The artist Richard Box has used the electromagnetic field generated by overhead transmission cables to power 1300 fluorescent lightbulbs positioned underneath
Technically, he scoops out energy from overhead lines. True, it's insignificant, but still he could be charged with theft. Of course, since it's art, I doubt anybody at the power company will say anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if they told him to take his art somewhere else.
A well know, similar "application", was demonstrated when wireless transmission technologies boomed in the 30s in Paris : the first antennas had been installed on top of the Eiffel tower and were putting out dozens of kilowatts. Some smart guy started selling battery-less flashlights under the tower, and a lot of gullible people bought them, amazed that they indeed created light magically without batteries. Little did they know the magic flashlights had a little coil inside that used the Eiffel tower antennas' HF power to light up the bulb, and therefore could only work under the tower. The flashlight seller was eventually caught and, far from being charged for scamming people, was charged for stealing TDF (French wireless authority) energy, which was apparently much worse.
But anyway, pretty cool art I say. The cows in the field nearby must have fun watching that every night.
Moulton says a more effective approach would compel companies to report vulnerabilities to the government, and give the government the power to enforce reforms, or, alternatively, warn the public.
Since when do governments of any country inform the public when they don't absolutely have to? when was the last time you thought of your leaders are public *servants*?
No, I think a better alternative would have been to screw PCII and let public scrutiny (and reactions) dictate what the government and the critical facilities should do. But as always since the war-on-terror bullshit, the government passes laws behinds people's back, without any consultation and approval of the people they're meant to represent and serve. F#)(*%&g brilliant:-(
I have NO REGRETS about paying to subscribe to Slashdot and the New York Times.
I can understand having no regrets to pay for NYT, but *Slashdot*? I will gladly pay Slashdot when they require everybody to pay, and disallow non-paying posters, and ban trolls even when they pay. But as long as they allow anybody and their dogs to post anything, the S/N ratio will continue to suck pond water from the bottom, and as a consequence, the content will keep being worth what I currently pay for it, which is close to naught.
These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY!
Holy crap, thanks a lot! I had forgotten breathing for several minutes and nearly died. Reading your troll saved my life!
so you are saying people should be restricted from using a technology (broadband internet) just because it conflicts with someone's hobby?
If the "hobby" was there before you, you bet!
i say majority rules. do a vote on it in nc, i am pretty sure that people would pick broadband internet over ham radio.
The majority of people would like to not pay taxes, drive Ferraris for the price of a Yugo, or rape women legally. It doesn't mean because they want it, they should get it.
Don't miss the interviews made by the FOSDEM guys : Hans Reiser, Ian Formanek, Keith Packard, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Love and many others.
Darl McBride? Blake Stowell, Ralph Yarro?
They too are part of the Linux movement, in their own weird sort of way. I mean, think about it : aren't these people at least in part responsible for uniting the free software world behind Linux, and provide a much needed distraction from the traditional boring ole Microsoft hatred?
With each new device or method used in airports to catch or filter out terrorists, the barrier to commit terrorist acts is raised higher. What do you think will happen when it becomes virtually impossible to do anything even remotely odd near or inside airports and airplanes? well I'll tell you : terrorists will fall back on easier targets, chiefly trains. And then, once a train has been derailled, every government will start applying airport police-state methods to railway stations and trains, and so on...
It's an endless battle. If countries carries on trying to defend themselves like they do now (mostly in the US, but also in other countries), they'll all turn into huge menacing police states. and terrorists will have won. If those countries don't defend themselves, terrorists will blow things up forever and will have won again.
What the world really needs is a true force of education in dangerous countries, a project that spans over 2 or 3 generations. The US is in Afghanistan and Iraq, why don't they set up schools to teach the current generation of kids there not to hate, and why terrorism is bad? They're not doing jack squat, and neither are any other countries concerned by terrorist threats. Instead of starting to implement that long-term, but only real solution to the terrorist problem, they barricade themselves and make life miserable for their own populations.
Man, come on dog, it is after all a free Operating System kernel. I bet you bitch about rain being wet... that's my word, holla...
