An already-existing attempt at fiber interconnect is called "Fibre Channel". It is fast, and can be hubbed/switched like ethernet. In fact, you can run TCP/IP over Fibre Channel. It is expensive, but you can have very long loops running very fast without EMI (electromagnetic interference).
Here's a link to the industry group's technical overview.
They don't do "tricks" - I haven't gotten any to fetch back anything thrown yet (but I hope to).
Funny you should mention 'fetch'. I have a male cat that will fetch perfectly, and return the object and drop it in my hand.
He didn't require a lot of reinforcement (not like concrete and rebar, silly, praise and treats!) for the fetch part, and the drop-it-in-the-hand part only took a couple of fetches with praise for dropping it in my hand for him to catch on.
I would submit that if they're using a proprietary authentication scheme, then is ceases to be POP3 access as advertised. Get your state's Attorney General involved as this is a blatant case of interstate fraud.
couldn't they've just replaced the executable/DLL with a compromised version that emails the password to the feds? Duh! The feds should be _glad_ that the source is available!
those yappy little Aibos! Small, mobile, autonomous. Add a speaker and microphone, and you can talk to survivors while they pet the 'bot and watch it do tricks.
Better yet, the operators can cry, "Let slip the dogs of war!" or "release the hounds!" when they deploy them.
Ah, a fellow ham! I subscribe to both QST and QEX. I would love to publish the project, but I'm a little over my head as far as the 'state of the art' in digital radio design. I've been looking at the Analog Devices chips, which seem very powerful, but I don't know enough about DSP and such to get a working prototype going.
Maybe your company would like to sponsor the project in return for commercial rights (as long as experimenters can still make their own version) and recognition in the article? 8-)
I understand. I dislike that it has to be that way, but I understand. It's not that I want to turn my idea into a commercial product - in fact, I'd rather it be an 'open hardware' project. The only reason I'd hesitate to describe it here is so that it doesn't get patented out from under me (the concept of 'Prior Art' is dead) which would preclude it from being 'open hardware.'
I appreciate your reply, and good luck with your project!
Wowbagger,
I'd really like to hear more about your project and get your opinion of an idea of mine as well. Please drop me a line at none_yobidness (at) hotmail dot com.
...include electrically-actuated clutches in cars. Traditionally, magnetic clutches consisted of steel disks brought together (rather abruptly) by an electromagnet. To provide a smooth, wear-free power transfer, electro-rheological materials (that change viscosity with an applied electric field) where used, but had issues of their own. These magnetic particles could provide a viable answer.
The Lacks family has never been compensated or really recognized by the scientific community...
No one has mentioned that hospitals routinely 'claim' the placenta and cord (and it's precious stem cell rich blood) for their uses (including sale). Ethically, is this the same situation? Shouldn't the family at least have the choice as to what happens to their cast off body parts?
Does paying for and agreeing to an operation give doctors/hospitals/researchers rights to 'derived works' from your parts?
...last time i checked, it has never been illegal to intercept a signal that is being delivered to your property.
Then you've been out of the loop for 15 years! Thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, it is very much illegal for you to receive a signal 'not intended for your receipt'. This law was ramrodded by the cellular phone industry so that radio enthusiasts with scanners wouldn't be able to listen to your wife ask you to buy bread and milk on the way home.
And yet, the DNA spans between genes are generally referred to as 'useless' or, in this case, 'meaningless drivel.' Am I missing something, or is this exactly where the good stuff is?
I agree. I find it mighty arrogant for DNA researchers to admit on one hand that they don't understand most of what they're dealing with and on the other hand declare large portions of their subject matter as "meaningless drivel". Perhaps the drivel is there to provide time for the proteins to fold or to synchronize the encoding with other activity in the cell.
from a Nuclear Power Plant cooling tower!!!??? They give off gigaWatts of heat, but no evil 'greenhouse gases'. Geez, talk about undermining the credibility of the story!
If cooling towers are such a horrible thing, causing all the global warming, shouldn't we preemptively nuke all those French nuclear power plants from orbit?
Interesting. Please try this: turn the key to 'on' (the step right before 'start'). Do the lights come on then? If not, I guess I need to buy a new car to keep up with things!
Because radar detectors are illegal in VA, those little posts made it very easy for the police to pick off the ones using them. If a car slams on the brakes all of a sudden near a little post, they get pulled over.
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An already-existing attempt at fiber interconnect is called "Fibre Channel". It is fast, and can be hubbed/switched like ethernet. In fact, you can run TCP/IP over Fibre Channel. It is expensive, but you can have very long loops running very fast without EMI (electromagnetic interference). Here's a link to the industry group's technical overview.
