Cayley Tree - A network where the nodes are connected together without any central server.
Hypernet - A network where smaller nodes connect to high-capacity supernodes, which are in turn connected to other supernodes, each with their own sub-network, i.e. the same thing as FastTrack, but without the central encryption servers (at least, that's how I understand it).
In short, this is good technology, but, once you scrape the marketing bullshit off, hardly new.
Microsoft actually made the source to WinCE available for (semi-)public download a while back, but it's probably mired is so many patents and licences that they could sue you for amounts rivaling the gross national product of a medium-sized country if you ever tried to do anything with it.
Episode 2 takes place ~22 years before the original trilogy. Han Solo would probably be a teenager, at the oldest, and Harrison Ford is almost 60 now; while they could probably work around that for Indiana Jones 4, or something based on the New Jedi Order books, no amount of movie magic is going to put him in Episode 2.
earning cash for their makers by letting them sell the stories that the players generated by walking around, killing dragons etc as phantasy novels.
Well, it would certainly be interesting, but somehow I don't think it would go over very well.
...and with a mighty blow, the dragon was slain.
"W00T!!!!!!!!!!1 1 r0x0r!!!!!!!!!!!111," said 1337w01fd00d.
"5h17 d00d," said V4mp1r34563, "d47 k1x @zz!"
" .," asked "R¦éæÈZ.
"fux0r1ng j4pz! sp33k 4m3rk4n, b17ch!" replied 1337w01fd00d, drawing his sword, "n0w, or w3 fux0r j00 up!"
" . !" said "R¦éæÈZ.
"u dei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111," cried V4mp1r34563, and the battle was joined.
. ..
"! !" "R¦éæÈZ gasped with his dying breath.
"u sux0r," said 1337w01fd00d.
And while I don't know about selling items, there is at least one game out there that gives you an advancement bonus depending on how much you pay.
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Excuse Calendar
The simplest description of the invention would be a self-generating module. [. ..] This is accomplished, by utilisation of existing and proven state of the art technologies, combining novel features and innovative assembly techniques.
"That's classified, ma'am."
The credibility of the system is definitively established and can be interpreted and demonstrated as being "the practical application of accepted techniques".
"Yeah, it's the Doppler effect of magnetism.."
All the parts for this invention are in practical and productive everyday use.
"My doomsday machine will have a highly-advanced technological device called a capacitor in case someone inconveniently pulls the plug at the last second. (If I have access to REALLY advanced technology, I will include a back-up device known as a battery.)"
In reality the achievement of this invention adheres strictly with known, accepted and proven physics principles.
"In this house, we obey the second law of thermodynamics!"
This invention is achieved by the application and utilisation of a capital energy source to create a prolific income energy system, with the consequential composition being a "controlled loop, self-generating module", that produces instant and constant mechanical drive power and or instant and constant electrical power.
Magnetic Transient Interference from Satellite Debris.
This invention is mankind's first income energy reservoir from a capital energy source.
"First you get the money... then you get the power... then you get the women."
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ID3 for mp3s is a hack; string lengths are limited and you can't add easily add your own fields.
*coughcoughID3v2cough*
You can concatenate multiple streams together to make one file, and it will play correctly. You can also cut portions out and paste them together without re-encoding.
Both of these can be done with MP3, but for the latter, you have to disable the bit reservoir.
If you know a method for turning the data points 0, 0.7, -1, 0.7, 0 -0.7, 1, -0.7, 0, 0.7, -1... into a perfect analog reconstruction of a 16537Hz sine wave, I'd love to hear about it.
And my point about resampling vs. MP3 still stands, regardless.
Actually, "half the sampling rate" is a bit too optimistic. You could, theoretically, record a 22050Hz wave as 44100Hz, if the peaks and troughs of the wave were exactly in sync with your sampling. Realistically, you start getting diminishing returns at around (IIRC) 1/4 the sampling rate.
While decreasing the sample rate would give you some savings, if you tried to get a smaller file size than an MP3, your maximum frequency response would probably be less than 3000Hz.
Exactly. They won't be able to use the logo, but they can just as easily sell CDs without it.
Now, if Philips did an ad campaign saying something like, "To ensure full compatibility, look for the Compact Disc Digital Audio symbol on the case," I'd say they were really on our side.
If you launched the probe so that it was in the "opposite" direction to the velocity of the ISS, it would boost the orbit of ISS
Yes, but then you'd be launching the probe directly towards Earth, which is great if you want to smash several hundred tons of steel into Afghanistan, but not so good for delicate sensor equipment.
They certainly aren't "RICH CEOs", and presumable can't afford to simply lose their hard earned money like that.
Oh, come on! Their bank accounts do not mysteriously shrink every time someone illegally downloads their software; even assuming that these "pirates" would have bought the software in the first place, this is simply a failure to make money.
Great. We could piss off the RIAA and the FCC, all at once.
Seriously, though, I doubt you could get a strong enough signal out of it for a decent broadcast (and if you can, you're probably glowing in the dark already). You'd be better off just bolting a big chunk of metal to the roof and doing things the old-fashioned way.
