You have planted yourself firmly in the idea that Orwell's insight into society has similarities to our current situation. This helps you to ignore the real danger out there.
1. The airport could lower the bandwidth available to individual users or at least monitor severe spikes in bandwidth use caused by one user. Once they see you doing it, it isn't tough to shut you off.
2. Denial of Service attacks from a single user are history. All reasonable targets have protections against single users. The real damage is done by Distributed Denial of Service attacks where a large number of nodes flood a target.
Granted, your point was how to catch abusers of the system and not that your attack would necessarily work. This problem plagues all wireless networks. While it may be difficult to track you down to an exact location, you are still in a post 9/11/01 airport. They are on the lookout for strange behavior.
I don't envy the first 'terrorist' caught packet flooding his least favorite web server.
I wouldn't mind if the extra bandwidth was used to improve the sound quality. Modern cell phones still are not as clear as land line phones and I would rather that than extra features I'll never use.
Don't be surprised if new and exciting ad placement techniques are used in conjuction with the new connectivity as well.
If you buy a map of the city, the restaurants and businesses you spend money at don't get a cut of the money you spent on the map and neither do any of the free attractions like the Lincoln Memorial in DC.
Many times the public is only one source of funding for universities and research companies. If a particular software project received 50% of its funds from the public, what should it do then? Take out all the comments?
You could argue that public funds should not go to closed source projects in the first place, but I would argue that the government should look to fund projects that benefit the public upon completion. Any product that doesn't (or reasonably appear to) benefit the public in some way should not be funded in the first place, regardless of the benefit of releasing the project's source code.
Here is the "article" yahoo linked to, although it plainly says "advertisement" right above the link. For those of you unwilling to support the ad, the article appears to be a normal review of the X-10 Camera and gives you information at the bottom to find out how to buy it.
It doesn't vanish, but it does open the room for a lot more RAM.
With 32 bits you can address 2 gigabytes worth of addresses:
0000000000000000000000000000000 is one address
0000000000000000000000000000001 is another
0000000000000000000000000000010 is another, and so on.
With 64 bits I believe you can address up to 8 exabytes of RAM, which is equal to 8192 petabytes or 8589934592 gigabytes. It shouldn't be too long before some program out there requires most of that to run even though now it seems like infinite RAM.
Definitely the best shooter I've played in a while. It has terrific 3D graphics and unique gameplay.
The major hook of the game is a feature called "Bullet Time" which puts the game in slow motion for a bit, but allows you to aim in real time. This allows you to dodge bullets as they wiz past you and get through areas you would have no chance to otherwise.
It's the only shooting game I've ever seen come close to providing similar scenes to those found in Hard Boiled, The Killer, or the Matrix.
consider that the author is framing his arguments in Mathematics, and more importantly, base-10 numbers
Unless he's basing his communication on how many digits are being sent out for some reason, the author's methods shouldn't break down if the Aliens have 17 fingers/tenticles/legs/eyes/etc. Math works in any base exactly the same and only the output is different. Actually, even the output is the same, but it just may look different.
Besides, if an Alien can determine that a signal is being sent to them, I think they might be smart enough to put it into whatever base is convienient for them.
I saw the pre MS Halo at E3 in 2000. I couldn't believe the level of detail in the game, but what I really liked was Bungie's demonstration of the scripts they ran to do crazy things in the engine to create battle scenes and combat scenarios. It seemed pretty easy and simple to do. The potential for an engine like this in the mod community's hands would have been golden.
We were promised 2001: A Space Odyssey, but got Independance Day instead. Then again, a lot of people liked Independance Day, too.
I'm sure it is a great game on the Xbox, but I'll still be hoping for a slick PC version with mod potential.
Does it seem to anyone else that the gameplay in Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems - or is - Quake 3 all over again, with different weapons?
I highly disagree that the gameplay is similar. Yes, using the same engine ensures that some things will look and feel similar, but I don't see how Wolf's goal based, team oriented gameplay is similar to Quake 3 Arena's "pure arcade deathmatch".
