So as a responsible parent I should not let my kid go to the library or the school computer lab since I do not have direct supervision over what is being viewed there? You have to be kidding!
One way of implementing community standards on a "local" level is already being used. Objectionable speech, a.k.a. SPAM, from one region, China and Taiwan, is being blocked by refusing any communications originating from these regions. Is this infringing on my right to engage in free speech with someone who just happens to live in China?
So what is the difference between this and a local city council forcing all libraries that provide internet access to install censorware to uphold their community standards. I'll tell you what, the censorware is based on content, while the ISP blocking is based on geography, ethnicity, and language. Don't believe me, how many ISP's making requests to stop SPAM actually did it in Mandarin or Cantoneese (sp?)?
It kills me how hyporitical people are on free speech issues. To be consistent on free speech, if you fight for porn you have to fight for SPAM as well. Both are objectionable speech by some and valuable speech to others. Instead, the inhabitants of the internet behave like the frontier pioneers of previous centruies. Anything they can get away with is legal, and if you can muscle the other guy into doing it your way you do. They criticize the justices of the Supreme Court for being out of touch and not understanding their issues, but refuse to accept that if they pay for things with US dollars and use public utilities they must submit to the laws of the land.
And I am sure that the free speech loving moderatin system here will mod this into oblivion so no one has a chance to read it.
I'm not sure if they were vector based, but SGI's $D window manager had antialiased scalable icons back in 1994. Again, I'm not sure if these were vector based, or if they just used lots of hardware to do quick antialiasing on highres rasters, but the core idea of scalable user interface components was there.
I have heard this over and over and it just doesn't hold up to my experience over the past five years. Half of the SCSI disk I have installed in that time have crashed, while not one IDE disk has crashed. We initially bought the SCSI disk for speed since you could not get 10k RPM IDEs at the time. Since the second SCSI disk crashed we are a strictly 5400 rpm IDE shop. And thanks to density inprovements we are getting pretty close to the same throughput out of 100 GB Western digitals that we were getting out of 18 GB IBMs.
The point that each representative is an advocate for the views of his or her constituens is a good one. (though the "soft money" diatribe is a little off base)
While, I am sure Rep. Boucher will not be getting any contributions from the entertainment industry, He certainly has been getting support from the Communications/Eelctronics sector (third biggest contributor to his 2002 campaign). Just take a look at his list of top ten donors. While he is obviously not a single issue candidate (big $$$ from Energy and Banking too, and nothing from the EFF...hmm), the list of donor reads like a whos who of telecommunications and techology. The baby Bells and cable companies are both represented alon with Slashdotter's favorie monopoly, Microsoft.
So what is the point? Democracy works in spite of campaign finance. Rep. Boucher is representing his constituency, including getting more telecom businesses in his district, just like Rep. Bono was representing his constituents.
The "refresh rate" of the human eye varies by which part of the visual field you are in. In the fovea where you have sharp color vision, the refresh rate is between 40 and 70 Hz, but in the periphery the refresh rate is higher, easily over 70 Hz. Don't believe me, try this. Turn off the lights in the room. Fill half your screen with a white backgrounded window, fill the other half with a black background. Get your nose about six to eight inches away from the right edge of your screen. Turn you head to the right about 70 degrees, with your eyes fixed straight ahead (not on the screen) and you will notice that you start to see some flicker in your peripheral vision even with refresh rates over 80 Hz. Looking directly at the monitors you wont notice it. This is similar to the effect you get when you look at a dark night sky and see dim stars in your periphery, that disappear when you look directly at them. You use different sets of receptors in different parts of your eye with different sensitivities and integration times. So if you see flicker or not largely depends on how big the screen is, how clsoe you sit and how well lit the room is.
You speak as if the mathemats of genetic algs are a ground state truth and that the natural world must conform to them. In fact, they are just useful models. They are useful at solving certain sets of problems, however they do not explain many important genetic concepts such as gene penetrance, mosaicism, and fragile genes.
but isn't wiping all the drives and installing Linux called destruction of evidence?
The school district is already using the MS products. They agreed to a contract allowing MS to audit them in exactly the way MS is now doing. By wiping the hard drives they are hiding the fact that they have been using MS software on the machine.
