Sure, the RIAA harps on the evils of filesharing and litigate towards their next Carribean vacation, all the while while reaping it's benefits. They certainly don't want us to know the truth.
today, I don't get a paper reciept, but a little "I VOTED" over an american flag sticker that I can stick on my forehead and wear around the rest of the day with great pride. As far as I can tell, it has been this way for decades.
how about a system like this: You receive a blank, keyed, serialized watermarked 3x5 card when you show your voter registration card and sign your name, ...insert the card in the machine, ...make your vote, ...the machine logs the vote on the hard drive with the date and time to milliseconds,
and just prints or machine-punches a running MD5 or other such hash of the vote with maybe the hash of the previous ballot or three or four (just try to steal the election NOW, suckers), time of day, parity block, and other relavent information then dumps the now cast 'paper ballot' in a secure bin for records and verification. Preserve the integrity of paper voting, using less paper, increasing the security and continuity, and cautiously usher in the future.
Honestly, I see the whole thing as a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I have no need or desire for e-voting in my district, and if some jackass wants to put it here, I will do everything I can to make sure these safeguards are in place. 2000 was just one of those glitches in the system...they happen.
Florida Surrenders.
(don't try flaming me, I cast my vote, I did my part)
I agree with you. Too many people so far have been quick to dismiss on the whole idea: too difficult, prohibitively expensive, too complicated, impossible to match the efficiency (I2R) of a factory built unit, I really can't be bothered with it right now (must h4x0r & m4k3 xeyes ub3r 1337 v2.0).
Think about this. The resources are already staring you in the face. The/. community has all the knowledge on how to make something like this work, in the OSS fashion.
The reason I submitted the whole question, is that there is an untapped market for Hybrid-Electric retrofits for existing cars. I am no automotive physicist, but a relatively simple pulley/drive for an electric motor hybrid system, would seem like a concept akin to a bicycle freewheel. When torque/power is not being supplied like when you are pedalling or laying on the gas, the downhill coasting energy (conveniently managed by the cruise control) and braking action would be spinning the dynamo and recharging the capacitor/battery.
True, the auto companies are the ones designing the engines built around the dynamo, and setting the standards for hybrid vehicles. They know what they are doing and have been in this game a LOT longer than any 'aftermarket' outfit. but we as a society really should be developing the external technology for cars on the road today. True, the cost of the supply is higher than I had hoped, but wouldn't creating a demand and stimulating the economy by creating a market for hybrids fix the cost issue? Hell, I may not be able to get 70mpg in my 1995 Accord, but the tax break and ANY modest increase in fuel efficiency and less need for pricy gas is incentive enough for me...
...maybe then I won't have to use my car to deliver pizzas and maybe get a real job and whine about outsourcing and unemployment.
bah! a simple drop in the bucket when THIS crowning achievement will complete your Ultimate Gaming System(TM). Your uber up-to-the-second technology, your fancy-schmancy gaming chairs, etc.
All you would need now with a headset like this would be a intraveneous Mountain Dew drip and a catheter. You will never have to leave your computer again!
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I thought Cameo was only a one-hit-wonder, until I had the misfortune of seeing that stupid video of Posh Spice, or whoever the hell that was who covered this song last.
Even simpler. If your PocketPC has CompactFlashandSDIO slots, a ported version of airpwn would be equally disruptive, and much harder to detect physically.
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Give God a little more credit than that. He's got a universal chemestry set (quite simply, it's more uber than yours). And he knows a LOT more about the Human Genome, Alien Genome and other such "chemical nonsense" than you do. How do you think we got here and were made. Do you really think Watson, Crick et al figured it all out on their own, and weren't gently steered in the right direction?
Also, assuming that you are out travelling the great countryside, the portablesatellitedishes that are available to access the internet from literally anywhere on a laptop, some don't take up much more of a footprint than the laptop itself. Perhaps you won't get the same blazing speed or latency as a landline, but it could truly have it's benefits.
If I had the mod points, I would mod you up. Instead I will reply.
Most people seem to forget that Windows is a commercial product. Microsoft is indeed in the game to make money. For shelling out $299 (certainly not a drop in the bucket) for a licensed copy of XP Professional, Microsoft is providing you considerably more service and value than just a CD thrown in a cardboard box. Product Support Services can be called at any time, 24/7; the Windows Update site, anytime 24/7, Knowledge Base 24/7, Developer Support 24/7...see a pattern here?
