The phone companies now are running into the same exact problem as the Internet has. It's called Number Portability and it's a major PITA.
Well, I admit that I don't have any intimate knowledge of the phone system, but when I dial a phone number, it works like 99.99999% of the time, when I type in an IP address, it works about 90% of the time, and sometimes it's very slow. (Not counting the times it's a local problem, only counting failures and slowdowns more than one hop away)
So, in my layman's knowledge, it seems that the phone system is far superior in routing. -
What I'm looking for is a storage medium that doesn't decay with time.
I submitted this to slashdot about 3000 years ago, and they rejected it.
The jist of it was you take this chisel, and a large smooth flat rock, and then another rock that fits nicely in your hand.
OK, stay with me here, it gets a little technical.
You create a sort of verbal encoding scheme, a way to represent spoken words in a visual way, then once you assign symbols to words, you take the "hand-rock", and strike the rear of the chisel, while the chisel is resting on the other, flat, rock.
I created a prototype of this system, it seems that it works best when you use a type of rock that doesn't fracture easily, but yet is still pretty hard.
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Now, unless you're carding the people for other purposes or otherwise already have their ID, this will avail you nothing...
Well, all your ideas have valid rebuttals.
1. UV Ink
Risk of discovery. Once one person discovers it, because say, they see it in the sunlight, which contains enough UV to see UV inks on light paper, then everyone will know, because that person probably will submit it to slashdot.
2. Tiny Fonts
Same problem, someone might notice and blow your cover.
3. Order of people in a room
Well that works OK if you have the people there, but most surveys are mail-in.
4. Unless you are carding them it doesn't matter.
Well this is my scenario:
Company mails out surveys with the person's identity printed in this new pixel format in a graphic on the survey or something. You could print it at the same time you print the envelopes, a simple mail merge.
There is little chance of discovery by the target people, and if they are mailing it back in one of those "business reply" envelopes with no return address, you could probably convince them it is anonymous.
Sure, this isn't really a new technology per se, there have been ways to covertly embed data in images for a while, but this is probably the first one that can reliably be printed out and rescanned with no data loss. -
including a rough latitude and longitude for the system with the IP...
What about devices that change position. I suppose that a "rough" latitude would work for devices that don't move very far, but what about device on trucks, trains, airplanes, etc, that routinely cross continents? Would they have to get new IP addresses if they moved "too far"?
What he proposes is great, and makes sense. Its just like the phone system, with an area code and exchange.
I guess cell phones have to get a new phone number when they leave an area code?:)
The phone companies managed huge networks years before most of us were born, maybe we should take a lesson from them and quit being stuck up assholes. -
Hence the development of Hexechrome, a 6 primary ink system from Pantone
I work for a label printer, and 99.999% of what we do is CYMK.
If you all want to see Hexachrome in action, check out a V8 Splash label in the grocery store, they really do stand out against the other labels.
Also, you wouldn't believe what Pantone charges for those little color books with the reference colors in them.:) (They expire after a while too, the ink changes color in time) -
Although given what time we're each posting, I'll just assume we're tired.
Yeah, i've made some idiotic postings at 4-5 am lately.
I guess sarsam doesn't work right after a certain hour.:)
I go to Virginia Tech, but I am dropping out after this semester, to take a full time job, then I will be attending the University of Phoenix Online once I turn 23.
That way I won't ever have to fucking go to a boring class again. It's www.uophx.com I believe. You can copy and paste if you are interested, I am too lazy to HREF it.:)
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And then an Amateur Radio Operator/ham comes along and decides to start using the spectrum for Amateur TV, and the FCC comes in and shuts the "providers" down as they are infringing on the rightful license of said ham to use the 2.4GHz spectrum. *poof*:)
Yeah, we have 902-928 Mhz and several slices in the 2.4 Ghz area.
The thing that most people don't know is that their cordless phones and cell phones are often transmitting in plain FM on a public amateur radio band 902-928. They even have secondary allocation, so if I interfere with someone's oh-so-important cell phone call with my 1500 watts, they can't do anything about it, as long as I didn't do it "intentionally", but that is kinda a hard thing to prove.