The point of the parent post (though maybe not the parent article) was not to prevent kids from surfing porn sites, it was to prevent anyone (adults included) from being tricked into surfing porn sites. Since you mention it though, having all adult sires on a single domain would make walling off to kids much easier. All you have to do is make a reverse DNS lookup to find out what the name of the site is before you make a request for content from it. Then you can block all conent based on domain suffix.
If you banned meta-refresh redirecting, and pop-up attacks, you would be stuck with linking.
This would be perfectly fine. If the links are accurately labeled, which is the whole point of a search engine, then whoever clicks on them knows what they are getting into.
So what is accomplished, people who are looking for porn can get there without getting flooded with redirects and popus, and those who mistyped an address can retype it before being subjected to images they find offensive.
As long as windows knows which DLLs are hanging around it shouldn't matter much if they are still in memory. When they aren't used they just get paged out to disk and paged in when they are next accessed. And it should actaully load faster since it doesn't have to load the whole DLL file into memory, only the used pages. You can make it even faster if you span your page files across SCSI disks or IDE channels.
The only down side is the overhead of trackin which DLLs are loaded and keeping two copies of the on disk, one in the page file and one on the file system.
This is way off topic, but I'll bite. The Matrix is obviously not a strictly allegorical retelling of the Bible. However, when you name one of your characters Trinity and cast your stroy in a struggle of good versus evil, you have to know that you will be firing off peoples association neurons right and left.
The airwaves belong to the people, but there won't be anything on them unless content producers can be assured they can make a profit.
Think about it. If the Lord of the Rings is broadcast for free in 1080i with an AC3 soundtrack and I can record it straight to my hard disk, what incentive do I have to go out and buy the DVD? The version I recorded off the airwaves is higher resolution, has a better soundtrack and best of all was free.
This will kill DVD sales of any movie that is broadcast on the public airwaves.
The only way the studio can afford to release the movie for broadcast is if they charge the broadcasters a huge fee, and commercials just don't pay enough to afford that.
The alternative is to allow them to encrypt the content sent out over our airwaves.
My guess is that at audio frequencies (500 Hz to 16 kHz) the only risk to your cheap particle board desk is if it started to heat up and melted the glue holding the wood together. Your particle board desk may even sound better than a nice real wood desk. Now if you have a super cheap desk and the laminated top is already peeling off, it probably won't fall apart any faster, but the sound will really suck.
As an audiologist I have to be pedantic and note that bone conducted sound does not give you the same cues for locating the sound (i.e. no head shadow). So saying you can hear it in steroe is a little misleading. While you can add additional streams of sound, you will loose lots of timing and amplitude cues (no head shadow, and bone conducts sound faster than air) you use to locate where a sound is coming from .
The "speaker" however sounds pretty neat, and a $40 bone oscillator is even cooler (typically in the $100's). I wonder if the frequency response goes up to the ultrasonic range. If you really want to hear some weird stuff, you can actually hear frequecies by bone conduction that your cannot hear by air conduction (over 24 kHz).
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Lancet) There is a
company in Tucson doing some cool stuff with this to make hearing aids and tinnitus maskers.
My guess is that in order to have their search engine placed in the prefs, Netscape charges the search engine fee. It sounds as it they are charging on a per use basis, which sounds like it is much lower risk for the search engine company. To joe sixpack, this fee is probably a useful filter since it makes sure that the list of default search engines is limited to those that have the resources to keep their directory up to date.
Or maybe its that most people do not have the specialized knowledge about which vehicles have easy locks to pick and which don't. I'm sure the cop had much more expereince with lock picking than your average person.
Morals definately contribute to people not stealing each other's cars, but so does the difficulty of picking a lock and the potential of being caught if you just broke the glass.
The problem with Phil's analogy to e-mail being like a postcard is that 99% of the time I use e-mail I would have no problem putting on a post card. And for the 1% of stuff I wouldn't normally put on a postcard...well, I'm just to lazy to set it up on every machine I use to send e-mail and convince all my contacts to use it and manage keys for everyone send e-mail to, and end up revoking and re-exchanging keys every time someone on a Win9X lets another person have physical access to their machine. This was the whole problem with the web of trust concept in the first place. The complexity of managing your trusted contacts (revoking certs, multiple certs for a contact, keeping your cert with you at all times) grows exonentially (or maybe worse).
