on a tangent though, if the iMoD display retains state with the power off, why not use it as nonvolatile memory?
To a human it looks like it's displaying snow... but to a high res camera (or some hardware that can read the pixel's state without resetting them) that's actually some of the the data in your hard drive.
I remember that flash harddrives are said to only have a million or so read write cycles, even with wear leveling. since the marketing flacks say that the iMoD can survive years of rapid pixel flicking, using a derivative of its technology for semi-optical or electrostatic harddrives might be a better option.
If we don't get to try out alien cuisine in my lifetime because people hack seti@home I will be mildly annoyed.
If my lifetime is shortened so I never live try alien cuisine because somebody hacked folding@home MY ESTATE WILL LAUNCH A SERIOUS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT!
good point. however if it becomes possible initate a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a company which has just one employee hosting a p2p file sharing service, it would be possible to cripple or sink virtually any company with internet access.
All are sinful and fallen short of the glory of the RIAA's ideal happy little consumers.
do you think the courts would let the RIAA have that kind of power to hold the entire economy ransom?
They can if it was a clause in that contract you signed... unless your local law has a provision to annul contracts for illegal things, or unconsionable dealings.
Interesting.... Imagine simulating the entire tech business world using a number of different games tied to the same money pool.... Monopoly, something like "that incredible machine", some kind of simulation of the stock market, and poker to simulate the after work deal making and money losing that all execs do....
And maybe some kind of hack of "the game of life" or Rob T Kiyosaki's Cashflow to simulate your family.
<paranoia>no, that was one of the specially delegated and tasked worms scanning and infecting you. your web access may be a little slow every now and then... for the rest of your life....</paranoia>
I can't believe that someone else watched wargames.
You know, the number of times we've played out the-near-destruction-of-human-kind-at-the-hands-of -our-creations scenario in our minds makes me suspect that it's going to be inevitble. If only for the fact that the meme is at the front of so many people's heads.
Sniff for packets containing the SHA1 hash of known infected nodes. Follow the links to eradicate the whole damn nest of the bastards.
alternatively release a fake "wormcode patch" which poisons nodes after they pass it on. Such an anti-virus-virus would take the network down in less than 15 seconds.
To be more robust, this worm has to start thinking smarter: it has to organise itself into a network of cells which are networks, rather than one big flat network. That way, only one node in each cell knows about only one node in an adjacent cell. If node A in cell 1 knows about node A' in cell 2, then when it gets compromised, it cannot betray nodes B', C' or D'.
Get the worm to spread until it knows about x number of nodes, and then tell each node that they are suddenly the only node in a new cell, and that all their old cell buddies are just their external contacts to other cells. repeat the process until you have global domination.
That way you can still issue orders, if you have access to the original cell, but if that cell dies, then the worm turns into many rogue cells which act on their standing orders... and any anti-virus-virus "patch" would have to start from the original cell....
but has it ever occured to you that your properties of hard work and endurance which have given you the lifestyle that you enjoy wouldn't mean squat if your country dissolved into a bloody civil war?
You are the master of your own destiny for now, only because there are many people in your country who would die to preserve the free and open system which supports your market.
Take that away and life becomes a lottery. It won't matter if you are an elite business person or a crack guerilla sniper- in times of civil disorder people suffer, and suffer, and suffer no matter how hard they try. And I don't mean having to do something mildly degrading like sit around with objectionable people who are richer than you. I mean being so hungry that people can count your ribs and knowing that your high IQ can't turn stone into bread unless those people in the hills stop shooting long enough to plant a lousy vegetable patch. Even the people who are ostensibly in control of the whole war find themselves locked into the conflict and unable to see a way out that doesn't get them killed.
In afghanistan, there used to be kabul university (est 1932 by some french and turkish guys) complete with schools of medicine, pharmacy, economics etc... Then the taliban sent the country back to the stone age, with the exception of a pile of the imported tanks. What happened to all the educated, hard working people? they had crap lives and then died. Some of them wound up in other countries, where their hard work and life savings bought them a cell in a processing camp.
