This isn't a bad idea at all. Damnit, I want one!:)
Another idea that occured to me, but wouldn't be very practical, is a VNC viewer. But viewing a 1600x1200 on an iPaq would entail a lot of scrolling... But there are always the "export" functions and stuff; nothing stops you from launching a processor-intensive app on your Sun E10000 and viewing it on an iPaq...:) _________________________________________________
Mod this up. And someone start development on this right away...:-) (Sadly, I cannot program... What I attempt to write ends up doing nothing but beeping profusely and flashing error messages at the user...) But seriously, this is a really good idea, I don't see why it's only at a 2. ________________________________________________
You know, this is a great idea... But I like my own idea a little better - put it on the back of your business cards. Of course, your company might not like the idea of you distributing 'illegal' source code along with their company's promotions... Oh well.:) ________________________________________________
He he... I stopped reading after a while. My absolute favorite part: well it started from the place where it is conversational with the party which inside the wood and capital
And coming in as my second favorite... The PS2 having, however the ?, but the game of PS it is not, it is is ",
Hisashi ? it is good the wood:
So there you have it... Babelfish: good the wood. It is not, it is is.
Oh, one more thing... I found some absurd mistake they made a while ago, so I sent something to their tech support department. I received a reply back, and traslated it to some foreign language and back. It mutilated their autosig -- something about the "preservation of knowledge" to something about the "persecution of knowledge". _________________________________________________
Commercial databases offer more advanced features. But what I've never understood is why this is incredibly important. Some of them look like they'd be very simple to do by putting them inside another program... For example, a "trigger", not supported by MySQL, shouldn't be too hard to write in Perl, or whatever other language you like. If you have the resources, you should really be able to use any database, and write the scripts/programs around it...
I guess speed is an issue, but the fact is, things like Oracle supposedly *can't* run on my computer, because I don't have enough memory... But if you're going to be running a database on a Cray, you can probably afford to hire a small committee to invesigate different databases.;) ________________________________________________
Broadband2Wireless is about to launch a wireless MAN
CowboyNeal? I always thought that it was just a joke when he was on the polls. I never knew it was real! Where do I sign up? Now that I look at the polls, this is not new technology -- wireless men serve as things such as household appliances, and much more. He seems to be a very popular poll choice. Where do I get one?? ________________________________________________
Somehow I doubt most professional baseball and basketball players lakc the intelligence to use DeCSS...
Not to be a troll criticising the smallest mistakes (in fact, I think I spelled "criticize" wrong...), but you said that you *doubt* that they *lack* the knowledge, effectively saying that you think they do have the knowledge... This is clearly not what you meant, but I wanted to point it out.
Again, the only reason I point this out is that it completely changes the meaning of your post; I am just as annoyed as the rest of the/. population by people starting flame wars over apostrophes... ________________________________________________
Perhaps they raided the offices of the company that produces the software? They never did say what company it was that they raided... That would be *bad*.:) ________________________________________________
I for one have already have too many flaming aircraft parts fall on my house.
Seriously? How many flaming aircraft parts have fallen on your house? I suppose 1 would count as "too many". But I'd be interested in hearing your tale... ________________________________________________
Ditto. I wouldn't base my purchase on the quality of their site, but it *really* irritates me when I have to go in circles to find what I want. ________________________________________________
I'm a ham radio operator myself, figured I'd explain a bit.
First, "HAM" doens't have to be in all caps. This is a common misconception, I guess... I don't know any hams who capitalize it "HAM". (A similar phenomonen occurs with people who don't use Linux, and label it as "LINUX") It's not really *wrong*, it's just a pet peeve of mine.
Anyway, another misconception is that ham radio always goes around the world. It depends on a number of factors, but the fact is that a common ham radio handheld will not go around the world. However, "repeater" sites are very common -- they repeat your signal at a much higher power, from a great location. Thus, a user on a low-powered "HT" (handheld) could still have his voice heard for hundreds of miles.
I have never actually used packet, but it is possible to achieve great distances with this, also.
One additional note... You will, of course, need a license to transmit. And you can't use it for commercial purposes.
Yaesu has just come out with nifty new "rig", the FT-817. This little radio transmits on the "HF" ('shortwave') bands, and can, theoretically, be heard anywhere in the world.
Also, PSK31 is extremely popular. I don't know about using it for images; I'm not in a position to comment on it. I don't know if they have an official site, but PSK31.com is a very informative site.
For those interested, here are a few additional ham-radio related links.
BTW, the iPaq is quite nice... Never actually owned one, but I've played with them quite a bit. (If you need anyone to test one for you, let me know...:-D ) ________________________________________________
You may be "science stupid", but you've got a good idea!
