So for those of you who want to build your own one of these beasts
I (with a bunch of friends) have built my own.
SEMOC is a 60' long 20 ton articulated city bus with a sophisticated array of communications gear. The computer system isn't anything special, but it serves our needs.
The bus is intended for use as a mobile command center for either special events (e.g. parades, street fairs, large public gatherings) or emergency management. Given that, we felt it was more important to provide a wide range of communication gear that organizations wouldn't normally have access to, then to provide computer equipment which they probably already have. Still, I expect that as time, money, or equipment donations allows we'll add more sophisticated data systems.
Organized Crime can continue to induct illegal cash into the receipts of legitimate businesses, just by running them through the money scanner belonging to that business. If money actually passes from Joe Public to John Criminal for drugs, but is eventually labelled as having been used to buy pizza, how will the authorities know the difference?
As was mentioned above, there is often a multi-year delay between the time an invention is made public and the time the patent issues. Other people will see the invention and start using it in the meantime. Are you saying patents should only be awarded for inventions which are too useless for anyone else to adopt?
The usual grounds for disputing the SDRAM patent is that they unfairly encouraged others to use the patented technology without disclosing their patent. The usual grounds for disputing the oneclick patent is that it is obvious. Neither of these has anything to do with how many people copied the technology, which I find to be an utterly bizarre argument.
I view selling this type of information on the same level as selling free software. Effectively the seller is earning his money by finding audiences who aren't otherwise aware of the information and promoting it to them.
Just to pick a really obscure nit, I was under the impression that plastic was too porous to hold gasses long term, so if you want a battery you can leave on the shelf for a long time, it would have to be metal or glass. Still, the environmental impact of an aluminum battery would be just as minor as plastic.
So what process do you use to add new public keys to a system? If you've disabled password access, the user can't access the machine until their public key has been installed there, so the user can't setup their own key. This implies the existence of some kind of automated key distribution system, and that is a point of vulnerability.
Actually, Amazon was doing a random 50/50 assignment of prices to sessions. The browser and customer history had no effect. The whole point was to directly measure the demand curve by testing two prices simultaneously, and that requires that the experiment and control groups be as demographically identical as possible.
I worked at an airport checkpoint when I was in college. At that place and time, the policy on carrying a weapon through the checkpoint was simple: only the airport police could do so. If an FBI agent showed up with a weapon, we would have politely asked them to get an escort from the airport police.
Of course, this is just policy. As a practical matter, most airport employees could get to airplaces without ever passing through a checkpoint.
Also, it's quite possible that the "@" key on the keyboard might have been
lost without email, like the cent key ("").
A few years ago, I was working on implementing network access for a handheld device. Oddly enough, the first prototypes had a keyboard with no "@" on it. I pointed out to the hardware designers that this was a really bad idea for something which was supposed to support email, and it got changed a couple hardware revs later.
I realize that it is traditional for libraries to have public readings, but I'm not sure exactly how this avoids violating the "public performance" copyright. Public performances of a work are not covered by fair use - this is why it is necessary for schools to license plays that they produce. Reading to your children at home would not qualify as "public", so it is covered by fair use.
Do libraries get permission to conduct public readings?
4. Faster than a speeding bullet: A 10GHz processor will be able to complete 20 million calculations in the time a speeding bullet travels 1 foot, or 2 million calculations in the time it travels 1 inch.
Does this mean that Intel's rulers only contain 10 inches? No wonder they have quality control problems.
I also feel QoS is an outdated concept. In order for it to have any meaning at all, it would have to be billable (otherwise everybody would send everything at the highest priority). To implement billing based on QoS would add considerably complexity to the already complex job of switching and routing packets, and this would increase latencies enough to counteract any benefit from having the QoS in the first place.
I recall attending a talk by Nathan Myrvold a few years ago in which he tried to guess at how much bandwidth would be "enough". I don't recall the exact numbers, but it was based on an estimate of the total bandwidth of the human sensory system, then delivering some multiple of that to every user.
If I recall correctly, the athletes do have to agree to certain terms and conditions in order to participate. This year, that agreement precluded the athletes from selling their own diaries to the media, although apparently the IOC wasn't very strict in enforcing that rule.
1. Try looking something up on it while making a telephone call -- "uhm, yeah, uh, can I call you back, I have to look it up in my phone..."
The previous Communicators would switch to speakerphone mode if you opened the phone, so I'm guessing the 9210 will also. If your environment isn't too noisy, this can work reasonably well.
2. Too small to type, too small to read, too big to hold up to ear for extended length of time.
I found the 9000 to be fine for entering small amounts of data, such as meeting notes or SMS messages. I could input on it faster than on a Palm, although I don't claim to be a Grafitti virtuoso.
3. I'd hate to try and get my data back off this puppy after it took a swim in the urinal. My phone doesn't store anything more than a few numbers, and I don't use my Palm until I am safely seated.;-)
Do you normally use your phone at the urinal? Have you considered making backups?
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EPOC grew out of the OS used on Psion products. Symbian is a coalition of Psion and a bunch of phone manufacturers, who I believe were motivated in part by wanting to avoid being assimilated by Microsoft.
