this was actually something a friend and I discussed after the 9/11 attacks.
lets say the government calls the automotive and/or oil companies together and says: "Here is $20 billion dollars. If you come up with a (technical) solution to our oil dependency you don't have to pay it back. If you come up with the solution in less than 3 years, the revenue rights revert to you."
$20 billion would cover the cost PLUS help assuage them from protecting their huge oil profits (a little).
I believe they could do it in 3 years, and then start selling it to the rest of the world.
To quote my friend: 'We'd send the middle east back to the 1800's.... B.C.!'. Imagine how quickly the problems disappear when you don't have a bunch of super-rich whackos over there.
Just an idea. I am sure it will be totally ignored.
are you telling me that the Freedom Ben was talking about was the Freedom to walk onto an airplane with barely a shred of security measures?
or the Freedom for non-citizens to use our infrastructure to communicate plans of attack?
lets face it, we live in a different time and we have to make up our own rules as best we can. applying these panoramic-view quotes simply shows that you can't see the trees through the forest (i know that's backwards).
move a layer, or level, lower and focus on specific problems rather than these blanket responses that prove nothing except that you are unable to put some real thought into these problems.
Just a word of warning. I bought one of these Anthro desks about a year ago. They are very solid and stable. However, I must warn you of this since you are living in an apartment: the reason they are so strudy and wonderful is because they are made out of quality materials, like good old fashioned steel.
So, why do you care? Sounds great, right?
You can NEVER move again. I unfortunately am trying to. I cannot imagine how I am going to get this 200lb desk down two flights of stairs (no elevator), much less into a truck/van -- without taking it apart. It took me about 6 hours to put this thing together, and now I have to take it apart again. argh!
But I _love_ the desk, there is so much room on it that I have doubled the amount of crap and unopened mail in my apartment since I got it. Also, the people at Anthro are awesome - one of the legs of my desk did not get manufactured properly (missing an all important screw hole!) and they Fed Ex'd me a new one, no questions asked.
i am not sure how well known this is - none of the people i work with or know knew about it - but there is a new 'radio' service coming out pretty soon. its called 'xm radio'. they are throwing two geosynchronous (i think thats the term) satellites up - one over the west, the other over the east - that will broadcast content.
from what i can gather it's $10 a month for 100 'stations' - some of the programming looks pretty sweet. plus the devices can move from car to home - sony makes one (thats always a good sign).
the major drawback is probably reception in areas with lots of tall buildings and having to have a view of a particular 'horizon' a la DirecTV.
i read some of their legal-ese and it mentions reverse-engineering along with the other normal stuff. but i am sure that the hardware hackers are going to have a blast with this.
the way I figure it, the registrars are making a fortune. I imagine that Guiness has to pay for that guys domain name, right? So the more domains you register that get taken, the more money the registrars get. So do the registrars have anything to do with these rules?
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why do _I_ have to come up with all the brillaint ideas around here?
I forget which one said this, but it was along the lines of: "...and once your kids help you install the software, it will help you regulate their use of the internet".
and some genius trashes one by throwing LINUX on it? real good.
I also like the smart replies about Palms. An iPaq does not run PalmOS it runs WinCE (which is probably why they wanted to put Linux on it in the first place)
And if anyone from Compaq is reading this, could you try to actually make some of these iPaqs? I went to a convention and one of the door prizes was an iPaq -- but they didn't actually have one, they gave him a certificate! Can you imagine?
For those of you who don't actually read the articles, here was an interesting tid bit:
Standardization of BXXP would be a boon to Invisible Worlds, a start-up founded by Rose that is developing BXXP-based intranet search and data management applications for large corporations. Several Internet luminaries are affiliated with Invisible Worlds including Carl Malamud, who helped get the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval database online, Internet book publisher Tim O'Reilly and UUNET founder Rick Adams.
I am not saying this is a good or a bad thing, its just interesting. Draw your own conclusions.
It will be interesting to see if all these highly intelligent people can get together and make money.
i agree that it totally made up, but there is a product called PCAnywhere in which you can actually view a remote pc screen. its also a pretty common port search - i see it a few times a month. of course, the user should have the software installed and poor passwording;)
its called a jury. if you get arrested for this, get one for yourself. Im no lawyer, but if this really means peers, then no group of your mp3 ripping friends would throw you in jail;)
of course if gramps and grandma can potentially be up there..you're done for.
as far as i know, jury's can make *any* decision that they want, even if its not in direct relation to the law...so if the RIAA takes this to court and gets the wrong jury they could blow their entire strategy...
well, remember, there is such a thing as creative bookkeeping. creativity does not always have to have a positive connotation. if you read the story on Transmeta part of their creativity (obviously not the bulk of it (: ) was creating a buzz around a new term Code Morphing. These Rambus guys created a new way to literally buy market share. i personally found it to be a rather interesting business strategy -- and it leaves them wide open (i would imagine) for lawsuits and government inquiries -- i cannot imagine that buying market share is legal.
i understand that there are different opinions on what sort of business and ethical standards there should be, but i think it was a pretty ballsy move.
