Nah...They'd probably just put a small electric sensors around the center of each muscle that controls the jaw. I suppose these could either be implanted or placed on the surface.
In a way, you're right, though. They could use either a frame (a la Borg), a mask, or adhesive dots.
I think the adhesive dots would work best, since you could make the adhesive conductive to increase sensitivity. Or they could have tiny accelerometers in them just to sense movement.
In any case, the tongue is definately a problem. As I understand it(though IANAD), the tongue is all one muscle. I suppose you could make the adhesive dots double as ultrasound transceivers, but the phone would have to have to have awfully quick pattern recognition in order to understand the (coarse) virtual image of the tongue realtime.
In any case, I suspect commercial application of this is a ways away.
I can easily see colored adhesive dots becoming the "in" thing. (Please, nobody say "Flower Power...") Anybody remember back when fake car phone antennas were all the rage? Be wary of the person who has colored dots on her face, but uses a pay phone.
I don't remember if Ender takes the jewel out of his ear in Xenocide or Children of the Mind, but eventually he doesn't use one any more. (And he and Jane don't get along too well as a result.)
In Children of the Mind, a relative(Though not anyone you'd expect.) uses one. (I'd rather pique your interest than spoil it for you.)
Read Ender's Shadow...It's the storyline from Ender's Game from a different perspective. (And it's really good.)
I'm not sure, but to the best of my knowledge PDF wasn't invented by Adobe...so it's not really requiring anything proprietary.
It's interesting, though. I read on/. a long time ago that classified documents can't be transferred in any format other than plain ascii. (Has to do with things like revision tracking and saved data for "undo" features.)
Lemme know when you finally figure out the email address to that spamming company. I could use a place to forward my spam.
(offtopic) Good way to use snail spam: Stuff as much of the stuff as you can to the "Business reply mail" envelopes you tend to receive...And make it tight! They get charged by the weight.
A con artist (read telecom provider or spam mailer) could send you an email authorizing them to suspend your anit-slam rights, and then trigger the authentication themselves by just making the HTTP request from another computer.
They'd have to prove that you, and only you, were capable of having knowledge or record of the authenticating URL. On the Internet, that means everything from certification that their software is bug-free and uncracked to certification that the packets weren't sniffed on the Internet to gaurantee that your employer doesn't archive your email as company policy. That reaches a point of impossibility after a while.
This means there'll be more demand for public key encryption. They'll need my public key (and they can't give me a private key...it might be intercepted on the Internet) to prove that the request I send to them really comes from me. This would have to happen by me sending a response encoded with my private key.
Sorry bout the repost...IE doesn't preserve data fields when using the back button.
"The Society asserts that the Earth is flat and has five sides, that all places in the Universe named Springfield are merely links in higher-dimensional space to one place, and that all assertions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true false and meaningless in some sense. "
The Society asserts that the Earth is flat and has five sides, that all places in the Universe named Springfield are merely links in higher-dimensional space to one place, and that all assertions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true false and meaningless in some sense.
What I want to know is this: How in hell are we, as a community, going to get rid of the DMCA if we can't even agree on what it is?
I'm not flaming or trolling here. Who's going to think of geeks as an interest group if every member of that group has a different opinion about the topic at hand?
Easy...the restrictive nature of the GBA cartridge. The cartridges, under normal circumstances, can't be read with anything other than the GBA itself. Suddenly along comes a device that lets you read the cartridge into the computer...
All they have to do is datastream over a ham set, plug a modem into a satellite phone, or dial up a low-speed connection to an ISP in another country, and they suddenly can talk to the world as though they're somewhere else.
For the ham set, they need only be gauranteed of a connection suitable for some sort of TCP-like functionality. This would be the cheapest alternative. No paper trail, and you can encrypt your transmissions so nobody would be able to make sense of whatever they heard.
For the satellite phone, well, they can use whatever's still available. (Haven't kept any sort of track. I don't even remember if Irridium is still up.) Granted, it can cost a great deal of money per minute, but if you're a terrorist with megabucks at your disposal, this isn't a problem, right? However, this method is very traceable, as paying for a satellite phone is likely to leave a wide paper trail.
And modems are the simplest solution. I have family members that often have to connect to ISPs in America, from Korea. (For commercial reasons, and it counts as a business expense) Paper trails can be almost non-existant. Just buy some prepaid telephone cards from Walgreens in Michigan, and mail 'em!
And, just because I'm a little nervous as to how people would react to my thinking of this, let me point out that security by obscurity won't work against anyone with most of a brain.
...you have to remember that a correctly behaving browser will presume that a file is whatever MIME type the server sends it.
Internet Explorer is the only browser I know of that tends not to trust server-given MIME-types. (IE loaded PNGs from a malconfigured server that Netscape 4.76 and 6.1 refused to touch.)
Slashdot Mirror
Think Nintendo Power Glove...
Nah...They'd probably just put a small electric sensors around the center of each muscle that controls the jaw. I suppose these could either be implanted or placed on the surface.
In a way, you're right, though. They could use either a frame (a la Borg), a mask, or adhesive dots.
I think the adhesive dots would work best, since you could make the adhesive conductive to increase sensitivity. Or they could have tiny accelerometers in them just to sense movement.
In any case, the tongue is definately a problem. As I understand it(though IANAD), the tongue is all one muscle. I suppose you could make the adhesive dots double as ultrasound transceivers, but the phone would have to have to have awfully quick pattern recognition in order to understand the (coarse) virtual image of the tongue realtime.
In any case, I suspect commercial application of this is a ways away.
I can easily see colored adhesive dots becoming the "in" thing. (Please, nobody say "Flower Power...") Anybody remember back when fake car phone antennas were all the rage? Be wary of the person who has colored dots on her face, but uses a pay phone.
