The picture from the farked site is here:
disney.jpg
Self-contained battlefield drug delivery system?
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Mood-Sensing Computer
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Not that this stinks, but this stinks of automated "liquid bravery/no-doze/morphine" delivery. It seems almost tailor-made to be part of an automated battlefield drug delivery system. It could fit into a small beltpack containing a pda sized circuit board, a few vials of specific drugs and a small motorized needle.
-If a soldier, whom the pc knows is "on watch" starts to show signs of fatigue, the device automically injects some caffeine or even ephedra.
-If a soldier gets an arm blown off in a trench far from a medic, the device could automatically inject morphine, or even a heavy coagulant to help his wound stop bleeding.
Wonder which branch of the military Vanderbilt has been receiving its recent grants from:) ?
Im sorry but this article is completely inaccurate. Im an OOL customer and I actively participate in the OOL discussions on broadbandreports. The discretionary cap was put into place because users were clogging upstream channels with p2p uploads. It got so bad that DHCP requests on some nodes (mine in particular) could not be recieved within even a 17 second ack window. It does NOT have to do with pressure from the RIAA.
Here's why: The cap is not a new portblock (they already block 80 to discourage webhosting), but simply a different cable modem config file with a lower upstream maximum. The ordinary config for OOL is 10 megabits down and 1 megabit up. the altered config file is 10 megabits down and only 150 kilobits up.
Obviously this is a solution that was implemented to control bandwidth, not specific applications. If OOL were to start battling p2p apps, it would come in the form of a portblock or traffic shaper - NOT an upload throttle.
To the author of the story, please do your homework. You can start in the OOL forums on BBR:
Besides the legal liability and misrepresentation that a "rogue tech" places on his employer, he also screws the tech support process for the user the next time he/she decides to call in for real help.
Succesful helpdesks, specifically in the level 1 & 2 enivronments, rely on scripts. These scripts are written so that an escalated ticket (one that level 1 cannot handle) arrives at the next level of tech support with that user environment "clean" - that is, level 2 assumes that level 1 has already made sure the user's environment is in a kind of "virgin" state.
When a higher level tech jumps in on a problem from level 1 (such as in these forums) they almost always prolong the length of the customer's next call to tech support because of user assumptions and level 1 ignorance of the support history. While some problems may be solved completely within the context of a forum, the majority of users will at some time in the future call tech support again. This raises costs and decreases the availability of support for the rest of the userbase.
BTW I talk with Optimum Online techs on the BBR forums and Yahoogroups all the time. They are careful not to engage in tech support out in the open, and speak only in an unofficial context. They're extremely helpful and hundreds of users appreciate their unofficial support everyday. If you want a model of how to keep your more advanced users happy while limiting liability and misrepresentation - check out the impromptu support model they've created there.
A "large quantity of water" entered the storage tank because an employee who had just been fired dropped a hose into it out of spite (he didnt know what would happen, he just wanted to ruin something). Yes the safety precautions were under-par, but when someone with legitimate access wants to destroy something its pretty hard to prevent.
And yes, this has nothing to do with programming error:).
Drfrank is right. I use powerstrip and its an excellent reccomendation for this question. I sont have any points right now so someone mod this up. Hope that mod gets screwed in metamod.
There is no sinlge best "place," but a good start is of course, pricewatch, which compares a large number of online retailers.
Computer shows in your area are also a good bet, as small outfits will put together a barebones for less than even pricewatch can most of the time.
Finally, try "hot deals" forums like anandtech and fatwallet. They have decent coupon/rebate deals you can use locally or online to snag some great cheap accesories.
someone should port this to win32 with a plugin that lets it fsck up the purple monkey. I know quite a few NetAdmins who would pay to be rid of that damn thing.
The English FAQ, located here, contains some wonderful translations. Here are some examples:
"Therefore, you can get your desk-top PC level of images from PDA size and weight of control unit."
WIA will come with you and present all the images while you are relaxing in couch, sofa, or even in bed.
This device is specially designed for WIA.You will touch the window shining blue on the device, and move the finger to the direction you would like to move the pointer in the screen
You can use it upside down, which is preferable when you read books in bed
Dont get me wrong - this looks like a great product - it just brought back memories of "someone set up us the bomb."