People tend to place a lot more value on the things they have to work for. Give 1 teenager a car, and force the other teenager to work for his own. Which teenager will still have the car after 5 years? Same thing with Windows and Linux. Linux is significantly different enough from Windows that it will cost me more time than money to learn what the differences are and get my skills with Linux up to the same level as I have with Windows. Money is simply a measure of value, and since time = money, I am not ready to make that commitment yet.
If the folks who support Linux would get together and settle their differences and fragmentation and decide on some standards on what to use, how to do it, and how to support it, then I would be more willing to make the time commitment to learn Linux. Seeing as no one is getting paid to do all this on the Linux end and no money, hence the VALUE aspect, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Indeed I am scary:), but no more scary than a criminologist who realizes shit like this everyday. Keep in mind, I have never stalked or assaulted someone. I was only posting the paranoid worst case scenario. I am more worried about the rest of the/. crowd.
In spite of all the advantages that waypoint notes could have, and I see quite a few, I must agree with parent. I can only imagine the inevitable case where a stalker is being a menace, and as the frightened prey getting startling little jolts from the phone in her pocket when she runs into one of these virtual notes:
BOO! You really should take your shirt off I can see you, little girl, can you see me?? >:)
Not to say, of course, since she has triple-bolted all her doors and windows and would be quite difficult to attack...
...only to have some/. perv 25 feet away hacking the waypoint database from his phone to leave messages directly in her path in his creepy cat & mouse game.
I agree with you. Back in the mid-late 90s yahoo, hotmail (pre-MS), and other providers were easily paying over $100 per gig of space. Why, back in day, 1995 I believe...
I fondly remember those days installing those newfangled Western Digital 1.6 GB Caviar drives working at the Mom & Pop Computer Shop. Those puppies were selling like hotcakes for about $200, and I remember having to walk a mile to and from the bus stop where I had to ride for an half hour trip and hoof it for another mile, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both directions....with only 2400 baud.
AND BY GOLLY WE LIKED IT!
Almost 10 years later, you kids have it so easy these days. They keep making the drives bigger and faster and cheaper and smaller. These days a 160GB drive only goes for a measly 77 clams. Oh yeah, those guys over at Google were smart. Establish their presence first, and invest in ungodly amounts of hard drive space for dirt cheap. It's 2004, why on earth wouldn't those companies that did it in the 90s be pissed off about it.
I can think of several different ways to make it work. -Rigging a simple pocket mirror to the flash, think something like 2"x2". It might look tacky but could produce some good effects. -Fabricating a small clip to the flash that would have a sort of half-cone chrome mylar reflector to catch and spread out the flash. -Other than that, I am pretty sure someone makes a compatible remote-flash, or make your own out of a disposable camera.
Improvising is something that photographers and geeks alike have been doing for many years.
As soon as FL Studio decides to release their Pocket PC version of the software, 2GB would be quite sufficient to be able to hold a sizeable sample collection for when you are on extended journeys and want to pound out some tunes.
From the looks of the sales pitch for this game and a supposedly way to establish a new type of currency, this is sounding more and more like Project Entropia. Played that one and dumped around $40 to try and get some return on my investment (only as much as any other game).
However, I jumped in quite early, before they went Gold and ended up losing all of it trying to hunt and mine after they nerfed everything. I am skeptical as to this one if it has the same types of flaws, bugs, moral issues, etc.
At no time in flight will the Evergreen Supertanker operate outside the Boeing 747's normal operating parameters. The drop speed is approximately 140 knots. This provides a 30% cushion over the Boeing 747's stall speed.
It is carrying far less in weight, even fully laden, considering the lack of passenger seats, partitions, and other items pertaining to the passenger airline industry. They say it will also give them a buffer to land with their loads, so that any aborted missions won't have to waste the retardant in a pre-landing dump, like the current aircraft do.
I will elaborate further since it was by far the most lucid dream I have ever had, and probably one I will never forget.
