Unless you go by the somewhat popular definition of Lamp as Linux Apache Mysql PHP/Perl, which I've seen more often than a singular choice of php or perl.
While i agree with most of these points I've had a fairly good experience with firewire cameras other than the iSight. Particularly the fireI series of cameras. Not as cheap as an off the shelf USB cam (which, undoubtedly needs to be supported), but not a hardware lock in by any means
Actually a laser pointer or a mid to high powered infrared LED will work to blank out cameras. Easy to do at close range, much harder from a distance. The Naimark link was mentioned on slashdot awhile back, and I was at a lecture Naimark gave at about the same time. When asked about the legality of camera blocking Naimark was at a bit of a loss, the law could go either way.
This reminds me of a similar project I did about 6 months ago. A Webserver on the Bx24 microprocessor. The whole system fit on a 1.5 inch by 3.5 inch breadboard and served pages off of an EEPROM. The TCP/IP stack was handled by the ethernet controller thank god, but that made room on the processor for a really lame inline assembly like script that could embed into pages being served. Here is the only picture of the server I can find
It would be nice to think that the government, and institutions in general, will change in the near future, but as can be seen with Napster, VHS-BetaMax, and even the Communications Decency Act, goverment and institutions will fight just as much as the technologically minded netizens fight. For every programmer distributing open source software, there is a political lobbyist pressing the issues of Big Business. For every media 'worthy' hack, there is a motion on the floor of congress for tigher controls on internet security. This fight could go on forever, except for one thing. Politics gets it's power from not moving, from keeping majority and remaining in the known past. Technology and the internet pulls power from an ever moving, ever evolving mantra: we will build better software and faster networks, we will work around the next patch. Eventually the technology will outstrip the need to address the outside forces of stagnant politics: but this will require change on a massive scale that many of us couldn't comprehend. Regulation and laws will not change until capitalism is modified and reformed. Capitalism will not change and reform until it either has no choice, or falls to a stronger force. I'm not preaching revolution in the Marxist sense, not even close. So far, the capitalist culture we live in(that has been our only experiece in life, for the most part), has been the source of our technology. Fiber optic gets burried because Qwest is making a profit. Open source can develop the software we use, but I can't imagine I'll find many of us out on the highway digging trenches for cabling just for fun. The 'revolution' that will make politics obsolete in it's current form will take place through the evolution of culture on the net. Yes, evolution. Chat rooms are fine, as are message boards, but it is not the human interaction we are genetically programmed to look for. The evolution of net culture is constantly happening, we just have to understand what is happening, and adapt to it as a technology. I don't know what the next instance of culture on the net will be, it would be premature to even attempt a guess, but new interactive technologies bring us closer to the community that culture needs.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you go by the somewhat popular definition of Lamp as Linux Apache Mysql PHP/Perl, which I've seen more often than a singular choice of php or perl.
ctrl-tab for tabbed navigation, command-tilde for window cycling. There is still the problem of not being able to tab into a combo-box, though.
While i agree with most of these points I've had a fairly good experience with firewire cameras other than the iSight. Particularly the fireI series of cameras. Not as cheap as an off the shelf USB cam (which, undoubtedly needs to be supported), but not a hardware lock in by any means
Actually a laser pointer or a mid to high powered infrared LED will work to blank out cameras. Easy to do at close range, much harder from a distance. The Naimark link was mentioned on slashdot awhile back, and I was at a lecture Naimark gave at about the same time. When asked about the legality of camera blocking Naimark was at a bit of a loss, the law could go either way.
This reminds me of a similar project I did about 6 months ago. A Webserver on the Bx24 microprocessor. The whole system fit on a 1.5 inch by 3.5 inch breadboard and served pages off of an EEPROM. The TCP/IP stack was handled by the ethernet controller thank god, but that made room on the processor for a really lame inline assembly like script that could embed into pages being served. Here is the only picture of the server I can find
It would be nice to think that the government, and institutions in general, will change in the near future, but as can be seen with Napster, VHS-BetaMax, and even the Communications Decency Act, goverment and institutions will fight just as much as the technologically minded netizens fight. For every programmer distributing open source software, there is a political lobbyist pressing the issues of Big Business. For every media 'worthy' hack, there is a motion on the floor of congress for tigher controls on internet security. This fight could go on forever, except for one thing. Politics gets it's power from not moving, from keeping majority and remaining in the known past. Technology and the internet pulls power from an ever moving, ever evolving mantra: we will build better software and faster networks, we will work around the next patch. Eventually the technology will outstrip the need to address the outside forces of stagnant politics: but this will require change on a massive scale that many of us couldn't comprehend. Regulation and laws will not change until capitalism is modified and reformed. Capitalism will not change and reform until it either has no choice, or falls to a stronger force. I'm not preaching revolution in the Marxist sense, not even close. So far, the capitalist culture we live in(that has been our only experiece in life, for the most part), has been the source of our technology. Fiber optic gets burried because Qwest is making a profit. Open source can develop the software we use, but I can't imagine I'll find many of us out on the highway digging trenches for cabling just for fun. The 'revolution' that will make politics obsolete in it's current form will take place through the evolution of culture on the net. Yes, evolution. Chat rooms are fine, as are message boards, but it is not the human interaction we are genetically programmed to look for. The evolution of net culture is constantly happening, we just have to understand what is happening, and adapt to it as a technology. I don't know what the next instance of culture on the net will be, it would be premature to even attempt a guess, but new interactive technologies bring us closer to the community that culture needs.