My friend, not everybody uses Linux just for shits and giggle, and for the heck of saying "Windoze sux0rs" to buddies. I actually need to get work done with my Linux boxes, and so when a stable kernel isn't stable, it pisses me off.
Also, FYI, I reckon I have a certain right to be annoyed because I contribute code back to the free software community, in the form of userland software projects and specialized Linux drivers. It's not much perhaps, but I'm not just a freeloader who should be happy with what he gets for free.
Out if curiosity, why do you need ide-scsi? Most people in the past used it for CD burning under linux, but ide-scsi is no longer a requirement for using ATAPI cd burners.
I need(ed) it because I could not, for the hell of me, get a POS Mitsumi CD burner to work any other way. The other reason I want(ed) it was because I tend to dislike breaking things that work, such as init scripts, fstab, symlinks and various script thingy I made that expect the burner to be a scsi device, and other scsi devices to appear in a certain order when detected at boot time.
This said, I said "needed" and "worked" because I went buy a new burner yesterday and changed things to work with 2.6 (since I was messing with that box anyway). The Mitsumi was a 4x burner and it was high time:-)
the only way to get them to test is to bend the truth slightly, and call a beta version the new stable kernel
I realize that, but what I'm saying is that those in the know get burnt a couple of times, then see through the bullcrap and silently renumber the kernel versions. In the end, early adopters are pissed off because they've been lied to a little, and swear never to try newer stable versions again, newcomers get disgusted by the quality of early stable releases, and Linus doesn't get the testing he wanted that made him bend the truth in the first place, therefore everybody loses.
I'd much rather see Linus say : "here, there's this 2.5, we call it 2.5.xx-RC-something. It's close to 2.6, but not quite. *PLEASE* test it for us *PLEASE*!, that'll allow 2.6.0 to be good". He could even have a "best testers" or "more devoted QA volunteers" list prominently displayed on the main page at kernel.org, to appeal to people's sense of ego.
At least that would be a more honest approach to testing new kernels than lying to people.
I wish I could wrap my head around even the smallest part of the kernel. There is so much code in there and aside from main(), it is hard to find a good place to start studying.
You could contribute some work to SCO: I hear they're very interested in having someone sprinkle several "printk("(c) SCO\n");" lines here and there in init/main.c, since they can't do it themselves, having no technical department, being a law firm and all...
However, several key changes have improved overall stability as well as quality.
I have a suggestion : how about not calling development kernels with an even version number?
- 2.6.0-beta-something kernels were bad (okay fair enough, it was beta, and Linus admitted having called a 2.5.x kernel 2.6 in order to lure early adopters and get them to test it).
- 2.6.0, 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 were unstable for me, with doozies such as oopses while rmmoding and random crashes using ide-scsi (yes I know it's deprecated, but some of us need it).
I now run 2.6.3-rc3 and it's the first time it seems stable enough to be called a 2.6 kernel. There are some problems left, but overall it's getting decent. But then why are the others "2.6" kernel called 2.6 at all? they were really 2.5 kernels imho.
This has happened before, with the beginning of the 2.4 serie. I only felt it was getting good enough at version 2.4.6 and above (I'm not counting the failed 2.4.11 release). When 2.4.0 went out, I thought it meant it was ready for prime time, like 2.2.0 was, or at least was more, but no it was crap. I was slightly annoyed with Linus then, but I thought he had been pressured by commercial Linux shops and that he wouldn't do it again. But no, he did it again with 2.6.
It's really quite annoying, because those who follow Linux know the first "stable" kernels aren't stable at all, therefore avoid it, therefore defeat the point of testing it for Linus, but beginners think "cool, a new stable kernel", try it and are disappointed, giving a bad name to an otherwise great kernel. Too bad...
Your breath comes out at apporximately body temperature, for example, and making the air in a balloon body temperature plus or minus a few degrees would be tough.
Aaww crap, and there goes my ability to start a car now. Like if being able to drive only during the night wasn't annoying enough:-(
Ignition interlocks require a breath test, which takes 30 seconds to complete, to start the car as well as random 'rolling retests' to discourage others from taking the test for you.
Yep. I can see car chase scenes in movies becoming really boring very soon. Like the guy who robs a bank, runs to his getaway car, blows real hard in the breathalizer shouting COME ON! COME ON! then, 30 seconds later, puts the pedal to the metal.