A lot of the vigilanteism had stemmed from the continued abuses that governments had put upon their citizens with surveillance (read traffic cams, RFID, etc.). The breaking point was when nano-surveillance was introduced full-scale. Countless numbers of microscopic bugs with cameras relaying their info back to a central authority. You literally couldn't go anywhere without being watched, even in your own home. Citizens finally had the tools in consumer grade goods to be able to fight back against the governments, and it was a culture war like nobody had ever seen before.
Everything on computers was to the point that they had become wireless in every way...the keyboard (these still haven't gone away yet), mouse, monitor, cpu, even the power was wireless. What had changed little though was the protocols that everything was communicating with each other. n'th generations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were still driving communications. Everyone had some sort of gadget on them, not so much as it made any kind of statement to have the most uber gear, but out of necessity to keep up with the events that were unfolding around the world.
After I had woke up I wrote down as much as I could. One theory i had is that I had seen the 'sign of the beast' within some of this advanced technology. I am still not sure as to how much of this is true, but I have my suspicions, since the sign I saw wasn't anything anyone was expecting or even on the lookout for. This would certainly explain a lot of the religious uproar.
Other than that, a couple of the more cool techs I saw were Polymer TV and Nano-pen computing. Polymer TV had about the thickness and consistency of a mousepad, but could be stretched and distorted to fit in almost any environment. Kids loved to poke and prod at the images to watch the shapes change. (perhaps we are not too far off from this one either). Nano-pen computing was the current type of mobile-computing and had computers based inside of pens that you could turn on, and a stream of nano-cells would come from the pen in a smoke-like substance and form a screen that felt like saran-wrap that you could use in mid-air. You could point and click with the pen and be able to do about as much with as you could with the regular computers. If you lost any cohesion and some of the cells and they drifted away they were dirt-cheap to replace and could be found in almost every shop.
Whether all of this was merely a dream or a twisted vision of the future, I may never know until that day arrives.
Technology has been evolving at a rapid rate. Consumer grade cellphones had been blended with actual camcorders and were able to record and transmit at 1080i over the airwaves. The video calls were amazing. They were still quite a bit more bulky than the ones you have in your pocket, due to the extra features and they had more of a shape of a camcorder. There seemed to be a lot more vigilante news reporting at this time too, and there was a lot more chaos in the world.
Maybe the time I saw in my dream is closer than I thought.
Mod me offtopic if you feel necessary, I think it quite in context.
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Sure, the RIAA harps on the evils of filesharing and litigate towards their next Carribean vacation, all the while while reaping it's benefits. They certainly don't want us to know the truth.
They want to have their cake and eat it too.
today, I don't get a paper reciept, but a little "I VOTED" over an american flag sticker that I can stick on my forehead and wear around the rest of the day with great pride. As far as I can tell, it has been this way for decades.
...insert the card in the machine,
...make your vote,
...the machine logs the vote on the hard drive with the date and time to milliseconds,
how about a system like this:
You receive a blank, keyed, serialized watermarked 3x5 card when you show your voter registration card and sign your name,
and just prints or machine-punches a running MD5 or other such hash of the vote with maybe the hash of the previous ballot or three or four (just try to steal the election NOW, suckers), time of day, parity block, and other relavent information then dumps the now cast 'paper ballot' in a secure bin for records and verification. Preserve the integrity of paper voting, using less paper, increasing the security and continuity, and cautiously usher in the future.
Honestly, I see the whole thing as a "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I have no need or desire for e-voting in my district, and if some jackass wants to put it here, I will do everything I can to make sure these safeguards are in place. 2000 was just one of those glitches in the system...they happen.
Florida Surrenders.
(don't try flaming me, I cast my vote, I did my part)
Think about this. The resources are already staring you in the face. The
The reason I submitted the whole question, is that there is an untapped market for Hybrid-Electric retrofits for existing cars. I am no automotive physicist, but a relatively simple pulley/drive for an electric motor hybrid system, would seem like a concept akin to a bicycle freewheel. When torque/power is not being supplied like when you are pedalling or laying on the gas, the downhill coasting energy (conveniently managed by the cruise control) and braking action would be spinning the dynamo and recharging the capacitor/battery.
