It's a book that you'll tend to think about when the topic is sensor webs. Possibly more had the same idea, checked for a previous post about it, found one and didn't post theirs.
Assuming that anyone does check for a previous post, close postings started in the same time window would be more likely.
He also used them previously in The Peace War and Marooned in Real-Time. (Naismith scatters his property with burr-like sensors, etc.) Not as sophisticated, but the technology of science-fiction was less advanced then.:^P
Why not a GPS tracking system, WiFi webcams, and a text-messaging system to notify people when he comes within n meters distance? (After all, Slashdot has had stories about GPS/cell/watch bracelets for kids that will track their route home from school with alerts if they stray.)
Of course, making sex-offenders ring a bell and shout "Unclean!" might work too.
A lot of it is recycling stuff I've proviously done. I've already done a V20 board. I've already done a BIOS. I've already done cooperative multitasking kernals. I've already got all my editor/assembler tools and such. A Tiny-OS project isn't huge if you bootstrap it.
If this wasn't just a fun "junkbox wars" project, I'd look at all the lovely new little uCs out there. (I'm tempted to buy a bunch of the 8 pin package ones and keep them in a jar labeled "Whatever".:^)
A 250M IDE drive. You can hang one off of a few parallel ports like this one although I'll be using the V20's block I/O and the 8255's handshake mode. Drivers? I'm doing this from scratch: Hardware, drivers, kernal, maybe a compiler... (I will probably cheat and use an existing IP stack. No sense being completely crazy.:^)
I have a hardware/low-level jones, and it's been years since I've had a fix.
It got stranger than that. Wayne Green was then going to start a magazine called Kilobyte. Byte, to block him, ran a really bad comic called Kilobyte and trademarked it.
So Wayne Green started Kilobaud instead, and Byte dropped the comic right afterwards.
Back then, a budding nerd could easily understand what every single chip and instruction did.
Back then? I've started wire-wrapping a V20 (8088+) from scratch just to get that warm fuzzy total-control feeling again. Maybe once I get the hard drive and Ethernet going, I'll put it on the net and let it get slashdotted.. or maybe I won't destroy it right away.
Because the retailers would squawk if the company undercut them. (The "suggested" price cuts both ways.)
If you ever work with point of sale software, take a look at the markup on anything sold retail. Rarely do they lose money on "50% off" sales. (And that's just the last link in the chain.)
The creators don't see much of that retail sticker price. Most of the price goes to the retail channel which multiplies the price several times before putting on the shelf.
Which is not to say that the creators aren't greedy, but they're at the other end of a long pipeline of greed.
One of the growing sources of trojan worms these day are spammers. Not content with finding the many open proxies out there, they use trojans to create zombie armies of machines for their use in spamming and DDoS attacks.
I can just see it, a squad of armed zombie segways breaking down the door to tell me about their blue penis pills...
I'm one of the few people who actually took the time to map out the outlet-to-breaker-circuit mapping for the room
I guess it's just the way we think. One of the first things I did when I moved into my apartment was to map the circuits and tape a diagram to fuse box. (At least with a fuse box I could substitute a slo-blo fuse on circuit that took the airconditioner in the summer.)
That depends on how you look at it. My view is that the copyright law was unenforcable, so the record companies got the government to tax an illegal act. (And the legal acts along with it.)
The record companies could never stop people from swapping copies with friends or people making copies and selling the originals at a second-hand shop, so they made sure they got their money anyway. I suspect they think that they won. (I get taxed and I don't copy music except for backup copies. I certainly didn't win!)
the did so with the express purpose of making it legal to copy CDs you did not own
Yeah? Show me something in Hansard or committee meeting minutes. Show a court case desided in favour of your interpretation. Until then, you are an anonymous coward. (Or a sock puppet.)
Certainly it's legal to copy for personal use. I never said it wasn't. I object to people claiming that giving copies to anyone else, they making their own copies, and so on and so on.. is "personal use". Claiming that it's not really distribution or that there was an unoffical agreement with record companies that all this was legal, I still think is wishful thinking. (And to think that record companies won't forget any such agreement the moment they feel like it is really wishful thinking.)
otherwise, shut the fuck up Hmm? [checks] Yes, this is Slashdot, are you new here?
Well that's handy! When I get legal advice like that, it's from "sources unofficially near a judge".:^) But did he mention any cases where this has actually been tested in court? I wouldn't want to be involved on either side. (And since I don't trade/copy music, I don't see any need to pay a lawyer an hour+ for an opinion.)
I have seen websites on the pro-copy side that are complete tripe.
Sure you can make copies for your own use. But I'd say that limitation (b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade; covers all the wink-wink, lend a copy to a friend and he makes copies, nudge-nudge piracy with a fancy dress on stuff.