Now, I'm car stupid, but don't cars charge their battery off of the movement of the axle, or something to that effect? I've seen exercise bikes hooked up to power a 6x6 panel of 100 Watt lightbulbs; I think you should have more than enough power to run a small camera and a cellular modem. I don't know that you would *need* the battery, although it would be foolish not to have one -- suppose you stopped for a minute.
Now, the one issue is that if you're racing or anything, it may require a little extra effort. (Maybe not) ________________________________________________
What I still want to know is how you're going to be taking the images. I'd tend to think that they would come out blurry unless it took a *very* quick image. Plus, if you were turning, it would be even worse.
I personally would give this some consideration before proceeding, as I'd hate for you to spend months making a super-cool camera, and then have every single image come out blurry... ________________________________________________
Modem: this is problematic as not all of Iowa is covered for digital cellular service but all of Iowa IS covered for analog at least. Another option may be the recently reinstated Iridium system (I read somewhere they allowed data transfers)."
There's always ham radio... This, of course, requires that you obtain a valid license. But in the ham community, your request wouldn't be at all unusual.
However, another problem is that if you plan on mass-producing this, you'd need to force everyone who will use it to get a license before they can legally use it.
Here's another solution. Put a fairly good amount of storage capacity in it. If the cellular modem is out of range, it will save the image, and try again in a couple minutes. It will continue this until it can transmit the saved images. In the event that it runs out of space, it will delete every other one, or something to that effect. (Doing every other image ensures that the timing is consistent between pictures.) ________________________________________________
... Check out Axis. They don't exactly offer tiny cameras, but they *do* meet most of the other criteria. (Not sure how they're powered; I'd guess it's AC...) ________________________________________________
There was some local company that refused to let people run Linux on their network, citing it as a "security risk".
Later they gave out RedHat CDs...Apparently they finally decided to give it a fair shot.
The really funny thing is that someone running Windows (the Linux CDs weren't a mandatory install) got hit by the "I Love You" virus, and it sent itself to several large mailing lists in his address book. <sarcasm>Convincing proof that Linux is a big security hole.</sarcasm> ________________________________________________
Certainly, if probable cause is available to justify a warrant to break the encryption
Set it up right and you *can't* break the encryption, unless you are the user who uploaded it. Most places that offer encryption and aren't out to screw the end user do this -- they'll encrypt your password, but if you forget it, too bad! They can't decrypt it.
If you're super-paranoid... Mix multiple compression schemes with with multiple encryption schemes. ("To e-mail me: reverse address, ROT-13, gunzip, untar, delete every prime-numbered character, save the whole thing, stick it through tar again... Then run it through Blowfish.") You might need a script to do this, so you don't forget the procedure...:) But that would defeat the whole purpose of the encryption.) Why anyone would need this, I don't know... But it can't hurt if you're extremely paranoid.
Now... For my last idea. If you're paranoid about being subpoenaed (sp?) into opening your files in court for some bizarre reason... Share gibberish! You can decrypt it all you want, but it's never anything more than random characters. (Warning: Your random characters may be remarkably similar to the source code for Microsoft Windows. If you are worried about being accused of stealing Microsoft's source code, you may want to insert something such as the Linux source code, which will confuse their programmers for hours on end. ["Ooh! How did they get the source code this neat? It took us years of randomly banging on the keyboard to get Windows to work."] ________________________________________________
I agree. I find some of the ads on Slashdot to be interesting. However, I finally got sick of them and blocked "images.slashdot.org". But I don't recommend this, because Slashdot looks like crap when viewed in a graphical browser without images...
I block various doubleclick services too, but I'm yet to find a way to block *anything* originating from doubleclick.net -- if it has a subdomain, I have to manually add that. It's a pain. Not to mention the sites that stop working when you block their ads... Of course, sites that do that will probably lose customers pretty quickly. (Before you tell me this is not possible: I at first agreed. But it seems that mail.com will load a pop-up ad, which *then* brings you to their main page, or something like that. I blocked the domain that mail.com's ads were coming from (and no, it wasn't mail.com itself...), and suddenly got all sorts of 404 errors from localhost.) _________________________________________________
Okay, let's start the "People for the Ethical Types of Ads". We will be a board of people who releases standards for Internet-based advertisments.
PETA Advertisement Standards, Draft 0.0.1-pre1:
To meet PETA certification, ads should not be more than 30KB in size.
To meet PETA certification, ads should work. You should not take a pop-up ad server down for maintainence, as people go *nuts* when they get blank windows popping up, accompanied by various error messages.
Pop-up ads should not be overly distracting, and must be aesthetical in appearance. This is due to the fact that many people will bring up vi and add you to their/etc/hosts file if your ads irritate them.