More seriously though, what happens if you're in a lurch and you really need to get the hell out of here fast? Sure it doesn't happen often, but I can think of several parts of my town I sometimes have to go to, where I really appreciate to know my car will start rightaway if I need it fast.
Obviously, morse code operators have had ways of getting around using 'at' signs for almost two hundred years
Yes but you're missing the point : at the pace international Morse code is updated, we'll be able to do decent Morse ASCII art in less than 185 years!
By the way, and more seriously, people who do Morse code didn't wait for the ARRL to okay the use of this or that sign : a full international Morse code set with almost all ASCII signs, as well as regional sets, such as Russian and Japanese, have been around for quite some time now.
Check out CWirc or MorseAll to see what those unofficial extended Morse symbols are. Of course, they exist, but whether they're in use or not is another matter.
Intel just today announced a new and very powerful DRAM interface that bypasses Rambus IP altogether.
Unfortunately, most court disputes between hi-tech companies finish long after the technologies in question are dead. Just look at Lineo/Canopy : when they won the DRDOS settlement against Microsoft, Windows 95 and DOS were already just a painful reminder of the past.
So yes, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Intel can do without the Rambus IP. However, I doubt it's the real reason, because even when the disputed technologies are obsolete when the court reaches its verdict (or the parties settle), the money from damages or settlement is very real.
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The artist Richard Box has used the electromagnetic field generated by overhead transmission cables to power 1300 fluorescent lightbulbs positioned underneath
Technically, he scoops out energy from overhead lines. True, it's insignificant, but still he could be charged with theft. Of course, since it's art, I doubt anybody at the power company will say anything, but I wouldn't be surprised if they told him to take his art somewhere else.
A well know, similar "application", was demonstrated when wireless transmission technologies boomed in the 30s in Paris : the first antennas had been installed on top of the Eiffel tower and were putting out dozens of kilowatts. Some smart guy started selling battery-less flashlights under the tower, and a lot of gullible people bought them, amazed that they indeed created light magically without batteries. Little did they know the magic flashlights had a little coil inside that used the Eiffel tower antennas' HF power to light up the bulb, and therefore could only work under the tower. The flashlight seller was eventually caught and, far from being charged for scamming people, was charged for stealing TDF (French wireless authority) energy, which was apparently much worse.
But anyway, pretty cool art I say. The cows in the field nearby must have fun watching that every night.
they attempt to collect moeny from people who wish to be spared the effects of said DOS
Will I be spared if I don't pay Slashdot moeny? I run CP/M...
If a critical infractructure runs Linux, can they just give PCII folks a tarball of the kernel source code to disclose their vulnerabilities?
Moulton says a more effective approach would compel companies to report vulnerabilities to the government, and give the government the power to enforce reforms, or, alternatively, warn the public.
:-(
Since when do governments of any country inform the public when they don't absolutely have to? when was the last time you thought of your leaders are public *servants*?
No, I think a better alternative would have been to screw PCII and let public scrutiny (and reactions) dictate what the government and the critical facilities should do. But as always since the war-on-terror bullshit, the government passes laws behinds people's back, without any consultation and approval of the people they're meant to represent and serve. F#)(*%&g brilliant
I have NO REGRETS about paying to subscribe to Slashdot and the New York Times.
I can understand having no regrets to pay for NYT, but *Slashdot*? I will gladly pay Slashdot when they require everybody to pay, and disallow non-paying posters, and ban trolls even when they pay. But as long as they allow anybody and their dogs to post anything, the S/N ratio will continue to suck pond water from the bottom, and as a consequence, the content will keep being worth what I currently pay for it, which is close to naught.
Our was a quasi-hippie/radical/anarchist/liberal/cerebral/in tellectual/rock-n-roll experience
It was a GNU rock-n-roll station then?
These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY!
Holy crap, thanks a lot! I had forgotten breathing for several minutes and nearly died. Reading your troll saved my life!
Loves,
Chris
so you are saying people should be restricted from using a technology (broadband internet) just because it conflicts with someone's hobby?
