expert could tell you that two copies were produced from the same machine. -cpd
Is this really serial numbers? Or is it just detection of the 'flaws'. My understanding was that all photo copiers have scratches on their glass or elsewhere that make them identifiable. Similar to how guns are scratched and therefore identifiable. Or typewritters. I would imagine that anything that has mechanical parts and outputs physical media would have some identifiable marks. Merely by the scartchs marks etc on any mechanical device. -cpd
It doesn't really prevent booting. By their statements it merely requires the power be pushed again. In most cases not that difficult. Really it isn't. Even for servers. (At least here our servers are supposed to be manually inspected after any unforseen power outage anyways.) Plus its never even been seen in the field aparently. So it may take a very bizarre set of circumstances to even occur.
On the other hand this really is bad PR. IIRC Intel took a bit of a hit for the Pentium bug. This is also gonna hurt probably. It also speaks very poorly of Intel's QA department. Even if it wasn't their fault this kind of thing shouldn't be allowed to get into the public's hands. -cpd
I think the recovery of Apollo 13 was a much better hack than Apollo 11. True Apollo 11 was a magnificent piece of work. Achieveing exactly what was desired. But Apollo 13 required true ingenuity by most parties involved. And using the ship in manners not really expected. Just my opinion. -cpd
Yeah its great that its gonna be open. Except it looks kinda like they're just looking for help. The comment about the open code won't allow you to dig deep into the engine, we just want a better interface kinda sounds wrong. I mean really having games run better on linux is great. Having an GPL/BSD/xPL game engine would be even better. But these are just my thoughts. -cpd
Funny thing was when they first ran those tests the windshields were being blasted away. Then they realized they were using frozen chickens. Whoops. -cpd
Look at the dates folks. 1960-1975. They were probaby deveoping data for crash dummies at the time. Now they use dead bodies, but stil need t d the same kind of thing. But they needed the live body for initial ideas of what a body could withstand. And wasn't there a guy who did the same thing for the AirForce. But with ejector seats. -cpd
Just provide the link to such a pic. If we are interested we could go look. And if we really don't care we won't. Ya gotta figure it'd be abused if we were allowed to post img. Imagine the load times if first psoters were allowed to put pics of the acclaims.... -cpd
No we should keep fixing the little problems too. I think his point was slightly different then what you read. It seems this was the final for a class on the internet. And imagine it being put in front of all those people claiming the internet is the saviour. People really think that. There are people who honestly believe that the internet will solve all the problems in the world. And if you start listening too the hype without your BS filters on you probably think that the internet will save the poor kid in NK. I think his point is that it probably won't. Or that in order to save that kid we need to get so far beyond where we are now. So actually I think you are working to save that kid. You just don't nessecarily see how what you're doing may help her. Oh well its just my thoughts. -cpd
I really think there are uses for this type of thing. True hospitals may have problems with them, but some manufacturing lines could use it. Just-In-Time manuf especially. Letting orders come down better. Of course they were bilking this thing for home use so I'm not sure how tough it would be if it could stand a manufacturing line.
I know there are salary surveys out there. But I have to agree that a lot of times the surveys are kinda vauge, leaving you to interpret the results as best you can. If you don't exactly match then you have to start guessing how it could effect you. It would probably be interesting to see a site where you could fill out a form of where you live, what you do etc. Then add in your last raise, bonuses, and your actual salary. Then based on some mystical calculation involving the number i a set of numbers come back describing what you should make. It takes you numbers and puts them into the database to update the values appropriately. Of course this could already exist as far as I know. If it does where? -cpd
I agree the students should be punished. It is against the usage guidlines set in CMU's computer policy. Acordingly they should lose the privlige (not right) to use those computers. But I think it could've been done better. Like an email to all students "we will be seraching the disks for any mp3's soon. This will be considered a violation blah blah." Then do it. Again and again. Not just to suddenly do it. I also have a problem with the RIAA saying they will sue CMU. Again the idea that CMU must police its student's pages is not something I like. I would agree that the RIAA has the right to sue those students though. And yes I know this will probably be an unpopular opinion in many regards. -cpd
I think you forgot a few things unless you include them under the topics above.
Libraries - possibly under binaries?
Headers - under source?