Quake 3: Encourages quick hands, great response times, solo fighting, good knowledge of locations for available power ups, jumping, fast shooting, etc.
RTCW: Encourages knowledge of map routes, countering player classes, teamwork, reloading, delayed respawns, protecting land areas instead of power ups, strategic plans of attack, etc.
To people who hardly ever play 3D shooters, I can see how they would think the games were similar, but I doubt you or I are in that category.
I'm no nuclear scientist, but I think it would be pretty obvious to international observers that a nuclear sized explosion knocked the asteroid off course. Once that happens, all fingers would immediately point to the US, so I still think the plan is far fetched.
What I would like to see is a real 'time capsule' on the moon with a permanent record of human history (up until now and ways of updating it every 10 years or so) and a detailed description of the human genome with samples.
This way if we ever nuke/shoot/infect/choke everyone on Earth, we'll be garunteed a lasting reminder of the human race for future earthlings and/or alien visitors.
I did a project during college at the National Institute of Health and it seemed to me that 90% of the people there used Macs. I know it is proprietary, but I thought I'd mention it since Macs weren't mentioned in the news.
It is easy to compare this situation to a number of futuristic nightmares told in literature, movies, and television, but doing so causes you, or the people you are talking to, to ignore the fact there is a real problem here, which requires a real solution.
Are our actions going to move the war home? They war came home 28 days ago.
What exactly makes the entry in the control panel so much easier and more accessible than right clicking (or shift-right clicking)? He makes a reasonable case concerning why we shouldn't have to deal with file extensions, but if right clicking is too advanced a feature for some I suggest we find these people and educate them in how to use their computer. Look for them going around and around in revolving doors.
I just graduated with CS degree from American University and I have worked on projects in groups and by myself. From experience, I can say that there is a time for both team and solo work, but sadly, many times the wrong methods are chosen.
When you should work by yourself:
Whenever you are learning something very new, which should be about 75% - 85% of your classes. If students work in groups, it is far too easy for some students to get by without learning a thing. I have seen groups of three where one student did everything, and the other two merely wrote in extra documentation! This cheats your best students and wastes time/money on your poor students.
When you should work in a group:
Whenever you are applying the knowledge you have gained toward a large project that would be too difficult for one student to complete in one semester. This would be typical of your later CS classes where you aren't learning how to program, but rather, higher level concepts such as operating systems, games, etc. Good students will have much less tolerance for slackers when developing a system of 30,000 lines than they will for your standard 'implement data structure X' project.
I wondered the same thing, but after reading the article it says (bold face put in by me):
"The infringed patent, U.S. Patent RE 36,801 (http://www.pausetechnology.com/patent.html), the ``Pause Patent,'' was originally filed in 1992 and issued in 1995. In 1996, a re-examination was requested, and on August 1, 2000 the patent was reissued by the Patent Office with the same filing date and additional claim coverage.
TiVo was notified on April 4th, 2000 and again on May 23, 2001 that it was infringing on the patent and an offer to discuss licensing terms was extended."
So they didn't exactly sit on it for 9 years and then all of a sudden slam TiVo with a lawsuit. I think TiVo's going to have to cough up the fees.
Maybe they will try to tax Australian residents for using the area beneath LA County, or even the satellites who use the space beneath them for that matter.
Hehe I'd like to see LA PROVE that a satellite passed over head. They can't even catch half the people who run through the EZ Pass lanes in NJ!
A simple majority does not have the right to take away the rights of the minority, and that's why changes to the constitution take approval of 2/3 of the states.
Phil,
Do you think organizations like the NSA should be able to try and crack any encrypted messages sent, or should the attempt at cracking only come with standard legal proceedings, such as a warrant?
This isn't much of an issue in the age of (nearly) uncrackable encryption, but with the promising development of new architectures, such as quantum computing, the scales could indeed tip back the other way, even if only temporarily.