Services such as Mail.com that mysteriously stop working when you block the domains of their ads should be boycotted.
(I'm not positive about the last thing; I added the domain where mail.com's ads were coming from (*NOT* mail.com!), and I suddenly started getting nothing but error messages from localhost... _________________________________________________
Seems as if Napster just hung themself, at least among the Slashdot community.
There's been lots of discussion about whether or not Napster was going to be shut down. But now Napster seems to have taken a major step towards losing "customers". Gnutella, here I come! _________________________________________________
Slashdot Mirror
Another idea that occured to me, but wouldn't be very practical, is a VNC viewer. But viewing a 1600x1200 on an iPaq would entail a lot of scrolling... But there are always the "export" functions and stuff; nothing stops you from launching a processor-intensive app on your Sun E10000 and viewing it on an iPaq... :)
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Mod this up. And someone start development on this right away... :-) (Sadly, I cannot program... What I attempt to write ends up doing nothing but beeping profusely and flashing error messages at the user...) But seriously, this is a really good idea, I don't see why it's only at a 2.
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You know, this is a great idea... But I like my own idea a little better - put it on the back of your business cards. Of course, your company might not like the idea of you distributing 'illegal' source code along with their company's promotions... Oh well. :)
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He he! I thought the whole thing was *supposed* to be a link to Chiquita... Seriously!
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well it started from the place where it is conversational with the party which inside the wood and capital
And coming in as my second favorite...
The PS2 having, however the ?, but the game of PS it is not, it is is ", Hisashi ? it is good the wood:
So there you have it... Babelfish: good the wood. It is not, it is is.
Oh, one more thing... I found some absurd mistake they made a while ago, so I sent something to their tech support department. I received a reply back, and traslated it to some foreign language and back. It mutilated their autosig -- something about the "preservation of knowledge" to something about the "persecution of knowledge".
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ARMED security? Okay... Remind me to behave very, very well if I ever visit... :)
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I guess speed is an issue, but the fact is, things like Oracle supposedly *can't* run on my computer, because I don't have enough memory... But if you're going to be running a database on a Cray, you can probably afford to hire a small committee to invesigate different databases. ;)
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CowboyNeal? I always thought that it was just a joke when he was on the polls. I never knew it was real! Where do I sign up? Now that I look at the polls, this is not new technology -- wireless men serve as things such as household appliances, and much more. He seems to be a very popular poll choice. Where do I get one??
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Not to be a troll criticising the smallest mistakes (in fact, I think I spelled "criticize" wrong...), but you said that you *doubt* that they *lack* the knowledge, effectively saying that you think they do have the knowledge... This is clearly not what you meant, but I wanted to point it out.
Again, the only reason I point this out is that it completely changes the meaning of your post; I am just as annoyed as the rest of the /. population by people starting flame wars over apostrophes...
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Perhaps they raided the offices of the company that produces the software? They never did say what company it was that they raided... That would be *bad*. :)
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Seriously? How many flaming aircraft parts have fallen on your house? I suppose 1 would count as "too many". But I'd be interested in hearing your tale...
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Ditto. I wouldn't base my purchase on the quality of their site, but it *really* irritates me when I have to go in circles to find what I want.
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First, "HAM" doens't have to be in all caps. This is a common misconception, I guess... I don't know any hams who capitalize it "HAM". (A similar phenomonen occurs with people who don't use Linux, and label it as "LINUX") It's not really *wrong*, it's just a pet peeve of mine.
Anyway, another misconception is that ham radio always goes around the world. It depends on a number of factors, but the fact is that a common ham radio handheld will not go around the world. However, "repeater" sites are very common -- they repeat your signal at a much higher power, from a great location. Thus, a user on a low-powered "HT" (handheld) could still have his voice heard for hundreds of miles.
I have never actually used packet, but it is possible to achieve great distances with this, also.
One additional note... You will, of course, need a license to transmit. And you can't use it for commercial purposes.
Yaesu has just come out with nifty new "rig", the FT-817. This little radio transmits on the "HF" ('shortwave') bands, and can, theoretically, be heard anywhere in the world.
Also, PSK31 is extremely popular. I don't know about using it for images; I'm not in a position to comment on it. I don't know if they have an official site, but PSK31.com is a very informative site.
For those interested, here are a few additional ham-radio related links.
ARRL: excellent resources for those interested in ham radio
Kantronics, one of the larger makers of TNCs ['packet modems']
"73" (Ham term for 'best regards')
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Check out Handhelds.org!
