20 years from now this technique will be in the public domain, and we all will know how to do it because he published detailed directions. That is the theory behind patents, instead of everyone keeping secrets (i.e. the formula for Coke) in exchange for publishing what you invented and how it works, you get a time limited monopoly, in 17 years we all will be enjoying this innovative method of swinging totally free of a license fee, I can hardly wait!
Using spread spectrum technology greatly increases bandwidth available. We are figuring this out 75 years after the invention of radio, so wouldn't any one else out there be doing the same thing? Are we wasting time looking for a strong signal from space when a spread spectrum signal would look just like increased static coming from a planet.
Those on line auctions are just an enticement for criminals, they should shut down quickly before another person is ripped off. I am going to call senator Hollins, he has shown himself to be savy in these areas and is a leader that is not afriad to take action
Microsoft's XP license agreement says, "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface,
unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
So if you are running XP on the machine you are runnning VNC you do not violate the license
Call them up and tell them you are a British psychologist doing a study on what passwords people use. But seriously, how did they actually do this? The article does not say
What they are talking about is that it is possible to send some data using this back channel, not that you could see the actual data going through the device. Why someone would want to do this I don't know. Maybe you could tap out an SOS using Morse code to the guys in the NOC if your VoIP phone wasn't working
As long as we make our landfills water tight I see no problem with throwing anything in there, even easily recyclable things like aluminum cans. These dumps will be valuable sources of raw materials in the future. Quick, buy up landfills before mining companies figure this out!
The article doesn't mention cheating or a peer rating system like Ebay. This is something an online gaming community can add so that when you are tring to find a partner you have some idea how he has behaved in the past
You can always publish the details of a bug in text, we still have the right of free speech, it just gets a little hazy about working code, the supreme court has yet to rule if code is the same as speech
These "musts" are not going to end up in a US law any more than the "musts" in the DHCP spec ended up in a law. When I look to buy a home router that does DHCP I check it against the RFC, if it doesn't do the musts, I return it. So now we could have an RFC for how responsible software companies act, if they don't follow the RFC, don't do business with them.
Go ahead and read the document before posting 3.7.1 Vendor Responsibilities
1) The Vendor SHOULD work with the Reporter and involved Coordinators
to arrange a date after which the vulnerability information may be
released.
2) The Vendor MAY ask the Reporter and Coordinator to allow a "Grace
Period" up to 30 days, during which the Reporter and Coordinator do
not release details of the vulnerability that could make it easier
for hackers to create exploit programs.
The different technologies you mention have costs that are of the same order of magnitude. If you propose a new technology that has a cost 20X to 30X higher than an existing solution there ought to be a compelling reason to change to it. I am still waiting, what is the compelling reason to take away a freewheeling caster and replace it with gyro's, computers, etc?
Remind me again, why is it better to put the wheels on the sides instead of front and back like every other scooter? Sure it is possible using 3 gyroscopes, 5 computers, etc, etc. to balace but what advantage does this give you? If there is an advantage to the wheels on the sides why not add a third trailing caster to balance the thing and get rid of the gyros and computers. This is a technical solution looking for a problem
You might not believe it but the NSA has their own museum National Cryptologic Museum It has a real ENIGMA machine as well as the machine used to break the codes. The displays pretty much end in the 70's or 80's with a massive CRAY machine as the most modern thing they show
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Until they issued the prospectus we had no info at all but now we can see they have $132MM to cover $140MM in deposited money. They have other money of course, but it is interesting they do not list this customer deposited money as "restricted funds" They can at any time spend this money on bonuses and trips to Fiji. Their big problem is they are either a bank and must be regulated like one or they are creating a Paypal currency pegged to the dollar.
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You must not have taken Macroeconomics. Yes you are right a dollar is a dollar when it is in a bank, but when someone credits your "account" is it still worth a dollar. Remember Paypal is not a bank. An example, Right now I have $100 credit at Macy's, I would rather have the cash. I would be willing to sell someone that credit for a discount of say 20% So to me a Macy's dollar is worth 0.80 US$ Another illustration, I take $20,000 cash that was under my matress and deposit it in a bank, they credit my account. You want to buy a car but have no cash so you borrow $20,000 from the same bank and buy the car. The car dealer deposits the money in the same bank and they credit the car dealer's account. Now I still have a $20,000 dollar credit and the car dealer has a $20,000 credit. The bank just created $20,000! This example is why interest rates are so important and why banks are so heavily regulated and audited. Remember the savings and loan crisis, banks created 300 billion that just wasn't there.