Anyway, bottom line: if you really feel bad about donating your time to help people like yourself except that they suddenly woke up one day to find out that terrorists had killed their government, just consider openchallenge as a competition instead. It says so on the website linked in the main article. Here's a list of winners and the cool stuff they won demonstrating how elite they were.
Wouldn't you like to have another feather in your cap? Another free GPS module to show off to your friends?
And if one day you were to find out that your country had dissolved into war or your economy had imploded into a gooey mess of corruption, wouldn't you be comforted by the hope that somewhere out there there might be smart, talented people who care about other human beings in real dire straits and for whatever reason use their powers and skills to help.
The good thing about the knowlege industry is that not only can you telecommute. It's the fact that you can share the knowlege and be richer for it.
Beyond just giving them the source, you've got to make sure that you make every effort to make the recipients of your aid part of the team in the cathedral or at least feeling like they're part of the bazaar.
There's nothing worse than sending in aid that makes the person wind up with this big shiny thing that they don't have the resources to maintain or expand on.
So yeah. Clean water first. Food second. No war third. Good medicine, industrial infrastructure, a reliable democratic and open government... and then technology that the developing country can really feel that they own, rather than that they adopted because they found it or someone gave it to them.
Cool! Now I can have my intrepid alien protagonist travel the galaxy in a space ship disguised as a box of Microsoft XP disks. The logic being that it can hide the space ship in computer stores and remain undetected because nobody ever picks it up to buy it.
forget rotating disk drives. Get a mobo with RAID and a bunch of totally solid state flash hard drives. they're electrically identical to laptop hard drives, so a $25 adaptor will allow them to be used in place of any old IDE hard drive in your RAID, but you'll have to change the "I" in the acronym from "Inexpensive" to "Independent", if you know what I mean.
On the other hand if you think about the performance you'd get from the right kind of RAID where the individual "disks" have specs like these... suddenly everything else seems small.
but with the problems with the osprey it would be interesting to see if a kit made to be simple for backyard construction can be more reliable than a defense contractor product assembled by dozens of skilled workers.
The Mobile HDD sale of Toshiba and Bluetooth correspondence
Toshiba announced October 9th of 2002, for Mobile of Bluetooth correspondence hard disk " HOPBIT " is sold on November 1st. You sell with the Web sight of the Toshiba digital media engineering. As for price 4 ten thousand 9800 Yen.
As for the new product, the hard disk unit and the place where the Bluetooth is combined with is a special feature, the large capacity data of the picture and music et cetera in the wireless the transmission * retention * read-out possible product. Inserting in the bag, and the like the case where it carries about you adopted the individual packaging technology which holds down vibrating * impact, loaded the HDD of 1.8 type 5GB.
When the power switch is turned on, because automatically it becomes long time stand by, the radio with just operation of the equipment which such as personal computer is connected and PDA, sending and receiving of the data is possible. Because of this while it is inserted in the bag and the pocket sending and receiving it does the data, looks at image with such as PDA of labor assistant, can verify the data. As for communication range with prospect approximately 10m. Besides the fact that also data transmission with the USB1.1 is possible, the Bluetooth USB adapter the same it is densely we to do, even with the personal computer of Bluetooth non- correspondence available.
The continual expecting time by the built-in battery maximum of 200 hours, continual drive time maximum of 6 hours. The height 110× width 70× depth 22mm (the projection section you exclude external size). As for weight 180g. (Akira Kimura)
* Tip of inquiry * Toshiba digital media engineering Business technical charge HOPBIT person in charge telephone 0428-33-6791 * Related information * The Toshiba Web sight http://www.toshiba.co.jp/
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on a tangent though, if the iMoD display retains state with the power off, why not use it as nonvolatile memory?
To a human it looks like it's displaying snow... but to a high res camera (or some hardware that can read the pixel's state without resetting them) that's actually some of the the data in your hard drive.
I remember that flash harddrives are said to only have a million or so read write cycles, even with wear leveling. since the marketing flacks say that the iMoD can survive years of rapid pixel flicking, using a derivative of its technology for semi-optical or electrostatic harddrives might be a better option.
between Wi-Fi alliance and the successors of SNORT. this is good news! It will create jobs and nobody has to die.
and wrote about it on his website.