BTW, the iPaq is quite nice... Never actually owned one, but I've played with them quite a bit. (If you need anyone to test one for you, let me know... :-D )
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Now, I'm car stupid, but don't cars charge their battery off of the movement of the axle, or something to that effect? I've seen exercise bikes hooked up to power a 6x6 panel of 100 Watt lightbulbs; I think you should have more than enough power to run a small camera and a cellular modem. I don't know that you would *need* the battery, although it would be foolish not to have one -- suppose you stopped for a minute.
Now, the one issue is that if you're racing or anything, it may require a little extra effort. (Maybe not)
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What I still want to know is how you're going to be taking the images. I'd tend to think that they would come out blurry unless it took a *very* quick image. Plus, if you were turning, it would be even worse.
I personally would give this some consideration before proceeding, as I'd hate for you to spend months making a super-cool camera, and then have every single image come out blurry...
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There's always ham radio... This, of course, requires that you obtain a valid license. But in the ham community, your request wouldn't be at all unusual.
However, another problem is that if you plan on mass-producing this, you'd need to force everyone who will use it to get a license before they can legally use it.
Here's another solution. Put a fairly good amount of storage capacity in it. If the cellular modem is out of range, it will save the image, and try again in a couple minutes. It will continue this until it can transmit the saved images. In the event that it runs out of space, it will delete every other one, or something to that effect. (Doing every other image ensures that the timing is consistent between pictures.)
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... Check out Axis. They don't exactly offer tiny cameras, but they *do* meet most of the other criteria. (Not sure how they're powered; I'd guess it's AC...)
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There was some local company that refused to let people run Linux on their network, citing it as a "security risk".
Later they gave out RedHat CDs...Apparently they finally decided to give it a fair shot.
The really funny thing is that someone running Windows (the Linux CDs weren't a mandatory install) got hit by the "I Love You" virus, and it sent itself to several large mailing lists in his address book. <sarcasm>Convincing proof that Linux is a big security hole.</sarcasm>
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Set it up right and you *can't* break the encryption, unless you are the user who uploaded it. Most places that offer encryption and aren't out to screw the end user do this -- they'll encrypt your password, but if you forget it, too bad! They can't decrypt it.
If you're super-paranoid... Mix multiple compression schemes with with multiple encryption schemes. ("To e-mail me: reverse address, ROT-13, gunzip, untar, delete every prime-numbered character, save the whole thing, stick it through tar again... Then run it through Blowfish.") You might need a script to do this, so you don't forget the procedure... :) But that would defeat the whole purpose of the encryption.) Why anyone would need this, I don't know... But it can't hurt if you're extremely paranoid.
Now... For my last idea. If you're paranoid about being subpoenaed (sp?) into opening your files in court for some bizarre reason... Share gibberish! You can decrypt it all you want, but it's never anything more than random characters. (Warning: Your random characters may be remarkably similar to the source code for Microsoft Windows. If you are worried about being accused of stealing Microsoft's source code, you may want to insert something such as the Linux source code, which will confuse their programmers for hours on end. ["Ooh! How did they get the source code this neat? It took us years of randomly banging on the keyboard to get Windows to work."]
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Here's what you have to do... Forward this message to five of your friends, and mail a Pyramid Mainframe to everyone on the list...
Sorry, couldn't help the Pyramid joke...
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I block various doubleclick services too, but I'm yet to find a way to block *anything* originating from doubleclick.net -- if it has a subdomain, I have to manually add that. It's a pain. Not to mention the sites that stop working when you block their ads... Of course, sites that do that will probably lose customers pretty quickly. (Before you tell me this is not possible: I at first agreed. But it seems that mail.com will load a pop-up ad, which *then* brings you to their main page, or something like that. I blocked the domain that mail.com's ads were coming from (and no, it wasn't mail.com itself...), and suddenly got all sorts of 404 errors from localhost.)
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PETA Advertisement Standards, Draft 0.0.1-pre1:
To meet PETA certification, ads should not be more than 30KB in size.
To meet PETA certification, ads should work. You should not take a pop-up ad server down for maintainence, as people go *nuts* when they get blank windows popping up, accompanied by various error messages.
Pop-up ads should not be overly distracting, and must be aesthetical in appearance. This is due to the fact that many people will bring up vi and add you to their /etc/hosts file if your ads irritate them.
Services such as Mail.com that mysteriously stop working when you block the domains of their ads should be boycotted.
(I'm not positive about the last thing; I added the domain where mail.com's ads were coming from (*NOT* mail.com!), and I suddenly started getting nothing but error messages from localhost...
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Did you hear that Themes.org was asked to take down some themes of MacOS? Also,the DoJ is filing an anti-trust suit against Microsoft.
Sorry... It's Monday.
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There's been lots of discussion about whether or not Napster was going to be shut down. But now Napster seems to have taken a major step towards losing "customers". Gnutella, here I come!
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