The list goes on and on. Let them squander their money. To quote a recent game - "If theyre deadset on squandering prescious resources sabotaging their own [] efforts, I say we let em do it."
Along the same vein I cant believe Xerox hasnt made a stink about this. You think they would have learned their lesson after not screaming about the mouse, GUI, etc . . .
Besides intentionally crippling the software, why would something work on one win32 distro and not on another? At the core they're basically the same. My understandiung is that their differences lie in bells, whistles and included driver support.
I can understand NT/win32 differences but this seems like another "mandatory upgrade" scheme.
It looks like since you weren't bound by an agreement you have every right to disclose your findings. The RIAA is saying your actions "would subject your research team to enforcement actions under the DMCA and possibly other federal laws."
I understand the reasoning behind countersuing for disruption of research, but why would you choose this option over a direct countersuit to challenge the DMCA? Your victory could theoretically mean the end of the DMCA by setting a valuable precedent.
Sure its not very practical but my god, porting a first person shooter to a digital camera? Surely that deserves points just for the sheer insanity of it all.
The USPS, even when faced with items such as an unwrapped deer tibia and rotting wheel of cheese, had a 64% received rate. Right now they're looking alot better than UPS or Fedex.
The "experiment" is documented here at the Annals of improbable research.
(2) reduce the number density of the photomultiplier tubes by about a half.
If they can up and cut the number of sensors in half will they still detect the "blue streak" of the Nuetrino if one happens to pass through? If so why were their that many photosensors in it in the first place?
Additionally - the tank will again be flooded with the same amount of water, and correspondingly, water pressure. With only half the amount of sensors - wont these sensors each have more pressure placed on them? Wasnt a collapse because of water pressure what caused the initial sensor implosion chain reaction?
This seems like a real cut-throat solution, I wish there was more of an explanation than just a few lines . . . Good to hear they're rebuilding though.
This was done in June of 2000 by Epson-Sieko (yes the printer people) and CDT, a British company that researches OLEDs and similar crap.
Google brings up some resulst verifiying this but unfortunately the real copies are down - heres what google has cached.
The prototype colour display has been made using CDTâs red, green and blue polymer materials and an industry first ink-jet printing process developed for the project.
I consulted at Worldcom in Spring and Summer 2000 at their offices on Centennial Road in Piscataway, NJ. I was part of the Private Network Engineering group, which gets the bigger and more complicated clients.
Here's what it was like when I worked there, followed by what I HEAR its like now:
My work time was split up between drafting customer documents like pretty network maps, configuring routers/switches, and participating in teleconferences to help techs around the world install that equipment after its been shipped. The work was fun if youre the engineering type - but youre not a paper pusher. your creative side has an outlet too as most documents require some artistic skill to appease clients.
The environment was standard cube-farm. I came in contact with project leads and managers all day, and none of them wore anything dressier than slacks. Its a real khakis and polo kinda place. My co-workers were very helpful and even took the time to explain new technologies to me If I was unfamiliar with them. Its not very cut-throat and I was suprised at the HUGE mix of people and educations that did this highly technical work confidently.
Engineers have access to training labs stocked with some pretty serious new equipment. This was probably the coolest thing about Worldcom - the free training. Shared on the network were SCADS of e-training courses from top vendors on subjects as diverse as design, configuration, and administration. We'd have trainers come in on big projects if we were going to be introduced to new vendor equipment. A few times a year you can ask for an outside training course and youll probably get it.
Overall I really liked it and would highly recomend the Piscataway, NJ or White Plains (Rye), NY worldcom offices to anyone involved. Actually the Rye ofice was mad cool with beer on "managers' sick" days and nerf weapons out the wazoo.
Ive heard Worldcom has been plagued with problems lately though. Theyre low on funds to the point taht they sometimes can pre-order the equipment theyll need for a customer. Many of my old co-workers are watching DVDs for days on end for lack of clients. Lets hope the market comes back up for em.
-My 2 cents and THANKS JIM NOCELLA for gettin me that job:)
mod me down as OffTopic if you want but that is AMAZING! -
Why isnt this a frontpage article? Basically cisco is deploying an upper atmosphere wireless IP layer for planes, shuttles and research craft.