Are you sure about that? Unless you have 2 or more sample points for each wavelength, the crest and trough of the wave sort of get "blurred" together into one sample. So if you sample at 44100Hz, you can't reproduce waves above 22050Hz.
Actually, this was on Slashdot before (at least it sounds like the same treaty), back in May, and twice in June. As for the major media outlets, the lack of coverage is not really surprising once you consider who their parent companies are. CNN, Newsweek, and Time are all brought to you by our friends at AOL Time Warner, and, obviously, NBC has a partnership with Microsoft. It's all but impossible to get a message across to the general public without running it past someone from the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, et. al. first.
You can also have quite a bit of fun with a heavily-armored sea formers unit...
Game: "Tidal waves have submerged He Walked on Water* (Believing)!
The base is presumed destroyed, as we have detected no further
transmissions."
Me: "Ha! Let's see you walk on water, Miriam!"
*No, I don't know how I could sink a sea base either. It's just an example, OK?
It actually sounds semi-decent if you have a good synthesizer. I know Yamaha makes a good software synth (or at least they did back in 1998 when Compaq bundled it with my Piss^H^H^Hresario (I assume it was there to make up for the motorized-eject disk drive, preinstalled AOL/MSN software, and lack of real power/reset buttons, but, of course, such atrocities are unforgivable.)), but I can't find it on their site.
Looks like people are going to have to just move to an unDoSable solution.
Not even Freenet is immune to such an attack, if sufficient resources are behind it. Remember, in addition to being major media producers, some of the RIAA members also have a stake in broadband internet access. That means they've got a lot of bandwidth to work with.
And this is a general public thing.. not just Computer Science professors.
This isn't a general public thing, either. The terrorists are only sending the spores to people in large corporations or media organizations. They don't want to blanket the country. They probably can't even afford to make that much anthrax. All they're trying to do is scare us into submission with a few strategic, highly visible strikes. They're letting the media do all the work for them, with little or no actual risk to the public.
I'm betting they'll start lobbying to outlaw user-programmable PCs ("Why, imagine if these pirates and hackers and terrorists used them to run unlicenced encryption! Think of the CHILDREN!!") entirely in favor of dumb media appliances. They've already shown a blatant disregard for PC users with their latest CD copy control measures. It's only a matter of time.
Like I said in my journal, sounds like classic good-cop/bad-cop to me:
Ashcroft: "Hey, you! Yeah, you! Quit fucking with government websites, you little twerp! Do you want life in prison? Do you aspire to be a terrorist? Listen, you little bastard! If you think you can get away with this, you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell! I will find you, and I will bury you in the deepest hole–" Cyberangels: "Please excuse him, he's having a bad day. See, we're having trouble getting intel on bin Laden and his pals. Maybe you can help us out here..."
First person to decode that gets a cookie. NSA, CIA, FBI, RIAA, MPAA, SDMI, or BSA employees/members need not apply.
P.S. Taco, your lameness filter still can't tell the difference between numbers and capital letters. Please do not force me to order my Legions of Death, Destruction, Chaos, and Really Big Numbers to storm your puny geek compound and correct the situation.
The simple fact of life imprisonment for someone who hacked CSS encryption for DVDs, and such, is poposterous.
So is the fact that it's a crime it all, but that doesn't stop the DMCA. It's impossible for this bill not to be passed. Congress won't kill it, because if they do, they'll appear "soft on terrorism" to the flock^H^H^H^H^Hpublic.
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Cayley Tree - A network where the nodes are connected together without any central server.
Hypernet - A network where smaller nodes connect to high-capacity supernodes, which are in turn connected to other supernodes, each with their own sub-network, i.e. the same thing as FastTrack, but without the central encryption servers (at least, that's how I understand it).
In short, this is good technology, but, once you scrape the marketing bullshit off, hardly new.
Microsoft actually made the source to WinCE available for (semi-)public download a while back, but it's probably mired is so many patents and licences that they could sue you for amounts rivaling the gross national product of a medium-sized country if you ever tried to do anything with it.
Episode 2 takes place ~22 years before the original trilogy. Han Solo would probably be a teenager, at the oldest, and Harrison Ford is almost 60 now; while they could probably work around that for Indiana Jones 4, or something based on the New Jedi Order books, no amount of movie magic is going to put him in Episode 2.
Well, it would certainly be interesting, but somehow I don't think it would go over very well.
And while I don't know about selling items, there is at least one game out there that gives you an advancement bonus depending on how much you pay.Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Excuse Calendar
The simplest description of the invention would be a self-generating module. [. . .] This is accomplished, by utilisation of existing and proven state of the art technologies, combining novel features and innovative assembly techniques.
"That's classified, ma'am."
The credibility of the system is definitively established and can be interpreted and demonstrated as being "the practical application of accepted techniques".
"Yeah, it's the Doppler effect of magnetism.."
All the parts for this invention are in practical and productive everyday use.
"My doomsday machine will have a highly-advanced technological device called a capacitor in case someone inconveniently pulls the plug at the last second. (If I have access to REALLY advanced technology, I will include a back-up device known as a battery.)"
In reality the achievement of this invention adheres strictly with known, accepted and proven physics principles.
"In this house, we obey the second law of thermodynamics!"