If we don't get to try out alien cuisine in my lifetime because people hack seti@home I will be mildly annoyed.
If my lifetime is shortened so I never live try alien cuisine because somebody hacked folding@home MY ESTATE WILL LAUNCH A SERIOUS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT!
Who is with me?
Does this mean we finally get those funky transparent memory modules which ran HAL which Dave Bowman pulled out to lobotomise him?
which one? flying window or cloud or butterfly or enormous-white-capital-lettters or mickey mouse ears?
slacking off?
what's to prove that the person wasn't downloading in the background while working on the quarterly report?
good point. however if it becomes possible initate a multimillion dollar lawsuit against a company which has just one employee hosting a p2p file sharing service, it would be possible to cripple or sink virtually any company with internet access.
All are sinful and fallen short of the glory of the RIAA's ideal happy little consumers.
do you think the courts would let the RIAA have that kind of power to hold the entire economy ransom?
nope, it's just that damned alien probe back again...
They can if it was a clause in that contract you signed... unless your local law has a provision to annul contracts for illegal things, or unconsionable dealings.
check the statuates and wear a groin guard.
Interesting.... Imagine simulating the entire tech business world using a number of different games tied to the same money pool.... Monopoly, something like "that incredible machine", some kind of simulation of the stock market, and poker to simulate the after work deal making and money losing that all execs do....
And maybe some kind of hack of "the game of life" or Rob T Kiyosaki's Cashflow to simulate your family.
all funds fully transferable between games.
<paranoia>no, that was one of the specially delegated and tasked worms scanning and infecting you. your web access may be a little slow every now and then... for the rest of your life....</paranoia>
you're forgetting that in this case the network is the computer.
What happens if Wiley's benign future doesn't happen and the worms kill the internet dead?
As far as curious yellow is concerned, there is only one host.
I can't believe that someone else watched wargames.
f -our-creations scenario in our minds makes me suspect that it's going to be inevitble. If only for the fact that the meme is at the front of so many people's heads.
You know, the number of times we've played out the-near-destruction-of-human-kind-at-the-hands-o
Sniff for packets containing the SHA1 hash of known infected nodes. Follow the links to eradicate the whole damn nest of the bastards.
alternatively release a fake "wormcode patch" which poisons nodes after they pass it on. Such an anti-virus-virus would take the network down in less than 15 seconds.
To be more robust, this worm has to start thinking smarter: it has to organise itself into a network of cells which are networks, rather than one big flat network. That way, only one node in each cell knows about only one node in an adjacent cell. If node A in cell 1 knows about node A' in cell 2, then when it gets compromised, it cannot betray nodes B', C' or D'.
Get the worm to spread until it knows about x number of nodes, and then tell each node that they are suddenly the only node in a new cell, and that all their old cell buddies are just their external contacts to other cells. repeat the process until you have global domination.
That way you can still issue orders, if you have access to the original cell, but if that cell dies, then the worm turns into many rogue cells which act on their standing orders... and any anti-virus-virus "patch" would have to start from the original cell....
Written by William Gibson, called kill switch.
Wow... now I feel *really* bad about tossing out those two 14.4k fax modems I had gathering dust.
We need a website that will tell me where to mail my still-working surplus computer junk next time.
but has it ever occured to you that your properties of hard work and endurance which have given you the lifestyle that you enjoy wouldn't mean squat if your country dissolved into a bloody civil war?
You are the master of your own destiny for now, only because there are many people in your country who would die to preserve the free and open system which supports your market.
Take that away and life becomes a lottery. It won't matter if you are an elite business person or a crack guerilla sniper- in times of civil disorder people suffer, and suffer, and suffer no matter how hard they try. And I don't mean having to do something mildly degrading like sit around with objectionable people who are richer than you. I mean being so hungry that people can count your ribs and knowing that your high IQ can't turn stone into bread unless those people in the hills stop shooting long enough to plant a lousy vegetable patch. Even the people who are ostensibly in control of the whole war find themselves locked into the conflict and unable to see a way out that doesn't get them killed.