With the new version of the software, a Cisco router along with its entire network of connected IP devices can now roam seamlessly across network boundaries and connection types, the company said. For example, an airplane with a router running Cisco mobile IP can fly around the world with all passengers continuously connected to the Internet.
He said NASA will deploy Cisco's mobile networks on low-earth-orbiting research craft to allow continuous connection to the Internet.
With the economy as it is Cisco still has the capital and sway to create a wireless network that will blanket the WORLD? The potential to hack this is unbelIEVable. A strong mobile transceiver would be almost untraceable.
Beyond the sheer magnitude of this is the complexity of the technical details behind it. This network has to be completely self healing and aware of where networks will show up next, all with astoundingly fast convergence time. No current routing protocol would be able to handle this without some serious modification. Im guessing its completely proprietary.
for all you anime fans this is straight outta cowboy bebop - pictures of ed in the desert with a satellite dish come to mind.
They have a desktop/OS app that looks cool but doesnt make much monetary sense to me on a desktop unless you custom design a cheap thin client to run it and only it on.
What does make sense though - is running these little apps on a wireless handheld. Build the Rebol assembler into an ASIC so it runs native code quickly - and let the application server do all the work.
Rebol looks cool but just like most java apps on the desktop are passed over for native code, I dont see this flying. Perhaps if they sought to fill the niche market of weak wireless devices theyd have more success. In either case good luck to them - I havent had the chance to do any cool machine level programming like this since I lost my TI and its various shells.
Dayam! I LOVE MacOS X
Below are links to screenshots showing Mac OS X 10.1 running XFree86 rootless with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6], VPC test drive running WinXP and ircle
Slashdot Mirror
The picture from the farked site is here: disney.jpg
Not that this stinks, but this stinks of automated "liquid bravery/no-doze/morphine" delivery. It seems almost tailor-made to be part of an automated battlefield drug delivery system. It could fit into a small beltpack containing a pda sized circuit board, a few vials of specific drugs and a small motorized needle.
:) ?
-If a soldier, whom the pc knows is "on watch" starts to show signs of fatigue, the device automically injects some caffeine or even ephedra.
-If a soldier gets an arm blown off in a trench far from a medic, the device could automatically inject morphine, or even a heavy coagulant to help his wound stop bleeding.
Wonder which branch of the military Vanderbilt has been receiving its recent grants from
Im sorry but this article is completely inaccurate. Im an OOL customer and I actively participate in the OOL discussions on broadbandreports. The discretionary cap was put into place because users were clogging upstream channels with p2p uploads. It got so bad that DHCP requests on some nodes (mine in particular) could not be recieved within even a 17 second ack window. It does NOT have to do with pressure from the RIAA.
Here's why: The cap is not a new portblock (they already block 80 to discourage webhosting), but simply a different cable modem config file with a lower upstream maximum. The ordinary config for OOL is 10 megabits down and 1 megabit up. the altered config file is 10 megabits down and only 150 kilobits up.
Obviously this is a solution that was implemented to control bandwidth, not specific applications. If OOL were to start battling p2p apps, it would come in the form of a portblock or traffic shaper - NOT an upload throttle.
To the author of the story, please do your homework. You can start in the OOL forums on BBR:
http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/cable,opt
Besides the legal liability and misrepresentation that a "rogue tech" places on his employer, he also screws the tech support process for the user the next time he/she decides to call in for real help.
Succesful helpdesks, specifically in the level 1 & 2 enivronments, rely on scripts. These scripts are written so that an escalated ticket (one that level 1 cannot handle) arrives at the next level of tech support with that user environment "clean" - that is, level 2 assumes that level 1 has already made sure the user's environment is in a kind of "virgin" state.
When a higher level tech jumps in on a problem from level 1 (such as in these forums) they almost always prolong the length of the customer's next call to tech support because of user assumptions and level 1 ignorance of the support history. While some problems may be solved completely within the context of a forum, the majority of users will at some time in the future call tech support again. This raises costs and decreases the availability of support for the rest of the userbase.
BTW I talk with Optimum Online techs on the BBR forums and Yahoogroups all the time. They are careful not to engage in tech support out in the open, and speak only in an unofficial context. They're extremely helpful and hundreds of users appreciate their unofficial support everyday. If you want a model of how to keep your more advanced users happy while limiting liability and misrepresentation - check out the impromptu support model they've created there.