You can make copies of the one you bought, you can lend your copy to a friend. Any dancing around that ends up with you and your friend (and the ever-expanding circle of your other friends and their friends) having copies in use is just wishful thinking.
Hey, I have no problem with people trying stunts that seem crazy at the time--and dying because maybe it was crazy.
What I object to are the people that do some damned-fool stunt like travelling to the north pole by pogo-stick, then calling for help when they get snow in their boot. Suddenly a huge effort to save them is made at great expense and risk to other people. Launching a search and rescue effort shouldn't like calling the AAA. If you want to do something dangerous, do it. Or do not and die.
Or are these just things that wealthy people do to keep themselves occupied?
What, you don't think that these people actually pay for the rescue mission to come get them when their bathtub sinks in the middle of the ocean, they get lost looking for Santa's workshop, or whatever.
They should be made to sign a "no extreme measures or rescue-tation attempts" paper before leaving.
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Assuming that anyone does check for a previous post, close postings started in the same time window would be more likely.
He also used them previously in The Peace War and Marooned in Real-Time. (Naismith scatters his property with burr-like sensors, etc.) Not as sophisticated, but the technology of science-fiction was less advanced then. :^P
Of course, making sex-offenders ring a bell and shout "Unclean!" might work too.
If this wasn't just a fun "junkbox wars" project, I'd look at all the lovely new little uCs out there. (I'm tempted to buy a bunch of the 8 pin package ones and keep them in a jar labeled "Whatever". :^)
Isn't that like buying batteries (batteries not included)?
I have a hardware/low-level jones, and it's been years since I've had a fix.
When Dipslime or $cientology do a newsgroup flood/sporgery, we can marvel at the poetry rather than cruelly filtering the babble to the bit-bucket.
It was like a bloody local-area telephone book every month! :^P
We were doing that back in 1972. Of course, we were using ASR-33 Teletypes and didn't have any lower case or keyboard rollover. We had it rough...
So Wayne Green started Kilobaud instead, and Byte dropped the comic right afterwards.
Back then? I've started wire-wrapping a V20 (8088+) from scratch just to get that warm fuzzy total-control feeling again. Maybe once I get the hard drive and Ethernet going, I'll put it on the net and let it get slashdotted .. or maybe I won't destroy it right away.
It's going to have an LED front panel! W00HOO!
If you ever work with point of sale software, take a look at the markup on anything sold retail. Rarely do they lose money on "50% off" sales. (And that's just the last link in the chain.)
The creators don't see much of that retail sticker price. Most of the price goes to the retail channel which multiplies the price several times before putting on the shelf.
Which is not to say that the creators aren't greedy, but they're at the other end of a long pipeline of greed.
Polyester data polymer pants, it'll be the '70's all over again!
I can just see it, a squad of armed zombie segways breaking down the door to tell me about their blue penis pills...
I guess it's just the way we think. One of the first things I did when I moved into my apartment was to map the circuits and tape a diagram to fuse box. (At least with a fuse box I could substitute a slo-blo fuse on circuit that took the airconditioner in the summer.)
The record companies could never stop people from swapping copies with friends or people making copies and selling the originals at a second-hand shop, so they made sure they got their money anyway. I suspect they think that they won. (I get taxed and I don't copy music except for backup copies. I certainly didn't win!)
Yeah? Show me something in Hansard or committee meeting minutes. Show a court case desided in favour of your interpretation. Until then, you are an anonymous coward. (Or a sock puppet.)
otherwise, shut the fuck up Hmm? [checks] Yes, this is Slashdot, are you new here?
I have seen websites on the pro-copy side that are complete tripe.
Yeah, whatever.
Sure you can make copies for your own use. But I'd say that limitation (b) distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade; covers all the wink-wink, lend a copy to a friend and he makes copies, nudge-nudge piracy with a fancy dress on stuff.
You can make copies of the one you bought, you can lend your copy to a friend. Any dancing around that ends up with you and your friend (and the ever-expanding circle of your other friends and their friends) having copies in use is just wishful thinking.
And duh, yes I'm talking about Canada.
What I object to are the people that do some damned-fool stunt like travelling to the north pole by pogo-stick, then calling for help when they get snow in their boot. Suddenly a huge effort to save them is made at great expense and risk to other people. Launching a search and rescue effort shouldn't like calling the AAA. If you want to do something dangerous, do it. Or do not and die.
What, you don't think that these people actually pay for the rescue mission to come get them when their bathtub sinks in the middle of the ocean, they get lost looking for Santa's workshop, or whatever.
They should be made to sign a "no extreme measures or rescue-tation attempts" paper before leaving.