Besides, if 99.9% of the mail coming into my mailbox at home was postcards, I would probably send more postcards and not worry about it. The whole reason the postcard argument works is not real concern for privacy, but comfort with cultural customs. This is also why secure e-mail will never catch on for unior sending a message to grandma. Where it will and has caught on is in security concious businesses such as medical records where encryption of electronic correspondence with patients it is now required by law (do a earch of HIPPA to see all the headaches this is causing).
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Thanks for the tip. I googled for Community Wireless and a few of the cities I visit. I did found a good list of community wireless groups here, but most of them look like they are running wide open (no incentive for users to actually join rather than leach) and I didn't find much info to help members of these local groups hook up with other groups while they are traveling (other than boingo).
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How about a national wireless club?
By opening up your wifi node to club members you are granted membership in the club and are allowed to connect to any other club member's node.
I think for many people the ability to link for free to a node in some other city while traveling would be worth much more than the $10/month they might make otherwise.
Come to think of it, the broadband companies would do well to set up this kind of "club" for their customers. The providers could use their customer's wireless equipment to provide roaming wireless services. Customers could join the club by paying the provider or by providing a wireless node to club members.
Based on the press release, the slime is a modified polyacryamide. This page has a good primer on polymers and some of their chemical properties. It looks like this slime will be most useful in the desert, since rioters can wash it off with *lots* of water. Apparently, salt water woud works even better.
I knew that there was some reason for taking chemistry in high school. Along with the second amendment, a widely educated electroate is the best defense of democracy.
$500 really isn't bad when you consider the prices people paid for first generation Gore-Tex jackets. I'd just worry about shorting it out and bursting into flames.
give me a break. java/activeX are perfectly reasonable ways to get the timezone. if the remote system's clock is setup wrong, then you get bad data. no body said your data had to be perfect. theyjust have to make a good faith effort to provide good data. its not like the RIAA has a way to verify if its tru or not.
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So as a responsible parent I should not let my kid go to the library or the school computer lab since I do not have direct supervision over what is being viewed there? You have to be kidding!
One way of implementing community standards on a "local" level is already being used. Objectionable speech, a.k.a. SPAM, from one region, China and Taiwan, is being blocked by refusing any communications originating from these regions. Is this infringing on my right to engage in free speech with someone who just happens to live in China?
So what is the difference between this and a local city council forcing all libraries that provide internet access to install censorware to uphold their community standards. I'll tell you what, the censorware is based on content, while the ISP blocking is based on geography, ethnicity, and language. Don't believe me, how many ISP's making requests to stop SPAM actually did it in Mandarin or Cantoneese (sp?)?
It kills me how hyporitical people are on free speech issues. To be consistent on free speech, if you fight for porn you have to fight for SPAM as well. Both are objectionable speech by some and valuable speech to others. Instead, the inhabitants of the internet behave like the frontier pioneers of previous centruies. Anything they can get away with is legal, and if you can muscle the other guy into doing it your way you do. They criticize the justices of the Supreme Court for being out of touch and not understanding their issues, but refuse to accept that if they pay for things with US dollars and use public utilities they must submit to the laws of the land.
And I am sure that the free speech loving moderatin system here will mod this into oblivion so no one has a chance to read it.
Are you talking about acoustic or electrical echoing? Have you taken a look at ITU G.168?
I'm not sure if they were vector based, but SGI's $D window manager had antialiased scalable icons back in 1994. Again, I'm not sure if these were vector based, or if they just used lots of hardware to do quick antialiasing on highres rasters, but the core idea of scalable user interface components was there.
I have heard this over and over and it just doesn't hold up to my experience over the past five years. Half of the SCSI disk I have installed in that time have crashed, while not one IDE disk has crashed. We initially bought the SCSI disk for speed since you could not get 10k RPM IDEs at the time. Since the second SCSI disk crashed we are a strictly 5400 rpm IDE shop. And thanks to density inprovements we are getting pretty close to the same throughput out of 100 GB Western digitals that we were getting out of 18 GB IBMs.