They don't do "tricks" - I haven't gotten any to fetch back anything thrown yet (but I hope to).
Funny you should mention 'fetch'. I have a male cat that will fetch perfectly, and return the object and drop it in my hand.
He didn't require a lot of reinforcement (not like concrete and rebar, silly, praise and treats!) for the fetch part, and the drop-it-in-the-hand part only took a couple of fetches with praise for dropping it in my hand for him to catch on.
Continue to enjoy POP3 e-mail service,
I would submit that if they're using a proprietary authentication scheme, then is ceases to be POP3 access as advertised. Get your state's Attorney General involved as this is a blatant case of interstate fraud.
Shempoluminescence, which occurs when Moe whacks Shemp on the head. Nyuck, nyuck. WooWooWooWoo....
couldn't they've just replaced the executable/DLL with a compromised version that emails the password to the feds? Duh! The feds should be _glad_ that the source is available!
Am I the only one that read this as "...give them a fish..."
those yappy little Aibos! Small, mobile, autonomous. Add a speaker and microphone, and you can talk to survivors while they pet the 'bot and watch it do tricks.
Better yet, the operators can cry, "Let slip the dogs of war!" or "release the hounds!" when they deploy them.
who read, "About a third of smokers, or 4m people..." as 4 milli-people?
'cause they forgot the bubble gum and baling wire to go along with the duct tape!
"Deep Space 1 is flying on duct tape and good wishes," he [Marc Rayman] said.
Ah, a fellow ham! I subscribe to both QST and QEX. I would love to publish the project, but I'm a little over my head as far as the 'state of the art' in digital radio design. I've been looking at the Analog Devices chips, which seem very powerful, but I don't know enough about DSP and such to get a working prototype going.
Maybe your company would like to sponsor the project in return for commercial rights (as long as experimenters can still make their own version) and recognition in the article? 8-)
Not to be a nit-picker, but the movie was spelled, "Gattaca", using only the letters of animal DNA - G, A, T, C.
I understand. I dislike that it has to be that way, but I understand. It's not that I want to turn my idea into a commercial product - in fact, I'd rather it be an 'open hardware' project. The only reason I'd hesitate to describe it here is so that it doesn't get patented out from under me (the concept of 'Prior Art' is dead) which would preclude it from being 'open hardware.'
I appreciate your reply, and good luck with your project!
Wowbagger,
I'd really like to hear more about your project and get your opinion of an idea of mine as well. Please drop me a line at none_yobidness (at) hotmail dot com.
Thanks!
...include electrically-actuated clutches in cars. Traditionally, magnetic clutches consisted of steel disks brought together (rather abruptly) by an electromagnet. To provide a smooth, wear-free power transfer, electro-rheological materials (that change viscosity with an applied electric field) where used, but had issues of their own. These magnetic particles could provide a viable answer.
You forgot to mention that you know where Jimmy Hoffa is buried...
Aren't all superconductors "resistance-free" by definition? Duh!
Do they really dig people up over there, or do they make them the old fashioned way?
The Lacks family has never been compensated or really recognized by the scientific community...
No one has mentioned that hospitals routinely 'claim' the placenta and cord (and it's precious stem cell rich blood) for their uses (including sale). Ethically, is this the same situation? Shouldn't the family at least have the choice as to what happens to their cast off body parts?
Does paying for and agreeing to an operation give doctors/hospitals/researchers rights to 'derived works' from your parts?
Then you've been out of the loop for 15 years! Thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, it is very much illegal for you to receive a signal 'not intended for your receipt'. This law was ramrodded by the cellular phone industry so that radio enthusiasts with scanners wouldn't be able to listen to your wife ask you to buy bread and milk on the way home.
I always thought it was committed with 'the leg of a table.' Who knew?
Dinosaurs really do taste like chicken!!!
I agree. I find it mighty arrogant for DNA researchers to admit on one hand that they don't understand most of what they're dealing with and on the other hand declare large portions of their subject matter as "meaningless drivel". Perhaps the drivel is there to provide time for the proteins to fold or to synchronize the encoding with other activity in the cell.
If cooling towers are such a horrible thing, causing all the global warming, shouldn't we preemptively nuke all those French nuclear power plants from orbit?
Interesting. Please try this: turn the key to 'on' (the step right before 'start'). Do the lights come on then? If not, I guess I need to buy a new car to keep up with things!
Because radar detectors are illegal in VA, those little posts made it very easy for the police to pick off the ones using them. If a car slams on the brakes all of a sudden near a little post, they get pulled over.