If the "hobby" was there before you, you bet!
i say majority rules. do a vote on it in nc, i am pretty sure that people would pick broadband internet over ham radio.
The majority of people would like to not pay taxes, drive Ferraris for the price of a Yugo, or rape women legally. It doesn't mean because they want it, they should get it.
Who cares about the military pigs' channels?
Good riddance.
10-4 good buddy...
CB Radio (29Mhz)
Small correction: CB Radio is on 27Mhz (11m)
Don't miss the interviews made by the FOSDEM guys : Hans Reiser, Ian Formanek, Keith Packard, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Love and many others.
Darl McBride? Blake Stowell, Ralph Yarro?
They too are part of the Linux movement, in their own weird sort of way. I mean, think about it : aren't these people at least in part responsible for uniting the free software world behind Linux, and provide a much needed distraction from the traditional boring ole Microsoft hatred?
With each new device or method used in airports to catch or filter out terrorists, the barrier to commit terrorist acts is raised higher. What do you think will happen when it becomes virtually impossible to do anything even remotely odd near or inside airports and airplanes? well I'll tell you : terrorists will fall back on easier targets, chiefly trains. And then, once a train has been derailled, every government will start applying airport police-state methods to railway stations and trains, and so on ...
It's an endless battle. If countries carries on trying to defend themselves like they do now (mostly in the US, but also in other countries), they'll all turn into huge menacing police states. and terrorists will have won. If those countries don't defend themselves, terrorists will blow things up forever and will have won again.
What the world really needs is a true force of education in dangerous countries, a project that spans over 2 or 3 generations. The US is in Afghanistan and Iraq, why don't they set up schools to teach the current generation of kids there not to hate, and why terrorism is bad? They're not doing jack squat, and neither are any other countries concerned by terrorist threats. Instead of starting to implement that long-term, but only real solution to the terrorist problem, they barricade themselves and make life miserable for their own populations.
Um... Women don't have a Y chromosome.
Don't worry, most women he sees on the net are XXX probably, so he wouldn't know anyway.
And for those X lovers, use Y's extensibility to make it X compatible.
So basically it's "Y-XFree86", right? There might be prior art here, I've heard people say that for years.
Man, come on dog, it is after all a free Operating System kernel. I bet you bitch about rain being wet... that's my word, holla...
My friend, not everybody uses Linux just for shits and giggle, and for the heck of saying "Windoze sux0rs" to buddies. I actually need to get work done with my Linux boxes, and so when a stable kernel isn't stable, it pisses me off.
Also, FYI, I reckon I have a certain right to be annoyed because I contribute code back to the free software community, in the form of userland software projects and specialized Linux drivers. It's not much perhaps, but I'm not just a freeloader who should be happy with what he gets for free.
Out if curiosity, why do you need ide-scsi? Most people in the past used it for CD burning under linux, but ide-scsi is no longer a requirement for using ATAPI cd burners.
:-)
I need(ed) it because I could not, for the hell of me, get a POS Mitsumi CD burner to work any other way. The other reason I want(ed) it was because I tend to dislike breaking things that work, such as init scripts, fstab, symlinks and various script thingy I made that expect the burner to be a scsi device, and other scsi devices to appear in a certain order when detected at boot time.
This said, I said "needed" and "worked" because I went buy a new burner yesterday and changed things to work with 2.6 (since I was messing with that box anyway). The Mitsumi was a 4x burner and it was high time
the only way to get them to test is to bend the truth slightly, and call a beta version the new stable kernel
I realize that, but what I'm saying is that those in the know get burnt a couple of times, then see through the bullcrap and silently renumber the kernel versions. In the end, early adopters are pissed off because they've been lied to a little, and swear never to try newer stable versions again, newcomers get disgusted by the quality of early stable releases, and Linus doesn't get the testing he wanted that made him bend the truth in the first place, therefore everybody loses.
I'd much rather see Linus say : "here, there's this 2.5, we call it 2.5.xx-RC-something. It's close to 2.6, but not quite. *PLEASE* test it for us *PLEASE*!, that'll allow 2.6.0 to be good". He could even have a "best testers" or "more devoted QA volunteers" list prominently displayed on the main page at kernel.org, to appeal to people's sense of ego.