Data - OK this sounds silly but while we're at it why don't we specify places for data to go and not to go.
I also think your config files need (in many cases) two 'versions'. The system standard and a user's. So you may need config files in a user's directories too. I do like this idea of seperating things into places that are clear what goes where. You probably could go and build a linux distro that has this (although it'd probably be a pain). I'd also agree that I like the version of things in/bin/conf/src etc, but a problem here is what do you do with possible conflicts? What if 2 programs use a config file with the same name? Really this is a problem I can forsee with this. And further this entire setup should be mirrored in any user's directories, just to keep things neat. -cpd
Although not nessecarily what you may be looking for. Some of those magaznie readers may like it. A picture of Tux on a ladder climbing up into clouds (or something). Have a little SGI type logo in the ladder (seeing as how SGI is high end graphics and is helping linux). Then have a horde of people helping hold the ladder up. So with RedHat's, some are lizards, some are umm curly q's, I think you get the idea. Actually might as well carve some Intel, Alpha, AMD logos on the ladder too. Of course this might not be what you are looking for cuz it might say that Linux isn't there yet. But then again Linux isn't. Nor will it ever be. Someone will always add something to it. -cpd
This is just the findings that they will release correct? Not the actual punitive part? I believe this will only tell us wether the judge thinks that M$ is guilty or not and on what charges. I don't think this will tell us what the judge thinks should be done about it. Anyone have better info? -cpd
OK this really is kinda stuck as so many people are saying. I mean all of its apps are 2D, when it really is 3D. And what good is a 3D window manager if you don't have any apps for it. But how can you develop 3D apps if you don't have a window manager to run them in. Ohhh circle logic.
But slightly different if you want to start getting into theoretical ideas about it let's see. Imagine you are an engineer and designing something (or even to make Hemos like the idea a nano-something:). Well now you can have a real walk around kind of idea. And maybe there are chalkboards around that you can write notes on that are saved. Or even a calculator floating by you whenever you need it. But the 3D app really is the modeler of whatever. This would be great for graphic artists (imagine being in the world you are designing), engineers (seeing what you are building), doctors doing virtual surgery, etc.
The ideas are there you really just have to stop thinking in terms of flat info. Which I'll admit is difficult as everything today is 2D. Newspapers, books, computers, tv, just about everything is 2D. Except the real world.
The biggest thing this 3Dwm needs is actually a good way of displaying it. You really do need a virtual environment to use it effectively. Which they have in the Cave(?) but not every home user will have, well untill they come out with holographic monitors.
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But they might not nessecarily need to reduce their cameras. Just transmit the image. Have one or two 'good' cameras that will take good images of the entire thing. Then have these flies getting images of all over. Use the flies' images as maps and the good cameras as the images, combine the two and you could probably end up with a film that really can be considered 3d. Then you could allow for the broadcast of the movie from any angle. Or even maybe selectable angles. Yeah having the couple good cameras could be a pain to get stuff right but I'd think you could produce something good with less than perfect cameras at every position. -cpd
Sorry - nitpick. It was a Microsoft anti-trust advisor, not an actual m$ employee. Therefore someone who actually was fighting against monopolistic software. Probably a good guy but I agree the other groups are better. -cpd
While it may sound silly I worked at a university library. To keep all the names 'sensible', each department decided on a naming group. So all the computers in tech services were named after candy bars. The admin section was named after writters (which really made sense), and the main servers were to be named after past presidents of the library. This actually made sense, and in a way you got an idea of what you had to deal with when you knew which machine had problems. So the guy who had bradbury as his machine gave you a clue as to what type of person he was. Of course we also had a computer named dominatrix. -cpd
My grandfather was alive for the original War of the Worlds broadcast. He couldn't understand why people were acting so nutty. He had at least three basic flaws with the entire thing.
It played during the spot that was usually reserved for this show (not sure if it was Wells' or just a sci-fi weekly).
There was only one station carrying the "report". If aliens did invade and tromped everywhere more places would be getting hurt.
The biggie every 15 minutes they announced "This is only a sketch." or something like that.
Very odd how scared people got. Think people. It sometimes helps. -cpd
Thank you. You made some very good arguments. And I agree with some of your thoughts. But this is more of what we need. Not hysterical damning of an idea before it come to fruition. But again that is my opinion.