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I am not talking about shorting the stock, I am talking about shorting the PalPal dollar. Right now they have pegged the PayPal dollar to the US dollar at 1 for 1. I think the Paypal dollar is worth less than than the US dollar. Which would you rather have, $10US in your pocket or 10 PayPal dollars in an account? I think the PayPal is worth about $0.75US so where do I place my bet? Do you remember Flooz and their online currency? which you rather have now, beenz or US$
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When Paypal started offering $10 just to start an account I thought they must have huge cash backing. But think about it for a second, they were giving away 10 paypal dollars not US dollars. They are "printing" their own currency and pegging it to the US dollar. Just look what recently happened to Argentina to see what can happen when you try to print money and keep it pegged to the dollar, their currency just dropped in value by half! So what is a paypal dollar backed by? I want to short the paypal, is there a secondary market where I can do this?
They filed this in March of 1996, I know I played Atari Pole Position which had force feedback steering before I could drive a car, that would make it 1983
5,691,898
November 25, 1997
Safe and low cost computer peripherals with force feedback for consumer applications
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing safe and low-cost force feedback peripherals for consumer applications. A device microprocessor local to an interface device is coupled to the host by a first interface bus. The microprocessor receives host commands from the host computer on the first interface bus, such as an RS-232 interface, and commands an actuator to apply a force to a user object, such as a joystick, in response to host commands. A sensor detects positions of the user object and outputs signals to the host on a second interface bus, such as a PC game port bus, separate from the first bus. In a "recoil" embodiment, a user initiates force feedback by pressing a button on the joystick, which sends an activation signal to the actuator. In other recoil embodiments, the host computer can transmit one or more enable signals and/or activation signals to the actuator to enable or command forces. A safety switch of the present invention disables the actuator when the interface device is not in use and enables the actuator when an amount of weight over a predetermined amount is placed on the joystick created by a user grasping the joystick. A circuit of the present invention includes a capacitor for storing power provided by an input signal and supplied to the actuator when forces are to be output.
There will be a cost fot this law that you the consumer will bear. Car insurance will be higher because fewer insurance companies will be willing to spend the money to segregate Vermont vs. non-Vermont customers. Banks will be able to charge higher fees because of lack of competition. Fewer credit cards will be available. Health insurance will cost more - if you can get it at all. Any company that is required to collect personal data will have an expense that I am sure thay will pass along to there Vermont customers. Most companies will say say screw it, instead of spending the money to change systems we will run a TV commercial in Milwaukee and get more customers for the same amount of money spent. All I am saying is think through what regulation does, it limits company's and individual's freedom and costs customer's money. You were free to opt out be not doing business with these companies before this law.
The population of the whole state is 575,000 people, about the same as Nashville Tenn. With this and other pain in the a$$ laws many businesses will decide the tiny population is not worth the trouble. Any regulation has a cost, that cost is not going to be paid out of corporate profits it will be paid by consumers
Do they really think more regulation is going to improve software? All this will do is make companies put time and effort into "compliance" instead of fixing problems users are asking for
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20 years from now this technique will be in the public domain, and we all will know how to do it because he published detailed directions. That is the theory behind patents, instead of everyone keeping secrets (i.e. the formula for Coke) in exchange for publishing what you invented and how it works, you get a time limited monopoly, in 17 years we all will be enjoying this innovative method of swinging totally free of a license fee, I can hardly wait!
Using spread spectrum technology greatly increases bandwidth available. We are figuring this out 75 years after the invention of radio, so wouldn't any one else out there be doing the same thing? Are we wasting time looking for a strong signal from space when a spread spectrum signal would look just like increased static coming from a planet.
As long as we make our landfills water tight I see no problem with throwing anything in there, even easily recyclable things like aluminum cans. These dumps will be valuable sources of raw materials in the future. Quick, buy up landfills before mining companies figure this out!
The county is setting up a wireless 802.11b network that can be reached from almost anywhere in the count
You can always publish the details of a bug in text, we still have the right of free speech, it just gets a little hazy about working code, the supreme court has yet to rule if code is the same as speech
These "musts" are not going to end up in a US law any more than the "musts" in the DHCP spec ended up in a law. When I look to buy a home router that does DHCP I check it against the RFC, if it doesn't do the musts, I return it. So now we could have an RFC for how responsible software companies act, if they don't follow the RFC, don't do business with them.
Go ahead and read the document before posting
3.7.1 Vendor Responsibilities
1) The Vendor SHOULD work with the Reporter and involved Coordinators
to arrange a date after which the vulnerability information may be
released.
2) The Vendor MAY ask the Reporter and Coordinator to allow a "Grace
Period" up to 30 days, during which the Reporter and Coordinator do
not release details of the vulnerability that could make it easier
for hackers to create exploit programs.
Check out an Etch-A-Sketch that you can draw on by submitting moves to a form. The server is an 8 bit Rabbit 2000
The different technologies you mention have costs that are of the same order of magnitude. If you propose a new technology that has a cost 20X to 30X higher than an existing solution there ought to be a compelling reason to change to it. I am still waiting, what is the compelling reason to take away a freewheeling caster and replace it with gyro's, computers, etc?