At least that would be a more honest approach to testing new kernels than lying to people.
I wish I could wrap my head around even the smallest part of the kernel. There is so much code in there and aside from main(), it is hard to find a good place to start studying.
You could contribute some work to SCO: I hear they're very interested in having someone sprinkle several "printk("(c) SCO\n");" lines here and there in init/main.c, since they can't do it themselves, having no technical department, being a law firm and all...
However, several key changes have improved overall stability as well as quality.
...
I have a suggestion : how about not calling development kernels with an even version number?
- 2.6.0-beta-something kernels were bad (okay fair enough, it was beta, and Linus admitted having called a 2.5.x kernel 2.6 in order to lure early adopters and get them to test it).
- 2.6.0, 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 were unstable for me, with doozies such as oopses while rmmoding and random crashes using ide-scsi (yes I know it's deprecated, but some of us need it).
I now run 2.6.3-rc3 and it's the first time it seems stable enough to be called a 2.6 kernel. There are some problems left, but overall it's getting decent. But then why are the others "2.6" kernel called 2.6 at all? they were really 2.5 kernels imho.
This has happened before, with the beginning of the 2.4 serie. I only felt it was getting good enough at version 2.4.6 and above (I'm not counting the failed 2.4.11 release). When 2.4.0 went out, I thought it meant it was ready for prime time, like 2.2.0 was, or at least was more, but no it was crap. I was slightly annoyed with Linus then, but I thought he had been pressured by commercial Linux shops and that he wouldn't do it again. But no, he did it again with 2.6.
It's really quite annoying, because those who follow Linux know the first "stable" kernels aren't stable at all, therefore avoid it, therefore defeat the point of testing it for Linus, but beginners think "cool, a new stable kernel", try it and are disappointed, giving a bad name to an otherwise great kernel. Too bad
Your breath comes out at apporximately body temperature, for example, and making the air in a balloon body temperature plus or minus a few degrees would be tough.
:-(
Aaww crap, and there goes my ability to start a car now. Like if being able to drive only during the night wasn't annoying enough
Love,
-- Count Vlad Dracul
So, when Indians get drunk and drive home, it is significantly harder than it is, say, for me when I have too much at the BW3 5 minutes away.
*Ride* home you mean, I presume. Indeed it's hard to retrofit an ignition interlock to a horse.
Ignition interlocks require a breath test, which takes 30 seconds to complete, to start the car as well as random 'rolling retests' to discourage others from taking the test for you.
Yep. I can see car chase scenes in movies becoming really boring very soon. Like the guy who robs a bank, runs to his getaway car, blows real hard in the breathalizer shouting COME ON! COME ON! then, 30 seconds later, puts the pedal to the metal.
More seriously though, what happens if you're in a lurch and you really need to get the hell out of here fast? Sure it doesn't happen often, but I can think of several parts of my town I sometimes have to go to, where I really appreciate to know my car will start rightaway if I need it fast.
Obviously, morse code operators have had ways of getting around using 'at' signs for almost two hundred years
Yes but you're missing the point : at the pace international Morse code is updated, we'll be able to do decent Morse ASCII art in less than 185 years!
By the way, and more seriously, people who do Morse code didn't wait for the ARRL to okay the use of this or that sign : a full international Morse code set with almost all ASCII signs, as well as regional sets, such as Russian and Japanese, have been around for quite some time now.
Check out CWirc or MorseAll to see what those unofficial extended Morse symbols are. Of course, they exist, but whether they're in use or not is another matter.
Within 5 years, I predict that most machines will use RAM memory for all system storage
Tally-ho then, time to get Duracell stocks I guess.
Intel just today announced a new and very powerful DRAM interface that bypasses Rambus IP altogether.
Unfortunately, most court disputes between hi-tech companies finish long after the technologies in question are dead. Just look at Lineo/Canopy : when they won the DRDOS settlement against Microsoft, Windows 95 and DOS were already just a painful reminder of the past.
So yes, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Intel can do without the Rambus IP. However, I doubt it's the real reason, because even when the disputed technologies are obsolete when the court reaches its verdict (or the parties settle), the money from damages or settlement is very real.