I don't, but its a story of a better technology losing the market. why? i can only imagine that it had a good deal to do with consumer stupidity and a great deal to do with movie studio deals to put their movies on the inferior videotape format due to marketing and good ole $US.
Does RAMbus really suck? i have no clue, but their management team has shown themeselves to be creative and willing to put their balls on the chopping block. $158 million may not mean much to Intel, but ill bet the people at rambus have more than that on the line -- and it DOES mean something to them.
Now, im sure we all would agree that buying market share is not a healthy capitalistic practice, but do you think Intel would be wasting their time for $158 million on a technology that was anything less than adequate? i wouldn't think so.
everyone here loves the newest/fastest/bestest stuff, but in the real world we rarely get it in our hardware -- think about why there is not a HARDWARE equivalent of open source software...its called factories -- bring on the nanobots!
I just got an announcement from SDSU that Mike Robertson (MP3.com CEO) will be speaking at San Diego State on Monday. If you want to see the announcement, its at: my web page
This was sent out for students looking to interview, but if I were interested in working for them this lawsuit is the first thing that I would be asking about!
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as mentioned this book is for the masses who want to learn about cryptography, but who couldn't factor 20, much less trying to pull prime factors out of some huge number. (see, I'm not even sure if thats how it works, but since I read the book I can now spout stuff like this out and pretend I know what I'm talking about!)
The stories are all interesting, but I think what will interest/.ers is the discussion of PGP, and finally quantum cryptography. I also like the fact that Mr. Singh included a disclaimer at the beginning of the book that essentially says, 'all current technology I write about may have already been made obsolete by discoveries and applications already use by gevernments' - and then goes on to make a compelling case as to why this must certainly be true! All in all a good read.
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I think that it is a given that the only reason rates are going up or tiered pricing is being introduced is because of heavy users, right?
These heavy users are donwloading pr0n, mp3s, WaReZ and movies right?
IANAL, but a logical step is that the cable companies are making money off of illegal activity.
Therefore, once this stuff gets instituted the RIAA, MPAA and that dumb software group can come in a sue the providers. right?
If not, why?
Bye. Bye.
this was actually something a friend and I discussed after the 9/11 attacks.
.... B.C.!'. Imagine how quickly the problems disappear when you don't have a bunch of super-rich whackos over there.
lets say the government calls the automotive and/or oil companies together and says: "Here is $20 billion dollars. If you come up with a (technical) solution to our oil dependency you don't have to pay it back. If you come up with the solution in less than 3 years, the revenue rights revert to you."
$20 billion would cover the cost PLUS help assuage them from protecting their huge oil profits (a little).
I believe they could do it in 3 years, and then start selling it to the rest of the world.
To quote my friend: 'We'd send the middle east back to the 1800's
Just an idea. I am sure it will be totally ignored.
are you telling me that the Freedom Ben was talking about was the Freedom to walk onto an airplane with barely a shred of security measures?
or the Freedom for non-citizens to use our infrastructure to communicate plans of attack?
lets face it, we live in a different time and we have to make up our own rules as best we can. applying these panoramic-view quotes simply shows that you can't see the trees through the forest (i know that's backwards).
move a layer, or level, lower and focus on specific problems rather than these blanket responses that prove nothing except that you are unable to put some real thought into these problems.
Just a word of warning. I bought one of these Anthro desks about a year ago. They are very solid and stable. However, I must warn you of this since you are living in an apartment: the reason they are so strudy and wonderful is because they are made out of quality materials, like good old fashioned steel.
So, why do you care? Sounds great, right?
You can NEVER move again. I unfortunately am trying to. I cannot imagine how I am going to get this 200lb desk down two flights of stairs (no elevator), much less into a truck/van -- without taking it apart. It took me about 6 hours to put this thing together, and now I have to take it apart again. argh!
But I _love_ the desk, there is so much room on it that I have doubled the amount of crap and unopened mail in my apartment since I got it. Also, the people at Anthro are awesome - one of the legs of my desk did not get manufactured properly (missing an all important screw hole!) and they Fed Ex'd me a new one, no questions asked.
anyway. thats all i got.
i am not sure how well known this is - none of the people i work with or know knew about it - but there is a new 'radio' service coming out pretty soon. its called 'xm radio'. they are throwing two geosynchronous (i think thats the term) satellites up - one over the west, the other over the east - that will broadcast content.
from what i can gather it's $10 a month for 100 'stations' - some of the programming looks pretty sweet. plus the devices can move from car to home - sony makes one (thats always a good sign).
the major drawback is probably reception in areas with lots of tall buildings and having to have a view of a particular 'horizon' a la DirecTV.
i read some of their legal-ese and it mentions reverse-engineering along with the other normal stuff. but i am sure that the hardware hackers are going to have a blast with this.
the way I figure it, the registrars are making a fortune. I imagine that Guiness has to pay for that guys domain name, right? So the more domains you register that get taken, the more money the registrars get. So do the registrars have anything to do with these rules?