Return nitpick. I said how much privacy are you willing to give up. Not liberty. In my view they are different things. -cpd
It seems that every time there is a law passed someone looses. Of course this is they way of the world. I'll agree the idea of cybersquatting is bad. People buying a site to demand money from a company is bad in my opinion. But what sites that are slightly more common names. For instance wasn't Terrel Davis (of the Broncos) complaining about www.davis.com because they use his name? Should I complain about www.donohue.com because it uses my last name? In some cases there are more than one company with the same. (Its legal as long as the companies don't do the same things) Which one gets the domain name? Or those with initials that are the same? I dunno I'd have to see the entire bill to decide if I like it, but for now I have to agree that it should stay in the courts. -cpd
there is no federal or nationwide program to help emotionally disturbed kids or to keep them away from lethal weapons
But my understanding (and I could be wrong) is that this Mosaic program will be helping school administrators figure out who could be emotionally disturbed. You don't know that it will only pick Goths, or kids who are online too often, or anything like that. By what they've said it will try to determine people who are depressed and have access to guns. The very things you said are leading to problems.
More importantly though. Stop shooting everything down. There will always be something wrong with anything done if you look for it. The world is not perfect. There is no perfect solution to the "gun problem". The 1st amendment says US citizens can have them, but they kill people, but... It can go on forever. The question is what are you willing to trade for what. There is a problem with violence in school. Even one shooting incident is too many (in my opinion). But there is also a problem with privacy. In order to protect one you must lose the grip on the other. No real method will prove a school 100% safe. No effective method will allow people 100% privacy. The question is how much privacy can you give up to improve you safety. If you keep saying no to all the suggestions made, then you must have a better idea. What is it? Stop being negative and do something positive for a change. If you know kids so well suggest a method for keeping them safe from others. -cpd
I think its a matter of selection. For instance I only buy books I think 'look' decent. Look at the chapters, look at the price, make sure its from O'Reilly;), etc. Then I buy it. Then I really read it. Some books unfortunately get through this screening process (esp the fiction I read). Those are the books I really want to be warned about. The books that look good, but are really bad. At the same time the reveiwers here probably aren't getting many advance copies (if they then I'll have to volunteer as a reviewer). So they probably are using the same type of criteria as I do and don't buy many bad books. Or at least that's my theory. -cpd
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No. Sorry I wasn't clear. When a bullet is fired because no two bores are exactly alike the bullet ends up with minor scratches that are similar each time the gun is fired (each firing actually makes it more unique). A copier with a scratch on the glass will always reproduce that scratch. And there's always scratches. Or black dots that are imperfections on the printing drum. Yes its not an id exactly but it identifiable. So an expert could tell you that two copies were produced from the same machine.
-cpd
Is this really serial numbers? Or is it just detection of the 'flaws'. My understanding was that all photo copiers have scratches on their glass or elsewhere that make them identifiable. Similar to how guns are scratched and therefore identifiable. Or typewritters. I would imagine that anything that has mechanical parts and outputs physical media would have some identifiable marks. Merely by the scartchs marks etc on any mechanical device.
-cpd
It doesn't really prevent booting. By their statements it merely requires the power be pushed again. In most cases not that difficult. Really it isn't. Even for servers. (At least here our servers are supposed to be manually inspected after any unforseen power outage anyways.) Plus its never even been seen in the field aparently. So it may take a very bizarre set of circumstances to even occur.
On the other hand this really is bad PR. IIRC Intel took a bit of a hit for the Pentium bug. This is also gonna hurt probably. It also speaks very poorly of Intel's QA department. Even if it wasn't their fault this kind of thing shouldn't be allowed to get into the public's hands.
-cpd
I think the recovery of Apollo 13 was a much better hack than Apollo 11. True Apollo 11 was a magnificent piece of work. Achieveing exactly what was desired. But Apollo 13 required true ingenuity by most parties involved. And using the ship in manners not really expected. Just my opinion.
-cpd
Yeah its great that its gonna be open. Except it looks kinda like they're just looking for help. The comment about the open code won't allow you to dig deep into the engine, we just want a better interface kinda sounds wrong. I mean really having games run better on linux is great. Having an GPL/BSD/xPL game engine would be even better. But these are just my thoughts.