True, the auto companies are the ones designing the engines built around the dynamo, and setting the standards for hybrid vehicles. They know what they are doing and have been in this game a LOT longer than any 'aftermarket' outfit. but we as a society really should be developing the external technology for cars on the road today. True, the cost of the supply is higher than I had hoped, but wouldn't creating a demand and stimulating the economy by creating a market for hybrids fix the cost issue? Hell, I may not be able to get 70mpg in my 1995 Accord, but the tax break and ANY modest increase in fuel efficiency and less need for pricy gas is incentive enough for me...
bah! a simple drop in the bucket when THIS crowning achievement will complete your Ultimate Gaming System(TM). Your uber up-to-the-second technology, your fancy-schmancy gaming chairs, etc.
All you would need now with a headset like this would be a intraveneous Mountain Dew drip and a catheter. You will never have to leave your computer again!
I thought Cameo was only a one-hit-wonder, until I had the misfortune of seeing that stupid video of Posh Spice, or whoever the hell that was who covered this song last.
I hereby banish this discussion back to the 80's!
Even simpler. If your PocketPC has CompactFlash and SDIO slots, a ported version of airpwn would be equally disruptive, and much harder to detect physically.
Microsoft has been slashdotted.
I'm going to DISNEYLAND!!
Knowledge == Power
Omniscient == Omnipotent
Quit trolling and go back to Sunday-School.
I agree with the earlier parent about Disney engaging in censorship, but while you are on P2P, don't forget to grab THE most controversial movie that Disney ever created.
I, for one, welcome our new car with personality overlords.
not to mention...the susceptability to hackers, terrorists, secret societies and/or Japanese schoolgirls with uber computers.
Also, assuming that you are out travelling the great countryside, the portable satellite dishes that are available to access the internet from literally anywhere on a laptop, some don't take up much more of a footprint than the laptop itself. Perhaps you won't get the same blazing speed or latency as a landline, but it could truly have it's benefits.
As for the geothermal theory, if it was the cause of this under-ice lake, then the convection current would have eventually blended the two basins.
I remain skeptical.
If I had the mod points, I would mod you up. Instead I will reply.
Most people seem to forget that Windows is a commercial product. Microsoft is indeed in the game to make money. For shelling out $299 (certainly not a drop in the bucket) for a licensed copy of XP Professional, Microsoft is providing you considerably more service and value than just a CD thrown in a cardboard box. Product Support Services can be called at any time, 24/7; the Windows Update site, anytime 24/7, Knowledge Base 24/7, Developer Support 24/7...see a pattern here?
People tend to place a lot more value on the things they have to work for. Give 1 teenager a car, and force the other teenager to work for his own. Which teenager will still have the car after 5 years? Same thing with Windows and Linux. Linux is significantly different enough from Windows that it will cost me more time than money to learn what the differences are and get my skills with Linux up to the same level as I have with Windows. Money is simply a measure of value, and since time = money, I am not ready to make that commitment yet.
If the folks who support Linux would get together and settle their differences and fragmentation and decide on some standards on what to use, how to do it, and how to support it, then I would be more willing to make the time commitment to learn Linux. Seeing as no one is getting paid to do all this on the Linux end and no money, hence the VALUE aspect, I don't see it happening anytime soon.
Prove me wrong.
Indeed I am scary :), but no more scary than a criminologist who realizes shit like this everyday. Keep in mind, I have never stalked or assaulted someone. I was only posting the paranoid worst case scenario. I am more worried about the rest of the /. crowd.
BOO!
You really should take your shirt off
I can see you, little girl, can you see me?? >:)
Not to say, of course, since she has triple-bolted all her doors and windows and would be quite difficult to attack...
Don't forget the cheese sandwich next time!
actually, the most well known term for a person of African and European descent is Mulatto
I agree with you. Back in the mid-late 90s yahoo, hotmail (pre-MS), and other providers were easily paying over $100 per gig of space. Why, back in day, 1995 I believe...
I fondly remember those days installing those newfangled Western Digital 1.6 GB Caviar drives working at the Mom & Pop Computer Shop. Those puppies were selling like hotcakes for about $200, and I remember having to walk a mile to and from the bus stop where I had to ride for an half hour trip and hoof it for another mile, barefoot, in the snow, uphill both directions....with only 2400 baud.
AND BY GOLLY WE LIKED IT!