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I'll be happy as long as I'm never a First Post Human.
I wouldnt want to let them send an ear biting boxer into space or some certain rich towel heads with a grudge against humanity.
That would be the first place I would send them.
You have planted yourself firmly in the idea that Orwell's insight into society has similarities to our current situation. This helps you to ignore the real danger out there.
You could be thwarted two ways:
1. The airport could lower the bandwidth available to individual users or at least monitor severe spikes in bandwidth use caused by one user. Once they see you doing it, it isn't tough to shut you off.
2. Denial of Service attacks from a single user are history. All reasonable targets have protections against single users. The real damage is done by Distributed Denial of Service attacks where a large number of nodes flood a target.
Granted, your point was how to catch abusers of the system and not that your attack would necessarily work. This problem plagues all wireless networks. While it may be difficult to track you down to an exact location, you are still in a post 9/11/01 airport. They are on the lookout for strange behavior.
I don't envy the first 'terrorist' caught packet flooding his least favorite web server.
I wouldn't mind if the extra bandwidth was used to improve the sound quality. Modern cell phones still are not as clear as land line phones and I would rather that than extra features I'll never use.
Don't be surprised if new and exciting ad placement techniques are used in conjuction with the new connectivity as well.
If you buy a map of the city, the restaurants and businesses you spend money at don't get a cut of the money you spent on the map and neither do any of the free attractions like the Lincoln Memorial in DC.
Many times the public is only one source of funding for universities and research companies. If a particular software project received 50% of its funds from the public, what should it do then? Take out all the comments?
You could argue that public funds should not go to closed source projects in the first place, but I would argue that the government should look to fund projects that benefit the public upon completion. Any product that doesn't (or reasonably appear to) benefit the public in some way should not be funded in the first place, regardless of the benefit of releasing the project's source code.
Here is the "article" yahoo linked to, although it plainly says "advertisement" right above the link. For those of you unwilling to support the ad, the article appears to be a normal review of the X-10 Camera and gives you information at the bottom to find out how to buy it.
It doesn't vanish, but it does open the room for a lot more RAM.
With 32 bits you can address 2 gigabytes worth of addresses:
0000000000000000000000000000000 is one address
0000000000000000000000000000001 is another
0000000000000000000000000000010 is another, and so on.
With 64 bits I believe you can address up to 8 exabytes of RAM, which is equal to 8192 petabytes or 8589934592 gigabytes. It shouldn't be too long before some program out there requires most of that to run even though now it seems like infinite RAM.
if they get back the girl who played Chani. Double her pay!
Definitely the best shooter I've played in a while. It has terrific 3D graphics and unique gameplay.
The major hook of the game is a feature called "Bullet Time" which puts the game in slow motion for a bit, but allows you to aim in real time. This allows you to dodge bullets as they wiz past you and get through areas you would have no chance to otherwise.
It's the only shooting game I've ever seen come close to providing similar scenes to those found in Hard Boiled, The Killer, or the Matrix.
You can't go wrong with Max Payne.
consider that the author is framing his arguments in Mathematics, and more importantly, base-10 numbers
Unless he's basing his communication on how many digits are being sent out for some reason, the author's methods shouldn't break down if the Aliens have 17 fingers/tenticles/legs/eyes/etc. Math works in any base exactly the same and only the output is different. Actually, even the output is the same, but it just may look different.
Besides, if an Alien can determine that a signal is being sent to them, I think they might be smart enough to put it into whatever base is convienient for them.
I saw the pre MS Halo at E3 in 2000. I couldn't believe the level of detail in the game, but what I really liked was Bungie's demonstration of the scripts they ran to do crazy things in the engine to create battle scenes and combat scenarios. It seemed pretty easy and simple to do. The potential for an engine like this in the mod community's hands would have been golden.
We were promised 2001: A Space Odyssey, but got Independance Day instead. Then again, a lot of people liked Independance Day, too.