I don't remember if Ender takes the jewel out of his ear in Xenocide or Children of the Mind, but eventually he doesn't use one any more. (And he and Jane don't get along too well as a result.)
In Children of the Mind, a relative(Though not anyone you'd expect.) uses one. (I'd rather pique your interest than spoil it for you.)
Read Ender's Shadow...It's the storyline from Ender's Game from a different perspective. (And it's really good.)
It's just a suggestion, but wouldn't it make sense just to link to the Google mirror, rather than the site itself?
Of course, don't bother trying if Google hasn't had time to cache the site yet...
I'm not sure, but to the best of my knowledge PDF wasn't invented by Adobe...so it's not really requiring anything proprietary.
/. a long time ago that classified documents can't be transferred in any format other than plain ascii. (Has to do with things like revision tracking and saved data for "undo" features.)
It's interesting, though. I read on
That was from Lazarus Long...Aka Robert Heinlein. (He's dead now...he'd never leave a wife behind voluntarily.)
Lemme know when you finally figure out the email address to that spamming company. I could use a place to forward my spam.
(offtopic)
Good way to use snail spam: Stuff as much of the stuff as you can to the "Business reply mail" envelopes you tend to receive...And make it tight! They get charged by the weight.
Too bad I can't do that with spam.
lol
Not to ruin the joke, but they just might make RFC 1891 the law, instead.
This is just another precedent to Internet regulation again.
It sorta doesn't make sense, though. Does that mean I can put a civil lawsuit to some random name and look for them where I know they won't be?
Sucks to be John Doe, I guess.
Tampering is easy to detect in email...if the sender digitally signs it with something like PGP.
Something I've learned during my four years in high school...just because something isn't fair doesn't mean it isn't or won't be true.
A con artist (read telecom provider or spam mailer) could send you an email authorizing them to suspend your anit-slam rights, and then trigger the authentication themselves by just making the HTTP request from another computer.
They'd have to prove that you, and only you, were capable of having knowledge or record of the authenticating URL. On the Internet, that means everything from certification that their software is bug-free and uncracked to certification that the packets weren't sniffed on the Internet to gaurantee that your employer doesn't archive your email as company policy. That reaches a point of impossibility after a while.
This means there'll be more demand for public key encryption. They'll need my public key (and they can't give me a private key...it might be intercepted on the Internet) to prove that the request I send to them really comes from me. This would have to happen by me sending a response encoded with my private key.
Sorry bout the repost...IE doesn't preserve data fields when using the back button.
"The Society asserts that the Earth is flat and has five sides, that all places in the Universe named Springfield are merely links in higher-dimensional space to one place, and that all assertions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true false and meaningless in some sense. "
The Society asserts that the Earth is flat and has five sides, that all places in the Universe named Springfield are merely links in higher-dimensional space to one place, and that all assertions are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true false and meaningless in some sense.
What I want to know is this: How in hell are we, as a community, going to get rid of the DMCA if we can't even agree on what it is?
I'm not flaming or trolling here. Who's going to think of geeks as an interest group if every member of that group has a different opinion about the topic at hand?
Easy...the restrictive nature of the GBA cartridge. The cartridges, under normal circumstances, can't be read with anything other than the GBA itself. Suddenly along comes a device that lets you read the cartridge into the computer...
Since the GPL requires the source code to be available, people are going to be able to take this thing apart and port more recent kernels to it.
That means "Network Block Devices", everyone. The ability to mount any device over a network.
This means everything from printers to hard drives to sound cards to a multiheaded system!
The problem here was that Google can't translate Finnish in the first place.
I apologize. By "article" I meant the article that this /. story refers to.
Why not just glue on a piece of formed sponge or a cloth? A lot cheaper, and a lot easier.
:)
(Not to mention I already did it to my mouse.
Your post might have been accepted if you'd included the link to the article in question, and gave a brief description.
And someone would have replied with a post more useful than this. Since when was hindsight any use?
Remember when the US used the Navajo language to encode their communications during World War II?
:), make the bytes opposite-endian, and rotate the bits of every byte by x notches?
Why not use Unicode to write in some obscure language (like Elven?
All they have to do is datastream over a ham set, plug a modem into a satellite phone, or dial up a low-speed connection to an ISP in another country, and they suddenly can talk to the world as though they're somewhere else.
For the ham set, they need only be gauranteed of a connection suitable for some sort of TCP-like functionality. This would be the cheapest alternative. No paper trail, and you can encrypt your transmissions so nobody would be able to make sense of whatever they heard.
For the satellite phone, well, they can use whatever's still available. (Haven't kept any sort of track. I don't even remember if Irridium is still up.) Granted, it can cost a great deal of money per minute, but if you're a terrorist with megabucks at your disposal, this isn't a problem, right? However, this method is very traceable, as paying for a satellite phone is likely to leave a wide paper trail.
And modems are the simplest solution. I have family members that often have to connect to ISPs in America, from Korea. (For commercial reasons, and it counts as a business expense) Paper trails can be almost non-existant. Just buy some prepaid telephone cards from Walgreens in Michigan, and mail 'em!
And, just because I'm a little nervous as to how people would react to my thinking of this, let me point out that security by obscurity won't work against anyone with most of a brain.
For the record, the difference between accidental and intentional harm is the same as the difference between manslaughter and capital murder.
...you have to remember that a correctly behaving browser will presume that a file is whatever MIME type the server sends it.
Internet Explorer is the only browser I know of that tends not to trust server-given MIME-types. (IE loaded PNGs from a malconfigured server that Netscape 4.76 and 6.1 refused to touch.)
I'm going to look at that. It may be really useful for generating 3D game data!