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why do _I_ have to come up with all the brillaint ideas around here?
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I forget which one said this, but it was along the lines of: "...and once your kids help you install the software, it will help you regulate their use of the internet".
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I love the part about the Duke doctors making rounds with voice activated stuff.
Can I just run around yelling "control alt delete! control alt delete!" ?
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and some genius trashes one by throwing LINUX on it? real good.
I also like the smart replies about Palms. An iPaq does not run PalmOS it runs WinCE (which is probably why they wanted to put Linux on it in the first place)
And if anyone from Compaq is reading this, could you try to actually make some of these iPaqs? I went to a convention and one of the door prizes was an iPaq -- but they didn't actually have one, they gave him a certificate! Can you imagine?
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...a Geek Stud(tm) calendar should do the trick and reverse the tide.
Now, the question is, will i have a 12 month calendar or one of those single sheet calendars with Jeff Bezos on it?
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And how come they only give us the flops count?
how about more information like frame rate?
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It will be interesting to see if all these highly intelligent people can get together and make money.
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I happen to parse data from weather.com for certain reasons and it is soooooo sloooowwwww.
I am talking about upwards of 5-15 seconds to get a response when requesting area specific weather.
granted, this may also be a db problem, but that type of response time is just plain TERRIBLE
hopefully this will improve....
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i agree that it totally made up, but there is a product called PCAnywhere in which you can actually view a remote pc screen. its also a pretty common port search - i see it a few times a month. of course, the user should have the software installed and poor passwording ;)
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its called a jury. if you get arrested for this, get one for yourself. Im no lawyer, but if this really means peers, then no group of your mp3 ripping friends would throw you in jail
of course if gramps and grandma can potentially be up there..you're done for.
as far as i know, jury's can make *any* decision that they want, even if its not in direct relation to the law...so if the RIAA takes this to court and gets the wrong jury they could blow their entire strategy...
just some random thoughts
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well, remember, there is such a thing as creative bookkeeping. creativity does not always have to have a positive connotation. if you read the story on Transmeta part of their creativity (obviously not the bulk of it (: ) was creating a buzz around a new term Code Morphing. These Rambus guys created a new way to literally buy market share. i personally found it to be a rather interesting business strategy -- and it leaves them wide open (i would imagine) for lawsuits and government inquiries -- i cannot imagine that buying market share is legal.
i understand that there are different opinions on what sort of business and ethical standards there should be, but i think it was a pretty ballsy move.
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I don't, but its a story of a better technology losing the market. why? i can only imagine that it had a good deal to do with consumer stupidity and a great deal to do with movie studio deals to put their movies on the inferior videotape format due to marketing and good ole $US.
Does RAMbus really suck? i have no clue, but their management team has shown themeselves to be creative and willing to put their balls on the chopping block. $158 million may not mean much to Intel, but ill bet the people at rambus have more than that on the line -- and it DOES mean something to them.
Now, im sure we all would agree that buying market share is not a healthy capitalistic practice, but do you think Intel would be wasting their time for $158 million on a technology that was anything less than adequate? i wouldn't think so.
everyone here loves the newest/fastest/bestest stuff, but in the real world we rarely get it in our hardware -- think about why there is not a HARDWARE equivalent of open source software...its called factories -- bring on the nanobots!
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I just got an announcement from SDSU that Mike Robertson (MP3.com CEO) will be speaking at San Diego State on Monday. If you want to see the announcement, its at: my web page
This was sent out for students looking to interview, but if I were interested in working for them this lawsuit is the first thing that I would be asking about!
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as mentioned this book is for the masses who want to learn about cryptography, but who couldn't factor 20, much less trying to pull prime factors out of some huge number. (see, I'm not even sure if thats how it works, but since I read the book I can now spout stuff like this out and pretend I know what I'm talking about!)
/.ers is the discussion of PGP, and finally quantum cryptography. I also like the fact that Mr. Singh included a disclaimer at the beginning of the book that essentially says, 'all current technology I write about may have already been made obsolete by discoveries and applications already use by gevernments' - and then goes on to make a compelling case as to why this must certainly be true! All in all a good read.
The stories are all interesting, but I think what will interest
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