I'm sure it is a great game on the Xbox, but I'll still be hoping for a slick PC version with mod potential.
Does it seem to anyone else that the gameplay in Return to Castle Wolfenstein seems - or is - Quake 3 all over again, with different weapons?
I highly disagree that the gameplay is similar. Yes, using the same engine ensures that some things will look and feel similar, but I don't see how Wolf's goal based, team oriented gameplay is similar to Quake 3 Arena's "pure arcade deathmatch".
Quake 3: Encourages quick hands, great response times, solo fighting, good knowledge of locations for available power ups, jumping, fast shooting, etc.
RTCW: Encourages knowledge of map routes, countering player classes, teamwork, reloading, delayed respawns, protecting land areas instead of power ups, strategic plans of attack, etc.
To people who hardly ever play 3D shooters, I can see how they would think the games were similar, but I doubt you or I are in that category.
I'm no nuclear scientist, but I think it would be pretty obvious to international observers that a nuclear sized explosion knocked the asteroid off course. Once that happens, all fingers would immediately point to the US, so I still think the plan is far fetched.
If you were inclined to do that, why not just use the nuke on whoever you want to bomb?
What I would like to see is a real 'time capsule' on the moon with a permanent record of human history (up until now and ways of updating it every 10 years or so) and a detailed description of the human genome with samples.
This way if we ever nuke/shoot/infect/choke everyone on Earth, we'll be garunteed a lasting reminder of the human race for future earthlings and/or alien visitors.
I did a project during college at the National Institute of Health and it seemed to me that 90% of the people there used Macs. I know it is proprietary, but I thought I'd mention it since Macs weren't mentioned in the news.
Ben
It is easy to compare this situation to a number of futuristic nightmares told in literature, movies, and television, but doing so causes you, or the people you are talking to, to ignore the fact there is a real problem here, which requires a real solution.
Are our actions going to move the war home? They war came home 28 days ago.
What exactly makes the entry in the control panel so much easier and more accessible than right clicking (or shift-right clicking)? He makes a reasonable case concerning why we shouldn't have to deal with file extensions, but if right clicking is too advanced a feature for some I suggest we find these people and educate them in how to use their computer. Look for them going around and around in revolving doors.
Ben
I just graduated with CS degree from American University and I have worked on projects in groups and by myself. From experience, I can say that there is a time for both team and solo work, but sadly, many times the wrong methods are chosen.
When you should work by yourself:
Whenever you are learning something very new, which should be about 75% - 85% of your classes. If students work in groups, it is far too easy for some students to get by without learning a thing. I have seen groups of three where one student did everything, and the other two merely wrote in extra documentation! This cheats your best students and wastes time/money on your poor students.
When you should work in a group:
Whenever you are applying the knowledge you have gained toward a large project that would be too difficult for one student to complete in one semester. This would be typical of your later CS classes where you aren't learning how to program, but rather, higher level concepts such as operating systems, games, etc. Good students will have much less tolerance for slackers when developing a system of 30,000 lines than they will for your standard 'implement data structure X' project.
I wondered the same thing, but after reading the article it says (bold face put in by me):
So they didn't exactly sit on it for 9 years and then all of a sudden slam TiVo with a lawsuit. I think TiVo's going to have to cough up the fees.
Maybe they will try to tax Australian residents for using the area beneath LA County, or even the satellites who use the space beneath them for that matter.
Hehe I'd like to see LA PROVE that a satellite passed over head. They can't even catch half the people who run through the EZ Pass lanes in NJ!
A simple majority does not have the right to take away the rights of the minority, and that's why changes to the constitution take approval of 2/3 of the states.
Phil,
Do you think organizations like the NSA should be able to try and crack any encrypted messages sent, or should the attempt at cracking only come with standard legal proceedings, such as a warrant?
This isn't much of an issue in the age of (nearly) uncrackable encryption, but with the promising development of new architectures, such as quantum computing, the scales could indeed tip back the other way, even if only temporarily.