This invention is achieved by the application and utilisation of a capital energy source to create a prolific income energy system, with the consequential composition being a "controlled loop, self-generating module", that produces instant and constant mechanical drive power and or instant and constant electrical power.
Magnetic Transient Interference from Satellite Debris.
This invention is mankind's first income energy reservoir from a capital energy source.
"First you get the money... then you get the power... then you get the women."
*coughcoughID3v2cough*
You can concatenate multiple streams together to make one file, and it will play correctly. You can also cut portions out and paste them together without re-encoding.
Both of these can be done with MP3, but for the latter, you have to disable the bit reservoir.
And my point about resampling vs. MP3 still stands, regardless.
While decreasing the sample rate would give you some savings, if you tried to get a smaller file size than an MP3, your maximum frequency response would probably be less than 3000Hz.
Now, if Philips did an ad campaign saying something like, "To ensure full compatibility, look for the Compact Disc Digital Audio symbol on the case," I'd say they were really on our side.
Yes, but then you'd be launching the probe directly towards Earth, which is great if you want to smash several hundred tons of steel into Afghanistan, but not so good for delicate sensor equipment.
On the other hand, filling the sky with thousands of flaming paper airplanes would be an excellent way to scare the crap out of your enemies.
Oh, come on! Their bank accounts do not mysteriously shrink every time someone illegally downloads their software; even assuming that these "pirates" would have bought the software in the first place, this is simply a failure to make money.
Great. We could piss off the RIAA and the FCC, all at once.
Seriously, though, I doubt you could get a strong enough signal out of it for a decent broadcast (and if you can, you're probably glowing in the dark already). You'd be better off just bolting a big chunk of metal to the roof and doing things the old-fashioned way.
Are you sure about that? Unless you have 2 or more sample points for each wavelength, the crest and trough of the wave sort of get "blurred" together into one sample. So if you sample at 44100Hz, you can't reproduce waves above 22050Hz.
Actually, this was on Slashdot before (at least it sounds like the same treaty), back in May, and twice in June. As for the major media outlets, the lack of coverage is not really surprising once you consider who their parent companies are. CNN, Newsweek, and Time are all brought to you by our friends at AOL Time Warner, and, obviously, NBC has a partnership with Microsoft. It's all but impossible to get a message across to the general public without running it past someone from the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, et. al. first.
Dmitry is actually not the best analogy here. Jon Johansen is a much better example, as he was arrested without ever setting foot in the US.
Game: "Tidal waves have submerged He Walked on Water* (Believing)!
The base is presumed destroyed, as we have detected no further transmissions."
Me: "Ha! Let's see you walk on water, Miriam!"
*No, I don't know how I could sink a sea base either. It's just an example, OK?
It actually sounds semi-decent if you have a good synthesizer. I know Yamaha makes a good software synth (or at least they did back in 1998 when Compaq bundled it with my Piss^H^H^Hresario (I assume it was there to make up for the motorized-eject disk drive, preinstalled AOL/MSN software, and lack of real power/reset buttons, but, of course, such atrocities are unforgivable.)), but I can't find it on their site.
Not even Freenet is immune to such an attack, if sufficient resources are behind it. Remember, in addition to being major media producers, some of the RIAA members also have a stake in broadband internet access. That means they've got a lot of bandwidth to work with.
This isn't a general public thing, either. The terrorists are only sending the spores to people in large corporations or media organizations. They don't want to blanket the country. They probably can't even afford to make that much anthrax. All they're trying to do is scare us into submission with a few strategic, highly visible strikes. They're letting the media do all the work for them, with little or no actual risk to the public.
Gotta wonder what helium-filled speakers would sound like, though...
"Whoa, duuude! These guys are, like, Alvin and the Chipmunks!"
"Nah, dude, that's just the new speakers."
"Far out!"
I'm betting they'll start lobbying to outlaw user-programmable PCs ("Why, imagine if these pirates and hackers and terrorists used them to run unlicenced encryption! Think of the CHILDREN!! ") entirely in favor of dumb media appliances. They've already shown a blatant disregard for PC users with their latest CD copy control measures. It's only a matter of time.
Ashcroft: "Hey, you! Yeah, you! Quit fucking with government websites, you little twerp! Do you want life in prison? Do you aspire to be a terrorist? Listen, you little bastard! If you think you can get away with this, you don't stand a snowball's chance in hell! I will find you, and I will bury you in the deepest hole–"
Cyberangels: "Please excuse him, he's having a bad day. See, we're having trouble getting intel on bin Laden and his pals. Maybe you can help us out here..."
First person to decode that gets a cookie. NSA, CIA, FBI, RIAA, MPAA, SDMI, or BSA employees/members need not apply.
P.S. Taco, your lameness filter still can't tell the difference between numbers and capital letters. Please do not force me to order my Legions of Death, Destruction, Chaos, and Really Big Numbers to storm your puny geek compound and correct the situation.
So is the fact that it's a crime it all, but that doesn't stop the DMCA. It's impossible for this bill not to be passed. Congress won't kill it, because if they do, they'll appear "soft on terrorism" to the flock^H^H^H^H^Hpublic.