I don't do that type of thing of course, just pointing out the possibilities. -
The Macrovision thing is a somewhat different thing, though. Macrovision was applied to the software, not the hardware.
I don't know what you are talking about. Macrovision manipulates the AGC, which is a physical voltage level. You can't get much more hardware than that. -
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I think the best way to deal with this is on a case by case level.
Mine your web server logs for referrer URLs, and when it appears that someone is linking to you that shouldn't be, then block them on a ip address basis, through the web server. -
Microwaves are just really short radio waves.
LF below 300khz
MF.3-3 Mhz
HF 3-30Mhz
VHF 30-300Mhz
UHF 300Mhz-3000Mhz (3Ghz)
SHF 3-30Ghz
As you can see, even 3Ghz phones are just at the top of UHF. Microwave is a more generic term that refers loosly to anything above 1Ghz or so. -
Why do you people even worry about it so much. Oral and Anal sex are illegal in VA too. It doesn't stop anyone from doing it, same with any stupid restrictions like this. They just won't work, because no one cares if your wife views the tape or not. -
Ever heard of a concept called "intentional interference"? I am a ham radio operator, and as such pretty familiar with FCC regs, and this system would be very very very illegal. $10,000 fine and a bunch of nasty letters. (They usually waive the fine if you suck up to them and you aren't rich, but if they catch you doing it again, thats a different story.) -
Darwinism hasn't worked with drunk drivers, it won't work here either, at least not on the road.
Why? Because driving drunk is really not THAT dangerous, assuming you aren't totally blasted. Its an unnecessary risk, of course, and you shouldn't drive drunk, but its sure not the certain death that the propaganda makes it out to be. I don't drive drunk and I bitch at people that do it, but I am also realistic.
But really, why all this talk about jamming cell phones. We really should jam people with loud stereos too, since they could potentially make it impossible to hear that rescue vehicle that is about to run the red light opposing your green.
Luckily, it's apparently not as "cool" to have a stereo so loud that you can hear it miles away anymore. I'm glad. -
So you are saying there is less information on the net now, than there was when it was completely government funded?
Like it or not, services cost money, a whole lot more money than the $20-$30 a month you pay for last mile service. For people to be able to offer information and still be able to eat, they have to make money. You can either pay for all of it, whether you use it or not, through taxes, or you can pay for only what you use.
Either prevent the corporations from excluding certain people or make them government institutions. Even the most ideologically blinded libertarian will have to acknowledge that it won't work any other way in the long term.
It's OK, the dead don't complain very much. It all works out in the end. -
There is a big exception to trademark laws. If your trademark falls into common use as a generic term for something, it basically loses its protection.
One court decisions supporting this precedent was Xerox in the 70s. I'm not sure if it was THE precedent case or not, but I know it was one.
Also:
CT: I'd personally never go so far as to call copyright infringement, I shouldn't have to.
It's kind of scary that the person who pretty much runs this little party, which so often addresses IP issues doesn't know the difference between a Trademark and a Copyright. -
Slashdot Mirror
I guess if we actually reformed patent and trademark, slashdot editors wouldn't have anything to scare people with.
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Well, yeah, but every sort of way to encode data in a linear and discrete way is similar to a turing machine tape.
I don't think that there are any world shaking implications of being able to write executable code on a sheet of paper. :)
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Well, I admit that I don't have any intimate knowledge of the phone system, but when I dial a phone number, it works like 99.99999% of the time, when I type in an IP address, it works about 90% of the time, and sometimes it's very slow. (Not counting the times it's a local problem, only counting failures and slowdowns more than one hop away)
So, in my layman's knowledge, it seems that the phone system is far superior in routing.
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I submitted this to slashdot about 3000 years ago, and they rejected it.
The jist of it was you take this chisel, and a large smooth flat rock, and then another rock that fits nicely in your hand.
OK, stay with me here, it gets a little technical.