The point that each representative is an advocate for the views of his or her constituens is a good one. (though the "soft money" diatribe is a little off base)
While, I am sure Rep. Boucher will not be getting any contributions from the entertainment industry, He certainly has been getting support from the Communications/Eelctronics sector (third biggest contributor to his 2002 campaign). Just take a look at his list of top ten donors. While he is obviously not a single issue candidate (big $$$ from Energy and Banking too, and nothing from the EFF...hmm), the list of donor reads like a whos who of telecommunications and techology. The baby Bells and cable companies are both represented alon with Slashdotter's favorie monopoly, Microsoft.
So what is the point? Democracy works in spite of campaign finance. Rep. Boucher is representing his constituency, including getting more telecom businesses in his district, just like Rep. Bono was representing his constituents.
The "refresh rate" of the human eye varies by which part of the visual field you are in. In the fovea where you have sharp color vision, the refresh rate is between 40 and 70 Hz, but in the periphery the refresh rate is higher, easily over 70 Hz. Don't believe me, try this.
Turn off the lights in the room. Fill half your screen with a white backgrounded window, fill the other half with a black background. Get your nose about six to eight inches away from the right edge of your screen. Turn you head to the right about 70 degrees, with your eyes fixed straight ahead (not on the screen) and you will notice that you start to see some flicker in your peripheral vision even with refresh rates over 80 Hz. Looking directly at the monitors you wont notice it.
This is similar to the effect you get when you look at a dark night sky and see dim stars in your periphery, that disappear when you look directly at them. You use different sets of receptors in different parts of your eye with different sensitivities and integration times. So if you see flicker or not largely depends on how big the screen is, how clsoe you sit and how well lit the room is.
You speak as if the mathemats of genetic algs are a ground state truth and that the natural world must conform to them. In fact, they are just useful models. They are useful at solving certain sets of problems, however they do not explain many important genetic concepts such as gene penetrance, mosaicism, and fragile genes.
but isn't wiping all the drives and installing Linux called destruction of evidence?
The school district is already using the MS products. They agreed to a contract allowing MS to audit them in exactly the way MS is now doing. By wiping the hard drives they are hiding the fact that they have been using MS software on the machine.
The point of the parent post (though maybe not the parent article) was not to prevent kids from surfing porn sites, it was to prevent anyone (adults included) from being tricked into surfing porn sites.
Since you mention it though, having all adult sires on a single domain would make walling off to kids much easier. All you have to do is make a reverse DNS lookup to find out what the name of the site is before you make a request for content from it. Then you can block all conent based on domain suffix.
If you banned meta-refresh redirecting, and pop-up attacks, you would be stuck with linking.
This would be perfectly fine. If the links are accurately labeled, which is the whole point of a search engine, then whoever clicks on them knows what they are getting into.
So what is accomplished, people who are looking for porn can get there without getting flooded with redirects and popus, and those who mistyped an address can retype it before being subjected to images they find offensive.
As long as windows knows which DLLs are hanging around it shouldn't matter much if they are still in memory. When they aren't used they just get paged out to disk and paged in when they are next accessed. And it should actaully load faster since it doesn't have to load the whole DLL file into memory, only the used pages. You can make it even faster if you span your page files across SCSI disks or IDE channels.
The only down side is the overhead of trackin which DLLs are loaded and keeping two copies of the on disk, one in the page file and one on the file system.
This is way off topic, but I'll bite. The Matrix is obviously not a strictly allegorical retelling of the Bible. However, when you name one of your characters Trinity and cast your stroy in a struggle of good versus evil, you have to know that you will be firing off peoples association neurons right and left.
The airwaves belong to the people, but there won't be anything on them unless content producers can be assured they can make a profit.
Think about it. If the Lord of the Rings is broadcast for free in 1080i with an AC3 soundtrack and I can record it straight to my hard disk, what incentive do I have to go out and buy the DVD? The version I recorded off the airwaves is higher resolution, has a better soundtrack and best of all was free.
This will kill DVD sales of any movie that is broadcast on the public airwaves.
The only way the studio can afford to release the movie for broadcast is if they charge the broadcasters a huge fee, and commercials just don't pay enough to afford that.
The alternative is to allow them to encrypt the content sent out over our airwaves.
Pretty much. I wonder how hard it would be to hackone of those little things to use a regular headphone jack? Hmmm...now where is my soldering iron.