-cpd
Funny thing was when they first ran those tests the windshields were being blasted away. Then they realized they were using frozen chickens. Whoops.
-cpd
Look at the dates folks. 1960-1975. They were probaby deveoping data for crash dummies at the time. Now they use dead bodies, but stil need t d the same kind of thing. But they needed the live body for initial ideas of what a body could withstand. And wasn't there a guy who did the same thing for the AirForce. But with ejector seats.
-cpd
Just provide the link to such a pic. If we are interested we could go look. And if we really don't care we won't. Ya gotta figure it'd be abused if we were allowed to post img. Imagine the load times if first psoters were allowed to put pics of the acclaims....
-cpd
No we should keep fixing the little problems too. I think his point was slightly different then what you read. It seems this was the final for a class on the internet. And imagine it being put in front of all those people claiming the internet is the saviour. People really think that. There are people who honestly believe that the internet will solve all the problems in the world. And if you start listening too the hype without your BS filters on you probably think that the internet will save the poor kid in NK. I think his point is that it probably won't. Or that in order to save that kid we need to get so far beyond where we are now. So actually I think you are working to save that kid. You just don't nessecarily see how what you're doing may help her.
Oh well its just my thoughts.
-cpd
I really think there are uses for this type of thing. True hospitals may have problems with them, but some manufacturing lines could use it. Just-In-Time manuf especially. Letting orders come down better. Of course they were bilking this thing for home use so I'm not sure how tough it would be if it could stand a manufacturing line.
For a much further discussion about it check out the last time it was posted (Sep 7).
-cpd
I know there are salary surveys out there. But I have to agree that a lot of times the surveys are kinda vauge, leaving you to interpret the results as best you can. If you don't exactly match then you have to start guessing how it could effect you.
It would probably be interesting to see a site where you could fill out a form of where you live, what you do etc. Then add in your last raise, bonuses, and your actual salary. Then based on some mystical calculation involving the number i a set of numbers come back describing what you should make. It takes you numbers and puts them into the database to update the values appropriately.
Of course this could already exist as far as I know. If it does where?
-cpd
I agree the students should be punished. It is against the usage guidlines set in CMU's computer policy. Acordingly they should lose the privlige (not right) to use those computers.
But I think it could've been done better. Like an email to all students "we will be seraching the disks for any mp3's soon. This will be considered a violation blah blah." Then do it. Again and again. Not just to suddenly do it.
I also have a problem with the RIAA saying they will sue CMU. Again the idea that CMU must police its student's pages is not something I like. I would agree that the RIAA has the right to sue those students though.
And yes I know this will probably be an unpopular opinion in many regards.
-cpd
- Libraries - possibly under binaries?
- Headers - under source?
- Data - OK this sounds silly but while we're at it why don't we specify places for data to go and not to go.
I also think your config files need (in many cases) two 'versions'. The system standard and a user's. So you may need config files in a user's directories too. I do like this idea of seperating things into places that are clear what goes where. You probably could go and build a linux distro that has this (although it'd probably be a pain). I'd also agree that I like the version of things inWhy is m$ stock going up?
Friday afternoon it was down ~4. Now its down ~2 and has been climbing all day. Anybody got an explanation?
-cpd
Although not nessecarily what you may be looking for. Some of those magaznie readers may like it. A picture of Tux on a ladder climbing up into clouds (or something). Have a little SGI type logo in the ladder (seeing as how SGI is high end graphics and is helping linux). Then have a horde of people helping hold the ladder up. So with RedHat's, some are lizards, some are umm curly q's, I think you get the idea. Actually might as well carve some Intel, Alpha, AMD logos on the ladder too.
Of course this might not be what you are looking for cuz it might say that Linux isn't there yet. But then again Linux isn't. Nor will it ever be. Someone will always add something to it.
-cpd
This is just the findings that they will release correct? Not the actual punitive part? I believe this will only tell us wether the judge thinks that M$ is guilty or not and on what charges. I don't think this will tell us what the judge thinks should be done about it. Anyone have better info?
-cpd
OK this really is kinda stuck as so many people are saying. I mean all of its apps are 2D, when it really is 3D. And what good is a 3D window manager if you don't have any apps for it. But how can you develop 3D apps if you don't have a window manager to run them in. Ohhh circle logic.