You create a sort of verbal encoding scheme, a way to represent spoken words in a visual way, then once you assign symbols to words, you take the "hand-rock", and strike the rear of the chisel, while the chisel is resting on the other, flat, rock.
I created a prototype of this system, it seems that it works best when you use a type of rock that doesn't fracture easily, but yet is still pretty hard.
Once we get the bugs worked out, I can release more details.
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Well, all your ideas have valid rebuttals.
1. UV Ink
Risk of discovery. Once one person discovers it, because say, they see it in the sunlight, which contains enough UV to see UV inks on light paper, then everyone will know, because that person probably will submit it to slashdot.
2. Tiny Fonts
Same problem, someone might notice and blow your cover.
3. Order of people in a room
Well that works OK if you have the people there, but most surveys are mail-in.
4. Unless you are carding them it doesn't matter.
Well this is my scenario:
Company mails out surveys with the person's identity printed in this new pixel format in a graphic on the survey or something. You could print it at the same time you print the envelopes, a simple mail merge.
There is little chance of discovery by the target people, and if they are mailing it back in one of those "business reply" envelopes with no return address, you could probably convince them it is anonymous.
Sure, this isn't really a new technology per se, there have been ways to covertly embed data in images for a while, but this is probably the first one that can reliably be printed out and rescanned with no data loss.
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What about devices that change position. I suppose that a "rough" latitude would work for devices that don't move very far, but what about device on trucks, trains, airplanes, etc, that routinely cross continents? Would they have to get new IP addresses if they moved "too far"?
What he proposes is great, and makes sense. Its just like the phone system, with an area code and exchange.
I guess cell phones have to get a new phone number when they leave an area code? :)
The phone companies managed huge networks years before most of us were born, maybe we should take a lesson from them and quit being stuck up assholes.
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Hence the development of Hexechrome, a 6 primary ink system from Pantone I work for a label printer, and 99.999% of what we do is CYMK. If you all want to see Hexachrome in action, check out a V8 Splash label in the grocery store, they really do stand out against the other labels. Also, you wouldn't believe what Pantone charges for those little color books with the reference colors in them. :) (They expire after a while too, the ink changes color in time)
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Yeah, i've made some idiotic postings at 4-5 am lately.
I guess sarsam doesn't work right after a certain hour. :)
I go to Virginia Tech, but I am dropping out after this semester, to take a full time job, then I will be attending the University of Phoenix Online once I turn 23.
That way I won't ever have to fucking go to a boring class again. It's www.uophx.com I believe. You can copy and paste if you are interested, I am too lazy to HREF it. :)
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Just how long do you think slashdot has been around?
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Uh no.
ELF Extremely Low Frequency 3 - 30 Hz 100,000 - 10,000 km
SLF Super Low Frequency 30 - 300 Hz 10,000 - 1,000 km
ULF Ultra Low Frequency 300 - 3000 Hz 1,000 - 100 km
VLF Very Low Frequency 3 - 30 kHz 100 - 10 km
LF Low Frequency 30 - 300 kHz 10 - 1 km
MF Medium Frequency 300 - 3000 kHz 1 km - 100 m
HF High Frequency 3 - 30 MHz 100 - 10 m
VHF Very High Frequency 30 - 300 MHz 10 - 1 m
UHF Ultra High Frequency 300 - 3000 MHz 1 m - 10 cm
SHF Super High Frequency 3 - 30 GHz 10 - 1 cm
EHF Extremely High Frequency 30 - 300 GHz 1 cm - 1 mm
And if it is some sort of marketing BS that made up "XHF", shame on you for perverting science with marketspeak.
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Wonder how that got attached to the wrong thread... oops.
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Uh no.