A "large quantity of water" entered the storage tank because an employee who had just been fired dropped a hose into it out of spite (he didnt know what would happen, he just wanted to ruin something). Yes the safety precautions were under-par, but when someone with legitimate access wants to destroy something its pretty hard to prevent.
:).
And yes, this has nothing to do with programming error
"Will the wardriving of the future include scooping up pictures?"
.
It already does . .
Drfrank is right. I use powerstrip and its an excellent reccomendation for this question. I sont have any points right now so someone mod this up. Hope that mod gets screwed in metamod.
There is no sinlge best "place," but a good start is of course, pricewatch, which compares a large number of online retailers.
Computer shows in your area are also a good bet, as small outfits will put together a barebones for less than even pricewatch can most of the time.
Finally, try "hot deals" forums like anandtech and fatwallet. They have decent coupon/rebate deals you can use locally or online to snag some great cheap accesories.
Hope that helps!
because NOBODY has them and your floor gets Fsckin disgusting, tile or carpet.
Forget all your problems with clippy -
someone should port this to win32 with a plugin that lets it fsck up the purple monkey. I know quite a few NetAdmins who would pay to be rid of that damn thing.
Congratulations to the bost of you - and know that the odds are with you as geek marriages have far greater odds of surviving than civilians'.
This is kinda like the first MS antitrust article or the WTC article - I just had to get in for posterity.
-Jon
The English FAQ, located here, contains some wonderful translations. Here are some examples:
"Therefore, you can get your desk-top PC level of images from PDA size and weight of control unit."
WIA will come with you and present all the images while you are relaxing in couch, sofa, or even in bed.
This device is specially designed for WIA.You will touch the window shining blue on the device, and move the finger to the direction you would like to move the pointer in the screen
You can use it upside down, which is preferable when you read books in bed
Dont get me wrong - this looks like a great product - it just brought back memories of "someone set up us the bomb."
1968 - includes MOVIES of working links
1965
1940's
And alot more
The list goes on and on. Let them squander their money. To quote a recent game - "If theyre deadset on squandering prescious resources sabotaging their own [] efforts, I say we let em do it."
Along the same vein I cant believe Xerox hasnt made a stink about this. You think they would have learned their lesson after not screaming about the mouse, GUI, etc . . .
Burn my karma and mod me down if you want but THANK GOD the quickies are back. I missed them so so much.
Besides intentionally crippling the software, why would something work on one win32 distro and not on another? At the core they're basically the same. My understandiung is that their differences lie in bells, whistles and included driver support.
I can understand NT/win32 differences but this seems like another "mandatory upgrade" scheme.
It looks like since you weren't bound by an agreement you have every right to disclose your findings. The RIAA is saying your actions "would subject your research team to enforcement actions under the DMCA and possibly other federal laws."
I understand the reasoning behind countersuing for disruption of research, but why would you choose this option over a direct countersuit to challenge the DMCA? Your victory could theoretically mean the end of the DMCA by setting a valuable precedent.
Great article, but they forgot this:
The DOOM kodak Digita OS port
Sure its not very practical but my god, porting a first person shooter to a digital camera? Surely that deserves points just for the sheer insanity of it all.
Who remembers this article a while back?
The USPS, even when faced with items such as an unwrapped deer tibia and rotting wheel of cheese, had a 64% received rate. Right now they're looking alot better than UPS or Fedex.
The "experiment" is documented here at the Annals of improbable research.
(2) reduce the number density of the photomultiplier tubes by about a half.
If they can up and cut the number of sensors in half will they still detect the "blue streak" of the Nuetrino if one happens to pass through? If so why were their that many photosensors in it in the first place?
Additionally - the tank will again be flooded with the same amount of water, and correspondingly, water pressure. With only half the amount of sensors - wont these sensors each have more pressure placed on them? Wasnt a collapse because of water pressure what caused the initial sensor implosion chain reaction?
This seems like a real cut-throat solution, I wish there was more of an explanation than just a few lines . . . Good to hear they're rebuilding though.
This was done in June of 2000 by Epson-Sieko (yes the printer people) and CDT, a British company that researches OLEDs and similar crap.