:). Well now you can have a real walk around kind of idea. And maybe there are chalkboards around that you can write notes on that are saved. Or even a calculator floating by you whenever you need it. But the 3D app really is the modeler of whatever. This would be great for graphic artists (imagine being in the world you are designing), engineers (seeing what you are building), doctors doing virtual surgery, etc.
But slightly different if you want to start getting into theoretical ideas about it let's see. Imagine you are an engineer and designing something (or even to make Hemos like the idea a nano-something
The ideas are there you really just have to stop thinking in terms of flat info. Which I'll admit is difficult as everything today is 2D. Newspapers, books, computers, tv, just about everything is 2D. Except the real world.
The biggest thing this 3Dwm needs is actually a good way of displaying it. You really do need a virtual environment to use it effectively. Which they have in the Cave(?) but not every home user will have, well untill they come out with holographic monitors.
-cpd
But they might not nessecarily need to reduce their cameras. Just transmit the image. Have one or two 'good' cameras that will take good images of the entire thing. Then have these flies getting images of all over. Use the flies' images as maps and the good cameras as the images, combine the two and you could probably end up with a film that really can be considered 3d. Then you could allow for the broadcast of the movie from any angle. Or even maybe selectable angles. Yeah having the couple good cameras could be a pain to get stuff right but I'd think you could produce something good with less than perfect cameras at every position.
-cpd
Sorry - nitpick. It was a Microsoft anti-trust advisor, not an actual m$ employee. Therefore someone who actually was fighting against monopolistic software.
Probably a good guy but I agree the other groups are better.
-cpd
While it may sound silly I worked at a university library. To keep all the names 'sensible', each department decided on a naming group. So all the computers in tech services were named after candy bars. The admin section was named after writters (which really made sense), and the main servers were to be named after past presidents of the library. This actually made sense, and in a way you got an idea of what you had to deal with when you knew which machine had problems. So the guy who had bradbury as his machine gave you a clue as to what type of person he was. Of course we also had a computer named dominatrix.
-cpd
Very odd how scared people got. Think people. It sometimes helps.
-cpd
Thank you. You made some very good arguments. And I agree with some of your thoughts. But this is more of what we need. Not hysterical damning of an idea before it come to fruition. But again that is my opinion.
Return nitpick. I said how much privacy are you willing to give up. Not liberty. In my view they are different things.
-cpd
It seems that every time there is a law passed someone looses. Of course this is they way of the world. I'll agree the idea of cybersquatting is bad. People buying a site to demand money from a company is bad in my opinion. But what sites that are slightly more common names. For instance wasn't Terrel Davis (of the Broncos) complaining about www.davis.com because they use his name? Should I complain about www.donohue.com because it uses my last name? In some cases there are more than one company with the same. (Its legal as long as the companies don't do the same things) Which one gets the domain name? Or those with initials that are the same? I dunno I'd have to see the entire bill to decide if I like it, but for now I have to agree that it should stay in the courts.
-cpd
But my understanding (and I could be wrong) is that this Mosaic program will be helping school administrators figure out who could be emotionally disturbed. You don't know that it will only pick Goths, or kids who are online too often, or anything like that. By what they've said it will try to determine people who are depressed and have access to guns. The very things you said are leading to problems.
More importantly though. Stop shooting everything down. There will always be something wrong with anything done if you look for it. The world is not perfect. There is no perfect solution to the "gun problem". The 1st amendment says US citizens can have them, but they kill people, but
If you keep saying no to all the suggestions made, then you must have a better idea. What is it? Stop being negative and do something positive for a change. If you know kids so well suggest a method for keeping them safe from others.
-cpd
I think its a matter of selection. For instance I only buy books I think 'look' decent. Look at the chapters, look at the price, make sure its from O'Reilly ;), etc. Then I buy it. Then I really read it. Some books unfortunately get through this screening process (esp the fiction I read). Those are the books I really want to be warned about. The books that look good, but are really bad. At the same time the reveiwers here probably aren't getting many advance copies (if they then I'll have to volunteer as a reviewer). So they probably are using the same type of criteria as I do and don't buy many bad books.
Or at least that's my theory.
-cpd