Almost 10 years later, you kids have it so easy these days. They keep making the drives bigger and faster and cheaper and smaller. These days a 160GB drive only goes for a measly 77 clams. Oh yeah, those guys over at Google were smart. Establish their presence first, and invest in ungodly amounts of hard drive space for dirt cheap. It's 2004, why on earth wouldn't those companies that did it in the 90s be pissed off about it.
HEY, GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS!
I can think of several different ways to make it work.
-Rigging a simple pocket mirror to the flash, think something like 2"x2". It might look tacky but could produce some good effects.
-Fabricating a small clip to the flash that would have a sort of half-cone chrome mylar reflector to catch and spread out the flash.
-Other than that, I am pretty sure someone makes a compatible remote-flash, or make your own out of a disposable camera.
Improvising is something that photographers and geeks alike have been doing for many years.
As soon as FL Studio decides to release their Pocket PC version of the software, 2GB would be quite sufficient to be able to hold a sizeable sample collection for when you are on extended journeys and want to pound out some tunes.
From the looks of the sales pitch for this game and a supposedly way to establish a new type of currency, this is sounding more and more like Project Entropia. Played that one and dumped around $40 to try and get some return on my investment (only as much as any other game).
However, I jumped in quite early, before they went Gold and ended up losing all of it trying to hunt and mine after they nerfed everything. I am skeptical as to this one if it has the same types of flaws, bugs, moral issues, etc.
It is carrying far less in weight, even fully laden, considering the lack of passenger seats, partitions, and other items pertaining to the passenger airline industry. They say it will also give them a buffer to land with their loads, so that any aborted missions won't have to waste the retardant in a pre-landing dump, like the current aircraft do.
I will elaborate further since it was by far the most lucid dream I have ever had, and probably one I will never forget.
A lot of the vigilanteism had stemmed from the continued abuses that governments had put upon their citizens with surveillance (read traffic cams, RFID, etc.). The breaking point was when nano-surveillance was introduced full-scale. Countless numbers of microscopic bugs with cameras relaying their info back to a central authority. You literally couldn't go anywhere without being watched, even in your own home. Citizens finally had the tools in consumer grade goods to be able to fight back against the governments, and it was a culture war like nobody had ever seen before.
Everything on computers was to the point that they had become wireless in every way...the keyboard (these still haven't gone away yet), mouse, monitor, cpu, even the power was wireless. What had changed little though was the protocols that everything was communicating with each other. n'th generations of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were still driving communications. Everyone had some sort of gadget on them, not so much as it made any kind of statement to have the most uber gear, but out of necessity to keep up with the events that were unfolding around the world.
After I had woke up I wrote down as much as I could. One theory i had is that I had seen the 'sign of the beast' within some of this advanced technology. I am still not sure as to how much of this is true, but I have my suspicions, since the sign I saw wasn't anything anyone was expecting or even on the lookout for. This would certainly explain a lot of the religious uproar.
Other than that, a couple of the more cool techs I saw were Polymer TV and Nano-pen computing. Polymer TV had about the thickness and consistency of a mousepad, but could be stretched and distorted to fit in almost any environment. Kids loved to poke and prod at the images to watch the shapes change. (perhaps we are not too far off from this one either). Nano-pen computing was the current type of mobile-computing and had computers based inside of pens that you could turn on, and a stream of nano-cells would come from the pen in a smoke-like substance and form a screen that felt like saran-wrap that you could use in mid-air. You could point and click with the pen and be able to do about as much with as you could with the regular computers. If you lost any cohesion and some of the cells and they drifted away they were dirt-cheap to replace and could be found in almost every shop.
Whether all of this was merely a dream or a twisted vision of the future, I may never know until that day arrives.
Technology has been evolving at a rapid rate. Consumer grade cellphones had been blended with actual camcorders and were able to record and transmit at 1080i over the airwaves. The video calls were amazing. They were still quite a bit more bulky than the ones you have in your pocket, due to the extra features and they had more of a shape of a camcorder. There seemed to be a lot more vigilante news reporting at this time too, and there was a lot more chaos in the world.
Maybe the time I saw in my dream is closer than I thought.
Mod me offtopic if you feel necessary, I think it quite in context.