Google brings up some resulst verifiying this but unfortunately the real copies are down - heres what google has cached.
The prototype colour display has been made using CDTâs red, green and blue polymer materials and an industry first ink-jet printing process developed for the project.
I consulted at Worldcom in Spring and Summer 2000 at their offices on Centennial Road in Piscataway, NJ. I was part of the Private Network Engineering group, which gets the bigger and more complicated clients.
:)
Here's what it was like when I worked there, followed by what I HEAR its like now:
My work time was split up between drafting customer documents like pretty network maps, configuring routers/switches, and participating in teleconferences to help techs around the world install that equipment after its been shipped. The work was fun if youre the engineering type - but youre not a paper pusher. your creative side has an outlet too as most documents require some artistic skill to appease clients.
The environment was standard cube-farm. I came in contact with project leads and managers all day, and none of them wore anything dressier than slacks. Its a real khakis and polo kinda place. My co-workers were very helpful and even took the time to explain new technologies to me If I was unfamiliar with them. Its not very cut-throat and I was suprised at the HUGE mix of people and educations that did this highly technical work confidently.
Engineers have access to training labs stocked with some pretty serious new equipment. This was probably the coolest thing about Worldcom - the free training. Shared on the network were SCADS of e-training courses from top vendors on subjects as diverse as design, configuration, and administration. We'd have trainers come in on big projects if we were going to be introduced to new vendor equipment. A few times a year you can ask for an outside training course and youll probably get it.
Overall I really liked it and would highly recomend the Piscataway, NJ or White Plains (Rye), NY worldcom offices to anyone involved. Actually the Rye ofice was mad cool with beer on "managers' sick" days and nerf weapons out the wazoo.
Ive heard Worldcom has been plagued with problems lately though. Theyre low on funds to the point taht they sometimes can pre-order the equipment theyll need for a customer. Many of my old co-workers are watching DVDs for days on end for lack of clients. Lets hope the market comes back up for em.
-My 2 cents and THANKS JIM NOCELLA for gettin me that job
mod me down as OffTopic if you want but that is AMAZING! -
Why isnt this a frontpage article? Basically cisco is deploying an upper atmosphere wireless IP layer for planes, shuttles and research craft.
With the new version of the software, a Cisco router along with its entire network of connected IP devices can now roam seamlessly across network boundaries and connection types, the company said. For example, an airplane with a router running Cisco mobile IP can fly around the world with all passengers continuously connected to the Internet.
He said NASA will deploy Cisco's mobile networks on low-earth-orbiting research craft to allow continuous connection to the Internet.
With the economy as it is Cisco still has the capital and sway to create a wireless network that will blanket the WORLD? The potential to hack this is unbelIEVable. A strong mobile transceiver would be almost untraceable.
Beyond the sheer magnitude of this is the complexity of the technical details behind it. This network has to be completely self healing and aware of where networks will show up next, all with astoundingly fast convergence time. No current routing protocol would be able to handle this without some serious modification. Im guessing its completely proprietary.
for all you anime fans this is straight outta cowboy bebop - pictures of ed in the desert with a satellite dish come to mind.
check out the Rebol page of existing apps - all pretty small.
They have a desktop/OS app that looks cool but doesnt make much monetary sense to me on a desktop unless you custom design a cheap thin client to run it and only it on.
What does make sense though - is running these little apps on a wireless handheld. Build the Rebol assembler into an ASIC so it runs native code quickly - and let the application server do all the work.
Rebol looks cool but just like most java apps on the desktop are passed over for native code, I dont see this flying. Perhaps if they sought to fill the niche market of weak wireless devices theyd have more success. In either case good luck to them - I havent had the chance to do any cool machine level programming like this since I lost my TI and its various shells.
Heres the text:
Dayam! I LOVE MacOS X
Below are links to screenshots showing Mac OS X 10.1 running XFree86 rootless with IceWM running BasiliskII [running MacOS 7.6], VPC test drive running WinXP and ircle
Picture 2 [jpg] - Good Detail
Copyright 2001 Tappa Kegga Brew Enterprises
Picture Mirrored on a good server
It looks pretty cool - cant think of what use this would be though. This guys website has no text about it at all. It goes something like:
Dayam I love Mac OSX - look what I did.
No lie thats all it says.