Remind me again, why is it better to put the wheels on the sides instead of front and back like every other scooter? Sure it is possible using 3 gyroscopes, 5 computers, etc, etc. to balace but what advantage does this give you? If there is an advantage to the wheels on the sides why not add a third trailing caster to balance the thing and get rid of the gyros and computers. This is a technical solution looking for a problem
You might not believe it but the NSA has their own museum National Cryptologic Museum It has a real ENIGMA machine as well as the machine used to break the codes. The displays pretty much end in the 70's or 80's with a massive CRAY machine as the most modern thing they show
Until they issued the prospectus we had no info at all but now we can see they have $132MM to cover $140MM in deposited money. They have other money of course, but it is interesting they do not list this customer deposited money as "restricted funds" They can at any time spend this money on bonuses and trips to Fiji. Their big problem is they are either a bank and must be regulated like one or they are creating a Paypal currency pegged to the dollar.
You must not have taken Macroeconomics. Yes you are right a dollar is a dollar when it is in a bank, but when someone credits your "account" is it still worth a dollar. Remember Paypal is not a bank. An example, Right now I have $100 credit at Macy's, I would rather have the cash. I would be willing to sell someone that credit for a discount of say 20% So to me a Macy's dollar is worth 0.80 US$ Another illustration, I take $20,000 cash that was under my matress and deposit it in a bank, they credit my account. You want to buy a car but have no cash so you borrow $20,000 from the same bank and buy the car. The car dealer deposits the money in the same bank and they credit the car dealer's account. Now I still have a $20,000 dollar credit and the car dealer has a $20,000 credit. The bank just created $20,000! This example is why interest rates are so important and why banks are so heavily regulated and audited. Remember the savings and loan crisis, banks created 300 billion that just wasn't there.
I am not talking about shorting the stock, I am talking about shorting the PalPal dollar. Right now they have pegged the PayPal dollar to the US dollar at 1 for 1. I think the Paypal dollar is worth less than than the US dollar. Which would you rather have, $10US in your pocket or 10 PayPal dollars in an account? I think the PayPal is worth about $0.75US so where do I place my bet? Do you remember Flooz and their online currency? which you rather have now, beenz or US$
When Paypal started offering $10 just to start an account I thought they must have huge cash backing. But think about it for a second, they were giving away 10 paypal dollars not US dollars. They are "printing" their own currency and pegging it to the US dollar. Just look what recently happened to Argentina to see what can happen when you try to print money and keep it pegged to the dollar, their currency just dropped in value by half! So what is a paypal dollar backed by? I want to short the paypal, is there a secondary market where I can do this?
5,691,898 November 25, 1997 Safe and low cost computer peripherals with force feedback for consumer applications Abstract A method and apparatus for providing safe and low-cost force feedback peripherals for consumer applications. A device microprocessor local to an interface device is coupled to the host by a first interface bus. The microprocessor receives host commands from the host computer on the first interface bus, such as an RS-232 interface, and commands an actuator to apply a force to a user object, such as a joystick, in response to host commands. A sensor detects positions of the user object and outputs signals to the host on a second interface bus, such as a PC game port bus, separate from the first bus. In a "recoil" embodiment, a user initiates force feedback by pressing a button on the joystick, which sends an activation signal to the actuator. In other recoil embodiments, the host computer can transmit one or more enable signals and/or activation signals to the actuator to enable or command forces. A safety switch of the present invention disables the actuator when the interface device is not in use and enables the actuator when an amount of weight over a predetermined amount is placed on the joystick created by a user grasping the joystick. A circuit of the present invention includes a capacitor for storing power provided by an input signal and supplied to the actuator when forces are to be output.
There will be a cost fot this law that you the consumer will bear. Car insurance will be higher because fewer insurance companies will be willing to spend the money to segregate Vermont vs. non-Vermont customers. Banks will be able to charge higher fees because of lack of competition. Fewer credit cards will be available. Health insurance will cost more - if you can get it at all. Any company that is required to collect personal data will have an expense that I am sure thay will pass along to there Vermont customers. Most companies will say say screw it, instead of spending the money to change systems we will run a TV commercial in Milwaukee and get more customers for the same amount of money spent. All I am saying is think through what regulation does, it limits company's and individual's freedom and costs customer's money. You were free to opt out be not doing business with these companies before this law.
The population of the whole state is 575,000 people, about the same as Nashville Tenn. With this and other pain in the a$$ laws many businesses will decide the tiny population is not worth the trouble. Any regulation has a cost, that cost is not going to be paid out of corporate profits it will be paid by consumers
Do they really think more regulation is going to improve software? All this will do is make companies put time and effort into "compliance" instead of fixing problems users are asking for