Dual-band just means it operates on two different bands. In this case, neither band (GSM 800, GSM 1800) is available in the US, nor do I expect either of those to ever be available here. You should hope that they release this phone in a US-supported protocol (e.g. GSM 1900).
The 9210 works on Symbian's EPOC operating system, not WinCE. Nokia doesn't go out of their way to call attention to this, but they do mention EPOC on several pages.
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I (with a bunch of friends) have built my own.
SEMOC is a 60' long 20 ton articulated city bus with a sophisticated array of communications gear. The computer system isn't anything special, but it serves our needs.
The bus is intended for use as a mobile command center for either special events (e.g. parades, street fairs, large public gatherings) or emergency management. Given that, we felt it was more important to provide a wide range of communication gear that organizations wouldn't normally have access to, then to provide computer equipment which they probably already have. Still, I expect that as time, money, or equipment donations allows we'll add more sophisticated data systems.
Organized Crime can continue to induct illegal cash into the receipts of legitimate businesses, just by running them through the money scanner belonging to that business. If money actually passes from Joe Public to John Criminal for drugs, but is eventually labelled as having been used to buy pizza, how will the authorities know the difference?
As was mentioned above, there is often a multi-year delay between the time an invention is made public and the time the patent issues. Other people will see the invention and start using it in the meantime. Are you saying patents should only be awarded for inventions which are too useless for anyone else to adopt?
The usual grounds for disputing the SDRAM patent is that they unfairly encouraged others to use the patented technology without disclosing their patent. The usual grounds for disputing the oneclick patent is that it is obvious. Neither of these has anything to do with how many people copied the technology, which I find to be an utterly bizarre argument.
Amazon.com didn't switch from Windows to Linux, they switched from DEC/OSF to Linux.
I view selling this type of information on the same level as selling free software. Effectively the seller is earning his money by finding audiences who aren't otherwise aware of the information and promoting it to them.
Just to pick a really obscure nit, I was under the impression that plastic was too porous to hold gasses long term, so if you want a battery you can leave on the shelf for a long time, it would have to be metal or glass. Still, the environmental impact of an aluminum battery would be just as minor as plastic.
So what process do you use to add new public keys to a system? If you've disabled password access, the user can't access the machine until their public key has been installed there, so the user can't setup their own key. This implies the existence of some kind of automated key distribution system, and that is a point of vulnerability.
Actually, Amazon was doing a random 50/50 assignment of prices to sessions. The browser and customer history had no effect. The whole point was to directly measure the demand curve by testing two prices simultaneously, and that requires that the experiment and control groups be as demographically identical as possible.
I worked at an airport checkpoint when I was in college. At that place and time, the policy on carrying a weapon through the checkpoint was simple: only the airport police could do so. If an FBI agent showed up with a weapon, we would have politely asked them to get an escort from the airport police. Of course, this is just policy. As a practical matter, most airport employees could get to airplaces without ever passing through a checkpoint.
A few years ago, I was working on implementing network access for a handheld device. Oddly enough, the first prototypes had a keyboard with no "@" on it. I pointed out to the hardware designers that this was a really bad idea for something which was supposed to support email, and it got changed a couple hardware revs later.
Do libraries get permission to conduct public readings?
Does this mean that Intel's rulers only contain 10 inches? No wonder they have quality control problems.
I also feel QoS is an outdated concept. In order for it to have any meaning at all, it would have to be billable (otherwise everybody would send everything at the highest priority). To implement billing based on QoS would add considerably complexity to the already complex job of switching and routing packets, and this would increase latencies enough to counteract any benefit from having the QoS in the first place.
I recall attending a talk by Nathan Myrvold a few years ago in which he tried to guess at how much bandwidth would be "enough". I don't recall the exact numbers, but it was based on an estimate of the total bandwidth of the human sensory system, then delivering some multiple of that to every user.
If I recall correctly, the athletes do have to agree to certain terms and conditions in order to participate. This year, that agreement precluded the athletes from selling their own diaries to the media, although apparently the IOC wasn't very strict in enforcing that rule.
The previous Communicators would switch to speakerphone mode if you opened the phone, so I'm guessing the 9210 will also. If your environment isn't too noisy, this can work reasonably well.
2. Too small to type, too small to read, too big to hold up to ear for extended length of time.
I found the 9000 to be fine for entering small amounts of data, such as meeting notes or SMS messages. I could input on it faster than on a Palm, although I don't claim to be a Grafitti virtuoso.
3. I'd hate to try and get my data back off this puppy after it took a swim in the urinal. My phone doesn't store anything more than a few numbers, and I don't use my Palm until I am safely seated. ;-)
Do you normally use your phone at the urinal? Have you considered making backups?
EPOC grew out of the OS used on Psion products. Symbian is a coalition of Psion and a bunch of phone manufacturers, who I believe were motivated in part by wanting to avoid being assimilated by Microsoft.
Dual-band just means it operates on two different bands. In this case, neither band (GSM 800, GSM 1800) is available in the US, nor do I expect either of those to ever be available here. You should hope that they release this phone in a US-supported protocol (e.g. GSM 1900).
The 9210 works on Symbian's EPOC operating system, not WinCE. Nokia doesn't go out of their way to call attention to this, but they do mention EPOC on several pages.