My guess is that at audio frequencies (500 Hz to 16 kHz) the only risk to your cheap particle board desk is if it started to heat up and melted the glue holding the wood together. Your particle board desk may even sound better than a nice real wood desk. Now if you have a super cheap desk and the laminated top is already peeling off, it probably won't fall apart any faster, but the sound will really suck.
As an audiologist I have to be pedantic and note that bone conducted sound does not give you the same cues for locating the sound (i.e. no head shadow). So saying you can hear it in steroe is a little misleading. While you can add additional streams of sound, you will loose lots of timing and amplitude cues (no head shadow, and bone conducts sound faster than air) you use to locate where a sound is coming from . The "speaker" however sounds pretty neat, and a $40 bone oscillator is even cooler (typically in the $100's). I wonder if the frequency response goes up to the ultrasonic range. If you really want to hear some weird stuff, you can actually hear frequecies by bone conduction that your cannot hear by air conduction (over 24 kHz). (Science and Lancet) There is a company in Tucson doing some cool stuff with this to make hearing aids and tinnitus maskers.
My guess is that in order to have their search engine placed in the prefs, Netscape charges the search engine fee. It sounds as it they are charging on a per use basis, which sounds like it is much lower risk for the search engine company.
To joe sixpack, this fee is probably a useful filter since it makes sure that the list of default search engines is limited to those that have the resources to keep their directory up to date.
Or maybe its that most people do not have the specialized knowledge about which vehicles have easy locks to pick and which don't. I'm sure the cop had much more expereince with lock picking than your average person.
Morals definately contribute to people not stealing each other's cars, but so does the difficulty of picking a lock and the potential of being caught if you just broke the glass.
The problem with Phil's analogy to e-mail being like a postcard is that 99% of the time I use e-mail I would have no problem putting on a post card. And for the 1% of stuff I wouldn't normally put on a postcard...well, I'm just to lazy to set it up on every machine I use to send e-mail and convince all my contacts to use it and manage keys for everyone send e-mail to, and end up revoking and re-exchanging keys every time someone on a Win9X lets another person have physical access to their machine. This was the whole problem with the web of trust concept in the first place. The complexity of managing your trusted contacts (revoking certs, multiple certs for a contact, keeping your cert with you at all times) grows exonentially (or maybe worse).
Besides, if 99.9% of the mail coming into my mailbox at home was postcards, I would probably send more postcards and not worry about it. The whole reason the postcard argument works is not real concern for privacy, but comfort with cultural customs. This is also why secure e-mail will never catch on for unior sending a message to grandma. Where it will and has caught on is in security concious businesses such as medical records where encryption of electronic correspondence with patients it is now required by law (do a earch of HIPPA to see all the headaches this is causing).
Thanks for the tip. I googled for Community Wireless and a few of the cities I visit. I did found a good list of community wireless groups here, but most of them look like they are running wide open (no incentive for users to actually join rather than leach) and I didn't find much info to help members of these local groups hook up with other groups while they are traveling (other than boingo).
How about a national wireless club?
By opening up your wifi node to club members you are granted membership in the club and are allowed to connect to any other club member's node.
I think for many people the ability to link for free to a node in some other city while traveling would be worth much more than the $10/month they might make otherwise.
Come to think of it, the broadband companies would do well to set up this kind of "club" for their customers. The providers could use their customer's wireless equipment to provide roaming wireless services. Customers could join the club by paying the provider or by providing a wireless node to club members.
Based on the press release, the slime is a modified polyacryamide. This page has a good primer on polymers and some of their chemical properties. It looks like this slime will be most useful in the desert, since rioters can wash it off with *lots* of water. Apparently, salt water woud works even better. I knew that there was some reason for taking chemistry in high school. Along with the second amendment, a widely educated electroate is the best defense of democracy.
$500 really isn't bad when you consider the prices people paid for first generation Gore-Tex jackets. I'd just worry about shorting it out and bursting into flames.
give me a break. java/activeX are perfectly reasonable ways to get the timezone. if the remote system's clock is setup wrong, then you get bad data. no body said your data had to be perfect. theyjust have to make a good faith effort to provide good data. its not like the RIAA has a way to verify if its tru or not.