In afghanistan, there used to be kabul university (est 1932 by some french and turkish guys) complete with schools of medicine, pharmacy, economics etc... Then the taliban sent the country back to the stone age, with the exception of a pile of the imported tanks. What happened to all the educated, hard working people? they had crap lives and then died. Some of them wound up in other countries, where their hard work and life savings bought them a cell in a processing camp.
Anyway, bottom line: if you really feel bad about donating your time to help people like yourself except that they suddenly woke up one day to find out that terrorists had killed their government, just consider openchallenge as a competition instead. It says so on the website linked in the main article. Here's a list of winners and the cool stuff they won demonstrating how elite they were.
Wouldn't you like to have another feather in your cap? Another free GPS module to show off to your friends?
And if one day you were to find out that your country had dissolved into war or your economy had imploded into a gooey mess of corruption, wouldn't you be comforted by the hope that somewhere out there there might be smart, talented people who care about other human beings in real dire straits and for whatever reason use their powers and skills to help.
The good thing about the knowlege industry is that not only can you telecommute. It's the fact that you can share the knowlege and be richer for it.
Beyond just giving them the source, you've got to make sure that you make every effort to make the recipients of your aid part of the team in the cathedral or at least feeling like they're part of the bazaar.
There's nothing worse than sending in aid that makes the person wind up with this big shiny thing that they don't have the resources to maintain or expand on.
So yeah. Clean water first. Food second. No war third. Good medicine, industrial infrastructure, a reliable democratic and open government... and then technology that the developing country can really feel that they own, rather than that they adopted because they found it or someone gave it to them.
Cool! Now I can have my intrepid alien protagonist travel the galaxy in a space ship disguised as a box of Microsoft XP disks. The logic being that it can hide the space ship in computer stores and remain undetected because nobody ever picks it up to buy it.
I think you're thinking of the gravitron.
I guess if you opened the loading door while you were up to 4 gs then you could have people flying out with pretty good Ke too.
forget rotating disk drives. Get a mobo with RAID and a bunch of totally solid state flash hard drives. they're electrically identical to laptop hard drives, so a $25 adaptor will allow them to be used in place of any old IDE hard drive in your RAID, but you'll have to change the "I" in the acronym from "Inexpensive" to "Independent", if you know what I mean.
On the other hand if you think about the performance you'd get from the right kind of RAID where the individual "disks" have specs like these... suddenly everything else seems small.
So how does the race/class metaphor work when you consider the basilisk emulator?
here
Cheaper than moller, and more conventional too.
but with the problems with the osprey it would be interesting to see if a kit made to be simple for backyard construction can be more reliable than a defense contractor product assembled by dozens of skilled workers.
The Mobile HDD sale of Toshiba and Bluetooth correspondence
//www.toshiba.co.jp/
Toshiba announced October 9th of 2002, for Mobile of Bluetooth correspondence hard disk " HOPBIT " is sold on November 1st. You sell with the Web sight of the Toshiba digital media engineering. As for price 4 ten thousand 9800 Yen.
As for the new product, the hard disk unit and the place where the Bluetooth is combined with is a special feature, the large capacity data of the picture and music et cetera in the wireless the transmission * retention * read-out possible product. Inserting in the bag, and the like the case where it carries about you adopted the individual packaging technology which holds down vibrating * impact, loaded the HDD of 1.8 type 5GB.
When the power switch is turned on, because automatically it becomes long time stand by, the radio with just operation of the equipment which such as personal computer is connected and PDA, sending and receiving of the data is possible. Because of this while it is inserted in the bag and the pocket sending and receiving it does the data, looks at image with such as PDA of labor assistant, can verify the data. As for communication range with prospect approximately 10m. Besides the fact that also data transmission with the USB1.1 is possible, the Bluetooth USB adapter the same it is densely we to do, even with the personal computer of Bluetooth non- correspondence available.
The continual expecting time by the built-in battery maximum of 200 hours, continual drive time maximum of 6 hours. The height 110× width 70× depth 22mm (the projection section you exclude external size). As for weight 180g. (Akira Kimura)
* Tip of inquiry
* Toshiba digital media engineering
Business technical charge HOPBIT person in charge telephone 0428-33-6791
* Related information
* The Toshiba Web sight http:
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