ELF Extremely Low Frequency 3 - 30 Hz 100,000 - 10,000 km
SLF Super Low Frequency 30 - 300 Hz 10,000 - 1,000 km
ULF Ultra Low Frequency 300 - 3000 Hz 1,000 - 100 km
VLF Very Low Frequency 3 - 30 kHz 100 - 10 km
LF Low Frequency 30 - 300 kHz 10 - 1 km
MF Medium Frequency 300 - 3000 kHz 1 km - 100 m
HF High Frequency 3 - 30 MHz 100 - 10 m
VHF Very High Frequency 30 - 300 MHz 10 - 1 m
UHF Ultra High Frequency 300 - 3000 MHz 1 m - 10 cm
SHF Super High Frequency 3 - 30 GHz 10 - 1 cm
EHF Extremely High Frequency 30 - 300 GHz 1 cm - 1 mm
And if it is some sort of marketing BS that made up "XHF", shame on you for perverting science with marketspeak.
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Yeah, we have 902-928 Mhz and several slices in the 2.4 Ghz area.
The thing that most people don't know is that their cordless phones and cell phones are often transmitting in plain FM on a public amateur radio band 902-928. They even have secondary allocation, so if I interfere with someone's oh-so-important cell phone call with my 1500 watts, they can't do anything about it, as long as I didn't do it "intentionally", but that is kinda a hard thing to prove.
I don't do that type of thing of course, just pointing out the possibilities.
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The Macrovision thing is a somewhat different thing, though. Macrovision was applied to the software, not the hardware. I don't know what you are talking about. Macrovision manipulates the AGC, which is a physical voltage level. You can't get much more hardware than that.
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I think the best way to deal with this is on a case by case level. Mine your web server logs for referrer URLs, and when it appears that someone is linking to you that shouldn't be, then block them on a ip address basis, through the web server.
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Microwaves are just really short radio waves. LF below 300khz MF .3-3 Mhz
HF 3-30Mhz
VHF 30-300Mhz
UHF 300Mhz-3000Mhz (3Ghz)
SHF 3-30Ghz
As you can see, even 3Ghz phones are just at the top of UHF. Microwave is a more generic term that refers loosly to anything above 1Ghz or so.
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Why do you people even worry about it so much. Oral and Anal sex are illegal in VA too. It doesn't stop anyone from doing it, same with any stupid restrictions like this. They just won't work, because no one cares if your wife views the tape or not.
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Non-metallic things are invisible to radio waves. No glass will ever stop radio waves, unless it is doped with something metallic.
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Ever heard of a concept called "intentional interference"? I am a ham radio operator, and as such pretty familiar with FCC regs, and this system would be very very very illegal. $10,000 fine and a bunch of nasty letters. (They usually waive the fine if you suck up to them and you aren't rich, but if they catch you doing it again, thats a different story.)
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Why? Because driving drunk is really not THAT dangerous, assuming you aren't totally blasted. Its an unnecessary risk, of course, and you shouldn't drive drunk, but its sure not the certain death that the propaganda makes it out to be. I don't drive drunk and I bitch at people that do it, but I am also realistic.
But really, why all this talk about jamming cell phones. We really should jam people with loud stereos too, since they could potentially make it impossible to hear that rescue vehicle that is about to run the red light opposing your green.
Luckily, it's apparently not as "cool" to have a stereo so loud that you can hear it miles away anymore. I'm glad.
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Like it or not, services cost money, a whole lot more money than the $20-$30 a month you pay for last mile service. For people to be able to offer information and still be able to eat, they have to make money. You can either pay for all of it, whether you use it or not, through taxes, or you can pay for only what you use.
You tell me what is better.
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You don't think that we are expected to buy a stock without knowing where the money is and what they are doing with it, do you?
Go look up their balance sheet on fool.com, it will have all the deatils of their money situation.
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Neilson the TV ratings people also do internet ratings.
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It's OK, the dead don't complain very much. It all works out in the end.
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One court decisions supporting this precedent was Xerox in the 70s. I'm not sure if it was THE precedent case or not, but I know it was one.
Also: CT: I'd personally never go so far as to call copyright infringement, I shouldn't have to.
It's kind of scary that the person who pretty much runs this little party, which so often addresses IP issues doesn't know the difference between a Trademark and a Copyright.
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